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We are a small family farm in Rockland, Massachusetts, on the south shore of Boston. We make amazing goods such as our beautiful handcrafted soaps and all natural herbal skin care products. In season, we also sell our delicious farm fresh eggs, raw goat's milk, and much more!!
All our products are made right here on our farm by owner Meaghen, and use many of her own homegrown ingredients! Herbal infusions are the starting base to many of our wonderful products, which are made with 100% of our own homegrown herbs. Some of our infusions can take up to a year to reach their perfection. Base oils for soaps and creams are purchased from a local company that carries all natural and organic oils. The essential oils we use are therapeutic grade and of extremely high quality. Positive energy is an important part of our work, and it can be seen and felt in each cream, soap, or body care product you receive from us. Our products have even been time tested by our own growing family, so you know they are of excellent quality and made by people who care!!!
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We ALWAYS list our ingredients, are available to answer questions, and will even custom blend for those customers with allergies and sensitivities!
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Friday, January 10, 2014
*Stacking the Shelves* 01/11/2014
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I got Killer Frost as well this week. You got a lot of titles that are new to me. Great haul Shelly like usual.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2014 at 5:49 AM
You've got a lot of great looking books this week! I really want to read Don't You Forget About Me. Enjoy your books :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
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OMG! You got The Vanishing Season too?! I put a request in with Edelweiss but haven't gotten a response. They are likely to deny me. I can't figure out what's wrong with my profile and why I am always denied the books I request for. Oh well. Happy Reading!ReplyDelete
My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!
Have a GREAT day!
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Hi Jessica! As always, I really appreciate you stopping by and being one of my regular commentators!Delete
I got Side Effects and Rebel this week too. I'm curious about The Half Life of Molly Pierce and The Vanishing Season, I'm going to have to check those out :)ReplyDelete
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I was curious as well since they are new authors to me. Then again, I am willing to try new authors especially since HARPER is so awesome!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2014 at 9:09 AM
Nice haul! Side Effects May Vary and The Vanishing Season both look really good. Enjoy your books. :DReplyDeleteReplies
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Awesome haul! Side Effects May Vary look good.ReplyDelete
Happy reading! :)
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So many people got Side Effects May Vary this week! So jealous because it looks so good! I hope you enjoy all you got :)ReplyDelete
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Thank you Jessica for stopping by! Hopefully Side Effects will live up to the hype!Delete
Great haul! I've got a few of these myself and I am really looking forward to reading them, especially Side Effects May Vary because of all the wonderful things I have heard about it. I hope you enjoy all of your books :) My STS.ReplyDeleteReplies
I appreciate you stopping by my blog and checking out my STS! Have a great week!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM
This year I'm going to step out of my PNR/UF only zone and try a Romantic Suspense book as my New Years reading resolution and I think for next year I'm going to make it YA and try out Estep's series. I LOVE her UF series.ReplyDelete
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I've been trying to read different books as well but still end up reading the same authors and series. Hopefully, it will be a good year for debut novels!Delete
Fell off the wagon for Tempered & Rebel. Waah! Ok, do you want to do another chat review for Tempered with me? :D It was so much fun so I want you to say YES :PReplyDeleteReplies
BRAINE! Yeah, I honestly tried to behave, but, what's the point? Lots of time to read since I'm on disability. We definitely should do another chat review for Tempered. Let's talk soon!Delete
Nice haul, Shelley! I didn't get accepted for Don't You Forget About Me... but I really want to read it! The Vanishing Room seems awesome, as well.ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by earlier. Have a great weekend, and happy reading.
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I saw Killer frost today on NG, I can't wait to have it! happy reading!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hiya Mel! Thanks for stopping by!Delete
I just got Killer Frost and I'm super excited to read it :) I've really been enjoying the series! Great haul. There are a lot of books on your list that I want to check out.ReplyDelete
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I think Killer Frost was once of the more popular choices this week. Thanks for stopping by Janina!Delete
All the good books! I'm so excited to read some of these!ReplyDelete
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I love when Harper Teen does an ARC drop on EW. That week it seems like we all have the same books and it gives me a sense of community. There are a couple you got this week that I'm really excited about, particularly Don't You Forget About Me - her previous book, Another Little Piece, was a total mind-f*** of a book so I'm really intrigued to see what the author has in store in her next book. I hope it's awesome!ReplyDeleteReplies
BEKKA! I need to seriously start a week where I read ONLY Harper Teen books to catch up on all that I've received! Have a great week!Delete
You got amazing books this week. So excited for Killer Frost.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Jennifer! Kind of sad that Killer Frost is the last book though :)Delete
Hah! I bought Fortune's Pawn too! Also got The Vanishing Season and Lily Graves this week. I can't wait to read them all. Fortune's Pawn is getting some rave reviews from bloggers.ReplyDeleteReplies
KARA! Hiya stranger! How you doing eh? :) Yeah, I'd love to do a buddy read with Fortune's Pawn one day since it has gotten some rave reviews.Delete
Nice haul, we have some books in common ;)ReplyDelete
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Very nice of you to have stopped by Leydy! Have a wonderful week of reading!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2014 at 5:14 AM
I wouldn't know where to start, actually yes. Side Effects - so want to read that.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm actually struggling to get through January reads! I can actually see the light at the end of the very, very long tunnel! Have a great week!Delete
These look so awesome! I reeeeally want to read Rebel. I'm a huge Reboot fan, and I didn't even realise Rebel was coming out so soon! Eeep!!! My StS!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm going to hold off closer to release day before reading it. Trying to behave myself! Thanks for stopping by!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2014 at 2:31 PM
Such Sweet Sorrow keeps catching my eye.....Happy Reading! If you'd like, you can stop by my STSI'm a new follower too and would love a follow back please :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
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I am so far behind on Damico's series. The cover looks ominous!!ReplyDelete

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In the Current day many people think that residing via the Credit crunch has been one of the crucial difficult times in our complete lives, worrying where our next meal might come from, if we will afford the next cost on our mortgage, questioning how we are going to cope if gas prices rise again, may we afford to run our cars?, heat and light-weight our homes? World Studying's neighborhood value share model incorporates a expertise growth course of which ensures that school-community groups have the experience to determine school bank accounts; handle funds responsibly and transparently; establish market-driven, feasible enterprise alternatives; and advocate for municipal governments to contribute land or materials to be used for school initiatives.
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The Little Rangers got official word they are in the US Open Cup. I realize a lot of people may not know what that really means. And I found out as I researched for an article to explain it to fans, I didn't know much either!
Here it is, if you're interested!


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The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded its meeting on December 12th, a day behind the original schedule of finalizing an agreement on global efforts to respond to the growing impacts of climate change.
The Paris Climate Summit, happening from 30 November to 11 December, is due to conclude a new international agreement to limit global average temperature rise and avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change.
The 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) only has a few days left to smooth out an international agreement for measures that will keep the world and its inhabitants safe.
Climate justice activists gathered at the Climate Action Zone in Paris during the COP 21 to raise the alarm on the corporate capture of climate at the global policy levels, and also at the implementation climate-related policies at national and community levels.
Women activists, grassroots leaders, and advocates danced the One Billion Rising at the Climate Action Zone in Paris during the COP21 to demand governments to set emission cut targets that will hold global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius and provide reparations for the climate debt incurred by developed counties because of their unsustainable consumption and production practices.
Three days into the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), negotiations are nearing fever pitch as the December 4 deadline for a revised draft text of the Paris climate agreement looms.
Over 130 Heads of State have arrived in Paris in an attempt to sign a new global agreement, amidst high expectations of people all around the world for urgent and meaningful action to respond to the climate crisis. Just over the weekend, the world saw the biggest ever climate marches of almost 1 million people gathering in 175 countries demanding leaders to come to an agreement that is binding, ambitious, durable and just, to replace the Kyoto Protocol and to take effect in 2020. This new climate deal that is yet to be agreed on is quite controversial already in the approach it takes, as it calls on each and every government to say just what and how much it is willing to undertake actions to reduce emissions, provide finance, and adapt to the increasing impacts of climate change.
Water justice campaigners and private water operators argued the merits of public and private water provision in a debate titled "Private/Public Involvement in the Provision of Water and Sanitation Services," held 13 March during the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France.


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[x] representa o número da página na edição de 1905. O relato é de 1608.
[390] The second roome is the place where this festivitie was solemnized to the honour of Saint Roch, at one end whereof was an Altar garnished with many singular ornaments, but especially with a great multitude of silver Candlesticks, in number sixty, and Candles in them of Virgin waxe. This feast consisted principally of Musicke, which was both vocall and instrumental, so good, so delectable, so rare, so admirable, so superexcellent, that it did even ravish and stupifie all those strangers that never heard the like. But how others were affected with it I know not; for mine owne part I can say this, that I was for the time even rapt up with Saint Paul into the third heaven.Sometimes there sung sixteene or twenty men together, having their master or moderator to keepe them in order; and when they sung, the instrumental musitians played also. Sometimes sixteene played together on their instruments, ten Sagbuts, four Cornets, and two Violdegambaees of an extraordinary greatness; sometimes tenne, sixe Sagbuts and foure Cornets; sometimes two, a Cornet and a treble violl. Of those treble viols I heard severall there, whereof each was so good, especially one that I observed above the rest, that I never heard the like before. Those that played upon the treble viols, sung and played together, and sometimes, two singular fellowes played together upon Theorboes, to which they sung also, who yeelded admirable sweet musicke, but so still they could [391] scarce be heard but by those that were very neare them. These two Theorbists concluded that nights musicke, which continued three whole howers at the least. For they beganne about five of the clocke, and ended not before eight. Also it continued as long in the morning: at every time that every severall musicke played, the Organs, whereof there are seven faire paire in that room, standing al in a rowe together, plaied with them. Of the singers there were three or foure so excellent that I thinke few or none in Christendome do excell them, especially one, who had such a peerelesse and (as I may in a maner say) such a supernaturall voice for such a privilege for the sweetnesse of his voice, as sweetnesse, that I think there was never a better sing in all the world, insomuch that he did not onely give the most pleasant contentment that could be imagined, to all the hearers, but also did as it were astonish and amaze them.(…) [392] These musitians had bestowed upon them by that company of Saint Roche an hundred duckats, which is twenty three pound sixe shillings eight pence starling. Thus much concering the musicke of those famous feastes of St. Laurence, the Assumption of our Lady, and Saint Roche.
CORYAT, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities. Original de 1611. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905.


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The Middle School Learning Community (MSLC) in Charleston County School District, believes in the connection between scholars, parents and educators as the driving force that will positively affect academic outcomes.
Making up the educators component of this partnership, The MSLC offers a number of programs in our middle schools which allows scholars to explore and pursue pathways of interest that lead towards a well-rounded college and career ready scholar.
Through strong academic programs and a focus on social-emotional learning, we are setting the foundation for our scholars to achieve in every endeavor they may pursue.
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Question asked by Kurt Gillon 2838 days ago
Energy System Development.
When you train Energy System Development, do you use cyclic, repetitive, or continuous movement? If it is conditional, for whom?
Answers (6)
Answered by Joanne Duncan-Carnesciali 2837 days ago
What activity is one training for?
I am not clear as to what you are asking.
Are you asking if a person can train a certain way to develop energy systems?
Are you asking if a person can train a certain way to develop energy systems?
By cyclic Energy System Development I assume you mean an interval that follows a complex (repeating or changing) pattern of movements to develop the anaerobic or aerobic energy systems. If this is what you are saying then I prefer the cyclic training because it allows you to incorporate more movements, giving you more recovery from each seperate movement. With cycles you can maintain strong form with each rep, get better hormonal response from training more muscle groups, and get your heart rate going more than steady state training or alternating intervals. That being said the aerobic energy system responds well to steady state training so if I'm training someone for a marathon or a primarily aerobic activity I won't use intervals as often.
ESD can be done using any mode of cardio/circuit training. It is based off of Levels (heart zone).
Here's a link on ESD by the creator Mark Verstegen.
Here's a link on ESD by the creator Mark Verstegen.
It depends on the duration and intensity (aerobic/anaerobic) of the activity you are training to determine what energy system you are referring to. Once you establish which energy system you are tapping into, you can train it from there. However, can't give you ideas if I don't know what the activity is.
Basically, if you emphasize on child's energy system development , then you can see it here https://www.pagesecret.com/child-growth-development/


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The Ibanez RG is one of the most distinctive and recognisable guitars produced by the awesome team at Ibanez. For over three decades this metal-machine has been carefully refined to deliver the high-performance instrument that it is today. If you like your thunder with precision and comfort, then the Ibanez GRG7221-BKN Electric Guitar in Black Night finish is an absolute must have for you.
The body of the GRG7221 is crafted using poplar, a tonewood that is highly regarded thanks to its fantastic resonant properties, whilst retaining a lightweight feel. This model benefits from the legacy of the RG body profile, taking on the deep double-cutaway 'horn' with aplomb to ensure easy access to the neck and fingerboard in the upper register. The body has been treated to a modest black night body finish with matching headstock.
Fitted to the body is a solid maple neck, which has been shaped to a slender GRG profile. Though this may be an extended range 7-string model, the neck is incredibly comfortable, and accommodating. Paired with the neck is a rosewood fingerboard, which is home to 24 jumbo-frets that are decorated with white dot position inlays. In true Ibanez style, the neck is very fast and playable, whilst giving you the 7-string range you know and love.
The GRG7221-BKN is armed with two Standard H-7 humbucking pickups, one in the neck position and one in the bridge position, these pickups are designed purely for 7-string axe's and will capture all of your hammer. There is a 3-way pickup selector switch and tone and volume controls to get the sound you want.
All the hardware has been finished in matching black to complement the body finish. Fitted to the body is a fixed bridge, which holds strings securely to maintain accurate string tension and intonation. The headstock is home to Ibanez machine heads, which secure strings firmly throughout each and every performance.
The Ibanez GRG7221-BKN Electric Guitar in Black Night is an awesome 7-string model that is very enjoyable to perform with. The combination of lightweight playing feel, easy access to the entire neck, highly versatile tonality, and striking black finish, is matched by outstanding Ibanez build quality that guarantees this beauty will keep rocking for many years to come.
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Linda Russo
Five poems
from The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday
from "American Poem in Parts"
[that's my nakedness, one hundred percent small]
[grab short trees, grab sun]
[love heals many]
Who is No One
from "American Poem in Parts"
housekeeping logic of link and glue
a gift of green plates and shine
stacked clean and endlessly again
your little paws curled 'neath your cheek
how many and how long
what sits on the solid table is solid
I solidly sit
moving into the quiet night
after moving about (industriously)
forgetting a book, to read a blank book
an eve clear and bare is mine – is mine story to tell
hunger & relaxation, some skirts, some wrinkled sheets, some pressed shirts some kind way to finesse a meal
a tinge of finely brewed consequence
I am fine I am finished grace infiltrates the room with a pink glow
[that's my nakedness, one hundred percent small]
that's my nakedness, one hundred percent small
neat little self bodies alight with mobilization
which brought out the laughter in me
like a relaxing possibility the body knows –-
anyway, laugh, I don't want you to leave
not reasonable creatures, but lovely, fighting
carefully crafted meals and now we seem
to be lost without you, like flapping plastic
sheeting beneath fruit-colored sunlight
an outbreak the dream-like body decides
i can go if you want
and the answer at arm's length
is yes, alright yes
wet footprints left by children
after swimming and hot knowledge
i'm dwelling to get an honest human experience
playing at being cheerful and at the same time
full of cheer, seeing what she sees in him
little breasts
remembering & inventing a little quieter longer
don't clap for that
– wait for the best part
when we see her coming
and hostessing both, adorned
with a necklace of blue glass bulbs
i think perhaps
I am
being reckless
[grab short trees, grab sun]
grab short trees, grab sun
grab the world closer
& believe trees
the sky is falling all around
cry, but that's okay, don't
the same the same the
tomorrow same
there's another one again
us all try that okay
all over the world
a sprite, a green thing about
smitten with us even
the sky is falling all around
cry, but that's okay, don't
the weather, sky silhouette
as in the believing
as in the tree-reaching
us all try that
the sky is falling
cry, but that's okay, don't
[love heals many]
love heals many
many times, some
in the intellectual
resources industry
say so, your face glow
beneath the moon
and its pink
milklight I
thought to export
more poems to
let the light and
the chat embrace
me like original
software corrupted
copied and sold
please everyone
stop renting out
your IQ start
creating embody
your brainwork
it's simple
it's powerful
liquid sunshine it's
distance healing
Who is No One
who is no one, not attempting, not lessened
mobile, speedy, wound up, timely
like a nicely done bit bit micro culture
a catastrophic weeding, for both of us and all?
a how to of & looking & learning of, must we?
mm hm inviting awkward elephant enjoyment
[ The following substitution may be made in the final line:
mm hm avoiding awkward elephant enjoyment ]
Linda Russo lives in the Columbia River Watershed, tends garden plots and teaches at Washington State University. Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman Press), her second full-length collection of poems, is due out shortly; a third, The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday (Chax Press), and a collection of lyric essays, To Think of her Writing Awash in Light, selected by John D'Agata as the winner of Subito Press inaugural creative nonfiction prize, are forthcoming. Scholarly essays have appeared in Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press) and other edited collections, and as the preface of Joanne Kyger's About Now: Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation). You can find out more about her poetic work at inhabitorypoetics.blogspot


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A-one and a-two.
Bill King likes doing jazz math. Like, how many jazz heroes selling how many tickets equals jazz festival success?
It's a sticky problem for others, but not for King. As artistic director of the Beaches International Jazz Festival, "we don't have ticketed events," he says. "Yet we draw numbers that far exceed our budget, which is really minimal at $500,000 spread out over 10 days. And about 95 per cent of that audience is from our immediate community."
The 10-day festival in its 25th year may in fact point the way for jazz festivals of the future. Still advertising itself as "North America's largest free festival," Beaches International expects some 1 million fans from July 19 to 28.
Elsewhere, however, the old musical equation of big names equaling big ticket sales doesn't add up the way it once did. "It's because there are not many heroes left," King says. Name-driven big-ticket festivals such as the recent TD Toronto Jazz Festival "have to make compensations for that."
The 60-something King — equally adept as a jazz pianist, photographer, publisher and radio host — was warned about the dwindling jazz star-system years back by the late Gene Lees, the rascally but imminent Canadian jazz writer, lyricist and biographer of Oscar Peterson, among other musicians.
"Out of about 500 really famous jazz names in jazz history, there are about 50 left," Lees told King (echoing what Lees told others, this writer included). "So what happens when these 50 names are gone?"
Well, the remaining names Lees was talking about are mostly gone. And their younger peers have yet to appear. "That's why a lot of festivals have shut down," says King. "That's why a lot of jazz stations are dropping the jazz format. There are not many singers around who have a story as exciting as Billie Holiday's. There are no gangsters in jazz any more. So many festivals are in the same boat."
It's the very boat Beaches International is rocking with funky innovations like its first "Taste of Jazz/Gourmet Food Truck Extravaganza" in Woodbine Park July 23-24, or with Latin jazz in the designated Latin Square at the foot of Lee Ave. or with its multitude of local bands along Queen St. E. with names such as Who Stole the Cookies, God Made Me Funky and Phusion. Well, phar out.
Jazz festivals worldwide face the danger of becoming the modern museums of jazz, where order reigns and reputations are embalmed. But the Beaches festival functions more along the lines of a large-scale yearly backyard family outing. Started by producer Lido Chilelli in 1989 as a small-scale two-day local event, the festival has progressed to the point where Toronto jazz elders watch the kids coming of age each year. Indeed, at the Kew Gardens Youth Stage on July 28, veteran local stars Alex Dean, Lorne Lofsky and Brian Dickinson will be mingling musically with younger players.
At age 16, JP Saxe appeared on the Beaches youth stage. "At 18 and 19 I graduated to the new generation stage," says the multi-instrumental composer. "And this year I'm on the Kew Gardens main stage,"
on July 27 with the great Roberto Linares Brown Orchestra and others. "Suffice to say I have grown up with the Beaches jazz fest. And yes, I have developed an audience that has stayed with me long past summertime."
"Jazz is now in a survival mode," says Bill King. "We look around to see who's been busy this year. If they're really good at being busy, there's a spot for them in the festival."
Bill King's own Rhythm Express helps close out the Beaches festival at the Kew Gardens main stage on July 28. For more information go to www.beachesjazz.com
Peter Goddard is a freelance writer: email@example.com


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Gorgeous, and dare we say, delicious photography, menu and bold touches of color accurately capture the allure of Chef Trzeciak's cuisine.
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A highly-custom website was an important first step to help Birchrunville Store Cafe market in Chester County. A note to self, Chef needs zero marketing, his food speaks for itself. However, Pip Squeezed preservered while enjoying a croissant bread pudding with sun-dried cranberries in a creme anglaise. Pip Squeeze Creative designed and developed an engaging site with unique branded photography. Coming soon, a responsive website with online reservations! Additional back-end gift certificate solution is simple and intuitive.
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Government and industry should do more to encourage social responsibility in biotechnology research and innovation
13 December 2012
The Government and industry should take steps to ensure that research and development of new biotechnologies is carried out in accordance with social and ethical responsibilities, says a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
Biotechnology innovation requires great investment, and choices about how they are supported and governed have major consequences for national and global challenges in healthcare, food, energy, the environment and the economy. But when decisions are made about which biotechnologies to prioritise, not enough consideration is given to the needs and interests of wider society, or of other technological or social alternatives that could best support the 'public good', says the Council.
"Biotechnologies have the potential to bring about significant transformations in the world today. They are likely to greatly affect many aspects of everyday life such as the development of new medicines and treatments, and the production of food, energy and fuel" said Professor Mick Moran, Chair of the Nuffield inquiry. "There is therefore a strong public interest in biotechnologies, and the way they are governed should take proper account of this".
"Having looked at a number of areas in which biotechnology research is advancing, such as synthetic biology, pharmaceutical development and biomanufacturing, we believe more could be done to maximise the social value of innovation in biotechnology. We set out a proposal for a 'public ethics' approach to governance of emerging biotechnologies that is based on core values of equity, solidarity and sustainability" said Professor Moran.
The report, Emerging Biotechnologies: technology, choice and the public good, makes recommendations as to how this approach could be applied across several key areas that shape and select pathways of biotechnology development, including policy, public engagement, research and business.
Research policy
The Council says that policy decisions about biotechnology research and innovation are often made on the basis of unexamined assumptions and poorly supported claims about future economic impacts, which marginalise other important values.
It recommends that the Government should define and publish a single, clear research policy against which the research policies of government departments and other funders can be tested. Furthermore, it recommends that the Government should consider appointing a non-departmental senior minister to bring together research policy across all government departments and funding bodies.
"The process of selection should be transparent and accountable - without clear principles, there is a danger that research policy is determined through closed engagement between scientific, political and industry elites, with no assurance that important social values will be considered" said historian Professor David Edgerton, a member of the Working Party.
Public engagement
The Council see public engagement as an important way of ensuring that social values help to shape, select and govern emerging biotechnologies, and as a tool for putting 'public ethics' into practice. It notes that there is no universal or perfect approach to public engagement but sets out a number of dilemmas to be negotiated carefully, where failing to attend to these can lead to worse outcomes rather than better ones.
Public engagement and expert advice cannot replace the need for properly accountable decision making and for this reason the Council recommends that the conclusions of public engagement exercises, and expert deliberations, should be reported as conditional advice rather than simple 'yes' or 'no' findings.
Researchers operate in an environment of high public expectations of the social and economic impact of emerging biotechnologies and even modest advances may sometimes be significantly 'hyped up'. The Council recommends that systems for publicly funded research should be sensitive to the dangers of encouraging researchers to assess the wider impacts of their research, and that researchers should be prepared to actively engage to represent their research responsibly in other settings.
"When researchers communicate the results of their work and hopes about where it may lead, they create expectations that inform the decisions of policy makers and investors" said Professor Moran. "It's important that researchers who take part in public discussion of research take responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the information they present".
The Council says that commercial conditions that shape early stage biotechnology research, for example the patent system, create incentives and rewards that do not promote or value the social benefits of research enough.
The Council calls for consideration to be given to state interventions in the market for new biotechnologies to make sure that the benefits of innovation are secured through rewards that reflect the social value of innovations.
About the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is an independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine. It was established by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation in1991, and since 1994 it has been funded jointly by the Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Scents of Autumn: Apple, Pear, and Pumpkin
I am in the process of moving apartments, and subsequently I have been going through my beauty products recently and weeding out the empty bottles and jars that I no longer use. Some of these items are destined for the recycling bin, others will be given to friends and relatives, and the items that I won't need until next summer will go into storage, so that I can welcome new acquisitions for fall. CB I Hate Perfume's Gathering Apples Perfume is the perfect autumnal scent. It smells exactly like a crisp Mackintosh Apple straight from the orchard. I like to buy the travel-sized vial and tote it around in my purse. Next on my list are Vanilla Pear Drawer Liners by Gianna Rose. They smell incredibly like a poached pear with vanilla ice cream, and the patterns are beautiful. I especially like to line my sweater drawers with them. Last on my list is Peter Thomas Roth's Pumpkin Enzyme Peel, which is packed with Vitamin A, banishes breakouts, and smells like freshly baked pumpkin pie.
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Sometimes, maybe even often, the idea of being happy seems contradictive in the healthcare space. As healthcare professionals, most of you deal with the impact of life-altering, life-threatening, and life-ending situations daily.
Often these events occur in peoples lives without warning, hurdling them head-on into an overwhelming experience. One moment they are living their normal and the next they find themselves navigating the complexities of treatment, healthcare systems, and insurance. Lives are more than disrupted; they are torn apart. So saying, just be happy can sound trite.
Meanwhile, there is a fast-growing body of evidence that supports the important role happiness plays in our well-being. Its too common, with all the demands of life these days, to put a pin in happiness as if it can wait for a more convenient, less busy time. Ill be happy when
thinking sets us up to continually push happiness out into the futurea future no one is guaranteed. The ideal is to be happy now.
Define happiness. It is different for each person. Also, happy is an overused term; therefore, it helps to take a moment and ask yourself what it means to you. You may find there is a term like joyful, peaceful, or blessed that is a better fit. Use what works for you.
Once you define your meaning of happy, the question then becomes how. How can you create happiness when your feet ache, youve been working so many hours you cant see straight, and you are stretched beyond capacity?
Choose it before you lose it. Every moment in every day, we have a choice. Let the challenges of the day drag you down or simply choose to be happy. Humans tend to complicate things. We get sold on peace being something that requires a trek to a mountaintop or training with the top guru in India. Although you may find peace if you take that kind of journey, not everyone will have the luxury of doing so. Instead, think about standing in front of two boxes.
1. On your left, the box is marked with words like anger, upset, sadness, and darkness. On your right, the box is marked with words like happiness, joy, and lightness.
2. Look at the box on the left and ask yourself, what kind of experience will I have in this moment if I step into this box? What will I generate for myself, and others, if I stand in this box? Now, do the same for the right.
3. Choose which experience youd prefer and step into that box knowing the outcomes will be impacted 100% by the choice you make. So many circumstances and situations are things we cannot change. Where we have the most control is in choosing who we will be in every moment. So, when you can, choose happy.
Be grateful. Take an inventory of all the ways you are thriving in life and all the gifts and blessings you have currently.
Be playful. While many situations in healthcare require high degrees of focus or are not the right time for being playful, look for the windows of opportunity. There are slivers of time where bringing appropriate humor or a bit of fun can lighten the moment for everyone, raise energy levels, and reduce stress. Use your professional discretion but keep in mind that most of us spend a large percentage of time at work where we completely eliminate fun and humor, and that isnt healthy.
If happiness feels a little out of reach, swap it out for contentment at first. Look for times and ways to feel content where you are in every given moment. Contentment embodies a feeling of ease and peace. It is a good place to rest and recharge. It also helps us move into a space of non-judgment, accepting things as they are in this moment, knowing nothing stays the same. Both good times and bad times will eventually come to an end.
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Participants will also be able to ask questions during a live question and answer period with speaker Ellen T. Matloff, MS, CGC .


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Let's dance to these tunes and celebrate LGBTQ artists, musicians, and our community! Happy Pride y'all.
Valentine's Day! /
Listen to our Valentin'e's Day picks and enjoy the love in the air! Perfect to keep the spirit of Valentine's with you all day!
Quirk Holiday Mix /
Enjoy the winter weather and all your holiday festivities with these playful, seasonal jams.
Album art by Sami Cronk
Our playlist for Halloween 2018! Spooky and fun, perfect for a paaarrttyyyyy. Album artwork by Sami Cronk
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Molly Spell Artz of Spell Garden Design /
We are so thrilled to welcome our next artist Molly Spell Artz of Spell Garden Design to Quirk for our Garden Arrangements Workshop! In this workshop Molly will go over how to source from your garden while incorporating outside elements from local markets. We are so looking forward to spending this time making beautiful arrangements, learning all the tips and tricks, and taking in as much as we can from Molly's knowledge from landscape design to garden maintenance and more!
Quirk Gallery: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Spell Garden Design: I'm a garden designer living here in Richmond. I'm also mother of a three year old and love spending time outside in my own garden, cooking and hanging out with my three pet ducks.
When did you start your company Spell Garden Design?
I started my company last year after doing garden design, maintenance and installation for a few years. I decided using my art background might be a chance to stop wheel barrowing loads of mulch up and down hills. Though I am quite diesel. I still maintain a few gardens, mainly as an excuse to play in the dirt.
Working within the horticultural and design field is something that runs in your family - your father Bill Spell was a renowned landscape architect. How did this affect you growing up and inspire your current style with Spell Garden Design?
I have always been so proud to be my father's daughter, but it wasn't until he was gone that I was truly able to appreciate his work. My dad was a total boss. He designed the plaza around the Kugel Ball in front of the Science Museum of Virginia, which is probably one of the coolest projects that I get to enjoy whenever my son and I go there. I think my style is still being developed, but I'm way more into perennials than my dad was – he was a woody plants kind of guy. I want to introduce more plants that cover the ground so weeds can't thrive, all while blending various shapes, textures and blooms throughout the seasons. I also try to consider pollinators and birds when choosing plants, and I hope that my designs will inspire other gardeners to do the same.
What are the projects that currently excite you the most? Workshops? Full scale redesign of gardens, yards, etc?
I really enjoy garden consultation. I love going into a garden and problem solving to begin coming up with a plan to enhance a space. When a consultation turns into a design is always really exciting too!
Can you talk a little bit about why you want to teach this workshop?
One thing I really love about having a garden is bringing bits of it inside over the seasons. We always have something from the garden to enjoy on the dining room table. Usually I focus on interesting foliage from my garden and throw a few blooms in that I feel like I can spare. But I'm also really excited about the flux of cut flower farms I'm seeing in and around Richmond, and am hoping to incorporate some of these gorgeous blooms into the arrangements we'll be making in the workshop. I think this workshop will be helpful for anyone who wants to get creative arranging with cuttings from their own garden (or friendly neighbor's) and learn which plants can be used to enjoy both in the landscape and inside the home.
What is next for you and Spell Garden Design?
More garden design! I'm looking forward to seeing more of my designs installed and to watch them mature. And more collaborations. With owning a business, I feel like I'm suddenly part of this awesome club of small business owners, and we are finding ways to work together. Keep an eye out for projects with local makers and growers!
To sign up for our Garden Arrangements Workshop call the gallery and secure payment! (804-340-6036)
With this up and down weather we are ready to welcome spring. This is your perfect spring soundtrack to take a drive with the windows down somewhere warm and in bloom.
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Kate Koconis of Little Black Sheep Studio: Weaving Workshop Series /
Quirk Gallery: Hello again! As a refresher for anyone who didn't see our last blog post with you, can you tell us a little about yourself?
Kate Koconis: Hello! Let me introduce myself, my name is Kate Koconis. I am the sole person responsible for Little Black Sheep Studio. I design and make everything out of my home studio in Providence Forge, VA. As long as I can remember, I've been interested in making things. I grew up doing every arts and crafts project you can think of and was especially drawn to the fiber arts. I kept coming back to yarns, fabrics and other very tactile materials. When I discovered weaving, it was a game changer, I fell in love with the craft immediately. I loved every step of the process, I loved the materials, I loved the finished product, I loved everything about it. I've now been weaving for over 10 years, and still enjoy it just as much as that first time. My main focus is hand making fiber goods for you and your home. Handmade items are so special. When someone takes the time and effort to make something with passion and love, I think that shows and makes the item so much more than just a whatever it is. It becomes a memory and a feeling. I get such joy from and have such a love for the things I create, and my hope is for that feeling to transfer through the pieces to whomever is interacting with them.
This will be your second workshop at Quirk, the response to your first was amazing. How is this similar and how is this different to that first one? Do you think you've responded to the interest level of the community?
I was so thrilled with the response to my last workshop. Who knew there were so many people who were interested in weaving? Since that workshop I have had a lot of people asking me when I was going to do another one, and I'm so glad I can help fulfill the desire for those who want to learn. I had never taught a group of people before and it was a little bit daunting of a task, but I loved it. I had so much fun sharing this wonderful craft with people, and I think they had fun too. This workshop is going to be very similar to the last. I'll be going over the same basic steps and how to's of weaving. I did learn a thing or two from the last workshop though. Like anything, the more you do it the better you get. I'm excited for this next workshop since I've made a couple minor changes to my lesson, hopefully to make things easier and more streamline. I'm also very excited for the advanced workshop where we'll be going over shapes, and how to get a little more intricate with your designs.
Recently you've been experimenting a lot in the studio with embroidery and new weaving techniques. How do you decide what projects to focus on, when do you know if something new is working and a direction you would like to follow?
This is a tough question, there are so many different factors that go into why I make, and I don't really have an exact system for the decision. It is partly a creative and partly a business decision. While I love going down a new idea rabbit hole, I also need to consider what things are in demand. For this reason, I usually have multiple things I'm working on at once. I'll be working on experimental projects at the same time as production pieces. Things get really cool when these two meet. My new embroidery pieces are a good example of that. They started out as me wanting to try something totally new just for fun, and ended up being one of my favorite new pieces. I have a long list of things I want to make and I am checking them off one by one, it's just a matter of finding the time. Creatively I get inspiration from all over the place, a lot of the time it has to do with a pattern, a material, or a color. While I'm weaving is when I get most of my new ideas. I'll be working on a piece with a specific pattern and want to make that pattern with a different material, and vice versa, or I'll want to blow it up in scale. I am constantly asking myself how I can make things better or more interesting, and that drives me to always be moving forward. I am using very traditional techniques, but I try to keep finding new and exciting directions to take them in. I know I am going in the right direction if I enjoy it so much I want to just make more, and I'm excited to make more. I'll want to change color schemes and sizes of course, but if I don't want to change anything involving the materials or process, then I know I'm on to something. It helps if those things sell too, after all this is a business, but me being excited about them is more important. I know if I'm not passionate about a new idea, it's not going to work out.
I've had the pleasure to see you at local farmers markets with Amy's Organic Garden, and you're always doing something within the community, always creating. What projects and businesses are you currently working with that you're excited about?
I'm trying to get out there and get involved with as much stuff as I can. Right now I am focusing primarily on holiday markets as it's that time of year. I'm participating in more this year than ever before. It's my favorite time of year, I absolutely love going to markets (farmers markets and craft markets). It is so nice getting to meet and talk with people about my work, and also getting to meet other makers. It's always so uplifting and enjoyable. Richmond really does have so many amazing talented folks and I am thankful to be able to be a part of this community. Also this year you can find LBSS products all around town. You've been able to find my hanging planters at Addison Handmade and Vintage and weavings at Quirk Gallery for a couple years now. This year I have added Rosewood Clothing Co. and MADE which is a holiday pop-up store in Carytown, to my list of stockers. I'm always excited to support and partner with small businesses in town. Richmond has such a wonderful community that supports it's own, and I think that is really cool. I know I don't exactly live in Richmond, but I have that feeling of belonging to it that is just really nice.
What is next for you? Little Black Sheep Studio?
As for me, well anything is possible, we could potentially be adding a horse to the list of animals we have (update: we have added a horse). That or baby goats, you never know around here. I also have a few home renovation projects I would like to get done this winter. I'll be still working with Amy's Organic Garden of course, so you'll still be able to find me at the Birdhouse Farmers market every Tuesday in Richmond, and in Williamsburg every Saturday. I love working on the farm, and that is not going to change. As for Little Black Sheep Studio, I would love to get more involved in teaching more workshops/classes around town. That is something I never thought I would like to do, but now I know how rewarding it is and want to just keep it up. I'll also just keep making, following my whims and experimenting. I've had some plans for some new wearables, I may have time to test out this winter, fingers crossed. Lots to do, so little time.
To sign up for the workshop give us a call at 8043406036!
$50 per participant per class includes three hours of instruction and your very own hand crafted weaving. Introductory and advanced classes are still available, if you have any questions give us a call or you can email us at email@example.com!
Introduction Class - SOLD OUT
January 27th, January 28th and February 3rd from 12 pm - 3 pm
Advanced Class
February 4th from 12 pm - 3 pm
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Clara Cline of The Wild Wander /
As a preface to this post we would like to thank everyone who signed up for Clara's workshop Brush Lettering A Quirk Workshop! We are officially sold out! We look forward to seeing everyone who signed up for the workshop and hope anyone who was not able to sign up will join us for our next workshop. To stay up to date with announcements of new workshops follow us on our Instagram!
Quirk Gallery: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Clara Cline: Sure! My name is Clara, and I'm an illustrator and letterer living here in Richmond. My work is generally pretty focused on natural history, so it ranges from wildlife, to maps, to more ephemeral curiosities that I come across. Outside of work my interests are pretty much the same - I love spending time outdoors, combing through antique stores and museums, and I'm a little bit of a packrat - I can never get enough of old stuff.
Quirk Gallery: How did you start doing brush lettering?
Clara Cline: When I first began illustration as a livelihood I started out with a line of greeting cards. Because I was on a shoestring budget and I didn't like any of the fonts I had on my computer, I started lettering the words on the cards as a workaround. I ended up becoming really captivated with the art and science behind lettering, and brush lettering is a particularly unique challenge and in some ways exception to the normal rules of lettering. It's a lot looser, more expressive, and shows more of a personal hand than some of the more traditional forms of lettering. I can get caught up in the structure of letterforms, so practicing brush lettering is a good way to loosen things up and get more creative.
Quirk Gallery: Your company, The Wild Wander, features illustrations, printed pieces and has a big emphasis on naturally sustainable materials. How does brush lettering fit in with your company The Wild Wander?
Clara Cline: My work definitely has a nostalgic bent to it, and hand lettering is a huge part of that. When you look at old signage, old advertisements, it was almost always hand-lettered by someone, and it gives a unique characteristic to the letters that you simply don't get with type.
Quirk Gallery: Prints and towels like Flora and Fauna show you drawing from agriculture and wildlife of Virginia. What are other inspirations for your work?
Clara Cline: I feel very lucky to live in Richmond because there's no end of inspiration around me - from the landscape to the history, it's just a really rich environment. I sometimes feel like I'm a little bit all over the place in where I pull inspiration from, but I think there's some continuity in that it usually stems from a love for antiquity. In Victorian times there was a huge surge of interest in natural history and the sciences, and it became a popular hobby for amateurs to keep little collections of artifacts and catalog phenomena. I think that's probably the most accurate description for what I do - it's grounded in an appreciation for science and history, but curated in a more whimsical way.
Quirk Gallery: What is next for you and your business?
Clara Cline: I have a one year old daughter so that's definitely changed things quite a bit for my work! I'm still in the process of learning how to work with a toddler, but in many ways the lack of time has given me more focus and direction with my work. I've started to return to more detailed paintings and illustrations, which I haven't done in a long time, and I've been working on a series of sort of Audubon-inspired watercolor birds. I'm always looking to stay inspired and keep adding to my body of work, and hoping everything else follows.
Thanks to everyone who signed up for Clara's workshop Brush Lettering A Quirk Workshop! We are officially sold out!
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We are so pleased to welcome back Clara Cline for Brush Lettering: A Quirk Workshop! Join Clara Saturday, November 18th from 2 PM - 4 PM for her second brush lettering workshop with us. In this workshop Clara will go through the fundamentals of creating great lettering and teach tips and tricks for working with brushes. From Clara's Instagram The Wild Wander: I don't post quite as much lettering content on here anymore, but it's still very much the bread & butter of my work, and a subject I'm excessively enthusiastic about, so I'm very excited to be teaming up with Quirk Gallery to host a workshop next month on the fanciful, emotional, and personal world of brush lettering. No experience is necessary, and it's a great opportunity to brush up (SORRY) on lettering possibilities before the holidays - think place cards, gifts, holiday cards, and more. Materials will be provided, there are a limited number of seats so I can get plenty of one on one time with each participant. I hope you'll join us!
Floral Arranging Workshop with Deanna King of Strawberry Fields Flowers and Finds /
We are so thrilled to be hosting our first floral arranging workshop with Strawberry Fields Flowers and Finds! September 20th Deanna King will be teaching you how to create a beautiful arrangement with locally sourced flowers and lush greenery. Each attendee will construct their own bouquet in a handmade pink vessel by Mary Hooper. Workshop fee includes instruction as well as all materials and no experience is necessary. Sign up by calling the gallery at 804 340 6036. Limited spots are available!
Here is a little information about Deanna King, owner of Strawberry Fields Flowers and Finds and the instructor for this floral arranging workshop!
I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. My dream of owning a flower shop began in my youth. I have always loved flowers & plants- pretty things! My experience working at Bauman's Farm Market & Greenhouse really sparked my passion for floral design. I attended VCU and became a teacher for ten years. I was given the opportunity to buy Strawberry Fields from the previous owners, who I had actually worked for during the summer. My husband was extremely supportive of this venture and here I am ten years later. Having my shop, Strawberry Fields Flowers & Finds, has given me the opportunity to infuse my passion for floral design into the Richmond community & make my dreams come true.
We asked Deanna a few questions about the workshop and floral arranging in September!
Quirk Gallery: What will be the style for this floral arranging workshop?
Deanna King: Loose, airy, gardenesque, picked from the field.
Where does Strawberry Fields source their flowers? (We are so excited to use locally sourced flowers and greenery for the workshop!)
We source our flowers from several local flower flowers including Wind Haven Farm in Topping, VA, Prospect Hill Farm in Bumpass, VA, Essex Farm in Tappahannock, VA and Burst and Bloom in Powhatan, VA.
Can you give us a few tips for floral arranging at home?
1. Always keep your vase and water clean; the flowers will last so much longer if you change the water every few days, clean the vase, and re-cut your stems.
2. Keep your flowers in a cool place, not near a heater or the direct sun.
3. Criss cross your stems while arranging to keep your flowers in place.
In contrast to the blooms in Spring and Summer, what are your staples for floral arrangements in September?
In September we commonly use more fall colors, berries, veggies, etc. Items such as dahlia, crocosmia, ornamental cabbage, artichiokes, thistle coxcomb, etc.
Make sure to sign up for Pretty In Pink by stopping into the gallery or calling us! 804 340 6036
Wednesday, September 20th I 5 PM - 6 PM
$75 per participant includes 1 hour of instruction from Deanna King, locally sourced flowers and greenery, and a vessel for your arrangement handmade by Mary Hooper.
Hard to believe this summer's more than halfway over! Here are some of the tunes we haven't been able to stop listening to. We suggest this as the score for your next indoor/air-conditioned dance party or hangout sesh.
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Nastassja Swift will be joining us July 29th for a Felting Workshop! Nastassja is a VCUarts alumni and former Quirk team member. Nastassja currently works as a visual artist and sells her handcrafted felted figures under the name D for Dolls. Nastassja sees these dolls as miniature sculptures, each doll has their own personality and is needle felted, styled and dressed with a pinch of charm and a whole lot of sass. We sat down with Nastassja and talked about her practice and the upcoming workshop!
Quirk Gallery: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Nastassja Swift: I am a visual artist and lover of these little people I call dolls. I've been painting for the past eight or nine years, and I've kind of placed that medium aside and have really been focusing on wool as my primary medium and needle felting as my go to process. I began making dolls during my junior year at VCU and they've stuck with me ever since. There's just something about the personality, sass and individuality that is present within these little ladies that I'm very much drawn to. It literally puts a smile on my face with each completed doll and seeing who they become. This past summer, I decided to push my dolls as more than just these little objects that I make every once and a while, and really give them a platform to exist on their own, separate from the more conceptual work I was working on. From that decision and desire to give my dolls more, D for Dolls was born.
Quirk Gallery: Your workshop with us will focus on felting, when did felting become an important part of your practice?
Nastassja Swift: I learned the process of needle felting my junior year at VCU. As I was stabbing this little needle into these pieces of wool, I immediately thought of dolls. Prior to that moment, I had always been extremely intimidated by the genre of sculpture as an art form. Being that my work has been figurative since the beginning of time, I used to believe that I didn't really fit into the realm of contemporary sculpture. However, working with wool and the process of needle felting allowed me to find my way into sculpture and it felt appropriate for the kind of work I was interested in making. Felting became important because it allowed me to translate these figures from a 2D surface to a 3D space and it was something I was really excited about trying out
Quirk Gallery: Your background is in Painting and Printmaking, how does this inform your textile work (weaving, felting, etc)?
Nastassja Swift: Thinking of my paintings, I've always wanted to take advantage of the physicality of paints – allowing layers to build in ways where if one is viewing my paintings in person, you can actually see the ridges and slips that occur on the surface. In regards to my fear of sculpture mentioned in the previous question, I would always tell myself, I'm still a bit of a sculptor, just on canvas. And that tactile quality that I felt I needed within my paintings definitely informed my decision to take on a medium such as wool in my practice. But aside from surface and texture – color is just as important with comparing the mediums. I've always been told that whether it was a weaving, embroidery or something felted my fiber work feels like my paintings- and I think that has everything to do with color. My paintings have always been pretty saturated and that has directly made its way into my color combinations of wool and yarn.
Quirk Gallery: Throughout college you started the online gallery, Mist Gallery, with Lizzy Servito, what is the current status of Mist and how has it evolved since it began?
Nastassja Swift: Mist Gallery started off as this crazy idea Lizzy and I had the summer before our senior year. At the time, I don't think we really knew what we were getting ourselves into. We were just extremely eager to take on this new venture, but very much excited to be able to give ourselves the professional title of "Gallery Directors". From developing contracts, curating artists' work, maintaining a blog, designing the website, establishing a presence on social media platforms – we have definitely been able to experience some of what it means to be involved behind the scenes of an exhibition. The list of artists we've worked with has grown tremendously, and the Gallery has become something that people actually look forward to being a part of.
As of now, we're taking a bit of break to explore other opportunities, however Mist is still very much alive and I'm anxious to see where and how it exists in the next few years.
Quirk Gallery: After graduating from VCUarts you've had many amazing residency opportunities including Vermont School and VCUarts Qatar. What was the most beneficial part of those experiences for you?
Nastassja Swift: So I went to Vermont at the end of the summer following graduation, and literally a week later left the country for my residency in Qatar (pretty crazy stuff). I remember arriving at the Studio Center and just being really excited to be able to be making work outside of the school environment, and to have other people and other things influence my work. For the first time I felt like an artist, as opposed to the art student that I've been for every year up to that moment. Both experiences gave me the time and space to think about my work and really just sit with it, without the pressure of deadlines. I could breathe and really enjoy experiencing my work in a way that I hadn't before. That time and space helped with figuring out what my work needed to do and say next, so I definitely attribute my works growth and direction to both of those residencies.
Quirk Gallery: As a former Quirk intern, we're so happy to have you back with us teaching. What are you looking forward to bringing to Quirk at this workshop?
Nastassja Swift: I'm definitely looking forward to contributing to Quirk's continuing conversation and support of contemporary craft. I think that's always been something I've loved about the space and the work you guys show - your strong inclusion of the wide range of craft mediums. I'm so excited to return and that you all continuously welcome me back with open arms!
To sign up for her workshop and learn how to needle felt, call Quirk! 804 340 6036. You can also stop in the shop and sign up, limited spots available.
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Kate Koconis is the creative mind behind Little Black Sheep Studio. She makes handmade goods from her home to yours; weavings, hanging planters, pillows, blankets and more. Kate's weavings have been a staple of Quirk's store for the past year and we are so thrilled to host her for her first workshop! We sat down and talked to Kate about her life, studio and the upcoming workshop.
Quirk Gallery: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Kate Koconis: I am originally from Wisconsin, and moved to the East Coast to attend school at MICA. That is where I officially learned how to weave. I grew up playing fort with my moms large rug loom, but that was the extent of my use of our family heir-'loom'. As soon as I could, I signed up for a weaving class, and I loved it immediately. I knew I wanted to do something with the fiber arts, but until I took that first weaving course I wasn't sure where fibers would take me. I only stayed in school for a couple years, but I managed to take every weaving course they offered, some twice. The rest is history, I've been weaving for over 10 years now. A new job for my now husband is how we made the move to Virginia 7 years ago. We bought our first house 4 years ago and I was able to finally put together the perfect studio space for myself, so I could start to grow Little Black Sheep Studio.
Quirk Gallery: In your weavings you typically use natural materials, where do you source these materials and what is the importance of using natural vs. synthetic?
Kate Koconis: I prefer natural materials to synthetic materials, but I do use both. Depending on what I am making will determine which materials I'll use. When I am making a scarf, blanket, or something that is going to be in contact with you, I choose materials based on how they feel and what they are made of. I use a lot of alpaca wool, sheep wool, cotton, and linen. When I am making a wallhanging, or something that is intended to be viewed, I'll choose materials based on what they look like. I still prefer natural materials when working on a wallhanging, and mostly use blends of cotton/nylon and wool/acrylic. The only time I use fully synthetic materials is when that material is glittery. I'll always find some excuse to use glittery things, and there is nothing natural about glittery ribbon. My yarns are from all over. I can't go to a craft store without walking out with an armful of yarns. I've found yarn in antique stores, and flea markets before. I also use online sources like Etsy and WEBS, if I find a yarn and I like it, I'll scoop as much of it up as I can.
Quirk Gallery: Where did your use of traditional weaving techniques come from?
Kate Koconis: I use traditional weaving techniques because I don't think there is any other way to weave. Even with the big computerized looms in factories the general concept is the same, it's just a computer doing the thinking instead of a human. I think it is important to remember the skills/crafts of our past, and to not forget that we can make things with our two hands that are just as good, if not better, than a big computerized machine. One of my favorite things is when I surprise someone when I say everything in my store I made by hand. We live in a world now where the hand craft is being forgotten as a valuable skill. There is a shift happening where more and more things are becoming mechanized, and I don't want to see these incredible skills we have be lost. There has been a definite growth in the handmade community more recently, and my hope is that it continues to grow.
Quirk Gallery: Can you talk about the value of a handmade object and the relationship between you, the maker, and the customer who brings this piece into their home?
Kate Koconis: Handmade to me means quality. I think when most people hear the words "craft fair" they don't necessarily think quality goods. I want to change that thinking. When you buy something that is handmade, you are getting so much more than just that item. Hand making something takes longer and usually is harder to do, but you can see the time, energy, and care someone took to make it. I get so much joy out of making, and I get even more joy when I see someone fall in love with something I've made. Everything I make has a memory and joy attached to it and I hope that joy goes home with the item. I think there is more care and planning on the customers side also when choosing something handmade. Obviously I want customers to buy from me, but I want those customers to feel good about their purchase, and be excited to get it home and display it.
Quirk Gallery: You incorporate succulents and air plants into hanging planters, nests and even hanging weavings. Why create spaces for these plants in your weavings?
Kate Koconis: Adding plants to my work was an of course kind of moment. I have always loved gardening, and farming, and plants in general, and it just seemed all too perfect to add them into my collection. I love being outside and being in nature. There is a calm and ease of being when surrounded by nature. I think it is important to bring some of that ease of nature into the home. I like to create peaceful cozy environments, and adding plants to the equation seemed like a no brainer. Plus I have a slight plant obsession.
Quirk Gallery: This will be your first workshop teaching weaving, what inspired you to share your process?
Kate Koconis: Wanting to share my craft with others goes back to this feeling I have of it dying away. The more people I can get interested in weaving the better the chance it has to stay alive. Even if all you're doing with it is using it as a relaxation tool on a Wednesday night after a bad day. Or making gifts for your family. Or even if you love it so much you choose to turn it into a business, all of these options are keeping weaving going and not just in the history books.
Thankfully we have had such a lovely response to Kate's workshop that both dates have sold out! If you were interested in attending this workshop but were not able to secure a spot, sign up for our mailing list to get updates about future workshops! If you are interested in purchasing one of Kate's weaving, stop by the shop to see her beautiful pieces.
There are still spots available for our July workshop, Felting Workshop with Nastassja Swift.


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Dominach's Taekwondo Academy in Independence, Kentucky is a member of the Taekwondo America national organization and adheres to the organizations curriculum and standards. DTA has over 230 MINIONS! Basically a minion is a TKD student that thinks "kicking people in the head is awesome," follows orders (any crazy thing Mr. D can think of), and is dedicated to trust, loyalty, and honor.
Our workout facility is 3100 sq ft, with 1500 sq ft of amazing workout space. We currently have over 30 instructors with many years of experience, who are not only passionate about TaeKwonDo but also teaching. Our program is a goal oriented program, so we work hard and have fun moving each of our students skills up to the next level. We are open 6 days a week, and you come as often as you like.
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The world of typography is a vast landscape of letterforms and history, advertising and revolutions. In 1450 the Gutenberg Press changed civilization like the internet changed our civilization. Information became available to the general masses, moving the center of knowledge from the elite class to the middle of culture. Today, information and culture have merged and is filled with typography and will likely remain so until some from of mind-to-mind communication is pioneered.
Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be illiterate, or what it would be like to see words for the first time if the first time were right now. To look at letters and not understand is beyond my frame of reference, I don't remember a time before I could read, but for most of my life the content captured my attention more than the type. Mark Z. Danielewski's book House of Leaves is visually compelling yet I still did not see the letters, the fonts for themselves. (By the way, if you haven't at least looked at House of Leaves, you should immediately find a copy and check it out.) I finally began looking at type while enrolled in the Graphic Design program at ACC. Typography with Linda Smarzik opened my eyes to the level of detail possible in type design. I began to see billboards and magazines and newspapers differently. I realized every piece of type I saw in the world was placed there by someone for a specific purpose. Mostly. Sometimes it appears no thought entered into the design of a sign. My friend James Benavides started a blog called Awful Type designed to not only point out less than crafted typography, but also as a source of inspiration for anyone who must intimately consider the finer details of designing typography to communicate as clearly as possible.
Check us out at awfultype.com and be sure to appreciate the world around you because it has all been designed for you.


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The £22.6 million Teesside Advanced Manufacturing Park (TeesAMP) will offer a prime location for innovative manufacturing companies, creating an industry-leading cluster of businesses. The 11-hectare site is located less than a mile from Middlesbrough's thriving centre.
TeesAMP is already home to The Welding Institute's (TWI) £10.8m base, where it has grown its high value research, technology training, and certification activities across the oil and gas, energy, chemical, power, and transport sectors. TWI is also now home to the UK's first Offshore Wind Validation Centre.
The first phase of the TeesAMP development will create 180,000 sq ft of high quality accommodation across 10 buildings, with the potential creation of 1,000 jobs.


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How To Look After Your Jeans
Denim aficionado Mr Michael Williams of A Continuous Lean offers a definitive care guide, busting a few myths in the process
Put them in the freezer to kill bacteria and neutralise the smell… Soak them in coffee to restore their colour… Wear them in seawater to fix the dye… Roll in the sand to get the perfect fade… Never, ever wash them.
Speak to any denim devotee about his pet subject and before long the chances are you'll hear one, if not all, of the above lines of advice or variations thereon.
Here, for example, is the maintenance guide from A.P.C. which could easily double as directions for prepping a New England clambake: "Let your jeans get dirty for as long as possible, go swimming in the ocean wearing your jeans, rub your jeans with dry sand, and repeat several times, rinse in fresh (not salt) water and let dry in the sun." We love our friends at A.P.C. but this is a lot of work.
While the precise guidelines vary from brand to brand, the main rule that everyone seems to agree upon is not to wash raw denim until you absolutely have to. Why? Because while you're breaking in a new pair, they will develop a shape and character that is unique to you – whiskering at the crotch, honeycombing behind the knees and perhaps the outline of your phone or wallet in your pocket. The fade lines can be so unique, in fact, that the FBI have been known to use them to successfully identify suspects at crime scenes.
As for how to look after your jeans, a lot of the so-called guidance you can read on denim blogs has become so apocryphal, it does not smell of indigo but has the distinct whiff of hogwash.
So we asked a bona fide denim expert to lay down the laws of jean maintenance for us once and for all.
Mr Michael Williams is the founder of respected men's style site A Continuous Lean which celebrates quality and provenance. Through his work over the past seven years this proud son of the American Midwest has become one of the leading advocates for both well-made things and American manufacturing as a whole, a focus which led industry magazine Fast Company to name him one of the 100 most creative people in business. And it's fair to say he's a walking denimcylopedia.
Here, he talks us through the difference between prewashed and raw denim, discusses why some jeans cost so much more than others, advises on the length of time you should wait before washing raw denim, and demonstrates how you should wash and dry it when you can wait no more.
So does freezing malodorous jeans really remove the stink? Watch this film to find out.


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By Christine Hauser, New York Times
From a soaring skyscraper to the wide span of a bridge, landmarks and buildings around the world are often called upon as torchbearers of grief after mass tragedies.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris went dark after a bomb attack in October that killed hundreds of people in Somalia. The spire of 1 World Trade Center in New York was lit up in rainbow colors last year, one of many buildings to reflect the mourning over the dozens killed in a nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla.
And starting Wednesday, one month after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, at least 52 buildings and other structures in 19 states and the nation's capital will be lit up in orange for up to 58 nights — one night for each person killed in the massacre.
The campaign was initiated by Scott H. Rechler, the chairman and chief executive of RXR Realty, which owns and operates buildings in the New York area. It was organized with the help of Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit group that aims to reduce gun violence in the United States, where 33,000 people are killed by gunfire every year.
In an interview, Mr. Rechler said he wanted to keep a dialogue about gun control and gun violence going after the Las Vegas shooting. "I began to realize that maybe this is a way to make a statement to keep it in people's minds — that it hasn't been resolved," he said.
"These are iconic buildings that are very visible," Mr. Rechler added. "It raises awareness."
The buildings and structures cover the country, from the San Diego Museum of Man, across the Rocky Mountains to the Boulder Courthouse in Colorado, to the Skydance Pedestrian Bridge in Oklahoma City, and further east to the Helmsley Building and 4 Times Square in New York.
Illuminating a recognizable part of a city's skyline in symbolic lights sends a message of solidarity from a community, Mr. Rechler said. The ZACH Theater in Austin, Tex., is one such structure associated with the heart of a hometown.
It will do so again on Wednesday, but this time in orange, said Elisbeth Challener, its managing director.
The theater "has been a significant part of the Austin community for 85 years now," Ms. Challener said in an email. "We think of ourselves as a meeting tent where the community comes together."
The color orange came to symbolize the push to end gun violence after a Chicago teenager, Hadiya Pendleton, was shot dead in her hometown a week after performing at Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013.
"In some ways, it is like a candle, and we use candles to honor people," said John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Some buildings are lit up in orange for a few nights each June to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day. But Mr. Feinblatt said he hoped that since the current campaign would last for a longer period of time, it would linger as a reminder of the human toll of gun violence while debates on gun control legislation, including a ban on bump stocks, proceed on federal and state levels.
Not everyone Mr. Rechler reached out to in a letter was on board. The organizations behind some buildings agreed to join for one or a few days of the campaign, while those who declined entirely spoke of the sensitivity of taking on a political position, he said.
Benjamin Barbera, the curator and operations manager at the Milwaukee County Historical Society, said that starting on Wednesday, orange lights would shine up from below to fill the vaulted windows on the building's second floor in tribute to the Las Vegas victims.
But the lights will probably be swapped out soon after for other coming events and holidays.
Still, the show of architectural solidarity was expected to have an impact. The building, built in 1913, is a large, wedge-shaped structure that is visible from downtown, and is highly recognizable since local television stations point their weather cameras at it.
"It will be fairly striking for Milwaukee residents to see we are engaging in this tribute or memorial," Mr. Barbera said.
The RXR platform manages 71 commercial real estate properties and investments with an aggregate gross asset value of approximately $20.5 billion, comprising approximately 31.4 million square feet of commercial properties, inclusive of approximately 6.0 million square feet of buildings securing debt and preferred equity investments, a multi-family residential portfolio of approximately 2,500 units under operation or development, and control of development rights for an additional approximately 3,700 multi-family and for sale units in the New York Metropolitan area as of June 30, 2019. Gross asset value compiled by RXR Realty in accordance with company fair value measurement policy and is comprised of capital invested by RXR and its partners, as well as leverage.


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Recently, Chrissy was asking about our Muse. Well, mine just sparks unannounced, while driving, sleeping or just by catching a glimpse of something as plain as a piece of chipboard or substrate. I had three different materials in front of me, perfectly sized for ATCs and I wanted to experiment on mediums while doing a cohesive unit of three. I've worked on chipboard, wood and acrylic from That's Crafty! out of the United Kingdom.
My inspiration came from the Figureheads set. I wanted to create the bond between siblings. Brothers, sisters, it's all so strong and compelling, how one can stand for the other.
I've also used Cat Kerr's stamp "Brave Heart", because as we grow, one of them can help the other to be brave in unexpected situations...
...one can be the one showing the way and help you follow your heart.
I thought my triptych needed a mother so I added her to the mix, as there is no greater love in the world than the one our mother's have for us!
I've prepared a Snapguide for you on how to work the different surfaces. I used Figureheads from several packages and a pair of wings.
Supply List:
Relics & Artifacts® "Figureheads"
Relics & Artifacts® "Ancient Soul"
Cat Kerr Stamps "Brave Heart"


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First established 1905, it took Red Wing just ten years to start selling 200,000 pairs of boots per year.
Apparently, they now produce so many boots that they occasionally release some pairs under a different brand name; Irish Setter.
I recently decided to try a pair of Irish Setter boots. I was first drawn to their rustic appearance and when I found out that they were actually made by Red Wing, my mind was made up.
The question however is do they live up to the Red Wing name?
The first thing that you should know about these boots is that they are made in the logger style. Basically this means that they have a thick sole and an even thicker heel. And this in turn completely changes your stance.
If you've never worn boots like this before, which I hadn't, they can take a while to get used to. Once you get the hang of them however, the upward stance leads to significantly less stress on your feet.
And this makes them an ideal pair of boots if you work in a job that requires long periods of time on your feet. Personally, I couldn't really get used to them but I think that's more personal preference than anything else.
Another thing worth noting is that like Red Wing boots, they do they take a couple of days to break in. I've definitely worn worse but I'd still wear them around the house for a few days before trying to brave a day at work.
Safety Features
The Irish Setters come with two safety features, namely a steel toe and a steel shank. Combined you have a pair of boots that will protect your feet from both heavy objects above and sharp objects below. The soles do appear to have decent grip but I haven't been able to find out whether or not they are genuinely slip resistant.
The leathers waterproof and the cut is high. Basically, they'll keep your socks dry in anything short of a river.
Style was the reason I bought these boots and they looked even better out of the box. Personally, I think the logo is a little much but the dark tan leather and rustic appearance go well with just about everything. They're the kind of boots you can wear just as easily on the weekend as on the job.
Given the fact that I didn't really like the raised heel, I didn't wear these boots long enough to judge durability. I don't however expect any problems in this regard. First off, they're made by Red Wing who are well known for the longevity of their boots. And secondly, just holding them, you can see that they're very well made.
If you're a fan of logger boots, the Irish Setter is difficult to fault. If not, however, it's important to know what you are buying. I've tried a lot of different work boots and these are literally unlike any other pair that I've ever worn. Being a Red Wing boot, they are also pretty expensive but given the quality craftsmanship and casual style, I think they're well worth the extra cash.