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October 2012 To-Do List, Zone 9
October is one of the most pleasant months of the year, and a very busy time for gardeners. We'll continue to cut back, clean out, plant and transplant for long term rewards. After this summer, it's hard to believe that October can be one of our driest months, frequently ending with rain. Continue to irrigate if rainfall doesn't occur, and water deeply when you do.
- Watch for the appearance of migrating monarch butterflies this fall. They are on their way back to Mexico for the winter but will be stopping by to feed on the nectar of many garden plants.
- Before moving your houseplants indoors for the winter, they will need to acclimate to the low light conditions of the season. If your houseplants have been in sunny locations, move them into the shaded areas of your property a few weeks before moving them into the house. Bring them in before the heat of the furnace comes on.
- Do not repot houseplants immediately prior to moving them inside. Keep an eye out to avoid bringing in pests. Look for aphids, thrips and whiteflies on the leaves. A soaking in a mild liquid soap and water solution may be just enough.
- If you are planting new seasonal annuals in last season's pots, always use fresh soil and wash the pot. The previous season's soil may be depleted of nutrients and may harbor diseases/pests. Commercial fertilizers contain salts, which are the crusty white areas on your terra cotta pots.
- Leave your poinsettias and holiday cacti outside until they set blooms. Poinsettias can be fed with a liquid fertilizer(2-8-4 ratio).
- Plant mixes of western wildflowers seeds along with poppies this month. Flowers may show up in late December and delight you through June.
- Cool season weeds will be germinating. Have a plan in place for your turf and gardens. Most weed control products for your turf will harm your flowers and vegetables. Carefully read manufacturers instructions before applying products.
- Build a hot compost pile to kill pathogens lurking in garden debris by using a high-nitrogen "green" material (grass clippings, seafood shells, and/or cotton seed meal). Turn it frequently and add in "brown" material, such as fallen leaves. By spring you'll have "black gold."
Vegetables and Berries
A thorough cleanup of the vegetable garden once the season is over has a big payoff in fewer problems next spring. Till up unused space and plant a cover crop of cowpeas, clover, beans and/or vetch. Consider an edible cover crop of kale and arugula. They are full-flavored leafy vegetables that will grace any table and then serve as a 'green manure' when tilled under in the spring.
- Make sure you till the cover crop in before it goes to seed, though, or you'll be fighting those same plants as weeds next spring. Till when the plants have reached their maximum vegetative growth before blooming and producing seed.
- Pest problems are reduced with the cooler weather. Watch for aphids and caterpillars and spray with a light horticultural oil. Bait snails and slugs with a shallow saucer or pie pan with yeast mixed with a small amount of water, place at ground level (beer works, too).
- Harvest sweet potatoes after tops wither, but before the first hard frost. Remember to allow them to rest for a couple of weeks before cooking them. This lets the carbohydrates convert to sugars.
- Clean up fallen fruit in the orchard and put it in the compost.
- Gently dig up and transplant the runners of your strawberry plants by mid-October. Collect them in bunches and store them in the back of your refrigerator until mid-November. This will fool them into thinking that they have gone through a freeze. Then replant them in November.
- Plant fast-growing radishes, mustard, spinach, and turnips.
- Sow beets, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chervil, chives, cilantro, collards, endive, garlic, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, green onions, short-day bulb onions, flat leaf parsley , parsnips, peas and radishes.
- Sow or transplant twice the amount you would in spring. These overwintering crops will grow slowly due to the combination of the sun's angle and somewhat lower temperatures.
- To accelerate the germination of carrots, celery, parsnip and parsley seeds either soak them in individual shallow saucers with boiled water, or drizzle the hot water over the rows of planted seeds. Their hard shells need to be scarified to bring them to sprouting sooner. This trick will bring them to the table a few weeks earlier. Do not try this with other vegetable seeds.
- As some herbs reseed themselves, transplant them around the garden for overwintering. Dill and parsley seem to germinate well this way.
- Keep seedbeds moist and shaded from hot afternoon sun until the seedlings develop two to four true leaves. After transplanting them, mulch the soil lightly. Keeping the mulch an inch away from the plant stems provides good air circulation and lessens the potential for disease problems.
- Once your asparagus stems go brown, cut to the ground.
- Keep an eye out for large, dark caterpillars known as army worms. They feed during the day and can destroy a perennial bed quickly. They are active in September and October. Control with appropriate aids. You can hand pick them and drop them into a bucket with used cooking oil, then dispose of in a closed plastic bottle. But army worms are hard pests to control by hand. The chemical options may be a choice for you depending on the level of infestation. Check with your County Extension Service on what will work. (Army worms can also invade a vegetable garden and turf.)
Purchase, then refrigerate, crocus, hyacinths and tulips. Placing them in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator will trick them into thinking that they have had a cold winter. Unfortunately, they'll need that space for about six weeks.
- When your mums begin to open their buds, it is time to stop feeding them.
- Use an organic fertilizer on your roses early this month. Water deeply following fertilization. Continue to deadhead them for November and December blooms.
- Pinch back and trim sweet peas to force branching.
- Lift your tuberoses, shake off soil and store in perilite. They will be replanted in May.
- Allow the seed heads of your Joe-Pye weed to remain on the plant. Their faded pink/lavender blooms have now turned brown and will continue to provide seasonal interest. Come spring, you'll cut them back to four inches.
- You may be able to extend the blooms on your yarrow by deadheading them this month.
- You will be able to find the chartreuse ground cover called 'Creeping Jenny,' in your local Home Depot. Its lime color is most appreciated when planted in partial sun. It is a wonderful accent in an herb bed planted with creeping thyme, or mixed with 'Black Scallop' ajuga. (These combinations have shown themselves somewhat chipmunk resistant!)
- Looking forward to spring blooms, broadcast wildflower seeds over soil that has been lightly cultivated.
- An important component in the ongoing care of a perennial garden is dividing perennials to prevent overcrowding. This can be done over the next couple of months.
- An often overlooked native wildflower that you may want to plant now is the Liatris pycnostachya. Grown from corms, their beautiful purple spiked flowers are beautiful in a sunny the garden. In your summer garden, it is a butterfly magnet.
- Do not move perennials that are in bloom now, or expected to bloom in November.
- If you want to divide your Matilija Poppy in late October, do so following the first big rain. Once relocated, prune the spent stems to the ground.
- Continue to divide and transplant bearded irises, daylilies, phlox, cannas, and Shasta daisies. If you want to add these flowers to the garden, this is the time for that as well. Water thoroughly the day before dividing your perennials. Water deeply once they have been relocated.
- Do not use a slow release fertilizer this month. If needed, use a water soluble fertilizer mixed at half strength.
- Keep your beds mulched. Cool season weeds will be appearing. Apply pre-emergent weed control aids (Preen) to your flower beds now. Do not use a turf pre-emergent in the flower or vegetable garden.
- Following the first good rain, you may see your ornamental grasses begin to grow again. They will need to be cut back again. Red fountain has a brief dormancy period and will have to be cut back if the new green leaves pop out.
- Brightening up any shade garden is the Japanese anemone. This graceful and gorgeous perennial is a self-seeder. If you don't already have it in your shade garden, look for it at Home Depot. When planted in front of the blue Ruellia (Mexican Petunia) or Iron Weed, the impact is awesome.
Trees and Shrubs
Looking for a native shrub with great fall color? Look at the viburnums offered by Home Depot. Also available is the Beauty Berry, another lovely native that bears bright purple berries along its chartreuse-leaved branches.
- A native tree that is becoming more popular as it adapts to more areas is the bald cypress. A native of the Okeefenokee Swamp in south Georgia, it was long thought to live only in wetlands. But horticulturalists have found that Taxodium distichum will also grow in much dryer areas. Its delicate needles turn a beautiful bronze in autumn before falling off. It will grow 60 feet or more, so give it plenty of space.
- Cooler weather will shepherd in less watering, but if your tree is less than a year old, water as needed.
- As for fruit trees, hold back water and fertilizer by the middle of the month, but do not allow them to completely dry out. Depriving them of food and water will help them go into winter dormancy in our mild climate.
- Do not prune any spring flowering trees and bushes. They have already set their flowerbuds for next year.
- Keep your tools sharp for pruning. If you prune diseased wood, clean your tools in a bucket with a bleach and water mixture. Always prune well below a canker.
- Before spraying trees with a lightweight oil spray for scale, be certain that you are correct in identifying the infestation. The scale will appear as small hard bumps on last year's wood. You should be able to scrap the wart-like scale off with your fingernail.
- Typically, this is not a good month for pruning shrubs. Only clip stray branches that appear out of place.
- Lacebugs are very active through November, eating the undersides of azalea leaves. The effect is small white dots on the top side of the leaves and dark brown spots on the back side. Once this damage occurs, the leaves will never turn green again. Treat with a light horticultural oil and spray the underside of the leaves.
- You can now untie the fronds of palms planted in August.
- Do not fertilize in October with any fertilizer containing quick-release nitrogen.
- If you are considering redoing the turf, think of getting a soil test, then correct nutrient deficiencies and pH problems before spring. A DIY kit is available at your local Home Depot. You can also take soil samples to your County Extension Services and have it done for a small fee.
- Use a mulching blade on your mower to shred fall leaves and convert them into rich organic material that can be left on the lawn. Otherwise, rake. Fallen leaves will smother a lawn if left in place all winter.
- Thatch is an accumulation of un-decayed and decaying plant matter at the soil surface. It suffocates grass roots and denies them the air, water, and nutrients needed to thrive. Thatching is caused by excess fertilizing, not by mulching grass clippings. Increasing organic matter will stimulate the soil microbes that consume thatch. If the problem is so bad that water cannot penetrate the thatch, remove the thatch now with a stiff rake or rent a dethatching machine.
- If possible, hand pull clumps of crabgrass and continue to mow grass until it stops growing. For warm-season grasses, mow between 1½ and 2 inches, which is just a little shorter than you should cut it during the spring and early autumn.
- Prevent weedy patches next spring by reseeding now. Grass seed grows well in fall because the temperatures are perfect and because it has less competition from annual weeds. Just be sure to give the lawn enough time to establish itself before weather changes roll in.
- Resist use of a pre-emergent for your turf if you have just seeded. It can stunt or kill the seeds. The pre-emergent would be more useful after the seeds have germinated.
- Don't fertilize newly seeded lawns. Fertilizer inhibits germination of seed.


text: The UN nuclear agency said this week the Iranian government had slowed its pace of uranium enrichment [EPA]Six world powers and Iran are getting close to a first-stage agreement to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, a senior US official has said. The official told reporters in Washington on Friday that it was "quite possible" a deal could be reached when the parties meet on November 21-22 in Geneva, according to the Reuters news agency, which did not name the official. "I don't know if we will reach an agreement. I think it is quite possible that we can, but there are still tough issues to negotiate," said the official. The official added that Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, and Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, were to meet on November 20 in Geneva and a wider group - including Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany - would meet Iranian officials there on the following two days. The UN nuclear agency said this week the Iranian government had slowed its pace of uranium enrichment ahead of a new round of talks.No new components In a report on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that no major new components had been installed at the unfinished Arak reactor, a heavy water facility that was due to come online next year. Arak, which could produce plutonium when running, was a major sticking point in talks between Iran and the powers in Geneva last week. The IAEA report stated that Iran had installed only four first-generation centrifuges at the Natanz plant- machines used to refine uranium - but not all of the installed centrifuges were operating. The quarterly report was the first that included developments since Hassan Rouhani took office as president early in August, prompting a diplomatic opening between Iran and the six nations. It also showed that Iran's stockpile of higher-grade enriched uranium had risen by about 5 percent to 196kg since August, largely due to a temporary halt in converting the material into reactor fuel. But the amount of uranium gas enriched to a fissile concentration of 20 percent still remained below the roughly 250kg needed for a bomb if processed further - an amount that Israel has indicated is a "red line" that could trigger military action against Iran. The last round of talks in Geneva ended without a breakthrough, with France saying a first-stage agreement with Tehran would do little to halt its nuclear programme. Iran insists its nuclear programme is intended for civilian use but Western nations, suspecting it is bent on developing a nuclear bomb, have imposed crippling sanctions. Barack Obama, the US president, has urged members of Congress not to impose new sanctions against Iran. Obama said that if Iran can't deliver on future promises and commitments, "the sanctions can be ramped back up". SOURCE: Agencies Middle East

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A professional longarm machine quilter for hire and some of the work I've done.
The last photo of where I used to live. Oh heavens what have I done? Was it a mistake to move? Nope, nada, uh uh, I can't continue second guessing my decision to move. I do miss the house but not the neighborhood.
I had to gather a lot of courage to give up the home I had lived in for many years. I could have lived the rest of my life rent free but now I've started with a whole new mortgage to live out my golden years.
Why did I move from the old neighborhood? Well, the crime rate was, and still is, extremely high there. Just last weekend there were five people shot not far from where I had lived. I knew it was time to leave when stray bullets kept hitting my house and when 10 year old kids began robbing elderly people at the bus stops. Yes, I know crime does happen everywhere these days but some areas have more concentrated amounts of crime. In some areas the innocent by-stander is more likely to get killed than they would in other areas.
My quilting business had become very outdated and many customers were afraid to come to my house. I had no one with whom I could discuss possibilities or changes. Each time I tried talking about the problems of my business with a customer they would take my complaints personally. Talking to other local professional quilters gave me an uncomfortable feeling they were suspicious of my motives.
Talking to family, friends, or neighbors was not good either. I won't go into all the details but I will say I had decided if I couldn't be the one spending my own money then I simply would not earn any money. For a long time I was caught in the middle of those who didn't want to pay me a decent wage and those constant borrowers who believed they needed my money more than I did. Let me put it this way, I was tired of working 60 to 80 hours a week and having to go to food banks to survive.
Most of the time I earned in the range of $1.50 to $3 an hour for the quilting work I did. Would you want to work for those wages? I blame myself mostly because I failed to value myself or my talent as a quilter. Each time a potential new customer told me my prices were too high it was like a stab to my heart. It was a form of rejection and nobody likes rejection. It was like telling me I didn't deserve more. I accepted a lower amount because at that time I felt earning some money was better than having no money.
I was often asked to work free or give a big discount if a quilt was for charity. As if my prices were not low enough already; they now wanted to pay me even less so they could feel good about themselves giving to their favorite charity. NO, I can't work free. Ask me again after you show me the fabric store donated all that expensive fabric, the utility company donated the electricity to run your sewing machine, that the machine you used was donated by the manufacturer, that you have spent at least 100 hours to put it all together, AND that the charity is one of my favorites so I can be the one who gets the tax deduction.
I was constantly doing all the little extra's like ironing, mending, binding, piecing the batting, etc for free. It always began with the question, "Would you please do me a favor?" and ended with me doing the things they dreaded doing themselves. Now what good friend refuses to do a favor? The little extras were always time consuming and dramatically brought down the amount I earned per hour. I failed to realize there is a big difference between being a friend and being a business owner trying to earn a living.
Neighbors, friends, and family didn't respect my quilting business as a legitimate job with actual working hours. One person even suggested I stop playing with my hobby and get a real job. Geeze! Apparently everyone believed because I work at home its somehow not a real business? They believed it was ok to interrupt me whenever they wanted to visit for awhile or ask me for a favor. Again with the favors? Just how many factory or office jobs allow constant personal interruptions like that?
I frequently heard this statement from people: "Anita, I know you quilt but I only bother you one day a week." That one day was all day. Well more times than I can count there were seven people bothering me one day a week. That was seven days of not getting the quilting work finished. Seven days of lost quilting time that can't be gotten back. When time is lost its gone forever. Even when the interruptions were for a short time it was very difficult to get back into the rhythm of quilting. Now add to that my own necessary interruptions of doctor appointments, dental appointments, the weekly food bank visits, the canning to be done, sick days, baby sitting, shopping trips, and other stuff during the week.
With all those "only one day a week" and those necessary interruptions just when was I supposed to be earning a living? It was lots and lots of very late nights and very early morning quilting while everyone else was fast asleep of course.
There were many other stressful things to deal with too but I won't go into all the details. I was becoming more burned out everyday. The extreme stress from all directions was slowly killing me. I was getting very little sleep, not eating well, neglecting my health, sick all the time, earning low wages, and beginning to hate that darned quilting machine. When a doctor told me to either change my ways or write out my will I decided it was time for drastic changes. So I moved.
I was lucky to get a house on a quiet street. So far there is no stress and no drama in the neighborhood. Just one bullying neighbor in the beginning but that was easy to handle. There are no gunshots. No ten year old robbers. No tar babies asking for money. No stray bullets through windows. No neighbors wanting to chat or ask for favors. All the drama is only a few blocks away but for me it feels like miles.
I've been thinking about the next step for me. What should I do? What do I really want to do? Should I go back to quilting for others? Should I create art and enjoy my retirement? Maybe I should just not do anything at all but enjoy life. I finally stopped thinking and worrying about any of that as I concentrated on my health. Before my move I had done a lot to improve but things were still not going well enough. Now that I have moved I'm making better progress.
You're gonna think I'm crazy but I did love the machine quilting work in spite of the stress. Every quilt brought to me was like a blank canvas onto which I could draw designs with needle and thread to create a bit of art. Sometimes my quilting helped a customer win ribbons which made me proud.
The quilts with issues were my favorite ones. That would be the beginner quilts with all the issues. The inherited quilts found wadded up in the back of a closet. The D cup and the friendly border quilts too. Oh, I can't forget about all those "how did you manage to do that" quilts either. There was something special about issue quilts that begged to be finished and loved. They challenged my creative side and I really enjoyed working on them. I don't claim to be a world famous quilter but I put my heart into every quilt that went onto my machine.
I'm feeling as if I want to get back to work but my health must come first. I still have some health issues to fix before I can hang out my business sign again. Whatever I decide to do, whether it be art or quilting for others, I'm still trying to convince my brain that I'm never going to make everybody happy and that I do deserve to earn a decent wage for my time and talent.
Hi Anita!
I just wanted to say that I love your blogs. I found this one through a link on NaNa Pinches Her Pennies when I was searching to see if it was possible to can mandarin oranges! 🙂 Thank you for that information! I feel that hard times are just beginning so it's nice to see someone who has actually lived through tougher times, giving tips and advice. I find it hard to take seriously, kids who have suddenly decided to "go green" and live "off the grid" when they give their advice. I grew up on a farm in the late 60's through the early 80's (I turned 53 this year) and we didn't have a lot of money but my mom could make it stretch so I've always been frugal. What you have to say is good to hear because it's in large part how I was raised. It's familiar and comforting. I'm happy to have found you and your wisdom–it's like having my own grandmothers back again! 🙂
I was sad but not surprised to read that your work is undervalued. I think that's typical of the "arts & crafts" industry. It's looked upon as "just" a hobby. I work harder at my business than I ever did working for someone else! I love it though…it's MINE…no one can tell me how to run things. I take great pride in the work I do and every cent I make belongs to me…I'm not making some big corporation bigger and richer and I like knowing that. Your blogs are new to me and I haven't read much yet so maybe this has been suggested already but have you ever looked into selling your art on Etsy? It's not the same handmade marketplace it once was but I still like it there. I feel their fees are reasonable and the traffic is built in. It's best to do some marketing of your own of course but I'm sure you get what I'm saying. If you haven't already, you might check into it.
Thank you again for being here and sharing what you do!
I do understand. Even the prayer quilts other members of my group seem to come with the expectation that I'll piece battings and backings, sew on labels, etc. Last spring I took some to one of our meetings and said, "Before I can quilt these, I need you to …." I've also told them I don't iron tops or backings.
I'm looking forward to quilting for others once I retire, but I'm already practicing saying, "It is not my responsibility to finance your hobby." We'll see hw that goes over.
Congratulations on your new home!
And here I thought it was just my area, my town, my fellow quilters who want everything done on the cheap! I mostly charge a penny per square inch for e-to-e quilting. I know that's lower than most machine quilters charge, but yet my fellow quilt group members, my friends, told me to my face that I charged too much. I just sweetly told them that if it was too much for them they were certainly welcome to take their quilts to someone else. Loved the look of shock on their faces. A couple actually brought me quilts (after they called around, I suspect). I've had two or three quilters who never batted an eye at what I charged…..but I knew they had used other quilters in the past so they knew my prices are more than reasonable. Actually I've never turned it into a business, only quilt for a very few people. That way I can enjoy it and it never turns into "work". Enjoy your new home, take care of your health, enjoy your own quilting and quilt for a select few only if you really want to…and make it worth your while.
You are awesome! Love reading about your trials and triumphs.
And Lady Bug?
Take care of yourself first. Then decide if you want to quilt or just do whatever you want. Charge a decent wage for whatever you do. Your quilts are beautiful so don't sell yourself short. Besides that you have a machine that needs to be paid for. If people don't want to pay your price they can go somewhere else and will most likely have to pay more. And also don't let them make you feel guilty for the work you do and prices you charge.
Dear Anita, you are singing MY song as well. Or what once was my song. Do what YOU LOVE to do. Work on YOUR art quilts for starters. I have more or less "retired" from quilting for others because of Darlings condition. They all have managed to find other quilters. They also pay those other quilters a great deal more than they paid me. HMM? Yes, they also still call every so often to see if I am back in business. I feel confident some really appreciated my quilting, but I think many just miss my lower prices. If you do decide to quilt for others once again, new pricing needs to be AT LEAST DOUBLE what it had been. and Yes, you need to set YOUR hours and stick to it. Family and friends never seem to understand This is YOUR BUSINESS. Hmm. Seems to me many years ago a very wise quilting friend told me I needed to learn to say NO. Purse your lips like you are going to give a smooch, and draw it out. NOOoooo. If i remember correctly. That wise woman was YOU. You know what to do. Just do it.


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An exploration of Modern art's influence on the famous fashion house.
This first major exhibition about Missoni examines the sizeable influence of 20th century modernists such as Sonia Delaunay, Lucio Fontana and Gino Severini on the brand's aesthetic. Previously unseen textile designs and finished garments from throughout the company's 60-year history will be displayed alongside masterpieces drawn predominantly from the MA*GA Art Museum in Gallarate, Italy, where the company was first set up.
Missoni was founded by husband and wife duo Ottavio and Rosita back in 1953. Their unlikely meeting occurred in 1948 in London, where Ottavio had qualified for the final 400m-hurdle Olympic race. Rosita belonged to a family of shawl and ladieswear manufacturers, and the company's commitment to Italian wool and knitwear concepts are as strong as the generational legacy, which has seen company controls pass to their children and grandchildren.


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I have a morbid fascination with reading the things people have searched on Google and other search engines that have landed them here, on my blog. Mostly because they often leave me going, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!"
…."gay stretch marks"? Really? Are you actually dumb enough to believe that stretch marks are different depending on whether you're gay or straight? Or are you using 'gay' to denote 'stupid' because you're a total fucking moron?
Sometimes the searches catch my eye because they're genuinely interesting, and sometimes they catch my eye because they elicit an "OMG!" out of me.
Like the day I discovered that someone was Googling, "23 Fordyce Street is haunted."
That's the flat directly across the street from where I lived!
Maybe some folks would be like, "Thank goodness I don't live there anymore!"
My weirdo reaction was, "Oh shit! How did I not know that when I was there?!"
And then I was really mad about it for a week.
I have always been mildly obsessed with ghosts and the paranormal. I used to be weary of saying I believed in ghosts, but now I'm just like, yeah, ghosts, they're a thing. Take it or leave it. I don't really care if you think I'm crazy.
I've had strange experiences and encounters since I was a little kid, but I had a really good one in Scotland once. Not good as in positive, but good as in wow, neat.
SIDENOTE: I am, in fact, so cool that I regularly use the word 'neat.'
It was 2006 and I was in Scotland for the first time. On that particular trip, I spent 98% of my time in Edinburgh. Going on a tour down to the Edinburgh vaults was one of the first things I did.
In case you don't want to travel ALL THE WAY to Wikipedia to learn something new (lazy!):
"The Edinburgh Vaults or South Bridge Vaults are a series of chambers formed in the nineteen arches of the South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was completed in 1788. For around 30 years, the vaults were used to house taverns, cobblers and other tradesmen, and as storage space for illicit material, reportedly including the bodies of people killed by serial killers Burke and Hare for medical experiments.
As the conditions in the vaults deteriorated, mainly because of damp and poor air quality, the businesses left and the very poorest of Edinburgh's citizens moved in, though by around 1820, even they are believed to have left too. That people had lived there was only discovered in 1985 during an excavation, when middens were found containing toys, medicine bottles, plates, and other signs of human habitation."
Okay, so I was on this tour by myself, but I was in a group. Despite the fact that the vaults are both dark and small, I was feeling very calm. If I had been down there completely by myself, I would have most certainly had a nervous breakdown, but at this point, I was comfortable. Most of the people in my tour group were pretty calm. There was an anxious young American couple, but they were keeping it together. The guy was acting super tough, so the girl was holding onto him for dear life. There was also a pretty anxious Glaswegian couple. They were silently freaking out. Like on the exterior, they looked mildly concerned, but on the inside (I would discover), they were NOT COOL WITH BEING ON THIS TOUR.
So we got to this one room on the tour, and our guide was explaining that it is thought that there are two different entities in the room: one male and one female. Apparently, the female entity is not always kind to other females, especially those who are pregnant.
Great, I thought, I'm in the clear – nobody will be mad at me and my currently empty womb!
Our guide then started to describe the male entity in the room. It was at some point during this description that I felt someone grabbing my shoulder. It wasn't exactly my shoulder, but that sensitive spot between my shoulder and my neck.
I felt a hand land there, grip, and apply significant pressure. It was enough to make me crumble and squirm. I turned and saw that the Glaswegian couple was standing directly behind me, so naturally I assumed that one of them was trying to get my attention.
"What's wrong?" I asked them.
They stared at me blankly.
"Did you just grab me?" I asked more insistently.
And then I watched all of the colour drain from their faces.
"You grabbed me." I said again.
The girl looked like she was going to be sick. Our tour guide jumped in and asked what was going on. I explained that someone had grabbed my shoulder very firmly and that I thought it had been the couple standing behind me.
"I think you'd better stand over here with me."
As soon as those words left the guide's lips, the Glaswegian couple started to freak the fuck out.
"I need to leave," The girl was panicking, "I NEED TO LEAVE."
Our guide walked us to the next room – apparently less haunted than the one we had been standing in – and made us wait there while she escorted the Glaswegians up and out of the vaults. Then we continued our tour. But I couldn't stop thinking about how strong the grip on my shoulder had been.
That was one of the first times in my adult life that I became certain ghosts exist.
I'll save the rest of my stories for another day.
In the meantime, do you have any to share? Do you think I'm full of shit? Let's hear it.


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Usually, when I start to see geese or crane flying North, I know the fiddleheads are almost ready. These are the early unfurled ferns that like to grow in moist areas, such as near creeks or by the bay. In their raw form, fiddleheads have a toxin that can be removed by boiling the cleaned greens for five minutes then rinsing well before cooking or pickling. I like to pickle mine with a easy to remember solution of 3/4 water 3/4 apple cider vinegar and 1/2 tsp salt along with pickling spices. Soon Devils club shoots and masu are what is harvested the same time as fiddleheads. Dandelion jelly is batter up and spruce tip syrup. I love harvesting goodness from this area!
Category: Food for thought
Sweet smell of spring in the air.
There is something about the first breath you take in when you step outside in the morning. I question myself "am I smelling spring?" Soon the sweet smell of flower blossoms will mix in with one of my favorite smells, right up there with baby's first breath, is fresh greens. The smell of new life, it is intoxicating.
I look forward to harvesting fiddleheads and pickling them. I look forward to the mud! Why mud? Even though it may seem messy and a chore to clean up, mud represents the changing of the seasons. Spring or fall, times and seasons change and each season should be looked forward to. Different seasons give us different opportunities. Take each opportunity with a smile on your face because surely a new season is upon us!
Prayer week Alaska
Have you ever been driving down the street and stop to let an ambulance pass? First thought? I lift up the people being tended to in prayer, I pray for the EMTs going to the crisis. Do not for one second, doubt the power of prayer. Each and every single prayer makes a difference in this chaos we call life. Where two or more are in agreement, He is there! Do you ever meet a stranger through a simple hello? Not knowing a single detail about their life, do you lift up their life in prayer? Always ending in "Your will be done?" A few months ago I saw something beautiful, not in person, but online. It was a picture of one million children in India praying for world peace. It touched my heart, what would your reaction be? I joined them in prayer. The children took the initiative to pray for sometime that this world desperately needs. This is prayer week for Alaska and He will hear our prayers. A chain link of seven for each day of the week. We lift each other up in prayer and believe it makes a difference because it truly does. Amen!
When we grew up, each spring our family would go look for and gather eggs. All different types, every day for a couple of weeks was like Easter. Seagull eggs are green with brown dots, most bird eggs share similar characteristics with varying shapes and size. Duck, geese, swan, ptarmigan, arctic turn, and the small eggs we came across that we did not eat, we did not touch, it wasn't allowed. When a human touches the eggs of birds in the wild, and does not gather them, the mother will abandon the nest.
I was always sure to carry a stick and wear a hoodie. Mother and father birds are fierce protectors of their nests. We had to be fast and nimble and in a sense cunning. Knowing what to look for on the flat tundra with many lakes. Myself and my four siblings were all very competitive when it came to who found the most eggs. I can remember where all the hot spots are. One summer our family went, what we call egg hunting, down the coast. We camped in a white wall tent on an island and it took maybe a day to cover many ground. I was running from lake to lake as fast as I could run. I was pretending to be in the Olympics hurdling event jumping over tall groups of grass. When I jumped over a good patch a ptarmigan flew out and I was so surprised, startled. I found five eggs. See, as soon as a birds nest becomes empty, they quickly lay more eggs. We do not gather eggs near the end of egging season, so that the chicks have a chance at surviving. We ate all the eggs boiled, sometimes my mom would make wild egg cakes or bake with them. The taste of fresh wild gathered eggs are more rich than chicken eggs. The consistency is rubbery for the whites and the yolk is creamier.
As spring nears month by month I miss harvesting fresh nutritious bounties. The first time I saw an ant was egg hunting. The first and only time I came across something amazing and unexplainable was egg hunting. It was a rock inlaid circle path, very old and very small on a tiny mound on the tundra. I showed it to my mom after I looked and admired this creation. It was a perfect spiral. I grew up believing it was made by the Ishigaqs, or what our culture refers to as small people. In our oral tradition we pass down legends of old. Most teach respect for nature and people alike. When I showed my discovery to my mom, she grabbed my hand and we were all of a sudden in a hurry to leave. Everyone had to go back to the boat to go hunting in a new spot. I hope to find it again one day and take a picture, of course only with my Moms approval. I remember the relative location of where it was.
I hope all of you are truly able to reminisce about good times in your life but never forgetting that each day is a new day for memories to be made. So we make the best of each day, for tomorrow is not promised. Love and be love ❤
Alaskan Delicacy: Muktuk
Beluga whale skin and fat prepared by boiling for 5-10 mins. Salt to taste. Rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and something I feel blessed to be able to eat. One cannot go to a store to buy whale, one cannot sell whale, only at the table of those allowed to hunt will you be able to eat Muktuk.
Nikola Tesla Theory
I have a theory that this brilliant mind was able to use not only air as a conduit for electricity, but perhaps he went one step further and mastered an even faster way using water. H20 is the best conductor of electricity in its non polluted state because it could be directed rather than flay about aimlessly. All forms of life need this essential compound. I like to envision his ideas of free energy for everyone. One day people by the masses will become awake and realize the evil people in this world do not control it, every day common people, good hearted people have the capability to change the world. When thoughts and ideas are stripped of selfish desires they become free. When this world becomes selfless and we as a race come together for that what is good, that is going to be amazing. I love to give ideas in hopes that someone who is more capable of accomplishing it does just that, accomplish ideas for a better world.
Artists Conk Alaska
Today I used my wood burning iron for the first time. This is what we call punk in Alaska. In ash form it helps absorb other substances more intensely. It would be interesting to study its effects in other combinations besides nicotine, considering that is what a lot of natives mix it with I'm sure it could play a more useful part perhaps absorbing nutrients that are beneficial. I'd like to try mixing some ash with chaga tea or Labrador tea along with my rosehip petals and spruce resin. Possibilities are endless with an open mind.


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The Conservatory Theatre Company at Point Park University has a well-deserved reputation for presenting musicals with professional-quality singing, dancing and staging, amid great sets and impressive costumes. The acting also frequently leaves strong impressions.
Now Conservatory students dance and sing again, thronging the stage within imaginative scenic designs, costumes, lighting and sound effects. Some engage in dynamic, exciting sword fights. But Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is no musical. It's a play, an eloquent, passionate tale of deadly events, deeper and wider than a musical. This is a chance for performers to explore expressive, beautiful spoken English while delving into complexities of famed characters.
Since performers of the same age as these characters often lack the experience or depth of insight to expertly deliver the essence of such complex verbal material, the Conservatory should provide what they need to learn. But the students don't get enough of such necessary training in director Penelope Miller Lindblom and assistant director Randy Kovitz's conception. Instead of maximizing time rehearsing language, the directors have cut parts and made room for actions in which these students already excel.
As the star-crossed lovers, Amadeo Fusca and Gina Tomkowich successfully convey the vulnerable and volatile qualities of such kids speaking with sweet conviction -- even though the famed balcony scene, after trimming, has almost as many kisses as words. Meanwhile Lindblom allows Sean Lenhart to make the loquacious Mercutio a bouncing, giggling goof, robbing his speeches of humor and charm. Dressed in generic Native American clothing for the part of "Running Brave -- friend to Romeo," meanwhile, Jeremy Earhart is called upon to narrate and to play solo violin, intermittently struggling with familiar melodies or providing scratchy sound effects. Sometimes his violin even obscures dialogue. Didn't Lindblom notice the effect, again suggesting that words don't count?
She and Kovitz have set the story in 1849 -- newly statehooded California, where the important issue of brutal family feuds gets lost. Because people randomly attired in Spanish, Native American and Western clothing never clearly define crucial alliances, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet no longer look like causes for closure.
This framework legitimizes the swordplay; no doubt Kovitz and his cast relished spending much rehearsal time for the fights. The time, like that spent on production numbers, would be better spent on Shakespeare's glorious, magnificent speeches.
Note the ampersanded "and" in this production's title, further underlining that the directors have Hollywooded in the shadow of Zorro.
Romeo & Juliet continues through April 13. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. 412-621-4445 www.pittsburghplayhouse.com


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September 29, 1938
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, September 29, 1938
* Munich Agreement
* Adolph Hitler - Benito Mussolini
* Sudetenland - Czechoslovakia
This 14 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "4 NATIONS' LEADERS DEBATE CZECHS' FATE" with subheads and related photo (see photos).
This tells of the Munich Agreement which allowed the occupation of the German Army in the Sudetenland. This historic report was published while the meeting was still in session.
Other news of the day. Light browning with some spine wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: A deal was reached on 29 September, and at about 1:30am on 30 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement. The agreement was officially introduced by Mussolini although in fact the so-called Italian plan had been prepared in the German Foreign Office. It was nearly identical to the Godesberg proposal: the German army was to complete the occupation of the Sudetenland by 10 October, and an international commission would decide the future of other disputed areas.
Czechoslovakia was informed by Britain and France that it could either resist Germany alone or submit to the prescribed annexations. The Czechoslovak government, realizing the hopelessness of fighting Germany alone, reluctantly capitulated (30 September) and agreed to abide by the agreement. The settlement gave Germany the Sudetenland starting 10 October, and de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia as long as Hitler promised to go no further. On September 30 after some rest, Chamberlain went to Hitler and asked him to sign a peace treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany. After Hitler's interpreter translated it for him, he happily agreed.
The Führerbau, in which the Agreement was signed, is today a school, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
On 30 September, upon his return to Britain, Chamberlain delivered his famous "peace for our time" speech to delighted crowds in London.
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LOL what kind of strippers wear full bathing suits?
Cheap ones.
This is a rated G comic strip.
He should have a boner at the las frame
Small penis.
Large penis: one leg.
May I just say, it's the wall painting of the fast food that really does it for me here
EU flag on poster. This should be a European student.
That's the original American flag from back when there were only thirteen colonies.
Ha he thinks that's the EU flag. LULZ
I like how he just quietly sets his money down in front of him (as well as loose change) and watches calmly
He could have thrown it. There's no way to know.
Bowlegged strippers…my favorite!
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As she reached the park, she heard a baby crying. She stopped. She couldn't see anybody around. "Hello?" She raised her voice an octave. "Anybody there?"
Katie Calumet is on an early-morning run when she hears a baby crying. The park is deserted, and there's no one in the street. She follows the cries, but then everything goes black. When Katie wakes up, she's blindfolded and her hands and feet are bound.
Detective Justin Cross takes on the case, but with the trail leading into endless dense forest, and a failing marriage weighing on his mind, finding Katie is his most challenging case yet – not least because the Calumet family are keeping secrets of their own.
Justin and Katie face a race against time that will push them both to their very limits. As Justin works day and night to discover who took her and why, Katie fights desperately to escape from her kidnappers and the forest that surrounds her…
Can Justin find her before it's too late?
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When Katie Calumet hears a baby crying whilst out jogging she goes to investigate, thinking she can help. When she is thrust, blindfolded, into the back of the van by two masked men she fears the worst.
Justin Cross is the detective charged with finding her. He is struggling to balance his personal life with the demands of his job but rises to the challenge of finding Katie.
The investigation is fast moving and intense as the police pick up clues to work out who the kidnappers are and where they have taken Katie. What we also see are Katie's experiences as she tries to make her way back to her husband. The two combined make for a real page turner of a novel which grips you until the end.
The police also focus on Katie's family as part of their investigation. Justin doesn't have to spend too much time with them to realise that the relationships between them are strained. As a family known to be very rich there is no surprise when her father agrees instantly to pay the huge ransom that the kidnappers demand. There are however several surprises when the police look into the family as part of their investigation into the kidnapping.
This was a trip away from the norm for me as I usually prefer to stick to UK based police/crime novels so at first I had trouble following who the different types of officer were but this resolved itself by having Justin as the main focus of the investigation. I enjoyed it though and found it a fascinating read especially as Katie finds her way out of the forest.
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I was invited to take part in a very interesting challenge – one I thought I would never be able to commit to. Switching off from the digital world for 2 whole days in preparation for Christmas and Boxing Day. This was a collaboration with Punkt and Time to Log Off.
They are promoting a campaign of giving the gift of your presence this Christmas.
If you know me, you will probably know that I am almost constantly online. I check emails and blog and am busy with social media all through the day. It's crazy. My son tells me I never stop working and it's true. I'm addicted to what I do.
How would I ever survive 2 days of going offline?
My days are busy – I'm on the go. I work online through the day and of course there's all the housework in between, which tends to take second place (more likely last place). I receive loads of emails a day – picking up on ongoing campaigns, new opportunities and then replying to ones that need them.
Besides that I am on Facebook – truly more for work than to be social.
48 hours offline – was a tall order for me.
It didn't mean I was not contactable. I was sent a very lovely phone to use to text and make and receive calls. It took me back a bit to the first mobile phone I had – a Nokia phone (I can't remember the model number now). Of course, this one is sleeker and better looking.
I was also sent a notebook to write down my thoughts and I actually realised how much I loved writing. (literally)
In the package there were some colour pencils that got me back to my adult colouring book and the day was about me.
It felt good to be doing something that wasn't online. I felt more connected with myself. My thoughts were free and I didn't feel the need to complete a post and rush through them.
My son often tells me 'You're always working' and with the two days spent detoxing digitally, I know I should do it more often. I know that after realising that I can do it, I will.
I'm looking forward to logging off over the Christmas season and it's probably going to be more than just 2 days. I think the best present anyone can give someone else is their presence.


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These are painted on most of the sewer grates in my neighborhood. They are fish symbols and are there to remind us that whatever goes into the street sewers ends up in the lake. I am not sure who did this but I think that it is the community itself. Any ideas?


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The dbg_lvl file for the megaraid_sas driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the (1) behavior and (2) logging level of the driver by modifying this file.
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This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point last week. A scene you will probably never get to see in person, so take a moment and enjoy.
And, you also see the sun below the moon . An amazing photo and not one easily duplicated.
You may want to pass it on to others so they can enjoy it.
The Chinese have a saying that goes something like this:
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ATLANTA (February 12, 2014) – Atlanta-based Hotel Equities (HE) recently named Drew Salapka to the position of Vice President of Sales and Revenue Generation.
His responsibilities include leading the sales and revenue generation team which is responsible for the daily inventory and rate management of the firm's hotels. His team analyzes the demand for all markets, evaluates market strengths and weaknesses, and reports key statistics that impact the industry and individual hotels. The team also manages sales processes and directs the ongoing training of all key sales and revenue staff members.
"Drew's analytical abilities, business sense and sales experience make him a perfect fit for this key leadership position," said Brad Rahinsky, Chief Operating Officer of Hotel Equities. "He spots trends quickly, positions our hotels accurately and keeps us successful."
Beginning his hospitality career at the age of 15, Mr. Salapka worked in laundry at the Residence Inn in Alpharetta, Georgia while he was still in high school. Before his senior year in college, Mr. Salapka joined Hotel Equities in 1999 as a summer intern at the Fairfield Inn Atlanta/Perimeter Center. After graduation, he moved quickly to the position of Bench Manager, covering various positions at several of the company's hotels. He served as Operations Manager at the Fairfield Inn Atlanta/Midtown before his promotion in 2000 to General Manager at the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Macon, Georgia where he served until 2004.
At that time, the company promoted Mr. Salapka to manage the TownePlace Suites Kennesaw where he also served as the TownePlace Suites Brand Manager for Hotel Equities. Marriott later named him General Manager of the Year for the brand. In 2006, Mr. Salapka added the challenge and responsibilities of part-time Revenue Manager for the company before moving into the position on a full-time basis in 2008.
Mr. Salapka is a graduate of Clemson University with a B.B.A. in Business Management. He and his wife reside in Cumming, GA. Active in his church, he leads a weekly small group study and serves as a Money Wise mentor. His interests include hiking, camping, waterskiing and traveling.


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Constance Spry. Foreword by Phylis Moore. Decorations by Rex Whistler.London. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1946. Fourth impression. First published in 1937. Cloth-bound hardback, dust jacket. xx, 179 pages. 3 tail-piece decorations and 1 text illustration by Rex Whistler. Coloured frontispiece and 48 black-and-white photographs. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). 0.75kg. . English. Very good; the fragile jacket has occasional nicks, creases and short tears to the edges, with wear to head and base of spine and forecorners, the white jacket is lightly soiled, small area of remains of sticker to front cover; slight wear to edges of boards, some light spotting to page edges; no inscriptions, not price-clipped.Constance Spry's second book on the art of floral decoration. In Flowers in House and Garden Spry offers practical advice, suggesting what plants and colours to use and how to arrange them for each month of the year. She advocates the development of a strong working relationship between the homeowner and their gardener in order to produce optimum floral results. The book contains a list of plants suitable for herbaceous borders and a selection of shrubs. Spry also includes notes on decorations for parties, weddings and Christmas. Some charming decorations by Rex Whistler illustrate the text; these were originally published in an article in Harper's Bazaar.


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Stevie Payne is not special because he has Down Syndrome, but because he's a really good strapper.
That's what Down Syndrome NSW loved about the coverage of the brother of winning Melbourne Cup jockey Michelle Payne.
"What happened yesterday was so exciting and it's so nice to see a person with Down Syndrome being presented as a regular guy who's good at his job," the organisation's executive director Tracylee Arestides told AAP.
"Most people with Down Syndrome want to work and most of them can work.
"Stevie's special because he's a really good strapper and he's been doing it for ten years. It's not having the Down syndrome that makes him special."
After riding Prince of Penzance to victory at Flemington, Michelle Payne was quick to acknowledge her brother.
"I think it's a big message out there to everybody, (people with Down Syndrome) can be treated as normal and have such a great life if you allow them to have responsibility and allow them to grow," she said.
"Stevie is incredible. He can look after himself."
Prince of Penzance trainer Darren Weir has employed Stevie Payne at his Ballarat stables for a decade.
"He can follow the work sheet, he can saddle them up, he can swim them, hose them and he's got a great rapport with horses," Weir told the ABC ahead of the race.
"He's really enjoyable to have around and I think it's important for those sorts of kids to get a go at something, and if they get a go they reward you."
Ms Arestides said there were two common myths about Down Syndrome - that everyone who has it is the same and that they all have the same intellectual disability.
"A lot of people still think in that medical model and it's not a really helpful way to look at people and their abilities," she said. "Years ago people (with Down Syndrome) used to go into onerous programs.
"The absolute best thing for a child with Down Syndrome is to be loved, accepted and brought up in their family."
"It was just so lovely to see that in action yesterday."


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CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Do everything, do it all
"I had to give up the toy boys. I was getting older and older and they were staying the same age – I always said they came in at 27 and I got rid of them at 32."
"People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another."
"My attitude has been: do everything, do it all, keep current. Watch your back – you have to watch your back. But see what you want, where you'd like to go, and go there."
"The younger me would sneer at Stephanie the American soap star. When I did become an actress I planned only to do French films and Shakespeare."
"I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson calls me Glamma and not Granny."
That classiest-of-classy actresses - star of everything from The Saint to Tenko, from Connie to The Colbys, from Dracula '72 to Dynasty - Miss Stephanie Beacham is 70 years old today...
All hail!
Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947)
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Labels: Divas, Dynasty, Stephanie Beacham
Friday, 24 February 2017
Time Lords, lovely buttocks, ancient pin-ups, a Dame's frock and the Wild Old Woman of kitsch
On Wednesday evening Hils, History Boy and I ventured to one of my favourite of all venues in the LGBT History season of events, the fascinating and quirky Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, for another outing for a familiar format - Objects of Desire, an evening that provides notable individuals from the world of arts and culture to talk a little about prize LGBT-related items from the museum's vast collection, "in conversation" with our fabulously erudite host and "superstar" in the Egyptology world John J Johnston. And what a fascinating panel of guests he had accumulated...
The format was slightly tweaked this year, to allow not only a discussion about the chosen artefacts but also a little more about the lives of the guests themselves.
Sarah Groenewegen from the Sexual Orientation Network and Resource Group of the National Crime Agency was our opener. Combining neatly her interest in gay history and Doctor Who [one of her essays/short stories was published in the compendium Queers Dig Time Lords], her conversation with Mr Johnson focused around a familiar object. She and "JJJ" spoke admiringly of one of the museum's most famous gay-themed items, the 4000-year-old papyrus that charts the seduction and sexual liaison between the eternally warring deities Horus and Set (also known as Sutek) that contains the fabled (and earliest recorded) chat-up line 'How lovely are your buttocks! And how muscular your thighs…'. Inevitably, the discussion wove the character of Sutek in the papyrus to his portrayal in the (exceptionally camp) much later Doctor Who adventure Pyramids of Mars. In closing their chat, and in due deference to Sarah's own achievements in her field, John encouraged Sarah to show us in the audience the well-deserved British Empire Medal she was awarded in HM the Queen's Birthday Honours last year.
Actor William McGeogh chose as his piece another familiar object - the Roman-era-Egyptian funerary portrait of a "young man from Hawara", also known as "the Red Youth". He was honest about the reason for his choice - largely based upon the fact he rather fancied the deceased youth depicted in the portrait - and when he pointed out his partner in the audience it was easy to see the similarities... Mr Johnson steered us slightly back to the historical perspective, but observed that "the Red Youth" was not alone in his portrayal (naked - well shoulders, anyhow - and flatteringly painted); several such examples of beauteous lads are also in the collection. Were they the "pin-ups" of their day, gladiators or heroes perhaps, or - as in the case of the famous funerary portrait found at Antinoopolis (a city founded for the worship of Emperor Hadrian's gay lover) that features two young men together with images of Antinous the God behind them as protector - "gay icons"? We will probably be debating this for years to come, but the discussion was entertaining nonetheless!
Anthony Harrison from the National Theatre Costume department understandably, given the fact he expressed his love of "blingy" gowns, passed over such historically valuable treasures as the "World's oldest frock" the Tarkhan Dress (which is, after all, just a plain white garment) in favour of the magnificent Amarna necklace, a collection of exquisitely-crafted beads that would have made up a five-tiered "head-turner" in the age of Tutankhamun. He and Mr Johnson explored the subject of Egyptian adornments, and how such finds would have, in truth, only ever been worn by the royals and mega-rich of their day - with the "little white dress", a functional item in the heat, as merely the backdrop. To "gild the lily", however, Anthony then proudly showed off something from his own collection in the NT, the ornate gold frock worn by none other than Dame Helen Mirren when she played Cleopatra. Gorgeous!
Speaking of gorgeous, the star of the night's event was most definitely the wonderful Sue Kreizman [about whom I have, inevitably, blogged before], arch-admirer of all things kitsch and self-styled "Wild Old Woman", looking as extravagant as always in a robe and jewellery that she had only adorned with a little "extra Egyptian magic" that morning. "Sorry if I smell of glue", she said. Her choice from the Petrie collection was a pair of 3000-year-old necklaces - much more modest than the Amarna one - to which she was strangely drawn, mainly because of the prominence of the "Eye of Horus", a favourite icon in her decorations, in their design. Miss Kreizman entertained the audience with her early memories of taking solace (from what sounds like a bit of a sad childhood) in the wonders of New York's museums, where the bold, extravagant and often grotesque displays became "her friends" - and remained ever since, it would seem. She and "JJJ" went on to discuss the custom in various cultures of creating a "memory jug" for display at funerals (a simple pot covered in putty which would then be studded with small ephemeral personal items of the deceased) - modern versions of which Sue continues to make today.
I was enchanted by the evening, and by Miss Kreizman in particular - and, after mingling with and chatting to guests and audience members, we were honoured to continue the "complimentary wine course" behind the scenes in the "Green Room" (aka the Petrie's office) before trolling off to the pub for more...
Ah, culture!
Camden & Islington LGBT History Month continues until the end of February.
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Labels: Gay History, Petrie Museum, Sue Kreizman
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
The odour of silk, the feel of velvet, the crackle of a satin
"The allure, the odour of silk, the feel of velvet, the crackle of a satin – what intoxication!"
"The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress."
"To have style is to have a feeling for what is currently fashionable, and still to simultaneously remain true to oneself."
"Dressing a woman is to make her more beautiful - isn't that the point of it all?"
He was adored by the superstar "celebrities" of his day; the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Grace Kelly relied upon him to provide their classy public image, and Audrey Hepburn (for whom he designed that little black dress for Breakfast at Tiffany's) would not wear clothes by another designer. One of his mega-rich clients, a certain Bunny Mellon, even had him design her gardening clothes.
Revered as one of the greatest couturiers of modern times, he celebrates his 90th birthday today.
Many happy returns, Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born 21st February 1927)
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Labels: Audrey Hepburn, couture, fashion, Givenchy, Haute Couture
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Back off...
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Labels: Drag, Rae Bourbon
Saturday, 4 February 2017
On the Jukebox this Weekend...
...at our apartment in Benalmadena.
¡Hasta la Vista, baby!
We're back in a week's time...
Posted by Jon at 07:11 4 comments
Labels: Album Art, Camp record covers
Thursday, 2 February 2017
The King of Couture
"Cristóbal Balenciaga was one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century. Revered by his contemporaries, including Coco Chanel and Hubert de Givenchy, his exquisite craftsmanship, pioneering use of fabric and innovative cutting set the tone for the modernity of the late 20th century fashion."
Thus, curator Cassie Davies-Strodder announced the V&A's new summer exhibition dedicated to the art and technique of one of the greatest couturiers of the 20th century and (coincidentally, in the week we are counting down to our holiday in Benalmadena) Spain's most influential fashion designer. He was described as as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior [with whom he shares a birthday] and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel.
Señor Balenciaga was born in the Basque country. Even as a teenager, however, his skills in tailoring were recognised by influential patrons, and with their assistance he moved away to study in Madrid. By the time he was in his twenties his clothes were being worn by members of the aristocracy and even royalty. In his day he dressed some of the most beautiful and most photographed women in the world such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Barbara Hutton, Ava Gardner and Queen Fabiola of Belgium, yet he inevitably favoured unattractive older women as his models so as not to distract from his clothes.
Notoriously private about his affairs, in his entire career Balenciaga only ever granted one interview with the press. In 1948 he almost quit the business when his lover the milliner Vladzio Zawrorowski d'Attainville died, but in the end carried on until 1968, when he closed his salons. He went on to teach and inspire such luminaries as Oscar de la Renta, André Courrèges and Emanuel Ungaro - and Hubert de Givenchy remains today the honorary patron of the Balenciaga Foundation and Museum.
We are looking forward immensely to this exhibition...
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion will open at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 27th May 2017.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Downtown Rescue Mission's goal is to change people's lives. And in order to change lives there needs to be a space to make the miracles happen. Owen's House, the new women and children's facility, is taking shape.
You can almost hear the sound of children's voices when you look at Owen's House's progress. It won't open for another six months or so, but it's already spreading hope at the mission.
"Moms with kids and single women who are hurting [and/or] been in abusive relationships and we just can't wait to get them in our doors and be able to take care of them," President & CEO Keith Overholt said of the people who will find a haven at the facility.
Tracy Gibson is the senior director of Owen's House. The inside might look like your average building, however, it's anything but ordinary.
"It's not normal for a homeless shelter to have a medic room, it's not normal for a homeless shelter to have a beauty room where the women can go and feel beautiful, and everything that they need," Gibson said. "It's not normal that women are going to come in and be in a transitional life program where they can bring their children and get back exactly where they want to be in life."
That's right, this facility will set children up for success too.
"There is set curriculum for the children where they're going to get taught the gospel, they're going to get taught life skills, they're going to be poured into and they're going to be loved on," Gibson said. "It's not normal, it's an extraordinary thing."
While crews work on Owen's House, Gibson and other rescue mission leaders are building new programs which will help the women and children transition into lives outside the mission.
"This is for you, Huntsville, this is for the women and children in this area that make up our community," Gibson proclaimed.
Overholt said he is overjoyed with the security that protects this building. The mission anticipates a grand opening in early 2018.


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Here are four facts to start with:
1. Between 2000 and 2012 some 26,500 US-based environmental non-government organizations collected revenues of $81 billion ($6.6 bl a year).
2. New York City-based Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is a venue for coordinating philanthropic donations to environmental groups. In 2011 EGA members disbursed $1.13 billion to enviro-groups; an amount equal to 40% of US philanthropic donations to environmentalism in that year. EGA refuses to divulge its membership list, even to Congress.
3. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) top tier is dominated by persons who have spent years working for Big Green organizations like Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defence Council. FOIA-forced releases reveal these EPA tops to be in near continuous on-the-job contact with their former colleagues. The released e-mails also reveal routine coffee dates, private dinners and soirees whereat lieutenants from Big Green's DC offices schmooze with EPA execs.
4. For several years the Packard Foundation has been giving around $50 million a year to the Climate Works Foundation. In 2008 the Hewlett Foundation made a five-year $100 million-a-year pledge to Climate Works. Gordon Moore gave Conservation International a cheque for $200 million in 2001. Michael Bloomberg gave the Sierra Club $50 million just to fight coal.
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires presides over a vast well-knit network of like-minded funders, government bureaucrats and enviro-activists who manufacture phony grassroots campaigns and churn out bogus propaganda disguised as science and journalism in an effort to control economic decision-making across America.
The green billionaires oversee America's environmental movement which in turn steers major policy decisions and lobbies to further empower ideologically aligned government agencies, like the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), that are statutorily prohibited from lobbying on their own behalves.
Supposedly unbiased agencies like the EPA are run by career environmentalists who work hand-in-glove with their allies in the environmentalist non-government organization (ENGO) community. Members of this green state elite have no experience as elected politicians nor in business nor in labour. They are bureaucrats, academics and former ENGO activists. Having seized branches of government they now lavish tax dollars upon the ENGOs. Obama's Administration is unprecedentedly stacked with closed-minded enviro-activists.
American environmentalism's current agenda centers on aggressively tightening regulations on the coal and oil industries to evermore controversial levels. These and other environmental regulations cost businesses and consumers tens of billions of dollars a year. This enviro-regulatory regime is being gamed by rent-seeking crony capitalists from the renewable energy and pollution control industries who now number among environmentalism's principal cheerleaders.
Environmentalism's victories come at the expense of American workers and small businesses. Enviro-regulations cause unemployment and unemployment undermines the health and well-being of ordinary Americans. Environmentalism consolidates wealth and power into the hands of the already wealthy and powerful. Environmentalism hurts the poor.
If the above passage seems eccentric, overly antagonistic and perhaps a tad radical then you are in for a surprise. The above passage is a faithful synopsis of an assessment of environmentalism widely held by members of the United States Republican Party.
This posting condenses and collates four publications from late 2014; two written by Republican staffers employed by the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; and two published by Republican-allied free-market think tanks.
(William Kay is the author of dozens of long, meticulously researched essays on environmentalism, government and the economy, most of which are too long to run here at The Megaphone in full. Click HERE to go to the full text of "The American Environmental Movement – The Counter-Movement Perspective.")
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Protect Your git Repository's .htpasswd
Update 2: WebFaction fixed their installer. You still need to fix this yourself if the repository was created before Jan 13, 2011. (Details here.)
Update: Git repositories created with WebFaction's git installer are insecure, even when they're password protected. Some Apache installations are configured out-of-the-box to protect .htpasswd files. That is not the case with WebFaction.
If you're running a .git repository on WebFaction that was created by following their documentation, then you must:
- Remove the file's default world-readable permissions, by running chmod o-r .htpasswd
- OR: Prevent the file from being downloaded, by adding the following to .htaccess:
<files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </files>
Of course, the same applies to any .htpasswd file.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Zuissi, Natan Yellin. Natan Yellin said: New blog post: Protect Your git Repository's .htpasswd http://bit.ly/dTPKML [...]
Actually, right bundled Apache does. Debian Apache package provide such a default access rule.
[...] – and Redmine and git are easy installs anyways. You should be aware that there used to be a security vulnerability in WebFaction's git installer. The problem has been fixed, but all repositories created before January 13 need to fix the issue [...]


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'Douglas Harbour, Isle of Man'
Oil on Canvas 30" x 50"
William Webb
British 1862-1903
William Webb was born in Manchester in 1862 and was almost entirely a marine artist, a painter in oils of coastal scenes. He was a prolific painter, influenced, like so many aspiring artists of the era, by the great master J M W Turner. Although his work cannot be compared in the same breath with the genius of Turner, Webb developed a style so totally distinctive that he could not be likened to a mere copyist. Many of his pictures show scenes in the Isle of Man, but he also travelled quite widely afield in the British Isles, including Fleetwood in his home county of Lancashire, Guernsey, Whitby, Falmouth, Cornwall, Norfolk, Northumberland and Cardiff.
William Webb sought to break away from the formalised tradition of 19th century painting, producing atmospheric scenes by adopting a rather loose technique with soft, warm colours and the skilful use of light and shade. A style that was a little 'avant-garde' and William Webb struggled during his short life, to get the recognition he rightly deserved.
Douglas Harbour, Isle of Man is a wonderful example of William Webb's work, with the mighty waves tossing the laden ship as it approaches the harbour, the figures on the quay side, busily preparing for the arrival of the boat. There are coopers, rolling their barrels and fishmongers selling their freshly caught fish – a scene of life and vitality at the turn of the century.
Although William Webb exhibited numerous paintings in his native Manchester and also at the Royal Academy in London, it was a source of great frustration that he did not enjoy the commercial success he so rightly deserved – an all too familiar story in the history of art. This combined with health troubles and an unhappy domestic life contributed to periods of depression and sadly during one of these dark times, and as a final act of total despair, William Webb died by his own hand in his studio in Manchester in 1903.
Poignantly, an admirer of his art asked at the time 'Will fame which was coming tardily and warily as fame ever comes, hasten now that the genius who courted it is dead'. A prediction proved correct, as his paintings are now appreciated and collected with enthusiasm both at home and abroad. A special exhibition of his paintings was held in 1974 at The Old Customs House and Old Solent House in Lymington, celebrating the work of this highly gifted and previously under rated artist.