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Botany was among the most popular of the nineteenth century sciences. Men, women and children all joined in the frantic hunt for plants, and the hedgerows were full of people cataloguing mosses, identifying ferns and pressing flowers. This popularity had five main sources:
However, all these factors created problems for the small but influential group of Victorian botanists who wished to pursue full-time careers as botanists. The very things that made botany popular for some participants threatened its standing as a serious science in the eyes of others. One of the dominant themes in Victorian botany is the struggle between a self-appointed, predominantly male elite who were trying to redefine botany as a serious, "philosophical" science and the vast majority who wanted simply to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of flowers.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, almost the only way to earn a living from botany was by teaching medical students. Botany was not considered important enough to warrant study in its own right. As late as 1857, the Athenaeum complained that "Of all the natural sciences Botany is perhaps worse treated in this country than any other", because it was "tacked on as an appendix to a course of medical study, and gets little or no consideration in any other direction".
Nevertheless, botany's role as part of English medical education (after the 1815 Apothecaries Act), did at least ensure a growth in botanical teaching positions. Yet because it was part of the materia medica, botany was primarily associated with the lowly apothecaries, who ranked below physicians and surgeons because they engaged directly in trade, selling medicines in shops. By contrast, physicians avoided manual work and regarded dispensing medicines as deleterious to their social and professional standing. In George Eliot's novel Middlemarch, set in the 1830s, Dr Lydgate displays his pretensions to social and professional status by deciding to "simply prescribe, without dispensing drugs or taking percentage from druggists". Although dispensing drugs brought in a secure income, ambitious doctors like Lydgate sought to climb the social and professional scale by breaking their link with shopkeepers.
Nevertheless, the main reason why botany was taught in universities for much of the century was because of its medical uses, and the steadily growing numbers of medical students were an important market for botanical books, lecture courses and collecting equipment. Some career-minded botanists might have wanted to break their science's link with medicine, but few could afford to do so.
The earliest botanic gardens were attached to monasteries and were used for growing medicinal plants and for teaching monks to cultivate, identify and use such plants. When European universities began to take over the teaching of medicine, they created university botanic gardens on the model of their monastic predecessors.
The oldest university botanic gardens in Britain were are Oxford and Edinburgh, but during the nineteenth century there was an explosion of new gardens. For example, in 1800 the Glasnevin botanic garden was founded by the Dublin Society for Promoting Husbandry and Other Useful Arts; with its comparative plantings of different crops and regular demonstrations of the latest agricultural machinery, must have been more like a model farm than a botanic garden. By contrast, the Liverpool botanic garden was created in 1803, was more like a public park, an ornamental pleasure garden, full of exotic blooms and very much dedicated to the growing popularity of gardening as a hobby. The difference between the two gardens can be largely attributed to the fact that while Glasnevin was founded by a society of landowners intent on scientific agricultural improvement, Liverpool was financed through public subscriptions. During the early decades of the nineteenth century an increasingly large network of botanic gardens was also growing up in Britain's colonies.
As Richard Drayton has shown, controversy about the role of the Royal Gardens at Kew erupted in 1838, when reformers in parliament demanded curbs on Royal expenditure. A "Royal Gardens Committee" was set-up by the treasury to investigate Kew and all the royal parks, with a view to reducing expenditure. The botanist John Lindley sat on the committee and wrote a report arguing that Kew should be brought under direct government control and made more useful to the nation, by managing the activities of the numerous provincial and colonial botanic gardens throughout the empire:
A National botanic garden would be the centre around which all those minor establishments should be arranged; they should be all under the control of the chief of that garden explaining their wants, receiving their supplies, and aiding the mother country in every thing that is useful in the vegetable kingdom. Medicine, commerce, agriculture, horticulture, and many valuable branches of manufacture, would derive considerable advantages from such a system (Lindley, 1838).
Lindley hoped to become director of the "new Kew", but his old friend and mentor Sir William Jackson Hooker (then Regius Professor of botany at Glasgow University) was also interested. Both men lobbied frantically, but what ultimately cost Lindley the job was that the full scope of his reforms would have cost over £78,000 far too much in the political climate of the 1830s.
Hooker's lobbying and the influence of his powerful friends and patrons in government paid off. In 1841, he was appointed the first director of Kew 18 acres of land and a salary of £500 p.a. including housing allowance. However, as Drayton has shown, Kew's future was uncertain and Hooker needed new patrons: making Kew useful to the empire, especially by building it a role in agricultural improvement, would be crucial to this process.
During its early years, Kew was divided into the Pleasure Grounds, a public park, and the much smaller Botanic Gardens, into which the public were only occasionally admitted. And serious students of botany were admitted in the morning, while the public were only allowed in after 1pm. These divisions and distinctions symbolise the debate about the Kew's role and purpose that mirrored a wider debate about the place and importance of botany and which continued throughout much of the century. Was Kew a scientific establishment or a Royal Park? After William Hooker's death in 1865, his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, succeeded him as director and tried to give the gardens an even more scientific character. London's expanding railway network made Kew accessible to crowds of working class visitors from the East End, who were regarded with some scorn by the new director. In his 1871 report, Hooker characterised some of Kew's visitors as "mere pleasure or recreation seekers whose motives are rude romping and games". Extending the opening hours would merely encourage such people. In 1874, the Gardener's Chronicle complained that:
Large numbers of excursionists came from London to the Gardens, and great was their disappointment at finding that the gardens were not open until the afternoon. Many of these excursionists were poor people, who only obtained a holiday once or twice a year.
Hooker retorted that catering to these swarms of working class visitors would simply lead to the Gardens being over-run with "swarms of nursery maids and children". However, as the Richmond and Twickenham Times reported, those who arrived in the mornings and found the gardens shut, "betook themselves in true British fashion, to drinking and dancing, and them some 2 hours later sought to refresh exhausted nature by falling asleep on the grass". In 1877, Hooker finally relented and opened the garden at 10am on public holidays; although he was still concerned that "luncheons, pic-nics & bands of music" would undermine Kew's scientific status, he probably realised that working-class drunks who "resorted to the woods for immoral purposes in great numbers" and then passed out in the shrubberies were doing Kew's reputation even more harm.
These debates at Kew were repeated at many other gardens, including those in the colonies. The Sydney Botanic Gardens witnessed a similar debate in the 1830s, when those who wanted to raise botany to genuinely scientific status clashed with people who saw botanic gardens merely as a superior kind of public park.
Classifying plants was the most important botanical practice during the Victorian period. Yet the apparently straightforward process of naming flowers was a source of bitter disputes that preoccupied much of the botanical community during the 1840s and 50s particularly. These centred on the Linnaean or sexual system of classification, which, despite claims to the contrary, remained in use in Britain well into the second half of the century. Its survival, long after the rest of Europe had abandoned it, contributed to the perception that British botany was backward and unfit to take its place alongside the physical sciences. However, those attacking the Linnaean classification were divided over what should replace it: the most widely used of its rivals was known as the natural system, founded by Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 and developed by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle and others, but only slowly taken up in Britain. The naturalists who subsequently developed this system found themselves disagreeing over its definitions and principles, thus fragmenting it, yet only a single, settled natural system could vanquish the Linnaean one. The prominence of these destabilising debates was exacerbated by the existence of numerous other classificatory systems (including the binary or dichotomous system, the quinary and septenary systems, and others), all based on completely different principles to those of de Jussieu, yet which all claimed to be "natural". Both the debates within the natural system and the chaos of rival systems contributed to perceptions that botany was an unphilosophical study which lacked guiding principles.
The Linnaean system encapsulated much of what made botany attractive to the enthusiasts. As its defenders constantly stressed, it was easy to learn and use and botany's tools were relatively cheap. These were qualities that made botany a high-status activity for women, an obvious cousin to flower-arranging, flower-painting and gardening. As the Young Lady's Book, a mid-century conduct manual, asserted, "there is something peculiarly adapted to feminine tenderness in the care of flowers".
The strong association between botany and women was undoubtedly another reason for its relatively low standing in the male-dominated councils of scientific societies like the BAAS. Ann B. Shteir has used such facts to argue that the process of "professionalising" botany in the nineteenth century created more "exclusionary relations between women and science culture" that resulted in women being "relegated to arenas of 'amateur' and 'popular' science". However, during the early decades of the century, neither the "amateur" nor the "professional" existed as stable categories; they emerged from the activities of men like Lindley and Joseph Hooker as they struggled to raise their status and that of their discipline.
The gradual rise of a recognisable profession of "scientist" together the slow transformation of botany into a science also led to working class devotees of plants being gradually excluded from the study. Anne Secord has shown that there were large numbers of artisan botanists who enthusiastically devoted themselves to the study of mosses and other hard-to-recognise plants in order to demonstrate how skilled they were. Such men initially met in pubs, but later in the century, formed field clubs who went out botanising together usually at weekends. However, as David Allen has shown, the rise of university-based laboratory botany in the latter decades of the century gradually relegated such activities to "amateur" status.
Many Victorian botanists were fascinated by the question of the distribution of plants. Most of them assumed that each species had been created - by some unknown means - in one place only and that plants then migrated from their point of origin to the various places they currently occupied. However, this theory was hard to reconcile with the fact that members of the same group were sometimes found thousands of miles apart with no obvious, natural means by which they could have been transported between their locations. Botanists like Robert Brown, Joseph Hooker and many others hoped that studying the worlds floras in more detail might shed some light on these puzzles and perhaps on the mysterious mechanism by which new species were initially created.
Another motive for investigating plant distribution was that British botany was mainly concerned with taxonomy, the naming and classifying of plants. In the eyes of some nineteenth-century men of science, this was not enough to qualify botany as a science; sciences were supposed to be about mathematics and experimentation, accuracy and precision, but most of all, they were supposed to be concerned with laws. The leading British philosophers of science - men like John Herschel and William Whewell - regarded Newtonian mechanics as the pinnacle of scientific achievement. Newton had discovered a few simple laws that explained everything from the fall of a stone to the motions of the planets; by comparison, botany seemed as intellectually demanding as stamp-collecting. Botanists were acutely aware that their beloved science lacked anything that looked like the laws of physics, and hoped that plant distribution studies would offer them the chance to discover such laws.
As Janet Browne has shown, British plant geographers were partly inspired by the work of Robert Brown, who had observed that the decline in the numbers of species as one sailed away from the equator was characterised by other factors, such as a decline in the size of genera (measured by the number of species each contained). His method of calculating these ratios became known as botanical arithmetic and his ideas were enthusiastically taken-up by the German scientific explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt travelled extensively in South America, where he observed that Brown's ratios applied not only to changes in latitude, but also to changes in altitude: as one ascended the great mountain chains of South America the lush vegetation of the tropics gave way to a sparse, alpine flora that looked just like the plants of the icy southern tip of the continent.
Joseph Hooker and Charles Darwin were both enthusiastic devotees of botanical arithmetic and hoped that it could be used to develop plant distribution into a rigorous study, one that would eventually lead to the discovery of the laws that explained why particular plants grew where they did. These laws would not only be fascinating in themselves, but would have practical applications too because the British Empire was not just built on industry, but also on plants. Hundreds of plant products were vital to the empire's wealth: rubber, cotton, timber, grains, sugar, tea, oilseeds, spices, indigo, fruit and nuts were just some of them. Understanding plant distribution would allow botanists to predict where valuable, new plants could be found, and also to know which plants could successfully be transplanted to new countries where they could be cultivated profitably.
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Arber, A. (1986) Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany 1470-1670. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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Browne, J. (1989) Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants. Isis 80(304): 593621.
Desmond, R. (1995) Kew: A history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, The Harvill Press.
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Gates, B. T. (1998) Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian women embrace the living world. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
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Spary, E. C. (2000) Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Joseph Dalton Hooker website |
Site devoted to Joseph Hooker, including material on his life, collectors and writings. Contains links to other botanical resources. |
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution and Diversity Studies to 1950 |
A bibliography and full-text archive designed for advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies. Includes material on Joseph Hooker, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and many others. |
European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group |
The European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group (EBHL) is an association to promote and facilitate co-operation and communication between those working in botanical and horticultural libraries, archives and related institutions in Europe. Europe is interpreted in the widest sense to include countries both within and outside the European Union (EU). Includes a useful directory of botanical and related libraries in Europe. |
The Garden History Society |
Aims to promote the study of the history of gardening, landscape gardening and horticulture in all aspects and promote the protection and conservation of historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes, and to advise on their restoration. |
Harvard University herbarium libraries and archives |
The archival collections of the Botany Libraries hold many rich sources of information. The botany archives specializes in unique historical materials that document the activities of botanists and their colleagues, especially during the 19th and 20th centuries. Materials include personal and institutional inventories, field notes, diaries, expeditions, plant lists, photographs, historic letters, and artifacts. Includes masses of information on Asa Gray, one of Hookers most important correspondents. |
History of Science Society (HSS) |
The worlds largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context. Founded over seventy-five years ago, it is the oldest such society. Through its publications and other activities, the Society provides scholars, decisions makers and the public with historical perspectives on science policy and on the potentials, achievements, and the limitations of basic and applied science. |
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation |
Specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. Designed to assist current research in botanical systematics, history and biography, and to meet the reference needs of biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
The official website of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, includes some information about their history as well as details of how to contact their library and archives staff. |
Lefalophodon: History of Evolutionary Biology |
This is an informal and incomplete guide to the history of evolutionary biology from about 1800 to about 1950. It is maintained by John Alroy. Its main emphases are on the late 19th century and on paleontology. However, he hopes to see the coverage become more comprehensive in the near future. |
Linnean herbarium |
The Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts. The specimens were once distributed by Linnaeus to his disciples and eventually they became part of the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, subsequently the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Linnaeus' main collections are today housed at the The Linnean Society of London. |
The Museum of Garden History |
This beautifully presented site is about the Tradescant Garden, a replica 17th century Knot Garden, which commemorates the famous 17th century gardeners and plant hunters, the John Tradescants, father and son, and is planted with plants of the period. |
Plant Explorers |
A site for modern plant explorers those whose goal is discovery more than acquisition including botanical photographers and painters. The site also includes some historical information. |
Plant People |
The Gardenweb site has a page devoted to individuals who champion particular plants or methods and share their insights with the wider horticultural community. These include the plant collector Ernest Henry Chinese Wilson (18761930) and others of interest to historitans of botany and gardening. |
Rare Books from the Missouri Botanic Garden Library |
The Missouri Botanical Garden Library has recently started to digitise images of rare books. The idea is to make some of their beautifully illustrated and botanically significant books available to an international audience. This project will eventaully result in a large database of botanical and gardening illustrations and text available to scholars, gardeners, and book enthusiasts through their web site. |
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Ask you shall see .
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TRENDnet 300Mbps Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router
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With two bands to work with, the TEW-672GR not only supports 802.11b, g and n wireless modes but also 802.11a wireless mode. The marketing here is somewhat deceptive as you cannot run both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios simultaneously, which is a disappointment. The good news, though, is that there are many different wireless mixed modes that you can choose from and as long as at least one is suitable for your home or office requirements, it may not be a huge pitfall that both radios cannot operate at the same time.
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Imported fine wares from Jebel Khalid
Currently I am completing my Final Report on the Imported Fine Wares from the Hellenistic settlement of Jebel Khalid in Syria. The report (which should appear early in 2008) will be published as volume 3 in the Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates Final Reports and will also include the Common Wares from the Domestic Quarter, written by Dr. Heather Jackson (University of Melbourne).
On a rocky outcrop towering some 100m over the right bank of the Euphrates River, Jebel Khalid (its ancient name is as yet unknown) was founded early in the 3rd century BC as a Seleucid military outpost and was finally abandoned (peacefully it would seem) c. 70 BC. ANU/University of Melbourne excavations (under the direction of Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke and Dr. Jackson) have been in progress there since 1987.
Perhaps not surprisingly, much of the large quantity of fine wares from the site - in particular the Black Glaze pottery, Eastern Sigillata A, and Moulded Bowls - seems to have originated in the great Seleucid capital of Antioch as, indeed, do most of the coins from the site.
Interestingly, limited neutron activation analysis on ceramics from Antioch, Jebel Khalid, and Pella in Jordan appears to confirm my impression that much of the Hellenistic Black Glaze from this last site was also supplied from Antioch - at least during much of the 2nd century BC when southern Syria was still under Seleucid control.
I am also currently working on the first of the Final Reports on the Hellenistic levels at Pella in Jordan and hope to have it completed by mid-2008.
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- 1/4 cup lard
- 1 1/2 cups diced smoked ham steak (about 8 ounces)
- 1 cup chopped white onion
- 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 cups fresh corn kernels (cut from about 4 ears of corn) or 2 cups frozen corn kernels
- 1 10-ounce smoked ham hock
- 1 medium Yukon Gold potato, peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 5 cups water
Melt lard in heavy large pot over high heat. Add ham steak, onion, both bell peppers, and garlic; sauté until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Add corn and stir 5 minutes. Add ham hock and potato, then 5 cups water; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer partially covered 1 hour. Remove ham hock. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cool slightly. Chill uncovered until cold, then cover and keep chilled. Rewarm over medium heat before serving.)
my notes
- Calories254
- Carbohydrates17 g (6%)
- Fat13 g (20%)
- Protein18 g (35%)
- Saturated Fat4 g (22%)
- Sodium1,063 mg (44%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g (8%)
- Monounsaturated Fat6 g
- Cholesterol48 mg (16%)
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type: Soup/Stew
main ingredients: Corn, Onion, Ham, Bell Pepper, Potato
cuisine: Central American/Caribbean
dietary considerations: Low Cal
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Wood windows are notorious for leaking air as they are designed primarily with aesthetics in mind and not efficiency. That doesn't mean there aren't steps you can take to improve the airtightness of your windows without resorting to the unsightly measures that the past owner chose. Open the bottom sash of the window and see if there is some weatherstripping on the underside of the sash where it meets the sill. There should be some type of gasket weatherstripping there. If there isn't, this is the place to install it. |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Wed, Dec 4, 13 at 7:48
+1 to Ultrawindows feedback. See if the lower sash weatherstripping is intact or serviceable and replaceable. There are usually some more surgical ways to fix some of these issues but homeowner tend to go the HD and Lowes routes of repair and wind up with what you have there. |
Good advice above, although for 14 yr old builder grade wood windows, you might be trying to put a bandaid on a gaping wound at this point. The previous owner probably realized that so they just tried what ever they could to stop the drafts in a cost effective manner until it they could replace them or sell the place. You'll see improvement to be sure by replacing weatherstripping etc, but you are unlikely to be satisfied until you replace them. |
Agree. You will need to make an investment in new windows, there is just no other way around it. Covering your windows in thick plastic would look kind of ridiculous. I always recommend higher end vinyl window brands, those are the most durable and certainly the most energy efficient by far. |
- Posted by catsgurleygirl (My Page) on Wed, Dec 4, 13 at 10:55
Thanks for the tips everyone, I kind of feel like I have been kicked in the gut at the thought of replacing all those windows. It's a large house 3700+ sqft, with a lot of windows, so to say I am freaked out a little is an undertatement. New windows? Ish!! What, that is easily 20,000 and up, right (I know, depending on what kind, size, etc.)? Whew! |
The previous owner may have been taking the path of least resistance by applying the "over the counter" weather stripping like she did on these windows rather than go the more expensive route of replacing the actual window weather stripping. See if you can find out the name of the manufacturer and if it is a major brand, you just to replace the weatherstripping and maybe some other minor parts rather than go to the expense of new windows. If it is an off brand, you may be out of luck. Check with the original owner or builder if possible. Twelve years isn't that long ago. |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Wed, Dec 4, 13 at 23:15
Take some pictures of the weatherstripping. All the components of the window are sourced from other manufacturers when it comes to weatherstripping, latches, and other items on the window so you should have no problem finding a suitable replacement for the weatherstripping without going through the company that made the windows. |
- Posted by Fenestration_Taylor (My Page) on Thu, Dec 5, 13 at 14:07
Replacing the windows is pretty extreme. Like mentioned you might need the proper weatherstrip or make a modification to that stool. I'd search for a contractor who has good window repair experience or a window dealer/distributor who offers service. |
- Posted by catsgurleygirl (My Page) on Fri, Dec 6, 13 at 19:24
Okay, thank you all for all of the tips. I'm not sure what brand the windows are, the window latch says, "builder's"-don't know if that's just the brand of lock or also goes for the windows. I will be looking into fixing the weatherstripingfor now. Thank you! |
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Dr. Jack Rasmus undertakes a detailed analysis of Obama's 2014 Budget released in April. Focusing primarily on proposed cuts to Medicare and Social Security, Tax proposals, and Defense spending, Jack shows how the budget ties into deficit cutting negotiations that will restart once the US House of Representatives and Teaparty radicals move their proposals for a massive change to the US Tax Code benefiting corporations out of committee later this summer. Obama's proposals for Social Security and Medicare amount to $700 billion or more cuts, while restoring defense spending, and proposing even more tax cuts for businesses. Jack shows why claims of social security and even Medicare are 'in crisis' are not true.
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Pro bull riding event at Pala3-Part StoryThursday, May 26th, 2011 Issue 21, Volume 15.
Justin Koons wins championship PALA - Justin Koon of Grapevine, Ark., came out of a tight group in the first go-�round and saved his best ride for last to win the second Pala Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Touring Pro Division Championship Sunday afternoon, May 22 at the Pala Rodeo Grounds. Koon won $6,378.40 and the championship buckle. He scored 86 points on Sock Monkey and roared into the lead with 89 points on Mighty Whitey for a 175-point winning total. The first-day scores on May 21 by Brandon Clark of Hollister, Calif.; Josh Koschel of Greely, Colo., and Wiley Petersen of Ft. Hall, Idaho, held up to the second day competitors. Clark (173 points) finished second and won $4,556.00; Koschel (17l.5) placed third with $2,733.60 and Petersen (167.5) finished sixth and took home $637.84. Last-minute entry Harve Stewart of Stephenville, Texas, finished fourth with 170 points after an 84-point ride on T-Train and 86 points on Top Cat. Stewart won $1,822.40, while Danny Schlobohm of La Monte, Mont., was fifth with 168.5 points and $1,093.94. Markus Mariluch of Elko, Nev., tied Petersen but finished seventh with 167.5 points and won $637.84 and Rocky McDonald of Chihuahua, Mexico, finished eighth with 165 points and $364.48. Petersen�s 87 points in Saturday�s Short Go topped Mariluch�s 79.5 Short Go score to break the tie. Koschel, Mariluch, Tommy Rice, Fairfield, Calif., and Pete Farley, Kempsey, NSW, Australia, also won prize money for the best Long Go scores. Koschel and Rice tied with 89 points and won $1,594.60 each; Mariluch had an 88 point ride and won $911.20, and Farley�scored 87 points and�took home $455.60 from a total purse of $22,780.00 World champion, Hall of Fame member Sampson judges Pala PBR Charlie Sampson, a former world Bull Riding champion and a member of both major rodeo halls of fame, was one of the judges at the Professional Bull Riders event May 21-22 in the Pala Casino arena. Sampson and Jim Bob Custer were the judges who gave scores to the riders at Pala. �It�s an honor just to do this,� Sampson said. The judges are assigned by PBR headquarters. �I just judge whenever they call me,� said Sampson, who has been a rodeo judge since retiring from competition in 1994. �I�m more excited than anything. I get to come to California, judge a great Bull Riding, and visit my family,� Sampson said. Sampson, the first African-American cowboy to win a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world title, grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and some of his earliest rodeos included Murrieta Hot Springs and Lake Elsinore. �This brings back so many memories,� he said of his first Bull Riding at Pala. �This is where I kind of started out at.� In 1982 Sampson won the PRCA�s Bull Riding world championship. He now lives in Pueblo, Colorado, and noted that the temperature in Colorado when he left was 29 degrees. Sampson, who is now 53, was inducted into the PRCA-affiliated Advertisement �What an enthusiastic crowd,� Sampson said of Pala. �What a beautiful atmosphere.� Pala PBR sees Denton�s first qualified ride since NFR Although his score was erased by an unsuccessful reride, the Professional Bull Riders event on the Pala Casino grounds saw Chad Denton�s first qualified ride since the 2010 National Finals Rodeo. Denton rode in the May 21 session and stayed on Oscar on Fire for the required eight seconds. He was given a score and a reride option and took the reride. He was bucked off Got Too during the reride. �I didn�t do very good at all,� Denton said. �The first one ran off and the second one I didn�t deliver.� The top 15 earners in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeos during the PRCA regular-season year qualify for the National Finals Rodeo. Denton�s seventh-place position during the 2010 regular season earned him his first qualification for NFR. Denton rode his first two bulls during NFR, placing high enough for a payout on both. In the eighth go-round December 9 he fractured his tibia in his left leg, and he was unable to compete in the final two NFR go-rounds. Denton did not return to rodeo competition until the Las Vegas Helldorado Days Rodeo the week before the Pala bull riding. He was bucked off at Las Vegas. Denton�s weekend which included Pala also included being bucked off at the Redding Rodeo during his May 19 ride and being bucked off May 20 during the Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Hayward. A bull rider�s score is derived from the combination of the judges� scores for the animal�s performance and the scores for the rider�s performance. Rodeo judges may award a reride if they feel that the animal did not buck satisfactorily. Pala judges Jim Bob Custer and Charlie Sampson gave Denton 61 points for his ride on Oscar on Fire, but they also offered the opportunity for a reride. 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Opened in 1922, this theater earned rave reviews for its neoclassical design, with Corinthian columns, marble statues, and plush carpeting and drapery. Nicknamed the "Pride of the Pacific," the facility was rescued from demolition in the early 1980s and underwent a $30 million renovation. Listed on both the State and National Register of Historic Places, it has become the centerpiece of revitalization efforts of Honolulu's downtown area. The 1,200-seat venue hosts concerts, theatrical productions, dance performances, and film screenings. www.hawaiitheatre.com. COST: $10. OPEN: 1-hr guided tours Tues. 11 am (when there's no performance).


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If Osama bin Laden represents the most wanted man in the world, what would Jesus say to him tonight? If we could listen in on a one to one between Jesus and bin Laden this Christmas, what would Jesus say?
1. Turn
I think the first thing Jesus would probably say comes as no surprise to any of us: Jesus might say, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. People reap what they sow." (Galatians 6:7) and "He who lives by violence will die by violence" (Matthew 26:52 adapted). I don't think there's any question in anybody's mind what Osama bin Laden deserves. He deserves to be sentenced for his unspeakable crimes in a hellish eternity, devoid of any hope, forever. And unless something happens between now and the end of his life, that's exactly where he's headed. As the recent US Marine bumper sticker put it, "Its God's responsibility to forgive bin Laden. Its our responsibility to arrange the meeting."
There's no question what Osama bin Laden deserves. While his death would make many people happy, would it make God happy? If Bin Laden represents all that is most wicked what would please God the most? Well we don't have to speculate.
The Bible tells us that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. In Ezekiel 18 God says, "Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?" (Ezekiel 18:23), and in case there is any doubt God repeats himself a few chapters later, "As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways!" (Ezekiel 33:11).
The Apostle Peter says the same thing. God does not want "anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9). So the first thing Jesus says to Osama bin Laden as he says to us is "Turn! Turn from your evil ways!" (Ezekiel 33:11). First word? Turn. Second word?
2. Trust
There's a second thing Jesus might say to Osama bin Laden to help him understand that God has done something for him that he cannot do himself. I can imagine Jesus visiting him in his bunker, or wherever he might be hiding tonight, and saying to him, "Trust in God, trust also in me" (John 14:1), I am your only hope." If Bin Laden is the most wanted man in the world, Jesus is the most needed. Many in our own society view Jesus as the baby in the Nativity play or a great moral teacher, or a social reformer, but they place their trust in something higher, in science or technology or the economy or the military. But none of these will deliver us from evil. And so Jesus says to us, "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be , you will indeed die in your sins." (John 8:24).
Make no mistake, God must and will punish sin to maintain his integrity as a just and holy God. And we can all understand that, because we are all made in the image of God. We know instinctively that somebody has to pay. When a child is abused we insist the guilty must pay.
When someone is injured by a drunk driver we insist the guilty must pay. But the dilemma for God is that the penalty for sin is death, all sin, whether hidden or revealed, venial or mortal, white or black, is sin and sin deserves judgement. Because sin separates us from a Holy God eternally. That is why Jesus came at Christmas. Out of love, He came to take away our sin. Yours, mine, and Osama bin Laden's too. That's why at the birth of Jesus the angels proclaimed Him the Saviour of the world. So what might Jesus say? First: "Turn! Turn from your evil ways!" (Ezekiel 33:11). Second: Trust "Trust in God, trust also in me" (John 14:1), "I am your only hope." Third word?
3. Tag along
There's one final thing I think Jesus might say to Osama bin Laden tonight. I think Jesus would look him in the eye and say, "Paradise is on a different path to the one you're pursuing." Jesus disciples were also confused about the path to paradise. Jesus told them, "I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10).God has a purpose for our life – top know him and glorify him for ever. What was Jesus most frequent command?
"Follow me" occurs 20 times in the gospels. (Matthew 4:19; 8:22; 9:9; 10:38; 16:24; 19:21; Mark 1:17; 2:14; 8:34; 10:21; Luke 5:27; 9:23; 9:59; 14:27; 18:22; John 1:43; 10:27; 12:26; 21:19; 21:22) Follow me and I will give you a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out and a power to live on.
God says to each one of us three words, Turn, Trust and Tag along. Become part of the solution to the world's woes instead of part of the problem. The thought that Osama bin Laden could be forgiven for his sins, after all he's done, and become like Jesus, may be hard to swallow. But he will not be the first. The question is will he ever hear the real meaning of Christmas? Will someone get to share it with him?
The message of Christmas does not minimize the seriousness of his destructive life – it merely emphasizes the magnitude of God's grace. That's why we celebrate Christmas. Because its good news of great joy for all people. Jesus, the most needed person in the world who came for the most wanted – all of them. Though God has every right to destroy this world and everyone in it, he sent Jesus to rescue as many as possible. The angels traversed the universe to herald him. The Magi travelled hundreds of miles in search of him. The shepherds said, "Lets go and see" (Luke 2:15). They wanted to see Jesus, to meet their Saviour. They were all earnest in their search. Hebrews 11:6 says, "God... rewards those who earnestly seek him." I kind of like the King James translation, "He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Diligently – that's a great word.
This Christmas be diligent in your search and experience God's reward – sins forgiven for the past, eternal life in the future, and a purpose to live for in the present. God rewards those who seek him. Not those who seek doctrine or religion or systems or creeds, still less those who believe it is their destiny to cleanse this world of evil by violence. The three words Jesus might say to Osama Bin Laden tonight are the three words he says to you and me – Turn, Trust, Tag along. The Day on which Jesus Christ was born was not the day the earth stood still. But one day it will. One day the earth will stand still and every eye will see him. Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42). The question is, are we ready? We date our birth by his birth. Humanly speaking we determine our destiny by recognising his.
Don't settle for a passing knowledge of Jesus this Christmas. His reward – breathtakingly beyond our imagining - goes to those who settle for nothing less than knowing Jesus himself. Turn to him, trust in him and tag along with him this Christmas and for evermore.
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Good Morning everyone ~
I wanted to put it off a few days due to the Frankenstorm system that moved through. I know we still haven't heard from some of our favorite people on here... but let's rally up and dig deep in our seed boxes, there will be plenty of our friends that may very well have lost everything, not just their gardens. At least by sharing seeds we will be sharing our love, and giving them hope for the future. The Winterswap this year will definitely be focused on not only newbies and swappers that join up, but also those that have lost their gardens due to this nasty storm. Please join me and let's see what we can do together. <3 |
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[1085] Early Complete Hydatidiform Mole: A Clinicopathologic and Flow Cytometric Study of 270 Cases
M Fukunaga. Jikei University Daisan Hospital, Komaeshi, Tokyo, Japan
Background: With the increased use of ultrasound complete hydatidiform mole (CM) is being diagnosed at increasingly early stages of gestation. Thus, the classic features of CM may be lacking and CM can be easily misdiagnosed as partial mole (PM) or hydropic abortion (HA).
Design: Between 1981 and 2008, 270 cases of early CM (6-12 weeks' gestation, mean: 9.1 weeks) were identified at Jikei University Hospital and its affiliated hospitals. Clinicopathologic features of early CMs were examined. 210 cases were also analyzed by DNA flow cytometry (FC) using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks.
Results: Patients ages ranged from 18 to 49 years (mean: 29.1 years). Histologically, villi showed diffuse or focal stromal edema with bulbous or clubbed outlines and focal to circumferential trophoblastic hyperplasia. Villous stroma was hypercellular with capillary networks and karyorrhectic debris was observed. No stromal fibrosis was observed. Extravillous intermediate trophoblasts showed atypia. There were no fetal parts or amnion. Two patients had twins with CM. These cases were histologically characterized by two populations of villi, one with non-edematous stroma and another with edema and moderate trophoblastic hyperplasia. No nucleated red blood cells were observed except in the two cases of twins. Substantial cases were initiallly diagnosed as PM. By DNA FC, 155 cases were diploid, 29 tetraploid and 26 (non-triploid or non-tetraploid) aneuploid. There were no histologic differences among the diploid, tetraploid and aneuploid CMs. In the follow-up information, 14 of 73 diploid CMs (19.2%) and 4 of 18 tetraploid CMs (22.2%) had invasive mole, and one each with diploid and tetraploid CMs developed choriocarcinoma. None of 18 patients with aneuploid CM had sequelae.
Conclusions: Early CMs have somewhat different histologic features than classical second-trimester CMs. The histologic features include: 1) bulbous or clubbed villi, 2) focal or diffuse villous edema, 3) focal to circumferential trophoblastic hyperplasia, 4) cellular villous stroma with capillary networks and karyorrhectic debris, 5) no stromal fibrosis, 6) atypia of extravillous intermediate trophoblasts. Early CMs can be easily misdiagnosed as PM because of less prominent villous edema and mild form of trophoblastic hyperplasia. There were no histologic differences among the diploid, tetraploid and aneuploid CMs. DNA FC is helpful in equivocal cases. Aneuploid CMs are associated with lower risk for persistent disease than diploid or tetraploid CMs.
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Sony Wonder Technology Lab - Sci-Tech Workshop: Spider-Man® Animation Saturday, June 30th 11AM - 1PM (Participation for 4)
Discover the secrets to the high tech animation in "The Amazing Spider-Man" and design your own claymation movie in tribute to the urban hero. Learn the basic techniques behind stop motion animation and edit your work, adding final touches and burning a copy of your short movie to take home. Best suited for ages 8 and up.
Winner will also receive:
• The Amazing Spider-Man on Blu-ray
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Blu-ray
• The Amazing Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray
The Sony Wonder Technology Lab is located at 550 Madison Ave. at 56th St, New York, New York
Transportation is the responsibility of the ShowStopper winner. Winner may be required to sign a publicity or liability release.
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Education is a top priority for government and local universities in the Middle East and RMIT Training is now better positioned to support this strategy.
The key focus for the office is the delivery of world-class English proficiency programs for individuals and organisations.
This follows a strong reputation for quality English in the Aviation sector. RMIT Training has been delivering Aviation English training and testing services across the Middle East region including Jordan, Algeria, Oman and Qatar through REW for several years.
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Android users has crossed iPhone users a way back, plus the app store also has increased significantly. With increase in smartphones everyday, mobile devices has become an essential part of our lives.
Android users has crossed iPhone users a way back, plus the app store also has increased significantly. With increase in smartphones everyday, mobile devices has become an essential part of our lives.
Google Chrome will now have the ability to run Photoshop, according to Google latest update on their blog they mentioned about the Adobe Creative cloud integration with Google Drive.
Google Now Launcher – The new Google Now will tell you when a price drop occur in your flight, if you are interested. This app from Google is continuously adding new features and abilities that are awesome, especially this new flight price tracking.
Google with YouTube has changed the way we listen music, and now another ground breaking news has emerged with the latest 'YouTube Music Key.' This service will offer offline music listening with an audio only interface (means no video to watch).
Google search has currency conversion tool, but that's not the news. Now Google has added Bitcoin value in different currencies like USD, Sterling, Rupee etc.
Google has added a new feature that now can calculate distances by right clicking your starting point and then clicking 'Measure Distance'. Here are the instructions from Google Support page.
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Google launched the latest tool known as Helpouts in which people now can pay so as to get some help from the experts over live video chat like Google Hangouts. Anybody who is an expert on a particular topic or teacher can trade their service for payments, either by task, by minute or for set window of the time. Some Helpouts tend to be scheduled and the others are accessible on demand.
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RM Seafood
Posted on | March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
After watching Top Chef Masters last year and cheering for Rick and Hubert, I knew I was way overdue to get to RM Seafood. For our latest wedding anniversary, RM it was. I had extremely high hopes, and I really, really wanted to love the food here. I'd heard good things. Rick was just nominated for a James Beard Award. They put a huge emphasis on using sustainable products, which can't be easy for a seafood restaurant, but allows people to feel morally safe ordering seafood here; one of the reasons I tend to shy away from most sushi restaurants. Put all of this together, and I'd have to love RM, right?
Well, I did like the restaurant. The atmosphere was casual and comfortable and the service was good. Unfortunately, I wasn't blown away by the food. Maybe it was what we ordered. Maybe we should have dined upstairs. In any case, here's what we had:
Pictured above is probably my favorite item of the night, and coincidentally, the only non seafood item we ordered! The bbq mac and cheese. It had a great smoky flavor, with nice, well done crispy cheese on top. Really good.
For another side, we decided to try one of the sushi rolls. We went with the spicy tuna, which is pretty basic, and one of our favorites. This was a good rendition, albeit not the most interesting..
For my entree, I ordered the grilled shrimp with saffron risotto. The shrimp were good, but a bit on the bland side. I liked the risotto, but found the chorizo oil with it to lend a bit of an odd scent. I probably would have preferred this dish without the oil.
Adam went with one of his favorite dishes, fish and chips. I found the fish to be nice and flaky, and the fries okay. Good, but nowhere near the level of the best fish and chips we've ever had, at Doyle's in Sydney's Watson Bay. But I guess that's a bit of an unfair comparison!
For dessert, we ordered the 'fat Elvis'. This was essentially an egg roll filled with chocolate, banana, and bacon. It was good, but I'd probably try a different dessert next time.
So, while my first experience at RM wasn't as good as I'd hoped, I'm still a fan of Rick, and still rooting for him on this season's Top Chef Masters! I also intend to return to RM, but next time I'll either try the lunch menu, or go upstairs for dinner.
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Coogee Beach is one of Sydney's great suburban beaches, located in the city's eastern suburbs. It's regarded as an ideal family beach, with calm surf and patrolled swimming all year.
As the beach curves south, a park leads to Grant Reserve, where there is a delightful picnic area with spectacular ocean views and a children's playground. These linked areas of open space are part of the Eastern Beaches Coastal Walk.
At the northern end of the beach stairs are leading from Dolphin Point down to the old Giles Baths, an open rock pool pounded by surf. Encompassing Gordon Bay, the Bronte Coogee Aquatic Reserve starts from the southern end of Bronte Beach to the northern tip of Coogee Beach. Here you can go snorkelling or scuba diving with the resident population of inquisitive giant blue gropers, the official state fish of New South Wales.
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Also at the southern end, the coastal walk leads to McIvers Baths, a popular and controversial women-only pool since 1876. Further south, Wylies Baths was established in the early 1900s by champion Australian long distance swimmer Henry Alexander Wylie. After a refreshing swim, enjoy a massage beside the ocean or an early-morning yoga class.
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On Joss and Main's rug sale this morning, there's a rug that looks almost identical (maybe it is) to Bee's. I don't have time to do a side by side comparison, but check it out! |
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Sat, Aug 25, 12 at 11:49
So I sneaked a minute to compare. It is the same rug. I won't post a link because the last time I did for a shopping like JandM over in Kitchens, I was chastised for doing so. |
- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Sat, Aug 25, 12 at 12:31
I love her rug, but there are some really cool other ones there, too. |
- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Sat, Aug 25, 12 at 14:01
good eye breezy! Mine is 8x10, and they are not offering that size. But now we know what the name of it is. Thanks for pointing it out. bee |
Thanks to those who suggested Joss and Main as well as Haute Look, I saw that too! Karin L |
- Posted by thirdkitchenremodel (My Page) on Sat, Sep 15, 12 at 20:59
Did some research: Loloi Rugs, Francesca Blue/green, FC-09 There are several online retailers that carry it. |
I just got the same rug in red/black from O-stock for about $140 for the 5x8 size. Love it! |
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Blue Clay Steals Spotlight from Roger Federer at Madrid Open
Madrid is mercifully behind us, and hopefully we can soon stop hearing the lingering refrains lambasting the blue surface at the tournament this year. While Roger Federer kept his usual calm demeanor, rolling with whatever conditions came his way and needing no excuses en route to his third Masters title in the Spanish capital, his fellow contenders in the triumvirate at the top of the men's game bombed out and blamed the court for their struggles. Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the two men who have pushed Federer for a large part of his career, were left flummoxed by the clay underfoot.
The clay in Madrid, at its structural base, is not substantively different than the red clay that graces the upcoming Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome or at Roland Garros, where tennis' second Grand Slam event of the season will commence later this month. The iron oxide that gives the red clay its color is extracted, yielding a white clay that is then dyed blue, baked to the proper consistency and crushed to the corresponding grit. The problem was an overzealous attempt to correct the wonky bounces of tournaments past. Whether red or blue, the real problem was in a surface that was compacted too tightly and failed to drain properly.
Clay, at its heart, depends on drainage. When the clay can't drain properly, it plays like a sheet of melting ice. This problem just as easily could have occurred on a red-clay surface; it has been a common lament in the past in Madrid, even before the shift this season to the blue pigment instead of the rust-colored crushed clay brick of tradition. The problem this year is that the color of the surface made it look as well as feel like ice, and the perception is now starting to develop that blue somehow makes brick much slipperier than red — or, for that matter, the green which has also been a traditional clay tennis court color for decades.
Why did the tournament make the switch in the first place? "It is the duty of organizers and players to think about the future. This sport is fighting for television time, for sponsors, for money to make this sport better than it is today," Ion Tiriac, the man whose ownership group manages the Madrid Masters, said about the decision. "If the ball can be seen better, that is good for a television viewer. In every decade the game jumps enormously toward more professionalism."
Novak Djokovic, before his quarterfinal against fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic in straight sets, frothed. "They are claiming that the court is exactly the same as red clay, which is not true because there is a big difference," the defending champion said. "You are tripping, slipping all the time, sliding. The winner will be the one who doesn't get hurt by the end of the week." After losing to Tipsarevic, Djokovic could only say, "I want to forget this week as soon as possible and move on to the real clay courts. Here you can't predict the ball bounce or movement. They can do whatever they want, but I won't be here next year if this clay stays."
Rafael Nadal, who had his own losing experience to a compatriot when Fernando Verdasco outlasted him in the third set of their third-round match. Nadal was up 6-3 3-6 5-2 when he allowed his opponent to rally off five straight games to steal away advancement in the draw. He too was livid about the surface conditions. "Being able to move is very important for me and if I can't move well, I can't hit the ball well either," said the two-time Madrid champion. "If things don't change, this will be one less tournament on the calendar for me. This surface destabilizes the game. It is a completely different game and I don't want to take risks."
Already Tiriac has said that the composition of the court surface will change ahead of next year's tournament. The courts indeed were slippery. The bounces, despite the intentions of the harder pack, were as errant at times as they had ever been. Substantive changes to the compacting process are possible and within the tournament's means. Changing the pigment of the clay should not be among those changes, though… players play on blue surfaces all the time during the hard-court season, and the color of the court should not affect a player's game. The issue of slip is a pertinent one, but one wholly unaffected by color.
So while red becomes the color of choice through the rest of the clay season, culminating over the next month in the French Open in Paris, Madrid has shed some light on how we are still guided by the biases of our eyesight rather than the tactile sensation that is really affecting one's play. We should not judge professional tennis tournaments by the color of the courts, but by the quality of the playing experience they offer. When players threaten to boycott a tournament based on color, they illuminate a latent subconscious bias that is counterproductive at best. The players, the tournament, and everyone else who follows and supports the game of tennis need to focus on the true issues that plagued the surface instead of letting their eyes play tricks on their minds…
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Question has anyone used https://www.why6percent.com or similar sites which charges a fee to list your property on MLS.
Have just put the For Sale by Owner sign up and decide to have an open house. Not enough time to put anything in the local newspaper. Here is the listing on Zillow http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/29-Lee-Ave-Gloversville-NY-12078/30453210_zpid/ I also put a listing on Craigslist. I put Open House signs up the street at a busy intersection. The doorbell rang once. Three neighbors coming to look. Any ideas, suggestions to increase tracffic would be so appreciated. |
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I have used, and am using now, a flat fee MLS company. My experience with it in the past was excellent--I got a lot of traffic from real estate agents as well as by owner, and I ended up able to sell it by owner. I've been listed this time for a month and it's been slow on both the agent side and by owner side, but that's just the market. I don't ever think I'll hire an agent again--it's just not worth the extra money paid in commission, in my opinion, especially since you seem willing to do some of the marketing work yourself. If you have the time, using social media might help increase your traffic. I've set up a Facebook page and a Twitter page for our place, and I've received feedback from both. I'm also "following" a lot of agents on both pages in hopes that they see our listing and it might click for one of their buyers. |
Thank you so much for the info. Could you share which company you used? Thanks |
- Posted by barbcollins (My Page) on Sat, Feb 26, 11 at 21:21
Yes, we used flatfeelisting.com, and was satisfied with the results. You set it up yourself (pics, description) and they put it on the MLS. We used it to sell a house that was 5 hours away. We had a combo lock on the door and if anyone called us directly, we advised them to contact any local realtor to show it. This worked well except for one time when a very rude man said he was sitting in the driveway and wanted to see the house NOW and didn't not want to fool with a realtor. I didn't lose sleep over him. You do need to be available by phone to give agents permission to show the house. This was our only problem. I had just started a new full time job, and expressed to our group (3 couples) that I could not take the phone calls. Three others said they would. Well guess who ended up taking all the phone calls..... I would recommend setting up a google voice number so you don't have to give out your home phone number. Plus you can have it try to find you on your cell etc, and you can screen the calls. I kept track of the realtors that showed the houses, and eventually referred inquires to them. We paid the standard 3% to the buyers agent. We are going to be selling a house next year and I may use this service again. This house is only 1/2 hour away, so I may show it myself if the situation comes up. |
This is such helpful information. Thank you so much. |
In answer to your question, I used www.bergproperties.com, but I think it's a regional business. |
Yes, it is regional. But that is exactly what I am looking for in NY. |
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I needed to do another test run of my trouser pattern, and deciced to do them in this linen that I had in my stash. This was also my first attempt to put proper lining in trousers, for which I used some purple poly, also from the stash.
I'm pleased with the result, although I did make some mistakes, and I found out about some improvements that I will make to the pattern.
These are based on this pattern
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Linen with poly lining
Apr 22, 2013, 12.56 PMby Oana F.
I like your pants. I am trying to make some of these for my husband and I was wondering about this king of lining. I've seen it in some of his pants. What's the deal with it? Why only the front and why only half lined. Does it cover the knee? Thank you!
Mar 31, 2013, 04.55 AMby marloncosta
gorgeous! Perfect welt pocket!
Feb 18, 2013, 01.05 PMby Jeyco
Love the purple lining and it absolutely looks cute when the back pocket is opened. btw, I dont see any mistakes, joost. Good job!
Feb 18, 2013, 05.46 AMby urbandon
Nice one Joost! Excellent pattern.
Feb 18, 2013, 01.51 AMby SachiDespic
Nice trousers, and love your original tag! Your styling with dark color items is great too:)
Feb 18, 2013, 01.09 AMby bethmaryharley
These look so professional! The lining is great – I love the iridescent colour! Very awesome indeed!
Feb 17, 2013, 10.29 PMby Gigette
Il est superbe, sacré boulo ;) La poche passepoilée est magnifique …
Feb 17, 2013, 07.56 PMby martinK
Hi guy, this pants are great, realy!!! greetings from Rotterdam :-)
Feb 17, 2013, 03.47 PMby zsyzu
Well done! Linen is nice to work with and I like the color you chose. I don't see any mistakes. Very smart looking too.
Feb 17, 2013, 05.38 PMby joost52
Thank you. One mistake: I made the welt pockets too narrow ;)
Feb 17, 2013, 03.09 PMby asperge11
These are awesome!
Feb 17, 2013, 03.11 PMby joost52
aww.. :) Thank you so much!
Feb 17, 2013, 03.00 PMby SewNotWork
Well done! I just wanted to thank you for a blog post you did long ago about making a dressform. It was very helpful and I made one too!
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Thank you :) You're more than welcome!
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