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A bill to allow mixed martial arts events to be held in New York may finally be headed for approval after years in limbo.
The full contact sport that includes elements of boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu and other martial arts is banned in New York, but is legal in nearly every other state in the country and has a growing fan base. The sport's top promotion company, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, regularly holds sold-out events in arenas across the country and the world, including in Britain, Canada and Brazil.
But the law bans the events from taking place in New York. The state Senate has passed legislation approving the sport multiple times with support from senators in both parties, but each time it has died in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.
But now the lower house may actually hold a vote on a proposal that was passed by the Senate earlier this month.
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway) said Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), long an opponent of MMA, will bring the bill to the floor if it has majority support among Assembly Democrats.
"He said it was up to the caucus," Goldfeder said, adding that he supports the legalization. "It's crazy that other states have it and we don't."
He said he believes the sport may have majority support in the caucus, but multiple sources say the bill does have and has had for some time. Democrats alone won't need their votes to pass the bill. MMA is an issue that does not fall along party lines. A number of Republicans in both houses support the idea, while a number of Democrats do not.
But in Queens, where all state legislators are Democrats, most have endorsed it. State Sens. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) have backed Senate legislation.
Last year, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) also endorsed bringing MMA to New York.
"It's time we embrace the sport," she responded on Twitter to a question on her position.
Besides Simotas, Assembly members Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), Vivian Cook (D-South Jamaica), Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights), Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and Michele Titus (D-Far Rockaway) also backed legislation to legalize the sport that never got to the Assembly floor last session.
Hevesi is among the sports strongest supporters, penning an op-ed favoring it for the June 9, 2011 Queens Chronicle.
Mixed martial arts is often violent and can turn bloody. Some fighters have suffered concussions and broken limbs during bouts. The sport's perceived brutality has often been used by opponents to prevent its legalization and was the primary reason it was banned in New York in 1997.
In a joint statement to legislative leaders last week, the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence as well as the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women asked Albany leaders to oppose the sport.
"No state that aspires to be the 'progressive capital of the nation,' as Gov. Cuomo asserted in his recent State of the State speech, should lower itself by embracing an industry dominated by a company that tolerates joking about sexual violence," the statement read. "Fighters in the UFC have joked about rape in public and one has appeared in videos that are demeaning to women and make fun of sexual violence."
Some have also questioned the labor practices of organizations like the UFC. Opposition has also come from the Culinary Union of Las Vegas — where UFC is based — who supporters have alleged were using their labor ties in the union-heavy state to influence legislators to keep a bill favoring MMA from coming to a vote. The UFC has often noted that it provides jobs for union workers during its events.The New York State Catholic Conference has also opposed MMA here, citing the sport's violent nature.
But at a press conference earlier this month, Gov. Cuomo said the sport could become a revenue boost for the state.
"I think it's making progress and it's something we're looking at for possible revenue," Cuomo said.
In another press conference last week, Cuomo again said he is considering legalization of MMA, and was especially interested in any economic benefit.
"I want to understand the economics for the state. What does it mean?" he said. "So they could have one match, and one match does what? They have 10 matches, they have 20 matches — what is the actual economic impact for the state?"
The UFC has held events close to New York: in Newark and the Meadowlands in New Jersey and Montreal, Canada. Supporters of legalizing the sport in New York say it already has a fan base here. The popularity of MMA has led sports bars and grills to regularly advertise special deals to watch UFC events, which are broadcast on Pay-Per-View.
The state has a number of venues that could host MMA events, including Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and a number of sites in upstate cities including Buffalo and Rochester, which have arenas that could host events. UFC President Dana White has hinted he would be interested in hosting an event at MSG in November, but that could upset supporters from upstate, looking to bring events there. Cuomo even mentioned upstate as an area that could benefit economically from hosting MMA events.
New York State is home to a number of notable UFC fighters including Matt Serra and Chris Weidman, both from Nassau County; Rashad Evans from Niagara Falls and Jon Jones from Rochester.


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: a heavy colorless and relatively inert gaseous element that occurs in air as about one part in 20 million and is used especially in specialized electric lamps (as flashtubes) and in scientific research — see element table
Origin of XENON
Greek, neuter of xenos strange
First Known Use: 1898
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: a heavy, colorless, and relatively inert gaseous element that occurs in air as about one part in 20 million by volume—symbol Xe; see element table
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Chemical element, chemical symbol Xe, atomic number 54. One of the noble gases, it is colourless, odourless, tasteless, and nearly inert, combining only with fluorine and oxygen and in complexes (see bonding). Xenon occurs in slight traces in Earth's atmosphere and in rocks. Obtained by fractional distillation of liquefied air, it is used in luminescent tubes (see electric discharge lamp), flash lamps, lasers, and tracer studies and as an anesthetic.
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It's an interesting idea, even if it has been done before - an idealistic young teacher takes his first job in a slum-ghetto school only to find all the things he'd been taught about teaching were worthless, his fellow teachers have become cynics, and the disillusioned principal is struggling just to keep the school doors open.
But there is one student who shows promise, and the teacher focuses on him. Their story is played out in "Stand-Up Tragedy," which opened last night at the Criterion Center.
Set in a small Catholic school for Hispanic boys on the lower East Side over two semesters, it may be the first play set to a rap beat.
Outside the building are drug dealers, hookers, alcoholics and pimps, and the kids home situations are, as a teacher puts it, "intolerable." Whether the street-smart kids are learning anything to fit them for the future is problematic. Yet, the school is a sort of home, and they show up each day.
Tom Griffin (Jack Coleman) arrives fresh out of college, defying his family who want him to become a lawyer. In his class is Lee (Marcus Chong), who has artistic talent, a drunken mother and a brutal brother.
He defies his family by dreaming of medieval times and drawing pictures of his dreams. He raps about his life, acting out the roles of his family, when, to the dismay of the principal, Griffin takes him in hand and turns his head around. But sooner or later, he must go back to his family - and tragedy.
There is some wonderful dialogue in the play, most of it delivered by the principal-priest (Charles Cioffi).
At one point he says sadly, "The kids in this school are the only kids I'll ever have. And I only have them for a few years. I don't like the way God treats them. God saved the world by killing his only son. If a parent did that in this neighborhood, I'd call the cops on him."
Chong is excellent as the young boy, vulnerable and introspective, imitating his mother in the musical portions, capturing street rhythms beautifully. Coleman does well by his somewhat stereotyped role, and Cioffi is believable as the principal.
Ron Link directed this piece with a rapid street rhythm, though at times this worked against it - so much movement during spoken pieces made them inaudible at times.
The new Broadway season is off and running to a terrific start. Its first play arrived at the Criterion Center last night and, in an oddball, slightly pretentious, slightly simplistic, yet almost literal fashion, it proves a stunner.
Called "Stand-Up Tragedy" and set in a small Catholic school for Hispanic boys on the Lower East Side, it seeks to bring us up to date on the present status of that old blackboard jungle, and if at times the writing and approach come close to suggesting a somewhat facile blackboard jingle, this is a small price to pay for a play that is as timely as a time-bomb and as vivid and pressing as this morning's news headlines.
The playwright, Bill Cain, apparently taught language arts and reading at just such a school for four years - before that, he spent seven years as artistic director of the Boston Shakespeare Company! - and he clearly has paid his dues, knows the territory and has felt the anguish.
This play is evidently wrenched out of experience rather than wrought out of research, and the immediacy of Cain's story together with the authenticity of its very fabric jumps up at you from the stage.
The play - with the same director, Ron Link, and many of the same leading actors - started life at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and continued on to the Hartford Stage Company. And now it has resoundingly come home to New York. It is not an easy play. The students are glittering louts, and the teachers are a bunch of cynical idealists, cynically idealized even if convincingly observed.
As for those kids, these are not Hollywood's angels with dirty faces, or even the urchin-poetic dancing boys who taunted Officer Krupke in "West Side Story" - these are the stuff of a far grainier and grimier docudrama. Yet the style of "Stand-Up Tragedy" is somewhere between that docudrama of urban blight, a comic book and a rap video.
The school is run by Father Ed Larkin (Charles Cioffi), a tough, non-illusioned, humanely callous priest who hides his pain, frustration and doubts under a hard shell of bluster, blasphemy, flippancy and profanity. He talks and acts like a street person - because he has had to become a street person.
His slick cynicism (a slickness that also characterizes Cain's writing, even typified by the very title "Stand-Up Tragedy") can be demonstrated by his canny way of referring to Christmas as "basically the story of a bizarre teenage pregnancy," or his tough-egg, but affectionate, description of his faculty as "living proof that an education doesn't get you anywhere."
Such movie priests as Bing Crosby or even Pat O'Brien would turn round in their dog-collars at such irreverence. But Father Ed's soul is in the right place, and his theory of the "ecology of evil" where no good deed can go unpunished which disturbs the balance of evil forces in our city ghettos, does make sadly hard-headed sense.
His view contrasts the dire consequences of minor, cosmetic improvements with those comparative benefits, failing a new economic order, deriving from a benign neglect coupled with missionary zeal.
Into this violent scholastic scene arrives a new teacher, Tom Griffin (Jack Coleman), bearing that particular white middle class burden of being heavily "involved in Third World debt." Griffin - mythologically "half-lion and half-eagle" - tries to rescue one talented kid, Lee Cortez (Marcus Chong), from the ghetto world, including his family of his mother and elder brother, threatening to engulf him.
The attempt is gallant - possibly stupid, but gallant - and provides the ostensible subject for the play, as well as the opportunity for Coleman and Chong to offer splendidly unbuttoned virtuoso performances.
But the real subject, the subtext that covers everything, from the graveyard humor and sardonic philosophy, to the actual events at this school of the damned, is the lesson of the ghetto itself, the harshness of living and dying in a reality of hopelessness.
Helped by Yael Pardess' attractive and usefully appropriate setting, Carol Brolaski's tellingly apt costumes, and the vivid rap choreography of Charles Randolph Wright, Link's staging takes on an exceptionally vibrant life of its own that forcefully projects the play.
And the performances are superb. Chong, Cioffi and Colema - particularly Chong, who for much of the play is impersonating his entire family - have the best chances and make the most of them, but no one, including John C. Cooke and Dan Gerrity as two of the teachers, and Ray Oriel as a kid with a fantastic potential for drop-out, puts an accent, action or even thought wrong.
The flaws of the play are all too evident - it is too smart and too superficial by half. Yet its qualities of immediacy and relevance, dusted off with a glitter of sheer damned theatricality, make it a play impossible to ignore and a play very much to be seen, and seen now while its temperature and climate are both white-hot.
Act I of ''Stand-Up Tragedy,'' the new play by Bill Cain at the Criterion Center, is labeled ''First Semester'' in the Playbill. Act II is ''Second Semester.'' Make no mistake about it: The audience is in school, and there's no use praying for early dismissal.
The school in question is a small Roman Catholic institution for Hispanic boys on the present-day Lower East Side. The lesson Mr. Cain wishes to impart is sadly perennial: the impotence of inner-city schools in their front-line battle to rescue young lives from the ravages of poverty, absent and abusive parents and drugs. Who would doubt that the crisis in urban education is the most pressing American tragedy? That makes it all the more painful to report that ''Stand-Up Tragedy'' - whether viewed as a serious effort to illuminate its issues or merely as pop entertainment with a conscience - is so often a farce.
The author, who himself taught at a school like the one in his play, is obviously sincere in his frustration. The story he tells, however familiar from fiction, is presumably drawn from first-hand experience: The only faculty member hip enough to wear Nikes, a Georgetown-educated yuppie named Tom Griffin (Jack Coleman), sets out to salvage an unexpectedly gifted student, Lee Cortez (Marcus Chong), who might otherwise be devoured by his violent family or lost in the housing-project maze or the educational morass. Yet Mr. Cain never takes this premise or its characters any further than the archetypal tableaux that have been served up with far more vigor in works as various as ''Blackboard Jungle,'' ''Up the Down Staircase,'' ''To Sir With Love,'' ''Open Admissions'' and even ''Room 222.'' At a time when authors like Diane Ravitch and Samuel G. Freedman, among others, are prominently examining the same classrooms seen in this play, seeking to learn from their small victories and big defeats, Mr. Cain merely restates the obvious, parading the familiar symptoms of a social calamity before the audience without offering any diagnosis or, at the very least, fresh observations. Rather than risk offending anyone by raising any controversial questions about the church's exact educational role in a city riddled by AIDS and racism, he settles instead for the middlebrow theater's sentimental boilerplate of moral concern, as typified by a monologue in which the school's presiding priest (Charles Cioffi) argues his students' need for ''a better God.'' (Not for nothing does this play share an originating theater, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, with ''Children of a Lesser God.'') Finally Mr. Cain just throws up his hands in despair, disposing of as many characters as possible in a denouement that, for all its tragic pretensions, proves laughably melodramatic.
Were it not for the stylization of the writing and Ron Link's production, ''Stand-Up Tragedy'' would merely be another innocuously topical television movie that had somehow strayed onto a Broadway stage. But the gimmickry of the script, which attempts to appropriate the hard-edged styles of both stand-up comedy and rap music, and the noisy busyness of the staging, in which synthetic rap numbers and gruntingly gymnastic choral recitations are punctuated by the incessant banging of lockers and ringing of school bells, do succeed in insinuating ''Stand-Up Tragedy'' into a theatergoer's mind - if not as an intellectual or emotional stimulant, then as the relentless source of a throbbing headache.
''Stand-Up Tragedy'' lowers the volume of its assault only when some of its actors, most notably Mr. Cioffi, wait for laughter at the end of a punch line. Unfortunately, Mr. Cain just isn't a witty enough writer to score with the teachers-lounge wisecracks he uses to avoid an actual dramatization of what happens in his play's school. The gags, like the frequently inaudible and always white-bread rap lyrics, are filler.
An even more irritating jokeyness is injected by the arbitrary assignment of multiple roles to the principal actors. Mr. Chong, a promising performer in need of editing and direction, is asked to interrupt and compromise his portrayal of the sensitive Lee by repeatedly impersonating Lee's mother in a manner more appropriate to a ''Forbidden Broadway'' spoof of Rita Moreno. Mr. Coleman, an ingratiating figure as the earnest teacher, is in turn asked to adopt an embarrassingly ersatz Hispanic accent to impersonate Lee's brother - even as Mr. Chong sometimes plays Lee's brother, too, in tandem. This is theatricality, I guess, but other than providing acting exercises for an enthusiastic young cast, what goal does it serve?
A cynic might assume that the real point of the awkward and confusing piggybacking of roles is to save money on actors, but if so, the economies have not extended to the employment of two black performers who, though costumed as students and always used in the rap routines, remain patronizingly undifferentiated as characters throughout. It's rather bizarre to find a contemporary slice-of-life high school drama emulating a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland vehicle of yesteryear by padding the class with faceless chorus boys. But once they and other members of the all-male cast gratuitously start stripping to the waist late in Act II, one can at least relax in the happy knowledge that the school in ''Stand-Up Tragedy'' is finally adjourning for summer camp.


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Aaaaaahhhg!!!!! I thought it was going to be Indie and Scene who "finally kiss" not Metal and Intern two!!! I watched this on a road trip as soon as i got wifi but I was so disappointed. Poor Intern 2… It is my dream I be on this show. I want this sooo badddd!!!!!!!! Ahhh!!!!!!!!!!
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Saving Men From $250 Embellished Jeans
MERRIAM, Kans., August 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Mike Rowe has teamed up with Lee Jeans to share his common-sense philosophy on denim – a straight-forward approach that mirrors the 120-year-old brand known for its authentic quality. Rowe, creator and star of the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," is not shy about what he looks for in a pair of blue jeans. "It's pretty simple," said Rowe. "They should last. They should fit. They should fade. They should never cost more than fifty bucks. And they should be blue."
Rowe's attitude about shopping for jeans will be central to the campaign. "Frankly, I've never understood the whole notion of jamming yourself into a dressing room with an armful of new styles to find the 'perfect look,'" said Rowe. "And from what I've seen, I'm not alone. The guys I know aren't going to spend a hundred dollars on a pair of pants with rhinestones and fake stains and zippers to nowhere. And don't even get me started on jeans with rips and holes already in them. Madness."
The partnership and new ad campaign will include Mike sharing his perspective on jeans shopping and being featured in Lee's new Premium Select, which retail for $42 at Lee.com, Kohl's, JCPenney and Sears. Ads featuring Mike in the jeans will debut in print, broadcast and online on Aug. 16. Additionally, Mike and Lee will be launching a new website, Shop Phobia, where Mike says enough is enough – he has Shop Phobia and isn't going to take it anymore.
"We don't view our partnership with Mike as your typical spokesperson scenario," said Liz Cahill, vice president of marketing and communications at Lee Jeans. "It is a collaborative relationship in the truest sense, and we are excited to see how it will evolve."
Before the partnership began, Cahill discovered that Mike shared many of the same philosophies and values as the Lee brand through Mike's website mikeroweWORKS.com, making it clear that Mike was the perfect partner. Lee believed in Mike's cause so much that it was one of the first organizations to make a donation to the mikeroweWORKS foundation, which promotes the skilled trades in communities around the country.
"We were very intrigued by Mike, specifically his honesty, fun nature and appreciation for hard work," said Cahill. "The values he possesses are not unlike the values of the Lee brand, and we were interested in beginning a partnership with him that would communicate our mutual respect."
About mikeroweWORKS
mikeroweWORKS is Mike Rowe's "PR campaign for hard work and skilled labor". Its purpose is to call attention to the growing skills gap in the trades while providing a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to investigate a career in those vocations, as well as focus the country on the very real issues facing our trade workers and farmers. In addition to the trade resource center, Mike has established the mikeroweWORKS Foundation to help fund scholarship programs and other initiatives that reinvigorate Trade School enrollments and industrial arts programs around the country. www.mikeroweWORKS.com.
About Lee Premium Select
Lee is introducing the new Premium Select collection. This newest fit is designed with more comfort and room to move but does not sacrifice style. By using new ringspun denim, Lee has achieved a lighter weight product than traditional denim that is softer and stronger. Additionally, front pockets are deep and easy to get in and out of, and back pockets feature a V-shape to achieve additional comfort. With multiple washes within the new collection, finding a pair for relaxing or going out is made easy.
Lee® Jeans is a division of VF Corporation. (NYSE: VFC). Headquartered in Merriam, Kan., Lee manufactures and markets brand denim, casual pants, shirts, fleece and knit apparel.
About VF
VF Corporation is a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel with more than 30 brands, including Wrangler®, The North Face®, Lee®, Vans®, Nautica®, 7 For All Mankind®, Eagle Creek®, Eastpak®, Ella Moss®, JanSport®, lucy®, John Varvatos®, Kipling®, Majestic®, Napapijri®, Red Kap®, Reef®, Riders® and Splendid®. VF Corporation's press releases, annual report and other information can be accessed through the Company's home page, www.vfc.com.
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Our economic system is based on the idea of "profit at all costs." I mean, isn't this what we wanted and fought the cold war for?
Um, no. Our economic system is based on the idea of economic freedom -- which does include the freedom for people and organisations to pursue "profit at all costs" (as long as it's within the law).
The alternative is government bureacrats deciding what the economy should do and -- how shall I put it politely? -- the historic record of such guidance isn't stellar.


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The 'Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher.
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back. When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to
'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!'
'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to
'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)
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Good one. Should be quite a hit in the staff room. Maybe even on TV. ole joyful |
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Seattle, WA and the recipient of the Washington State Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence
Students will associate voice and movement with character traits and develop an understanding of the character traits and motivations of the 'rude mechanicals" as they develop a play for the Duke and Duchess on their wedding day.
This lesson should take one 90 minute class period.
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Mount Sinai Celebrates Annual Go Red Community Health Fair
Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital hosted its 11th annual Community Heart Health Fair February 7th, which was the 11th anniversary of National Go Red Day.
As one of the largest Go Red events in New York City, 490 guests received free heart health screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and body mass index. In addition, event guests learned about good nutrition and diet, diabetes, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), CPR, stress management, smoking cessation, yoga, and other relaxation techniques.
"We had such a heartfelt expression of support for women's heart health at our Go Red celebration this February," says Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Vice President of Clinical Operations for Mount Sinai Heart. "The large turnout of attendees of both men and women from the community combined with the countless volunteers of Mount Sinai nurses, faculty, and staff, really made the Community Hearth Health Fair a great success."
The Chefs of The Mount Sinai Hospital, all dressed in red uniforms, served guests their special "Red Menu" of four heart healthy dishes including colusari red rice salad with dried cranberries, walnuts, and blue cheese; tandoori grilled salmon with shaved beet risotto; raspberry mousse; and even 1,200 dark chocolate covered strawberries. Event guests were even able to take home recipe cards.
"All the foods offered were low-fat, high-in-fiber, and low-in-sugar," says Matthew Krimsky, Executive Chef at Mount Sinai. "We offered foods red in color to represent the importance of National Go Red Day, because it's really all about being heart healthy every day."
Emphasis on Heart Health Education and Knowing Your Numbers
"It's all about education and prevention," says Linda Hackett, MPA, Senior Program Director of Community and Government Affairs at Mount Sinai. "Guests were really looking at the importance of healthy eating, plus, everyone wants to know their numbers, but our goal was to educate everyone who attended what are actually good and bad heart health numbers."
"This year's heart fair was our most successful event to date," says Mary Ann McLaughlin, MD, Medical Director of the Cardiac Health Program at Mount Sinai Heart. "Through our continuous outreach regarding heart health and the importance of knowing cardiac risk, community members are avidly seeking this opportunity to learn more about how to improve their health. This success is an example of the impact Mount Sinai is having on the entire community."
"This is the best community outreach I have ever seen," shared Diana Rodriguez of Far Rockaway, Queens, who is a patient of Mount Sinai's Division of Endocrinology. "I got to participate in the free heart screenings, and even learned about how to do CPR. I did good overall, I just have to work on my cholesterol and triglycerides. But I credit the Mount Sinai endocrinologists for getting my diabetes and high blood pressure already under control."
Debby Fogler of Bronx, NY, attends the Heart Health Fair every year and is a patient of Mount Sinai Heart cardiologist Dr. Icilma Fergus. "I am wearing red today to support Go Red. I have congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and type 2 diabetes. I recommend all women to come learn more about their inside. You can look beautiful on the outside, but you need to learn what's going on inside your body."
Maria Vazquez of Harlem, NY, also attended the event. She came this year after losing her sister, age 55, to a heart attack in June 2013. Maria turns 67 years old in late February and is choosing to stay as heart healthy as possible.
"I always check my numbers, and make sure I go to the doctor's. Exercising is very important. I belong to a senior citizen walking club and I am practicing for a 5k race. Remember, always check your numbers, it could save your life," stresses Maria.


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The Magic of the Silk Route, a service that draws upon techniques and spices from Thailand, India and China, and includes a full-body exfoliation using cardamom and nutmeg—The Spa at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado;
The 5-Elements Massage contains essential oils representing each element, with cardamom representing the yin earth element—The Spa at Marina Dunes Resort, Marina, California;
The Spiced Hot Stone Massage balances and restores using traditional spices, including cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and pepper—V-Spa at the Hilton Anatole, Dallas;
The Jivana Body Polish, featuring an exfoliation that soothes and hydrates using an aromatic blend of cardamom, and rose hip and seed oil—Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, San Diego; and
The Hammam Ritual, a detoxifying ritual body treatment that draws deep impurities from the body for a warm radiance, featuring cardamom amber oil. See the step-by-step how-to from Spa Luce at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, Hollywood, California.


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Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers Inc. moves a lot of smaller-sized pears to foodservice destinations, said Roger Pepperl, marketing director.
"We've seen pears in the white-tablecloth restaurants in the foodservice world, and they've done quite well there," he said.
"When you're talking about white-tablecloth, you're not moving a lot of volume. It takes a lot of salads to take up a case of pears," he said.
Pears meld with a trend toward more healthful offerings, said Maureen Royal, saleswoman with organic produce distributor Bridges Produce, Portland, Ore.
"More and more restaurants are incorporating fresh fruit, and, in particular local, organic apples and pears into their specialty recipes for entrees as well as desserts," Royal said.
Consumers are asking for those items, Royal said.
"They patronize and support the restaurants that are doing this," she said.
As for slicing, there's an ongoing hope that such a market will someday materialize for pears, said David Garcia, chief executive officer with Hood River, Ore.-based Diamond Fruit Growers.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Terry Branstad is launching a campaign to keep wrestling an Olympic sport after the International Olympic Committee announced its recommendation to drop it.
Branstad will be joined at a Friday news conference by Olympic wrestling gold medalist Dan Gable, University of Iowa associate head wrestling coach Terry Brands and University of Northern Iowa wrestling coach Doug Schwab. They'll gather at the Iowa State High School Wrestling Tournament to kick-off their campaign called "Let's Keep Wrestling."
Branstad and each member of Iowa's congressional delegation have signed a letter they will send to the IOC on Friday morning describing the importance of wrestling to Iowans and the Olympics.
Rep. Bruce Braley on Thursday noted it would be an "absolute shame" if young Iowans' could not live their Olympic dream.


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Salvation Army provides a roof, with rules, to start over again
When homeless men come in for help at The Salvation Army's William Booth Center, and their intake papers tell of a troubled past, Chris White can relate perfectly well. After years of trouble and drug use, White came in from the cold to the Booth Center, and is now the shelter's assistant program manager.
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Each year, The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy raises money for charities that help children, families and senior citizens. Articles in The Times will tell how the 12 organizations make a difference in the lives of thousands, and the impact donors can make.How you can give
You can give to the Fund For The Needy by sending the coupon on B2 along with a check, money order or credit-card information.Or online at seattletimes.com/ffn
About the program
The Salvation Army serves more than 400,000 people annually in Western Washington. It provides a variety of services, including rent assistance, a food pantry, clothing, day-care services, summer camps, services for the aging, shelters for homeless men and women, shelters for battered women and children, family and career counseling, vocational training and substance-abuse rehabilitation. For more information: www.salvationarmynw.orgEXAMPLES of where your money might go:
$20: Buys full turkey dinners for 10 needy people.
$50 Covers two nights of emergency shelter for a homeless person.
$100: Helps a family in crisis avoid eviction, while a case manager helps them reach stability.
Cash donations can be put to the best use at the agency, but donations to the food pantry are also appreciated.
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Chris White's teeth — the ones he has left after years of meth use, dry mouth and poor oral hygiene — are a rotten mess.
He'd wake up after grinding his teeth in the middle of the night, and, "Yep, another one would fall out," he says. White is 43.
He eats a lot of soft foods — peanut butter and jelly or tuna sandwiches, McDonald's hamburgers, pinching off a piece to sort of chomp on it. He hasn't eaten an apple in, "oh, five, six, seven years," says White.
So when another homeless man comes in for help at The Salvation Army's William Booth Center on the southern edge of the Chinatown-International District, and his intake papers tell of a troubled past, White can perfectly well relate to him.
Back in August 2011, White was such a person, and he went for help at the center, named for the British Methodist preacher who founded the humanitarian group in 1865.
Now, White has the title of assistant program manager at the shelter, and his days start at 6 in the morning in front of a computer, as he tracks occupancy numbers.
The three-story center at 811 Maynard Ave. S., incongruously located kitty-corner from a BMW Seattle dealership, accommodates 175 men, and provides nearly 64,000 bed nights a year. Through the center, the men are put in contact with social-service agencies that can offer more permanent housing, medical help and job training.
The Salvation Army is one of 13 charities supported by The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy campaign.
White's cellphone is constantly ringing. He deals with everything from taking mats to emergency cold-weather shelters the Salvation Army runs, to getting a new client to take a shower and separate his clothes to be washed and dried at 140 degrees to kill any bedbugs.
With insurance through the Salvation Army, he's making plans for dentures.
White seems a considerably happier man now than how he described himself not long ago.
His boss, Angel Johnson, says about White, "He's awesome. He's never negative. He gets along with the guys."
In 2011, he had been living in Las Vegas with his mom, Jennifer White, 67, a retired nurse.
By then it had been several years since he had kicked his meth habit, says White. Even with the drug use, he had managed to hold down jobs — at convenience stores, running the night desk at motels.
When he had cleaned up, White even landed a job for three years at a national retail-discount chain making sure merchandise was well-displayed, but that ended in 2008, he says, after "getting into arguments with my immediate supervisors and taking a couple of days off."
Then White went into what sounds like a depressive state, not doing much except "hanging around the house, watching TV, playing video games."
After three years of that, in 2011, his mother says she finally decided it was time to do something drastic.
"I was concerned. What was going to happen to him if something happened to me?" she says.
She told her son to choose a city, and she'd buy him a bus ticket and $300 to get started. White chose Seattle because he had always thought the Northwest would be nice to visit. "I love to draw trees," he says, and soon after arriving in Seattle ended up at the William Booth Center.
The rules for staying at the center are clear.
Of the 175 beds, 125 are bunk beds in large rooms, with the men usually able to stay from a couple weeks to a year. Then there are 48 rooms, each with a single bed, where men can live up to two years; they put 30 percent of their income toward that housing.
A handout includes such rules as:
• "Agree to engage in 35 hours a week in meaningful activity ... job search, education, volunteer service ... "
• "Attend any 12-step group or other groups required by your case manager."
• "The following verbal and gestural expression is forbidden ... profanity, coarse joking, threats, casting insults — especially of an ethnic, religious, racial &/or sexual nature ... "
For his initial meaningful activity, White enrolled in a program to earn his GED. At the same time, White found work with the center monitoring their cold-weather shelters, which eventually led to his current job with the center.
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in a family in which the parents didn't get along and eventually divorced, White says he was in trouble starting in sixth grade, when he was expelled for showing off a baggie of marijuana.
He ended up in an assortment of group homes and joined the Navy before finishing high school. His military career lasted a year, says White; he was discharged when a background check caught up with him.
Then the crystal meth started. He says, "It was a drug I thought I could function on, do more work. The meth also covered just feelings about this or that, relationships, the whole nine yards."
But after his long road, White says he was renewed at the men's shelter, where he says he found himself treated with dignity, something he now tries hard to show to each homeless man.
Unlike some shelters, for example, men don't have to sign up for a new bed each day. The bunk bed you've been assigned is your bunk bed during your stay. You get a locker with your own lock. Any religious meeting is optional.
And, although the center has a clearly spelled-out no-alcohol policy, decisions are made case by case.
When the men arrive at the reception area, there is a simple electronic device with a big button. They press, and if a red light goes on, they must blow into a breathalyzer; green light means they don't have to. It's a random check.
But, says Capt. Dana Libby, 55, a former 20-year Fairfax County, Va., cop who's director of the center, "If somebody comes in at 10 at night with a trace of alcohol, we have to make a decision of what's the proper thing to do. Turning him out on the streets of the International District, nothing good will happen. If he's peaceful, we put them to bed and have the case manager address the issue in the morning."
If the man registers very high alcohol content, he's taken to the Dutch Shisler Sobering Support Center in downtown Seattle, and then talked to when he's sober, says Libby. Shisler, who died in 2000 at age 69, was known in downtown Seattle for staffing its first detox-van pickup service.
"If he says he was at a family gathering and had a glass of wine, we tell them that, look, you have a history of alcoholism and that's not good for you. Maybe you need to go to more meetings, whatever support works for you," says Libby.
Who are some of the men who find help at the shelter?
There is Tom Udhus, 54, who grew up in Ballard, spent two years in the Navy in the late 1970s and worked for years at a bakery. He says he was married and has two daughters.
But, he says, "drinkin' and druggin' " took over his life.
Udhus says he quit the drugs, except pot, about five years ago, and also kept on boozing.
"I was out in the streets, sleeping on cardboard, in Dumpsters," he says.
Then, seven or eight months ago, says Udhus, he found one of his street friends, dead, sitting outside in the cold on a chair.
"I got real scared. I called my daughter," he says. "I've been sober since I got here. My goal is staying sober. I got five grandchildren. I'm getting my teeth paid for by the V.A."
There is Telly Swain, 38, who grew up in Philadelphia and did two years in the Navy in the late 1990s.
He says he doesn't have an alcohol or drug problem. Swain says he ended up homeless after a job as a bag checker at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was cut back.
He had a second part-time job in Bellevue at a fitness center, says Swain, but he was living in an apartment near the airport and there was no bus service that'd take him to Bellevue by 5 in the morning.
His money dried up. "I got booted out of my apartment," says Swain. Through King County Vets, he found a place at the Salvation Army shelter.
Last month, he started a job as a night security guard in downtown Seattle.
"I'm starting all over," says Swain. "They really helped me here."
There is David Pelletier, 49, who was in the Army in the early '80s.
He's from Boston, an alcoholic, and has worked kitchen assistant jobs at restaurants much of his life.
So he's going to alcohol-treatment meetings and volunteering at the center's kitchen. He's put out job feelers and gotten responses, says Pelletier.
"I just got tired of it," Pelletier says about the drinking. "Tired of not having anything because of it."
For White, as he hears their stories, he understands.
"Having that peace of mind, that you have a roof over your head," he says, that is what matters so much.
Speaking by phone from Las Vegas, his mother says, "I'm very proud of him. Chris needed the Salvation Army. It helped him help himself."
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Dave White is a globe famous oil painter based in Liverpool, UK whose fondness for pop culture and granular, used up objects made him the First Lieutenant to convey Kid robot 17, Sgt. Robot to life. Dave White's vibrant, dynamically brisk variety of modern pop is stimulated by topics that have awestruck him since early days for example animals, sneakers, comics, military hardware and gorgeous ladies. His work has appeared in limitless solo and group exhibitions and has been featured alongside prominent artists David Hockney and Damien Hirst.
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Wonderful Paper Cut Portraits By kuin Heuff
Shockingly attractive cut paper portraits by Kuin Heuff, a creative mind artist from Netherlands. First of all she draws beautiful sketches on plane papers then cut it into lace-like structure, more evocative of anatomical drawings or woodcuts. Kuin Heuff studied painting at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. These works are created by Heuff painting with acrylic. The two dimensional works have an approximately sculptural quality as the piece has been given greater depth and difficulty in the added cut lines. Her work has been exhibited in Rotterdam and surrounding areas.
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Awesome Collection Of Pin Art Portraits
Art always created by your concept, ideas and creativity. Or you can say that the one and only boundary with art is your creativity. You can twist any thing to an art masterpiece. You don't require a camera, a computer or a canvas. Philip Karlberg is that type creative artist who doesn't need traditional objects to create an art masterpiece. He just used 1200 wooden pins to create these portraits of Karl Lagerfeldt, John Belushi, Jackie O, Johnny Depp, Lady Gaga and Steve McQueen. Here is his short bio from official website.
Abstract Cardboard Sculptures Leap To Being
Bartek Elsner from Berlin works with paper and cardboard to create perfect replica of stuff sort from an easy boxed video cassette to a multi-textured chainsaw. When you look closely upon the objects, the symbols, buttons, and typography generally boast a cartoon-like aesthetic. Moderately than focusing on complex realism, these pieces present symbolic reproduction with an animated dynamism. In his piece titled The Branch, where a polygonal raven sits atop a geometric tree branch, the artist keeps everything very angular instead of smoothing out every point and line. There's also a sense of humor attached to Elsner's work that is presented both indoors and outdoors.
Outstanding Examples Of Digital Artworks
Digital art is a common tenure for a variety of artistic works and performs that utilizes digital technology as a vital component of the artistic and presentation practice. From a long time different names have been apply to illustrate the practice plus computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself positioned below the superior sunshade phrase fresh media art. The techniques of digital art are exercise broadly by the normal media in advertisements, and by film-makers to create special effects. Desktop print has had a giant force on the publishing world, though that is extra linked to graphic design. Both digital and traditional artists utilize several bases of electronic information and programs to create their work. Here are 20 creative and astonishing examples of Digital Art listed below. Hope you will like it!
Chris LaBrooy 3D Artwork
Chris Labrooy is the really great artist whose convert typography art into architecture, That is mean, typography is looking really beautiful because its 3d and carving very well now if a whole building designed on typography art or alphabetic spell then its combination create the new architecture technique. Inspiration comes in many forms, and for UK designer/illustrator Chris Labrooy came quite literally. Sketch from the works of some of the most famous architects out there, Chris has shaped these beautiful, 3D typefaces which spell out the engineer name using some of their most famous formation as the foundations. What you see above are Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer and Toyo Ito, all of which I thought were quite impressive. Some pieces, like the Zaha Hadid one, were based more on her formal language, rather than a particular building, whereas the Tadao Ando one is very much created from the visual language of his structures. In this post you will see some of his 3D Types creations inspired by the Gods of architecture, the inspiration is so amazing that got me thinking how can someone come up with such great concepts.
20 Adorable Wil Wilson Artwork
Well the art of any serious and hard work artist is really wonderful and amazing and some artist artwork cant understood able for normal peoples because their artwork is complex and telling the whole story in a small art or picture art. Will Wilson is also wonderful artist, today I am going to show you here Will Wilson artworks which is really so adorable and look like painting. Will Wilson born in1957, Baltimore, Maryland. They studied schuler school of Fine Arts, Baltimore, Maryland, 1975 – 1979 The New York Academy of Art, New York , 1989-90. I don't know much about Will Wilson but I think its enough for all and see the artwork what his artwork say's.


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Sheikh Tantawi Passes Away
March 11, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Egypt's top cleric dies, aged 81
Egypt's foremost Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died, aged 81, while on a trip to Saudi Arabia.
Sheikh Tantawi was the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar mosque and head of the al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's centre of learning and scholarship.
He died of a heart attack in the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he was attending a prize-giving ceremony.
Sheikh Tantawi had infuriated radical Islamists with his moderate views on women wearing the veil.
His body will be taken to the Saudi city of Medina, the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad, for burial, Egyptian authorities said.
An adviser to the Sheikh told Egyptian television Sheikh Tantawi's death was a shock, as before leaving for Saudi Arabia he had seemed in "excellent shape and health".
A member of Sheikh Tantawi's office, Ashraf Hassan, told news agency Reuters that Mohamed Wasel, Sheikh Tantawi's deputy, was expected to temporarily take over leading the institution until the Egyptian president appointed a new head for the body.
Sheikh Tantawi was appointed to his position by Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in 1996.
But as a government appointee, he was always forced to negotiate a careful path between his religious imperatives and his government position, the BBC's Christian Fraser in Cairo says.
He was vocal in his opposition to female circumcision, which is common in Egypt, calling it "un-Islamic".
Last year, Sheikh Tantawi barred female students at the university from wearing the full-face covering niqab veil.
He also caused upset other Muslim scholars by saying that French Muslims should obey any law that France might enact banning the veil.
His views on the veil prompted Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to accuse him of "harming the interests of Islam".
He has also condemned suicide attacks, saying extremists had hijacked Islamic principles for their own ends.
"I do not subscribe to the idea of a clash among civilizations. People of different beliefs should co-operate and not get into senseless conflicts and animosity," he told a conference in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in 2003.
"Extremism is the enemy of Islam. Whereas, jihad is allowed in Islam to defend one's land, to help the oppressed. The difference between jihad in Islam and extremism is like the earth and the sky," Sheikh Tantawi said.


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One of the featured events at Tropicana's inaugural Beer Week is the Goose Island Beer Dinner at FIN on Jan. 17.
Author and local beer aficionado Gary Monterosso articulates in print that the modern beer world "has grown far beyond the common pilsener-style beers brewed by the millions of barrels by conglomerate breweries," and that today's craft brews "rival wine in complexity, variety and sophistication."
The fervor has also given way to a host of lively local events with beer motifs, the latest of which is the Tropicana Beer Week coming Sunday through Friday, Jan. 13-18.
The festivities include beer tastings and pairings, live music, beer-related specials at multiple venues throughout the property, and educational elements hosted by Monterosso and fellow beer expert Tara Nurin. Attendees can obtain a "beer tour card" and earn a collector pilsner glass at Signatures (while supplies last) with six purchases at Beer Week, which the Trop intends to grow into an annual event.
"We are thrilled to have beer experts Tara Nurin and Gary Monterosso here to host our events," says Tropicana general manager Steve Callender. "Tropicana's Beer Week is an opportunity to showcase our partners and the variety of beer we have to offer."
One of the featured events is the Goose Island Beer Dinner (see a complete menu at Tropicana.net) that Monterosso hosts at FIN restaurant on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 6:30pm. It includes a six-course meal paired with seven beers from the Goose Island craft brewery at an all-inclusive cost of $65 per person.
"All the beers are coming from Goose Island out of Chicago, which really is one of the nation's top craft breweries whose distribution rights were taken over by Anheuser-Busch," says Monterosso.
"And while that may lead some to think 'Oh God, are the big guys taking over?' there's a positive aspect to it, and that is that here on the East Coast we're now able to try their beers. Ordinarily we couldn't get Goose Island, but because of A-B's relationship with them, and Harrison Beverage [of Pleasantville] being our local A-B distributor, we're now able to get Goose Island beer. Actually I think they debuted here in New Jersey at the 2011 Atlantic City Beer Fest, but this will make their products more readily available to us."
After the FIN beer dinner, Monterosso — whose enthusiasm for beer may rival that of Bubba for shrimp in Forrest Gump — heads to Firewaters in the Trop to conduct a free two-hour seminar starting 7pm.
Like pen and paper, peanut butter and jelly, Martin and Lewis, Cheech and Chong, and so many other things, beer and bacon may be fine on their own but tend to make the world such a better a place when combined.
Bacon milkshakes, bacon-infused cocktails and more bacon-related food items than you can shake your tail at.
If your resolution is to broaden your horizons regarding the world's most popular alcoholic beverage, and/or get a better handle on what the craft-brew craze is all about, visit the Tropicana during its second annual Beer Week Sunday through Saturday, Jan. 12-18.
"We started on a shoestring down in Cape May and started with one account," says Ryan Krill. "That was it, and we called ourselves a brewery."
"There are about 16 or so companies that are in various stages of development in the craft-beer industry, the nearest to us being Millville."
Coinciding with the return of the Golden Nugget Craft Beer Festival, the Resorts Craft Beer Festival will debut on Saturday, Sept. 28.
Horner created a 40-bottle craft beer menu while GM at Mia, schooling the staff on the different beers and how they might be paired with meals. Since taking on a broader role at the property, he extended that to include the entire service staff as advocates or "beer ambassadors" for all the craft brews, bottled and draft, on the entire property.
Golden Nugget partners with Paulaner, an ancient European brewery and originator of Germany's Oktoberfest, for this year's Craft Beer Festival.
In celebration of this weekend's Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival — which is promoting craft beers and the brewers who create them, we're going to hop back in our hot tub time machine and explore the start of micro brewing. From the 1920s Prohibition era to 1970s England, there's a sudsy story that's led up to this weekend's Beer Festival.
The seventh annual Celebration of the Suds will have an expanded lineup of Garden State-based craft brewers and bands .
'I didn't want to do the Ramones clones thing. The guys I play with sound like themselves. We have Michael Graves from the Misfits, who doesn't sing like Joey. He sings like himself. We do 34 Ramones songs.'
The World Beer Pong Tour — which evolved from a weekly league at a small New York college to a nationwide craze — recently announced that the $50,000 grand finale of its 35-city tour will be held Sunday through Tuesday, June 13-15, at Resorts Atlantic City. Additionally, Bally's Wild Wild West Casino has created a gaming area in its new entertainment venue that will include 12 beer-pong tables. Through a partnership with Bpong.com, founders of the World Series of Beer Pong and a leading retailer of beer-pong gear, enthusiasts will be able to partake in beer-pong 24 hours per day at Bally's, if they're so inclined.
THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF one of the most tragic days in American history passed last Friday. If you haven't thought about our troops in a while, take a moment and pray for them and their families and thank them for their service to our country. Speaking of service to our country, columnist Whitney Ullman writes about a special World War II veteran that she knows (her grandfather) who was recently profiled in the New York Times. Is it just me, or did it seem like a lot happened this past Tuesday, Sept. 15? First, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a statement implying that the current recession "has probably ended," according to reports. Bernanke also made it clear that the economy's growth still isn't very strong at all. Also on Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a...
"Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "It's a little early isn't it, Woody?" "For a beer?" "No, for stupid questions." -- Cheers An understandable yet somewhat unfortunate facet of a depressed eco...
If you were unable to make the Munich Oktoberfest -- the world's largest festival dating back nearly 200 years and spanning 16 days -- and were not among those who consumed cosmic quantities of Schwe...
What's fun about the Tun? Whether you're a veteran beer drinker or a neophyte basking in beer's newfound legitimacy, this brewpub is the place to be. The Tun Tavern produces several varieties of beer...
THIS WEEKEND BRINGS A BIT OF A CHANGE of pace for the Atlantic City Convention Center. Very often the center is filled with conventioneers wearing suits and shaking hands as they try to network and b...
The Tropicana raised the bar in just its sophomore year of Beer Week, offering quality and value in a series of events presented in an entertaining and educational format — all incorporating America's favorite adult beverage, beer.
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I made the mistake of getting (vintage) white bases for lamps. I SHOULD have picked colorful bases, because plain lamp shades are easy to find . . .interesting ones are not.
Anyway, I'm stuck with them, and finally got some plain lamp shades that are the right shape/size. I figured I could redo them somehow. Has anyone done this? How have you done it? I know I could add stencils, but I think I'd rather cover them with fabric. If I do that, do I have to completely remove the fabric that is there and just use the frame, or could I just glue/sew the fabric over the existing fabric? (That seems much easier!) Anything else I should know, or any other ideas? Thank you! |
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- Posted by bananafana (My Page) on Sun, Oct 26, 08 at 21:55
I'm assuming you have new "stretched fabric" shades. If you use a lightweight or semi-transparent fabric, it would work to keep the old fabric in place and sew the new fabric over it. Think of the old fabric as a double lining. If the old or new fabrics are very heavy, it will block a lot of light and you might want to reconsider. And check the fabric you are thinking about by putting it over the shade with a lightbulb on to make sure you like it with the light on. Or use a flashlight. Some colors and fabrics will wash out too much and the pattern isn't what you hoped. Once you've got a good fabric, take off the trim along the top and bottom of the shade. It is glued and should come off fairly easily. (You can later reapply the trim with glue or use a different trim.) There are probably two vertical lines of trim on either vertical side of the shade and remove those also. They are essentially the side seams where the two halves of the shade were sewn together. Cut two pieces of fabric roughly to size for each half of the shade. Sew one side at a time like this: Pin and stretch the fabric tightly so that you can handsew it to the old shade at the two vertical "side seams". ( Don't overlap the two halves of fabric, just butt them up to each other. Trim will cover this later.) Then handsew at the top and bottom of the shade where you can see the stitching on the old fabric. Be sure to sew the new fabric a little short from the top and bottom edge. You will be cutting off all the excess just short of the edge so make sure your stitches are set back slightly so they won't get snipped when you cut off the excess. The trim will cover the sewing but you don't want any of it sticking beyond the edges of the old shade or it will stick out under the trim. Carefully trim/snip all the excess fabric close to the edge where you have sewn, at the top, bottom, and vertical side seams. Remember to keep the new fabric shy of the edge so it doesn't stick out. Sometimes I put a thin layer of white glue on the handsewn stitches just to protect them a bit before I trim away the excess. Be careful to keep in mind how much area the new trim will cover so that stitches will be hidden and no raw edge sticks out beyond the trim. Glue the trim on like it was before or put on new trim with white glue or fabric glue. You can use gimp or other trims. Ribbon often will not work because you cannot mold it to the curve quite right, but you can give it a try . Hancock Fabrics has a lot of home dec trims that will work. Beaded trim will work but you may have to cover the edge with gimp on top of that because of the molding problem. Good luck! I like this way of making shades because you don't have to start from scratch or do a lining, and you can use all sorts of interesting fabrics. |
I just read a blog article recently about recovering a lamp shade. http://southernhospitality-rhoda.blogspot.com/2008/10/covering-lampshade.html |
Here is a link that might be useful: Recover a lampshade
bananafana and norasnews, that is exactly the info I am looking for-- THANK YOU! |
I recovered a couple of shades. I covered one right over the existing shade. I pleated fabric, using clothes pins and fabric glue on the top and bottom. When dry, I added some trim. Sorry, I don't have a photo of the shades. They were from years ago. It's very easy if the shape of your existing lampshade doesn't have too much of a curve. At least for me, I couldn't do anything that had curves. I'm not that talented. |
- Posted by bananafana (My Page) on Mon, Oct 27, 08 at 0:35
I forgot to tell you my secret for making self-trim out of the same fabric to cover those vertical side seams. You can also use it at the top and bottom if you like the look of not having a contrasting trim or gimp or whatever: I use masking tape--wide enough to be the trim width plus enough to fold under the raw edge on both sides. Do this on the bias---like at a 45" angle to the straight grain of the fabric. You could cheat if you run out of fabric, but the angle gives the fabric enough stretch to let you mold it nicely which is important especially when using it on the top or bottom. So, tape the masking tape on the bias to the wrong side of some of the fabric scraps. Then cut along the edge of the tape on both sides. Leave the tape on and iron the edges under. If you used the right size tape, you can make the edges meet in the middle. You'll get a nice, even hunk of trim this way. I leave the tape there for extra oomph.....you don't want it too flat or it looks funny. So go easy on the ironing too....don't flatten it more than you have to. Then glue the taped fabric to the shade. Works like a charm. And I've tried everything til I figured this method out. Put the trim on the side seams first before the top and bottom so the top and bottom trim will cover the beginning and end of the side trim. Just notice how the trims are put on as you are removing the old trim so that you can see the order in which they were applied. It will make sense as you are removing the trim. |
I was going to suggest the Southern Hospitality blog - that's georgiagal (who posts here) and she has some AMAZING lampshades! tina |
Hmm . . .I looked at one of my shades and it has several vertical seams. That is going to be a problem, right, or does it just depend on how hard they are to take off? |
- Posted by bananafana (My Page) on Mon, Oct 27, 08 at 10:28
More than two vertical actual seams in the top fabric or are you just seeing the multiple ribs of the metal shade frame? Is there a super deep curve on the shade? I thought you had a lined (typically silk) shade but is it one of those with the rigid, kind of hardback stuff as a base that the fabric is probably glued to? Either way, you can do it but you might need to change techniques. Can you put a picture here? |
- Posted by bananafana (My Page) on Mon, Oct 27, 08 at 10:33
More than two vertical actual seams in the top fabric or are you just seeing the multiple ribs of the metal shade frame? Is there a super deep curve on the shade? I thought you had a lined (typically silk) shade but is it one of those with the rigid, kind of hardback stuff as a base that the fabric is probably glued to? Either way, you can do it but you might need to change techniques. Can you put a picture here? |
hello anele, i've done up a couple of old lampshades that i got free from a friend... mine's made of paper so i could actually paint on them. instead of using paint i think a marker pen would do as well if you don't want the hassle:) you can take a look at it in my blog, in the link below :) hope you get some ideas :) "luthien" |
Here is a link that might be useful: my arty-diy-homedecor blog :)
- Posted by bananafana (My Page) on Mon, Oct 27, 08 at 11:01
Oh hey....is it like the shade shown on mythreedog's thread about her ebay lamp transformation? If it is, no problem. You'll just do it the same way but with smaller pieces of fabric. It's actually easier because there is less stretching of the fabric required to get a tight fit. The only thing that can mess you up with all those seams is if you aren't careful to keep your handsewing within the area that will be covered by the vertical trim. I think I would sew one piece completely, sides first, then top and bottom, then put a little white glue on the side seam to protect the stitches and keep the fabric from raveling. I use a teeny paint brush. Then trim away excess fabric on side seam before starting on the adjoining piece. If you have to overlap the fabric with the next piece a teeny bit that's ok, but be careful you can cover it all with the trim. You might like using a small curved needle, but I just usually use a very small straight needle. It's hard on your fingers, so a thimble might help. |
I have apair of lamps with paper foil shades. The outside is in perfect shape but the inside is getting yellow with "insect spots". How can I make the inside look clean and new? |
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