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Stodmarsh, Canterbury, CT3 1BB, Tel: 03000 41 71 71, Email, www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/parks-and-outdoor-activities/find-a-walk/walks-for-all-stodmarsh-national-nature-reserve-stodmarsh
One of the special routes in the popular Walks For All series, the path is full or opportunities for everyone to explore the wildlife of this fine nature reserve. (Information courtesy of the Explore Kent website).
Reculver to Swalecliffe, CT6 6ST, Tel: 03000 41 71 71, Email, www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/parks-and-outdoor-activities/cycling/find-a-cycle-route-or-centre/cycle-rides-oyster-bay-trail
Cycle Route: Reculver to Swalecliffe
If you enjoy great sea views, big skies and historic landscapes then visit the seven mile long Oyster Bay Trail. The route is mostly flat surfaced paths between Swalecliff and Reculver.
Adisham, Canterbury, CT3 3JE, Tel: 03000 41 71 71 , Email, www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/parks-and-outdoor-activities/find-a-walk/north-downs-way-circular-barham-and-adisham-walk
Walk Route: Barham and Adisham
Passing through the distinctive village of Adisham, this North Downs Way circular is sure to delight. This walk is relatively flat with plenty of open fields to venture through. (Information courtesy of the Explore Kent website).
7-11 longmarket, canterbury, CT1 2JS, Tel: 01227 454307, Email, www.wagamama.com
wagamama is a chain of award winning pan-asian restaurants. our ethos is to combine fresh and nutritious food in an elegant yet simple setting with helpful, friendly service and value for money.
3 Palace Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2DY, Tel: 01227 639086, Email, www.lilfordgallery.com
Established in 2000 Lilford Gallery is now one of the leading galleries in Kent. We exhibit contemporary fine art from established national and international artists as well as new and exciting talent.
Beach Creative, Studio 4, Beach Street, Herne Bay, CT6 5PT, Tel: 01227 861065, Email, www.thesewingclub.co.uk/
We're an established sewing school and have been teaching adults and children since 2007. We run courses, workshops adn private tuition in dress making and soft furnishings and you really can make anything you like on our termly courses.
Yorkletts, Whitstable, Kent, CT2 9JX, Tel: , Email, www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood-information/victory-wood/
This is a place for a great walk set on the edge of the Blean Woodland area. See a wood with a difference! This is the Flagship Site, one of 33 woods plant around the UK, for the Trafalgar Woods Project to commemorate the 200th anniversary.
55 London Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8HQ, Tel: 01227 812616, Email, www.annrobertsoncentre.org
The centre is comfortably furnished throughout to provide a relaxing setting for learning, training and exchanging ideas.
104 High Street, Whitstable, CT5 1AZ, Tel: 01227 272042, www.playhousewhitstable.co.uk
Community theatre offering a wide range of entertainment - plays, pantomimes, music, comedy and active youth group.
iFun @ Sundancers, 136 - 145 Central Parade, Herne Bay, CT6 8SS, Tel: 01227 375098, Email, www.ifunatsandancers.co.uk
Herne Bay Mini Golf is an 18 hole course right on Herne Bay's seafront, just 3 minutes walk from the Pier. It is a great family activity and suitable for all ages and abilities.
Canterbury to Chartham, CT2 8BG, Tel: 01227 862190, Email, www.canterbury.gov.uk/leisure-countryside/things-to-do-in-the-district/walking-cycling-routes/great-stour-way/
Cycle Route: Canterbury to Chartham
A walking and cycling route that follows the River Great Stour. As well as providing a safe and traffic free path that is accessible for wheelchair users, it makes it easy to access the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Fleming Road, Staple, Canterbury, CT3 1LG, Tel: 07772 300 511, Email, www.barnsole.co.uk
A family run vineyard with its own winery. Visitors are most welcome and may have a free mini-tour to see how our vines are grown and wine produced. Tastings are free and our wines are available for direct sale.
Stodmarsh, Canterbury, CT3 4BP, Tel: 0300 0600 4763, www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designations/nnr/1005003.aspx
Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve is a unique and beautiful area of wetland, internationally recognised as an important home to a rich variety of wildlife, especially birds. Image Stodmarsh Reserve © Emma Griffiths, Natural England
Reculver, Herne Bay, CT6 6SU, Tel: 01227 862162, Email
Reculver's shingle beach is a haven for those looking for a peaceful hideaway in the rural setting of the Reculver Country Park, where people come to relax and admire the stunning Kent coastline. Seaside Award 2014.
Kings Bridge, St. Peters Street, Canterbury, CT1 2AT, Tel: 07790534744, Email, www.canterburyrivertours.co.uk
A wonderful way to capture the magic of the river is through our candlelit evening tours! These tours are provided solely for our group markets, usually with a minimum number of ten participants (subject to a minimum charge).
3 High Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2JH, Tel: 01227 781427, www.brunchcanterbury.com
Father and daughter run coffee bar. Hand blended teas, single origin coffee. Locally sourced ingredients. homemade soups and stews, all gluten and dairy free.


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Genealogy By Anne
Cash, Donald, Feazell, Gillespie, Hash, Mitchell, Wallace, Weinzettell Family History
William GILLESPIE, Amherst, Virginia, 1753-1794
Abt 1753
Birth of WILLIAM GILLESPIE, s/o GEORGE GILLESPIE and MARY MOORE in Albemarle, VA; date is estimated
abt 1777
William GILLESPIE, age 25, son of George GILLESPIE and Mary MOORE married Nancy Ann HUDSON, age unknown, d/o Joshua HUDSON and Mary TERRELL.
20 Apr 1781
Josiah and Rhoda Wood, Amherst County to William Gillespie, Amherst County for 30,000 pounds of tobacco, 305 acres. Lines: Samuel STAPLES, William LOVING. Witnesses: William POWELL, William WALTON, George GILLESPIE.
15 Nov 1783
William GILLESPIE, Amherst County sold to Peter Carter for 10,000 pounds of tobacco, a slave, Gloucester, about 19; Witnessed by : William WALTON, Sherod Moore GILLESPIE, Thomas WALTON
12 Oct 1784
William and Nancy Gillespie, Amherst County sold to William Loving for 140 pounds, 305 acres N branch Rucker's Run. Lines: John STAPLES, LOVING, old line. Bought by grantor of Josiah WOOD; Witnessed by : Peter CARTER, Henry PAYTON, and Charles STEWARD.
(I believe from what I have read that after this sale that William and Nancy moved to Madison Kentucky. William was delivering mail between Kentucky and Charlottesville so he is back in Amherst a bit. -- Bailey Fulton Davis)
28 Oct 1784
Joseph and Nelly EDWARDS, Amherst County sold to Phillip THURMOND, for 300 pounds, 331 acres on the north fork of the Horsley; Lines: Col. MILSTREAD and 450 acres on Horsley; Lines: Nicholas CABELL, Joseph MILSTREAD; Witnessed by No. PARKS, William GILLESPIE, William THURMOND, Sherod Moore GILLESPIE, Isaac WRIGHT, John POWELL
22 Oct 1794
William Gillespie was shot and killed in a duel in Paint Lick, Garrard, KY. He was 41 years old.
Joshua Hudson, father of Nancy Ann Hudson
WILLIAM PENN of Amherst County sold to JOSHUA HUDSON of St. Thomas Parish, Orange Co, for 100 pounds, 173 acres. Lines: GALBRIEL PENN, JOHN BANGER, top of Turkey Mt. Witnesses: GABRIEL PENN, RICHARD GATEWOOD, JOHN ROWSEY
In his book, Deeds of Amherst County, Bailey Fulton Davis makes this note along with this deed: JOSHUA HUDSON had a large family as shown by his will here. One daughter, NANCY ANN – called NANCY and ANN in various data – married here in 1777 WILLIAM GILLESPIE. They removed to Madison Co, KY, and GILLESPIE was killed there in a duel. They had a daughter, MARY ANN, who married HENDERSON THURMAN and my wife, MILDRED MILLER DAVIS, is a descendant of this couple. The HUDSON family is very large in present Amherst and one of the still owns land on Turkey Mt. I have located the site of the old home and graveyard. Joshua married MARY TERRELL, but we have no record save mention of her in will in Orange of RO. TERRELL who was her father. We have recently been able to trace the HUDSON family back to the Eastern shore via WESTMORELAND HUDSON who stemmed from the shore.

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8th October, 1925
(Due to arrive Melbourne-7.11.25)
My dear P.M.,
Nothing in this letter is of any immediate importance.
This country is in a most depressed state. The big industries are just carrying and no more. Tom Jones [1], who has a very wide circle of friends who feed him with information, admits that things are in a 'bad way' and that conditions are ripening for industrial trouble. He thinks that the opposition to Amery's [2] 25 year scheme in Iraq and Mosul is due to weariness on the part of the people and reaction against taking on what may well be further financial commitments miles away in the Middle East, while things are bad at home. [3]
This is apart altogether from the note of bitter personal animosity that some of the screaming daily press are showing against Amery. They probably, however, sense the temper of the country and give their comments this personal turn to add snap and point to them.
I hear that the French Government (Painleve) [4] is likely to fall, mainly owing to the failure of Caillaux's [5] financial eloquence in Washington. However, I am told that he is likely to be succeeded by Briand [6], which would suit this country very well. It must be the very devil to be a politician in France.
Mr. Amery's present intention is to visit Australia after Parliament rises in July 1926. He would go via either Canada or South Africa, staying a few weeks there on the way and returning by the other Dominion. His visit will probably coincide with that of the Empire Parliamentary Association although he would not be tied to their itinerary. If, of course, any suggestion for an Imperial Conference in 1926 materialises, this would stop his trip.
Mr. J.H. Thomas [7] also talks of a visit to Australia during 1926, which might or might not coincide with that of the E.P.A. In speaking to me about it, he expressed the desire not to embarrass Mr. Amery by being there at the same time as himself. I think, however, that he is probably thinking that the pond is not big enough for two big frogs.
The popular subject at present is the activity of the Communists, towards which the Government is showing a masterly inactivity. It is generally recognised in inspired quarters that Mr. Baldwin [8] has no 'drive' or initiative, and the apparently supine attitude of the Government is not a little influenced by his lack of leadership.
As some one in close touch with him said to me only today, he shows a remarkable power of resistance to any suggestions for definite action, which my informant explains as constitutional and not in the least the result of considered conservative conviction.
Lord Thomson [9], in commenting on the subject to Hankey [10], expressed the firm belief that the national necessity of coping with the Communists would bring Lloyd George [11] back to power, by virtue of some sort of fusion, as he thought he was the one man capable of dealing with the internal situation. Hankey does not subscribe to this view. Thomson, as you know, is an able freelance, an ex-regular Sapper, who took a Labour peerage. He is a great talker but has got a good deal of commonsense and shrewdness. He lives by writing and lecturing.
As a matter of interest, I hope to get from Sir Hugh Trenchard [12] before long his ideas (or those of his staff) as to how he would set about the defence of Australia, based primarily on an air force, if he were given complete freedom of action, keeping, of course, economy in mind. He will, of course, have to admit, possibly reluctantly, that a few ships are necessary, as an ancillary force, but I am interested to see how far he would go in accepting, even in this hypothetical case, the major responsibility for the air.
The separate air force controversy gives point to a new story circulating about 'Boom' Trenchard, and which he tells himself Lady Culme Seymour [13] (wife of the late Admiral) was sitting next to him at dinner and didn't really know who he was, and said to him: 'And where do you work, Sir Hugh; at the War Office, I expect?' to which he says he replied: 'Madam, I refuse to say; you ask Lord Beatty [14], he knows where I work!'
It is an amusing coincidence that Trenchard's wife and Sir Roger Keyes' [15] wife should be sisters. Keyes, when he was at the Admiralty, was the spear point of the naval argument against a separate air force.
Trenchard is the Air Ministry and, while he is there, no one gives a -decision on any matter of other than minor importance. He is a very strong, but far from silent man. He has a wonderful name for getting things done. As they say about him, his manner and bearing prompt people to get jobs for him done, not today but the day before yesterday.
One of his faults is that he is a bad talker and cannot spontaneously produce his arguments in a connected coherent form in conversation, or, for that matter, on paper.
I enclose Lord Cecil's [16] memorandum on his return from Geneva.
His instructions as to his attitude at the Assembly did not, I understand, leave much loophole for him to go beyond the views of H.M.G., as he is criticised for having done in the past.
The summaries of your early election speeches (Dandenong and elsewhere), as reported in Times and Telegraph, have been very favourably reviewed in London. Tom Jones has just been in to register very considerable enthusiasm. I have heard it said that your opposite number in this country would do well to be delivered of a series of speeches on just these lines.
With best wishes, I am, Yours sincerely, R. G. CASEY


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Jungfraubahn Holding AG
Jungfrau Railway Holding AG consists of eight subsidiaries and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The main activity of the Group is the operation of excursion railways and winter sport facilities in the Jungfrau region. The customer is offered an adventure in the mountains and on the train. The Jungfrau Railway Group has three defined business segments: Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe, Winter Sports and Mountain Experience. It has formed a strategic alliance with Berner Oberland-Bahnen AG in order to exploit synergies.
The Jungfrau Railway Group is a leading tourism company and the largest mountain railway company in Switzerland. It offers its customers an adventure in the mountains and on the train. The most important offer is the journey to the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe. Due to the long-term development of a distribution and agency network, it has achieved a leading position in the Asian markets. The Jungfrau Railway Group also operates its own hydroelectric plant, leases premises for restaurants to operate and sells complete holiday packages on its website in cooperation with partner companies.
Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe
The Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe is the most profitable segment of the Group. The core of this business is the highest railway station in Europe at 3,454 metres above sea level, situated within the UNESCO World Heritage Site SWISS ALPS Jungfrau-Aletsch. The journey on the Wengernalp Railway and the Jungfrau Railway to the Jungfraujoch is also the strategic "heart" of the company. The previous record number of visitors was achieved in the 100th anniversary year (2012). During the 100-year anniversary, 833,000 guests visited the Jungfraujoch. For the second time in a row, over 800,000 visitors travelled to the Top of Europe; 823,000 persons to be precise.
Winter Sports and Mountain Experience
The business segments of Winter Sports and Mountain Experience are important additions to the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe. The winter sport facilities in the areas Kleine Scheidegg-Männlichen, Grindelwald-First and Mürren-Schilthorn are part of the Jungfrau Ski Region subscriber association, in which Jungfraubahn Holding AG holds a share of over 60%. Together with the partner companies, the Jungfrau Railway Group leads one of the most important ski resorts in Switzerland on behalf of the association.
The Mountain Experience business segment includes destinations in the surrounding area of the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe. Grindelwald-First, Harder Kulm and Winteregg-Mürren enhance the regional experience and allow for interesting combinations such as holiday passes or cross marketing.
Strategy, objective and new projects
The value of the Jungfrau Railway Group as a value stock should continuously increase for investors. The objective is to strengthen the Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe as the main source of revenue. By means of continuous modernisation of the railways, the shortened travel times demanded by the market should be realised. Internal growth is sought via better utilisation of the off-season. The Jungfraubahn Holding AG, within the alliance with Berner Oberland-Bahnen AG, thereby supports the "10-month high season" initiative. The principle is intended to initiate positive developments through visionary approaches and visitor-oriented project work. Jungfrau Railways and the Grindelwald-Männlichen Cable Railway plan to jointly develop a V-Cableway that provides access to both the Männlichen and the Eigergletscher. As a result, the travel times can be shortened and the quality can be improved. As part of the WAB Plus project, the double-track island Wengen Allmend was expanded and six new panorama trains were purchased. The trains will be delivered in 2015 and then used in double traction on the WAB route Lauterbrunnen – Kleine Scheidegg.


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Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 10:00
There is some vacant land I've had my eye on for years. It's owned by a company, not individual(s). I've heard rumors all summer that the company is in trouble and their out of state bank is going to be 'taking over' the land. Normally I'd take info like that with a grain of salt, but one source it came from is fairly reliable (a contractor who has done work for the company.) Tax records still show the company owns it, but I'm presuming that until a foreclosure or some final deed change is done, tax records will continue to reflect the current company as owning the property. Is there a way to find out about this possible bank takeover or foreclosure, any reliable web sites or places to do research? I realize it's tricky because if it's indeed true, it either hasn't happened yet or is in the works.
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Until the foreclosure process is started by the lender th4ere are often no public records. |
If you are interested in the property, contact the company that owns it...they may want to sell it (at a good price) before it goes to foreclosure. ML |
- Posted by moonshadow (My Page) on Fri, Sep 16, 11 at 11:16
Kind of what I suspected brickeyee. maddielee, I did approach them a few years ago, before any of the recent rumors. They were so out of touch it was nuts, asking triple the value of nearby land that is occupied and/or in use (as in a home, gas, water, electric, tillable acreage, etc.) Even their rep admitted it was high in comparison, but he had no control over what company honchos wanted for it. |
It remains a private matter until a lis pendans (at least) is recorded, or the actual filing to foreclose in most places. |
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1971-1978 Clad Eisenhower Dollars $100 Face-Value Bags XF-AU
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1971-1978 Mixed Dates & Mint Marks! 100-coin mini bags! These coins contain no Silver.
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Product ID: | 9599 |
Year: | 1971 |
Grade: | Extra Fine/Almost Uncirculated |
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Denomination: | $1 |
Mint Mark: | Varies |
Metal Content: | 0 troy oz |
Purity: | N/A |
Manufacturer: | U.S. Mint |
Thickness: | 3.1 mm |
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Outstanding shipping overall better than advertised some BU However a few had black spots, one had been marked up, one copper corrosion. Mainly AU; 63 bicentennial mainly type II with three mint marks and a few Type I. There were also 72, 72D, 74, 74D, 77D and 78.
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The is the old "sack of money". To be honest they are in pretty poor condition so they are not worth the 149 cost. That being said, one can only assume these will appreciate over time. I took the time to clean them and having a bag of 100 dollar coins is quite satisfying. I don't really know how to explain why its so satisfying but it just is. I know they are only worth 100 but as there are so many and they are so heavy it really gives you a feeling of "wealth". Just as a caution they are VERY heavy. If you keep them in any type of portable safe your arm is going to get a good work out.
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I am already spayed and up to date with shots.
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- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Vero Beach already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
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Listed below are some of the wonderful things our guests have said about Stone Manor. If you would like to add your own testimonial, you can do so using the submission form below!
Beth and Spencer,
We're finally settling down from all the wedding chaos… just in time for the holidays, right! We wanted you both to know how much we truly appreciated all that you did for us for the wedding weekend. The B&B was beautiful and you both were so hospitable. Our families were completely taken with the place and it made things so enjoyable for Ben and me. Beth, you really put me at ease even when things got stressful on Saturday (I'm sure you could see how worked up I got). If you weren't there to help out I don't think I would've recovered and been able to enjoy myself. Looking back on everything, it really was one of the best weekends of my life – although I didn't necessarily realize it at the time. We had so many people tell us that it was the best wedding they've ever been to and I think they really meant it. Thank you so much for making that possible.
Much love and many thanks,
Kristin and Ben
Dear Beth & Spencer,
Thank you SO MUCH for taking such great care of me & Jackie during our DC to PA bike ride. Of course, The Stone Manor was our favorite overnight stop, and we've been telling everyone how great you two are! I hope to come out for a longer, more relaxed stay with my husband next time!
Hope to see you again soon!
Pam Semanick & Jackie Perchinske
Dear Beth & Spencer,
Bill and I wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed staying at your home while on vacation. You have a lovely home, and you were perfect hosts. Your home is beautiful and so are the both of you. We couldn't ave had a more special welcome from the both of you. We don't know if our lives will ever cross again, but we will never forget you.
Pat & Bill
Dear Beth & Specer,
We wanted to let you know how much we appreciated your gracious hospitality. We especially enjoyed the wonderful goodies at breakfast and the chance to sit around the table a bit before setting off to busy days.
The rooms and the whole property are just beautiful.
Thanks so much,
Merry Ellen & Lou Theodore
Dear Beth & Spencer,
Almost two months have passed since my girlfriend, Pam and I stayed with you, but we still think of your kindness. We often recall your gracious and sincere hospitality. We thank you for making our short get-away a special and memorable retreat. Both of you treated us as very important guests, yet we felt as if we were staying with our new-found family.
I believe you guided Pam in after a long drive, mellowed her with merlot, pampered her with pasta and comforted her with your company. Thankfully, you both insisted on picking me and my bicycle up at the train station so that I could join the memory. Truly, we are thankful.
John & Pam, Philadelphia
Dear Beth and Spencer,
Thank you for allowing us to have our wedding and reception at Stone Manor! You were both wonderful to work with and were so accommodating and we are truly grateful. Stone Manor is an amazing place. I can't wait for our pictures to be done so I can send you a few. Thanks again!
Best wishes,
Jason & Rebecca
Dear Beth & Spencer,
Only by the grace of God could we have been guided to Stone Manor. The pictures – though beautiful – can not possibly do this Virginia Manor house and gardens justice. I still dream of the food! You were right about the food coma from that five course breakfast! Karen said to thank you for the bath salts you designed for her. They completely healed her psoriasis and made her skin feel wonderful! You were right about the dead sea salt and magnesium sulfate mixture!
Thank you for teaching us about Sustainable Agriculture and companion planting. Thank you for showing us that simple animals like chickens can cuddle and give love. I never even imagined chickens who answer to their names and run into your laps for cuddling! The night we spent strolling through your gardens, eating dinner in the twilight in the terraced rock gardens and watching the stars come out (while cuddling a chicken!) was truly a life experience for this city boy.
Next time we come, Karen wants to try the Manor Suite! She loved the Turret Suite with the ten-spray shower for two but has been dreaming about that sumptuous hand-carved canopy bed!
Karen & Rick, NYC


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Reagan of Dallas, writes:
We recently bought a queen Sealy Posterpedic Ultra Plush Signature mattress set (with 5" low profile base). Model 505002 English Arbour. While it seemed to be soft when tested,we both have found it feels hard when trying to sleep. We both have back problems,sleep mostly on our sides, and some on our backs.
We feel like the mattress is not as soft as Ultra Plush should be. We should be able go to sleep, and stay asleep, without discomfort.
We previously had a Simmons Beauty Rest Pillow Top Plush "Ida Lee", which we never liked. The pillow top became wavy, and the hard edge made getting off and on the mattress uncomfortable. It was also difficult to move around in.
We are considering replacing the Posterpedic with a Spring Free latex ultra plush instead.
Is latex more softer that inner spring?
What would you advise?
Hi Reagan. That latex model is softer. The support, itself, is more conforming than the innerspring.
But before you do, spend a little more time on your Posturepedic. You must have just gotten it. Coming off a Beautyrest, it may take a couple of weeks for your body to re-align. You may find that what you have is perfectly comfortable once your body gets use to it.


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NASA Tries to Loosen Up
NASA does make large efforts to shift the creative engineering of space hardware to industrya very different, hands-off approach. "Were really letting industry, to a large extent, define the content of their proposals," McAlister says. The contract paints a big picture of what it wants, and allows the companies to set their own map of how to get there. "In this case we said, Hey, you only have to have four milestones that we are requiring. And any other milestones that you want, you propose them."
There are other major hat-tips to private space. One is waiving some of the paperwork required, like the reams of certified pricing data that state exactly how much everything will cost. Instead, the CCIDC asks for realistic estimates that do not have to be vetted by certified accountants. For a Boeing or Lockheed Martin, which have large staffs of accountants, this paperwork is a standard headache. For small firms, that kind of requirement would have driven up costs and created unwanted bureaucracy. In another big step for NASA, McAlister says, gone are the days of they agency verifying 10,000 individual requirements for the space shuttle. For commercial crew, the requirements will be more on the order of 600 or so. "Theyve done their best to make the requirements for the contractor as streamlined as possible," Boeings Reiley says.
NASA also redefined the clause for intellectual property so that the contractors can retain the rights the maximum amount of it. "Since theyre going to own these systems and sell them commercially, thats pretty much something that industry said was a must-have for them," McAlister says.
But though NASA appears to be streamlining its oversight, industry players still worry that NASAs verification process will slow the pace of development. "We dont have an issue going through that process, as long as its timely. Thats always the issue working with a large, technical oversight organization," Reiley says. "Thats what weve been stressing. When NASA has to make a decision, we want to time-limit that so it doesnt drag out."
Sierra Nevada also asked for guarantees for speedy choices from NASA. "When they have to make decisions critical to the timeline, we want a clear path so it doesnt linger for months," Sirangelo says. (The secretive start-up space company Blue Origin, true to form, did not respond to questions for this article.)
Theres already been one collateral casualty. NASAs CCIDC timeline places craft on launch pads in 2017, three years longer than some private space companies internal estimates. The delay prompted Bigelow Aerospace to lay off 40 of its staff of 90 last month. That company wasnt in the running for CCIDC, but it was depending on that hardware to ferry people to the space hotels it is designing. Bigelow hoped the taxis to their space station would be ready by 2015. Now that the spacecraft are on track for 2016, the company is slowing down its plans.
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The contract includes the never-before-seen addition of full-time NASA employees to the operations of private space companies. The Government Insight/Oversight clause requires the private companies to accommodate as many as 20 full- or part-time NASA employees called Partner Integration Teams assigned to each space company. "The contractor shall provide office space and services, including security badges, furniture, telephones, and use of easily accessible fax and copy machines, for full-time and temporary government insight and support services contractor personnel," the contract says.
"Those 20 or so people, they are just there to gain insight," says McAlister. "They dont tell the contractor what to do, but they allow NASA to understand the true nature of the system better than we would otherwise have."
Sirangelo says these PIT members are welcome, as long as the number remains limited and the team members remain the same. "The concept works," he says, citing earlier NASA involvement in the Dream Chaser program. "We did ask for an assigned team to be limited. And we dont have time to go back an educate a new person each week."
But these are federal employees that can tell the company what to do and back it up with force. Federal contracts have Contracting Officers that serve as the main point of contact and representative to whatever agency is footing the bill. The CCIDCs Contracting Officer wields a lot of powerhe or she receives reports of accidents and mishaps, and could even carry the power to shut down a program if a company doesnt follow a "corrective action." (McAlister points out that the Contracting Officer is not the final authority on what flies; that figure is just the appendage of the NASA co-chaired supervisory board.)
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There is another bit of the contract inspiring grumbling: a so-called "buy American" clause that does not allow space industry to purchase parts from overseas, unless there is no domestic vendor. That increases the likelihood that parts will cost more. Besides, Sirangelo says, NASA astronauts fly in a foreign spacecraft that has not been rated for human spaceflight by NASAthe Russian Soyuz. "Why is it that we cant have foreign components when we rent an entire system from the Russians?" he says.
That opens up another thorny question: The Soyuz contract runs out in 2016, about the same time as the U.S. private space companies will be fighting for the ISS delivery contract. Will the Soyuz be held to the same standards, as a fellow competitor? "Why should we spend our money to meet NASA requirements when the Soyuz does not?, " Sirangelo says. "It ought to be a level playing field."
He also notes that NASA has not yet issued a service contract that would state that these vehicles would have the job or resupplying ISS, or set a date on when one will be released. "If theres no service contract at the end of the day, well have a shiny vehicle that has no where to go," Sirangelo says. "Then what is it that we just worked on?"
Industry responses are coming in now, and the final version of NASAs contract will probably come out in December, McAlister says. Until then, keep watching the skiesbut more importantly, keep watching the paperwork.


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that is a nice find a am a freak about varigation..any and everything varigated I like to have. although most things will revert back to normal if there strong genes they will hold it with a little help. my basjoo went back to normal so im still trying to find another one of those varigated. real nice find on that, what greenhouse is still open down that way. frankfort is about as far as I venture south for greenhouses around here |
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yea, mike i just mash em with my fingers or a thin stick if i cant reach em. I had never really had trouble with mites until this time last year, a new freind had givin me my first infestation of them, he lives near... also mike i have some gingers, if ur still interested in the spring ill make sure to have some extra for ya :D |
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yeah id be happy to make a trade with you for some ginger since I know your looking for some other aroids. I used a iso alocohol and water mix to blast the mites. worked VERY well but its hard on the plants. burns the leaves and acually killed my Bordelion banana..went almost 2 months no mites and BOOM there back even worse. I LOVE variegation. your right about the mutation but once there gone its hard to get it back. best thing I can tell you is to ammend the soil and try to keep the PH around 6 if you can. it really brings out the whites in the leaves and helps them hold the variegation better. once you get up to a PH of 7 or more they start to lose it and its not nearly as prononced. |
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An American Romantic
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
At the time of his death in 1978 at the age of eighty-four, Norman Percevel Rockwell (who had always hated his fancy, "almost effeminate" middle name) was one of the most popular artists in America and one of the most maligned. Despite the championing, late in his career, of, among others, John Updike and Andy Warhol (who, not surprisingly, bought Rockwell's portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy), and a retrospective exhibition that traveled to seven US museums including the Guggenheim between 1999 and 2002, the suspicion has lingered—and Rockwell himself was not immune to it—that perhaps he shouldn't have been considered an artist at all, as opposed to an illustrator (as he called himself in his charming memoirs) or, worse, a hack purveyor of kitsch, churning out his annual calendar design for the Boy Scouts or, for Hallmark, a Christmas card of Santa asleep on the job.
Did Rockwell's principal artistic achievement, his 323 designs for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post from 1916 to 1963, really amount to a body of work comparable in any significant way to Edward Hopper's, say, or Jackson Pollock's? Or was he merely an ingratiating epigone to the Golden Age of Illustration, rounding off, during an era of photography, the waning narrative tradition of his idol, the Quaker depicter of pirates Howard Pyle, and Rockwell's immediate predecessor at the Post, the now forgotten Joseph Leyendecker, creator of the Arrow Collar Man? Rockwell had nothing against modern art and considered Picasso "the greatest of them all." He gamely, if one suspects not very seriously, tried his hand at Fauvism and abstraction, only to be reminded by his editors of his true audience.
To complicate matters, it isn't entirely clear what Rockwell's body of work consists of. Was it the published covers themselves, the designs often straying outside the frame and artfully incorporating the name of the magazine? Or was it the painstakingly executed oil paintings on which the covers were based, carefully framed like Dutch Masters, darkened with seemingly antique layers of varnish, and delivered by hand to the offices of the Curtis publishing firm in Philadelphia, only to be given away afterward or put aside as of no value? "I got paid for it once," he told a dealer, in 1968, who had offered $2,500 for a painting already "bought" for a cover design by the Post. "I don't need to be paid again." Three such paintings will be auctioned off at Sotheby's in December and—such are the changing fortunes of Rockwell's reputation—one of them, Saying Grace, is expected to fetch upward of $15 million.
Like the work of other artists once dismissed as producers of nostalgic Americana—"big paydays for small-town mush," in the caustic phrase of Benjamin DeMott, who also mentioned Frank Capra and Thornton Wilder—Rockwell's paintings have become more interesting over time. The old battles over what should be excluded from the "canon" have waned, while Rockwell's narrow world of mainly white, WASP, small-town New Englanders, reinforcing the ethos and readership of the Post, can now be seen as an invented construct comparable to Georgia O'Keeffe's lapidary West. Peter Schjeldahl, enthusiastically reviewing a traveling exhibition of Rockwell's work in 1973 for The New York Times, noted the convergence between Rockwell's photography-based work and the Photo-Realists, "the most radical wing of current American painting," and concluded, "the gap between Rockwell and modernism is just a gap, not a battle line."
As their topical subjects recede—the GIs returning home and the girls in curlers preparing for the prom—we are free to register how Rockwell incorporated abstraction into his designs, as the art critic Deborah Solomon notes in her sympathetic and probing new biography, as well as autobiographical allusions. "The thrill of his work," she contends, "is that he was able to use a commercial form to thrash out his private obsessions, to turn a formula into an expressive personal genre." The carefully contrived clutter of Rockwell's interiors—sometimes clues to a narrative though not, apparently, always so—can recall the boxes of Joseph Cornell, about whom Solomon wrote an excellent biography, or the crowded staged interiors of the photographer Jeff Wall.
In a painting like the enigmatic Shuffleton's Barbershop of 1950 (a poster of which hung in Updike's bathroom), the array of disparate objects, including a gun and a black cat, seems like a rebus with an elusive key (see illustration below). We view the barbershop interior, vacant except for the cat (the real-life Shuffleton said he didn't have one) that directs our stare through the plate-glass window with paint peeling on the wooden frame and through an illuminated door. There, in a distant interior room, we can make out three men playing, in turn, a cello, a violin, and a clarinet—by no means a typical barbershop quartet, the subject of a previous Rockwell painting.
The mysterious aura of the picture, with its central, illuminated void that is a feature of many of Rockwell's strongest paintings, can't be dispelled by the identification of the barbershop—Solomon is always alert to possible homoerotic themes in Rockwell's work—as "a site of licensed physical contact between men, a place where men touch other men." The mood is more like Willa Cather's masterly and similarly enigmatic story "Two Friends," from Obscure Destinies (1932), in which the young narrator overhears two bighearted businessmen talking in an interior office at night, the words inaudible but the tone of the words suggesting the richness and mystery of life itself.
Once Rockwell discovered his vocation, he seems to have had neither time nor energy for much else, besides an occasional trip to California or Paris. He did not, as Solomon observes, have a Norman Rockwell childhood. His father was a struggling salesman in New York City. His Anglophile mother (responsible for "Percevel") was a hypochondriac. Rockwell grew up in boardinghouses around Manhattan, with the family sharing meals with other residents. Despite the ubiquitous fishing poles and helter-skelter exploits of the hyperactive boys in his paintings, Rockwell was a shy and spindly indoor kid who, by his own admission, "didn't know a red maple from a brown bear." Probably dyslexic, he could do nothing well in school—Solomon calls his transcript "an alarming document"—except for his drawing.
Rockwell dropped out of high school to study illustration in New York, winning a prize at the Art Students League in 1912 for a Rembrandt-inspired illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's pastoral poem "The Deserted Village." He had his big break in 1916, when he had two paintings accepted by the Post, the weekly magazine with the largest circulation in the country. In his first cover, Rockwell's mastery and strangeness are already in full play. Boy with Baby Carriage is composed as a tricolor vignette, its tightly executed subject vanishing in freely painted brushstrokes around the white periphery. The outsize carriage, with the baby's presence suggested only by a bit of bonnet and a jutting orange shoe, looms diagonally in the center of the painting, a black void like a hole in the canvas. The boy pushing the carriage wears, incongruously, a pinstripe suit, leather gloves, a bowler hat tethered like a child's mittens to one lapel and a carnation in the other. Instead of a handkerchief, he sports a baby bottle in his breast pocket—"an oversize female-looking nipple," Solomon suggests. Two other boys (the same model posed for all three) in baseball uniforms taunt the babysitter.
It is tempting to interpret such a picture as representing Rockwell's private fears as an effeminate boy, "his overall exclusion," as Solomon puts it, "from the realm of male athleticism" during the strenuous era of Teddy Roosevelt. In fact, there's nothing effeminate about the demeanor of the reluctant babysitter, who seems about to take a swing at the bullies, one of whom tips his hat derisively. If "Rockwell's genius was cinematic rather than graphic," as Henry Zerner and Charles Rosen suggested at the time of the traveling retrospective, that genius is already on display in this kinetic painting, published a year after Chaplin's bowler-hatted The Tramp was released. Rockwell had a lively interest in the movies; his cover design of Gary Cooper as The Texan (1930) shows a grizzled makeup artist, cigar between his lips, applying lipstick to the star's patiently proffered lips. "Cooper, the quintessential cowboy, is exposed as a guy who wears lipstick and whose virility is literally a put-on," says Solomon.
It seems to have dawned on Rockwell, flush with his success at the Post, that a wife might be useful for the advancement of his career. Having shown little previous interest in women, he abruptly proposed to a third-grade teacher living in his boardinghouse named Irene O'Connor. One week after the wedding, the bride moved in with her parents for two months. The hastily arranged marriage lasted, improbably, for thirteen years, with Rockwell holed up in his studio for most of the day and evening, sharing company, when he wanted it, with his boy models and his fellow illustrators, until Irene, in 1929, had had enough.
Rockwell married again, a year later, when, on a trip to California, he met an aspiring young writer named Mary Barstow, educated at Stanford. They had three sons, who often, growing up, modeled for their father. When a profile of Rockwell appeared in The New Yorker, in 1945, the children learned, for the first time, of their father's previous marriage. Midcentury American fathers could be notoriously distant from their children, but Rockwell, "an ineffectual and distracted father," according to Solomon, seems to have been conspicuously absent, physically and emotionally. "There was a hollowness where the family was supposed to be," his son Jarvis, also an artist, recalled.
In his monograph on Rockwell, subtitled "The Underside of Innocence" (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Richard Halpern quotes Rockwell's artless account of recruiting models. "For days I'd hang around the grade schools at recess," he wrote, "peer over fences into back yards, haunt the vacant lots, and stop little boys on the street, turning them around and sideways to see if they were the type I wanted." ↩


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I just bought a house that has what appear to be fairly new steel exterior doors. The one door off the back deck gets a lot of sun exposure and the paint is essentially leaping off of the door. I mean cracks everywhere and then large patches flaking off to expose the naked metal underneath. Although it's great fun to pop off big flakes of paint with the flick of a fingernail, I think I really need to address the problem. Is sanding even an option at this point or do I just need to get it chemically dunked somewhere? Or do I forget about it and look the other way until I can wall it off and build french doors where I'd rather have doors? |
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You can get a new standard size steel entry door for about 120 bucks so chemical stripping is probably not worth it if you can get a new door for about the same cost. Is the paint really flaking down to bare metal or just to the factory primer? If you can actually see bare metal, then that means the primer has failed which I don't think I have ever seen. Usually 2 coats of a quality exterior acrylic satin and those doors can take quite a beating from the sun for years. |
- Posted by artamnesia (My Page) on Thu, Jul 5, 07 at 11:01
It's actually flaking off to expose bare metal. Is it possible that the door was never even painted and that it's just the original primer giving up the ghost? It's pretty spectacular. |
I don't really know....I've seen plenty of people leave those doors for a very long time without painting them and they don't peel like that. They start to rust first after the sun chews through the primer but I've never seen them peel. I suppose if somebody threw some cheap interior flat paint on a door like that it could peel pretty quick in big flakes. |
Hi "Art", Can you tell if the paint was brushed on; as opposed to, say, a sprayed coat/or 2??. Also...Is the back side of the chips the same look/finish as the outer skin?? Let us know! |
- Posted by artamnesia (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 07 at 15:11
Hi faron, The paint appears to have been sprayed. It's smooth where it's intact. The flakes look the same on the front and back. These pictures might help:
Haha that is funny looking. It looks like it would not be that hard to get the rest of the paint off though then use an appropriate primer designed for metal followed by an acrylic topcoat. |
Looks like they were never primed. I have a steel door for 20 years now that the sun beats on for a few hours every morning and it's just like new, not a crack or peel on it. If the paint on the door is coming off so easily do you think you could remove what is left with a pressure washer? It would be cheaper than professional stripping or replacing. |
Hey "Art", Get out your 150-220-grit sanding material, and do thorough job. * Remove ALL dust, wipe with some paint-thinner. * Buy the BEST LATEX Exterior primer you can find, and apply it with the best brush you can find. If either is less than $10 (per Qt. for paint), throw-'em away. * You could use a good FOAM-roller, then "tip-off" an area with your good brush. * Apply TWO coats of the best LATEX Exterior paint you can buy. Rust-oleum makes some good door paints. Or, any brands TOP-GRADE paint in a Satin, S/Gloss, or Gloss. Faron |
- Posted by artamnesia (My Page) on Wed, Jul 11, 07 at 1:04
Thanks for the great tips. I'll let you know how it turns out. I really hope the identical front and side doors aren't next... |
- Posted by andrelaplume2 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 1, 08 at 10:37
I hate to 'steel' the post so to speak but I have a similar issue with my 20 year old Bilko doors. A top layer of grey pain is starting to come off---it peeling and I see red underneath...perhaps primer...? Do I just sand and re-paint? Won't that leave unlevel spots whe the layer of pain had chipped or peeled? Should I try to strip it? If so should I use a chemical or one of those 3m Large Area paint and rust removers that attached to your drill? Do reprime or just paint with rustoleum? |
We have the same problem with flaky paint. We sanded the doors as much as possible. But it still wasn't smooth. DH primed & painted anyway. It looks better than it did but not great. What can we do to make it better? Mrs. C |
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My life was saved by rock and roll
October 27th, 2013Farewell Lou Reed. The music you made changed my life maybe more than any other. Thank you for everything.
Here is my Lou Reed story.
I met him once. I was probably 22 years old. He played at a little theatre in my other old hometown, Boulder. Tickets were like $80 which I thought was just too much at the time. Then I later regretted not buying them, worked every angle to get in to the show, an finally succumbed to sitting outside on the stoop and listening to a muffled Lou Reed. It was better than nothing. He was my hero.
Somebody came outside and asked what the hell I was doing there. I told her Lou Reed was probably the only guy who I would sit outside to listen to, or risk never getting any closer. She told me that her friend never showed up and that I could have her ticket. Serendipitously, I was in. I eventually snuck down the very front. And it was like a dream. Old songs I knew by heart, and new ones that I instantly wanted to know by heart.
It was an electric show, the pulse of the room was high, every note was on, every inflection soulful. I was so close that I studied the furrow of his brow, the confidence, slowness, intention in every strum, even the sparkle on his guitar. It was standing in front of a god, a rock-and-roll god. Nearing the end of the show, they played an appropriately long Candy Says. We hung on together as an audience so tightly as it came to an end. The ensemble collected up front to bow again, then went back to their instruments and ended with Perfect Day, what seemed the perfect ending to the show.
Then the house lights went up and most of the audience got up to leave, with a sizable minority of us continuing to vociferously and relentlessly demand another encore. In all the 100s of shows I have seen, I had never seen this before, an audience so moved, they refused to leave, 2 minutes because 5 minutes, 5 became 10 and eventually we saw the band peeking around the back stage door, probably thinking, "I guess we gotta go play another."
To the utter dismay of those still present, the band emerged to a half empty house, and struck the beginning chords of what may be the best song written in the 1960's, Heroin, As honest and affecting as they get. There I stood in the front row at the intimate Boulder Theater watching the one and only Lou Reed play such an amazing testament to bittersweet modern junkie life. It seemed a spontaneous parting gift to an adoring crowd
With a vague feeling of possibility, I hung around afterwards, hoping to shake his hand and ask him to sign my Velvet Underground & Nico and Loaded LPs. A small group of us (Thomas Peters) had gathered under a parking structure across from the back door as roadies dispassionately packed the gear up a ramp into a truck. A light sprinkle gave an appropriate urban feel to the streets of Boulder, as we waited back there to see our underground idol. Finally a roadie announced after about an hour that Lou had left the building. He had slipped out the front in a van sent by the historic Hotel Boulderado.
A couple of us ran down to the beautiful old Hotel which wasn't far away. We walked up through the main doors and into the giant vaulted and stainglassed lobby not knowing exactly what we were planning to do. And HOLY SHIT there he was, at the desk, signing in. We were so giddy we didn't even know what to do. The hotel manager took one look at us sneaking up on Lou and shouted, "Mr. Reed will be having no guests tonight!" Not wanting to show any disrespect to our hero, we slowly backed out of the hotel with our tails between our legs and stood out on the sidewalk wondering what to do.
Just then his big jovial bass player came outside to us and asked us what we wanted with Lou. I said that we just wanted to meet him, shake his hand, thank him for all the amazing music, and maybe get him to sign these records I had brought with me. The bass player grinned and said Lou would meet us, not to worry, and to come with him. YEAH!
So we follow him into the hotel and the manager raised his hand again at us and the bass player instantly pacified him with one big calm-down smile and wave and then he said to Lou, "C'mon Lou, these are your fans! You gotta come and meet them…" Lou, still checking in, just looked back over his shoulder and sunk his shoulders and rolled his eyes looking very put-off by his band mate. Just then, in the gorgeous lobby of this fine and very posh hotel, this cute little blonde who was with us, lifts up her shirt, bearing all, and screams, "C'mon Lou! SIGN MY TITS!!!"
Lou couldn't help but put a shit-eating grin on his face and walked over towards us with it, right up to the bare breasted blonde, motioning his hand for somebody to put a sharpie into soon. So he signed her tits, he signed my records, had a little chat with all of us. Tom told him they shared a birthday. Then he gets over to my friend Libby who is a total bombshell tough girl with the most piercing aquamarine colored eyes. She was just playing it cool, and he took one look into those eyes and says, "who are you going home with tonight?" She replied with a cool girl grin "You Lou, I'm going home with you…" Her fucking idiot boyfriend says "No your not" makes a little scene and she's just like "next time, Lou, next time" and he smiles and walked off saying goodnight to all of us.


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NBC's new drama "Crisis" debuts Sunday night. Mark Barger has an early look.
Around 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States and more than 10,000 are taken to the emergency room for food-choking-related injuries. Danger seems to be all around us, but you can use technology to be prepared and prevent a crisis. We have four technologies to make you more safety-savvy.


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Four Good Summer Reads. . .
By now, I'm sure most of you have read your July/August 2011 issue cover-to-cover and packed with helpful articles and ideas to implement in your business.
Are you a maker of natural products? The term, "natural" is extremely popular right now, embodying products full of synthetic ingredients to those made with entirely earth-based ingredients. With the marketplace saturated with natural, how can you promote yours? Erica Pence details the difficulty of defining natural in her article, Promoting Your Natural Products," as well as properly labeling your product so that it will stand out. You will gain confidence in marketing once you understand the ins and outs.
Interested in perfumery? Read, Perfume Oil Blending 101 – The Fragrant Body, by Sherri Reehil-Welser, to learn fragrance notes, blending mediums, and even a blend recipe for a "Daily Devotional" blend. Go ahead, try it.
If you have thus far resisted the temptation to make candles, beware that reading Erica Pence's, Marbling: Torching, Hammering, and Painting Your Candles, may just change your mind! She explains the various techniques in detail, so if you've been thinking that your candles are a bit on the boring side, you can remedy things.
Are your marketing strategies less effective than you would like them to be? Perhaps you're struggling with determining the best way to turn interest into dollars. Tamara Dourney explains the kind of demand that customers display will decide the type of marketing you choose in order to convert more "maybe" into "yes."
Have you thought about or implemented any of the business actions outlined in this issue? Have you made the booth bunting? What do you think?
If you're participating in or gearing up for fall craft shows, and want to set your booth apart from the competition, you'll need something unique. To the rescue comes Rachel Wolf with Creating Your Own Booth Bunting. With just a little time, a bit of fabric, and a dose of creativity, you too, will create a bunting worthy of your product line.


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Hedge Fund Manager Will Get Chance to Fulfill Dream of Spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Badly
By Jon ShazarWhen Chris Hansen wanted to found a hedge fund, he did it in San Francisco; his hometown, Seattle, apparently lacked the caché.
But Hansen hasn't forgotten where he comes from. And he still bleeds green and gold, even five years after the SuperSonics played their last game in the KeyArena.
Crucially, however, and crucially unlike any fans of, say, a former Los Angeles football team, the New Jersey Nets, Atlanta Thrashers, Montréal Expos, Vancouver Grizzlies, Hartford Whalers and Québec Nordiques, Hansen has both the wherewithal to buy Seattle a new basketball team and build it a new arena, an available badly-run franchise on the block, and the ability to overlook the fact that he's doing the same thing to Sacramento that Oklahoma City did to Seattle in 2008. Or, for that matter, what Sacramento did to Kansas City in 1985. Read more »
…despite a cold, relentless November rain Wednesday night, several hundred people marched to the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle, where Dimon was a keynote speaker at an awards ceremony for the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. Sixth Avenue in front of the hotel was closed to traffic for less than an hour as protesters tried to block hotel entrances by locking arms. Police used pepper spray to clear a side entrance near the corner of Pike Street and Seventh Avenue so hotel patrons could enter or leave. The protest began at 6 p.m. and lasted 3 ½ hours. They stood outside and chanted slogans, while people inside sipped cocktails and looked down from a reception area with curiosity. The number of protesters dwindled after about an hour because of rain, but more than 100 stayed on to stake out the hotel. They left at 9:30 p.m. after learning that Dimon had reportedly left about 9 p.m. [Seattle Times]


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Best of the Rest
Brown Deer Golf Club (browndeergolfclub.org), the county course that hosts the U.S. Bank Championship, may be best known as the venue where Tiger Woods made his professional debut. Opened in 1929, it's an old-fashioned parkland design with tree-lined fairways and thick rough. Twenty miles north is The Bog (golfthebog.com), an Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay design that weaves through wetlands and has lightning-fast greens. The massively bunkered and mounded Irish Course at Whistling Straits (destinationkohler.com) rounds out an unbeatable foursome at Kohler. Should your travels take you to the northern half of the state, SentryWorld (sentryworld.com) in Stevens Point, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. for the Sentry Insurance Company, is a must-play. Its par-three sixteenth "flower hole" is festooned with sixty thousand blooming plants. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry's Wild Rock Golf Club (golfwildernesswoods.com) opened in May in Wisconsin Dells, the water-park mecca, and is expected to garner much acclaim.
Where to Stay
The American Club Once a dormitory for immigrant Kohler employees, the American Club combines old-world charm with contemporary luxury, including the company's signature whirlpool baths. The hotel sits in the heart of the quaint village of Kohler, just up the road from Blackwolf Run and fifteen minutes from Whistling Straits. The amenities include the Kohler Waters Spa and a five-hundred-acre preserve, not to mention the Kohler Design Center, a showcase of bathroom fixtures and model kitchens.
419 Highland Drive, Kohler. Rooms: $300. Contact: 920-457-8000, destinationkohler.com.
Angel Inn Bed & Breakfast Proprietors Dave and Kathy Greening bought this Greek Revival mansion on Green Lake a decade ago and converted it into a B&B. The ornate pillars and plasterwork on the first floor are original, dating to 1910. Each room has a whirlpool and fireplace, and those on the south side offer great views of the lake. The inn is ideal for small groups of golfers in town to play the Lawsonia courses.
372 South Lawson Drive, Green Lake. Rooms: $145–$195. Contact: 920-294-3087, angelinns.com.
Delafield Hotel If you choose not to stay at Erin Hills (see page 112), this two-year-old boutique hotel, a meticulously converted brick warehouse a half-hour south of the course, is an excellent option. The only Wisconsin lodging certified by the Small Luxury Hotels of the World, it's owned by Erin Hills developer Bob Lang. No two rooms are alike in dimensions or furnishings, many of which come from Lang's own antiques collection.
415 Genesee Street, Delafield. Rooms: $225–$450. Contact: 262-646-1600, thedelafieldhotel.com.
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club The top three floors of this large downtown hotel are set aside for the Governor's Club, a collection of opulent rooms and suites. The hotel has a full-service restaurant and a bar that offers live jazz three nights a week. There's also a fitness center, sauna and indoor pool.
One West Dayton Street, Madison. Rooms: $125–$175. Contact: 800-356-8293, concoursehotel.com.
Where to Eat
Andrew's Bar & Restaurant (Contemporary American) This white-linen restaurant in the Delafield Hotel has acquired a following for its outstanding upscale American fare, attentive service and extensive wine cellar. Diners can choose between floor-to-ceiling private booths, parlor seating and, in warm weather, a veranda.
415 Genesee Street, Delafield; 262-646-1620, thedelafieldhotel.com. $$$
Immigrant Restaurant (Contemporary) The culinary flagship of the American Club, the Immigrant consists of six intimate rooms decorated in the European style of Wisconsin settlers, a tribute to those who worked for the Kohler Company in the early 1900s. The menu, however, is the antithesis of plebeian, hitting such high notes as Hudson Valley foie gras and Tasmanian king salmon.
419 Highland Drive, Kohler; 920-457-8888, destinationkohler.com. $$$$
Leon's Frozen Custard A Milwaukee institution, this neon-lit drive-in custard stand on the south side is straight out of the 1950s. (In fact, it was the inspiration for Arnold's Drive-In in Happy Days.) Be prepared to stand in line for ten or fifteen minutes on warm summer nights, but one taste of the cold, rich custard—made fresh each day—and you will be glad you did.
3131 South 27th Street, Milwaukee; 414-383-1784. $
L'Etoile (French) The owners of this celebrated Madison restaurant, whose exposed-brick second-floor dining room overlooks Capital Square, are champions of the farm-to-table movement. They tailor the ever-changing menu around weekly bounty from the city's bustling farmers' market.
25 North Pinckney Street, Madison; 608- 251-0500, letoile-restaurant.com. $$$$
Mo's: A Place for Steaks (Steak house) Not quite a decade after Mo's opened in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, it's consistently voted the best steak house in the city. The thick-cut pork and veal chops are the choice on the menu, although that takes nothing away from the bone-in rib eye and the filet mignon. There's also a long list of single malts, cognacs and vintage ports on offer, perfect for sipping in the cigar lounge.
720 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee; 414-272-0720, mosaplaceforsteaks.com. $$$$
(Regional) This down-home lakefront place is all about tradition. The host of live bands and waterskiing shows, it's been drawing summer crowds since 1948. Norton's signature dish is Canadian walleye pike, served deep-fried or broiled. The same chef has run the kitchen for seventeen years.
380 South Lawson Drive, Green Lake; 920-294-6577, nortonsofgreenlake.com. $$$


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Just about every pro ballplayer can claim to have played shortstop at one point or another. Growing up, an alarming percentage of your favorite ballplayers split time between shortstop and pitcher. Everybody is a shortstop because it is the most difficult position on the diamond, the one demanding the most athleticism and baseball instincts and so on and so forth.
As players ascend the baseball ladder, to high school, college and beyond, the pool of viable shortstops winnows down. Too big, too slow, insufficient footwork, whatever the reason, those who can't hack it at short are moved to other spots on the diamond – center field or third base and then down the line from there.
Because the barrier for entry at the shortstop position is so high, the position is increasingly difficult to fill. The defensive demands are so high that many poor hitters can remain as big league prospects thanks to their glove alone.
The scarcity of good shortstops is reflected in the recent top prospect lists, namely those put out by Baseball Prospectus and MLB.com. Though they differ in order, both groups of evaluators agree on one thing: a good shortstop is a valuable commodity indeed.
BP published their list yesterday and the top ten features no fewer than five shortstops. In fact, according to Jason Parks and his team, five of the top seven prospects in baseball right how play the shortstop position (10 of their 101 top prospects are currently shortstops.)
Over at MLB.com's Pipeline, their top ten includes four of the same shortstop names — Xander Bogaerts of the Red Sox, Javier Baez (Cubs), Carlos Correa (Astros), and Francisco Lindor (Cleveland). Baseball Prospectus ranks A's prospect Addison Russell as their number seven prospect overall, while MLB.com has him 12th.
The order of the names doesn't really matter, what matters is how we perceive this middle-of-the-diamond talent glut. Is it a reflection of the current state of the baseball industry, where viable shortstops are prized above all else? It is a chance collection of talent, the result of a greater trend towards keeping top athletes at the infield pivot?
Or it perhaps a fetishization of tools and the act of scouting itself, a tacit acknowledgement of the evaluator's baseball acumen and scouting know-how – knowledge the average fan (and reader of said lists) cannot gain by "scouting to the stat line."
If we believe this is another golden age of shortstops, this is great news for the game of baseball. The average shortstop in baseball hit .254/.308/.367 last year, which is terrible! An influx of new talent is long overdue. If the industry shifts to reflect the shortstop shortage and begins treating real shortstops with the reverence currently reserved for starting pitchers, perhaps more and more kids will do what they must to stay at the position long term.
The preponderance of shortstops at the top of these lists doesn't suggest this is already under way. Among the shortstops listed above, how many have superstar potential compared to those who might occupy an Orlando Cabrera-esque existence of competence? Xander Bogaerts sure seems to fit the superstar bill, let's wait and see on the rest of this cohort. There is a ton of value in an average shortstop, a fact we cannot ignore.
Or, it could just be the last thing. Like any cloistered community, it sure feels like scouts and scouting acolytes are enamored with their lexicon and role as gatekeepers to the game. Maybe they earned that right, maybe they treat it like the carrot on the end of a stick, a necessary tool to drive readership and keep the scouting brand strong.
There is no debate that a good shortstop is one of the most valuable pieces a team can have in its war chest. Once the crucial shortstop position is spoken for, management can focus on the easier tasks of filling out the rest of the diamond. Just ask the Rockies front office – after you get a top-flight SS, the rest is just gravy.
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Sam Miller, of the aforementioned Baseball Prospectus, doing the Lord's work today. Writing the truly important stories of our time – who is a faster runner: Peter Bourjos or Mike Trout?
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Reprints Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 Series) #13-16.
Color reconstruction: Wesley Wong (interiors), Michael Kelleher (covers).
Art reconstruction: Pacific Rim Graphics (interiors), Michael Kelleher (covers).
Illustration from cover of Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 Series) #14.
Writer revision from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich 2009-7-30. The Who's Who does NOT indicate a writer for this strip.
Promotional, illustrated ad for The Human Torch (Marvel, 1939 Series) #2, cover reproduced with art by Schomburg from back cover.
Promotional, illustrated ad for The Human Torch (Marvel, 1939 Series) #2, cover reproduced with art by Schomburg.
Promotional ad for the next issue of Marvel Mystery Comics #16, which talks about Namor and Torch fighting side by side (but they didn't!). The illustration, however, is the cover to Marvel Mystery Comics #15 that depicts both heroes in the artwork.
Illustrated page which lists all the winners of the Marvel Comics contest announced in the September, 1940 issue of Marvel Mystery. The 3 1st Prize winners were: Alfred English of Erie, Pennsylvania, Chuck Skinners of Davenport, Iowa and Irwin Markowitz of Newark, New Jersey. The five 2nd Prizes and ten 3rd Prizes winners were also listed. Also, a new contest will be annouced in Marvel Mystery #16.
Illustrated promotional ad for the Winter issue of the Human Torch Comics, on sale December 10th.
Lists Abraham Goodman as Publisher, and Martin Goodman as Editor, Managing Editor and Business Manager.