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Shop Update- Display table
As promised here's a follow-up pic showing the transformation of two whiskey barrels into display tables. The barrels were elevated on a simple round table and filled with hay. A cylinder vase in the center holds a silk flower arrangement topped by a round glass table top.
We couldn't wait to place some products on top for a preview!
xo Lysandra
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Good Eats!
Sometimes I get a craving for cheese and only genuine Mexican queso will do. La Parilla Mexican Restaurant —which has several locations around the Atlanta metro area— is a great stop for fast delicious Mexican food.
I dropped by recently and got my favorite — The Chimichanga pictured above. It comes drowning in queso with a side tortilla dish filled with sour cream, lettuce and tomatoes. Needless to say, I did not have leftovers.
I highly recommend La Parilla for good food and quick solid service.
L. Ray
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Shop Update
With all the paperwork and logistics of purchasing a shop out of the way we can now get down to the fun part—decorating!! Slowly but surely we're gathering items to be used in the Darcy's Botanical retail shop.
The ladders will eventually hold products. Check back tomorrow to see how the barrels were transformed into display tables!
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Come & celebrate this tremendous milestone with us!!!
Mission Small Business
Mission Small Business is a program which aims to help small businesses by awarding up to 12 individual grants of $250,000 to 12 small businesses. We would love one of those grants but will need your help!
To help Darcy's Botanicals click the photo or the url link below, log into facebook, enter "Darcy's Botanicals" in the search field, then vote for us!
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The Future Home of Darcy's Botanicals
I'm excited to announce the opening of a brick-and-mortar store for Darcy's Botanicals in downtown Powder Springs GA! This charming building was formerly a coffee shop. We hope to maintain some of the charm of the original setting while still making it our own. We are currently in the process of readying for a grand opening in September and can't wait to share our hard work with everyone!
Watch this space for more progress updates!
Pinterest — My latest Obsession
Darcy's Botanicals is finally on Pinterest. It's become my latest addiction. It's fun being able to pin everything I like on the web in one big online scrapbook. Pinterest is also practical for organizing my ideas and inspirations. Be sure to check out our boards on food, decor and of course hair!
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Good eats!- Desta Ethiopian Restaurant
Desta is one of my favorite places to eat in the Atlanta Metro area. They serve authentic Ethiopian food meaning the meat is spicy and flavorful and everything is served with traditional spongey bread called injera which serves as your fork and spoon. The service is always on point and the food is delicious.
Pictured our our favorites (Clockwise from top left): Exterior, Fish Tibs, Beef Tibs and Lamb Tibs. All were served with a side of house salad with a tangy, lemon dressing.
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At the movies — Prometheus
I checked out Promtheus this weekend. It was quite a visual spectacle in Imax 3-D. It posed some interesting questions about the origins of humanity but ultimately raised more questions than it answered. It's still very much worth a look. All of the actors did a fine job although many characters weren't given a whole lot to do. The David android character reminded me why the idea of robots creep me out. I don't think I want to see technology go that far!
L Ray.
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More from the Sweet Auburn Festival.
The best part of the Sweet Auburn Festival is the abundance of food. Barbecue, smoked turkey legs, jerk chicken…etc. It was hard to decide what to eat so we ate everything! It's not the best place to be if you're on a diet. As you can see we indulged in some refreshing pina coladas and peanut butter and red velvet cupcakes.
L Ray
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You would wonder why the mileage is so similar to GM's Volt? GM Volt a much larger vehicle is rated at 93 MPG for EV mode.
There is also a huge different in listed range from this article to the other wsj article. It list the Leaf have 73 miles range and not 160 or 200 miles.
You would also wonder why Volt is rated at 60mpg at hybrid mode and Toyota Prius is rated only at 50mpg. The Volt is 500lbs heavier and less drag efficient, so how can the mpg be better than the prius. If you go onto GM's site it's hard to find any mpg rating for the Volt.
The article fail to mention if the leaf has a gas generator to recharge the car in absence of an electric plug.
Doesn't matter how close the 'quick' charge stations are to one another, what American driver (martyred environmentalist or not) will want to wait for a half hour to "fill 80% up" ? And just how long will it take to charge the little earth saver at a non-quick charge station? Looks familiarly like another poorly conceived green solution whereby reasonable functionality is sacrificed on the altar of the environmentalist Gods (and governmental demigods)–a twofer.
Another non-factual no information article on electrics.
Takes 20 hours to fully charge on a 110v household current
You can opt for a 220v station to be installed in your home…approx $2200 before tax credits. This drops the charging time down to 8 hours. Assuming you do not have an "empty tank" on a daily commute basis…not sure how long it would take to charge from say…."half-full" on a 220v station.
With that said…if you own one of this…you will definitely have to be strategic in your driving. At least until the charging options improve.
Finally, a rational, pragmatic comment about electric cars: "…if you own one of this…you will definitely have to be strategic in your driving. At least until the charging options improve." The folks commenting will, for the most part, be siting on the bench spectating while others will vote with their wallets and buy these cars, so-called "limitations" and all. There are NO limitations, however, one just needs a bit of real-world pre-planning before mindlessly jumping behind the wheel and a Plan B.
I you own a leaf you had better have these essentials:
Cell phone to call AAA
Tow rope
Sack to put over head so that your friends do not see how stupid you where to buy a Leaf
What a joke!
Umm…you're comparing a fuel economy rating to a range rating (the 160km and 200km values). Those are completely different values. The first one, 99 MPGe describes the distance that the Nissan Leaf can drive using the equivalent energy contained in a gallon of gas. The second one is the actual distance the vehicle can travel on a full battery. I don't even know what to say. I'm amazed at this kind of error showing up in the number two WSJ article.
Randall, you are exactly right. As I read the article, I couldn't understand what the mileage comparison was supposed to be showing us. Completely apples and oranges. How does the WSJ print stuff like this?
Christopher, the limitations are very real. You can't take the Leaf on a long-distance trip: it is for around-town only. If you want to buy a leaf, you will have to have a second car to use on vacation. Much more expensive and wasteful to buy and maintain two cars instead of one. The Leaf is a niche product. Once the early adopters have bought theirs, and the subsidies dry up, sales of the Leaf will fall off a cliff and it will be an historical footnote in automotive history.
This is a commuter car and can also be used for errand running. Other than that, it wouldn't make sense to own one.
Being a proud global warming denier, I still think the electric cars are a good way to go because they will lower emissions, and there's $75 to $200 a month per vehicle NOT going to the foreign oil cartels.
I have nothing against electric cars. If someone can build one that can perform like a gas-driven car, is at least the size of a mid-size sedan and can travel 100 or more miles on a charge, great. But like Dennis and Kirk and others say above, this current batch are pretty much just commuter cars. You can't drive from Seattle to Las Vegas or even just to Spokane, WA without risking getting stranded somewhere along the way.
One thing I don't understand: How would a car like the Leaf work for urban dwellers? Where would you plug it in? I used to live in apartment near Times Square in New York city and in Brooklyn, NY and there is no practical way you can plug in a electric car living in places like that. I know there are companies making charging stations for electric cars but has anyone ever seen one anywhere?
I will be very interested in how much a Leaf owners electric bills go up as the result of the additional electricity usage. Once this kind of hard data starts to become available, and we can look at the impact on the environment and economy of the additional electricity generation costs, then we'll have a better idea whether the Leaf is truly a "green" alternative to fossil fuels A Leaf seems like a very good idea for local commuting so long as you are able to recharge every night. It certainly doesn't make any sense to use one for any trip over 40 miles one way if you're not going to be able to recharge somewhere to/from your destination/home.
what about the battery exchange set up with a short exchnge time?
Driving regular distances in the U.S. makes current electric cars a poor option. New York to D.C. around 226 miles Los Angeles to Las Vegas 280 miles and don't even think of taking an actual road trip. Quick Charging times of 30 min for 80% how many people stop at a gas station and fill their tank only 80% on a road trip? As for not paying money to foreign oil cartels where exactly do you think electricity comes from? And for breakthroughs in "GREEN" energy the solar cell was discovered in 1839 scientists have had only 171 years to make them economically viable and windmills have been around for a scant 3000 years I'm sure a breakthrough is eminent we just need to throw more money at green technologies because we haven't had enough time to develop them yet. Look I'm not saying we shouldn't strive to do things better, we should, just like we have been striving the last 40 years cars have become infinitely cleaner a 2010 mustang pollutes less at 70 mph than a 1966 mustang parked in the driveway that's actual progress continue striving continue improving but don't get caught up in a fad just to feel better about yourself.
Randle – my very thought – ridiculous comparison
Hmm.. Looks like a fancy golf cart, to me… I'll stick with my SUV..
How far you gonna go in one of these toys when it's night in a raging snowstorm and you gotta have headlights, heater/defroster and windshield wipers all working full tilt? My guess – not far.
Sounds like a great idea………….. at first. This country's electrical grid is already stressed to the max and supplimental power generators run off of good ole fuel. It takes fuel to make the electricity, so the green idea is bogus. Lets just make the cars get 10 more mpgs and we will be alot greener and efficient. After all, the Chevy Metro got 50 MPG 20 years ago. Thats equal to the Prius and better than anything else on the road in the US……………… for about 1/4 less money. Looks like we are getting less efficient and more expensive……sounds like politics to me !
Can it go far enough to be driven off a cliff?
I live 40 miles north of Boston. Five months of the year the evening temps drop below 32 degree. How far is this thing going to go in these temps with the heater on? 80 miles round trip in these temps? Not sure I want to take this sort of chance everyday… will I get home or not?
I advise all the haters on this posting to go ride their horse. With their neanderthal attitude that is what they deserve. And I hope they like the smell.
We all laugh at Gordon Gekko's phone from 1988. Where are the cell phones now? Yes in 2020 we will be wondering how come people were driving on gas and filling up tanks every 300 or so miles, when the electrics then will probably go 1000 miles between recharges.
Instead of changing driving habits or changing our thinking to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, Most people would rather just sit around and send our youth overseas to be wounded or killed. I and many of my friends have spent months in IRAQ or Afganastan. The electric grid can support night time charges. I was a powerplant operator and there is spinning reserve at night. Its not for everyone but this technology is for a lot of people as a second car. "Nissan's Website Winter, urban stop-and-go, traffic jam: 62 miles
Speed: Average 15 mph
Temperature: 14 degrees
Climate control: On
Though the average speed is only 15 mph with stop-and-go traffic, the 14-degree temperature means the heater is doing a lot of work so you spend considerable time and energy heating your car rather than moving forward. Despite these conditions, it would still take more than 4 hours to run out of charge!"
The author of this article seems to be confusing miles per gallon with total miles of range. These are only equal if the battery capacity is equivalent to one gallon of gasoline: possible but unlikely. There is nothing inconsistent between the 200 km driving range and the EPA's guesstimate of 99 mpg. I call it a guesstimate because the conversion of electrical stored energy in a battery available for use and the energy stored in gasoline is tricky.
EIA website.
20% nuclear (No oil cartels)
45% Coal (Still no oil cartels)
24% Natural Gas (different kind of gas) (still no oil cartels)
6.4% Hydro
4.6% other
1% Petrolium (You are right, if could only reduce this 1%)
@Dan: The EPA's fuel estimate takes in to account the fuel consumed by the power plants to make the electricity used to charge the cars. 99 mpg-equivalent is nothing to sneeze at!
I guess this gives a whole new meaning to the term 'jump starting a car' (sorry – couldn't help myself).
My company is actually working on ways of making these cost comparisons super easy for consumers to understand, but the range issue is different beast altogether. We currently plot out refueling points on a map that locates gas stations along your route, so I'm not sure what we'll convey for the Leaf (perhaps a big red X at the range limit until the recharging infrastructure is built out?). We'll figure it out, but it does represent a different value proposition for consumers vs. the Chevrolet Volt which doesn't face range limitations (which is why we have the Volt listed on cost2drive.com but not yet the Leaf).
Jim Kovarik
President & Cofounder, C2G, LLC
Mike wrote above "You can opt for a 220v station to be installed in your home…approx $2200 before tax credits."
I've never lived in a home without the capability for 220v outlets. And, for less than $50, I've been able to put a 220v outlet in my garage. It seems that the only reason for the extraordinarily high costs for the charging station is so that someone can collect an enormous windfall in the form of tax credit subsidies. It would appear to be a sizable rip-off of the American taxpayers — along with the other subsidies that will be paid for the wealthy early-adopters that will be buying these cars.
It's time to end all of these subsidies, and let the technologies prove themselves. If the market doesn't want it without the subsidy, maybe we shouldn't get into it in the first place.
There was probably a big fat american driving when the EPA tested it.
Mile per gallon and total battery range are two very different things. This entire article is based on a complete misunderstanding of basic automobile terms.
I think the WSJ writer mistakenly stated 99 mpg ("fuel economy) as the Leaf's range; the writer probably meant 99 miles, which converted to range, is 124 km since the article continues to discuss, not mpg.
Put another way, the writer meant 99 miles range, not 99 mpg ("fuel range".)
Boo Baby, the inventor of the battery that can move this buggy 1,000 miles on a single charge hasn't been born yet.
I think GM is heading down a smarter path at the moment. If you want an electric car without the range anxiety, the Volt carries a gasoline powered charger. If you want an inexpensive car for long drives, the Cruze Eco gets 42mpg on the highway. (And if gas goes back to $1/gallon, you can buy a Buick living room on wheels…)
What people often forget is the aging of batteries: gradually reduced capacity over time.
It would be like owning a gasoline powered car with a gas tank that shrinks a gallon every year.
This car in the form it's currently in would get me to work and back with miles to spare…a couple of years from now on a cold day… maybe not.
Fuel economy is different than driving range. One measures the efficiency of energy used, the other measures the distance you can go on one charge or tank.
The Leaf is a niche vehicle. Small size, limited range, long charge time make it have limited applicability. If it were $6 – 10K, I'd buy one; leave the 25MPG Subaru in the garage more often and use this for local errands. I'd have to do the arithmetic and understand its life expectancy (not a trivial issue with these battery systems), but it might pay. But this car is more expensive than my 25MPG Subaru, and is burdened with all the limitations.
I hope some of you buy it, and that feeds more money into the technology development. As for me, when a charge lasts 200-300 miles, and recharging takes under 15 minutes, and it can cruise at 70+ MPH, and it can drive in bad weather (that's why we have the Subaru), and it's a size conducive to a family with 2 children and two dogs; and the price is only a little bit more; then I'll buy one. Then again, I didn't get an IPhone until the 3G model, and I won't buy an IPad for at least 6-12 more months when they are more capable and a better value.
@Sammy. The Volt is very different than the Prius. The Prius is a combined drive. The Volt has an engine which runs as a charger only when the battery gets low. It is a completely different design and is designed to use the battery more than a Prius. That said, it is a really artful thing to decide what the equivalent MPG rating is. GM wanted the EPA to rate it only on the battery and assume it gets charged at home, but the EPA (wisely) refused to do that.
The article is quite confusing. The initial data point discusses a "driving range" — i.e., how far can you drive this car before the battery is fully discharged, which the Japanese report as 200 km. The second data point is the US "fuel economy rating" which tells us that the vehicle's fuel efficiency is equivalent to 99 miles per gallon (or about 120 km/gallon — not 160 km/gallon).
I am assuming that the "experts" referred to in the article cite that the vehicle will go about 99 miles, using typical US driving conditions. But you can't get that figure from the information provided.
The article should be corrected to eliminate this confusion.
Even though no gasoline is being used, the US feds came up with an equivalent figure because the electricity needs to come from some where. Make sense, I guess.
Setting all of this aside, I am concerned with actual mileage under adverse conditions. For example, when it is below zero F outside, and the battery has cooled off to that temperate, and the heater needs to be run to keep the occupants warm, what range would be anticipated. I am guessing that it will be far less than 99 miles.
This article compares miles of range to miles per gallon. Japan's Minstry estimated the Leaf's range at 200 km (124 miles). Rather than comparing that 124-mile-figure to 99 mpg, it should be compared to the EPA range figure, which is 73 miles (according to the November 23rd Wall Street Journal article titled "Nissan Discloses Leaf's Range…"). Therefore, the difference between the two is 51 miles.
The confusion seems to arise as they are talking about Japanese miles.
Japanese miles is not exist. Only US and UK use miles. Other countries use meter. 124 miles means US miles.
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@Sammy. The Volt is very different than the Prius. The Prius is a combined drive.
Both Prius and Volt are parallel drive hybrids. Both have batteries and gasoline engines that power the drive train directly when the battery is discharged or not employed. Prius can go about 2 miles electric and volt about 30 miles. Volt has a a 400 lb li-ion battery and Prius much smaller battery. Prius is planned for plug in 2011 and Volt is now a plug in. Volt is high risk government backed technology and Prius an incremental market proven vehicle.
Leaf was promoted as a 100 mile EV. Tests show 73 miles and that is suspect in consumer use. The battery was and remains the major barrier to EV success.
I can see it now; one of those 6kw Costco generators in the back of the leaf for the "warm feeling" of having something to fall back on………………….
Why does not every new car come with helpful tools like that so that all drivers can improve their mileage and fuel economy?
We could just run a conductive post up on the back of the EVs and wires hanging down from power lines. It'll be like a nationwide bumper car system.
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There comes a time in every travellers life when they realize they've forgotten something important. No matter how hard you plan, or how many lists you make, it appears to be the universal law of travelhood that at some point you'll slap your hand against your forehead, followed by some kind of lamenting sound, possibly a bit of foul language, the 4 stages of grief and then onto "ok, what do we do now?".
So it was for us in Quartzite, AZ.
We had driven several miles into the "boonies", enjoyed an afternoon in the wilderness, slept the deeply sound sleep of those who know that all is right with the world and then gotten ready to take the car into town.
That's when it happened. You see, we tow our car behind our RV (like many do) which involves hooking up the car to a tow-bar, attaching cables that transfer the brakes to the back and leaving the key half-turned in the ignition so that the wheels are loose and can move while we drive. Usually we unhook as soon as we get to a RV park, but out here in the wilderness it hardly seemed necessary until we needed the car. So, we had happily left the car hooked-up with the key in the ignition, which was equally happy to slowly drain the batteries overnight leaving us with a completely dead car, and the dead obvious question "honey, we bought jumper cables, right?".
Which, in matter of fact, we hadn't.
Now, all turned out fine in the end. Paul, being the strapping man he is, peddled the bicycle cross-country into town, got the cables and speeded back. We had ourselves a good half-hour of weight-pushing exercises getting the car rolled over next to the RV and then jump-started off the 650 amp engine batteries on the beast (for those not in the know, 650 amp is rather large and could easily jump-start a full-grown truck, so no worries there).
Which, brings me to the topic of the RV toolbox. Here's a list of things we advise you bring should you be silly enough to start the trip without a list (or even with one, given what you might forget):
- Jumper Cables – yes, seems bleeding obvious now
- Assortment of tools (hammer, drill, wrenches, screwdrivers, nails, screws, measuring tape etc.) – a plastic toolbox will house everything just fine.
- Utility Gloves – useful for when you're dealing w/ the black-tank and all kinds of other projects.
- Camping axe – particularly helpful for opening coconuts, although I'm sure we'll find more uses for it as time goes by
- Wood & metal saws – good for home projects and lots more
- Clamps - for use with saws and home projects on the road
- Trowel – most usefull indeed…see yesterday's post if in doubt
- Bag of extra fuses – for when one of the fuses dies in your massive RV panel
- Power-testing light - if something ain't working in the RV this handy little tool will tell you if power is getting there
- Grease & lube - all things move in the RV and they all get dry at some point so you'll need an assortment of useful greases. We've got WD40, silicone lube, trailer-hitch grease and a few more which Paul has hidden around the place
- Multi-Stage Ladder – the RV is BIG and having a ladder is key for all kinds of projects. We highly recommend the Werner 13-foot collapsible Ladder. It's the exact same design (as far as I can tell) as the Little Giant but for a lot less.
I'm sure we'll think of more as time goes by.
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disavowalLine breaks: dis|avowal
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsəˈvaʊəl /
noun[mass noun]
The denial of any responsibility or support for something; repudiation: his disavowal of his previous writings [count noun]: they know this, despite their disavowals
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- Some people cope by denial or disavowal, making open communication less appropriate in the earlier stages.
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By Jessica | Published: April 30, 2007
TweetI just wanted to give a big old thanks to everyone who showed up to our third year bash on Friday. I think everyone had a fantastic time. (As evidenced by the pics here, here, and here.) And I wanted to say a special thank you to my sister, who worked her ass off to [...]
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Mrs Resident Evil Milla Jovovich spoke with Vulture, and confirmed that Screen Gems are looking to her to continue the horror franchise with a fifth entry.
"This new Resident Evil is the first one to ever open at No. 1 worldwide. It's the biggest movie in the franchise," she says. "So we're definitely going to make another one."
Handily, the fourth Evil entry ended on a cliffhanger that could easily set up the next flick – and it seems director Paul W.S. Anderson already has ideas for the fifth Evil entity. But could this be the first interactive sequel?
"We've been talking to a lot of fans on Twitter and stuff, so it's probably going to be one of the first movies where we really talk to fans to see what they want, and what characters they want to see. It's going to be a more interactive process."
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Turning the PHAUCET software on for Delta soybeans
Mississippi State University scientists are evaluating a free software tool that can increase irrigation efficiency for the state's soybean producers.
MSU Extension Service irrigation specialist Jason Krutz, MSU Extension and research professor Tom Eubank, systems engineer Lyle Pringle and MSU Plant and Soil Sciences professor Joe Massey are field testing a computer program that calculates furrow irrigation system performance and helps improve irrigation effectiveness. Eubank, Pringle and Massey are also Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researchers.
"The PHAUCET, or Pipe Hole and Universal Crown Evaluation Tool, has the potential to reduce water pumped from the Delta's underground water supply. This supply has declined over the years because of traditional irrigation approaches and increased irrigation acreage," Krutz said. "PHAUCET can also save irrigated crop production costs."
The software was developed by engineers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service in Missouri.
The program uses engineering equations to calculate pipe pressure and flow rates for each watered furrow. It applies system flow rate, pipe diameter, watered furrow spacing, row lengths and elevations down the length of the pipe. The user can select a hole size design for each watered furrow to deliver water uniformly without bursting the pipe.
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The PHAUCET irrigation design should allow water to reach the end of long or short rows more uniformly. Thus the producer will not waste water through runoff while waiting for other rows to finish watering, saving time and money. The savings gained with PHAUCET could be lost if the irrigation is allowed to run longer than needed, so proper irrigation timing is necessary.
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By necessity, the book wasn't intended as a comprehensive look at Snow's career. Due to limited time and money, it only focused on Snow's landscape paintings, McEntire says. "Final Light" doesn't explore Snow's illustrations, watercolors, drawings and etchings, or figurative and floral paintings made outside Utah locations.
The essays do, however, suggest the scope of Snow's oversized personality. "He was bigger than breath," Stremmel says. "He was bigger than his stories."
'Final Light: The Life and Art of V. Douglas Snow'
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Born » In Salt Lake City in 1927
Early life » Sold his first painting, "View of the City at Dusk," at age 14. Delivered it to the buyer on a bicycle. Studied theater at the University of Utah in 1943-45; also studied art with LaConte Stewart.
Inspiration » Snow's mother, Loree Forsyth, was born in Loa, northwest of Teasdale. Her three children didn't visit southern Utah until Doug was 18. "We fell in love with the place as soon as we saw it," he said.
Art training » In 1946, Snow studied at New York's American Art School and Columbia University; earned a master's degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1950; awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Rome's Academy of Fine Arts.
Academic career » Taught at Stanford University and Wayne State College before coming to the University of Utah in 1954. Chaired the art department from 1966-71. Retired in 1992.
Work » Included in collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Springville Museum of Art and the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University.
Public commissions » Snow was best known in Utah for his murals, including one hanging in the lobby of The Leonardo (commissioned when the building was the Salt Lake Library), at the Rio Grande Gallery (originally in the lobby of the U.'s Pioneer Theatre), and "Capitol Reef," which hangs behind the Supreme Court bench in the Matheson Courts Building. The painting is covered with a gray curtain and is visible only when the court isn't in session, which seems fitting in terms of the mural's original title, "Conflict and Resolution."
Died » Oct. 20, 2009
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The Stremmel Gallery in Reno has 26 works by Doug Snow for sale. The gallery has sold 140 of his paintings over the past three decades.
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Value » After Snow's death in 2009, the value of his works has risen. For example, in 1995 a 48-by-60-inch painting by the Utah artist sold for $5,500 at the gallery. Now that same painting is priced at $11,250. In 1990, a 43-by-60-inch painting sold for $6,700. Now the artwork is valued at $11,175.
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In addition, Snow photographed his works with his own camera, without the professional quality of studio lights, and he wasn't particularly organized. For example, he often used the same title over the span of multiple decades for different paintings, which makes cataloguing his work difficult.
Yet for an art book with more than 80 color reproductions, the book's reasonable price — $26.95 — sets it apart. That required raising more than $50,000 to cover the entire legacy project, which included the exhibitions, an art scholarship and a subsidy for the book's reproductions, according to McEntire.
That was important to Susan Snow, who wanted the book to be affordable to aspiring artists and art students. "Painting is just using pig bristle attached to a stick of some kind to apply pigment to a canvas." That's what Snow would tell anyone who was interested in painting, she recalls.
"He wanted young aspiring painters to know that it's OK to want to be an artist," Susan Snow says. "If you feel driven to be an artist, it's not only OK, it's doable. You can decide when you're 5 years old — like Doug did — and you will be able to survive and have a family and be comfortable. He wanted people to know you can follow your bliss."
For Jordan, the book will keep Snow's work alive for her and future generations of artists. "I don't own a piece of Doug's work, so I love the book because I get to have his work in my home."
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The government has failed to pay fees for thousands of poor children who are eligible for assistance under a special scheme that entitles them to free primary education.
The government is supposed to assist children from poor backgrounds with school fees under the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM).
Schools re-opened Tuesday but for 900,000 children on the scheme, fees will be in arrears after the Social Welfare ministry said it has no money to pay for them.
The number of children on the programme is pegged at one million, according to a senior ministry official Sydney Mhishi, who was addressing legislators Tuesday.
At least 750,000 primary school pupils need help at a total cost of $8 per child per term, and to achieve this $28 million is required.
Mhishi said the ministry had asked for a budget allocation of $73 million to cover BEAM but only received $15 million – which is just enough to pay for 83,000 children in need.
Unless donors resumed funding the education sector as they used to until last year, Mhishi said many children will miss out on education.
"We used to have a basket funding where (European Union) countries pooled resources and gave it to UNICEF which would interface with our schools," Mhishi said.
"That fell off two years ago. Their argument was that primary education must be free and compulsory. The current circumstance is that there will be no free primary education," Mhishi continued.
"We still think DfID (Britain's Department for International Development) might come again. If they don't come, it means Government will have to look for the money," Mhishi added, and revealed that funding from DfID ended last year.
Last year November, Mhishi told the same committee of legislators that his ministry owed schools $15 million in school fees.
Former Education Minister David Coltart said it was clear that the government was failing in its obligation to provide basic education to children, as required by the country's constitution.
"The government is allocating insufficient funds to education and if we are to ensure that children at least get a primary education, this has to improve significantly," said Coltart.
He added: "BEAM is a symptom of a bigger problem: it is underfunded and was devised a decade ago for a much stronger economy when there were far more people in formal employment than the current situation where a lot of people are poverty-stricken and can't pay fees."
"The scheme simply can't cope, and compounding the crisis is that donors have pulled out," the former minister said.
Coltart explained that one of the ways in which the government could address the growing crisis was by cutting spending in other areas, such as the size of Cabinet and reducing military spending.
He said there was also need to re-examine the administration of the financial assistance scheme to make it more transparent and effective.
Coltart also said that in the past committees set up to conduct vetting processes for the scheme had been accused of being partisan, and this had seen deserving children being left out.
"The question that government needs to ask itself is 'do we really need the entire civil service and bureaucracy around BEAM at all?'"
"If government commits itself to free basic education then we don't need that bureaucracy because every child will be able to get a free education," Coltart added.
Typical – Mugabe's takes over $200m from the budget for his own offices expenditure, and allocates just $15m for the education of nearly 1,000,000 Zimbabwean primary children !
You could not make this up !
In any democracy, such action would result in Mugabe's immediate removal from office.
Here is a good example of Zimbabwe being a fiefdom of Robert Mugabe. He is on leave for a month but chooses to go to Singapore with his family on a hired Mbada Airbus. Supposedly, he lives on his Presidential salary as the ordinary person does. Then where does he get the money to hire an Airbus for a month when the Zanu PF government is said to be broke and cannot even pay the tuition for the needy children of Zimbabwe?


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Flashman novels: Bawdy, irreverent romp through the 19th century
Deemed a military hero, Major General Sir Harry Paget Flashman's autobiographical accounts tell of his exploits in the First Afghan War, the Anglo-Sikh War, the 1857 "revolt" and military campaigns of Queen Victoria; of carrying out missions for Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln, and his presence in almost every significant event of the 19th century across five continents.
During the course of his colourful life, Flashman tangles up with slaves, pirates, Thugs and Red Indians, saves the Kohinoor diamond, causes the Charge of the Light Brigade, fights on both sides in the American Civil War, achieves the first hat-trick in cricket, and even encounters Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson... the last gives it away, doesn't it?
If you thought Flashman was a real person, you would be in august company. In 1969, when the first of the Flashman papers came out, a third of over 30 expert reviews studied by The New York Times thought so too, with some of them terming it the most important literary find since the Boswell Papers.
But to be fair to the general reader, the works are presented in such a manner that they can easily be taken in - the 12 volumes of the Flashman papers seek to chronicle real events and even have appendices seeking to clarify some points, as well as fairly exhaustive footnotes.
The character as well as the concept was the brainchild of George McDonald Fraser (1925-2008), a soldier, journalist, author and screenplay writer. Taking a minor character from "Tom Brown's Schooldays", McDonald Fraser - in a stunning interplay of fact and fiction - elevated him to the status of a most jaundiced and politically incorrect but very perceptive observer of the 19th century.
It was a hard feat to pull off - Flashman is the quintessential anti-hero. A self-admitted coward, cad, debauch as well as a bully/toady (depending on whom he is dealing with), the tall, well-built Flashman's main objective is to save his skin and enrich himself. His only skills are his talent for languages, his expert riding - and his mastery at seduction.
He is embroiled in his adventures most reluctantly - by blackmail, or to save being exposed (and the consequent social disgrace) or, more often, when his attempts to escape miscarry. He comes perilously close to being unmasked twice or thrice but luckily for him, the probable whistle-blowers don't survive.
Despite all this, the series was avidly read, being both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The credit must go to Fraser, who skillfully creates the framing plot, insinuates Flashman in a crisis, provides a narrative with plenty of humour, sparkling dialogue, incisive pen-portaits of real characters, enough cliff-hanger moments to grab interest, and then finds a way to ensure Flashman survives with reputation intact or even enhanced.
What makes Flashman a delight to read is that he is himself not concerned with anyone's reputation, or the "higher purpose" of events and they come in for some quite caustic but witty appraisals.
In these pages, he meets Queen Victoria, the Rani of Jhansi, Maharani Jind Kaur and Maharaja Dhuleep Singh, Florence Nightingale, Lincoln, Bismarck, Ulysses Grant, and Gen. Custer (of Custer's Last Stand) to mention some prominent historical figures.
Along with what he thought of them, his views on the first British invasion of Afghanistan, the Sikh War, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Indian Mutiny, the destruction of the Summer Palace in then Peking, American attitudes towards slaves or Red Indians, are decidedly provocative.
Adding to the attraction are those whose exploits may seem highly inventive fiction but are the truth - James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, who fought piracy in the Malay Straits; Josiah Harlan, an American adventurer who served both Ranjit Singh and Afghanistan's Dost Mohammad and became prince of Ghor (when he unfurled the American flag on the Hindu Kush); and his contemporary and countryman Alexander Campbell Gardner, who had hair-raising adventures in Central Asia and Afghanistan before serving (as Gordana Khan) Ranjit Singh and his heirs.
The 12 installment of the papers (in chronological order) are "Flashman" (Britain/Afghanistan), "Flashman's Lady" (Britain/Borneo/Madagascar), "Flashman and the Mountain of Light" (the Punjab), "Royal Flash" (Europe), "Flash for Freedom" (Britain/West Africa/America), "Flashman and the Redskins (part I)" (America), "Flashman at the Charge" (Crimea/Central Asia), "Flashman in the Great Game" (India in 1857), "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord" (South Africa/America), "Flashman and the Dragon" (China), "Flashman on the March" (Ethiopia), "Flashman and the Redskins (part II)" (America) and "Flashman and the Tiger" (stories). They appeared between 1969 and 2005.
The next Flashman paper was to see him either in Australia (the only continent which he had not visited yet) or shed light on his activities in the American Civil War - hinted at in several of the books but only known to him and President Lincoln. McDonald Fraser's death in 2008, however, ensured we will never come to know what exactly happened or how the chronicles of this most unlikely "hero" finally end.
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Inability to Repay Loan – 'Best Farmer' Ends Life
Posted by संदीप नारायण शेळके on December 31, 2009
Namaste Friends, I've came across these two very sad stories and equally very disturbing as well.
First happened on 21 Nov 2009. A farmer could not get a good price for his farm produce and succumbed to mounting loan repayments. Here is the story:
UP sugarcane farmer commits suicide
LUCKNOW: Distressed at not getting an adequate price for his produce, a debt-ridden sugarcane farmer allegedly committed suicide. The victim burnt his fields in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district and then jumped in the fire, police said on Saturday. Isbuddin (51), a resident of Asara village in Baghpat, about 400-km from Lucknow, took the extreme step on Friday evening. According to locals, Isbuddin was depressed for the last few days and had even stopped talking to his family members. In order to repay his loans, Isbuddin wanted to sell his produce for a minimum of Rs.270 per quintal.
Second story happened on 29 December 2009. A very very disappointing and disheartening story of "Best Farmer commiting suicide".
Best Farmer of the Year Commits Suicide
Kasargod, Dec 29: Kanakattody Radhakrishna Shetty (60) committed suicide by consuming poison on Sunday December 27, after being unable to repay the bank loan raised by him. Shetty had been the recipient of the 'best farmer' award from Bellur region some years back.
Shetty, a progressive farmer, had raised loan from a bank to develop his land. Because of this year's untimely rains, his crops were destroyed and he was unable to repay the loan. His family members said that he was going through mental agony, after receiving repeated notices from the bank to repay his loan.
Radhakrishna was the president of Vishnumurty Dhoomavati Daivasthana in Kinningar. He is survived by wife, Maina Shetty and three children.
Just a thought came to my mind that a one time actor Vishnuvardhan dies of heart attack and all media channels make a note of it. 31st Celebration is the biggest breaking news.
But a "Best Farmer" comming suicide is no news, forget big or small.
Shame on you irresponsible and hypocrite media.
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January 2, 2010 at 3:03 am
Dear Sandeep
Thanks for bringing these very poignant stories to one's attention. The sad reality is that our regulatory system in India doesn't deal with this problem sensibly.
It is relatively easy to fix such things through good regulation. It can be made mandatory that loans for risky events like farming should be bundled with a suitable insurance premium that will repay the loan when crops fail. If the premium is spread across all farmers in India the amount will be quite small, hardly adding a few basis points to the loan.
Second, on top of that, we need a social insurance scheme that guarantees that anyone who faces unfavourable outcomes in the marketplace is at guaranteed that his/her family will get a minimum amount to eat, etc. This minimum amount cannot be used by lenders to extract loan repayments. Without a social insurance scheme we are preventing people from investing and taking risks: two key drivers of progress.
The fact that this very old problem in India has not been resolved speaks volumes for the mismanagement of this great country where lives are cheap and corruption is king.
As you are aware, FTI is a group of leaders that will take on such problems headlong, through good regulation. I would ask your readers to consider joining the Freedom Team (http://freedomteam.in/).
January 3, 2010 at 5:26 am
The matter should be taken up as top priority for Adharshila activities all over the country in rural areas. There needs to be a demand for such solutions – and then of course there need to be leaders who will contest elections and deliver on such demands.
Adopting one farmer at a time is like trying to clean the ocean of salt one glassful at a time. It definitely works for the one glass, but doesn't solve the ocean's 'problem' of salinity.
The task is not that hard if a number of good leaders can get together and change the system. If nothing else the message will go through to the policy makers.
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Vegetarian crispy fried noodles - it's one of my favourite dishes from childhood, so I really loved it, but my friend wasn't too fond of it.
To each his own, I guess.
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