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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Monday, July 20, 2009
Eastern Washington Smoke
Today I flew to Cape Cod for a meeting on moving weather research to operations. I ALWAYS get a window seat. As we crossed the Cascades I was stunned on how murky it looked....there was clearly lots of smoke and it was pushed up against the eastern slopes of the Cascades.
Take a look at this satellite picture from this morning....there is a significant fire in southern BC and the smoke plume is heading south (see red arrow). Can you see the smoke entering eastern Washington?
You will also notice the extensive low clouds along the coast and the tendrils almost reaching the south Sound. Later on during the day the smoke plume was less distinct..the vertical mixing due to surface heating helps diffuse the smoke in the vertical.
There are going to be a lot more fires. In contrast, the people I talked to today here in New England were complaining about their cold, dreary summer.
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- low cost auto insurance said...
I never thought that Washington had smoke, unless a volcano erupted. We had the joy of biking down a volcano on Maui this summer. That was very cool.
- July 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- mainstreeter said...
I remember during 1970 a summer in eastern Washington, the sun was blood red for a couple of evenings. It was from a major complex fire in the Wenatchee forest.
- July 21, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- Michael said...
In the late summer of '91, I went down to the Columbia Gorge ( past Camas ) and watched the Oregon side burning at night...very eerie
I also flew over Montana during forest fires in the late '90s , we were at 10,000' and the smell was still horrible
- July 21, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Michael said...
Prof. Mass, any thoughts on the hot summer we're having? We seem to be experiencing sustained periods of above average temperatures vs. the 1-3 days of hot weather with cool down. I am glad the forecasts are being revised downward this weekend, although the spread between sites such as wunderground, accuweather, and yahoo's service seems to be 10 degrees.
- July 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- mainstreeter said...
The portland tv prognosticators are actually revising the amount of warm up this weekend. They are saying 100 is not likely, mid 90's. Still hot.
- July 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Weather Is My Life said...
The Northeast is having a lovely summer! I wish there was a way to reverse the roles and send them this awful and dreary stuff we've experienced so they might be happy. In my experience in the Northeast, the people who live there complain about everything, so maybe not.
- July 21, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- cornbread said...
Weather is my life - Please consider moving east, you would be in like company amongst chronic complainers.
I think the weather has been faboulous this summer, and I like real "dreary" weather (ie not sun) in the fall and winter as well.
- July 21, 2009 at 2:54 PM
- Weather Is My Life said...
Cliff, did any of the people at your meeting who are into weather complain about the conditions there this summer?
- July 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- Weather Is My Life said...
cornbread, I disliked the Northeast because that's all they did. I thought it was different here, and for a lot of things it is. But unfortunately, it seems there's still lots of complaining any time there is weather going on here. I don't complain about the weather, I complain about people complaining about weather. There's a big difference. :)
- July 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM
- Chris said...
No wonder it was so hazy yesterday! (I am in Eburg)
- July 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- mainstreeter said...
I was in New England in 2006 when the temps were in the 90's. Almost like our nice weather today.
- July 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- andycottle said...
Hey Cliff, like you, I to always want to have the window seat cause I like to see what is below me and sometimes it can be interesting. Even flying over your own house is nice.
- July 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Tea Time Consultants said...
Cliff, smoke from the fires are a problem when dealing with visibilty. As a pilot, I have came across other pilots from the Latin American countries and they really have a problem with VFR flying due to all the uncontrolled burning.
- July 24, 2009 at 8:15 AM


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There will be two separate spelling bees. The first bee's participants will be from elementary schools from Upshur County school districts.
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MONTREAL - Montreal artists have until the end of this month to apply for one of 10 studios in the Darling Foundry, a centre devoted to both exhibiting art and nurturing artists.
The chosen few will occupy studios in the former foundry for three years, paying just $300 per month for a large, airy space with lots of natural light.
"My dream is to provide studio space free, to help them be full-time artists," said Caroline Andrieux, founder and artistic director of the centre. Another dream is to provide a monthly grant to relieve the artists of the need to support themselves with jobs.
Not yet, but Andrieux is working on it, looking for corporate and public support. "It would be wonderful if all the studios could be sponsored."
Fundraising is constant, and sales of art by the outgoing studio occupants are part of the Darling's 10th-anniversary celebration. Andrieux has a heavyweight board of directors that includes Nathalie Bondil, director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Phyllis Lambert, founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
The Darling also runs exchange programs that provide artists and curators from several countries with both studio and living space. A live-in studio is being carved out of the centre's office to house its first artist from India.
Two of the Darling's three current exhibitions reference the two buildings that make up the centre.
Jon Knowles reflects on his three years at the Darling with Mixed Misuse by metaphorically dismantling some of the building's structural elements. Faux I-beams made of wood are scattered around the small gallery as if a tenant was angry with a landlord.
Not sure if that is a valid interpretation, but the writer who was paid for a text on the exhibit has hidden it in the gallery. "He said, 'Look for it in the space,' but we haven't found it," Andrieux said.
Philippe Allard and Justin Duchesneau's Courte-Pointe is a quilt of plastic milk crates that interferes with the building's functionality by covering much of the building's entrance. This colourful structure curves up from the street to above the facade.
Guillaume La Brie, another artist whose term is nearing its end, has two pieces facing each other in the main gallery.
Andrieux described Les oeuvres qui n'étaient pas là as voids within voids. George Washington faces an Easter Island head; both are suggested by the shapes of the holes cut through stacks of IKEA furniture. The two pieces are in a dialogue both with each other as representatives of different cultures and within themselves as history and contemporary mass culture.
The Darling Foundry is located at 745 Ottawa St. For information about the exhibitions, which continue to Sept. 2, and the studios, visit fonderiedarling.org
The 13th annual visual-arts street festival known as the Festival international Montréal en arts – or simply as the Galerue d'art – launches Tuesday evening, followed by five days of displays and events along Ste. Catherine St. E. between St. Hubert St. and Papineau Ave.
About 85 artists have paid $400 to display and sell paintings, photography, sculptures, textiles and jewellery from booths on the street. Another 35 performers are involved, including En Masse and Toronto's Trio Magnus, both of which will collaborate with visitors in making art. There is a children's section, a poster contest and, from Wednesday to June 30, a series of films in Parc d'Espoir beginning after the artists pack up their booths at 8 p.m. The festival concludes at 6 p.m. on July 1.
"Most people don't go to galleries and museums," said Paul Haince, president of the festival. "This allows people to meet and talk to the artists."
The Festival international Montréal en arts opens with a free launch party at Club Apollon, 1450 Ste. Catherine St. E., on June 26 and continues through July 1. For more information, visit festivaldesarts.org
If the students with the red squares are on the left wing of the effort to occupy our minds with thoughts about inequality and corruption, there is another side to what Ben Philippi calls a "social revolt." That's the side that is armed, particularly in the U.S., where the Montreal-based photojournalist spent four years exploring America's gun culture.
The result is a book of photographs about Americans who own guns and defend the right of citizens to bear arms. There are images of middle-class people with guns, militia types with heavy weaponry and a family whose weapons must be nearly as valuable as the bus they live in.
Philippi is a documentary photographer of the gritty side of life. In God, Guns & Guts, he often presents his gun toters in iconic terms, but I was left with the impression that guns don't define gun aficionados as much as we might fear.
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Tufts University and Emerson College have developed a
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That's the case with the myth linking the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The first dose of the vaccine is administered when a baby is 2 months old, which coincides with the time of life when the risk of SIDS is highest. Thus, you would expect some SIDS deaths to occur in this age group, whether children receive the immunization. In fact, a number of studies dating back to the 1980s looked at the incidence of SIDS deaths occurring at the time of the DTP vaccine. The researchers concluded that the number of deaths was at a level about equal to the number that would be expected to take place by chance. In short, there just isn't any scientific evidence linking the vaccine with SIDS. Even so, many of the myths surrounding vaccines seem to have a life of their own. Below, you'll find a description of some of these unfounded claims, as well as a look at what the scientific evidence shows.
Autism is made up of many chronic developmental disorders and is often first diagnosed in toddlers. The number of cases of autism is reportedly on the rise, and some critics insist that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is to blame. Others say the increase can be attributed to better reporting of autism cases by doctors. In 2001 and again in 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Immunization Safety Review Committee, an independent body of experts who have no conflict of interest with pharmaceutical companies or organizations that make vaccine recommendations, studied a possible MMR-autism link and found no evidence supporting such a connection. A panel of experts brought together by the AAP reached the same conclusion. Most of the authors of the original study linking MMR to autism have retracted their support of the study.
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Last week, when I clicked on the headline, "Goldman Sachs Pushes Junior Investment Bankers to Take Weekends Off," I assumed I'd be sent to a URL containing the words Comedy Central, or Funny or Die, or perhaps The Onion. Instead, to my surprise, I was taken to Bloomberg.com, where, in place of what I assumed to be a piece of satire, was a real piece of news, which included, among other quotes, this one from David Solomon, Goldman's co-head of investment banking, explaining the rationale for the bank's new workplace policy:
The goal is for our analysts to want to be here for a career. We want them to be challenged, but also to operate at a pace where they're going to stay here and learn important skills that are going to stick. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
Which, at a glance, all sounded very nice, as if Goldman had in mind the lives of their young bankers and prospective young bankers when deciding to give them a break on the weekends (it's just Saturdays off, not the whole weekend). But, of course, Goldman is not in the business of being nice, it's in the business (as a bank, public company, and so-called golden child of Wall Street) of making money. And so every decision the bank makes has, at its core, money and, more specifically, profits. And in this case the money trail leads to personnel. That is, getting the most talented staff of young bankers the firm can.
To that end, it's no secret that Goldman, as well as other top Wall Street firms, are falling way behind. As I've written about here and here previously, the so-called top young talent in the U.S. is increasingly shunning Wall Street careers for tech careers. The likes of Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan, since the financial crisis of 2008, are no longer extremely highly desirable places to work. To say the least, their collective prestige has taken a nosedive, in part because the public has uncovered the fact that Wall Street firms have been up to no good as of late (to put it mildly) and no longer can they get away with hoodwinking the public into thinking that what they're doing is the work of God (or even the work of a local deacon).
And taking the place of Wall Street banks at the top of the employer desirability ladder have been the top tech employers. Firms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others have become the most respected, the most desirable to work for, and the firms at which young employees can learn the most and make the most impact. And these tech firms have not only taken over the conversation across the country, if not the planet, they've also cultivated rather progressive workplace cultures (on-site organic-food food trucks, dance classes, fisheries, badminton courts, bowling alleys, etc., etc.). And it's no secret that Goldman and other banks are having trouble competing with these tech firms when it comes to providing an impactful career, as well as when it comes to providing a fun, healthy, rewarding career.
Enter Goldman's Junior Banker Task Force, the official group that was formed, according to Goldman, in order to improve workplace conditions and career development for young bankers (analysts and associates). That is, to try to compete with those darn tech firms. And the Task Force's first directive is this new policy of Saturdays off for all young bankers (which begins this weekend). But will it work?
In a word: no.
What Goldman hopes will happen, in part, by enacting the policy is young bankers will be wooed by a more congenial workplace. But a harsh work environment (and by harsh I mean working long hours, including all weekend) isn't what's sending young talent to the tech industry in the first place. Instead, it's the aforementioned fact that Goldman, the Morgans, and other big banks (Barclays, UBS, BofA, etc.) have been up to no good, and have lost much, very much in fact, of their reputations. What was once looked upon as one of the hottest-shot jobs there was (back in the early aughts if you worked at Goldman you were nearly assured that your career, no matter where it went if you ever left the firm, would be a pretty high flying one, not to mention the fact that if you told someone you worked for Goldman they'd very likely be pretty impressed) is now looked upon as a devilish, selling-your-soul one. I'm only talking about perception, but perception, as some believe (or know), is everything.
Which is to say that young talent wants to work hard. They care less about working fewer hours and bowling and badminton than working for a respectable institution and for a firm that's creating the conversation, not reacting to it (for example, Twitter, in its IPO today, was the one calling the shots, not the banks helping it go public). Young talent wants to work for firms they can be proud of. They want to work for firms that are involved not in shady dealings to stay afloat but in respectable sectors of the economy. They want to work for firms that are at least trying to do some good for their fellow man. In fact, once upon a time, when Wall Street had more respect as a valuable career path, its young bankers wouldn't complain about working all nighters, they'd actually brag about it.
Certainly, I'm not implying that tech firms are angels (they have their dark sides, too) or that Wall Street banks, including Goldman, shouldn't take a long look at their workplace cultures and workloads forced upon its juniors. In light of the recent death of Moritz Erhardt, an intern at Bank of America, Wall Street has no choice now but to take a long look at it what its young bankers are doing late at night, night after night. But, it's necessary to note that this conversation starts at the top—after all, it's the VPs, MDs, and partners who are shoveling the workloads down upon their underlings. And they're shoveling it down for one reason: to close as many deals as possible in as short of time as possible in order to make as much bonus money as possible in as short as time as possible.
In any event, banks must, if they truly want to attract top young talent in America again, not just improve their workplace cultures, but also improve the very roots of their business. They must improve their integrity, they must improve their very mission, they must improve and look at why they're in business, what their in business for, and who they're helping. And only when they get back to helping others, and not themselves, will they be able to compete with the firms they're losing to talent to. Until then, all the days off in the world, for all the junior bankers in the world, won't do anything to improve the bottom line. And, in fact, it'll probably hurt it.
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Britain's auditors are under pressure. The combined weight of tighter regulation, more demanding corporate governance procedures, escalating incidence of big number litigation and the commercial pressures of the market means that many, especially in the Big Four, are thinking seriously about which business they should be in.
The audit profession, on the surface, between now and June will be lobbying - and lobbying hard - to persuade the government to introduce some form of proportionate liability for auditors.
Auditors have seen the outright destruction of one of their number. Andersen went, not solely because of litigation and criminal prosecution, but rather the crippling damage to its professional reputation. Other Big Four firms now face litigation which could wipe them out completely.
'We have been trying to convince the government of the seriousness of the problem,' says Peter Wyman, who is leading the ICAEW's lobbying on the issue. Wyman is a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner and he is also in charge of the efforts by the UK's largest firm to win the argument. Wyman is in a strong position as advocate. His year as institute president was dominated by the fight to emerge from Enron with the profession intact and in good grace.
'There is great discussion in the press about a liability cap. This is not what we are trying to achieve - we are seeking proportionate liability,' he says. In elemental terms this means that if an institution goes bust, the auditor should be liable but only for that which the auditor is responsible.
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Victoria Cochrane, an Ernst Young partner working on auditor liability, says: 'We are fighting the deep pockets syndrome. In a corporate collapse, the company, its director and shareholders may all be wiped out. The auditor may be the only party with any money left standing.
'Creditors and litigants then focus entirely on the auditor and seek full recompense from the audit firm,' she says.
Ernst Young faces a 3.5bn suit from the policyholders of Equitable Life. If this claim is successful it will wipe out the Big Four practice.
EY is by no means alone in this but if the current action prevailed the impact on the financial system would be seismic. 'LLP status would not protect us from a claim like this,' she says.
At present, the Big Four is struggling to cope with the different roles it is obliged to perform under multiple changes to corporate governance practice. In a wonderful example of management speak, the Big Four can be said each to be 'conflicted out' of future assignments.
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This puts regulators into an unenviable position. Corporate governance best practice demands no conflicts. But if one Big Four firm is the auditor, another does tax advisory assignments, a third handles MA work and the fourth deals with strategic partnerships, who's left to conduct an independent inquiry?
This situation exists now. If a massive legal action succeeds and brings down one of the Big Four, how will the system function in the future?
The mid-tier firms have already benefited from Sarbanes-Oxley by being invited to do more specialist assignments. But they are not big enough to handle global audits.
Wyman and Cochrane admit that the first reaction of government when this was raised initially was that it would not be swayed by the special pleading of fat cat accountants. But both the quality of what you say and the company you keep can be influential.
In an advanced parliamentary democracy, persuading one government minister is insufficient to win an argument. In this case, ministers from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Treasury need to be convinced.
The Number 10 policy unit should also be onside. Critically, officials from the DTI and the Treasury should endorse the proposals.
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The institute and the Big Four have found friends to join them in making their case. The Institute of Directors, many CEOs of FTSE100 companies and the Confederation of British Industry have added their voices. Sections of the financial services industry have also given backing. But this support is not total. Specific financial services companies have argued for no change. The insurance industry is prominent among the antagonists.
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In December the DTI asked for views on director and auditor liability.
The consultation period ends on 12 March 2004 and most contributors to the process say they will require all of the time left to finalise their arguments.
Press reports that the case had already been lost are vehemently denied by Wyman and Cochrane. 'The government - if convinced of our case - had three months to introduce an amendment to the Companies Act 1985 and we are told that there is still plenty of time to do that,' says Wyman.
He adds that the most straightforward thing for the government to do would be to repeal section 310 of the 1985 Companies Act. This specifically prohibits directors and auditors from arriving at contractual agreements to limit the auditor liability.
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Cochrane says the DTI could then take one of several options. 'It does not need to replace s310. It could leave liabilities open to individual contract between company and auditor. But this would be open to challenge.
'We favour referring the issue to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to establish guidelines and to set the limits for liability. All the relevant parties are present.
'A third option is to ask the secretary of state for trade and industry to set the limits because the FRC might be perceived to bring together all the vested interests. The disadvantage in this route is that the government would be obliged to establish the rules by statutory instrument which would be altered every time there was a change in value. This could be averted by setting a figure such as three times audit fees at the outset.'
As spring approaches, it is true to say that Big Four auditors are genuinely concerned that if they do not make their case on auditor liability then drastic action may be on the cards.
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If the government does not act to limit auditor liability, the firms may choose not to audit companies which are seen as potentially high risk.
The most obvious market sector is financial services. If banks or - worse still - insurance companies go bust, auditors have learned from bitter experience they do not want to be around to carry the can.
Talking heads
Peter Wyman, PwC
'There is great discussion in the press about a liability cap. This is not what we are trying to achieve - we are seeking proportionate liability.'
Victoria Cochrane, EY
'We are fighting the deep pockets syndrome. In a corporate collapse, the company, its director and shareholders may all be wiped out. The auditor may be the only party with any money left standing.'
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The merger of Aventis Crop Science and Bayer into Bayer Crop Science is expected to receive regulatory approval within the next few months, according to Aventis officials speaking at the 2002 Beltwide Cotton Conference.
"We're expecting approval in April or May. Until then, we plan to continue serving our farmer-customers as Aventis Crop Science," said Al Luke, Aventis Cotton Business Manager in Raleigh, N.C.
The change to Bayer Crop Science is currently being reviewed by federal regulatory agencies, and Luke said the expectations are that the approval process will go off without any delays or hindrances. "There shouldn't be anything in the purchase that would prevent a speedy approval," he said.
Bayer announced its intentions last Oct. 2 to buy Aventis CropScience for an estimated $4.9 billion. The proposed merger is the largest acquisition in Bayer's history and significantly expands the company's crop protection business.
"We will be able to provide a better value for the grower with this merger, because we will be able to offer a greater number of products at a good value to the producer," Luke said. "Just as cotton growers are squeezed financially, so too are technology developers. To be able to invest in the research and development demanded by the marketplace, we need a breadth of products to support that effort."
Bayer said it will separate its current health care business and the new combined crop protection group into two independent corporate units. Doing this, the company said, will allow it greater flexibility for necessary strategic partnerships. The merged crop protection company is expected to employ 23,000 people.
According to Bayer officials, the new structure in no way represents a departure from its proven four-pillar strategy. Bayer, they say, will retain health care, agriculture, polymers, and chemicals as its core activities but gain greater competitiveness and drive by organizing some of these businesses differently.
Bayer is expected to increasing borrowing and slash approximately 4,000 jobs as a result of the acquisition. Aventis CropScience, which is owned jointly by Aventis and Schering, will assume approximately $1.7 million in debt in the deal.
The acquisition is expected to increase Bayer's profits, at least partly due to the $460 million in anticipated cost savings due to the consolidation of overlapping research and business operations.
Aventis CropScience currently employs about 15,300 people in more than 120 countries worldwide and Bayer's crop protection business group employs approximately 7,800 people.
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Hi Moda Bake Shop fans! It is LeAnne from over at Everyday Celebrations. I am excited to bring you this new project and hope you love it as much as I do.
If a one year-old could answer the question, 'What have you been up too the last year?' they'd probably answer, "Oh, just growing!' This little quilt celebrates the first year of life for any little one, or should I say former little one, 🙁 and what they've been up to…GROWING! This quilt is a simple twist on the classic patchwork quilt. Besides charm squares, this quilt features wide strips of fabric and darling flowers that are growing and blooming. You can also add an initial to this quilt for personalization.
- Seam allowances are 1/4″ of an inch.
- RST = right sides together
- WOF = width of fabric
- I used a machine blanket stitch to finish off my flower appliques. Applique templates are found in the printable version of this recipe.
- You will need to print off your own initial if you wish to personalize your quilt. To do this, just type your desired letter in a blank document in Microsoft Word or other program. You want your letter to measure no more than 4 1/2″ tall. (There are rulers on the side of the document in Microsoft Word.) Then, print off the letter. Make sure you select the 'mirror' or 'flipped' option when you print so the letter is BACKWARDS. If you don't know how to do this, just tape the letter to a sunny window, with the back of the paper facing you, then trace the letter onto iron-on adhesive.
1. Select 60 charm squares for your quilt. I wanted the color scheme of my quilt to be just red, aqua, and pink. So I just left out the green and brown colors. (However, I did use the green charm squares for the leaves on the flower appliques.)
3. Cut two 6 1/2″ x 37″ strips.
4. Layout your squares in 9 rows with 8 squares in each row. Place the neutral blocks as pictured below:
Rows 1, 5, and 9 only have charm squares. (The neutral colored blocks are included in the charm pack; it is a white on white polka dot.)
Rows 2, 4, 6, and 8 have neutral blocks in the third and sixth positions.
Rows 3 and 7 have neutral blocks in the second and seventh positions.
5. After deciding placement, sew your blocks for each row RST. Press seams open or to the side, whatever you fancy. Repeat for all the rows.
6. Next, pin the rows together, matching up the seams of the blocks. I like to pin where the seamlines intersect. Sew the rows together. After sewing each row, press seams open. REMEMBER: After rows 2 and 7 sew a 6 1/2″ strip.
7. Decide how many flowers you will want on your quilt, I did four. The flowers will go on any neutral block in the quilt. The larger flower template will be the one you want to put an initial on if you desire.
I like to use Heat n' Bond Lite for appliqueing on quilts. To use this method, trace the templates on to the paper-side of the Heat n' Bond. Then just roughly cut out around each shape. Adhere to the appropriate fat quarter following the directions on the package. Then cut out around each shape using the tracing lines.
Appliqueing 101 Tip: When I applique on quilts, I like to cut out the middle of any LARGER shapes to help keep the quilt soft and cuddly. (Yes, I have forgotten many times, but for the most part I remember.)
8. After you have cut out all the shapes for the flowers, remove paper backing and place on desired neutral block. Play around with placement. YOU WILL NOT BE ADHERING YET!!!!
9. After you are happy with the placement, remove all but the leaves. Fuse the leaves following the directions on the package. (Note: To help things go faster, I fuse all the leaves for all the flowers in place at this time, then I blanket stitch all at the same time. Then I fuse all the petals for all flowers in place, etc.)
10. Blanket stitch around each leaf. I did not do the base of the leaf because it will be covered by the rest of the flower.
11. Next, place the petals in place. Fuse and blanket stitch to finish. Again, I did not blanket stitch on the base of the petals since it will be covered by the center.
12. Next add the center, fuse, and blanket stitch to finish.
12. Lastly, add the initial if you desire. Fuse and blanket stitch to finish.
13. Next, make your quilt sandwich, quilt as desired, and bind. (I cut five 2.5″ x WOF for my binding strips.)
One darling 37″ x 53″ quilt for your growing baby or toddler
LeAnne Ballard


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CFP: [Postcolonial] Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA, 11/7/08-11/8/08)
Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA,
Proposals for individual presentations are invited for the Asian and
Asian American Literature panel at the 2008 meeting of the Pacific
Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA). The panel topic is open,
but I am especially interested in papers that explore relationships
between Asian American experiences, writing, identity, and so on and the
larger Asian diaspora and even postcolonial study of Asian and Asian
American experience. These relationships might include, but are not
limited to
The connection between Asian and Asian American during the era of
Asian Americans returning to Asian countries for work, marriage, etc.;
Asian Americans acquisition of Asian cultural literacies/identities;
Experiences of ethnic Asians in Europe, Canada, Australia, Africa, and
South America as compared to Asian Americans;
Asian interethnic connections and crises in the US and abroad;
Postcolonial study of Asian and Asian American experience during the era
of globalization
Pan-Asian media (such as AZN-TV in the US)
Issues of immigration, transnationalism, and diaspora and their
relevance for Asian/American communities are also welcome
Papers focusing on literature, theatre, print and broadcast media,
history, and any other aspects of Asian and Asian American culture and
experience are welcome.
This year's conference will be held at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, 7-
8 November, 2008. Please send a 500 word abstract and brief CV by email
attachment to Wenji Zhou at jadestone557_at_hotmail.com, or
Zhou36_at_mailbox.sc.edu. Proposal deadline is 15 April, 2008; inquiries
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
more information at
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It's that time of the year again- the Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri tastings will be held in San Francisco, New York and Chicago beginning next week. These tastings feature wines that have been awarded a Tre Bicchieri (three glasses) rating - the highest possible - from Gambero Rosso, Italy's leading wine guide.
More than 100 wineries will participate, representing 19 of the 20 regions of Italy. The variety of wines, as you would expect at a tasting of this caliber, will be remarkable. You will be able to taste Barolo from producers such as Massolino, Elvio Cogno and Fontanfredda along with Brunello di Montalcino from Biondi-Santi, Canalicchio di Sopra and La Togata. There will also be some great Tuscan reds from Antinori, Colle Massari, Fontodi and Felsina along with some gorgeous reds from Valle Reale and La Valentina from Abruzzo as well as top red wines from Mastroberardino (Campania), Cottanera and Planeta from Sicily and some lovely examples of Amarone from Speri, Tenuta Sant'Antonio and Musella.
As far as sparkling and white wines, there is also an impressive representation. Some of Franciacorta's finest wines from producers such as Guido Berlucchi, Ferghettina, La Montina and Ricci Curbastro will be poured along with Ferrari from Trentino. As for white wines, you will be able to sample from Cantina Tramin, Cantina Terlano and Elena Walch from Alto Adige; Livon, Collavini and Zuani from Friuli along with Soave from Pieropan and Verdicchio from Garofoli and Umani Ronchi.
Here are the details on the tastings. You need to register and can do so by emailing Volkmer Public Relations.
San Francisco - Wednesday, February 15
Fort Mason Center - Hebrst Pavilion
Trade: 2-6 / Public 3-6
New York City - Friday, February 17
Metropolitan Pavilion - 125 W. 18th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
Trade 2-7 / Public 3-7
Chicago - Tuesday, February 21
Union Station - 210 South Canal Street
Trade 2-6 / Public 3-6
I have attended the Tre Bicchieri tasting in New York City as well as the last two years in Chicago and can tell you that this is a superb event with more great Italian wines at one location than any other tasting in America. If you are an Italian wine lover, this is a can't miss degustazione!


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Since 1999, nearly 1000 emerging poets have participated in Cave Canem's community-based workshops, rare opportunities to work with accomplished poets for free or low-cost fees. Limited to an enrollment of 12-15, eight and ten-session workshops offer rigorous instruction, careful critique and an introduction to the work of established poets—all within the welcoming environment of our Brooklyn, NY loft.
"Time Keeping and Time Travel" with Anastacia-Reneé
In this workshop, participants will be in conversation with the work of Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler. Participants will examine multi-genre writing and poetic craft elements to build poems that bend, restructure and reimagine "form." Participants will be creatively inspired by the notion that the "paranormal" is normal and traditional fiction can inhabit a poem. The goal for all workshop participants is to complete the course with two drafts and confidently share them.
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Applications will be accepted via Submittable only.
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"Procedures, Discomforts and Retellings" with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Participants will discuss what provokes/inspires them to write. Is it identity? Mothers? Politics? Language? Bullshit? Culturally one might write as one's ancestors might have spoken. Perhaps some are not meant to write in a linear fashion. To be "roundabout" or circular may be closer to how one's ear is innately tuned. During this workshop, participants will examine/dismantle, misread/fail for the sake of finding out what to write about and what momentarily terrifies to the point of stopping altogether. Through a number of restraints and recipes, participants will modify their "engines." Expect no finished work. as the procedures explored will be durational and dependent upon individual comfort levels. Participants will read new and not so new works by Celina Su, Tusiata Avia, Clarence Major, Harryette Mullen and dg nanouk okpik, among others. Additionally, participants will listen to and view a number of recordings by performance based artists and musicians who utilize spoken word.
Dates: Tuesdays, 6-8:30 pm. October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13; culminating reading: November 27.
Where: Cave Canem Foundation, 20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A, Brooklyn, NY
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Suggested Donation: $30 – $240
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The deadline to apply is August 26, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Applicants will be notified by August 28, 2018. Applications will be accepted via Submittable only.
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A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Her interdisciplinary work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum, the Poesiefestival in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, the QOW conference in Slovakia, the International Poetry Festival in Bucharest, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the 56th Venice Biennale and in Beijing as a Red Gate Artist in Residence. As a curator and director, she has staged events at BAM Café, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The David Rubenstein Atrium, The Highline, Poets House and El Museo del Barrio. LaTasha is the recipient of numerous awards; of them include New York Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Capital and the Whiting Foundation Literary Award. She lives in Harlem.
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South Orange County water districts are studying ways to better utilize an underground basin in hopes of bolstering local supplies and reducing dependence on imported water.
Seawater intrusion barriers, injection wells, recycled water and recharge stations are among pricey proposals included in a high-level draft plan recently approved by the San Juan Basin Authority.
"Are these realistic?" John Perry with the Capistrano Taxpayers Association asked the board, raising concern over a lack of cost estimates for the potential projects. "And you're expecting the taxpayers to … pay for this?"
While all of the options would result in pricier water for customers, those backing the plan argue that prices are going to go up in any event while reliability declines, thanks to climate changes and population growth – or should a major disaster interrupt imported water deliveries.
"We have got to be ready for very much more expensive water and a lot less of it," said Wayne Rayfield, president of the South Coast Water District and an authority director.
The authority is charged with monitoring and protecting a 26-square-mile groundwater basin that sits 10 feet to 100 feet below portions of Mission Viejo, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point and unincorporated areas such as Rancho Mission Viejo.
The authority also pursues projects to take advantage of a watershed that stretches for 156 square miles around the basin.
An updated San Juan Basin Groundwater and Facilities Management Plan has been in the works for three years, with a draft approved Sept. 10 by representatives from member agencies South Coast Water District, San Juan Capistrano, Moulton Niguel Water District and Santa Margarita Water District.
South Coast and San Juan produce drinking water using supplies pulled from the basin through wells and treated in desalter plants. However, the report states poor water quality has limited their ability to use the lower basin.
Moulton Niguel Water District and Santa Margarita Water District are held back from using the upper portion of the basin because there's simply not enough water, plus no system in place to withdraw and treat it, according to the report.
The new plan includes 10 options to increase supplies from the San Juan Basin, with multimillion-dollar projects that could be phased in.
The simplest option is for the authority to continue what it's been doing since it was founded in 1971, though with more careful allocation and monitoring, since levels have dropped a bit in recent years.
The authority's consultant recommends a plan where natural and recycled water would be injected to commingle in the groundwater basin, which has a capacity of 39,208 acre-feet but is only storing 28,771 acre-feet. The enhanced groundwater would be recovered and treated, requiring the authority to build a transport system, wells to inject and pull the new supply out and treatment facilities to make it potable.
That option also includes building a seawater intrusion barrier to protect the supply, and in-stream storm water recharge facilities along stretches of San Juan and Arroyo Trabuco creeks.
Together, the projects would increase the amount of water that could be pulled from the basin from 9,200 acre-feet per year up to 21,400 acre-feet, the report states, with each acre-foot enough to meet the needs of two households for one year.
"If I'm going to spend more putting water into the ground than to take it out, I think we need to ask if that makes sense," Director Larry Kramer said, echoing Perry's cost concerns.
Dan Ferons, who represents Santa Margarita, assured Kramer that the plan is in its infancy, with much work to do before any of the proposals are implemented.
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A song, well I just can't get Telephone by Lady Gaga & Beyonce from the first time I listened to it. I love the clip, the use of bold colours, the concept and the storyline, it's different and this just make it so memorable. So I created some macs using the similar bold colours used in the clip. Primary colours - red, yellow and blue.
And don't worry it's not poisonous - proof is that my husband is still alive hehehe..:)
2 room temperatured egg white(80g total)
100g icing sugar
60g ground almond
60g castor sugar
1 tsp red powder food colouring
1 tsp yellow powder food colouring
1 tsp blue powder food colouring
1. Big piping bag with a noozle no.8 placed inside.
2. 3 small size freezer bags, fold the bottom up to a side, then staple, making a piping bag. Repeat for all 3 bags.
3. 2 extra mixing bowls
4. 2 extra rubber spatulas
1. Put ground almond and icing sugar in a food processor or a small blender. Blend them finely.
2. Sift the blended mixture and set aside
3. With an electric beater, Beat the egg white, start from low speed and increase slowly to maximum speed. Beat until frothy (you will see lots of fine bubbles)
4. Now it's the time to add in the castor sugar, add half of the sugar, continue to beat in maximum speed for around 2 minutes, add in the other half, continue until you get very stiff peak.
5. Mix the dry ingredients into the egg whites. Just roughly combine them, because we'll seperate them in 3 parts later.
6. Divide the mixture into 3 parts - this mean you have to scoop out 1/3 of the mixture for each extra mixing bowl you have prepared earlier.
7. Now put in the yellow colouring into one bowl. Start folding
8. When you get smooth shiny mixture, stop folding, lift the mixture with spatula, if the mixture falls back slowly in the bowl means you're good to go. You could also check if the lines formed from the lifted mixture, they should slowly disappear in within 30 seconds. At this stage you're good to go. Do not over fold, it will be too liquid and becoming very hard to pipe.
if you're unsure, you could refer to my basic macaron recipe as a guide HERE
8. Do the same for the other two bowls of mixture with red and blue colourings.
9. Fill each freezer bag with each colour. Snip off the head of the freezer bags.
10. Carefully, place all 3 bags inside the bug piping bag. you might want to readjust accordingly so all 3 bags are about at the same level in the bag to make sure 3 colours flow out at the same time during the piping process. The first few macarons might have inconsistant colours, but it should go better as you pipe.
This month the Mac Tweet challange is to create macaron inspired by a song. I had been on and off doing many other stuff this month so I'm late! Just manage to get some macarons bake on the very last day to submit my entry.
11. Let your macarons sit for about 30minutes. This will depend on the humidity in your house and the day. Try touching the macaron softly, after 30mins. it should not stick to your hand.
12. Heat your oven to 150 C on the (heating on the top only). When the oven is ready, put your macaron at the very bottom shelf. Bake for 12 minutes, check them in the mid time of 6 minutes, the feets should already start forming. Turn the baking tray to the opposite direction to allow even baking. When the 6 mins is up, change the heating setting of your oven to Bottom only. This will help cooking the macaron and rise the feet more. Bake for another 6 minutes. You can test if the macaron is cook, touch softly on the shell and when the macaron doesn't slide on the feet, it's cooked. if it's not add another 1 mins each time and check.
(This is the method i found the best that works for me after few trial and error. I baked with heating the oven top and bottom and i had crack macarons. Having said that, every oven is slightly different than another, so please adjust accordingly
14. Let the macaron cool down before removing them. You could wet your working area and slide the baking sheet on it to speed up the cooling process, but do not let it sit there too long, if not the macarons will become soggy. Other wise you can leave them cool at room temperature and remove them.
Raspberry, Blueberry White Chocolate Ganache with hint of Rose
60g white chocolate (fiinely chopped)
70g fresh or frozen mix of raspberrie and blueberries
(If you use frozen fruits, bring them out prior to let them defroze)
1 tbsp rose water
1. In a medium pot boil some water.
2. Put white chocolate in the heat proof bowl, the let it sit over the pot with boiling water.
3. Stir until the chocolate is melted
4. With a hand mixer, blend the fruits to get the pulp. Then filter them with a sift with a help of a spoon, to remove any seeds that is left for a smooth texture.
5. Put the fruit pulp into a small pot, gently warm it up over medium heat, stir constantly.
6. When it's warm enough, pour it over the white chocolate. Then stir until the mixture is well combine and all chocolate is melted completely.
7. Leave to room temperature then in the fridge for at lease 2 hours for th ganache to harden up slightly.
8. When it's ready, pipe it on the macaron shells.
9. The mcarons are best eatiing 24 hours later. Bring them out of the fridge 10 minutes prior to fully enjoy the flavour.