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Buffalo Pottery was made in Buffalo, New York, after 1902. The company was started by the Larkin Company that had manufactured soap since 1875. Larkin wanted to give a soap dish as a premium so he opened a pottery company. The premium idea was successful and the Buffalo Pottery made the premiums. The pottery is marked with a picture of a buffalo and the date of manufacture. Deldare ware is the most famous pottery made at the factory. It has either a khaki-colored or green background with hand-painted transfer designs.
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These Paper Mache Hands come 6 hands to a package, and are 5.0" x 11.0" in size. Paper Mache Hands can be painted, and are great for group activites such as birthday parties or classroom events.
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Triumphantly they passed beneath the confetti-filled sky as a jubilant crowd lined the streets.
Then, in the blink of an eye, they were gone.
But my camera captured them: Nelson and Winnie Mandela. June 1990. New York City.
He was just five months removed from 27 years in prison; she, long recognized as "the mother of the nation."
They were riding in what became called the Mandelamobile. They were looking out at the crowd, each with a hand in the air.
His was a wave; hers, a fist.
It was long ago.
In the years since that triumphant ride through New York City, apartheid fell, the Mandelas divorced, Nelson became president. Meanwhile Winnie's star fell following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings in the late 1990s that she was responsible for the deaths of several missing blacks suspected of being informers or opposing her.
I still see the footage of Bishop Desmond Tutu begging her to acknowledge any wrongdoing so that she would be forgiven.
She never did.
There is an ugly side of any fight for freedom, of any war for liberation. Crimes, or at least what some say constitutes crime, often get washed away like blood on a rainy battlefield.
Bones buried often stay that way.
But sometimes those bones are unearthed.
Recently, there appeared the Associated Press headline about two bodies exhumed in South Africa. Two young blacks killed, their deaths tied to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
During those Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, she was reportedly incensed that those who had tortured and killed so many could be forgiven and that freedom fighters could be treated the same as the oppressors who violated all manner of human rights.
It is the age-old battle of the oppressed and the oppressors. Do those held down have the right to attain their freedom by any means necessary?
Six years ago, when I was in Johannesburg, the driver who showed me Soweto, the apartheid museum and countless other places where the movement took root shared with me the ugly side of the struggle.
He talked about the police who made a habit of driving through the black townships shooting randomly. He talked about friends killed. He talked about suspected informers and the gasoline-soaked tire placed around the neck and set ablaze.
He had no sympathy for informers because they cost many lives of freedom fighters, though he acknowledged that anyone could accuse anyone else of collaborating and get rid of someone for reasons beyond the movement.
I understood and yet …
The battle for freedom anywhere and everywhere that involves armed struggle is never clean, never faultless, never quite the way it is depicted.
I still feel the joy of that triumphant parade of the Mandelas on that June day in New York City. But it is now balanced with the pain of Winnie's reckoning.
During those Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, she was found responsible but never held accountable. Now there are the bodies.
I look at the photo from 1990 — her hand in a fist, his in a wave.
Nelson Mandela forgave those who trespassed against him. Winnie never did.
How is that?
Many years ago when I was an Illinois teen, there was a fellow black perplexed about an elderly neighbor's anger over a white person playing on the basketball court in our black neighborhood.
You don't know what he experienced in his lifetime, I said. He undoubtedly was banned from certain places and experienced worse than you or I can imagine.
Years later in Connecticut, there was a white neighbor dismissive of a Jewish woman's sensitivity over things perceived as anti-Semitic.
You don't know what she experienced across a span of time and place, I said.
She could have lost family and friends in the Holocaust.
Nothing happens for nothing. There are reasons people respond the way they do. It doesn't excuse their anger or sensitivity. It doesn't make it right. But at least it gives it perspective.
When the fight is over, not everyone can unclench a fist.
Frank Harris III is chairman of the journalism department at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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50. Cent. On. Ustream.
When it comes to music superstardom, it's hard to top the plateau that 50 Cent continues to ascend. Thanks to savvy of his G-Unit label folks, 50 Cent has officially flirted with the cutting edge of social media.
This past Saturday, May 3rd, 50 Cent decided he wanted to interact live with his fans, all the way from his hotel room in Cape Town South Africa. With zero promotion save for a last minute email blast to his registered fans, 50 Cent drew thousands of fans to his stream. Originally scheduled for 1 hour, 50 Cent and his G-Unit comrades — Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo — clearly were having so much fun interacting live with their fans, that they ended up streaming for nearly 3 hours!
Here are the first two hours of the stream. We had to cut out the last hour because 50, Lloyd and Yayo were having a bit too much fun ;-). Catch it LIVE next time around so you don't miss out on the unedited hi jinks of cultural icons! Still, plenty of entertaining stuff, enjoy!


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Donation center to open Saturday; store coming next spring
Goodwill is opening a donation center in the heart of Hillcrest this Saturday, to collect items for its retail store opening in spring 2014.
The donation center launch at University Avenue and East Vermont Street will follow the Friday opening of a Goodwill bookstore in Poway, and comes a month after the noprofit organization opened its new La Jolla store.
Hillcrest Donation Center
Address: 1219 University Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103
Opening: Saturday July 27, 2013
Business Hours: Daily 8:30a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Goodwill will begin to accept donations of clean, reusable clothing and household items from the surrounding community while it works on branding and remodeling the new store. The donations, collected seven days a week, will be sorted for quality and category, and will be part of the inventory when the retail store opens its doors next spring. Donors can drive by, drop off their items and receive a receipt for tax purposes.
The hip Hillcrest community promises success for both retail sales and donations, said Beth Forsberg, VP of Operations.
"A stylish neighborhood brings top end donations that will please our shoppers and help us to create more jobs for San Diegans," she said.
Donating to Goodwill helps the organization hire and train San Diegans, while assisting others in their job search free of charge.
Goodwill Industries of San Diego County is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization. It is part of an international network of groups dedicated to helping people with disabilities and other barriers to employment obtain jobs by providing them with training and work experience. The local Goodwill is headquarter in Point Loma and has nearly 1,300 employees in San Diego County.
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Friday, August 1, 2008
WotLK Release Date Pool
However, the time frame he provided is not a shock at least to me. Any smart business man would want to try and include their product in the holiday shopping season. I also don't think they want to go two years between expansions. It will be very close as it is but It will look much better at a high level to say that BC came out in 2007 and WotLK came out in 2008. This would be a little misleading but everyone knows business and PR people are not above spinning the facts.
Anyway, none of that really matters, but it has prompted some thought in the release date. I think most WoW players like me have put some thought into it and have a guess as to when it will be released. Well, I want to make my guess official and list it in my blog. I encourage my readers (the millions that there are of you) to post your guess in the comments and other bloggers to post it on their bogs or in my comments.
So, lets get down to business. The date I am picking is:
Tuesday 12/02/2008
I have picked this date for a couple of reasons. First, its a Tuesday. Second, I think October is to soon. From what I hear there is to much work to be done to have it out by then. I also kind of think the official release date will be announced at Blizz Con which is in October. Third, I don't think they want it to get lost in a holiday. So I think they will avoid releasing it before Thanksgiving, but I think they want to release it as far away from Christmas as possible to give it some time. With all that in mind 12/02/2008 seems to fit the bill.
There is no prize for guessing the right date other than bragging rights. Also, I don't think I have an exclusive claim on 12/02/2008. If you think that date sounds good feel free to choose it also.
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Wednesday November 26th. This is the day before Thanksgiving so they can get into the Friday after Thanksgiving oh dear god shopping nightmare lol.
- August 1, 2008 at 1:17 PM
November 13th.. the day I fly out for a 2 month holiday..
although it could be worse and be the 12th November.. in which case I will be wanting to go grab the game, and know that my wife will be waiting with a shotgun when I walk through the door.
- August 3, 2008 at 11:52 PM
- Phaelia said...
I'm going with October 7th. And yes, I know it's probably completely unrealistic and wishful thinking. I'm not even sure how I'll make it that long!
- August 4, 2008 at 1:18 PM
November 18th, the merchant list seems to b ein the Nov 8th region, and I think they'll miss by a week.
- August 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Fimlys said...
I have officially picked November 10th on the podcast (which we repeated this week on ep 15)... :)
Nov 10 is my anniversary, so it is just my luck it will come out the one day i can't play!
- August 31, 2008 at 12:15 AM
after reading many articles on wowinsider, there seems to be many problems in beta, so i'm gunna guess december 19th. death knights look so cool though! can't wait...
- September 8, 2008 at 8:24 AM
Dec. 19th is too close to Christmas im going with Nov. 5th
- September 14, 2008 at 2:21 AM
- Cdin said...
since the date was announced today, this little contest is closed.
Congratulations Gnomeraggedon, You were right on the money. However, it sounds like you win is a little bitter sweet. Have fun on you vacation. WoW will be here when you get back.
- September 15, 2008 at 8:44 AM


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Forget the idea that seeds are like sleeping babes, snug and dry in their paper packets waiting for the balmy warmth and moisture of spring to stir them from their slumber. They are more like giants in chains, held back by chemical inhibitors that must be removed before the seeds can grow. That's one finding of Norman Deno, a retired chemistry professor at Pennsylvania State University and a lifelong gardener. He has studied the germination of more than 4,000 kinds of plants and has found that very few have no germination inhibitors, and many have several.
"One of the biggest misconceptions about seeds is that after you collect them, you should dry them and put them into storage to germinate later when you give them moisture and warmth. That does work for most garden vegetables and annual flowers. In fact, about half of all temperate-zone plants work that way. But it doesn't work for the other half, and it is absolute death to some things, says Deno."
Mechanisms for preventing premature germination are tremendously varied. Even plants in the same family can have very different "germination blockers." For some seeds, the degradation of these blockers occurs only at temperatures around 40? F; for others the critical temperature is 70? F. Some need dry periods; others must have moisture or periods of light. The breakdown period can vary from weeks to years. And many plants need several of these conditions, in a specific order, before germination can occur.
Consider winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), a popular companion to early spring bulbs in naturalized plantings. To germinate, the seed must be held at 70? F for three months while one kind of blocker degrades, then at 40? F for 55 days while another blocker degrades. Then virtually all the seed will germinate within four days. You can't reverse that order: The 40° F blockers won't degrade until after the 70° F blockers are gone!
This is why winter aconite self-sows so readily in some situations (seed is ripe in early May), but is very difficult to grow from seed sent through the mail. Eranthis seed can't tolerate drying - to be stored and shipped successfully, it must be kept moist.
Deno's work explains why some plants (tomatoes, pansies, dill) grow so freely as volunteers in the garden, and others volunteer sparsely or not at all. For most vegetables and annual flowers, a specific dry period is absolutely crucial to degrade the blocking mechanism. Some seed that requires drying is permanently damaged if it should first fall to the ground and stay moist awhile. (For tomatoes, by the way, the blocker is a chemical in the juice of the fruit; wash it away and the seed is ready to grow).


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Sets course to become the leading client-centric global universal bank
Strengthening the business model in a changed environment
Setting financial aspirations
Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today announced its strategic and financial aspirations for 2015 and beyond, setting the course to become the leading client-centric global universal bank.
The plan, "Strategy 2015+", spells out how the Bank will address the near-term challenges in the changed business environment and positions it to seize the opportunities presented by longer-term megatrends.
Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain launched a 100-day review of the corporate strategy when they became Co-Chairmen of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee on June 1. Following an intensive period of inclusive dialogue with stakeholders, Strategy 2015+ addresses not only the further development of a sustainable business model, but also includes a commitment to a fundamental change in the Bank's culture.
Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, Co-Chairmen of Deutsche Bank's Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, said: "Deutsche Bank aims to emerge as a long-term winner from the fundamental shifts taking place in the banking industry. The medium-term economic and regulatory outlook is challenging, hence we need to significantly improve our operating performance and efficiency. It is not enough to adapt our strategy to customers' changing demands; we also have to secure our competitiveness over the long term and fulfill our responsibility to society."
Strategy 2015+
Strengthening the business model
With Strategy 2015+, Deutsche Bank reaffirms its commitment to the universal banking model, its home market of Germany and its global footprint; addresses the need for further deleveraging, organic capital growth and operational excellence; and positions itself at the forefront of cultural change in the banking industry.
The Bank believes that its four business pillars are ideally placed to balance its earnings mix and to satisfy increasingly complex and global customer needs. Strategy 2015+ defines a framework to develop the Private & Business Clients, Corporate Banking & Securities and Global Transaction Banking divisions, bolstered by a new fully integrated Asset & Wealth Management division. Closer collaboration between the individual business divisions and the infrastructure functions should generate substantial synergies.
ThePrivate & Business Clients (PBC) division, the leader in German retail banking, will aim to strengthen its position. The division will leverage its sizable deposit base and will lend more to its retail and business clients. The integration of Postbank, already well underway, is expected to yield significant additional synergies in the coming years. PBC aims to increase income before income taxes (IBIT) for its operating business from EUR 2 billion in 2011 to approximately EUR 3 billion by 2015.
The goal of theCorporate Banking & Securities (CB&S) division is to retain its leading position while recalibrating its model. The division, which has won market share through the financial crisis, will work to cement its leading position in Europe and to increase its share in the US and Asia Pacific. To secure a sustainable post-tax return on equity of approximately 15% for its operating business, CB&S aims to lower its cost-income ratio to below 65%, cutting costs by EUR 1.9 billion by 2015.
The newly integratedAsset & Wealth Management (AWM) division is an essential part of the universal banking model. Combining active and passive investment strategies together with retail asset management in one business unit will position the Bank to fully exploit the potential of its roughly EUR 900 billion in assets under management and invested assets and to generate added value for customers. Following an extensive review, DWS Americas, DB Advisors, Deutsche Insurance Asset Management and RREEF will be integral parts of AWM. The new division will also include former CB&S passive and third-party alternatives businesses such as exchange traded funds (ETFs). It will build an efficient platform for future growth by eliminating as much duplication as possible. As a result, AWM aspires to double IBIT for its operating business from around EUR 0.8 billion in 2011 to approximately EUR 1.7 billion in 2015, while firmly establishing itself as a global leader by increasing assets under management and invested assets to about EUR 1 trillion.
The growth strategy ofGlobal Transaction Banking (GTB) will continue, investing to build further market share in all customer segments, product areas and regional markets around the world. GTB has delivered strong and consistent performance across the cycle based on a solutions-oriented, scale business model. Its aspiration is to double IBIT from EUR 1 billion in 2011 to approximately EUR 2.4 billion by 2015.
In line with its goal to become the leading client-centric global universal bank, Deutsche Bank will continue to expand its geographic footprint throughout the regions. One strategic priority is Asia Pacific, which offers the greatest growth potential in coming years. Another is the Americas, where Deutsche Bank will continue to invest, aiming to benefit from the anticipated recovery of the US economy and to capture additional market share in the wider region. At the same time, the Bank will make the most of its position at the heart of Europe's largest economy, Germany. It will leverage this competitive advantage with plans to increase commercial and retail lending by at least EUR 10 billion by 2015.
The aspirations the Bank has set for Strategy 2015+ are based on a number of key assumptions, including normalization/stabilization of asset valuations, revenue growth by the Bank in line with the market, no major changes to current regulatory frameworks on capital or separation of business activities, global GDP growth in the range of 2% to 4% per annum over the period, normalization of the EUR/USD exchange rate at approximately 1.30 and the Bank's achievement of selective consolidation-driven market share gains.
Leading cultural change
The Bank recognizes that change to its corporate culture is imperative. Following a period of reflection and dialogue with stakeholders, it has set itself the aim of being at the forefront of cultural change in the banking sector.
Compensation practices are one important way to achieve behavioral change and align incentives to longer-term sustainable performance on behalf of all stakeholders. The Bank is committed to reducing bonus payments in relation to business performance and will increase the time horizon for deferred bonus payouts to top management, with a single payment after five years rather than staggered payments over three.
In addition, Deutsche Bank will be a pioneer in appointing an independent external panel to review the structure and governance of compensation. The panel will consist of industry leaders, academics and compensation experts, and its recommendations will immediately influence annual compensation for 2012.
Achieving operational excellence and setting financial aspirations
Deutsche Bank has always reported capital ratios comfortably above regulatory thresholds and is committed to doing so in the future. The Bank has identified a series of measures to promote organic capital growth and further reduce risk-weighted assets, underpinned as ever by prudent risk management.
The Bank will exploit organic options such as retained earnings and bonus retention to reinforce its capital base. Under full application of Basel 3, the Bank expects to achieve a Core Tier 1 ratio of 7.2% at the beginning of 2013. This is planned to rise to at least 8% by the end of the first quarter of 2013 and more than 10% by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
The Bank is accelerating the process of shedding risk-weighted assets from non-core activities by creating a dedicated Non-Core Operations unit with risk-weighted assetsequivalent of approximately EUR 135 billion as of June 2012. This unit will primarily hold securities from CB&S and other business divisions, plus operating assets from Corporate Investments. As a distinct division, the unit will be transparent, fully accountable, and empowered to manage and sell assets in the most efficient manner for the Bank, starting with an initial aim to reduce holdings by EUR 45 billion, or 33%, by March 2013.
The Bank aims to secure its long-term competitiveness by achieving operational excellence with major reductions in costs, duplication and complexity in the years ahead. It plans to incur one-off costs of approximately EUR 4 billion over the next three years with the aim of achieving annual savings of EUR 4.5 billion by 2015. Nearly 40%, or EUR 1.7 billion, of the planned savings relate to the Bank's infrastructure, including investing in new integrated IT platforms, rationalizing regional back-office activities and centralizing procurement. The Bank further plans to consolidate its real-estate footprint by putting around 40 properties up for sale. As a result, the Bank aims to improve the cost-income ratio to less than 65% by 2015.
In view of the changed market environment and stricter capital requirements under Basel 3, the Bank aspires to apost-tax return on equity of at least 12% by 2015. This is calculated using a notional effective tax rate for the Group of between 30% and 35%.
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In Joseph Roth's novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "The Radetzky March," there is an extraordinary scene in which the varied soldiers of that vast, improbable portmanteau parade in Vienna before the Hapsburg emperor, Franz Joseph. Uniformed men stream by, Austrians, Italians, Hungarians, Slovenians, and—most remarkably and most exotically—Bosnians, vivid in their "blood-red fezzes," which seemed to glow, Roth writes, like bonfires lit by Islam in tribute to the Emperor himself. Those blood-red fezzes are all Roth needs to conjure the distant romance of the Bosnian subjects, who disappear from the novelistic pageant as quickly as they flashed by.
Nearly seventy years after "The Radetzky March" was published, Aleksandar Hemon, who was born in Sarajevo and now lives in Chicago, seems to return Roth's compliment when, in his story "The Accordion," he uses the same phrase: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is riding in a carriage through Sarajevo, and he sees "the blood-red fezzes—much like topsy-turvy flower pots with short tassels—and women with little curtains over their faces." The Archduke has an appointment with history: any moment now, he will be assassinated, and the long fuse that ignited the First World War will be lit. But, before that encounter, the Archduke's attention is caught—in Hemon's spirited telling—by a man with an accordion. The instrument is missing a key, and the Archduke idly wonders if one could play a tune without it. The narrator remarks triumphantly that the man with the accordion "was none other than my great-grandfather, freshly arrived in Bosnia from Ukraine." He goes on to tell us that the accordion outlived its owner by fifty years, expiring when his "blind uncle Teodor" threw himself onto a bed where it lay. The story ends with stark abandon: "Uncle Teodor is now stuck in the Serb part of Bosnia. Most of my family is scattered across Canada. This story was written in Chicago (where I live) on the subway, after a long day of arduous work as a parking assistant, A.D. 1996."
Hemon's writing shares with Joseph Roth's an interest in the extremities and borderlands of the Hapsburg Empire, and both writers delight in rich, fantastical metaphor (the fezzes like bonfires and flowerpots). Whether Hemon had Roth in mind or not, his piece of family lore, fanciful yet grounded in political actualities and personal hardship, seems to thumb its Bosnian nose at Roth's romantic Orientalism. Where Roth sees in the Bosnians only color and loyalty, Hemon sees the comfortable disdain of the Archduke for his outlandish subjects. Roth, who was born in Ukraine and came to university in Vienna, was sentimentally nostalgic for an unreal empire, for the livery and insignia of Viennese pomp. Hemon, whose paternal ancestors moved from Ukraine to Bosnia, and who came to America in 1992 for a short visit only to find that the siege of Sarajevo prohibited his return, is complicatedly nostalgic for a real city that he grew up in and left—or that left him, once the war began.
As Roth's work is shadowed by 1914, the moment at which the Empire began to unravel, 1992 comes down again and again like a scimitar of fable in Hemon's work: it was the year that he realized he could not go home, the year that Serbian snipers made Sarajevo their toy theatre. Hemon's fictional creation and almost alter ego Jozef Pronek, who appears in his first book of stories, "The Question of Bruno" (2000), and is the protagonist of his first novel, "Nowhere Man" (2002), arrives in the United States from Sarajevo in January, 1992. The customs officer at J.F.K. flips through his Yugoslav passport "as if it were a gooey smut magazine." No one in America has the slightest conception of where he comes from: the least idiotic hazard a reference to Kundera and Czechoslovakia; others tell him what a great country America is, and suggest that maybe General Schwarzkopf can sort it all out. Young Pronek gets a succession of dismal jobs in Chicago, while squatting in seedy digs with a girl named Andrea and her hideous boyfriend, Carwin:
Jozef Pronek decided to stay in the United States, possibly for the rest of his life, in the middle of a snowy night, as snowflakes were pressing their crystal faces against the window pane, after Carwin dropped a pot of rotting spaghetti on the floor and said: "Fuck!" That is characteristically Hemon-like comic deflation, but the verb "decided" may ascribe too much agency. A more piercing sentence, later in the same story ("Blind Jozef Pronek & Dead Souls," much of which first appeared in this magazine), suggests less volition and the portable provincialism of exile. Jozef watches the CNN pictures of his besieged city, but, Hemon writes, "he only watched the images to recognize the people in them":
Once he thought he saw his father, running down Sniper's Alley, but he couldn't be sure, because the man hid his head behind a folded-up newspaper.
When he arrived here, at the age of twenty-eight, Hemon had what his publisher calls only a "basic command" of English. Eight years later, "The Question of Bruno" appeared, stories written in an English remarkable for its polish, lustre, and sardonic control of register. This conversion is often described as "Nabokovian," and, indeed, Hemon's writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov's. (Hemon has said that he learned English by reading Nabokov and underlining the words he didn't recognize.) Yet the feat of his reinvention exceeds the Russian's. Nabokov grew up reading English, and had been educated at Cambridge. When his American career began, in 1940, he was almost middle-aged, and had long experience in at least three languages. Hemon, by contrast, tore through his development in the new language with hyperthyroidal speed.
In those eight years, Hemon became not merely a proficient stylist but a superb one. Sometimes his English has the regenerative eccentricity of the immigrant's, restoring buried meanings to words like "vacuous" and "petrified." A sentence like this one stands at a slight angle to customary English usage: "I piled different sorts of blebby pierogi and a cup of limpid tea on my tray." "Blebby" is wonderful, but, perhaps more wonderful, how many native English speakers would ever describe tea as limpid? Occasionally, he flourishes a lyrically pedantic Nabokovian bloom, as with the "fenestral glasses" a character wears.
But more often he uses his astonishing talent to notice the world with a sarcastic, wily precision that is then put in tension with his love of surreal metaphor. A horse that is pulling the Archduke's carriage drops turds that are "like dark, deflated tennis balls." A shower head looms over a bathtub "like a buzzard head," and pubic hairs are stuck to the side of a toilet bowl "as if climbing up." Jozef Pronek, newly arrived in America, is amazed at how smoothly toilets work, and watches, in his Quality Inn, "how the water at the bottom was enthusiastically slurped in, only to rise, with liquid cocksureness, back to the original level." When he and Andrea have sex, the language captures the erotic ordinariness of the event: "They breathed into each other's faces and let their abdomens adhere. Then their little sex unit fissioned, and she went to the bathroom." And there is much beauty on every page—the "sooty tapestry" of a fellow-traveller's hairy torso, or Pronek's skin first thing in the morning, "soft, with crease imprints, the fossils of slumber."
Hemon's narratives regularly stall and then stutter into magnificent lists of noticed or remembered details, loosely joined by semicolons. (He likes tall tales but has a refreshing lack of interest in conventional novelistic plot.) One has the sense, as in Nabokov's case, of the stylist urgently preserving in exile details that might disappear if unremarked. In his story "Exchange of Pleasant Words," for instance, he writes fondly about a Hemon family reunion in 1991—what the family calls "the Hemoniad"—when two sides, the Hemons and the Hemuns (a branch descended from the narrator's grandfather's brother), are reunited. It is a warm summer day, filled with rustic drinking and eating and much outrageous storytelling. Uncle Teodor, the unofficial family historian, addresses the conclave, mentioning Hemons who, according to him, appear in the Iliad; and a Breton soldier named Alexandre Hemon, who fought with Napoleon; and a Hemon who went to America and got rich. The young Aleksandar Hemon is charged with recording this mythical party on a video camera, has "one drink too many," and eventually collapses. But not before he manages to register the following list of "discontinuous memories":
The noxious, sour manure stench coming from the pigsty; the howling of the only piglet left alive; the fluttering of fleeting chickens; pungent smoke, coming from moribund pig-roast fires; relentless shuffling and rustle of the gravel on which many feet danced; my aunts and other auntly women trodding the kolomiyka on the gravel; their ankles universally swollen, and their skin-hued stockings descending slowly down their varicose calves; the scent of a pine plank and the prickly coarseness of its surface, as I laid my cheek on it and everything spun, as if I were in a washing machine; my cousin Ivan's sandaled left foot tap-tap-tapping on the stage, headed by its rotund big toe; the vast fields of cakes and pastries arrayed on the bed (on which my grandmother had expired), meticulously sorted in chocolate and non-chocolate phalanxes.
One of the most appealing aspects of Hemon's fiction is that he is at once grounded in pungent realities and drawn toward playful fictionalizing. On the one hand, he finishes "The Accordion" with information about his family's diaspora and the news that he wrote it on the subway after a hard day's lowly work, and, on the other, he offers an anecdote about an accordion-playing ancestor that might be entirely fictitious and is grandly unverifiable. He likes to use his family name in his fiction, and to refer recurrently to certain relatives and family histories, but the autobiographical veracity of that fiction seems architectural rather than foundational. More than any other American novelist I can think of, he has made a kind of running autobiographical fiction of his actual circumstances—the childhood in Sarajevo, the exile in America, the early hardships in Chicago. He is a fabulist but not really a postmodernist; or, rather, he is a postmodernist who has been mugged by history. When he "lays bare the device" (an old Russian Formalist phrase for the technique of playful fictive self-consciousness), he opens a wound. During "the Hemoniad," the narrator's mother remarks, "The trouble with the Hemons . . . is that they always get much too excited about things they imagine to be real." The formulation is canny: a good proportion of reality consists of what we freely imagine; and then, less happily perhaps, we discover that that reality has imagined us—that we are the vassals of our imaginings, not their emperors or archdukes.
Hemon's cunningly ambitious new novel, "The Lazarus Project" (Riverhead; $24.95), is a further installment in his autobiographical fictionalizing. Its narrator, Vladimir Brik, came from Sarajevo to the States in 1992, and describes himself as "a reasonably loyal citizen of a couple of countries." Like one of the narrators of "Nowhere Man" (and Hemon himself), he has taught English as a second language. His grandfather came to Bosnia from Ukraine. He writes a column about his immigrant experiences, which people like partly because they find "the quirky immigrant language endearing." At a dinner to celebrate Bosnian Independence Day, Brik meets Susie Schuettler, a board member of the Glory Foundation, which agrees to fund Brik's research. Hereafter, he refers to the largesse of "the Susie grant" (a jokey reference, in part, to Hemon's MacArthur Fellowship).
Brik wants to research an event that took place on March 2, 1908. A Jewish immigrant, Lazarus Averbuch, paid a visit to George Shippy, the chief of the Chicago police, and was shot dead. No one knew why Averbuch was visiting Shippy, or exactly why or how he died, but for many Chicagoans his supposed involvement with anarchist circles solved the mystery: he had obviously intended to assassinate the prime representative of law and order. There was a hysterical fear of anarchism at the time, frothed up by the newspapers—"The war against anarchism was much like the current war on terror," Brik tells us. The Chicago Historical Society has a number of photographs of Averbuch, and Hemon reproduces them and other photographs throughout his novel, including a shocking one in which a policeman stands behind the recently deceased Averbuch, who appears to be sitting in a chair, his head kept from lolling by the policeman's hands, which are placed on the top of his victim's head and underneath the chin, as if exhibiting a rare archeological find. Averbuch's eyes are not quite closed, his lips are pursed in vague puzzlement, and he looks not dead but, rather, slightly disgruntled at the prospect of being woken.
Hemon is clearly fascinated by the story of this man with the Biblically suggestive name, who survived the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 (in what is now Moldova), and who came with his sister to Chicago, only to be killed by an American policeman. The fragility of the immigrant's status takes on a metaphysical cast in Hemon's work. One of the immigrant narrators of "Nowhere Man" has the feeling that "most of the things in this world would go on existing whether I lived or died. There was a hole in the world, and I fit right into it; if I perished, the hole would just close, like a scar healing." Vladimir Brik is afraid whenever his American wife is working late at night, "for somehow her absence opened up the possibility that my life and all of its traces had vanished." Lazarus Averbuch belonged nowhere, and though Brik describes himself as a reasonably loyal citizen of two countries, he is better described as an angry citizen of neither. With a childhood friend from Sarajevo, Brik uses the Susie money to go on a research trip—first to Ukraine, where his grandfather was born, then to Chernivtsi, where Averbuch was briefly in a refugee camp, and then to Kishinev, present-day Chisinau. In Chernivtsi, Brik reflects cynically on identity and its center:
Everybody imagines that they have a center, the seat of their soul, if you believe in that kind of thing. I've asked around, and most of the people told me that the soul is somewhere in the abdominal area—a foot or so above the asshole. But even if the center is elsewhere in the body—the head, the throat, the heart—it is fixed there, it does not move around. When you move, the center moves with you, following your trajectory. You protect that center, your body is a sheath; and if your body is damaged, the center is exposed and weak. Moving through the crowd at the bus station in Chernivtsi, I realized that my center had shifted—it used to be in my stomach, but now it was in my breast pocket, where I kept my American passport and a wad of cash. I pushed this bounty of American life through space; I was presently assembled around it and needed to protect it from the people around me.
Hemon's fiction has always been daring: "Nowhere Man" uses three or maybe four different narrators to rub in the silhouette of Jozef Pronek's complicated life. "The Lazarus Project" is in some ways bolder still. It alternates chapters describing Brik's travels with chapters imagining Lazarus Averbuch's existence in the early twentieth century. It is both a historical fiction and an inquiry into the limits of historical fictionalizing. Where Susan Sontag, in her novel of Polish immigrants, "In America," apologized for the brazenness of historical fiction and then brazenly forgot about her own reservations, the better to produce a skein of intellectual costume drama, Hemon is more systematically skeptical, more philosophical, alternating one kind of experimental fiction (essentially a travelogue) with another (essentially an archival fantasy). Perhaps, though, he remembers his reservations too much, and the narrative moves a bit too essayistically, from argument to counter-argument. Brik is pursuing his "Lazarus Project," Hemon is pursuing his "Lazarus Project," and the book's photographs represent another kind of mimetic project, which is one or two projects too many.
One of the reasons the novel feels argumentative is that Brik is so angry—chiefly at America and at his wife, Mary, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Hospital. Mary, a hardworking Catholic from a provincial American family, is made to represent much of what Brik dislikes about this country since the events of September 11th—a culpable innocence, a benign complacency about intentions and consequences. "She had the bright, open face that always reminded me of the vast midwestern welkin," he says. Anger blackens these pages, and political anger, at that: in some ways, the novel is a 9/11 novel pretending not to be one. Hemon wants us to see the connection between the treatment of anarchists and immigrants in 1908 and the treatment of vulnerable groups now, even at the cost of making this parallel very . . . parallel. For Mary, evil is barely comprehensible, and good intentions matter. Brik tells us that he and his wife argued over the Abu Ghraib pictures. She saw the American prison guards as decent, corrupted kids "acting upon a misguided belief they were protecting freedom, their good intentions going astray." For her Bosnian-American husband, at home in neither place, the good intentions were precisely the problem: "What I saw was young Americans expressing their unlimited joy of the unlimited power over someone else's life and death. They loved being alive and righteous by virtue of having good American intentions." The fictional argument has the feel of a real, remembered one, outside the book.
Angry, Vladimir Brik is rather indistinct; he could use some of Jozef Pronek's bumbling, Pnin-like charm. (In a Ukrainian cemetery, Brik finds the stone of one Oleksandr Pronek, 1967-2002: the two dates representing, respectively, Jozef Pronek's birth and the year of the publication of "Nowhere Man.") Lost, homeless on two continents, Brik is poignant, and the novel is never more moving than when its narrator seems a little unhinged because a little unhoused. In his earlier work, Hemon circled around "King Lear" and Shakespeare's great phrase "unaccommodated man," the naked human animal Lear finds on the heath. Physically and metaphysically unaccommodated, Brik even imagines the Biblical Lazarus as a kind of unaccommodated man—the emblem of all immigrants. When Lazarus was raised by Jesus from the dead, Brik muses, did he remember being dead? Or did he just begin again? "Did he have to disremember his previous life and start from scratch, like an immigrant?" That beginning all over again would be the true Lazarus project. ♦


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In April, Prysmian experienced problems with the manufacture of the cables for the 2GW HVDC connection, which is aimed at transporting energy from Scotland's wind developments to England. It has since begun an investigation into the issues and their likely impact.
The company had said in its first quarter results that it did not expect costs to exceed revenues from the project, but it has now conceded that it will make a loss on the work.
In its half-year results, the company said that its adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation took a EUR 74 million hit related to the Western Link, coming in at EUR 204 million, down from EUR 282 million a year before.
Prysmian has not revealed the nature of the technical issues, but said that it has been "testing and optimising materials and processes" as a result of the faults.
When the company was awarded the EUR 800 million contract to supply and install the cables in 2012, it lauded the fact that this would be the first major project to use paper polypropylene laminate insulated cables.
The firm claimed that this would provide "enhanced electrical and thermal performance" allowing "higher voltage classes, reduced cables dimensions for equivalent transmission capacity and optimised power losses".
Prysmian reported a fall in sales to EUR 3.3 billion compared with EUR 3.5 billion in the first half of 2013. Without the negative impact of the Western Link project, organic growth would have been 3.4%, it said.


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Stay fit without Wipeout
Believe it or not, by now most of us who made new year's resolutions to exercise and eat right are already falling off the wagon. To pull you back on the wagon – actually, to knock you in the head – there's Wipeout, an obstacle course game for the whole family.
Rated E10+ for everyone 10 and older, mainly because of more difficult hand-eye coordination, this game is based on the ABC network reality television game show by the same name. Wipeout ($20-$27) is made for the Wii and Xbox Kinect. The Kinect version is called Wipeout in the Zone ($8-$50). Playstation has WipEout but it's a futuristic racing game with several versions and unrelated to this obstacle course game for Wii and Xbox.
The advantage with the Kinect version is your body is doing the work. The Wii game requires little movement other than the wiimote and nunchuck. The balance board can be used for some of the competitions. Still, with both versions, getting your timing right – jumping, rolling, running, crouching – is critical to success. An untimely head duck might mean bodily harm. Timing of motion is everything.
So grab your Wiiremote and nunchuck as we did and compete alone or with up to four players. "Play the Show" and get ready to dash, squat, smash, punch, dodge, crash and laugh your way to Wipeout champion. Levels of difficulty are unlocked as you play the game. In addition there is a "challenge" mode that can be played solo, instead of playing the show. For the A-type, super sportsman/woman, "challenge" mode is a good option and allows you play without having to wait and watch game-controlled competitors in the "show."
As is typical of Wii, this game allows character selection right down to the outfit and is presented in cartoon style. It's cute and fun. Kids like picking their players.Your cartoon character then lines up at the obstacles – fence fling, rug run, ball bounce and so forth. The difficulty of this game is the mote and nunchuck coordination. "A" on the mote, which I held in my left hand, is for jumping; the joystick on the nunchuck in my right hand controlled walking, running, turning, crouching and level of jumping.As the business-suited male commentators and voluptuous female talking head announced the first competition, I struggled to make my character do anything – walk, run or jump. Ultimately, I ran a few paces, got hit in the head by a plank and crashed into the mud. Through the fence fling, rug run, big balls and others, the result was the same. I either got hit in the head by a flying object, which propelled me into the mud, or I missed a jump, as in the big red ball jump, and slid off the side of a ball and into the mud. The commentators made remarks about me not being in the dictionary under athlete as well as other snide remarks. And clearly, if I were really "playing the show," I'd be dead.
The whole event made my 10-year-old boy laugh, which I guess is important. Why is it that kids love seeing their parents unable to achieve? Although he wasn't any better at playing the game than I, we both enjoyed the challenge and ribbed each other about how horrible we were.
I'd like to think that my body would move faster than my fingers, and therefore I'd have greater success with the Kinect Wipeout in the Zone game.
If you have Wii Fit, I'd skip Wipeout. Fit provides more exercise and has more "achievable" challenges. However, Wipeout in the Zone on Xbox is a likely winner. Stay tuned to know.


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On the market: Vintage feel
The house at 614 Hollow Tree Ridge Road in Darien is a contemporary box-shaped stucco building with the 1938 vintage feel created by Edward Durrell Stone, who created both the Kennedy Center and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In the north end of town, it's situation on a pleasant lot that especially works magnificently for the two grand maple trees on either side of the entrance.
The front door is sunken at the end of a slate path. Plantings, including mountain laurels, accentuate the garden feeling of the front -- that delightful retro-Japanese flavor particular to mid-century moderns.
The vintage front door, and its nifty doorknob, lead into a large entry that's part mudroom and part living space. The floor is an unusual design of narrow dark stones, with a marble rectangular island in the middle. Crank windows look out to a large backyard, which is surrounded by woods.
To the right up several stairs is a simple but somehow exotic room with a small fireplace, with an almost invisible hearth, decorated above with a slate slab. Two sets of sliding doors lead to a back patio that's set 8 feet above the yard and fenced by a metal rail, which might be found on an old passenger liner. The view out back extends into seemingly endless woods.
A door on the south side and the porch separate the two-car garage, in between which a porthole-shaped opening in the wall looks out on the driveway, and a staircase wraps up to the second floor through an outdoor entrance.
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ADDRESS: 614 Hollow Tree Ridge Road, Darien
STYLE: Contemporary
FEATURES: Two-car garage, patio, balcony, pool, central air, wine cellar
SCHOOLS: Ox Ridge Elementary, Middlesex Middle, Darien High
Left of the entrance, one starts to really understand the architect's appreciation of art deco cruise ships, as the house almost feels like one in places. Short staircases are wrapped by a thick bannister and are separated by a wall of smoked glass tiles.
Up here, a majestic dining area looks over a large living room with a 20-foot-high ceiling and a western wall of windows. The living room features a fireplace as well.
Left of the dining area is a kitchen that's been recently modernized, but still has kept a design that links perfectly with the original place. The fixtures are special and tasteful, and the room is spacious and practical.
Sliding smoked glass doors off this room lead to a bathroom and a large pantry, respectively.
The southern side of the kitchen features a row of small, eye-level sliding windows that look upon the living room.
The upstairs feels large, especially with the sprawling master suite to the left. The room, which is bright with a wall of windows, is long. It's divided by two opposing closets. Another small fireplace is at the farthest end, where the door leads outside and down stairs to the garage area.
The master bath features an enormous spa tub. It's a redone room with a grand black and white swirled marble tile throughout, a separate shower and a window looking out onto the balcony.
The two bedrooms are noteworthy for a shared entrance onto the upstairs balcony.
At the living room is a wealth of additional space situated under the upper dining room. Here there's a wall of shelves and another wall that's a whole solid window looking out into a shady cove with a koi pond.
Down a side hall is another bedroom, a laundry room and a back room that's a utility space, or potential changing room. There's also a small wine cellar in the basement.
For more information or to make an appointment to see the house, contact Eileen Hanford of Halstead Property at 203-253-0995 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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G is for Goose is finished - and he had to get outlined because he didn't show up on my fabric, which is I think an antique white or off-white. I can never remember the names of these colours once the label comes off.
I got a nice start on Leslie's Neighbourhood RR but not enough to show yet, that will come soon I hope. My house so far looks quite a bit different than the houses she and Glenna have stitched on her piece, I hope she doesn't mind.
And I had such an exciting e-mail from Sue (Redwitch's Stitch and Bitch) that I won her blog-aversary contest and she is sending me a prize! Wow - I am totally bowled over by her generosity!!! And I will be stalking the mailman next week for my package :-D
Thursday, August 30, 2007
G is for Goose
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Labels: CHS Alphabet, Neighbourhood RR
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Some alphabet stitching and kitty feeding
Sorry, I feel like I've hit a dry spell in blogging. I don't feel like I have too much exciting to post about and not too much to show stitching-wise. I have been working on my Fair and Square exchange for my partner, Carol, and I have finished up my squares, but can't show them yet. I have also finished up my exchange for the What's the Buzz exchange, but can't show that either.... so this is going to be a not very exciting post picture-wise.
However Harmien has gotten me very excited about stitching on my Carriage House Sampling Alphabet, after seeing her progress on hers on her blog: XStitch.nl. So I dug mine out of its bag, with a few litttle moths flying out with it. Darn, I realized before I could start in with the fun stuff, I had to outline a few more alphabet blocks, so it was back to 3371 for me!
Alphabet Blocks by Carriage House Samplings on 40 ct Newcastle antique white linen, stitched with a mixture of DMC and GAST
The kids are back from Zoo Camp, where they had a fantastic time! Here are a couple of pictures they brought back. The first is Nick feeding Mama Tiger a little snack:
and Kristy looking after the 3 month old baby:
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Labels: CHS Alphabet, Kids
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Stitching Retreat
What a great day at Ann's annual stitching retreat! We left in the morning, anticipating getting there early and getting a good seat, only to find about 8-9 cars already there! But with Ann's new stitching room, there are lots of great seats and fantastic lighting provided by the sky lights. Lunch of course was amazing as always, as everything always brings such delicious food and its too tempting to try a little bit of everything. The dessert table was so enticing....with so much goodies and cakes, but with diabetes now, I resisted and only ate a small piece of carrot nut bread and fruit only.
It was so great to see and catch up with stitching friends that I hadn't seen for a couple of years and I was looking forwards to finally meeting my new blogging friends. Its so funny to meet people face to face that I feel I know already through their blogs!
I did get a few pictures, although not enough I realize now, as I must have taken them later in the afternoon and I have too many shadows from the skylights. Believe me, the lighting was much better in the room than what shows up in the pictures!
Here is Christin (Christin's Ramblings) and Beatrice (Stitching with a View) showing off their partially completed TW's Castles.
Just outside is a peek at Rebecca (Rebel in Ontario), and inside are Beth on the left and Kathy (Kathy's Sit and Stitch) sitting next to Ann's amazing Prairie Schooler quilt on the wall.
A not very clear picture of Kathy at the end of the table in the stitching room, with several of the ladies in Ann's Thursday afternoon stitching group.
Colleen and Marj mostly kept to the much quieter dining room with Carmen and Paula for most of the day. I didn't get a picture of several of the people who were there, including our lovely hostess, Ann (Knowledge and Needles), or Dani (Dani...Black Belt Stitching Wizard), who was always visiting at different areas of stitching groups, nor did I get a chance to meet everyone! There were over 20 people there - what an amazing group!
Of course I did pay a visit to Ann's shop, Knowledge and Needles, conveniently located next to the house, and with Anita's (ahem) encouragement only managed to fall off my stash diet a little. I did want to pick up some 25 ct fabric so I could try some over-one stitching with my super-fantastic new Dazor magnifier at hand, so I found two fat-quarters in cream and antique white. Ann had some of the new JBW patterns, these are just so sweet and too hard to resist these cute little patterns. I found a Prairie Schooler Christmas Ark pattern, that I thought I could adapt into a birth sampler, as I just found out I am about to become a great-auntie again. And 3 of us, Anita, Marg and I bought the last of Ann's Spring Fever biscornu kits. Not such a bad stash haul and actually it was only $2 over my stash budget that I had saved up, so no guilt on my part! I can climb back up on the wagon again....at least until my birthday :-D
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
PIF from Cindy
I got a very nice gift in the mail today ~ a very sweet biscornu from Cindy (Random Stitching Ramblings) as a PIF gift. Cindy was so sweet to note my love of purples and stitched this in a lovely variegated purple floss! I love it and it is taking a place of honour as my very first biscornu. She noted that it was the first one she had made and I was in awe of her amazing work. I have been too chicken to attempt such a thing myself! I only wish my photography skills were better!!
I have been enjoying my very quiet house, but I can admit that its actually a little too quiet for me? The first 2-3 days were great but now its eerie and even the dogs have become too quiet for me! I keep thinking I must remember this when the kids have me ready to pull my hair out and when they come home bringing in 3-4 friends a piece, expecting all to eat. Hubby and I were so bored with each other last night that when our brother-in-law dropped by with a friend, we almost jumped all over them.
So I will be very much looking forwards to Ann's (Knowledge and Needles) annual retreat this Saturday. She is expecting 30 stitchers to be there. I missed the last 2 retreats because of illness so I am very anxious to get to this one! There are going to be several other bloggers there so look for lots of pictures after this weekend!
Sadly to say though I am officially on a Stash Diet, so other than perhaps a little fabric, I don't expect to be bringing home any new stash...... :-(
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
PS Wreath SAL
Here are my first 2 blocks done for the 12 days of Christmas SAL. So I haven't fallen behind...yet! Click on the link on my sidebar and see what some of the other ladies are doing. Some are doing the new Cranberry Christmas pattern and others have decided to do entirely different PS patterns. What a great variety!
Hubby worked hard this weekend on my sewing room, it is all freshly painted, and then he installed my cutting table and some new cabinets he had made for me to store all of my quilting/stitching stash. I spent a good part of Sunday moving everything up 2 flights of stairs and sorting through, trying to organize things. Pictures will come, once things start to look a little more organized.
Then we were off to take Kristy and Nick to Zoo Camp at Jungle Cat World for a week at teen camp which means, yes, gasp, an entire week with the house to ourselves! We celebrated last night with dinner out at hubby's favourite restaurant, he certainly deserved it after his hard work on the weekend. And then he had to make another trip out to the zoo as Nick had forgotten an extra pair of shoes for caving which they are doing today. Caving, which also means water caving, not an experience for claustrophobic me but the kids are very excited about it. Kristy has done it before and loves it. I can't imagine Nick will be able to fit his 6'2" body in a lot of these enclosed tiny spaces but....I won't think about that.
I am also stitching on my square for the Fair and Square Exchange. My partner for Round #2 is Carol. I had so many choices when it came time to find a design for her, as she loves so many styles, and although my first thought was of course to stitch a house for her, as we are in a Neighbourhood RR together. I finally decided on something and got started on the weekend. Of course I won't be showing that here although may be a peek later on.
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Labels: Fair and Square, PS SAL
Friday, August 10, 2007
A Holiday Happy Dance
Houses of Hawk Run Hollow by Carriage House Samplings on 40 ct Pearled Barley by Lakeside Linens
I did a little happy dancing while on vacation - I finished off House 5 of Houses of Hawk Run Hollow! And I even got started on House 6, the dreaded black house, as this block is completely filled in. I had great intentions of getting a lot accomplished, but my Prairie Schooler turkey was just too much fun to play with last week and I couldn't put him down.
Where has this week gone? This is the first day I have been able to leave my windows open and the a/c hasn't come chugging on first thing in the morning. Ahh, some fresh air, that's what it feels like! I still haven't caught up on my blog reading, and I haven't completely unpacked or caught up on my laundry yet. Well that's what weekends are for! And for some stitching too I hope!!
Oh and I finally picked out a paint colour for my sewing room - its called Seaway Mist. And wouldn't you know after looking at dozens of colours a few weeks ago, this one was the first one I picked up from Home Depot! I would post a picture but hubby made off with my paint chip when he went off to buy the paint. I think he was afraid I would change my mind or something, hmmm, like I would ever do that?
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Labels: Houses of Hawk Run Hollow
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Home again!
We're back from 2 weeks of glorious vacation! And that was 2 weeks of glorious weather at the cottage, what more could you ask for? It was very restful and absolutely what we needed ~ lots of time spent boating, visiting, soaking up the sun (even a little sunburn), enjoying our little beach, and yes, lots and lots of stitching!
And while there were LOTs of bills waiting for us at home, there were also the new charts from Prairie Schooler waiting for me too. I wish I could have gotten these before I went away!
I did start a new stitching project for my holidays....couldn't resist....its a Prairie Schooler chart, since I hadn't received the newest releases yet. This is from Book 93 called Harvest Time. I started with the last chart and I hope to do all 3 and make them into a new wallhanging, well one day anyways LOL, for my new sewing room...the colour of which is still undecided! But hubby is wanting to start painting so a decision will have to be made soon. I got more paint chip samples from Home Depot, hopefully I'll have better luck with Ralph Laurin!
Harvest Time by Prairie Schooler on 18 ct Oatmeal
I am looking forwards to visiting and catching up with everyone's blogs over the next few days!
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Labels: Prairie Schooler


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Michael Ramirez on Halloween and the debt. It's a good reminder that all of that "free stuff" isn't actually free. Click to enlarge:
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Sailors and seafarers are superstitious folk. Its always been this way. Never leave port on a Friday, never harm an albatross, NO pasties on board, avoid redheaded people before a voyage (?!!!) and apparently women on board are bad luck (pah!)…and bananas. Don't bring bananas onboard.
So last weekend, Sydney produced some absolutely sublime weather; sunny clear skies, 10-15 knots from the west. We've decided, despite having a long list of renovations for the boat, that we just need to use it whenever the weather is right for taking small children on board, to get them used to it so when it is finally set up for over-nighters we can feel confident to take them out of the heads and up or down the coast.
The picnic basket is the most important aspect of putting to sea with children. Unfortunately when I was throwing things in the eski, upmost in my mind was mess free appealing food that fills them up. So I chucked in some bananas and didn't give it a second thought.
It was a cracker of a day. In fact probably one of the happiest and funnest and joyous days I've spent with my family….
So back to the bananas. Until we got back to the mooring it was all smooth sailing. I was down below playing I spy with the girls….and there was a gentle bump as the keel hit the mud…followed by about ten minutes (that felt like thirty) of Reg thrashing the outboard and swinging around on the rigging until we eventually slid off. It was the first time we'd put the boat back on the mooring at low tide and we were excruciatingly a couple of metres from the mooring buoy. So whilst its a great spot in terms of distance to row the tender to shore, we will have to approach the mooring from a specific angle at low tide. Or leave the bananas at home.
If you know any interesting or unusual seafaring superstitions, please share!


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NY RANGERS at ATLANTA THRASHERS
Friday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Philips Arena • Atlanta, GA
Rangers: 29-23-4 (62 pts)
Thrashers: 24-22-10 (58 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Feb. 9
The Rangers will conclude a three-game road trip when they face-off against the Atlanta Thrashers tomorrow, Feb. 11, at Philips Arena (7:30 p.m.). The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and seventh in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 29-23-4 (62 pts). The Rangers enter tomorrow's contest having been defeated by the Detroit Red Wings, 3-2, on Monday at Joe Louis Arena. Fourteen of the Blueshirts' last 18 games have been decided by one goal (6-6-2 in those games), including seven of their last 10 road games (4-2-1 in those games). The Thrashers enter the contest with a 24-22-10 (58 pts) record to rank ninth in the Eastern Conference, and have lost 11 of their last 13 games (2-7-4). Following tomorrow's contest, the Rangers will face-off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday, Feb. 13, at Madison Square Garden (3:00 p.m.), in an Atlantic Division match-up.
Prior to tomorrow's contest, the Blueshirts' morning skate is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at Philips Arena.
* Schedule and availability subject to change
7:00 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Bill Pidto and Ron Duguay
7:30 p.m. – Rangers at Thrashers
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst)
- Radio: 970 The Apple and newyorkrangers.com
7:00 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show
7:30 p.m. – Rangers at Thrashers
Broadcasters: Don LaGreca (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. THRASHERS:
- All-Time: 19-13-1-9 overall (7-8-1-5 at home, 12-5-0-4 on the road)
- 2010-11: Tonight marks the third of four meetings this season, and second of two at Philips Arena. New York is 1-1-0 thus far, following a 3-2 shootout victory at Atlanta on Jan. 22.
- Last Season: New York was 1-1-2 overall, with a 1-0-1 mark at Atlanta. Two of their four meetings were decided in the shootout.
- Six of the last nine meetings between the Rangers and Thrashers have required overtime, and five of their last eight have ended in the shootout
- New York ranks sixth with a 17-11-1 (35 pts) record on the road; Atlanta ranks 21st with a 12-11-5 (29 pts) mark at home
- New York is 5-7-2 vs. the Southeast Division; Atlanta is 4-6-1 vs. the Atlantic Division
- Henrik Lundqvist is 7-3-6 with a 2.14 goals against average and one shutout in 17 career regular season appearances vs. Atlanta; Martin Biron is 6-11-0-0 with a 3.31 goals against average and three shutouts in 18 career regular season contests vs. Atlanta
- Vinny Prospal has registered a team-high, 21 goals, 36 assists and 57 points in 52 career regular season contests vs. Atlanta; his 57 points against Atlanta is a career-high
- New York lists one former Thrasher on their roster: Erik Christensen (2007-08 – 2008-09)
- Atlanta lists one former Ranger on their roster: Nik Antropov (2008-09)
The Blueshirts have posted a plus-seven rating on special teams (PPG+SHG minus PPGA+SHGA) this season, which ranks fifth in the league.
- Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in five power play opportunities (7:40) on Monday at Detroit. New York ranks 24th overall (31-202, 15.4%) and 23rd on the road (13-98, 13.3%). The Rangers are 2-9 (7:45) in five-on-three situations (last – 2/7 at DET), and 0-2 (2:23) when four-on-three (last – 12/3 vs. NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (4): 11/20 at MIN (Cullen); 12/5 vs. OTT (Kelly); 1/2 at FLA (Weiss); 1/16 vs. PHI (Richards).
- Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Red Wings scoreless in two shorthanded situations (4:00) on Monday at Detroit, and have allowed only two power play goals against in the last 14 games (36-38, 94.7% over the span). New York ranks seventh overall (155-184, 84.2%) and is tied for ninth on the road (87-105, 82.9%). The Rangers are 7-9 (6:45) in three-on-five situations (last – 2/3 vs. NJD), and 4-6 (2:41) when three-on-four (last – 11/15 at PIT). Shorthanded goals for (9): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky); 11/5 at NJD (Dubinsky); 11/15 at PIT (Staal); 11/24 at TBL (Boyle); 11/26 at FLA (Prust); 12/5 vs. OTT (Prust); 12/12 vs. WSH (Staal); 12/16 vs. PHX (Prust); 1/7 at DAL (Fedotenko).
- Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation on Monday at Detroit, and are now plus-three in 43, four-on-four situations (87:22). Four-on-four goals for (5): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov); 11/11 vs. BUF (Anisimov); 11/15 at PIT (Callahan); 12/12 vs. WSH (Callahan); 1/5 vs. CAR (Zuccarello). Four-on-four goals allowed (2): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel); 1/1 at TBL (Thompson).
Brandon Dubinsky registered his 40th point of the season with a goal at Detroit on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive season he has reached the 40-point plateau to begin his career. Dubinsky is currently two goals, six assists and four points shy of his career-highs in goals (20, 2009-10), assists (28, 2008-09) and points (44, 2009-10).
The Rangers completed their 14th of 18 back-to-back sets on Jan. 25 vs. Florida. New York is 8-5-1 (2-1-0 at home, 6-4-1 on the road) in the first game of back-to-backs. The Blueshirts are 10-4-0 (4-2-0 at home, 6-2-0 on the road) in the second game this season, having out-scored their opponent, 39-24, in those games. Over the last two seasons, New York is 19-6-2 in the back-end of back-to-back sets, including an 8-3-1 mark at MSG and 11-3-1 on the road over the span. The Rangers' next back-to-back set is Feb. 17 vs. Los Angeles and Feb. 18 at New Jersey.
New York has posted a record of 7-16-3 when trailing after the second period. The Rangers' seven wins, 17 points and .269 winning percentage rank first in the NHL. The Blueshirts have out-shot their opponent, 91-26, in the third period of their last seven games.
The Rangers have registered four more wins and five more points compared to last season through 56 games (25-24-7, 55 points in 2009-10), having tallied 12 more goals (155 this season, 143 last season) while allowing 16 fewer goals against (138 this season, 154 last season). New York has also shown a four-goal improvement while shorthanded compared to 2009-10 (nine this season, five last season).
The Rangers lead the league in shorthanded goals (nine) and hits (1,589), are tied for first in road wins (17), ninth in road penalty killing (82.9%), rank seventh in penalty killing (84.2%), eighth in goals against (138), fourth in blocked shots (868), and are tied for seventh with a plus-17 goal differential.
The Blueshirts are tied for ninth in the league with a .556 winning percentage in one-goal games, posting a record of 15-8-4 in those contests. Their 27 one-goal games and 15 wins are tied for fourth in the NHL.
The Rangers have had 17 different players credited with at least one game winning goal this season, which is the most in the NHL.
The Rangers currently lead the NHL with 1,589 hits and rank fourth with 868 blocked shots. Dan Girardi currently leads the league with 143 blocked shots, while Brian Boyle (10th, 161 hits) and Ryan Callahan (21st, 140 hits) rank among the league leaders in hits.
The Rangers have the sixth youngest team in the league with an average age of 26 years and 210 days, and the youngest defensive corp in the league with an average age of 24 years and 328 days. *based on NHL rosters on Jan. 11
- The Rangers penalty kill has allowed only two power play goals against in the last 14 games (36-38, 94.7% over the span)
- New York has out-shot their opponent, 91-26, in the third period of their last seven games
- Mats Zuccarello has recorded nine points (two goals, seven assists) in the last 11 games, including five assists in the last five contests
- Marian Gaborik has recorded 10 points (five goals, five assists) in the last nine games
- Wojtek Wolski has recorded nine points (three goals, six assists) in 13 games as a Ranger, with eight points (two goals, six assists) in the last 10 contests
- Artem Anisimov has registered six points (one goal, five assists) in the last nine games
- Brian Boyle has tallied four points (two goals, two assists) in the last seven contests
The Rangers were represented by Henrik Lundqvist, Marc Staal and Derek Stepan at the 2011 NHL All-Star Weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina on Jan. 30. Lundqvist, who turned aside the first ever penalty shot attempt in an NHL All-Star Game at 6:13 of the third period, faced 14 shots in the third, allowing three goals in the loss for Team Staal. Marc Staal logged 17:01 of ice time for Team Staal while making his first All-Star Game appearance. Stepan participated in the SuperSkills competition as part of Team Lidstrom, breaking all four targets in the Accuracy Shooting event and hitting the crossbar on his Elimination Shootout attempt against Lundqvist.
- Henrik Lundqvist: 2 wins from 200 NHL career
- Marc Staal: 300th career NHL game (2/7 at DET)
- Derek Boogaard (injured shoulder on Dec. 9) – 26
- Alex Frolov (injured knee on Jan. 8, expected to be sidelined for the remainder of the season) – 13
- Ruslan Fedotenko (shoulder separation on Jan. 19/appendectomy on Feb. 2, 3 weeks) – 8
- Chris Drury (injured knee on Feb. 3) – 2
Total Man-Games Lost: 210
- Feb. 3 – Assigned forward Kris Newbury to Connecticut (AHL)


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It's Saturday night, and though a drizzle threatens, the lawn is jammed with children snoozing in strollers, couples sprawling on picnic blankets, teens taking a break from skateboarding. The star appears — not some retread boomer rocker but high-octane conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, affiliated with in London and San Francisco, and Miami's New World Symphony, a prestigious youth development academy.
Make that MTT (as he's widely known) by way of outdoor Wallcasts — a high-definition projection of the concert inside Miami Beach's Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony academy and performance hall, with sound so clear that many who can easily afford tickets inside prefer to listen outside and soak up the "Sunday in the Park with George" vibe.
A smartly dressed couple in their 30s are among those perched on a wall, umbrella close at hand. "This is a unique experience in the world,'' Jorge Mejia says. He and his fiancée, Amanda, are frequent Wallcasts attendees, he says. "Miami as a city is really coming up.''
Given the international buzz that surrounded the New World Center's opening last year, it's no surprise that locals and visitors alike have come off the sand and out of the nightclubs for a dip into culture. But it's no quick swim.
Into theater? A dozen regional companies regularly take the stage, from the Summer Shorts festival of one-act plays each June to the latest production by "Brother/Sister Plays" trilogy playwright — and Miamian — Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Dance enthusiast? Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, which played to sellout crowds during a recent Paris tour, is just one of the resident companies. (Although he's announced his retirement, that doesn't take place for two more years.)
Film buff? Festivals are dedicated to shorts and indies.
Literary fan? November's Miami Book Fair International, one of the country's largest consumer book events, has featured top authors such as Ann Patchett, Nora Ephron, Jonathan Franzen and Salman Rushdie as well as Miamians Dave Barry, Edwidge Danticat and Carl Hiaasen.
Twenty-five years ago, the art savvy dubbed Miami "a cultural wasteland,'' recalls Lin Arison, widow of Carnival Cruise Lines founder Ted Arison. In the early 1980s, the Arisons launched a national recognition program, now known as Young Arts, designed to search out top high school artists in dance, music and visual arts. The New World Symphony, which provides two-year training fellowships for top graduates of U.S. music conservatories, grew out of that program.
One thing slowly led to another. After nearly two decades of effort, the city opened the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where a single weekend last winter brought performances by Whoopi Goldberg, Brazil's Balé Folclórico da Bahia, Michael Bolton, Drumline Live, Joshua Bell and a free family fest. In the last 15 months, two additional performing arts centers have opened, one in the county's northern reaches in Aventura, the other in southern Miami-Dade.
"It's a really fun place,'' says Arison, who splits time among Miami, Tel Aviv and New York, where she serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. "It's just like New York. You can't do everything. You have to pick and choose.''
Says Nancy Novogrod, editor of Travel + Leisure magazine, "Miami's reputation has evolved from a tropical retreat to a very forward-thinking and exciting place to see art and to have a contemporary cultural experience.''
But it's Miami's visual arts scene that has become the city's sweet spot.
A new Herzog & De Meuron-designed home for the Miami Art Museum is under construction downtown — just one of the county's half-dozen major art museums. Four more museums feature exhibitions arranged by private collectors whose holdings rival those of many museums.
On any second Saturday of the month, the galleries in the downtown industrial warehouse district known as Wynwood have become so packed during open-house evenings that many venues have begun holding VIP openings the day before, and most galleries now open by 2 p.m. for collectors who want to avoid the crowds, says Susan Kelley of Kelley Roy Gallery. By late evening, the street is so thick with art-goers that you can scarcely drive.
Many credit the city's arts explosion to the influence of the renowned cultural showcase Art Basel. In truth, Miami has long been home to collectors, dancers, authors, musicians, artists and playwrights. But a decade ago, when Europe's top art fair brought a U.S. offshoot to Miami, the city's cultural side moved into the spotlight. Arts insiders now argue that the Art Basel Miami Beach offshoot — held the first week each December — has eclipsed its Swiss parent.
"In terms of the art, the fairs are very similar. Art Basel is the world's leading brand and draws the world's best galleries,'' says Miami art insider Marvin Ross Friedman, a frequent visitor at both the Miami and Basel fairs.
What differentiates the events is the overall atmosphere — Miami is more social — and an enormous number of side events scattered throughout the city.
Crowds of museum curators and gallerists start flooding into town just after Thanksgiving. The first of the so-called satellite fairs — unrelated shows featuring works typically less pricey than the modern masters offered at Art Basel Miami Beach — begin setting up around the city.
Private jets carrying top collectors from Europe, Latin America, Asia and across the U.S. arrive for nonstop openings at museums, galleries and private art spaces owned by local collectors but open to the public. Mobile projects — painted Mini Coopers, a horse-drawn Hummer adorned with art — pop up in the streets. Even the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden gets into the event, hosting an annual exhibition of outdoor-appropriate works that this year will include Will Ryman's flower sculptures.
And after it's over, the buzz remains.
"When you have an opportunity once a year for a week for the most important cultural patrons in the world to come here, it's impossible not to see that impact,'' says Dennis Scholl, vice president/arts for the Knight Foundation and in his own right a significant supporter of contemporary arts.
Tony Goldman, a collector and the neighborhood redeveloper partly credited with the renaissance of SoHo, South Beach and Philadelphia, has set his sights on Wynwood, opening restaurants, encouraging galleries and creating Wynwood Walls, an open-air "museum'' of murals created by world-class street artists in a collaboration with Jeffrey Deitch Projects.
In the fall, Goldman opened the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse as a home for a trio of cutting-edge arts organizations. "I'm the ignition device," he says. Three of the city's private museums are located here in a still-transitioning warehouse district.
A dozen blocks up the street, Craig Robbins, a local art collector and real estate developer, has spent years transforming the Miami Design District from a dying trade center into a hub of art, food — some of the city's top restaurants are here — and retail. Recently, several top luxury retailers (including Hermès and Cartier) announced they were taking space there.
Between the two lies Midtown, a retail-entertainment-residential district that for some young residents has replaced South Beach as the place to live.
Within a mile are the Arsht Center and the construction sites for the new Miami Art Museum and the new Miami Science Museum. Last spring, Malaysian casino giant the Genting Group spent $236 million for nearly 14 acres of waterfront land adjacent to the Arsht Center, with plans to build a futuristic World Resorts Miami that the company hopes will include a casino.
Though casino games currently aren't allowed outside tribal resorts, the move has set off something of a frenzy among developers and would-be gaming operators that are gobbling up land nearby. Arts leaders are working with Genting designers to ensure that the arts institutions don't get buried in traffic.
Several hotels have taken on art themes, featuring works by local and international artists and hosting arts events year-round. And in what may be the perfect confluence of the city's luxury car culture and its infatuation with design, Miami Beach has become a showcase for architectural auto garages. The 1111 Lincoln Road retail center and parking garage designed by Herzog & De Meuron has become as popular a venue for parties as for stashing vehicles. Garages by star architects Zaha Hadid and Enrique Norten are on the way.
On this breezy, fall evening, the drizzle breaks out in a full-scale storm. Those without umbrellas — the teens on skateboards, a 20-ish man on a bicycle — dash for the cover of Gehry's curvaceous eaves to wait out the rain. The rest of the crowd pops open umbrellas and stuffs the cheese and crackers back into baskets, and the overture plays on.