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I meant decks http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537344z andNot sure what you mean by "why are these same number on different cards?" Which cards have the same numbers?
They seem to be from the same molds and stencils, but with different card makers' names on them and only the latter have the cartomantic writing, so even if they were from the same print-run, they would be different copies of the deck.
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No, not the original French text. DDD say, footnote 33, p. 273, "Jean-Baptiste Benoist worked until around 1783 (T. Depaulis, "Maitres cartiers strasbrougeois", Le Vieux Papier, no. 312 and 312)." The reference to Etteilla himself is their 1785b, pp. 34-5, and fn. 1. Their bibliography only lists one work for 1785, the 2nd Cahier. I do have that one, in xerox (thanks to Cerulean back in 2012 or so). He only mentions "le sieur Benoit". Here is the page.https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c9rHCvU2nbo/ ... ge_020.jpg. So the primary source for Jean-Baptiste in particular seems to be Vieux Papier.Does Etteilla actually refer to "Jean Baptiste" Benoit or just "Benoit" ? What are the dates of activity for J-B? I have c1791 to 1820, if Etteilla mentions J-B specifically that would take it back a little earlier -- I've been trying to track down the original french text to confirm
There would seem to be a yellow butterfly on the right side of the Star card of the first Isnard deck (I guess it's Isnard) you linked to, beneath the tree on a bush or stump; see http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c ... id=3088915
The resolution isn't very high, but it seems good enough that Etteilla could have seen it there, whether it is really there or not.
It is definitely not on another deck, the one with the cartomantic notes. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b1 ... .item.zoom
Etteilla's butterfly is also yellow, and beneath a tree, at least near a bush.

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Predicted by many to be dead on arrival, Brad Pitt's zombie-fighting efforts are now almost certain to rise again.
Paramount has reportedly started developing plans for a sequel to World War Z following a solid opening weekend in which the film has taken $112 million worldwide, $66 million of it in the US. In Australia, it has taken just over $6 million since opening last Thursday.
That wasn't enough to earn top spot in America – that went to Monsters University, with an $82 million debut – but it was surprisingly the best opening ever of a film starring Brad Pitt. It was also the best opening for an original (non-franchise) live-action (not animated) major release since Avatar in 2009.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the result means Paramount ''actively will turn to developing a sequel''.
That's great news not just for Pitt – who, as a producer of the film through his Plan B company, has a lot riding on it – but also vindication for director Marc Forster, whose handling of the big-budget production was the subject of rumour and speculation that led some to predict the film might go down as the "biggest flop ever".
In Australia recently to promote the film, Forster – who also directed the James Bond film Quantum of Solace in 2008 – reflected on the bad press. ''Most of it was exaggerated and not true,'' he said.
A problem with prop weapons being confiscated in Budapest triggered much of the coverage, he insisted, but the massive budget overruns and delays reported in some quarters – originally slated as a $175 million film, a final figure of $400 million was touted by some, though Paramount officially refers to it as a $190 million film now – were, he said, purely fiction. ''I finished the movie in the amount of days I was given, so we didn't go over schedule or anything like that.''
One thing that Forster didn't deny was that the decision to rewrite the final third of the film and reshoot the ending sent a message of chaos.
''Once we decided to change the ending people started to say, 'Oh the movie must be in trouble'. It wasn't that, it was just that we had this final big battle in Russia and I felt that a lot of these action movies have this big bang at the end and I just felt trying to make it bigger than [the set piece in] Israel would just make it empty.
''I said we need to try to simplify it. A lot of my other movies do it at the end, very simple and reflective. Brad and the zombie one on one. Simplicity. That would make it more like this haunted house idea.''
Forster admitted the film was conceived as part of a potential franchise. "It's definitely in the air if it works out," he said of the sequel that seems so clearly signalled by the film's conclusion. "The idea we discussed originally was maybe a trilogy. But let's see how the box office goes and then we'll go from there."
The signs certainly look positive now, so what chances he would be on board for any potential sequel?
It's definitely in the air. The idea we discussed originally was maybe a trilogy. But let's see how the box office goes.
"It's always tricky with me," the director said. "They offered me Skyfall as well and I didn't want to do another Bond movie. I like to switch genres. But in this case I definitely would leave it open. I don't want to close that door."
He also flagged that if a sequel did eventuate it was quite likely that the discarded Russian sequences might yet be brought back to life. "The visual effects need to be completed, but there's a lot there," he said. "It could definitely fit in there somewhere."
Meanwhile, in other box office news, Man of Steel continues to soar, with worldwide takings passing the $400 million mark after its second weekend in the US.
The Great Gatsby has now passed $300 million worldwide, making it far and away Baz Luhrmann's most successful film ever, well ahead of Australia's $211 million.
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The presenters on Monday's Legacy webinar on Google+ are certainly converts.
For serial entrepreneur Paul Allen it was the numbers so far that impressed. Google+, still only in limited release, reached 10,000,000 subscribers in 16 days, a mark that took Facebook 852 days and Twitter 780 days. Not that Facebook is threatened. He showed that 97% of Facebook users are happy with the experience.
Dan Lynch, author of Google Your Family Tree gave a quick tour of Google+ and it's capabilities, one I'll have to go back an view again to really absorb the material.
For Mark Olson, from familylink.com, it was the personal interactions he experienced with Hangouts - a group video discussion/sharing facility.
You need a Google account to sign up for Google+ which you can do as my guest at
What's the benefit for family history? Google+ is a tool that can be used in many ways, and as the presenters emphasized the capabilities will only increase. One fact that makes me wonder about the potential for family history is that while somewhat more women than men are genealogists, to date more than 85% of Google+ users are male. All the presenters involved in this webinar were male.
I have to go back and listen again to the recorded webinar (scroll down).
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Is Google+ The Next Big Thing for family history?
The presenters on Monday's Legacy webinar on Google+ are certainly converts.
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- Old Census Scribe said...
Thanks for the invitation. I've been wondering where I could find one, particularly after seeing the webinar last night. Once the last section came on, I was hooked--and I'm far from being a fan of Facebook and even less of Twitter.
That's one of your 150 invitations used up!
- 16 August, 2011 02:01
Thanks John...much appreciated. Now I need to discover all its joys.
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100% WW dinner rolls
The 2nd time's a charm!
Partially Proofed Rolls - they started out 1/2 inch apart.
A few extras. These are baked in a 6 1/2" x 10 1/4" sheet.
Interior Crumb
Much nicer results this time – I used a higher percentage of WW pastry flour, less potato & may have developed the dough better. I had a nice windowpane with this one, I don't remember if I did the last time. The dough seemed too sticky at start of bulk rise, but was very nice to work with when I shaped. Shaping this dough was like night and day compared to my first attempt - the dough was that different. I had planned to make half the dough into a sandwich loaf, but it was so nice to work with I just continued shaping rolls. Now I have 8 in the freezer to pull out and bake.
I used a heating pad set on low for the final proof. It took quite awhile - about 3 hours I think. Maybe next time I'll see if I can preheat an oven to about 95F, which is the recommended temp for rising rolls. I tried to follow Laurel's insruction to let them just barely overproof, i.e. just start to sag a bit. But I was too impatient. They hadn't quite reached that stage, though I think they were close.
Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
- based on Dinner Rolls for Aunt Agatha in Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book
- using Peter Reinhart's mixing method for whole grain breads
20 grams potato flakes
300 grams WW pastry flour
130 grams finely ground white WW flour
¼ cup (45 grams) buttermilk powder
1 tsp. Salt
325 grams water
470 grams finely ground white WW flour
340 grams water
½ tsp. Instant yeast
Final Dough
All of soaker
All of biga
1½ cup (about 325 grams) extra WW flour
2 tsp instant yeast
3 tablespoons honey
1 egg
1¼ tsp salt
¼ cup (56 grams) soft unsalted butter – ½ stick
A few tablespoons of wheat germ
Mix the soaker and biga separately. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
The next morning, let doughs sit on counter for 2 hours to warm up. Flour work surface using some of the extra flour. Spread soaker and biga into similarly sized rectangles, and generously flour the tops of both. Place one rectangle of dough on top of the other, and chop the stacked dough into about 20 pieces. Place in mixing bowl. Hold back about ½ cup of flour. Add all other final dough ingredients to bowl. Mix with paddle attachment until thoroughly mixed. Allow dough to rest for about 20 minutes. Switch to dough hook for kneading. Add remaining flour in small increments if required (I used it, not sure afterwards that I needed to.) Knead with stand mixer until you develop a nice windowpane. The time will depend on your machine. The dough will be very sticky. Place dough ball in a well-buttered bowl, turning over to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm room for about 2 hours – until your wet finger makes a hole that does not fill in.
Turn dough onto a lightly floured kneading surface and deflate. Divide dough into four equal sections and form each one into a ball. Keep these covered with a damp cloth or plastic wrap. Let the dough rest until the first ball is relaxed, soft and pliable. Gently flatten the dough and cut into 6 pieces. Form one round roll out of each piece, keeping the smooth surface intact. Place the finished rolls on a buttered cookie sheet or cake pan, keeping them ½ inch apart. This recipe should about fill 2 9x13 pans. Cover the rolls and allow to rise in a very warm place (95F) until slightly overproofed, i.e. rolls show slight signs of sagging. Don't let them dry out.
When rolls are ready to bake, spray generously with water or brush with eggwash. Sprinkle wheat germ on top. Bake in a preheated 400F oven with steam for about 20 minutes (check sooner), just until they are beautifully brown. Remove from oven and brush with melted butter. If not serving immediately, remove from pan to cool on rack.
I froze some of the shaped rolls for later use.
~~~ Things I would do differently next time ~~~
- Increase yeast in final dough to 2¾ teaspoons.
- Make the soaker with all whole wheat pastry flour.
- Increase butter to 5 or 6 tablespoons.
- Include a 2nd bulk rise before shaping. Ideally this would be at a temp of around 80F.
- Make slightly smaller rolls – form each quarter of dough into 8 or even 10 rolls. These might not fit quite as evenly in a 9 x 13" pan but would be a better size.


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A return to a more interventionist electricity market is on the cards, with the UK energy regulator Ofgem and government now admitting that the current free-market approach will not achieve the country's green goals - nor provide the certainty that investors in new generation need in today's difficult financial climate.
Ofgem has opened up the debate by putting forward five options for reform. They range from limited interventions to a dramatic move away from competitive markets - reminiscent of the command-and-control system for ordering generating capacity under the Central Electricity Generating Board, the state-owned company that controlled power generation in England and Wales before privatisation in the early 1990s.
The list of options results from a year-long consultation by Ofgem. The regulator's reassessment of the market is an admission that the existing rules, which it pushed through a decade ago, are not attracting new investment. Nor are they providing security of supply at a time when unprecedented proportions of variable renewables are required to meet ambitious UK targets, coupled with the closure of ageing fossil-fuel and nuclear stations. It estimates that £200 billion of investment in energy infrastructure is needed by 2020.
The market rules, known as the new electricity trading arrangements (Neta), were hugely unpopular with the renewables community when they came into effect in 2001. The market is based on a system of electricity trades or exchanges between retailers and generators. Any imbalance between supply and demand is resolved in the balancing mechanism. It requires generators to forecast the amount of electricity they will supply ahead of delivery and pay the market price for any shortfall. This penalises variable output such as wind, which cannot guarantee to generate at a given time.
Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary, has been warning for some time that a more interventionist energy policy is needed to deliver the low-carbon investment the country needs. In an interview with The Times newspaper he said that the government was considering an overhaul of the Neta electricity market rules and a return to capacity payments so that generators would be paid for capacity made available, rather than just for the electricity they generate. This would give certainty to investors in renewable and nuclear energy, he said. "This is very different from the current system, where you get paid for the electricity you produce and are not given any guarantees in advance," Miliband said. "In future you could say: 'We need a certain amount of low-carbon capacity' and generators would say how much they can provide."
Centralised market
But capacity payments do not figure among Ofgem's five main options. Three of the options include a centralised renewables market where system operator National Grid would dispatch wind and other variable renewables. This would allow wind generators to sell their output without the imbalance price risk, and enable National Grid to balance the system more efficiently since it can take a holistic view of wind generation.
One option involves replacing the current Renewables Obligation (RO) support system with long-term tenders for capacity, a measure that bears similarities to the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) system that was in place prior to the RO. Ofgem also looks at short-term capacity tenders for all types of generation. Contained in all of these packages are incentives to encourage electricity storage and demand-side measures such as smart metering. A minimum carbon price is proposed in three options and obligations on market players to deliver minimum levels of security of supply figure in two.
Representing the most radical departure from the existing competitive market is the fifth option: a central energy buyer. This could see a return to the pre-Neta centralised dispatch - or pool - system that was swept away to make way for the current trading rules. The central buyer would determine the amount and type of new generation needed and enter into long-term contracts for power. Many industry commentators, however, claim the central energy buyer option is a ploy by Ofgem to shock the industry into accepting more moderate reforms.
"The central buyer is the most frightening thing they can think of to get people to agree to something," says Gordon Edge, director of economics and markets at the British Wind Energy Association. He is also dismissive about the prospect of tenders. The spectre of NFFO still renders this option unpalatable to the industry. "If Ofgem were at all serious about wanting to build more renewables more quickly, they would not have put tenders on the table."
More interesting is the centralised renewables market option, he believes. "But we don't need to rush into this. We have a five-year horizon to think about (market change)." By 2015, only 10% of electricity will come from wind. "I don't see the current arrangements not being able to cope with that," says Edge.
Meantime, there is no shortage of potential conventional generation, with many gigawatts of combined-cycle gas turbines either building, consented or in the planning process. "To my mind it's the wrong kind of capacity; we need more fast response and open-cycle gas turbines to deal with wind variability," Edge says. "But it gives us a few years to work out a careful, measured approach to market reform."


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Since NASA is trying to find the moon rock samples it once cheerfully scattered around the world, here's a hint: some of it is over at Curtin University in Western Australia.
However, the sample at Curtin has been put to good use: working out how to identify rocks that have suffered a meteor collision, by looking at formations in zircon present in the samples.
It's a no-brainer (or to put things more scientifically, a long-accepted assumption) that the moon takes meteorite hits: it's big, it's out there, and it doesn't have an atmosphere to slow down and/or burn any incoming meteors. However, proving that a particular rock has experienced an impact is harder.
The Curtin researchers say their examination of the samples turned up the necessary evidence: combinations of planar deformation features (PDFs, not the Adobe type), and "micro twins" that indicate impacts. These details, the researchers say, are only ever produced by large-scale meteorite impacts.
"This research is the first to report the presence of PDFs and micro twins in lunar zircon, which provide unequivocal evidence of the immense pressures that occur during an impact event," said microstructural geology expert Dr Nick Timms, who worked on the research with Professor Steven Reddy of the WA School of Mines.
Dr Timms says the research also suggests a new explanation for the formation of these features. "As shock waves pass through a rock, fractions of a second after a meteorite impact, these features form like microscopic crumple zones which are caused by differences in zircon's elasticity."
Curtin University's moon rock sample
showing shock features.
All of this might seem tangential if it were only applicable to moon samples, since it's going to be quite some time before anyone makes another trip to our satellite. However, Dr Timms says the research provides a framework for studying impact-related data.
On Earth, it's difficult to interpret information about ancient impacts, Dr Timms explained, because so much of the physical evidence is destroyed over the ages by plate tectonics.
The new framework, he said, helps differentiate between features created by a single impact and those that require more than one impact, and it "allows us to recognize impact-related features in zircon … that would otherwise be overlooked or difficult to find."
His work could also help researchers establish the timing of impacts on the moon, aiding research into the rest of the inner solar system. In particular, Dr Timms said, the period of the "Late Heavy Bombardment" (about 3.9 billion years ago) can be better studied. The research is published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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Readers will find the interview with Bill Ayers from Truthout.org an interesting departure from the mainsteam media's superficial coverage of our national debate on school reform. We reprint it in its entirety with permission from Truthout.org. In his interview, Ayers talks about the public purposes of schooling -- something often left out of the economic and privatized goals that have dominated the national debate -- and the real social and human conditions that need to be addressed. For readers who would like to read the article we published by Bill Ayers in our special issue on "Schooling as if Democracy Matters," go to: "Singing in Dark Times."
Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers
Friday 01 October 2010
by: Maya Schenwar, Executive Director, t r u t h o u t Interview
Reprinted by permission from Truthout.org
As the 2010-2011 school year grumbled to a start - and millions of public school students settled into overcrowded, underfunded, under-resourced classrooms - I sat down in Chicago with education theorist and activist Bill Ayers to discuss true democracy, false reform and his latest book (co-authored with cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner), "To Teach: The Journey in Comics." In an educational culture increasingly permeated by top-down marketplace values, Ayers, who taught primary school for years, still believes in the possibility of a schooliverse where every teacher is respected and every student is valued as a full human being, where collaborative learning and growth trump the school-eat-school "Race to the Top." And by the end of our conversation, I did, too.
Maya Schenwar: In "To Teach," you talk about how a good school is defined by good teachers. What do you think of this practice that's been circling the country, of "reconstituting" schools and firing all the teachers? Does that logic work?
Bill Ayers: Not at all - not even close.
We're living in the darkest times for teachers that I've ever seen in my life. It's hard to fully understand how the conversation about what makes a robust, vital education for citizens in a democracy has degraded to the point where the frame of the whole discussion is that teachers are the problem. It's true that good schools are places where good teachers gather, but there's another piece to that: Good teachers need to be protected to teach, supported to teach, put into relationships with one another - and with the families of the kids - so that they can teach.
The attack on teachers is a classic example of what [cognitive linguist George] Lakoff calls "framing." We're hearing from every politician and editorial board in the land - including The New York Times and The Washington Post and The New Yorker - that we need to get the lazy, incompetent teachers out of the classroom. And everyone, including you and me, nods stupidly. Because what am I going to say? "My granddaughter deserves that lazy, incompetent teacher!" They're getting the conclusion that they want by framing the question as a statement. So there's only one answer; no one can take the other side of that proposition. But what if I got to the podium first and said, "Every kid in America deserves an intellectually grounded, morally committed, compassionate, caring, intelligent, thoughtful, well-rested and well-paid teacher in the classroom"? We'd agree with that, too! So, who gets to say what we're talking about?
There's always been a contest in this country between the notion of the public and the notion of the private individual. This is in our DNA: the struggle between a kind of radical individualism - that cowboy, pioneer, explorer mentality - and the idea of the common good. And this is fought out constantly. Since 1980, a sustained attack has been going on against the very idea of the public - that nothing public is useful or good, including the schools.
In the past five years, that attack on public education has ratcheted up to dimensions that were unthinkable 30 years ago. And so people talk about the public schools in a way that is disingenuous and dishonest - and also frightening in its characterization: they say the schools are run by a group of self-interested, selfish, undertrained, undercommitted teachers, who have a union that protects them.
An example: The New Yorker does a profile of a thing called the "rubber room" - a space in the central office where people who are judged incompetent to teach are awaiting adjudication under the contract. Remember, the contract doesn't only belong to the union, even though in The New Yorker and in the New York Times editorials, it's as if the contract is all the union - the school board is also party to the contract; they negotiated it! Anyway, The New Yorker profiles 15 teachers - and I have to admit, just like everyone else, it was lip-smackingly interesting to read about these very, very crazy people; how fun! But there were 15 of them, in this system of tens of thousands. Why is that what we're focused on? It's because a case is being built that somehow teachers and their unions are the whole cause of the misery.
What they're ignoring in all of these examples is the reality of poverty. They're ignoring the reality of lots and lots and lots of Americans who do not have a living wage. And if you want to change what's going on in schools, you have to realize that. We'd do more for education with a full-employment economy with a living wage than anything anyone can do by tinkering with the schools and firing teachers.
[Washington, DC, Chancellor of Education] Michelle Rhee got a cover story in Time Magazine right after Obama's election. She's the poster child for what they're calling "reform." The pivotal paragraph in that story says, "In the year and a half she's been on the job, Rhee has made more changes than most school leaders make in five years." It said she'd fired 36 principals, closed 21 schools, fired 270 teachers. Not a word about connecting the schools to their communities. Not a word about teacher retention. Not a word about the curriculum. Not a word about bringing resources to the starving system. She's a "reformer" because she's doing what the bosses of Enron did to Enron. That's ridiculous! A school is not like a business, and the market metaphor that's dominating the conversation actually misses everything important about schools.
This is the real tragedy for teachers: Education is like love. You can give it all away and still have plenty. You can share all the knowledge you have and not lose anything - except if you're in a system where one school is being judged against another school, one classroom against another classroom, one state against another state. Well, then - I'm not giving you my shit. You go ahead and struggle on your own, because you and I are in a vicious fight for the Race to the Top money, for teacher jobs, for everything. That's a catastrophe for the reality of how teaching is done at its best.
I speak to young teacher groups all the time, and I often start by asking, "Are any of you going into teaching because you think you'll get rich?" And they laugh. And then I say, "Are any of you thinking you'll have the overwhelming respect of your community?" They laugh again. And then they tell me, "My parents, my brother, my sister, my partner all told me not to teach." So I say, "Why are you gonna do it? What's wrong with you?" And what's "wrong" with them is a desire to do moral work in an immoral world. Yet, we're putting a stake in their hearts.
MS: And it's all about "fixing" the schools ...
BA: Right. If you read any of these stories about education - about KIPP [Knowledge Is Power Program], about Teach for America, about charter schools - all of [the media] have drunk the Kool-Aid on this ideological question of how to fix the schools. An example: There was a story in The New York Times after the recent Race to the Top competition. They say that Race to the Top is having a great effect on reform, even for those states that don't get it. What's the evidence? The "evidence" is that more schools have gone private, that the union is being crushed. That's the proof of reform!
In a New Yorker story on [Education Secretary] Arne Duncan, the writer says that in the world of school reform, there are two camps. One is the radical "reformers" who want to privatize everything; the other is those who defend the status quo. Really? I haven't seen one person defend the status quo! But that is the way the discussion is divided - there's not another side. So, my book "To Teach" from 20 years ago, and also the comic book, are an attempt to enter into this discussion on the side of teachers.
In the movie "Waiting for Superman," there's a cartoon aside that shows "how learning happens." They show the top of a kid's head being sawed off, and knowledge pouring in - and then the teachers' union and the bureaucrats come in and stop it. So, I'm arguing that learning is something quite different - and that a smart teacher is on a journey of discovery and exploration with the kids.
MS: How do you encourage that type of teaching on a national policy level? If you were Arne Duncan, what would you do?
BA: You have to start with the premises of a democracy. If you think about Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, medieval Saudi Arabia, apartheid South Africa, every one of those countries had educational systems that wanted their kids to show up on time, learn their subject matter, stay away from drugs, not get pregnant. We all want the same things, except, in a democracy - at least theoretically - you also want to base your educational system on a profound democratic premise: the incalculable value of every human being. That means that the savage inequalities in the education are an affront to democracy. All the systems I mentioned - Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia - along with math and science and phys ed and music, they wanted obedience and conformity, and they taught it relentlessly. That's why you can have a Germany or an Italy or a South Africa that produced brilliant scientists and brilliant artists, and also produced a culture that could march people into the ovens. You can have an educated population that is morally blind.
Theoretically, we'd want something different in a democracy. Along with math, science, music and phys ed, we'd want you to develop a mind of your own - to learn initiative, courage, imagination, curiosity.
Back to the Arne Duncan question: I'd make it very clear that the standard we have for public education in this country is a standard of excellence and equity. I would use the bully pulpit to say that all kids should be able to have the education that my kids had and that the Obama kids had. I'm not going to impose it - but I'm going to say that that's what we're aspiring to as a minimum: small classes; dedicated, unionized teachers; well-resourced classrooms; encouragement of curiosity.
Secondly, I would keep the military out of the schools. The military bases itself on following orders, and education should base itself on initiating and being courageous - and not necessarily following orders. Education is about asking the queer questions. So, no recruitment, no ROTC, no JROTC. In the cabinet meetings, I'd say, "Secretary Gates, get your fucking hands off the schools."
Next, I would initiate the Septima Clark Ella Baker Teacher Corps. That would be a funded attempt - using the stimulus money - to hire unemployed people, mothers, community members as aides, as trainees, as literacy coaches. Get everybody in the schools, and spend money to do that. Because if we've got a class size of 35 in the second grade, I at least want community members in there, helping the teachers out.
Next, I'd initiate a gigantic, messy, national conversation that would take place in every neighborhood, every barrio, every ghetto of every city and every town, to raise the questions: "What knowledge and experiences are most valuable? What makes someone an educated person? How do we make that knowledge and experience accessible to all students?" That's not the business of Bill Gates; that's the business of all of us.
I would also invest in teachers. I'd turn the conversation from disrespect to respect. One of the ways I'd do that: every teacher, every five years, would get a one-semester sabbatical. They'd get to take free courses, organize their own courses, travel, like college professors do. There has to be a sabbatical, because teaching is that kind of work - it's exhausting on every level. Also, I'd create a system of mentoring, in which every teacher would have a partner and a coach. Not just young teachers. That way we create conditions for horizontal rather than vertical staff development: I learn from you, you learn from me. I want that to be the culture of the schools; not "racing to the top." That horizontal development is what we need for democracy.
MS: What about test scores? You've written about how, not only are they invasive and interfering with learning, but they're also ineffective for assessment. So, what can we do to assess kids in a way that will actually work?
BA: This goes back to what I was saying about investing in teachers. There are lots of assessments that work. You have to start with the idea that as a second-grade teacher, which I was for years, my interest is how to get these kids to read more and read better. I'm thinking, how do I take them from where they are to a deeper and wider way of knowing? That's my goal as a second-grade teacher. As a policy guy standing above it, I'd have a very different goal: ranking these kids from winners to losers.
Whatever we do in assessment ought to link back to the teacher, to allow her or him to do a better job. So, what we want is assessment that helps us teach, not assessment that says, "you win, you lose."
As I argue in the book, we need to do portfolio assessments. My nephew graduated from Central Park East High School in New York, a public experimental school in Harlem. In order to graduate from that high school, he had to put together a portfolio that included his grades and test scores, but those were just two out of 15 items. It also included an original essay, an original piece of art, a physical challenge that he'd set for himself as a freshman, a critique of a piece of public art, a record of community service, an internship, a work-study plan projected five years hence, and more - 15 items. And then he sat down with his adviser, a family member, a friend, the principal and a teacher that he picked, and defended his portfolio. Now that's assessment - in the hands of teachers, close to the kid, close to the family, close to the community. That can help to make an educated person.
If you start with the premise that each person is of incalculable value, it must mean that the full development of each kid in the school is the condition for the full development of everyone. And the full development of everyone is the condition for the full development of each kid. If you start with that idea, you end up with that type of assessment - rather than a punitive, top-down system where you rank kids on a scale, then tell some that they're going to the unemployment lines and the prisons.
Another thing that I get into in the book, about assessment: there's no such thing as a "normal third-grader" or a "normal three-year-old." There are three-year-olds who read, and there are three-year-olds who pee in their pants and there are three-year-olds who pee in their pants while reading. The range of people [in an age group] is vast - in terms of capacities, in terms of thoughtfulness, in terms of health - so the idea that you can say, "third-graders must be this way" is bullshit. What we ought to do is have support for teachers, small classrooms, a range of activities and a range of ways to succeed, with the goal of challenging kids to move from where they are to deeper and wider ways of knowing, being and experiencing.
MS: I loved the description in the comic book of Chicago public high school Lawndale Little Village, and how that school came about. Can you talk a little bit about how a school like that can emerge, through grassroots activism?
BA: Well, it started when a group of mothers got fed up with the overcrowding at their kids' schools, and said, "You know what? We're gonna sit in." So they [staged a] sit-in. It became an electrifying moment in the city. Mayor Daley was furious. Then [former Chicago Public Schools CEO] Paul Vallas went down there and scolded them. He said, "Don't do this! This is ridiculous." But he said it in such a nasty, patronizing way that when they showed it on the news, it must have really infuriated Daley - Vallas was gone within a week. Arne Duncan came in, and his first act was to meet with them and give them their school. So, this is activism with bite, with punch.
And then, these mothers were no-bullshit: They started meeting with [local education experts] and investigating what makes a good school. I remember going to one of the meetings in the neighborhood, and the mothers had just come back from visiting North Side Prep and New Trier [two very well-funded Chicago-area schools], and they were reporting back. They described the gym, the auditorium, the Olympic swimming pool. I said, "Why do you want an Olympic swimming pool?" And they said, "Because we want whatever the other kids get. We don't want our kids to get less." And in a democracy, that's what it should be.
MS: It's funny. School is where you're first absorbing this national message - that we live in a democracy where everyone has equal opportunity. But school is also where people are experiencing some of the most obvious inequalities.
BA: That's right. The New Yorker did a puff piece on Arne Duncan, and it points out that the Obama children and Arne Duncan himself (and, parenthetically, my children) all went to the University of Chicago Lab School. At the Lab School, they had a class size limit of 15. And how did they get that? A union contract.
So Arne Duncan, the Obama kids and my kids went to a school with a class size of 15, a well-respected union and a curriculum that's based at least in part on following kids' interests and curiosities. When the Obamas went to Washington, anyone who knew the Obamas and knew the scene in DC knew the kids would go to Sidwell Friends, and that's where they went - class size of 15, well-respected unionized teacher corps, curriculum based at least in part on kids following their interests. Now if that's good enough for the Obamas and Arne Duncan, why are those things not even part of the discussion about what's good enough for the west side of Chicago?
I'm not such an idealist that I think we could get there tomorrow, but right now, class size is not even on the table. In Chicago, second-graders can have a class of 35, because of the budget. That's 20 more than the Obama kids get! And does that make a difference in terms of educational outcomes, as well as teacher morale and capacity? Of course it does - I've been in classrooms; I know there's a difference between 15 and 20, let alone 35.
John Dewey said it brilliantly: He said that whatever the best and most privileged parents have for their kids should be the baseline for what we want for all kids. Anything less undermines our democracy.


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A couple of years ago my buddy had a drill with a smaller ah battery, the drill had enough torque but when drilling with the smaller amp batteries it would cut out start again cut out. With my experience you really want a drill and at least a 5ah battery. But you can start with a clam plate and auger and try your drill out, if it doesnt work upgrade your drill. The clam plate is geared which could help. I have an older clam plate that is geared you will want to look into the new ones to make sure they are still geared.
I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you will be best served doing all the research you can and making a decision for yourself. The different options you have presented are just that, very different. It is for you to decide if you want a Camry a Cadillac or a lambo not me. I will say as you seem to be aware, the drill you currently own will only give you grief. The new dewalt set up seems feasible, I would add that your cost figure of $140 is incorrect as you will likely add an extension and if you can't custom fabricate yourself a drill/auger adapter that will run you $20 or more as well. The batteries are the weak link and you will likely be left with two dewalt drills and shot batteries before long.
I run a DeWalt 20 with two 5 ah batteries. There are two things that will make this work. 1) ...IT HAS TO BE A BRUSHLESS DRILL. all others will burn up immediately or eventually. 2) 5.0 ah batteries. The variables are clam plate, K thingy, homemade chuck, extensions etc...
I did not think they were quite that different options. Both drills are top of their class per their respective brands. I guess the question really came down if my 3 -2 ah batteries would be adequate for my style of fishing or if I should spend the money and buy into the mke setup more. You seem to think the dewalts will not be adequate?I do understand that my scatter brained approach does not make it easy to decode my real questions.
Did you get my PM
.the Dewalt would be fine ..I ran a 995 w/4ah batteries atop a Clam Plate and 8"Kdrill last season..the Dewalt 996 has even more torque but its the batteries you will be disappointed in ..some cut outs and amount of holes ...I will be running a Milwaukee 2704 this season..as I decided against a upgrade to the 996
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Damn that's a good deal, told myself I didn't need to get any new toys this year.....might just have to to see how it compares to the milwaukee.
Nate, you and I have not always seen eye to eye but this is an exceptional deal on a beast of a drill whether you use it to spin an auger or not. It's got a pair.
So you do not think my smaller batteries would work well? Thats what Ive seen everywhere to keep it above 4-5 ah. I guess thats probably best.
Milwaukee mudmixer and 12ah battery and Chuck pretty much any auger up ya want and pretty much drill all the holes ya want in one day.
I do. Mainly use the 7" kdrill but have used my 10" Lazer pro with the 9ah. The 12ah should add a lil more torque. Also have the quick connect for the mudmixer just haven't replaced the keyed Chuck yet.
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|September 16, 2013
As Arctic Melts, a Race to Test Oil Spill Cleanup Technology
|The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy---one of two working icebreakers in the nation's fleet---concluded a sobering mission Tuesday in the ice-strewn waters north of Barrow, Alaska. The crew's task was to practice deploying equipment they hoped they would never use: new, high-tech gear for responding to a massive oil spill in the Arctic Ocean.
Some of the new technology, which included military-style drone aircraft and an unmanned underwater vehicle dubbed the Jaguar by its developers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was designed to hunt and track oil trapped in or under ice. Other devices, such as oil skimmers and ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), were more robust Arctic versions of tools that took center stage during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest maritime oil spill in U.S. history.
The infamous BP blowout has cast a long shadow over the industry, leaving many wondering if the Coast Guard (USCG) and the oil industry really are ready to deal with a big spill in the Arctic, where the weather is far worse and any help is much farther away. Add to the mix one more complication: The Arctic Ocean annually freezes into a jumbled, floating mass of ice larger than Canada and Alaska combined.
Ship spills are another concern. Ship transit through the Bering Strait, the gateway from the North Pacific Ocean to the Arctic, more than doubled between 2008 and 2012. And as of this week 495 ships had received permission to travel Russia's Northern Sea Route this year up from zero just five years ago. Some experts predict that by 2030, the route will carry a quarter of all trade between Asia and Europe. Others are skeptical that harsh and costly crossings of the Arctic will ever compete with southerly routes for shipping cargo, but they see ship traffic increasing nevertheless as nations seek to reap newly accessible resources---oil, natural gas, minerals, and fish---at the top of the world.
Seeking the Right Tools
The rush of interest lent urgency to the Healy's practice mission off Alaska's north coast.
In addition to U.S. Coast Guard crew and the Woods Hole researchers, scientists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks joined in the simulated detection and recovery of oil from the icy waters. The test flights of small unmanned aircraft systems were the first ever in the Arctic Ocean. "We accomplished all our goals and gathered data to move forward in our mission as stewards of the pristine Arctic environment," said Rich Hansen, the chief scientist and director of the USCG Research and Development Center in New London, Connecticut, who led the exercise, in a prepared statement.
In an interview before the team set out to the test site, Hansen explained further: "We're really looking at how to deploy these devices in Arctic conditions. All the things we are bringing with us have a pretty good chance of working."
But is the Coast Guard really ready to handle an oil spill in the Arctic?
"I just evaluate the equipment for the Coast Guard," Hansen said. "The answer to that question is above my pay grade."
In 2011, Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert Papp, was more definitive. Papp testified before Congress that his agency was totally unprepared for a BP-type spill in the Arctic. "If this were to happen off the North Slope of Alaska, we'd have nothing," Papp said. "We're starting from ground zero today."
And yet, it is the question that is on everyone's mind these days-at least everyone interested in either the Arctic's abundant hydrocarbon resources or its increasingly stressed wildlife, including endangered beluga and bowhead whales, and threatened polar bears, walruses, and ringed and bearded seals. The rapid melting of sea ice, with some experts predicting ice-free summers at the pole before mid-century, coincides with another reality: the U.S. Geological Survey's estimate that the Arctic could contain 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of its undiscovered oil.
Shell* holds leases for offshore exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, but its effort is on hold while it assesses numerous issues that arose during its 2012 foray in the Arctic. ConocoPhillips also has deferred drilling plans, but in Russia and Europe several Arctic oil and natural gas projects are moving forward.
Meanwhile, numerous studies are under way on just how to deal with the inevitable oil spill in Arctic waters as the oil and shipping industries begin steaming north.
This summer, two U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard vessels tested a "vessel of opportunity" skimming system in open water near Teller, Alaska---a system to deploy local fishing and other commercial vessels to aid in cleanup.
Meanwhile, the world's largest test tank at Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey, spent the entire month of February putting Arctic skimmers and other spill response equipment to the test picking up oil amid blocks of frozen sea ice.
Even the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has convened a new panel to investigate the issue, while the oil and gas industry has launched its second large Joint Industry Program (JIP) since 2006 to determine the best tools for dealing with oil in, on, or under ice.
Drilling in the Arctic---as well as cleaning up oil spills there---is nothing new. Hundreds of wells have been drilled in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay alone since the 1970s, and since 1996 the sprawling industrial complex has averaged more than one hydrocarbon or chemical spill a day. Most of the spills are small and on land. The industry has long maintained that it can clean up spills in hard ice or in open water using traditional booms, skimmers, and burns.
But in the shoulder seasons---when ice freezes in the fall and breaks up in the spring---the Arctic Ocean is rife with chunks of ice, and spill response becomes difficult, if not impossible. In fact, in 2003, the last time a National Academy of Sciences panel looked at the issue, it concluded: "No current cleanup methods remove more than a small fraction of oil spilled in marine waters, especially in the presence of broken ice."
Industry experts studying potential response to oil spills in the shipping lanes of Russia's Barents Sea in 2006 came to the same conclusion: "Today there is no proven response method for the recovery of large-scale oil spills in ice-infested waters."
Not everyone is that pessimistic, however.
"Most responders agree that it's challenging to work up there," said Joseph Mullin, who spent 25 years as the program manager for oil spill research for the former U.S. Minerals Management Service and is now the program manager for the current JIP looking at response techniques to oil in ice. "At about 20 to 30 percent ice coverage, booms start to become ineffective because you are collecting a lot of ice with the oil and the ice blocks the oil from reaching the skimmer at the back of the boom. So you start looking at alternative techniques."
Those alternatives include industry standards like chemical dispersants, in situ burning, and chemical herders---surfactants that make oil stick together until it is thick enough to skim or burn. While Mullin wouldn't comment on the progress of the JIP, he was willing to discuss the more than 200 research projects he managed during his career with MMS, which included nearly all the alternative methods now being considered.
Perhaps the most successful experiment Mullin recalls was conducted in 2006 by the U.S. Minerals Management Service, the oil industry, and Norwegian researchers in the frigid waters off of Svalbard, Norway. Norway is one of the few nations that actually allow researchers to intentionally spill oil in the ocean to test recovery equipment and techniques---something the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasn't permitted since the 1970s. In this case, researchers injected 3,400 liters (898 gallons or about 21.4 barrels) under the ice into a protective skirt that created a pool of oil about 20 feet (6.1 meters) in diameter. Mullin's team then hunted for the oil under the ice and snow using off-the-shelf ground-penetrating radar. They found it easily, so they strapped the radar unit to the skid of a helicopter and flew over it at 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) off the ice and were able to find it again. When the ice thawed in the spring, they treated the oil with a small amount of an EPA-approved chemical herder. It concentrated the oil to 3 or 4 millimeters thick.
Because oil degrades slowly under ice, it was so fresh that researchers were able to burn 95 percent of the oil and pick up the remaining residue by hand, Mullin said. The high efficiency of the burn rate was no surprise to the researchers, since the oil had not been allowed to spread, as would happen in a real-world spill. Nevertheless, the success of this small test has led some in the industry to suggest that helicopters armed with radar, booms for spraying chemical herders, and firebombs to ignite the slick might be a quick, effective way for fighting a spill in ice. "Herding and burning," they call it.
Old Tools?
Critics of Arctic drilling say the industry is just dusting off the same tools it has used for decades, with limited results. Even in the calm, warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with hundreds of ships and 10 million feet of boom at its disposal, the industry managed to skim only 3 percent and burn 5 percent of the oil spilled from BP's runaway Macondo well, with most of the remainder dispersed or buried in sand or sediments for nature to degrade.
"When I hear people saying we're using technology from the 1980s, it makes my head spin like Linda Blair," Mullin said. "Well, I'm driving a car with the same technology from the 1880s. Technology is always improving."
The only truly new technique being considered for the Arctic---and perhaps the most controversial---is a direct result of the BP spill: the use of subsea chemical dispersants at the wellhead. While several recent studies have raised serious concerns about the impact of millions of gallons of dispersed oil suspended in the Gulf's water column during the spill, oil spill experts and industry executives saw it as a resounding success in keeping large volumes of oil from hitting the beaches and marshes of Louisiana. To that end, one of the JIP's tasks is to improve the industry's environmental data in the Arctic to help create what's called the Net Environmental Benefit Analysis---which looks at the wildlife at risk during a spill, the responses available, and which response would cause the least amount of damage. In some cases that may mean dispersing the oil and letting the marine organisms clean it up. That's largely what happened in the Gulf, where oil-eating bacteria are prolific. But early surveys have shown that such bacteria may not be so plentiful in the Arctic.
Though the jury is still out on how long it took for oil from the BP spill to biodegrade in the Gulf, some studies suggest a time frame of days to weeks. That could stretch from weeks to months in pristine parts of the Beaufort or Chukchi Seas that have never experienced spills, says Nancy Kinner, director of the Coastal Response Research Center at the University of New Hampshire that studies oil spill response for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Human Factor
At the request of NOAA, Kinner's group contributed some data to the first industry JIP on oil in ice that finished in 2010, but she was quick to distance herself from the industry's conclusions. "They are very upbeat and optimistic," Kinner said. "I'm not optimistic. I view our ability to respond to spills in the Arctic and near Arctic as pretty limited. It's dark. It's cold. It's a hell of a long way from any air support. The closest is in Kodiak [more than 900 air miles (1,448 kilometers) south of Barrow]. Their ability to get to the scene depends on the weather and the weather is often not good. We still don't have the capability to respond, not only to any oil release but even the human tragedy.
"What if a cruise ship wrecks?" Kinner continued. "Where are you going to put those people? What are you going to feed them? To say that response technology has come a long way is one thing. But the deployment of these technologies and our ability to have responders on the scene is very difficult. The total response is a lot more than just technology. And we're talking about very fragile natural resources already under stress because of climate change."
For Kinner the bottom line isn't the hardware, it's the people.
"If you look at the causes of oil spills over the decades, it's either weather or human error, because humans think they know better," Kinner said. "It is very hard to engineer out human error."


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Susan Granger's review of 'Into the Storm'
Far too timely in the season of tornados, this action-packed, natural disaster thriller features professional storm-chasers, thrill-seeking amateurs and some teenagers caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Set in the Midwest region known as Tornado Alley, it begins on graduation morning at Silverton High School. As vice principal, Gary Fuller (Richard Armitage) is in charge of making sure everything runs on time -- without a hitch. Problem is: the weather report worries him. A widower/single father, he's shepherding two sons, Donnie (Max Deacon) and Trey (Nathan Kress), through their difficult teenage years.
Although it's Donnie's responsibility to film the ceremony, he sneaks off to hang out with Kaitlyn (Alycia Debnam-Carey), helping her with a video project concerning environmental awareness, leaving his younger brother in charge of the camera.
Suddenly, a tremendous storm approaches, bringing with it a professional storm-chasing team, headed by documentary filmmaker Pete Moore (Matt Walsh) with Allison Stone (Sarah Wayne Callies) as his meteorologist and three camera operators (Lee Whittaker, Arlen Escarpeta, Jeremy Sumpter). Plus, there are the adrenaline junkies, Donk (Kyle Davis) and Reevis (Jon Reep), whose crazy, daredevil antics are supposed to temporarily ease the tension with a little humor.
Populated by generic, one-dimensional characters who speak in cliches, it's written by John Swetnam and directed by Steven Quale.
What makes viewing it memorable are the intense, amazingly realistic visual effects, which depict not only the wind and rain but also the monstrous impact of several cyclones striking the same place at the same time, leaving destruction in their wake.
There's also a provocative issue revolving around how reality television has made stars of several real-life storm chasers, prompting scores of people to take irresponsible risks in order to capture the video or image that will make them rich and famous.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Into the Storm" is a suspenseful 6, a truly terrifying thrill


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This is my first visit to the forum as I am a beginner at using abc notation.
I have read a couple of tutorials and transcribed my first tune into the abc format and successfully imported it into 'abc Explorer'.
It played and looked just like the source music with one exception. The tune I chose was Autumn Leaves. This has a number of bars where chords are not meant to be played. How do I express this in abc notation so that the midi part of the program plays the melody but not the chord at these points. I tried placing NC in parenthesis but this did not work; the NC was displayed as if it were a chord symbol but the chord from the previous bar continued playing.
My transcription attempt is below. I would be most grateful for any advice from anyone who is prepared to give it.
Many thanks.
My First Attempt At Writing A Tune in 'abc' Format
T:Autumn Leaves
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Once again I needed the assistance of my favorite doll pattern for the base: Serah Basnet's Cookie doll pattern. Unlike my previous princesses, this one I had to do some major adjustments. It was quite the challenge and I'm so relieved I pulled through, and just in time too. Yup! Perty darn proud of myself. Huehuehue!
Monaco Yarn Shade #33 - Pamplemousse (4-5 skeins)
Monaco Yarn Shade #32 - Wild Berry (5-6 skeins)
Monaco Yarn Shade #34 - Raspberry (1 skein)
Monaco Yarn Shade #1 - Snow (1 skein)
Monaco Yarn Shade #42 - Sapphire (1-2 skeins)
Monaco Yarn Shade #249 - Parrot (1-2 skeins)
Crochet Hook - H8 (5 mm)
Black thread
Felt cloth:
- White
Marker pens
Lacquer/transparent nail polish
Pink blush
Gold glitter
Pet Brush
Fiberfill stuffing
*trinc = 2tr in 1st
*sl2trinc = sl then 2tr in same st
*3sctog = dec 3sc together
*dcinc = 2dc in 1st
*hdcinc = 2hdc in 1st
*bo = bobble stitch
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc around (12)
Rnd 3: 1sc-inc (18)
Rnd 4: 2sc-inc (24)
Rnd 5: 3sc-inc (30)
Rnd 6: 4sc-inc (36)
Rnd 7: 5sc-inc (42)
Rnd 8: 6sc-inc (48)
Rnd 9: 7sc-inc (54)
Rnd 10-18: sc around (54)
Rnd 19: 17sc, 5hdinc, 10hdc, 5hdcinc, 17sc (64)
Rnd 2o: 17sc, 5dec, 10sc, 5dec, 17sc (54)
Rnd 21: 7sc-dec (48)
Rnd 22: 6sc-dec (42)
Rnd 23: 5sc-dec (36)
Rnd 24: 4sc-dec (30)
Rnd 25: 3sc-dec (24)
Rnd 26: 2sc-dec (18)
FO, leave tail for sewing
*Stitch to the body
*Draw the eyes with markers on the felt and spray with lacquer
*Use Wild Berry to stitch the eyebrows
*Put a little blush on the cheeks
*Dab some glue on the cheeks and sprinkle a tiny amount of gold glitter
EARS (2x)
Rnd 1: sc on 2nd ch, sc around, ch1-turn (20)
Rnd 2: 2sc, 4hdc, 8dc, 4hdc, 2sc (20)
FO, leave tail for sewing
Rnd 1: sc on 2nd ch, sc around (8)
Rnd 2: sc around (8)
FO, leave tail for sewing
LEGS (2x)
Rnd 1: sc on 2nd ch from hook, sc around (10)
Rnd 2: inc, 2sc, 3inc, 2sc, 2inc (16)
Rnd 3: inc, 4sc, 4inc, 4sc, 3inc (24)
Rnd 4: sc around (24)
Rnd 5: 7sc, 3dec, 11sc (21)
Rnd 6: 6sc, 3dec, 7sc, dec (17)
Rnd 7: 6sc, 2dec, 7sc (15)
Rnd 8-30: sc around (15)
Rnd 31-32: sc around (15)
FO, weave in ends
*After completing the two legs, sl them together
*Make sure the legs are slightly angled so that it wouldn't look too straight or stiff facing front
*Continue rounds to the body
Rnd 33: sc around (28)
Rnd 34: 1sc-inc (42)
Rnd 35-36: sc around (42)
Rnd 37-40: sc around (42)
Rnd 41: 5sc-dec (36)
Rnd 42: 4sc-dec (30)
Rnd 43-47: sc around (30)
Rnd 48: 3sc-dec (24)
Rnd 49-52: sc around (24)
Rnd 53: 2sc-dec (18)
Rnd 54: sc around (18)
FO, weave in ends
*Reconnect yarn and continue on FLO of Rnd 54 of the body
Rnd 1: sc around (18)
Rnd 2: 1sc-inc (27)
Rnd 3: 2hdc-hdcinc (36)
Rnd 4-8: hdc around (36)
Rnd 9: 3hdc-hdcinc (45)
Rnd 10-15: hdc around (45)
Rnd 16: 4hdc-hdcinc (54)
Rnd 17-21: sc around (54)
FO, weave in ends
FLOWER PATCH (6x)
Rnd 1: 5sc in mr (5)
Rnd 2: [sl, 4ch, hdc on 3rd ch, sc, sl on next st] 5x
FO, leave tail for sewing
*Stitch to the bottom part of the dress
*Make sure the flowers are distributed around evenly
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: sc around (12)
Rnd 3: 1sc-inc (18)
FO, leave tail for sewing
*Stitch on the dress a little farther down from the head
* Make sure it's centered
*Use Snow to stitch an "X"
PINKY FINGERS (2x)
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2) sc around (6)
FO, weave in ends
REST OF THE FINGERS (6x)
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2-3) sc around (6)
FO, weave in ends
*After completing all the fingers, assemble and stitch them together with 2 stitches
*Continue to the hands/arms
*Reconnect yarn to the side of the pinky
HANDS/ARMS (2x)
Rnd 4: 1sc-inc (18)
Rnd 5: sc around (18)
Rnd 6: [1sc-dec] 4x, bo, dec, 1sc, dec (12)
Rnd 7: 2sc-dec (9)
Rnd 8-22: sc around (9)
FO, weave in ends
*Stitch the body
(Wild Berry)
Rnd 1: 6sc in mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc around (12)
Rnd 3: 1sc-inc (18)
Rnd 4: 2sc-inc (24)
Rnd 5: 3sc-inc (30)
Rnd 6: 4sc-inc (36)
Rnd 7: 5sc-inc (42)
Rnd 8: 6sc-inc (48)
Rnd 9: 7sc-inc (54)
Rnd 10: sc around (54)
*Work in rows
Row 11: 36sc, ch1-turn (36)
Row 12: dec, 32sc, dec, ch1-turn (34)
Row 13-18: sc across, ch1-turn (34)
Row 19: dec, 30sc, dec, ch1-turn (32)
Row 20-21: sc across, ch1-turn (32)
Row 22: dec, 28sc, dec, (32)
FO, leave tail for sewing
*Stitch to the head
(Wild Berry)
*Cut strands of Wild Berry that measures twice the body length of the doll
*Follow my often used hair tutorial to attach the strands on the hair cap
*Use the pet brush to turn the yarn into fine hair
Okay now this is the tough part; pet brushing the yarn so it'd be silky soft like Princess Poppy's actual hair in the movie. This took a lot of patience, concrete commitment, and arm muscle 'coz it wasn't a a piece of cake. Definitely not. I'm telling you now, this is one of the hardest project I ever made and it's not because of the pattern but because of this blasted hair. Actually, about halfway through I was about this close [----] to scrapping the doll and redoing the whole thing. Her hair was turning out into a nightmare; full of tangles and getting shorter the more I brush it out. Yah... Now you know why Poppy's supposedly long hair is cut a bit short. It was soooo unintentional. O_O I wanted it to be longer, but circumstances was such a jerk so I had to settle with pixie-haired Poppy. -_- Well, at least she still turned out adorable. I guess the universe was still that kind to me. Hehehe!
Row 1: hdc on 3rd ch, hdc across (51)
FO, leave tail for sewing
*Stitch it on the head, just a little above the hairline
HEAD BAND - FLOWERS (6x)
Once again I borrowed June Gilbank's posy blossom pattern to add flowers to Princess Poppy's head band.
My version is a little different from the actual Princess Poppy, but at least she still turned out cute. The short hair actually works on her. Sigh! Thank goodness. TvT
I was a little worried that my niece wouldn't like her since she's not an exact copy, but the moment I gave her the doll and her eyes lit up like stars I felt pretty darn proud of myself. I guess even with the erratic pauses from crocheting I was not able to lose my mojo. Yeah! I still got it. Phew! ^_^
Copyright: Princess Poppy is an original pattern written by Duchess Gala with adaptation from Serah Basnet's Cookie, the amigurumi girl pattern. You may do whatever you want with the finished product but please do not sell or claim the pattern as your own. Also, do not post the pattern directly to your website. Just link it to this blog. ^^
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August 15, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
I had a letter from Mother a day or two ago. I think I have gotten all the letters that have been sent. They have been coming about once a week. I wanted to write you Sunday but wasn't able to make it. Perhaps before you receive this you wil have received the post cards I sent from Paris. I don't know whether it is permissible to write in a letter that I have been to Paris so I don't see that there can be any objection to my writing it here.
I had been hoping for a long time that I might get an opportunity to visit the city. Owing to the likelihood of our leaving here I had begun to fear that I wouldn't get the chance. However last Monday I got permission to go in on an ambulance that was taking in some tires to be fixed. I got in about noon and left on the train at six the next morning. I was all alone and had no one to show me around the town but I inquired my way around and saw about all the things that I had in my mind to see.
First I tended to the errand that I was sent on and then I went to the YMCA headquarters and there I saw the man who has charge of all the entertainment of the camps in France. Some of the best artists and stage people of America are touring France for the YMCA. Mr. Towne said that he would like to use me in that work and would make a request that I be permitted to do so for a couple of months or a longer time if possible. I don't know what will come of it but I certainly would be glad to get the chance. I don't think there would be any objection on the part of our commanding officer. The YMCA is doing such fine work here for the soldiers that I don't think that they would be refused a favor like that.
By the time that I got through with my interview it was four o'clock so I set out on foot to see Paris. The nearest things was the Church of the Madalein. There is no use of any trying to describe everything to you because the censor would have to take a day off to read it all. There was no service going on so I roamed around inside for a while. From there I walked down and passed the government buildings. I don't know what they all were and didn't have time to find out. I followed the Champs de Elysees to the Triumphal Arch. I could see the Eiffel tower in the distance so I headed for it, passing many beautiful buildings on the way. The pictures give little idea of the immensity of the tower. The Tracadero is close to it so I walked over there.
Nearly all the Exhibition buildings are closed now so there is nothing but the buildings to be seen. The buildings themselves are wonderful enough. I wanted to see the cathedral of Notre Dame more than any other thing in Paris so to save time I took a taxi over there. Taxi rates are not high in Paris. We must have gone three or four miles for about fifty cents. The cathedral was closed when I was there so I didn't see the inside of it. On the way we passed the Louvre, Palace of Justice and many others. I spent the night at the YMCA hotel. There were no concerts or operas on as this is not the musical season and I didn't care to go to a show in French. I saw a lot for the little time I had. Sgt. Hill was in and met a professional guide who took him around. If I get in again I will look him up. I came back on the train. Soldiers travel here very cheaply. The soldiers pay about 35 cents for what it costs civilians $1.50. Are they doing that in the states now?
I visited an American Hospital in Paris. If I get another chance to go sometime I will see if I can't transfer there. I know that there are hundreds of others who would like to, too, but if I were there I could study and so would have a reason for a request for the transfer.
About a week ago I had another little trip up into the territory that has been retaken from the Germans. It was the first I had seen of real devastation. In several towns there wasn't a single house that one could live in. I don' see how they can ever be rebuilt. At [Censored] the civilians are moving back again. Some of them find their homes wrecked but for the most part there wasn't a great deal of destruction.
I have gotten acquainted with some people near here who have been very kind to me. They have a daughter about sixteen or so who plays violin a little. I help her with her violin in return for which they try to teach me French. They are from Paris and stay here to avoid the bombardments and the Big Bertha. Everything was quiet while I was there. I saw only one or two places where there had been any damage from aviators or the cannon. I expected that the city would be pretty well deserted but there were a lot of people there. The city is dark at night, not much like the gay Paree before the war.
Our censor tells me that he had to cut out a lot of some of my letters lately. I guess some of them have been rather long, too. I hope there isn't anything in this one that shouldn't be and that it will get to you safely.
We are doing almost nothing right now, but wait. We are all well and being well taken care of. I hope this finds all at home in good health and spirits. My best regards to all.
Love from
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