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Unprecedented in French art, such works by Millet as The Sower were particularly controversial in the political climate of the time. Powerful and monumental, Millet's sower strides across a newly plowed field with energy and resolution, scattering the seeds for a new crop; he serves as an emblem of regeneration and of the elemental relationship between man and nature. Crude in appearance, the work provoked commentary not only on its subject matter but also on its styles and unorthodox technique. Théophile Gauteier, a famous nineteenth-century critic working for a government newspaper, noted that Millet "trowels on top of his dishcloth of a canvas, without oil or turpentine, vast masonries of coloured paint so dry that no varnish could quench its thirst". Political conservatives, who viewed the peasants as a potentially disruptive social element, attacked Millet, while liberals praised his ennoblement of rural life.
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In 1999, the remains of an exploded star—the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A—was among the first objects on which the spaceborne Chandra telescope trained its X-ray eye. Chandra has been following these stellar leftovers ever since. Now, a decade of detection has produced a time-lapse movie of the evolution of the supernova remnant. It has been expanding since 1680, when its precursor star exploded.
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Port Chicago, Site Of A World War II Home Front Tragedy, Is A Classroom Today
CONCORD, Calif. —The bombs erupted along Pier No. 1, thousands of them, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. And 66 years later, you can still spot a few twisted hunks of metal near water's edge, an American flag snapping in the wind overhead.
This is Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, the newest unit in the national park system and the scene of the bloodiest 20th century California war story that millions of Californians have never heard. It covers just 5 acres, surrounded by a military base, between Suisun Bay and the blond hills of Contra Costa County.
"You won't see much of anything," the Rev. Diana McDaniel, president of the Friends of Port Chicago, tells first-time visitors. "But you'll feel something."
The biggest home-front disaster of World War II happened here. Followed by the largest mass mutiny trial in U.S. Navy history. Which paved the way for the integration of the American military and, many say, the emergence of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s. In other words, Port Chicago's first full-time rangers may not have much to show when they welcome visitors, but they have plenty to tell.
The core of the story is always July 17, 1944. It was a Monday. The U.S. was more than two years into World War II, and Port Chicago was where the Navy took munitions off railroad cars and loaded them onto ships bound for the Pacific.
Out along the port's long, bending pier, which had just been expanded to accommodate two ships at a time, the Quinault (sometimes spelled Quinalt) Victory glided in about 6 p.m. The new ship, ready for loading, moored on the pier's seaward side, facing upstream.
On the land side, facing downstream, loomed the E.A. Bryan, a 440-foot-long Liberty ship that had been in port for four days of around-the-clock loading. Like most Liberty ships, it had five cargo holds, each about four stories deep. The ship was mostly full, with five days left to finish the job. Most of the loading had gone smoothly, investigators found later, except for a few problems with the steam-powered winches that lifted munitions into the ships.
The base was eight miles down the Sacramento River from Pittsburg, seven miles upriver from Martinez and 1 1/2 miles from the tiny town of Port Chicago. It had rail connections and plenty of land, well-separated from population centers in case anything major went wrong. Through more than a year and a half of hastily handling 280,000 tons of ammunition and explosives onto 78 ships, nothing had.
But Port Chicago was ready to blow, in more ways than one.
About 1,400 enlisted men did the most dangerous work. Some were volunteers. Some were draftees. All were black, barred from most other jobs by segregationist policies that prevailed in the Navy and throughout American society. Their morale, the Navy acknowledged later, was "extremely low."
Irvin G. Lowery, now an 86-year-old retired state official in Columbus, Ohio, arrived in Port Chicago in the spring of '44 as a 19-year-old petty officer. In Ohio, "There were no black people working for the telephone company, no black people working for the electric company, no black people working for the gas company. And they didn't drive school buses or street cars," he told me in a telephone interview. "That's the way the world was then. So when you look at going into a segregated Navy, that was normal."
Sleeping in barracks about half a mile from the dock, most of these men served as stevedores, working around the clock in three shifts, filling westbound ships with bullets and bombs under the supervision of about 70 commissioned officers, all white. (The historical details in this article, unless otherwise attributed, are drawn from now-public Navy documents and "The Port Chicago Mutiny," a 1989 book by Robert L. Allen.)
Exhorted by officers to work quickly, the enlisted troops rolled bombs down ramps and stacked ammunition on pallets or loaded it into nets. Then winches hoisted the ordnance off the pier and down into the hatches.
And most of them were learning on the job. As a later Navy review found, the Navy offered little or no training to Port Chicago's men, had no written guidelines on how to load munitions, and sometimes violated Coast Guard instructions because they ate up too much time. Officers offered rewards to the fastest crews, may have bet on tonnage results and brushed off safety concerns by explaining that the troops were packing mostly munitions without fuses or detonators.
"We were in that war to win," said Tad Shay, a park ranger who splits his time among Port Chicago and three other sites. "Nothing was going to stop us. It was go, go, go."
By 10 p.m. July 17, more than 100 men were aboard the Quinault Victory, rigging the new ship and expecting to start loading bombs at midnight.
Ninety-eight men were on and around the Bryan. One crew stacked 40-millimeter shells into the No. 5 hold. Another maneuvered 1,000-pound bombs into the No. 3 hold. Another placed 2,000-pound depth bombs into the No. 2 hold. At the No. 1 hold, the men gingerly handled incendiary bombs, which weighed 650 pounds each and were called "hot cargo" because their fuses were installed.
By 10:15, the Bryan held 4,606 tons of ammunition and explosives. On the pier, nine officers stood among about 100 crewmembers, Marine guards, civilian workers and others. Sixteen railroad boxcars had rolled up, bearing an additional 429 tons of bombs and projectiles to be loaded.
Then, at 10:18 p.m., came the first explosion.
About five seconds later came the second. This one was much bigger.
"Everything here was just decimated," ranger Eric Stearns said one recent day, leading a small group toward the inscribed granite markers and the skeleton of a ruined pier. "I think the closest survivors were two guys who were about 1,000 yards away."
In San Francisco, hotel windows shattered. On an Army Air Force plane 9,000 feet up, the pilot reported an aerial ring of fire three miles around. Also, he said, "there were pieces of metal that were white and orange in color, that went quite a ways above us. They were quite large. I would say they were as big as a house or a garage."
The Bryan was all but vaporized. The stern of the shattered Quinault Victory landed 500 feet from where it had been moored. In the Port Chicago movie theater, which was showing a war movie called "China," the north wall gave way — just as a grenade was exploding on the screen. (The Navy later razed the town.)
"It blew me across the room," Lowery said. "I was in the barracks, in a room with two guys, shooting the breeze when it happened, a window to my back."
Lowery worked in the recreation department as an instructor, organizing sports. Though some men first thought the Japanese had attacked, "we knew it was the ammunition blowing up.... We in the rec department had a pickup truck, and we were the first ones out of there with those who were injured," Lowery said.
"We loaded up as many guys as we could and drove them up to Pittsburg to the Army hospital there. Then we went back. Me and another guy did that all night," he said.
Just 51 bodies were sufficiently intact to be identified. In all, 320 men were dead, including 202 black enlisted men; 390 more sailors and civilians were injured, including 233 black enlisted men.
When the sun came up the next day, "we picked up body parts," Lowery said. "What we found was generally gloves and shoes. The gloves and shoes held the parts together."
Four days after the blast, the Navy convened a court of inquiry to sort facts and assign blame. For more than a month, 125 witnesses testified, including Capt. Nelson H. Goss, whose command included nearby Mare Island and Port Chicago. Goss acknowledged that a Coast Guard port director had warned him, "If you aren't careful, something's going to happen, and you'll be held responsible for it."
The Navy's court of three captains found neither Goss nor any other individual responsible for the blasts. Instead, the court's "finding of facts" concluded that it was an unavoidable accident — and that "these enlisted personnel were unreliable, emotional, lacked capacity to understand or remember orders or instructions, were particularly susceptible to mass psychology and moods, lacked mechanical aptitude, were suspicious of strange officers, disliked receiving orders of any kind, particularly from white officers or petty officers, and were inclined to look for and make an issue of discrimination."
This is the first half of the Port Chicago story. It's painful, but "it's our history," said Martha Lee, the National Park Service superintendent who oversees Port Chicago, Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., and two other sites. "And we can't pretend it didn't happen."
I took the tour along with a handful of others in late July. As we walked the blast site, Stearns punctuated the story by reading aloud witness accounts and showing declassified Navy photos.
One of the other visitors was Army Lt. Col. Chris Hart, commanding officer of the Military Ocean Terminal Concord, which surrounds the memorial. Hart, clean-shaven in fatigues and black beret, had taken this job only about a month before, but he had clearly read up on the site's history. As Stearns laid out the story, Hart occasionally added historical details.
In the days after the disaster, hundreds of Port Chicago's surviving enlisted men were evacuated from the base to Navy facilities elsewhere. When word was passed that some of the surviving officers had been granted a month's leave, many of the enlisted men hoped for the same or for different work assignments. Instead, they were ordered back to handling bombs.
Three weeks after the blast, officers sent 328 surviving enlisted men to load the San Gay at Mare Island. But when the order was given to march toward the ship, the men froze. Officers approached Seaman 1st Class Joseph R. Small, a 22-year-old enlisted man from New Jersey who operated a winch on the dock and called cadence when the men marched.
Interviewed for Allen's book decades later, Small recalled that an officer had called him front and center.
"He said, 'Small, are you going back to work?' And I told him, 'No, sir.' He asked why. I said I was afraid. Then somebody over in the ranks said, 'If Small don't go, we're not going either.'"
The Navy marched 258 enlisted men, including Small, onto a barge, where they were held under guard for three days. During that time, Small called a meeting and urged the men to stick together. The men were marched to a baseball diamond, where Adm. Carleton Wright warned them that mutinous conduct in time of war could mean death by firing squad.
Most of the men relented — and were docked three months' pay and sentenced to bad-conduct discharges. That left 50 dissenters, who were charged with mutiny and court-martialed. After six weeks of testimony and 80 minutes of deliberation by the Navy's seven-officer court, all were found guilty. Despite protests from NAACP counsel Thurgood Marshall and others, the men were sentenced to eight to 15 years of imprisonment, to be followed by dishonorable discharges.
"This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny," Marshall asserted. "This is the Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy toward Negroes. Negroes are not afraid of anything, any more than anyone else. Negroes in the Navy don't mind loading ammunition. They just want to know why they are the only ones doing the loading!"
By November, the 50 mutineers were locked up on Terminal Island in Southern California. But the case had become a cause celebre.
In late 1944, the Navy beefed up munitions training and safety measures and assigned white enlisted men to join the black enlisted men on the rebuilt Port Chicago pier.
Within about a year of the war's end in 1945, the Navy became the first branch of the U.S. military to fully integrate. It also set free hundreds of imprisoned servicemen, including almost all of the Port Chicago mutineers, while letting the court-martial verdicts stand.
For years to follow, the civil rights movement rippled through American society. Marshall, still working for the NAACP, won the 1954 Supreme Court case that desegregated schools and went on to become the first African-American justice on that court. Lt. Com. James F. Coakley, who headed the mutiny prosecution, wound up prosecuting Black Panthers as district attorney of Alameda County in the 1960s.
But many Port Chicago survivors kept secret the carnage they'd seen and punishment they'd faced. Tracking them down, author Allen said, he found "an intense silence in many of these families. Most of them didn't talk about it at all."
On the blast's 50th anniversary in 1994, federal officials dedicated the Port Chicago memorial site and U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., pressed Navy leaders to exonerate the convicted mutineers. They chose to let the verdict stand.
But in 1999 President Bill Clinton granted a pardon to one of the few surviving munitions-handlers, Freddie Meeks of Los Angeles. Then in late 2009 — after ownership of Port Chicago had passed from the Navy to the Army — Congress and President Obama gave Port Chicago status as a unit of the national park system.
It's still tricky to visit. You must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. You must give two weeks' notice, submit to a background check and be patient; military operations often force Port Chicago's closure for weeks on end. Just 793 visitors reached Port Chicago in the first seven months of 2010.
But the site's new status gives the park service a future claim on the land and has made possible the hiring of the memorial's first two full-time employees. Rangers are working with the East Bay Regional Park District and the city of Concord on a visitor center. Those who visit in the next few years may also glimpse the Navy's dwindling fleet of about 50 retired ships, idle in Suisun Bay for decades, another legacy of World War II.
"In my opinion," said the Army's Hart at the end of our tour, "the military is not trying to bury an incident in our past but to highlight it and the tremendous sacrifice that sailors and service members and their families made back then. ... We continue to learn from our mistakes."
Meanwhile, Miller and Allen and many survivor families continue to call for exoneration of the sailors who disobeyed their orders. But their case has lost some urgency. As nearly as he can tell, Allen said, all 50 of those convicted in the Port Chicago mutiny are now dead.
Visitors to Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial ( (925) 228-8860, www.nps.gov/poch) usually begin by parking at the entrance to the Army's Military Ocean Terminal Concord on Port Chicago Highway in Concord. The site is about 45 minutes from Oakland International Airport, an hour from San Francisco International Airport.
Tours are typically offered by request at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Rangers require that visitors make reservations (which are free) two weeks in advance and supply identification information so the Army can run background checks. Visitors must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. More details are available through the memorial's website, www.nps.gov/poch.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE: The small Port Chicago site includes inscribed markers at water's edge, remnants of pier pilings, a few bomb casings, a few pieces of twisted metal that date to the 1944 blast, and one of the earth-mound revetments used when troops unloaded munitions from railroad cars. Tours are led by a ranger driving a shuttle bus and usually last about 90 minutes. Also nearby is John Muir National Historic Site (the former home of the Sierra Club co-founder), about five miles away at 4202 Alhambra Ave. in Martinez.


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2008 listing from the O with links http://www.oregonliv...a....xml&coll=7
Beaverton Farmers Market Sat. 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. May 10-Oct. 25 Wed. 3-6 p.m. June 11-Aug. 27 Hall Boulevard, between Third and Fifth streets http://www.beavertonfarmersmarket.com/
Boring Farmers Market Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. June 1 -Sept. 14 Boring Station Trailhead Park, Highway 212 and Wally Road Camas Farmers Market Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 17-Oct. 4 Downtown Camas, Wash., on Fifth Avenue, between Birch and Cedar streets http://www.camasfarmersmarket.org/
Canby Saturday Farmers Market Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 10-Oct. 11 Northwest First Avenue at North Holly Street
Cedar Mill Farmers Market Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. May 24-Oct. 11 Northwest Cornell Road, one block west of Murray Road at Sunset Mall, across from Sunset High School http://www.thegnar.o...rket/index.html
Estacada Farmers Market Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 3-Oct. 25 Southeast Third Avenue and Broadway http://www.estacadaf...smarket.4t.com/
Fairview Farmers and Artists Market Thu. 4-8 p.m. April 3-Oct. 30 Fairview City Hall, 1300 N.E. Village St. http://www.windancef...om/fairview.htm
Forest Grove Farmers Market Wed. 4-8 p.m. May 14-Oct. 15 21st Avenue, between College Way and Main Street http://adelantemujer...mersmarket.html
Gresham Farmers Market Sat. 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. May 10-Oct. 25 Northwest Miller Avenue between Second and Third streets http://www.greshamfarmersmarket.com/
Hillsboro Farmers Market Sat. 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. May 3-Oct. 26 Tues. 5 p.m.-8:30 p.m. June 10-Aug. 26 East Main Street and Northeast Second Avenue http://www.hillsboromarkets.org/
Hillsboro Sunday Farmers Market at Orenco Station Sun. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 11-Oct. 5 Northeast Cornell Road and Orenco Station Parkway http://www.hillsboromarkets.org/
Hillsdale Farmers Market Sun. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 4-Oct. 26 1407 S.W. Vermont St. at Wilson High School-Rieke Elementary School parking lot http://www.hillsdalefarmersmarket.com/
Hollywood Farmers Market Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. May 3-Oct. 25 Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22 Northeast Hancock Street between 44th and 45th avenues http://www.hollywoodfarmersmarket.org/
Interstate Farmers Market Wed. 3-7 p.m. May 14-Sept. 24 3550 N. Fremont St., adjacent to Overlook Park http://www.interstat...mersmarket.com/
Lake Oswego Farmers Market Sat. 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. May 17-Oct. 11 Millennium Plaza Park at First and Evergreen streets http://www.ci.oswego.../farmersmarket/
Lents International Farmers Market Sun. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. June 15-Oct. 12 Crossroads Plaza, Southeast 92nd Avenue and Foster Road
Milwaukie Sunday Farmers Market Sun. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. May 11-Oct. 26 Southeast Harrison Street between Main Street and Oregon 99E http://www.milwaukiefarmersmarket.com/
Montavilla Farmers Market Sun. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 8-Oct. 5 Southeast Stark Street, west of 82nd Avenue http://www.montavillamarket.org/
Moreland Farmers Market Wed. 3:30-7:30 p.m. May 14-Sept. 24 Southeast Bybee Boulevard and Southeast 14th Avenue http://www.morelandfarmersmarket.org/
OHSU Farmers Market Tue. 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. May 20-Oct. 7
OHSU Auditorium Courtyard near the fountain, off Southwest Sam Jackson Road http://www.ohsu.edu/farmersmarket/
Oregon City Farmers Market Sat. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 5-Oct. 27 2051 Kaen Road and Beavercreek Road http://www.orcityfarmersmarket.com/
Parkrose Farmers Market Sat. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May 3-Oct. 25 12003 N.E. Shaver St. on the west side of the parking lot at Parkrose High School http://www.parkrosefarmersmarket.org/
People's Farmers Market Wed. 2-7 p.m. Year-round 3029 S.E. 21st Ave., one block north of Powell Boulevard http://www.peoples.coop/
Portland Farmers Market at PSU Sat. 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. April 5-Oct. 4 Sat. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 11-Dec. 20 South Park Blocks between Montgomery and Harrison streets http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/
Portland Wednesday Farmers Market Wed. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 30-Oct. 29 South Park Blocks behind Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at Salmon and Main streets http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/
Portland Thursday Farmers Market at Eastbank Thu. 3:30-7:30 p.m. May 15-Sept. 29 Southeast 20th Avenue at Salmon Street, between Hawthorne and Belmont http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/
Portland Farmers Market at EcoTrust Thu. 3:30-7:30 p.m. June 5-Sept. 25 Northwest 10th Avenue between Irving and Johnson streets http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/
Scappoose Community Club Farmers Market Sat. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 17-Sept. 27 East Second Street next to Heritage Park http://www.scappoosefarmermarket.com/
Sherwood Saturday Market Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 3-Sept. 27 Pedestrian walkway next to City Hall, 22560 S.W. Pine St. http://www.sherwoodm...t.blogspot.com/
Sunnyside Grange Farmers Market Sun. 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 6-Oct. 26 13100 S.E. Sunnyside Road and 132nd Avenue http://www.windancef...side Grange.htm
Tigard Area Farmers Market The market is looking for a location for the 2008 season. Anyone have any ideas? Call Trish at 503-244-2479. For updates on the market, check the Web site. http://www.tigardfarmersmarket.com/
Troutdale Farmers and Artists Market Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 5-Oct. 25 East end of Historic Old Town Troutdale across from City Hall in Depot Park http://www.windancef.../Troutdale.html
Vancouver Farmers Market Sat. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 5-Oct. 25 Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 6-Oct. 26 Esther and Eighth streets on the west side of Esther Short Park www.vancouverfarmersmarket.com
West Linn Farmers Market Wed. 4:30-8:30 p.m. May 14-Sept. 24 1725 Willamette Falls Drive, between 10th and 14th streets
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The King Market will feature 45 vendors, offering the best of whats fresh in Oregon, as well as local prepared food and live music. The market is a collaboration between Portland Farmers Market and the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.
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It was like walking past Bath & Body Works at the mall, where you can smell the store 2 storefronts away. At the mall, all fine & good. But at the farmer's market? I went there today instead of Hillsdale because I saw the Peach man at the Portland market yesterday (I call him the Peach man because he brings in Suncrests in the summer), and he said he'd have cherries at Orenco on Sunday. So we went. He wasn't there, no produce was there.
Sorry for the rant. We had brunch at K&Z then dropped our friend at his house in Garden Home, and were less than 5 min from the Hillsdale market but went to Orenco instead to get cherries. Grrrr.
Posted 05 July 2009 - 11:33 AM
It's not up there with Schools, Ken's, Nostrana or Tastebud, but I liked it better than Schmizza or Pizzacato. It's different...very very VERY thin. I think the cheese slice was about 1/4" thick. I'm hopefully going back later with my H and little Ava, if they wake up from nap time before the market closes. I liked the cheese slice. It's kind of hard to describe though. It's a thin layer of red sauce, and a thin layer of cheese, and some herbs. I don't normally like an herby pizza, but this worked. I think they need to leave the pie in the oven another minute or so to get some char on the bottom, but the edges are beautifully chared and the toppings are cooked perfectly. The crust is flavorful and I actually liked it! I was surprised. It's not crispy but it's good fold-in-half-n-eat kind of slice.
They also had a pepperoni, and something that looked like basil & a few vegetables on there, and one more that looked like pepperoni, green onion & olive.
Interesting. I was frankly shocked. I'll write more if I get back over there in time.
They're also at both Saturday & Tuesday's Hillsboro markets.
The rest of the market was booming. Unger farms had flats of strawberries, and there were a few other vendors with gorgeous berries. Two vendors with Bing & Ranier cherries, 2 stalls of fresh produce, Ochoas, a BBQ place, oh...and someone making fresh mini donuts. Those were pillowy and lovely. Not at all greasy. Just yeasty and good.
So glad to see this little market booming again.
Posted 05 July 2009 - 03:30 PM
Cost was $4/slice for pretty large slices, 1/4 pie. We were happy after a slice each, but could've eaten another slice if it was in front of us. So a whole pie would be $16 - $18, depending on the toppings. I don't know how good this pizza would be to go, I think you have to eat it right there or the light crust would just go soggy.
Posted 07 July 2009 - 10:23 PM
Went back to the Veraci Pizza stand at Orenco with H and little Ava. We had a slice of cheese, mushroom, and one had spicy sausage & pepperoncini's. Liked the cheese & mushroom slices, but didn't care for the 3rd one as much because it masked the taste of the cheese and sauce, which I really like on the other 2 kinds. I think this is the best pizza I've had on the West side so far. The slices we had on the 2nd round had more char to them also, which was nice. It didn't make the crust any crispier, but it helped with the taste.
Cost was $4/slice for pretty large slices, 1/4 pie. We were happy after a slice each, but could've eaten another slice if it was in front of us. So a whole pie would be $16 - $18, depending on the toppings. I don't know how good this pizza would be to go, I think you have to eat it right there or the light crust would just go soggy.
Glad you've got something decent out there.. now if only... Hillsdale, Multnomah Village, Raleigh Hills, the Tron, or Lake O could get something decent.
Posted 04 September 2009 - 09:16 AM
Here is the parade route: http://www.beaverton...outemap2009.pdf
The market is between 3rd & 5th on Hall.
Posted 07 May 2010 - 09:53 AM
A bunch of farmers markets open or opened this week. Here's my take on the Buckman Market (formerly Eastbank):
April showers seem to have brought May showers, no flowers. But May is the month farmers markets begin to bloom. Last Sunday, the Hillsdale Farmers Market began its new season and the King Market opened in Northeast Portland. On Wednesday, the Shemanski Park Market opened downtown. This coming Saturday, the Beaverton Farmers Market opens. And yesterday, the Buckman Farmers Market, formerly known as the Eastbank Farmers Market opened. Strawberries, dandelion greens, pretzel bread, @jenlikestoeat dressed like a pumpkin and @eaterpdx like a tomato. And I took pictures.
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Formerly, Kenny & Zuke's
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Posted 08 May 2010 - 01:22 PM
We were at Beaverton at 8AM today and got some wonderful hanging baskets from Stoller farms. I was looking for Olympic Provisions and, while they were on the map, there was someone else (I assume a weekly fill-in) in their spot. Hope they are here later in the season.
Beaverton Farmer's Market opens this weekend. New vendors include Olympic Provisions & Tastebud. We'll be hitting up both Beaverton & PSU markets tomorrow morning. Excited!
Posted 08 May 2010 - 07:32 PM
The greatest service chemistry has rendered to alimentary science, is the discovery of osmazome, or rather the determination of what it was. ~Brillat-Savarin
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Co-Author, Artisan Jewish Deli at Home
Formerly, Kenny & Zuke's
Posted 08 May 2010 - 08:59 PM
We were at Beaverton at 8AM today and got some wonderful hanging baskets from Stoller farms. I was looking for Olympic Provisions and, while they were on the map, there was someone else (I assume a weekly fill-in) in their spot. Hope they are here later in the season.
Beaverton Farmer's Market opens this weekend. New vendors include Olympic Provisions & Tastebud. We'll be hitting up both Beaverton & PSU markets tomorrow morning. Excited!
We looked for them also but didn't see them. Tastebud was there but they had a small booth that didn't have their trademark wood oven going. They had bagels & sandwich stuff.
We got to the Beaverton market around 10:30am and by 11:00am a lot of booths were almost cleared out. The market was stuffed with people, as hard to walk through in some areas as the Portland market with the old layout. And that's a tall order for the Beaverton market because the aisles are incredibly wide.
GTF, Deep Roots, Denison & the asparagus guys were the most noticeably sold out. I was most bummed that I didn't get to Denison earlier because they had favas but only a few straggler beans were left by the time I got over there. Only place in the market that has them. I did however get baby orange, red, and chioga beets from them, so that made me quite happy. Also picked up pea shoots, spring garlic, spring onions, tomato plants, herb plants.
Denison Farms is my favorite because they always have things that aren't available at the other stalls. Favas (mentioned above), huge long romano beans in the summer which I adore, gigantic runner beans, all kinds of great stuff.
Special finds at the market included lavender honey from some new honey vendor that is to die for. I think it would be great with cheese and blackberries. And a Hillbilly variety tomato plant that I'm REALLY hoping I can make grow to full size. I first had Hillbilly tomatoes at my Aunt's in Sacramento. Orange & yellow stripe tomato that grows very large & heirloom shaped. This is my favorite tomato of all time. Here's what they look like: http://www.nextharve...image/T7430.jpg
I've never had luck growing full size tomatoes though. I do great with cherry varieties, but full-size ones rot on the vine with the cool nights starting in Sept before they get to full size & ready to pick. But I'm going to give it a try, as I LOVE this variety and have never seen it here, either as a start or at any of the booths at the farmer's markets during tomato season.
We saw Linda Crab at the Beaverton market but I'm still pissed at them for the bad halibut, so I'm too gun shy to buy from them. I didn't see my favorite fish vendor at Beaverton market though. The 2 guys with the double-wide stall, used to be where Linda Crab is now, but last year they moved to the end of the prepared foods aisle. I hope they're going to show at the market again this year. Really great guys and excellent seafood.
After Beaverton we headed over to the PSU market and scored a GREAT parking space, which happens never. I'm loving the fish vendor in the back corner across from Deep Roots. Remarkably fresh fish and the guy knows exactly where he caught everything that's there. The halibut & cod have both been great.
We're 3 for 3 on buying from this guy now.
Posted 28 May 2010 - 05:25 PM
Oh, and Amanda, the kombucha folks were there!
Posted 16 June 2010 - 06:40 PM
The French term cuisine du marché translates roughly as cooking from the market, and its an apt term for how many of us in Portland cook and eat local, seasonal, spanking fresh. Get to a market early and you can catch some of Portlands best chefs prowling the aisles for the specials that will grace their menus that week, if not that very day.
And there are market chefs such as Mark Doxtader of Tastebud, Chris Douglas of Savory et Sweet and Sophie Rahman of Masala who literally shop the market in the darkness before it opens to gather the ingredients theyll feature in their stalls later in the morning when shoppers arrive. Food that was picked from the field only hours before, then prepared right before you eat it? For my money that makes Portlands farmers markets some of the freshest and cheapest places to eat in this food-crazy town.
So to bring it all full circle, eat market-fresh food while you shop for ingredients to cook yourself. Weve scoured the local market scene for the best and the brightest prepared-food vendors at six Portland markets. A word to the wise: Several of those mentioned attend more than one market, so check the market websites for their current vendor lists.
The greatest service chemistry has rendered to alimentary science, is the discovery of osmazome, or rather the determination of what it was. ~Brillat-Savarin
Nick Zukin, Mi Mero Mole
Co-Author, Artisan Jewish Deli at Home
Formerly, Kenny & Zuke's
Posted 17 June 2010 - 12:14 PM
Had some nice tastes of dry cured sausages from Olympic Provisions, and some very delicious samples of many flavors of granola from newcomer Little Brown Box, Co. I bought a little packet of the cherry gingersnap, and it is very tasty stuff.
Got some Hood berries (better than last week's, nowhere near as good as last year's) from Unger (they also had Albions) too. Sweet and flavorful, but still a bit watery, and better than the Albions.
Also there is newcomer Deb Counts-Tabor's Sage and Sea Farms drinking vinegars, fruit shrubs and pickles. Tried the cherry drinking vinegar and it was nice - very fruity. She only uses fruit, vinegar, water and sugar; and she tries to get as much fruit flavor into the vinegars as possible. She is succeeding. If you like drinking vinegars, find her and her product, it's the best I've had. http://www.sageandseafarms.com/
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Yesterday it was reported that the conflict in Israel and Palestine continue despite efforts by the world community to push a cease fire. And today news reports announced today that Obama's advisors landed in Israel to help ease the tension and hopefully work towards some peace. With all this negative news coming out of the region, it can be a bit depressing.
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To purchase fair trade olive oil and other Palestinian products check out Caanan Fair Trade products. This news may be the beginning of many fair trade products to come out of the occupied territory. With war raging in the region and economic failure, it seems like we never hear anything positive about Palestine. But hopefully this piece of good news will lead to others. As our politicians work on easing tensions, we hope fair trade initiatives can pave the road to economic and social recovery. And a true olive branch of peace can be extended.


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Sharing the dressing room with Sachin Tendulkar is a memory that Rishi Dhawan would cherish all his life and now the young Himachal Pradesh all-rounder is confident that he would have an equally great time playing alongside Virender Sehwag for Kings XI Punjab this season.
"What do I say about Sachin paaji. It was special to spend time with him. The IPL winning moments with him will stay with me forever. He used to point out all my faults at the nets and I became a better player as the tournament went on. Now it is great to play with Viru paaji," Dhawan told PTI while recollecting his stint with Mumbai Indians, who won the IPL last season.
The 24-year-old was bought for Rs three crore at the back of a solid show in the Ranji Trophy where he was the highest wicket-taker besides scoring 450 runs.
He said his focus this IPL is to perform his dual role so well that he gets a shot at being the seaming all-rounder India is looking for a long time.
The expectations ihave increased from the lad from Mandi after he did well in the recent domestic T20 games in Mohali.
"There is no point putting pressure on myself ahead of the IPL. It has been a good time for me and my family since the auction. I am not really distracted by the attention and the focus is on playing good cricket. Hopefully, it will get me into the Indian team," Dhawan said.
Getting into the national team like any upcoming player is the ultimate dream for Dhawan, who can realise it rather quickly given that India are still unable to find a seaming all-rounder for the long run.
Stuart Binny could not do much in the recent chances he got while Irfan Pathan has been out of the team owing to form and fitness.
"I am trying the best I can irrespective of the level I am playing at. It now depends on the selectors, when they think of giving me the opportunity."
Asked about his role, the shy cricketer said: "I see myself more as a batting all-rounder. Every match I play I make sure I give equal attention to both batting and bowling."
Dhawan took to the game at a tender age of 13 and was mostly confined to the pleasant environs of Himachal Pradesh's third largest city. A decade later, the little-known all-rounder has become the latest millionaire in Indian cricket.
Ask him about the journey and he prefers to credit it all to the almighty.
"God has been kind. I don't know what I will do with the money. I was hooked on to the TV in Amritsar where I was watching the auction. Everyone was really happy with the news," he signed off.


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Shirvell Runs Impressive Anchor Leg, Secures Fifth Place
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—After two days of impressive performances in front of thousands of fans on the biggest stage, the Yale men's track and field team apparently saved its best for last. On Saturday, the third and final day of competition for the Bulldogs at the historic Penn Relays, the Elis' 4xMile-relay team of senior Timothy Hillas, sophomore John McGowan, sophomore Matt Nussbaum and junior James Shirvell ran the fastest 4xMile relay in Yale history and managed a remarkable fifth-place finish in the Penn Relays College Men's 4xMile Championship of America. The Bulldogs finished in 16:20.35, less than three seconds behind Oregon—the winners of the event—and more than 30 seconds ahead of Yale's previous record time in the event, a 16:52.38 recorded back in 2004.
Although the Elis have historically rarely competed in the 4xMile relay, they entered some of their finest and most accomplished athletes in the event on Saturday—a move that clearly paid off. McGowan, who excels in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs and who placed ninth in the mile at the Ivy League Indoor Championships earlier this season, ran a strong opening leg for the Bulldogs (4:07.8), and the Bulldogs were tied for second when he handed the baton off to Nussbaum, a fellow sophomore.
Nussbaum typically specializes in the longer distances and has become a true cross country star—not to mention a U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Honoree. But Nussbaum ran like a mile-run specialist on Saturday, finishing his leg in 4:05.3.
Hillas, the team captain, took over the next leg. Coming into the race, his personal-best mile time was a 4:05.43 he ran at the Terrier Classic earlier this season. Hillas showed off for the massive Penn Relays crowd, however, running a 4:03.9 to keep the Bulldogs in the mix for a top spot.
Shirvell, who placed third in the 1,000-meter run at the Ivy League Indoor Championships this season and has recorded three first-place finishes during the outdoor season alone, then did some of his best running of the season, if not his collegiate career. Shirvell ran a 4:03.4, the fastest leg of any of his teammates and the third-fastest anchor leg of any of the teams competing in the relay on Saturday, to secure the Bulldogs' top-five finish. All in all, each team member with the exception of McGowan outran his personal-best mile time—Hillas by approximately 1.5 seconds, Shirvell by nearly six seconds and Nussbaum by just less than 17 seconds.
The Elis not only beat out Ivy rivals Columbia and Dartmouth in the event, but also outran teams from large powerhouse schools like Boston College, Clemson, Duke and Georgetown.
Despite bringing only 10 athletes to Philadelphia, the Bulldogs recorded a range of memorable performances over the course of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Elis certainly held their own against some of the world's finest athletes, and the team will have plenty of momentum to build on when they continue their hectic schedule by hurrying home to New Haven to host the Yale Springtime Invitational on Sunday. A full schedule of events for the meet is available at http://static.psbin.com/r/9/1ju89rrw6lmz7l/2013InformationSheet.pdf. Results will be posted on www.yalebulldogs.com at the end of the day's action.
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A 'welcome sign' is stolen
A "Welcome To Kane" sign-- similar to the one shown in this photo-- has been stolen from a site along Route 321 north of Kane. The Kane Borough Police Department is asking persons with information to contact police. The hand-carved sign is valued at $2,500. The Kane Chamber of Commerce installed the signs along highway entrances to the borough.


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Earth Week begins at Penn State
Earth Week begins at Penn State
It's Earth Week at Penn State. Activities and events are scheduled at not only University Park but across the state at other Penn State campuses. The festivities will celebrate the treasures of our earth and how we care for our planet.
At University Park:
-- Tuesday, April 22 – "Growing Cities" film screening
The director and producer of the award-winning documentary, Dan Susman, will take part in a panel discussions after the film with food experts, agriculture experts and community members. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held at 6:30 p.m. in 121 Sparks Building.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Green Team Earth Day Extravaganza
The second annual Earth Day Extravaganza will be held in the lobby of the Outreach Building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Attendees can take part in quizzes, discussions and games.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Student Sustainability Advisory Council Annual Tree Award & Planting
The annual event honors members of Penn State's community, specifically students, who have shown particular commitment to sustainability during their time at Penn State. A tree is planted in the winner's name on the MorningStar Solar Home's grounds. The event is at 1:30 p.m. at the MorningStar Solar Home on Porter Road.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Eco Action Earth Day Celebration
Eco-Action will be on Old Main's patio and lawn from 6 to 8 p.m. potting plants, playing games and more. Environmental groups will be in attendance discussing their efforts and there will be live entertainment. Bring your own T-shirt for tie-dying. The event is free and open to the public.
-- Wednesday, April 23 – Cutting Pollution, Adapting Now: How Pennsylvania Can Confront Climate Change & Planting
A roundtable discussion will be held at 4 p.m. at the Schlow Library Community Room that will center around climate change and its impact on Pennsylvania and the steps we should consider to protect our wildlife, public health and outdoor economy.
Other Penn State events across the state:
-- Monday, April 21 – Earth Day Week at The Navy Yard – Tour CBEI & GridSTAR Center
Learn about the efforts Penn State has made at The Navy Yard through a collaborative tour of the Consortium for Building Energy and Innovation (CBEI, formerly EEB Hub) and the GridSTAR Center. Touring starts at noon.
-- Monday, April 21 & Tuesday, April 22 – Earth Day at Penn State Schuykill
The Schuykill campus will host two free events open to the public and sponsored by the new student-run Penn State Schuykill Sustainability Club and the EPICS Sustainability Program. Monday, there will be a showing of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" along with environmentally-friendly crafts for kids. Tuesday is their annual Eco-Fair will be held on the campus mall walk.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Earth Day at Penn State Altoona
Penn State's Eco Action organization will celebrate Earth Day with a day-long schedule of events that includes live music. Activities start at 11 a.m. at the Slep Student Center. There will be refreshments (including bike blender smoothies), crafts and more. Music will be provided by the Penn State Altoona Ukelele Club, the Backyard Rockers, Rich Edmundson and Nobody's Heroes. The event is free and open to the public.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Earth Day at Penn State York
Starting at 1:30 p.m., Peter Siwik, a Penn State graduate and owner of Siwik Produce Farm, an organic farm in Felton, Pa., will speak. The event, in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Rulh Student Community Center, is free and open to the public.
-- Tuesday, April 22 – Earth Day at Penn State DuBois
A variety of activities promoting green and sustainable practices will start at noon in the campus gymnasium. There will be 14 exhibits from organizations as well as activities for children, refreshments and door prizes. The event, which is free and open to the public, is organized by the Penn State DuBois Eco Club and the Green Team.
-- Wednesday, April 23 – Penn State Berks Earth Day
Penn State Berks students from BiSC3: Environmental Science course are planning an Earth Day celebration open to the public. Community organizations and student projects will be on display in front of the Perkins Student Center starting at 9 a.m.
For more information on these events and to add an activity to the list, visit www.earthday.psu.edu.
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Hector Javier Martinez, Mata Ortiz and Casas Grandes, Black and white jar with sgraffito Night of the Dead in Venice design
Pueblo: Mata Ortiz and Casas Grandes
Dimensions: 16 3/4 in H by 15 3/4 in Dia Measurement includes stand
Item Number: xxcga9140
Price: $ CALL
Description: Black and white jar with sgraffito Night of the Dead in Venice design
Condition: Excellentℑs=4
Signature: H. Javier Martinez Mendez Gabriela Perez de Martinez
Date Created: 2019
Hector Javier
Mata Ortiz and
Casas Grandes
Born in 1984, Hector Javier Martinez sprang onto the Mata Ortiz pottery scene about ten years ago (2008) with his distinctive style of black and tan pots incised with Day of the Dead and Night of the Dead motifs. Those designs resulted from a comment made to him by Steve Rose (a well-known American pottery dealer). Employed as an auto mechanic and gardener just to make ends meet while he figured out the pottery making business, Javier had asked what Steve thought he needed to do in order to make pottery his permanent vocation. Steve replied, "Time for something different." A few years later Javier won 1st Place in the 2013 Concurso Ceramica Juan Mata Ortiz for one of his Day of the Dead pots. Then in 2014 he won the Presidencial Award at the Premio Nacional de la Ceramica in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, for a large olla incised with Mexico City views and his Night of the Dead theme (the pot pictured above). Since then we have seen his pots with Day of the Dead and Night of the Dead motifs on them with backgrounds from Paris, Santa Fe, Mata Ortiz and New York City.
Javier told us he first learned to make pottery from his mother, but her style was very different from what he found in Mata Ortiz. He had to learn all over again, using local materials and different processes and tools. In the beginning his subjects were religious (the Virgin of Guadalupe, priest images, etc.) and the designs were all painted on his pots. It was 10 years ago that he and Gabriela produced their first black and white sgraffito Day of the Dead/Night of the Dead pots together. The style took off immediately and they haven't looked back since, although they have branched out a bit and now produce bowls and plates, too.
Today, Javier is producing all kinds and sizes of pots with his signature Day of the Dead and Night of the Dead motifs. However, with his success has come competition and knockoffs. That said, the detail of his work sets him well apart and working with Gabriela has introduced some new elements into their Dia de los Muertos collection of designs.
Javier and Gabriela have four sons, ages 4 to 13 (and Javier says he wants another). He says his inspiration comes from his culture and music. Gabriela concurred with that saying that when he's working on a large pot, he might as well be living as a character on the pot.
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Mata Ortiz and Casas Grandes
The macaw pens at Paquimé
Casas Grandes is both a municipality and an archaeological district in northern Chihuahua State, Mexico. The archaeological district includes the pre-historic ruins of Paquimé, a city that began to build around 1130 AD and was abandoned about 1450 AD. Archaeologists are uncertain as to whether Paquimé was settled by migrants from the Mogollon/Mimbres settlements to the north or by Anasazi elite from the Four Corners region in the United States or by others. Over the years Paquimé was built into a massive complex with structures up to six and seven stories high with multiple Great Houses in the surrounding countryside. Today, the site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mata Ortiz is a small settlement inside the bounds of the Casas Grandes municipality very near the site of Paquimé. The fortunes of the town have gone up and down over the years with a real economic slump happening after the local railroad repair yard was relocated to Nuevo Casas Grandes in the early 1960's. The town was in steady decline until Juan Quezada, a poor farmer who gathered firewood in the area of the archaeological site, found fragments of ancient Paquimé pottery and even older fragments of Mimbres forms with bold black-on-white designs littering the ground. Those pot shards inspired him to recreate how that pottery had first been made.
Ramos Polychrome effigy from Paquimé
Quezada was successful in his quest to recreate the ancient process using slightly more modern techniques (although no one in the present tradition uses a potter's wheel). He learned to use sand and other coarse materials for temper. He discovered that dried cow dung made an excellent and inexpensive firing fuel. Instead of using gourds for smoothing he substituted broken hacksaw blades. Instead of using yucca fiber brushes for painting he learned to make brushes with human baby hair. He persevered in his efforts and by 1971 had produced a kind of polychrome pottery. Since then, most pottery-making in the area has used innovations in the design and decoration of the pots but the materials and the basic crafting of the process have remained the same.
By the mid-1970's, Quezada had attracted a significant number of traders and his work was becoming a commercial success. That is when he began teaching his techniques to his immediate family. They in turn taught other family members, friends and the younger generations. Both women and men were included from the beginning.
Contemporary Mata Ortiz pottery was mistakenly called Casas Grandes prehistoric pottery in the early years of its production. But the potters of this tiny village have made such an impact on the pottery communities, including many awards and special recognition from the Presidents of Mexico, that Mata Ortiz pottery is now becoming known around the world.
Today, pottery production has changed the village in many ways as there is now electricity, plumbing, vehicles and more for the residents. Virtually everyone in the small town (2010 population: 1,182) makes their living by working in some part of the pottery-making process, from potters to clay-gatherers to firewood collectors to traders.
Mata Ortiz pottery incorporates elements of contemporary and prehistoric design and decoration, and each potter or pottery family produces their own distinctive, individualized ware. Young potters from surrounding areas have been attracted to the Mata Ortiz revival and new potting families have developed while the art movement continues to expand. Without the restraints of traditional religious practices or gender constraints, a vibrant flow of new ideas has enabled the pottery of Mata Ortiz to avoid the derivative repetition common to virtually all folk art movements. This blend of economic need, gender equality, cultural expression and artistic freedom has produced a unique artistic movement in today's community.
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The Day of the Dead, El Dia de los Muertos, is a holiday celebrated in Mexico where ancient Aztec rituals going back more than 2,500 years are merged with Catholic beliefs brought by the Spaniards in the 1500's. The holiday is about honoring the ancestors with food, drink, parties and other activities designed to include the ancestors' spirits in today's daily life. Families also set up ofrendas, or private altars, to honor their ancestors.
Death is considered an integral part of the continuum of life and, as such, is not to be feared. Celebrations occur November 1 (All Saints Day) when adult spirits come to visit, and November 2 (All Souls Day) when families go to the cemetery to decorate the graves of their loved ones. This is a very colorful holiday with marigolds, cardboard skeletons, sugar skulls, incense and tissue paper decorations in riotous colors everywhere.
Depictions of Day of the Dead activities is a motif explored by several renowned potters from the village of Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Northern Mexico. Premier among them is Hector Javier Martinez who originated the style in 2008 after searching for "something different" to help him secure pottery making as a vocation. He has since won several major awards for his Day of the Dead (and Night of the Dead) pottery, the very prestigious Presidencial Award from the Mexico National Ceramics Concourso in Tlaquepaque among them. Alfredo Rodriguez, Diana Loya, Martin Corona, Adrian Corona and Emiliano Rodriguez are some of the other Mata Ortiz artists using Day of the Dead and Night of the Dead motifs as inspiration for their own creations.
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- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
- Place a piece of felt or cloth between the pot and the shelf to protect the signature.
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- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
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As it'll take a bit before there's a good supply of them flooding the market, for those of us not funded by the guild bank or not sitting on the bleeding edge of progression content might want to hold off a bit before buying to allow for the price to go down a bit.
For the few of us that will need those gems right as they come out, I can see your wallets crawling off into a corner to commit suicide now as they WILL be expensive. If you're main tanking for your guild, you'd have a decent argument towards getting your guild gems donated to you as you get upgrades in the new instance and if you're not, well, best of luck to you.
When it comes to the gems themselves, we're going to see a bit of a shift away from what's been established thus far.
As of now, we're likely primarily focusing more on Mastery than stamina as with enough gear, we come to the point where we don't NEED to toss on more stamina in the form of gems.
With new content out though, that's a gemming strategy that you definitely might want to consider.
Given that Stamina and Mastery will be the gems of choice with a tiiiiny emphasis on stamina for the time being, given that nobody's really used to the new content coming out and a bit more of a health pool cushion wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Select your gems trying to match those socket bonuses whenever possible but skip it if the bonus isn't that high or if it's something that you don't really need.
As the raid progression continues with the new instance, we'll once again see a move away from having to gem for stamina and shifting again more into a Mastery > Parry mindset but at the beginning, the extra HP can really be make or break so be wary and don't neglect that extra stamina until you're confident that you don't really need it.


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SSU "Friend of the Earth" Charlie Moore, Gyre Researcher, Speaks on 15 Years of Findings During Earth Month
Since he began studying plastics in the Pacific Ocean in 1997, the amount of plastic in the ocean has doubled. Gyre researchers the world over are finding 1 piece per square meter, Moore told an audience at Salem State University on April 11, 2012 as he was honored as a "Friend of the Earth."
Moore spends weeks at a time on a wind-powered research vessel slowly pulling a manta trawl. He collects and analyzes debris found in the top 20 cm of the Pacific Gyre and he has been to all the major garbage patches—the widespread debris fields of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the concentrated gyres like the North Pacific.
The proof is in Moore's petri dish. It's "toxic synthetic drift," he said; "It's a compound nature can't digest." About 90 percent of the ocean plastics are dispersed throughout the water column. Plastic makes its way to the gyre because a ferocious amount of it is bursting from urban areas all over the globe, or it travels far down the Earth's great rivers. Or, it's dumped directly into the ocean as disposal. He has the pictures to prove it.
The problem, or challenge if you are looking from the vantage point of the "Plastic Makes it Possible" camp, is that plastic has no after life. The world's currents simply carry it all to debris fields in every ocean. Plastic is free to spend an eternity lollygagging and creating mayhem.
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In the U.S., we make more plastic than steel—"it's ubiquitous in our lives," said Moore. Plastic is the solid state of petroleum, so it never biodegrades. However, plastics break down, releasing a cocktail of chemicals. Some mimic estrogen, others are carcinogens like DDT.
When it comes to recycling, we "downcycle" plastic, he said. The melting point of plastic is the challenge—it's a lot lower than the temperature needed to kill bacteria. We can't recycle plastic into food containers.
Moore said food safety law prohibits use of recycled plastic for food containers without a liner. Once materials are fused, packaging is no longer recyclable. Plastics that are recycled can only be used in "lesser" products, like plastic decking and park furniture. He showed how such products are inferior, cracking with pressure and warping with heat.
According to Moore's recycling colleagues, we're only recycling "diddly point squat" of plastics—55 percent of all plastic is single-use. We're the "Throw Away Society," he said, showing us a 1955 Stackpole image. The market is calling for it.
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Coldplay Releases Prospekt's March [EP] in the U.S. Today
Have you ever heard of Coldplay? I am guessing even if you don't listen to them, you have heard of the band. I am truly amazed by this band. Not only are they a darn good band, (even if you just think they are just a poppy, trendy U2, their success is obvious) but they very well could be the best marketed band ever. They time their release dates perfectly, show up on all the popular shows just before the album hits the market, gives away free downloads of their songs, does free concerts in London and probably the most commonly played total set of songs from a secular band, currently being played in churches I have heard. They have transcended most cultural lines, political boundaries, and music genres.
On June 15 2008, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends topped the UK album chart, despite having been on sale for only three days. In that time, it sold 302,000 copies; the BBC called it "one of the fastest-selling records in UK history". By the end of June, it had set a new record for most-downloaded album ever.
They release one album in April of this year (see also Coldplay's New Viva La Vida Cover Art Released), Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, after working on it since 2006, and today they have released an EP version of the album, but with 6 new songs and 2 good remakes. Viva became Amazon's number one selling album BEFORE it is released, just on pre-orders and today (without pre-orders) it is ranked #14 in rock and moving up.
Today, they released Prospekt's March [EP], which was completed at the same time as Viva la Vida, and scheduled for release around this time. It has 8 songs, 6 news ones, and a cover similar to Viva la Vida.


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California milk producers, who sustained steep losses over the past year because of low milk prices and high feed costs, are pushing legislation that would change how the state sets the price of milk used in cheese production.
California milk producers, who sustained steep losses over the past year because of low milk prices and high feed costs, are pushing legislation that would change how the state sets the price of milk used in cheese production.
But their bill is causing a rift in the state's dairy industry, because it would largely take a share of the price of cheese away from milk processors and shift it to dairy operators.
Western United Dairymen, the Modesto-based trade group behind the bill, said it would give milk producers about $200 million a year in additional revenues. That's important in San Joaquin County, where milk is the No. 1 farm commodity.
The relief sought in Assembly Bill 31 is much needed, Western United Dairymen CEO Michael Marsh said.
"Even though today our price is at relatively historically high levels, feed costs have just been hammering producers," he said. "It's a vise around the livestock producers' necks."
Those high milk prices barely cover the costs of production, Marsh said. And dairy farmers could use higher returns to cover losses sustained earlier this year, when prices were much lower.
But it's not fair to shift the burden of high feed prices onto California cheese makers, said Rachel Kaldor, executive director of the Dairy Institute of California, the Sacramento-based trade group that represents processors.
"We like to see producers get a good milk price, but it has to be one that allows cheese makers to operate in a global, national and state market," she said. "We just feel that AB31 is just absolutely the wrong approach."
To assure a reliable and safe dairy supply, California regulators set minimum wholesale milk prices in the state under a complex scheme that considers milk grades, location, production rights, commodity prices and more. A similar federal system controls prices in most of the rest of the nation.
Western United said its bill would more closely align the value for whey under the California formula for milk used in cheese with federal pricing. Whey is a byproduct of cheese production that contains lactose, vitamins, protein and traces of fat. Once considered a waste product, it is increasingly valuable because of modern processing technology and new applications.
In a news release, Western United President Tom Barcellos said, "Too many of our dairy families have fallen victim to a milk pricing formula that has failed to capture for producers the true value of the milk and its components in the face of extraordinary feed costs."
However, Kaldor countered that the bill would toss a monkey wrench into a state pricing system that tries to balance all interests of the dairy industry and consumers.
Various market forces contribute to the higher milk prices paid by Midwestern cheese plants, she argued, but it makes no sense to try to impose those same prices in California, where such market conditions do not exist.
"We consider it unfortunate that Western United is moving milk pricing from the regulatory arena, where it's overseen by experts in the California Department of Food and Agriculture, over to the Legislature so that the Legislature, in effect, is setting a milk price," she said.
Western United hopes to strike fast.
The bill introduced Dec. 3, the first day of the new two-year legislative session, already has nearly 54 Assembly members as co-authors, said Marsh, who added he hopes to get half that many state Senate co-authors. That would provide two-thirds majorities in both houses.
"Then I can move it very, very quickly," he said.
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