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Two Golden Ages Masterpieces of Dutch and Danish Painting - the exhibition in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Article added on September 15, 2001 The exhibitionTwo Golden Ages at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (previously at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen) covers the Golden Age of Dutch painting in the 17th century as wells as the Golden Age of Danish painting in the first half of the 19th century. The extensive research carried out by the exhibition's curator, Lene Bogh Ronberg, has brought to light the many ways in which Danish artists were influenced by Dutch and Flemish masters. One of the most important influence came through the important collections of Dutch art in Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Painting with its 1000 selected works accessible in Christiansborg Palace from 1827 onwards was the most powerful source of inspiration. Over half of these were by Dutch and Flemish masters. Most of them were brought to Denmark by the royal family's art dealer Gerhard Morell from 1755 to 1765. Danish artist Johan Christian Dahl
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of Abraham Casteleyn and his wife by Jan de Bray (1627-97) inspired
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Jan de Bray: The Haarlem Printer Abraham Casteleyn and his Wife, Margarieta van Bancken, 1663. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Photo: Exhibition catalogue Two Golden Ages. This is an early example of the portrait genre. During the period 1650-90, Jan de Bray painted a wide section of the Dutch bourgeoisie. The motif of the husband interrupted at his work was fashionable in Holland in the 17th century. Wilhelm Bendz (1804-32) probably did not know this particular picture by de Bray, but Dutch prints with the similar motifs might have inspired him to paint The Waagepetersen Family in 1830. In the exhibition and in the catalogue, the two paintings are presented side by side. Johan Thomas Lundbye: A Landscape in Cloudy Weather. Evening, 1840. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Photo: Exhibition catalogue Two Golden Ages. Lundbye's objective was to paint his beloved Denmark. In this painting, he took the individualized oak tree's extended branches and the lowering clouds from Ruisdael's Oak Trees by a Pond, 1649. The other influence, according to the catalogue, was Lundbye's Danish colleague Dankvart Dreyer with his View of Silkeborg. Morning Light, 1838. In the exhibition and in the catalogue, the three paintings are presented side by side. Arie Wallert, ed.: Still Lifes. Techniques and Styles: An Examination of Paintings from the Rijksmuseum. Paperback, University of Washington Press, 2000, 112 p. ISBN: 9040093679. Get it from Amazon.com. Henk van Os, et al.: Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum. Hardcover, Yale University Press, October 2000, 280 p. ISBN: 0300087462. Get it from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Abraham L. Den Blaauwen: Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum. Hardcover, Waanders Pub, 2001, 512 p. ISBN: 9040094969. Get it from Amazon.com. |
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An extended, asymmetric tail riding coat. Beautiful coat made with tweed in raspberry color, worn by kelly rowland in black, I never wear black so this is my colorfull version
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Jan 31, 2014, 04.45 PMby gimmeonekiss
gret… such as every work of yours!!!
compliments: you are very talented!
May 1, 2013, 07.18 AMby AnitaS7
I like your coat, the color and your new hair cut! Looks fantastic!
May 1, 2013, 09.09 AMby milkyway
Thanks you are very kind!!
Mar 10, 2013, 02.57 AMby Irin Samuel
oh wow. simply put – beautiful. hope i can advance enough to make something like this.. wowie.
May 1, 2013, 09.09 AMby milkyway
I am sure you will, thanks for your comment
Feb 10, 2013, 12.21 AMby Jennifer Jay
Wow this is amazing!
May 1, 2013, 09.09 AMby milkyway
Feb 8, 2013, 09.55 AMby buddingnaturalist
This is beautiful. What system of pattern making did you use? Did you base it off a sloper or draft it from scratch? Also, are you wearing it with a crinoline/ starch? The flared portion looks way fuller on you than on the mannequin.
May 1, 2013, 09.11 AMby milkyway
Thank you, I made a full circle and then cut the assymetric hem once finished so it can be even. Maybe is the lining that make it look fuller, it wasnt complete on the mannequin
thanks for yout comment
Feb 5, 2013, 05.03 PMby muse3005
It is amazing! Fantastic job, just luve it!!!!
May 1, 2013, 09.11 AMby milkyway
Thank you
Feb 5, 2013, 07.32 AMby marie-michelle
Holy wow! Love it!
May 1, 2013, 09.11 AMby milkyway
Thank you
Feb 3, 2013, 08.34 PMby mokosha
this is freaking fantastic.. love your coat!
May 1, 2013, 09.11 AMby milkyway
Thank you very much
Feb 3, 2013, 04.43 PMby vinia789
I love your work….so beautiful.
Feb 3, 2013, 06.19 PMby milkyway
Thanks! : )
Feb 3, 2013, 05.09 AMby neveenkarnes
well done… it's beautiful and i do like it in color. great job!!!!
Feb 3, 2013, 11.50 AMby milkyway
Thank you very much!
Feb 3, 2013, 03.01 AMby kisses
Fabulous coat….you did an excellent job
Feb 3, 2013, 11.50 AMby milkyway
Thank you for your comment!
Feb 3, 2013, 12.51 AMby pamchar
Gorgeous design and color!!!
Feb 3, 2013, 11.51 AMby milkyway
Thanks! ; )
Feb 2, 2013, 08.34 PMby smallone
oh I love a good peplum…and as always with your work this is awesome!!!!
Feb 2, 2013, 09.38 PMby milkyway
I love peplums too! thank you!
Feb 2, 2013, 08.15 PMby nettie
This is AMAZING!!! I love the color you chose and you did a fantastic job copying the design!!
Feb 2, 2013, 09.38 PMby milkyway
Thank you very much
Feb 2, 2013, 07.49 PMby Redsonia
The color choice is perfect! Did you make the pattern yourself?
Feb 2, 2013, 09.39 PMby milkyway
Yes I drew the pattern using kelly rowland´s picture as a reference. thank you for your comment
Feb 2, 2013, 07.42 PMby krunamagiar
Feb 2, 2013, 09.40 PMby milkyway
; ) thanks
Feb 2, 2013, 07.08 PMby chased-away
Your coat is beautiful! <3
Feb 2, 2013, 09.40 PMby milkyway
Thank you
Feb 2, 2013, 05.51 PMby Mary Athey
Stunning coat, did you copy the origonal or use a pattern? Either way you did a gorgeous job on this coat x
Feb 2, 2013, 09.40 PMby milkyway
thank you. I drew the pattern using Kelly Rowland´s picture as a reference!
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A little more than 14 years ago, tech stocks started to come screaming back to earth after surging to sky-high peaks.
These days, they're enjoying another upswing. The U.S. stock index known for being tech heavy — the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.89% — has climbed back to levels last seen in April 2000.
So you're certainly hearing some market watchers say: "Uh oh. Here we go again." But the Nasdaq has changed in many ways.
It's less tech heavy, valuations aren't at dot-com era levels and Nasdaq companies are much larger and fewer in number, says a whitepaper just released by the Nasdaq OMX Group.
Plus the last tech boom's CEOs, such as Microsoft's MSFT, -9.25% Bill Gates and WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, have given way to today's leaders, who include Apple's AAPL, -3.50% Tim Cook and Google's GOOG, -3.10% Sergey Brin. That quartet is shown in the adjacent graphic.
Read on to learn more about the changes, as well as what they mean for investors today.
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Remember WorldCom and Sun Microsystems? They ranked among the 10 largest Nasdaq stocks before the dot-com bust. WorldCom and its chief, Bernie Ebbers, were felled by a massive accounting scandal, while Sun was gobbled up by Oracle more than four years ago.
The top 10 now includes Apple AAPL, -3.50% Facebook FB, -2.21% Google and Amazon.com AMZN, -0.94% 14 years ago, Apple hadn't yet launched the iPod, much less the iPhone or iPad, and Google wasn't a publicly traded company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was still in high school, and Amazon had been public for less than two years.
Who's stayed in the top 10 after all this time? Microsoft MSFT, -9.25% Cisco CSCO, -3.83% Qualcomm QCOM, -1.16% and Intel INTC, -4.52% — though their market capitalizations are all greatly diminished.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.89% remains a tech-heavy index, but it's significantly less laden with purely tech stocks than it was at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
Information Technology companies accounted for 38% of the Nasdaq at the end of 2013, down from 57% at the end of 1999. Software — "prepackaged software" is actually the exact government label for that industry — is just 10% of the index, down from 24%.
The biological products, cable TV and pharma industries all have more weight these days, ranking among the top seven industries.
It's still correct to describe the Nasdaq as a tech-heavy index, but another option is to say "growth heavy," said David Krein, head of index research at Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. NDAQ, -1.05% which runs the Nasdaq exchange.
If you prefer more mature, large-capitalization companies — and some investment strategists today certainly do after a five-year bull run — then look to the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.65%
It's not hard to find folks here and there seeing another Internet bubble.
However, you can at least take comfort in the fact that the Nasdaq Composite's overall valuation is still much lower than it was during the tech bubble. The index's price/earnings ratio was an "otherworldly" 152 at the end of 1999 versus 31 at the end of 2013, says the Nasdaq OMX Group's whitepaper.
In addition, the P/E ratios for certain closely watched companies aren't back to 1999's bubbleicious levels. Yahoo's YHOO, -2.93% P/E was 787 versus 35 more recently. Apple AAPL, -3.50% was at 37 versus 14.
"Valuations today are clearly lower, by virtually every measure, than they were in 1999," Nasdaq OMX Group's Krein told MarketWatch.
The Nasdaq Composite consists of roughly half as many companies today, with the number of components diving from 4,715 in 1999 to 2,472 generally larger, older companies at the end of 2013.
Regulation often gets the blame for the decrease in publicly traded U.S. companies, which also has hit the New York Stock Exchange. Critics of the post-Enron scandal Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 say it's simply made it too expensive to be a publicly traded company., while the law's supporters emphasize it's helped to restore trust.
There are still 500 stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -1.34% and 30 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.65% of course.
That's because the other two main U.S. stock indexes are created by committees, while the Nasdaq Composite represents the value of all stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Krein of Nasdaq OMX Group argues that his company's approach to providing an index is more transparent and offers more information.
Yes, you can laugh or cry about Pets.com and other dot-coms that turned into dot-bombs. But going bust isn't the No. 1 reason that a company is no longer in the Nasdaq, according to the whitepaper.
The top reason for deletion from the Nasdaq has been merger and acquisition activity.
In some cases, two Nasdaq companies merged, resulting in one listing going away. In other cases, components would get acquired by companies not listed on the Nasdaq, leading to fewer listings for that exchange.
M&A activity resulted in the disappearance of 54% of stocks on a market-cap basis, and 46% of stocks based on the overall number of deleted stocks.
"This runs counter to the popular belief that in the collapse of the tech bubble most of the Nasdaq stocks were 'dot-coms' and deleted due to bankruptcy," the whitepaper says.
While the overall number of Nasdaq companies has dropped sharply, it isn't all about a rush to the exits due to M&A, bankruptcy or other factors.
There also have been plenty of newcomers since 2000. About 20% of the Nasdaq Composite's current weight is from companies that had their initial public offerings over the last 14 years. That's 710 companies, according to an early draft of the whitepaper.
Google and Facebook FB, -2.21% are probably the most well-known IPOs from this period. What about Twitter TWTR, -2.94% ? Well, it listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The NYSE has achieved some tech-listings wins lately over its rival exchange, as noted in a March 18 post on MarketWatch's Tell blog.
Trading issues marred Facebook's Nasdaq IPO in 2012, and that's influenced some tech companies to pick the NYSE, said one expert quoted in that post. Another analyst argued those glitches are now forgotten.
The Nasdaq Composite conquered the 4,000 level in November, and it's holding above that psychologically-important round number right now.
The index still has a ways to go to get to its all-time high above 5,000. It hit that peak a little more than 14 years ago — in early March 2000.
The Nasdaq Composite gets attention in news reports each day, mentioned alongside the S&P 500 and Dow, but Nasdaq OMX Group's Krein emphasizes that the Nasdaq 100 is the index with massive assets tied to it.
One of the largest, oldest ETFs — the PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQ, -2.59% also called the Cubes — tracks the Nasdaq 100, which is made up of the top 100 non-financial firms listed on the Nasdaq. This ETF alone has more than $45 billion in assets under management.
If you want to bet on a tech-heavy play, then QQQ is one option. The three big providers of exchange-traded funds all have tech-focused products as well, such as State Street's Technology Select Sector SPDR XLK, -2.88% the Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT, -2.89% and the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Technology ETF IYW, -3.25%


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DRLC achieved a significant victory on behalf of an HIV+ patient against a medical facility which disclosed the patient's HIV status in contravention of the patient's explicit instructions. The unauthorized disclosure caused significant harm to the patient, who was then denied the right to return to the family home and lost both financial and emotional support of the family. DRLC filed suit on behalf of the patient and succeeded in negotiating a settlement favorable to the patient. One component of the settlement, the specific terms of which remain confidential, requires significant improvement in the policies, practices and procedures of the defendant medical facility to ensure that patient confidentiality is not violated in the future. DRLC is proud to be a strong advocate of protecting the confidentiality of medical information and ensuring that patient wishes with regard to their medical information are respected.
Kathryn L. Tucker
Compton is a diverse inner suburb of Los Angeles. Many now- famous professional athletes attended school here, including NBA players DeMar DeRozan, Tayshaun Prince, Tyson Chandler and Brandon Jennings. Yet none of these athletes were forced to sit at the edge of a playground watching other children play with no opportunity to participate. Our client, ST, was.
ST is a ten year old with multiple disabilities, including cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia, requiring the use of a wheelchair. Unlike her school friends, ST could not move freely through her school building because it was not built to allow her access: she could get into the library in her wheelchair but once there couldn't turn, nor could she use the restroom in the cafeteria or access the stage. Her wheelchair would tip over when she used the walkways to her classroom. If she was thirsty, she couldn't make use of the inaccessible water fountains.
DRLC challenged these violations of ST's rights by bringing suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other related laws. This week a settlement favorable to ST was reached with the Compton school district. As part of the settlement, barriers to access will be removed: there will be guard rails on the walkways to classrooms; all children with mobility impairments will be able to use the library, cafeteria, and play on accessible playground equipment; and the parking lot is being repaved and restriped so there will be no chance of a wheelchair or walker tipping over on the way to car or school bus. And all the students in the school will soon be able to get a drink from a water fountain.
Special thanks to DRLC Managing Attorney Maronel Barajas and Staff Attorney Anna Rivera for achieving educational justice for our client.
Kathryn L. Tucker
Last week, California became the first state in the nation to restrict school suspensions and expulsions for "willful defiance" (AB 420, a bill supported by DRLC). Willful defiance is a vague charge that can be used any time a child appears to be defying authority. The law bans suspensions and expulsions for "willful defiance" for students in grades K-3, and requires that schools use other methods of discipline for students in grades 4-12 before they suspend on this ground.
Statistics show that suspensions and expulsions disproportionately impact students with disabilities, as well as students of color. Students with disabilities are suspended 3 times more often than those without disabilities. In San Bernardino County, 60% of African American male students with a disability and 50% of Native American male students with a disability will be suspended or expelled in a school year. There is also a significant racial disparity, not only in terms of suspension rates but justification for suspension. White students are much more likely to be suspended for conduct involving violence or drugs, whereas Black students are more likely to be suspended for vague charges like "willful defiance."
DRLC has been in leadership in championing the rights of young students who have been expelled on defiance grounds, recently resolving such a case involving a five year old kindergartener; the settlement requires that the student be reinstated. We are pleased to see AB 420 enacted: it will help protect young children and encourage schools to provide them with the help they need, rather than suspending or expelling them if they have difficulties learning or behaving in school.
This will benefit students in myriad ways, including reducing the likelihood that they will end up in the criminal justice system.
Kathryn L. Tucker
**Case worked on by: H. Joseph Escher III, Dechert LLP; Amanda D. Gossai, Dechert LLP; Laura Faer, Public Counsel; Maronel Barajas, DRLC; Anna Rivera, DRLC; and Andrea Smith, DRLC.
"I want to go home, to my books and my music," he said, his voice whispery but intense.
All Americans should be outraged by the shocking story on the front page of the NY Times last Friday, September 26th, titled "Fighting to Honor a Father's Last Wish: To Die at Home."
That a 91 year old man, approaching the end of a long life and suffering multiple age related impairments, was forced against his will, in violation of his clearly expressed wishes, into institutional care, isolated from his family, segregated from community, is wrong. "I want to go home" Joe Andrey repeatedly told his daughter and everyone involved in his care. Despite this clear desire, and the dedicated advocacy of his daughter to see his wishes respected, Joe was forced into a nursing home far from his daughter and his home, where residents were left sitting in their excrement, falls from bed were common, and pain medication was not provided.
Governmental programs, particularly Medicaid, are required by law to offer alternatives to nursing homes and to enable elderly individuals with medical problems to receive services in their home, instead of being forced into a nursing home. The disability rights movement worked long and hard to combat forced institutionalization of persons with disabilities. It is time for this battle to be taken to the field of forced institutionalization of seniors like Joe Andrey.
To read a copy of the NY Times article, please click here.
Kathryn L. Tucker
I am honored to be the new Executive Director of DRLC and build on the extraordinary legacy left by my predecessor, Paula D. Pearlman.
I am eager to carry out DRLC's mission of fighting for people with disabilities in all types of circumstances when their rights are being ignored, obstructed or challenged.
I am confident that my expertise in advocacy will strengthen DRLC's capacity to work for all people with disabilities, and expand its ability to effectively represent clients with terminal illnesses on a host of issues and in a variety of legal areas.
I am looking forward to our upcoming FDR Dinner, DRLC's 40th anniversary in 2015, and working with the incredible and dedicated staff of our organization.
Kathryn Tucker
It's February, a time when the chill of winter is tempered by the warmth of Valentine's Day. Here at DRLC, we are celebrating the holiday by sending our love and thanks to all of you who have helped us champion the rights of people with disabilities. To our volunteers, co-counsels, supporters, funders, friends and family---this Valentine video is for you. Please click here to watch.
There are many things I need to do to wrap up DRLC's year. One of them is looking over descriptions of calls to our Intake Line and to Cancer Legal Resource Center's Telephone Assistance Line.
I read about 20 descriptions of these calls when I had to just sit quietly and breathe. All of the calls had one glaring thing in common: the injustice stemmed from people's inability to see the potential of a person with a disability. All they saw was the disability.
Let me give you some examples. A school district doesn't think to give a young girl with asthma, progressive scoliosis, fluid buildup in her spinal cord, and a malformation of her cerebellum any accommodation at all in order for her to successfully attend school. Instead, they record that a school counselor has noted she has "friendship difficulties".
A man who is deaf was unable to rent a home for himself and his six children because the landlord didn't want to rent to someone who couldn't hear.
A certified youth soccer referee with Asperger's Syndrome is told that he can't work as a referee because he's a "retard."
No wonder my staff works as hard as they do. They are the ones who come into direct contact, day after day, with these stories and who champion their clients' rights at the highest professional level possible. Their passion for justice and their dedication to pursuing societal change is unbounded. If you want to find goodness this holiday season, look no further than DRLC's staff.
Thank you for allowing me this "shout-out" to my heroes: Karina, Maronel, Marianne, Richard, Elizabeth, Stephanie, Jennifer, Luis, Maxwell, Shawn, Christopher, Norma, Jonathan, BG, Maritza, Andrea, Randi, Lani and Sasha.
And a special shout out to all of you who support the work of DRLC and believe in our vision of an inclusive world, where everyone's possibility is fully realized.
Happy Holidays!
Paula Pearlman
Our staff attorneys represent clients with a diversity of disabilities: sensory, mobility, cognitive and intellectual as well as clients experiencing mental health challenges. We also work with different co-counseling arrangements; single practitioners, small law firms, medium size law firms, and large international firms. It is through our work with these various players that we have developed exceptional expertise in how to serve legal clients with disabilities through the accommodations process.
This is why I was pleased to find this week that our Legal Director, Michelle Uzeta, and a staff attorney, Trevor Finneman, published an article in Law Practice Today, the monthly webzine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section. Finneman and Uzeta provide a detailed overview of a law office's obligations in meeting provisions of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They cite specific tools in working with clients with visual or hearing disabilities, those with mobility aids, and even more difficult, how to work with clients with cognitive disabilities.
You can read the article online by clicking here: www.americanbar.org/content/newsletter/publications/law_practice_today_home/lpt-archives/july13/serving-clients-with-disabilities.html
Inclusion, fairness and justice—these are just some of the values of DRLC and by adequately accommodating clients with disabilities, attorneys can ensure that their clients have equal access to not only their own law practices but to justice itself.
Paula Pearlman
Newtown, CT, 27 killed and the shooter committed suicide. Oak Creek, WI, 6 killed, 3 wounded and the shooter committed suicide. Aurora, CO, 12 killed and 58 wounded. Carson City, NV, 4 killed, 7 wounded and the shooter committed suicide. Grand Rapids, MI, 7 killed, 2 wounded and the shooter committed suicide. Tucson, AZ, 6 killed and 13 wounded. These are just a half dozen of the US locations where tragedies involving murders with assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines have occurred.
Many of the accused perpetrators have been linked to mental health conditions which have led to proposed gun control legislation as it relates to mental illness. This is tricky. While each suspect and the conditions under which the crimes were committed must be considered individually and carefully, there is potential for these debates to cause further harm by entrenching stereotypes about people with mental illness, while ultimately doing little to address the true, underlying causes of violence.
Most people agree the violence is due to the prevalence of guns with high killing capacity and the lack of legal and reasonable legislation such as background checks and waiting periods prior to gun purchases. However despite the bipartisan amendment, the Senate vote failed to garner 60 votes needed to pass a bill fostering gun control measures, such as a waiting period prior to the purchase of a handgun at a gun show.
Some critics of the legislation seem content to point to mental illness as being at the root of this violence. The Los Angeles Times recently quoted Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) as saying that the proposed gun control law would have done nothing to prevent Sandy Hook. "This is really a story about an individual who was severely mentally ill who, for whatever reason, did not get the help that he needed," Johanns asserted.
Even Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), a proponent of the proposed gun legislation, was quoted saying "The common ground rests on a simple proposition and that is that criminals and the dangerously mentally ill shouldn't have guns. I don't know anyone who disagrees with that premise."
Studies have shown, however, that mental illness by itself is not statistically related to violence, and that people with serious mental illnesses are far more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than the perpetrators. Jennifer Mathis, Deputy Legal Director and Director of Programs at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, stated "Despite the facts, many lawmakers and journalists continue to stigmatize people with psychiatric disabilities as the primary concern related to gun violence." But as we've seen, linking this public health crisis to those with a history of mental illness is a distraction to the real problem.
Reasonable gun control regulation should be enacted, but they cannot infringe on the civil rights of persons with disabilities. Disability activists and concerned citizens must speak up and bring attention to the problems of placing these weapons of mass murder in anyone's hands.
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I like it because it's quicker and with little focus killing NPC's. Have to play SR for ranked
I like it because it's condensed LoL experience. Whatever you'd experience in SR, you have it here, but much faster and more intense. You get to learn much more in shorter amount of time because you see more team compositions working (or not working) against each other. And hell, you don't get to roll your fingers while your champion is returning to action from base, which is complete waste of time.
I Play dominion because unlike SR, if one team wins in kills, the other team can still win the match. I also love how almost all builds are viable on any champion.
I play for the money and the b!tches.
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I started to play Dom when it first came out because it was during the Season 2 update madness that was changing SR constantly. I told myself I'd try out this Dominion mode while I waited for the S2 updates to calm down and that way I'd only have to re-learn things once! I've stuck around since then, enjoying the more skirmishes and action, not having to worry about the timers on blue/red/baron/dragon/wards, but rather focus just on trying to outlast or out move the players I was against at the time. I've had many memorable matches in my mind from dominion than I can remember from my SR time, starting before I was a red when I was taking on rickless bot lane, his Ez vs my Lux! (He got 1 kill on me later and it started snowballing, but I still hung in there!) I've stayed because of the community. I like you guys! Sorry I've been away for a bit, but trying to come back more now to hang out!
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I came to LoL because I expected PvP, and SR did not deliver on that front. 20-30m of PvE with occasional skirmishes does not a PvP game make, but Dominion delivered on that front where the other side fails. Admittedly, I'm not sure why I've stayed. Tryhard Elo and how it showcases the balance situation is a bit .. tiring. I like the fast paced action and dynamics, I do not like seeing Kass/Kha/Jayce/Mage/Tank every game. I suppose it says something about either my stubbornness or masochism that I'm still hanging on.
I like Dominion because the meta is still evolving and there are play styles that are still being discovered. You get to run comps that aren't that practical in Summoner's Rift do to set roles and laning phase. I also like that there's no Warmog's (but I'm still waiting for Blade of the Ruined King) so it feels more balanced as builds aren't static and burst can actually mean something. Edit: I don't want Blade of the Ruined King after the buffs. That item built on a bruiser did LESS damage, but now it's pretty balanced for SR and the PBE buffs would cause issue with Dominion (%hp damage, ad, lifesteal, %hp sap, speed steal active, attack speed AND cheap cost).
More focus on teamfights, fewer unknowns ("Is this brush I'm going into warded?"), and laning phase is mostly skipped.


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Chef of the Year: Michael Chiarello
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Back in the 1980s, Michael Chiarello pioneered what came to be known as Cal-Ital cuisine (that's Cal-ifornia and Ital-y) at Tra Vigne, his Napa Valley restaurant. He went on to become one of the most consistently rewarding TV chefs, so much so that he disappeared from restaurants for a while. He roared back to the kitchen in 2008 to open the acclaimed Bottega in Yountville, California, because, he said, "my chef friends were having all the fun."
With nothing more to prove, Chiarello has turned his attention to the traditional foods of Spain, whose tapas bars and restaurantes inspired Coqueta, now open on the Embarcadero. Its immediate success, with Ryan McIlwraith as chef de cuisine, is easy enough to understand: The shadowy waterfront place has a bighearted buzz, with Chiarello popping in and out of the kitchen to say hello to regulars and pose for smartphone photos with newcomers. He might bring out a tray of a dozen gobble-'em-up San Sebastían–style tapas, including fried nuggets of potato and Spanish ham, head-on prawns poached in Spanish olive oil, and smoky, grilled Iberian secreto (secret cut) pig — what wagyu is to beef, this is to pork — with a hot-sweet tximi-txurri sauce.
The paella ($40 for two) has already become a signature dish in San Francisco, and the warm chocolate cake flavored with pimentón paprika is not coming off the menu any time soon. I've never eaten better food in Spain. For that reason, and for decades of innovative, irresistible food, Michael Chiarello is Esquire's Chef of the Year.
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In terms of picking up the phone after a very nice first date, where you both obviously had a good time, were attracted to each other, and had a lot to talk about.
I've gotten lots of opinions, from both men and women, coupled and single. Opinions vary wildly on this subject. Some feel that a woman should wait until the man calls. Others say that's old fashioned nonsense. Others say to wait at least 2 days or 3 days. Etc. on and on. What do you do? |
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Ah, the game of love......The man leaves the date, wondering when he should call and wondering if she really wants him to and the woman wonders if he is really going to call...as one gets out of the twentys and thirties, they tend to be bold enough to make the other feel free to call ANYTIME,before the final goodnight and then back it up by doing so...I don't even think twice about whether I should call or not, the same evening, to thank her for a wonderful evening (again) if it seems that we really hit it off...I try to make my date comfortable enough to feel the same way..sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't...but how many people have missed out on something special because they didn't make that "second move" first? |
Thanks Mike. I like the way you think. I'm old enough to think I should just do what feels right - forget the rules, forget the angst, just do it. It just took me a few days to get there. |
Glad you got there Carrie...It definitely makes life a lot easier when you don't go around in life worrying about what the proper protocol is for a situation that really has no rules...just do what's in your heart |
- Posted by Daisyduckworth (My Page) on Thu, Aug 7, 03 at 18:10
Times may have changed since I was young, but men haven't. They like to do the chasing, and if they feel they are the prey, oh brother can they get up some speed - they disappear in no time flat. Scalded rabbits have nothing on a man who's being pursued! When a man says 'I'll call you', he really means 'Don't call me'. If he's interested, he'll call in a day or two. If not - notch it up to experience. A man knows if you're keen or not, but he won't always give the right 'messages' and needs time to think things through. And he likes to call the shots. |
Good words of advice also, Daisy....but to say that all men are like that, would be akin to me saying that because of my experience with my ex-wife and one other lady friend(and thus all women are just like them) then I should just become a monk?..I'm old enough to know better....I'll continue having faith and be happy, just more picky. ;) |
- Posted by Daisyduckworth (My Page) on Fri, Aug 8, 03 at 19:26
Tinmantu, of course there are exceptions to every rule! But in this particular situation, I just haven't met any exceptions, nor have I ever heard of any. While every individual is different, there are some factors which are pretty well standardised, so we can't help generalising a little. |
You know, when I was trying to make up my mind (should I call? Should I not call?) I asked EVERYONE for their opinion. Married/single/living together men and women, gay and straight men and women, younger and older, etc. I got about 50% call him and 50% don't call him. I tried to categorize the yesses and the no's to see if the women were saying to call, or the married people were saying not to, or whatever. There were NO generalizations to be made. It was completely across the board. And it's funny because some people were very adamant about calling or not calling, but I just could not break down the numbers into anything but complete randomness. |
I would not call a man. As Daisy says, men still like to do the pursuing. |
"Times may have changed since I was young, but men haven't" Sorry, but that simply isn't true. No, I am not male, but I three brothers and many male friends, and almost all of them feel the "man is supposed to make the moves" rule is unfair and puts too much pressure on them, and they are thrilled when a woman takes the initiative to call them. Of course, I mean a woman they're interested in, they're not anymore thrilled than I am to hear from someone they really don't want to see again. If he is interested, he'll probably like it that you called. If he's not interested, he's not gonna call you anyway, so you have nothing to lose by trying. I believe it's probably different in Blueheron and Daisy's age groups (you're both retired, right?), and certainly I have no experience with men of that age so I am not in a position to question them on that point, but in my generation (30's) and younger, men as well as women certainly have changed in their expectations. Sure, there are young people of both genders who still want the "traditional" gender roles, but for the most part that is no longer the case. |
I am from the old school. I've never "chased" a guy. I would only call if he requested me to. After I have spent much time with him, would I feel comfortable calling him. The law of nature is that the male chases the female until she catches him! If a guy wants me in his life, he will make sure I know it. If he doesn't call me back after a date, I feel it wasn't meant to be. After all my rambling, it reduces to my vote of: let him call you the first few times. |
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At 30, Seattle Goodwill's Glitter Sale still looks sensational
A peek at the glittery goods that will go on sale Saturday at the annual Glitter Sale, which raises funds for Seattle Goodwill's job-training and education programs.
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9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 1400 S. Lane St. (near corner of South Dearborn Street and Rainier Avenue South), Seattle; admission is free. Food trucks will be on site. More information: seattlegoodwill.org/sales-and-events/glitter-sale.
In the backrooms of a warehouse in South Seattle, a treasure trove awaits its moment. The Goodwill Glitter Sale celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend, and more than 40,000 items are ready for action: shoes organized in rainbow rows of color, jewelry lined up in sparkling assembly, handbags standing erect along tidy shelves, frothy holiday dresses overflowing from their hangers and trailing into the aisles — all donated, all ready for new homes.
Goodwill staff have been pulling clothing, jewelry and accessories for the sale since spring, said communications manager Katherine Boury. From the mountains of goods donated, they look for items with designer labels, festive holiday style and/or vintage flair, in good condition (some still bear original store tags). Prices are a fraction of what they might be in stores: a baby's plaid Burberry jumper is $19.99; a chic suede vintage Yves Saint Laurent jacket is $129.99; a pair of sparkly Jimmy Choo pumps are $39.99.
Boury offered a few tips for navigating the sale, which attracts thousands of shoppers (a few of whom camp overnight, to be the first ones in). When you arrive, collect a number at the door and wait for it to be called; you can also receive text messages letting you know what numbers are being admitted. Lines are longest early Saturday, but consider coming later in the day or on Sunday; you won't miss out, as the sale is constantly restocked with new items.
Your number is also your number for the jewelry counter, which offers only one-on-one service; wait in line there. Note that there are no fitting rooms, and not a lot of room for stripping in the aisles. (Wear a leotard, Boury suggested.). Bring a bottle of water; the warehouse gets warm. Remember that this is a fundraiser, with all proceeds going to Goodwill's free job-training and education programs.
This year's donations, Boury said, brought an unusually large collection of vintage fashion, hats, menswear and handbags in popular brands: Coach, Dooney & Bourke, Burberry. But she emphasized that it's best not to go to the sale with a particular find in mind. You may not know that you need a beautifully tailored lime-green St. John suit (size 12, $199.99), but it's there waiting for you, quietly glittering.
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`A Chorus Line': lots of legs, but not much heart
A string of young singers and dancers, each one dreaming of stardom, lines up across the front of a Broadway stage. Before them sits a tough-as-nails casting director who wants to peer beneath their talents into their lives, their personalities, maybe their very souls. One by one, as we look on, they bare their dreams, memories, and emotions in words and music. In the end some are chosen for a chance to realize their hopes. And some are not. That's the idea behind ``A Chorus Line.'' Onstage, it's the longest-running musical in Broadway history, with a Pulitzer Prize to its credit. Given such near-legendary success, it isn't surprising that many a filmmaker has pondered ways of translating it to the screen -- including such powerful talents as Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet, and even Joseph Papp, a member of the original production's creative team.
But along with a financial stumbling block -- the high cost of royalties -- they ran into an artistic problem: how to make the show into a full-fledged movie in its own right, not just a photographed stage play.
The director who finally met this challenge head on, and carried the project all the way to completion, is far from the most likely candidate. Sir Richard Attenborough has built his filmmaking fame on epics like ``A Bridge Too Far'' and his Oscar-winning biography of Gandhi -- big, bulging pictures with hundreds of characters swarming through harsh landscapes in the service of Socially Conscious Cinema.
But song-and-dance movies can be socially conscious, too. Sir Richard knows this as well as anyone else, having started his directorial career in 1969 with ``Oh! What a Lovely War,'' a pacifist musical. So he took an interest in ``A Chorus Line'' when it crossed his path, with its potentially poignant portraits of young people longing for their own place in the world. And anyway, he told me recently, he was hoping for a change-of-pace picture between ``Gandhi'' and his next project, a drama with an an ti-apartheid slant.


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The mystery of Seattle and the Titanic's filmmaker
Talented filmmaker goes down with the ship, and the mysteries surface.
YOU MIGHT guess that Seattle film history and the sinking of the Titanic would have nothing to do with each other.
But you would be mistaken.
When the ship went down in the North Atlantic 100 years ago on April 15, a certain W.H. Harbeck was on board as its official filmmaker. And with his death at age 45 (or thereabouts), one of the most industrious and promising figures in the early movie-making industry was lost. So, too, were some answers to the many questions he left behind.
In the five years before that disastrous voyage, Harbeck had based himself in Seattle. Between 1904 and 1912, he had branched out all over the western United States and Canada. Among his enterprises in the Northwest, he filmed climbers on Mount Rainier, the railway trip between Seattle and Tacoma, the 1911 Golden Potlatch (a precursor of Seafair) and the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, for which he was the official cinematographer.
He worked for the Miles Brothers in San Francisco and likely was involved in making the now-famous Market Street film, shot just days before the 1906 earthquake. He was also on the spot to shoot some of the first footage of the quake's aftermath.
His greatest accomplishment may have been his Alaska films of 1911, described in detail in The Moving Picture World in early 1912.
"Utilizing his knowledge of trick photography," the magazine's reporter wrote, "Mr. Harbeck very ingeniously showed on the Alaskan map the positions of the principal towns, rivers and railroads. These appeared and disappeared on the map as the lecturer described them. The navigable portions of the rivers and bays were illustrated by forms representing vessels; a novel idea and one that can be used to great advantage in the preparation of educational films."
Ten weeks later, the magazine was mourning his loss, calling him "a pioneer in the moving picture business."
While his colleagues were lauding his film talents, his family was confronting some surprises about his personal life. Early accounts reported him boarding the Titanic with a "Mrs. Harbeck" — interesting news to his real wife, Catherine, who was in Toledo, Ohio, at the time.
When Catherine Harbeck went to claim her husband's body and personal effects, she was thought at first to be an impostor. It seems the "Mrs. Harbeck" who perished with the filmmaker was 24-year-old French model Henriette Yrois or Ivois. And she turned out, within months, not to be the only unofficial "Mrs. Harbeck" in the picture.
The confusion suggests a lot about Harbeck's personality. And a dive into the archives confirms the filmmaker was at least two or three sizes larger than life.
WILLIAM H. Harbeck was born in the mid-1860s in Toledo. In "The Titanic and Silent Cinema," author Stephen Bottomore notes that Harbeck was "successively a bookkeeper, journalist, inventor, traveling book agent, baker and owner of a steam laundry." The first sign of him in our area comes in an ad he placed in The Seattle Times on May 4, 1904: "Want lady partner for treasurer of best 10-cent family theatre proposition in state; must be able to contribute $1,800 toward construction; will clear $700 per month."
His presence at the filming of the Rainier expedition in 1905 can be pieced together from two articles in the Tacoma Daily News. The account reveals that "a bioscopic photograph consisting of 3,200 exposures" was made of "a snowball battle which took place above the clouds . . . near Camp Muir."
The newspaper's later obituary for Harbeck adds some colorful detail about the trek: "On this trip he made films of Olof Bull of Tacoma playing the violin on the top of the mountain, while members of the Mazama club snowballed him." It also mentions Harbeck's cycle of films, "The Life of a Tree," which "bids fair to become a classic," and says he had film contracts in the Pacific Northwest worth $100,000. If that figure can be trusted, it's indicative of just how successful Harbeck was.
By 1907 he had moved his base of operations to Seattle and was well into a career that would keep him on the move until his death.
"I have just returned from an extended tour through Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Colorado," he told a motion-picture trade journal in early 1907, "where I exposed 8,000 feet of moving picture negative, mainly railroad scenery . . . I leave tomorrow for a trip through Old Mexico, where I will again expose 10,000 feet of negative on railroad scenery and Mexican attractions. These films will be used to supply the demand of tour cars in this section during the early spring and summer."
What, you may ask, was a "tour car"?
It was a combination movie theater/motion simulator designed to immerse viewers in a "train-journey" experience. People sat in a rail carriage, watching filmed rail vistas unspool before them, as machinery beneath them put the whole contraption into motion.
One of the leading producers of "tour car" entertainments was Northwest Hale's Tourist Amusement Company, based in Portland. The Rose City, naturally, served as film fodder. On April 25, 1907, Harbeck mounted his camera on the front of a streetcar and headed for the city's Portland Heights neighborhood.
Two weeks later he was shooting in Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., and the extraordinary thing is that large segments of these films survive. They reached the National Archives of Canada in 1994 and, after restoration, made their debut at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2008, the Vancouver Historical Society released a DVD, "City Reflections," that included extensive documentation of Harbeck's career. (It's available at www.vancouver-historical-society.ca.)
Watching these films, more than 100 years later, may be the closest any of us will ever get to local time travel. Vancouver, of course, has changed tremendously. But Victoria's Government Street storefronts and the newly constructed Empress Hotel (sitting in a sea of mud) are instantly recognizable.
While newspaper coverage of Harbeck's film activities in Seattle seems to have been minimal, the Victoria Daily Colonist went all out, detailing both his routes and reactions. The paper makes special mention of a local tidal phenomenon — "the reversible water falls" beneath Victoria's Gorge Bridge: "While the vessel racked and pitched, Mr. Harbeck steadily turned the handle, and obtained a truly unique picture of the fall and the turbulent current that sweeps under the bridge."
During his trip to B.C., Harbeck shot the railroad ride up the Fraser River canyon as well. Positioning his camera on the front of the train wasn't practicable, however, so he mounted it on the caboose and cranked his film through it backwards, to create the illusion of forward travel when the film was projected.
"The only trouble," he quipped to the Colonist, "is that if you happen to pass a man on the tracks he appears to be walking backwards. Otherwise the illusion is perfect."
A writer for the Vancouver Daily Province had even more fun tracking Harbeck's activities, and debunks — for present-day viewers — the notion that the bustling street scenes preserved in the "City Reflections" DVD were natural and spontaneous.
He notes that citizens had been "suddenly stricken with kinetoscopitis" — an "epidemic" started only "when a moving picture machine confronts the person subject to the attack."
As the kinetoscope-mounted car went down Granville Street, the reporter observed, it was interesting to see how the crowds on one side of the street suddenly discovered they had business on the other side and strolled across "unconcerned-like" in view of the oncoming camera.
Such playing-to-the-camera must be true of San Francisco's Market Street film, too.
SOME EPISODES in Harbeck's career pose a total mystery; for instance, a 1908 Seattle Times ad for a "talking and singing moving picture," billed as "Harbeck's Newest Invention."
What can this have been?
Harbeck's truth-stretching abilities come into play here. In 1911, during a rough transatlantic crossing, he got the idea of showing seasick passengers films he'd taken in Vancouver, Seattle and the Canadian Rockies. "I believe this is the first time a motion picture show was ever put on for a deep-sea audience," he declared, "and I cordially recommend the method as a sure cure for seasickness."
His tales got even taller after a screening of his Alaska film in New York in early 1912. Harbeck downplayed any hardship involved: "Many people have asked me if I did not nearly perish with the cold . . . On the contrary, I almost sweltered with the heat — had to take off my coat to try to keep cool. It must be remembered that in the summertime in Alaska the sun shines for 23 hours in the day."
The climate of Alaska, he told his Manhattan interviewer, was changing and, in 25 years, would be "much the same as it is here." Not only that: Alaska's wild animals were, according to him, "much more easily tamed" than their Lower-48 counterparts.
Despite or maybe because of his hyperbolic excesses, his film-trade colleagues were very fond of him — and worried about the risks he took. A Moving Picture News item from 1911, headlined "W.H. Harbeck: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed," says it all:
"Has anyone any knowledge of where our good friend W.H. Harbeck has landed? We received a letter from Seattle, way back in December, saying he was on his way to New York City . . . Willie, Willie, where art thou? Letters get no reply. Wires are as bad. And if you only knew the anxiety concerning your welfare, you would answer and hasten your visit."
Maybe they had a premonition that his luck was bound to run out.
IN JANUARY 1912, Harbeck left Seattle for Europe, where he visited London, Brussels, Paris and Berlin. During his month abroad, he filmed the sights, sold his films to European outlets and made professional connections.
The marital mysteries surrounding him begin with his arrival on British shores. A London writer noted that Harbeck, accompanied by his wife, arrived from the U.S. in early March. However, the real Mrs. Harbeck was still in Toledo.
His initial plan had been to continue on through Russia and Siberia to Alaska. But when the White Star Line offered him $10,000 to film the maiden voyage of the Titanic, he changed his itinerary.
To one of his colleagues, he wrote: "I am going to get some pictures that will make your mouth water."
He left Southampton on April 10, again with his "wife." No details survive concerning what happened to him and his mistress during the sinking.
Henriette's body was never found, but Harbeck's was among the 328 recovered. He was identified by his union card. Other effects found on his body included a gold watch, a fountain pen, false teeth, a diary and a "lady's bag" containing 10 shillings and some jewelry.
It's at this point that a "Mrs. Brownie Harbeck" enters the picture and presents a puzzle that's apparently unsolvable. She contacted the American consul in Halifax on July 23, 1912, asking after Harbeck. A Nova Scotia official wrote back to her, saying Harbeck's effects and his body had been shipped to his family in Toledo.
Brownie Harbeck, in an Aug. 31 letter displaying a shaky command of English, replied: "Referring to ladys articles among Mr Harbecks effects, I knew the lady well. I understand she was allso lost on the Titanic. her name was Henriette Yvois. do you know if such Persons ever been picket up and being brought to Halifax."
This query was written on Harbeck stationery emblazoned with an ad for his Alaska films: "Watch for Harbeck's Latest Motion Pictures EXPOSING THE GUGGENHEIM INTERESTS IN ALASKA and THE CONTROLLER BAY GRAB. Films that will worry Congress and startle the whole United States and probably change the present political map." (Harbeck's Alaska footage, it seems, didn't just portray the territory's natural wonders, but had a muckraking agenda.)
How did Brownie know Henriette's name? How did she come into possession of official Harbeck stationery? Could she perhaps have been Henriette Yrois/Yvois or some other mistress of Harbeck?
No one, it seems, has any answers.
But Harbeck's son, John, in correspondence with the Halifax authorities, read them the riot act: "This so-called Brownie Harbeck . . . is no relative and any correspondence relative to the recovery of the effects and body of Mr. Harbeck has been and should be carried on with my mother."
Harbeck's colleagues, if they were aware of any of this, didn't mention it in print. Instead, they paid eloquent tribute to a man they deeply admired. The Tacoma Daily News wrote: "He was known for his courage. He would go anywhere at any time to obtain negatives and obtained wonderful results."
The Moving Picture World's tribute deemed Harbeck's Alaskan film "by far his greatest work," and lamented that it now lay "at the bottom of the sea, negative and all."
What's left is a paper trail filled with riddles, plus films of Victoria, Vancouver and the Pendleton Round-Up. Other surviving film fragments may well have been shot by him. The Seattle Municipal Archives has a compilation of A.Y.P. footage and early Denny Regrade footage that could be his.
We should be glad of what we have. But let's hope more Harbeck footage surfaces in the same unlikely way the Victoria and Vancouver films did. Wouldn't it be grand to "ride" the interurban from Seattle to Tacoma? To attend the Golden Potlatch? To see Denny Hill being washed away to nothing?
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I made cupcakes tonight for group tomorrow.. although im not going it's social holida night so im sending them with a friend.. I ate one and gave one to my mom but otehr thent hat they're all going but the batch didn't make as many as it usualy does because i made them big... rather then many.. it made like 17... So i'll be sending 15. They are rainbow chip with orange icing (homemade) and then rainbow sprinkles, after all this is a gay group there needs to be TONS of rainbow lol. Orange is cuz the girl i like in group her fav color is orange. I tink i may make some on Wds night for school on Thursday for like friends and such assuming i get my case back from my friend.
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I was watching a video lecture by the California Native Plant society, and they were talking about smothering grass with builder's paper.
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- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 24, 12 at 11:25
I use newspapers but can see an advantage to having something you can roll out like that. How heavy is it? I've bought newspaper print on a roll before but not to use in my garden. Builder's paper is probably heavier. |
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Tempting. I'm going to look for it next time I go to Lowe's. Newspapers are tricky to work with if it's a windy day. You have to overlap them so it's a bit time consuming if it's a large area. If you plan to leave the paper there and mulch over it, you do want something that will eventually break down and would let moisture through until it does. |
I think it should breakdown. I don't see anything about it that would prevent that from happening. As far as I can tell, it's just really thick unbleached paper. It probably won't break down as fast as newspaper, though. |
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Heavy Metal "boy band" to be featured on Vh1!
Jason/Drums, Ted/Guitar, Sebastian/Vocals, Scott/Guitar, Evan/Bass.
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Exclusive – Stand by for a new reality TV show. VH1 commenced filming on their new show – tentatively titled Supergoup – this week in Las Vegas.
The premise of the show is to lock several musicians in a house for 10 days and get them to write and record some new original music. Originally the network wanted the group to record an album, but at this time it is understood they will settle for one song and hope for more.
So just who makes up this supergroup which has until now, been kept under wraps? The line-up is: Scott Ian (Anthrax) – Guitar; Ted Nugent – Guitar; Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard) – Bass; Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row) – Vocals and Jason Bonham (Bonham, UFO, Foreigner) – Drums.
In addition to the 5 musicians, star manager Doc McGhee is in charge and is also living in the house for the duration of filming/recording.
The show will air on VH1 in later this year.
Let's take a look at what we got here.
Ted Nugent is the animal killing grandpa of rock n' roll, and even though a senior for the most part – he still rocks. Chews gum a little whacky but other than that, he's all good. Jason Bonham has royal roots and even has some of his old mans skills too. He can also drink beer like a porn star drinks sperm. Speaking of sperm, does Evan make his better half rinse before they make out? Next we're onto the face of one of New Yorks finest metal/thrash bands. No, not Sebastian, we're talking Scott Ian. He practically lives on Vh1, of course when he's not on stage with the Thrax. Scott has waved the all mighty Sludge flag on many occassions and we thank him for that. Then we round out the Supergroup with Baz. A onetime HUGE fan of the Sludge, that was until he got annoyed by a fan from Canada who Sludged him, and we printed the exchange of insults. This should be an interesting watch.
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Some residents in the Village area of south Belfast have said they feel "forgotten" as a £100 million regeneration plan plunged them into negative equity.
When the Housing Executive took ownership of their homes two years ago, residents were given a payout.
But with the fall in house prices they were left with a shortfall in the mortgage that will have lasting effects on where they live for years to come.
Under vesting rules, the Housing Executive pays out the market price of the house but for Jane Robinson, who was a first time buyer in 2006, she was left with a debt of £15,000.
"I had seen that as my first step on the property ladder and all of a sudden I was looking at a good few years of paying debt off before being able to even consider starting to save for another house," she told UTV.
"It was hard to give up my home, and lodge in someone else's home. Now I've moved home with my parents to try and save.
I would have been much more reasonable if people had been given enough money to be able then to buy a replacement dwelling.Jane Robinson
I would have been much more reasonable if people had been given enough money to be able then to buy a replacement dwelling.
Jane Robinson
She is one of 25 people left paying out mortgages on the original value of their homes, which are now bricked up or demolished.
The Housing Executive has said it cannot comment on compensation because of a lands tribunal case, which will decide whether those left out of pocket deserve compensation. A decision is due at the end of this week, while bulldozers remove more than 500 homes to make way for the new houses.
Bob Stoker, the local UUP councillor, said the Department of Social Development needs to take a fresh look at the situation and help those who are suffering financially.
"Some people who are in the position of negative equity are being left behind. They're not going to be in a position to purchase a new house and if they can't afford to pay off their mortgage it's highly unlikely they will access private sector rental," he explained.
And although Cllr Stoker said the redevelopment is "coming on very well" he has a stark warning that this situation could be repeated in the coming years.
"I know quite a number of people who've left the area in previous years because of house conditions that have indicated they want to come back again to regenerate and sustain the community.
"But exactly the same thing could happen in north, east and west Belfast where there's future redevelopment planned, so people there are going to be in exactly the same position," he added.
So we have to keep positive and forward thinking, while also reflecting on the needs of individuals as we carry along this process.Paula Bradshaw
So we have to keep positive and forward thinking, while also reflecting on the needs of individuals as we carry along this process.
Paula Bradshaw
The Minister for Social Development wasn't available for interview, but in a statement he says that 'careful consideration' had been given to the issue - but that compensation is assessed in accordance to legislation and the authorities 'must pay the market value' at the time of vesting.
Paula Bradshaw of the Greater Village Regeneration Trust said she is sympathetic towards those who have been left unsure about their housing future.
"This was always about sustaining the village community. It's a very, very proud, close-knit community here, and we wanted to ensure that there was family housing provided to sustain it into the future."