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Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on who has the momentum going into today's election and the Senate races in Nevada and Massachusetts. Photo: Associated Press
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... I ... the ... I ... Romney close the deal voters today will handicap the presidential race also talk about some key Senate races around the country ... welcome to Opinion Journal Live ... on Jason Riley in my first guest is the cost of the Web ... columnist James trot oh welcome James thanks to reader so let's start with that with the presidential race on ... Cup Koppen NT think Republicans feel going into today ... I get the sense that both sides feel pretty confident she IDI side you know if you're if you go in expecting to lose to pry them with others says ... this looks like a iam looks like a very tight race ... probably the Democrats are a bit more common sense of the polls seem to be narrowly on their site ... the state should we have the most polls if you're if you're of voter out there wondering how things fit into dollar just an observer ... of the polls the been quite controversial this election cycle which they you put in ... you know what's the point is twenty faith in Polls Ruiz ... I suppose the supposed to be protected ... by ... pollsters will acknowledge that they can really predict what's going happen with their particular challenges in certain types of calls for example one of the things that I that is the complicates things this year is the early voting ... so some of the ... early polls in October in Ohio ... showed an Obama victory that was brought Obama lead that was based on a vast leading peep was so they already voted ... but if you look at the number of ballots to become an ... it was much smaller than anticipated in a relatively normal turnout ... than the percentage of people are so they already voted ... so you know they're all sorts of ... soap opera prop prospective sapling problems methodological problems ... are I will say they've generally been pretty reliable low cost but there been some big messes and the plant forests ... don't show necessarily that it's overwhelmingly likely ... that Obama is going to win with a show is ... very narrowly beats that Obama is leading enough of the swing states that if all the polls turn out the right one then he wins a narrow victory okay ... now I know you've been falling a few of the Senate races going on ... well one in Massachusetts and one in the battle of the start ... with the one in Massachusetts between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown and we haven't and of that I believe ... it's from the ward camp ... bananas are unwinding from the underlying attitude to women ... I cumulative if Warren as attacking Scott Brown to light decided to check his record ... the price the joys the meter and light to pass to violence against women ... I'm voting for over ninety percent of prison Obama swimming judgments he supports the Willie led better fair pay Act ... I mean it's it seems everyday ... and I'm sporting Scott Brown because he likes for us ... he's ... done ... Scott Brown and I approve this message ... okay so there we saw an ad from a Scott Brown the incumbent Senator one of course the seat held by Ted Kennedy ... aam very high profile race the Democrats really want to see the actions ... of the race going ... well it's our it's closer than you expected to be given the partisan makeup of Massachusetts when you look at that that that really tells you something about the state Massachusetts and I mean all the substance in that ad ... if you didn't know that this is Scott Brown in Massachusetts you would assume that it was some left wing Democrat right will list a Republican yes ... I'm well and and you know that it really bad as people blew a state of Massachusetts the only state to vote for George McGovern forty years ago ... while I wanna ask you this ... early on it look like Brown had a pretty good lead in this race ALM ... if this up ... Elizabeth Warren wins it will be something of a come from ... behind victory and wondering if you think that has to do with the quality ... of the campaign that Scott Brown ... has one or more just than the nature the state dining Browning is a very effective politician ... he's right he's he's running to camp and ... if he loses its just because it's such a democratic state ... I would have to say I would be more surprised if he wins if he was so the focus and that's quickly turned to aam to to Nevada and the end of the race even falling there ... I don't think it's quite as close ... as Massachusetts for Intel's welcome ... there's another race in which the senator has not served for six terms is Dean Heller he was appointed to replace a ... Republican who ... resigned in a sex scandal ... is the congressman ... is being challenged by Shelley Berkley the I pod Democratic congressman from our Los Vegas ... it looks as though he's got a pretty ugly Rasmussen had added fifty to forty five ... of the one thing I'd I would watch for there is one that is the one swing state ... that Obama is generally considered likely is to win a ... yes and so it's possible that Obama will have smth coattails their ... indulgence that she she needs Obama ... to win big ... in there that I think that Chelan Berkeley's counting on ... on Obama to win big to carry her across the top four of ... the states where all of the Democratic ... candidate ... is embracing ... the present a number of states to clean red states we see the Democratic and that ... sort of of distancing themselves from the present and in ten Democrats in general ... Democratic Congress the not not in Nevada yet in data has been a not traditionally not a terribly ... blue state I'm in it and offered chipped in nineteen sixty minute when for Terrell for nineteen seventy six ... is generally been something of a bellwether ... but the reason it's transfer Democratic this year it has got huge Hispanic population and they were put off by Mitt Romney and what he had to say about immigration are in progress and hope that ... thank you James


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Amongst a collection of mid century furniture, including original G plan pieces by Danish designer Ib Kofod-Larsen, shelves and drawers will be filled with uniquely inspiring objects and original gifts for the festives season! The exhibition also includes rugs by Jason Collingwood, artworks by Matthew Lanyon and ceramics by Chris Keenan, Ikuko Iwamoto, Claire Loder and John Ward. In addition there will be a display of photography by internationally acclaimed artist Andrew Lanyon, who's brief sojourn into photography coincided with his years at film school in the late sixties. Comprised of signed original prints on Agfa Portriga Rapid paper, this unique collection brings together images taken by Lanyon between 1965 and 1972 in Cornwall, London and Paris.
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October 11, 2010 Old Spice: Great Ad Campaign, Messy ROI
I know all of you have watched and helped Old Spice become viral. Over the past year, they have transformed a once troubled brand personality into web Dynamite. Boom!
Sure, they have brand awareness, social media implementation (genius use of Twitter and Youtube) and conversation, tons of conversation. But before I go through the low-down of what Old Spice created, watch a few parodies, then come back.
Sesame Street Parody
Scholar Grades Parody
I hope you enjoyed them! Let's talk some sense though. If you are following social media, love social media, in the social media industry, then you know very damn well that is it difficult to measure your ROI on a social media campaign. Sounds easy to look at campaign budget, compare sales figure spreads, then formulate. No. You cannot account for conversation and other variables. In some cases you can, with new software revolutions in the industry. Maybe you can over a long term approach, but According to an Adweek blog, Ad Freak, published August 4th, just 6 months after the Red Spice campaign, stated some numbers gathered from the Wieden + Kennedy Agency, two I love and one makes me dumbfounded:
-Half the conversations came from women. (Great! The secondary target market responded!)
-The YouTube/Twitter social media response campaign was "the fastest-growing and most popular interactive campaign in history." (Saw that coming when Old Spice Man responded to twitter questions.)
-Since the campaign launched, Old Spice Bodywash sales are up 27 percent; in the last three months up. 55 percent; and in the last month up 107 percent. (Quite a data confusion)
See, I looked at other people talking about the same mess. SymphonyIRI did some research on sales figures:
(Picture courtesy of Ad Age) Looks good for the overall but two commenter's from Robert Paterson's blog, also talking about Old Spice published July 27th suggests good insight:
Commenter 1: "According to PR Week sales of the product increased over 100% last month. A piece in Forbes.com uses the same SymphonyIRI study to show that sales were up 7.9% from the previous year."
Commenter 2: "…people have got to STOP citing these SymphonyIRI numbers in reference to the Old Spice campaign. They measure the year ending June 13th, 2010, a full month BEFORE the viral/social aspect of the Old Spice campaign even started."
Granted these results were made in July, the point stays the same. Digging some more, the media took the hook on the first results when actually the results were misleading. But something more interesting is that coupons also had a major effect on sales, Buy-one-get-one-free. In that same article from Evidence Soup, they provided a quote recorded by Ad Age on the Procter and Gamble spokesperson, Mike Norton:
"How much of Old Spice's recent gains… come from Mr. Mustafa's ads and how much from the coupons? It's impossible to know."
So now I wait for official results, if there are any, on the success of the campaign. Either way I loved the campaign, I subjectively believe that the campaign had positive ROI in addition to the mass conversation and growing viral videos. Let this be a learning experience.
I also came across Heidi Cohen's blog where she lists out 31 well needed questions to ask about the Old Spice Campaign, number five being:
"5. Brand status. Did the campaign transform the brand making it an icon? Did the brand's reach become part of the culture?"
Yes, and yes.
Cheers from London.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — J.C. Penney Co.'s Chief Executive Ron Johnson is on a shorter leash than ever.
Since Johnson joined Penney JCP, -6.15% in late 2011, its shares have lost about half of their value. They plunged 19% Thursday to $17.17, wiping out about $3.3 billion in the company's market cap so far during Johnson's rein.
The main culprit: Johnson's extensive overhaul, launched in early 2012. The plan included eliminating the hundreds of sales Penney used to hold each year, a move that alienated its core bargain-hunting clientele.
"As much as we accomplished last year, we also made some big mistakes," Johnson said on a conference call late Wednesday. "And I take personal responsibility for these. Experience is making mistakes and learning from them ... We learned she prefers a sale. At times she loves the coupon."
Johnson said the company is bringing back weekly sales and revving up comparison pricing to retrieve lost shoppers. The number of product promotions, however, won't return to past levels, but geared instead toward its own private label brands and national brands that choose to participate.
"After reporting another beyond worst case scenario quarterly result, our concern that JCP will not be able to stabilize the business has increased yet again," said Credit Suisse analyst Michael Exstein. He rates Penney underperform.
"There was not one data point that could be viewed in a positive light. Despite JCP's statement that it is 'highly confident' it will be able to drive customers back to the store with promotions, we point out that traffic declines accelerated in 4Q12 when promotional activity was at its '12 peak," Exstein added.
Beyond declining market cap, Johnson's lesson also cost Penney $4.3 billion in lost sales last year, a whopping net loss of almost $985 million, and a 38% slide in cash and cash equivalents to $930 million.
"Another quarter like this, and he may enter the consumer hall of shame," Craig Johnson of Customer Growth Partners told MarketWatch.
"He has dug a deep hole for himself with the customer. He needs to do what Marshall Field said 150 years ago -- give the lady what she wants, not what he or pricey consultants want."
Penney's fourth-quarter loss widened to $2.51 a share from 41 cents a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet had been looking for a loss of 23 cents a share on sales of $4.09 billion. Comparable store sales slumped 32%, worse than the 28% drop analysts expected in a Thomson Reuters survey.
Johnson declined to comment on Penney's February sales trends. Unlike in previous quarterly reviews, he also had little to promise about sales growth this year.
Is it "the little engine that could or a train wreck?" asked J.P. Morgan analyst Matthew Boss, who rates the stock neutral. "Just when you thought it couldn't get worse. Timing of the 'return to growth' is uncertain with reduced FY13 visibility."
Even some of the few analysts still bullish on Penney expressed disappointment.
"2013 outlook remains uncertain," said Citigroup analyst Deborah Weinswig, who rates the stock a buy, adding traffic outside of special sales events such as Valentine's Day likely "remains challenging."
"We were most surprised by the (more than 10 percentage points) decline in gross margin. (It was) a disappointing end to Ron's first year."
Weinswig is among the 21% of 19 analysts who rate the stock a buy while 47% of them rate it a hold and 32% a sell, FactSet data showed. In comparison, 67% of analysts rate Macy's M, -2.48% a buy and 33% a hold. See related story on Macy's and luxury retailers
Johnson on Wednesday sought to restore faith in his vision by citing his track record at Target Corp. TGT, -1.29% , which he took from an ordinary discounter to an "upscale discounter", and his efforts at Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.80% to transform it to "the world's most valuable company." from "a cult brand selling Macs." See related story on Target's quarterly results.
"This is my third transformation," he said. "This would be a multi-year effort, and it will be. Transformations are unpredictable and can be bumpy, and this one has been."
But time may simply not be on his side this time around.


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Mello Joy Coffee Company has created a custom-blend Ragin' CajunsTM French Roast Coffee in partnership with the University of Louisiana.
The aromatic coffee is made with Arabica beans grown in Central America and South America. Widely considered to be some of the finest beans in the world, they're roasted and ground in New Orleans by Decatur Street Services and delivered to Mello Joy in Lafayette the same day for immediate packaging.
"We're in love with this custom blend," said Greg Elmore, Mello Joy general manager.
The new coffee was introduced at three Rouses Supermarkets in Lafayette and one in Morgan City, and in Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns Store. The custom blend will be stocked in other retail outlets, including Albertson's, Drug Emporium and Associated Grocers stores, after Feb. 21.
Elmore said the plan is to expand statewide availability in coming months.
"Our goal is to get bigger and bigger. This is a brand we plan to stand behind," Elmore said.
The new coffee joins other consumable products developed in partnership with the University of Louisiana. Others include Louisiana Ragin' CajunsTM Genuine Louisiana Ale; Louisiana Ragin' CajunsTM Genuine Louisiana Lager; Ragin' Red, a blend of spices; and the Ragin' Cajun Burger, which is sold at Sonic Drive-Ins during football season.
The products are licensed through Collegiate Licensing Company. Proceeds from the coffee sales will be used to support the University of Louisiana's academic, research and athletics programs.
Curtis Ball, roast master and manager at Decatur Street Services, collaborated with Louisiana and Mello Joy representatives to come up with its distinctive flavor.
Ball is one of only about 3,500 Q Graders in the world, coffee connoisseurs who have been certified by the non-profit Coffee Quality Institute. The designation requires extensive training, knowledge and industry experience.
Ball, who describes his occupation as akin to that of a sommelier, led a series of cuppings, or coffee tastings, while developing the custom blend. Much like wine, coffee is tested for quality, flavor and aroma by smelling and sipping samples.
An integral part of the process requires letting coffee brewed to predetermined dark roast specifications steep for several minutes, or long enough to form a "crust." The term refers to coffee grounds that rise to the top of the liquid. Once the crust is "broken" by jostling the cup, the coffee's aroma is released.
The biggest release of aromas occurs at about four minutes, according to Ball.
He describes Ragin' Cajuns French Roast Coffee as "a dark roast with a lot of body, and a sweetness, a chocolaty flavor."
Courtney Jeffries, assistant director of Creative Services for the University of Louisiana's Office of Communications and Marketing, designed the new coffee's bag. It features a vintage porcelain pot and two cups brimming with coffee.
She painted the original image by dipping a brush into coffee. She rendered contrasting hues on the predominantly brown package using a variety of techniques.
"The bag is like nothing else on the shelves. It looks like the table you grew up sitting around," Elmore said.
Ragin' CajunsTM French Roast Coffee signals the continuation of a partnership between Louisiana and Mello Joy that began in 2014. That's when the Ragin' Cajuns Strong Championship Blend was introduced as a novelty coffee. It celebrated multiple Sun Belt Conference Championships that had been won by University athletic teams.
The championship blend was packaged in a small, commemorative bag that featured the University's colors and its athletics logo. The package was emblazoned with photos of coaches who had guided University teams to recent SBC Championships.
Elmore said the new, custom blend and the bag that holds it were produced to occupy a permanent space in the marketplace.


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Two research firms say that IT employment showed some signs of growing over the second half of 2009. The TechServe Alliance, an Alexandria, Va.-based industry group that represents IT services firms and their clients said IT employment last month grew by 6,400 jobs, or 0.2%.
Foote Partners LLC, a Vero Beach, Fla., research firm that studies IT salaries and employment trends, said its analysis of five job segments showed a net gain of 6,900 jobs last month in the U.S. in occupational categories of "management and technology consulting services" and "computer systems design and related services."
The firm predicts that hiring won't pick up in a big way for the IT industry until late in the year or more likely in 2011.
Things appear to be a little different in India. Indian IT services firms Wipro Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd., and Tata Consultancy Services added a total of 16,700 IT employees themselves last quarter and the number appears to be rising.
These companies are anticipating that offshore outsourcing will benefit from the economic recovery, even though IT budgets will be flat this year. The reason? U.S. firms, having been burned by recent layoffs, may be seeking the flexibility to add and subtract capacity as needed. The easiest way for them to do this is to turn to outsourcers, both onshore and offshore.
Even companies that experienced business problems due to outsourcing setups in the past, may be tempted to start off with them in 2010 at least until projects get off the ground.
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2013-03-16 • Ryan Updates Research
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jhonora: Good evening ryan
Seventies: hello jhonora
jhonora: Hi Seventies
Seventies: How are you? Enjoying spring break yet?
jhonora: Not yet, it will start next week
Seventies: ok just in time for Easter. Are you excited about the new pope?
jhonora: Yes, very excited, looking foward to where he will lead the Chuch
Seventies: That's good. He seems like a man of little fanfare.
jhonora: Yes, a very humble man He is from Argentina but Italian by heritage. The president of Argentina is of German stock. They recruited Europeans to "whiten" their population in the 30s and 40s
Seventies: Yes and were one of the countries in South America to practice Eugenics.
jhonora: Absolutely, it shows how far people will go to avoid dealing with blacks
Seventies: yep. There are hardly any Africans from Argentina except those that have immigrated to the country. RYAN!! Hey long time no see! I'd been thinking about you as of late. How are you doing? And are you and the family safe up there?
vkn: Howdy to all Seventies Ryan JHonora
Seventies: hi vkn!
ryan: Hello all.. I'm still around, just been hectic working etc. But I stay on my research..
Seventies: good to hear.
jhonora: Hello vkn
ryan: 70's. Thanks for thinking of me BTW. Hopefully you have some good info for me..
vkn: Good for you Ryan any new discoveries
Seventies: I hope so as well... I think..
ryan: Well, I've been resarching all decendants of my ggrandfather (I found a lost line in December) that was good. That would be 2 left unknown out of 6
Seventies: Awesome! All came from MS/TN?
ryan: Of course 70's.. both
Seventies: You never know... just had to ask.
ryan: how have you all been?
Seventies: cold, wet and snowy... other than that pretty good. Tell us about your lost line and if they left MS/TN during the great migration.
ryan: Well, there was Robert, Oliva, Ola (my ggrandmother), Tom, and Lizzie.. I've traced decendants for Ola and Tom, but Lizzie was a mystery. Found her, she (Lizzie or Elizabeth Pennington) married a William Evans, I found out she moved to Memphis. Robert and Olivia are still mysteries..
jhonora: The family name is Pennington?
ryan: Yes
jhonora: From which county of MS?
ryan: Most of the Penningtons came out of Sussex, VA, and migrated to north and south Carolina. Mine went to Nashville Some went on to Mississippi (Marshall County) where my folks went..
Seventies: What time frame were these migrations?
ryan: Well, Graves Pennington was the slave owner that went to Nashville from Susexx county. He was born about 1790, he died in Nashville 1854.. His sons took my great grandfather to Mississippi
Seventies: ah okay... good stuff ryan.
jhonora: I researched a family with a similar history of back and forth between Nashville and Ms, by the name of Bumpus/Bumpas
ryan: Yea, they left the tobacco trade for the riches of cotton as I understand..
Seventies: Did they have any unique records perhaps donated to a school about the white pennington family?
ryan: Graves Pennington was one of the early settlers around Nashville, he belonged to a malitia there, tasked to defend the new territory there. He went there around 1820 or so I guess. He was able to procure land along the banks of the Cumberland river. There's lots of info out there about him.
Seventies: nice
ryan: Have you looked at any of "the road to freedom" ? (on another subject)
Seventies: No I hadn't.
jhonora: I'll catch you all later!
Seventies: I've been hitting the gym nearly every night... except this week
ryan: thats a good thing, me.. I was, but slacking off for about 3 weeks thought I would start again today, and failed..
Seventies: I'm sitting here thinking what were my latest developments since you last came to chat...
ryan: yea
Seventies: You can do it Ryan! Ok let me start with the latest and work backwards. I went to the Nat'l Archives and got some good Pre-Freedman's Bureau stuff. It was just about untouched...
ryan: thanks.. gonna get my but in there in the morning. I've been pretty good for about 6 years, but I've his a spell. Well, I was in California last weekend, then Miami the weekend before, that through me off.. ok wow... more on the pre-freedmans..
Seventies: I found the place, Beverly Plantation, where my mom grew up and many of my family members live and I actually think that I found my gg grandfather Canada Galmore and his brother William on the list of workers in 1864...
ryan: wow, thats big..
Seventies: That is VERY big... I was in shock after actually reading through it. The name caught my attention so I copied the document. they were little boys at the time.
ryan: thats great.. thats why we do this.. right?
Seventies: yep... And people don't like these records because they say they are hard to find family and generally give more of a context of the era.
ryan: (may take a few years to get it, but when it comes, its a beautiful thing)
Seventies: Indeed ryan.
ryan: ok
Seventies: Now the records I looked at the pre-FB were M1914...
ryan: ok
Seventies: They cover MS, LA and AR and some TN I would say that they are definitely worth looking at if you have family in the area.
ryan: ok.. so what years is that? 1865 - 70?
Seventies: 1863 to the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau....
ryan: ok
Seventies: So these are military records, many of the outposts were run by the Provost Marshal And special liaisons
ryan: Well, thats great.. Thats right along the lines of what I've been looking at lately.
Seventies: Another document that I copied was a survey of the Natchez district. A minister had been having trouble getting marriages to be done. This was a direct correspondence of a set of marriage records I had copied and transcribed from Adams Co. last year... I was thrilled!
ryan: That last road to freedom I just told you about is pre freedman and freedman. It talks a lot about the Civil War contraband camps are you aware of those?
Seventies: Yes, I have been touching on some of those documents.
ryan: when you get a chance.. read through this. its very, very interesting to me..
Seventies: I've been actively looking at CW regimental records for the units in which my family members have served.
ryan: http://www.lastroadtofreedom.com/
Seventies: Adding to my bookmarks now.
ryan: It not only has lots of information on the Freedman, Contraband camps. But most of the info is also from Marshall county, with one of the stories about a possible ansetor that I'd been researching.. Africa Bailey
Seventies: Those Regimental records are not digitized at this time... and they need to be. There is some great information in there. Who is Africa Bailey? love that name...
ryan: Well, the girl who wrote the information Alisea Williams Mcloud wrote of 2 slaves, that went to Memphis to fight, left thier plantation in Marshall county.. One of the slaves was Africa Baily. I had already been looking at him, through the Freedmans's papers. Long story short, during reconstruction, he became a very sucessfull preacher in Memphis.
Seventies: ok
ryan: I had already been researching him as an Ansestor (before her story)
Seventies: That's incredible!
ryan: yea, I thought so.
Seventies: So now you have the slave owner, plantation, etc. etc. Did Alisea say anything particular about him. Such as his status on the plantation, where he originally came from??
ryan: well.. He had a son name Tom Bailey That is my great grandfathers name
Seventies: whoa!! And the other slave that left, were they related to Africa?
ryan: My tom Bailey married Ola Pennington, he was born in Tennessee around 1867 or so (same as Africa's son).
Seventies: Ah... I see the possible connection here.
ryan: I just have not connected the dots. He could only be son to 2 people in that area, Africa is one of them. Africa dies of Yellow fever in 1878
Seventies: wow.
ryan: My Tom Bailey, Turns up in Marshall county and Marrys Ola in 1888 Anyway, I'm trying to confirm if Tom is related to Africa Bailey Seems just about everyone in that area died of yellow fever in 1878
Seventies: Ok your folks Tom and Ola are right along +/- a couple years to my great grandparents George and Lucy Callen in AL... I'd been glancing over them a little tonight.
ryan: ok
Seventies: Yes, I recall you gave me a link to a history about the yellow fever along there.
ryan: ok
Seventies: I think that my family member may have passed because of the yellow fever during that time....
ryan: ok
Seventies: Now the Yellow fever along Memphis was only in 1878 or was it over a few years timeframe. My people showed up in Shelby Co. TN in the 1880 census. Grandparents, children and grandchildren living in a single household.
ryan: main one was like sept - october 1878. though there were breakouts other years
Seventies: ok Yea, they didn't live in Memphis proper. I think they lived out in a rural area of the county.
ryan: here's another link.. This tells you all about Africa Baily and the contraband camps. Was interesting to me when I found it, cause I already knew who he was.. http://hastac.org/blogs/amcleod/2012/06/21/eaton-bailey-williams-freedpeoples-transcription-project-update
Seventies: Nice...
ryan: ok, your folks were then likely collierville like mine
Seventies: Maybe. I don't know what made them leave SW Mississippi, but they did and the entire family in-laws and grands moved to Shelby Co, MS
ryan: tn
Seventies: I meant TN.. lol
ryan: lol
Seventies: I'm so used to typing MS.. lol
ryan: I knew.. Your family was strange like that. Meaning the started at the bottom of the state and turned up at the top..
Seventies: I mean, they were darn near in Louisiana.
ryan: yea had another big find...
Seventies: ok
ryan: So, had ansestors (of course, Marshall county) owned by the Bonner family. Well, the Bonner family was a wealthy family in the area. long story short.. Charles Bonner was a Dr and a planter. He treated confederates during the war in Holly Springs. He had a daughter he became famous for her writings about southern life during that period.. Her name was Katie "sherwood" Bonner.. They owned my folks too..
Seventies: nice...
ryan: did not know that untill recently
Seventies: Now you can get some other info on your folks from her writings as well. that's good stuff!
ryan: no
Seventies: Ok so here are my updates...
ryan: ok go ahead (she wrote fictional stories about fictional charactors, based on the time.. mostly black charators)
Seventies: I found a long unknown family member who'd died in the CW shortly after joining the USCTs ahhh hmmm wonder how much was based in fact....
ryan: wow yea, I know..
Seventies: I found him via Ancestry and looking up his mother's name.
ryan: ok
Seventies: Turns out his mother Charity Rounds received his pension
ryan: cool thats one thing I have not found, a connection to a USCT..
Seventies: I ordered his pension file and found out info about Charity Rounds. and I got his military discharge/DC
ryan: they would be my instant hero
Seventies: Verified some oral history in the family.
ryan: ok
Seventies: I also got copies of the inventories of their slave holding family. Though when he enlisted he went by Charles Rounds Jr. his enslaved name was Chism. And get this, he was named after his maternal grandfather...
ryan: ok
Seventies: Turns out my 3rd great grandmothers' family had been owned by this slaveholding family for a total of 4 generations.
ryan: wow
Seventies: I got all of their names and a partial listing of the children.
ryan: where?
Seventies: So some of these folks have been here since the late 1700's This family Ellis-Farrar had plantations in SW MS and Louisiana.
ryan: ok, so they settled down there that long ago.. interesting
Seventies: They kept their enslaved in the family. The family who had this inventory was the descendant of the last farm manager they had before the CW This family received a Spanish land grant in Louisiana. One of the largest slave holding families in that part of the state
ryan: ok, thats right. Someone was spanish or moved to Mexico from that family.. right?
Seventies: Not this line...
ryan: oh
Seventies: This is my great-grandmother's line. My great-grandfather, her husband's line some came from MX. They also served in the USCTs there were three of them Milly, Thomas and Edward (Ned). Thomas and Ned served in the USCT.
ryan: ok.. for me, Africa Bailey is my first chance of connecting to the USCT. But, have not confirmed him. Check this out.. excerpt from the writeup : Africa Bailey, born a slave in Southampton County, Virginia around 1815, and Daniel Walker Williams, also born a slave in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, would have been acquainted with Eaton since both freedmen enlisted in the 63rd Regiment (Co. K) (formerly the 9th Louisiana) otherwise known as the Invalid Corps in which Eaton was first colonel and chaplain. The I.C., referred to by Eaton less pejoratively as The Home Guard, was composed of men fit for garrison duty but not for field service. It was a unit that matched both Eaton's and Bailey and Williams's purposes well. The 63rd would see very little, if any, field service, its soldiers not traveling far beyond Memphis.
Seventies: I also found another ancestor, James Galmore, served in the USCTs..
ryan: (you have lots)
Seventies: Yep.. I found one and in about a year I found several more. MS was a hotbed for USCT service.
ryan: not for me so far..
Seventies: ok wait a minute, I'm looking at this 9th LA and my James Galmore also has it listed on his service record card...
ryan: this is where Africa Bailey gets close to home for me : Bailey and Williams, husbands and fathers, had been acquainted for almost twenty years at the start of the war. Both had recently been owned by Elizabeth Herndon Hull of Marshall County, Mississippi, paternal great grandmother of Edward Hull "Boss" Crump, Jr., former mayor of Memphis. While Crump's grandfather, William Crump, was a staunch Unionist, his great uncle William Hull, sixth son of Elizabeth and through inheritance owner of Bailey and Williams, served in the Confederacy. At the start of the war, Bailey and Williams would have lived on William Hull's Greenwood plantation for many years, Williams for certain since the founding of the county following the Chickasaw Cession, which spurred the family's movement west. Williams was raised in Mississippi; Bailey, ten years Williams's senior, may have been purchased before or after the Hull family's migration. In either case, Williams and Bailey both were living at Greenwood in March 1863, when Union fo
Seventies: oh this is great information ryan!
ryan: That is from Alisea Williams (last road to freedom)
Seventies: So she is a descendant of Williams.
ryan: I went a found the probate records for her.
Seventies: ok
ryan: yes, correct what I don't understand is both were owned by the Hull family but What did Africa take the Bailey name and her Daniel Willams take the Williams name
Seventies: Probably because it was his name before he was sold..
ryan: yea I suppose
Seventies: Sounds like he was big enough to know it and remember it. That may be the key as to where he came from.. Or his people back in Virginia.
ryan: yea.. So I peer more into his life. The guy was something else. Started the biggest churches in Memphis during reconstruction, escaped slave, went o memphis, joined the USCT..
Seventies: Yes that is very incredible. I hope you all are related.
ryan: and when he died of yellow fever, was notable in papers in Chicago and Ohio While these two fugitives more likely than not journeyed to Memphis together by train or on foot, their paths would diverge somewhat as Bailey sought to lead his fellow freedpeople on a road to Christian faith and Williams looked to succeed in farming anyway, enough of that. read it at your leisure
Seventies: No that's good information... Do you go on any genealogy facebook pages?
ryan: have you looked a the slave narratives? (not much on FB)
Seventies: Yes years ago... almost 20. lol Picked them up again last year though
ryan: ok, I'm hooked. trying to finish all the ones from Marshall county the stories they tell..
Seventies: Let me tell you, I picked up one from Oklahoma and went right to one with the lady who was owned in Autauga Co, AL by a Clem Lanier... I was floored! My Laniers are from Autauga Co.
ryan: yea..
Seventies: The stories are great. My favorites are the Carolinas...
ryan: I got one like that too..
Seventies: I had been begging my college library, I work at a univ., to get some copies. Finally I just gave up and downloaded them from the Gutenberg free library online
ryan: One was owned by the Penningtons in Nashville and Memphis.. I swear she was owned by the same family. she said her masters name was Fanny, and so was our slave owner (Fanny Pennignton)
Seventies: wow. They had to be wealthy for sure. Now none of the people owned by this Ellis-Farrar family gave any interviews that I came across.
ryan: yea, even tells how Fanny's husband died, and how her mother died taking care of him. Well, William died (my owner) suddenly, as did his brother in 1853. I just don't have a firm connection on her..
Seventies: ok You have been getting some good stuff ryan...
ryan: yea, been productive really can't complain but you know how it is..
Seventies: Me not so much... teetering on if I should move forward or if I should stop.
ryan: no can't stop I have been finding stuff (Like Lizzie) thought she was gone forever.. and boom
Seventies: That's great...
ryan: I connected with a decendant of my grgrgrandfather/mother Daniel Pool. on Ancestry
Seventies: Nice!
ryan: Long story short (I have this line down too). His grandfather was my great grandmothers sister. His mother is alive, I spoke to her, she knew my great grandmother, and she told me all about each and every one of them.
Seventies: Isn't that awesome!
ryan: my thier (Carrie and Will Pools) mother died when will was young. My great grandmother Carrie raised her father (see them on 1900) she was the one that told me that Dan Pools Wife was a Bonner (which I had no idea) I think that was my biggest find, to talk to her..
Seventies: Isn't it always the biggest find to talk to the elders?
ryan: yes, because she is the youngest of Wills kids, the rest are past. She's right there in Memphis
Seventies: That's great. I'm so glad that you are moving along in your research ryan.
ryan: They had another brother name George Pool.. He was one of the older ones..
Seventies: Were there two sets of Pool children?
ryan: Now, I new something was up with George, cause he lived with Carrie even when he was in his 50's/
Seventies: Did the cousin shed any light on that??
ryan: she tells me George was Def and Dumb.. He died in Hardemen Asylem.. I saw a record for that, but was not sure before she confirmed it..
Seventies: ok
ryan: (West Tn Asylem) I was floored. To be talking to someone who could speak first hand..
Seventies: Did they indicate that on the census? Seems like it should've been on at least one of them.
ryan: Well, maybe I missed it. But, he was living with Carrie 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 then dissapears (to the asylem)..
Seventies: That's sad.
ryan: he died there
Seventies: what year? after 1940?
ryan: I had been researching the pools (my paternal grandfathers's mother is Carrie) he died in the 40's yes
Seventies: This is all good stuff ryan. Awaiting your book to be published..
ryan: yea.. lots of new info, have not had time to document much other than collecting files
Seventies: I hear rustling in this bedroom. Keeping my nephew tonight and he's 3... brb
ryan: ok
Seventies: ok back. My son and nephew are watching Thomas the train on Netflix... and my nephew is laying in bed with his legs crossed...eyes glued on the tube... lol kids
ryan: ok I got the house to myself, thats why I'm having a marathon.. lol.. Wife is in Michigan.
Seventies: lol I wish!
ryan: Daughter in Atlanta, another down away at school by ST Louis and my son is spending the night at his buddies house.
Seventies: and you've never felt so alone.. lol
ryan: I should'nt. I was in San Jose last week..
Seventies: nice. I wish I could go somewhere warm... it snowed yet again in NY
ryan: yea, flurries here too.
Seventies: Just enough to make it dangerous. I'm also just getting over a cold... I'm so over winter.
ryan: Week before was Miami.. My nephew lives down there, and was married..
Seventies: rub.it.in. lol
ryan: http://onefast.org/tonyr/AstonandChristineLiyanarchiWedding322012/
Seventies: That's an interesting surname...
ryan: this is me http://onefast.org/tonyr/AstonandChristineLiyanarchiWedding322012/dsc02702.html yes.. let me tell you about that one
Seventies: Gorgeous family.
ryan: again.. Long story short.. My sister's ex husband was from Sri Lanka
Seventies: ok
ryan: Thats where the name came from BUT as we do.... My sister changed the spelling lol
Seventies: So your nephew is Blasian.
ryan: yea
Seventies: lol @ as we do I can't tell that he is... wow.
ryan: as I understand it.. That lighthouse has some rich history..
Seventies: I was wondering where the wedding had taken place.
ryan: No kidding the "african" took over size etc. but he looks just lke his father.. Key Biscayne, and Island right off Miami..
Seventies: ah okay.
ryan: I understand that lighthouse was a stop on the underground railroad
Seventies: Down to the Caribbean?
ryan: yes
Seventies: Nice! We don't often hear about that aspect of the UGRR I would really like to learn more about that.
ryan: yea, I was surprised. A white guy from down there started telling me all this, I was instantly tuned in
Seventies: At the wedding?
ryan: yea.. Lighthouse tours: Although the lighthouse is open to the public from Thursday-Monday, if you would like to go on a guided tour, it is free and takes place at 10:00am and 1:00pm Thursday-Monday. There are 109 steps to the top, so bring your comfortable walking shoes! The lighthouse is the oldest building in South Florida built in 1825 to serve as a navigational aid and was the site of an Indian War and part of the Underground Railroad. here is an article on it http://www.visitflorida.com/articles/along-floridas-underground-railroad-slaves-won-freedom-for-themselves
Seventies: Anothr nice bit of information. You came ready to dish today...
ryan: yea, its been a while.. thanks for putting up with me
Seventies: This was an excellent chat with you tonight ryan. No problem. I'm sleeping in tomorrow. I wish I had more to share.
ryan: same here.. I won't be so long. I've been trying to break away to the lunch bunch, but been crazy at work. But, nice talking to you too.. Hang in there, don't give up, that big break is right in front of you and you don't know it yet. Anyway, ttyl..
Seventies: You can check out my records online at thefamilygriotrepository.blogspot.com
ryan: ok, will link it now.. bye..
Seventies: night!


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As planting season rapidly approaches, the U.S. rice industry has another issue to deal with in its attempts to flush unwanted GM traits from the rice supply. Some positive hits for a LibertyLink trait have surfaced in lab tests on Clearfield 131.
The variety was responsible for 375,000 acres of the state's rice crop in 2006.
Before the latest findings, Cheniere was the only variety known to harbor such a trait.
Last Dec. 28, the Arkansas Plant Board banned Cheniere from being planted in Arkansas in 2007 and 2008. At the same time, the board passed regulations calling for all seed stocks in the state to be tested for LibertyLink (LL) traits at a 0.01 percent level. It was during the course of those tests the problem with Clearfield 131 (CL131) was discovered.
The latest lab results alone won't dictate new regulatory action. Arkansas farmers remain free to plant CL131 seed that has tested clean.
Several overseeing the cleanup say the CL131 lab results raise more questions than they answer. Most are calling for more time to gather and evaluate additional data.
With retesting, "I suspect you'd get at least 75 percent to 80 percent of (CL131) to pass a test showing it isn't detected at, or above, 0.01 percent — or, possibly, even higher than that," says Darryl Little, director of the Plant Board. "The big thing is the more samples and data we get, the better we'll understand it and the better people will be able to make decisions."
Those at HorizonAg, the Memphis-based company that markets Clearfield varieties, are not sure why CL131 is testing positive in certified seed.
"Our foundation lots ultimately used to supply the market are testing clean," says Randy Ouzts, HorizonAg general manager. "We don't know why some 131 is testing positive. What I do know is the level is at least one decimal point — perhaps two — outside Cheniere's (contamination) level. In cold reality, it's (very difficult) when anyone tries to regulate at testing levels of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of percentages."
Little agrees the testing can be extremely sensitive and difficult to gauge. Some 30 percent of the time the test can even pick out a 0.0013 level of contamination — the equivalent of one seed in 80,000.
Ouzts, who had previously cautioned against adopting the 0.01 testing level, insists his company found out about the positive CL131 results only in the last several weeks. Meanwhile, other Clearfield varieties have proven clean of LL traits.
"The CL171 and CL161 are completely, definitely clean," says Ouzts. "I don't have the CL151 tests back yet. Time is a real issue here, but we're at the mercy of the seed lab. And when you do get a result, if it's unfavorable, you have to retest. That takes more time."
All involved stress the need for more information before drawing definite conclusions. Lab tests are showing positives "in about 40 to 50 percent of the 131 lots," says Little. "And we aren't sure what it is — LL601, LL62 (which has been deregulated by USDA), or something else."
As of Jan. 29, Arkansas Plant Board field staff had submitted 77 CL131 seed lots to labs. Results on 43 of the lots had been returned with 23 showing the presence of an LL trait.
"That may sound worse than it is," says Little. "Apparently, we're bumping the bottom limits of this test and its ability to pick something up.
"A lot of the ones we're seeing detections on you could … surmise the level is well below 0.01 percent."
How might the mills react to the latest news on CL131?
"This is why we felt it was so important to test all the varieties (other than Cheniere) before rice is planted in 2007," says Keith Glover, president and CEO of Producers Rice Mill in Stuttgart, Ark.
"Some people in the industry believed that banning Cheniere would take care of the problem. We were adamant that further testing was needed, though, because of the chance of commingling. There could be a seed lot out there with some GE rice in it … We need to find out if this is a result of accidental commingling or if, somehow, the GE trait got mixed up in foundation seed of 131 or something else. It raises a lot of questions that need to be answered."
Glover says he has yet to hear from any foreign customers worried about the CL131 news.
In recent weeks Glover tamped down many farmer concerns when he said the mill would take rice as long as it was accompanied by paperwork proving the seed used to grow the crop had been tested for GM traits. Has anything changed with the latest CL131 findings?
"It's really hard to say we're going to do A, B and C. Until we get more facts, it would be foolish for me to make definite statements. As of today, our position and policy are the same. But if we get some answers in the next day or weeks that tell us something different about CL131, we might have to adjust accordingly.
"This whole thing has been quite a journey. You get to a point where you think you've got all the knowledge and facts and then a new fact surfaces that has to be dealt with."
Ray Vester says farmers he's spoken with remain in favor of the clean-up plan. "They know how serious the problem is," says the Stuttgart, Ark.-area rice farmer and Plant Board rice representative. "One of the biggest helps was that (mills) agreed to take rice with proper certification. That calmed things down.
"Farmers know this could ruin the entire rice industry. It could absolutely destroy it.
"Some say, 'It's just Europe complaining. Give up on them.' No, it isn't just Europe!
"Just wait, countries will come to us and say, 'We need your rice but it is tainted and we don't really want it. You're going to have to lower the price.'
"That's how this will work. These countries may not ban our rice, but they'll demand sacrifice from us. Even if markets aren't cut, they'll still resist prices. You know, 'we'll take your rice at half price.' Well, without a decent price for our crops, farmers will have nothing. This has to be cleaned up properly and quickly."


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Calibration of manure and wastewater application equipment is essential. This is a good example of the linkage between "plan" and "performance." How do you know what rate of manure application you attain if you haven't tested and calibrated the equipment? Do you have records from prior seasons that show what rates were actually applied? Nutrient management plans that are part of a regulatory requirement call for calibration records. Know how to do a valid calibration and what data to record.
Applicator calibration tasks ranked by accuracy and difficulty stack up like this:
1. Dragline or towed-hose on multi-tool injector, with an electronic flow meter: It's easy, but double-check accuracy: record the total amount of material applied by measuring the drop in the storage level; know the acreage where manure was applied. Do the math. The rate for that application is total gallons divided by total acres.
2. Tanker with injectors: Fairly easy and sufficiently accurate once you get some calibration experience. Width of spread is reliable because you can follow the last track of the injector. The other variables — tractor speed and flow rate from the tank — you have some control over. But double-check each job using the total material divided by total acres approach.
3. Tanker with liquid being broadcast: Fairly difficult and requires a disciplined driver to get an even spread.
4. Traveling gun applying lagoon liquid: More difficult and requires regular checks and a realistic target for uniformity across the track of the gun cart.
Happily, there is some latitude in the application rate calculations for nitrogen- or phosphorus-limited rates. If you can apply manure within plus or minus 10% of your goal, backed up by records, you are a pretty good operator. A simple analysis of all the uncertainties that go into the rate calculation — the manure sample, crop yield-based nutrient needs, applicator characteristics — quickly shows that it does not make sense to hold a manager to a closer tolerance than that. Records are still the key here. You should always strive to correct over- or under-applications the next time you're in that field. The take-home message is simple — calibrate, calibrate, calibrate.
If you're unsure of the calibration steps for your equipment, check with the manufacturer or see the Natural Resources Conservation System's Ag Waste Management Field Handbook for suggestions.
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rennsix needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We use powerful tuning tools and software to develop some of the best tunes on the market for Duramax Diesels. We're getting ready to launch a new product and we need a logo to increase our visibility that makes our brand stick out from the competition. Our customers choose Duramaxtuner.com to provide them with premium tunes as well as delivering the knowledge and skill to provide exceptional tuning services and support.
Our target market is mostly males between the ages of 16-60yr olds.
Our customers buy Duramax trucks to tow their farm equipment, atv's, boats, horse trailers, 5th wheel campers and even some weekend drag racing. We design and build tunes that increase hp, torque while focusing on drive-ability.
The logo needs to be more then just plain old text (which is what it is now). We want something that is better then our current competition too.
Here are 2 designs that are in our niche market. They are well established in the industry and we should be right there with them. Or above them...
logo_socaldiesel is our biggest competitor. This is a nice design they have but without the text to the right.
logo_fishtuning is one of our allies. However, we need to look better then this.
Maybe try and incorporate a turbocharger into the design? I attached a Garrett GT42 turbo drawing as reference.
be creative!
what is a duramax? Includes in an older version and new version of the truck.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Quincy Auto Credit needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Quincy Auto Credit
We are a unique used car dealership opening a new location. We offering financing to everyone, if they have a job, they will be approved. We offer a unique environment, by not being the buy here pay here dealership in the old gas station on the corner. We give our customers a quality experience in an environment that makes them feel like they are important to us.
Our customers are simple. They need a car and are unable to get one through traditional sources. They like bold statements and appreciate flashiness in a website, however, don't want cheesy and cheap.
The logo needs to be very versatile. We are leaning toward royal blue and white or royal blue and yellow. We will use it on letterhead, shirts, license plates, banners, advertising in all mediums and stickers for the backs of the cars. So, something eye catching, but simple enough to reproduce in a variety of ways.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Italians Feel the Fiscal Pain
Italians are going to the polls in a election which will set Italy's future economic path. It's a vote that has implications for the whole of the euro zone. WSJ's Christopher Emsden reports from Rome. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Backing fit for a Circle Game
44 comments:
Bsckingss are a nightmare, they work out so expensive. I haven't used any sheets yet, but I tend to buy yardage at shops when it is on offer. Even if it isn't my favourite, so I don't mind using it all for the back. And if I can find it, I like extra wide fabric as well as that usually works out better value.ReplyDelete
Ikea Dvala sheets are fantastic. They used to do a really nice neutral beige, but it's harder to get hold of now. I have to admit I scour the charity shops. Last week I got 6 metres of ikea home dec weight fabric for £2.ReplyDelete
I like quit simple backs, so often it's plain with a stripe of fabric from the front just to tie the two sides together.
Also if i find a sale I tend to hit it hard. East coast quilting closed down a few months ago and had Amy Butler soul blossoms half price with free postage. I'm just finishing it off now!
There are 2 schools of thought...ReplyDelete
- a) go cheap and cheerful, its only the back, and
- b) buy what you love and looks great. after hours of work, why 'cheapen' the process.
Personally, I look at the individual project and evaluate that way, but usually, I opt for option b).
I try and tie in the backing eg. circle game would have some sort of circular pattern/fabric.
I think your choice is perfect.
That fabric is gorgeous! I tend to go for, like you, whatever I can afford. That's half the reason my big fat dresden (your QAL) quilt is not finished. I really want to back it in a deep purple flanel for my mom, but can't afford to buy the 6ish yards that I would need. Bum. It's her birthday at the end of the month though, so it would be good if I could finish it.ReplyDelete
Wow, I think I've got a new favourite fabric, what a fabu-licious choice!ReplyDelete
I find choosing quilt backs really quite tricky because of the price! I tend to piece smaller bits of fabric, so it doesn't feel like I'm using quite so much yardage (yes, I know I still am using the same amount, but it feels better!)
Although buying backings in Holland is probably as hideously expensive as in the UK I wait for local quiltshop sales and buy down priced fabrics, or I buy solids, cause they are cheaper. I also like to use leftover fabrics to piece a part of the backing to save some money.ReplyDelete
It depends on the quilt. When there has been a lot of work involved in the top, I just want the backing to be made of good stuff.
I have never bought yeards from online shops in the USA, cause I have to pay so much VAT and custom service. Is that the same for you in the UK?
I've only made three quilts so the answer to the backing question is easy: I had bright yellow backing for a strip-pieced quilt (36" square) that included the yellow; a pieced backing for a 50" square using some of the same fabrics that were on the front (I bought too much and wanted to use them up), and a checked green flannel because the quilt top was appliqued checked houses on a green background.ReplyDelete
Fabric in Australia is also expensive but there are some alternatives - depending on how much we want to spend: we have two big box stores in the local area where fabric starts at $9.99 (Australian) and goes up to $19.99. One of them also sometimes has clearance stock at $6.00 or $8.00 a metre. The fabric for my first two quilts came from one of these two chain stores. There are four independent LQS where fabric is around $22 a metre. And my "sometimes" teacher sells discontinued lines at $5 or $10 (minimum cut 1 metre). For the latter, I have to drive one and a half hours across Sydney or pay postage. Most of the fabric for my third quilt was bought here whilst I was attending a class.
Obviously I meant yards, and I forgot to tell you that the circle game quilt is gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
Great choice Lynne! I usually go with Ikea fabrics as they are so cheap and funky but I have been known to buy designer for the back for special projects :-)ReplyDelete
This is one of the reasons I shy away from making big quilts and the majority of the quilts I do make are backed with solids like Kona which still works out expensive when you need yards of the stuff. I have been known to use sheets although more and more these days they are polycotton blends not pure cotton so that's not always an easy option.ReplyDelete
Looks like I may be in the minority, I'm in KX's "b" group - "buy what you love and looks great. after hours of work, why 'cheapen' the process."ReplyDelete
All my quilts have designer backings that match the fronts. Sometimes they've been bought on sale (my 6m for your dresdens was a Pink Chalk bargain at about four quid a yard) but more often than not it's full price yardage. I like pretty backs and the one time I used a sheet (on your Hexagon Park pattern) it was such a hideous quilting experience I vowed never again! It may be my only fabric purchase that month but I like choosing something nice that compliments the top but that I love, too.
WOW! That is one gorgeous quilt. Amazing! I love that fabric for the backing, it looks so fun.ReplyDelete
Having only completed one quilt but working on more, my backing is from anywhere with a SALE!
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It depends on what it is. Wall hangings get calico or bits that need finishing off. Larger quilts get fabric I've bought in a sale, or Ikea fabric, or pieced pieces that I'm bored with looking at. I can't afford to buy full price fabric for the backings.ReplyDelete
I guess is also depends on how many quilts you finish each year and how big that "quilting fund" happens to be . . . right? I'm with you . . . I think some are worth the investment and your choice is fabulous in every way.ReplyDelete
What I've done is, during those times when we've been very blessed (hubby is in sales) I did a lot of shopping online and searching out sales and closeouts . . . choosing fabrics for backings. It's nice now, during tough times I happen to have quality fabrics in my stash for backings. Can't wait to see it backed!
Perfect backing ... love it.ReplyDelete
I am in camp 'b' too ... I actually think, for me, both sides are equally important. If you've gone to all that trouble why skimp on the back?
I'm not a great fan of randomly pieced backs ... Now I've gravitated towards plain coloured linen for my backing and sashing I feel much happier.
I like to hand quilt something boldly geometric to bring some interest to the back ... I'd love just to do a wholecloth quilt that looks like it's been pieced on the front ...
Perfect choice! Like you budget restraints mean cheap/recycled backing materials, which I'm ok with cos it's usually the front that gets admired/displayed/enjoyed anyways. JxoReplyDelete
Love, love, love the front.....but the back? Who cares, everyone will be looking at the front!ReplyDelete
I think you chose a great fabric backing.ReplyDelete
I typically choose a backing that coordinates in either theme, color or style with the front. It's not necessarily something "designer." I also have used scraps from the quilt top pieced with solids to stretch the back. Generally speaking, though, I shop for sales and try to match up something that I love. I have tried the Ikea sheet and have mixed feelings about them. Some seem so thin but then, sometimes thin doesn't matter.
- Anonymous30 August 2011 at 13:37
I seldom buy backing specifically for the quilt, but I always try to make it work together. I live in the US so I have access to less expensive fabrics, and I watch for big sales at the local quilt shop or some online stores. I search the deep discount fabric for ANYTHING even remotely attractive and buy 7 - 10 yards at a time. A few years ago one LQS was offering some Moda bolts at $2 a yard! I bought about 50 yards that day, about half of which is still in my stash. I also like to do pieced backs, incorporating some of the scraps from the front into a few blocks on the back. It helps that I have a ridiculously large stash - I can use two or three large pieces on the back and tie them together with the pieced blocks.ReplyDelete
I love the fabric you chose. It is my favorite in the line too.ReplyDelete
My favorite backings are the ones that feel good when you sleep under them. Of late I've been very happy with extra wide high count muslin from Hancocks of Paduchah. It is super soft, silky, and is a bit less expensive than prints.
I think that back fabric will be very fun for your quilt, I am looking forward to seeing how you quilt it. I often piece the back from leftover blocks or bits from the front and bits of the fabrics that were left or ended up not being used and then buy a bit of something to finish it off. I try to buy large pieces of sale fabrics I like for future backs as well.ReplyDelete
If I can find a really good deal on 250-300 count sheets I'll buy a king sized set and use the flat one for backing(s) and keep the fitted one for my bed. Everyone wins! For baby quilts and lap sized and whatnot I almost never make a pretty, pieced back (it's so much work after making my gorgeous top!). I'll usually just try and find some inexpensive, but lovely fabric and piece as much together as I need to make it fit.ReplyDelete
And I'm totally irritated at how much you have to spend on fabric! That is highway robbery.
- Anonymous30 August 2011 at 14:32
Perfect backing choice.ReplyDelete
I usually use up what I have on hand, and sometimes wish my backs were a bit more coordinated.
It's stunning. I go for plain backs usually or whatever is around in same colour family. That one is nice, but reminds me of beer bottle tops! I like the polka dot for the back. :)ReplyDelete
Oh. I love it. For my backings I tend to use solids bought on sale, pieced with scraps from the quilt top and a few choice bits. Sometimes I upcycle -- I spent a good hour at the thrift shop yesterday looking for good quality linens for backs.ReplyDelete
Great choice - it goes really well!!ReplyDelete
I usually do the Ikea sheet thing, or a retro sheet but I did do a special quilt within a Kaffe Fassett workshop and wanted to splash out - but I bought the absolute bare minimum of one of his designs, used a fab ebay buy of a Martha Negley and eeked it all out with using scraps from the front to make up a colourful stripe in the middle.
It really depends. Often it is a solid Kona with leftovers from the front but smaller quilts are very precious ones do get a backing with patterned fabric. I love Going coastal and also have several yards of bottle top print ready for a back.ReplyDelete
I use sheets mainly for the same reasons as you have stated, unless it's a mini quilt (like my BQS mini) then I use whatever I have available (and not necessarily a designer print!)ReplyDelete
I really like the fabric you chose! It has so much personality, which matches the top so well.ReplyDelete
I tend to use a scrappy backing. I like to try to incorporate the scraps of extra blocks of my quilts into the back to continue the story of the quilt.
Unless it's a wall hanging (I usually use calico or plain black) I tend to balance what I can afford/am prepared to pay with what I want. I look out for backing in the sales and whenever I go to the shop in Scarborough - £4.80/m - which isn't often. I often choose a solid or a Moda Marble (MM are lovely to hand quilt through) as my first choice, particularly if I'm adding a pieced strip, etc. to the back. I also like my binding to be the same as my backing so that makes choosing slightly more difficult. I backed my Sashiko sampler in a solid and every time I turn it over I wish I'd splashed out the extra £2/m to get the fabric I really wanted...I love the fabric you've chosen, it's going to look great!ReplyDelete
The backing fabric is lovely. I haven't finished many quilts yet and the larger ones I have done were gifts where I have tended to use solids and some of the leftover fabric from the front (but it depends on the quilting as I find that solids don't hide mistakes as well!). I have far too much fabric and am starting to try and use it up so my latest finishes are going to have pieced backs from my stash which also avoids having to try to match up the pattern too.ReplyDelete
After my first quilt, from a LQS class, I now almost buy fabric when it's on sale - and I mean the final sale. Just this morning I used some yardage for a back that I got at my LQS last year on sale for $1.99/yd. If it's under $5/yd, then it's a great backing deal! At that price, 100% sheets are more expensive for me to use.ReplyDelete
My early quilts were backed using plain old cotton muslin, because that's all I knew. Now, I like for my quilt backs to be as interesting as the quilt front, so I may piece the back using fabrics leftover from the front OR back the quilt in an interesting fabric (like your bottle caps) that coordinates with the front. I keep my eyes peeled for pretty 100% cotton sheets at the local thrift shop and my first stop at the local fabric store is always the remnant/sale bins.ReplyDelete
When I seriously started quilting (in 2000), I matched the color/theme of the back to the front, which mean quilt shop quality fabrics. Sometimes I would piece the back with leftover chunks of the top fabrics. I must admit, the backs looked fabulous. :-)ReplyDelete
Let's fast forward to today (and the recently previous years). I no longer have the luxury of affording quilt shop quality fabric for the back ... an area that will hardly ever been seen. Since I now have my own longarm machine, I realize what an utter *pain* pieced backs are and I try to minimize any piecing.
What I use now is wide backing fabric. Typically, they are 108" (occasionally wider) and it is such a JOY to have that seamless fabric as a backing! The wide backing fabric that I normally use now is simple muslin.
The muslin makes the back of my quilts very plain, but the more I thought about it (probably to justify the decision), the more I realized muslin is a very traditional backing for quilts. Additionally, having a solid fabric for the backing makes the quilting motifs more visible, so that you could think of the back as a "whole cloth" quilt. :-)
But mostly I use the wide muslin because it's so (relatively) inexpensive compared to fashion fabric. :-)
I seem to be headed towards double sided quilts. I am so mean I want my wadding to work hard for me and I seem to use the same fabrics/colours but a very different design. I quilt it as the front dictates and the back still seems to look good! I am set to carry on this way...only exceptions seems to be quilts with very small pieces.ReplyDelete
I like great backs....but hate to use my full price fabric for them. I'm always on the hunt for priced down quality fabrics, so when I find them I stock up....no I mean really stock up. The words I'll take the whole bolt have been known to come out of my mouth a time or two. Great choice!!ReplyDelete
I love this circle game quilt, I knew I should have done that bom!! Fabulous backing Lynne. I like putting my leftover fabrics from my quilt top into my backing...takes longer though!!! xoReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 August 2011 at 07:16
Love the fabric you've chosen.... I was thinking of buying some of the crab fabric to make a new beach bag.ReplyDelete
I have very few large pieces of fabric in my stash so backing quilts is always a challenge. I like many others keep an eye out for bargains....... Like John Lewis who have been selling Tanya Whelan at £5.12 per metre.....or buy larger width plain fabrics. Right now I am making my daughter a sherbet pips quilt and I found some polka dot fabrics that I bought from ikea about 10 years ago which I have pieced with some plain red and I think it is perfect. I say go with the flow I think the quilts talk to us and tell us when they want a special back!!!!
I have always gone down the economical route for backing..........but, if it is an extra special quilt, would push the boat out. Our shop traded once at a Guild Regional Day and we were selling off older cottons at low prices - we got trampled in the rush - folk were buying 8m at a time, for backing. I like the trend towards pieced backs and have used up a selection of orphan fat 1/4s in this way........always, always cotton tho!ReplyDelete
I love a print for a backing. You have a new follower! This quilt is really speaking to me.. I can't tell you how much I LOVE love love it. :) And love the backing you chose.ReplyDelete
I actually really like plain backings, so sheets for me, are perfect. I like how you can see the quilting in a 'whole cloth' form on the back. They also wear brilliantly, and you don't need to make any seams on most quilts.ReplyDelete
But all too often I use whatever I have leftover from the quilt top and piece a backing. The cost part of things I don't bother so much about - the quilt top has cost a fortune, so I don't begrudge paying for a backing fabric...I just LOVE the look of a solid and I love no seams so sheets tend to fit the bill (and I have asked moda why we can't have really nice extra wides just for the purpose of backing modern quilts...I'm waiting on an answer).
I am also in love with the coastal bottle caps.ReplyDelete
I've always done *new fabric to match the front* quilt backs, but I'm starting to like a simple pieced back. Like a stripe of coordinating fabric or a few leftover blocks.
I think you chose perfectly. I am not precious about my backs, but I don't like quilting through sheets (the thread count is too high and my machine hates it), so I tend to piece smaller bits together, OR buy 6 yards of something off the $5 rack at my LQS. I backed a queen sized blooming 9-patch batik (gasp!) quilt with a vintage bowling print.ReplyDelete
I've tried all the different backings mentioned. I won't do sheets again. I made two quilts backed with yardage that I just loved. Now I like to use all the fabric bought for the front, and piece it with lots of colours from my stash. I love your backing!ReplyDelete


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Fans of the Lady Bisons will get a chance to see the team in action Nov. 6, 2010 when Harding visits Allen Arena for an exhibition game. In the past the Lady Bisons have usually played two exhibition games.
The Lady Bisons open the regular season Nov. 12, 2010 when they visit the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. It will be the first time the Lady Bisons have played Air Force. As part of the contract Air Force will play a game in Allen Arena the next season.
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The Lady Bisons will celebrate New Year's 2011 in Miami. The two teams will play Jan. 1 in Miami.
The non-conference home schedule at Allen Arena includes Tennessee Tech (11/18), Jacksonville State (11/20), Alabama A & M (11/22) and Tennessee State (11/27).
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"We are playing a lot of the Ohio Valley Conference schools like Austin Peay, Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State like we have in the past. Jacksonville State is new for us. Central Arkansas is on the rise. Miami and South Alabama are two of the toughest games we will play."
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"Overall the conference gets better each year," Bennett said. "ETSU had some big losses in terms of players. Gulf Coast has most of their team back. Upstate played very strong last year. North Florida was one call away from going to the NCAA Tournament."
The Lady Bisons version of the "Battle of the Boulevard" will be played Jan. 26 at Allen Arena. The Lady Bisons will make the short trip down Belmont Boulevard Jan. 12.
The remaining A-Sun games at Allen Arena are Jacksonville (1/8), North Florida (1/10), Campbell (1/17), Florida Gulf Coast (1/29), Stetson (1/31), ETSU (2/19) and USC Upstate (2/21).
Conference games on the road at Stetson (1/3), Florida Gulf Coast (1/5), ETSU (1/22), USC Upstate (1/24), North Florida (2/3), Jacksonville (2/5), Campbell (2/14), Kennesaw State (2/24) and Mercer (2/26).
"The key to everything is to get back into the conference tournament," Bennett said. "The league is so balanced that if you can get hot for three games you can get to the NCAA Tournament.
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What are the Illuminations? Originally an untitled, unpaginated bunch of manuscript pages that Arthur Rimbaud handed to his former lover Paul Verlaine on the occasion of their last meeting, in Stuttgart in 1875. Verlaine had recently been released from a term in a Belgian prison for wounding the younger poet with a pistol in Brussels two years earlier. Rimbaud wanted his assassin manqué to deliver the pages to a friend, Germain Nouveau, who (he thought) would arrange for their publication.
What are the Illuminations? Originally an untitled, unpaginated bunch of manuscript pages that Arthur Rimbaud handed to his former lover Paul Verlaine on the occasion of their last meeting, in Stuttgart in 1875. Verlaine had recently been released from a term in a Belgian prison for wounding the younger poet with a pistol in Brussels two years earlier. Rimbaud wanted his assassin manqué to deliver the pages to a friend, Germain Nouveau, who (he thought) would arrange for their publication.
This casual attitude toward what would turn out to be one of the masterpieces of world literature is puzzling, even in someone as unpredictable as its author. Was it just a question of not wanting to splurge on stamps? (Verlaine would later complain in a letter that the package cost him "2 francs 75 in postage!!!") More likely it was because Rimbaud had decided already to abandon poetry for what would turn out to be a mercantile career in Africa, trafficking in a dizzying variety of commodities (though not, apparently, slaves, as some have thought). He had, after all, seen his previous book, A Season in Hell, through publication, though he had left the bulk of the edition with its printer, whom he wasn't able to pay. Like Emily Dickinson, he had seen "the horses' heads were toward eternity." In the penultimate strophe of "Adieu," the last poem of A Season in Hell, he had written: "Meanwhile, this is now the eve. Let's welcome the influx of strength and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with burning patience, we will enter splendid cities."
This valedictory tone, as well as the difficulty of dating the individual Illuminations, led earlier critics to suppose that A Season in Hell was Rimbaud's farewell to poetry. More recently it has emerged that they both preceded and followed that poem. Some were written in London during his stay there with Verlaine; others date from a laterLondon visit with Nouveau, who copied out some of them; still others date from a later period in France, after the horrible adventure in Brussels. Though their final arrangement is undoubtedly not Rimbaud's, the first Illumination ("After the Flood") contradicts A Season in Hell's "Adieu" with a vision of postdiluvian freshness, after "the notion of the Flood" has subsided. Here, a hare says its prayer to the rainbow through a spider's web, market stalls are busy, beavers build, blood and milk flow, coffee steams in cafes, and the Splendide Hotel is built amid the chaos of ice floes and the polar night. In other words, business as usual.
The polar ice returns in the final Illumination, one of the greatest poems ever written. Here a "genie," a Christlike figure whose universal love transcends the strictures of traditional religion, arrives to save the world from "all resonant and surging suffering in more intense music." Yet despite this, "the clear song of new misfortunes" will also reign. How can that be? According to André Guyaux, co-editor of the Garnier edition of Rimbaud that I have used for this translation:
This amazing expression implies that the future will be neither idyllic nor purely happy, as "the abolition of all . . . suffering" might seem to indicate, but that these "new misfortunes" will ring clearer and be preferable to the misery caused by superstition and present-day Christian "charity."
The genie will usher in an age of sadder but wiser happiness, of a higher awareness than A Season in Hell foresaw, perhaps due precisely to that work's injunction to be "absolutely modern."
We tend to forget that "modern poetry" is a venerable institution. Prose poetry (Rimbaud's own term for what he was writing in Illuminations) had already been produced by Lautréamont and Baudelaire; Rimbaud mentioned to a friend the influence of the latter's work in the genre. Free verse, today ubiquitous, was used by Rimbaud in two of the Illuminations. Yet, more essentially, absolute modernity was for him the acknowledging of the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second. The self is obsolete: In Rimbaud's famous formulation, "I is someone else" ("Je est un autre"). In the twentieth century, the coexisting, conflictingviews of objects that the Cubist painters cultivated, the equalizing deployment of all notes of the scale in serial music, and the unhierarchical progressions of bodies in motion in the ballets of Merce Cunningham are three examples among many of this fertile destabilization. Somewhere at the root of this, the crystalline jumble of Rimbaud's Illuminations, like a disordered collection of magic lantern slides, each an "intense and rapid dream," in his words, is still emitting pulses. If we are absolutely modern—and we are—it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be.—ja
John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur "Genius"...
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