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(1) The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash[1] king of Israel:
(2) When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, "Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD."
(3) So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
(4) Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
(5) In that day I will break Israel's bow in the Valley of Jezreel."
(6) Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah,[2] for I will no longer show love to the house of Israel, that I should at all forgive them.
(7) Yet I will show love to the house of Judah; and I will save them--not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but by the LORD their God."
(8) After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son.
(9) Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi,[3] for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
(10) "Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, `You are not my people,' they will be called `sons of the living God.'
(11) The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited, and they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.


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Trilogy™ Silver Blotch (Petunia/multiflora/pelleted)
Latin Name: Petunia x hybrida
Item #: P1908P
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F1 hybrid. Spreading habit with a large number of flowers on compact 12 in/30 cm plants. Blooms are much tighter together.
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books... to receiveMonday, November 23, 2009
I'm sure by now, you have seen and heard about these two terrific books. They are both filled with fabulous projects and information for knitters of all levels. I would be showing you more photos of the contents of each book, however, my camera (MY CAMERA) just went kerplunk and I will be without (WITHOUT) for 4-5 weeks (WEEKS) while Ritz Camera ships it away to the nikon camera fairies where they will try to repair it. You have no idea how much this bums me out. The poor girl behind the counter didn't know what to do when I started to cry. (YES, CRY!) Oh! And to top it off, I left a pair of fingerless gloves (that were my husbands!) on the counter and when I went back to get them they were gone. (LONG GONE!)
Book #1: Nicky Epstein Knitting a Kiss in Every Stitch. Truly one of my favorite books of hers. I love the layout of this book. A chapter each for kids, girls, guys and special friends. An entire book filled with projects to give. (Who says you can't give to yourself?)
The "guys" chapter consists of five projects including these fisherman's gloves. (love)
Kristin talks about how color inspires her and shares so much of the information she has acquired along her knitting journey.
237 comments
gah! i'd love to win either one of these books - although the "knit a kiss" one pretty well calls to me through the computer, so maybe that one a little bit more?ReplyDelete
They both sound so wonderful! I can't choose- no preference! Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
how generous... i would love to win the knitting kissing book... if at all : )ReplyDelete
What a nice giveaway -- I think "Knitting a Kiss..." sounds like a great book.ReplyDelete
oh wow! either one would be great! although a kiss with every stitch sounds nice ;)ReplyDelete
I would love to win either of the books! I think I would give it to my daughter for Christmas!ReplyDelete
Wow! They both sound great...what fun!ReplyDelete
- Kathleen11/23/2009
How nice! I would be thrilled with either book. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about your camera and your hubby's fingerless gloves!ReplyDelete
But thank you for the lovely giveaway. If I had the choice I'd love Knitting a Kiss, but would be grateful for either option.
Sorry about your camera--I know that I'd be lost without mine for that long. I would love to be entered for Color by Kristin--my LYS has items from her trunk show right now and I am totally inspired by her designs and color expertise. Thanks for the generous giveaway!ReplyDelete
Oohh, how fun! I really like the Color by Kristin book. I am dying to try fair isle.ReplyDelete
Oh, I SO want that Nicky Epstein book. I already have Kristin's! My dad has been bugging me for fingerless gloves... with fingers... so that pattern would be perfect! Especially since I don't have a gift for him for Christmas yet. :-)ReplyDelete
I'm sorry your camera fritzed! That must bug you a lot, especially this time of year. Hopefully the Nikon fairies will be especially fast in their repair.
What a cool giveaway! Sorry to hear about your camera AND your mitts!!! Well, I guess you can think of it one of two ways, either they really needed something to warm their hot little hands or hope that they're allergic to wool and get hives...I'm on the fence caused I'd be pretty miffed but it is Thanksgiving and all :/ReplyDelete
i've never heard of either but the knit a kiss sounds interesting!ReplyDelete
First, I'm so sorry you're without your camera! Here's hoping the Nikon fairies will get it done quickly!ReplyDelete
And second, my birthday is on Wednesday, so here's hoping that I'm lucky--either book would be fabulous!
Thanks for having such a great giveaway! I would love to enter the drawing. The first book interests me most but I'd be so happy to win either. :)ReplyDelete
I love books - more inspiration!ReplyDelete
Either of these books would be great to own & pour over, dreaming up projects! I'm a faithful lurker on Kristin's blog...she's been showing us her designs & the inspiration behind them. Count me in!ReplyDelete
- Lorien11/23/2009
Sorry about your camera and husband's gloves:(ReplyDelete
The first book sounds the most interesting, but I would jump for joy if I won either.
Aw! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! The "knit a kiss" looks lovely!ReplyDelete
That is so thoughtful of you!ReplyDelete
I would love either book, but more importantly I would LOVE to know where you got the bracelet that you are wearing in the 'book' picture (and other pictures). I LOVE it!! Sorry about your camera.
What a wonderful giveaway! The first book sounds wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving to you!ReplyDelete
It's so hard to choose I love both books!! Thank you for the giveaway. I am having one on my blog for the "One yard wonders" come on overReplyDelete
Love both books. Have a wonderful thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Oooh, what wonderful books. I actually didn't know about the Nicky Epstein one. I love Kristen and have some of her other books. What a very nice giveaway.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the giveaway. I'd be honored to win either book! Happy Thanksgiving!!ReplyDelete
how generous! thanks and what a big, huge bummer about your camera!!!ReplyDelete
if i was to pick it would be the knit a kiss book.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the fam.
Oooh! I love the first one, the kissing book!ReplyDelete
wow! a book about kissing and knitting - two of my favorite things! ;) Thanks!ReplyDelete
- Tiffanie11/23/2009
Would love to join the give away. The knitting with a kiss would be a great book. I have many friends and family that I am always looking for something to knit. Thanks for the oportunity. tiffaniemullis@yahooReplyDelete
No camera for 5 weeks??? I'd cry too! Especially with the holidays coming up! Good luck getting it back sooner.(and I'd love a chance to win "knit a kiss" thank you.)ReplyDelete
I have the Colot book and it is wonderful. I have not had the pleasure of seeing the other one.ReplyDelete
Wow, both books look fantastic! I'm sorry to hear about your camera.ReplyDelete
well, of course I HAVE to comment here for the chance to win. You are so adorable reading in those pictures.ReplyDelete
I would love the chance to win a copy of the knitting a kiss book.
Oh no, camera-less and mitt-less?!? That's a sad tale.ReplyDelete
I'd love a copy of either book. Both sound neat!
My heartfelt sympathy to you. Just the mere thought of having to be without camera ... here's hoping the camera fairies will fix your camera even faster that asap.ReplyDelete
As for the books, both sound great.
I just noticed your header... gorgeous work. What a great giveaway I have the Nicky Epstein one on my bookshop wishlist...fingers crossed!!ReplyDelete
I love the blog and I wish to win these great knitting reads! Thanks for the give aways, great holiday cheer!Sorry about the bad news on you side of things.ReplyDelete
I would love the Knit a Kiss book. Why oh why did I decide in November that knitted Christmas gifts would be a good idea? LOL.ReplyDelete
Oh wow, how much I would love the Nicky Epstein book.ReplyDelete
Not a good day! I'm sorry! I hope your Thanksgiving is wonderful. I am thankful I happened upon your blog one day. As for the book - thank you - would love the "kiss" book!ReplyDelete
I've been dying to see the Nicky Epstein book - thanks for the reviews and boy oh boy I hope I win!ReplyDelete
Both of the books sound wonderful. I think if I had to pick, knit a kiss sounds like a wonderful book for me. Thank you for the generous give awayReplyDelete
Hmmm my first choice would be the Nicky Epstein book - I love her books the images are so lovely to look at never mind the image of "knit a kiss" .ReplyDelete
i'm sooo sorry about your camera. maybe it will be a shorter wait! fingers crossed for you!ReplyDelete
- Phoebe11/23/2009
I like the look of those gloves in the Nicky Epstein book. I need a good man glove pattern. Thanks for the reviews!ReplyDelete
I have the knitting with a kiss book on my wishlist. I love little projects for friends and family. Have a Happy ThanksgivingReplyDelete
I would love either book!ReplyDelete
OMG I would love either of these books, very nice! Hope you're enjoying them too!ReplyDelete
I would love the Epstein book.ReplyDelete
sorry to hear about your camera. on a happy (unrelated!) note, I made your pumpkin cookies and they were awesome! thanks for sharing the recipe.ReplyDelete
Oh, no!!!!! Not THE CAMERA!!!!! I've been wondering about that Nicky Epstein book (as if I have time for more knits). Happy travels! xReplyDelete
I'd love to win either one. The colorwork one would be more of a challenge for me though because I tend to avoid colorwork as much as possible!ReplyDelete
oh no!! I would cry too. Poor Leslie.ReplyDelete
what a gem of a giveaway! color by kristen would add nicely to my new knitting library...happy thanksgiving right back at you!ReplyDelete
I almost cried when I had to send my camera away, too. They told me 6-12 WEEKS! Thankfully they underpromised and over-delivered and it (happily) came back in 4 weeks. I really hope that the same happens to you. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win the knit a kiss in every stitch book. That exactly what I like to think of as I knit: a prayer in every stitch!ReplyDelete
Thanks for making me think about knitting once again. Would love to have a copy of the knit a kiss looks like a good oneReplyDelete
This is so nice of you! I have never commented before, but I would like to say that I love your blog, projects, and photography! Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
I am so in love with Kristen's color combinations. They scream happy, as I would scream happy if I were to win it! Happy Family Day~JanReplyDelete
Thank you! I would love the color book because I'm so intimidated by it.ReplyDelete
Sorry about your camera. I would love to win the Nicky Epstein book.ReplyDelete
leslie! Do you have a camera back-up? I would cry too!ReplyDelete
Oh yay! How exciting! I would especially love the Nicki Epstein, but either would be a welcome addition to my library:)ReplyDelete
how nice of you...would love "knit a kiss"...btw...I love your blog...I check every day in hopes you have posted. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving. Either book looks divine and a terrific way to spend Christmas vacation. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!ReplyDelete
- Debbie11/23/2009
I have just taught myself to knit socks! I am so pleased but I don't know where to go from here. I would love to win one of these books for inspiration.ReplyDelete
Both books look great. I have been looking hard at Knitting with Color. It looks really great.ReplyDelete
- Linda11/23/2009
Love both of them (and you look so cute "reading".) Thanks for the tip on the white shirts, also. I have ended up with quite a few!ReplyDelete
ooo, goodie, I'd love to win! Sorry to hear about your camera.ReplyDelete
Those look like lovely books! I would love the Nicky Epstein book!ReplyDelete
as my son would say, "sad face" about your camera and the fingerless gloves. it just goes to show how rattled you were to part with your camera. :(ReplyDelete
i would love to have the knit a kiss book; really either one would be happily received.
Count me in! I'd love either, but the first would be the one I'd choose if I was picking. Thanks!ReplyDelete
What a great giveaway! I would love to win either book - they both look fabulous.ReplyDelete
So sorry about the camera! The screen on ours broke a few months ago, so you couldn't preview the images. Kind of defeats the purpose of a digital camera:)ReplyDelete
What a great giveaway--I'd love to win either, but if I had to choose I'd say Knitting a Kiss.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Both books look inspiring- but the knit a kiss one especially. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Two great books! Wow - thanks for the gift idea. Both look GREAT! KateReplyDelete
What a great giveaway! I would prefer the Knit a Kiss book.ReplyDelete
So sad about the gloves! and the camera!ReplyDelete
I would love to win the Epstein book! :)
I'd love to have the "knit a kiss" book :)the name is lovely, I'm sure the book is too. What a nice giveaway to warm our hearts :)ReplyDelete
Wow! What a great giveaway! I would love Color by Kristen. This something I would like to learn more about. Thanks! Have a great Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
i'm crying for you! that just sucks.ReplyDelete
not the books - those look really nice, but you know the drill, keep me out of the drawing. ;)
So sorry about the camera and the fingerless gloves. Not that it makes you feel better, but we just lost Inishmore at our house (actually at a Number Theory Seminar.) Both books look amazing.ReplyDelete
oh leslie! what a bad day you had! i truly feel for you, because i would have cried too! thanks for sharing these books, i am hopping over to amazon now to add them to my wish list in case i dont win! id choose either if i did!ReplyDelete
They both sound so wonderful! I can't choose!!!ReplyDelete
I would love either of these books. Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Both are wonderful! But the color book looks so enticing.ReplyDelete
thank you!
I would love to win a Kirsten color book , nobody does it quite like her . Thank you for offering :)ReplyDelete
Both those books sound great! I'd be excited to receive either one. Happy Thanksgiving.ReplyDelete
Oooh, either one looks good to me, and come over to my place for a chance to win my extra copy of Selvedge mag.ReplyDelete
Happy thanksgiving, Leslie. Hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family!
*I would be bummed too if my camera went kerplunk, darn.ReplyDelete
*I say the girl at the counter helped herself to your gloves. Let's just hope if it wasn't her that someone who absolutely needed a pair of gloves has them.
*If my name is picked for the drawing, I'd really like the second book full of color - beautiful!
Here's hoping you find the gloves and your camera is fixed, pronto!
oh what a great giveaway--I'd love to check out the nicky epstein book...ReplyDelete
Oh, I am soo, sooooo sorry about the camera. And the gloves! My goodness - that is a terrible day, for sure. No need to enter me, I have both books, and you're right: they're great! Just wanted to add my camera/glove condolences to the list. But wait! How are we going to have pics? Five whole weeks?! That's nuts!ReplyDelete
What great books-Nothing like a great new knitting book. I would have cried right there at the counter too if my camera died.ReplyDelete
I'm always up for a drawing! Yay! The Kissing Book looks great. Thanks for the chance...Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Your blog makes me so happy.ReplyDelete
And thanks for the chance to win!
oh no on the camera!!! and on the gloves too.ReplyDelete
might be a good time to explore making a pinhole camera - they are tons of fun. e-mail me if you would like some links to directions on making them.
this is shameless but I'd love the Kristin book.
I love your blog. Your knits are so wonderful to look at. Nicky Epstein will be at our local knitting store in December..what a perfect way to see her and have something for her to sign.ReplyDelete
I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Very generous of you! Two fantastic looking books, although the Nicky Epstein one does make my heart beat a little faster!ReplyDelete
Ahh, I feel so sad that you cried and left his fingerless mitts on the ocunter. This happened to me with my favorite parka vest last winter. It would be a wonderful surprise if your camera comes back sooner. Fingers crossed for you!ReplyDelete
First book sounds really cute.
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!!
- Wendi11/23/2009
Exactly how I felt when I took my sewing machine to the shop, and was without it for a month and a half while the part was ordered! I think I'd rather be without my car than my sewing machine!ReplyDelete
I'm sorry about your camera and your gloves. That stinks. Thanks for letting us sign up for the giveaway, though. That's nice! I'd love A Kiss in Every Stitch if I am selected. Have a happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Oh Leslie! I only know you through your blog but I know how important your camera. I hope its trip to the camera hospital is quick and it's better than ever upon its return.ReplyDelete
I would not look a gift book in the mouth but I do love the color wheel in Kristin's and think I could learn a lot from her.
love the 'kiss in every stitch' title. It would be my preference, thanksReplyDelete
Wow, you have a lot of comments already! So sorry about your camera and lost gloves. Thanks so much for the luggage tag link; I love them!! So, please enter me for the Knit a Kiss book! Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
- Mickey11/23/2009
Ooooh, I'd love to win either of these books. If I HAD to choose, I'd pick #2. What a fabulous give-away! Happy Thanksgiving!! :)ReplyDelete
Wow, two of the most colorful designers out there. I love them both, but I have to admit that I'd chose Kristin Nicholas if I had to choose.ReplyDelete
So sorry about your camera and the gloves. Leaving the gloves behind is so much something that I would do!
I would love to have the book on color. That is my biggest challenge. Hope that you have a Happy Thanksgiving.ReplyDelete
wow, such beautiful books! thanks for offering giveaway :)ReplyDelete
WOW!!! What a blessing you are to share those amazing books. Either one would be a blessing. THANKS KellyReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about the camera...both of those books sound simply DE-VINE! I am always looking at new ways to use my knitting to give as gifts so the first one sounds good BUT I would love to find a way to use all those color yarns that I have stashed away...so either book works for me. Such a great give-away...ReplyDelete
WOW!!! What a blessing to share with us. I would enjoy either of the books. what a treat. I hope your camera gets back to you fast. I love seeing all the great pictures. may you be blessed through the holidays and always. kellyReplyDelete
sorry to hear about your camera and gloves...ReplyDelete
wow i can't believe you are giving these books away!
I'm pretty sure I would do exactly the same thing, although I might of started wailing.ReplyDelete
Wouldn't it be nice if they gave you a loaner/courtesy camera to use while yours is in the shop, like they do with vehicles when your car is in for repairs?!
Oh, my goodness! I would LOVE either one of these books! Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
I haven't seen either of these books yet and both look lovely!ReplyDelete
What a dissapointing trip to the camera store! I hope there is a back up...your blog will just not be the same with out your wonderful pics for 4-5 weeks : (
oh, not the camera! Id have cried, too...ReplyDelete
Both books are intriguing, although the first one calls to me ever so slightky more...
Hope the canera-free time passes quickly.
bloggers are so generous-i just can't believe it :) both books look great, but i think i would like a kiss in every stitch best. thanks for the chance to win-happy thanksgiving :)ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh: sorry about the camera. And the gloves. Maybe there is a silver lining in there somewhere.ReplyDelete
Thanks for being generous in the midst of all that. I wonder what the odds are that I will win this time...
- Nina11/24/2009
I will miss seeing your photos over these 4/5 weeks, hope you still have access to another camera.ReplyDelete
I would love to win the Kristen Nicolas colour book, as I would like to take the next step into colourwork.
would love either book but the color by kirsten would fill a gap.ReplyDelete
sorry about your camera will miss your photos.....
I have been without my camera this fall - so you have my deepest sympathy! I would love a new knitting book - "Knitting a kiss" would be my first choice.ReplyDelete
I want one!!!ReplyDelete
- Teresa11/24/2009
Hi its the stalker brit lady,ReplyDelete
These books are gorgeous but who can resist a kiss with every stitch. It just calls to you, irresistably yummy.
Sorry to hear about the camera.
OH.. I've been eyeing that Knit a kiss.. :)... both are awesome!.. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about your camera! I had that happen to me to ...I bought another while it was being repaired . Your picks from teh book "knkit with a kiss " has inspired me !ReplyDelete
Thanks for the draw !
So sorry about your camera and your gloves! Hopefully the gloves were picked up by someone who needed them. I would love a chance to win Color by Kristin.ReplyDelete
so sad about the camera AND 'those mitts'. thank you for your giveaway...they both look like great books!ReplyDelete
- Cathy S.11/24/2009
Thanks for offering the give-a-way, either would be wonderful, but Nicky sounds more my style.ReplyDelete
Oh no!! So sorry for the camera! Five weeks? Ouch. But Happy Thanksgiving nonetheless! Thank you for offering to give away books... I have no preference: my knitting library is still small and I'd be happy about any book. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I would love to be in you contest drawing.Please put my name in.. I am so sorry about your camera. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
How fun. I really should buy myself a knitting book, but winning knitting a kiss would be great! thanks for the opportunity!ReplyDelete
- Cheryl11/24/2009
What a great giveaway. Sorry about your gloves and camera. The Nicky Epstein book would definitely be my first choice, but maybe a color work book would force me to branch out?ReplyDelete
- S Huber11/24/2009
Hi, I'm a new knitter, a friend sent me a link to your blog....looks like fun, the "knit a kiss' book sounds interesting to me. Happy Thanksgiving :)ReplyDelete
I would be thrilled to have either one of those books.ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks for the great giveaway. Either book would be a great treat! Sorry to hear about the camera. Your pictures are always beautiful. They inspired me to order my own Nikon (D5000) which should arrive today.ReplyDelete
Sorry about losing the gloves and how long the camera is going to take. Both of those books look great.ReplyDelete
oh so thankful for you!ReplyDelete
sorry to hear about the camera. just went through that and going without a camera is like going without water!
Love them both but think I'd prefer the color book.ReplyDelete
Very nice of you by the way - and I love the blog.
either one would be fabulous! thanks, and sorry about your camera....you take awesome pics..(this will sound motherish)..just think how much better it'll be when you get it back!ReplyDelete
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Both of these books look great...would love to receive either one...ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving! Diana B.
oh my gosh...i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have the nicky epstein "kiss" book!!!!ReplyDelete
hope you get your camera back quickly, i know i need to send mine in but i am terrified of letting it go!
Wow what a great giveaway. I would love book number 1. You always seem to find the neatest things. Happy Thanksgiving and hope the next few weeks without your camera go quick.ReplyDelete
Boy what a great gift. I would be very Thankful for either book ! These may need to go on my Christmas list. I miss previewing these kind of things at the store.ReplyDelete
Such beautiful books! I especially love the "knit a kiss" book. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Awesome! I would like either one, but would prefer the Epstein book. Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
please enter me ! thanks !!! no preference - either knitting book would be greatReplyDelete
Oooh, I'd love to be entered -- thank you. I have "Kristin Knits," which is another great book of hers, if you haven't seen it. (Sorry about your camera!!!)ReplyDelete
- stacie340811/24/2009
I'd love to win the 'Knitting a kiss book! It sounds fabulous!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful giveaway! If I should be so lucky either book would be great!!! I love books and I don't have either!ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving and I too hope the Camera fairies repair it quickly!
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Darlene in PEI
I haven't heard of the first one but I do have the second one in my library queue. I'm interested in seeing what Kristin came up with.ReplyDelete
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I would LOVE "Knit A Kiss" for some new inspiration. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.ReplyDelete
I would love Color by Kristin! I own all of her books except this one.She is wonderful.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the chance to win.
I feel so bad for you that you left those gloves and your camera was broken. How awful!ReplyDelete
The Knit a Kiss in every stitch book looks amazing. :)
Oh, I am so sorry about your camera AND the gloves. I believe I would have had a little cry too. I would love either book. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Leslie.ReplyDelete
5 weeks! Oh my goodness - it'll be like they've taken your arm or something - I would be lost without mine!ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for your camera and for your gloves! I hate that! I would love to look through and get ideas from the Knit a Kiss book!! I recently finished the Libby sweater for my Maria - it is lovely, thank you!ReplyDelete
I am sorry about your camera......do you have a back up camera? I think I am about to cry.....if you don't, I love your photos!ReplyDelete
I'd be thankful to win either;)
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I would be thrilled if I won either of these! So generous of you!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful give-away! I would love the knit a kiss book! My children love love love it when I make them things. This book looks like it has a lot of cute ideas!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting such a generous give-away! Knitting a Kiss in Every Stitch sounds great, but I would be delighted with either bookReplyDelete
Wow. I'd love to win either one of these books, but would probably get a lot more use out of Nicky Epstein's book.ReplyDelete
What a Fabulous "Give Away"! I would love love either book. Here's wishing you and your family a Wonderful Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
- cyndi11/24/2009
I would be blessed with & thankful for either one! I still love your blog & the things you knit! Thanks for sharing a little of your day with the rest of us!ReplyDelete
I hope it is still wednesday with you! I'm a great fan of colour so Kristen's book would be my choice:)ReplyDelete
I hope the camera gets well soon!
So sorry to hear about your camera. Not a good time of year to be without one.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your Thanksgiving and thank you for this giveaway opportunity. Either book would be happily received.
Eep, sorry about the camera. At least it is fixable. And the fingerless gloves...at least it's a good excuse to knit some more?ReplyDelete
What a sweet book giveaway! I think either book would be lovely to receive as a prize. I haven't looked at either in person but I've heard wonderful reviews.
Wow...what a great giveaway! I would LOVE Knitting a Kiss in Every Stitch!! I had the chance to see it at the bookstore the other day and it's FABULOUS! I have it on my things-to-get-after-Christmas-bills-are-paid list but gosh..who wants to wait THAT long?!?!ReplyDelete
Yikes! I have to come out of lurkdom for this. I've been enjoying your blog for quite awhile. Thank you so much for sharing your craft with us; it brightens my day to see your work and hear your thoughts.ReplyDelete
I love Kristen's books and colorwork! The colors are so cheerful and the patterns so happy. I've made a few projects inspired by her work and have her book Kristen Knits already. I would just loooove to win Color by Kristen!
Wow! I would be very happy with either book. Thank you sooo much and Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Oh, the book with the kiss, I love it!ReplyDelete
- Steph in Canada11/24/2009
Both books sound great. I would love to win either one.ReplyDelete
I hope your camera is feeling better soon. =(
Oh yea. Love those books - would love Kristin's book most of all!ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow! I'd like either book, but the color book sounds interesting. Oh, I don't know. They both are sounding interesting.ReplyDelete
- Charlene11/24/2009
The lose of your camera at this time of year I would cry too. The books will give you something pretty to look at until you can take your own beautiful pictures again. I would love to peak at the knitting a kiss book. Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
- Nancy from Mass11/24/2009
I would love knit a kiss also, but I would be thrilled with anything! Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
- Catherine11/24/2009
I would love either...no camera... does the world look a bit different?ReplyDelete
Oh...I would love to win one of these books. I love having new ideas right at my fingertips.ReplyDelete
How kind of you to give away such nice books. I would love to have the N. Epstein book. Her stuff is so inspirational.ReplyDelete
I'm so very sorry about your camera (and the gloves). But please KEEP TAKING PICTURES - use a P&S, a disposable, your phone - anything really! Because it's not the camera that makes the photo - it's your amazing vision and ability to capture an entire story in just one shot. You are so talented and your amazing images always inspire! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving - and take lots of pictures.ReplyDelete
I would absolutely love either book! They look wonderful. Have a great Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
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Both of these books look amazing, my daughter loved the mittens & socks that match, so that would be tippity top preference!ReplyDelete
Have a great Thanksgiving! Maybe Santa needs to get you a new camera just in case?? The holidays are very close indeed.
- Francesca11/24/2009
"Knitting a Kiss" sounds fabulous! Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
I would love either of the books. Happy Thanksgiving. I love reading your blog!ReplyDelete
Knitting is a labour of love. Knitting a kiss is a perfect title! Heading home to Michigan from Ontario for Thanksgiving on the 25th. Thanks for the blog and hope your camera gets better fast!ReplyDelete
I have Kristin's book so I would love Nicky's book.ReplyDelete
So, so, so, SORRY about your poor camera! I mean poor you for having to go without for so long...ReplyDelete
I would love knitting a kiss so much. Please please!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the give-away opportunity! Would love either, but maybe #1 a wee bit more.ReplyDelete
- Zory11/24/2009
What a sweet giveaway! I would love Knitting a Kiss. Sounds super fun.ReplyDelete
I'd love either book!ReplyDelete
Good luck with the camera fairies. I love all your photos. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Gah! I don't know what I would do without my camera for a day, let alone 4-5 WEEKS, and my camera is nothing fancy! Yikes! I brought mine along on a camping trip once and realized after our arrival that I had left the memory card at home, in the computer... I was so disappointed. I really can't even imagine... and if you're anything like me, losing those fingerless gloves, on top of what already happened, would have really put you in a bad mood. I'm so sorry!ReplyDelete
You are too kind to offer a giveaway like this. Knitting a Kiss in Every Stitch sounds like a fun, sweet find.
I hope the rest of your week goes much better! Happy Thanksgiving!
Are you SERIOUS? No CAMERA? Can't you BORROW one? I don't know what I'd do and this really bothers me that you are without your camera. I get inspiration from your photos on a regular basis, parent vicariously and believe I can knit...and this certainly will not do.ReplyDelete
Huzzah, I love online giveaways! I would be thrilled with either book! Though if I really had to pick, I would lean toward the "knitting a kiss" book. It sounds darling!ReplyDelete
Oh those books look lovely. I would probably get more use out of Knit a Kiss - but . . . gReplyDelete
Hey, I'm Erica (named after Susan Lucci's character - Erica Kane - on the soap All My Children). I'm a lover of books and of knitting. My sisters Deb and Kat gifted me with knitting lessons back in 2008. Since then, I've knit a scarf that's kept a friend warm on her travels from Florida to Minnesota and Alaska. I'm always looking for knitting inspiration which is sometimes hard for a Florida gal such as myself.I'm currently working on a Noah's Ark baby afghan (Michele Wilcox design) for my nephew who is due on March 28, 2010 (my 30-something bday!). I'm also working on some Christmas gifts for my sweet daughters and a hat for my DH. Happy, Happy Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
Yow, I am in love with both books! I have one of Kristen's other books, and it's one of my favorite sources of inspiration!ReplyDelete
I feel for you in this traumatic camera moment. I had to run without my ipod for a few weeks, and it was like someone had stuffed my shoes with kryptonite - it's hard to get by without the stuff we use everyday!
- Anonymous11/25/2009
Either book would be great! Count me in and thank you!ReplyDelete
I already have Kristin's book, so would love to have Nicky Epstein's. I'm a big fan of both women. Thanks for a great give-a-way!ReplyDelete


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Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman has been awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, the highest honor bestowed by Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, for her leadership in strengthening Princeton's commitment to African American studies.
Princeton's Center for African American Studies was established in 2006 after existing as an academic certificate program for 37 years. An advisory committee appointed by Tilghman recommended an expanded curriculum after determining that reflections on race and the experiences of black people should be diffused throughout a liberal arts education as an "indispensable element in a preparation for life in this country."
Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Du Bois Institute and Harvard's Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, presented the medal to Tilghman at a Dec. 4 ceremony "for her real support of African American studies, of scholarship across the disciplines and of the next generation of scholars."
Valerie Smith, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and the first director of the Center for African American Studies, introduced Tilghman at the ceremony, saying, "She has been a powerful spokesperson for the central role of the study of race to a liberal arts education."
"Her commitment not only to the expansion, but, more importantly, to the institutionalization of African American studies has been and continues to be unwavering," Smith said. "The rapid and impressive growth of African American studies at Princeton in just a few short years has had everything to do with her leadership and the climate she has cultivated."
Smith added, "Her ability to speak frankly, courageously and without defensiveness about complex and vexed issues of race, justice and inequality has transformed our campus and modeled the intelligence and feeling, the self-awareness and empathy that ought to inform any national or, for that matter, global conversation on race."
Since 2006, the number of core faculty positions allocated to the Center for African American Studies has grown from two members to today's 17. Associated and affiliated faculty members in other departments now contribute an additional 18 faculty. The center has increased courses by more than 40 percent, offering 36 courses this year, compared to the estimated 25 courses typically offered a few years ago.
In accepting the medal, Tilghman gave credit for the success of Princeton's efforts to Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, for chairing the advisory committee that recommended the establishment of the Center for African American Studies, and to Smith for overseeing the launch of the center as its first director.
While some other institutions providing African American studies focus either on the specific experiences of black people in America or research of the African diaspora, Princeton encourages students of varying backgrounds to encounter and reflect on the history of race in the nation through a unique interdisciplinary approach.
Tilghman said that Princeton's expanded, multidisciplinary exploration of the role of race in society "is critically important for training the next generation of scholars who are going to take us past the past and past the present and into a future ... that is better than what we have now. But it is also equally important that every single student who passes through the gates of Princeton University ... encounters issues surrounding race in general and the African American experience in particular, because that is the only way that the future indeed is going to be better."
Tilghman was one of eight recipients of the Du Bois Medal this year, joining New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, storytelling legend Hugh "Brother Blue" Hill, journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, lawyer and political adviser Vernon Jordan Jr., Perseus Books founder Frank Pearl and philanthropists Daniel and Joanna Rose.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman has been awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, the highest honor bestowed by Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, for her leadership in strengthening Princeton's commitment to African American studies.


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ATLANTA — Medical marijuana has been a non-starter in recent years in the Deep South, where many Republican lawmakers feared it could lead to widespread drug use and social ills. That now appears to be changing, with proposals to allow a form of medical marijuana gaining momentum in a handful of Southern states.
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and this year powerful GOP lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama are putting their weight behind bills that would allow for the limited use of cannabis oil by those with specific medical conditions. Other Southern states are also weighing the issue with varying levels of support.
The key to swaying the hearts of conservative lawmakers has been the stories of children suffering up to 100 seizures a day whose parents say they could benefit from access to cannabidiol, which would be administered orally in a liquid form. And proponents argue the cannabis oil is low in tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana that makes users feel high.
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"I'm an unlikely champion for this cause," said Georgia Rep. Allen Peake, a businessman from Macon who attended the evangelical Dallas Theological Seminary. "Once people realize it's not a 6-year-old smoking a joint, most folks realize this is the compassionate thing to do."
Peake's bill has already earned the backing of more than 80 state lawmakers, including several members of the House Republican leadership, who signed on as co-sponsors and the state's largest professional association of doctors. The bill would revive a long-dormant research program allowing academic institutions to distribute the medical cannabis and would be "limited in scope, tightly restricted, well regulated and managed by doctors," Peake said.
Alabama Rep. Mike Ball, a retired hostage negotiator for the State Patrol, is behind a bill that would allow people to possess the cannabis oil if they have certain medical conditions. It passed a key committee vote Wednesday.
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"The public is starting to understand what this is," said Ball, who chairs a powerful House committee and is a prominent voice on law enforcement issues. "The political fear is shifting from what will happen if we pass it, to might what happen if we don't," Ball said.
The bills in Georgia and Alabama still have more vetting, and their ultimate prospects are not certain. But what is happening offers a strong signal of what's to come in other states.
In Louisiana, although a bill has yet to be introduced, a recent committee hearing at the Capitol on legalizing medical marijuana drew a standing-room-only crowd, and Gov. Bobby Jindal made comments last month indicating he was willing to consider it.
"When it comes to medical marijuana … if there is a legitimate medical need, I'd certainly be open to making it available under very strict supervision for patients that would benefit from that," Jindal said, according to a report in The Advocate.
Technically, both Georgia and Louisiana have laws on the books from the 1980s and 1990s that allow for the use of medical marijuana, but those programs essentially ended before they could start. Georgia's law established the academic research program for those diagnosed with glaucoma and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, but the program stalled when the federal government stopped delivery of legal cannabis.
Louisiana's law allowed for glaucoma and cancer patients and those suffering from spastic quadriplegia to receive marijuana for therapeutic use but regulations to govern the program were never developed.
In Mississippi, Republican state Sen. Josh Harkins of Brandon is sponsoring a cannabis oil bill similar to the ones in Alabama and Georgia. Harkins said one of his constituents has a 20-month-old daughter with Dravet syndrome, a form of pediatric epilepsy, and the oil can help reduce the number of seizures.
Elsewhere, both Kentucky and Tennessee have medical marijuana bills under consideration although they have yet to gain traction. Kentucky Senate President Rover Stivers, R-Manchester, has said he's not convinced marijuana has legitimate medical purposes and called it an area ripe for abuse.
In Florida, it's likely to become a campaign issue in the fall given that Gov. Rick Scott is up for re-election and a proposed constitutional amendment will be on the ballot that would allow for the medical use of marijuana as determined by a licensed physician. Former Republican Gov. Charlie Christ, now a Democrat seeking to challenge Scott, has called it "an issue of compassion, trusting doctors and trusting the people of Florida."
Meanwhile, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signaled a willingness to discuss medicine that might be derived from marijuana with appropriate federal regulation.
"If someone wants to use the medicine that is in marijuana, go through the same testing that you have to go through when you do that through the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], you go through all of that, do the testing, the drug testing, that's fine," Bentley said last month. "I have no problem with that. I am not just for prescribing marijuana."
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has declined to take a position, but noted the "strong case being presented by some of the families with very serious situations involving their children."
Dustin Chandler, a police officer in Pelham, Ala., has been a major part of the effort there. His daughter, 2-year-old Carly, has three to five seizures each day from a severe neurological condition she has had since infancy. Chandler believes cannabidiol could help control his daughter's seizures and improve her cognitive functioning based on anecdotal evidence seen elsewhere.
"We've been battling the stigma from the m-word," Chandler said. "I'd love to hear my daughter talk. I'd love to hear her say one word. You know that is something most parents take for granted."
Overall, public opinion in support of legalization has shifted in less than a decade, according to William Galston and E.J. Dionne, who co-wrote a paper last year on the topic for The Brookings Institution. The authors noted proponents were shrewd in focusing the earliest campaigns on efforts to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, citing a 2013 Pew Research Center survey that three-quarters of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, believe marijuana has legitimate medical uses.
Among critics' biggest concerns is that allowing medical marijuana even under a narrow list of circumstance would eventually open the door to widespread use. Peake, the Georgia lawmaker, has been adamant that will not be the case.
"I am concerned as anyone that we would get to a slippery slope of a broader scope of marijuana use in the state," Peake said. "I promise you I will fight that with every bit of energy in me."
Georgia Rep. Terry England, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and a deacon at his Baptist church in Auburn, is a prime example of a state lawmaker who never thought of legalizing medical marijuana but is now open to it, even signing on as a co-sponsor to Peake's bill.
"I've not made a complete 180-degree turn, but I'm probably at 178 degrees," England said.


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The plane carrying the animals landed at Lindberg Field Saturday, and they were taken to a shelter in Rancho Santa Fe.
A spokeswoman for the Helen Woodward Animal Center said the dogs and cats were facing euthanization at New York and New Jersey animal shelters that lost power after the storm struck last month.
Jessica Gercke said her organization approached Southwest Airlines and SeaWorld to help rescue the animals. She said a pilot and crew donated their time, BP footed the gas bill, and animal handlers from Seaworld accompanied the animals on the flight.
Gerke said the centre will get the animals vaccinated, spayed and neutered before offering them for adoption.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Maura Duffy spent a day in Chicago last September with her mother: A walk along Lake Michigan, shared meals, a boat tour highlighting Second City architecture.
But this was no typical mother-daughter outing. It was the first time the two women had ever met.
Since a handful of states, including Illinois, have unsealed birth certificates, thousands of adoptees have claimed them and learned about their beginnings. The 35-year-old Duffy, adopted at birth, is among 8,800 Illinois residents since 2010 to do so.
Not everyone who gets the document goes on a search. But for many, it's led to heart-rending reunions.
"I finally got to see and meet someone who looked exactly like me," said Duffy, a marketing professional. "It's a very kind of emotional, strange thing that you grow up your whole life and don't ever know anything about your background. And it's the first chapter of your life, that birth certificate."
Obtaining a birth certificate — something most people can do without much thought — often is a visceral, as much as legal, quest for an adoptee.
"The things that people take for granted are enormous, life-changing moments" for adoptees, said Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, a Chicago Democrat and adoptee who sponsored the Illinois law and still breaks down when discussing it.
Feigenholtz, who met her birth mother years ago, worked for more than a decade to open birth certificates in Illinois, which like nearly every other state had sealed such records from the 1940s through the 1980s. There are several reasons adoptees want access to those records, including learning medical histories crucial to determining health risks. Many adoptees believe they have a right to such a personal, intimate record.
Illinois is one of 11 states to have open birth certificates and one of nine to have unsealed them since 1999, according to the American Adoption Congress. And because of its size, the Prairie State has seen more adoptees get those papers than most. Still, the 8,800 is only 2.5 percent of the 350,000 Illinois adoptees' records that were sealed beginning in 1946.
In Oregon, which opened its records in 2000, 11,500, or nearly 11 percent of the 108,000 records sealed after 1957, have been requested. Alabama didn't seal 300,000 records until 1991, reopened them just nine years later, and 5,800 adoptees have requested them. Rhode Island reopened 24,000 records in 2012 after 68 years, and 759 people have laid claim to their birth certificates.
Some adoptive children have reunited with birth families without open-records laws. Public intermediary services, private businesses and volunteers help reunite willing adoptees and birth mothers, although sometimes it involves hundreds of dollars and no guarantee of success.
Jenny Spinner, who grew up in an adoptive home in Decatur with her twin sister, found her mother before the law changed. But Spinner, a 43-year-old mother, English professor and researcher in Philadelphia whose intrepid inquiries have prompted preparation of a book about the experience, is frustrated by the lack of documentation of her personal story. She still wanted her birth certificate for the emotional connection it brought.
"The paper that I've been looking for just to see all our names together in one space has still eluded me, outside of this birth certificate," Spinner said. "It's the only thing where her name is stamped on a document that has my birthdate. That proves it."
States generally had open birth records until the mid-20th Century when unwed motherhood became more stigmatized, said Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan research and policy center.
Birth certificates often were stamped "illegitimate" and sealing them was thought to protect the baby, the adoptive family from intrusion and was even considered, in some circles, the cleanest break for a "maladjusted" mother to re-enter society and later marry.
Opponents contend birth mothers were promised privacy in perpetuity, which Donaldson Institute research has not been able to substantiate, and research shows both adopted children and the parents who gave them up want contact, Pertman said.
The trend is "toward greater honesty, greater openness," said Pertman, adding it's "way too slow."
In Pennsylvania, an adopted lawmaker has introduced legislation to open birth records there, and Illinois Rep. Ann Williams, an adoptee who was born in the Keystone state, traveled there to testify July 17 in favor of the bill. Williams, a Chicago Democrat whose district neighbors Feigenholtz's, told the committee the Illinois law brought "excitement, joy and fulfillment" to nearly 9,000 adoptees, but for her, it was "bittersweet, as I was not among them."
Dave Reynolds, a 46-year-old health care-plan operator from Deerfield, didn't seek his birth record until he met Feigenholtz, who encouraged him. He just spoke by phone about a month ago to his birth mother, who lives in another state and never told anyone in her family about her son.
"I'd love to meet my birth mom face-to-face. I'd love to give her a hug," Reynolds said. "I'd love to meet my half-brothers. That would be a neat moment. But that's on her timetable. If it never happens, then I'm just so thankful I had a chance to thank her."
The meetings can be just as wrenching and emotional for birth mothers, and many adoptees are reluctant to ask them to come forward and speak publicly. Nor is it always an easy process for the family that reared an adopted child.
Duffy's adoptive mother, who is ill with Alzheimer's, often talked with her daughter about finding her birth family. The process has been hard on her father, but "I'm not going anywhere," Duffy said.
"They were the people that put a Band-Aid on my knee when I scraped it. They're my family," she said. "It's just nice to start to get to know this person who gave so much up for me, who did such a selfless thing for me, giving me birth and bringing me into this world."
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org
American Adoption Congress: http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org
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NEW YORK — Stores are hoping Americans who've been tight-fisted with their money will get the last-minute itch to buy in the final week of the holiday shopping season.
After a strong start to the season, sales at stores have fallen for three consecutive weeks. That puts a lot of pressure on retailers to get shoppers into stores in the final days of what's typically the busiest shopping period of the year.
Sales at U.S. stores dropped 3.1 percent to $42.7 billion for the week that ended on Sunday compared with the same week last year, according to ShopperTrak, which tracks data at 40,000 locations. That follows a decline of 2.9 percent and 0.8 percent during the first and second weeks of the month, respectively.
The numbers, which don't include online sales, are another challenge in what has largely turned out to be a disappointing holiday shopping season for stores. The two-month period that begins on Nov. 1 is important for retailers because they can make up to 40 percent of their annual sales during that time.
Retailers started the season cautiously optimistic after a strong start in November — ShopperTrak said sales were up 3.4 percent for the month. But in the final days, retailers have found it increasingly hard to attract shoppers into stores even though some like Toys R Us have rolled out big discounts, while others like Kohl's have stayed open for dozens of hours straight since the weekend.
None of that seemed to lure shoppers. At the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J. on Saturday, Abercrombie & Fitch, AnnTaylor and Express had 50 percent sales, while Aeropostale was discounting its entire assortment up to 70 percent.
Still, Barbara Jackson, 45, was spending cautiously. She said she's capping her holiday budget at $1,500 — half of what she spent last year. That's because Jackson, an aide to the elderly, is earning less than last year.
"I am more budget conscious," Jackson said.
Karen McDonald, a spokeswoman at Taubman Centers, which owns or operates 28 malls, estimated that business for the week that ended Sunday was unchanged to mid-single digit percentage growth compared with a year ago.
"I felt for sure it was going to be gangbusters. But it was just OK," McDonald said.
Shoppertrak estimates that holiday sales at stores so far are up 2 percent to $218.4 billion compared with the same period last year. That's below the 2.4 percent forecast for the two-month period, but the company is standing by that estimate with a few days left before Christmas and a little over a week before the season ends.
The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail group, also said it's sticking with its forecast that sales in stores and online will be up 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion.
But even online sales, which had been a bright spot for much of the season, aren't growing at the expected pace. Online spending from home and work desktop computers in the U.S. from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15 was up 9 percent from the same period last year to $37.8 billion, according to the most available data from comScore.
That's below the 14 percent growth that the Internet research firm is forecasting for the season. The company still expects online sales to grow at that pace for the season, but the category only accounts for about 11 percent of spending in the three months that include the holiday shopping season.
Final sales figures for the holiday shopping season are expected in January.
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Vicente Padilla (4-2, 3.65) vs. Johan Santana (7-5, 2.87).
COMMENTS: Two 2-0 wins does not a six-game losing slump erase, but it's a start. The Dodgers face a far greater test tonight in Santana, who lifetime against them is 3-0 with a 0.44 ERA. That's right, 0.44. However, Padilla has a 0.87 ERA in his last three starts, so it's like going to junior prom — don't expect a lot of scoring.


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Apple's iPhone 5: Why the Company May Be In Trouble
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There's been a flurry of Apple news recently.
First, several reports say that Apple has had talks with Twitter about possibly investing "hundreds of millions" of dollars in the company at a $10+ billion valuation. Other reports say those talks are ancient history, but the idea is still interesting. Apple is weak in social, and an investment in Twitter would firmly align it with one of the two big social success stories. It would also probably alienate or disadvantage the other, Facebook.
Next, Apple and Samsung are now taking their patent dispute to court. This will likely eventually end with one company paying the other company a bunch of money to go away. The trial will probably determine which way the money goes.
Lastly, over the past few days, the latest round of purported pictures of Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5 have hit the web.
And I can't be the only potential customer who is deflated by what they see.
In fact, I'll go far enough to say that, if the iPhone 5 looks like the pictures that have recently appeared, Apple may be screwed.
Because the "iPhone 5" looks pretty much like the iPhone 4S. Which looked exactly like the iPhone 4, a phone that is now two years old.
In the meantime, Samsung and other manufacturers have come out with phones that make people's jaws drop, such as the Galaxy S3, which has a (relatively) humongous screen. Although the Apple faithful may start hyperventilating about things like the movement or elimination of a button, most phone buyers couldn't care less. Now that most phones do the same things and work pretty much the same way, the most obvious (and, arguably, important) difference between them is the screen.
In short, the Galaxy feels like a next-generation phone. The iPhone, meanwhile, looks small and old. And the pictures that purport to be of the iPhone 5 show a phone that is pretty much the same small, old phone.
(Yes, they've moved the camera an inch. And it's longer. And it has a metal back. Whoop-de-do.)
(And, yes, apparently the screen is a little taller. Somehow that isn't the same. Check out the size difference in the photo below between the current iPhone and the Galaxy: A bit taller won't cut it.)
To be sure, regardless of what the iPhone 5 ends up looking like, the Apple faithful will scarf up tens of millions of them. They'll line up around the block and sleep outside the stores. They'll rave about the amazing slickness and geniosity and sophistication of Apple, especially as compared to the plebeian "bigness" of Samsung (the Galaxy will no doubt be dismissed as the McMansion of phones).
But, secretly, a lot of those faithful will be disappointed.
And, more importantly, so will tens of millions of other customers and potential customers.
As they should be.
Because it will make it clear that one observation that many Apple skeptics make is dead-on correct--namely that each new generation of the iPhone offers less and less improvement over the prior generation, and, thus, gives customers less reason to upgrade. This, combined with carriers increasingly making moves to discourage customers from upgrading frequently (see AT&T's stealthy changes, which may have helped hurt Apple's iPhone sales in the June quarter), will stretch out the upgrade cycles. And that will mean fewer sales--and less growth--for Apple.
Apple's competitors, meanwhile, are on a tear.
In the past year, as Apple moved back its iPhone release schedule and then released a phone that seemed like only a modest refresh of the prior version, Apple's competitors have been gaining ground. Samsung sold 52 million smartphones in Q2, twice as many as Apple, and is now the clear worldwide smartphone leader. Samsung's Galaxy S3, which some reviewers say is better than the iPhone, has sold very well in its first couple of months on the market.
(Our gadget god, Steve Kovach, who is a huge Apple fan, is one of those who concluded that the Galaxy is better than the iPhone. He'd still buy an iPhone over the Galaxy, but only because of the "ecosystem"--the app store, the apps, etc. And although that ecosystem is obviously a big competitive advantage for Apple, it's safe to say if people feel forced to use an inferior phone just because of the "ecosystem," they're going to be disappointed.)
Despite the amazing success of the iPad (which will soon face serious, low-priced competition of its own), the iPhone is still by far and away Apple's most important product. The iPhone generates about half of Apple's revenue, and, likely, a lot more than half of Apple's profits.
If Apple's stock is to power its way to the the $1,000 that most analysts and investors now expect, the iPhone has to keep going gangbusters. And releasing a phone that looks pretty much like the same old iPhone--with a screen that now seems small--probably won't get the job done.
So here's hoping those pictures aren't actually of the iPhone 5.
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We are looking to get better.
It's really that simple. We're not trying to trade certain players, and we're certainly not looking to move players just to move them. As with any off-season or trading deadline, we're assessing the market value for our players to see whether or not that value surpasses their value to the Padres. If you have something you value at one million dollars, it would be foolish to refuse to consider selling it for twenty million dollars. On the flip side, it would also be foolish to sell it for anything less than one million. The thing that makes the market work is that each player has a different value to virtually every Club.
Furthermore, no one player makes a great team. This has been proven time and time again in baseball. We don't need to look any further than the 2008 Padres that went 63-99 with Jake Peavy, but I will.
There have been a number of occasions in recent memory where teams have traded or lost one of their best players only to be as good or better... immediately:
- The 2008 Indians were 37-51 when they traded CC Sabathia, and then went 43-30.
- The 2007 Twins finished 79-83, traded Johan Santana and let Torii Hunter leave in free agency, and then went 88-75 in 2008.
- The 2003 Rangers finished 71-91, traded Alex Rodriguez, and then went 89-73 in 2004.
- The 1996 Giants finished 68-94, traded Matt Williams, and then went 90-72 in 1997.
There are many, many more, but here is my favorite string:
- The 1998 Mariners traded Randy Johnson in the middle of a 76-85 season.
- In 1999 the Mariners finished 79-83 without the Big Unit.
- After 1999, the Mariners traded Ken Griffey, Jr and then went 91-71 in 2000.
- After 2000, the Mariners lost Alex Rodriguez to free agency and went 116-46 in 2001.
That's three Hall-of-Famers in three successive seasons, and the Mariners improved each time. Baseball is a crazy game.This, of course, doesn't mean that trading a star player ensures success. What it does show, however, is that trading a star player can buoy a team. That is what we're exploring.
As far as Jake's particular situation, we have him under contract for the next four years with an option for a fifth year. Our task, then, is to determine whether what we would receive in exchange for him would outweigh the benefits of having him for those five years (presumably some player(s) we would get in return could be of service for more than five years, so that needs to be factored in as well). Make no mistake, however - we place tremendous value on Jake's presence here. That is why any offers for him in past years and every day up until this writing have been rejected.
Come to think of it, though, it's really not about Jake's particular situation at all. There was a very good comment in my last post asking about our process as it pertains to Brian Giles. Why would we be unwilling to trade him before the deadline, possibly willing to after the deadline, and then plan on picking up his option? The answer is rather straightforward - it all depends on the return. The return wasn't sufficient in any deal before the deadline, but was sufficient in the proposed deal after the dealine.
In short, we are charged with fielding the best possible team in both the short and long terms. Believe me, we wish we could put together a dynamic team comprised of players who would remain as Padres for the duration of their careers. On a personal level, we don't enjoy trading players. I don't know any executive who does. However, that just isn't the reality of today's game. Because of that fact, the best organizations out there can't really believe in the concept of "untouchable", because one can lose great opportunities with such blinders.
So, to answer the most basic question: are we going to trade Jake Peavy? We'll see if someone offers us a compelling deal that makes us better.


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Why You Should Humidify Your Home
Winters in Hillsborough are among the harshest in Canada. Snowy, blustery, cold winter days with long, even colder nights that put Dante's 9th circle to shame. To keep up with the cold and to keep your home warm, furnaces are running a wintery marathon. It's dry inside and outside, resulting in a season of chapped lips, static electricity and dry throats. Ew!
Why should I humidify?
Because Hillsborough's cold air cannot hold as much moisture as warm air, the relative humidity in your home can get too low and cause health issues, furniture and flooring damage, along with taking a toll on your heating bills.
1. For Your Health
According to Bloomberg Business, the most efficient way to combat dry air and reduce your susceptibility to infection is to invest in an air humidifier. The dry air can cause irritating congestion and sinusitis, but a humidifier will add moisture back into the air, helping to keep your nasal passages moisturized. This also helps with those pesky nosebleeds, respiratory infections and combating seasonal allergies and viruses.
Your skin can also suffer from the dry air. If you're an eczema or psoriasis sufferer, a humidifier can help keep your skin from drying out, which can further irritate skin irritations. Bloomberg Business also says to relieve dry skin, sleep with a humidifier running through the night and wake up to a fresh, supple-looking face.
2. For Your Heating Bill
Let's face it, heating your home in Hillsborough can be brutal on your finances. But, there's hope! Moist air feels warmer than dry air, so while your body can feel "chilled" even at higher thermostat settings due to the dry conditions, adding a humidifier can actually make you feel warmer at a lower temperature. In a home with an equalized natural gas bill of $150 per month, lowering the temperature by just 1° could amount to $180 per year in utility savings!
3. For Your Home Decor
Your home is your safe place. You've invested in hardwood flooring and furniture, gorgeous color schemes painted on the walls and maybe some wallpaper to add a little flair. And then it happens. The wood starts to split, the paint and wallpaper begin to peel, and you are left with a choice: staring at cracks in your décor every day or trying to figure out how to finance the remodeling. Or you avoid it altogether. That's right, a humidifier can help your wooden furniture, flooring and wall fashion retain their beauty for years by keeping your home and everything that resides in it hydrated.
4. For Your Marriage
You are in love with your spouse, but sometimes after a long day, you crawl into bed ready to rejuvenate yourself with a good night's sleep, and you hear it: snoring. A humidifier could help with that, too! Since snoring can be caused by dry sinuses and throats, or that pesky congestion that just won't stay away during the winter, a humidifier creates a moist environment, hydrating the sinuses, which could result in a better night's sleep for both of you.
Ok, you get it. You should humidify. Where to start?
There are five important factors to consider when deciding to add a humidifier to your home:
1. How will you control the humidifier?
2. Which style of humidifier will you use?
3. What type of heating system do you have in your home?
4. What is the correct capacity for my home?
5. Who will I choose to install it, and how will they guarantee it works properly?
Fras-Air/General Service Experts here in Hillsborough would like to help. We have the tools, the training, and the experience to make sure that your home humidity needs are met for the Hillsborough weather. We know your climate, we understand how your home is built, and we have a full range of humidification products to choose from that will ensure your total home comfort and humidity needs are met. The process is simple. Contact us for a no-charge, no obligation, in-home consultation. We will assess your needs, measure your home, look at your existing system and then provide an expert recommendation from our extensive line of products. We are here to help, so let's get through this Hillsborough cold together.