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So, my days have been pretty busy lately. I have been steadily working on my paintings. I just recently bought a roll of canvas 75" x 6 yards. I can't wait to stretch out some huge canvases. I will definitely have a busy summer. It seems like the busier I get the less time I have to post up though. When every minute counts, it's kind of hard to pause and upload stuff.
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AUSTIN -- When President Obama or other large events come to town the Austin Police Department gets to work to preparing for several aspects from parking to security. Each event brings in crowds, commerce and concerns, but who's paying for it?
"We either divert resources from other parts of the city or use overtime dollars," said Austin Police Assistant Chief David Carter.
Wayne Vincent is president of the Austin Police Officer's Association. He's asking the City to require the vendors to pay the cost instead of taxpayers.
"It's becoming a big deal. With all these special events coming to town the department's having to take resources that are already strapped and put them working for the vendors, basically," said Vincent.
Organizers say this year's South by Southwest cost the City approximately $600,000 in overtime for security -- a small portion of their budget.
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Industrial Helix wrote:I think a coloring style more like the second style, with the interior outlines, would suit the map better. The Thyseneal style is a bit over used at the moment. Why don't you try something like I did for South Africa in Photoshop... just a generic mock up of what it is that you're intending to do.
Industrial Helix wrote:I much prefer the medium to photoshop colors and the sterility of computer perfection...
Industrial Helix wrote:I think a coloring style more like the second style, with the interior outlines, would suit the map better. The Thyseneal style is a bit over used at the moment. Why don't you try something like I did for South Africa in Photoshop... just a generic mock up of what it is that you're intending to do.
Victor Sullivan wrote:Ivory Coast - Why the dark blue stripes? They don't correspond to anything...
I saw you sea in Non CC maps (do not remember accurate name). I want to see your beautifull see also here
The Bison King wrote:Come on guys read the legend. It's listed TWICE why Ivory coast has dashes. Maybe there's a better way to express it visually though.
What I'm trying to convey is that While Ivory coast is adjacent to another French bonus, it is not a part of the larger bonus but is it's own smaller bonus independent of the +5 it sits next to.
1) Figure out something different than Naval superiority. Maybe sea territories? Direct connections (France to Algeria, Madagascar, maybe colonial captials).
2) Figure out something different for the metropole/colony bonus than doubling it. One option would be to have a unified empire bonus... for example, Hold Germany and Kameroon +2, Hold Germany, Kameroon and SW Africa +4, ect. Another option would be Hold Britain and receive +1 per British territory in addition to any other bonuses held (still keeping +3 for South Africa, +1 for Nigeria, ect).
3) Approach your graphics very cautiously. Obviously you don't want to make a giant watercolor and have to overhaul it.
Well, to be honest, I'm not sure the current "naval superiority" works. You've got two types of sea connections... NS and the dotted lines. Why not get rid of both and just use some sort of one way attack symbols. That would be much smoother, imo. it would also free up some space in the legend and in the south Atlantic.
Industrial Helix wrote:The only major gameplay element that I think you ought to add is a European one way attack on at least one of their major colonies. I'm thinking Britain to SA, Germany to German East Africa, Belgium to Congo, and Portugal to Angola. This way you get the Europeans able to land and conquer Africa, but Africans stuck in Africa... true to history and also makes some of the more harder to achieve bonuses, such as Portugal, easier to achieve. Maybe, even consider killer neutral ocean territories, giving European players a chance to make landings, ect. In fact, I think killer neutral sea territories would really liven up the gameplay.
Also, if you have room, a Mediterranean/Suez Canal/Red Sea Naval Superiority might be pretty cool as well.
On a side note, wasn't Djbouti French?
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (898 votes).
In short: Extremely hilly but well worth itIn full: The first race of the year and there were more hills than I anticipated, although saying that 'what goes up must come down'. Normally I am only fit enough to do a 5 mile race at this time of year so am happy with the result that I achieved. Marshalls were great and very enthusiastic and the people giving out the water were very good too. On a personal point may be would have appreciated another water station and would just like to thank everyone for making an effort as it seemed extremely organised and friendly, so THANKYOU.Date of review: February 7, 2011
In short: Hilly race but nice downhillsIn full: Greatrace. Was my first Watford half and managed to get my pb down by to 1'37. Only thing that could do with tidying up is the baggage organisation. Also i'm sure people would be happy to pay an extra couple of quid for a medal. Those Hills definately deserve a medal!! What goes up must go down so I think you more than make up for the hills on the downhill! Especially if you have a nice tailwind!!Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Good organisation, medal would be nice or a technical top In full: Very well organised. Tent in the park an improvement. Medal would be nice. Similar tee shirt every year which is pretty basic. One more water station maybe. Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: scenic rural route with a few mean hills to make it interesting.In full: my 2nd attempt at watford and the hills were meaner than I remembered but some good downhills esp in 2nd half. I liked the marquee to hang around before the race and v impressed with toilets!the goody bag was a bit big for the lack of contents but appreciated the kitkat and gatorade at the end.Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Lovely marshalls but gotta say killer hills!!! Also very little support so more treated this as a training run for the london marathon. Nonetheless well done to organisers!Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Very clubby and competitive; good organisation, bring your own support!In full: Positives: Good scenery, competitive, virtually car free, good supply of lavatories, good organisation, good marshalling, warm tent for bag collectionNegatives: Aggressively competitive, little atmosphere and very little support for independentsDate of review: February 6, 2011
In short: home area race and always a smile at the end of the park...In full: AS everyone is pointing out, challenging race..great for marathon build up as most races will not test you for the hills like this one...disagree with a few comments about pb potential..generally a flat course will win over a undulating one..anyhow slight improvement on 2009 watford(11 secs)will take this as step up to longer training for spring watford..good to be back 'home' watford!!Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Hilly, but still a great course for a PBIn full: First time, but definetly not my last. Lots of short sharp up hill stretches. But also lots of fast down hill stretches. Most of the second half was down hill. Dont know what went wrong as i did the first half faster than the second. Definetly PB potential. Great race, well done to every one involved in the orginisation. Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Good first race .. will be back next yearIn full: This was my first Half Marathon and boy do I ache. lovely marshals. One of them gave me a jelly bean at about 8 miles in. I normally hate jelly beans but this one tasted fantastic. I will definately be back next year. Berkhampstead half marathon next month here I come.Date of review: February 6, 2011
In short: Fourth time of running this one and will return again and againIn full: Yeah I really like this race. Travel over 100 miles to get there but the course is a good mix of up and down. Hills deserve respect but this is still a fast course as there is plenty of downhill. Marshalls were great and very supportive and I too prefer the marquees in the park rather than using the building on the corner. I'll be back.Date of review: February 6, 2011
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Riverview, New Brunswick
April 6, 2005
The Waverley was built in 1866 as the home of the Chipman family. Edward Chipman's house was designed to reflect his success as a merchant, but, unfortunately, he went into bankruptcy and his house was sold at auction in 1870. It became the Waverley Hotel, a fine establishment that would attract notables such as Oscar Wilde, P.T. Barnum, George Vanderbilt and many Nova Scotian luminaries. It passed through a number of hands, but for most of its life, the Waverley has operated as a first-class hotel. Today, it is a 3½-star inn.
In booking the Waverley, you will find that there are a number of different price levels attached to the various rooms which range from luxurious to utilitarian. Having stayed at three different rooms in the front of the establishment and one at the back, I can say that they will all have antique furniture and a great ambiance, but I can't guarantee anything. On this last trip we got the P.T. Barnum room. It was quite nice, with some wonderful furniture and the bathroom had been redone recently with a ceramic-tile floor and a new tub surround as well as a new Victorian pedestal sink. Needless to say, we slept like logs, perhaps encouraged by the hike up the stairs to the third floor (and that is something you might consider when you're booking--there are three floors and no elevators). Another caveat may be whether or not you are devoted to level floors. There is often a bit of a "pitch" to the floors here.
The Waverley features a number of nice touches--there are cookies and coffee/tea in the lounge from about 4 until 9pm, and a typically European complementary breakfast is served in the Friendship Room in the morning. There seems to be no end of complementary newspapers and in the very-Victorian lounge there is a very un-Victorian computer with web and email access for guests. The "welcome" is always friendly, and the parking is free.
Needless to say, I like the Waverley, and I am very pleased to see that it is being kept up. The front entry, and my room for that matter, featured new birch strip flooring and the elegant stairway to the second floor from the lobby has also been redone. As much as I like Halifax, I find that it is getting a little "pricey". The Waverley is a way to keep it reasonable and still have a nice time. Go to The Waverley.
From journal Halifax: "A Joy Forever"
by mooncross
Northern, Netherlands
December 3, 2003
The inn is within easy walking distance of the Historic District, as well as the Halifax waterfront, and has its own private parking lot. Friendly hotel staff will direct you to the main points of interest.
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Sweet Potato Mash with Bourbon Poached Pears
Author Notes: A fitness instructor friend of mine asked me to create a healthier version of sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving. I grew up hating sweet potato casserole - and I still do. My mom used to mix canned yams with condensed milk and brown sugar, and then top it off with marshmallows. Luckily, my friend asked that I nix sugar and dairy of any kind, so there is no risk of an overly-sweet gross-out episode in this recipe. Along with the subtle hint of bourbon, finishing the mash off with smoked sea salt and crispy sage help to reduce an overdose of sweetness. However, I think the latter additions are much more effective if added in concentrated portions, so I've used ramekins as my serving device instead of a large casserole dish. - The Internet Cooking Princess
Serves 6-8
- 6 Sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
- 3 Large Bosc pears, not overly ripe, peeled and chopped
- 1 c. Bourbon
- 2 Cinnamon sticks
- 1 T. Chinese five spice
- 1/4 t. Freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 c. Warm vegetable stock
- 1/4 t. Apple cider vinegar
- Top notch olive oil
- Kosher salt & white pepper
- Smoked sea salt {to garnish}
- Fresh sage {about 24 leaves, to garnish}
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Divide the sweet potatoes between two roasting pans, coating each sliced sweet potato with a little olive oil and a sprinkling of kosher salt. Roast them for 30 minutes. Then, remove the pans from the oven, turn the potatoes over, give them another light coating and sprinkling of olive oil and kosher salt, and return them to the oven for another 30 minutes.
- Just as the potatoes are finishing up, add the bourboun and cinnamon sticks to a Dutch oven over medium high heat. Let the bourbon simmer for about five minutes until it's reduced by half. {Keep your eye on it the whole time.}
- Stir in the chopped pears, ensuring each side gets coated in a little bourbon. Spread the pears over the bottom of the pot, and simmer until the pears are soft and the bourbon evaporates.
- Discard the cinnamon sticks. Add the roasted sweet potatoes, Chinese five spice, fresh nutmeg, apple cider vinegar, and vegetable stock to the same pot as the pears. Season with kosher salt {I used a few tablespoons} and a pinch of white pepper.
- Using an immersion blender, pulse all the way around the pot until the sweet potatoes and pears are completely pureed. {A ricer would work too - but the immersion blender requires less upper body work.} Taste the mixture and add any additional salt and white pepper if needed.
- In a skillet, add about a quarter cup of olive oil over medium high heat. Add the sage leaves to the oil once hot, and cook for about 30 seconds to a minute on each side or until crisp. Line the sage on some paper towels and set aside.
- Using some small ramekins, spoon about 1/4 - 1/2 cup of the sweet potato mixture in each one. Top each ramekin with one or two fried sage leaves and a sprinkling of smoked sea salt to serve.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Vegetarian Holiday Side
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Investors expecting a strong dollar this year have so far been disappointed.
Markets wobble on Yellen's debut
Janet Yellen's first press conference as Federal Reserve head knocked 1% off America's benchmark index.
Jeremy Grantham: US blows a stockmarket bubble
A new bubble is developing in American stocks, says veteran investor Jeremy Grantham.
Chart of the week: The return of big bonuses
Bonuses paid out by Wall Street banks took a hit in the aftermath of the financial crisis. But now, they have resumed their steady climb.
Alibaba heads for New York
The listing of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to be one of America's biggest.
What's wrong with gentrification?
Refugees from the Sixties counter-culture in San Francisco have been blockading 'Google buses' in protest at 'gentrification'. What's their beef? Simon Wilson investigates.
How the Fed conquered the markets
For almost three decades, US interest rates have been falling. But here, Bengt Saelensminde looks at a chart that should give investors pause for thought.
QE can never end – and Janet Yellen knows it
New Fed chief Janet Yellen knows full well the money printing can't stop. But the problem is, says Bengt Saelensminde – now the market knows it too.
Does the US election cycle herald a stock market boom?
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Janet Yellen takes the reins at the US Federal Reserve
Janet Yellen has sought to sooth market worries in her new role at the head of the Federal Reserve.


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Valpo Fairs Well on Day One of Bradley Invitational
Friday, September 12, 2003The Valparaiso University men's tennis team opened its 2003 fall season with three doubles contests at the Bradley Invitational.
The Crusaders played three different schools in doubles action, winning two by 2-1 scores and dropping the third to the hosts. Valpo downed UMKC and Illinois-Chicago.
Against Bradley, Tyler Neemann (Manassas, Va./Stonewall Jackson H.S.) and Nathan Gordon (Plymouth, Ind./Plymouth H.S.) registered Valpo's lone victory, 8-6, at third doubles. Ben Dunham-Freer (Fort Thomas, Ky./Highlands H.S.) and Jeff Vrabel (Allen Park, Mich./St. Francis Cabrini H.S.) forced a tie-break before falling 9-8 (4) at the top spot.
Dunham-Freer and Vrabel redeemed themselves later in the day though, posting a pair of victories at first doubles. They defeated UMKC 8-3 before downing UIC 8-6.
A pair of freshmen, Nic Kooyers (Holland, Mich./Holland H.S.) and Joe Venegas (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North H.S.) also picked up a pair of victories over the Kangaroos and Flames. They defeated UMKC 8-5 and Illinois-Chicago 9-8, both at second doubles.
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GCC Faster with Automatic Parallelization
The upcoming GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 4.4 will combine the existing Graphite loop optimization with autopar automatic parallelization support.
Soon-to-be-released GCC 4.4 will include the Graphite framework that should optimize high-level loops in multi-core systems, even though it has required specific compiler configuration.
IBM's Razya Ladelsky has since proposed plans in GCC mail for automating this optimization. The Graphite framework will integrate with autopar, the automatic parallelization code generator, so that upcoming versions of GCC will identify next to simple loops also more complex structures for better performance on multi-core systems.
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Sir Arthur Keith was a British anthropologist, an atheistic evolutionist and an anti-Nazi, but he drew this chilling conclusion:
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It's Kwanzaa time! We dress in African clothes. Grandma visits with good things to eat. We light colorful candles. And aunts, uncles, and cousins come from all over to share hugs and gifts and stories!
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Knit Two
Kate Jacobs - Author
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The sequel to the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, The Friday Night Knitting Club.
At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Clubincluding Georgias daughter Dakota, now a college freshmancontinue to rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the clubs projectsan afghan, baby booties, a wedding coatare pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isnt the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: its the care and attention you bring to the craftas well as how you adapt to surprises.
Chapter 1
It was after hours at Walker and Daughter: Knitters, and Dakota stood in the center of the Manhattan yarn shop and wrestled with the cellophane tape. She had spent more than twenty minutes trying to surround a canvas Peg Perego double stroller in shimmery yellow wrapping paper, the cardboard roll repeatedly flopping out of the paper onto the floor of the shop and the seeming miles of gift wrap crinkling and tearing with each move. What a disaster! The simpler move would be to just tie a balloon on the thing, she thought, but Peri had been quite insistent that all the items be wrapped and ribboned.
Gifts, smothered in bunny paper or decorated with cartoonish jungle animals, were piled in a mound atop the sturdy wooden table that was the focal point of the knitting store. The wall of yarn had been tidied so not one shelf—from the raspberry reds to the celery greens—was out of hue. Peri had also planned out a series of cringe-inducing guessing games (Guess how much the baby will weigh! Eat different baby food and try to determine the flavor! Estimate the size of the mother's stomach!) that would have caused her mother to shake her head. Georgia Walker had never been a fan of silly games.
"It'll be fun," said Peri when Dakota protested. "We haven't had a Friday Night baby since Lucie had Ginger five years ago. Besides, who doesn't like baby showers? All those tiny little footie pajamas and those cute towels-with-animal-ears. I mean, it just gives you goose bumps. Don't you love it?"
"Uh, no," said Dakota. "And double no. My friends and I are a little busy with college." Her hands rested on the waist of her deep indigo jeans as she watched Peri pretend not to fuss over the job she'd done. The stroller looked like a giant yellow banana. A wrinkled, torn banana. She sighed. Dakota was a striking young woman, with her creamy mocha skin and her mother's height and long, curly dark hair. But she retained an element of gangliness, gave the impression that she was not quite comfortable with the transformation of her figure. At eighteen, she was still growing into herself.
"Thank God for that," replied Peri, discreetly trying to peel the tape off the yellow paper so she could redo the edges. Whether it was operating the store or designing the handbags in her side business, she approached everything with precision now. Working with Georgia had been the best training she could ever have received for running a business—two businesses, really. Her own handbag company, Peri Pocketbook, as well as Georgia's store. Still, Peri felt she had done a lot to keep things going since Georgia passed away, and now that she was pushing thirty, she was beginning to feel a desire to move. In what direction, she wasn't sure. But there would be no more Walker and Daughter without her. Of that she was certain.
Sometimes it wasn't very satisfying to work so hard for something that essentially belonged to someone else. It was hers but not really hers at all.
For one thing, Dakota had seemed less and less interested in the store during the last year or so, grumbling on the Saturdays when she came in to work, typically late and sometimes appearing to simply roll out of bed and throw on whatever clothes she could find. It was quite a change from her early teens when she seemed to relish her time at the shop. And yet there were brief moments when her world-weary attitude would disappear and Peri could see the whispers of the bright-eyed, wisecracking little kid who loved to bake and could spend hours knitting with her mother in the store's back office or the apartment they had shared one floor above the yarn shop.
The shop was located on Seventy-seventh and Broadway, just above Marty's deli, amid boutiques and restaurants in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Only a few blocks from the green of Central Park, and the cool of the Hudson River in the opposite direction, it was a lovely part of the city. Oh, certainly there was lots of noise—honking taxis, the rumble of the subway underneath the streets, the sound of heels on the sidewalk and cell phone conversations swirling all around—but that was the type of commotion that had appealed to Georgia Walker when she moved in. She didn't mind the beeping of the Coke truck at 5 am bringing supplies to the deli on the street level. Not if it meant she got to live right inside the action, showing her daughter the world she had barely imagined herself when growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania.
Of course, now Peri lived in the upstairs apartment that had been Georgia's and the back office was no more. The wall had recently been blown out to make a separate showcase for the handbags she designed and sold; each purse was individually displayed on a clear acrylic shelf mounted onto a wall painted a deep gray.
The change to the store had come together after much discussion with Anita and with Dakota, and they'd consulted Dakota's father, James, too, of course, though mostly for his architectural expertise. But it made financial sense: Peri had turned Dakota's childhood bedroom in the apartment into an office so there was no need to tally up receipts in the shop anymore. Why waste the store's valuable real estate? And there had always been the understanding—with Georgia and with James and Anita after Georgia died—that her handbag business would have the chance to flourish. She had reminded them of that while purposefully avoiding the one ultimatum she knew everyone most feared: she would leave the store if she wasn't able to remodel. The concern hung in the air, and she saved voicing it unless it was absolutely necessary.
After all, what would happen to the store if Peri left? Anita, who turned seventy-eight on her last birthday though she still looked just barely old enough to collect Social Security, certainly wouldn't be about to take over. Though she continued to arrive two days a week to help out and keep busy, as she said, Anita and Marty spent a lot of their time going on quick trips, by train or car, to wonderful country inns in New England and in Canada. Those two were on a perpetual vacation, and Peri was happy for them. Envious, a little bit. Definitely. Hopeful that she'd have the same thing someday. And if that legal department coworker her pal KC kept mentioning was half as cute as he'd been described, who knew what could happen?
And then there was Dakota, who had nearly finished up her first year at NYU. It wasn't as though she could step in to run the store—or that she even seemed to want to do so anymore.
Not everyone wants to go into the family business.
Peri's decision to work at the yarn shop, and create her own designs, had not been popular within her own family. Her parents had wanted her to become a lawyer, and she'd dutifully taken her LSAT and earned a place at law school, only to turn it down and leave everyone guessing. Georgia hadn't been cowed by her mother, who flew in from Chicago to pressure Georgia into firing her, and Peri had never forgotten that fact. Even when difficulties arose over the shop, Peri reflected on how Georgia had helped her and she stuck it out. Still, the work of two businesses took up all of her days and many of her evenings, and the past five years seemed to have moved quickly. It was as though one day Peri woke up and realized she was almost thirty, still single, and not happy with the situation. It was hard to meet guys in New York, she thought. No, not guys. Men. Men like James Foster. Peri had had a mild crush on the man ever since he'd come back for Georgia, and he remained, for her, the very epitome of the successful, confident partner she longed for.
Of course, James had only ever been interested in the store from the standpoint of keeping an eye on Georgia's legacy to Dakota. And Georgia's old friend Catherine was surrounded by crap up in the Hudson Valley, thought Peri, where she managed her antiques-and-wonderful-things-blah-blah-blah store. Besides, Catherine couldn't even knit. And she and Peri had never really connected; it was more as though they shared several mutual friends but hadn't quite managed, even after all this time, to get to know each other. Peri often felt judged whenever Catherine glided into the shop, soaking in everything with her perfectly made up smoky eyes, every blond hair in place.
No, over the years the feeling had become more definite that either Peri would keep things going at Walker and Daughter or it would be time to close up the doors to the yarn shop. The desire to keep everything just as it once had been—to freeze time—remained very strong among the group of friends. So even as she advocated change, Peri felt guilty. It was almost overwhelming. Stemming from some natural fantasy they all shared but never discussed: that everything needed to be kept just so for Georgia. For what? To want to come back? To feel at home? Because making changes to Georgia's store, without her presence or consultation, would mean things were really final. Wouldn't it? That all the moments the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club and the family of Georgia Walker had experienced, the good and the bad, had truly happened.
That Georgia's yarn shop was the place where an unlikely group of women became friends around the table in the center of the room. Where Anita, the elegant older woman who was Georgia's biggest supporter, learned to accept Catherine, Georgia's old high school friend, and cheered as Catherine rediscovered her own capacity for self-respect and left an empty and unfulfilling marriage. It was at Georgia's that dour and lonely graduate student Darwin found a true friend in director Lucie, who had embarked on first-time motherhood in her forties, and that Darwin realized just how much she wanted to sustain her marriage to her husband, Dan, after a brief night of infidelity. It was at Georgia's store that her employee Peri admitted she didn't want to go to law school, and at Georgia's store that her longtime friend KC confessed that she did. It was here that Georgia's former flame, James, had walked back into her life and the two discovered their love had never lost its spark. And it was at the store that Georgia and James's only child, Dakota, had once done her homework and shared her homemade muffins with her mother's friends and flaked out on the couch in her mother's office, waiting for the workday to be finished so the two of them could eat a simple supper and go on up to bed in the apartment upstairs.
And if that all had happened, then it also meant that Georgia Walker had fallen ill with late-stage ovarian cancer and died unexpectedly from complications, leaving her group to manage on without her.
For just over five years they'd all kept on just as they'd done—still meeting up for regular get-togethers even though KC never picked up a stick and Darwin's mistake-ridden sweater for her husband remained the most complex item she'd ever put together—and Peri had left everything mostly the same in the store. Year after year, she resisted her impulse to change the décor, to redesign the lavender bags with the Walker and Daughter logo, to muck out the back office with its faded couch or to update the old wooden table that anchored the room. She kept everything intact and ran the store with the energy and attention to detail Georgia had demonstrated, had turned a profit every quarter—always doing best in winter, of course—and furiously created her line of knitted and felted handbags with every spare moment. She even found the energy to branch out in new lines, new designs.
Until, finally, she'd had enough working on her handbags late at night and never feeling rested. She put down her needles and jammed out an email in the middle of the night. She required a meeting, she'd written, had broached the remodel. It had been an impossible concept, of course, the idea of changing things. And it took a long while for Anita and Dakota to agree. Still, Peri stood firm, and ultimately the wall came down, some new paint went up, and even the always serviceable chairs around the center table were replaced with cushier, newly upholstered versions. The shop was revitalized: still cozy, but fresher and sleeker. As a surprise—and in an attempt to woo Dakota's emotional approval—Peri had asked Lucie to print an outtake from her documentary about the shop, the first film she had shown in the festival circuit, and had framed a photograph of Dakota and Georgia ringing up sales together, back when Dakota was only twelve and Georgia was robustly healthy. Appropriately, the picture hung behind the register, the Walker and Daughter logo next to it.
"She would have liked that," Dakota said, nodding. "But I don't know about the changes to the store. Maybe we should put the wall back up."
"Georgia believed in forging ahead," said Peri. "She tried new things with the shop. Think of the club, for example."
"I dunno," said Dakota. "What if I forget what it used to be like? What if it all just fades away? Then what?"
Tonight, for the first time, the entire group would see the updated store in its completed form. It was a pleasantly warm April night, and the Friday Night Knitting Club was getting together for its regular monthly meeting. Whereas once the women had gathered in Georgia's store every week, the combination of their busy careers and changing family situations made it more difficult to meet as often as they once did. And yet every meeting began with hugs and kisses and a launch, without preamble, into the serious dramas of their days. There was no pretense with these women anymore, no concern about how they looked or how they acted, just a sense of community that didn't change whether they saw each other once a week or once a year. It had been Georgia's final and most beautiful gift to each of them: the gift of true and unconditional sisterhood.
But if time had not changed their feelings for one another, it had not spared the natural toll on their bodies and their careers and their love lives and their hair. Much had happened in the preceding five years.
KC Silverman had made law review at Columbia, passed the bar with flying colors, and ended up back at Churchill Publishing—the very company that had laid her off from her editorial job five years ago—as part of in-house counsel.
"Finally, I'm invaluable," she had told the group upon starting the job. "I know every side of the business."
Her new salary was transformed, with some guidance from Peri, into a fabulous collection of suits. And her hair was longer than the pixie cut she'd had in the old days, shaped into a more lawyerly layered style. She'd experimented—for a millisecond—with letting her hair go its natural gray but she decided she was too young for that much seriousness at fifty-two and opted for a light brown.
"If I had your gorgeous silver," she told Anita, "it would be a different story."
Lucie Brennan's documentary circulating on the festival circuit had led to a gig directing a video for a musician who liked to knit at Walker and Daughter. When the song went to the Top Ten in Billboard, Lucie quickly transitioned from part-time producer for local cable to directing a steady stream of music videos, her little girl Ginger lip-synching by her side in footie pajamas.
At forty-eight, she was busier and more successful than she ever imagined—and her apartment reflected the change. She no longer rented, but had purchased a high and sunny two-bedroom on the Upper West Side with a gorgeous camelback sofa that Lucie, still an occasional insomniac, would curl up on in the middle of the night. Only now, instead of knitting herself to sleep, she typically mapped out shots for the next day's shoot.
And the tortoiseshell glasses she'd once worn every day had been joined by an array of frames and contacts for her blue eyes. Her hair, if left to its natural sandy brown, was quite ... salty. So she colored it just a few shades darker than little Ginger's strawberry blond, aiming for a russet shade.
Darwin Chiu finished her dissertation, published her very first book (on the convergence of craft, the Internet, and the women's movement) based on her research at Walker and Daughter, and secured a teaching job at Hunter College while her husband, Dan Leung, found a spot at a local ER. They also found a small apartment on the East Side, close to the hospital and college, the living room walls lined with inexpensive bookshelves overflowing with papers and notes. Unlike other women, Darwin's hair was free of gray though she'd hit her thirties, and she still wore it long, without bangs, making her look almost as young as her women's studies students.
Peri Gayle, striking with her deep brown eyes, mahogany skin, and meticulous cornrows that fell just past her shoulders, ran the store, of course.
Anita Lowenstein settled into a happy arrangement with her friend Marty, although their decision not to marry came up now and again.
"I'm living my life in reverse," she told the group. "Now that my mother can't do a damn thing about it, I'm rebelling against society's expectations." She'd been joking, of course. Moving in together was a simpler solution, quite frankly, in terms of estate planning and inheritance, and, as the movie stars say, neither she nor Marty needed a piece of paper to demonstrate their commitment.
"We'll just call him my partner," corrected Anita when yet another of her friends tripped over how to describe her relationship. "It seems overreaching to call him my boyfriend at this age."
They had, however, purchased a new apartment together and moved out of the garden apartment in Marty's Upper West Side brownstone, allowing Marty's niece to incorporate that level into her family home. Anita was seventy-eight, though she'd lie about it if anyone ever asked, and certainly appeared younger, with her layered, silvery hair and her well-cared-for hands. Thanks to Anita, Catherine truly appreciated the value of high SPF.
Catherine Anderson's little business flourished north of the city in Cold Spring, though many days she continued to take the train, spending some days in the tidy, expensively furnished cottage she'd recently purchased and others in the San Remo apartment that Anita had shared with her late husband, Stan.
It seemed that five years was about right for all that had happened to settle in, and for the urge to try something different to begin to swell.
"Not much of a surprise if the presents are all out there," exclaimed KC at the entrance to Walker and Daughter as she wheeled in a red wagon filled with stuffed animals perched inside: a monkey, a giraffe, and two fluffy white teddy bears. Peri stopped trying to rewrap Dakota's gift for a moment to wave hello.
"We should try to hide in the back office and then jump out and surprise her!" said KC, waving back even though she was mere steps away. "What do you say?"
She and Peri were from different generations—KC was twenty-three years older than Peri—but they were, as the volume-impaired and talkative KC explained to anyone who cared and often to those who didn't, the very epitome of BFFs.
"We help each other get ahead," KC explained when Dakota asked at one meeting why the two of them spent so much time together when, on the surface, they looked and acted so different from each other. "We gossip, we go to movies, she picks out my clothes, and I give her legal advice for her pocketbook business." Their shared devotion to career—and KC's years of experience—also kept up the connection. As proud as she was with her professional reinvention, KC had ultimately traded one workaholic lifestyle for another. Just as she'd put in long days at the office when she was an editor and followed it up with nights reading manuscripts, now she spent her evenings reading contracts on the sofa in the pre-war rent-stabilized apartment on the West Side that had been her parents' home.
But while Peri kept up with a steady crowd of pals from the design courses she'd taken, KC's relationship with Peri filled a bit of the gap that had been left by Georgia, who had been a young assistant when KC met her. For a woman who would never describe herself as a nurturer, KC made it a practice to look out for others and to mentor them. And she had a deep fondness for Dakota, who seemed exasperated with her latest concept.
"For one thing, no back office anymore," muttered Dakota, inclining her head toward KC and motioning her to take a look behind her. "So it wouldn't work."
"And for two, we have a no-scaring-pregnant-women policy," added Anita, who was two steps behind KC and coming through the doorway. As she did every day, Anita wore an elegant pantsuit, and a selection of tasteful jewelry. The oldest and wealthiest member of the club, Anita was also—everyone would agree—the kindest and most thoughtful. In her arms Anita carried a giant hydrangea plant in blue; Marty carried a second one in pink. She nodded solemnly.
"The renovations are excellent, my dear," she said, though Peri suspected her words were meant mainly to bolster Dakota's uncertainty since Anita had checked on the shop's progress repeatedly.
"I'm here, I'm here," came a voice from the stairwell. It was Catherine, sweeping into the room with a bit of self-created fanfare and an armful of professionally wrapped presents in brightly colored paper and a large canvas bag filled with several bottles.
"Hello, darlings," she said, blowing enough air kisses that everyone in the room got three each.
"Hello, grumpy," Catherine said to Dakota, lightly wrapping an arm around her shoulders as they surveyed the room.
"I was afraid I was late," said Catherine. "Is she here yet?" The store phone rang as Lucie called to say she wasn't able to get away from work and not to wait. Peri looked at her watch and let out a cry of concern. Quickly, KC pulled out a box of cupcakes from the bottom of the red wagon, and Catherine opened a magnum of chilled champagne without a pop.
"When I think of the Friday Night Knitting Club, I always think of plastic glasses," said Catherine to Dakota. "It adds a certain je ne sais quoi." She winked at Dakota, managed to charm a shrug out of her young pal. The two had forged a big sister-little sister bond since Georgia had taken her in years ago and let Catherine bunk on Dakota's floor during her divorce; many times in the ensuing years since Georgia died, Catherine's cynicism and over-the-top drama had been the perfect antidote to Dakota's teenage moodiness. Anita remained Dakota's source for unconditional love; Catherine was good at keeping secrets and seemed willing to become her partner in crime, if only they could think up a scheme.
"To Walker and Daughter," said Catherine, taking one sip and then another. "To the reno, to my favorite kid, and to the club." The rest of the women raised their glasses.
Even though the vague unease about the remodel persisted, Peri could tell it was going to be a happy night. Anybody could see that. The gang was all here, together again; the volume was already deafening as everyone spoke at once, trying to cram a month's worth of news into a few minutes. She began to relax as she saw Dakota flop into one of the new chairs, throw her jeans-clad leg over the arm and bum a sip of champagne off Catherine, the two of them glancing to see if Anita had noticed.
Tonight, the Friday Night Knitting Club would have made Georgia proud. They were holding a special meeting to throw a surprise baby shower for one Darwin Chiu, who was finally, after many long years of trying and hoping, expecting her first children.
Darwin and Dan were having twins.
Did you think you'd write a sequel as soon as you finished The Friday Night Knitting Club, or did that decision come later?
I was exhausted right after finishing The Friday Night Knitting Club! It was my first novel and I was ready for a good, long nap after all that writing! Though, in all seriousness, I had some other characters rumbling around in my brain and their stories deserved telling. So I wrote Comfort Food. That said, I always had a future mapped out for the members of the knitting club, and, after hearing from so many fans who were eager to know what happens, it didn't seem fair to just keep it all to myself. Writing this sequel was truly a joy, and I'm excited to share the new book with readers.
Without giving too much away, are there things that will surprise readers in Knit Two?
Knit Two is set about five years after the first book, and all of the characters are older and, in some cases, more mature. Dakota is in college now. Though just because we get older doesn't always make us wiser! There are new friendships between the characters, folks who didn't know each other as well in the original, and overall the sequel is much more upbeat than the ending of the first book.
Which character do you identify with most strongly? How much of yourself did you put into these characters?
Well, I really love all the characters - I forgive them all their flaws and mistakes. I identify with many of the struggles the characters have, to some degree, but that is something many women could say. Issues about career, about getting married, about mapping out our lives (and learning how quickly things can go off-road). I'm there in the book, and then again I'm not there. Sometimes I put personal things in quite consciously - I did that more with Comfort Food, in which the best friend has the same last name as my best friend, for example. Other times, little bits of me just seep into the characters, and it could be a favorite food they have or a pet peeve. But I tend not to write one fully developed character who is a stand-in for me - that would be too revealing!
To what extent are the characters based on your own circle of family and friends?
In The Friday Night Knitting Club, I could point to Georgia's Gran and the similarities with my own grandmother, who was a great knitter, great baker, and great lady. And so opinionated! Or I could share that when I was a little kid, I loved to bake - as Dakota does - and then when I was a teenager I was so like Darwin, who is suspicious of everything domestic. In Knit Two, the characters have all continued to grow and change, and Gran is mostly off-page in Scotland. So they're all moving beyond these similarities and truly becoming themselves.
Your characters are of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds, but their friendship mostly transcends those factors. That said, Dakota, Georgia's daughter, has to confront some issues related to her biracial background. So what does all this say about the way these kinds of differences affect friendships between women in the real world?
My personal world is made up of friends and family who are different from me - and so I think it's important that the group in the novel be multiracial, multigenerational, and have different religions and sizes of bank accounts. That's real. Because at our core, regardless of differences, I think we all share similar desires for community and connection. We want to love and be loved. And, like the women in Knit Two, most of our conversations revolve around what we're dealing with in any given moment, whether it's something about our work or our family. In other words, our struggles and similarities form the basis for our friendships. That said, differences do remain. It's important to be honest about them, not to pretend they don't exist. It is very difficult to ever fully comprehend another person's struggles when we cannot personally relate, when we haven't walked in their shoes. That's why compassion is such a crucial element in a relationship. And why I try to bring compassion to writing honestly in my novels.
Knit Two is primarily a story of friendships between women, like The Friday Night Knitting Club, but you also include some significant male characters, and there's one particularly close but platonic male-female friendship. Women's friendships are certainly special, but can men join the circle, too, maybe as associate members?
Of course men can join! And it's not just characters. Over the past year, I've heard from a handful of men who've read the book, and that's been a delight. Personally, my husband is my best friend, and many women I know have important men in their lives. It seemed only appropriate that men have a place in the novel, and developing the platonic friendship was a way to show a male character in more than just the role of the love interest.
What is it about knitting that makes it so popular right now, both traditional and hip at the same time?
Knitting is a lot of things all wrapped up in a ball of yarn. It's memory of good old days and sweet grandmothers. It can be an assertion of personality, of irony, of creativity. It can be a luxurious indulgence using the fanciest materials, and it can be a budget-minded holiday scarf using yarn on sale. You can knit all alone, or you can find a group and knit with them. Knitting has the flexibility to meet our needs for a creative and emotional outlet, and it has a very soothing rhythm. It nurtures, and I think that's a very good thing in times of uncertainty.
How's your own knitting going? When do you find time for it?
I have so many half-finished projects it is becoming ridiculous! Our guest room has turned into a stash room, which is good for me but crowded for guests. I've moved into my afghan phase - well, it's more about throws I can make in one piece - and that's all I want to knit lately. The only hiccup - and it's a good problem to have - is that I'm so busy writing, talking to book clubs, going on tour, and so on that I only have time for a few rows here or there. However, knitting on large needles has really helped stretch out my wrists, which can become stressed after being perched on the keyboard all day. So now I have an excuse to sneak in a little knitting!
The Friday Night Knitting Club was extremely popular with reading groups, and you spoke to many of them by phone. Will you do the same thing for Knit Two?
Absolutely! I talk to about 40 clubs every month. It's good fun. The telephone call-ins started when a group from Minnesota invited me to chat with them during their meeting. I was nervous but I ended up having such a good time that I blogged about the experience at katejacobs.com. Suddenly, I had more invitations, and that's when I decided to put a button on my website. Now I talk to clubs any day of the week. I've talked to clubs from the back of a cab, standing in a line for missing luggage at the airport, driving a rental car on a visit home to see my parents. (I had a headset so I was driving hands free!) Setting up the calls is easy: A member of a group just needs to send me the date & time of their club's get-together and if I can fit it in, I will!
A big part of Knit Two takes place in Italy. Did you travel there on research? How tough a trip was that?
Oh, terribly difficult, trying to figure out how to eat everything and see everything! No, it was delightful, of course, every day filled with new discoveries. My husband was with me and we both love history and walking and hearty dishes of pasta, so it was a perfect trip for us. We learned a lot, I would say, as do the characters in Knit Two. Isn't it funny how sometimes we have to go somewhere else to see what we already know?
Food plays an important role in both The Friday Night Knitting Club and Knit Two. You've also written a novel about a cooking show called Comfort Food. Are knitting and friendship and food all intimately connected with one another? Is that why you include both knitting instructions and recipes at the end of Knit Two?
Well, food keeps us going, after all. I write often about characters trying to nourish themselves, typically in an emotional sense but also in a physical sense. And whereas cooking is an important part of many characters' lives in Comfort Food, baking is significant to one member of the Friday Night Knitting Club. I know sometimes kids change their ideas of what they want to do multiple times, but I always knew what I wanted to do. So does Dakota. As for the pattern and recipes, it can be fun to have little extras in a book. Not to mention that almost every book club I speak with has made Dakota's muffins from The Friday Night Knitting Club, so I thought they needed a new recipe to try!
New York City—the Upper West Side of Manhattan, to be specific—is almost another character in the book. You grew up in western Canada, lived in New York for a long time, and now live in Los Angeles. But New York continues to have a hold on your imagination. Why?
That's something I've thought about very often, in fact. You know, I didn't like New York very much when I initially moved there. Too loud, too busy. It didn't feel like my place. But a couple of things happened. For one thing, I made a great group of friends - we used to always get together on Tuesday nights (and no, we didn't knit!) - and that helped make New York feel more like a community. For another, I met the man who became my husband, and he grew up just outside the city. But I suppose also the mix of having my first apartment, my first job, becoming an adult, all happened in New York. And being in the city on 9/11 solidifies a connection, that's for sure. While I do love California - the weather is amazing, the people friendly - right now I feel that I understand, in an intimate way, small-town Canada and urban Manhattan. And I don't think I'll ever be done exploring the lives of New Yorkers. Frankly, I think of myself as a Canadian-born New Yorker who just happens to live on the West Coast. As I say in my books, it's all about defining yourself as you want to be.
Are you working on a new book now?
I've been asked this question often lately - which I suppose is a good thing! Yes, I am happily working on a new book already. There are a lot of stories I want to tell. But I'm a bit particular about not talking about what I'm writing until it's quite far along. So you won't get any details yet!
What is the core message of Knit Two? What do you hope readers take away from it?
The Friday Night Knitting Club was about forgiveness, about getting beyond regret and moving forward. It was also about becoming independent and learning to live on one's own terms, as well as this idea of how important it is to have strong female friendships, and to recognize and honor those relationships. Knit Two is about the power of legacy, about how we hold on so tightly because we're afraid to let go - and how sometimes the letting go allows us to keep a better hold on things in the long run. This story is about falling into patterns and figuring out if and when it's time to break those patterns. About when it's time for acceptance and when it's time to be courageous and be bold. It's about the idea that success is a journey, not a sprint, and that the answers for one moment in our lives may not be the answers for another. Ultimately, Knit Two is a novel about hope.
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