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Here is the list of Top 10 Best Travel Apps for Android Phone or Tablet. There are the well known and most popular travel Apps for Android devices. This travel applications are very useful for day to day needs. You can book flights, train, bus or taxi cars. These apps also offers options like holiday packages and tours at low cost. These are the simple and Best Travel Apps for Android phones. You can download these apps free from google play store.
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1. TripAdvisor
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OYO is an Online Hotel Booking App. This all makes finding hotel rooms hassle-free and fun. The app is developed by India's largest branded network of hotels. So you can book a hotel room in a matter of just five seconds. There are over 50,000 rooms across 200+ cities in India listed on the app. You can also book accommodations, order beverages, arrange cabs etc. Enjoy quality stays with all standard amenities like AC, TV, Wi-Fi, hygienic and clean rooms at cheap price. The Sunrise Check-in feature provides guaranteed early check-in, starting from 6 AM. Advantages while booking with this app includes Fastest booking process, Seamless hospitality experience, Make bookings on the go, Save big, Delightful stays at great prices, Easy cancellations etc.
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MakeMyTrip is the India's number one online travel company. This is one of the Best Travel Apps for Android. There is 2.5 million happy travelers. You can use the MakeMyTrip to book cheap flights. You will also get unbelievable discounts on hotel bookings. Key features/ options of the App are:- Flight Bookings – Within India & International, Hotel Bookings – Within India & International, Bus Bookings, Manage Trips, One Touch Booking, Fast, Safe, Secure, Saved Travellers, Flights status, Exclusive deals and Unbelievable discounts. Simply download our free app and enjoy this features and options on your Android Phone.
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Key Features of the android app are live tracking, Select Boarding points, One touch Secure Payment, One touch Cancellations, Save ticket details, Call support, Find buses & route information, ratings of buses based on fellow customers feedback, Reserve seats & check fares from several Travels also.
5. Truecaller
Truecaller is the best apps for Caller ID & Block options. Take the Right Call with Truecaller and you can search contact numbers, block spam and identify incoming calls on your mobile phone.only attend those with access to the right information, people and businesses you need.
This app also offers option for Tweet and Follow a person on Twitter directly from Truecaller. There is also Yelp integration for faster business look up results. Over 85 million people around the world use Truecaller. The app is free to download and 3G or WIFI is required for Truecaller Caller ID to work.
6. Paytm
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Enjoy Mobile recharges, Mobile Bill Payments for all Indian Telcos such as Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance, Idea, Aircel, MTNL & more. You can also have Land line Bill Payments and Utility Bill Payments too. The app got last update on September 23, 2014 and you need android device with version 2.3 and up. Upto now 10,000,000 – 50,000,000 installed this and 4.2.2 is the current running version.
7. Google Street View
This app allow you to explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations. You can find various museums, arenas, restaurants, and small businesses with this app. You can also create photo spheres and simply add this to your own Street View experiences. Use your phone's camera or add a one–shot spherical camera for this. With this app you can Browse, Explore all of Street View, Review your public profile, Manage your private photo spheres and Immerse yourself in photo spheres.
8. Airbnb
This is a special app for Unforgettable trips. You can find adventures in faraway places or your hometown or around the world. There is option to book everything your trip needs, or start earning money as a host. With this app, it is easy to find the city's best bars, restaurants, and secret spots. For travelers this will helps with last-minute accommodations or long-term rentals and to book homes. There are options to Add experiences and events to your itinerary and Message your host and get directions to your home.
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This is a perfect and complete health App which informs you about your medicines, their substitutes and side effects. This will offer regular health tips, allow you to order medicines online, book health tests and packages from certified labs. You can easily consult with best doctors online and book appointments with doctors. Key features of this app includes Medicine Substitutes, Health Information, Medicine Side effects, Medicine Ordering, Book Lab Tests, Consult with India's best doctors online for free etc.
10. Waze
This is a highly popular and world's largest community-based navigation app. This app offers Live routing based on real-time traffic & road, Community reported alerts including police traps, accidents, hazards etc. There are Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation, Live maps and Automatic rerouting.Use this to Find the cheapest gas station on your route. There are One tap navigation to your events from Facebook and your calendar.


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San Clemente, California—April 28, 2006- Flow, the originator of the reclining hi-back binding, announced today that Clair Bidez has been signed to the Flow International Pro Team. Clair is a native of Minturn, Colorado and where she has been riding Copper Mountain and Vail for 10 years. A year after she began snowboarding, Clair began her competitive career at the age of 10 with her first contest, USASA Nationals. Her brother Dylan, four years her junior, was her inspiration to start riding.
"My brother Dylan got me into snowboarding. Not only did he introduce me to competing and convince me to give up skiing forever, but also he rode with me every weekend since I started to learn. We still ride together every day. She said.
She has come a long way since those first days at Copper and Vail. At the mere age of 18, Clair has quite a few titles under her belt.
2006 Junior World Halfpipe Champion
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Andrew Mutty, Flow Team Manager, is happy to have another great rider on the team. "Clair is such a great rider, with huge potential. She has been doing great in her competitions so far, and with the influence of riding with the other members of the team like Antti Autti, Risto Mattila, and Scotty Lago, she's going to go much further. He said.
Clair, who is also sponsored by Helly Hansen, Powerbar, Rip IT Beverages, Copper Mountain, and Bolle, has not had a major equipment sponsor thus far in her career. Her current set-up consists of the Good Wood Award winning board, the Myriad 145, the NXT FS-L binding, and the Zone LS boots. When asked how she feels about joining the Flow Team, she expressed excitement about the company as well as her fellow teammates. "Flow is unique in the way that it goes beyond a team and a company and turns into more of a family. I've been riding with the team for a couple months now, and I'm still amazed at the level of riding and progression of the group. I'm so excited to be a part of it! She said.
Flow is the originator of the reclining hi-back binding. Since it's beginnings in 1995, Flow has been the leader in sales of this technology. What sets the Flow reclining hi-back binding apart from others is Flow's Patented Power Triangle which is formed by a cable that attaches the hi-back to the base plate and provides maximum energy transfer from rider to board. In addition to the Power Triangle, Flow bindings use a patented one-piece Power Strap for equal load distribution over the boot to minimize painful pressure points.Today Flow is known for its ease of use, comfort, and advanced control gained when using their products. Most recently, Flow introduced "Triple Threat Technology, a system of boots, boards, and bindings designed to heighten ease of use and control when used together. The success of Triple Threat was evidenced this year by the excellence of the Flow Pro Team riders, Antti Autti, Risto Mattila, and Scotty Lago


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Purple lipstick has been appearing all over the runways this fall, but some sources say that they will be in style more than ever this winter! This chic look can be easily worn with dark eye makeup and plain clothing, so that the look isn't "overdone". First apply dark eyeliner and mascara to both bottom and top lashes and lids. Next apply a light coating of foundation. Skip the blush, or otherwise you'll end up looking like a clown. Apply a dark purple lip pencil to both upper and lower lips. Then apply a lighter color of lipstick to your lips. Now for the finishing touches! Apply some clear gloss to both bottom and top lips for extra shine and style. This look can be worn as a nighttime look, or a daytime look. For work pair it with a classic black outfit. And when it's time to hit the town try wearing it with the never ending black dress or other dark colors.


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Manuscript Collection 1148
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries
QUANTITY: 2.8 cubic feet (7 manuscript boxes and one oversize folder)
ACCESS: No restrictions.
PROCESSED BY: Bernadette A. Boucher
Biographical Sketch
Little is known about Mary Lang Dyckman's youth. She was born in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, on August 19, 1886, the first child of Frank and Louise (Heroy) Dyckman who were originally from Orange, New Jersey. The family moved back to Orange when Mary was four, and from 1891 to 1905, Mary, known as "Marie" by classmates and friends, attended Miss Beard's School for Girls at Clarendon Place and later Berkeley Avenue. Enjoying astronomy, Mary graduated from the Latin-Scientific course in 1905.
Though Frank Dyckman died in 1904, he wanted his children to have "a lot of varied experiences" and brought Mary to factories in town. At a young age, Mary witnessed the mercury-induced "mad hatter" disease of workers at a South Jefferson Avenue plant, an experience that doubtlessly informed her concerns for occupational hazards and industrial health as an adult. At the age of 16, she and her family also went on a tour of Europe, and it was in Italy that Mary began to develop a life-long interest in the problems of foreign workers. From 1909 to 1911 she trained as a visiting case worker for the Boston Associated Charities, and two years later, she enrolled as a part-time student at the New York School of Social Work. While she was a student, she also worked as a case work visitor in Orange, New Jersey, and in Brooklyn, New York.
Mary Dyckman accepted executive and managerial responsibilities in the field of social work quite soon after her training. Finding her work "exciting," she told one newspaper reporter, "The case-worker lives in the midst of constant crises. From the moment a woman stands before her desk and says, 'my husband left me last night,' or 'my daughter didn't come home last night,' there is need for her to act. Once you have done this kind of work you will miss it amazingly if you withdraw. You miss the stimulation, the contacts, the demands on your resourcefulness." From April 1914 to June 1917 she was the District Secretary of the Bureau of Associated Charities in Newark, where she sought out and trained both paid workers and volunteers for an Italian district in the city. Her office saw over 400 cases per year. She also aided in raising funds and spoke in various clubs and churches on behalf of the needy. From August 1917 to December 1921, Mary Dyckman served as Executive Secretary for the League for Friendly Service of Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, New Jersey. In this capacity she saw 170-200 families each year, as well as assisted the General Finance Committee and the Anti-Tuberculosis Committee in publicity and fund-raising. For three years, Dyckman was also the Assistant Financial Secretary for the New York Charity Organization Society. From the late 1920s through the early 1930s she acted as Chair of the Case Work Committee of the Family Welfare Association of America. By the Great Depression, Mary Dyckman was recognized for her political sway throughout northern New Jersey. In 1930, she helped organize a concerned group of citizens to urge the sale of Orange's municipal light plant, and this move was passed through referendum. As the Republican County Committeewoman of her district and a member of the state Republican Club and League of Women Voters, her voice was so influential that a newspaper article (circa 1932) acknowledged, "for eleven years a candidate not backed by Miss Dyckman was conceded no chance of success in the district."
Following her retirement from professional work in 1936, Mary Dyckman turned to volunteer work and began to focus especially on the plight of working children. At this point in her life, she also became heavily involved in the Consumers League of New Jersey. Under the slogan of "Know the facts – then act!," this group, organized by Mrs. G.W.B. (Juliet) Cushing in 1900, sought to improve the working and living conditions of laborers through the influence of customers' patronage of manufacturers, businesses and political leaders. The League also supported protective legislation, such as a Night Work Bill (1923) which barred women in bakeries, laundries and factories from working after 10 p.m. Mary Dyckman was elected to the CLNJ's Executive Board in 1938 and chaired an inter-organization committee to address violations to children's physical, psychological and moral well-being allowed by contemporary child labor laws. Her efforts, and those of the committee, led to New Jersey's Child Labor Act of 1940, which both raised the minimum working age for children and also lessened the weekly number of hours children could work, stipulating that no children, even those employed in agriculture, could work if they were under the age of 12, and that both in- and out-of-state children under the age of 16 could not work in New Jersey during hours that school was in session.
Each decade brought new threats to the existing child labor law. Dyckman and the Consumers League of New Jersey, which Dyckman led as its president from 1944-1956, sought to combat these challenges by voicing their support and dissent for many key pieces of legislation that were proposed. From 1941 to 1945, labor shortages and the need for military manufacturers increased demands upon child labor, and Dyckman took it upon herself to oversee youngsters' involvement in the necessary wartime production. When the New Jersey State Commission on Student Service was established to provide programs for 14- and 15 year-olds to be released from school to work on farms, Mary Dyckman served on this commission and visited the camps. When another emergency act extended working hours for minors from 8 to 10 hours a day in essential wartime industries, Dyckman served as an appointee to the Emergency Child Labor Committee. In this capacity, she reviewed businesses' applications to employ youngsters during the extended hours and investigated, approved or revoked the petitions as she and other committee members saw fit. Dyckman and the Consumers League also vigorously opposed various New Jersey State bills that were introduced by legislators pressured by key industries in their districts. For example, S-88 proposed that boys of 15 should be allowed to work as pinsetters in bowling alleys until 12:30 a.m. The Consumers League believed that it was unjust that children's health and performance at school be endangered for the enjoyment of adults. Another argument of Dyckman's and the League's was that the health of older adolescents needed to be protected in case they were drafted into the armed forces if the war continued, leading them to campaign against A-210, which sought to allow the Commissioner of Labor to suspend the entire Child Labor Law for the canning industries.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, there were other campaigns to weaken child labor laws as a response to growing rates of child delinquency. Many educators, correctional officers and judges such as Judge William G. Long urged that maladjusted or idle youngsters be allowed to work so as to reduce the risk of their falling into delinquency. Such proponents of slackening the child labor law also pointed to technological and safety improvements in machinery and equipment which made working safer and thus rendered many of the protections of the child labor law unnecessary. Mary Dyckman and the Consumers League aggressively opposed these contentions, arguing, for one, that children were already allowed to work after school and during summer vacation, keeping them quite busy. In addition, the League felt it was unfair to thrust problem children into the hands of employers. Dyckman and the League also pointed to contemporary statistics and horror stories of children maimed and killed in the workplace. Mary Dyckman was in favor of a 1953 New Jersey bill (S-234) that set up an apprenticeship program to assist in the occupational adjustment of young adults. She also followed actions of the 1959 White House Conference on Education, as well as the subsequent New Jersey Citizens Committee on Children and Youth.
Another area that drew Mary Dyckman's attention was the predicament of migrant workers. Her interest in migrants can be seen to be related to her efforts to protect child workers, since agricultural establishments were often exempt from child labor law provisions. This exception to the law involved Dyckman in the other problems of agricultural migrant laborers, which included permanent injuries and disfigurements from accidents with equipment, unsanitary living conditions and the lack of schooling for migrant children. In 1944-1945 Mary Dyckman compiled a brief of recommendations and submitted it to then-Governor Walter E. Edge, leading to the Migrant Law of 1945 – the first of its kind in the United States.
Dyckman also supported a minimum wage and increased provisions for worker's compensation. Although a state minimum wage bill was passed in 1954 (providing for 75 cents per hour and time and a half for overtime in non-agricultural pursuits) and this bill did not cover women and children, the battle over who would issue working permits for children remained contested throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The eligibility of young people to receive worker's compensation was also a hotly debated topic. A key example of both questions coming into play was the struggle over the status of 25,000 boys delivering newspapers in New Jersey. S-184 (1964) moved to shift the responsibility of issuing permits from schools and place it with the employers, a group who clearly had financial interests at stake. Dyckman and the Consumers League of New Jersey argued that this legislation would inhibit youngsters from reporting complaints about their employers since the employers could revoke the permits. S-134 of 1965 was also opposed by the League, since it defined newsboys as "merchants," who were by definition unable to receive worker's compensation. Such legislation, it was feared, would open the door for other industries to apply for similar treatment. Despite the League's opposition, however, these bills passed.
From the mid-1960s through the last days of her life, Mary Dyckman continued to be interested in the physical and social well-being of her neighbors in New Jersey. Among the issues on which she maintained files were gun control, taxes, identification cards for children and radiation. In the later years of her life, Dyckman saw many of the protections she and the Consumers League had secured erode – particularly those for girls and women. In her eyes as well as those of many of her contemporaries, the social changes that admitted women into the workplace – including the permitting of girls to deliver newspapers and women to work at night – were an undoing of the early law that protected women's health, and, by extension, that of their families and society. During these years, the words she had shared with a news reporter in the 1930s echoed: "It is creative work. People don't change, but our understanding of them does. We are building with human material. Sometimes, to be sure, the house we have built up with such care falls down." Indeed, Mary Lang Dyckman was an architect, supplier, carpenter, maintenance worker and restorer, of both human health and the human spirit.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the papers of Mary Lang Dyckman, social worker and former president of the Consumers League of New Jersey, from her late school years (1903) to her death in 1984. The collection is 2.8 cubic feet in size and is composed of seven manuscript boxes and one oversize, encapsulated broadside.
The Mary Dyckman Papers are divided into four sections: personal correspondence and miscellany (13 folders), files documenting Dyckman's major involvements in social reforms (2.2 cubic feet), subject files (0.7 cubic feet) and reference publications (8 folders).
The files which document Mary Dyckman's personal interests and correspondence include biographical materials such as photographs, self-authored curriculum vitae, press clippings, papers of Louise Dyckman and Richard Dyckman (Mary's mother and brother), awards, letters of recognition and letters from friends and acquaintances.
The materials which document Mary Dyckman's substantial activity in social causes include files on child labor, migrant labor and worker's compensation. Papers concerning short-term or sporadically-documented interests, such as gun control and minimum wage, are preserved in the subject files. Many of the booklets, pamphlets, reports and other materials Dyckman used to inform herself and others about social concerns are found in the reference publication files.
The bulk of the Mary Dyckman papers pertains to her activities in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, after her retirement from professional work. The documentation of that period is enriched with copies of legislation, articles and press clippings, statements, and state and federal publications. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of her early work in social welfare and politics, such as with the Boston Associated Charities or as Republican Committeewoman of her district in Orange. Also, a key accomplishment for which Dyckman has been recognized, chairing an inter-organization committee to negotiate the 1940 Child Labor Act, is scantily represented in the collection. Further documentation of the child labor campaign, as well as Dyckman's advocacy of a minimum wage and improved conditions for migrant laborers, can be found in the Consumers League of New Jersey records (Manuscript Collection 1090) in Special Collections and University Archives.
Mary Dyckman composed several drafts of her letters and retained numerous copies of her correspondence and reference materials. When identical, one copy has been retained and the rest discarded. In order to preserve as much information about Dyckman as possible, brittle papers and small, loose notepad sheets have been photocopied and the originals discarded. Press clippings from various local papers which document Dyckman's activities and interests have also been photocopied.
Within this collection there are several photographs, maintained within their original files, including Mary Dyckman and friends at the Beard School, 1903 (filed under "Biographical Data"); students working under the Student Service Commission and Victory Farm Volunteers, circa 1942-1945; a migrant shack in Marlboro, New Jersey, circa late 1950s-early 1960s; and Dyckman attending a retirement party, 1964. In addition, there are four small, folded broadsides, 1936-1937, concerning local taxation, printed by the Princeton University Local Government Survey, and an oversize broadside pertaining to Richard Dyckman.
Series Descriptions
PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1936-1971. (9 folders, including 1 oversize folder)
Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent in two sequences.
Primarily letters from individuals relating the Dyckman's personal concerns and involvement in various family, community and political issues, mostly unrelated to her work in the Consumers League of New Jersey. This series includes, for example, responses to her comments on President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Message on Improving the Political Process in America" (1967). These files also contain scattered materials from and about personal colleagues, acquaintances and friends, such as articles and publications they wrote, Christmas cards and friendly letters they sent, newspaper items mentioning them and obituaries. There are individual folders for the correspondence of Joseph A. Califano (Special Assistant to President Johnson), Richard Dyckman (Mary's brother), Samuel J. Ferster (a judge who served with Mary Dyckman on the Emergency Child Labor Commission), Doctor Alice Hamilton (president of the National Consumers League), Mrs. Ruth Manley, Carl Holderman (New Jersey Labor Commissioner) and James E. Siddell (a member of the National Committee on Child Labor), in addition to a "miscellaneous" folder of single items.
Of note in this series are two photographs of Mary Dyckman at the retirement party of Mrs. Thomas McCardle (1964). Also interesting are acknowledgments of Dyckman's financial contributions to the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities (1936), the Survey Committee on Case Work of the Welfare Federation of Oranges-Maplewood (1943), the Local Assistance Board of the City of Orange (1960) and the New Jersey Audubon Society (1967). There is also an oversize broadside advertizing a presentation to the given by Richard Dyckman to the Washington Club, discussing the state of Singapore before the Japanese invasion (1942).
PERSONAL MISCELLANY, 1903-1977. (5 folders)
Arranged alphabetically by subject headings.
Primarily biographical data about Mary Dyckman as well as material relating to several personal, non-work related interests. Includes information about the Beard School in Orange, the 1910 play "Chanticler," Mrs. Frank H. Dyckman (Mary's mother) and Thomas Edison's estate and laboratory. The bulk of the papers in these files consists of press clippings and bulletins. Of special interest are several early photographs of Mary Dyckman and the grounds of the Beard School (1903) and a concise, self-authored "Experience Record" (1923) which highlights Dyckman's early training and experience in charity and social work. Also included are two statements of "Biographical Data" dating from 1957 and 1958.
CHILD LABOR FILES, 1940-1974. (1.7 cubic feet)
Grouped chronologically.
Materials documenting Mary Dyckman's involvement with working children, especially during World War II and during her 1944-1956 presidency of the Consumers League of New Jersey. Includes papers relating to her interest and service in the State Commission on Student Service (1941-1946), the Emergency Child Labor Committee (1941-1948), the correction of juvenile delinquency (1953-1959) and the protection of child newspaper deliverers (1947-1967), as well as her following of child-labor related issues such as workplace accidents and occupational hazards, changes in state and federal child labor law, apprenticeships and vocational schools, and various child labor and education conferences. The materials exist in many different formats, including incoming letters, copies of outgoing letters, meeting notes and minutes, reports, statements, and magazine and press clippings, as well as broadsides, pamphlets, administrative forms and other publications authored by federal and state authorities, the Consumers League and other concerned social and political organizations.
Rather than following a folder arrangement of strict chronological order, some folders are grouped together under subject heading names, rather than separated by individual folder dates. For example, papers regarding the Student Service Commission (1941-1946) and the Emergency Child Labor Committee (1941-1948) appear between a transcript of a 1941 hearing and a folder of press clippings from 1941-1945.
Of note are several photographs and negatives of farming camps set up by the Student Service Commission, and extensive coverage of the program at the Peddie School of Hightstown, New Jersey. Also recorded are the establishment and achievements of the Victory Farm Volunteers with photographs of the students. Documentation of Commissioner Harry Harper's controversial dismissal of members of the Emergency Child Labor Commission and accusations of conflict of interest may also prove interesting. The series also includes Dyckman's influential statement to the New Jersey Juvenile Delinquency Study Commission (November 30, 1955).
MIGRANT LABOR FILES, 1932(1945)-1966. (11 folders)
Grouped chronologically.
Documentation of Dyckman's work towards improving living and working conditions of migrant laborers, especially children. Included are articles and press clippings, booklets, studies and reports, as well as correspondence, meeting notes and conference records. Dates appearing on folders often overlap.
Of note in this series are the statements of New Jersey Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., and the New Jersey Farm Bureau at a 1959 Senate Public Hearing on Farm Labor, as well as Dyckman's notes on this event. Also interesting is the public's and Dyckman's own response to "The Forgotten People" (1959) and "Harvest of Shame" (1960), a report and a documentary both concerning the deprivations faced by migrant laborers. Included with materials about "The Forgotten People" is a photograph of a dwelling on a farm in Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey, which was used in "The Forgotten People."
WORKER'S COMPENSATION FILES, 1936(1947)-1965. (4 folders)
Arranged chronologically by date of a bill's introduction.
Materials documenting Dyckman's interest and involvement with various proposed New Jersey state laws and regulations regarding worker's compensation, particularly with the effects this legislation could have on children who delivered newspapers. These papers consist of notes, correspondence, press clippings and copies of legislative bills.
SUBJECT FILES, 1928-1982. (0.7 cubic feet)
Arranged alphabetically by subject headings.
Materials reflecting Dyckman's attention to a variety of community and social issues, such as gun control, public health services, minimum wage, women and night work, radiation, taxes and wards of the state. These papers exist in many formats, including minutes, notes, correspondence, article and press clippings, and pamphlets.
This series includes information on Mary Dyckman's involvement as chair of the Case Work Group of the Council of Social Agencies of the Oranges and Maplewood (late 1920s-early 1930s), including minutes and correspondence. The series also contains four small posters on the subject of taxes printed by the Princeton University Local Government Survey (1936-1937). Also of importance is a folder containing key papers regarding the Consumers League of New Jersey – its constitution, an 18-page draft ("How It Works," circa 1950) about the League's history and goals, and an "Executive Committee Report" (1950) and "Report of President" (1951) authored by Dyckman. The contents of this folder also document the ambitious drive for increased membership undertaken by Dyckman and the League in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE, 1904-1976. (8 folders)
Arranged alphabetically by subject headings.
A collection of pamphlets, booklets, letters and other items used as reference materials. These materials pertain to charity and case work, child labor and delinquency, child agricultural labor, newsboys and worker's compensation, and church sermons. Materials in many formats appear, including pamphlets, booklets, reprints of legislation, statistics, press releases, testimony, addresses, reports and clippings. The publications were issued by concerned individuals, organizations and governmental authorities.
Container List
|PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES [see also oversize folder]
|Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1967 and undated
|Dyckman, Richard, 1918, 1947-1950 and undated
|Ferster, Samuel J., 1950s and undated
|Hamilton, Alice, Dr., 1950s and undated
|Manley, Ruth, 1962-1964
|Meyner, Robert, and Carl Holderman, 1958
|Sidell, James E., 1940, 1945 and 1958-1960
|Miscellaneous, 1930s-1970s
|Biographical Data, 1903-1977 and undated
|Beard School, 1941-1970
|"Chanticler" play, 1910
|Mrs. Frank H. Dyckman, 1944-1945
|Edison's Home and Workshop, 1972-1975 and undated
|"Child Labor in Agriculture," 1940
|Children in Bowling Alleys and Other Places of Entertainment, 1940-1965
|[Transcript of a Hearing on Children and Unemployment], 1941
|Student Service Commission, April 1941-December 1942
|CHILD LABOR FILES [continued]
|Student Service Commission, July 1942-1946
|Emergency Child Labor Committee, 1941-June 1944
|Emergency Child Labor Committee, Controversy over Commissioner Harper and Food Stores, 1944 and 1948
|Emergency Child Labor Committee, July 1944-1945
|News Clippings, 1941-1945
|Children and Accidents, 1942, 1947-1953 and 1955
|Reports of YMCA Workshops, 1943
|Victory Farm Volunteers, 1943-1946
|Legislative Involvement, Especially Concerning Hazardous Materials, 1946-1959.
|CHILD LABOR FILES [continued]
|Occupational Adjustment, Apprenticeships and Vocational Schools, 1947-1958
|White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1949-1950
|Children and Farm Labor, 1950-1956
|Legislative Debates over Changing Child Labor Laws, 1951-1957
|Juvenile Delinquency, 1953-1955
|Juvenile Delinquency, New Jersey Supreme Court Action, 1955-1957
|Juvenile Delinquency, Judge Long and Reaction to his Statements, 1955-1958
|Juvenile Delinquency, 1956-1959
|Children and Gas Stations, 1955-1958
|NJ 142 (Religious Organizations and Underage Payroll Carriers), 1956-1957
|Correspondence, 1958-1960
|White House Conference on Education, and Other Conferences, 1958-1960
|CHILD LABOR FILES [continued]
|News clippings, 1961-1963
|Newsboys, Background Concerning NJ S-184, 1947-May 1964
|Newsboys, May 1964-January 1965
|Newsboys, NJ S-134, February-May 1965
|Newsboys, NJ S-445, 1967
|Occupational Hazards and Legislation, 1963-1968
|McDonough (Identification) Bill, 1969-1971 and undated
|Child Labor Laws, 1940s vs. 1966-1970
|Legislation, 1969-1972
|Public Conferences and Hearings, 1971-1974
|Migrant Labor Studies, 1932 and 1945
|Recommendations to Governor Edge, 1940(1944-1945)1966
|Newspaper clippings, 1940s, 1967 and undated
|Reference Publications and Letters, 1945(1959)-1966
|Peonage, 1950
|Correspondence, 1957-1962
|Hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Migrant Labor, 1959
|"The Forgotten People," 1959
|"Harvest of Shame," 1960-1961
|Meetings and Conferences, 1960-1961
|Correspondence, 1963-1966
|NJ S-278, 1948 and 1951
|NJ S-179 and S-184, 1959 and 1964
|NJ S-184 and NJ S-134, 1964-1965
|Black Lung, 1970 and 1982
|Case Work Committee, 1928-1933
|Community Involvements, Miscellaneous, 1941-1965
|Consumers League, Important Papers and Membership Drive, 1930s-1960s
|Consumers League, Annual Social Dinners, 1950s
|Contact Committee and Other Early Community Involvements, 1929-1938
|Equal Rights, 1942-1945 and 1972
|Farm Security, 1944
|Food Purity and Price-fixing, 1941-1942 and undated
|Gun Control, 1968
|Health Services for New Jersey, 1939-1952
|League of Women Voters, 1945, 1977-1978 and undated
|Minimum Wage, 1930s-1972
|National Sharecropper's Fund and Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association, 1965-1973
|Night Work and Women, 1940s, 1958, 1960 and 1968
|Occupational Diseases, 1928, 1944, 1946 and 1979
|Orange Light and Power Referendum, early 1930s and 1949
|Radiation, 1964-1976
|Taxes, 1936-1937
|Taxes, 1975-1978
|SUBJECT FILES [continued]
|Wage Payment, 1952, 1963 and 1965
|Wards of the State, 1939 and undated
|Welfare, 1943-1960
|World War II, Soldiers and Society, 1940s
|Charity and Case Work, 1904-1915, 1955 and undated
|Charity and Case Work, Charity Organization Bulletin, 1914-1916
|Child Labor, Agricultural, 1935-1956
|Child Labor, General, 1923-1950
|Child Labor, Including Delinquency, 1951-1973
|Newsboys and Worker's Compensation, 1948-1965
|Church Sermons, 1960 and 1976
|PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES [see also box 1]
|Dyckman, Richard, 1942


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Challenge: Uncertainty as to Technical Progress of Complex Environmental or Engineering Projects
Solution: Second Opinion Analysis
Details: Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a project is moving toward the established goals and objectives, and meeting milestones in a cost-effective way. Some environmental projects last for many years, and the high cost of data collection, the uncertainties of regulatory direction, the lack of clear objectives, and the limitation of funding creates anxiety abut the progress toward the goal of project completion and case closure. Clearwater Group offers a second opinion and peer review services to evaluate the technical objectives. Examples of second opinion reviews might include the path to case closure of an environmental project, or an examination of engineering plans for storm water control to verify regulatory compliance. The firm uses spreadsheets to evaluate what is known and what is still unknown about the site or project conditions, where important and critical data gaps exist and what are the impediments of successful project completion.
Clearwater Group has provided technical review and second opinion on numerous projects and reports. The Clearwater Group Principals have served in a peer review capacity for several organizations. James Jacobs served from 2006 to 2011 on the Fulbright Peer Review Committee, screening potential Fulbright scholars in environmental sciences. From 2005 to 2010, he served on the National Screening Committee for the American Institute of Professional Geologists for candidates applying for the Certified Professional Geologist designation. Since 2005, he has been on the Advisory Board for the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences. The duties include the review of abstracts submitted for presentations for the annual San Diego, California Soils, Sediments, and Water conference and reviewing student presentations. In October 2011, Jacobs was selected by the CalEPA to perform a peer review for the University of California related to Cr(VI) (also called hexavalent chromium). The document requiring technical review was the 2007 Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Hinkley, California Chromium Background Study Report which was the site of the Erin Brockovich movie. As a publicly elected official, since 2002, Jacobs has served on the Tamalpais Community Services District as well as on the Sewerage Agency of Southern Marin. Jacobs provides technical review of contracted science and engineering projects for the agencies as part of the discussions with the board of directors. Olivia Jacobs has provided technical review and second opinion analysis on a variety of environmental projects for public water resource reports, as well as for current or adjacent property owners whose land has been impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons or chlorinated solvents.


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I believe that even the hardest things in life are lessons to be learned. In many situations a person is given a choice whether to do right or wrong, and it might not be obvious to tell which would better suit the person in the end. My father was given no choices. He had this terrible disease put on him. He was diagnosed with leukemia around the same time his father was diagnosed with cancer as well.
All these things running through his mind and he had to will power to fight back. He fought leukemia for weeks that turned into months that turned into years. All this time everyone else was living life while his felt like it was just stopped in place. He felt like he was supposed to drop everything and put all of his strength into fighting this disease to carry on with his life. During the years of his fight against leukemia he had to deal with the loss of his father and watch his two daughters grow up.
After about 2 years after his surgery and constant in and out of hospital visits and the death of his father the doctors found no sight of leukemia in his blood what so ever. He brought out all his strength from within and he shined and he never backed down off of this obstacle that has been put in front of him. He was a changed person, he now goes to church every Sunday to worship god and wants to spend as much time with his family as he possibly can. I feel like it is an honor to say that my father has beaten a highly unlikely disease with just the strength from within and god. This challenge in his life had quickly turned into a life lesson that he learned even as a 40 year old man.
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Explore great film locations around the world!
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The house from Valentine's Day (2010) where Reed (Ashton Kutcher) lives is located in Venice, California.
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Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" is starring Jack Lemmon (C.C. Baxter) and Shirley MacLaine (Fran Kubelik).
Baxter's Apartment is located close to Central Park in 55 W 69th...
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The apartment building refers to the apartment building at 2311 N. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California.
When viewed from the satellite photographics in "The Countdown Reflection"...
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The fictional Café where Lucy and Henry had their "50 first dates" was built for the movie in Moli'i Gardens at the Kualoa Ranch. The "real" Hukilau Cafe is located in in...
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"Blended" marks the third comedy collaboration between stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, following their successful onscreen pairings in the hit romantic comedies "50 First Dates" and "The...
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This is the outdoor film location of "How I Met Your Mother" showing the MacLaren's Pub and the stairs to Ted's apartment.
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This is the location of Dexter Morgan's home in Miami.
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Since today is Friday the 13th 2013, I decided to publish this map and the original Film trailer.
The movie was released in 1980 and was shot in New Jersey.
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According to the film, the tall and narrow sliver building is located at 113 East 38th Street in Manhattan, placing it at 38th Street and Park Avenue. The actual building used in the film is known...


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Pali Blues Win Second Straight
Blues Defeat Washington Freedom in Title Game, 2-1
Boyds, Md. (Friday, August 7, 2009) – Drama surrounded nearly every minute of the 2009 championship game of the USL W-League tonight at the Maryland SoccerPlex, but the end result was the same as that of the 2008 finale. Behind an 82nd minute game-winner by championship MVP Iris Mora, the Pali Blues Soccer Club prevailed despite being the visiting club to take their second consecutive USL W-League title in as many years of their existence.
"It feels so good to have two undefeated seasons, and I am so happy for our girls," Pali head Charlie Naimo commented after taking his third crown as a coach in four championship appearances. "It's such a fantastic feeling, and you couldn't ask for anymore effort than what has been given by this team all year."
Playing the role of the road warriors, the Blues completed their second cross-country trip in less than a week to battle for their second consecutive W-League title tonight at the home stadium of the Freedom. There was an early scare for Pali in the second minute of this contest when a deflected shot trailed toward an open net, but defender Jenny Anderson-Hammond was there to clear away the trouble.
The scoring in this match was opened in the 13th minute after a called foul gave Washington a free kick opportunity outside the 18. Standing over the ball was Freedom midfielder Sandra Matute, and she bent a well-struck ball around the defensive wall and into the net to give the hosts a 1-0 advantage. While the tally gave a jolt of energy to Washington, the Blues remained determined and saw their efforts pay off in the 37th minute. After Mora saw a cleverly bending corner kick attempt get punched away by Freedom netminder Eliza Bennett Hattan, Pali was awarded a second corner. Mora again put the ball into play, only this time defender Kendal Billingsley was there to equalize for the defending league champions. With the count even at one each nearing the midway point, these two clubs would hold that mark heading into intermission.
The intensity was increasing with every passing tick of the clock in the second half, and everyone with their eyes on this championship match was being treated to a fantastic affair. The Blues stayed on the offensive when they got the ball at their feet, and the drama of this match reached its pinnacle in the 86th minute. Midfielder Kristy Yallop gained possession on the right flank and delivered a cross to the middle of the field. On the receiving end of the feed was Mora, and the Mexican National Team striker quickly pounded home the game-winner.
The final minutes of the contest did not come without issue, but Pali protected their end of the field to secure their second straight championship. With the win, the Blues run their unbeaten streak in the W-League to 29 games, capping off their 2009 postseason with a travel regimen that included nearly 12,000 miles of travel.
Next up on the forefront for the Pali Blues is the support of their sister-club, the Los Angeles Sol, in the inaugural championship game of Women's Professional Soccer on Saturday, August 22nd. As far as the Pali players are concerned, some head back to college while others look to get their shot in WPS. For all of the latest info on the two-time defending W-League champions, stay tuned to the team website at www.bluessoccerclub.com.


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My tech support told me ALL spam comments are computer generated. I didn't believe him. Surely there is a real human being behind those well thought out, heart-warming comments by that person named, Anonymous. The ones my blog receives daily in duplicate.
Yep siree, I can definitely picture a wannabe copywriter practising their English over a grubby keyboard SOMEWHERE in the world. Mumbai, Ulan Bator, Krakow, Vladivostok, Sevastopol? Either that or all those com-gen-spam-com-ers forgot to go through spellcheck before their journey into cyberspace.
I decided to have a snoop around and get the heads-up.
Weirdly the first site I discovered was, 'the Museum of Comment spam, finest examples, lovingly curated'. Blimey it had 220 more followers than I did/do. This site claimed the gems they discovered were computer-generated.
Still, it didn't explain the broken English.
I clicked on.
And there it was in black and white, 'these days, there are comment factories that pay people a few cents to leave a comment with specific keywords linked back to a specific web page for the sole purpose of increasing incoming links to that page and therefore, increasing Google search rankings…' (We're talking about high profile websites here. Not exactly PC.)
Apparently, 'you'll find many of these "jobs"… at oDesk.com…They're quick and easy, and people snatch them up despite the low payment.'
Being a snoop, I hopped on over to oDesk.com to look for a job. I like getting paid for writing. For anything creative really.
When I got there I wasn't sure what job title I should look under:
I chose: 'Customer WOW specialist'
There were screeds of, 'required attributes'. I soon realized I didn't really want to be a: 'Team player in a flat-structured, highly collaborative environment'. Nor make: '… oDesk.com a primary focus of …my… life'.
Even if I did have some of the required skills: 'Familiarity with social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook'. As well as: 'Top-notch written and verbal skills…' and the … 'English required'.
I pretended I didn't see: 'multilingual a plus' (well it didn't say written-multilingual). Therein the problem lies; those spam coms have just been lost in translation?
Even so if I'd really wanted to I would have been able to: 'dive right in, be effective, and make a difference.'
But I didn't. I didn't want to make lovely spam-com for some SEO Search Engine Optimizer. Jeesh that's as low as being a cold call telemarketer and I've been one of them before. I sold supplementary American Express cards, when I was twenty-something and broke from yet another adventurous foray into the big wide world. Back in a time when you took an aeroplane ride to see and experience new cultures, taking a virtual tour at the click of a mouse wasn't an option.
My spam-com, computer generated or not, is all nice. Some of it even makes me laugh like this guy: Kopi Luwak. Cute name, so I googled him and shit, guess what? Kopi Luwak is the name of the coffee excreted by the Civet cat. Top quality.
KP didn't have much to say: Hi!! I like your blog. These social networks as facebook twitter and blogspot are very good for share feelings with other.
Here are a few more examples from that crazy cat Anonymouse:
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Some like to infer that it's YOU being the annoying one. Not.
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Some are just so damn encouraging:
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I wіll definitely be baсk.
Some have the audacity to ask if I receive that annoying spam-com stuff. Hello:
Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it's driving me insane so any assistance is very much appreciated.
I suspect, however, at the end of the day, like me, comment-spammers spend a lot of time procrastinating at their key-boards for fun and clicks, and little money.
Note: Origin of above spam: accommodation/travel websites


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Many adjustment options and a synchronised mechanism with 4 back stop positions make Realy a task chair with functional looks you can use anywhere. Exceptional comfort comes with the form-fitting, sculptured seat and backrest, with or without upholstery.
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Mechanical system
Point-synchronous mechanical system with locking in 4 positions for adjustment of seat inclination and backrest tilt, including function for individual adjustment to match body weight. Material: the load-bearing parts are pressure-diecast aluminium (recyclable).
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The point-synchronous adaptation to user's movements eliminates the sliding effect on the user's back (no "shirt-pulloff" effect). The lumbar zone of the backrest always remains at the same point. The mechanical system can be set to continuous function: the chair automatically adjusts to the movements of the user (dynamic sitting). A mechanical spring allows the user to adjust the pressure of the backrest to his or her own individual needs. This spring produces progressively increasing pressure, the farther back the user leans.
The backrest with height adjustment is designed such that it supports the lumbar area, and provides good lateral support.
Seating surface
The seating surface has pronounced rounding in the front area, to prevent constriction of circulation in the thighs. The axis of the seating-surface tilt action is located toward the front, to maintain floor contact during synchronous movement of seat and backrest. The pelvis support has been designed to effectively prevent the pelvis from tipping to the rear. A sliding seat is available as option.
Design armrests: adjustable for height
Ring-shaped armrests: adjustable for height
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Day 15 | 30 Days of Prayer | Brazil
- Category 30 Days of Prayer, Main Banner, Retreats
- Post tags 2016 brazil retreat, 30 Days of Prayer
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Today we pray for…
Attendees: Linda and Caitlyn
Blessed is the [woman] man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord. For [she] he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit (Jeremiah 17:7–8, NKJV).
Father, we ask You to visit these women with grace in their seasons of transitions. We pray that the barren landscape of trial will become fertile soil for new growth. Gracious God, revive their spirit and restore their laughter. May they find You in their pain and trust You in their waiting. Holy One who redeems all things, meet them powerfully as they journey through a "Land Between" [Manion, Jeff, The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions]. We pray that You free them from a spirit of fear.
For those women nearing retirement, lead them in healthy closure. We ask for provision and direction as to when and where to retire. Hold them close in the in-between emotional transition. Please provide them with new friendships and a new vision with purpose once they are Stateside.
Many people forget or are ignorant about just how big and diverse Brazil is. Lop off Alaska and Brazil is slightly bigger than the U.S. It has the world's largest rain forest and the volume of water being dumped into the ocean by the Amazon River is greater the total of the next seven largest rivers combined. Pray that the efforts, both national and international, would continue to grow in reaching Brazil's growing urban centers as well as the multitude of tribal groups with little or no witness. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Debbie Suits grew up in Naples, Italy, and fell in love with the city and its people. She came close to returning to Italy, but ended up in Madrid, Spain, where she and her husband worked for 16 years. They returned to the States due to the special needs of one of their children. She now lives in Denver, CO, with her husband and three kids (ages 24, 22 and 18). Debbie is a bi-lingual nanny, companion to the elderly, and Color Consultant. She is the author of the 30 Days of Prayer and is a representative of Get Hope Global (micro-enterprise loans). Debbie has been a part of Thrive retreats for many years as a Color Consultant and shares a kindred spirit with fellow women who work abroad.View all articles by: Debbie Suits
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Good morning y'all! Today over at Craftin' Desert Divas starts a new linky party challenge. In honor of Independence Day the linky party theme is Fourth Of July.
For this project I made a little treat bag as well as a card. CDD now carries a huge selection of craft supplies along with their stamps and embellishments. I picked up a bunch of these bag which are the 1x8" treat bags you can find HERE. I found these fun Red, White and blue M&M's at the store and new right away I wanted to use them for the treat bags. I made a little topper of sorts by using the oval and star dies from the BANNER dies set as well as a sentiment from CELEBRATE FREEDOM.
I broke out my Doodlebug Patriotic Picnic Paper Pad as well as my Doodlebug Red, White and Blue Sprinkles to make this card. Again I used the Banner dies to make the layers on the card and since it was a fireworks themed card I thought it would be fun to use the Sun Die from the Sky is the Limit die set to kinda give a burst sort of shape. I turned it into a shaker cards with the help of the Shaker Bundle. To make it a shaker card I added a mix of the Red Velvet, Sapphire Sparkle and Skyline Steel sequins.
Come on over and show us your Patriotic side and play along with our new challenge!
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President Bush has all but refused to acknowledge that global warming exists, much less is a real problem. And his right-wing allies in Congress have followed his lead, voting down proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Now the evidence is becoming truly shocking. Just weeks after Bush's longtime political ally broke ranks with the White House and acknowledged the problem of global warming, photos now show that Mt. Kilimanjaro has been stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000 years.
Here is how Kilimanjaro's peak has looked for the last 11,000 years:
Here is how Kilimanjaro's peak looks today:
Maybe if President Bush saw these photos, he'd smarten up, and start joining most of the other industrialized nations in taking this threat seriously.


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To all my friends, family and kind strangers - I want to thank you for your support of my blog. I had such a difficult time with previous web hosts and thought Blogger was the answer with it's ease of use. Unfortunately, I spent hours crafting my web pages only to find that Blogger has major technical issues - the worst being that bloggers cannot view their Followers. Gaining subscribers is a major part of keeping a blog - they are an inspiration. I am told that I have quite a few following me currently, but I don't know who all of you are! It is inexcusable for a web host with the reputation of Blogger to prevent it's users from seeing who is following them. I had nearly paid for a service to help me advertise, and am grateful that I learned of this problem before doing so, as I never would have seen if the service worked for me. That said... I will not delete my blog for the time being, hoping that perhaps this issue will be resolved, but neither will I continue to post. When, and if, the situation changes, you will be notified that a new post has appeared. Instead, I will focus my efforts on opening my Etsy shop (under the same name: waldorfpunkin). Please wish me luck and send your prayers as I figure out how to fund Lovey's education amidst all the apparent obstacles and despite my whole-hearted efforts. "Where there's a will, there's a way" but Lord, "THY will be done".
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This group of Azaleas the first to be introduced into cultivation in Europe/United States by E. H. Wilson when he visited Kurume (Japan) in 1918. Two sets of these fifty varieties (out of the 250 then grown) were bought by him for the Arnold Arboretum, where they were propagated and further distributed. Wilson gave English names to his fifty, which are not translations from the Japanese but invented by him. They are rarely used, the Japanese names being more memorable, even if difficult to pronounce correctly.
They are not widely grown, partly because they are thought to be tender. A few are definitely tender, but these have mostly dropped out of commerce; the rest are hardier than generally supposed, though like many other evergreen azaleas they may suffer damage from frost when young. The flowers are small, but borne in wonderful profusion in late September or October. In several varieties the calyx is petaloid, i.e., converted into a sort of outer corolla, colored and marked like the true corolla. Although the result of several generations of breeding, they have retained the dense and comparatively dwarf habit of their wild ancestors. They tolerate full sun, and woodland conditions are quite alien to their nature.e colour range, from white through to pink, red purple and multi-colours on the one flower.
Here at Blackwood Ridge we are collecting the entire wilson 50 one plant at a time and hope to have them available over the next few years, once seen these Azaleas will capture your heart and amaze the senses they must been seen to fully appreciate the beauty of centuries of breeding of these truly garden treasures.
The Wilson 50
"In the garden of Mr. Akashi I selected and obtained a double set of the under- mentioned fifty varieties of these Azaleas which I consider the best, and these safely reached the Arnold Arboretum on April 24, 1919. The names are those of the originator, Akashi, and therefore authentic. The plants will be propagated and distributed under these names and, owing to the reprehensible habit of changing names by Japanese nurserymen, will probably remain the only set with standard names in existence." E H Wilson – Plant Hunter
No. 1. SEIKAI flowers white, hose-in-hose
2. KURENO YUKI flowers white, hose-in-hose
3. SHIN SEIKAI flowers creamy white, hose-in-hose
4. YOROZUYO flowers white
5. NANI WAGATA flowers white, suffused with salmon-pink
6. TANCHO flowers flesh-color, hose-in-hose
7. HACHIKA TSUGI flowers white, suffused with lavender
8. IROHAYAMA . flowers white, margined with pale lavender
9. Hoo flowers white, tinged with pink
10. STJIYOHI flowers flesh-color
11. TAKASAGO flowers pale pink, the color of apple-blossoms
12. KASUMI GASEKI flowers pale pink
13. BIJINSUI flowers pale pink
14. ASAGASUMI flowers rose-pink, hose-in-hose
15. KIMIGAYO flowers pink
16. AZUMA KAGAMI flowers deep pink, hose-in-hose
17. OSARAKU flowers white, suffused and margined with lavender
18. OTOME flowers blush pink
19. AYA KAMMURI flowers rose-color
20. SHINTOKI No HAGASANE . flowers rose, shading to pink, hose-in-hose
21. SAOTOME flowers rose-color
22. KIRIN flowers deep rose, shading to silvery rose
23. TAMAFUYO flowers white, striped peach-color
24. KIRITSUBO flowers rosy mauve
25. OMOINE flowers pale lavender
26. OINO MEZAME flowers deep rose-color
27. KATSURA No HANA . . . flowers rose-color
28. SHIN UTENA flowers pale salmon
29. KUMO No UYE flowers pure salmon
30. BENIFUDE flowers salmon
31. SUGA No ITO flowers pure pink
32. KASANE KAGARIBI …. flowers dull salmon-red
33. TSTJTA MOMIJI flowers bright red
34. SUETSUMU flowers crimson
35. FUDESUTE YAM A flowers light red
36. IMA SHOJO flowers bright red, hose-in-hose
37. RASHO MON flowers scarlet
38. WAKA KAYEDE flowers red
39. YAYEHIRYU flowers bright scarlet, hose-in-hose
40. KURAI No HIMO flowers carmine, hose-in-hose
41. AGEMAKI flowers carmine
42. HINODEGIRI flowers bright crimson
43. AIOI flowers color of almond-blossoms, hose-in-hose
44. SAKURA TSUKASA. . . . , flowers rosy mauve
45. TAMA No UTENA flowers pale salmon
46. GOSHO ZAKURA flowers white, striped peach-color
47. UKAMUSE flowers vermilion, hose-in-hose
48. HINODE No TAKA …. flowers crimson
49. OSARAKU SEEDLING . . . flowers white, suffused and margined with lavender
50. HANA ASOBI flowers red


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Knooking is knitting with a modified crochet hook. This is NOT Tunisian, Slip Stitch, Crochetnit, Double Crochet or any other knit look alike. You will be making actual knit and purl stitches. Please be mindful DO NOT copy and paste information on this blog. PLEASE link to this blog. Thank You
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Sock Formula
CO/INC to....
Chain 8 pull up knit stitch on each side of the chain = 16 stitches 8 on each side of the chain 8. Increase would look like this
k,inc,k,k,k,k,k,k,inc,k on one side k,inc,k,k,k,k,k,k,inc,k on the other.
You will Inc by 4 stitches every other row. I use a lifted increase.
Infant Inc to 24
Toddler Inc to 32
Child Inc to 40
Women Inc to 48
Men Inc to 56
Foot Length....
Knit until you have the length you need
Infant 3 1/2 inches
Toddler 5 inches
Child 6.5 inches
Women 8-11 inches
Men 10-12 inches
Short Rows
divide stiches 1/2 on a stitch holder. Other 1/2 work short rows
Short Rows....
1.) Slip Stitch (SS) 1st stitch Knit to last, but dont knit last put on holder, turn
2.) SS 1st stitch, purl to last, but dont purl last put on holder, turn
Continue steps 1 and 2 until you have 1/2 of what you started with (e.g. Infant: Inc to 24 your short rows side is 12 stitches so 1/2 of 12 is 6)
Add stitches back on....
1.) SS 1st stitch, knit to 2nd to last, knit last stitch and 1 held stitch together, pull up 1 increase, turn.
2.) SS 1st stitch, purl to 2nd to last, purl last stitch and 1 held stitch together, purl up 1 increase, turn.
Continue steps 1 and 2 until you have same number of stitches you had before short rowing and/or what is on your other stitch holder.
Knit Around
Knit 1, Purl 1 (ribbing) or ribbing of choice for as long as you want your cuff.
Bind Off. Remember everyone is different this is just a formula.
8 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 6:41 PM
Will you be making this available as a printable pdf. I tried copying it to my word processing program but I got a black background with white print.ReplyDelete
I love your patterns and hope you will make them available for printing.
Thank you
Love, love, love this site! Super helpful!ReplyDelete
Any chance you could post pics of the short rows? I'm having trouble visualizing it.
I am working on a pair now when I get to that point on my sock I will take picturesReplyDelete
I am wondering if you have any patterns for afghans. I just got a knook today and can't wait to start!ReplyDelete
No I am sorry I do not have any patterns for afghans. The nice thing though is you can use any knitting pattern for knookingReplyDelete
How do I obtain information about the specific steps to knook. I tried following the directions that came with the Knook kit for three days straight. I never did understand what to do with more than 10 stitches. Then I always had two cord ends and I always pulled the one that dropped everything. I have been knitting/crocheting for 40 years . . .this is the only skill I have tired that I did not learn in a few hours.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Leisure Arts has instructional knooking videos posted on youtube that really help!ReplyDelete
good topic thanks for post for sharing on website ..ReplyDelete


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Fishery video
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CTA. 1998. Fishery video. Spore 73. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48968
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Fishery video Mweru ebutala bwesu (The lake is our bank)
The sustainable management of natural resources is a much debated topic covering many disciplines. The video, Mweru ebutala bwesu (The lake is our bank), provides a realistic impression of the management of a heavily fished lake in an African context. The issues raised in the discussions between the various stakeholders of the fishery are universal and they represent the same dilemmas seen in other situations concerning resource management. The video was originally produced for Zambian television which has shown it several times, but has since been used in various educational and training settings both within Zambia and elsewhere. The documentary is in English and Bemba with English subtitles. The video is available on VHS-PAL, price US$135.00 for institutions and US$66.00 for individuals. The price includes postage and packing. Rien Valk Stug Videoprodukties PO Box 3011 6802 DA Arnhem THE NETHERLANDS
SubjectsNATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENT;
- CTA Spore (English) [5136]


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These dizzying photos freeze in time the vertigo-inducing moments aboard some of the country's best thrill rides.
Photographer Lewis Whyld developed a camera system capable of shooting "360 degree pictures with split second timing at over 100km/h whilst pulling 5G… upside down".
The full interactive 360 degree photos can be seen at Whyld's website here.
The results are pretty impressive.
Whyld's subject matter is often a touch more serious than thrill rides, his work during the Egyptian revolution is more harrowing but no less impressive.


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Dogs are welcome in the designated parking area and on the canine trail.
However, dogs are not allowed on the canine trail on Jackrabbit Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm or during race day times stipulated by the Race Marshall.
Please check our calendar for dates the trail is closed.
We are all responsible for keeping Larch Hills clean, safe, and fun.
- Please keep your dog under control at all times.
- Your dog must be on leash in the designated parking area and on the way to the trail.
- Your dog may be off leash on the trail.
- A maximum of 2 dogs are allowed per skier.
- Please scoop the poop and remove it promptly.
- Walkers and snow shoers are only allowed as far as the bottom of Chalet Loop. Beyond this is private property and our use agreement with the owners does not cover non-skiers.
Contact Anne Lockington at 250-832-8484 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information
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LNHS Canine Committee Summary Report
The LHNS Canine Trail Committee has been active since February 2011. The 2011/12 Salmar/Sunshine Canine Pilot Trail was endorsed by general membership vote in November 2011, and adopted as an ongoing canine trail at the March 2012 LHNS Annual General Meeting.
Based on predominantly positive feedback and requests for specific improvements, the LHNS Canine Committee was asked by the executive to propose a canine trail for the 2012/2013 season.
The committee proposed that the current trail be extended to Tom's Cabin and include one or both of Skyview and Sentinel loops.
At the Dec. 4, 2012 general meeting, the LHNS executive reiterated its support for the current 800 metre Salmar/Sunshine Canine Trail, and reported that it did not support the Canine Committee proposals for improvement. No other proposals were brought forward at that time.
In 2013/2014 there was a new proposal which was voted down by the members of LHNS. That proposal may be seen here.
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"Am living my life….. doing my best , Or so I taught anyway.
Every time I look around….so close, I see the future fade away.
What's the reason? What's the purpose? Is it real? Is it worth it.
We work so hard trying to prove it.
Some say it's true, but others will fault it.
What ever you believe…it's your conclusion. Live your life, don't fall to Illu510n.
It's in our face…can we face it? We run so far, and still it chases.
Can't get away…. from our problems.
No, we can't replace it.
The only solution…Read the manual and follow the equation equals PRAY.
Don't follow me, don't follow what I do.
I wish they'd preach that…so we could stay true.
To busy politricking….the clock never stops…time just ticks, time just tocks
We listen to the beat, lost…. Therein lies the plot.
It's full of lies, yea it's full of spies…searching the clouds and still we can't see what's in the sky.
When all that's been asked is that we try.
Hanging in heart's cold, our heart's are black.
Soul searching. Soul Sold…still selling, still purchasing the gold.
It's in me, It's in you. The flesh is weak, the spirit is willing.
When will mankind stop all the killing.
If you read you see it's true….It's kinda chilling if you never knew.
The way it goes, the way it ends.
The way it start's, the way it begins. "


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Scoutmaster Musings
The Scouting Canvas
I'm going to an Eagle court of honor this evening. It's for a terrific scout in a different troop than my son. He's been highly active in OA and a great scout. He has contributed tons of time and effort to Scouting in our district.
So, I was wondering if boys who stay in Scouting longer actually contribute more to society than the average Joe, why is that so? Did Scouting make them into what they are, OR do they make Scouting into what it is?
I've seen a wide range of guys join the troop, from every ethnic background, financial status, popularity level, and personality profile in our community. Every year, a few of the new guys will stop participating after a few months. When asked, it is usually because they were too busy doing other things - but an occasional honest reply will be that the boy was just trying it out and decided Scouting was not his deal.
Over the next few years, some scouts will stop participating and will usually tell me their honest reasons - sports priority, lost interest in camping, got new friends.
That leaves the guys that advance through the ranks, usually to Eagle; the guys that do high adventures; the guys that run the show; the guys I think of when I think 'Boy Scouts'. These guys stay to the end and are the ones we use as examples. But, did Scouting do that to them or would they be that way anyway?
As I've watched these guys mature, learn skills, and become leaders, I've come to believe that Scouting is just a big piece of canvas.
What do you think would happen if you gave 50 people each a canvas, brush, and paints and asked them to paint something interesting? Some would cover the canvas in a single coat. Others would make stick figures. Some would make a nice picture. A couple might create artistic masterpieces.
Give them a new canvas and ask them to do it again. I'd expect the pictures would improve.
Give them another canvas and with practice the pictures improve for most of them, but there would be some that reached their limit with stick figures. They may not be good artists, but the canvas gives them the opportunity to practice, improve, and discover.
Just like the canvas gives the artist a place to explore, imagine, create, make mistakes, and safely try new things, Scouting provides many opportunities for the boy to make decisions, see results of his efforts, and modify his style in a safe community.
Through that practice, he grows into a better person than he would have been without the practice.
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So which camera do you like more? Diana F+ or Lubitel 2? I'm thinking of getting an old Lubitel...
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In the last few months, NBC has been doubling down on the second season of its terrific supernatural procedural "Grimm." On top of a big presence for the show at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego and lots of high-caliber ads during the Summer Olympics, the network moved the show to Monday nights for the first weeks, clearly trying to make last year's surprise survivor this year's bona fide hit.
And unlike its similarly Olympics-hyped brethren, "Grimm" not only lives up to its own publicity, it exceeds it: Last night's premiere, the first of two parts, maintained the funny/frightening tone of the first season while moving the narrative out of fairy-tale quaint into full-blown epic. Ancient princes control otherworldly forces in search, perhaps, of a powerful treasure, the crusades are invoked, as are talismans of power, and a team of disparate talents assemble to fight the forces of darkness, which may include the least likely characters. There's a bewitched "princess," a saber-tooth tiger and kick-ass mom. All that and the splendid cast of characters from last season.
The series revolves around the adventures of Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), a Portland, Ore., detective who discovered last year a. the creatures of fairy tales (here called Wesen, pronounced "vesin") are real and walk among us and b. he is the latest in a long line of Grimms, warriors who can see them and, equipped with the greatest assortment of weapons this side of the Middle-earth, fight them if necessary. After the death of his beloved Aunt Marie (Kate Burton) made him next in line, Nick quickly broke with Grimm tradition and befriended a creature named Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), who acts as his Wesen guide and partner in supernatural crime fighting. Nick's actual partner, Hank (Russell Hornsby) remains ignorant of Nick's new calling (though surely he will catch on soon) as does Nick's fiancée Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch). (In the season finale, Nick confessed all to Juliette but then a hexenbiest put a spell on her that sent her into a possibly deadly and/or memory-destroying sleep, so we'll see how that goes.) Nick's captain, Sean Renard (Sasha Roiz), however, knows exactly what Nick is, but remains himself a cipher, his international man of mystery-ness actually deepening as more of his actual status within the Wesen world is revealed.


text: Mohit Muthanna wrote: >I actually worked on this before the Sudoku challenge even came up. I >think, based on your e-mail, it uses the same recursive algorithm that >you do, but I haven't verified that yet. > Our algorithms are essentially similar. One optimization I made is that instead of attempting to solve the first empty cell seen, I skim over all of the empty cells and find the one with the fewest possible solutions. The value of this optimization appears to be a wash; most boards I clock under your time by 20-50%, but on the "hard board" you clock a 20s against my "more efficient" 37s. Wild. Something about that puzzle forces any solver to grind deep and hard, and your not taking extra time to think about the next move pays off handsomely. Your calculate_options method seems to do what my settle method does, finding unsolved cells with only one option. One question I had while reading your code, what happens if your loop finds a cell with options, then finds a cell to settle, and settling it causes the other cell to no longer have options (but to be settled)? have_options is never reset. The only valid case this can happen is if calculate_options solves the puzzle, so you could probably test for it outside the method. Hmm, you don't use the return value, so I guess the point is moot. :-) Also, I just noticed that the unit tests I uploaded yesterday were broken, because I renamed the settle() method. (It used to be called 'flatten', but that has some existing semantics from Array#flatten. Since they are not similar, I changed the name due to POLS.) -dB P.S. James, I made the changes to initialize; they are uploaded now. For the list's benefit, here is the new load method: # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- def load(str) line_num = 0 str.each_line do |line| line.gsub!('_','0') line.delete!('+|-') line.strip! if line.length > 0 l = line.split /\s+/ fail "Line length was #{l.length}. line: #{line}" unless l.length == 9 @board[line_num] = l.collect {|x| x.to_i} line_num += 1 end end fail "Board is not valid." unless self.valid? end # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David Brady ruby_talk / shinybit.com I'm feeling really surreal today... OR AM I?


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Noe, Thomas, Rebello, Michael and Wang, Jun (2006) The evolution of security designs. The Journal of Finance, 61 (5). pp. 2103-2135.
This paper embeds security design in a model of evolutionary learning. We consider a competitive and perfect financial market where agents, as in Allen and Gale (1988), have heterogeneous valuations for cash flows. Our point of departure is that, instead of assuming that agents are endowed with rational expectations, we model their behavior as the product of adaptive learning. Our results demonstrate that adaptive learning profoundly affects security design. Securities are mispriced even in the long run and optimal designs trade off under pricing against intrinsic value maximization. The evolutionary dominant security design calls for issuing securities that engender large losses with a small but positive probability, and otherwise produce stable payoffs. These designs are almost the exact opposite of the pure state claims which are optimal in the rational expectations framework.
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Flat pack style counter top with furniture grade particle board with a support apron on the underside for leg support. The legs are made using plumbing pipe and toilet flange attached to the floor. Besides the paint used on the pennies I also used liver of sulfur to darken the newness of the pennies in some areas. Then finally sealed with mod podge dishwasher safe glue. Yes, one can do what ever upgrade to the finish they like. This design is for the basic knowledge of a functional art piece that can be used in the home. Functional art is not always "child safe" and is to be considered on an individual basis... I am no wizard so you will have to decide for yourself what level of art is good for your home environment.
Gluing the pennies was easy with a tiny dab of gorilla glue... to much will ooze out from under the penny and make a mess. I glued each penny into place and tried to make sure it did not raise up by checking them before they are dry and pushing back down if needed.
Next, I laid out electrical tape to get a better idea of where I wanted the paint to go and how much detail I wanted to give it. hint... once enamels are on the surface it's not likely to come off very easily if a mistake is made... and you want to try and avoid chemical strippers at this point of the project. This particular functional art will require some painting skills if you plan to use enamel paints or give this style a go if your brave enough to try something new. This project was very tempting to leave unpainted and seal it all nice and shiny... but as you can see we got what we are free sharing here on Instructable.
Once all the pennies are glued in place (some will need to be cut and sanded to avoid bending them around the sharp corner of the furniture grade particle board... if you do use new pennies to bend you will notice that they tend to crack and split because of the 2 types of metal they are made with. You can bend them if you like but old arthritic hands don't do as well with that activity.... so you choose. Once all the pennies were tight to the surface I proceeded with the painting. I used an eye dropper and cotton swabs to apply the paint on each penny. Some pennies got many coats of paint and some only got a seal coating of clear at the end when the coloring and drying was complete.
I also used the glass enamel paints in place of regular grout as well for color depth and variation in background. Once the paint is dry just seal it with the mod podge.
This may not be a beginners project but could be fun if you like to experiment.
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Thanks! Excited to try in an outdoor bar area. Where do you get liver of sulfate? And any tips on cutting the pennies?
You actually provided really good details as to what you used and like they say " a picture is worth.... two birds in the hand.... with a glass house.... " ;-) I will definitely keep an eye out for any more of your instructables. I am crazy passionate about earthen built structures so you had me at COB!
This is so beautiful. When I first saw it, the lighter spots looked like pools of water. You are very creative. I especially like the rounded edges. I want to do this now!!!
Your comment alone is making me want to take the rest of the week off to do the entire instructional. I don't type well so it takes extra time... BUT I will promise to work on it this week more... Nice comments like yours are incentive to do more for sure. Thanks!
After doing something this beautiful you deserve to take the week off! And if I get more details on this gorgeous piece of art then it's a win/win! :-) I'm saving all my pennies from now on - this is my newest obsession. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I did some updating to the description but didn't take a bunch of process photos as I went along.... I really didn't think of putting it out to teach anything at the time... but the next one will be more photos and more details as it goes. Thank you for the encouragement! Cob Project Campus is willing to free share much of what we will be doing this year... so keep an eye open towards the end of the warm season.
Updated with more info.... this is my first functional art piece to share with the world community.
please share!
This is a super creative way to do a penny counter top :D
It would be really great to see the complete instructions!
Your the first and I am thrilled... didn't think anyone would need instructions but I am happy to free share if that keeps growing... Running a campus takes a lot of time but art is important too. :)


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I made three attempts to get gauge for the Monkey socks. My conclusion is...the designer used No. 1.5 needles and so should I. Unfortunately I don't own any and there were no yarn stores open Sunday evening when I bowed to the inevitable (I've since been to several yarn stores and not found any. So I'm glad I wasn't counting on finding them.) I frogged and cast on for a basic toe up sock, knit a toe, and increased until it was the right size...and found that I had 68 stitches, which, since 68 factors to 2 x 2 x 17, isn't the most useful stitch count. I considered things like ribbing, and various 4-stitch patterns, without finding anything I really liked and finally started the foot with the lacy rib pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks. (It's a 5-stitch pattern, but I figured I could do five repetitions centered across the instep and pick up two more stitches at the top of the heel to get to 70 stitches for the leg.)
Unfortunately, I hated it. I'm sure it's charming in some yarns, but not in this one. This stripes just enough horizontally that vertical patterns just don't look good...something I remembered from an early attempt to do Diamond Lace from the same book in this same yarn, but should have taken more seriously.
I contemplated the yarn. Considered changing yarn...but I really wanted to use this yarn for these socks...it's beautifully soft and quite pretty all by itself. Then I ripped out all the ribbing (I really hadn't gotten that far) and just knit the foot plain. When I got to the leg, I added four stitches (getting me to a total of 72, a nicely factorable number) and changed over to an old standby for self-striping yarns, feather and fan. It's looking quite charming.
The sock and I have now reached a truce, wherein it shall be knit, in a size that fits the recipient and a pattern that suits the yarn and it is giving me no more trouble. And so long as that continues to be true, no one will have to do anything hasty involving...scissors.