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Look!: Jennifer's Rug-Inspired Studio
Jennifer found our blog in the pages of Domino Magazine and was urged by her mother to send in pics of her Boston studio apartment for us to post. It seems that she was so inspired by the lovely rug you see on the floor in the following pics, that she styled the rest of her apartment on it.
As she says, Jennifer has done some neat things to her walls using only "some paint, tape and creativity." The camerawork is not expert, but you can still get the ideas. (Thanks, Jennifer!)
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Jennifer your place has inspired me. The idea of taking a motif and sprinkling it throughout your home is pure genius...how did you transfer the motif from the rug to the wall? What was the process?
Great blue! I really like the motif and the harmony!
You've got a great blue carpet too!! (from??);-)
What are the fuzzy looking circles on the wall made of? I love them!
Wow, where did you get that carpet?
I have the same colours in my place...
Amazing job!!
I've seen very similiar knockoff version of this rug at my local Target. Here's the link from the Target web site. Note that the colors from the Target web site are off (like the reviewers from the web site mention). The mums in the rug from the actual version in the store is a cross between aqua and blue gray. For a 5x8 rug at $100 it can't be beat. I almost purchased it but it doesnt go with anything in my house.
I like, but am confused about how this is a studio. That rug really is lovely.
If you look closely, you can see the very foot of the bed in one of the pics of the seating area. It's all one long room, I think.
nice! tell me more about the blue flowers behind the bed. how was that done?
The original rug is here:
it's easy to beautifully furnish an apartment when you have lots of money to spend on quality pieces...
That's not always so, spcy -- sometimes people with the most money have the ugliest stuff.
Money doesn't buy good taste! It is a very special gift to be able to put together an entire apartment harmoniously. Urban Outfitters had very similar rugs for really cheap.
Spcy, I don't think there's anything particularly expensive in here...all nicely chosen pieces and lovely--but it's not like she's had tons of custom cabinetry built in with high end pieces or anything like that.
I particularly like the seating area---lots of seating and a very comfortable layout without bulky pieces. Nice! Very soothing colors too!
I agree, there isn't much "expensive" things in the space - a few good solid furniture - dining table, bed, dresser and side table. And some fun design elements. The key is she stuck to a color/theme which made the space feel more expensive. :)
With that, I love the fuzzy circles on the wall! (rugs? towels?)
perhaps y'all are right...looks can be deceiving.
please tell us, jennifer, about the blue flowers painted onto the wall behind your bed. if it really is cheap (and easy), then i want some for my apartment!
Rasil, I KNEW you'd ask about the flowers. Here's my guess: Trace and transfer. Trace the design by making line art...so it looks like a stencil. Then transfer the design to the wall after cutting out the "holes" where you don't want the paint. Then it can be stenciled.
You might be able to do that with the design you looked at on the red kimono, print out the picture, have it enlarged, then make the stencil...basic ideas here:
Spcy, let's do it for less! The rallying call for doing a room in similar theme for mere cents. Okay, it's more than cents.
Nope, I can't afford the lovely area rug either. The usual tips are to know where to splurge and know where to scrimp. Unfortunately I can't splurge anywhere at all. And don't I know it! LOL!
Let's work on it...the rug at Company C is too expensive. The rug at Target is reasonable, although "not available" right now. Still, let's say $100.00 for the rug.
Next, the bed and bedding area.
Fold the KILAN bedspread over the base of the bed, Brown/beige reversible, $59.99
Just click; triple dresser, $169.97; queen bed, $269.87; night table, $62.87
Intense solid color sheets, Queen set, $26.99, Aqua Blue:
You can browse tables and chairs for a dining area all day. Here's a wood set at JCPenney, 6 chairs and counter height table, $649.00:
I personally don't need or use a dining table and so I don't have one. Many of the sets are HUGE, and you'd do better to ONLY ACCOMODATE THE NEEDS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE...like just a couple chairs:
And a square table:
Are you seeing how you can get a nice looking place without spending a fortune? Oh, it's not all the same wood and it's not from a fancy place, but it will still be attractive and have a similar look.
And isn't that what you want? That LOOK? You could have a plain white cotton blanket over the bed with JCP sheets and IKEA bedcover. Or you could have imported sheets made from linen, a hand-stitched custom-made white bedcover with an eiderdown (with the down plucked from the abandoned nests of birds in the arctic wildness by National Geographic employees) comforter. It's still going to be the same look. Aqua sheets, white cover, brown at the base.
The key to duplicating any look is BROWSING!!!! Ahhhh! I can't say that enough times. FOLLOW every link you can find. Order catalogs. All kinds of catalogs. Stuff you're pretty sure you'll never be able to afford to stuff you can afford and really wouldn't buy. Because you never know what look you might find, and what things you might find that will duplicate that look for less.
It's way easy to spend more. If we had unlimited amounts of money, we could find Jennifer, and find out all her sources, or offer her a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy all her furniture and have her do the wall painting for us. That's way too easy. There's no challenge in having a lot of money.
The fun part is being broke and wanting the look and being able to get it. That's a challenge. I like challenges.
this really is lovely, although I'd love to see the bed in white, and the other furniture a lighter tone (the chaise longue is perfect). the painting on the wall and the colors are so ethereal; the dark wood drags it down a bit for me. I normally like contrast -- black and brown against white -- but here I feel like I want everything to float. It's probably not realistic to expect you to strip and stain and paint all your nice wood furniture though (but if you do send a picture!). But overall: just wonderful, and the flowers behind the bed are fantastic.
Your posts are very informative, but please consider:
Hey, DC folks! Big spread about partment Therapy (featuring P2's place, the blog and the book) in today's WPost Express.
What a great space. It is the exact feel I want in my place, calm, serene and pulled together. Clean and clutter-free without feeling too sparse. I think you've done a fantastic job.
I finally realized why everyone is always recommending tinyurl.com in these threads - most of you must be using Internet Explorer. At work, we have Mozilla (the firm disabled IE for security reasons), and at home I use Opera, so these long URLs are never a problem. Don't think that everyone sees these pages the same way! I came to this site using IE last night and was quite surprised to see that the long URLs widened the page. Mozilla & Opera show the links inside the boxes of the messages and you can scroll the link inside the box - but they don't screw up the whole page width. Instead of recommending tinyurl.com, I recommend trying a browser that is more compliant with web standards. Mozilla and Opera are really cool.
Thanks JenDC--it's online at:
Click in the upper right corner on "Download Today's Edition."
Page 49 - Healing Your Home. (Don't try to search for any key words to find it - trust me.)
With a pic of P2's place.
Henrietta, thus far, none of the "tinyurl" things have actually worked for me. Let me try to make one of my own...
Okay, paste doesn't work automatically like it says it does...oh, that auto function is for Windows.
So, instead of just selecting all and copying and pasting, I now get to click a link to tinyurl, select just the new tinyurl text link, copy, and paste that. And I lose the original page in front of me, and now will have a tinyurl page. So to view what I was viewing, I have to click the back button again.
Did I mention I'm on dial-up?
See if that tinyurl thing works. I'll try it after this message posts and see if it works for me too.
And this is what I got for my first attempt to load the link I just made:
Could not open the page "http://tinyurl.com/klm85" because the server "tinyurl.com" could not be found.
Worked the second time. I never tried to do it twice, I just assumed it would never work after the first time. Because the above message is what I've gotten everytime before.
Okay, I'll give it a whirl, add in more steps for me. Personally, I like to see where I'm going before clicking on a link. I've ended up at some very interesting places by clicking on "click here" links.
OHHHHHH, Thanks dIANE, I didn't realize that these areas got the jumbo width from the jumbo links like the Prospero boards do.
On MY browser, I'm on Safari, the message box remains the same width consistently, and the jumbo links disappear on the right side. Whether 40 or 400 characters, they all disappear off to the right and don't add width.
Sorry about that, folks. I had NO idea that was occuring here for others. I will make it a point to do tinyurl links from this point forward.
Thanks again, dIANE for explaining the WHYS. It's so easy for me to assume everyone is seeing the same thing...even though I know we aren't seeing the same colors or have the same tools. Silly me.
I apologize for the giant links! Forgive me!
Oh my goodness, no need to be so apologetic. It's true that we who have succumbed to the hegemony of Internet Explorer should experiment with better-designed and more secure browsers. And it is a pain in the neck to have to open another window just to create a tiny url, especially if you're on dialup.
But IE is the most widely used browser. Maybe there's a tweak to wraparound urls.
Jennifer! I'm in Boston also - a big hello to you!
Still waiting for Jennifer to share how she did her walls!!!! Please share! Inspired decorators are dying to learn.
A tweak for the long url problem:
andree -- and i'm in awe at your ability to link together a budget knock-off, there's a business opportunity right there -- i can believe someone can do the stenciling, whether *i* can is another story. but miss (links) thing, have you (or anyone else) seen such a pattern in bedding that wasn't exorbitant?
i saw the urban outfitters knock-off rug and i wasn't moved -- not bc of the materials but bc the pattern itself didn't seem as pretty, distinct, chic. i saw this rug at kate's paperie in red and swooned, i had to fan myself with overpriced paper to remind myself that red wouldn't quite go in my apt.
Thanks Rasil! I do what I do because I can do it. Being in pain all the time, and being home all the time is no vacation...it's more like a prison sentence...but worse. I'm considering a short life of crime, just to enjoy the advantage of prison, like color-coordinated outfits, free food/lodging/bed linens/electricity/water/sewer/garbage, etc.
I have a NEED to be productive, but a "regular" job isn't going to work with my pain and inability to sleep or stand or sit or...hah!
So I do what I can do to help others get the looks they want on a budget they can afford. Folks that can afford to hire decorators or interior design consultants already have done so. Like I said, there's no problem getting the things you want if you have an unlimited budget.
There's a whole bunch of people out there that would prefer to do it themselves. They enjoy the shopping or putting things together, but don't always have the time to FIND all the stuff (yeah, like those socialite designers said too...).
And there are people that can't afford the time or the money to find the things that would work.
So that's where I come in. I have the time. I'm always browsing and looking for new sources (thanks to everyone here, I've found a gazillion new sources to browse!!!).
But charging for such a service? Right then and there, I eliminate a bunch of people I like to help. The people that don't have the money to hire someone. Being moneyless myself, I don't think that's fair. It's JUST NOT FAIR.
Hardworking people trying to make a living, tend their homes, and have a nice home...they shouldn't be penalized because they can't afford some pricey furnishings and a pricey designer to go with it.
I'll find links, pictures, products. The other person has to buy them, move them, and make the ideas work.
I'm confused about what you said...you want a bedding pattern somewhat like the rug? In those colors? Brown/aqua?
Sounds like a challenge. I'm on it. But post if that isn't want you meant, because I can spend HOURS looking at things online until I find the right one.
that's very sweet of you, andree, and i'm sorry to hear about your chronic pain. i feel naughty imposing my daydreams on you -- *brief pause* -- but since you asked, i meant bedding as in flat and fitted sheets in that sort of bold, abstracted, vaguely asian flower motif. colorswise, orange, pink, gold maybe. my quilt and canopy are salmony pink, and i have a lot of orange in my apt as well.
this really delights me, but i think the red is too dark for my place. if company c made this pattern in a slightly sheer lamp shade, i'd be swooning.
what i actually *need* are some floor lamps and a kitchen reno, instead i spend hours googling on "Botan Karakusa"!
Andree --
You're a doll.
Rasil, colors are probably not right, but check anyway:
Not real inexpensive, but not real expensive either. Remember, you can always get the pillow shams and use solids for the sheets...because nobody SEES the sheets if the bed is made.
Still looking but I have to go to the store...
Haven't left yet...similar to the above, with a smaller pattern and brighter colors:
There's also a shower curtain in the same pattern, $33.00.
it's true, andree, you really are a doll... and the company store people should be shot for doing that pattern up in *five* colors, it could have been so nice.
^^^ a bit muted, a lot expensive, but so pretty
^^^ my, my, my. so that's what a 60 dollar bath towel looks like.
but truly i go back to this:
which, like the sachi poppy, is too red, but still. the propensity of sino/japanese design to use red over orange and pink drives me up the wall.
Rasil, by george, I think I've got it. What we can't find to buy we'll just have to make ourselves. Necessity IS the mother of invention, and I think a craving for something will work just as well to inspire.
I know you have a computer. You're here.
Do you have a printer?
Do you have an iron?
That's just one of a gazillion sites with some info on using your printer and fabric transfer paper to iron on images to the fabric of your choice.
There was a section in BHG awhile back (yeah, that's why I keep all those old magazines) on decorating with your computer. Just using interesting fonts, you can create a custom bedding set, with shams and bedskirt in your OWN pattern. You can do the sheet edges. You could do a whole duvet. ANYTHING you can iron, you could create your own masterpiece.
You can use clip-art. Line drawings. Create your own design from scratch using a computer paint program.
Here's something I was looking at in the wee hours:
I found their company through a trade publication online for textiles.
Anyway, what I want you to look at there, is not so much the bedding (unless you find something there you LOVE LOVE LOVE), but the BACKGROUND.
The aqua with the white flowers. Those are totally "doodle-flowers". I KNOW you could do that freehand. You might have to practice, but it wouldn't take long to become a doodle master of flowers.
I mean, EVERYONE doodles (uh, don't they?). And wiggly worm shapes are pretty easy to doodle. Scallops are easy to doodle. You just arrange your wiggly worm shapes and scallop shapes into a flower.
Then make the leap to the computer, and when playing with a pen/brush width, you'll make it wider, so you'll actually have something to TRANSFER onto the fabric. Those thin lines would be a waste of ink and transfer paper and might not show up so well on fabric.
Try a few little ones on scraps of fabric or old pillowcases/sheets that you were going to toss anyway.
Next, you pick out a duvet or shams in your colors. And fire up the iron and create your own bedding (we'll be looking for your line of AT bedding Spring 2007).
Here's a colorful "for instance", if you used the doodle flowers either in white or in your colors on top of this IKEA item (use the pop-up to select the RED colorway):
Spread the colors and patterns throughout your space with the bigger pillow for chairs or floor:
Of course, use that imagination!!! You get to decide the base color of your sheets or pillow cases or shams. And then you get to choose the accent color of the flowers. You could have a blast doing this, and your home items would be ONE OF A KIND!!!
By the way, WHERE IS JENNIFER??? It might save a ton of time if she would please help us with all the details. WE NEED DETAILS!!! We must know EVERYTHING about the space. EVERYTHING!
Looking only at the pillowcases and shams, this is sort of what you could do with the iron-on transfers:
But are you sure it wouldn't be more fun to have this?:
You know you're obsessive-compulsive when...
Hey, at least I use my powers for good and not evil!
I started searching BHG to see if I could find the article that was in an older magazine, found a couple links so you can see at least an example (although not the article I hoped to find);
Postcard Pillow:
Trendy Transfers:
Didn't I just see that chair here somewhere?
Painting Bed Linens:
Check out the grommet-eyelet curtains from the third page of the above story. I'm thinking that's a great solution for curtains that suddenly, mysteriously develop a hole.
***cat skulking away***
Which I'm now thinking could be used on anything. Pillow covers for throw pillows. Denim jackets. Lamp shades. Aw, crap, there goes my million dollar idea. Look for that line of products in the AT Spring 2007 Collection, with someone else's name on it.
I am *dying* for that rug, but just can't afford the real one, and the Target knockoff appears to be out of stock.
What do you think of this one from J.C. Penney? Close, or no cigar?
Well, shoot, the J.C. Penney rug isn't in stock... which I didn't find out until trying to check out. :(
I like it, Amanda! You could always try calling a local store, and see if by ANY CHANCE they carry it in store.
wow how amazing that i am using the same exact motif for my bedroom...and was inspired by the rug purchase at Target!! I must repost my results as I am actually painting my walls aqua at the moment and will be using the chocolate brown as the accent. the rug IS in stock online by the way as of today.


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In some ways, Rexroth remained a very regionally-minded man, as most anarchists are. He disliked the New York literary establishment, and the dislike was reciprocated; when, in the Forties, he decided to go east and conquer Greenwich Village, he was cold-shouldered and glad to leave. He was never at heart a metropolitan man. Indeed, there was a great deal of the Classical Greek citizen about him. He had emerged as a teenage poet in the days of the Chicago renaissance, when that city was still small enough for everybody in the arts and entertainment and even public life to know each other, like people in an Aristotelian polis. When he became so influential in San Francisco it was just that kind of community, as I remember from my own brief residence there. When San Francisco began to grow into its own kind of metropolis, Rexroth left, and for the first time, in 1968, at the age of 63, became a kind of academic, teaching for four years at the University of California in Santa Barbara; then, finding that too restricting, he gave it up to enter his seventies wandering over the country, giving poetry readings accompanied by jazz musicians, as he had done in his Chicago youth more than fifty years before.
Rexroth may have been anti-metropolitan, but there was nothing narrowly provincial about him, even though I can never think of him as having originated anywhere but in the American Midwest at the one creative time in its history. He developed an enthusiasm for the poetry that was being written in Britain during the later Thirties and the Forties, and in 1949 he published an idiosyncratic anthology, The New British Poets, which set out to show that the lingering image of the Auden-Spender-Lewis generation did not give Americans a true idea of what was happening over the Atlantic. It was a good work of correction, even though Rexroth was somewhat uncritical in his acceptance of the duller minor figures of the era. When he got to London shortly afterwards, he liked its metropolitan culture as little as he did that of New York, and found British anarchists milk-and-water compared with the Chicago Wobblies of his youth.
Rexroth, who was the kind of superb polymath only a self-taught man can be, read enormously widely, and his conversation was full of haphazard erudition, scientific, philological, historical, metaphysical, as well as literary. Out of this reading he developed a sense that all the world's cultures were in a way inter-related and therefore mutually comprehensible, and that linguistic differences formed a barrier far less formidable than it is generally thought to be. He therefore proceeded on an extraordinary programme of interpreting other traditions to English readers which made him one of the notable translators of poetry in his time.
He knew French well, though I remember his accent was even worse than my own, and his translations from that language were largely a labour of love, for his own verse had been influenced by French poets and particularly by Pierre Reverdy, a selection of whose poetry he rendered into English. His translations from the Greek, the Chinese and the Japanese were quite different – a matter of gaining a general sense of the language, of discussing poems with native speakers, of painstakingly using a dictionary to check the connotations of every word, of making a mosaic of literal elements, and then, by an act of creative imagination, producing a version that would echo the original, to such an astonishing extent that some of the greatest admirers of his translations from the Chinese and Japanese have been poets born to use those languages.
I have always distrusted applying the concept of greatness, which is hard to dissociate from the idea of power, to define a writer. Largeness, which embraces breadth and height as well as profundity, seems to me a much more valid criterion, and Rexroth was certainly large, in his concepts, in his ambitions, in his achievements. The largeness lay most of all in the complexity and scope of his life's work. But one must go on from Rexroth the cultural impresario, Rexroth the translator of many languages, and Rexroth the public character with his column in the San Francisco Examiner, to Rexroth the poet in order to find the core of that largeness.
I am not sure that Rexroth would have been entirely happy to be remembered mainly as a poet, for he thought of himself as a multiple artist. He was an enthusiastic painter from his boyhood onwards, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York, and gave one-man exhibitions not only on the Pacific Coast but also in New York and Paris, and the extraordinary pleasure he got from this talent tempted him to overestimate it in relation to his other work. Probably no man as intelligent and sensitive as Rexroth who had applied himself with zeal to learning the techniques of an art could be less than competent at it, but pleasant and decorative as Rexroth's paintings were, I was never moved by them as I have been by his poetry, and I regard them as among the lesser accomplishments of a thoroughly civilised man, the equivalent in reverse of Picasso's sonnets.
Someone else, I am sure, will soon be writing the exhaustive scholarly treatise on the techniques and derivations of Rexroth's poetry, but while it is interesting enough to consider his debts to the Surrealists and the Objectivists, to Reverdy and Zukofsky, to William Carlos Williams and W.B. Yeats, and later on to the very Chinese and Japanese and Ancient Greek writers he translated, it is his actual poetry in its autonomous being, with its reflective clarity and its magically deceptive appearance of simplicity, that I prefer to discuss now.
He wrote and published verse steadily over his whole literary career, and when his poems are finally collected they will make up – if one includes the verse dramas – a volume of at least a thousand pages, and a thousand pages of astonishingly consistent quality. The amazing thing is not that he kept it up for so long, writing poems in the Seventies as strong and lucid as those he had written in the Forties, but that he also wrote so well so early, for the autobiographical poem, 'A Homestead called Damascus', completed around 1926 when he was 21 but not published until 1957, ranks among the best of his works.
For me, the verse plays contained in Beyond the Mountains (1951) have always occupied a special place in Rexroth's oeuvre (a view which, incidentally, he shared with me), mainly because they show so many of his poetic resources brought together. They are plays that revise Greek myths, as in 'Iphigenia' and 'Phaedra', or, as in 'Berenike' and 'Hermaios', delve into one of the most obscure areas of Classical history, that of the Bactrian Greek kingdoms in the Hindu Kush which came to an end when the precarious reign of Hermaios was overwhelmed by the Parthians somewhere about 30 BC. Since Greece itself was already in the hands of the Romans, the Bactrians were the last free Greeks for many centuries. Rexroth wrote his two Bactrian plays in a dance drama form that combines elements of Attic tragedy with elements of Noh; given that he published his first translations from the Japanese only four years later, I suspect he was working from some knowledge of original Noh plays, though he seems also to have accepted some hints from Yeats.
Only a few coins that survive enable us to construct a bare outline of the reign of Hermaios and his Queen Kalliope, boxed into the last refuge of the Kabul valley by their enemies; we do not know how or exactly when Hermaios died. Rexroth fills our scanty history with invention: there is a re-enactment of the Agamemnon legend when Hermaios is killed by his brother with Kalliope's complicity and his son Menander comes to wreak vengeance before all are submerged by the invading 'Huns', as Rexroth loosely terms them, and the chorus intones:
Is all gone for the Greeks now …
I wonder if
Plato and Aristotle
in all their wisdom foresaw
Greece ending in these far-off
Mountains, in this freezing night.
Beyond the Mountains showed the extraordinary ability to absorb and adapt the qualities of alien forms that served Rexroth so well in his translations: the clear imagery of Far Eastern verse, the oracular dignity of Greek verse, have both had their influence on these plays and on his verse in general. The Bactrian plays also exemplified the mystique of mountains that played such a great part in Rexroth's life and which, combined with his experience and sensitive observation of the American Cordillera, has made him one of the finest nature-and-landscape poets of our age. But not merely a nature-and-landscape poet, any more than Wordsworth was, for there is a deep philosophic strain running through so much of Rexroth's poetry: obtrusive in his earlier work but in his later poems splendidly subsumed into the lyrical structure and deriving – as the later philosophy of the Bactrian Greeks did – from a combination of the Greek and the Asian, the combination which in the valleys of the Hindu Kush produced that strange dialogue between the Greek king Menander and the Buddhist sage Nagasena, the Milindapanha. The strain is repeated in poems like 'Golden Section' in the Collected Shorter Poems (1966). This had originally been part of Rexroth's longest narrative poem, an account of post-war travel in Europe, The Dragon and the Unicorn (1952). Like many other travellers, Rexroth found the peak of his journey in the series of temples of golden stone at Paestum – the Posidonia of the Greeks – south of Naples.
An elegiac tone is present throughout Rexroth's poetry – regret for a world betrayed by human folly, regret for youth, regret for those who are loved and dead – and combines with the poet's grave recording of natural beauty to become a celebration of existence as splendid but doomed, so that in his own way he seemed in his Californian detachment to be writing 'beyond the mountains' – a spiritual descendant of his own King Hermaios waiting philosophically for the Huns.
But the poet of philosophy and nature, elegiac and pessimistic, has never been the only Rexroth. There is the other persona, the angry, intolerant and often unfair man, the ex-Wobbly, the San Francisco anarchist, with his memories of a bizarre adolescence in the bohemian Chicago of the early Twenties and a hard youth among migrant workers in the Western mountains, who then settled to the long and difficult years of establishing himself as a writer from what was then the rather hostile outpost of San Francisco. Much of that past is celebrated or at least hinted at in the poems that tell of his high-living Edwardian parents, of his early radical years, of his formative time as a poet, but the book that embraces it all is An Autobiographical Novel, a title that allowed for the heightening of colour and tension, and the free way with facts, that are qualities of this curious and intriguing book. An Autobiographical Novel might just as appropriately be entitled 'The Education of Kenneth Rexroth', since it is all about learning from life, and it shows the voracity for experience, the passion for knowledge and justice and formal beauty, that kept Rexroth spinning so productively into his eighth decade.
But, for all its enormous sense of life, even An Autobiographical Novel, which was never completed by a sequel dealing with Rexroth's half-century on the Pacific coast, is also an elegiac book, a threnody for a splendid past – pre-Great War Europe, the Midwest of the Twenties, of which Rexroth says:
It is a terrible thing to see a world die twice,
The first time as tragedy,
The second time as evil farce.
Even in its relation to Rexroth's revolutionary politics, the tone of An Autobiographical Novel is still elegiac: it is the tragic presence of Sacco and Vanzetti that most haunts the book. Rexroth sees their fate as in some fundamental way marking the end of the strange innocence which accompanied the vitality and even the brutality of the world he had been describing. He ends with an account of how he and his first wife Andrée (whose memory inspired some of his most deeply moving poems) arrived in San Francisco and 'decided to stay and grow up in the town': 'At that time, during the third week of our stay in San Francisco, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. A great cleaver cut through all the intellectual life of America. The world in which Andrée and I had grown up came for ever to an end.' In the poems, too, one gets the sense of an age – the age of pure revolutionary ideals – as having died with Sacco and Vanzetti. It emerges in the 1952 poem 'For Eli Jacobsen', significantly another elegy, and a lament for the withering of the true cause.
There are so few of us now, soon
There will be none. We were comrades
Together, we believed we
Would see with our own eyes the new
World where man was no longer
Wolf to man, but men and women
Were all brothers and lovers
Together. We will not see it.
We will not see it, none of us.
It is farther off than we thought …
Admittedly, 'For Eli Jacobsen' was written in the depressing Fifties, and in the Sixties Rexroth was hailing – in essays which appeared in books like The Alternative Society (1970) – the renewed poetic and political vigour of the young. 'Today there is growing up throughout the world an entirely new pattern of life. For years I have called it the subculture of secession, but this is now more – it is a competing civilisation, "a new society within the shell of the old".' Rexroth goes on here to talk in enthusiastic terms of 'a time of wholesale overturn, a transvaluation of values at least comparable with the revolutionary years around 1848 …' But there is another side of him that pulls up short to question whether the outcome will necessarily be good. The dark forces, also, are more powerful than ever:
Man has lost control. What is accelerating is not the breakdown of civilisation, but the breakdown of the species as such. Unless the processes now operating are reversed, and when reversed, are still able to win out, man is a failure. The species has failed … Man has not just been crowded out of his ecological niche; he has destroyed everybody's ecology. The changes that have taken place already in this generation are greater than those postulated to account for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
We are living in times when eschatologies have renewed significance; the End of Things has become a proximate and an appalling possibility, whether we see it apocalyptically as the reign of Antichrist or plainly as the destruction of life on earth. The situation has by a bitter irony been brought about by too happy an acceptance of what once seemed the anti-eschatological doctrine of the inevitability of continued progress. It is here that the apparently paradoxical attitude one finds in Rexroth, and in so many other anarchists, acquires deepest meaning and loses its seeming contradictions. For, alone among the Left of 19th and early 20th-century Europe and the Americas, the anarchists refused to accept uncritically the faith in universal and constant material progress that sprang from a misinterpretation of the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Until very recently, socialists of all schools regarded open-ended material progress as a viable goal; in contrast to such uncritical optimism, the attitude of the anarchists can fairly be described as one of critical pessimism, by which I mean, not resignation to the worst as inevitable, but a state of mind that accepts the worst as a threatening option and goes beyond it to assess realistically the possibilities of evasion. This means one does not accept the future as necessarily better than present or past: indeed, one can look back, as Rexroth does, to Greek antiquity, for example, or certain ages in China, when men lived fuller and more harmonious lives than we do, and one may be instructed by the looking back. It means that one does not regard affluence or luxury as valid criteria of the good life; a rough cabin in the mountains, as Roxreth's Cordillera poems so eloquently demonstrate, can be the centre of wealth of another kind if one is prepared for it. It means that one recognises the presence here and now, in every society, of elements of mutual aid, of potentials for freedom and responsibility, that are waiting to be achieved; there is no need for a transitional period to achieve a revolutionary society, for such a society already exists in men's hearts and instincts, and to realise it all we have to do is to challenge and defeat the values of a society based on the contradictory myths of progress and authority. This, as Rexroth contends, is the role of the artist, among others. 'All important works of art, from the middle of the 18th century, have rejected all the distinguishing marks of the civilisation that produced them.'
The first poem by Rexroth I ever read, more than thirty years ago, was the little suite of mountain pieces, 'Towards an Organic Philosophy'. Worked into the concluding lines is the central thought of Kropotkin as well as of Tyndall, but also the core of ecological thought which the anarchists and their allies, like Patrick Geddes and Aldous Huxley, so significantly anticipated. Inescapably present as well is the mountainscape and the life it shelters, the poet's concrete world, and beyond it the world of thought, 'beyond the mountains' where old kings and old poets defend the last vestiges of cultures, 'the last moments of Greece', the terminal agony – if one accepts the existence if not the inevitability of such an option – of civilisation.


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To be fair: MSPB on treatment of feds
The MSPB, which is responsible for evaluating and reporting on the health of the Federal civil service, conducted a study to assess the Federal Government's progress in meeting these goals, with particular attention to representation, career advancement, and the perceived fairness and integrity of personnel practices and decisions.
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Strung Out stops in Flagstaff for a lesson in old school punk
By Laura Thompson
Strung Out is a skate punk band older than most freshmen on campus. Formed in 1992 in Simi Valley, Calif., Strung Out has kept true to their sound since the beginning. Guitarist Jake Kiley and drummer Jordan Burns spoke with Lumberjack reporter Laura Thompson about their tour, their most known albums and future plans for the band.
The Lumberjack: Rise Against used to open for you guys and you were considered one of their influences as they were first forming. How does this make you feel, now that Rise Against is a well-established name through the music industry?
Kiley: Well, we've known Joe [Joe Principe, bass guitarist of Rise Against] forever, we all met back in the early '90s. They've been doing [music] as long as we have and they were fortunate enough to get a lot of radio play, which obviously takes you to another level: reaching people. It's cool to see them get some success and do well where a lot of other bands are just pushed in everyone's face. They're a really cool, genuine band and it's cool to see them get some credit for it.
Burns: I mean, it was really cool to know we took them out on their early tours and we had a lot of good times with them and to see a band like that have such success, we're proud of them.
LJ: Which songs on Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues and Twisted By Design are, in your opinion, the best?
Kiley: I don't really know; they're all equal in my opinion. We just look at those albums as a whole. Twisted has a lot more variety to it — it was kind of an experimental album for us whereas Suburban is just kind of straight-forward, fast-paced skate punk. I actually kind of prefer to play those songs, just the fast, straight-forward punk songs. But for me, my preference is secondary to the fans and the crowd. The songs they're yelling out, the songs that make them go crazy, those are the ones that make it more fun for us.
LJ: Why is this tour focused on Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues and Twisted By Design?
Kiley: Well, we've been doing these albums as anniversary shows for a while. They're like 17 years old now and word got around and people started requesting us to do them in other places and it just seemed like a cool thing to do, to hit the road and play all these songs. A lot of people ask for these songs and we might not be up to playing them on a normal tour, just because we're out of practice, so by doing this, it gives a chance to concentrate on them. It's a throwback; it's nostalgic for a lot of our fans. I've met a bunch of kids on this tour who aren't kids anymore and they haven't seen us in like 10 or 15 years since we first toured on these albums, they heard about the tour and came out to see it so that's really cool.
LJ: What is it about these two albums that stand out from the rest of your discography?
Kiley: They were just kind of our defining work early on and a band is usually always remembered and held up to their earliest and most impactful stuff. Luckily, we were signed early on and put out records consistently every two years. People kind of always hold those early albums as sacred, even if you go on to have huge success with later stuff people always remember the early stuff as what brought them into it.
LJ: What do you look forward to for tonight's performance?
Kiley: Tequila shots. That's always good to go on with, a couple shots to get on stage a couple shots halfway through the set. We're doing a song for Tony Sly [singer of No Use For A Name] because he passed away last month with a couple of guys from the other bands. And just seeing what the crowd's into, see what they throw on stage. Maybe Jordan will bite the head off a bat. Again.
Burns: Ozzy can't be the only one!
LJ: Have you ever played the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff before?
Kiley: No. I love old theaters though, so it'll be cool. We have played old haunted theaters before which is really cool. We've had the staff take us down into the basements and some of the original old closed off rooms. I love [expletive] like that.
LJ: What are you coming out with for 2013?
Kiley: We have a box set coming out. It's our first three records all remixed and re-mastered and it really sounds better than the original records, in our opinion, so it's really cool. It's going to have a bunch of additional photos and some other stories about the records. That'll be out through Fat Wreck Chords probably in the first half of next year.
Burns: We would've actually done this a lot earlier. It's something that we've been wanting to do, but funny enough, some of the Suburban tapes were totally lost, so it hindered us from doing this sooner. We finally found all the tapes and had all the songs remixed by Ryan Green and he just brought a brand new life to all the music, so it's going to be really cool.
LJ: What are your plans for the rest of this year and the future?
Kiley: Not much for the rest of this year; we're pretty much wrapping it up. Aside from the box set, you never know, we're always working on stuff. No deadlines, sometimes it's good to make people wait. Whatever Jordan can sneak us into.
Burns: I make the deals! But I think the plan is to just keep on doing what we do. Just keep playing music, and we'll do it at our own pace; we'd like to have a new album out as early as December 2013.
The Twisted in a Suburban Wasteland Tour blasted through Flagstaff on Sept. 26 at the Orpheum Theater. The opening bands who warmed up the audience were The Mandingo el Guapo from here in Flagstaff, Such Gold who came from Rochester, N.Y. and The Swellers out of Fenton, Mich. The audience was thin for the local opening act, which is to be expected so early in the evening for a relatively unknown band.
The Mandingo el Guapo sounded tight and seemed to have a lot of potential, despite lacking energy. Such Gold then took the stage and drew some more people with their improved stage presence and heavy punk riffs. Their heavier sound was complemented by the singer's intense vocals.
The energy of the bands seemed to be getting better and stronger when The Swellers commanded the stage and incorporated the audience with every song. When Nick Deiner's — the lead guitarist/singer — guitar malfunctioned, he instinctively dropped it and went on with the show. An outsider would have had no idea anything went wrong. With hands free, Deiner jumped out into the crowd and kept on screaming.
The performance got the audience primed for what was to come. Strung Out burst onto the stage with the intensity of a much more youthful band. Although the bassist, Chris Aiken, was missing for personal reasons, these veterans owned the stage with expertise.
The crowd rushed to the front and the collective energy was all around. They brought the audience into their music — they were sucked in — moving and shaking as one.
Andrew Taylor, a junior business marketing , was thrilled for the show.
"I have a test at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow [but] this is my favorite band, so of course I'm going to come out for them!" Taylor said.
When Strung Out called members of The Swellers onstage to play a tribute to Tony Sly, lead singer and guitarist for No Use For A Name, the crowd went crazy. They continued to tear through the two albums on which this tour is based, Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues and Twisted By Design.
These albums are the fan favorites and nearly every single member of the audience sang along to every song. The band that formed in 1992 is still going strong and keeping true to their sound for their fans, old and new. This show proved that Strung Out still has it and will continue to keep rocking their fans until they're fired, retired or expired.


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a white-ish psd for everything.
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Life is full of colours and so is photoshop. Marianna, Roxane & Vicky. Greece, France & Czech. Enjoy
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a soft pinkish psd, for all kinds of pictures. (candids, photoshoots, appearances)
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From Proteopedia
The "ELR" (Glu-Leu-Arg) tripeptide sequence near the N-terminus of interleukin-8 (IL-8) contributes a large part of the receptor binding free energy. Prior X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures of IL-8 have shown this region of the molecule to be highly mobile. We reasoned that a hydrophobic interaction between the leucine and the neighboring beta-turn might exist in the receptor binding conformation of the N-terminus. To test this hypothesis, we mutated two residues to cysteine and connected the N-terminus to the beta-turn. The mutant retains receptor binding affinity reasonably close to wild type and allows the characterization of a high-affinity conformation that may be useful in the design of small IL-8 mimics. The L5C/H33C mutant is refined to R-values of R = 20.6% and Rfree = 27.7% at 2.35 A resolution. Other receptor binding determinants reside in the "N-loop" found after "ELR" and preceding the first beta-strand. All available structures of IL-8 have been found with one of two distinct N-loop conformations. One of these is relevant for receptor binding, based on NMR results with receptor peptides. The other conformation obscures the receptor-peptide binding surface and may have an undetermined but necessarily different function.
Receptor-binding conformation of the "ELR" motif of IL-8: X-ray structure of the L5C/H33C variant at 2.35 A resolution., Gerber N, Lowman H, Artis DR, Eigenbrot C, Proteins. 2000 Mar 1;38(4):361-7. PMID:10707023
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
About this Structure
1qe6 is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
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- Gerber N, Lowman H, Artis DR, Eigenbrot C. Receptor-binding conformation of the "ELR" motif of IL-8: X-ray structure of the L5C/H33C variant at 2.35 A resolution. Proteins. 2000 Mar 1;38(4):361-7. PMID:10707023


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Rheumatoid Arthritis - 2001 National Meeting (cont.)
This is a new drug that is not commercially available. Adalimumab (D2E7) is the first fully human, monoclonal antibody in development. Adalimumab is an investigational agent designed to block the activity of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a), which contributes to the inflammation in autoimmune diseases such as RA. This drug, which is given by subcutaneous injection every 2 weeks, was effective in combination with methotrexate and seems to be well tolerated other than occasional injection site reactions. It is not yet commercially available, but is worth keeping an eye on.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: Well, here comes a new kid on the block. It will be important to watch for further research on this drug. It may well be an effective addition to our current treatments. Injecting only every 2 weeks would be relatively convenient.
Valdecoxib was superior to the placebo and similar to naproxen (at 500mg twice daily) in effectiveness. At the lower doses, it showed less stomach irritation than Naprosyn.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This would be a welcome addition to Celebrex, which is the Cox-2 NSAID currently available for the treatment of RA.
Etoricoxib is another Cox-2 NSAID that is being investigated for the treatment of RA (see Valdecoxib above). Previous studies have demonstrated its effectiveness in relieving the signs and symptoms of joint inflammation.
Fewer patients treated with etoricoxib had to discontinue the medication because of gastrointestinal complications as compared with the traditional NSAIDs, Voltaren, and Naprosyn.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This is an example of a safety study that must be performed before a drug is approved to demonstrate its value. Because it is billed as a Cox-2 inhibitor, etoricoxib should and apparently does, have advantages with regard to the stomach and intestines.
Early treatment of RA was clearly reported to have the best outcome.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This has long been believed to be true and arthritis specialists (rheumatologists) are treating RA more aggressively and earlier now than in past decades.
Sjogren's Syndrome
An increased bladder irritability was reported in patients with Sjogren's syndrome.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This seems to be an under-recognized complication of Sjogren's syndrome. Doctors will have to be vigilant in monitoring this symptom. Patients with symptoms of an overactive bladder should always report them to their doctor.
Smoking and Diet Risks
Heavy smoking was statistically shown to significantly increase the risk of developing RA.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: As if we needed another reason NOT to smoke!
Researchers from the Universities of Alabama, Iowa, and San Francisco found that decaffeinated coffee intake was associated with an increased risk for the development of RA. Women drinking more than three cups of decaf coffee were at more than twice the risk of developing RA. Women drinking regular coffee were at no increased risk, while women drinking tea were had a 60% decreased risk!
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This study requires further follow-up studies to confirm these preliminary results, as suggested by the authors of the study.
Education of patients with RA about their disease significantly improved their overall function, according to a paper reported from Canada.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: Well, this is how I am devoting a major part of my life now here with MedicineNet.com. The reason is because I clearly see the benefits of education in my patients. (I wonder how much, in part, this has to do with being compliant about taking the medications regularly for the RA!)
Education of patients in Korea with RA about their disease significantly improved their fatigue and reduced pain, while improving self-care activities.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This was an 8 week intensive course with patients in small groups who were interacting to understand their disease. It would probably apply to anyone with RA who was interested in independently educating him or herself, say via the Internet!
The perceived quality of life of patients with RA improved significantly as a result of an after-day hospital education program.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: Again, education proves to be a key to providing a higher quality of life for patients with RA.


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Hot or Not? The Scrap Trap Scrap Catcher
This little doohickey has one simple function: Catch the scraps you swipe off your countertop. While we think this is a serious unitasker and probably a totally unnecessary piece of plastic, we also feel a little wistful about it. We never seem to be able to clean off the counter without dropping half our scraps on the floor! What do you think — would this gadget be worth the space it takes up?
Overall, this really doesn't replace a bowl or box for catching scraps in the kitchen. (We're most successful when we pull the whole trash can or compost bin under the counter to catch the scraps our sponge sweeps up.) But we still do have coordination problems; we always seem to be splattering vegetable scraps or flour all over the floor!
How do you clean your counters after cooking? Do you have any tips for getting them neat and clean, and keeping your floors clean at the same time?
• Find the gadget: Scrap Trap Scrap Catcher, $9.99 at Taylor Gifts
Related: What Is the Best Way To: Clean Granite Countertops?
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Reminds me of Rachael Ray's Garbage Bowl.
Most of us just use a hand. That's tacky.
Seems like a solution to a non-existent problem.
Totally useless. However, with my husband, it would cut back on the amount of sweeping in our kitchen.
hehe MandarinOrange...I was thinking this little gadget would increase the amount of sweeping! I know I'd never get my aim JUST RIGHT to get in that little cup. This is not really a good or necessary idea...the garbage bowl concept is what I use. Or I set my trash can on the chair, if I'm peeling a lot of stuff.
i sweep crumbs into my open and waiting dishwasher.
It's a nice idea, but yeah, if I can't manage to wipe counter scraps into my hand, why should I expect that I'll be able to wipe them into the bowl?
I also don't quite understand how it's stuck to the counter, but I assume that it's designed to be easily removable - which means it can also easily fall.
I would rather sweep the floor than wash another dish. It doesn't solve the problem of scraps falling on the floor as you cook, either. Especially when I'm chopping herbs or onions, little bits seem to just fly off the cutting board. No use for me, my hand works just as well to sweep food into when I'm washing the counter.
It's a one trick pony. Clever, but another space-waster. I sweep the kitchen scraps off my counter onto a little food tray, or I put down newspaper or wax paper before I start food prep.
I have wide grout lines/tile in my kitchen and I go to great lengths to keep them from getting grubby.
I actually like this, but the best idea I've seen is a garbage hole (from Richeleau I think - they distribute cabinets and fittings). You literally drill a hole about 3-4" diameter into your counter and fit it with this black plastic cover. It's located over wherever your compost bin or garbage is installed, so you just sweep everything into the hole!
I haven't seen it in action, but it seem ingenious.
Wasn't completely right in my description, but here's the link. That lip might cause a bit of a problem for small crumbs, flour, etc.
I use an over-the-sink colander as my "scrap-catcher" as my prep area is adjacent to my sink. Voila!
I generally just hang a plastic bag on my drawer (handles over each side and make sure the back is flat against the drawer) and wipe things in as I go. Then at the end I can just toss it into the garbage can.
I like the fact that you can have a little garbage bowl that doesn't take up counter space (which is so often at a premium)... then again, I'm not totally sure it's better than just keeping a garbage can nearby on the floor!
I set out one medium-sized bowl when I start cooking, and dump all the food scraps in there. There's definitely no need for fancy schmancy contraptions.
I use a flexible cutting board and just toss the scrapes in a junk bowl or the garbage.
It's not attractive and it doesn't seem all THAT useful. I'm also a fan of just holding up my little trash can under the lip of the counter and scraping stuff in.
I sweep them into my hand. If it's something like cheese, I sweep them onto the floor and call over the dog....
I guess I'm the lone soldier on this one, but I think it's a cool idea. Tacky? It's not going to be hanging from your counter top all the time, just when you're prepping food. Seems like a good solution for keeping scraps separate from trash so you can compost them. Easier than pulling out the entire garbage can too.
I am thinking along the same lines as aubreedoublee. Actually, I think it would be awesome to have a full-time compost container that just clips onto the side of my countertop! That probably depends on actually having a "side" of the countertop rather than having it all just face forward, but I might have to try and replicate this.
I think this is a fail. For as many vegetables/fruits as I cut up, I would spend more time emptying this thing into the compost bin than it would take to dump directly into the bin! Seems like a waste to me...
I absolutely love the idea.
I can see how an elderly person or someone with arthritis or some other physical challenge might find this useful. However, I find it hard to believe that anyone without such a physical challenge could possibly be so uncoordinated as to require this contraption. I think it's simply a matter of paying attention to what you're doing.
I have a dog instead.....
I actually like the concept, but it's just another unnecessary kitchen item that needs to be stored the other 5 days of the week you don't use it.
I just take a plastic bag that I get from a grocery store and hook it over a kitchen drawer.


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Vintage Christian Dior Large CD Buckle Box Shoulder Hand Bag.
Color : Black.
Year : 1980.
Material : Leather.
Made in France.
Comes with : Dust Bag, Original tag.
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A reading by the author of Castle and Mailman
The English Department and the Creative Writing Program are proud to present a reading by J. Robert Lennon. Lennon is the author of six novels, including Mailman and Castle, and a short story collection, Pieces for the Left Hand. He lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.
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Bret Michaels
Legendary 80s glam metal superstar, is best known for his body of work as the front man of the band Poison. The band has sold more than 30 million records worldwide with half of those sold in the United States alone. They also have a number-one single to their credit, the popular power ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." In the late 90s, Michaels broke into a solo career that has spanned more than a decade. Michaels is also well known for his reality television dating competition series titled "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels." Recently on the musical front, Michaels has toured with Def Leppard and Lita Ford. Age 18 and older.
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If your earlobes are torn, split or stretched from trauma or years of wearing heavy earrings, you are a candidate for earlobe repair or otoplasty. The abnormal appearance of earlobes can be an embarrassment and having your earlobes repaired is a simple office procedure that will allow you to wear earrings again.
What is the procedure like?
Under local anesthesia the earlobes are first marked then the edges are surgically corrected and realigned. Very fine sutures are placed to hold the repaired skin together and steri-strips are applied for a few days. The sutures are usually removed in about 10 days. It is important to keep the area clean and dry. A topical antibiotic ointment is also recommended. Complete healing occurs in about 2 to 3 weeks. If re-piercing is desired this can be accomplished 3 months after earlobe repair.
Earlobe repair for keloid scars
Many people develop keloid scars after ear piercing. Keloid scars are thickened, discolored, itchy, abnormal scars. Keloid scars on the earlobe can be surgically removed with subsequent ear lobe repair. It is important for you to understand that keloid scars can return after removal. To help prevent the recurrence of a keloid, the repaired area may be injected with small volumes of a steroid medication upon follow up visits.
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Visvim Virgil - Soft suede leather sewn into a Goodyear-welted Vibram sole. The Virgils have a very lean silhouette as far as boots go. A natural cork footbed with leather inserts make these incredibly comfortable. I bought my first pair in Japan in 2009 for around ¥55,000 and now new models retail over ¥90,500. Yikes. That being said, these are the best boots money can buy. ($1155.00)
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In a little town called M�hlenburg lives a girl named Saga, a talented pianist who lives by a rigid schedule and hates the unexpected. One day, she comes across an adorable little fairy, who is hungry enough to devour a waffle. This fairy, a bringer of snow (In Training) named Sugar, soon upsets Saga's delicately ordered life with her other weather-bringing classmates and their antics.This show is adorable; so much so that it can be hard to prevent cavities from spontaneously spawning in your teeth due to the sweetness.There was also a three-volume manga illustrated by BH Snow+Clinic and published by Kadokawa Shoten. Volume 1 was released not long after the anime premiered. The plot starts off identical to the anime but later takes a dramatic turn away from it. The manga also renamed the town Guttenburg.
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Nicole Haislett
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|Full name
|Nicole Lee Haislett Bacher
|United States
December 16, 1972
St. Petersburg, Florida
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|140 lb (64 kg)
|Freestyle, individual medley
|St. Pete Aquatics Club
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Nicole Lee Haislett Bacher (born December 16, 1972), née Nicole Lee Haislett, is an American former competition swimmer who was an eight-time American national college champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
Early years[edit]
Haislett was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1972.[1] She was a "water baby"—she learned to swim at 18 months old.[2][3] At the time, her parents merely wanted her to be comfortable in water, not intending that swimming would become her life focus.[3] She began to train with the St. Pete Aquatics Club at the age of 6.[4] Haislett attended Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, where she swam for the Lakewood Spartans high school swim team, winning four Florida high school state championships in two years.[2]
College swimming career[edit]
After graduating from high school, Haislett accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida,[4] where she swam for coach Mitch Ivey and coach Chris Martin's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1990 to 1994.[5] As a Gator swimmer, she won NCAA national titles in the 200-yard freestyle for four consecutive years from 1991 to 1994, the 200-yard individual medley in 1993, and the 500-yard freestyle in 1994, and was a member of the Gators' NCAA-winning relay teams in the 4x100-yard freestyle in 1993 and the 4x100-yard medley relay in 1994.[5] She received twenty-eight All-American honors in four years—the maximum number possible.[2] In four years of swimming, she was undefeated in Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition,[4] and was recognized as the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year for four consecutive years from 1991 to 1994, and the SEC Female Athlete of the Year (all sports) in 1993 and 1994.[5]
She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications in 1996.[4]
International swimming career[edit]
Haislett was the first American woman to defeat a swimmer from East Germany in the 100-meter freestyle since the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany; she did so at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, Washington.[6] At the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia, Haislett won the 100-meter freestyle, and swam the anchor legs for the winning U.S. teams in the 4x100-meter freestyle and the 4x100-meter medley relays, ending the East German women's eighteen years of overwhelming dominance in the 100-meter freestyle at the world championships.[4]
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Haislett won the 200-meter freestyle event with a time of 1:57.90 for her first Olympic gold medal.[1] She was a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, together with Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Angel Martino, which set a new world record in the event while winning the gold medal.[7][4] Haislett swam the freestyle leg in the preliminaries of the 4x100-meter medley relay to earn her third Olympic gold medal.[1] She also qualified for the 100-meter freestyle, finishing fourth in the final.[1]
Haislett was the first American woman to swim the 200-meter freestyle in under one minute, fifty-eight seconds (1:58), and held the American record until 2003, when it was broken by Lindsay Benko. She retired from competition swimming in 1995.[8]
Life after competition swimming[edit]
Haislett served as an assistant coach for the Florida Gators women's swim team under head coach Kevin Thornton from 1996 to 1997.[4][9] Afterward, she studied to be a chef at the Florida Culinary Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, and she formerly worked as a dining room manager and an activities director at an assisted living community for seniors.[3][10] She has been married to Ricky Bacher, an executive chef, since 2003.[10] She was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2004,[11][12] and the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.[10] Haislett and her husband have a daughter, Blake, who was born in 2006.[13]
See also[edit]
- Florida Gators
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of United States records in swimming
- List of University of Florida alumni
- List of University of Florida Olympians
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
- ^ a b c d Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Nicole Haislett. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ a b c Bob Chick, "Tampa Bay's All-Century Team: No. 5 Nicole Haislett," The Tampa Tribune (December 21, 1999). Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ a b c Joey Johnston, "Fame finds Nicole," The Tampa Tribune (May 20, 2005). Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g Julian Pleasants, "Nicole Haislett, University of Florida Oral History Project, George A. Smathers Libraries, Gainesville, Florida (December 16, 1996). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ a b c Florida Swimming & Diving 2013–14 Media Supplement, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 82, 83, 86, 90, 92, 93, 97, 99 (2013). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Associated Press, "Goodwill Games; 'Guest' Takes Early Gold," The New York Times (July 22, 1990). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Julie Deardorff, "Swimmer Haislett Retires," Chicago Tribune (July 26, 1995). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Mike Dame, "Thornton Steps Up Into Role As UF Women's Swim Coach," Orlando Sentinel (March 27, 1996). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ a b c Dave Scheiber, "Fame takes a new form," The St. Petersburg Times (May 20, 2005). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ "Florida Holds 2004 Hall of Fame Banquet," GatorZone.com (February 13, 2004). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ^ Dave Scheiber, "Q & A with Nicole Haislett Bacher," The St. Petersburg Times (July 20, 2008). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
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3200 Rubino Cir has a Walk Score of 51 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
3200 Rubino Cir is a one minute walk from the 901 ALUM ROCK-SANTA TERESA VIA BAYPOINT at the CURTNER STATION (1) stop.
This location is in the Willow Glen neighborhood in San Jose. Nearby parks include Canoas Park, Rubino Park and Canoas Gardens.
Nearby schools include Canoas Elementary School, Achiever Christian School and One World Montessori School.
The closest grocery stores are NaturaLand Yogurt & Juice, Zanotto's and Trinethra Indian Supermarket.
Nearby coffee shops include Elvas Coffee Shop, Capitol Premier Car Wash and Starbucks. Nearby restaurants include Uncle Ray's Catering Inc, Real Kabob Persian Restaurant and Sherwood Inn.
3200 Rubino Cir is near eBay Headquarters, San Jose State University and National Hispanic University.
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Ferrari announced in 1976 at the Paris Motor Show the 512 BB - the replacement for the 365 GT4/BB. It remained into production until 1981 when it was replaced by the 512 BBi, on which fuel injection replaced the carburettors. A total of 929 units were produced, in both right or left hand drive form, but no USA market versions were ever made.
Like on the Dino models its name was referring to the total engine capacity and number of cylinders. Hence it meant a 5 liter engine with 12 cylinders. The "BB" part of the model title had the same meaning as before "Berlinetta Boxer", a reference to the two banks of six cylinders that were in a horizontally opposed layout.
Compared to the 365 GT4/BB which it replaced, the 512 BB features a lower nose panel that now incorporated a chin spoiler, and at the rear the triple tail light assemblies and triple exhaust pipes gave way to large twin circular lenses and paired twin exhaust pipes.
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The 512 BB was built on a 2500mm wheelbase chassis and featured a tubular steel chassis frame with a monocoque central cell.
Under the hood Ferrari placed a 5,0 liter flat twelve cylinder engine with 82mm x 78mm bore and stroke. The 512 BB was fitted with four triple choke Weber 40 IF 3C carburettors, with a single distributor, driven off the left rear inlet camshaft and electronic ignition system. The total output was of 360 hp, while top speed went out to 302 km/h (187 mph).


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The Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium is nearly finished, and the Countdown to Kickoff Blessing and Barbecue is coming soon! Enjoy your Labor Day, Sept. 1, starting at 10 a.m. with a special blessing by Archbishop José H. Gomez, followed by a barbecue courtesy of Bill Miller Bar-B-Q, Coca Cola and Silver Eagle Distributing/Bud Light. Meet UIW athletes at FanFest, and watch the new Cardinal football team at its first public practice! There will be fun for the whole family. The event is free and open to the public, so mark your calendars!
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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Aug. 17, 2008
"My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." Isaiah 56:7
Each of the proclamations of God's Word today has something to say about God's universal invitation to every race and nation. No one is left behind or outside of God's mercy or offer of redemption. And so we know what we must proclaim.We cannot contain or ration God's abundant gifts.Our music and prayers must allow that message to be heard clearly by the people we know and love as well as by those who are different or estranged or shunned.
O God, we bless and thank you because your face shines brightly on all of your creatures.Your love and care is beyond our comprehension and grasp.May all those to whom we minister discover that same unconditional love that you first shared with us. O God, let all the nations praise you!
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Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC
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Campus Ministers Weekly Prayer
Campus Ministry staff will gather in prayer each Monday morning for the UIW community. If there is a specific prayer intention you would like us to include, e-mail any of the campus ministry staff – Trevor Alexander at email@example.com, Lena Gokelman at firstname.lastname@example.com or Beth Villarreal at email@example.com. Our first week of prayer will be focused on our incoming freshman and transfer students. For more information, contact Beth Villarreal at 829-2736.
Belonging to the Cosmos
Alexandra Kovats, csjp, PhD., will speak on "Belonging to the Cosmos: The Word Becoming Flesh" on Sept. 20 in the Christus Heritage Hall at The Village at Incarnate Word. The unfolding story of the universe and its implications for articulating an ecological spirituality for our times will be the focus of the day. Special attention will be given to the cosmic principles of differentiation, subjectivity and communion and their implications for the spiritual journey, to live a more awakened, compassionate life. The deadline to register is Sept. 13. For more information, call Sr. Audrey O'Mahony at 829-3939.
"Be a Star on Broadway" Orientation
The Admissions orientation will begin at 9 a.m. today with check-in and refreshments in Marian Hall. It will continue with various sessions throughout the day and ends at about 4:25 p.m. For more information, call the Admissions Office at (210) 829-6005.
Coastal Bend Alumni Network Mixer
The mixer will be from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16 at Jampa's Lakehouse Grill and Tap. For more information, visit www.uiwalumni.org.
Watch the Olympics in the ICC!
The Olympics will be broadcast live in the Olympic Center in the International Conference Center on two big screen TVs. Enjoy free popcorn and drinks! All students, faculty and guests are invited.For more information, contact Jose F. Martinez Jr. at 832-3294 or email@example.com. The viewing schedule is below:
Friday, Aug. 15, 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 16, 6:30-10 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 17, 6-10 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 18, 7-10 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 7-10 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 22, 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 23, 6:30-10 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 24, 6-10 p.m. (Closing Ceremony)
Graduate School Orientation
The orientation will be from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19 in the Library Auditorium.
UIW Instant Messaging Session
Admissions will hold an Instant Messaging Session from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20. To log on, visit http://www.uiw.edu/admissions/chat.html.
Cardinal Camp
UIW's 2nd Cardinal Camp will be from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Aug. 21-22. Check-in will be in Marian Hall on Thursday and the Fine Arts auditorium on Friday.Free registration is still open for all incoming first-year students.Cardinal Camp is sponsored by the Student Center & Leadership Activities and First Year Engagement, designed to introduce new students to academic and campus life, first-year issues and new friends. Visit the Web site at www.uiw.edu/cardinalcamp.For more information, contact Kristy Pacheco at email@example.com or 805-3069 or Kristin Garcia at firstname.lastname@example.com or 805-5836.
Memorial Service for Fr. Philip Lamberty, O.P.
This summer, Fr. Philip Lamberty, O.P., passed away July 17, just a month after he retired as university chaplain. We will be remembering Fr. Philip and celebrating his life in a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16 in Our Lady's Chapel (first floor of the Administration Building).For more information, contact the Campus Ministry Offices at 829-3128.
Dr. Agnese spoke to UIW administrators and faculty members at the UPC retreat last week in Goodyear, Ariz.
Instructional Technology Summer Training Schedule 2008
The free training classes are offered to faculty and staff by reservation only and seating is limited. All classes begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m. The following sessions will take place in Room 230 of the Mabee Library. Make reservations via e-mail to: email@example.com. At least five participants must register for each session in order for the session to take place. Please contact Terry or Adela if you are unable to attend a session so that we can offer your seat to someone else. Upcoming classes include:
Aug. 20-22
Practical Applications for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 - FULL
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Faculty Photos
If you haven't already had your photo taken for the faculty member database, your turn is coming soon! A photographer will be taking every faculty member's photo at each school's workshop. Please keep in mind that it is imperative to be on time so all photos can be taken before the workshops begin. We will be working on a tight schedule. Please come prepared to have your photo taken at your respective workshop! Thank you for your cooperation! The schedule is below:
SMSE and SIMD
8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, Rosenberg Sky Room
(Please only faculty from SMSE and SIMD take photos on this day)
Noon Wednesday, Aug. 20 Special Collections Room
10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 22 Nursing Building, Room 219 (across from Anna Everett Lecture Hall)
Business and Administration
8 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29 Heritage Hall, IW Retirement Center
10:15 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4 Tilton Room, Joyce Building (lobby area)
Dr. Bob Connelly helps grounds crewmembers Gene Scammell and Emeterio Gonzalez load UIW's new baling machine.
Recycling Update
Cardboard is now being baled at UIW! The new machine compacted the first bale, weighing almost 1,500 pounds, on Thursday afternoon. Individuals and offices are urged to break down boxes and place by one of the big green Toters around campus. Watch for information coming soon about the next phase of the UIW recycling program. For more information about special pickups, call Bill Mulcahy at 829-6047. Thanks for your cooperation.
Road Closure
The road between new dorm and the ICC will be closed Friday, Aug. 15 and Sunday, Aug. 17 for road work. The entrance to campus on the Hwy. 281 access road will also be closed.
Marian Hall Renovations
Marian Hall will be closed for renovation until Tuesday, Aug. 19. Hortencia's will be open Monday – Friday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. while Marian Hall is closed.
VIA Bus Passes
Monthly and semester bus passes are available at the Student Center desk in Marian Hall. Monthly bus passes cost $25 for non-UIW members, and semester bus passes cost $25 for UIW members who have an ID card. For more information, contact the Student Center desk at 841-7360 or Student Center Manager Steven Tiffany at 832-3213.
Burr Road Parking Rules
To prevent congestion, the City of Alamo Heights will restrict parking on the curb of Burr Road between Broadway and N. New Braunfels from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The area will be patrolled by police, and illegally parked vehicles will be subject to citation or towing.
Construction at ICC
The UIW community should avoid the ICC construction area as much as possible because construction will make it difficult to get around the area.
Have a great summer, faculty!
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Upcoming Athletics Events
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Sign up now for the United Way Day of Caring. All participants get a t-shirt with this logo!
United Way/Days of Caring
UIW has again teamed up with United Way for its annual Days of Caring.Our participation day will beFriday, Oct. 3, and our project is a carnival with the theme, "Celebrating Hispanic Heritage" on the grounds of the San Antonio State Hospital.The carnival is a monthly event sponsored by the SASH Volunteer Service Council, and council members will provide help and supervision.We will leave UIW by bus at 8 a.m.Upon arrival, orientation and set-up will be from 8:30–10a.m. and the carnival will operate from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.Our duties will include staffing various booths of games, arts and crafts, drinks, snow-cones, popcorn, etc., and some volunteers will work the serving line for the lunch. Tear-down and clean up will be from 1–2:30 p.m., and volunteers will be returning to UIW by 3 p.m. All participants will receive a t-shirt, breakfast, lunch and transportation to and from the project.To volunteer, e-mail Roslyn Grimes at email@example.com deadline to sign-up is Aug. 25.Please help show United Way that UIW is here to help! (Participation in this project does not count as community service hours).


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Britain's famous runner was stripped of her world record this year after the International Association of Athletics Federations passed a new rule stating females who race with male pacers run unnaturally faster than if they had ran the race alone or with a female pacer -- which voided all female records set with male pacers. Radcliffe ran the 2003 London Marathon in 2:15:25 -- the fastest time ever ran by a woman (but with male pacers). Radcliffe's former record is now considered "world's best" and the new record went to the next fastest time, which was Radcliffe again for her time at the 2005 London Marathon of 2:17:42. Oh, irony.


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Video: Target x Neiman Marcus collection drops
Armed with umbrellas and credit cards, eager holiday shoppers lined up outside City Target last Saturday morning for the launch of the Target and Neiman Marcus collaborative collection. The retailers solicited the talents of 24 of today's hottest designers to create a collection of more than 50 fashionable and quirky products, ranging from Rag & […] [Read More]
Updated! Shop ops: Philippa Roberts, Mission Holiday Block Party, Sak warehouse sale, La Cocina bazaar
Oakland jewelry designer Philippa Roberts opens her store for her annual holiday sample sale this Thursday, plus a studio tour of the space where she works on her sterling silver, vermeil and gemstone pieces. Ten percent of proceeds from the sale go to Alternative Family Services, a foster, adoption and mental health agency. 6-9pm Thursday, […] [Read More]
What your holiday shopping habits say about you
If you're gearing up for Black Friday at downtown department stores with your elbows out, a smile on your face and a wolf-like hunger for sales, it's likely you're a certain type of person, says new research from San Francisco-based Meebo. "The Black Friday crowd are very optimistic people," says Meebo President Martin Green. "They […] [Read More]


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