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Which sax players really caught your ears when you were learning to play?
King Curtis, because he did sax solos for Aretha [Franklin], and his own stuff, that R&B stuff. Hank Crawford and David Newman for Ray Charles. Stanley Turrentine's little jazzy stuff for Blue Note. Cannonball Adderly—"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and a bunch of other stuff with Miles. And his brother Nat. Boots Randolph did country and western stuff. These were people who caught my ear.
When did you first hear music that you could really call "funky"?
It's got a beat that goes 'Boom-bop-boom-boom-ba-bop'—a lot of drummers set the tone for whether it's gonna be funky or not. And there was a tune called (singing) "Get out of my life, woman, You don't love me no more." Boom-ba-boom-boom-sca-boom-boom-da. Don't remember who did it. [Allen Toussaint]And we used to call that funky. But as far back as I can remember, somebody was doing something funky. And again, if it had that particular beat, it could be slowed down or be a little faster, but as long it had boom-sca-boom-da-boom, like James Brown used to do.
When somebody says jazz, I think of swing, either a standard ballad or Over the Rainbow or a medium-tempo jazzy swing tune like "Satin Doll"—that to me is jazz. It's not bad. But boom-sca-boom-de-boom-boom—hat's funky! Whatever it is, whether someone is singing it, like Aretha doing "Rock Steady," that's funky, with Bernard Purdy. That's funky, man. A lot of R&B had a groove, but I wouldn't call it funky.
What attracted you to playing that kind of music?
First of all, I was lucky that I had an older brother to play trombone and a younger brother to play drums. Because there were three of us, that almost the nucleus for a band. So there's always been a musical group somewhere, always, always, always. We would go out and find what we needed, hire someone, and boom we've got a groove.
How did you get the attention of James Brown?
The way it happened, as a freshman, I was in a group of college students and instructors, which is different from your local musical group. My second year in college, same musical group there, and my brother behind me decided to come to the same college, which meant he and I can't work together while we're in school because I'm already established in a group. But he gets into another group of local musicians in our college town, which happened to be Greensboro, N.C. So there are two groups, and sometimes he came over to sit in, and sometimes I went over to sit in with him—and that way I knew all of his musician buddies and he know all of mine.
But the day James Brown came to play, I was playing out of state somewhere while my brother was playing locally. When James Brown finished playing in Greensboro, he wasn't ready to leave, "You know what? I think I want to go somewhere to hang out." And he just happened to go where my brother was playing. And he like all the guys, especially my brother: "I like this group—but that drummer, wow!" He had the club owner tell him, "I'd like to meet him." It was James Brown, are you kidding me? "You're not going to believe this, but James Brown is here—he's sitting in the back and he'd like to meet you." WHAT?
And then he offered him a job, once he got out of school: "If you want a job with me playing drums, a handshake is all we need. Just remind me of the time I shook your hand, boom, that's it." "Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Brown."
When I got back in town, the first thing I did is check in with my brother make sure he was cool, it was 4 o'clock in the morning, and that's when I get the James Brown story. He had played all those years from childhood till college—he had really worked out what he felt was funky. Same with me. To the point that James Brown heard it, and heard that preparation. Then about another year, we decided to get out of school and get the job with James Brown.
There were a lot of stories about how strict James Brown was with his band–are they true?
Well, he enjoyed being what he thought was right, and he enjoyed everybody being on the same page. You can't think about anything else but what we're doing. So if you call that strict, then yeah. He liked stage decorum; your uniform gotta look up to par, can't look like you slept in it. He used to buy us patent leather shoes, so you had keep grease on them or they would crack, so he would have shoe inspections at a moment's notice, just to see if you had grease on your shoes. He would walk around the line sometimes seeing if you had the same tie or the right-sized tie that came with the uniform; if one of the guys' ties was different from the other ones, then you're all not in uniform. Haa haa! So whoever had the different one has got to buy six or seven more the same way so it can be uniformed! For him, uniform mean you're all wearing the same things. But I got to the point where Maceo became a title, that I got to wear different colors, a little distinction.
We used to rehearse over the same stuff, "You're not doing that freeze exactly right. I'm not satisfied." We used to go over and over and over it until he said "Okay, I think we pretty much got it now." I remember one time he had—we thought it was kind of crazy—but he had us write down the set list and then try to learn it verbatim to say the list: number one, two, three, four… like that. And this is the part we thought was a little bit out there: He would time each musician saying in order the set list. And if you can't do that, then you don't know the set. Ha HAA! That was his thing—we used to laugh! HA HAAA! But he was serious about that, if you can't do it like that—badump, bado, badump, snap, snap, snap—then you don't know what you're doing up there.
He could be a little frenetic about things like that, but we all appreciated him because he was who he was, know what I mean? He was tops in the game, of that particular style of entertainment that he was in, and everybody knew of him and kinds of shows that he did.
I like that pace, I like that style—I like to hit 'em, hit 'em, hit 'em real fast, then slow it down and then bring it up. So we attracted musicians who liked that particular style. So it was great. When we had our other groups, and had seen him two or three times and listened to him on record, we had started doing that stuff anyway. When we were in high school and saw him, my brothers and I said, "Man, we could do this: 'Try me, try me…' C'mon man, how hard is that? We could do that!"
There was great pride in being in that group. He was on top, he was the number one performer. A lot of people give him accolades, and just to be part of that group, you have a swagger about you, you walked around with your chest swellin' simply because you're one of the musicians in James Brown's band.
Was it difficult to start your own solo career?
All musicians go through this. Some of them have the desire to have their own group and do their own recordings, and some of them don't. Some of them are perfectly satisfied in being the sideman and doing a session here and doing a session there and never aspire to have their own group. But I always felt like I would be in a position to have my own group. It's all about concept—you have to be able to perform, to entertain rather than just play a musical instrument. And I always felt like I had the ability to do that, to entertain and sing a little bit, and play the instrument. You've got to do all that stuff to compete with all the rest of the groups out there, you have to give people something. A lot of people stay on the sidelines saying, "You know what? I don't know if I want to do all that. I'm just satisfied in playing my part, playing the trumpet, playing the guitar. I don't know if I want to go across the stage like Chuck Berry. I just want to stand in one spot and play."
The difficult part was coming to a time when you're saying, "I've got to wave off all this stuff people are trying to throw in front of me if I'm going to concentrate on my own career and going for it. Because the clock is ticking. If I'm ever going to do this, I need to do it now."
How was it different playing with George Clinton?
Night and day. If you've seen George Clinton's work, then you'd know. But I was really thrown for a loop because I didn't know people would say stuff like that on stage, and harmonize it. I would necessarily bring my mom to the concert. But that's his style, that's his concept, that's his thing, what he felt he had to do—he wanted to be different, and man that's different, I'll tell you. And coming from an artist making a real big deal about shined shoes and different styles of bow ties, to a guy who thinks "life ain't nothin' but a party"….you don't need to be all uptight about wearing the same colors, hey come on, life is not like that.
Then, too, two individual musicians may not think alike, so why you gotta wear the same thing as this guy? So you could go up to George and say, "You know what man? I'm into Western costumes. I'm really crazy about Bat Masterson. Wild west shows." George would go, "Man, please, if that's what you want to wear, cool." Another guy say, "I like baseball. In fact, I don't even like baseball players, I just like the umpires. Think it'd be okay if I wore an umpire's uniform?" "Man, yes! If that's what you want to do, fine!"
In the end, it's up to the individual to wear what he or she wants to wear. And that was his concept. "I'm still in my adolescent years, I want to wear a diaper." "Cool. If that's what you want to wear." In all those years I served with James Brown, 16, 17 or 18, coming from that into this kind of concept? It's like, "Whoaaaa!" Now, when it got everything crankin' musically, it got good and funky just like James Brown's band, but the decorum, the things they say, it was different like night and day.
Was it daunting to play in front of a big band for your Ray Charles project?
Hadn't even thought about it before it happened, but when my manager gave me the news, "Hey man, there may be a possibility of you doing a project with a big band." Whoa! As soon as she said big band, I immediately jumped to Ray Charles. "Well, if it happens, it'll give me the chance to do my Ray Charles album."
Do you think funk can outlast changing musical trends?
As long as people want to dance, funky music's going to be around. Because to me it has the element in it that suggests dancing, that encourages dancing. Because it's funky! People hear it, and people just want to dance—you want to move, clap your hands, do something. Get your groove on. You don't need a partner, just start moving. Do your own thing. That's what's good about funky music; it's time to party. You don't just sit there, you get up and get your groove on. That's what I like, it doesn't have any inhibitions: "Shhh! Got to be quiet!" [He sings an opera melody.] Oh man, please. That has its place, sure enough, but funky is about people enjoying themselves. We won the game or we lost the game, but right now we're not thinking about it—we're just partying. So there's room for everybody, whether you won the game or not. Let's party. Cool. Haa haa!
Music can be a difficult career to sustain. What keeps you going?
I love this. I made the choice a long time ago. At one time I thought your career was on one lane—you get a degree, you teach. That's it. The only difference is what level you teach, college or high school. That's what I thought at one time. But then my high school band director left to work with Lloyd Price, big band. But that's what made me think maybe I could be a performer rather than a teacher.
So all that comes with what I do—the traveling, the packing, preparing, going all around the world—I enjoy it. I love it, I really do. I love performing and giving people something. And I learned that good performers can strengthen people. People need to be strengthened. I love people.
I'm into people's stories, it comes easily to me. I never punched a clock in a my life, never ever. I've always been in a musical group. Always. I truly love who I am and what I do. But I love the people too. To the point where you'll hear me say more than once when I do perform, "On behalf of all of us, we love you." I try to make that my motto now. That's what keep me going. I really enjoy what I do.
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A new, unlikely, star is born
A British TV talent show has uncovered an unlikely star in the form of Susan Boyle, an unemployed 47-year-old from West Lothian in Scotland. In the mould of tenor Paul Potts, the winner of the show two years ago who went on to top the charts, Boyle is now the bookies' favourite to win the 2009 edition of "Britain's Got Talent" after she wowed judges and audience members alike on Saturday with an assured performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables".A video clip of the performance on Youtube has already been watched nearly six million times, and, according to broadcaster ITV, Boyle was applauded on Easter Sunday by friends in the congregation of the church she attends. "It was incredible. Although we sing in church not a lot of them know how good I was, so it was a bit of a shock for them", she said.The straight-talking contender, who told viewers she had "never been kissed", clearly impressed the judges, including Simon Cowell, and is expected to win the top prize — a chance to perform before Prince Charles at the prestigious Royal Variety show, win a cheque for 100,000 pounds, and, perhaps most importantly, get a crack a stardom."The whole village is cheering me on," Boyle said. "West Lothian would wish me well, I hope, that is the kind of community it is. And I will be doing my best. Before I left, they told me, 'If you can behave yourself and stop your carry on, you will do well. You can sing okay' Who am I to let them down?"
Susan Boyle, my fingers are soooo crossed for you. I hope very much you win, and knock the world on their A** with your talent. You are amazing and I would buy any record you had available. Best of Luck.
Susan – I've seen the video, and lady, you WOWED them all. May your success continue for as long as you choose! Simon Cowell may say not-so-nice things at times, but the man can spot talent, and is not easily impressed. He was impressed with you! Congrats!
Susan Boyle, you are So utterly amazing. I got goosebumps and tears in my eyes listening to your beautiful rendition. You could put Patty LuPone through her paces with singing like that! To reiterate the comment above, I am SOOOOOOO pulling for you! Good Luck, chickie!
Susan, Susan You are angel living on earth.. what a talent …What a voice!!, I could not believe myself in heaven listening to an angel sing. I have cried everytime I played your video and i have watched it over 10 time. It is amazing. out of this world. I am just sad they did not discovered you sooner so the whole world could enjoy such a delightful voice for a longer time. Your are the winner NO doubt..congratulations and enjoy your sudden fame!
Susan, once in a while, a voice like yours mesmerises. I would compare it to Celine Dion's although I believe you are far better than the Canadian singer. I wish you all the luck in the world.
The entire performance was like something out of a movie, only with much, much better singing. I was completely and utterly floored. What a bright star she is.
My wife showed this to me Sunday morning. I wept – not just for her singing, but for how the song matched her life.God wraps his most precious gifts in unattractive packages we may never open. Wake up call as Amanda Holden said during the judges after performance calls.It's been a real pleasure reading comments from people the world over who were as touched as I've been every time I watch this.This 53 year old male record biz veteran has high hopes for the future of music after this. Look how we responded.And that's not counting the better angels she summoned in all of us.
Brightest blessings, Susan! Your talent is amazing, and it is such a joy to hear you sing. I can't wait for your CD!So wonderful to see some good news for a change, and to see a decent, talented, not-full-of-herself person like Susan get a chance.
You, Miss Boyle are a WORLD TREASUE. Thank you for the great talent and gift. Hope have a huge success in the future.
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Ian Mathany (Law '08), Pro Bono Student Co-Coordinator, works with Lindsay Goldenberg (Law '08) of the Family Law Project in the Queen's Law Pro Bono office.
Pro Bono is Latin, meaning "for the public good". This was on the forefront of everyone's minds at the annual Pro Bono Students Canada Program launch held earlier in the fall 2006 term.
"The launch was a great success," said Ian Mathany, Law '08, one of the two Student Coordinators of the 2006/07 Student Program at Queen's Faculty of Law. "We had about 120 students and members of the community turn out for it, and I think hearing about Pro Bono and the different ways students can get involved really sparked a lot of interest, especially in the first year class."
The Pro Bono Students Canada program is focused on getting students out into the community in partnership with Non-Profit Organizations that work in an area of law. This year, there are 24 active student projects at Queen's Law. Some of the larger Pro Bono initiatives include the Family Law Project, and the Pro Bono Students Canada Radio Show, a program unique to Queen's Faculty of Law. Those students working with the Pro Bono program are given the opportunity to participate in a variety of areas, from legal research to directly working with members of the community in a legal setting. The newest Pro Bono project at Queen's Law is the Small Claims Court Project, where students are sent to the County Courthouse in Kingston to work with people who do not have legal representation for their small court claim.
"[It] has been a tremendous experience for me," said Danielle Malone, the second Student Coordinator of the Queen's Chapter of Pro Bono. "To me, Pro Bono reflects the commitment of the faculty to social justice and public service in the legal profession. It is rewarding to see so many students so keen to participate and contribute right from the very beginning of their careers."
The guest speaker for the launch was Justice Goudge of the Ontario Court of Appeal. His lecture centered on why Pro Bono should matter to lawyers. "His talk focused on the fact that Pro Bono promotes equal access to justice for all people," explained Mathany. "Justice Goudge impressed upon the students that the fairly recent Pro Bono initiatives have changed the legal culture in Ontario... Now students are coming out of law school demanding that their firms have Pro Bono opportunities for them."
The Pro Bono experience itself is very skill oriented, as it gives students the opportunity to do actual legal work within the community. Under the guidance of experienced lawyers, students can develop initial legal skills like research and public interaction that will benefit them their entire legal careers. "[It's] very rewarding" said Mathany. "Because you are exposed to different organizations with different mandates, you really get to work with a broad group of organizations that have a diverse range of social needs. For me personally, I get to meet and work with a lot of first years who are very excited to take part in their first real legal experience"
For more information on the Queen's Chapter of Pro Bono Students Canada, and how to become involved in the program, please visit their website at http://law.queensu.ca/students/proBonoStudentsCanada.html.


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Passaddhi is a small meditation centre outside Adrigole on the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland. Passaddhi overlooks Bantry Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and is situated on a quiet hillside between Hungry Hill and the Sugarloaf Mountain. In 1996 Marjó Oosterhoff and her husband built it as their family home, and since 1999 meditation retreats take place at the house. Passaddhi (meaning 'peace and tranquillity') is the perfect environment to experience the calm, clarity and contentment meditation practice can bring.
Passaddhi seeks to make the teachings of the Buddha, and in particular the meditation practices of vipassana (mindfulness or insight), and metta (loving-kindness) available to as many people as possible, whether they are Buddhist or not.
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Derrick Miller
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Duncan Public Schools has taken the stance there is more to education than high stakes testing.
During Monday's regular meeting, the Duncan Board of Education approved a resolution regarding high stakes testing. Superintendent Sherry Labyer said the resolution downplays the importance of such testing as it applies to the learning occurring in classrooms.
"High stakes testing is not the end all and be all," Labyer said.
She said the resolution has become important because of the district's curriculum change from PASS Objectives to Common Core and the introduction of Career Pathways.
Part of the difference in the two curriculum types is the student involvement in the learning process.
Common Core makes students more responsible for what they learn and requires them to think about how they arrive at an answer in their assignments.
"Common Core is not a route movement," Labyer said. "It digs deeper."
Although testing will continue to be part of the learning process, Common Core isn't aimed at preparing students to take tests but getting them to think beyond the basics.
"We're about more than testing students," she said.
The introduction of Common Core isn't the only change starting with the 2012-13 school year. At the high school level, traditional scheduling is returning. With traditional scheduling, students will attend seven 50-minute classes every day instead of being in the same class for longer blocks of time.
All of the schools will experience a change in start times. All the elementary schools and Duncan High School will start each day at 8 a.m. Duncan Middle School's start time is changing to 8:30 a.m. The change in schedule is a result of the change to traditional schedule.
From elementary to high school, every grade level will feel the impact of Duncan's pilot program, Career Pathways. This program will get students thinking about what they want to do after graduation and will help them determine what classes they need to follow a specific career path.
Duncan Middle School will also take on Project Lead the Way, which will give some students and introduction to various jobs in science in math. This will tie into Career Pathways and will help students realize what jobs are available in those fields.
In other action:
n The school board entered into an agreement with the Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration (CCOSA). The agreement will allow the district to participate in CCOSA's Legal Assistance Program for the 2012-13 school year. The cost of entering the agreement is $800.
"The reason I recommend we enter into this agreement is because they have a new staff attorney who specializes in special education law," Labyer said. "If we have any questions, we would have access to her."
n The board approved an agreement with South Central Oklahoma Online Consortium Cooperative. This allows the school district to jointly pursue online course work with the cooperative.
Labyer said the school board approved 15 licenses during the July 10 regular meeting. Although the school district would only have 15 licenses, more than 15 students could use those licenses. The only limitation is only 15 students can use those licenses at one time.
n The board approved paying Stephen H. McDonald & Associates Inc. $9,550 for services rendered in relation to work done with the Duncan High School bond issue.
In July, McDonald and members of his team work on coming up with designs for the Duncan High School renovation.
n Board members approved an agreement with Youth Services for Stephens County, Tracie Gillispie and the school district for the 2012-13 school year. Gillispie is a certified school psychologist contractor and evaluator.
The school district doesn't have someone on staff who can run a variety of test to determine which students are developmentally delayed. Labyer said until the potion can be filled, contracting outside the school district is the district's best option.
"We tested 70 students last year," Labyer said. "We tested 25 that were developmentally delayed."


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Obama to Honor MLK in Wednesday Speech
President to address nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Obama's big moment Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech has enormous dramatic potential. It will feature the first African-American president standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to summarize where the nation has been and where it is going on the issue of racial prejudice, America's original sin.
But there is another part of history that will serve as the subtext of Obama's address – two centuries in which America's presidents have largely ignored issues of racial justice and inequality, and in some cases made matters worse. Only two presidents – Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson – achieved massive breakthroughs on race and moved the nation in a sustained way toward tolerance, justice and equality. Obama clearly wants to join their ranks but he has been cautious so far.
[PHOTOS: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.]
Lincoln led the North in the Civil War during the 1860s and signed the Emancipation Proclamation that started the process of ending slavery. A century later, Johnson broke free from his past as a senator from segregated Texas and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as part of his embrace of the civil rights movement.
Yet, as I point out in my book "Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House," even presidents who had the reputation for being pro-civil rights often came up short and insisted on more patience from African-Americans. King rejected this argument in his famous speech 50 years ago. "We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now," King said, in a line that Obama himself has used. "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
Franklin D. Roosevelt was pressured by his wife Eleanor to do more for black Americans but he mostly refused. He argued that Southern barons in Congress would fight him on the New Deal if he moved too aggressively on racial issues, so he largely settled for the status quo. FDR felt that New Deal initiatives providing widespread federal help for those in need would do much to lift African-Americans economically, and he felt that other race-specific actions would have to wait for a more enlightened time. It was Harry Truman, Roosevelt's successor, who braved the fury of racists and ordered the desegregation of the armed forces, bypassing Congress in the process.
[READ: Martin Luther King Jr., in His Own Words]
John F. Kennedy, who was president during the March on Washington that featured King's historic speech on Aug. 28, 1963, took a long time to recognize the need for urgent action on race. At first, he opposed the march, arguing that it might make matters worse by angering members of Congress who would feel under undue pressure, and Kennedy feared that the march might result in violence. But the march's leaders, including King, persuaded him that the protest would be non-violent, which it was, and they moved the final rally from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial so the protesters would not appear to be threatening the nation's legislators.
On the day of the march, which drew 250,000 persons to the Mall, Kennedy was so impressed that he gave a televised address to the nation and made the case that the civil rights movement was a moral imperative. Kennedy declared, "One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression, and this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
This was a follow up to his address of June 1963 when Alabama Governor George Wallace tried to block a schoolhouse door to prevent African American students from entering the University of Alabama—Tuscaloosa. The Wallace incident, coupled with anti-black violence in Birmingham, prompted Kennedy to condemn the oppression of blacks one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Advocating the most comprehensive civil rights laws in history, Kennedy told the nation, "It is as old as the Scriptures and as clear as the Constitution. The heart of the question is whether ... we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated." Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, and it's unclear how aggressively he would have pushed the civil-rights agenda.
[OPINION: The Story Behind JFK's 1963 Landmark Civil Rights Speech]
Obama's advisers have made the point that the original March on Washington wasn't only about seeking freedom and justice, it was also about insisting that blacks had good jobs with decent pay. The full name of the event, in fact, was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It's likely that this very practical theme of job creation will be a pillar of Obama's speech Wednesday as he tries to update the magnificent words of King for a new century.
On Friday, he gave what was likely a preview of his Wednesday remarks. Answering a question from an African-American studies professor at Binghamton University in New York, Obama said, "Fifty years after the March on Washington and the 'I Have a Dream' speech, obviously we have made enormous strides. I'm a testament to it, you're a testament to it, the diversity of this room and the students who are here are a testament to it. And that impulse toward making sure everybody gets a fair shot is one that found expression in the civil-rights movement and then spread to include Latinos and immigrants and gays and lesbians."
"What's wonderful to watch," Obama continued, "is the younger generation. Each generation seems wiser about wanting to treat people fairly and do the right thing and not discriminate and that's a great victory that we should all be very proud of. On the other hand, what we've also seen is the legacy of discrimination, slavery, Jim Crow, has meant that some of the institutional barriers for success for a lot of groups still exist. African American poverty in this country is still significantly higher than other groups. The same is true for Latinos, same is true for Native Americans."
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IBM's Journaled Filesystem
In December 1999, three potential journaling filesystems were begun or were in the process of being developed or ported to Linux. Ext2 was adding journaling to its filesystem under the name of ext3. SGI began to port their XFS filesystem from IRIX. The third filesystem was being developed by Hans Reiser and came to be called ReiserFS. But none of these filesystems were fully functional on Linux in 1999. IBM believed that JFS was a strong technology and could add value to the Linux operating system.
Contacts were made with the top Linux filesystem developers and the possibility of adding yet another journaling filesystem was explored. One of the basic underlying philosophies of Linux is that choice is good, so the idea of another journaling filesystem was accepted.
IBM started moving JFS to Linux in December 1999, and by February 2000, they had released the first source code. This initial release contained the reference source code, the mount/unmount function and support for the ls command on a JFS partition.
JFS has been incorporated into the 2.5.6 Linux kernel and also is included in Alan Cox's 2.4.X-ac kernels, beginning with the February 2002 release of 2.4.18-pre9-ac4. Alan's patches for the 2.4.x series are available from kernel.org. You also can download a 2.4 kernel source tree and add the JFS patches to this tree. JFS comes as a patch for several of the 2.4.x kernels, so get the latest kernel from kernel.org.
At the time of this writing, the latest kernel is 2.4.18 and the latest release of JFS is 1.0.20. We use them in the following section. The JFS patch is available from the JFS web site. You also need both the utilities (jfsutils-1.0.20.tar.gz) and the filesystem (jfs-2.4.18-patch and jfs-2.4-1.0.20.tar.gz) patches. Several Linux distributions are already shipping JFS: Turbolinux, Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat and Slackware all ship JFS in their latest releases.
If you use any of the previously named distributions, you do not need to patch the kernel for the JFS code. You need only to compile the kernel to support JFS (either as built-in or as a module).
First, download the standard Linux kernel. If you have a /usr/src/linux directory, move it, so it won't replaced by the linux-2.4.18 source tree. After you download the kernel, named linux-2.4.18.tar.gz, save it under /usr/src and untar it. This operation will create a new /usr/src/linux directory.
The next step is to get the JFS utilities and the appropriate patch for kernel 2.4.18. Create a directory for JFS source, /usr/src/jfs1020, and download to that directory the JFS kernel patch, the jfs-2.4-18-patch and the JFS patches, jfs-2.4-1.0.20.tar.gz. At this point, you have all the files needed to patch the kernel.
Next, change to the directory of the kernel 2.4.18 source tree to apply the JFS kernel patch:
% cd /usr/src/linux % patch -p1 < /usr/src/jfs1020/jfs-2.4-18-patch % cp /usr/src/jfs1020/jfs-2.4-1.0.20.tar.gz . % tar zxvf jfs-2.4-1.0.20.tar.gz
Configure the kernel and enable JFS by going to the Filesystems section of the configuration menu and enabling JFS support, CONFIG_JFS_FS=y. You also have the option to configure JFS as a module. In this case you need only to recompile and re-install kernel modules:
% make modules && make install_modulesOtherwise, if you configured the JFS option as kernel built-in, you need to recompile the kernel (in /usr/src/linux):
% make dep && make clean && make bzImageThen, recompile and install modules (only if you added other options as modules):
% make modules && make modules_installFinally, install the new kernel:
% cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-jfs % cp System.map /boot/System.map-jfs % ln -s /boot/System.map-jfs /boot/System.mapDon't forget to run lilo. (If you have never recompiled the kernel, read the Kernel-HOWTO to learn how.)
After you compile and install the kernel, you should compile and install the JFS utilities. Save the jfsutils-1.0.20.tar.gz file into /usr/src/jfs1020 and then:
% tar zxvf jfsutils-1.0.20.tar.gz % cd jfsutils-1.0.20 % ./configure % make && make install
Having built and installed the JFS utilities, the next step is to create a JFS partition. In the following example, we use a spare partition; the next section will demonstrate how to migrate an existing partition into JFS.
If there is unpartitioned space on the disk, you can create a partition using fdisk. In our test system, we had /dev/hdb3 as a spare partition, so we formatted it as a JFS partition. After the partition is created, reboot the system to make sure the new partition is able to create the JFS.
To create the JFS, apply the following command:
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After the filesystem has been created, you need to mount it. To get a mount point, create a new empty directory, such as /mnt/jfs, and use the following mount command:
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The area's hottest new chef, Rachel F. Klein, brings her vision of global flavor to Cambridge.
RACHEL F. KLEIN ISN'T YOUR TYPICAL BOSTONIAN. It's almost certain that she's never worn pearls or carried an L.L.Bean bag. With her shaggy do, trendy shoes and chunky silver jewelry, she's the kind of gal you'd expect to find in a cooler-than-thou dive bar hanging with up-and-coming musicians.
Which is exactly where you probably would have found her before she moved here in 2006 to open Harvard Square's ultimate hipster restaurant and lounge, Om (92 Winthrop St., Cambridge 617-576-2800, www.omrestaurant.com). A Brooklyn native with more than a decade of experience at top restaurants in New York and Providence, Klein has the right blend of experience to cater to Boston's growing army of jet-set epicureans, who are both familiar with and appreciative of her worldly offerings, from Asian-style pork belly to hamachi sashimi with confit peaches and yellow banana peppers.
The area's hottest new chef, Rachel F. Klein, brings her vision of global flavor to Cambridge.
Like many chefs, Klein became intrigued by food as a young child. She religiously watched Julia Child, the Frugal Gourmet and her grandmother—a "cute Jewish lady with a thick Eastern European accent"—who showed her how to make old-country dishes like strudel and stuffed cabbage. Her parents, too, loved to cook—and travel. She ate it up. "I'd eat anything," she says. "The longer and more complex the name of the dish, the more I wanted to try it."
The desire to seek out the exotic stayed with Klein. In New York, she wasn't the typi¬cal foodie who raved about Jean Georges or Le Bernardin. She preferred the ethnic grocery stores of Brooklyn and cutting-edge downtown haunts. No wonder, when it came to getting her first restaurant job after culinary school, she chose to work at the hipster heaven Paramount Hotel New York City, where she was a saute cook. From there, she moved to The Screening Room, Savoy and then Annisa, where she worked under rising star chef Anita Lo.
Wanting to strike out on her own, Klein moved to Providence in 2002. She won awards at XO Cafe (now XO Steak House), and in 2004 opened Lot 401, where she turned out Asian-inspired dishes such as Asian-lacquered duck breast and salmon with a sesame rice cabbage bundle (there's that cabbage again) and candied-ginger beurre blanc. Within the year, Lot 401 was named one of Esquire's Best New Restaurants.
Klein is determined to bring that same fresh approach to the Boston dining scene, adding at least one unexpected flavor to each dish: perhaps a Middle Eastern pomegranate molasses, Chinese hot mustard or Moroccan-inspired clementine aioli. "Steak with garlic mashed potatoes and demi-glace is delicious, but to me it's flat," she says. "I want something to clean your palate, something that isn't dull."
Dull her food is not. At Om, the duck confit comes with pear mostarda, Urfa pepper and pine nut brittle. And the popular salmon with beets gets a hit of wasabi crème fraîche and Meyer lemon gastrique. Even steak has a twist: Along with potatoes and asparagus, Klein serves an aromatic fried truffle egg. "I don't want anything to be standard," she says. "I want my food to be memorable." And just like Klein herself, it is.


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Several US Open wheelchair athletes attended an evening performance of Jersey Boys on Sept. 4. Following the performance the athletes met with the four stars of the show, Matt Bogart, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Drew Gehling and Andy Karl.
The US Open Wheelchair Tennis Competition began on Thursday, September 5, and ends on Sunday, September 8. In the event, the top wheelchair athletes in the world will compete in six events—men's singles, women's singles, quad singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and quad doubles. Wheelchair tennis' rules are the same as able-bodied tennis, except that the ball can bounce twice.
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As some of my more astute readers probably figured out from the last two poems I posted, I've had a bit a marriage trouble recently. It started in August. My wife and I had both been unhappy for quite some time and instead of doing things to rectify it, I just kind of ignored the problems. My wife brought them up a few times, but I (for some reason) didn't take her or our problems seriously.
We ended up having a huge three-day fight that ended with her telling me she no longer wanted to be married to me. Instead of trying to change her mind, I angrily kicked her out of the house. I was hurt and angry and not thinking clearly. Given a chance to do it all over again I would definitely do almost everything differently. BUT, in the midst of all of the hurt and pain I discovered why my wife was unhappy and what I was doing to contribute to that. She was trying to tell me things I should have been listening to, but I instead found out the hard way.
The first thing, and biggest thing, was my irritability. I was extremely short with her and my children. All the time. I didn't realize it until reading through our IM history on Facebook (we communicate via Facebook while we're both at work because I have no cell phone signal at work). When reading through all the nastiness I spat at her I was amazed she didn't leave me sooner. I surely didn't realize I was treating her that way and I have no idea why I did it or why I didn't realize I was doing it. I did, however, find out from a counselor I went to see and my primary care doctor that irritability is a symptom of depression. I'm now on antidepressants and so far I'm a pretty different person. I've noticed a difference and so have those that know me. It's a change for the better and I'm glad to have gotten this identified and corrected. I don't mind being an asshole when I need to be, but to be doing it unwittingly and to those I love is NOT who I want to be.
The second thing I was doing was not making time for us. Time for us is scarce with three children, the youngest of which is a year and a half. When we did have moments we could spend together I chose not to, instead doing things like blogging, playing video games, or just surfing the internet. For some reason I don't understand, doing those things were more important to me at the time than spending time with my wife. I really have no explanation for it and don't understand why I made the choices I made. Often times my wife would ask me to go to bed with her and I would tell her I'd be up in a minute only to sit at the computer for another couple of hours before going upstairs.
My third failure was not being romantic. At all. I have never been much of a romantic in terms of flowers, cards, or poems and my wife knew that when she married me. But somewhere along the line she decided she wanted those things. She mentioned it once, but I brushed her off. I've since realized that in the big scheme of things that going out of my way every once in a while to do something that shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that my heart belongs to her and no one else is really no big deal. I can do flowers. I can buy a card. I can surprise her with a date every now and then. Or even something else. But for some reason I didn't want to be bothered with it before. I have no explanation. Again.
When my wife first told me she didn't want to be married to me any more I decided, in my anger, that I was done with everything. If that's how she felt then I didn't want her around. Any and all interactions with her were filled with venom and scorn. I treated her with disrespect. Then things changed. The longer she was gone the more I realized that I missed her. Then that I needed her. That despite what I'd convince myself, I love her.
I saw clearly what I had done to make her feel the way she did. I vowed to change and to fix things and to be the man she fell in love with again, but she wasn't biting. And I don't blame her. She ended up leaving. And suddenly I was single again. I was a part-time parent for yet another child.
During our separation we both did things we regret, but she realized that she still loved me and that I had indeed changed. She eventually decided to find it in her heart to give our marriage another shot. I thank her for that and I intend to prove to her that I can be the man she fell in love with and I want to keep on proving that to her until death do us part.
I love my wife dearly, and am just thankful that even though I fucked up I have another chance to show her how much I love her and how much I care for her. She is my best friend and I'm still upset with myself that it took all this drama for me to realize it. But I believe that we'll make it through this and ultimately be a better couple for it.


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What if you could put a face to every name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
The VVMF hopes you can.
The National Call for Photos is a project organized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to match a headshot or portrait photograph to every service member listed on The Wall.
The pictures will be displayed in an exhibit at the future Education Center at The Wall, an underground visitors center to be built near the Vietnam Veterans and the Lincoln memorials. Every day, the center will celebrate the birthdays of service members who died during the Vietnam War by featuring their photos on a giant digital wall.
So far, 25,526 veterans have complete profiles with at least one photograph, according to George Pojani, a research associate at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. These profiles are currently featured on The Virtual Wall, an online database of the Memorial's veterans.
5 of Media's Fallen
Records show 139 people who enlisted in Delaware County died in the Vietnam War, five from the Media area.
They include Army SP4 Thomas Michael Brown, Army Sgt. Robert Earl Cannon, Navy HM3 Eugene Joseph Garrity Jr., Air Force Capt. John Henry Sothoron Long, and Marine Corps. LCPL Edward Drake Scott.
Scott and Garrity each have photos already attached to their profiles but Brown, Cannon and Long still need photos.
Brown died in South Vietnam on Feb. 23, 1969, his profile shows. Brown is buried at Media Cemetery, according to a post left by Robert Sage on his profile.
Cannon died in South Vietnam on Oct. 27, 1968. One of Cannon's messages of remembrance reads, "Bob's parents were friends of my parents. It seems like yesterday when we heard the news that Bob had died in Vietnam," read part of a message left by Jim Tucker.
Long is listed as MIA as of Oct. 18, 1966, his profile shows. One of Long's messages of remembrance reads, "I lost a genuine friend. Not a week goes by but that I think of you. Your mission to rescue aviators who came down at sea was one of the most humanitarian of flying assignments. ... I sometimes wonder if somehow the Chinese captured you off Hainan Island, and that you may still be out there. Some things we may never know. But friendships and memories last each lifetime," read part of a message left by Richard E. Buys, Lt. Col. USAF (Ret).
How to Contribute
To locate photos for the project, contributors can visit www.vvmf.org/thewall and search for veterans who enlisted in their area. The VVMF recommends contacting family and friends of the veterans to find photographs or visit local libraries and search through yearbooks or newspaper obituaries.
To submit a photograph, contributors should obtain a high quality scan of the image and post a remembrance at http://www.vvmf.org/remembrances. The VVMF will send an email to contributors when their photograph is posted with a matching profile.
Relatives of service members with complete profiles are encouraged to submit photographs to the VVMF, even if there is already a photo available.
Pojani says that the contributors to the National Call for Photos will help improve the visitor's experience at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
"It's a place where people can go back and find stories about all the casualties on the Wall," Pojani said about the future Education Center. "It will be more personal than just names on the Wall."


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Emmy winner Kevin Clash denies charges.
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who has given life to Elmo on Sesame Street since 1984, has taken a leave of absence from the show amid allegations he had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy.
Clash vehemently denies the charges, made in June by a 23-year-old man who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Clash when he was 16 years old.
Clash has admitted that he had a relationship with the young man, but insists it took place only after the accuser was an adult.
In a statement, Sesame Workshop said an investigation into the matter "found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated."
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TMZ broke the news on Monday that Sesame Workshop lawyers recently met with the accuser, who claims he and Clash began the sexual relationship seven years ago.
In light of the allegations, Clash will be taking a leave of absence from Sesame Street for the foreseeable future.
Clash, 52, has won several Emmy awards for his work as Elmo over the last 28 years and gained fame in his own right after being featured in the award-winning 2011 documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, which chronicles how he turned the little red monster into an icon for millions of kids.
The statement by Sesame Workshop reads, in full:
"We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action. We met with the accuser twice and had repeated communications with him. We met with Kevin, who denied the accusation. We also conducted a thorough investigation and found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. Although this was a personal relationship unrelated to the workplace, our investigation did reveal that Kevin exercised poor judgment and violated company policy regarding internet usage and he was disciplined.
Kevin insists that the allegation of underage conduct is false and defamatory and he is taking actions to protect his reputation. We have granted him a leave of absence to do so.
Elmo is bigger than any one person and will continue to be an integral part of Sesame Street to engage, educate and inspire children around the world, as it has for 40 years."
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Yankee Stadium: Beginning of the goodbye
Our Ryan Chatelain catches up with Bucky Dent, neighborhood businesses and fans as the team begins its final season at the House That Ruth Built. This will be a strange season in many ways. One fascinating aspect is that you'll have two Yankee Stadiums side by side: The 1974-75 version, which undid lots of the original detail, and the new ballpark, which is a throwback to the old stadium Ruth knew, and restores that lost detail in a slightly more compact stadium.
The new Yankee Stadium took another symbolic step forward Saturday with the installation of the "eagles" next to the stadium name. Compare Saturday's photo with the way the sign looked in 1948. It's uncanny.
It seems that, somehow, the Yanks could have worked with the original, keeping the team on the same sacred ground. It's one of those turn of events we'll never accept. But it's hard to dismiss the beauty of the stadium rising next door.
-- Rolando Pujol
Flags fly at half-staff at Yankee Stadium in 1948 to mark
the death of Babe Ruth. (AP)
The New York Yankees unveils the re-created "eagle" medallions and lifts them into place Saturday at the main entrance of the new stadium (Alejandra Villa/Newsday).
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For the entry in the top Medical colleges students needs to be a good score in AIPMT exam. AIPMT is the toughest examination of any other exam. If students want to a good score in this exam, so they need to the AIPMT previous year question papers, and other question bank which a great help for the students. The all India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) is an entrance examination for the students who want to get enter in the Medical field. To get ticket in some Medical colleges all over the India for the entrance in the MBBS and BDS courses the Examination of AIPMT is conducted by the Central Boar of Secondary Education (CBSE). The test is occur at two stages, the first stage is preliminary-examination that is generally conducted in the first Sunday of April Month and the second main examination is occurred in the month of May. The examinees can have an improved practice if they get ready with the AIPMT question paper of previews year and other question bank before the exam.
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Comedic actor and film star Sacha Baron Cohen has leased out his Sunset Strip area house for $9,000 a month. But the major real estate deal this summer for Baron Cohen and his wife, actress Isla Fisher, was the purchase of a nearby Mediterranean compound listed at $18.9 million.
For the record: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect purchase price in the headline and an incorrect photo credit in the gallery. The photos of Dwight Manley's house were taken by Joseph R. Beebe.


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Beautiful Edwardian flat in the heart of Alamo Square in San Francisco. Enjoy the Edwardian style of this house plan with its inviting facade one block off the heart of Alamo Square. Inside, key features of this flat include a master bedroom, living room/dining room, newly remodeled kitchen, laundry area, office, and sunlit front room. Other features include special ceiling treatments, 10 foot ceilings, and a private outdoor city garden/patio. For now, I am renting a one of my three bedrooms. The Air BnB room has a queen size bed.
Public transit is at the doorstep. Several gourmet grocers are within two to five blocks. NOPA, one of the more popular San Francisco restaurants is 4 blocks away. The Fillmore jazz corridor with live music starts with 3 blocks with Yoshi's, Sheba Lounge and Rassales. James Beard awarded, State Bird Provision is located in the Jazz corridor. Be sure to make your reservation two months in advance or dine after 9pm!
The painted ladies, aka postcard row located in Alamo Sq park is a block away.
During your stay you should experience everything San Francisco and that starts by living in Alamo Square.
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This was the first time we tried airbnb and it was a great start. Amrita is a very nice and easygoing host and the flat has an excellent location. We had three wonderful days here and would truly recommend it.
Amrita´s apartment is a wonderful place to start your San Francisco tour. It´s not just perfectly located near Alamo square, it also includes a wonderful host! Whatever question you have on wherever you want to go – Amrita has the answer. We had a great time in San Francisco and absolutely recommend to stay with Amrita in her wonderful Edwardian flat.
Best, Marco & Christiane
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We spent a week in San Francisco at Amrita's place and enjoyed it very much.
Everything was fine: a wonderful neighborhood, a well-furnished flat and comfortable bed, and – first of all: a great host.
Before we arrived Amrita gave us a lot of useful informations about the flat and the surroundings.
During our stay her advices helped us to explore this amazing city. We liked to talk to her and her friends and hope that one day we can return to SF and to Amrita.
Thank you for your hospitality – hope to see you soon in Bavaria.
Hugs from Kerstin and George
Amrita was an amazing hostess. Her space is delightfully designed and made me feel calm and comfortable. Easy access to her place is a plus. I plan on staying in touch with Amrita and visiting again soon.
Amrita was a great host, in an Edwardian apartment full of San Francisco character and in a great location.
I will certainly book this Airbnb accommodation again and would recommend it to anybody travelling to San Francisco
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Amrita's place is lovely. It's a really good location, and the flat has a lot of character. We stayed with our 16 month old and she was very accommodating of this. Amrita is such a great host. She did so much to help us out, recommending local places to eat, and even provided us with a few things that helped us out for the rest of our trip (including a baby blanket as it was colder in San Francisco than we had envisaged!). Highly recommended.
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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, AND MEXICO CITY — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday continued to build support for his return home, but the country's de facto rulers said he'd be arrested the minute he set foot on national territory.
As Zelaya addressed a supportive United Nations audience in New York, Hondurans in Tegucigalpa were demonstrating against and, in smaller numbers, in favor of the deposed leftist leader. Zelaya was flown to exile in Costa Rica early Sunday after soldiers removed him from his home.


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It's amazing how much stuff I'm finding that we never use, have grown out of or don't need anymore. I haven't even started the main floor…I'm still working on my basement and it's boggling. Dh just took a load to the goodwill and is getting me more boxes. It's kind of cleansing, getting rid of all this stuff.
The first load….
Focus On The Pretty Shoes
I've never worn these shoes. I bought them at the second hand store and loved them, but took them for granted, forgot about them.
It's funny how much we have and forget about, take for granted…and funny how it takes a tragedy to show us that. Losing a lot helps you see clearly what you have. I found those shoes today and they represented the whole thing for me. I have many beautiful things…most importantly beautiful people, a beautiful family!
I'm packing today, we move in two weeks. It's so daunting trying to figure out what to keep and what not to…we have so much stuff. I'm going through all my clothes right now…as good a time as any to get rid of all the things we don't use. I already have 4 garbage bags for the second hand store and have one pickup truck load packed. Which only shows me how little of a dent that has put in the job. So many books and things…things no-one 'uses' but things I love. I do have to reduce though so I'm going through all of it.
All my Christmas knitting plans are messed up now but I'm still going to try to finish my husbands blanket if I can. That man deserves to be cozy after all we've been through.
I'm Falling Behind :)
I've been slacking with my blogstalking posts lately.
I need to do 'whats for breakfast'
I usually have oatmeal crisp or mini wheats (the brown sugar coated kind), a yoghurt and a banana or an orange. Our cereal cupboard is packed enough to provide breakfast for a month should cereal become hard to find, lol! I love these bowls…we bought them for the kids a few years ago…everyone likes them :)
Ok, now the junk drawer! This is my junk drawer….
Lots of stuff, lol. We have my glasses case, advil, dh's old wallet, stamps, ball bands, needles, thread, bookmarks, a grad picture, those buttons and bits of string you get with store bought clothes, a pair of extra shoelaces that came with my shoes, nail hardener, nail files, reciepts, a watch….I'm tired…can we stop now?
Now for what I am thankful for….
What am I thankful for? Everything! I'm thankful that I have been blessed with a husband and children that are healthy and strong. I'm thankful that I live in a country as wonderful as Canada is. I'm thankful that I have a good head on my shoulders and I'm thankful I've had opportunities to develop my skills. I'm thankful that I am blessed to stay at home, to make that choice to be wife and mother — I'm thankful to live somewhere where the choice is mine. I'm thankful for my beautiful home. I'm thankful my husband and kids support me in that and that I am able to support them. I'm thankful I can pursue my interests and create to my hearts content. I'm very thankful to still have my mom, though she has been through many health challenges. I'm ever so thankful that my children have her too! I'm thankful for the love my family gives me…the understanding…how they are always always there for me and for each other :)
The Christmas rush of making things like mad has kept me on my couch knitting in all my spare time lately. At the moment, I have a pair of socks – for my middle daughter (the sweetheart lace) which are half way done… a 'crazy cabin' scrap blanket for my husband (6/20 blocks done), a few half baked plans to start yet more projects for gifts…. I found a pattern I had laying around for dog beds and coats. We have three dogs who would love beds and coats! Who knows if I will have time. The dh made a boo-boo yesterday and actually suggested I should finish some stuff I have started before I start anything new. Screwing with my creativity! LOL. He's probably got a point…he's seen the mad rush of finishing things up on Christmas Eve before…it's not a pretty sight :)
Have an excellent day! :)
Working on the Cable and Lace socks and then the new pattern for my daughter has worn me out for sock knitting…for now :)
The first sock is almost done…the pattern worked out beautifully. I just cannot bring myself to knit the rest right now. My hands need a break.
I'm debating on a name for the new pattern (I improvised this – including the lace)…I started out with the idea of 'I Love You Baby' socks but now the name 'Sweetheart Lace' is winning in my head. What do you think? Comment and let me know! Here is a picture of the lace….
Wouldn't they be awesome in a solid or almost solid yarn?
I'm so pleased with how well the hearts stand out. It is a knitted lace pattern with yarn overs and increases/decrease on every row. Some of the rows are a little tight and take some patience (to avoid dropping sts) but I think the results are worth it. I will finish these before Christmas! I have to, they are for my daughter :)
I was looking at the buckets of yarn around here, lol, and decided to make my husband a blanket for Christmas. I want this to be a REAL surprise so I'm only working on it when he isn't home. Lucky for the blanket he works a lot…he drives many hours back and forth a day on top of a long physical workday. The man is always cold and enjoys laying on the couch and relaxing at the end of the day. He doesn't wear knitted anything either! So the blanket is born….
I'm using odds and ends in chunky – ish (it's a blanket, lol). If I have a colour, it's probably going in there.
I have quite a bit of the green (shetland chunky) and the gold fleck (moda dea cache) and the red (berella astrakhan – superwash wool) and odds and ends of everything else. It's fun to make. No counting, no measuring, no nothing, just sense and zen knitting. Freeform. It is not perfectly even, or perfect in any way! It will be perfectly imperfect, lol. I'm just going to match the sizes of finished squares. It's relaxing for me. I'm probably crazy.
The last thing I need is another 'on the go' project but I've started an embroidered table runner as well. My mom gave me the kit yesterday and I needed something to do when my husband is home…! So of course I had to start it.
I'm off to work on that blanket!
Make Like An Elf…
So, back to Christmas….
I've started a pair of socks for my middle daughter, in the knitpicks felici that was included in my warm sock sampler. The colour is 'clay' and it's really nice. My daughter chose it as her favorite :) She likes cables more than lace so I'm trying an idea I had…will let you know how it goes! I've charted it – now to knit it up a bit and see how it looks 'for real'.
This Gauge Thing…
Cable and Lace…
All done! These were made using knitpicks gloss (70% merino, 30% silk). I improvised the chart and pattern. I'm really happy with them! :)
First One Done!
done the first Cable and Lace Sock! I would definitely like them better as knee socks but that is an adventure for another time with a bigger pile of yarn :) If only I had another skein, I would have made them knee socks…
My knitpicks order came yesterday. I ordered some of the new sock wools (the warm tone sock sampler). I'm doing my best to stay AWAY from the malabrigo. It's beautiful enough to make me forget about Christmas knitting altogether. My daughters have chosen their favorites from the sock yarns…I'd really like to get some socks made for each of them for their stockings.
Enjoy your day!
Yay! My Wool Arrived :)
The Malabrigo…isn't it pretty?!!
The colour is 'Amoroso' (purchased at an excellent price from www.fabulousyarn.com – I paid less than $100 for 10 skeins – AND that included shipping to Canada!) and I am planning to make the Hedgerow Coat from the Interweave Knits Fall 2007 issue.
I'm reading a lot about malabrigo, everywhere I can find information. It's such a beautiful wool, I can see what people have said about the pilling…I can deal with that. I've also read something, somewhere, about it producing a fabric which doesn't hold it's shape properly…stretches out? I'm wondering if I should use a slightly smaller needle to prevent this? The coat (in size small) is a little big for me, so I could do it without causing too much trouble, as long as I watch the length.
I woke up so sick this morning…pounding headache, couldn't hold anything down…nasty! I'm ok now as I managed to finally hold down an advil and rest for an hour. The headache is gone, thank goodness! Felt like a hangover but I don't do that stuff! Talked to my mom, she asked me where in my cycle I am (I'm in the middle) and told me how she would have this once a month, every month, at ovulation. Great. So it's likely hormonal and one of those lovely like mother like daughter things.
The Cable and Lace Socks are coming out so beautifully. I'm pleased as can be with them. I wish, though, that I had another skein of the serengeti….they would be ideal as knee socks…
Here is a peek of how they look so far….
Finished Christmas Gift :)
I have a little nephew, Matty , who loves anything I knit for him. I gave him the knitted gansey sweater I made a while back. I've made him a scarf and hat (for Christmas) out of the leftovers from that project…
The yarn is James C. Brett Marble (dk weight). I used the 'my so called scarf' pattern for the scarf and an improvised 2×2 rib hat (cast on 100 sts, size 6 mm circular needle/dpns). I think he will love them…
Starting Some Socks…
I've decided to make some lacy socks this time and try the entrelac another time :) I improvised a lace panel pattern including cables and have started these toe up on size 2mm needles using Knitpicks gloss in serengeti. My guage is coming out at about 10 sts per inch.
I'm pleased with the texture and openness of this lace! Not sure if these will be for me or for one of the girls this Christmas. We all have basically the same size feet, so I can decide later!
Winding Wool
Last night I wound my knitpicks gloss (by hand)…three skeins of it…one in each serengeti, cocoa and pumpkin. I had a bright idea about entrelac socks. Now I know why I've never seen a pair with entrelac on top of the foot! I couldn't visualize it at all, until I tried it. Then I realized I would have to work the foot back and forth, combining with sts at the sides in order to create the sole of the sock.
I think I may make lace socks instead, this time.
The gloss is beautiful!! Soft and sturdy with a nice twist. Beautiful shine from the silk, I presume. I'm very glad I ordered it.
Finished the Alpaca Gloves!
My mission this weekend was to work on something which needed finishing…and I've finished my Fitted Alpaca Gloves :)
Very very pleased with these..they are my own design and a perfect fit. The yarn is so nice and soft – I used Ultra Alpaca for these that I had left over from the cable yoke sweater I made a little while ago.
The cable pattern is a sort of travelling vine with berries and leaves…I kept on with the reverse stockinette for the entire top of the gloves.
A better picture of the cable detail…
I carried the cable ribbing up the underside of the gloves, just past where the thumb gusset begins and did the palm in stockinette.
Very glad to be done and can't wait to wear them! :)
Oh Happy Day!
Yay, my tree skirt is finished!
I'm pretty happy with it…and happy to be finished it! LOL, large projects always feel like they are taking forever, no matter whether they really are or not. Those last few rows felt like a marathon!
You can't quite see some of the tone on tone colourwork I did to prevent having to use plain blocks of colour. I thought it makes it more interesting looking.
Basically I cast on 144 sts (12 panels of 12 sts) and increased (12 sts – one in each section) twice over six rows until I was to 118 rows. You could continue it as far as you liked though. For the colour pattern, I use graph paper and graph out one section only, as I go…more than once I had to add in more paper because I changed my mind, lol.
The So Called Scarf
Plugging away…
Hello Winter!
We woke up to gifts from mother nature this morning…WINTER is here! The kids are excited…they had their boots out and tried on before I even got out of bed at 7:00 this morning. LOL
I just had to give my daughters their Christmas mittens, LOL….my youngest knew they were for her and came down asking about them…so I caved and they got their mittens early :) Told her I better see her wearing those all day on Christmas! It's not like they didn't have other pairs but they are excited about the new ones. I don't do 'surprises' with the number of children in this house…at least not when it comes to the things I make. It would be impossible to get anything done!
My husband went ahead and checked the mail yesterday, no wool yet. It's for the best…I need to finish this skirt first!
I just lost another pair of mitts/gloves…my oldest daughter wants to know why she doesn't have some…so my youngest is letting her choose between the two selbuvotter items I made and the composed mitts. She chose the selbuvotter gloves in the browns and off white…good choice :)
Those last 30 rows…
I'm plugging away at the Christmas tree skirt. Almost there, but the rows are getting SO LONG. I'm on row 86, the pattern I was originally looking at (and took the basics from) had 118 rows. We'll see how big it looks as it goes but I think I'll stop at about the same point.
I didn't even let myself go to the mail today, LOL, because I'm expecting that wool and getting new wool is NOT conducive to finishing this project!
Right now I've got about a million (ok, really it's 50) strands of yarn going at once. I better get back to it!
Good Morning :)
My tree skirt is coming along pretty well! I'm about half way, row-wise…which of course means I'm no where near half way knitting when you take into account the ever increasing row length, LOL, but it's getting there :) I'm pleased to be able to use my scraps for something we will really enjoy.
My mom is awesome :) She found me this neato thing at a second hand store. It is an older drop spindle set but hasn't (from the looks of it) been used. It is a beginner set (excellent, I am a beginner) with a spindle and an instruction book. Who knows when I'll get around to trying it but I have no doubt that someday I will :)
This week I shall be awaiting my wool (the malabrigo I ordered from www.fabulousyarn.com ) and finishing this skirt.
Enjoy your day! :)
The Skirt…So Far
This May Be a Record!
Well, this may be my fastest frog ever! I got almost halfway done the first quarter panel of the tree skirt and realized I don't really like it very much.
I've frogged it and cast back on for an improvised skirt. I'm using the basics (the cast on number of sts and the increases) from the pattern and I'm going to design my own 'insides'. I like the holly leaves/berry so I'll include those. I'm going to do the entire skirt at once rather than make it in quarters. I realize this means my needles will be very full by the end, lol, but hopefully it works out ok!
So, Now Halloween is over and it's time to focus on CHRISTMAS!!
I've finished a scarf for my nephew, tried to finish a matching hat…lol…didn't swatch and designed it myself so it turned out baby sized and will be going to Christmas Cheer. I'm sticking to the same idea and adding 20 sts to the next one. They are hats using the 'my so called scarf' stitch, modified to work in the round.
Because I'm frustrated by the non-fitting hat, I've put that aside for now and have cast on the 'floral tree skirt' from Handknit Holidays. The pattern is by Michelle Rose Orne (which I just noticed) and she is the same designer that designed the composed mitts as it turns out! I'm using stash yarn, mostly red heart….LOL, I added my stash to ravelry and I now feel obligated to find stash busting projects. It seems I have a little wool problem!
Must go knit and de-Halloween this house, lol (the kids have decorated everything in sight). Have a great day!


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EA picks up Deathspank
EA support more of the LucasArts luminaries
EA have picked up the publishing rights Hothead Games' new title Deathspank.
The new game from the studio of Secret of Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert, is an action RPG laced with classic PC influences as well as Gilbert's own unique sense of humour.
Ian Wilkinson, CEO of Hothead Games said: "We are proud of our independence, but are very excited to be working with EA Partners on a title as big as DeathSpank. With EA Partners handling distribution and marketing, Hothead can continue to focus on what we do best, making great games."
Deathspank is headed for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year.