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Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock of the Bay
I'm lying to Myself
While I've been bragging about the business partnership and how it is progressing, in my mind I think I'm just lying to my true self. I think I'm succumbing to my father's wishes and what he sees as success. So, in trying to be a good son, I am sacrificing my being to satisfy his wishes. I can't do it anymore. Oscar Wilde said it the best and I agree: "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The company venture with my business partner is going okay so far. It's slow, but sure. However, we have reached an impass, which raises a question: How do you convince an industry who doesn't trust you and possibly sees you as a threat to give you a chance? A tough question for sure.
Not done yet with life.
The more I look back on all the things I have done in my life, the more I realize that I'm not yet done living. I have lived in our Nation's Capital, travelled all over Europe, where I got to experience the history and also research my family's past. I attended Mass at the Sistine Chapel when Pope John Paul II was still alive. I got to audition for The X Factor twice in Dallas and San Francisco. I've been to New York City twice. I've met some amazing people in my life, and some not so amazing ones. Lol! Plus, I went back to school and earned my Bachelor's Degree from The Univeristy of Texas at Arlington. I can't wait to see what my future has in store. #EnjoyLife
There's always one sibling…
I am one of four children: two older sisters, myself, and one younger sister. Over the years, I have developed a unique relationship with each of them. Unfortunately, the one sibling I thought I was closest to growing up has become the most distant of them all. My oldest sister has become an example of responsibility and one that grounds me, and the youngest helps me understand that life should be enjoyed. The middle sibling is one devoid of insight and fulfillment of life. She is so stressed out that no one can connect with her anymore. I don't know if her personality now is of her own doing, or if her husband has sucked the personality out of her. Needless to say, I won't let her negativity affect my life.
I've read the comic strip and watched the TV specials. I can't wait to see the movie.
Being single is a tough road with family.
I am hanging out at my parents' house and my sisters and brothers-in-law are here along with my nephews and nieces. It's usually a good time, but when all your siblings are married and they have kids, it makes you feel like the odd man out. Love my sisters, but it makes you feel like you did something wrong by not getting married and having children.
Trying to form a business partnership is hard.
Over the past couple of months, I have been trying to set up a company with one of my Dad's friends with the intention of helping others gain employment in schools located in Texas. It started with the best intentions, however I am now experiencing difficulty. My business partner is a workaholic, which means I receive emails at 1am, which I don't mind. My biggest difficulty with him is the fact that he know nothing about being a team player and does all the work and leaves me with the scraps, like I'm some sort of glorified administrative assistant. I have to admit, that would upset anyone who wants to make money and become successful. This is definitely not what I had in mind. My goal was to start up a Limited Liability Corporation, or maybe an S-Corp. That way, when it becomes successful, I could still fulfill my dream of moving to New York City, and I could also conduct the business from there. It looks like I will have to put my foot down and set up the parameters of this partnership. If he wishes to continue down this path, I will just have to continue my current job hunt and hopefully gain employment in New York.
One thing I've realized recently is that I have spent all my time trying to prove myself to employers and companies that I can satisfy the qualifications they have, only to have them reject me time and time again. Now I understand I know what I can do and what I am capable of and if these companies don't believe in my potential, then that is their loss. The human potential is the largest factor to determine what a person can do in life, not what's on paper. #breakthemold
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Never Let Negative Opinions Kill Your Dreams!!!
I went on a highway trip with one of my Dad's friends to help him drive because he recently had an eye surgery. I thought to myself, "Why not? I can get away from Dallas for a few days." Everything was good the first day. It was really good, until the second day came around. After leaving Houston bound for San Antonio, he started talking to me about my life. I normally just ignore people trying to tell me what to do with my life, until he said. "There is a 99.9% chance you will never go to New York City and probably stay in Dallas." All of a sudden, a feeling I haven't felt in a long time resurfaced. That feeling was rage. My heart starting beating so hard, I thought it was gonna beat out of my chest. I felt like I had a lump in my throat and I could feel the adrenaline running through my veins. In the past, I would have said, "Pull the car over and let me out." Then I would have called my cousin, who lives in Houston and had him drive me to the airport so I could fly home. This time, I think i handled it well. I just sat there, nodded my head and we continued on to San Antonio. Once we got settled and went to go eat dinner at Mi Tierra (which, by the way, is an awesome place and you should go when you get a chance), I decided to explain to him, "Listen, I appreciate your advice, but for the rest of this trip, I am going to relax, and you're not gonna talk about me and my life." He respected my wishes and we went on the rest of the trip. After analyzing that comment, I realized that he really doesn't know me at all. How dare he tell me that I'm not gonna live my dream. All I can say now is that I want to go to New York City even more. NO ONE is going to try to kill my dream of making it to New York City to teach and perform music! Needless to say, the next time I see my Dad's friend, I will be nice, but I will not talk about anything going on in my life to him. He has achieved his dream, now I will achieve mine, without his help.
Limelight is one of my favorite songs, because it paraphrases William Shakespeare's "As You Like It". My favorite lyrics of the song is:
"All the world's indeed a stage,
And we are merely players,
Performers and portrayers,
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage."


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Warning class of '14 — a gang's got your number
For those uninitiated in California gangster nomenclature, a quick primer: The number 14 is short hand for Nuestra Familia, the gang that claims the color red. N, of course, is the fourteenth letter in the alphabet and, therefore, the roman numerals XIV are often used to represent the gang. Now comes the Class of 2014 from […] [Read More]
New Oakland police chief takes reins at tense time of reform
The new interim Oakland police chief's defining experience in the department has involved investigating other officers — a resume many see as a sign that court-ordered reforms now overshadow all aspects of policing the city. And as Sean Whent takes control of a department in the cross hairs of both federal court overseers and citizens […] [Read More]
Radio rogue plagues Peninsula cops
There's a police radio hacker wreaking havoc on Peninsula airwaves. Over the past several weeks, a man has hijacked the radio frequencies used by San Mateo, Belmont and Burlingame police, spewing profanities and taunting dispatchers, cops say. "Obviously, it represents a safety issue to the citizens of the city, because we're not able to get […] [Read More]
Berkeley's most wanted
The Fox show "America's Most Wanted" on Saturday night featured the horrific May 16 crime spree that left three people dead in west Berkeley and north Oakland. Three alleged North Oakland gang members have been arrested, but a fourth, Rafael Campbell, 27, an Oakland aspiring rapper who police say was one of the two gunmen, […] [Read More]
A brush with fame in the Dominican Republic
Our first hint that something was a bit odd came when we walked out to the street after interviewing the weeping mother of a man who'd been shot to death, and there, in the hot, muggy Dominican Republic sun, were two men on tiny dirt-road motorcycles filming us with video cameras and offering, cryptically, to […] [Read More]
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Times aren't exactly spritely in Hangtown — otherwise known as Placerville — these days. Crime-wise, that is. Seven people have been locked into the town's El Dorado County Jail recently on murder charges, most notably Tylar Marie Witt, a 14-year-old girl accused of killing her mother. Internationally despised kidnap-rape suspect Phillip Craig Garrido is in […] [Read More]

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Remodel projects with little payback
If you're justifying home renovations thinking that you'll recover the costs when you sell, you may want to recalculate.
Homeowners who want to remodel will find both joy and sorrow in the 2013 Cost vs. Value Report, recently published by Remodeling Magazine.
The joy comes from the report's finding that remodeling projects overall could be expected to return a higher percentage of their cost at resale in 2013, reversing a six-year decline in the recovered value of such investments. Every project on the national list posted a higher return in 2012 than it did in the prior year. The sorrow is that while returns are higher than they were, they're still far short of 100%.
The complete list included 22 midrange projects, ranging from a $1,137 steel entry door replacement to a $152,470 second-story addition, and 13 upscale projects, ranging from a $2,720 garage door replacement to a $220,086 master suite addition.
Best return
In the mid-range category, the least costly project -- that steel entry door replacement -- posted the highest return at 85.6% of the cost.
Other midrange projects that returned 70% or better were an attic bedroom, basement remodel, wood deck addition, garage door replacement, minor kitchen remodel, vinyl siding replacement and vinyl window replacement. The lowest-returning mid-range project was a home office remodel, which recouped just 43.6%.
In the upscale category, the highest-returning project was a fiber-cement siding replacement, which recaptured 79.3%. Other upscale projects that returned 60% or better were a garage door replacement, foam-backed vinyl siding replacement and vinyl window replacement. The lowest-returning upscale project was the master suite addition, which recouped just 52.1%.
And in those figures also lies the sorrow. That steel entry door replacement was the only project in the midrange or upscale category that achieved at least an 80% cost recovery, nationally. The home-improvement projects returned only a 60.6% national average. That's not much of an incentive, financially speaking, for home improvements.
Replacement projects generally were a better investment than remodeling or room additions. Cost-and-value-recapture percentages varied widely on a regional basis.
Contractors agree with the positive outlook
Remodeling contractors have high expectations for 2013, according to a fourth-quarter 2012 survey by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry in Des Plaines, Ill.
The survey found remodelers reported better business conditions, more inquires, more requests for bids, more conversions of bids into jobs and a higher value of total jobs compared with the prior quarter.
Tom O'Grady, chairman of the NARI strategic planning committee and president of O'Grady Builders, a remodeling company, in Drexel Hill, Pa., said in a statement that remodelers were anticipating major growth in their businesses.
"Many (remodelers are) saying that their clients are feeling more stable in their financial future and their employment situations; therefore, they are spending more freely on remodeling needs," O'Grady said.
The 2013 Cost vs. Value Report is a snapshot of generic projects and shouldn't be applied to individual homes. Instead, homeowners should get estimates from local remodelers and discuss home values with a local real estate professional.
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I no longer think much about recouping the cost of a rennovation or remodel -- I do things because they're good for my home or because I like them. Resale down the road isn't a good basis for decisions. With market fluctuation, who can say what remodeling will actually turn into a good return? Stick strictly to what you can afford and will make your home look its best for your own pleasure in it. The greatest mistake in recent years I find is installing hardwood floors, which are NOT family friendly, pet friendly, or carefree. There are lots of easy care, cheaper floorings to consider. The same with stainless steel -- nobody who gets stainless appliances loves them for long.
We remodeled our kitchen, family room and main floor powder room about 18 months ago. We gutted the kitchen and replaced all the cabinets, added a pantry with pull out shelves, put in granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. We put hardwood floors throughout all the rooms, replaced all the lighting and installed a furniture style vanity with a granite top in the powder room. All told, we spent about 18k on everything. I shopped sales and planned purchases like cabinetry around special offers. Since our kitchen was original and 30 years old, it was a good investment, both for function and for possible resale.
I love our hardwood floors, but we don't have pets and the grandkids aren't here on a daily basis. I find them easy to maintain and I love the look. We had laminate and vinyl while the kids were growing up. Those were much more practical.
I agree 100% with the comment written by 939pav.
I would also include adding energy efficient upgrades to lower energy costs and aging in place features to your home to make it more user friendly as you age. Also adding security monitoring camera's with a monitored alarm system would be beneficial.
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It's long been known that beer makes women prettier, but a new study concludes beer also makes men more creative.
The New York Daily News reports the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a bar. The article does not say who paid for the study, but I'm thinking it was a group of men or a beer company.
"We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks," psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking, says in the article, which I have forwarded to my wife.
Wiley parrots what any man who has had to come up with an excuse for running late while sitting on a bar stool will tell you: "Sometimes the really creative stuff comes out when you're [drinking]."
For the experiment, conducted by University of Illinois researchers, a group of 40 men was given three words and asked to provide a fourth word that fits a pattern. For example, "marine mammal," "Heidi Klum," "divorce" could be followed by "Seal."
Half the men remained dimwittingly sober, while the other half was given two pints (hopefully of a microbrew) and likely began flirting with waitresses and/or researchers.
The men who drank solved 40% more of the problems than their sober counterparts. Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12 seconds while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds, the Daily News reports.
Women did not participate in the study, perhaps because men can't think straight around such delightful creatures, according to an earlier study.
The Daily News article also cites the literary genius of famed drinkers Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski, but not George Mathis.
Alas, it was almost the perfect scientific study.
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Introduction: This article will describe my experiences of attending a NARAM for the first time. I hope that you'll get an idea of what you might expect when you go to one too, because it is not as scary as you might believe. And by reading about my experiences, maybe you'll pick up some clues on how to finish in first place!
I attended my first NARAM in 1986 in Rantoul, Illinois. Actually, it was only my second or third contest that I ever participated in; so I was about as new to contest flying as anyone ever could be. At the time, I was on my summer break from college. I was a sophomore engineering student, and I thought I knew enough about rockets to win a few of the events; including Boost Glide (BG), even though I had never had a successful BG flight to that point. What optimism I had....
The reason I decided to go was that the site wasn't too far from my parents home in suburban Chicago. The sight was real close to Champaign, Illinois, where I had a brother living at the University of Illinois. So I knew it would be fairly cheap for me to attend.
Going to NARAM for the first time, I didn't know what to expect -- I didn't even know anyone else. Since I was a novice at competition, I knew I'd have to do a little background research as to what would be the best type of competitive models. Fortunately, I had a friend who had a pretty extensive 'stash' of old club newsletters and "Model Rocketeer" magazines. Before I left school for the summer, he let me borrow them and make photocopies of the stuff that interested me. By the way, those articles formed the nucleus of my rocketry library, which now fills two entire 4-shelf bookracks. If you haven't started your own library, you should start now. Saving this newsletter in a binder is a perfect way to begin.
Offhand, I don't remember all the events, but I do remember building models for 1/2A Parachute Duration (PD), A Streamer Duration (SD), B Helicopter Duration (HD), and B Boost Glider (BG). Of these, the HD and BG would be the most challenging. I spent the early weeks of the summer break building and flying test models. The BG model was giving me fits -- I couldn't build a glider that would boost straight. And if it didn't crash on lift-off, the pod would separate. And when I finally managed to get one that did, the glider would go into a death dive and break the forward fuselage boom. Fearing that I would never get a model to work, I decided to try a kit; the CMR Manta.
Yea... right.... That didn't work either. I continued to have the same problems.
Helicopter duration was just as difficult. But at least I could get a straight lift-off. I was building Rotaroc style helicopters at the time, so I was having a lot of problems with burn-strings. I also thought that my "engineering background" would give me enough wisdom to allow me to successfully modify the plans. My mods only made it fly worse.
Well, finally the day arrived for me to go, and yet I still didn't have models that I trusted to work. On a whim, I even build a Rose-A-Roc helicopter (without any modifications), but I didn't get a chance to test fly it. The model used bent music wire to make the hinges; which was a real torture to do. My construction skills weren't the greatest, and even with my foolish ego, I could tell that the rocket didn't look right. So I decided to use it only as a back-up model.
I arrived at the registration site on Saturday afternoon. I got my contestant's packet and poured through all the neat stuff that was in it. "This stuff is cool," I said to myself. I had never seen so many different rocket goodies in one place. I thought that I had hit the mother-lode!
Since I knew nothing of such big contests, I decided to go to the contestant's briefing. I'm glad that I did. There were some additional rules and regulations announced, as well as a list of the special happenings during the week.
The actual contest I don't remember much, except those two events I feared the most; BG and HD. My stupid modification to the BG design was use a large high aspect ratio wing (long and thing). My thought was that if it works to make full size airplanes more efficient, it should give me an advantage in small rocket propelled models too.
I can remember the contest director saying, "you're gonna shred those wings, kid." I was taken by surprise by the statement; he didn't even know me or my skills. So I decided to go for it anyway. Actually I had only the stupid CMR Manta model as a back-up, so there wasn't much of a choice.
Well, I did shred the wings. They came off as soon as the model cleared the pad. Now I had the 'injury' added to the previous 'insult.' For my second flight, I used the CMR Manta. That flight was also DQ'ed when the motor pop-pod took off without the glider. My stubbornness and ego had prevailed, and for it, I got zero points.
With that disaster out of the way; onward to the next -- Helicopter Duration. Here I had more confidence in my tests; I was really getting close to getting a successful flight.
I carefully prepped my modified Rotaroc and went out to the pad. Oh... the launch was beautiful -- a straight and very high boost. My anticipation peaked, as did the rocket. It arced over the top graciously, while I waited in eager anticipation for the blades to deploy. It started coasting downward, and I thought, "any second now -- those blades are going to deploy and I'll be sitting pretty in the standings."
Well, that never happened. The rocket continued its downward trajectory and build up a tremendous amount of speed and hit the ground with a nice impact. Since it had a blunt balsa nose cone, it didn't take a core-sample of the earth, however, it made a nice splat sound; like a big bug hitting your windshield as you're traveling down the highway at 55 mph.
With my contest model destroyed (there is a photo of me holding the dead model in the December 1986 issue of "American Spacemodeling"), I again had no choice -- I had to fly an untested model that I was almost sure would also crash. But what the heck; I was sure I couldn't go any lower. So I stuck a motor up its rump and popped it into the air. My heart was lifted as the blades opened and it began to spin. After a few seconds, I began to realize that the wind was carrying this thing well down wind toward some trees and military buildings (we were launching from an active Air Force base). If I wanted to get this thing back and figure out what went "right," I had to start after it now! So the steeple chase was on.
I barely managed to keep up with it, and I was lucky to see it land on an office building roof. I remember talking to an airman to let me go up to the roof and see if I could see it. Sure enough, there it was. Then I had to run back to the rangehead to find a contest judge to come look at the rocket -- so I could get a "qualified return." It was nearing 5 p.m., and the military personnel were starting to go home; so the contest judge (I think it was Bob Kaplow) and I ran all the way to the building and up the stairs to the roof. I got the "return," and even the model back too, when a very kind airman risked his neck to retrieve the model. With the great second flight of the helicopter model, I was finally having the success I envisioned. It wasn't good enough to earn a trophy, but I felt great!
I don't remember much of my other flights, but I do remember the R&D presentations. They pretty much blew me away... It was the year of George Gassaway's "sun-seeker" gimbaled rocket motor project. That report also blew away all the other competitors too and easily took first place. The other reports had me fascinated, and got me even more hooked on attending NARAMs.
I didn't go home with any trophies, but I took back a lot of memories. I also learned a lot of lessons that I'd like to share with you.
First, don't stay 'off-site' as I did. You miss out on the essence of being there. It is like going to Florida for a Space Shuttle launch, and staying in your room to watch it on TV. There are so many good times and great conversations that occur at the hotel; they happen at all hours of the day, and well into the night. One of the best reasons to go to a NARAM is to meet all kinds of new friends. Even thought I was a "newbie," I was always treated like an old friend -- if I needed assistance, someone was always there to help out.
You've probably heard it said so many times and think it is a cliche, but the friends you make in rocketry are deep and long-lasting. The reason is that you share so many experiences; we've all crashed more models than we care to remember.
Second lesson: do your homework before going to the meet. Ask others for plans and advice. If you don't know who to ask, go ahead and ask me. My email address is: email@example.com. I want you to succeed -- it is my desire to help as many people as I can -- I need more rocket friends.
Third: don't worry about what people might say if your rocket flight was a failure. Those same people have made a lot of mistakes too (I speak from experience). Learn from the failures. I recommend that you keep a logbook of competition flights -- maybe something like the Apogee Flight Record data sheet. I did write down the results of that first trip to NARAM-28, although I didn't review it to write this article.
Fourth: Not all your flights will be bad; similarly, not all of them will be great. So relax and know that there is always another event to excel in later.
Fifth: work on your construction skills and strive for 100% reliability in your flights. This pays off in the long run. You'll do extremely well in local contests, and much better than average at NARAM.
Sixth: You don't have to go to NARAM to compete. There are so many other things to do there that it is worth going just to be a bystander. I've done this the last two years, and I still had as much fun as if I would have been a competitor.
Seventh: As I found out, don't modify the plans of a rocket if you are unfamiliar with its operation.
Eighth: Come to NARAM with all your models built. You won't have to worry about last-minute things, and you will have more time to walk around asking questions of other modelers to get ideas and strategies for your own flights. And come visit me in the Apogee Components retail store, I can always use a good conversation...
Once you attended your first NARAM, you'll be totally hooked on rocketry competitions. Even if you come in dead last place (like me), you will have had a lot of fun and made many new friends. The second trip to NARAM will be even more fun. On my second trip, I one a first place trophy in "B" Helicopter Duration! So... I'll be hoping to see you next summer.


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Anne Macchiaverna, of Danbury, wife of the late John J. Macchiaverna, died at her home on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. She was born in Lynn, MA, April 4, 1920, a daughter of the late Alfred and Lillian Heleotis. She attended Massachusetts schools.
A World War II U.S. Army Airforce veteran, upon graduation from high school, she enlisted in the U.S. Army Airforce and served as a military photographer.
A resident of Danbury since 1945, she was employed by the Risdon Corporation for thirty-five years as a quality control inspector.
She dedicated her life to her family and church. Affectionately known as "Noni", some of her happiest times were shared with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She will be sorely missed. She was a member of St. Gregory the Great Parish of Danbury.
She is survived by three daughters, Elaine Gillotte and her husband, Larry of Danbury, Johnis Macchiaverna of New Milford, CT and June Macchiaverna and her husband, Jim Brusek of Chicago, IL; a brother, Theodore Heleotis of Dorchester, MA; a sister, Golfo Drivas of Pembroke, MA; five grandchildren, Lauren Gillotte, Carly Miller and her husband, John David Miller, John-Christopher Foley, Joshua Cody Foley and Jana Brusek; four great grandchildren, Amanda Gillotte, Ryan Miller, Lucamac Miller and Avary Miller and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by a brother, Charles Heleotis.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, March 23, 2012, at 10 am in , 85 Great Plain Rd., Danbury, CT.
Interment will follow in St. Peter Cemetery, Danbury.
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Contributions in Mrs. Macchiaverna's memory and honor may be made to , 405 Main St., Danbury, CT 006810 or to one's own favorite charity.


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"When I saw you holding my daughter, I absolutely hated that. I wish I was a bigger man than that. I mean, I was telling Sonny that people need to give you a chance to redeem yourself. And I think that's absolutely true. But I don't think it's gonna be me that does it.Understand?
I'm sorry. What happened to you in prison, it twisted you, I understand, and you're still trying to heal from that and you're gonna have to live with that everyday. But do know what I have to live with everyday? I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed of what I let you do to me.
I let you control me. You saw a coward in me and I gave that to you. I tried to justify it by saying I was protecting my family. But because I didn't see what you were running from, we almost died. Alright, Gabi almost died. Sonny almost died. My daughter almost died. And that's because of you.
You understand? I'm not saying you'd ever do that again. But I am never going to take that chance. So, yeah, I have a problem with you holding my daughter."
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- Summary: The turntable class game three colors of the four base Egypt symbols combined into 12 bet. Bet time, players need to bet in a circular symbol, also need to select one of three colors. Each symbols has a different magnification.after the bet time (no longer wager). runner and pointer in the screen starts to rotate, when stopped, the pointer to the color and symbols (must satisfy both) is winning symbols. - Big win - Bonus - Wild colors and Wild symbols Good luck!… Expand
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Toy Art Gallery alongside Garageworks and Made by Monsters has just announced a Lunch party and signing event for Ron English and Chris Brown titled "Dum English". The signing will see the release of the Turquoise and Pink Astronaut Star Skull 10" Vinyl Toy and the Astronaut Skull Necklace. These pieces were created by Ron for Grammy award winner Chris Brown. The even is scheduled for Wednesday May 2nd 2-4pm at their Melrose Store.
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From the Archive: While preparing the Dec. 9 article on Gary Webb, we pulled up a 1998 article that helps explain how inconvenient facts from recent U.S. history sometimes get "found" and then "lost" again. That summer, a CIA report exposing Nicaraguan Contra drug trafficking forced the New York Times to admit the point, but it soon forgot.
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The Warning in Gary Webb's Death
Special Report: Modern American history is more complete because journalist Gary Webb had the courage to revive the dark story of the Reagan administration's protection of Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers in the 1980s. However, Webb ultimately paid a terrible price, as Robert Parry reports.
John Hull's Great Escape
From the Archive: The U.S. political/media world often operates without justice. Truth-tellers get punished and the well-connected get off. On this seventh anniversary of journalist Gary Webb's suicide, we are re-posting one of the stories that Webb's brave work forced out, albeit without a satisfying ending.
Gary Webb's Book as Thank-You Gift
From Editor Robert Parry: As a new thank-you gift for donations over $100 to Consortiumnews.com, we are offering a wonderful new book, The Killing Game, a selection of investigative news stories by the late Gary Webb explaining the context of his remarkable life and tragic death.
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Water injection relies on water's naturally high specific heat, which means it requires a lot of heat to change liquid water-to-water vapor (steam). The high specific heat is one of the reasons water is an excellent coolant. When injected into an engine, water does several things. When it is first injected, some of the water vaporizes, absorbing heat from the incoming intake stream. This helps cool the hot intake charge in much the same way N2O injected into the intake of a nitrous-equipped car does. Once inside the combustion chamber, the water is fully vaporized into steam. This vaporization absorbs a tremendous amount of heat from the combustion reaction, helping cool the engine internally to prevent hot spots that can be areas of self-ignition where detonation propagates. The heat absorbed from the water's phase change also acts to buffer the combustion event, slowing it down. Thus the water helps regular pump gas behave much like slow, controlled-burn, high-octane race gas.
The super-heated steam also acts like a powerful steam cleaner inside of the engine, removing compression rising, hot-spot propagating carbon deposits from inside the combustion chamber. As water does absorb power-producing heat, it does not produce quite the same horsepower per lb. of boost as race gas does, but it does allow quite a bit of additional boost. The water also goes a long way to eliminate engine-damaging detonation.
The Aquamist water injection system uses a unique proprietary atomizer nozzle to introduce the water to the intake air stream. The nozzle produces a range of droplet sizes from a fine fog to a coarse mist. This helps the water work more efficiently. The fine water fog vaporizes almost immediately, helping reduce the intake air temperature by about 20 to 30 degrees. The larger droplets don't vaporize until they reach the combustion chamber where they can cool and buffer against combustion. All the droplets are small enough where the even distribution of water throughout the manifold plenum is ensured.
Most modern fuel injected cars have manifolds that are designed to flow dry air only, not a mixture of liquid and air so the maintenance of correct water droplet size is critical for even cylinder-to-cylinder water distribution.
The common, old-school water injection system typically available makes no attempt to atomize the water. As a result, unequal distribution and over injection of water occurs, creating bogging and other driveabilty problems with still poor suppression of detonation.
The Aquamist system works so well the Euro Ford Sierra Cosworth uses this system as original equipment from the factory. The Aquamist system can be tuned using different sizes of jets ranging from 0.40mm to 1.0 mm. Because the SR20 engine has a relatively high (for a turbocharged engine) compression ratio of 9.5:1 stock and is burning 91-octane unleaded pee water, the large 1.0mm orifice jet with a flow rate of 335cc per minute was selected. Since the SE-R has a large windshield washer reservoir, it was tapped with a pick-up for the high-pressure water pump.
To partially offset the power reducing internal cooling produced by the water, it's possible to run a leaner fuel-air mixture and more ignition advance.
Clark Steppler of JWT integrated the water injection to the Engine Control Computer he reprogrammed for us in the last project installation. Using a microprocessor containing a daughter board interfaced to the ECU to control the water injection pump, Clark programmed the daughter board to turn on the injector pump at a mass airflow meter voltage approximating 8 psi of boost whenever the water injection master arm switch was activated.


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Josh Groban Co-Hosts With Jeremy Fenech on Cars 108 [AUDIO]
If you missed it this morning, listen to Jeremy's interview with Josh Groban right here!
If you missed it this morning, listen to Jeremy's interview with Josh Groban right here!
There's one more Super Bowl commercial that you probably haven't seen - in fact most of us didn't see it Sunday night, because it only aired in North Platte, Nebraska.
And this is no big budget ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Matthew Brodderick or Regis - it's a low rent spot with the one and only Will Ferrell pitching 'Old Milwaukee' beer. But it's getting more Internet buzz than most of the big guys' commercials. A lot more:
An American tradition is back this weekend. The New Year's Eve Ball Drop in Times Square has been happening for over a century.
Since its first drop in 1908, the ball has has several makeovers. The latest, in honor of its 100th anniversary, debuted in 2008. But when most Americans think about the New Year's Ball Drop, they also think of Dick Clark.
After 28 years hosting 'Live!,' Regis Philbin will walk away from his longtime gig Friday. That's one hour each day we've grown accustomed to Reege invading our living rooms that's now gone. So, how can you fill that time? Let us help you:
Regis Philbin may be exiting 'Live!' in a couple weeks, but Kelly Ripa is staying put.
The 41-year-old actress and host, who celebrated a decade with the show in February, just signed a new five-year contract with Disney-ABC Domestic Television that will begin when her current deal expires late next year.
As he announced earlier this year, beloved television personality Regin Philbin is retiring from the syndicated 'Live! with Regis and Kelly' on November 18 after more than a quarter-century co-hosting the various incarnations of the program.
Since then, names such as Ryan Seacrest, Andy Cohen and actor Mark Consuelos, the husband of Philbin's current co-host, Kelly Ripa, have been bandied about as possible replacements. And now, while an insider says there is no frontrunner, a new name has people talking: 'Saturday Night Live' alum Dana Carvey.
It's no secret that Regis Philbin has been waging an ongoing war with technology. Fans of 'Live With Regis and Kelly' will recall that he's struggled with nearly every device known to man, including cell phones, fax machines, computers, iPods and even ATMs. The guy is old-fashioned, you see.
Flint's Chad Mosher is no stranger to game shows, and today he'll take a crack winning big money on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
Update: So far Mosher has won $85,000, before running out of time. Part II of his appearance airs tomorrow at 12:30 pm.
The U of M Flint student made an appearance on "Jeopardy!" when he was twelve, according to his online resume. He won $2,000.
Then in 2008, Mosher made a cool $25,000 when he appeared on "Million Dollar Password" with Regis Philbin. Hit the jump to catch the video of Chad's big win!
Regis fired his agent Jim Griffin. The news came after TMZ reported that Regis quit because, execs told his agent that Regis would have to take a pay cut in a new contract.
Regis Philbin announced on Tuesday that he's retiring from his long-running morning show after 25 years. The 79 year-old personality has had a slew of co-hosts over the years, most notably Kathie Lee Gifford from 1988-2000 and currently Kelly Ripa who's been with the show since 2001. ABC has stated that the show will continue without Reege.
Who could we send from Flint to Replace Philbin? How about Andrew Heller? Cars 108's J. Patrick? Maybe ABC-12's Bill Harris?
Here's who we seriously think might replace him:
In a sincere moment on "Live With Regis and Kelly, 79 year old Regis Philbin announced that he's leaving the daytime talk show.
"Well I've got one of those announcements to make today..." Regis began.


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The international Debian Developer Conference 2008 will be held in the Argentine cirty of Mar del Plata August 2 through 17.
Margarita Manterola announced the final schedule on various Debian mailing lists. The conference proper with lectures and discussions will take place between August 10 and 16, with Debcamp before and after. Accommodation and the network will be available at this time, and individual developer groups will be able to use the infrastructure for meetings and teamwork.
After the conference, the free software project will again be welcoming the general public on Debian Day. The event will take place August 18 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
Registration for the event will start late in 2007; more details are available on the Debconf website at http://debconf8.debconf.org. The location, Mar del Plata, 400 kilometers from the capital, is a popular seaside resort. But before you Debian fans out there start packing your bathing costumes, be warned: Mar del Plata is in the southern hemisphere, so Debconf 8 will be in the middle of winter – the organizers recommend warm and waterproof clothes!
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Definition of rectrices in English:
rectricesLine breaks: rec|tri¦ces
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛktrɪsiːz /
noun (singular rectrix /-trɪks/)Ornithology
The larger feathers in a bird's tail, used for steering in flight. Compare with remiges.
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- I plucked the outer right rectrix (tail feather), thereby inducing the growth of a replacement.
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It sounds too good to be true but it also makes sense bc there is literally nothing to do with him. He's not even mentioned in the upcoming episode summaries, and yeah I thought "born a leader" was a forced way to keep him relevant in the KC drama. And yeah, well the walrus said next ep is devastating, so fingers crossed. I wonder if Klaus will be in 418
I actually find it kind off sad and unjust that Tyler is leaving....not because I am deeply invested in him as a character or as far as the acting goes, but it is just once again sad that the writers could not be bothered to develop his character properly and do anything for him....and when they need him out of the picture, they just send him off to werewolf camp. And Caroline is not getting better treatment either. What is her role even in all of this after this week's episode?
Please don't let it be a rumor. If we can't get Klaroline then JP should at least do us all a favor and get rid of Tyler for a couple of months. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm starting to hate Caroline because of her cardboard boyfriend. I can't stand watching her scenes anymore because all she does is hero worship the prick.
Am I the only one who felt like Klaus purposely started talking just so Caroline could get closer to the barrier? Well, its Klaus remember, I am sure he was planning to do the same to Tyler at some point, but when Caroline came closer and he did - I think it was one of thos Klaus moments when he comes up with a plan in an instance because that way he kills to birds with one stone - pisses off Tyler and gets to be in control of the situation and gets to bite Caroline, and then again safe her life again.......The only thing I was bumbed about was that whole barrier thing - because remember in s2 when Kat was sealed in the tomb, when another vampire would walk in he would get stuck there too....here I thought the same would happen, as in Klaus would take Caroline, bite her and keep her hostage...thats why I was surprised when she managed to get back to Tyler and get out of the "blocked" zone.....which made me wonder was it because Bonnie put a special spell or was yet another mistake on the writers part


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House majority whip Charles A. Murphy, facing certain defeat in any effort to hold his office, resigned his leadership position at a Democratic caucus yesterday, sharply criticizing House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo for forcing him out.
"I resigned because I wasn't going to put the members through a vote like that,'' Murphy told reporters as he emerged from the caucus room where DeLeo was ready to redraw his leadership team. "I find that unpalatable.''


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Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin offer a variety of survivorship and support services to help patients cope with the emotional and practical aspects of their transplants and guide them on the path to recovery.
The Jeffrey C. Siegel Quality of Life Center, located on the second floor of the Clinical Cancer Center, provides cancer patients and their families with a full range of support services. It is named in memory of an individual whose generous family helped make it possible.
Our art therapist helps individuals express concerns about illness and their lives through art modalities such as drawing, painting, sculpture or photography. For more information, please contact our art therapist in the Jeffrey C. Siegel Quality of Life Center at 414-805-0572.
Complementary therapies, including art therapy, have been reported effective in reducing anxiety and other emotional symptoms, improving quality of life and enhancing cancer patients' ability to cope with stress. Several studies suggest that more than 80 percent of cancer patients may use some form of complementary therapy in conjunction with standard medical treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
Each year, we invite patients who have received a blood or marrow transplant to attend a special Celebration of Life event. Patients have an opportunity to hear from bone marrow transplant specialists and talk with others who have similar experiences. The event is a source of hope, optimism and encouragement for patients — and for medical staff who find inspiration and continued motivation in each patient's recovery.
Patients and families have access to a certified child life specialist, a child development expert who helps children cope with the stress of an adult's illness or injury.
If you are ready to take the next step toward a smoke-free lifestyle, ask your health care provider about a referral to the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center Smoking Cessation Program.
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin offers on-site services to deal with the social, emotional and financial issues related to illness and hospitalization. There are also local area services, including restaurants, churches and synagogues, car rental, shopping, and lodging options that may be helpful for patients and their families.
Many cancer patients experience changes in personal appearance. Hair loss, surgery and other issues can add to the burden of disease and treatment. Located on the second floor of the Clinical Cancer Center, the Small Stones Wellness Center helps cancer patients manage these changes and regain confidence about their personal image.
People affected by a cancer diagnosis, as well as their spouses, family members, significant others and caregivers, are welcome to attend our support groups to share information and experiences, as well as to receive encouragement and support. Visit our calendar or call for more information: 414-805-3666 or 800-272-3666. Additional helpful support groups may be available in the community from organizations such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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Plump ears of sweet corn, rows of sweet, juicy watermelons and a bounty of other fresh vegetables straight from the garden is Walt Reichert's idea of living the good life.
Now he is sharing his lifelong knowledge of gardening with the world in his newly published book, Walt's Wisdom, a Cornucopia of Gardening Miscellany.
n 1912, in reaction to the Day Law that segregated black and white students, the doors opened to The Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville, a boarding high-school established for African-Americans.
After a rise in integrated schools, The Lincoln Institute was closed in 1966, but for 54 years it was a bastion of reading, writing and arithmetic.
This weekend the school's alumni will reunite, with more than fifty-years worth of students attending.
With less than three weeks until opening day for The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass, construction workers on the property are hard at work.
The 365,000-square-foot retail center located just south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville is scheduled for a VIP opening on July 30 and the grand opening July 31.
"This shopping center is a hundred percent leased. That is very rare, and we couldn't be more excited," said Gina Slechta, Vice President of Marketing for Horizon Group Properties.
It appears that Simpsonville is one step closer to opening 400 new jobs as the Triple S Planning Commission will hear development plans for a 119,430 square feet facility on Kingbrook Commerce Park Tuesday evening.
Although officials with Faurecia continue to decline to comment on the auto parts manufacturing company's plans to locate in Simpsonville, the company is moving forward with its plans.
Twenty-two new laws being are being implemented as of this month, including a bill regarding more than $5 billion in road repair projects.
The laws, which go into effect on Tuesday, were approved during the Kentucky General Assembly's 2014 regular session, which adjourned on April 15. While some went into effect immediately, like a bill preventing the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, other bills had up to 90 days to take effect.
With three weeks until opening day for The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass, construction workers on the property are hard at work.
The 365,000-square-foot retail center located just south of Interstate 64 in Simpsonville is scheduled to open on July 31.
Despite the fact that many stores look empty, Gina Slechta, Vice President of Marketing for Horizon Group Properties, assures that the nearly all the stores will be ready to open on time.
"I have watched stores literally transform in a 24-hour-period," she said.
Shelby County has a new solid waste director, a transplant from New Mexico who has been living in Shelby County for 12 years.
Rick Solomon, who retired from a 20-year career as an environmental engineer at a New Mexico oil company, headed east after retirement, "Because I wanted to get away from the desert."
Since his finance was working as a state employee for the state of Kentucky, a move to Shelbyville seemed logical, he said.
He also went back to work, again as an environmental supervisor, for the state of Kentucky.
Construction on the county's new solid waste facility began Thursday and officials say the center should open in four months.
Newly hired Solid Waste Director Rick Solomon said construction, originally scheduled for an August/September completion date, was delayed because of weather.
After learning that her grown son had a rare-incurable illness that would destroy both his kidneys, Judith Nigh did not hesitate – her decision to give him one of her kidneys was the most natural thing in the world, she said.
"It was an honor and a blessing that God made it possible for me to do this for him," she said.
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Republican Hal Heiner gave his gubernatorial campaign a seven-figure boost, reporting loans totaling $4 million in his second-quarter finance report Monday.
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COLUMBUS – On the afternoon before his NHL debut, Ben Scrivens comfortably took a snooze before casually flipping through the pages of a book.
The unusually calm pre-game tactics worked wonders.
Scrivens made 38 saves in his first NHL start, backstopping the Leafs to a 4-1 victory over the Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena on Thursday night. Despite missing starting goaltender James Reimer for the sixth consecutive game, the Leafs managed to improve to 9-3-1 this season, largely behind the efforts of the 25-year-old in goal.
"Any time you play your first game, you want to make a good impression," said Scrivens, who learned he would start from Ron Wilson that morning. "I was obviously excited, but I didn't want to get too excited. I want to just come in and try and play my game and for the most part I did that. I'd like to control a few more rebounds next time, but we got the win and that's the most important part to me."
The Blue Jackets (2-10-1) outshot the Leafs 39-18, controlling the pace of play throughout, but Scrivens was up to the task at all points.
In the opening period, he robbed Rick Nash preying in the right circle and coming up with key stops on Cody Bass and Matt Calvert later in the frame. Midway through the third, he calmly turned aside R.J. Umberger, hard-charging to the crease on a partial break.
All in all though, it was smooth, compact and economical saves that defined the night for the Spruce Grove, Alberta native.
"He was really calm in there for his first game," said Clarke MacArthur, who scored twice, giving him six goals in the last five games. "If that was me, I'd be really uptight and kicking the shots out into the slot everywhere. What a game he put together for his first one."
The Leafs were hopeful that Reimer would return from injury (whiplash) against Columbus, but he wasn't feeling up to par with his conditioning at the morning skate and sat yet again – he's been out since October 22nd. Jonas Gustavsson performed capably in his absence (3-2-0) for five consecutive starts, but now has the younger Scrivens breathing down his neck for action.
A former standout at Cornell University, Scrivens is briskly following the Reimer model to the NHL.
Like the 23-year-old Leafs number one, Scrivens excelled in the ECHL with Reading (.938 save percentage last season), before wrestling hold of the Marlies top job in March (.924 save percentage).
"He's played well in the American League," concluded Wilson following the game, "and maybe somewhere along the line, I should've given him a start because we do believe he's going to be a big-time goalie and he showed that tonight."
Most players claim to have trouble sleeping before their first game, struggling to shake the butterflies right up until puck-drop. But in the hours leading up to his debut, Scrivens composed himself rather methodically. There was a nap, followed by some light reading from Scorecasting, the work of L. Jon Wertheim and Tobias J. Moskowitz which details "loss aversion and the mentality that goes in behind decisions that happen in sports".
"I'm not a very superstitious guy," said Scrivens, who was recalled to back up Gustavsson on October 24th. "I kind of think that hurts guys and hurts goalies especially. I just try and relax.
"For myself, getting all fired up doesn't do me any good. I've played the game before. I was just trying to stick to my routine that worked in other leagues and hope that it translated into success up here."
For one start at least, it worked magically.
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WINDSOR Wilma P. Niven, 86, formerly of Rutland, died Feb. 25, 2013, at Mount Ascutney Hospital in Windsor.
She was born Jan. 6, 1927, the daughter of Byron and Vida (Whitmore) Fish.
She graduated from Fair Haven High School in 1944 and from Becker College in Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Niven was employed by Springfield Local Telephone Co. and Continental Telephone Co. for 35 years.
She was a member of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 31, Women of the Moose Chapter 241 and the VFW Auxiliary 648.
Survivors include two daughters, Janet Cole of South Pomfret and Jean Pitts of Windsor; two sons, Jerry and John Swenor, both of Reading; two stepchildren, Charlene McGovern of Arizona and Rick Niven of Hillsboro, N.H.; a brother, Byron Fish of Charleston; six grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren; and five nieces.
She was predeceased by her husband, Robert L. Niven, in 1990; a grandson; her former husband, Dwayne Swenor; and two sisters, Doris Provencher and Betty York.
A celebration of her life will be held at a later date in Rutland.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Mount Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, 289 County Road, Windsor, VT 05089.
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Farm Credit System:
Repayment of Federal Assistance and Competitive Position
GGD-94-39: Published: Mar 10, 1994. Publicly Released: Mar 10, 1994.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Farm Credit System's repayment of federal financial assistance, focusing on whether the: (1) system can and will repay the financial assistance; (2) system's status gives it an unfair competitive advantage over commercial banks; and (3) system's charter should be changed to permit diversification.
GAO found that: (1) the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC) used $1.261 billion of its $4 billion to aid system banks, liquidate the Jackson Federal Land Bank's assets, fund inter-bank obligations, and fund miscellaneous authorized purposes; (2) although the system is obligated to repay the Department of the Treasury for an advance it received for financing interest payments, it is not required to repay the interest on the advance; (3) system banks' reported capital is often greater than their actual available capital because they are not required to follow liability recording procedures; (4) eliminating the system's accounting and regulatory exemptions would not adversely affect system banks' financial status or ability to meet minimum capital requirements; (5) FCSIC needs to repay the advance so that it can be entirely financed by premium collections; (6) if the system removed the FCSIC Insurance Fund from its asset balance sheet, it could better support its financial statements, and its banks would meet capital requirements; (7) although the system enjoys some cost advantages because it is a government-sponsored enterprise, its lending practices are legitimate and do not create unfair competition; and (8) although the system's charter may need revision in the future, its present charter is limited to serving agriculture policy purposes and does not need to be diversified to remain viable.
Matters for Congressional Consideration
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: No action was taken in the 105th Congress.
Matter: Congress should require that system institutions record all categories of assistance granted under the 1987 act using the generally accepted accounting principle that best reflects the economic substance of this federal aid.
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: Per Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation officials, assistance provided to four System banks has been repaid ahead of schedule. The issue, therefore, is moot.
Matter: Congress should provide the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) statutory authority to recognize all categories of 1987 act assistance as temporary, not permanent, capital of system banks for regulatory purposes.
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: No action was taken in the 105th Congress.
Matter: Congress should require FCSIC to reimburse the Treasury for its initial capital infusion of $260 million within a reasonable time, taking the financial condition of the system and the Insurance Fund into consideration.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: The agency reached a compromise with the Farm Credit System on this matter. It does not intend to take further action.
Recommendation: FCA should require the system to exclude the FCSIC Insurance Fund from its combined financial statements.
Agency Affected: Farm Credit Administration
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I just barely managed to squeeze this skirt out of an old remnant of duchesse satin from my stash. I didn't have enough for the waistband facings, so I cut up an old white bedsheet and used some heavy interfacing to make it hold the shape.
The ribbon on the hem was equally a design-feature as a way to recue the hem , as I found it next to impossible to hem the skirt invisibly. I like it though, as it gives to skirt a preppy/nautical feeling, that I really, really like.
The pattern is from Burda EasyFasion S/S 2009, but I had to shorten it 2 cm because of fabric shortage.
duchesse satin in a dusty rose color, a white bedsheet, invisible zipper, black satin ribbon in 2 widths, thread (white for construction, black for the ribbon), interfacing.
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It looks adorable, i think the fact that its shorter, really adds a "modern" feel and keeps it from looking great :)
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"Souled Out" at Leonard Street Gallery, LondonJuxtapoz // Friday, 29 Feb 2008
Souled Out, Leonard Street Gallery's latest exhibition, features new works by Bangkok-based artist Beejoir, as well as works by UK-based artists Mau-Mau, Cyclops, and Kate Westerholt.
The show, which takes its title from the name of Beejoir's Bangkok studio, takes a fresh look at Beejoir's latest imaginative conceptions "alongside fellow artists whom share the same desire of presenting profound visuals that both allure and confront the viewer."
Souled Out is on view from February 29 to March 22. Visit www.tlsg.co.uk for more details.
Words and photos by Chris Osburn.
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