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Category : Analytical Equipment
The Malvern Morphologi G3 automated particle characterization system is a new analytical tool that combines high quality /products_services/analytical_equipment/malvern-instruments/images with statistically significant particle shape and particle size measurements.
A fully integrated dry powder dispersion system reduces sample preparation times and significantly improves the repeatability of measurements, and can analyze 100's of thousands of particles with a single click of the mouse! The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Approach allows all instrument variables (focus, light intensity, magnification etc.) to be objectively recorded and controlled. The ability to see and record an image of every individual particle enables a visual verification of phenomena such as the presence of broken particles, agglomerates, fines, foreign particles etc.


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The Deborah Carew Swing Trio first formed after a gig at Christian Miller's monthly residency Upstair at the Ritzy back in Christma 2015 called, 'Cool Struttin', with Christian on guitar, Deborah Carew on vocals, and Marcus Penrose on double bass.
An accomplished exponent of both American and Parisian swing styles, Christian is also a sought after early jazz stylist, performing regularly with the Hot Club of Jupiter, Shirt Tail Stompers, Southside Gypsy Trio top as well as working with US musicians Gordon Webster, Brandi Disterheft (NY) and Aurora Nealand (New Orleans.)
Christian's own projects include The Balagan Cafe Band, which explores music from around the world and from many different eras.
Marcus is a double bass player based in London. He was born and raised in Cornwall. Over the years he has played in countless different lineups and venues of all sizes and varieties in London, the UK and Europe, from the Vortex Jazz Club in London to Glastonbury Festival (2002 and 2003). Marcus was a founder member of The SE Collective, group of South London based musicians including Alam Nathoo, Peter Ibbetson, Trish Clowes and Matt Ridley, promoting regular successful jazz nights showcasing some of the UK's most cutting edge jazz and improvised music groups.
Deborah has been singing for over 10 years on the London Jazz scene and included established venues such as Charlie Wrights jazz club, Royal Festival Hall foyer. Deborah had her almost sold out debut performance in early 2015 with her quartet (included John Crawford, Ben Bastin, and Eddie Hick) at the Pheasantry, in Chelsea. She is currently performing in and around London with various top musicians on the London jazz scene.
Expect original arrangements from the early Jazz era (1920s – 40s)… Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Fats Waller and more.

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105 Supersmart Strategies
Here's our comprehensive look at the best ways to travel: how to find a deal, avoid lines, pack, fly, tip, and more.
Are you comparing apples to apples?
Fees and taxes can raise prices dramatically, so find out if they're included in any price you're quoted. Booking engines keep travelers in the dark by bundling their taxes and fees or by waiting until late in the booking process to show them, and some charge more than others.
Get a trigger price
Do the necessary research so you'll know a good deal when you see one. What do we mean by "necessary research"? Start by taking a look at Farecast.com, a newish website with reams of historical airfare data, and then do your shopping around. Airfares change like that, and you have to be ready to book at a moment's notice--or the fare will disappear.
Beware any checked boxes
Some travel sites will automatically add extras that you might not want--most notoriously, travel insurance. Rail Europe, for example, tacks on a $10 per-ticket insurance fee, which online customers pay unless they notice the pre-checked box and opt out. If you see a checked box on a website, look closely for the fine print.
Delete your cookies
Websites put cookies on your computer that let them know you've been there (which is how they remember your name). Travel sites, however, have used them to avoid showing you the same price every time you visit. Delete your cookies and they'll treat you like a new customer. How you delete them depends on your computer and browser, but the option is usually available under the "Tools" or "Preferences" menu of Explorer, Safari, and Firefox. Some cookies serve a useful purpose, so delete only the ones associated with the booking engine.
Connections are a drag
Whenever possible, fly nonstop ("direct" flights may in fact make a stop on their way to the final destination), and depart early in the day, before delays have a chance to bungle schedules. In winter, you should avoid hubs such as Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, and New York; these airports are likely to experience weather-related delays.
It's your honeymoon!
And that's super. But if you say so when you're booking a trip, you'll get charged a higher price (it's just like with weddings, when flowers cost more than they usually do). The time to announce your honeymooning status is when you arrive at the airport. Same goes for a major anniversary or any other special trip.
Bid low, score big
While Priceline is now a full-fledged booking engine, it's most valuable for its bidding system. We like it for hotels in cities, but be wary of two-star hotels and below, and research neighborhoods in advance. BiddingForTravel.com has examples of successful bids. The law of supply and demand means you'll do better at business hotels on weekends, at resort towns on weekdays, and anywhere off-season.
Be receptive
Subscribe to e-newsletters from airlines, hotels, and travel sites. The best deals are last-minute, and to get them you need to hear about them immediately.
Sales are contagious
When an airline slashes fares, competitors that fly the same route tend to follow suit. So if a carrier doesn't have availability, or the times or connections are less than ideal, scope out its competitors.
Psst! Secret fares you'll never see at booking engines
Tour operators that book packages with charter flights (such as Vacation Express, Funjet, and Apple Vacations) also sell just the flights--for far cheaper than regularly scheduled ones. The potential downside is that charter flights usually go once a week, so if you miss your flight or the plane conks out, you're stuck. Consolidators, which sell discounted fares on regular airlines, are another resource. The best ones, like 1800FlyEurope.com and India specialist HariWorld.com, work out deals with the airlines that fly to a certain area.
We now live in a grasshopper's world
Remember the fable of the anal-retentive ant and the seize-the-day grasshopper? These days, the grasshopper wins. There's rarely need to book a trip more than two months out. In fact, you often pay more. The few exceptions when you should reserve well ahead: busy times (e.g., holidays), trips for large groups, exotic destinations with few flights, when it's a special event like a wedding (and you have no flexibility).
Confirm all of your reservations
It's a particularly good idea with hotels and car rentals during peak travel periods, when they're more likely to overbook and hand your room or car over to someone else.
And confirm your cancellations, too
Get a confirmation number or, even better, a confirmation e-mail. If you don't have proof in writing, you're facing an uphill battle if the charge eventually shows up on your credit-card bill.
Moron alert!
If you call a company and the person who answers sounds like an idiot or a jerk, hang up before saying your name. Call back later. (To find out which keys to press to reach an operator at hundreds of companies, go to GetHuman.com.)
Maximize your cell phone
Turn it into an address book, with contact info for airlines, hotels, car-rental companies, and your car and health insurers. (Get a local phone number, too, in case the toll-free one won't work overseas.) And if you use your cell to store loyalty-program account info, you can toss those membership cards.
Welcome to our country! Now go home
If you don't have enough blank pages in your passport, or if it expires in six months or less, some countries won't let you in. (Not sure if you need a visa? See state.gov/travel.) In the U.S., the rule is that you now also need to have a passport if you're entering the country by air from Mexico, Canada, the non-U.S. Caribbean, the Bahamas, or Bermuda. People arriving by cruise ship may also require a passport as early as January 1, 2008.
Why a hotel room is kind of like a rug
Few price quotes are non-negotiable anymore--that goes for a rug in India or a hotel room anywhere. Don't accept the first rate you see; ask if there are unadvertised specials, or if the hotel can do better. Play up whatever you bring to the table--you're with a group, for example, or you visit often. Instead of a lower rate, you may end up with free parking or an upgrade. Just make sure the person you're wooing is in a position to deliver.
One word: plastic
Pay for all bookings with a credit card, so you'll be protected in the event the airline or tour operator goes out of business.
Without evidence, you have no case
Bring a copy of whatever is included in your rate. Otherwise the hotel might, say, charge you for breakfast, or the car-rental agency could try to give you a compact instead of a minivan. They'll find it a lot harder to argue if you have it on paper.
A few thoughts on travel insurance
If all you have reserved are flights and hotels, insurance generally isn't worth it: You can rebook a flight and only suffer a $100-per-ticket (or so) fee, and hotels rarely have strict cancellation policies. But if you're headed on a cruise or a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, such as a safari, insurance looks better and better, because tour operators and cruise lines (which are less likely to get any last-minute bookings) tend to penalize those people who cancel. You should also consider buying travel insurance when you think the odds are decent that you won't be able to take the trip for one reason or another. Just make sure you understand up front exactly what is and isn't covered, which situations allow you to cancel, and what the cancellation time frame is.
What about when disaster strikes?
Some people believe they should get insurance in case there's a terrorist attack or natural disaster. Recent history has shown, however, that travel companies are incredibly sensitive when such events occur, and they almost always drop their usual restrictions and allow their customers to rebook or cancel without penalty. Of course, there's no guarantee that this will always be the case.


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Also, I'm procrastinating.
First 20 in random shuffle:
* Outkast, Dracula's Wedding: I love Outkast. I like to sing along when I'm alone in the car, but most of the songs are not singalongs for children and it's really hard to stop singing when Outkast is on.
* Bob Marley & the Wailers, Work: This makes me think of working at Glimmerglass Opera and staying in scary housing with a ghost cat who left fresh pee markings every time I left the creepy old house. Oh, and it was across the street from a graveyard.
* Parliament, Chocolate City: When I was in 6th grade, we moved from NYC to Denver. I got invited to my first party with dancing. I could not dance. Parliament was playing (the song was Flashlight). I was mortified. Shudder...
* David Bowie, Try Some, Buy Some: Let me count the ways...
* Pat Benatar, Hit Me with your Best Shot: Here's my big embarrassment for the day! And you thought it would be that I couldn't dance in 6th grade. Silly you! I like to sing along with this one, too. There. I have no pride left.
* Mos Def, Ms. Fat Booty: Not sure if I've even actually listened to this. Why, oh why couldn't something familiar and cool -- like Psapp or Phospherescent or Big Star...even Spacehog -- come next?
* Billy Bragg, A New England: I used to frequent a great show venue in Denver in the early-mid '80s -- the Rainbow Room (like my youth, long since dead). I saw fantastic shows there (Halloween night with the Cure and Siouxsee & the Banshees opening, front row for Psychedelic Furs and Richard Butler singing Pretty in Pink to me -- I was wearing a bright pink '50s cocktail dress with rhinestones, many early REM shows...) Billy Bragg opened for somebody (a band that obviously made a big, big impression). A lot of us would wait out all day for these shows, and Billy Bragg came out and played a one-man band contraption for the crowd waiting to get in. Amazing. And he gets extra points for his work on Mermaid Avenue.
* The Clash, The Prisoner: Also in Denver, I got to see The Clash at Red Rocks on the Combat Rock tour. I tried to sleep in the next day. Unfortunately, I was on the cover of the Rocky Mountain News Sunday edition and many of my parents' friends felt the need to call. I'm embarrassed to say that I had a total Molly Ringwald getup on. I was in the front row, though.
* Radiohead, Optimistic: We have tried to see Radiohead what...four times now? Tibetan Freedom Festival (stopped mid-show due to lightning striking a girl across the field during Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters' reunion performance of Watermelon Man; a 9:30 club midnight show announced at the last minute -- we happened to be in front of the club but had to go get someone at the airport; a field that flooded; and a near miss at Merriweather a few years ago -- what band starts on time? We were stuck in a long line of traffic waiting to get in...made it for the encore). I've given up on ever seeing more than 30 minutes of Radiohead live. Didn't even try this year. Charles thinks he spent time in a pub with some/all of them at Oxford. Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that there are a lot of pale, pasty shoe-gazing intellectual teenagers there.
* The Beatles, Thank You Girl: Yeah, yeah. I know. There's a whole lot of Beatles on my iPod. Actually, I really thought Wilco would be the winner. I may have to rethink my allegiances.
* Neil Young, I Believe in You: When we lived in San Francisco (Haight & Stanyan), Neil Young and Pearl Jam played a free show in Golden Gate Park. It was so loud. I was so annoyed. I was a music school snob. I am an idiot. The Grateful Dead also played a show in the park that you could hear from the Conservatory (19th & Ortega). I may not have been the right person to be living in San Francisco in the late '80s/early '90s...
* The Jam, The Place I Love: Loved the Jam, liked Style Council. Not so big on Paul Weller solo...
* Paul Westerberg, Something Is Me: I swear, he could breathe and I would love it. And listen to it over and over. And be oh so grateful. I am so easy to please.
* Blondie, X Offender: Do you remember when Debbie Harry was a guest on The Muppets? I do. We watched that show every Sunday night. I still can't really figure out how CBGB spawned such a wide variety of acts...
* David Bowie, Queen Bitch: Don't you feel just a little tough but glamorous when you listen to Bowie? My best friend in 7th grade and I certainly did. I still do.
* Chaka Demus, Twist and Shout: Ska, ska, ska.
* Echo & the Bunnymen, Rescue: I can still smell the aquanet. By the way, do you remember the old aquanet can? Long ago, it used to have a wavy top. My dad designed that can. I tried to find a picture on google, but no luck. But I did learn that you can make fairy dust using dried hairspray. So that 15 minutes wasn't a total loss.
* Skankin' Pickle, Turning Japanese: High school. A long trip on the bus from Denver to Muncie, Indiana for the International Thespian Conference. A lot of dramatic teenagers and one teacher. What in the world were our parents thinking? I did meet a great guy there -- Jim from Grosse Ile, Michigan. Jim actually came to visit me in Colorado. For some reason, I couldn't come out of my room that week, and poor Jim spent his whole trip with my mom in the living room. I am so sorry, Jim from Michigan. And Mom, too. I'm really sorry.
* Loose Fur, Carnival Knowledge: Charles tells me that the only reason that Autumn Defense is on my iPod is because of Wilco. I'll have to admit that I never would have picked it up without the Wilco cred. But I do like it. He says you can just imagine the sweaters and Ovaltine (note that he doesn't say "tea"). And poetry books and mumbling. I really like Loose Fur. They sound like the bar band you wish you'd tumble upon in a seedy bar on a winter's night. Glowing review, eh?
* The Who, I've Had Enough (from the Quadrophenia soundtrack) There used to be a theater on Colfax in Denver that did the midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show (more nights that I care to admit...) For a time, they also did Sunday afternoon Quadrophenia showings. Denver in the early to mid-80s wasn't all bad...
So, what's on your iPod? And no skipping!


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Michigan in the Civil War
Browse by Name: Keeler, Ezra
Keeler family.
The papers of this Shelby Township, Macomb County, Mich., family include nine letters and four diaries (Dec. 1862-Mar. 1865) of Alonzo Merrill Keeler, written while he was serving as captain and major in the 22nd Michigan Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Chickamauga in September, 1863 and paroled in February, 1865. Most of the entries are devoted to prison life in Libby, Macon, Ga., and the military prison in Columbia, S.C. The chief topics are rations of food and wood, health, a systematic reading of the Bible, the longing for escape or parole, and the removal from one prison camp to another. He was made brevet lieutenant colonel for gallant and meritorious service. In later life he was a school teacher.
The collection also includes six letters (1864-65) of Alonzo Keeler's brother Ezra Keeler, in which he tells of the plight of the people in Georgia and of the siege of Atlanta. He comments on the coming election, criticizing both Democrats and Republicans. Keeler was in Company B, 22nd Michigan Infantry in 1862 but transferred to the U.S. Signal Corps in 1863.


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Oxford Photovoltaics has won a £100,000 ($150,000) prize to develop the technology for screen-printed organic solar cells that could be placed onto window panes in order to generate energy. The company was recently awarded the prize money by the U.K. Technology Strategy Board in their "Disruptive Solutions Competition," a contest which seeks out innovative solutions for more sustainable living.
Solar windows are not a new idea (Michael Gratzel famously developing a similar technology), however Oxford Photovoltaics are developing a process that forgoes the use of conventional methods such as silicon-based cells, instead using a dye-sensitive cell that imitates plants' photosynthetic process, and then applying the technology onto ordinary windows. The dye used on their organic solar cells will enable electrons to be activated by creating a current. The cells will also be sealed so as to protect them from outside influences and the environment.
"We think there's an enormous market in building the solar-cell material into the fabric of the building rather than having bolt-on solar cells," chief executive Kevin Arthur told The Engineer. It is hoped that the solar cells will have a useful life of up to 20 years.
Oxford Photovoltaics was one of four winners of the Disruptive Solutions Competition by the Technology Strategy Board. Winning the sustainability category was Arvia Technology for its development in water disinfection treatment systems which will reduce water waste in homes; and the two runners-up in each category included RE Hydrogen Ltd, which developed an alkaline electrolyzer stack; and Arcola Energy, which examined hydrogen fuel cells in powering remote offices.
+ UK Technology Strategy Board
Via Fast Company
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In 2011, a health reform initiative from one of the most powerful organizations in the world flopped. The initiative started with high expectations but fizzled when offered to the public. This is the eulogy for "Obamneycare," President Barack Obama's health reform initiative, but also describes Google health, an even more disappointing flop.
President Obama had high expectations for comprehensive reform when he began rallying Congress to turn his "Obamneycare" plan into law. His expectations came from a successful pilot project and from industry support. The pilot occurred in Massachusetts where former Governor Mitt Romney (the "-ney" in Obamneycare) had increased access to care through an individual health insurance mandate. Proposing federal expansion of this mandate helped the president win support for Obamneycare from industry groups like the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the American Medical Association (AMA), and this support also fueled expectations for success.
Along with the individual mandate, the president called for government-sponsored health insurance. These "public option" health plans would compete against private insurers and thereby constrain health care costs. Unlike the individual mandate, this component of Obamneycare failed to gain wide support and Congress omitted the idea from their health reform bill. Still, President Obama signed the bill in a grand public ceremony. While some called the event a "big f---ing deal," the pomp disguised disappointment. Since the congressional bill failed to address costs, the law accomplished only a part of the president's plan. Thus, the signing marked the beginning of Ombamneycare's flop.
The flop culminated in 2011 when the Supreme Court agreed to hear critics' arguments against the health reform law. These lawsuits represent public dissatisfaction with the law and demonstrate that disappointment with Congress' manifestation of Obamneycare has overwhelmed early support for the reform initiative. The Supreme Court's willingness to hear the case and consider overturning the law affirms this shift. Although the law may live on, Obamneycare has flopped.
Unfortunately, the White House wasn't the only powerful organization that struggled with health reform plans this year. Like President Obama, Google launched a health reform initiative to high expectations. This initiative was Google Health, a personal health record (PHR) system. They foresaw this product as the Gmail of health records. Just as Google's e-mail client was not the first on the market, Google Health was not the first offering for patients who wanted to "organize, track, monitor, and act on [their] health information." And just as Gmail revolutionized e-mail, the company expected Google Health to take over record-keeping in the health care industry.
Strong corporate partners also bolstered Google's expectations. Prior to launch, Google worked with the Cleveland Clinic for over a year to beta-test the product. They received positive feedback from clinicians at the care center and found patients similarly eager to use the service. In addition to the Cleveland Clinic, a number of large companies also signed on. The list of partners included CVS Caremark, Allscripts, Kmart Pharmacy, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
But again, like Obamneycare, a heady start failed to propel the health reform initiative to success. Rather than achieving a broad impact, in the three years since its launch, Google Health achieved adoption only "among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients ... and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts." By comparison, the company garnered over 40 million users in less than six months for the Google+ social network (an effort that most deem mildly successful by Google standards). Because of this paltry user base, the company admitted the platform was a flop and announced Google Health will close on January 1, 2012.
Although similar, the health reform flop by Google was actually more disappointing than President Obama's. This is because the company's failure was unexpected. While the president's struggle in the partisan morass of Washington, D.C. was predictable, Google's difficulties were a surprise. The company had all the right pieces in place — a carefully honed product and industry backing — and still, Google Health disappointed.
If the company that can "do no evil" flopped trying to reform health care, who will succeed? This question remains unanswered as 2011 ends.
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Canyon Creek Compression Company
Third Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 12/01/1993, Docket: RS92- 57-003, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 185 Original Sheet No. 185 : Effective
Any company which shall succeed by purchase, merger or
consolidation to the properties, substantially as an entirety, of
Shipper or Canyon shall be entitled to the rights and shall be
subject to the obligations of its predecessor in title under the
Agreement; provided, however, that Canyon reserves the right to
evaluate and approve the creditworthiness of the new entity in
accordance with the Evaluation of Credit section of these General
Terms and Conditions. Except as provided in Section 2 of these
General Terms and Conditions, no other assignment of an Agreement or
any of the rights or obligations thereunder shall be made by Shipper
unless there first shall have been obtained the written consent
thereto of Canyon. Shipper or Canyon may pledge or assign their
respective right, title and interest in and to and under the
Agreement to a trustee or trustees, individual or corporate, as
security for bonds or other obligations or securities without the
necessity of such trustee or trustees becoming in any respect
obligated to perform the obligations of the assignor under the
Agreement and, if any such trustee be a corporation, without its
being required to qualify to do business in any State in which
performance of the Agreement may occur.


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The Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 611
Gurnee, IL 60031
How I Decided To Become A Surrogate Mother
It was 1967 when I was greeted by life,
brought here by a young, unwed mother. My fate had already been decided--I was
to be adopted.
Growing up, I can't think of any child who had more love, nurturing and support
than I had. I have truly come to realize how lucky I have been since becoming a
parent myself. I, unlike my parents, have been fortunate enough to bear children
of my own. During my childhood, I can recall moments when I thought that my
birth mother had "thrown me away" or "took out the trash", but I know that was
not true. I know she did the right thing. I have outgrown those feelings
entirely and realize I have a purpose here. I feel I have grown into a
self-confident human being and I owe that to being born.
In the last few years, I have decided to search for my birth mother, but have
not been successful and may never be. I do not want to hold out false hopes for
what may be a long and painful search, so it is with great pleasure that I have
made a positive decision to be a surrogate mother. I want to open my heart for
people who should be able to experience the joys of parenting. I feel that by
fulfilling a couple's dream, my heart will be satisfied whether or not my birth
mother is ever found.
It is with great pride that I write to all my family and friends, who may or may
not approve of my decision, that I say I entered into this willingly. I was not
forced or coerced in any way. For those of you who think I an in it for the
money, I ask you, do you go to work and not receive a paycheck? I have entered
into a partnership with both parties, each seeking their own personal
satisfaction. A child will be born and be offered love, taught values, and a
chance to grow with endless possibilities. As for myself, why shouldn't I be a
surrogate mother? I couldn't think of any reasons not to! It is the right thing
to do.
2007 OPTS - The Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy


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When it comes to my favourite Jennifer's in horror....Jennifer Hills, played by Camille Keaton is the absolute most biggest bad ass ever!!!!
One year before I was born, in 1978, Camille was literally stripped bare, both physically and emotionally in Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave, otherwise known as Day of the Women....one of the most incredible original feminist films ever!
I Spit on Your Grave is a fucked up film....no doubt. The rape is one of the most brutal things ever committed to celluloid. Jennifer Hills however....she became a spokeswoman for women though. I fucking love her!! Just like the Frank Castle, the world needs more Jennifer Hills!!
With the impending release of I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, I am so excited to see the return of Jennifer Hills with Meir Zarchi at the helm. :)
Oooh, other notable recent credits....The Butterfly Room which was a total Women in Horror lovefest of a film, and NEEDS to be seen. I am genuinely proud to own this film due to the incredible calibre of some of my favourite women in horror.
I am totally thinking the same thing about the remake of one of my most beloved films (and Mulder's!!), Plan 9 from Outer Space. I have yet to see Plan 9, but I seriously hope it is a wee bitty rad! I have noticed quite a few of my women in horror in it, and ladies I totally think get the quirkyness of the original!!!


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Fredrick H. Armstrong served as the director of Archives and History for twenty-two years. During his tenure, he acquired many valuable collections for the State Archives, ensuring their preservation for future generations. Armstrong established the Records Management and Preservation Board, which distributes grant funds to county offices for the preservation of county records. He initiated the Archives and History Web site, the West Virginia Memory Project, and West Virginia Vital Research Records Project to make information and records available to the public via the Internet. Over the years, Armstrong has readily shared his extensive knowledge of the state's history and its preservation with many individuals and groups throughout the state and beyond its borders.
Nominated by West Virginia Labor History Association
Barbara Beerbower, James Feather, Janice Feather, and Rowena Mersing are the inventory team organizing the information about the holdings of the Preston County Historical Society at its History House museum. Under the direction of Vice President Edna Britton, James Feather created a unique computer program that describes artifacts, identifies location and donor, and displays photographic view. He also photographs the items. Barbara, Rowena, and Edna locate and prepare a written description for each item, while Janice enters the data into the computer program. These dedicated members have given countless hours over the past two years to catalog the thousands of items located on three floors of the former bank building.
Nominated by Preston County Historical Society
John Belcher joined the Madie Carroll House Preservation Society soon after moving to Guyandotte. He volunteered to chair the society's landscape committee because of his love for landscaping, especially historical landscaping. He also has experience in construction and has assisted with restoration and maintenance work at the site. Belcher researched General Albert G. Jenkins and now portrays the general for the Historic Carroll House. He was instrumental in the re-establishment of a Huntington Landmarks Commission and is currently working on a nomination of historic Guyandotte to the National Register of Historic Places.
Nominated by Madie Carroll House Preservation Society, Inc.
Bryan (deceased) and Jackie Bills, members of the Pleasants County Historical Society, spent years studying Pleasants County families through obituaries, historical documents, official records, cemetery records, and personal knowledge. Their efforts have resulted in the creation of extensive genealogical charts of hundreds of Pleasants County families, which have been made available at the Pleasants County library. Copies of the accumulated obituaries were organized and donated to the library, the Pleasants County GenWeb site, historical society, and Daughters of the American Revolution. The Bills have welcomed researchers into their home, and Bryan has shared his lifelong knowledge of the county with these visitors and often given personal tours.
Nominated by Pleasants County Historical Society
Shirley B. Bingman is a charter member and current board officer of the West Virginia CCC Museum Association and works tirelessly to promote and preserve the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps. She has obtained memorabilia, photos, and archival documents for display at the museum at Quiet Dell and has traveled around West Virginia promoting the CCC at schools, fairs, and West Virginia history events. Bingman has appeared in numerous newspaper photo/articles and was interviewed for a New Deal documentary aired on statewide public television. Shirley Bingman is a fine ambassador and an invaluable member of the association.
Nominated by West Virginia State CCC Museum Association
A longtime member of the St. Albans Historical Society, Bettie A'Hearn Burdette donated time and money to build the society's William P. Burdette Memorial Building. She also has donated photographs and artifacts and served on many society committees. Burdette is knowledgeable about local structures and their significance, and she recalls old times on the Coal River and enjoys telling about its history and its people.
Nominated by St. Albans Historical Society
Mabel Starcher Chapman has served three terms as Jackson County Historical Society president. A first-term president when the society published Jackson County 1990, Past and Present, she supervised the fourth printing of the book when she returned as president in 2006. She is known for her vast knowledge of Jackson County history and is kept busy answering queries about the area. Chapman is also a member of the Early Settler's and Pine Hill Cemetery committees. In 2002 at age 81, she mowed a field in front of her house for use as a helicopter landing site during President Bush's attendance at Ripley's Fourth of July celebration.
Nominated by Jackson County Historical Society
Tedra Cremeans Chapman has been a dedicated member of Guyandotte Civil War Days for seven years and has been president for five years. Tedra worked diligently to lead the organization through five successful events, promoting it to the community by involving and successfully gaining the support of more local organizations. Tedra has served on every committee of Guyandotte Civil War Days during her seven years of service.
Nominated by Guyandotte Civil War Days
The team of James Edward Dague and Karen Dennison Hucko spent months recording tombstone inscriptions for Mt. View Cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries in Marshall County. It was a challenge for James, who was born with cerebral palsy, and for Karen, who lives in Ohio, but the two compiled a list of nearly 2,000 graves and spent additional months of research to supplement the tombstone readings. James also has researched the Dague and associated families, spent countless hours doing courthouse and library research, and collected many obituaries that he shares on the Internet. Karen has helped record tombstone inscriptions for numerous Marshall County cemeteries and has transcribed Marshall County census records for the Internet. She is the author of books about several families and compiled a book of Richmond family obituaries. Additionally, Karen has researched, ordered, and set government-issued headstones for eleven Revolutionary War and Civil War soldiers in Marshall County.
Nominated by Marshall County, West Virginia Virtual Genealogy Society
A member of the board of directors of the Tyler County Museum and the Heritage and Historical Society, Clarence Delancey has been a hard worker at the museum. He adopted the Boy Scout youth room at the museum and has brought many scouts and their leaders to the museum to arrange and frame memorabilia displays and to clean, dust, and show the room to visitors. Delancey also has participated in fundraisers, laid brick for a flower bed, and kept the lawn mowed and the flower beds weeded and in order.
Nominated by Tyler County Heritage & Historical Society
Betty Bane Dzubba is the chairperson of the membership committee for the Mineral County Historical Society and serves as the secretary of the Mineral County Genealogy Society. She has continued the collection and organization of information on Mineral County history that was begun by her mother, historian Evelyn Bane, and assists local and out-of-town genealogy researchers. Through her title searches, she gleans valuable information about local landowner history. Dzubba co-authored with Edna Mott a history of Antioch, West Virginia, and wrote a history of the Sunnyside Church of the Brethren at New Creek.
Nominated by Mineral County Historical Society
A Vietnam Navy veteran, Gary Farris single handedly started the Veterans Museum of Mid-Ohio Valley in 2002 from the basement of his home with only $240 and a single World War II jacket. He has spent thousands of hours promoting the museum, which now has more than 150 members and a board of directors. Since the grand opening of the museum at its current location on Avery Street in Parkersburg, Farris has started a docent class with local students, a model building class, and, most importantly, the family support program. He continues to work unselfishly to help all veterans and their families.
Nominated by Veterans Museum of Mid-Ohio Valley
Virginia Gadd became a member of the Summers County Historical Society in 2004. A member of the book committee, she was very active in gathering and contributing postcards and in writing captions for Summers County in Vintage Postcards, and she also helped in writing the second volume of
Summers County, West Virginia, Historical Society Cemetery Book. Recently, she has been checking on the availability and visibility of the society's books at retail places. She also writes minutes of society meetings.
Nominated by Summers County Historical Society
Marla Zelene Harman serves as treasurer of the Pendleton County Historical Society. She compiled the brochure "Walking Tour of Historic Franklin, W.Va" that includes a map and descriptions of 39 buildings. Her most recent project was the development of the 2008 "Barns of Pendleton" calendar, which netted a profit for the society. Harman provides a room in her law office for the society's use, sells society books, writes letters, and provides legal expertise. Her window of vintage Halloween artifacts won first place in competition at Pendleton County's annual Treasure Mountain Festival.
Nominated by Pendleton County Historical Society
For more than fifty years, Ken Hechler has lectured in West Virginia and throughout the United States, and he has written countless articles about West Virginia history. He also has been interviewed for many television and newspaper stories, as well as for such films as Mimi Pickering's landmark films about the Buffalo Creek Disaster (1972), Mari-Lynn Evans's forthcoming film on coal mining, and ABC's strip-mining documentary West Virginia: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Coal
(1972). Hechler has devoted much of his life to promoting West Virginia and American history.
Nominated by South Charleston Museum Foundation
Darrell Helton has been actively involved in preserving the history of Fayette and Raleigh counties and has helped hundreds of people researching their family history. In 2005 and 2006, he organized genealogical workshops at the Raleigh County Public Library. Long interested in the Civil War in the area, Helton has written several articles on the subject and currently is working on a book about Union soldiers who died in the war and are buried locally. Through Helton's efforts, in 2007 a government marker was placed at the grave of a Civil War soldier buried near Oak Hill.
Nominated by Raleigh County Historical Society
Judi Hendrickson is secretary of the Friends of Wheeling, a local preservation group. She recently researched and co-authored a book Walking Pleasant Valley, a history of the old Wheeling homes and families along the National Road, and is currently researching the Woodsdale area for an upcoming book. Judi presents programs on Victorian wedding traditions and the history of tea. In 2003, as coordinator of the Lewis and Clark Project at Wheeling Jesuit University, she organized the distribution of educational materials to schools in West Virginia. Judi also researched and presented the character Sacagawea to children all over the state.
Nominated by Wheeling Area Historical Society
Dottie Hughes is a charter member of the Mineral County Genealogy Society, formed in November 2000. She has researched, organized, and published 32 genealogy books on the area. Hughes chaired the committee that published the first volume of Rural Cemeteries of Mineral and Grant Counties, West Virginia, and she also edits the society newsletter. She produces "The Martin Rambler, "a newsletter highlighting different families in the Martin, West Virginia, area; maintains a Web page "Diggin My Roots"; and assists with local genealogy displays.
Nominated by Mineral County Genealogy Society
Mary L. Lamp is an active member of the Pleasants County Historical Society and registrar for the Ohio Valley Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She chaired a DAR lineage workshop and as chapter registrar assists local women seeking to become members, helping them document descent from a Revolutionary War patriot. Lamp is a talented genealogist and contributor to the Pleasants County Web page and has written and presented programs on the history of several pioneer families. She also was instrumental in procuring a government marker for the grave of War of 1812 veteran Ralph Wilson and spoke at the dedication.
Nominated by Ohio Valley Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Karen LeGrand is a past president of the KYOWVA Genealogy and Historical Society. One of her most important accomplishments was the change in the society's name to reflect better what it does as an organization to preserve and save history. Her fundraising efforts are commendable, and she is an active volunteer who has worked tirelessly to foster cooperation and collaboration between history groups, politicians, and community members to bring about change in Guyandotte. LeGrand also decorates the Jenkins Plantation every year for Christmas out of love for the home and its importance to her community.
Nominated by KYOWVA Genealogy & Historical Society
Judith Faye Likins has been a contributing member to the Rowlesburg Area Historical Society since its beginning in 1995 and currently serves as the society's vice president. She has worked every year on the society's Annual Homecoming Dinner, the Labor Day Ox Roast Week End, candy sales, and other fundraising projects. A dependable member, Judy can be called upon to help with most activities, from cleaning the depot to making cakes for a dinner.
Nominated by Rowlesburg Area Historical Society
As president of the Julia-Ann Square Historical Association, Lillian McCrary has worked with enthusiastic dedication to restore the district to its original splendor. She has met with state and local officials, promoted association projects, obtained letters of support, and gained financial assistance from many sources. She also obtained volunteer labor and material donations from local businesses. In 2007, Lillian concentrated on installation of gateway arches at four district entrances and exits. The project is underway with a completion date scheduled for early 2008. Her hard work and dedicated effort, and her love of historical preservation and community involvement, is the shining badge of achievement.
Nominated by Julia-Ann Square Historical Association, Inc.
Irene Moore has been an active member of the Logan County Genealogical Society for twenty-three years. After serving as recording secretary from 1984 to 1989, she was editor of the newsletter for eleven years (1989-2000). She also has researched and compiled five books on Logan County history. The society and many people seeking their family heritage have benefited from her years of research and vast knowledge of the pioneers of Logan County.
Nominated by Logan County Genealogical Society
A native of Roane County and a retired businessman, Jack Nida is the author of the recently published Images of America: Roane County, which was completed with the assistance of the Roane County Historical Society. The society inspired Jack's interest in genealogy, and his new book is dedicated to the early settlers of West Virginia. He is also the author of a family history book on the Nida family that is in its third edition.
Nominated by Roane County Historical Society
Barbara J. Palmer has been a "Monday" volunteer for Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants for the past nine years, each Monday assisting library patrons with research and working on other projects as needed. On two Mondays each month she keeps the library open until 8:00 p.m. so that patrons have an opportunity to access the library in the evening. Palmer served as vice president of the organization and was responsible for planning the Annual Gathering for five years. She currently serves on the board of directors and as chairperson of the cemetery committee. An experienced researcher, Palmer answers most of the requests for extensive research that the society receives.
Nominated by Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants
For the past fifteen years, Russ Roy has painstakingly documented vital records of Wood County. Using microfilmed newspapers as his primary source, he has created three volumes of Wood county death records for the years 1841-1875, 1876-1885, and 1886-1890. He currently is working on two more volumes of obituaries that will complete his works through 1900. Russ also has indexed the 1876 work of S.C. Shaw, Sketches of North Western Virginia. In addition to his newspaper research, Russ speaks to local organizations about his work with old obituaries.
Nominated by Wood County Historical & Preservation Society
Mike Ruben has accomplished the daunting task of preserving history through his play
Ripley: the Man and the Town That Honors His Name. After in-depth research about the circuit-riding preacher Harry Ripley, Ruben took the few facts he could find, along with known facts about the typical circuit rider, and wrote the play, which was presented in June 2007. Mike also chose to pay tribute to Harry Ripley's memory by having a beautiful concrete bench installed on the Jackson County Courthouse lawn in Ripley that memorializes both Harry Ripley and the town that bears his name.
Nominated by Jackson County Public Library
Susan J. Scott has been an active member of the Ritchie County Historical Society since 1982. She has served twice as the treasurer, helped with numerous fundraising activities, and conducted tours of the Old Stone House Museum. In addition to helping advertise and sell the society's publications, Scott helped with preparation of the society's books
A Photographic History of Ritchie County, West Virginia and Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries - Through 1995. She also assists the society with its newsletter and historical and genealogical queries.
Nominated by Ritchie County Historical Society
As current regent of the Wheeling Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Deborah M. Smith has emphasized preservation efforts. She recently purchased the Third Presbyterian Church in South Wheeling, preventing the church's demolition. She currently is restoring the building, a project that has been adopted by the Wheeling Chapter, which holds meetings in the building. Smith is also a member of the Friends of Wheeling and the Wheeling Area Historical Society, and has presented programs on historic preservation. A Mayor's Award recipient, Smith is also restoring her fifth Victorian home, a former girl's halfway house in Wheeling Island's Historic District.
Nominated by Wheeling Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Erin Smith, a 2007 graduate of Fairmont State University and currently a student at Virginia Tech, organized the Veterans' Oral History Project in Calhoun County. Erin provided training for interviewers, acquired recording equipment, encouraged public involvement in locating veterans, scheduled interviews, and made all necessary arrangements. The recordings are now available to the public and provide a valuable resource. She is an asset to both the Calhoun County Historical Society and the county.
Nominated by Calhoun County Historical Society
James "Jim" St. Clair has spent years preserving West Virginia's history and heritage, working with the Cabell-Wayne Historical Society, Madie Carroll House Preservation Society, Greenbottom Society, and Historic Coin Harvey House. When asked if he could assist the Save the Historic Martha Bridge group with a means to preserve or mitigate the loss of the bridge, he immediately came on board. During the past two years, he has played a key role in reaching a settlement agreement between the United States and West Virginia departments of highways and plaintiffs seeking mitigation in the loss of the Historic Martha Bridge.
Nominated by Save the Historic Martha Bridge
John G. Van Meter has assisted the Grant County Historical Society with restoration of the 1913 Scherr Schoolhouse, the 1899 Greenland Presbyterian Church, and the 100 year-old Tannery House. In 1987, Van Meter wrote a history of the Petersburg Presbyterian Church, and he edited the Civil War letters of 2nd Lt. Charles W. DeLay in 1999. He also was instrumental in the permanent preservation of Ft. Mulligan in 1993. He and his wife have restored "Bean Meadow," the 1854 home of the Grove family that provided the community with physicians for 106 years. Van Meter credits his grandmother Elizabeth Harness Van Meter, whose father and father-in-law were Confederate veterans, with instilling in him a reverence for the past.
Nominated by Grant County Historical Society
Currently serving as recording secretary for the Wheeling Area Genealogical Society, Phyllis Walters started by filing obituaries for the late Audra Wayne. She took over the task in 1998 and since has developed her own system. She spends 20 to 30 hours per week on obituary filing work. Additionally, Phyllis has served on the book committee and assisted others with their tasks.
Nominated by Wheeling Area Genealogical Society
Tony E. Whitlow served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 during the Korean Conflict and was instrumental in establishing Mercer County's Those Who Served War Museum in the Memorial Building in Princeton. A retired longtime legislator, he has served as president of the museum's board of directors and volunteers each week to show the many displays and to answer questions about the war memorabilia.
Nominated by Mercer County Historical Society, Inc.
Gail Yoho passed away in 2007 after serving the Marshall County Historical Society faithfully in many capacities for several years. She chaired the genealogy and museum committees, served as editor of the society's newsletter, volunteered her typing skills in the publication of Descendants of Simon & Elizabeth Martin Dakan, and was the society's historian, preserving a written and pictorial history of society activities. She catalogued donors and donated items and also donated many artifacts to enrich the museum. As genealogy chair, Gail worked tirelessly to organize and enlarge the society's genealogy records and distributed information to people from all over the country, assisting them with their research.
Nominated by Marshall County Historical Society
For more information about the History Hero Awards, contact Joe Geiger.
West Virginia's History Heroes


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Monday, April 9, 2012
Hello People of April
Posted by Abe Taraky at 4:24 PM
9 comments:
Whoaaaaa reminds me Nocturna ....very niceeeeeeeee!ReplyDelete
wow!!! very lovely work! nice compositions!ReplyDelete
Wonderful work Abo! I love them all.ReplyDelete
I remember some of this....looks amazing still! Can't wait to see it.ReplyDelete
So eerie and beautiful.ReplyDelete
Abe, these are beautiful! Great work.ReplyDelete
Jeez guys your way too kind.ReplyDelete
Dan: I try to keep it clean.
Janice: Im glad it reminds you of such a great film.
Jean: Thanks I appreciate it!
HILO: haha I will bother you in 4 minutes if you keep complementing me : )
Elaine: Im glad some of them are memorable.
Angela: Thank you!
Curnette: Thank you, id love to move into the city in the paintings.
Lauren: Aw geez, thank you. : )
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The moral seems to be that every person counts. Donovan is reluctant to take on Abel's defense for any number of reasons, but once he accepts the task he goes beyond the call of duty -- by which I mean he gives Abel more of a defense than the government actually intended. A demonstration was intended to show that in the U.S. everyone gets a fair trial, but all that's really expected of Donovan is a "capable defense" that won't change the obvious outcome. The outcome should be obvious because there's no doubt that Abel was a spy, but Donovan takes his work seriously and looks for irregularities that might get Abel off, only to find that the courts aren't interested. Even after Donovan persuades the judge to spare Abel's life with the pragmatic, prophetic argument that he could be traded down the line for some captive American spy, he carries the appeals process all the way to the Supreme Court, losing his ultimate appeal by a 4-5 vote. For this, the film tells us, Donovan was vilified and threatened by a hysterical public. Spielberg almost certainly overdoes this, to the point of having someone fire shots through Donovan's window, frightening his children, when in fact Donovan was so far from vilified that in 1961 he became vice president of the New York Board of Education. Presumably Spielberg exaggerates Donovan's ordeal in order to make him an exceptional figure, a heroic exception to the era's Cold War hysteria but also an exception that in inverse fashion vindicates his country. As long as the exceptional man lives up to the principles that presumably justify the Cold War, even when the majority seems to fail, he still affirms Hollywood's version of American exceptionalism. Through Donovan Spielberg (and the Coens) can affirm American exceptionalism while maintaining an ambivalent attitude toward the Cold War. On the one hand, to get ahead of myself, Donovan witnesses the Soviet Bloc at its worst when people trying to jump the Berlin Wall are mowed down mercilessly. On the other, Bridge of Spies is determined not to make Rudolf Abel a villain. We're clearly meant to accept Donovan's apolitical assessment of Abel as a "good soldier" -- one who never says an ideological word in the entire picture -- over the bloodthirsty indignation of his fellow Americans. We're also meant to see Abel as a political if not moral equivalent of Francis Gary Powers, the downed U-2 spy pilot for whom he's eventually traded through Donovan's negotiations -- and Spielberg's attempts to illustrate that equivalence just about sink his movie.
Spielberg's attempt to make Powers (Austin Stowell) a character in the story is a classic case of too much and not enough. Abel may not have much of an internal life apart from his hobby of painting, but Rylance's mannered stoicism bring the character to life, while Powers is never more than a cipher. But once Donovan raises the possibility of trading Abel for a future captive American Spielberg introduces the cipher and keeps going back to him, developing the character not at all and killing much of the dramatic momentum the Hanks-Rylance team had built up. At his worst, he crosscuts between a Powers takeoff and Donovan arguing before the Supreme Court for no sensible reason. The inevitable destruction of Powers's plane and his narrow escape by parachute is spectacularly pointless; the plot would be served as well if the pilot's capture and trial were reported to our protagonist as a fait accompli. An interesting point is raised when Donovan observes that he, Abel and Powers are three of a kind, the most hated men in America -- Powers joining the club because he'd gone against orders and allowed himself to be captured and used in a presumed show trial -- but neither script nor Stowell do anything to make that observation meaningful.
Worse still, Spielberg compounds his error once Donovan goes to Berlin, ostensibly unofficial but at the government's behest, to negotiate the Abel-Powers exchange. In Berlin Spielberg introduces another major character, the American student Frederic Pryor (Will Rogers), who gets arrested in East Berlin for trying to smuggle his German girlfriend to the West before the Wall is finished. Learning of Pryor's plight, Donovan is determined to get him released along with Powers in return for Abel, without considering that the East Germans who hold Pryor have different priorities from their putative Soviet masters, who hold Powers. If anything by virtue of having a girlfriend in East Berlin Pryor is instantly a more interesting character than Powers, but he still isn't interesting enough to justify looking in on him, much less Powers, when we want to stick with Donovan. The movie tells us that these two matter, but fails to show it. Neither Powers nor Pryor is part of the real story, which is Donovan's often desperate, always cunning dealings with the Communists, but Spielberg thinks differently. They're his proof that every person counts, but at the same time they're exceptions in a way we've seen before in Spielberg's serious pictures. Because for Spielberg the exception is the essence, he can affirm human goodness in a Holocaust picture because one guy saved some Jews, and he can make Saving Private Ryan a victory because a bunch of guys die to send Matt Damon home. I don't bring this up to denounce two of Spielberg's best pictures, but I'm pointing out why some people do denounce them and may also denounce Bridge of Spies. If I've correctly diagnosed a Spielberg Fallacy in all these films, I find it most glaring in Bridge because his superfluous preoccupation with Powers and Pryor, or else his (or the Coens') complacent failure to earn concern for them, mars the dramatic balance of this picture more severely.
That's a shame because Bridge sure is a lovely film to look at. It's another pictorial triumph for Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Just about every frame here is a thing of beauty, for which production designer Adam Stockhausen deserves a fair share of credit. The film isn't quite so easy on the ear; while John Williams arguably hasn't contributed much to Spielberg's movies in quite a while, his absence for the sake of Star Wars is felt if only because Thomas Newman's score is banal rather than merely predictable. Overall, I'm tempted to credit the Coens with whatever dramatic energy or occasional wit the picture has, though they should also take the blame for including or failing to remove some corny bits. Was giving Abel "Would it help?" as a catchphrase whenever Donovan asks whether he worries about things their idea? What about that supposedly soul-stirring story Abel tells about a man getting beat up by partisans but earning their respect, that you know as soon as you hear it will payoff later in the picture, as it does when Abel comes to Donovan's aid in a standoff? I suppose the brothers couldn't rewrite every word, but surely they could have done more with this script, or else the dramatic structure determined by Spielberg was irreparably flawed. For all that, I can't help imagining that had they directed it Bridge of Spies might have been a less compassionate but better picture.


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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS — A special meeting has been set for 6 p.m. Wednesday for the final public hearing on extending the city's site plan moratorium in three business areas. The moratorium, originally set to expire Tuesday, will be extended to Jan. 15 if the ordinance is approved. The hearing will be at city hall on Newburyport Avenue.
Commissioners unanimously approved the extension on first reading Tuesday night and set the final public hearing. The moratorium will be the only item on the agenda.


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Hi BK. This kind of thing is probably better hunted down in one of the CSS-specific sites. The basic idea is that you do something like /* the basic element has a different size */ span, li { font-size:1.1em } /* but when it is an element that already has a changed size, don't change it any more. Note that you need to collect the combinations you might have set. */ span > span, span > li, li > span, li > li { font-size:100%} I think the common W3C stylesheets do this (ones that are applied to specs and stuff). cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile email@example.com http://www.sidar.org <quote who="B.K. DeLong"> >>Indeed, .76em normally renders as 12px, and not 11px as I said. > > I would love to take all our font sizes in > http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/style/core.css > > and convert them to ems. The problem I run into is inheritance and > nesting. > Often times out WYSIWYG editor in our CMS will nest several bodycopy > <span> > elements and just make the font size smaller and smaller, were it ems. I'd > love to figure out how to keep that from happening.Received on Friday, 7 January 2005 06:20:26 UTC
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - What's your idea of a romantic Christmas? For Japanese couples it's often dinner and a movie — yet many will likely forego a big evening on the town this year in favor of a silent night at home, a survey showed.
That's a big change from the go-go days of Japan's bubble economy 20 years ago when couples preferred to splash cash on fancy dinners, go driving and even visit Tokyo Disneyland, according to the survey by Internet research firm Macromill.
Christmas Eve is traditionally a big couples night in Japan and seen as a key romantic event — akin to Valentine's Day in some countries — with many women expecting to be wined and dined by their partners in a lavish night on the town.
But Christmas, a mostly secular affair in Japan where businesses stay open as usual, has had a lower-key feel in recent years as couples seek out inexpensive date options in these thrifty economic times.
To compare dating rituals between the generations, Macromill asked single people in their 20s and 30s how they have spent Christmas in the past few years, and asked those over age 40 how they passed the holiday during the years 1986-1990.
Only 39 percent of those in their 20s and 30s have been out for a fancy Christmas dinner, down sharply from 67 percent in the late 1980s for the over-40 group, the survey showed.
Meanwhile, 32 percent in their 20s and 30s have had a "home date" — cooking and watching a movie at home with their partner — up from 22 percent in the late 1980s.
And 54 percent of those in their 20s cited staying at home as their ideal Christmas date, far outpacing going to a pricey restaurant (35 percent), shopping for presents (25 percent) and staying at a hotel (13 percent).
Regardless of the economic climate, however, some things never lose their romantic spark. About half of the 20- to 30- somethings have been on recent dates to see Christmas illuminations around town, unchanged from two decades ago.
Macromill conducted the poll in late November. It based the results on a sample of responses from 500 people from the greater Tokyo area in their 20s through their 50s.
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The board of trustees of struggling Northrop University has decided to scrap the half-century-old institution's degree programs and lay off about half of its 50-member faculty, President John Beljan said Thursday.
Beljan cited financial problems as the reason for the action.
The decision, made May 1 and relayed to students and staff Wednesday, represents "a radical change for our institution. We've been a full-bore university for most of our 50 years," Beljan said.
Students now enrolled in degree programs, which include aeronautical and electrical engineering, computer science and business, will be helped in transferring to other schools after the term ends in June, and a summer session will be offered for those who have nearly completed their degrees, Beljan said. The school will concentrate on its technical courses, including power plant mechanics, helicopter maintenance and avionics, he added.
"It was a very difficult decision," Beljan said. "My immediate goals are to be sure we protect the institute, to be sure it is stabilized and on its new course. . . . Perhaps in the future it could re-emerge as a full-service university."


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Who decided to have the Inquiry?
Governments decide the timings of inquiries. UK combat troops withdrew from Iraq in July 2009 and the then Government judged it was the right time to begin an Inquiry.
Sir John and his colleagues were not consulted on the Inquiry's terms of reference before their appointment.
What were the Inquiry's terms of reference?
As Sir John Chilcot said at the launch of the launch of the Inquiry on 30 July 2009, the purpose of the Inquiry was to examine the United Kingdom's involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish as accurately and reliably as possible what happened and to identify lessons that can be learned. The Inquiry considered the period from 2001 up to the end of July 2009.
Who were the members of the Inquiry Committee?
Sir John Chilcot (Chairman), Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Roderic Lyne and Baroness Usha Prashar.
Sir Martin Gilbert worked on the Inquiry from its outset until he was taken seriously ill in April 2012. He died in February 2015.
Who picked the members?
The former Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed the members of the Committee. Opposition parties were consulted.
What are the Committee members paid?
Members of the Iraq Inquiry Committee were paid at the following rates throughout the duration of the Inquiry:
Chairman £790 per day;
Committee members £565 per day.
What experts did the Inquiry Have to assist it, and what experience do they have?
The Iraq Inquiry appointed two advisers to help it conduct its works. General Sir Roger Wheeler, a former Chief of the General Staff, assisted the Committee on military matters and Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, the former President of the International Court of Justice, advised on international law.
Who staffed the Iraq Inquiry Secretariat?
The Secretariat supported the Inquiry Committee Chairman and the other members of the Inquiry in carrying out their tasks. That included a wide range of duties (from logistical arrangements to requesting papers and statements and preparing papers for the Committee's consideration) agreed by the Committee.
The number and membership of the Secretariat varied over the course of the Inquiry. At its close, it comprised 13 staff seconded from the following Government Departments: the Cabinet Office, 5; the Home Office, two; the Ministry of Defence, one; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, one; the Serious Fraud Office, one; the Department of International Development, one; the Ministry of Justice, one; and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, one. There were also two support staff from outside Government.
Who was the Iraq Inquiry Secretary?
The Cabinet Secretary nominated Margaret Aldred as the Secretary in June 2009. She was seconded to the Inquiry from the Cabinet Office.
Was the Chairman of the Inquiry aware of Ms Aldred's previous involvement in Iraq issues before he agreed to her appointment?
The Cabinet Secretary decided to nominate the Secretary to the Iraq Inquiry and agreed the appointment with the Chairman of the Inquiry.
Both the Cabinet Secretary and the Chairman oif the Inquiry agreed that the Secretary to the Inquiry should be a senior individual in the civil service ideally with previous involvement in Iraq issues.
The Chairman of the Inquiry was aware of the candidate's role in the Foreign and Defence Policy (formerly the Defence and Overseas) Secretariat in the Cabinet Office from November 2004, when he agreed the appointment. Given the professional standards of the senior civil service, he saw no potential conflict of interest with her appointment as Secretary to the Inquiry that would, in his view, affect the independence of the Inquiry.
Sir John told the Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2015: "she is a highly professional and longstanding civil servant who acts under the general civil service code and indeed its set of values, which are those of impartiality".
How was her previous involvement in Iraq Issues handled?
The Inquiry has papers from the Cabinet Office covering the whole period of its terms of reference. This includes papers produced by the Foreign and Defence Policy (formerly the Defence and Overseas) Secretariat where Ms Aldred worked. The Committee and members of the Secretariat have full access to these papers.
How much did the Inquiry cost?
The Iraq Inquiry has published the final expenditure for the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16.
The Inquiry's estimated expenditure for 2016/17 can be found here.


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You can try it out for free and thereafter its a small monthly charge to fly online. Anything up to 250 people flying at any one time. All the best aircraft from WW2 are modelled. Talk in real time to other members of your squadron when flying together on missions or defending a base etc. Very immersive and fast moving with a choice of fighters, bombers, transport aircraft - flying off carriers as well as land bases - and for those land lubbers, tanks etc to play in.
And no, I am not employed by them or have any affiliation to them


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July 2, 2010
It's Rainy. My Tan Is Fading. My Kid Is Barfy. I Am Annoyed. (Shit List Volume 2)
Dear Rain,
Looking back, I suppose my funktastic dance the other day to "Alejandro" could have been misinterpreted as a Rain Dance. Perhaps that new move I did with my arms seemed a bit Native American, but I was only trying to bring da funk, not da rain, so could you please cancel this mess ASAP?
(Warning to Anne: I say barf a lot in the following paragraph. Proceed with caution.)
Seriously people, this rain is getting on my nerves. I like a rainy day every now and then for two reasons: #1-So I don't have to remember to water my outdoor plants, and #2-So I can lay around the house reading, eating and watching tv in my PJ's without feeling like a complete loser. Other than that, I don't particularly care for the stuff. Especially when it's rain of this magnitude. Honestly, this is getting ridiculous. My nice summer glow has completely faded and I am pretty sure I am starting to grow mold. If the upstairs air conditioner wasn't on the fritz, I would make us all sleep up there just in case the first floor floods during the night. I am already crabby enough if I get awakened in the middle of the night, I don't need to get awakened by bayou water and alligator's crashing through my windows. To top it all off, Ethan is sick today. Well, since he barfed all night last night I guess he was sick then too. If there's one thing my son can do, it's barf. He is so spectacular at it because he's had lots of practice. If there's a virus out there than involves barf, he'll find a way to get it. At least he's a polite barfer. A few years ago he used to blame us for the barf and yell at us for holding buckets in front of his face, then turn his head and just barf wherever. But now he barfs and then apologizes for it, as one should. Barfing is not something that anyone likes, so if you're gonna do it in front of people, it's only good manners to say you're sorry. Anyway, I am not having PMS this time, but I have enough things making me cranky that I decided to post some recent additions to my Shit List. Enjoy.
Patti's Shit List-Week of June 27th.
Local News Teaser Commercials: I'm talking about those dumb-ass commercials that run on TV all day long. The commercials that I usually get to bypass, thanks to whoever the rock star genius is that invented DVR's. Seriously, whoever invented these things deserves a national holiday or at the very least, a postage stamp or a special sandwich named after them, because as far as I'm concerned, this is the best invention since the internet, which Al Gore says he invented, but was actually invented my my 19-year-old ass while I was babysitting one day, wishing that I could somehow use the crazy parents' computer as some sort of magically electronic encyclopedia to search for a way to make their really weird and annoying kid go into a deep coma-like sleep, and then I could use the magic computer to look for pictures of tiny things. I felt jipped for a long time, but I'm over it now. Anyway, the teaser commercials are the ones where they say all that crazy/scary stuff that causes you to stay up all night in a sweaty panic because they told you to watch the 6 o'clock news to find out more, and you forgot, so now you're most-likely gonna die from either eating bagged salad or by parking in the wrong parking garage. Last week the teasers that told me that if I wear make-up of any kind, my face is probably gonna melt off, and that I really better keep an eye on my mail carrier because he is either going to murder me or get me addicted to crack. I've really had it with these commercials. If something is that important, they need to tell me right freakin' now and not in 7 1/2 hours when I have important mommy crap to do and wine to drink. If my make-up turns my face into a giant oval-shaped scab with eyes, and I start prostituting myself for crack money, it's your fault, news teaser people. You suck!
Exclusive Furniture: This is some dumb store here in Houston that has really stupid commercials which are usually on the radio instead of TV which I'm pretty sure is because radio is cheaper and TV is only for really pretty people, and while I haven't actually seen these furniture people, I can tell by their manic, screaming voices that they just aren't right for high def. For all I know, this store has really nice stuff in it…but I highly doubt it. Any store which has a commercial that informs you that if you buy one of their mattresses you are gonna have a better sex life, is just crazy. How are you furniture freaks gonna keep this promise? Does this mattress come with a hooker and some porn? Does it revolve and/or vibrate? Is there a money back guarantee if you buy one and you still only get lights-off missionary? If you're gonna make a statement like this, you have to back it up! Exclusive Furniture people…you suck!
Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Wow. I don't even know where to begin. I try to protect my eyes and ears from all things Hasselbeck, but sometimes the uncontrollable urge comes over me to flip by The View to see if Barbara is still alive and if Whoopi has grown any eyebrows. Sometimes E. H. is gone having a baby or whatever, but usually she's there, being all smug and annoying with her whiny nasal voice and her dumb opinions. Rosie O'Donnell had her own set of problems, but if there's one thing that Ro and I could bond over, it's our dislike for Hasselbeck. But Rosie also loved Tom Cruise and Barbra Striesand, so our bonding really ends with Hasselbeck. When Rosie was on, I never missed an episode, because I was 99% sure that she was gonna finally blow a fuse one day and beat her with one of her crocs, but to my great disappointment, it never happened. When Whoopi joined I thought that she would be just the kinda gal to knock some sense into her, but now Whoopi is starting to talk out of her ass just like Elizabeth, and that eyebrow thing is really starting to creep me out. Now my only hope is Joy. Sometimes I see it…that little bubbling of Hasselbeck Hate. If she's, by any chance, still going through menopause, we may have a shot. Maybe during a hot flash or mood swing she will finally lose her shit and smother her with her big, red wig. Not 'till she's dead. Just 'till she passes out. I'm not that crazy, people. Elizabeth Hasselbeck…you suck!
Ke$ha: Why do you have to be so damn annoying? Your voice sounds ok when you sing, but from what I have heard you don't sing quite as much as you sort of talk in a sing-song, bratty teenager voice. I used to be a teenager, so I know that voice and I know it well. But I am not a teenager anymore and Ethan has a few years to go, so for now I'd prefer to not have to hear it over the airwaves, thank you very much. Maybe your mom needs to ground you or something. Maybe take away your phone. It looks like she already took away your pants because whenever I see a photo of you, you're not wearing any. I admit that I like to walk around without pants just as much as anyone, but I only do it in the privacy of my house. Now granted, I don't close the blinds first and sometimes I run out to the garage for a beer or something, but at least I'm on my own private property and not going out for dinner like that. And you have a dollar sign in your name, which is just idiotic. Are we supposed to call you Ke-dollar-sha or are we just pretending like it's an "s", and if so then why not just make it an "s"? And it's still a mystery to me why you woke up feeling like P. Diddy. What does that mean? You woke up feeling like a rapper? Like an African American? Like a really self-absorbed rich guy? And in the same song you basically say you think Mick Jagger's hot. Have you seen Mich Jagger? He is far from hot. He is cold. Like death. Even a hundred and some odd years ago when he was younger, he was still not hot. He was 80 pounds, not even 6 feet tall, lips the size of inner tubes and he danced like a chicken. Granted, he sang 'Paint It Black' which is an amazingly awesome song, but that, my dear pantsless whiner, does not make him handsome. Ke$ha, you annoy me, and you may be higher on my list save for the fact that you once barfed in Paris Hilton's closet. I have to give you props for that. You really, really annoy me, but if you could do that a few more times I might forgive you. So for now you suck, but barf in Paris Hilton's closet again, and I'll reconsider.
One Response to "It's Rainy. My Tan Is Fading. My Kid Is Barfy. I Am Annoyed. (Shit List Volume 2)"
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July 3rd, 2010 at 1:32 pm
This blog is so informitive.
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37-45 Bridge Street,
Bendigo VIC
Our Reservoir Levels page includes daily updates of volume, inflows, rainfall and releases at our major catchment storages on the Coliban River.
It also includes weekly updates of volume levels of our holding basins from the BOM website.
Our region has nine different water supply system areas, with the Coliban
system divided into northern and southern.
Water Summaries are prepared each month to provide customers with water
resource information
Our Annual Water Outlook reviews the preceding year and takes a 12-month look forward at the water resource availability.
Our Annual Operating Plan outlines the actions we will undertake to maintain our level of security obligations.
A Campaspe System
B Coliban System (Northern)
C Coliban System (Southern)
D Elmore System
E Goulburn System
F Loddon System
G Murray System
H Trentham System
I Wimmera System
Our Urban Water Strategy outlines our water supply initiatives to meet our region's residential, business and community water needs for the next 50 years.
Our strategy is designed to be reviewed regularly and adjusted to ensure that we are getting the balance right.
Information on Government strategies, programs and plans that relate to water in our region.
All water corporations in Victoria are required to produce a Pricing Submission that sets out all its plans for every five-year regulatory period.
The Essential Services Commission (ESC) is the water industry's independent regulator and is responsible for checking that our programs are justified, and our costs and charges are reasonable and realistic.
1300 363 200
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It always intrigues me when the discussions turn to – was it torture?
As much as we hate it when our government treats as if we are children, we fully expect them to care about our safety as much as they would of their own child.
Let's take the ideological out of this argument and deal with this matter as if it were a family matter. If one of your children were murdered and you were told that there were plans to murder more of your children – would it bother you if the person with information that may save your children lives was waterboarded? or was scared (but never touched) with an electric drill or threats were made about their families?
As a mother I'd tell them to do whatever is necessary and I wouldn't shed a tear for any animal that would cause harm to my family OR would assist in any way persons wanting to harm my family.
One of the best aspects of being an American is that we are a loyal group of people. You cannot threaten to harm an American without the bulk of the population standing against you. We are a family.
So, was it torture? In my opinion, no. Those who were interrogated walked away – members of our American family did not.
I did not vote for President Bush either time – however I have great respect for the fact that he helped to keep my family safe the past eight years.


text: Three UNT professors earned Fulbright awards for 2013-14. Marc Cutright, associate professor of higher education and director of UNT's Higher Education Development Initiative, was named a Fulbright Scholar to Uganda, where he will work with the Inter-University Council for East Africa to produce more Ph.D. graduates. Tomas Mantecon, associate professor of finance, was named a Fulbright Scholar to Johannes Kepler University in Austria, where he will teach and conduct research investigating corporate governance by American and Austrian financial firms. Lisa Owen, associate professor of art history, earned a Fulbright-Nehru Research Award to conduct research in India for a second book examining medieval temples carved into natural rock.


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Last night we had home made pizza's, with left overs....I had a few slices of silverside left from during the week, and also about half a cold oven baked chicken. So that is what we had on our pizza's. I have to tell you...they were just as yummy as the last pizza's I made.
Using my new Kenwood mixer...(I've never had a mixer that is hands free...wooohooo) I added 3 1/2 cups of homemade yoghurt......and about 5 cups of Self Raising Flour....and mixed it on a low speed until a dough was formed. I made the dough into four balls.
I'm not getting any credit for showing you my new Mixer, and I have had it for about 2 weeks now...My last whizzer I bought at K-Mart about 15 years ago.....so it has done me well. It's been giving that burnt smell every time I use it for a few months now......So I bid it fair well...and move on..... Move on to bigger and better whizzers that is......I'm excited at all the attachments you can get for it.....and what other kitchen appliance's it can replace.When buying an appliance we try to buy the best we can afford at the time. I think it's no point buying junk...if I buy junk, I usually get nothing but trouble. (Except for my freaky whizzer that went for so many years). If I recall though, back then it was still the best I could afford at the time and it had a huge 2 litre bowl...lol
Back to the leftovers pizza!
For the base sauce, I used my soup starter....adding garlic and lots of herbs is always a good thing on a pizza and this starter is excellent for a pizza sauce.
Now for the leftovers......from top to bottom working from Left to Right.
Chicken Stuffing
and beaten egg (from the fridge)
All that, makes this......3 times.
After being in a hot oven until golden brown
and cooked through in the centre..... You get this!
I'm sorry I haven't included a photo with this recipe...I don't like doing that....but here is the recipe anyway.......
Donut like dessert with chocolate centres.
- Prepare 2 slices of bread by buttering on one side each.....
- With slice A, place on bread board with butter side up......then place slice B on top of slice A, with butter side down.
- Now on the unbuttered top of slice B....spread Chocolate Spread over the entire piece of bread.
- Lift up Slice B and place on the sandwhich toaster...with butter side still down....
- Then place slice A on top of Slice B with butter side on top.
- Shut the lid of your sandwich maker and bake until golden brown.
- After removing your Chocolate Toasted Sandwich from the sandwich maker....
- Dip the sandwich halves into cinnamon sugar, then enjoy!
I've got plenty of work to do today....and more seeds to sort....Yesterday, for some silly reason, I decided to change not one but two lounge-rooms around.....so today I need to get more organised...there's stuff everywhere here at the moment...Look what happens when your unattended, no one to answer to and it's pouring rain outside.....
When the boys come home from work and school, I will get them to help me move the longer lounge from the back lounge-room to the main living area and put the couch that is there, in the back lounge.
Why....so I can sit beside my hubby when he comes home...and even lay down beside him with my head on his knee. This will make night-time television nice and cosy.


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Niaux 200, less wear, more performance
Forges de Niaux, always at the forefront, are once more demonstrating their skill and precision with the elaboration of the new quality NIAUX 200.
As the first in the market to propose boron steel discs heat-treated to 160 kg/mm² in the mid-1980s, Forges de Niaux is again finding new farming solutions for their customers.
After years of research, Forges de Niaux has effectively implemented a new quality of steel to obtain a hardness of 215kg/mm². This new grade allows us to attain high hardness values, while still maintaining the flexibility necessary in the field.
In this way, Forges de Niaux continue their quest to respond to their customers' expectations. Indeed, over the past 10 years, disc wear has strongly increased, higher tractor speeds and difficult soil conditions being the main causes of this phenomenon.
Today, however, thanks to the engineering at Forges de Niaux, the new quality NIAUX 200 has appeared.
Because of its high resistance and superb flexibility, this new quality of steel simplifies farmers' work all around. Time and petrol are saved, the discs do not need to be changed as often, and they hold their ground even in rocky and difficult soils.
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8 years of research resulted in the creation of this new disc : a disc with hardness increased to 200kg/mm² for still better performance in the field.
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Each year Concert's industry partners generously come together to participate in a fun golf tournament aimed at raising funds for trades training programs across Canada. This year, held on two bright September days in Vancouver and Toronto, Concert's 19th annual event raised $350,000.
Proceeds from the "space-themed" tournament will go toward trades training at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), to trades programs at George Brown College and the Hammer Heads program in Toronto, and to the STEP Up program for women at Vancouver Island's Camosun College.
Concert first became involved with BCIT over twenty years ago by providing financial support directly to trades training students, as well as establishing the Trades Discovery Program which empowers students to begin their careers in the construction trades. Concert later became involved with George Brown College, initiating a new scholarship program for the George Brown College Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies (CCET). And this year, for the first time, Concert is pleased to support STEP Up, the primary gateway for women entering trades education on the BC coast.
"Over the past 20 years we have raised $2.7M toward trades training across Canada," says Concert President and Chief Operating Officer Brian McCauley. "An adequate supply of skilled labour in both Ontario and British Columbia is critical our industry's success, and at Concert we believe in taking an active role in supporting trades."
Thank you to our generous 2016 sponsors!


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I just finished stitching this pile of mittens for Christmas gifts! They are made out of old wool sweaters that had been felted.
This summer I had stumbled across a garbage bag of felted mitten supplies at the Lancaster Creative Reuse, a thrift shop for crafters. I could not believe my good fortune!! Felting wool is mess - I've done enough of it in the past that I had no interest in ever doing it again. In light of my aversion to felting, this find was quite the treasure!!
The bag was stuffed with sets of mittens, carefully cut out and pinned together, all ready to go.
Some were even embellished with felted flowers or crystals, like this one.
Even the patterns were included!
I keep wondering what happened to the person who so carefully prepared all these mittens for stitching, then had to abandon the project....
I was so happy to have the privilege of finishing them up and seeing that they get to good homes. I still have a number to finish, but I was able to complete enough for Christmas gifts.
They are wonderful - oh so warm and cozy, lined with fleece!
Maybe I will have to revisit that felting thing....


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