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I met Julio Cruz exactly three times – once in the clubhouse at Anaheim Stadium when he was a member of the Seattle Mariners.
The other times came years later. He had long since retired. His onetime home city, which had been Redlands, was near Seattle. Someone had convinced him to come back for an off-season baseball clinic at Community Field.
A few years later, Julio was inducted into the newly-formed Redlands High School Terrier Hall of Fame.
Brooklyn-born. Moved to Redlands. Graduated. Headed for San Bernardino Valley College. Signed as a free agent. California Angels. That was just the beginning.
Julio hit .237 over nine seasons in the major league. He is, indeed, a Hall of Famer. In Redlands. The guy has taken part in some of baseball's greatest moments.
Sports Editor Jeff Lane, my predecessor at the Redlands newspaper, had done plenty on Julio during his five-year stint. Julio was a popular product. To that point, no Redlands player had ever drifted their way from that city into the major leagues.
Ed Vande Berg, a southpaw pitcher, would be next. In fact, the two would eventually be teammates in Seattle.
Julio, a 1972 Redlands High graduate, played at nearby San Bernardino Valley. Though undrafted, he was signed by the California Angels on May 7, 1974 as a free agent.
The Angels sent him into their minor league system. As a 19-year-old, he batted .241 for Idaho Falls of the Rookie League in 1974. On he went, right up the Angels' chain – .261 for Quad Cities, .307 for Salinas, .327 for El Paso and .246 for Salt Lake City at age 22.
The American League, about to expand from 10 teams to 12 teams by 1977, had to make players available in a draft pool. Julio, left unprotected by the Angels, who had ex-Red Sox second baseman Jerry Remy at the MLB level. No room for Julio.
While Julio batted .366 for Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League – stashed with the Padres' chain while Seattle organized its minor league system – it wouldn't be long before he got his shot at the major leagues.
On Nov. 5, 1976, Julio had been the 52nd player taken in the American League expansion draft when two new franchises appeared in the American League – Seattle and Toronto.
Suddenly, he was suddenly a Mariner.
In a curious draft footnote, pitcher Butch Edge was taken by Toronto out of Milwaukee's chain. Edge would eventually wind up in Redlands years later as the University of Redlands' men's golf coach.
Other players taken in the draft included Pete Vuckovich being plucked away from the White Sox by Toronto. Vuckovich would eventually wind up with the Brewers, winning the 1982 Cy Young Award.
As for Julio, he quickly turned into a Seattle stalwart. Longing for star players, Julio's base-stealing skills turned him into a popular Mariner.
He stole 59 bases in 1978, then swiped 49, 45, 43 and 46 bags over the next four seasons. What's lost in those numbers is that he stole 49 in just 107 games in 1979. During the strike-shortened 1981 season, he stole 43 times in 94 games.
If there was a weakness to his game, Julio's on-base-percentage was awfully low – his highest at .363 in '79 – but he put a lot of bunts in play to try and get on base.
There were some decent hitters in Seattle – Al Cowens, Richie Zisk, Dave Henderson, Willie Horton, Bruce Bochte, Ruppert Jones, among others – with pitchers like future White Sox teammate Floyd Bannister and Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry playing in Seattle with Julio.
In fact, Julio was on the field on May 6, 1982 when Perry (10-12 that season) won his 300th game. He beat the Yankees in the Kingdome to notch this milestone victory.
In fact, it was Cruz who fielded the grounder off Willie Randolph for the final out.
On June 30, 1983 — MLB's trading deadline — Cruz was swapped to the Chicago White Sox for second baseman Tony Bernazard. The results of that trade might've been the impetus for the ChiSox vaulting to an American League Western Division title by 20 games over Kansas City.
"Let's Do It Again" was the theme for 1984. What the ChiSox did was fall back to fifth place, 14 games under .500.
General Manager Roland Hemond, who leveraged the Bernazard-for-Cruz swap, brought in pitcher Ron Reed and practically stole future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver from the Mets.
Their contributions weren't enough to offset poor showings, perhaps reflected by 1983 ace pitchers Lamarr Hoyt (13-18) and Rich Dotson (14-15) one season later.
There were 54,032 fans at Yankee Stadium when Seaver beat the Yankees for his 300th career win. Cruz, in the dugout batting less than .180, wasn't part of that ChiSox 4-1 triumph.
On the field, though, were Hall of Famers like Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield, MVP Don Mattingly and, of course, Seaver. Managers Tony La Russa and Billy Martin squared off against each other.
One night later, Cruz was back in the lineup, going 2-for-2 off Ron Guidry — caught stealing by Yankee catcher Butch Wynegar.
The '85 White Sox club bounced back to win 85 games and actually led the division in June.
By 1986, the club was in disarray with new general manager Ken Harrelson, who had replaced Hemond, and manager Jim Fregosi. It would be four more seasons before the Chicago White Sox finished over .500.
Julio was living off an impressive free agent contract that was signed in December 1984, a six-year deal between $3.6 and $4.8 million. He never finished out his contract.
Julio played in 1,156 games; swiped 343 bases; don't forget impressive .982 defense at second base.
Released by the White Sox in July 1987, Cruz signed as a free agent with Los Angeles. But the 1987 Dodgers already had a second baseman. Steve Sax would go on to lead his team to a World Series title a year later. Julio never actually played in L.A.
He was part of the second class of Hall of Fame inductees at his former high school. In fact, Julio unwittingly opened the door to a humorous line given by fellow inductee Brian Billick, of Super Bowl fame.
Julio had spoken emotionally about his Terrier days. The memories. Boy, he had fun. The teams he'd played on. There was some success. The Terriers, with Cruz in the lineup, won the first Citrus Belt League title in 1971 — 44 years after their previous championship from 1927.
At the Redlands Hall of Fame podium, Cruz shared a memory.
"Just being in the showers with guys like Brian Billick was a thrill. Those were highlights for me. I'll never get over that."
Billick, the Terrier great defensive back/QB who was head coach of the Baltimore Ravens when they won the Super Bowl, was being inducted the same night.
In fact, Billick broke the crowd up when he said, "Julio, it's amazing to me that you felt like the highlight of your high school career was taking a shower with me."
A few years before that Hall of Fame moment, Cruz, along with ex-major leaguer Rudy Law and Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins took part in a baseball clinic at Community Field. Former Pirates and Yankees pitcher Dock Ellis, I was told, showed up late.
Hundreds of youth had shown up for that historic event at the corner of Church and San Bernardino. This was a rare moment for local youth.
Dads let their kids know who this guy was. Julio Cruz, of Redlands. Former major leaguer. Little guy. Second baseman. Switch hitter. Lots of speed. Wanna be a big leaguer? Listen. Watch.
Jenkins and Law couldn't have been more classy.
Julio, the ex-Terrier, knew he was at home.
They gave tips. They shared stories. They shook hands. Smiled. They signed autographs.
Julio became a coach. Broadcasting games for the Mariners, Julio Cruz took his Brooklyn-to-Redlands-to-Seattle-to-Chicago travels really well.
Why not a Terrier Hall of Famer? He fit the mold. While playing with, or against, all those MBL Hall of Famers, he played for one Cooperstown-bound manager, La Russa.
It was a diamond-style Redlands Connection.


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There are a ton of games out there that claim to allow players the freedom to play through game sections using different tactics and techniques. Very few of them actually back up that claim with their gameplay. I think the biggest misconception out there is that open-world games like Skyrim or Assassin's Creed allow the player to complete objectives and defeat enemies however they want.
Yeah many of these ideas for open world games were already implemented in the previous gen and the current one already improved them (even if some weren't that impressive as they seem to be).
MGS Ground Zeroes ,for one, is a open world game im very excited about for the simple fact that MGS games always encouraged exploration with plentiful of hidden items to find and eastereggs.
Open world games are the future we want more things to do in the game (if we feel like it) without compromising the single player experience but actually making it more enjoyable just like Far Cry 3 seems to be doing.
Even tough i understand that some games just need to be more linear because they want to deliver a more cinematic experience.
And people like this are why FFXIII became a corridor... People love the open world games because they want to explore them and immerse themselves in the game. Sure you're gonna face some missions/quests/bosses that you have to complete/fight in a certain way, but many just want the freedom to run around and have fun. And with Skyrim, you pretty much can kill enemies however you want as you can play your character any way you want to.
As for Dues Ex: Revolution, I love the game but you can't claim its a step in the right direction when the boss fights were complete crap. You HAD to fight them basically head on. There was no choice to sneak around or hack, etc to defeat them. Everything else in the game had a ton of choices to choose from to complete missions, and it was fun.
All types of games have their place, though saying only open world games get repetitive is just plain dumb. Just look at most 1st or 3rd person shooters, pretty much go to this location and shoot this guy. You can have both an open world and a lot of choices of how you do things. Though as e-p-ayeaH said, some games will have less freedom in order to give a more cinematic feel to the game.
Sound's like this guy wants everything on rail's. Open world games have a lot of fun things to do but its up to you to find them
Actually the article makes sense.
Technically he's right about current-gen open world games, but that's because pubs weren't willing to sacrifice graphics for gameplay.
In the previous PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era we were treated to fun games at the expense of graphics. True Crime LA gave you a ton to do around the town with random missions, so much so that replay was almost infinite.
The first Godfather was probably the only open-world game that encouraged you to explore, visit locations, talk to people and dick around to actually accomplish things. There were a ton of enterable buildings and lots of meta-games players could choose to partake in if they wanted. This has been completely absent in this current gen of gaming.
GTA: San Andreas...enough said.
I hope for next-gen it goes back to being closer to last gen. I'd like to see games for the PS4/Xbox 720 focus on breaking into emerging gameplay like the PS2 and Xbox era. I'd love to see open-world games get back to the basics of building on good gameplay mechanics. It's such a shame that these features have been put on the backburner for easily marketable games for casual audiences.


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While an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a tangerine a day may provide even greater health benefits, researchers say.
Scientists at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., say a substance found in high concentrations in the fruit prevents obesity and offers protection against type 2 diabetes in lab mice.
Their research, published in the journal Diabetes, found that the naturally occurring substance nobiletin also helped to protect against atherosclerosis — the disease responsible for most heart attacks and strokes.
"The nobiletin-treated mice were basically protected from obesity," Murray Huff, a vascular biology scientist at the University of Western Ontario, said in a release. "And in longer-term studies, nobiletin also protected these animals from atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque in arteries, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke."
Nobiletin is part of a family of molecules called flavonoids that are found naturally in citrus fruits. Tangerines boast the highest nobiletin concentration of any citrus fruit.
A Statistics Canada study suggested that one in four Canadians are considered obese.
Huff told Postmedia News that scientists fed mice a diet representing the nutrient content of western societies — high in fats and sugars. One group of mice became obese, showing elevated cholesterol and insulin levels and a fatty liver — symptoms that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
However, a second group of mice that was given doses of nobiletin in addition to their diet experienced none of the symptoms of the first group. Researchers found that nobiletin prevented the buildup of fat in the liver by blocking the genes responsible for manufacturing fat.
This isn't the first time that Huff has found a potential gold mine in the grocery aisle. Two years ago, he discovered a substance in grapefruits called naringenin offered similar protection against obesity.
"What's really interesting to us is that nobiletin is 10 times more potent in its protective effects compared to naringenin," Huff said. "This time, we've also shown that nobiletin has the ability to protect against atherosclerosis."
Huff was optimistic that the study's findings may hint at similar benefits in humans.
"It's really too early to say. But our study suggests it is well worth moving forward to study the effects of nobiletin in human studies," he said.


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In case of the failure of an election by reason of the equality of vote between 2 or more candidates, the tie shall be decided by lot, under the supervision of the Chief Election Officer. When an election is decided by lot, the candidates may agree in a signed statement to the use of a lot. If the candidates agree, they shall be bound by the lot and shall not bring an election contest under sections 6.0902 and 6.0903 after the drawing of the lot. Each candidate shall be present at the drawing of the lot together with 2 witnesses to be selected by him.History: 1977, PL 15-42 § 1.


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The influences of classical art on early Quattrocento painting have generally been sought out among those painters whom tradition has defined as «Renaissance» artists. The focal point for all such research has become especially Masaccio. An artist like Gentile da Fabriano, because he has been frequently categorized as «Gothic», is excluded from such considerations.
An appropriate examination of Gentile's work, the Adoration of the Magi, shows that the artist should be in some manner ranked among those painters who saw in classical antiquity a source of inspiration.
Vincenzo Catena: The Representation of a Musician from the Year 1529
A stylistic analysis of one of the woodcuts illustrating the treatise on music theory by L. Fogliano leads to the discovery of its author, Vincenzo Catena. From the publication date of the treatise on music we get as well the date of the origin of the woodcut, that is 1529, two years before the master's death. By this precise location in time this work is an important ex-ample of the later style of the Venetian master. Aside from its originality stylistically the woodcut by Catena is convincing proof of the close link of the artist with Venetian humanistic circles.
This iconographic study deals mainly with the changes and elaboration of the symbol of the sphere in Renaissance times. Broadening, but with reservations, Erwin Panofsky's opinions on the picture in the Louvre, for the author the main symbolism in Titian's allegory of love is that of amor mundus, of pure and noble love, as typified in the world of marital love.
It is thus mundus amoris which is an opposition to the medieval concept of the contemptus mundi – the disdain of worldly things. The coherence of the pure world of the marital virtues is shown by means of an ingenious composition of forms, depicting at the same time an internal coherence of meanings. Marital mundus amoris appears as amor mundus.
Allegorical Representations of America from the Veneto Area in the 1500s and 1600s
The age of geographical discoveries and of the rise of the great colonial empires did not bring the Venetian Republic into competition with the seafaring nations which came to subject to their dominion one area or other of the vast territories of the New World. More than enough reasons desuaded a small state like Venice from embracing any illusions of expanding across the Atlantic, in slow but inexorable decline as it was from its time-honored position of international prestige. However, in spite of the definitely marginal, though not irrelevant, position the concept of America had in the Venetian culture of the 1500s and 1600s, it is not unreasonable to ask if this culture itself had produced, or at least known and accepted some form or other of iconological and iconographic transcription of this concept and what their nature and ideological significance might be. This present work aims at finding an answer to this question.
D'Annunzio and «La peinture anglaise». One Aspect of the Young Poet's Art Criticism
On the basis of the sources the author considers the use and composition of English paint-ing which Gabriele D'Annunzio claimed a familiarity with and elegantly flashed about in grand style in his works in the 1880s, but which must have been hard for him both because of his insufficient knowledge of the language and by the lack of any direct contact with the paintings. Ready as he was to latch onto the latest innovations, D'Annunzio posed as the most up-to-date interpreter of cultural events. The present work analyzes the poet's approach to the figurative arts.
What Kind of Melancholy?
Analyzing the psychological concept of melancholy, the author draws on vast visual ma-terial, from representations in ancient art, through modern art to movies and theatre. On the conceptual level the author gives two contrasting definitions of melancholy, that of Cesare Ripa on the one hand, and that of Sigmund Freud on the other, centuries apart from each other, in order to stimulate by such contrast an immediate response, valid for considerations on radically different visualisations of the concept for different ages, backgrounds and means of expression.
Frank Lloyd Wright. The «Great Spirit» of Space
The author's consideration of the concept of space in Wright, includes a discussion of earlier commentary on this subject. Based on F. Lloyd Wright's writings and especially his Testament, the article analyzes the concept of space, which was for Wright the basis of any architecture. The author feels that the most authentic key to interpretation is to be had in the conjunction of Philosophy with Religion with respect to which poetry is a means rather than an end. The architect comes to be the prophet of a society to come and architecture a religion that establishes the laws of relationship between man and the reality surrounding him.
From Adorno's Aesthetics: Guidelines for Art Criticism
This article concretely exemplifies and broadly develops several of Adorno's ideas on aes-thetics, brought out in the conclusions of the article by this same author published in the first issue of Artibus et Historiae, where he treated several general problems of a possible sociology of the figurative arts, trying to outline the key points. The present essay does not claim to give an «alternative» proposal for interpretation of the visual arts nor to be an essay specifically on Adorno's aesthetics. The author rather asks the question whether it is right to make merely methodological use of Adorno, and chooses him rather to give an example of a certain application of sociology to considerations on art.
Sydney Freedberg is generally recognized as one of the most distinguished art histori-ans of his generation. Some preliminary observations are here made concerning the signifi-cance of his achievement. His work is by implication a devastating critique of those «art his-tories» which talk about politics, society, religion, philosophy, poetry, theology, psychology, economics, unwittingly forgetting art itself, ignoring its value. In an age when art history has often descended to pedantry, treating art as a commodity, Freedberg's work serves as a bea-con to those «amateurs» still committed to the beauty, dignity, and moral force of art.
The Film as Icon
The purpose of this work is to define the film icon from a semiotic point of view, that is, from the point of view of a general theory of signs or texts. In this perspective it is of great interest to define the iconic processes at the basis of the building up of images, as well as to define the semiotic characteristics of the icon, that is, to define those characteristics that make the image an icon sign.
The object of this investigation will thus be the basic character of the film icon, that is in other words what defines it as a substitute for reality with a high degree of similarity to it.
The practice of making films on art is already widespread, but the theory is unfortunately poor, and criticism comes up only sporadically. This state of things holds back — in Poland and abroad — the development of creativity and causes as well a constant underdevelopment of the distribution institutions. The stakes are high and this modest essay may show only cer-tain aspects of the problem. It would seem that in the twentieth century, as the imaginative evocativeness of the art book or the album of reproductions seems to wane, the film on art in its new forms of historical synthesis is able, with new force, to revive the memory of past cen-turies, and strengthen the feeling of responsibility for the human heritage.


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In 1967 Sheikh Jarrah was annexed to the municipal domain of Jerusalem. The Israeli government enacted an ordinance, which placed the property of Sheikh Jarrah residents under the control of the Israeli Custodian for Absentees property. The Absentee Property Law was enacted in 1950 gives the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property the "right" to seize, administer and control land owned by persons defined as "absentee," according to the Negotiation Affairs Department of the PLO.
In 1970 the Israeli court enacted the Legal and Administrative Matters law, which enabled Jews to make claims on property that they had previously owned in East Jerusalem. Beginning in 1970, the Custodian General approached former Jewish tenants in Sheikh Jarrah to help them liberate their properties under the Legal and Administrative Matters Law, according to Haaretz.
The Shamasna family are refugees from the 1948 war and have lived in their East Jerusalem residence since 1964. According to Haaretz, they filed the original ownership lawsuit in 2009 in response to an eviction suit brought by the Justice Ministry's Custodian; a suit engineered by right wing activists. In their appeal the family makes two claims: First that the members are protected tenants, having lived in their homes prior to the Six-Day War in 1967. This protected tenancy is based on the continuation of the protections guaranteed by the previous Jordanian government, which ensures renters are safeguarded from forced evictions or drastic rental increases. Second, the family unknowingly signed an unprotected lease agreement owing to the fact that it was in Hebrew, not Arabic.
The Israeli Supreme Court has already rejected both of these claims, but had delayed the eviction pending appeal. The courts rejection of the Shamasna's claims is based on the acknowledgment by the Israel Trustee's office of the ILF's exclusive ownership rights. The Trustees office was, after the 1967 war, charged with administering properties that were or claimed to be Jewish owned prior to 1948.
The Israeli High Court of Justice offered a compromise that would allow the Shamasna family to remain in the house only as long as their eldest family members were alive and on the condition that they pay rent to the Israeli Land Fund. The compromise further recognizes both the Fund's ownership rights of the property and requires that the family vacate the residence when the eldest family members are deceased.
Nonetheless, on Monday the claimants rejected this compromise, insisting that the Shamasna family members are not protected tenants and that the lease they knowingly signed explicitly acknowledges this. The court did not render a decision and will hear further arguments from both sides. No date has been set for a final court decision.
Settlements and the Jewish Right of Return
Sheikh Jarrah is one of a number of Jewish-Israeli settler enclaves found in Palestinian Neighborhoods throughout East Jerusalem, including the Muslim and Christian quarters of the old city. These enclaves, which like all settlements have been deemed illegal by the international community, lie in the heart of Palestinian neighborhoods and are directly supported by both the Israeli Government and the Jerusalem municipality.
Eviction suits are brought forth through the Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970—a law enabling Jews, not Palestinians, to reclaim property left behind during the 1948 war.
Eviction suits are brought forth through the Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970—a law enabling Jews, not Palestinians, to reclaim property left behind during the 1948 war.
The establishment of a Jewish presence in East Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank is succeeded through a variety of legal, military and administrative measures. In the case of the Shamasna family, and many others like them, eviction suits are brought forth through the Legal and Administrative Law of 1970—a law enabling Jews, not Palestinians, to reclaim property left behind during the 1948 war.
A different kind of mechanism has been used in the West Bank to establish some 121 settlements and another 100 outposts on Palestinian territory. According to the Israeli human rights organization B'tselem, this has been done by declaring territory as "state land," facilitating the establish of much larger settlements, including those that now surround East Jerusalem isolating the future Palestinian capital from the rest of west bank.
These tactics fit well within the Israeli State's position regarding the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "contested" territory. According to the Israeli Ministries website, "The Jewish right of settlement in the area is equivalent in every way to the right of the local population to live there." The Israeli government does not view the transfer of Israeli citizens (now some 400,000) as a violation fourth Geneva Convention. Instead, the Israeli government maintains the position that the "forced population transfer to occupied sovereign territory cannot be viewed as prohibiting the voluntary return of individuals to the towns and villages from which they, or their ancestors, had been ousted." Of course this position does not apply to the disproportionate number of Palestinians that were "ousted" from their homes inside present day Israel.
Be it a small house in East Jerusalem or one of the massive settlements that flank the cities borders, these settlements reflect an Israeli policy that openly discriminates against Palestinians. Regardless of whether the Shamasna family members are deemed protected tenants, or whether they knowingly signed the lease agreement, the fact remains; the 700,000 or more Palestinians that were forced to flee from their homes in 48 have no legal recourse to reclaim property. And while families like the Shamasnas face eviction, and more and more settlers move into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the right of return remains the exclusive privilege of one group.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Peter Vermes doesn't normally talk much about the Wizards' upcoming opponents, let alone praise them.
Vermes usually prefers to discuss his own team. But on Thursday, Kansas City's manager took time out to commend defending MLS Cup champions Real Salt Lake, the Wizards' opponents on Saturday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
"As a team, we feel that right now they are playing the best soccer in the league," Vermes said.
That's certainly not an exaggeration, either. The numbers and results back him up.
After starting the season slowly in defense of their 2009 MLS Cup championship campaign, RSL have gradually emerged as the most dangerous team in the league. They lead MLS in goals with 32 and have lost just once in their 10 games, outscoring opponents 17-5 during that period.
With that in mind, Vermes knows the Wizards' rapidly improving back line will have to play one of its most complete games of the season to shackle RSL's attack, which tore Kansas City apart 4-1 in Utah earlier this season.
"It's going to be a major challenge for us," Vermes said, "probably our biggest test of the season so far. This is going to be one where we are not just going to have to be concentrated, but we're going to have to make sure that we stick to our game plan from the very first minute of the game all the way through the 90-plus minutes of injury time."
That focus is especially important because Real Salt Lake's production isn't predictable. Seven players have at least two goals this season, and only forward Alvaro Saborio has more than four.
Three different RSL players—Saborio, Robbie Findley and Nelson Gonzalez—scored last week in a 3-0 victory against D.C. United, something that hasn't escaped the attention of Vermes and his staff.
"They are a team that can break you down in many different ways," he said, "and we've got to be prepared for all of them."
The only real question for Kansas City is whether RSL will employ the flowing style of play they have relied on all season or revert to the bunker-and-punt approach they employed last season at CAB.
Vermes, who does not know if he can count on winger Ryan Smith (hamstring), said he was guessing Jason Kreis' side would come to play. But either way, the Wizards will focus on doing what they've done best for the past two months: disrupting their opponents with pressure and an uncompromising style of play.
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The foundation for APHIS was built in 1883 when USDA's Commissioner established the Veterinary Division, the Department's first regulatory program. One year later, the Veterinary Division became the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI). Congress created the Bureau to promote livestock disease research, enforce animal import regulations, and regulate the interstate movement of animals. In the years to follow, positions were created within BAI to support inspection activities at U.S. ports of entry. Regulatory activities to protect U.S. crops began three decades later with the 1912 Plant Quarantine Act and the establishment of the Federal Horticultural Board to enforce the act. The Federal Horticultural Board was separated into various plant health bureaus in 1928.
In 1953 the functions of the BAI and the various plant health bureaus became part of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Under the ARS structure, plant and livestock responsibilities were located in either the research or regulatory division, depending on the nature of the activity.
Congress passed The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) in 1966 to provide for the regulation of warm blooded animals used in research, bred for commercial sale, exhibited to the public, or commercially transported. The law requires minimum standards of animal care to be established and enforced. Today, APHIS' Animal Care program enforces the provisions of the AWA and the Horse Protection Act, which was passed by Congress in 1970.
In 1971, the animal and plant regulatory functions were separated from ARS to become an entity known as the Animal and Plant Health Services (APHS) and in 1972 the meat and poultry inspection divisions of the Consumer and Marketing Service (later known as the Agricultural Marketing Service) were added to APHS (putting the "I" into APHIS). This organizational realignment was intended to group functions that rely on similar professional disciplines together in one Agency. In 1977, however, the Food Safety and Quality Service was established and took responsibility for meat and poultry inspections. Today, that Agency is known as USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Within the APHIS structure, animal quarantine inspection activities at ports of entry were transferred from the Veterinary Services (VS) division to the Plant Protection division in 1974. As a result, the Plant Protection Division became Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ). In 2002 the majority of port inspection activities were transferred to the newly formed Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection.
APHIS entered the Biotechnology era in 1985 when the Secretary of Agriculture designated APHIS as the agency responsible for regulating biotechnology-derived products that affect animal and plant health. In 1987 the Biotechnology and Environmental Coordination staff was established in order to perform this function within the Plant Protection and Quarantine program. In 2002, APHIS created the Biotechnology Regulatory Services program to place increased emphasis on our regulatory responsibilities for biotechnology.
In 1985 Congress also transferred the Animal Damage Control (ADC) program from the U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to APHIS, where it was later renamed Wildlife Services. This transfer enlarged the Agency, while adding a new facet of agricultural protection to the APHIS mission.
In 1987 APHIS' international programs staff (within PPQ and VS) was given Foreign Service status, thereby increasing the influence of our personnel in the international arena. International programs staff from PPQ and VS were eventually combined to become the International Services (IS) program in APHIS. Today, IS is responsible for facilitating international trade and promoting international safeguarding.
APHIS' ability to protect animal and plant health was further strengthened by the passage of the 2000 Plant Protection Act and the 2002 Animal Health Protection Act. Both laws consolidated and modernized previous animal and plant health statutes, giving APHIS more tools for safeguarding agriculture and responding to pest and disease threats.
While APHIS' mission has remained essentially the same since its creation, the scope of agricultural issues the Agency oversees has grown exponentially. APHIS remains steadfast in its efforts to prevent the introduction of foreign pests and diseases and promote the health of U.S. agriculture. The Agency's experienced cadre of scientists, veterinarians, biologists and other professionals will continue to offer innovative solutions to meet the agricultural challenges of the 21st century.
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Ross Brawn says he remains in charge at Formula One team Mercedes despite the arrival of Toto Wolff as executive director.
Mercedes' parent company Daimler have decided to shake up the management structure in the Britain-based team, with Wolff arriving from Williams and taking a stake in Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix (MGP) Ltd.
Three-time world champion Niki Lauda, a current non-executive chairman of MGP, will also acquire shares in the company, but Brawn is adamant that his authority has not been undermined.
"Toto is coming in and there is another side of the business that, quite frankly, I don't want to get involved in," he said on Thursday.
"I don't want to get involved in the commercial activities and with the support we need to give Daimler on a day-to-day basis.
"There are a lot of things Toto will be doing which are complementary to what I am doing in terms of running the team.
"But you have to have one reference. Everybody knows the only way a racing team will work is to have one reference, and I'm that reference.
"I am the team principal and I am in charge of sporting, technical and racing matters."
Brawn was speaking on the day new driver Lewis Hamilton addressed his Mercedes colleagues for the first time at their base in Brackley, central England.
The 2008 world champion, who left McLaren at the end of last season, said he had been given assurances by Brawn that the 58-year-old's role would not be changing.
"I don't read all the stories that come out, but if I've any problems or I do hear any whispers then I can give him a call, which I did, and he set me straight right away," Hamilton said.
"We already have that kind of good relationship. We have had a respectable relationship for some time now.
"From the beginning I said I'll always be blunt. It's important we have an open relationship. That's the way best way to start and he was positive about that."
The British driver said he did not feel as if he was joining a team in turmoil.
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"The guys seem hungrier than any group of people I've seen before. They seem seriously hungry to win and excited they have another shot at it this year."
Mercedes have won just one grand prix since returning to F1 three years ago but Hamilton says he is prepared to be patient while the team strive to improve.
"This is a marathon, not a sprint. It's the long haul," he said.
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Although oral cancer has taken away the lives of those who have accomplished great things, attention must be paid to those who were taken away before they ever got the chance to reach their goals. High school track star Sean Marsee was one of these.
Sean Marsee was a very popular and respected athlete at his high school in Ada, Oklahoma. A fierce competitor, Sean had won 28 medals at high school track meets in his career. Needless to say, he was in near-perfect physical shape.
He had always taken excellent care of his body, watching his diet, lifting weights, even running five miles a day six months of the year. He didn't smoke or drink, but Sean was a frequent user of so-called "safe" forms of tobacco, such as chewing tobacco and snuff. Starting at age 12, Sean began to "dip" habitually.
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When it was recommended to the 18-year old that he undergo surgery to remove the lower jaw on the right side along with all lymph nodes, muscles, and blood vessels except his artery, Sean's mother began to cry. She knew him to be quite careful and concerned with his appearance. "There might be some sinking," explained the doctor, "but the chin should support the general planes of the face." After an agonizing ten minutes, Sean finally spoke up. "Not the jawbone. Don't take the jawbone." Plans were made to carry out the other parts of the procedure.
On June 20th, Sean underwent his second surgery, lasting eight hours. At his school, teachers and students assembled during their summer vacation to honor their school's most outstanding athlete. His track coach and his assistant late came to visit Sean and present their gift, a walnut plaque.
After five weeks of healing and radiation therapy, Sean responded well. His mood and body were recovering at a record pace. In October, however, Sean started having severe headaches, and a CAT scan revealed that the cancer had spread anew, around the bottom of his brain and down his back. In November, Sean began his third surgery — the jawbone operation he had not wanted to have and much, much more.
Sean was home that Christmas, maintaining his optimism in the face of such horrible cancer, until January when he found new lumps in the left side of his cheek. The biopsy showed that they too were cancerous.
Even in the midst of this, one day Sean admitted to his mother that he still craved snuff. "I catch myself thinking," he said, "I'll just reach over and have a dip." He also believed that there was a reason for his illness, perhaps in having his story told to others, hopefully "keeping other kids from dying." Even near the end, when Sean became unable to speak, a friend asked him if there was anything he wanted to tell other young athletes. Sean took a pencil and wrote, "Don't dip snuff."
On February 25th, Sean passed away. His track star prowess did not find its zenith, but his bravery and sense of duty to others did.
John Joseph Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, one of the most celebrated and feared mobsters in Mafia history, came into the world Oct. 27, 1940, in the Bronx to John and Fannie Gotti. As a youngster, John, fifth of 13 children, moved with his family to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, then to Brownsville-East, New York.
Gotti seemed to have been born with his fists up. From the fourth grade on, he ran with kid gangs and fought other young toughs, and though he was reportedly a bright student, street lessons occupied more of his attention than those of the classrooms at P.S. 178.
As a young teen, Gotti joined a gang called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys and regularly took on gangs with similar pulp-fictionesque names. Gotti was suspended at 16 and never went back to school.
Gotti tried a brief stint in a garment factory, but soon turned to what for him was an easier and more lucrative living: petty crime. He also began making an impression on influential members of the Mafia's Gambino family, the largest of the five Mafia groups active then in New York. The Gambino family had its hands in the crime gamut, from theft to gambling to bookmaking, prostitution, and weapons trafficking; Gotti later brought drug trafficking into the mix.
In 1970, the 20-year-old Gotti married Victoria DiGiorgio. The couple moved around for a while, then settled in the Howard Beach-Ozone Park area of Queens. Three years later, the first mob murder tied at least in part to Gotti happened when the mob decided to punish a man named James McBratney, whom it held responsible for the death of Mafia boss Carlo Gambino's nephew. In May of that year, Gotti and two other men shot and killed McBratney in a Staten Island bar. Gotti plea-bargained and was sentenced to four years, serving only two before being released on parole. He promptly landed back in jail for bookmaking, did a year's time, then was arrested twice for stealing truckloads of goods and served another three years.
When he got out of prison, Gotti was formally initiated into the Mafia, began running his neighborhood and was soon tucked under the wing of Aniello Dellacroce, a Gambino family underboss. The year was 1980, and Gotti's family was growing. But one day, Gotti's favorite son, 12-year-old Frankie, was killed when a middle-aged neighbor, driving home from work and blinded by the afternoon sun, struck the child when he darted into the street on a minibike. The neighbor, Frank Favara, soon began receiving death threats. He ignored them and kept to his usual schedule. Four months later he was kidnapped on his way home from work. His body was never found. The murder was assumed to have been ordered by Gotti, though some thought others had done it in an attempt to impress the increasingly powerful mobster.
Five years later, it was clear that Gotti was poised for a major move within the mob. Other Mafia members were seen showing Gotti extraordinary deference. Early in 1985, Gotti's original mob mentor had died. Gotti had previously sought to maneuver Dellacroce to the head of the Gambino crime family; Paul Castellano had long since replaced Carlo Gambino as the family's leader and the move never sat well with Gotti. With Dellacroce dead, it was only natural that Gotti should step forward. On Dec. 16, 1985, Castellano was killed, along with one of his lieutenants, when three gunmen opened fire on them in front of a Manhattan steak house. There was no question about who had ordered the hit. Within days, Gotti (who was never arrested in the Castellano killing) had assumed the Gambino family throne.
Gotti set up his headquarters at the Ravenite Social Club and began holding court. He quickly gained a reputation for ruthless reprisal to real and rumored offenses. He was unusually flashy for a mobster, wearing expensive and impeccably tailored clothing, eating at the best New York restaurants, and acquiring a celebrity not known in the Mafia world since the days of Al Capone. The press started calling Gotti the Dapper Don. Soon another name, Teflon Don, was added to the list, as the mob bribed and pressured jurors to acquit Gotti in a series of cases against him.
In one, a 1987 racketeering trial, federal agents had what appeared to be a solid case against Gotti. Agents had recorded hours of conversations between the Gambino boss and his cohorts. But mob tactics from Gotti's thugs and legal strategy from Gotti lawyer Bruce Cutler ensured Gotti's acquittal. In 1990, a solicitation of murder trial ended the same way, with Gotti even predicting his release before reporters on his way to the courthouse.
But a year later, Gotti was snared in a trap he never saw being set. Gotti's good friend and close mob associate, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, facing life in prison for murder and racketeering charges, agreed to testify against Gotti in return for a lighter sentence. In 1992, Gravano gave nine days of testimony that fascinated the country, exposing mob tactics to sunlight and spelling the downfall of John Gotti. The jury in this trial was sequestered, and Gotti's lawyer, Cutler, was prevented from defending him because of conflict of interest. Gotti was found guilty and got life without parole.
Gotti was sent to maximum-security federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill., where he served the next 10 years relatively quietly, resorting to his customary flamboyance whenever interviewers and other visitors came around. Gotti's son, John Jr., stepped in to assume some of his father's responsibilities, but was nabbed on racketeering, extortion, and tax evasion charges and was sent to prison (Gotti's four other offspring chose a life outside the mob).
In 1998, the 57-year-old Gotti was diagnosed with oral cancer and was transferred to a federal prison hospital for treatment. But the cancer spread, and on June 10, 2002, Gotti died of head and neck cancer. The Diocese of Brooklyn would not allow the mobster a Mass of Christian Burial. Gotti was interred in the Gotti family mausoleum at St. John's Cemetery in New York.
Bob Guccione
Bob Guccione, the man known for taking skin magazines to a new frontier and freeing uptight Americans to a more authentic vision of their own carnal imaginations, began his venture as a way to fund a more genteel pursuit: he wanted to buy time and supplies for painting.
Guccione, born Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione in 1930 to devoted parents and a close family, had come a long way from his native Brooklyn and a briefly pursued course of study for the priesthood. It was the early 1960s. Guccione was in his early 30s, well into establishing his second family, living in England and having failed at managing a dry cleaning business was working as managing editor of the weekly newspaper London American. The paper was sinking fast and Guccione had to pull a dove out of his sleeve. Again.
Guccione had married Lilyan Becker at 18, abandoning his religious studies and following instead his other dream of becoming an artist, a pursuit that led him and his wife to Europe. There he and Lilyan had a child but shortly afterward she returned with the boy to California. Guccione painted around Europe, subsisting on money sent from his parents and on income from an employment pastiche ranging from cook to columnist, actor to cartoonist to private eye. He went to North Africa, where he fell in with a group of expatriates that included British singer Muriel Hudson, who in 1956 became Guccione's second wife.
Guccione and Hudson moved to London. There Guccione managed a dry-cleaning chain to support his wife and the three children they'd had. Never the social lion, Guccione soon found himself at odds with his employers and looking for work. He joined the London American's staff, but didn't set about making friends—in fact it's been reported that upon Guccione's promotion to managing editor the staff decided as one to work elsewhere. New staff were brought on board, but the ailing weekly soon shut down.
Guccione, with an infusion of cash from his father, began selling pinups and magazines. He kept an eye on the newsstands, and soon noticed that men's magazines sold the fastest—in particular, a racy yet coy American publication called Playboy. Guccione determined to best the softcore giant, and he began looking for backers. None stepped forward. Three years later the already deeply indebted Guccione decided to scare up the money himself. He produced a brochure to promote subscriptions, designing it himself, shooting the photos, and obtaining credit to print the mailer, which he posted to addresses from an outdated mailing list.
Britain did not look kindly on Guccione for sending indecent material to its pensioners, children and members of Parliament. He was briefly barricaded inside his home by police, was eventually fined 110 pounds, and was raked bloody by the tabloids–but the invaluable publicity prompted a tide of subscriptions. Guccione published his first Penthouse in March of 1965, with a cover photo he shot himself of a girl wearing only a sweater. The 120,000 issues of the inaugural edition sold out before the week was up.
The frustrated painter had launched his dream vehicle—but the responsibilities of running the magazine left him no time for his art. Guccione was publisher, editor, writer, cartoonist and ad salesman. He was also the magazine's photographer. He styled his models' hair and makeup, then posed them looking away from the camera as if it didn't exist.
"We followed the philosophy of voyeurism," Guccione told John Colapinto of Independent UK in July of 2004. "To see her as if she doesn't know she's being seen. That was the sexy part. That was the part that none of our competition understood."
Guccione's second wife had trouble understanding his reportedly intense association with the Penthouse "Pets," and eventually that tension was more than the marriage could bear. Muriel left him and took their children with her. Guccione kept working 20-hour days, pouring his energy into the pages.
But Guccione couldn't keep up that breakneck pace forever. He started looking for someone to take over ad sales. One of Penthouse's first issues had featured a scathing review of a London nightclub dancer named Kathy Keeton, whose agent called and lambasted the publisher. Guccione decided to see Keeton's performance himself and went to meet her. Impressed with her intellect, financial knowledge and drive, Guccione offered Keeton the ad sales job. The post paid nearly 100 percent less than what Keeton was making on stage. But the business-savvy South African jumped at what she saw as an opportunity. Within a few short years Keeton had built a sturdy financial foundation for the magazine. And she and Guccione had become inseparable.
When Penthouse was three years old, Guccione decided it was time to challenge Playboy on its own soil. Guccione and Keeton moved to New York, set up shop, and sent the first formal shot over Playboy's bow with an ad in the New York Times that featured the bunny logo centered in a rifle sight, accompanied by the caption "We're going rabbit hunting." An epic softcore circulation war followed.
Guccione's war strategy was to publish increasingly revealing photos and then wait to see if he got his wrist slapped. When he didn't, he'd step over the line again. Finally, in April 1970, Guccione published a photo of a nude woman walking a shoreline—a photo that featured the merest glimpse of pubic hair, a definitive step into that era's definition of obscenity. There was still no legal backlash, and by 1971 Penthouse's circulation passed the 1 million mark. Six years later it pulled even with Playboy at 4.5 million—and Guccione's fortune had grown to $5 million and was being borne ever upward by his magazine's pioneering explicitness. Eventually Guccione would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
For all his financial competitiveness with Playboy, Guccione refused to ape publisher Hugh Hefner in the social arena. Where Hefner surrounded himself with flash and glitter and satin-covered excess, Guccione invested in art for his 30-room mansion, in which he held low profile parties for business associates, favored Pets and close friends.
The 1970s saw Guccione and Keeton branching into other magazine titles—Viva (the women's equivalent of Penthouse), the award-winning Omni, Longevity, and digests of Penthouse including Forum and Variations. Guccione watched as Hefner began making movies, and soon followed suit, investing in The Day of the Locust, The Longest Yard and Chinatown before sinking $17.5 million into his own effort, the X-rated Caligula, which flopped.
Guccione hired his family to help run his publishing empire, General Media—but over the years he ostracized nearly all of his children, in some cases in disputes over financial decisions. Guccione and Keeton pumped Penthouse profits into new and ultimately money-losing magazine and film ventures, funding for crackpot medical and health schemes, a small-scale nuclear fusion reactor endeavor that failed, and another infamous failure, his attempt to build an Atlantic City casino. Guccione was squandering his wealth. And meanwhile, Penthouse's circulation was falling.
A number of factors influenced the magazine's flagging popularity: increasingly anti-pornography feminism in the 1980s, the advent of porn on video, the Internet, cable and pay-per-view, and the entry into the magazine market of lighter-weight "lads" magazines, which teased its readers rather than giving them what they could increasingly find on screen or online. Guccione responded according to what had worked before, taking Penthouse ever deeper into hardcore themes. The strategy failed. Adding to Guccione's worries was a growing mountain of tax debt. Then in 1995, his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, which quickly spread to her stomach and liver. Keeton survived until September of 1997. She and Guccione had been together more than 30 years. The grief-stricken publisher obtained permission to inter his wife on the grounds of his estate, and he left her name on Penthouse's masthead.
A year after Keeton's death, Guccione began experiencing head and neck pain. Rounds of scans and MRIs turned up nothing—but a dental exam revealed cancer on his tongue. Guccione underwent laser surgery and six weeks' radiation treatment, which left him with slightly slurred speech and unable to eat conventionally; he must take nutrition through a tube.
Fighting the cancer, fighting his creditors and fighting the failing circulation war finally took its toll on Guccione. In August of 2003, General Media declared bankruptcy, and in December of that year Guccione relinquished the helm of Penthouse.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-347?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12990410#comment-12990410 ] Sanjay Radia commented on HDFS-347: ----------------------------------- Dhruba, you had mentioned that you have a prototype for this local optimization. Could you please share the performance improvement observed and your approach. > DFS read performance suboptimal when client co-located on nodes with data > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-347 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-347 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: George Porter > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Attachments: HADOOP-4801.1.patch, HADOOP-4801.2.patch, HADOOP-4801.3.patch, all.tsv, hdfs-347.png, hdfs-347.txt, local-reads-doc > > > One of the major strategies Hadoop uses to get scalable data processing is to move the code to the data. However, putting the DFS client on the same physical node as the data blocks it acts on doesn't improve read performance as much as expected. > After looking at Hadoop and O/S traces (via HADOOP-4049), I think the problem is due to the HDFS streaming protocol causing many more read I/O operations (iops) than necessary. Consider the case of a DFSClient fetching a 64 MB disk block from the DataNode process (running in a separate JVM) running on the same machine. The DataNode will satisfy the single disk block request by sending data back to the HDFS client in 64-KB chunks. In BlockSender.java, this is done in the sendChunk() method, relying on Java's transferTo() method. Depending on the host O/S and JVM implementation, transferTo() is implemented as either a sendfilev() syscall or a pair of mmap() and write(). In either case, each chunk is read from the disk by issuing a separate I/O operation for each chunk. The result is that the single request for a 64-MB block ends up hitting the disk as over a thousand smaller requests for 64-KB each. > Since the DFSClient runs in a different JVM and process than the DataNode, shuttling data from the disk to the DFSClient also results in context switches each time network packets get sent (in this case, the 64-kb chunk turns into a large number of 1500 byte packet send operations). Thus we see a large number of context switches for each block send operation. > I'd like to get some feedback on the best way to address this, but I think providing a mechanism for a DFSClient to directly open data blocks that happen to be on the same machine. It could do this by examining the set of LocatedBlocks returned by the NameNode, marking those that should be resident on the local host. Since the DataNode and DFSClient (probably) share the same hadoop configuration, the DFSClient should be able to find the files holding the block data, and it could directly open them and send data back to the client. This would avoid the context switches imposed by the network layer, and would allow for much larger read buffers than 64KB, which should reduce the number of iops imposed by each read block operation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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The other morning we woke up to a splendid sky across the capital so I grabbed my camera and headed outside in my pjs at about 7.30am. A pink sky, well that needed to be captured.
Another reason I have been shall we say, slightly hindered this week is that my little friend has still been at home on half term. Sometimes, I was able to secure a little peace with the aid of a good book...
...other times he was not so sedate!
So the reason I have been so busy this week is that tomorrow sees the very first fair, the "Vintage Bazaar" in Frome. This has been organised by two pros, Clare and Lizzie and there will be a whopping 40 stalls at the event all of which seem to be of the highest and gorgeous-est calibre. I hope many of you will be able to join us and get a head start on your Christmas shopping. Who needs (or wants) the high street? Do you remember this strippy patchwork and those lovely embroidered circles in this post? Well now they have undergone their transformation.
I truly adore these cushions (may I say that?) and I have kept back one length of strippy patchwork to make one for myself when time permits (probably next year at this rate!) I must again thank my lovely customer Mantha, who gifted me the gorgeous embroidery. Hope you approve Mantha! (Thank you also to my lovely customer Joanne for the beautiful crocheted cushion, it looks very much at home here, as you can see!)
Other strippy patchwork, it seems I just can't get enough, has been transformed into pretty covers for address books. I've used some gorgeous fabrics for these which I've accrued recently, modern and fresh but with a vintage flavour.
Also in the "stationery" line, I have had printed a large selection of postcards and gift cards bearing all the best HenHouse images over the past few years. There are photos of the furry friends, the Den, fabric, cushions, quilts, roses, you name it, they're there! Quite a few of you have received these along with your purchases recently and the feedback has been really positive. The gift cards will be available for sale singularly and the postcards in packs of 5 (all different).
Not forgetting my most beloved vintage fabric patchwork. This time in the new and seasonal guise of hottie covers. Hotties are microwaveable heat pads, so much easier than faffing with boiling water and stinky rubber! I have made several, coming with either turquoise or pink binding and vintage button closures. They are quilted with pure cotton batting for maximum snuggliness!
More seasonal fun comes in the form of these limited edition 2010 festive sleepy owls, Gabriel and Nicholas. I love this red polka dot flanelette which I sourced from America and along with lustrous gold metallic thread, stars and snowflakes, they are a special take on the popular sleepy owls.
Twit twoo! As you may imagine, the Munchkin is loathe to let these go!
And what is that I see you snuggling on, Gabriel and Nicholas?
Out into the garden then for a spot of show and tell. It was a bit gloomy by the time I was ready to take these photos but I think the fabrics are jolly enough to brighten the darkest skies!
I have worked really hard to have two quilts ready to bring along to the Fair. The first is my first ever Christmas quilt. I have been making the star blocks when I've had an odd hour or so spare over the last few months and have enjoyed selecting all these gorgeous Christmas themed fabrics. I do think so many Christmas fabrics are very old fashioned, not so these!
The quilt is uber snuggly, with Dream Puff high loft super warm batting and is backed with red cotton flanelette. The quilt measures a generous 48" x 68", perfect for all the family to snuggle under on the sofa while eating Quality Street and watching old films!
(Please excuse our "half done" garden border!) Hopefully your eyes are firmly drawn to the lovely quilt!
I have used quite a bit of quilting on this quilt, sitching both in the ditch around each block and then in a crossed star pattern across each block. This makes the quilt deliciously pouffey!
Secondly, a quilt which has been a long time in the making is this very special "Weekend in Amsterdam" quilt, so called because this new gorgeous fabric line is called "City Weekend" and the design of the blocks is called "Dutch Windmills".
I was lucky enough to pick up a jelly roll (a set of 2.5" strips) of these fabrics at the International Festival of Quilts in August. I pieced the blocks and sewed them together but have had to wait until very recently for the yardage of the fabric to become available to add the borders and binding. The quilt is crafted entirely from cotton and has the highest quality cotton batting which gives a real vintage feel. It is backed with a tiny pink gingham cotton. This is probably the most time consuming quilt I have made to date by a long shot!
I also have a fantastic selection of cushions to take along to the fair. There are vintage patchworked squares cushions, both square and rectangular, these gorgeous hand quilted heart themed cushions made with vintage feedsack fabric and many more!
Last but not least, one very special item which has claimed a lot of my time is this little beauty...
This is the second vintage crib I have managed to make over, the first recently went to a very happy owner, and I am hoping this one will make a little girl happy on Christmas morning.
It has the added feature of having a drop side, just like a real crib. It has the usual gorgeous bedding, a fitted pink floral flanelette sheet over the mattress, a pretty vintage French top sheet, a vintage woollen blanket, a vintage embroidered pillow case and not forgetting, a proper patchwork quilt, hand bound.
Phew! Now all I need is to get in the car and head West. I have fingers and toes crossed to see many of you tomorrow for what promises to be a wonderful day. I hope everyone has a great weekend. xxx
(P.S. The promised third and last holiday post shall follow next week.)