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The lemon flavor in these yeast muffins makes them unique. My husband is a minister, and we're invited to many potlucks. People love these muffins.
18 Servings
Prep: 20 min. + rising Bake: 15 min.
1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
3/4 cup warm milk (110° to 115°)
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add milk, sugar,
shortening, lemon peel, salt, lemon juice, eggs and 1-1/2 cups
flour. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on high for 3 minutes.
Stir in remaining flour (batter will be thick). Do not knead. Cover;
let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
Stir dough down. Fill greased muffin cups half full. Cover and let
rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over the dough. Bake at 375°
for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire
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racks. Serve warm. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Nutritional Facts:
1 serving (1 each) equals 141 calories, 5 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 25 mg cholesterol, 144 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 3 g protein.
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Judge John Cleland issued the sentence Tuesday, three months after a jury convicted Sandusky on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.
Sandusky maintains his innocence and plans to appeal, a process his lawyer has said will probably begin in the coming weeks.
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The former Penn State football defensive coordinator is facing 10 to 400 years in prison for the 45 counts of child abuse he was convicted of in June. At age 68, any significant sentence could mean life in prison.
Sandusky's wife, Dottie, smiled at people gathered at the courthouse as she entered with her daughter, Kara, who waved. The pair arrived with Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, for the hearing.
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harpsichordLine breaks: harp¦si|chord
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːpsɪkɔːd /
A keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys. It is used chiefly in European classical music of the 16th to 18th centuries.
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early 17th century: from obsolete French harpechorde, from late Latin harpa 'harp' + chorda 'string' (the insertion of the letter s being unexplained).
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Texas is known for thinking big. And, ASSE member Patricia Kagerer has a big idea she likes to share during NAOSH Week. Lets just say she would like to make a statement. For the past four years, she has been instrumental in the Dallas-Fort Worth "Construction Industry Stand Down" and on May 7, 2008 she will be at it again.
OSHA and other associations invite construction companies across Texas to stand-down projects for 1-1/2 hours at the same time on the same day. During a stand-down projects are shut down so that employers can provide additional education on workplace safety and health –related issues all aimed at preventing on-the-job injuries and illnesses. Many will focus on training workers to understand safety and unsafe conditions and behaviors, to eliminate hazards, incidents and sometimes near misses as well as reviewing key information on personal protection equipment (PPE). Advance training will be provided to employers and supervistors before the stand-down to ensure maximum success.
"By standing down it will make a statement that safety is important," Dallas, TX-ASSE member Patricia Kagerer, CSP, ARM, CRIS, VP-Risk Management CF Jordan, said. Patricia has been doing this each year for several years because of the importance of making sure those workers that go to work in the morning to their construction site get home safely every night. For more information please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. CF Jordan will participate in the stand down throughout the state of Texas at approximately 30 jobsites.
Chelsea Crowley is on a mission. This year, the Canton, Massachusetts teenager will distribute NAOSH week materials on how to be safe at work and at school. Her diligent efforts will help promote safety awareness at local schools in her hometown as part of NAOSH week 2008. She is a junior at Canton High School and has been promoting NAOSH Week each year for the past three years. Chelsea and her father, David Crowley, CSP, CET, CHMM, former Chapter President of ASSE's Greater Boston Chapter, (still a very active member of ASSE), are both committed to getting the word out for NAOSH week because they believe that the more people know about being safe at work - - the less people will be injured or killed on the job…and as a result, less hardship for family members of hard working Americans.
As part of her efforts she will hand out NAOSH posters and safety awareness information at local schools. As a gesture of community involvement, she will also provide a large donation of toiletry supplies and health supplies at the local food pantry - - most of which have been collected from hotels in her area. She'll also hand out a "Construction Safety Checklist" to construction companies in her hometown from the ASSE Construction Practice Specialty newsletter titled Blueprints. In addition, she'll provide OSHA tip sheets on tree trimming and chain saw safety to local landscaping firms in her hometown.
Chelsea's dad, will also participate in the planning efforts for a ceremony to be held at the State House in downtown Boston again with the Massachusetts legislator's during the week of May 4 –10, 2008 to help celebrate North American Occupational Safety and Health Week as he did for NAOSH 07. It is expected that the local ASSE chapter will bring together representatives from AIHA, ACHMM, AAOHN, OSHA, the Massachusetts Department of Labor and the Construction Safety Institute to join in on this commemorative event.
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Caveat emptor: Nobody knows where the market is going for sure in the next hour, let alone in a full year. One should, therefore, run away from experts who claim they know where the market is headed. The past few years must have proven that to you. So that said, how does one play the markets profitably in 2012?
This trader has been humbled many times, and has learned from the markets to look for trades with a high probability of making a big profit and low chances of making a small loss.
The savviest traders and investors take small losses and get out of a position when they go wrong. Conversely, one should stay in a position for a long time and let profits run when one is right. Successful investors and traders have a simple rule. Never take your opinions seriously and personally in the market. If the market proves you wrong, just get out of the stock and carry on.
Having said this, you'll realise that the headline of this article is a high-probability outlook and not a sure shot. And it's based on supply and demand points in the market along with the trend. As the cliche goes: the trend is your friend till the bend at the end. So our goal when looking at 2012 is to capture the trend and watch out for the probable bend at the end.
We will take a broad sweep of the financial markets to see where they are headed. The markets include India, China, Japan, US, Europe,the US dollar, gold and silver. The article will also identify the current trend of the market and spot high-probability turning points. Remember to always cut your losses when the market moves against you.
Themost obvious way to identify a trend is spot a series of lower lows and lower highs for a downtrend and a series of higher highs and high lows for an uptrend. A lower low is made when the latest low in price is lower than the previous low and a lower high is when a latest high in price is lower than the previous high.
Given the fact that the trend of the market is bearish, a conservative trading strategy would involve shorting the market at resistance levels and taking profits at support levels. Aggressive traders can go long at support for quick counter-trend profits. Remember that any of the support levels can stop and reverse a downtrend or can just lead to a small correction.
Since one can never be sure where the market will turn, it's always best to take at least some profits at potential turning points and hold some positions to benefit if the trend continues.
The BSE Sensex
A look at the Sensex chart shows that the index has made a series of lower lows and lower highs. (Click here for the Sensex chart). The horizontal lines above the current price are resistance levels and thosebelow are support levels. Prices often rally from support and sell off from resistance. Support levels are areas of demand as buyers exceed sellers and vice-versa for resistance.
In the case of the Sensex,it might go down to the 12,000-13,000 range as there is a gap at that level. The gap is shown by an arrow on the chart. Gaps happen when prices close at one level and open higher or lower the next day. In the case of the Sensex, the gap is huge, of nearly 950 points. Gaps happen because there is a huge imbalance of buyers and sellers.
In the case of the Sensex the gap was up, which means the number of buyers substantially exceeded the number of sellers. Gaps are also magnets for price, which makes us believe that the Sensex can reach the 12,000 to 13,000 level eventually, as the trend is bearish.
The US market
The S&P 500 index was basically range-bound in 2011 and is likely to stay so unless it breaks below 1,000 or rallies above 1,375. For the year as a whole, the index ended flat. As the global benchmark for equity markets, the S&P 500 has, over the past six months, been making lower highs, higher highs, lower lows and higher lows, which clearly signals a market in a holding pattern. But that's not bad as the trading range is wide at 375 S&P points, which can give some very good opportunities.
Based on price action, we have a bearish bias. A look at the chart shows that the index has quite a few resistance levels overhead in close proximity, making a strong rally difficult (Click here for S&P 500 chart). The support ranges, on the other hand, are wide apart. So a break of one can lead the index down much lower till the next level.
Traders in all countries should keep a close eye on the S&P 500 as equities globally have a close correlation to it.
What's up for Europe?
The trend in Europe is bearish, too, as prices are making lower highs and lower lows. We are looking at an exchange traded fund (ETF) called the Vanguard European Index Fund, which tracks the Morgan Stanley Europe index (Click here for the Europe chart).
The only factor casting doubt on the downtrend is that the fund made a higher low, as shown by the arrow on the chart. However, it has still not made a higher high, which is a prerequisite for prices to turn bullish. If the price goes above $45, the trend could have changed. The horizontal lines above the current price are resistance levels and those below are support.
We are still bearish on Europe as the price has touched the support level between $36 and $38 twice. The more the number of times prices touch a support or resistance level, the weaker it gets. If that level is broken, prices can go all the way down to $31.
There is a fundamental reason for bearishness in Europe. Even if the continent does not spiral into a debt crisis, growth is expected to be slow, at the very best. On the other hand, some expect a double-dip recession.
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Wildlife Protection Coalition Files Suit to Protect Endangered African Antelope from "Canned" Hunts
Species in Danger of Extinction Shouldn't be Shot for Profit, Groups Say
San Francisco, CA — Wildlife protection groups filed suit today in the Northern District of California to prevent the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) from allowing canned hunting of three endangered antelope species. The plaintiffs include The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Defenders of Wildlife, Born Free USA, the Kimya Institute, and a number of individuals.
The plaintiffs contend that a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service decision announced last month violates the Endangered Species Act by allowing trophy hunters to kill the three species on game ranches in the United States. The plaintiffs also contend that the rule will undermine conservation efforts for wild populations and set a damaging precedent for the commercial exploitation of other endangered species.
Last month, after a fourteen-year delay, the FWS finally listed the scimitar-horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelle as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. However, on the same day, the FWS published a sweeping exemption that would allow hunters to kill captive bred antelope animals on privately-owned ranches located anywhere in the United States and sell their "trophies" to hunters from the United States and abroad.
"The federal government is trying to create a 'canned hunt' exemption to the Endangered Species Act so that trophy hunters can bag endangered animals in drive-thru killing operations," said Michael Markarian, HSUS executive vice president. "That's not sport and it's certainly not conservation."
Canned hunts have proliferated over the past 10 years, with an estimated 1,000 or more current operations in the United States alone. Hunting guides escort their clients to feeding stations and watering holes where their semi-tame prey is an easy target. The guides handle removal of the carcass and arrange for the taxidermied trophy to be delivered to the client.
The Bush Administration first proposed allowing widespread killing of international endangered species for commercial purposes in 2003, but tabled the proposal after it came under massive criticism from the public, the scientific community and members of Congress.
"This rule is the same wine in a different bottle," said Carroll Muffett, Senior Director for International Conservation at Defenders of Wildlife, "And it's as invalid for these antelopes as it is for the other 500 species the Administration threatened with their 'kill them to protect them' plan. We don't get clear skies by increasing pollution; and we won't save endangered species by killing them for profit."
Decades of overhunting and habitat loss have driven the three antelope species to the verge of extinction. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) lists the scimitar-horned oryx as extinct in the wild, the addax as critically endangered, and the dama gazelle as endangered. The three species are captive bred and regularly offered to hunters at game ranches in the United States:
- The scimitar-horned oryx, with its large, curving horns, is an icon of the Sahara desert. JN Ranch in Rocksprings, Texas offers the opportunity to kill one of the endangered animals for a fee of $2,750.
- The addax's unusual, spiraling horns are coveted by game hunters. Wilson Whitetail Ranch in Sabinal, Texas lists the fee for bagging an addax at $4,500.
- Near San Antonio, Texas, dama gazelles are found at the 777 Ranch where they are "priced upon request." The 15,000 acre ranch boasts of offering one of North America's largest herds of exotic animals, guided hunts, first class accommodations, and hunts conducted from "custom jeeps."
All three receive the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), prohibiting commercial international trade and requiring both export and import permits to trade in live specimens or their parts and products. While wild populations of the species have declined to the point of near or complete extinction, the numbers of captive-bred antelope have increased; 4,000–5,000 scimitar-horned oryx, 1,500 addax, and 650 dama gazelle can be found in captivity — mostly on game farms — in the United States. In four decades of operation, U.S. ranches that allow canned hunting have never provided any antelope for reintroduction efforts despite widespread knowledge of their critical status.
According to wildlife trade experts, far from helping conserve African antelope in the wild, the new exemption will further endanger their survival by creating a legal market through which illegally hunted trophies could be laundered, providing the opportunity and incentive for the poaching and trade in wild antelope.
More than 20 conservation and animal protection groups submitted comments opposing the exemption when the FWS proposed it last spring.
The plaintiffs are represented in the case by the public-interest law firms Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, D.C., and Evans & Page, San Francisco, California.
Defenders of Wildlife is a leading non-profit conservation organization recognized as one of the nation's most progressive advocates for wildlife and its habitat. With more than 490,000 members and supporters, Defenders of Wildlife is an effective leader on endangered species issues. On the web at www.defenders.org
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest animal protection organization representing more than 9 million members and constituents. The non-profit organization is a mainstream voice for animals, with active programs in companion animals and equine protection, disaster preparedness and response, wildlife and habitat protection, animals in research and farm animal welfare. The HSUS protects all animals through education, investigation, litigation, legislation, advocacy, and field work. The group is based in Washington and has numerous field representatives across the country. On the web at www.hsus.org
Born Free USA and its companion organization in England, Born Free Foundation, work to alleviate animal suffering, protect threatened and endangered species in the wild, and encourage everyone to treat wildlife everywhere with respect and compassion. On the web at www.bornfreeusa.org
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The Greek word might be from a Thracian equivalent of Greek phaskein "to say;" compare also enchant, and German besprechen "to charm," from sprechen "to speak." Earliest used of witches and of serpents, who were said to be able to cast a spell by a look that rendered one unable to move or resist. Sense of "delight, attract" is first recorded 1815. Related: Fascinated; fascinating.


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In preparation for their "Most Desirable Women of 2011″ list, AskMen put together this list of the LEAST desirable women.
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Horn Lake Police have charged four teenagers as adults in connection to a drug or gang-related homicide of a 25-year-old man found shot in a car late Sunday afternoon. Sunday's fatality is the first reported homicide in Horn Lake in 2013, a town of 25,000.
The four Horn Lake teens, ages 15, 16, 17, and 18, are all being charged with capital murder in the death of 25-year-old Christopher Lee Lockett.
Horn Lake Police Chief Darryl Whaley charged Michael Wayne Delong, 18; Rodrick Darrel Gilliam, 17; James Gregory Banis, 16; and James Derrick Kirkwood, 15, with one count each of Capital Murder and Conspiracy to commit a crime felony.
Each teen is being held on $1.25 million bonds, Chief Whaley said.
The teens were identified and arrested around 6 a.m. in Walls after a lengthy 12-hour overnight manhunt by the DeSoto County Sheriff and Horn Lake and Walls police departments."Several of our uniformed patrol participated in the manhunt after Horn Lake requested assistance from surrounding agencies," said Sheriff Bill Rasco. "The request came with locations and some descriptions on vehicle or vehicles."
The man was found shot in the Twin Lakes subdivision of Horn Lake at the corner of Winterwood and Caroline around 6 p.m. Sunday.
Two of of the juvenile suspects charged with murder while the third and fourth juvenile two suspects are charged with conspiracy in the crime, Horn Lake Police Chief Darryl Whaley.
The discovery started out with a reporting of a suspicious car. "They were reporting a suspicious vehicle, and when the officers got there, there was a male in the vehicle who was unresponsive," said Chief Whaley. "We later determined that he had been shot."The unidentified male victim was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.Neighbors told FOX13 News the fatal shooting took place in a driveway of the vacant house. The car was pushed into the street. "It appeared that this was sort of a drug transaction that had gone awry," Chief Whaley said. "Our people worked all night.The big break came when DeSoto County Sheriff's deputies and Walls Police officers stopped two suspects near Walls, some eight miles from the homicide. The two teen suspects told sheriff deputies of two other teen suspects who were possibly involved.
Sheriff Rasco said suspects involved in any crime "just cannot out-run a multi-agency dragnet working as a team."Rasco said "I am proud of our deputies and our team effort with Horn Lake Police Department and Walls Police Department in producing successful arrest," the sheriff said.Witnesses described a car the suspects were in and a detective remembered working a case that had a similar type vehicle.Detectives with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation processed cars in Walls that were part of the crime.As for there being a gang or drug problem in Horn Lake, Chief Whaley said Walls is just like any other city."I think we are like everybody, we have start-ups that try," he said. "We definitely concentrate on them but the people who were involved in this one were not particularly known."Additional arrests are possible. The case remains under investigation.
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In this article (originally published in Appleton's Magazine, September 1906), the author discusses what he calls, "the menace in machine-made music!" He criticises the extensive marketing and distribution of the phonograph in America and the UK, suggesting that the use of the phonograph as a means of experiencing music removes the soul of the work, its emotional strength, from the listening experience. He speculates that there will be a decline in amateur music making as the phonograph usurps the place of musical instruments in the family home. He also discusses how, at the time, there were no copyright laws concerning music recording, hence a composer's work could be recorded and sold without permission or remuneration.


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It's been a year since I left Korea and it's time for an update. Three weeks after leaving Korea I went to China with my family and had an incredible experience. Since I shared my experience of living in Korea I've decided to share our trip to China as well. You can go to that blog by clicking here y'all.
After China I settled back to Tennessee and tried to figure out what to do next with TL. It was difficult to figure out what to do because I felt like I was looking at everything after getting new glasses. Things that used to be important to me, worrying about high gas prices for example, no longer were. Things that I used to take for granted, open green space, I no longer did. (If you're a former expat or service member you know what I'm talking about. If you're reading this and you're in one of those two groups and are having trouble adjusting shoot me an email. If you're around Nashville, we'll meet up and the first round is on me).
That adjustment wasn't the only difficulty I had. Trying to fit back into a domestic life wasn't easy while having to answer the only two questions everyone wanted to ask. The first one being, "So when are you getting a real job?" The second, "Well if you're not sure then when are you going to grad school?" The truth is both are not easy to accomplish when you return. You have to understand the type of job you want to apply for or you have to be prepared to invest the time, energy and money for grad school. One thing we "Recessive Millennials", my term for those of us that graduated from college in 2007-2010, have learned is that having a degree doesn't guarantee a job. You have to be specific in your skill set to obtain a position in the career you want to work in.
All of this combined made TL and I realize after the summer that we were no longer a good fit together. It was difficult, and it took some time, to move on but I've grown to love Nashville and I'm a better person because of our break-up. My time in Korea taught me a great many things about maturity and being self-aware and it highlighted my love for travel and writing. My time here in Nashville has given me the opportunity to apply those lessons.
One of the things that I kept thinking about and talking about, as I moved on from our break-up, was traveling and exploring. Clearly, I'm someone who's always been interested in going to new places but also to learn new things. I enjoy reading about a new discovery or seeing a new place we humans have gone to. So that is what I'm going to do. While I'm sharing with you my family's journey to China, I'm going to be working on a personal blog about my thoughts on life, travel and our explorations as people. Those explorations can be outward, via travel, or inward through personal experiences. I'll highlight both and write about them sharing my own opinions and through my own stories. Most of those stories will be fiction but they'll be mine. I'm excited to begin this new journey and I look forward to sharing it with you after I finish my family's trip to China.
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Paulette and John Peden.
Shop entrance.
View of one small corner of the shop.
Rare set of blue-transfer covered canisters in the Spode's Tower pattern, $3200.
Paulette sells candles, fragrances, and other products from the tony Parisian firm Diptyque. They make good host gifts (which once upon a time were called "hostess gifts"). They are not cheap. Paulette said, "I was introduced to them when I was working with Karl Lagerfeld."
Swedish tall clock from Jutland, circa 1820, $11,000. The oval mirror next to it retains its original silvered "platinum" surface and has a Boston label; it is $6800.
A selection of ironstone. Plates start around $50. More impressive pieces go up to about $450.
Set of circa 1800 Belgian library steps with their original long hand-pole, $1500.
Swedish settee, circa 1790, $14,500.
Here's a view of John Peden's music room with some of the Fender amps he sells. He said he concentrates on small-size amps and calls them bedroom amps or gig amps. They don't need a large venue to sound their best. The Univox, upper left, is $575; the Princeton Reverb, rear center, is $2400; the Princeton model, rear right, is $1600; and the Deluxe Reverb on the floor is $3200.
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When we called Paulette Peden to arrange for a visit to her shop in the quaint/chic hamlet of New Preston, Connecticut, she told us that she was expecting a new shipment from Europe any minute and that it was likely that when we got there, "the shop will look like a bomb went off in it." We arrived a few days later on a beautiful September Sunday to find no evidence of any decorative arts bomb having been exploded. Instead, the place looked as if it had just stepped out of a photo spread in World of Interiors or Elle Décor.
Paulette and her husband, John, specialize in Scandinavian antiques. Their shop is a riff on the type of country house depicted in old Ingmar Bergman movies about guilt-racked Swedes—all cool Gustavian shades of white and gray. (Actually, John really specializes in vintage Fender guitar amplifiers, but we'll get to that later.) The Pedens' shop, Dawn Hill Antiques, is the first antiques shop on the left that you come to as you enter New Preston from the east. Dawn Hill is the name of the street in nearby Sharon, Connecticut, where the Pedens' weekend house is. (They live in the Chelsea section of Manhattan as well.) It's not anybody's name. Paulette said, "A lot of people think Dawn Hill is a woman's name and often call me 'Dawn' at shows."
Those with long memories will recall that for decades New Preston was a thriving setting for antiques shops. People such as Gary Sergeant and Lou Marotta had spaces there. Nearby inhabitants provided a ready market. The surrounding Litchfield hills have always drawn the type of artsy and literary heavyweights who wanted second homes near New York but didn't like the looniness of the Hamptons. The area attracted the likes of Arthur Miller and sculptor Alexander Calder. Today it's home to folks such as Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mia Farrow, Bunny Williams, Brooke Hayward, Dustin Hoffman, and George Malkemus and Anthony Yurgaitis, the top guys of Manolo Blahnik shoes and of Arethusa Farm, an upscale dairy in Litchfield.
With the softening of the antiques market, the hamlet lost some of its luster but seems now to be prospering with the type of retail mix that appeals to today's generation of well-heeled country home owners and weekenders from New York City. It's a mix that includes antiques but is not dominated by them. In New Preston, along with antiques you'll find new and distinctive home goods, a florist, some fashionable clothing, and even a nice little stationery store. Who would have guessed that there are still people out there using expensive handmade paper to communicate?
"The town has had a comeback," John said, to which Paulette added, "We've been in this town almost twenty years. It's back to where it was when we moved in."
During our visit, a steady parade of people came into the shop. Some were clearly just lookers intent on savoring a late summer outing. But an encouraging number took pictures, dimensions, and prices.
Even though one might classify most of the Pedens' inventory as relatively formal (or at least "high country"), the light scale and light paint tones lend an airiness to these pieces that allows them to work well in modern interiors in a way that period high-gloss, brown formal furniture does not. Consequently, decorators continue to use this material in their interiors. "There's a coterie of designers who call Paulette all the time," John said.
Like much of American country furniture, this material is painted, which raises the question, "Do buyers pay a premium for original paint as they do with American antiques?" The answer is "yes—sort of." Paulette said, "We try to keep to our goal of original surfaces, but not every single piece [has its original surface]. In my opinion a piece in original paint is always more valuable in Swedish furniture as well, of course, as it is in American. However, that being said, there is certainly a lot of repainted Scandinavian furniture around, so perhaps consumers don't care as much as I do."
The prime market for this type of furniture is not collectors. Paulette said typical buyers are "people who decide that a Swedish clock would look great on their stairway." This also means buyers may not always be sticklers for whether or not a piece is period or heavily repaired. "We stock decorative but old," Paulette said, to which John added, "That makes it tough because you're going up against repro stuff." Indeed, "Gustavian" furniture—like French furniture—has been reproduced pretty steadily since the 19th century, so there are a lot of repros around that can still be a hundred years old.
John said they will stock the occasional later decorative piece, even though period pieces are their primary interest. "Dealers hate to hear about 'decorative,' but those are the people who are spending money today. You have to have one foot in practicality."
John credits longtime employee Jane Frederickson with helping maintain the shop's focus on period material. He said, "Jane grew up near Malmö [Sweden]. They had this stuff in her house growing up. She became our in-store vettor and kept us on the straight and narrow."
Paulette, whom John calls the "prime energy source" of the business, tries to keep multiple examples of popular forms on hand in the shop. She said, "If you have a store, you need choice. If people want a chest, you want to have more than one for them to look at." During our visit, for instance, we noticed at least three or four settees in stock along with an equal number of tall clocks. "We have to keep it fresh," John said.
While the Dawn Hill inventory leans heavily to furniture, there's no shortage of smalls. Paulette stocks substantial amounts of pottery, glassware, decorative objects, paintings, lighting, and looking glasses that complement the furniture she sells. In fact, her first love was china, not furniture.
For much of her career Paulette worked in advertising and public relations for Elizabeth Arden in New York City. On her many trips to England she became interested in Staffordshire and related pottery. She said, "I went around buying blue and white transferware and brought back huge boxes on the planes." Customs in those days did not present a problem. "You'd just wave to the customs people and tell them you had antiques, and they'd let you through." Before she began specializing in Swedish material, she said, "I used to do a lot with Welsh dressers because they looked great with all the transferware."
Her first antiques business venture also focused on pottery, albeit of the most utilitarian sort. Paulette said, "I had a shop with a friend in Cornwall Bridge [about a dozen miles north of New Preston] called Real McCoy. We sold McCoy flowerpots."
In addition to blue and white transferware, Paulette also stocks a substantial amount of white ironstone as well as a limited amount of new pottery. She also carries a line of high-end French fragrances and candles. Not only do these things add to the general attractiveness of the shop, but they serve a direct business purpose as well. The well-off homeowners in this area are also the type of people who are likely to entertain houseguests on a regular basis. And those houseguests need thank-you gifts to give their hosts. "We get a lot of people coming in for a fifty-dollar or a hundred-dollar item. They're not looking for a ten-thousand-dollar clock. In this town you need to have these smaller items," she said.
While the shop is clearly their major undertaking, the Pedens also do a number of antiques shows. They've exhibited at shows in Nantucket, Maryland, Charleston, Palm Beach and Naples, Florida. They used to do the Marilyn Gould summer show in Wilton, and they do the Botanical Garden show because they buy a fair number of garden pieces. They also do the "downtown armory show" in Manhattan. "And way back when, we used to do the Wendy shows at the uptown armory," Paulette said. "They were great."
Paulette is on the board of the Antiques Council and handles some of the organization's advertising and public relations chores.
Dawn Hill has a substantial Internet presence. The Pedens have an active Web site. If you Google "Swedish antiques," Dawn Hill comes up on the opening page. The business has also been on 1stdibs for ten years. Paulette credits 1stdibs with giving the business a national reach. She said, "It's what takes pieces further afield. I just sold a clock that's going to Lake Tahoe from 1stdibs." She also works with the Internet marketing firm Constant Contact sending out e-mails to clients. "I do it every month or two," she said.
When asked what percentage of her gross comes from each component of the business—shop, shows, Internet—Paulette thought for a minute before answering, "One-third, one-third, one-third."
That mix may change in the near future. The Pedens are doing fewer shows. "I don't know that people are turning out for antiques shows the way they used to," Paulette said. "I'm hoping to build the shop and Internet. This fall will be a good test for me. I'm not doing any shows until the downtown armory [in January]."
The business also generates extra income by leasing space on the upper floor of the building, which the Pedens own, to three dealers, Barry Strom, Glenn Allard, and Darius Nemati. The Pedens also reserve a space upstairs that they call Brocante, where they show things that don't quite fit the look of the shop downstairs. It allows them to buy an eclectic mix of interesting stuff that may have good potential profit in it but that would dilute the Gustavian ambiance of the main shop. During our visit, for example, there was a cute bistro table and a pair of Kem Weber chairs on offer.
Upstairs is also where John sells his musical stuff. He joked, "Paulette is kind enough to let me have a little cubicle." He calls this venture Peden's Vintage. He specializes in those small early Fender amps that aging Boomer guys are likely to have used when they were young. He also carries some other Fender paraphernalia and a small selection of vintage vinyl records. He does not sell vintage Fender guitars. He said, "The guitars are no fun. I can't afford to tie up forty to sixty thousand dollars in a guitar." And the amps, he added, "are undervalued still."
John played guitar with the Heavenly Blues Band in North Carolina and then moved to San Francisco in 1966. In short order he learned that there were lots of better guitarists around than he was. He began taking pictures of musicians instead of playing with them. "Given what happened with drugs to so many musicians back then, I dodged a bullet," he said. (Nevertheless, after moving to New York in 1970, he played rhythm guitar for 30 years in the roots rock and blues band the Cool Jerks.)
John went on to have a career photographing musicians and as a fashion photographer. He no longer shoots fashion but still photographs things musical. His photos have appeared in a large number of music publications and books. Also, he recently has begun photographing gardens.
It was while he was working as a fashion photographer that John met Paulette. Apparently, it was not exactly love at first sight. "We worked together in the professional sense for five or six years before we got together," John said. "If you really want to get to know someone, work with them."
It was at work that Paulette became enamored of Swedish antiques. She said that Elizabeth Arden had a business relationship with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, which required her to make regular trips to Paris. She would visit the Paris flea market before work. It was in Paris that she discovered the attraction of Scandinavian antiques. "It was twenty-five or twenty-eight years ago; I saw my first painted clock. I loved the pale color, the quirky design."
She said, "We went to Sweden a couple of times" and developed a network of European dealers (one of their favorites is actually in Belgium) who specialize in Swedish antiques. They met many of them in, of all places, the south of France. "A lot of Swedish dealers came to shows in Provence," she said.
Even in today's softer market, the Pedens are active buyers. The container we mentioned at the beginning of this article was a 40' one that the couple shared with another dealer in town. It contained 20 pieces of furniture for them and another 45 pieces of dishes, glassware and decorations. "Only one glass was broken," Paulette said. In a market where selling any furniture is difficult, you have to admire someone who's buying 20 pieces at a time.
For information contact Dawn Hill Antiques, 11 Main St., New Preston, CT 06777, (860) 868-0066, cell (917) 767-6384, Web site (www.dawnhillantiques.com); year-round hours: Saturday 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., all other days 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Tuesdays. Also Peden's Vintage, cell (917) 855-9255, Web site (www.pedensvintage.com), e-mail <email@example.com>.
Originally published in the November 2013 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2013 Maine Antique Digest


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For William Glackens, who began his career as a quick-sketch newspaper illustrator, drawing was a nearly automatic activity, rapidly executed and broadly suggestive. For a large and ambitious studio nude such as Girl with Apple, he completed numerous preparatory sketches. Before executing this relatively "finished" version in pastel, Glackens made pencil sketches, which are scribbly in character. They demonstrate his method of working out a pose by drawing limbs in a sequence of positions on the same sheet, creating an almost cinematic effect. By this stage, he had firmly established the placement of pictorial elements and begun to finalize his palette in pastel. Although Glackens often made significant changes to his compositions in the painting phase, his unwillingness to leave anything about this work to chance suggests the impact he sought for its exhibition debut.
- Artist: William Glackens, American, 1870-1938
- Medium: Pastel on wove paper mounted to pulpboard
- Dates: ca. 1909-1910
- Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11 3/4in. (21 x 29.8cm) (show scale)
- Markings: Estate stamp on verso: "WG by EG"
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TASTING IN THE DARK Think you're a beer buff? Here's your chance to prove it (and sip some delicious craft beers at the same time). The Sierra Nevada Torpedo Room's "Tasting in the Dark" event designed to challenge beer drinkers' assumptions and help them cultivate a more perceptive palate. The blindfolded participants will learn to identify different styles of beer. The event begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13. The limited $20 tickets are available at the Torpedo Room, at 2031 4th St., Berkeley. … Continue reading »
Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Room opens in Berkeley
Sierra Nevada is throwing open the doors to its new tasting room, Torpedo Room, today in the Reed Building on Fourth St. between University and Addison in West Berkeley.
As we've reported previously, Torpedo Room is not a bar, nor is it a restaurant. Rather it offers 16 taps and draught beer in taster flights as well as small snacks and the occasional special brew such as Torpedo Extra IPA aged in rye whiskey barrels with Citra hops.
The space, which is a smart blend of retro and modern with reclaimed lights and table tops and a convivial vibe, can host around 45 craft beer drinkers. Customers also have the option of filling "growlers" to go, as well as buying six-packs, cases and individually specialty bottles. … Continue reading »
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BOX AND BELLS This week's biggest opening has to be James Syhabout's latest restaurant, Box and Bells, in Rockridge. Berkeleyside Nosh wrote about a preview of the endeavor in February at one of Syhabout's other Oakland restaurants, Hawker Fare. Syhabout is most known for being the only Michelin-starred chef in the East Bay for his Piedmont Avenue restaurant Commis. With Box and Bells, he said he aimed to offer the "things we like to eat as cooks that no one else is making. On our days off we want to spoil ourselves and indulge." Added executive chief Benjamin Coe, at the preview, "This is the food that we eat after a long day at Commis." According to Inside Scoop, Syhabout has been working on Box and Bells for more than a year: "It's about getting back to basic cooking," he told the San Francisco-based food news blog, which is run by the San Francisco Chronicle. Box and Bells is located at 5912 College Ave., the former location of Somerset. Items featured on the menu include fried chicken with raw oyster mayonnaise, sea scallops with spaetzle, blood pudding poutine, bone marrow with bagna cauda crust and more. The full food and drinks menus are available online. Check out the restaurant's Twitter feed for updates. … Continue reading »
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Sierra Nevada's Berkeley tasting room to open soon
Sierra Nevada, the craft brewing company known for its pale ale, now has a name and an opening month for its new tasting room on Berkeley's Fourth Street.
The Torpedo Room — the name is inspired by the brewery's dry-hopping device, the Hop Torpedo — is slated to open next month.
It won't be a big place, and, other than light snacks, food is not part of the plan. Instead, the idea is to host about 45 craft beer drinkers for "educational tastings." The Torpedo Room will feature 16 taps, and draught beer will be served in taster flights. Guests will also be able to fill growlers to go, as well as buying six-packs, cases and individual specialty bottles. … Continue reading »


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Solange Knowles: Katy Perry is Bad For Kids!by Free Britney at . Comments
Solange Knowles claims Katy Perry is "polluting the chirrens." In English, she means polluting the children, which still doesn't really make sense, but closer.
Beyonce's sister's beef is with Katy's video for "California Gurls," which Solange's son Julez (yup, with a Z) was watching on Youtube. Solange is not happy.
Rather than simply turning on the parental controls or speaking to her kid about it, Solange is ripping Katy and her "kiddie porn." Not an exaggeration at all.
Solange hates "California Gurls." And spelling.
Her exact words were: "But seriously. Iontlike the fact dat Julez thinks he gotta sneak & watched California gurls on u tube. Katy Perry is polluting the chirrens."
"It is like kiddie porn tho. All of them damn colors, candy and shit ... and then the daisy dukes, breast shooting cream ... And then Elmo and Tits!?"
Hey, if Katy Perry on Sesame Street is deemed a bad fit by the show, that's one thing. But leave her daisy dukes alone and do your job, Solange!Sure, Katy's music is better suited to some fans than others, but as an artist herself, you'd think Ms. Knowles would appreciate her originality.
Besides ... kiddie porn? Come on now. "California Gurls" isn't half as suggestive as a lot of material you can watch on YouTube with one click.
We won't even get started on Beyonce's sex appeal, outfits, videos, etc.
Just turn on the parental filter and shut yer yap. Right? Or wrong? Vote:
i know im late and all but shake off solange nutts yall mad cuz she says katy is havin kitty porn come on now see it from her point wat if u were a mother
Do i detect a hint of jealousy Solange? what about your sister Beyonce don't see the difference
Seriously, Solange? First of all, if Katy Perry wants to show sexuality in her music videos, that's her right-you can't question her. If you don't want your child to watch it, then DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT.COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR CHILD! I get so sick and tired of people having a moral panic over stars like Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, and Christina Aguilera being 'too sexy'. These people have the right to embrace their sexuality, including through their art. Solange of all people should know this with an older sister like Beyonce- who's always had a sexualized image but is (miraculously?) still considered a good role model for young girls and is followed by tons of young fans. (yet another reason I don't really get why people resent Miley so much for her sexuality). By the way, Solange, weren't you a TEEN MOTHER?
even if katy perry is being suggestive, isn't it solange's job to watch her freakin kid? don't get bad at others for your bad parenting!
ummm...hello..solange, u have a sister who walks around half naked 24/7 with her boobs and a** out who allegedly worships the devil and a cheating adulterating low down dirty daddy who impregnated some groupie whore and you got nerve to point fingers at someone else for "polluting the chirren"??
What in the blue hell is a "chirren"?
Wow, these are well thought out answers..?!
You know what she need to just shup the hell up and stop ripping on katy.just put up a block on her computer, as easy as that. And katys videos are not how she calles it " Kiddie Porn". And Solange is not even a good singer!!!!
Jealous Solange? Katy is talented & gorgeous .
You are not….you have no career. Why are you so concerned with
Katy's outfits being inappropriate for "children"
while other so called performers look more like sluts and strippers.
Are you turning a blind eye when it comes to your sister -Beyonce ?
Come on, you must be blind if you think Katy Perry isn't really suggestive. She might do it in a more subtle way than others, but it's no mystery what she's putting across.


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One of the perks of living with the rents is that I get to see my nephew more often. He's obsessed with Pixar's cars and all things with wheels. Though he's afraid of my "robot leg" I will try to bribe him with original characters I made up for him. This is Rex the excavator.


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I don't think you're going to be a very successful tank with that attitude.
Once you hit the defense cap, stam should be your #1 priority JUST because it does the one thing more mitigation can't do, and that's reduce the "shit happens" factor. All the mitigation in the world isn't going to save you from a lot of poorly timed spell effects that send you 15k of unblockable, undodgeable and unparrable damage.
There are even further considerations on boss-specific and encounter-specific sets of tanking gear AND skills. For Gruul, yes avoidance stacking may be a good idea. Nothing in that instance is going to do any significant magic damage to you, so once you hit enough HP to resist a couple of bad things in a row then you can go ahead and stack avoidance. However, the same gear won't necessarily help you in magic-heavy situations where you can get really unlucky a lot of times with a couple of bad spell hits and a melee attack and a special ability all in quick succession. The only way to overcome a combo like that, is to have a big enough HP base to outlast it. Shield Wall and Last Stand only go so far sometimes, and only if you've got enough warning to know that you're going to need them.. Sometimes the 6k spell hit followed by the 5k melee attack and the 3k hit from the add come at the same time and you're just going to die if you're weak on the HP.
Every encounter is made easier when you give your healers more opportunity to make mistakes. More HP does this easier (and cheaper on an item's stat budget and with gems, incidentally) than stacking avoidance does. There's a place for both perhaps, but I guarantee you that most healers will be very unforgiving when you eat it on a boss fight multiple times because they have to constantly overheal you and waste mana because you don't have enough of a cushion to allow them some slack.


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After seeing this story on yesterday's SiouxFallsBusinessJournal.com, and after getting a lunch invite from my friend Abby, Buffalo Wild Wings (on the north side of town in the new Sports and Entertainment district) was our destination.
Twenty-five cent wings? What a cool way to thank customers for winning a national franchise award for operator of the year!
As usual, it was busy. But we had our choice of 4-5 tables and were greeted promptly.
That's where things went south.
We ordered some wings and fries, and let the server know we'd need to place an additional order to-go a little later. 'Sure," we were told.
…10 minutes…
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…30 minutes go by…
I caught the eye of our server and asked if she knew where we were in the queue. Clearly, this was an irritating question to the young woman because we got a hand-on-the-hip, snotty "There's a 50-minute wait for wings right now."
I said that would have been good information to have had when we ordered, and noted the tables that were seated after us had already received their food. I was greeted, if it's possible, with more disdain from the waitress and told that's because they didn't order wings.
We weren't waiting another 20 minutes for our food, and then another 50 for the to-go order. So we dropped a couple bills on the table to pay for the soda, and bailed.
Our Burger Time meal was served up quick, with a smile and just fine.