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The Vintage Workshop has such a vast variety of Christmas images, picking my favorites was almost too difficult. I wanted to share a variety of my favorite images that go with the holiday season.
The first image of the Poinsettia Girl has been my all time favorite Christmas image since I first saw it. Last year, I used it to make Christmas gift tags. I shrunk it down using my word program on my computer and printed it onto card stock. I then punched a hole in the corner and wrote my To: and From: on the back. I edged it with a gold marker and used red ribbon to attach it to my gifts. It was so beautiful.
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Two years ago, a friend who lives a mile away mentioned having a lot of JB in his garden. I commented that I had not seen a JB in our yard in years. Wow, talk about jinxing yourself ! Last year we were covered up with the darn things. I had two rows of pole beans and four rows of bush beans. I was determined that I was not going to spray any insecticide and started knocking the JB into a can of soapy water. Before the summer was over I gave in and sprayed Sevin mixed at 1/2 strength. With the long overtime hours at work and the amount of beetles, I would have practically had to live in the garden to have the soapy water method do any good. During the time I was hand-picking them, I removed literally hundreds from the pole beans ,yet didn't find more than 3 or 4 on the bush beans the entire summer. Was this a coincidence or do the pole beans give off a more attractive odor? Someone suggested that they fly in to the tallest plant, but I don't know if I'm buying that. They have just appeared this year and the same pattern is holding. Any ideas? |
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- Posted by tworivers1 mo z6 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 10, 10 at 21:58
I tend to believe that. I don't have any bush beans but they love my pole beans and raspberries and I only find them on the higher branches. Even on my crepe myrtles (which they also love) I only find them higher up. Just my experience. Mark |
- Posted by naturegirl_2007 5b Sw Michigan (My Page) on Sat, Jul 10, 10 at 22:10
I've noticed the same thing in my garden: JBs on the pole beans, no JBs on the bush beans. I don't know why, but the height theory sounds promising. What if we keep the pole varieties on short strings or fences? Oh, wait, part of why I like the pole beans is because you don't need to bend so much to pick them :) |
Naturegirl, Trouble I have is the deer like the bush beans so they don't have to reach up for the pole beans. LOL I can't win. |
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CRL and CAMP have collected more than 1,400 African newspapers on approximately 12,000 reels of microfilm. Coverage includes every country of Sub-Saharan Africa and spans from 1800 to the present. CRL subscribes to current newspapers on microfilm, acquires backfiles on demand, and engages in original microfilming of selected titles. For additional details, consult the CRL catalog scope for newspapers and search by country.
African Studies
Collecting for African Studies has advanced considerably since the development of the scholarly field in the 1950s. Many established vendors now supply books, serials, and newspapers published in Africa (or relating to Africa from other countries). The African Books Collective represents more than 120 independent African publishers from 21 countries, distributing African-published works to North America and worldwide. The Library of Congress field offices based in Nairobi and Cairo cover more than 35 African countries through the LC's cooperative acquisition programs.
Cooperation among Africana librarians in North America remains the rule rather than the exception. The Africana Librarians Council (est. 1958) fosters communication and information sharing among libraries and individuals. The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) (1963) promotes collaborative approaches to collection, preservation, and access to rare, expensive, or fragile primary and secondary source material from Africa.
Technical infrastructure and capacity in Africa continue to improve over time, but the majority of publications from Africa remain "offline." Digitization projects in North America, Europe, and Africa are emerging to provide access to books, serials, dissertations, multimedia, and archival collections. Challenges to efficient collection of materials from Africa remain daunting. International collaboration and partnerships with institutions in Africa are key for improving access to resources and ensuring sustainability.
Current research trends in Africa reflect the changing nature of international and Area Studies. In addition to the historically strong focus on anthropology, economics, history, and political science, new scholarly work is being produced in the fields of agriculture, education, environmentalism, health and medicine, law, conflict and human rights, and the natural sciences.
CRL Collections
CRL's collection of African-related resources contains a wide variety of newspapers, monographs, archival collections, serials, government publications, and dissertations, spanning four centuries and covering virtually every country in Africa. Significant country strengths include South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, materials related to Africa are collected from sources in the U.S., England (particularly from the British Library and National Archives), France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, and others. The major institutional focus for the collection of Africana at CRL has been provided by the Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP). CAMP acquires major microfilm sets and conducts original microfilming and digitization of resources for preservation and wider accessibility. These collections provide a depth of content that augment CRL's scholarly resources.
African Newspapers
Part of the World Newspaper Archive (a partnership of CRL libraries and Readex, a division of NewsBank), African Newspapers currently provides digital access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922. This collection is available to CRL institutions for an additional fee. See the project Web site for more information.
Census Reports and Statistical Publications
This set includes about 26 census reports of various dates for Botswana, French West Africa, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Rhodesia (Northern and Southern), Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zanzibar.
Includes statistical yearbooks, bulletins, and other statistical sources published by African national governments (43 countries represented). Topics cover demography, administration, finance, commerce, industry, labor, agriculture, education, law, and public health. Titles are cataloged separately: click here to browse by series.
Colonial Documentation
Records of the German Ministry for Colonial Affairs (Reichskolonialamt). CRL holds the complete set of the Reichskolonialamt microfilm set "R1001." This set covers Akte 1-9788 of the archives, and contains information on colonial policy, affairs relating to the African colonies, economics and trade, land and forestry, foreign affairs, and command of the colonial force. The Bundesarchiv hosts an online guide and a useful introduction to the collection.
Papers included are selected from House of Commons sessional and command papers for 1801 to 1899. The papers provide important source material for the history of the African continent during the period.
Contains statistics of judgments, reviews of court decisions, and administrative reports on divisional courts ("tribunaux des cercles") and sub-divisional courts regularly sent from interior posts to the colonial administration in Dakar, Senegal as part of a process of legal oversight and review. Part of the CAMP/Title VI National Resource Centers for Africa collaboration with the National Archives of Senegal.
Government Publications
See: Government Publications relating to African countries prior to independence.
Covers departmental reports, Blue Books, government gazettes, and other reports relating to colonial rule in Africa. Reports feature topics such as colonial administration, law, commerce, finance, transportation and public works, social services, and more. CAMP has acquired nearly every available set of "Annual Departmental Reports" and "Government Publications," including: Basutoland; Cape of Good Hope; Gambia; Gold Coast and British Togoland; Kenya and the East Africa High Commission; Nigeria and British Cameroons; Northern Rhodesia; Nyasaland; Sierra Leone; Southern Rhodesia; Tanganyika; and Uganda. Each set has a related catalog record, with selected reports cataloged individually.
Missionary Archives and Records
The Church of England formed the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1799 by the to support European missionaries traveling to Africa and the East. CAMP's collection covers Committee of Correspondence minutes, 1799–1880, as well as incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, and papers from the CMS missions in West Africa, Sierra Leone, Yoruba, Niger, South Africa, East Africa Kenya, Nyanza, Uganda, Tanganyika, Northern Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritius and Madagascar, and Palestine. This set closely parallels the commercially produced collection by Adam Matthew Publications, but contains unique material.
This collection from the archives of the Société des missions évangéliques (founded 1822) includes incoming correspondence (1827–1947) from the missionary fields in Algeria, Cameroun, Congo-Gabon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Senegal, Togo and Zambia. This collection also contains the "Home Files" from the archives. These files contain outgoing correspondence, minutes (1822–1935) and reports (1833–1986) of the Society, including its Auxiliary Committees. It also contains records of the various Consultive Conferences (1900–31). CAMP collection.
Politics and Government
Collected reports, interviews, political and trade union documents, and biographical files of important individuals and organizations in South Africa for the period 1964–90. Examples include the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, Inkatha, black consciousness organizations, and the United Democratic Front. Assembled in the process of writing From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1990.
Includes serials and other materials from political organizations in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa (1954–75). Serials cataloged individually.
Slavery, Slave Trade & Abolition
This reprint edition is part of the Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers. Selected from House of Commons sessional and command papers for 1801–99, these papers provide source material for the history of Africa of the period.
Digitized versions of approximately 200 19th-century manuscripts (in Arabic) relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. These provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies.
Correspondence and reports regarding the slave trade from British slave trade commissioners and naval officers worldwide. Files are divided chronologically and by category.


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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) <email@example.com> wrote: > El 11/10/11 20:55, Markos Chandras escribió: >> On 10/11/11 19:50, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: >> > Hi, >> >> > Today I have found that build dependencies are left in the system >> > but won't be upgraded when running emerge -vauD1 world. This can be >> > inconvenient since security issues fixed in those left over >> > packages won't be applied properly. So, is there any reason for >> > this behaviour? Shouldn't build dependencies either be cleaned with >> > --depclean after building or be upgraded to avoid possible issues? >> >> > Sorry if this gets in here twice, I used an incorrect account. >> >> >> Maybe you want the --with-bdeps parameter along with the -D one?. man >> emerge -> section Options -> parameter -D > That makes sense but then the problem is on the poor documentation we > have in the Internet. > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 > Here no mention to that option is made > Nor is in: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml > > And in fact no mention to the option is made in the doc space at all. I > may also be wrong here but I don't recall finding it when I started with > portage and no notice was issued since then so either I misunderstood > it, kinda likely by then, or it was added later. And the fact it wasn't > commented at all in the documentation didn't help. > > The question now is anybody thinks this shouldn't appear in the > handbook? If nobody has a problem I'll prepare a patch. > > PS: howarang thanks for the point I found it really odd this was missing. > > Hi there, You may find --complete-graph to be useful also. Cheers, -- Matthew W. Summers Gentoo Foundation Inc.
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In April, when Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, made his first formal visit to the United States, President Bush urgently sought to address last year's $202 billion trade gap.
While the trade deficit was only one of many key issues on the diplomatic agenda, the message was clear: American consumers are hooked on imports from China, and many U.S. industries lean on China's low-cost processing and manufacturing services to make American products more affordable - and, of course, to make more money.
To U.S. seafood importers, China is a proven supplier with considerable aquaculture resources and an economical work force that makes it a formidable competitor in labor-intensive industries. A popular manufacturing technique known as "secondary processing," in which imported seafood like Russian pollock is breaded and packaged in Chinese processing plants before being re-exported worldwide, is widening the U.S.-China seafood trade gap, which in 2005 eclipsed $1 billion for the first time.
From textiles to tilapia fillets, the United States is increasingly dependent on imports: Three-fourths of all seafood Americans consume is from abroad, and nearly 15 percent of overall imported goods are from China. Finite marine resources and a restricted, land-based aquaculture industry limit what U.S. fisheries and fish farms can produce at competitive prices. Thus, the top suppliers look to China, which boasts the world's largest aquaculture industry and various processing services available for just cents on the dollar.
As a result, imports from China are increasing at a remarkable rate. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, last year the United States imported from China 950 million pounds of seafood worth $1.4 billion, more than double the total in 2001. The seafood trade gap with China has increased nearly 250 percent since 2000.
The seafood gap is symptomatic of the big trade picture: China has become the United States' third largest trading partner behind NAFTA members Canada and Mexico, yet Chinese imports out-value U.S. exports by a six-to-one margin.
M ost experts agree that a healthy, growing trade relationship with China benefits both countries.
"China's exports to the United States and its investments in American financial assets help restrain U.S. inflation and interest rates, and thus permit faster economic growth and more job creation," according to the newly released book "China: The Balance Sheet," produced by think tanks the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for International Economics.
The current surplus of Chinese imports does not necessarily sail calmly into U.S. harbors, however. Shrimp imports from China are subject to tariffs of up to 113 percent to protect the struggling domestic shrimp industry, which filed an antidumping petition in late 2003. Importers are also paying millions in continuous bonds to import product.
Further, some in Washington want to stifle China's trade advancement because of its political philosophies, its human rights record and its stance on hot-button issues in Taiwan, Iran and North Korea, to name a few.
How Congress approaches trade with China in the future is a sensitive subject. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) recently threatened a vote on a 27.5 percent tariff on all imports if China doesn't significantly revalue the yuan.
They contend the Chinese government undervalues its currency by as much as 40 percent (1 yuan is approximately 12 cents U.S.).
Sen. Graham, prior to a trade mission to China with Schumer this past March, said, "The fundamental disconnect between us and China is that we have a conscience and they don't."
"Generally speaking, we're in a China-bashing mode, politically," says Greg Rushford, editor and publisher of The Rushford Report, a Washington monthly newsletter on international trade politics, and Trade Forum writer for SFB .
"China is not a democracy, they're not allies," says Rushford. "Will [protectionism] spill over into policy? That's the big question.
"There's so much money at stake, and trade is what brings us together diplomatically. You'd rather do business with them instead of having them as enemies."
"Made in China"
Despite the often-negative sentiment echoed in corners of our nation's capital and the mystery that often surrounds the world's most populous nation, many seafood companies are embracing trade with China. One is Newport International of St. Petersburg, Fla., the nation's largest importer of Chinese blue-swimming-crab meat, the bulk of which comes from China and Indonesia.
Troy Turkin, executive VP of sales and marketing, says Newport has sourced Chinese crab since the 1980s - and for more than just the competitive prices.
"Domestic blue crab, there's simply not enough of it," he says, noting that Newport relies on China and Indonesia to supply its Jack's Catch® brand of canned crabmeat. "The reality is, it costs less for us to produce a product at the price point [our customers] want."
Crab is only one species within China's grasp. Howard Johnson, president of H.M. Johnson & Associates of Jacksonville, Ore., says China's most visible impact on the U.S. seafood industry is in supermarket freezers across the country.
"Of the top 10 seafoods consumed in the United States, China currently exports products in every species category," Johnson writes in his 2005 Annual Report on the United States Seafood Industry.
"Particularly shrimp (peeled, breaded and shell-on), crabmeat, pollock (fish sticks), salmon (twice-frozen fillets), tilapia, scallops and even good-old 'American' channel-catfish frozen fillets."
The lure to buy from China is ultimately the savings: Lump crabmeat from China is often $3 per pound less than product from nearby producers like Vietnam and Indonesia, Turkin says.
"Remember one thing," he adds: "There is no industry standard for crabmeat sizing, so one person's jumbo could be different in size and quality from another's."
While China's crab fishery is a viable resource, the country's aquaculture industry is what drives exports, accounting for 70 percent of its overall seafood output. China produced 38.6 million metric tons of seafood in 2003, the latest data available from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
While several species of carp comprise a large portion of that total, the shrimp and tilapia China produces is typically available at irresistibly low prices for major seafood buyers, to whom cost often matters most.
And, with the price of China's processing services at a mere fraction of that charged by the U.S. labor force, buying from China drives up profits for distributors of value-added, retail-ready packaged seafood.
"Even with transportation factored in, it is still far cheaper to pick crab, fillet fish, bread portions and produce surimi in China than in the United States," notes Johnson.
The raw materials for the breaded shrimp and surimi seafood China produces are sourced from Russia, Alaska and throughout Southeast Asia. The products are then re-exported all around the world.
This secondary processing is a boon to U.S. seafood buyers, since breaded shrimp enters the country duty-free, exempt from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's continuous-bonds policy.
The growth of breaded shrimp imports from China in the past five years has been explosive, increasing from less than 90,000 pounds in 2001 to 73.7 million pounds in 2005.
Peter Redmayne, SFB contributing editor and president of seafood consulting and marketing firm Sea Fare Expositions in Seattle, which organizes an annual trade show in China, says China's seafood companies can satisfy price-driven buyers from the United States.
"If you're not a player in China, you're not a player," Redmayne says. "If you don't know what's going on over there, you're missing out, because it's going to affect you one way or another. If you don't buy from there, your competitors will."
Finding the right Chinese supplier, however, can become a trial-and-error exercise.
"You have to separate the wheat from the chaff to see who the legit people are," Redmayne says.
Further, trade with China can present several hurdles, such as accessing foreign currency, overcoming language barriers and negotiating payment conditions.
To overcome these obstacles, some seafood exporters choose to work through brokers. Others own and operate their own Chinese processing facilities.
Trident Seafoods, North America's third-largest seafood supplier, with 2005 sales of $800 million, has run two operations in China since 1995 - a purchasing office in Dalian and a processing facility in Qingdao that fillets, portions and vacuum-packages Alaska pollock, cod, salmon and yellowfin sole.
For a company to succeed in China, it's important to understand the country's unique business culture, says Doug Van Devanter, VP of international project development and national accounts for Trident. The Seattle supplier has proven its cultural acumen by more than doubling its annual sales in the past six years.
"I notice [the difference] the most when I talk to people in other industries, who ask 'How do you handle all the problems with China?' We haven't had any problems," Devanter says. "You don't see the problems that you can avoid. We've gotten some good advice from our people over there."
Cooperative efforts between the two countries' seafood industries are forming. The China Seafood Certification Institute of Beijing is working with the Aquaculture C ertification Council of Kirkland, Wash., so that buyers will see China's seafood in a positive light via certification of its responsible aquaculture operations.
CSCI is also wooing the Marine Stewardship Council to certify China's fisheries as sustainable.
John Ching, director of CSCI's U.S. branch in Seattle, says the group trains Chinese seafood companies about food-safety programs like ISO 9000 and HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points).
"We do not want any inadequate seafood to exit China," says Ching, who hails from Hong Kong.
"We want to be able to say that Chinese seafood is as good as anybody's internationally."
Mass market
Though it's the world's fourth-largest economy and third-largest trading nation, China remains a poor country with a per-capita income estimated at one-twenty-fifth that of America's, according to "China: The Balance Sheet."
But its 1.3 billion people have a growing appetite for seafood, which should only increase as their economic conditions improve.
According to the book, almost 400 million Chinese have emerged from poverty since 1990. Whether this trend slows seafood exports in the future remains to be seen.
China's per-capita consumption of seafood in 2002 was about 28 kilograms, or roughly 60 pounds (more than half of that is carp, for which there is a limited export market), compared to the 16.6 pounds per capita Americans consumed in 2004, according to Johnson.
Needless to say, China presents huge opportunities for seafood buyers and exporters willing to explore the market.
"[China's] potential as a customer is probably without comparison," says Laura Fleming, communications director for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, which has led several trade missions to China in recent years.
"Their market is expanding so fast. It's a dynamic situation."
Some suppliers see China as a rival. Merle Knapp, VP of sales and marketing at Glacier Fish Co. of Seattle, says China is a "stiff competitor" when it comes to pollock, Glacier's chief product.
But Knapp says the quality of twice-frozen blocks China sources from Russia simply can't compete with the quality of Alaska pollock, which is frozen only once at sea.
Still, Knapp, a director of the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers and chairman of the whitefish committee at ASMI, says Glacier does not usually go "toe-to-toe" with Chinese pollock suppliers, nor does it sell to Chinese markets.
"There are good solid opportunities [for Alaska pollock] in our traditional markets. I know China is growing, but until it proves itself, you stay one step removed and see how it goes," Knapp says. "When you pioneer a market, you take a lot of arrows."
To which shellfish exporter Bill Taylor can surely attest. The VP of Taylor Shellfish Farms in Shelton, Wash., has learned to roll with the punches while cultivating a market in Southeast Asia.
"A lot of the folks [from China] we work with have Vancouver businesses, or are pre-Westernized," Taylor says. "But any time you get involved with the Chinese, it's going to be very competitive. They'll grind you on price if they can, and they're also very cognizant of quality."
Sustainable growth?
As a mass producer of shrimp, America's favorite seafood, and of tilapia, which has gone from obscurity to fame in less than two decades, China appears poised to remain one of the United States' top seafood suppliers.
But with the threat of future trade barriers and inevitable economic change within its own borders, its future status in that regard is unclear. And some fear that the long-term trade policies the U.S. government is wrestling with are a bad idea.
The impact of federal action has already been felt. Non-breaded shrimp imports have slowed. The continuous-bonds policy has taken millions of dollars out of the supply chain, and it may not stop at shrimp - Customs has said it intends to apply bonds to 13 other products, including Chinese crawfish.
But clamping down on imports from China may not necessarily yield the results sought by the U.S. government and the domestic industries it intends to protect.
"Whatever one says about the longer-term macroeconomic effects of trade deficits, it has always seemed to me that the protectionist responses - higher tariffs and other trade barriers - are exactly what not to do," says Rushford.
"Shutting down imports and more tariffs won't work. We need to keep our borders open in our own interests."
For many U.S. seafood suppliers, China provides an invaluable competitive edge; and Americans, who are consuming record amounts of seafood, save in the end.
"China, Thailand, Indonesia - I don't think there's any way you're going to see those countries not grow [in seafood production]," Turkin says. "We simply can't support all our needs domestically. More and more people want to eat healthier, and they're demanding more seafood."
Suppliers can find it in China.
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Stop all stadium work until new non gambling revenue is found. We can stand losing the money already spent but not any more.The Vikings are not going anywhere
Perhaps sanity is breaking out at the legisiture.
It's time to stop anything concerning the stadium now. It may cost some money to stop until the financing is secured and reliable. If the finger pointing and scrambling for a fix continue the taxpayer is going to get stung foe millions.
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When Rick Ausick arrived at Famous Footwear in 2002, the chain was at a turning point. Its longtime leader and visionary, Brian Cook, had just retired, exposing the retailer to major management changes. The business also faced other challenges: Competition was catching up and the company's relentless focus on price was beginning to tarnish its reputation.
But it was also a moment of opportunity, as brands were increasingly viewing Famous and its competitors in the thriving discount channel as a new frontier for growth.
"Brands were becoming more and more enthralled with the channel. There are only so many places for them to grow, [and] they saw an opportunity," said Ausick, 60, who began his retail career in 1977 at Marshall Field before taking on top merchandising roles at Burdines, Eaton's and Shopko. "It was an awakening for all of us [in the industry]."
As chief merchandising officer, Ausick worked alongside new president Joseph Wood to revamp Famous' image and sharpen the chain's focus. Stores were redesigned, service was stepped up and the emphasis shifted away from price to telling compelling product and brand stories. "All of that built credibility with the industry," Ausick recalled. "We looked at ways we could achieve better merchandising, create a more impactful presentation and forge a stronger emotional connection with our customers. We also worked hard to make our brand partners feel comfortable and excited about being in our stores."
The changes worked, and Ausick's bosses quickly recognized his efforts. In 2006, he transitioned to wholesale, running parent firm Brown Shoe Co.'s former Bennett Division. Three years later, he returned to Famous as president when Wood retired. Under Ausick's shrewd leadership, the 1,058-door chain capitalized on hot trends, such as toning; rolled out its first national marketing campaigns; moved into the digital space with mobile commerce; and expanded into Canada. Last year, the retailer rang up sales of more than $1.5 billion.
Diane Sullivan, Brown Shoe's president and CEO, credits Ausick with giving Famous a distinct point of view in the crowded market and solidifying it as a family retail destination. "Five years ago, Famous Footwear didn't have an identity. Today, it has a very strong point of view as a brand and experience [for] the whole family," she said.
For Ausick, that focus on families is key to the chain's success and longevity. "We have an opportunity to take customers from a young age and grow with them as they have their own children and grandchildren," he said. "We're constantly working on nurturing that relationship and finding ways to become a bigger part of our customers' lives."
Here, the Famous Footwear chief reflects on his long career and leading the firm to the top of the family footwear space.
What attracted you to retail?
RA: I actually went to business school to be a banker, but then I met a few bankers and decided I didn't want to be one. An opportunity came to enter a training program Marshall Field had set up for young MBA grads. They were looking to build their middle management. I joined in 1977 and spent [time] working in various aspects of the business, including accounting, the distribution center, the buying office and store management. It was a great entrance into the retail world and a way to experience the different functions. After the [yearlong] program, I decided I wanted to be a merchant.
Was there a particularly valuable learning moment early in your career?
RA: One of my later roles at Burdines was VP of merchandise planning and allocation. This was a brand new area — Burdines was among the first to start this. The buyers weren't thrilled about that transition, suddenly having someone tell them how many shoes to order and where they would go. But as companies got bigger and bigger, this function became increasingly important. So having that perspective early on was important.
When you joined Famous Footwear in 2002, it was largely a new management team. How did that feel?
RA: It was interesting and fun. We were all a similar age and in the same stage in life and in our careers. We came together well as a team. We were energized and on a mission to make the business better. Still, it was a lot of change for our people, so we focused on achieving some early successes to get the team to rally to our cause.
Where did the business stand at that point?
RA: Famous had hit a soft patch. It had been a leader in the whole "brand name shoes for less, open-sell environment," but that success bred imitators. Up through the early 1990s, Famous had much of the business to itself, but by 2000 there were a significant number of competitors in our space [including Rack Room, DSW and Shoe Carnival]. This was a time when the big brands were looking for new places to grow their business, and our channel was one that was flourishing. They saw an opportunity.
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Hi, this is Kendall. I am going to show you guys some of my back-to-school fashions that I'm excited about. One example is the outfit that I'm wearing. I love it. I love these jeans. They're really cool. They have like a straight pattern going on. They're different. They're not like normal blue jeans. I also love this jean vest that I'm wearing. I don't see many people wearing them and I don't know, I thought it was cool and different and I loved it; and I also love these sandals that I'm wearing. They're strappy so like I can wear them to school and not be annoying and flip flop around. And then, some shoes that I like to wear even when it's not like hot outside. I love these. These are my moms but she let me wear them all the time which is so amazing because like I'm obsessed with them and I love to wear this to school. They're really cool, different. Yeah. I love these as well, these ballet flats. They're just cute. The simple things that I like to wear when it's hot outside. This is my favorite bag because purple is really simple and it fits a lot of stuff in it. It may look small but it fits a lot of stuff and yeah. Those are my back-to-school fashions. I'm so excited to go back to school and I hope you guys are too. Bye.
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Sorry ladies, I do know how to spell. I just get in a hurry! So little time, so much many UFO's!!LOL! CS |
I think binding would give it a more finished look. ~ Kit |
- Posted by biwako_of_abi (My Page) on Sat, Sep 9, 06 at 12:33
I'm for binding, too. It's a stunning runner. |
Oh yes it will make it complete! Beautiful runner! |
- Posted by glassquilt (My Page) on Sat, Sep 9, 06 at 15:26
I vote for binding. I think it would frame the piece very nicely. |
I vote for the binding as well. That is just lovely! A few month ago I birthed a small runner and I was not pleased with the way it looked....sort of unfinished and the edges did not lie flat enough for me. |
- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Sat, Sep 9, 06 at 19:40
Carolyn, I agree with the others. Gorgeous runner! I just don't like birthing personally, think the binding "finishes off" the project, though I've seen some that are just fine. I can see why you wouldn't want to tackle the binding (those inside corners will be tricky) I just like binding (don't mind doing it either...relaxing). |
That is a beautiful runner and I also vote for the binding. |
- Posted by maggie_sue (My Page) on Sat, Sep 9, 06 at 22:32
Beautiful and I vote with the rest binding. |
Absolutely bind it. that is just beautiful! Kay |
- Posted by kathi_mdgd (My Page) on Sun, Sep 10, 06 at 2:16
Binding,and it's beautiful!!! TFS Kathi |
I vote for binding too but with those corners it would have to be bias. It is beutiful. TFS Mary |
- Posted by meskauskas (My Page) on Mon, Sep 11, 06 at 0:41
I vote for binding too - it's very pretty! Clara |
That is beautiful, it looks painted!! I vote to bind also, but it is a work of art. Rosa |
Thank you all for your comments. I will bind it, but it will be awhile before I do. I'm trying to learn to hand quilt so I thought I'd hand quilt it then bind in the dark brown. The way my hand quilting is going it may be Christmas or later before I get it finished. I really feel like a dork on my hand quilting. Carolyn |
- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 14, 06 at 8:35
That is just stunning, Carolyn! I think I'd put off the binding too! LOL! What if you birthed it, but....put an edging fabric along that edge to give it a finished look, but not the trouble that binding this piece might give you? You could even make a corded piping to insert in the seam. I think that would look really good and might be easier than binding. Maybe one of the medium brown shades? Just another thought. Teresa |
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- Posted by designoline6 none (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 21:29
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Yes, I think we've said previously that having grass growing to the rocks is the primary source of weed #1: grass, in the rocks. And it's growing particularly well at the rocks because the rocks offer cool, moist harbourage for roots, and of course because water flows downhill... If you want to put a bench there, then you'll have to do some ground scaping, digging into the slope to create a flat area. For that you could pull up all the grass at once to replace with hardscape. If you want to make it a mulched bed, you could actually do that gradually or partially. Pull out the grass nearest the rocks first and make that a bed, get your plants started and do your mulching. Maybe that will leave a mowable area. If not, you could work your way up and remove the rest of the grass later. This gradual approach would be good in part because it's getting to the end of planting season, and you will have to baby any new plants put in when it is already hot. Karin L |
Because of the confined size and the slope, it does not look like a good site for a log swing. I'd shape the edge of the lawn (with a spade) as shown by the green line and then the planting area would be good for whatever you want to grow there. If you don't come up with a good weed control strategy, you'll be forever plagued by them. Some daylilies seem like they could be nice and would grow well. Mulch alone works for a while but gets tiresome to look at and to keep adding. Plants look better. |
- Posted by grullablue 5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 28, 12 at 8:41
Thanks for the input! Yardvaark, that's nice and very do-able. I planted some phlox on another rock wall last year, and am thrilled with how it has turned out. I thought about doing this here, too. Since I took these pics, I've been working on weeding...yanking out by hand. Love daylilies too! The swing was my first thought, but it would take some leveling work, and would just look too big for that spot. I really do have a nice backyard...in my opinion anyway, but it needs a lot of work with controlling weeds, and trying to set things up in a way that's a bit easier maintenance than it is now. My deck is small, but big enough for what we need it for, and I have found I use it a lot. I am not liking the stairs....we had all this stuff laying around and hubby wanted to try to make use of it rather than getting rid of it. Just cement blocks with pavers inside. I've also got a lilac bush on the right side of the pic...my grandfather had planted it for me.... but for whatever reason I can't come up with, I almost lost it a couple years ago.... and now this year I see curled up leaves with black I'm sure from frost. We have had a most odd spring. Have a lot of work back here! Also need to stain the deck this year too... |
One thing nice about Daylilies is there being many hobbyists who grow them with a passion and sell their ever burgeoning excess inexpensively. Asking around in the local gardening circles will usually turn up a name or two who's not far away. I've acquired large varieties of named hybrids like this. The steps look a little treacherous. An inexpensive set of wood steps would would be easy to make with pre-cut step stringers from home depot. |
- Posted by grullablue 5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 28, 12 at 14:08
I agree about the steps. We built the deck ourselves, and hubby could easily build steps....he's being a little stubborn...he likes these! I do not. Working on that part! |
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When it's crunch time for the Thunder, you can bet on OKC head coach Scott Brooks demanding that Kevin Durant gets the ball with room to operate and the floor spaced correctly. Last night, down the stretch after a Philadelphia rally that had them within four points with under a minute to go, it was time for Durant to seal the deal.
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1. The Thunder get the ball to Durant in his comfort zone on the right side of the court, where he faces up rookie Evan Turner. On the weak side the Thunder have a triangle forming, which makes the Sixer defense commit to staying with their man or bringing Elton Brand across the lane to the right block to challenge Durant even before he puts the ball on the floor. Brand has to make a choice because of the defensive three-second rule, and he elects to stay weakside.
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2. With Russell Westbrook as the only other Thunder player on the strong side of the floor, Jrue Holiday attempts to stay between him and Durant to shut off the dribble-drive to the middle, which has Durant thinking baseline all the way. After Durant's efficiently long stride step and dribble, Brand is late to react in getting across the lane.
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3. Durant turns the corner without a problem on Turner and draws the contact as well, which sends his body towards the baseline. But because of Durant's length and athletic ability, he turns his back to the baseline to create an angle to finish as Brand is now in the middle of the lane loading up in an attempt to block the shot.
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4. Brand is late in his attempt to block the shot as Durant's body, though behind the basket, is in total control as he flips the ball up and in to shut the door on the Sixers.