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My paternal 6th-great grandparents, Thomas William DAVIS and Tacy CRANDALL, were married on this date in 1737 in Westerly, Rhode Island. Thomas was the son of John and Elizabeth (MAXSON) DAVIS. Tacy was the daughter of John and Mary (________) CRANDALL. Thomas was born May 15, 1719 in Westerly, Rhode Island. Tacy was born circa 1720 in Westerly. After their marriage, they moved their family to Monongalia County, Virginia. Thomas died July 15, 1791 at White Day Creek, Monongalia County, Virginia. Tacy died June 1, 1795 at White Day Creek, Monongalia County, Virginia.
My paternal 2nd-great granduncle, William F. METZNER, married on this date in 1867 to Mary Ann HALEY in Jay County, Indiana. William was the son of John and Catherine (YOUNG) METZNER, and the younger brother of my John Adam METZNER. Mary was the daughter of Sebastian and Lydia (RADER) HALEY. William was born January 6, 1844 in Licking County, Ohio. Mary was born in 1846. They raised a family of 8 children in Bearcreek Township, Jay County, Indiana. William died in 1929 and Mary in 1926. They are buried in the Gravel Hill Cemetery, Jay County, Indiana.
My maternal 5th-great granduncle, John RAINS, was born on this date in 1787. John was the son of Anthony and Nancy (GRAHAM) RAINS, and the older brother of my Elizabeth RAINS. Nothing further is known at this time.
My maternal 2nd-great grandaunt, Mary Jane KING, was born on this date in 1849 in Orestes, Madison County, Indiana. Mary was the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (KING) SHAW, and the older sister of my Ellen KING. Mary married Leroy YOUNG, son of William and Jane (________) YOUNG, on February 8, 1871. Leroy was born November 14, 1843 in Indiana. Leroy died March 26, 1893 in Orestes, Madison County, Indiana, and Mary remarried to Robert HICKS. Mary died April 4, 1935 in Orestes, Madison County, Indiana. They are buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Alexandria, Madison County, Indiana.
My paternal 5th-great grandaunt, Rebecca HAINES, was born on this date in 1776 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Rebecca was the daughter of Robert and Rachel (VENICOMB) HAINES, and the younger sister of my Hannah HAINES. Rebecca died March 15, 1816 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Nothing further is known at this time.

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I loveee eye pencils, I could just buy them all day and then end up using the same one everyday:
Roughly speaking, my favourite eye pencils are:
1. Urban Decay 24/7 (every damn shade)
2. Anna Sui Waterproof Eye Pencil (the Khaki is amazing)
3. Nars (Kyoto, Kaliste, Black Moon)
4. Shu Uemura Drawing Pencils (got all the shades, but doesn't work well on the waterline)
5. Chanel Kohls (but not much of a shade selection).
I have sensitive eyes and watery ones at that so I need a pencil to be very soft and creamy, and most don't come off easily on my waterline since it's always a bit moist (why does moist sound like a rude word?!).
I got the MUFE eye pencil set for some stupid over inflated price from eBay. This is what happens when you insult your American penpal. You have to resort to buying US stuff via eBay – sigh.
Here they are. The pencils are TIDGY! And they are super irritating to open because the lids are stuck on tight and I nearly snapped 2 of them trying to pull the lid off. The shade selection is nice although I would have liked a green there.
MUFE is a lovely brand. It's like the grown up sister of MAC, MAC being the whorey sister who does anything she can for attention.
These pencils are lovley and creamy, and so far, it seems to come off fine on my waterline. They are supposed to be waterproof and if you give it a little while to set, it does indeed, stay put.
So far so good! You US ladies can get a bargain since its on sale at Sephora.


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Currently, more than 1800 companies in the Wichita and Sedgwick County area look to Ascension Via Christi Occupational Health Network as their source for occupational health services.
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Inpatient and emergency rooms services provided through Ascension Via Christi Hospital include MRI and CT scans, and other diagnostic tests are available through Via Christi Occupational Health Network's Preferred Provider Organization Network.
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Ascension Via Christi offers the most comprehensive range of occupational services in the area – and at an affordable price. We can customize our services for your organization or industry, and even provide on-site service at your location. Our expertise makes us a valuable resource in maintaining sound hiring and employment policies, and we can help reduce the high costs associated with workplace healthcare claims.
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Bonjour - Welcome to Guadeloupe
The eastern side, Grande Terre, includes soft rolling terrain, sensational white sand beaches, resort areas and Guadeloupe's largest city, Pointe-a-Pitre.
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Although it is a French island, Guadeloupe's people, personality and culture are the result of a harmonious blending of European, African and East Indian origins. A French sense of style and joie de vivre permeate the culture. The locals seem delightfully colorblind when it comes to people of all races. In Guadeloupe, what counts most is the quality of your heart, not the color of your skin.
The excellent highway system makes it easy to navigate Guadeloupe by car and hiking trails network the lush rain forest. With its offshore dependencies of Marie-Galnte, Les Saintes and La Désirade, this incredible and unique destination offers all of the beauty and wonder of the true Caribbean.
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The march of wasp spiders into more northerly territories demonstrates how climate change may prompt species to alter their temperature preferences.
By analyzing the genetic diversity and distribution of the wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) geneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology have pinned the initial shift in the spiders' range to the 1930s, occurring "in parallel with the onset of global warming."
The research, which sampled historical specimens from museum collections as well as contemporary spider populations, noted that after this initial change interbreeding allowed the spiders to gradually shift their natural temperature preferences and penetrate farther and farther north.
To test the theory, the researchers transplanted spiders from northern populations to southern, Mediterranean climes and vice versa—the arachnid equivalent of a foreign exchange program. The northern spiders exhibited signs of heat stress during their sojourn while the southern spiders couldn't survive the northern chill.
"Global warming could have facilitated the initial admixture of populations and this resulted in genetic lineages with new habitat preferences," said the study's author, Henrik Krehenwinkel.
This post originally appeared on Wired UK.


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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Spoilers will be present within the article.
Ash (genus Fraxinus) is a type of tree belonging to the genus flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, known as Fraxinus. It contains 45-65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly known as "keys" or "helicopter seeds", are a type of fruit known as a samara. Rowans (or Mountain Ashes) are unrelated to true ashes and belong to the genus Sorbus though the leaves and buds are superficially similar.[1]
The ash wand clings to its one true master and ought not to be passed on or gifted from the original owner, because it will lose power and skill. This tendency is especially valid if the core is constructed of unicorn hair. Old superstitions regarding wands rarely bear close examination, but it is believed that the old rhyme regarding rowan, chestnut, ash and hazel wands (rowan gossips, chestnut drones, ash is stubborn, hazel moans) contains a small nugget of truth. Those witches and wizards best suited to ash wands are not lightly swayed from their beliefs or purposes.[2]
However, the brash or over-confident witch or wizard, who often insists on trying wands of this prestigious wood, will be disappointed by its effects. The ideal owner may be stubborn, and will certainly be courageous, but never crass or arrogant.[2]
Some early broomsticks, such as one on display in the Museum of Quidditch, were also made of ash.[3]
Ash wand owners
The tree's common English name, "ash", goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also meant "spear" in their respective languages.[4]
Behind the scenes
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban states the Firebolt's handle to be made of ash. Pottermore, however, retcons this, instead listing its composition as ebony.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Quidditch Through the Ages
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: The Wand Collection
Notes and references
- ↑ Ash at Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pottermore
- ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 1 (The Evolution of the Flying Broomstick)
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, aylor & Francis, 1997, ISBN 9781884964985, p. 32


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I have problem with nvidia graphics driver opensource and proprietary ! Can't change resolution on 3d games and there's a bug there are no kernel sources installed and thus jockey can't install proprietary drivers.
I can't change resolution while on games fullscreen. I tried to install proprietary driver and i couldn't plus i couldn't login to ubuntu it showed only the desktop photo no dash no nothing. -tried to install kernel sources and blacklist+remove Nouveau drivers and then installed the proprietary drivers i hope succesfully. -The problem is the same i can't change resolution on 3d games while on fullscreen.
I've installed the sources and be able to install the proprietary nvidia drivers but the problem remains, look what i got in the output of a 3d game exited while i tried to change resolution:
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 150 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) Minor opcode of failed request: 10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode) Value in failed request: 0x25b Serial number of failed request: 497 Current serial number in output stream: 499
I'm giving you more details about my system: i have an nvidia geforce gts 250 , 3,4 ghz quadcore amd phenom2 , 8gbytes of ram.
The output of: sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
Is the following:
*-display description: VGA compatible controller
product: G92 [GeForce GTS 250]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff
memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:fb000000-fb01ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
Linux darkpc 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
I like ubuntu's style and user interface but i hate the bad quality of work they do.


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Justin Bieber Cleared in Spitting and Speeding Cases
All clear! Justin Bieber has had a rough 2013, enduring several run-ins with the law and neighbors as part of his recreational, offstage activity. The most famous incidents were the spitting and reckless driving situations. But both cases have been dismissed, and he can move on.
The L.A. County District Attorney rejected the case where a neighbor accused the singer of spitting on him and the case wear he allegedly drove a Ferrari like a maniac in his residential neighborhood in Calabasas, Calif., according to TMZ.
Bullets = dodged for The Biebs!
But that's not all. Word is that the neighbor who said the teen spit on him actually saved the saliva. Gross!
Even so, that wasn't enough to get the prosecution to push forward with a case. Since it was a case of "he said, he said," it was ultimately tossed. But can you imagine how many Beliebers would want to get their hands on that DNA? We bet the incensed neighbor could sell the spit to the highest Belieber, er, bidder.
That neighbor also said that the singer threatened to kill him. The D.A. felt that that while The Biebs was behaving like a brat, "the neighbor had entered the property without invitation and Bieber's actions did not rise to the level of a criminal threat."
The driving crazy case was thrown out because there was video proving that the singer was not operating the car. Bieber was not even inside the Ferrari at the time of the incident. He was doing something more fun -- riding on a motorcycle behind the car. Plus, rapper Tyler, the Creator even came forward and claimed that it was he who drove the car That was enough to close this chapter.


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Environmental charity Buglife has launched a campaign asking the people of Scotland to find the biggest and smallest Wood ant nests in the country.
Funded by Scottish Natural Heritage, the charity needs your help to map Scotland's wood ant nests to better understand the state of Scottish woodlands and reinforce the need to safeguard Scotland's natural infrastructure.
A series of events are running across Scotland to encourage people to take part. Hayley Wiswell of the Cairngorms National Park Authority is helping to run these events.
She said: "An important part of conserving species like wood ants is to raise awareness. The Cairngorms National Park Authority has organised "wood ant walks" over the last two years and these have been well attended by a wide variety of people, from rangers and foresters to people just wanting to learn more about the bizarre ant mounds they see when they walk through the woods. Nest Quest will be featuring at the Cairngorms Nature Festival on May 15, and we'll be taking people out on a wander for wood ants to introduce people to recording them locally."
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burn to a crisp
1. (of food) To overcook something to the point of charring it. A noun or pronoun can be used between "burn" and "to." I forgot about the bread I'd put in the oven and burned it to a crisp.
2. (of a person) To cause to become severely sunburned. A noun or pronoun can be used between "burn" and "to." If you lay on the beach all day without any sunscreen, you'll get burned to a crisp.
burn something to a crisp
to burn something totally or very badly. The cook burned the meat to a crisp.


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Tonkin enjoys first Opening Day, subs for Duensing
CHICAGO -- Right-hander Michael Tonkin was informed on March 24 that, despite an impressive showing in Spring Training, he'd start the season at Triple-A Rochester, so he figured he'd have to wait another year for his first Opening Day experience.
But Tonkin ended up making the club after all, as he was officially recalled from Triple-A before Monday's game against the White Sox with left-hander Brian Duensing placed on the three-day paternity list.
"It's pretty cool -- I'm excited," Tonkin said. "[Spring Training] went good. My arm feels good. So yeah, I'm happy about it."
Tonkin, 24, is regarded as one of the club's top relief prospects, and didn't allow a run in 8 1/3 innings this spring. He also posted a 0.79 ERA in 11 1/3 innings as a rookie last season, as well as a 3.47 ERA with 66 strikeouts in 57 innings between Double-A and Triple-A.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he feels comfortable using Tonkin in any situation until Duensing returns on Thursday.
"I'm not worried about him," Gardenhire said. "He's a guy we talked about keeping during Spring Training, but the numbers just didn't work out. He'll be there until we get Deuce back. But I don't worry about the kid. He can wing it."
Duensing, meanwhile, attended the birth of his second child with his wife, Lisa, on Monday in Omaha, Neb. Duensing's wife gave birth at 9:19 a.m. to a healthy baby boy named Boston Matthew, who weighed in at 6 pounds, 6 ounces.


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The Opening Act
Moving In, Getting Settled[edit]
The process for moving into a new house is no different from the base game; check the Getting Started subsection for more details. Lanette Carwin hunts around Starlight Shores and finds a nice little house near downtown. It's called Casa De Simple, and it certainly is that. She buys it furnished and moves in presently.
Joining any of the new careers is done from a newspaper or computer, just like any other. All three are considered professions rather than jobs, so be sure to select the "Find A Profession" command rather than the "Find A Job" command.
If you have Ambitions installed, you will have eight total professions in the game. The newspaper will only show five per day, so there's a chance that you won't see the one you're wanting right away. Searching for a profession on a computer alleviates that problem, but even if you can't afford one (Lanette can't at the moment), no worries: you'll have another chance to get the profession you want the next day with the next newspaper.
As luck would have it, the singer career is in the newspaper the first day. Lanette immediately accepts, and the first thing she gets is a popup box. In the grand tradition of performers, she can now set any name as her stage name. You always get a random default name, but you can roll up another random name if you're not satisfied by clicking the little dice button beside the text box. You could stick with your real name too if you wish, but Lanette doesn't think "Lanette Carwin" sounds very marketable. She decides her show name shall be "Lunar Eclipse"! If she changes her mind, Lanette can later change her stage name to anything for free and instantly by using a self-command called "Change Stage Name."
No matter which career you choose, there are no tools or objects you need. This is because, strangely enough, there are no new skills attached to the new careers. Your success as an acrobat will be easier if you work on your Athletic skill, but succeeding in any of the careers comes down to practice.
Performing for Tips[edit]
Regardless of your specific job, the basic way to gain job experience is to play for tips. Because there are no tools or objects for your career, you can simply start pimping your skills right away. You can head to any public lot, but parks seem to attract the most Sims. Lanette hops in a taxi and heads over to the large park in the middle of Starlight Shores.
It doesn't take long before a few Sims show up, so she immediately uses the "Singer..." | "Perform for Tips" command. Lanette pulls a karaoke out of Hammerspace and starts belting out lyrics immediately while wearing her awful work attire. It takes strangers a few minutes to figure out that she's singing, but they'll soon start to gather. As long as they're reacting to the song, they'll stick around for the whole thing.
After every song, anyone who's listening will usually toss some cash into Lanette's jar. Because skills are not at play, the money scales to Lanette's career level. Given that she's only Level 1 right now, each Sim tosses in a dozen Simoleons at most, which is barely enough to eat, let alone pay the rent. It's a start though, and she can do this as long as she wants all the time.
Performing for tips as a magician or an acrobat brings money just a bit faster because the audience will tip you randomly, rather than having to wait until the end of your act. However, rookie singers get one advantage the other two professions don't. You'll occasionally get called to perform a Sing-A-Gram at a specific target, and you'll earn about 25 Simoleons. For the first level of the career, it may be in your best interest to chase these targets, but eventually it won't be worth the amount of time it takes to deliver. Once you get to Level 2 as a singer, it starts being more profitable to spend your time performing for tips exclusively.
Note that, as a singer, you can always perform a Sing-A-Gram to anyone via the "Singer..." social command, but you'll only be paid in cash if it was an actual job that you were contacted about. You'll always gain job experience by performing a Sing-A-Gram, but not always cash.
Like all professions, even those in Ambitions, you have open work hours. This means you can perform for tips or Sing-A-Grams any time you want in all hours of the night. You can also freely ignore jobs if you want. However, if you don't gain job experience at all for a couple days straight, you'll start to lose job experience. That just means you should set some time aside every day to perform for tips, even if it's just a couple hours, or else you'll risk losing your hard work.
When performing for tips for an extended amount of time, be sure to keep your eyes on the moodlets. If you perform too long, you'll draw a Sore debuff, which just gets worse as you keep going. Go too long, and you'll simply be unable to perform at all until the debuff goes away or you get a massage as the spa. It's pretty easy to find the balance: just avoid performing for more than eight hours a day, and you'll be fine. Remember that only the specific "Perform for tips" action does this; if Lanette is sore, she can still run around and do Sing-A-Grams without any problems.


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Late December snow floats resorts through holidays, but just barely
The holiday snow in the high country arrived too late to rescue lodgekeepers in December but boosted bookings for January and February.
The latest Mountain Travel Research Program – or MTRiP – survey of 160 property management companies in 16 western resort communities shows December 2012 lodging occupancy finished 7.9 percent behind the previous December. But the average daily room rate climbed for the 19th consecutive month, increasing 2.6 percent over December 2011.
Still, the late snow that followed a dismally dry November and early December helped. Reservations heading into December were down 12.3 percent.
"What a difference a month makes," said Ralf Garrison, director of MTRiP, in a statement released Wednesday. "Mother Nature finally delivered some much needed snow from coast to coast just in time for the Christmas holidays and the fresh powder really helped fill some December lodging vacancies at ski resorts as well as generating buzz and bookings for January and February."
The snow also stirred bookings for the rest of the season, with December bookings through May up 10.4 percent over last season. January bookings climbed 3.5 percent and February is up 8.6 percent.
On Tuesday, Vail Resorts reported a strong holiday, with visitation up 2 percent through January 13, lift ticket revenue up 4.3 percent, ski school revenue up 2.9 percent, dining up 9 percent and retail revenue up 7.7 percent over the same period last season.
Still, the holiday boost wasn't enough to overcome the dry start to the season. On Tuesday Vail Resorts lowered its early-season projections of $260 million to $270 million in resort EBITDA for the season to $244 million to $254 million. Still that represents a 19 percent to 24 percent increase over last season.
"While we are very pleased with our strong holiday season performance, the challenging early season contributed to season-to-date results that were below what we had anticipated in our guidance originally issued in September 2012," said Vail Resorts chief Rob Katz in the statement released Tuesday. "As a result, we do not believe we can fully make up those shortfalls during the remainder of our fiscal year. "


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- Wildlife
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- Ragged-Robin
Paul Lane
Swaying in a gentle breeze, the delicate pink flowers of Ragged-Robin can be a joy to behold in any wildflower meadow, damp pasture or woodland ride. But it's not just passing humans that benefit from its star-shaped flowers, bumblebees, butterflies and Honey Bees all enjoy the nectar it produces. A growing favourite among gardeners, try planting Ragged-Robin in a boggy area or flower border and see who comes to visit...
How to identify
Ragged-Robin is a perennial that is likely to be growing in wetter areas such as marshes, fens and wet meadows. It has much-divided, pink flowers (hence the name 'Ragged') and narrow, grass-like leaves.
Where to find it
Grows almost everywhere in the UK, but especially in damp and wet places.
When to find it
- May
- June
- July
- August
How can people help
The pink, frayed flowers of Ragged-Robin are an increasingly rare sight in the wild. Human activity, including the drainage of land for agriculture, the loss of ponds through development and the removal of wet woods, has resulted in the disappearance of many of the UK's wetlands. The Wildlife Trusts are working closely with planners, developers and farmers to ensure our wetlands are protected. You can help by becoming a member of your local Trust; you'll find out about exciting wildlife happenings, events on your doorstep and volunteering opportunities, and be helping local wildlife along the way.


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The early 20th century was a time of increased conflict between labor and management throughout the United States. From the textile mills of the Northeast, to the steel mills and factories of the Midwest, to the mines and lumber camps of the Rocky Mountain West, thousands of workers all over the country walked picket lines. According to one source, there were at least 1,800 work stoppages a year at the turn of the century and as many as 2,000 a year in 1910.¹ One of the most famous strikes occurred in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1913, when more than 20,000 silk workers joined in an industry-wide strike that lasted more than five months.
Silk was a relative latecomer in Paterson's long industrial history. The city had been established during the great debate of the 1790s between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and their allies about industrial development. Hamilton encouraged the creation of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.), a private corporation that selected the Great Falls of the Passaic as the location for an industrial city in 1792. By 1794 the S.U.M. had completed the first of a series of canals to harness the power of the falls for industrial use. When the first "manufactory" failed in 1796, the S.U.M. abandoned manufacturing to become a real estate and energy broker, leasing water power and land to private entrepreneurs, inventors, and industrialists into the post World War II era.
Silk was first manufactured in Paterson in 1840, but did not prosper until after the Civil War, when high tariffs on imported silk products helped American producers compete with their European rivals. Silk manufacturing was a big business before the days of synthetics. Silk, the "queen of fibers," dominated high fashion and the luxury trade, but women at all economic levels wanted their "best dresses" to be silk. Paterson had many advantages for the silk trade. It had abundant water supplies for power and processing and good transportation facilities. It also was close to New York City, the center of the fashion industry. Most importantly, Paterson had a supply of workers who understood the peculiar characteristics of the delicate silk fiber. By the 1880s, the city was producing almost half of the silk manufactured in the United States and had earned a nationwide reputation as "Silk City."¹Bernard Bailyn, Robert Dallek, et al. The Great Republic (D.C. Heath and Company, 1981), 611.


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Conquer the Trail - Right preparation for the season
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"Less is sometimes more"
If you want to be fit for the bike in spring, you have to lay the foundation in winter. This philosophy holds true for us girls as well as for the men. It is scientifically proven that women, unfortunately, put on weight more quickly due to their higher body fat percentage. In addition, our metabolism also requires longer to reorganize again in the spring. That means we have to pay more attention in the winter months to our nutrition, so that we don't have to pay for each cookie at the start of the season.
A training plan brings structure to our sports program, and helps us achieve more efficient training effects on the body. A good exercise plan can be tailored from a sports medicine institute. It is based on a performance test, but should also consider the psychology of the individual. Because women are more emotional than men, a good plan should not exert a blunt training constraint, but should keep us entertained with diverse methods.
Nevertheless, time and structured training content is important. The premise is not to train every day, but rather to respect the principles of a training load and rest days. You don't have to torture yourself outside in the worst weather conditions in order to drill your basic units to follow your plan. It's better to advance a rest day due to the fact that motivation is the basis for reasonable training. A relaxing sauna or a yoga class is a benefit for the muscles and can cause more than a forced workout when body and mind are reluctant.
Above every workout plan is always your own body's state. If you feel tired and worn out, you should allow yourself a break. Additionally, the sport you train with for basic endurance plays a minor role. I personally really like the winter months, since I can focus on other sports. This can also compensate muscular imbalances, as muscle groups get trained that are otherwise normally neglected. The most important thing in training is that it should be fun! Therefore you can subordinate to this goal a lot. If you stick to the general guidelines of your plan and allow for some flexibility, you'll train more effectively and start the season in a more motivated fashion.
Biking, jogging, cross-country skiing, ski touring or trail running - sometimes it's simply the weather or the conditions that decide the specific activity.
Ski touring for example is a perfect strength and endurance training for a biker. Together with a friend you can turn your coffee party into a nice afternoon with sunshine and powder. When ski touring, similar muscles get strengthened as when biking and the fresh air is perfect for the soul. Also skating or classic cross country skiing are good alternatives to biking. Back, shoulder and arm muscles get trained and as a positive side effect your body burns a lot more calories.
Trail running is a good compensation too, as it as a basic endurance activity. On hill climbs, thigh and gluteal muscles are required and if you're prone to knee problems, just take the gondola down. This also helps avoid the uncomfortable soreness in the calves. If you don't have mountains right out your doorstep, just go jogging or Nordic walking. Neither requires a huge amount of effort and are very effective.
So let's go girls, the bike season is starting soon!
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New research has found that MPVs remain the best choice for young families, despite the rising popularity of SUVs among family buyers.
Motoring title What Car? carried out tests on 16 popular models to find which were best at accommodating multiple child seats and found that traditional people carriers remain far more suitable than SUVs, even those offering seven seats.
Read more: Are booster seats illegal?
Three child seats
The investigation took seven mainstream SUVs, five luxury SUVs and four MPVs, all of which except two are marketed as seven-seaters. Testers then tried to fit three child seats into them using a combination of Isofix and seatbelt restraints.
The test also took into account the Euro NCAP advice on whether a seat was suitable for the fitment of a child seat, which instantly ruled out certain positions in several of the vehicles.
What Car?'s best vehicles for three child seats
Category Make and Model Large SUV Peugeot 5008 Electric car Tesla Model X Large MPV Seat Alhambra Small MPV Volkswagen Touran Luxury SUVs Audi Q7
Of the seven mainstream large SUVs tested, What Car? was able to fit all three child seats into just two models – the Peugeot 5008 and Kia Sorento. The use of a child seat in the second or third row was prohibited in four of the large SUVs tested, and the one that could take a third seat in the second row wasn't wide enough to do this.
Luxury step up
Four of the five luxury SUVs tested, including the all-electric Tesla Model X, were able to accommodate three child seats.
In contrast, of the four MPVs tested, all were able to accommodate three child seats with ISOFIX points. The latest Seat Alhambra and VW Touran models both feature ISOFIX points in all five of their rear passenger seats – a record matched by only one of the luxury SUVs; the Audi Q7.
Read more: Child car seat law in the UK – everything you need to know about current safety rules
Steve Huntingford, editor of What Car?, said: "This just goes to show how important it is for new parents, especially those with multiple kids, to do their homework when buying a new car. A vehicle may feature seven seats, but if only two can accommodate a child seat, it may not be the ideal choice."
The What Car? test used an infant carrier with seatbelt and Isofix fitting options, a seat suitable for a toddler and one for an older child. The two larger seats can be secured only by Isofix mounts. Previous tests have revealed that a different combination of fitting types can give different results.


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Blue Polypropylene Handy Coil – 12mm x 30m.
These Everlasto handy coils are made from 3 strand split film construction twisted polypropylene rope.
Polypropylene ropes are strong and versatile whilst remaining light and waterproof and will not shrink when wet.
As polypropylene is less expensive than other synthetic fibres polypropylene ropes are the ideal all purpose, great value ropes.
They are widely used in agricultural, building, domestic, industrial, leisure and transport applications.
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Accent colors
Contrasting colors that look good next to each other. Usually from opposite ends of the color wheel.
A design cut out of fabric that is sewn onto or otherwise attached to another piece of fabric. This is often done with a satin stitch around the edge.
Balloon shade
A shade made with inverted pleats, which gathers into a series of puffy festoons when raised.
Ballpoint needle
This sewing machine needle has a slightly rounded point that allows it to go through tightly woven fabric without cutting the threads.
Bar tack
A series of close stitches designed to reinforce a point on a seam. Most often used on garments.
Baste or basting
A series of long, loose stitches used to temporarily hold together two pieces of fabric during construction.
Filling used for quilts or bedcovers. It's made of cotton, wool or synthetic fibers and comes in sheets or bats.
A diagonal line in comparison to the up-and-down and side-to-side weave of a fabric.
Bias tape
A narrow strip of fabric that has been cut out diagonally from the material. The strip's fibers are at a 45 degree angle to the weave of the fabric, making it stretchier.
A strip of fabric sewn along the edge of an item like a blanket or tablecloth. It finishes and decorates the edge.
Blanket stitch
A wide stitch used to bind the raw edge of the material. Often used on blankets, it can be decorative as well as utilitarian.
A specially designed spool which feeds thread from underneath the needle plate, completing each stitch. Usually, bobbin thread shows only on the back side of your fabric.
The large rolls of cloth you see at the fabric store. Widths are vary from 44" for dress fabric up to 60" for upholstery fabric.
The hole a button goes into. Can be a hole, slit or even a loop.
Cafe curtains
Curtains that cover the lower part of a window to give privacy. Often used in the kitchen.
A strip of fabric folded over and sewn to provide a covering for a cord, drawstring or elastic.
Charm pack
A charm pack is most frequently one 5" x 5" square of each fabric from a specific fabric collection, so the number of squares in a pack varies. Occasionally duplicates of some prints are included, and occasionally charm squares are other than 5" squares.
Clip a curve
Making a series of small cuts after you've sewn a curved seam so that when turned right side out the fabric will lay flat without puckering. You don't need to clip if you use a serger to finish your seam.
Colorway is a textile industry term used to describe versions of the same design produced in different colors.
Cording (or welting)
A piece of cotton cord wrapped in fabric that is sewn into a seam to create an accent. Often used in slipcovers.
Covered button
A button which can be covered in a coordinating fabric. A back piece secures the fabric over the top.
Crosswise grain
A fabric woven perpendicular to the selvage, giving it a slight amount of stretch.
Cutting mat
A mat designed to be used with a rotary cutter. They are often made of self-healing material and have grids printed on them.
What you yell when you've sewn your sleeve to your project. Also, a repair made to a fabric hole by repeated stitches going back and forth.
The way fabric hangs on an item. Most often used to describe garments.
A formal window covering which hangs from a rod.
A stitch made very close to a folded edge, generally 1/8" or less.
Adding decoration to an item. Includes embroidery, appliqué, decorative stitching, beading, sequins, needlework, etc.
Fabric blends
A fabric made with any combination of fibers: cotton/polyester, wool/polyester, silk/cotton, wool/cotton, etc.
Fabric repeat
The distance between the beginning of one complete motif, and the beginning of the next one. It can be horizontal or vertical.
Fat quarter
A generously proportioned "quarter yard" of fabric that measures 18" x 22". To understand this you need to do a little math. Fabric is measured in yards. A yard is 36". When you ask your fabric store to cut a yard of fabric, you get 36" by the width of the fabric. Quilting cottons are usually 44" wide. So, if you buy a yard of quilting cotton, you'll have a cut piece that measures 36" x 44". Now, if you'd stepped up to the counter and ordered a quarter yard of fabric, you'd get a piece that is 9" (36" divided by 4) by 44". But a Fat Quarter is actually a full quarter of that original piece we got when we ordered our single yard of fabric (36" x 44"). If I divide that original piece (36" x 44") into four equal pieces, each one will be 18" x 22". A Fat Quarter.
Feed dog
The "teeth" under the needle which pull the fabric forward in synchronization with the stitch.
Finger pressing
Pressing open a seam with your finger where it may not be appropriate to use an iron.
Finish (a edge)
Turning under an edge and sewing or serging it so it doesn't ravel.
Flat felled seam
A seam that is flattened by having one seam allowance trimmed close to the seam and the other seam allowance sewn over the top of it. Often used to reduce bulk in a seam.
Fold line
Some patterns will have pieces that are placed onto a folded piece of fabric in order to get a piece double the size of the pattern. The fold against which you place the edge of your pattern piece is the fold line.
Foot or presser foot
The foot-shaped piece the sewing machine presses down against the fabric to allow it to be moved by the feed dogs. Sewing machines use many kinds of presser feet, which are specialized for different types of sewing.
Having the ability to be permanently attached by ironing. Fusible items use a heat-activated glue.
Fussy cut
You fussy cut when you select and cut out a specific motif on printed fabric. For example, a quilt where you cut each square to showcase a specific element of a fabric's overall pattern. It may also be a single element, like a big flower that you want centered on a throw pillow. Fussy cutting requires additional fabric.
Pulling fabric into miniature pleats either to compress it in size or for a decorative effect. To create a gather two parallel basting stitches are sewn on the right side of the fabric ¼" apart. Long tails of thread are left for gathering. The bobbin threads are gently tugged, evenly gathering the fabric.
The direction on the fabric that's parallel to the selvage.
A piece of fabric inserted to enlarge or add strength. In garments a gusset is often inserted to add freedom of movement.
A layer of material that goes between curtain fabric and the lining. In home decor It's used in panel curtains.
Material that goes on the back of shades or curtains. Linings can allow more or less light through as desired. For instance blackout lining is desirable for bedroom window coverings.
Machine embroidery
Generally, any decorative stitch made by a sewing machine. Includes running stitches and embroidery designs sewn in a hoop.
A miter is a corner seam that comes together at a precise 45˚ angle, like a picture frame.
A design composed of one or more letters, typically the initials of a name, used as an identifying mark. Often embroidered on fabric to personalize articles of clothing or home décor.
A basic cotton fabric often off-white in color and inexpensive.
Nap refers to the short raised fibers on the surface of certain fabrics such as corduroy, velvet and velour. Fabric with a nap looks different from different angles, and therefore pattern pieces must be cut with nap going the same direction.
The sharp item which the machine uses to push the thread through the fabric to form a stitch. There are many different types of needles for different types of sewing. Rule of thumb: Start each project with a new needle.
Any item used for sewing other than the fabric or machine.
A stitch done on the edge of fabric to keep it from raveling.
A stitch made by a serger that finishes the fabric edge. Sergers are sometimes called overlockers outside the U.S.
Patchwork or "pieced work" involves sewing together pieces of fabric into a larger design.
Pattern notches
Pattern notches are the marks (usually triangle shaped) printed on a pattern's cutting edge. They are used to line up two or more pieces of fabric that you will be joining together.
The nap or raised surface or of a fabric. Fabrics with a nap include velvet, terrycloth and corduroy.
Pillow insert
A ready-made cushion in one of a variety of standard shapes and sizes; the filling may be down, feather/down, polyester fiberfill, or bamboo.
Many different kinds of pins are used in sewing. Home decor sewing requires basic versions like straight pins and safety pins.
Narrow, raised rows of fabric, created for a decorative look. Can be created by stitching with a pintuck foot.
A length of cord covered in fabric. Often used around the edge of pillows and seat cushions.
A fold in fabric created for functional or decorative fullness. The fold is sewn at one end of the fabric and allowed to gradually relax such as in pleated drapes.
Washing and drying a piece of fabric before using it in a sewing project. Preshrinking is important if the finished item is ever to be washed.
Using an iron to smooth out a section of fabric.
Presser foot
See foot.
Raw edge
The edge of fabric that has not been stitched or finished.
Reverse appliqué
Sewing a piece of fabric to the back of another piece of fabric and then cutting a decorative hole in the top fabric to reveal the fabric underneath. The bottom and top layers are then blindstitched together.
Right side
The side of the fabric with the design. In cases where both sides of the fabric are identical then either side can be chosen for the right side.
Roman shade
A fabric shade that forms neat rows of folds when drawn up.
Rotary cutter
It looks a little bit like a pizza cutter. The blade is round and razor sharp. Used with a cutting board, it allows you to cut fabric more quickly and accurately than with shears. A rotary cutter works well for cutting more than one layer of fabric at a time.
Ruching is a technique used to gather fabric or ribbon. It is often formed into a shape, such as a flower, and appliquéd to a background fabric.
A straight edge with standard and metric measurements marked out. Sewing rulers are often clear. A popular size is 2" wide by 18" long.
Running stitch
A simple stitch used for basting or for marking a decorative stitch.
A piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches.
Satin stitch
A very short zigzag stitch used for appliqué and other decorative effects. Most machines have a built-in satin stitch. But if not, It's possible to create one by setting a zigzag stitch to a length of almost zero.
The line created when two pieces of fabric are stitched together.
Seam allowance
The amount of space between the edge of the fabric and the line of stitching. Most home decor projects have a ½" seam allowance.
Selvedge (selvege or selvage)
The edge of the fabric that comes finished from the manufacturer. It is often marked with information such as color code and other identifying data.
A special type of sewing machine that finishes the edge of fabric while it cuts off the excess. A serger often has more than one needle and is sometimes referred to as an overlocker.
Shank button
A button with an extension on the back by which it is attached to the fabric. The shank may be a loop and creates a space between the button and the fabric.
Some fabrics become smaller when washed and dried. If a home decor item is going to be washed at any time (like a slipcover) the fabric should be laundered before it is cut out to make sure It's done shrinking.
A light starch finish that gives fabric a little bit of rigidity without being too stiff.
Slip stitch
A Slip Stitch is a stitch created with a hand sewing needle rather than your sewing machine. It joins two folded edges (or a folded edge and a flat edge) together in such a way that the stitches are not visible. This stitch is commonly used in pillows to close seams after stuffing. It is also good for bindings, to close a lining, or to hand-appliqué invisibly.
An open part of a seam often at the bottom. For example, the slit on a skirt.
A small cylinder thread is wound onto. Spools can be wooden, plastic, metal or cardboard.
The collection of fabric you hope to use some day.
Stitch in the ditch
Stitching close to a seam allowance or in a seam itself to hold it down.
Stitch length
The length of each complete stitch. Stitch length is measured in millimeters on most machines.
Stitch width
The distance across a stitch. A straight stitch is very narrow. A satin stitch can be wide.
Straight stitch
The standard sewing stitch made by most machines without a specialty foot.
A stitch used to temporarily hold two pieces of fabric together. Tacking can also refer to repeated stitches at the beginning of a seam for added strength.
The amount of resistance your sewing machine gives to the thread in your sewing needle and lower bobbin. Some sewing situations will call for you to adjust the upper thread tension on your machine. If this is specified, consult your machine manual.
A little cap worn on your finger or thumb to protect it from the needle during hand sewing. Thimbles can be made of wood, metal or plastic.
A fine cord of spun out fiber used by a needle to create stitches. Thread may be made from cotton, polyester, silk, wool or other fibers and combinations.
Thread (verb)
The act of inserting thread through the eye of a needle. This term applies to sewing machine and hand needles.
Tie back (or tieback)
A device for holding curtains or drapes off to the side so that they are not hanging in front of the window. As its name implies, a tie back may be a strip of fabric that is tied, or it can be a strip of fabric with hooks or velcro, or even an open metal loop.
Top stitch
A stitch that is ¼" from the edge of a seam, sometimes done in a coordinating thread color for decoration or a matching thread color for stabilization.
A decorative item such as ribbon or lace that is added onto a home decor project.
Trim (verb)
To cut away excess fabric with scissors.
A fold or pleat that is sewn into the fabric.
Universal needle
A sewing machine needle designed to work with most types of woven fabrics. The needle tip has a slight ballpoint.
A decorative treatment that covers the top of a window. A valance can be made from draped fabric, a wooden or styrofoam box covered in fabric, or other materials.
Walking foot
A special sewing foot used to move multiple layers of fabric under the needle. This foot adds pressure from above and "walks" the fabric along in unison with the feed dogs below.
Wing needle
A machine needle that has "blades" on either side of the shaft to make a wider hole for a decorative look.
WOF is an abbreviation for Width of Fabric. This means that you would cut pieces of fabric as long as the width of the fabric, or the width from selvedge to selvedge. For much cotton fabric, this would be 45". Home Dec fabric will come in 54" and 60" widths as well.
Wonder Under ®
A popular fusible product made by Pellon ®. It allows you to affix a fabric design on another piece of fabric using a hot iron.
Wrong side
The side of the fabric with no design. If you can see no difference between the sides of your fabric, you can pick which is the wrong side.
Zigzag (or zig zag)
A wide stitch that crosses back and forth over the seam in a zigzagging pattern. Can be used as a decorative stitch.


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It is probably appropriate at this stage in its three-year-old life that Robert Dekkers' Post:Ballet experiences growing pains. Having seen Diablo Ballet perform Dekkers' piece Happy Ending earlier this year, I brought great and somewhat proprietary expectations to Post:Ballet's program Triads on July 20 at San Francisco's Herbst Theater, and I was not alone. Dekkers, through the medium or reputation of his past work, and a network of dancers and friends, succeeded in filling the Herbst with an audience feeling as welcome and excited to be there as we did. In addition to the impressive size of the audience was the unusual aspect that it consisted of mostly men.
Mine is Yours opens the program with a formidable set of which David Robertson's lighting—high spots spiked through a haze of gray dry-ice—creates a trigonometric pattern, complementing a vertical line of three women dancers wearing textured bandeau tops in rich hues. Like the muses in Apollo, they dance apart from the male dancer, Domenico Luciano, who, bare-chested, is draped in a luminous coppery long skirt. While a surfeit of dry ice obscures what we can see of the most distal of the three women, the second of them to step over Luciano's reclining body shows a delicacy and facility that is not present in the others. The program notes allude to a sexual theme, and indeed, each of the women has her turn with Luciano, as well as time to explore her female partners, which involves not a little nuzzling and sniffing. A single touch from Luciano, whose vibrant back literally carries Dekkers' assays, sends the women fanning out from him. With a flick of a dancer's foreleg, the work is momentarily sculpted into layers, enabling the women to probe the space described by the lit triangle. The electronic score does not suggest romance so much as an aural feed for tactile play dates, and in fact, that is what Dekkers is most accomplished at—involving his audience in the shared gentle and diverting moments—a rare, if not rarified talent that has opened doors for him. The challenge before him is to close the chasms that separate those doors from the outlying creative possibilities beyond them.
Happy Ending is the ultimate in the play date genre, and while comparisons may be odious, it must be said that Diablo Ballet executed it more appealingly, mostly owing to the company's advanced technical and artistic purchase. In the Post:Ballet version, the residual (or additional) dry ice blow detracted from the required sharp edge. So it read more dully with this cast, as they lumbered through the most challenging of its counts. Christian Squires' imaginative horizontally-striped briefs in primary colors, with sports bras for the women and black bottoms and white tops with red suspenders for the men, need to literally "pop" out at the audience from a quick dispatch that largely goes missing this night. Still, it is entertaining to see what is a romp through contact improv moves, skater chassés and runs ending in slides to and from a back wall that the dancers ping off of. Above all, Happy Ending offers a look at Dekkers' lighthearted, kids-on-the-playground, creative bent. While some believe that art should never be strictly entertainment, sometimes an audience needs its palate cleansed. That is best accomplished when notes of piquancy are present.
In Interference Pattern (excerpts), two of the company's best dancers, Jonathan Mangosing and Christian Squires, dance in front of a screened half portrait that grows and then diminishes until it fades. While inspiration for the piece is attributed to particle physics, the physical elements limit themselves to fastidious gyroscopic motion, and an engagement that in its intensity brings to mind the wrestling scene between two hot and hunky men that ends in agro sex, in the film Women in Love. Robertson's lighting here is hearth-redolent, and the men are bare except for wine-red briefs, and so Dekkers has created an intimacy that reveals the articulate surety that both of the well trained and experienced dancers bring to the stage.
When in Doubt is a world premiere. It is an ensemble piece, with the dancers dressed in black costumes by Jan Berletti, and it reads elegantly—visually. It is the only piece on the program where the women don't look like afterthoughts, and this mainly because there is equanimity in the choreography that masks some of the technical deficiencies, which Dekkers clearly had to find a way to camouflage. It is danced to a spoken word loop that opens with the inspiring oratory of the internationally respected philosopher and social commentator, Bertrand Russell. Unfortunately, Russell's contribution is limited to the opening of the piece, and then we hear what we imagine are various dancers offering clichéd sophisms that assess their lives, careers and life in general. Their observations are at best impressionistic and at worst prosaic, and so, while we are appreciating their limpid diagonal lines, and youthful juiciness, we find ourselves counting how many times the words "like," "my," "myself," "passion," "really," "incredible," and "amazing," stammer their way to the surface of a minimally edited tape, and conclude that the tmi deluge has resulted in over sharing what they think makes them tick, much to the detriment of the piece.
Dekkers must be praised for his confidence, and willingness to extend his reach beyond his grasp. This is preferable to hiding his light under a bushel basket, and yet, he has found a lesser-known hiding place: The work he brings to us tends to be overly complex, and at times, overwrought to the point that salience is lost. Discriminating casting is subordinated to bringing more, more, more to the fore. It is not just the choreography itself that is complex, but overbuilt technical tropes tend to blunt the focus as well. Hopefully, Dekkers will see that, if he pares down the bells and whistles, and raises the overall technical and artistic level of the company to that of the three or four best dancers, his work will be good enough to stretch into the spaces he clearly covets. With the laudable exceptions of Hiromi Yamazaki and Susan Roemer, the women are not working from the waist up. They are not challenged by choreography in which they are little more than accessories for the men, dragged on the floor, or lifted between two men like a chicken on a rotisserie spit. Each dancer needs a stage personality, no matter how non-hierarchic the piece—to know whom she or he is in relation to her or himself, a specific partner, and the ensemble as a whole.
What does Post:Ballet mean in terms of classical ballet? Is it a rejection of the classical vocabulary, an integration of classical with neo-classical and contemporary styles, or a step beyond what has gone before? Any or all of these would be ambitious missions for a company of Post:Ballet's size and scope. So, it is not an academic question: The work must genuinely center on the art it proposes. If the statement before us is that this art exceeds the bounds of ballet in its current modalities, and therefore the company shows its seams by talking about them to win audiences to its philosophy, sins of commission will accumulate, because, as in film, dance must show, not tell its libretto or raison d'être.
Dekkers is young, talented, innovative, and deserving. He cannot afford to short-circuit the necessaries because the spotlight is a temptation. There is plenty of time and space along the high road for contemplation, reflection, and at the end of an honest day's work—success.


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Looking to Transfer?
|A through-the-window transfer system such as this typically finds use on large-window presses and handles wide stampings. Because transfer rails reside outside of the bolster though within the wide press window, die removal is simplified.
Once a stamper decides to enter the transfer market, it must source the necessary equipment. In certain cases part volumes alone will justify a new press. In others the stamper may look to retrofit an existing press to convert it into a transfer press. Here's what to consider when exploring your transfer-automation options.
Press Window
In deciding the style of transfer to integrate, press-window size is critical. Through-the-window transfer systems usually are found on newer presses or on dedicated transfer presses with large windows, rolling bolsters and quick-die-change (QDC) capabilities. Here, windows are larger than the bolster, allowing transfer rails to reside outside of the bolster area. This permits the system to handle wide stampings and allows for simplified die removal during changeover.
Front-and-rear-style transfers fit presses with smaller windows or no windows, making these systems popular within the Tier One and Two stampers. For example, with a front-and-rear transfer, a press with a 72-in.-wide window can process 72-in-wide blanks or coils. Conversely, a through-the-window system would limit blank and coil widths, as room is needed within the press to accommodate transfer rails, clamp stroke and finger tooling. Here, maximum part width likely would range from 32 to 40 in.
Bed Size and Tonnage
|In side-by-side multiple-press systems, presses can run individually (top) or as a single large transfer press (bottom) with the addition of an intermediate shuttle stage.
Press Stroke
Many stampers err by opting for a press with insufficient stroke, thus lacking enough crank angle to allow proper transfer-system movement. Use a 4:1 ratio when specifying a press for transfer work. For example, if a part requires 6 in. of working stroke, acquire a press with a 24-in. stroke.
Typically, a running specification uses the worst-case scenario to determine whether enough press stroke is available to run at speeds to meet production requirements. If a stamper and die source provide the total part payload and transfer-motion profile (pitch, lift and clamp), as well as how many degrees of free press angle, a transfer-system provider can calculate the maximum speed at which the system can operate. Note that with link-motion press gearing, a transfer system has even less time to achieve its movement than with more standard press drives.
Quick Die Change
Front-and-rear transfer systems like this one are ideal for smaller-window presses, because transfer components reside outside of the press. This allows acceptance of coil as wide as the press window.
Finger Tooling
Using finger tooling—and planning ahead of time to minimize costs—can greatly benefit your operation. Critical-path planning and project-management timelines influence most transfer projects by causing them to be scheduled on the basis of lead time. The long lead-time items, such as the press, transfer system, and die design and die build, originate early in a project's life. Shorter lead-time items such as finger tooling usually are addressed long after die design is well under or completed. Planning for finger tooling so late in the process can require a die redesign, causing several problems: Designers may be reluctant to make changes; the redesign could exceed time and funds budgeted for the project; and critical die tryouts or pilot production runs may have to be canceled due to time constraints.Consider Transfer at the Start of Die Design
To prevent a die redesign and ensure top transfer-system performance, the tooling supplier should meet with the die designer at the beginning of a project. Working together as a team, they can generate many no-cost ideas to increase system speed. An increase of just a few strokes per minute can substantially increase profitability and return on investment.
A meeting with the customer, die designer and tooling supplier should include a discussion of press type, transfer type, part weight and size, process sequence, part gripping at each station, method of loading the first die, and changeover frequency (see Proper Transfer-Die Design sidebar).
Blank destackers at one time were one-off custom machines, developed to accommodate a specific blank configuration or material. Pressures from industry drove the need for flexible, competitively priced destackers capable of high production rates. Scrap costs, and the differing materials required, can quickly justify the need for a blank destacker. Destackers should be able to handle a generous size range, and accommodate developed and sheared blanks.
Many stampers run coil and blanks in the same press, and some transfer-press systems deal efficiently with both conditions. The physical characteristics of the transfer system, along with the flexibility of the electronics, allow press lines to load blanks in one direction, and then run coil from the other direction. MF
See also: Gudel, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation, Presses, Tool & Die


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Memorial University's Marine Institute has a new director at its helm. Glenn Blackwood took over as executive director on Sept. 1. Mr. Blackwood, who previously served as director of the institute's Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Resources, brings more than 25 years of experience in collaborating with industry to the post, including spearheading major fisheries research and development and promoting partnerships with private and public-sector organizations.
The first graduating class of the diploma in police studies program was officially sworn in as recruit constables with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) at a special ceremony in the Field House Sept. 3. Memorial University began offering a diploma program in police studies at its St. John's campus in the fall of 2004. The RNC and the Faculty of Arts collaborated to develop the post-baccalaureate program and in early 2004 the provincial government announced that it would, over three years, train 75 new RNC officers in the program.
Dr. Barbara Neis was named to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The announcement was made Sept. 15 by David L. Emerson, minister of Industry and minister responsible for SSHRC. Dr. Neis is the co-director of SafetyNet, a Community Research Alliance on Health and Safety in Marine and Coastal Work, and a full-time professor within the Department of Sociology at Memorial. In addition, she is an author, a recipient of the President's Award for Outstanding Research (1998), and a member of various advisory boards and committees.
Representatives of Memorial University, the provincial and federal governments and Inco Ltd. officially opened the Inco Innovation Centre on Sept. 20, a new $17.3 million research and innovation facility located on the university's St. John's campus. The impressive-looking glass and steel edifice, built over the structure of a defunct student centre, represents the university's vigorous commitment to innovation in research and teaching; the new facility will also enhance Memorial's community-oriented focus. Containing some 9,000 square metres, the Inco Innovation Centre houses a wide range of research, business support and educational facilities on three floors.
Dr. Dale Corbett is the first winner of the Paul Morley Mentorship Award from the Canadian Stroke Network. The award, presented Sept. 22, recognizes significant contributions to the training of the next generation of Canadian stroke researchers. Dr. Corbett is a professor of Basic Medical Sciences at Memorial University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Stroke and Neuroplasticity. He is actively involved in the Canadian Stroke Network as an investigator and member of the board of directors.


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Charlie is – surprise – not sweet
Written by Duana
I accidentally caught the end of this episode last night before reviewing it this morning and seriously considered just doing a review based only on conjecture and the five minutes I saw.
But I know you lack Twitter-style invective in your life so I'm here to provide.
Previously on Gossip Girl, Dan and Blair faked a fake kiss which pissed off Serena, all of this was Vanessa's fault, Raina's missing mother Avery may have been killed by Chuck's dad, and Blair loved her prince who magically came to NYC.
Night. Blair, terrible hair. On an annoying cameo phone. (My mother still has one. It's like she phones from 1973.) Calls her mother to tell her 'something' and looks at a fourth-finger ring. Well I never!
One day earlier:
Chuck irritated with newspapers (Blair kissing prince on page 1). Calls his contact to say video is inconclusive. His father wasn't a murderer so drop it. That was easy!
Blair giggles as Louis snacks on her neck. Mock argue over whether the Met or the Louvre is better. Smirks about how great sex is. He needs to talk to an ambassador. She is gross, clingy, embarrassing.
Serena enters. Barfs at grossness. Louis leaves. Blair is mean, Serena immediately forgives her to talk about Louis.
B is head-over-heels. Dorota worried B moving too fast. S does that passive-aggressive thing she does. "What about his parents?" B believes Louis and she can win the commoners' love in Europe. Oy. Somewhere, Career-girl B squirms against the chains and gags in the dungeon where she has been stuffed.
Rufus carries tea to Lily watching Downton Abbey. Dan arrives, all but calls his father a butler. Rufus might get a job as a music producer. OK. Dan assures Rufus he and date Charlie are just friends.
Chuck molests scotch bottle. Nate! arrives, thinks Chuck is pajama'd and morose because of Blair. Nate informs Raina will continue to look for her mother. Chuck talks slowly since Nate is simple. "I need you to help me get this done". Nate skips out, giggling about Blair.
Downtown. Charlie loves Dan's anthro class. Can an NYC local tell me what this bookstore is? It's adorable. She's nauseating about his class, then kisses his cheek when he leaves. Vanessa, hovering like a creepy bridge troll, sees.
Blair and Louis rich people problems – his family is here. Blair curtsies. His sourfaced Maman sneers, Louis is about to be married. Then, hysterically, evil French mother basically calls GG to thank for tipoff of B & Louis– if GG WAS SERENA! OMG SERENA RATTED THEM OUT!
Blair has her feet rubbed by Dorota. Sad she let herself feel things. Then Louis arrives, and Dorota wants to eff him up. He has flowers and he's not engaged. Yet.
He has to choose at a cocktail party tomorrow night. So…can she come? Easy? B's all "married at 20, discuss". Justifies it by saying it's a fairy tale. B must now meet dragon lady.
Serena, eating @ coffee table w. Eric. Somehow they agree B kissing D was evil. HE IS YOUR STEPBROTHER. Eric suggests S just chill. S thinks about it, then is like 'yeah, no'.
Nate bores Raina. Get used to it! She accuses him all uber-angry of not wanting to talk about her mother. Nate doesn't want her to get hurt. She doesn't want to get bored of her will to live and leaves.
Rufus. Embarrassing Leather Jacket. Dan and Eric mock. Rufus is panicky. They tell him to bring band to the apt. Dan is all "she loves me. Not my fault". Everyone worries.
Charlie and Vanessa still at same bookstore. Charlie Aspergers-spits all the boring-gory (new word?) details of V's bio. Crazy bitch. V leaving to study 'abroad'. Poor J. Szohr. V wants to help C get Dan so his 'soul not corrupted'.
B failing to charm Maman. Maid brings Gossip Girl clippings. Maman dictates meeting over. B has been wearing this dress for days. Maman's biggest issue seems to be "performed in a burlesque club".
Chuck curled up with scotch. Tells lawyer to get out. Lawyer presents a note: Bart Bass meant something to her, then she left. Now Bart Bass has motive! Seriously the way Ed Westwick is sitting in this scene – did he have a raging case of sciatica?
Nate arrives. Offers to take his friend to a chiropractor. OK not really. Says he failed to tell Raina not to look for her mother. Chuck gives Nate the note.
Room I've never seen. Dorota explains royal lineage & curtsey protocol to B. I love this. B as Middleton is perfect. Louis brings B horrifying pink frothy confection. Awful.
Apartment. Charlie must keep straight face while Dan says "had to return my dad's lucky Doc Martens". Charlie has never tasted perogies. Dan tells her he's not into her. C is all "obviously!" D ruins his life by inviting her. She gets his keys, then texts. Sigh.
Nate. Chuck with healed back. All camera angles in the loft are twisted-torqued. "Drunk"? Nate wants to tell Raina, Chuck wants to not. Nate says B was lucky to escape C. C mad.
Dorota and B with flashcards. S can't bring herself to so much as smirk. B begs nemesis to come to her public gang-bang engagement. B calls S 'maid of honor'.
Night. Dan, Eric, Rufus. To see what Charlie did. Set giant formal table. STUPID! Girls are dumb! They never know anything!
Chuck about to crash a party. Grabs a diamond solitaire.
Cocktail cotillion thing . Princessses are announced and curtsey for Evil French Maman. B's hair been tortured. Why would she do this? Can't be an accident she's not in her beloved jewel tones.
Serena's girls are back out on display though!
Guys try to applaud Charlie's gross abuse of Lily's credit card. They conspire to lie to her. She figures it out, and weeps that "I was only doing what Vanessa said!" The Dark Mark begins to burn on her arm…
B is all coked-out-ish as she talks to every socialite in the room. Louis tells S how happy he is he might not marry someone he hates.
Chuck. Drunk. Slurs there's "somefin she needs to hear". He lurches to her, she blows him off. Done and done.
Nate apologizes to Blue Raina in blue dress in her blue office. Lighting guys?
Evil Maman's name is Princess Sophie. I know this because Chuck implies he banged she and a stewardess. C sucks on scotch, admits B makes him jealous. He grabs at her. She tries to pill away from him, breaks some glasses. C demands "tell me where your heart really lies". He gets yanked.
Maman tells Louis – "End It"
Home. B humiliated. S tries not to smug while not moving her mouth. She's upping her game. S twists the knife, she felt bad for Chuck. Basically keeping women down is cool for her.
B is like "That's bullsh, also you sold me out to Louis' mother". She then packs so much sense into the next three sentences – notably that Serena thinks her romantic fate was sealed in the 11th grade – that I wonder what I'm watching.
Nate dropped bomb on Raina. Apparently without so much as touching her. Raina is upset, like you are when you find out there's mass conspiracy, and tells Nate to get out if he's Chuck's friend.
Charlie says Vanessa told her to do everything, including 'get him'. She calls herself a loser and pathetic, which – no kidding. D texts Vanessa – meet @ bookstore in 20. Charlie wants to meet her alone. D agrees, then checks out Charlie's ass.
B opens her door – Louis, obvs. He overheard her convo w. Serena. Really? Was he hiding in an elevator? Louis wants to do what they want, despite his family. Brings her giant yellow diamond. Blah-blah head-of-state follow-my-heart. He proposes.
Dan and Rufus. How many times a day does he cross NYC? Rufus got a job. Dan blames everything on Vanessa. World is at peace.
Charlie approaches V at bookstore. Explains how she ordered all catered food and crystal. V objects, she said do the opposite. Charlie knows, but that's not what she told Dan. Sabotaged Vanessa because she's a great villain. Vanessa cannot even summon an irritated facial expression. It's more like "paycheck paycheck paycheck".
Wonky cameras. Loft. Blair's here. Chuck delighted, in his stumbly stupor. He needs her. Grabs her, starts kissing her neck. She tells about the proposal. He says she can't marry anyone else. She's his. He grabs her as if to rape – instead when she swears it's over, smashes his fist through window. B gets cut.
Nate calls Raina. "I choose you".
Raina calls Chuck's uncle Jack Bass. She'll explain it all in person.
DUMBO, again – Dan and Charlie eat at gorgeous tables.
Chuck drunk.
B tends face scar. Serena concerned. B shuts door in her face – and calls her mother. She's engaged!
I don't know about these yellow diamonds, ya'll. In fact, can we come up with something else entirely? Engagement earrings?
Attached – Jessica Szohr whose relevance is measured by skirt length at the Met Gala last night.
Photos from Wenn.com


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The best show in town reminds us that Chesapeake Country's marine trades are alive and well
Faceting makes a stone into a gem. Brilliance shines from the cut faces and their interactions.
That may be true of places, too.
Chesapeake Country is a well-faceted place. The central facet is natural beauty, but the sidelights cut by human imagination and endeavor make this place shine still brighter. With seasonal and calendar changes, new facets catch the light. Week by week, Chesapeake Country turns new facets to fascinate us.
This week and next, the United States Boat Shows take the spotlight. Boats, exhibitors and boaters from near and far come to Annapolis for this great marketplace.
Boaters come into their own this time of year, but you don't have to be a boater to enjoy the show.
It's an alluring spectacle beginning with the speedy expansion of City Dock with a mile and a half of floating dock. Those docks mean opportunity, and opportunity draws a crowd maybe 50,000 people strong.
Hundreds of boats — 250 or so for the sailboat show and perhaps twice that number for the powerboat show — tie up at those docks. Manufacturers bring their latest models, often in a sequence of styles ranging from big to enormous. In the perfection of newness, these boats come to show off. They're polished to a high shine and fitted out with all the latest bells and whistles.
Any boater who comes near the boat shows is caught like a fly in a spider's web.
Most of the boats accept visitors, so you can climb aboard and imagine what it would be like for this boat or that one to be yours. Sit in the captain's chair. Rub your hand over the glistening teak, cherry or holly. Pop open a drawer and appreciate its responsive hardware. Dream of sleeping in its berths. Envy the spaciousness of the galley and head. Peer into the engine. Study the mechanical specifications. Choose your upholstery.
I am sticky from all the webs from which I've barely escaped. I've nearly dreamed my way into two or three sailboats, and I'm not a sailor.
At last year's powerboat show, I saw my future on a Greenline Hybrid 33. Imported, of all places from Eastern Europe, the boat is environmentally friendly in ways I long to try out. Solar panels on the roof add an alternative source of power, supporting the diesel and feeding a generator that powers a full-size fridge, a stove with an oven, hot water, heating and cooling — and the boat. On a sunny day, you could cruise, at under four knots, on solar alone. Sustainably harvested wood paneling and soles, elegantly roomy salon, cabin, galley and head — oh my!
"It's a good boat to do the Great Loop on," said the salesman. In that instant, 5,000 or so miles seemed immediately doable. We'd get the boat now and start on the journey in May.
I was writing a check for the down payment on the well-appointed boat show showboat when my husband dragged me away.
He bought me lunch and, from among the treasury of boat tools and amenities for sale from hundreds of on-land merchants, let me choose a new boathook and scrub brush for the last boat I fell in love with at the boat show.
Every boater who enters this eight-day crash course on marine marvels will endure equal temptations.
But you don't have to covet boats or spend much money to enjoy the boat shows. The invention, the energy, the people who come to share in it for fun or profit are a show of their own. There's not a better show in Chesapeake Country October 4 to 8 and 11 to 14 — plus before, in between and after, for assembly and breakdown are amazing spectacles.
We take the occasion of the boat shows to write about Chesapeake Country's own marine trades. They range from — and far beyond — world-class designers like Farr Yacht Designs in Annapolis to builders of ocean-traveling fishing boats like Weaver Boatworks in Tracys Landing to single craftsmen keeping old traditions alive.
This week, Steve Carr — our intrepid Volvo Ocean Race chronicler — lets you in on Annapolis' biggest sailing news: the one and only 2014 Volvo ocean racer is being designed right here. In a Bay Weekly conversation with Carr, Farr Yacht Design president Patrick Shaughnessy tells us all about it.
Right now, Weaver's newly built 88-foot sport-fishing yacht Mantra — whose story we told September 6 — remains docked at Herrington Harbour North, poised to begin its shakedown cruise off Ocean City before it boards a cargo ship in late October for transport to the Indian Ocean. This week, two of Weaver's somewhat smaller sportsfishermen joined Mantra at the docks, making quite a sight.
Next week, we'll bring you a story of boatbuilding on an entirely different scale.
Many of Chesapeake Country's marine enterprises — from boat builders to marinas — are on hand at the boat show. Look them up while you're there, and tell us who else we should be writing about.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Editor and publisher; [email protected]