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Classy Glass Antiques & Collectables
Classy Glass Antiques & Collectables, England, UK
Here for your collection, admiration and your perusal is a fabulous glass trinket set by one of the most famous of all German factories of their period and of all time: Walther & Sohne.
August Walther established his glass works in c1888 at Ottendorf- Okilla, Dresden, Germany. Later,they famously produced some of the most outstanding Art Deco glass of the period of which here is an example for your collection.
The pattern name of this truly stunning set is: 'WALTRAUT' and has no direct English translation, BUT Waltraut is a minor planet orbiting the Sun and is so perhaps more importantly associated with this glass, as a named character in Richard Wagner's, German opera: (Twilight of the Gods)
THIS FABULOUS EXAMPLE is complete with its original clock, which could also be purchased as a separate item at time of manufacture. The entire set is also in the most delightful, colour-shade of salmon pink (more commonly known as peach) and comprises: Tray Pair of candlestick holders Two lidded trinket/powder boxes A ring dish and a clock
The clock,though in good working order,does require a winder to its back working mechanism which is easily replaceable and so does not detract.
The clock face is slightly stained as is shown however NONE of the glass components are damaged save for the smallest of nicks to the rim of the tray.
It is an exceptionally beautiful example of its type and scarcely found in its entirety. Do not allow this opportunity to pass you by.
ALL Walther glass items are of exceptional quality and this stunning trinket set is no exception.
The predominant decorative motifs are of stylized foliage which adorns each component piece with elegance & style, is German Art Deco press moulded glass perfection.
I most kindly urge you study each of my photographs, for anyone of them displays a component part, which are alone are extremely desirable however HERE I am offering you A THE COMPLETE SET OF NINE pieces of exceptional 'Waltraut' glass by Walther & Sohne...
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Clock height x base width: 6.75 x 5.75 inches Tray: 13.75 x 8.75 inches Candle holders: Heights: 6.75 inches Base diameters: 3.75 x 2.75 inches Trinket pot heights with lids: 4.75 inches Pot diameters: 3.75 inches Ring holder dish: Height: 3.75 inches Diameter: 3.75 inches Postage weight: *3k 400gms *Postage discounts are available for this set to overseas (outside of Europe) by request.
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Honestley I must say I really dont know why they finished up the show.... there was so mutch more that they could have explored in the characters !! But all in all this is one of the BEST shows I have watched ! Once you get into it you are hooked !
Job well done to all of the Cast & Crew !!

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Article: The Quality of Care in Acute Coronary Syndrome and its association with mortality in the United Arab Emirates: Data from the Gulf RACE[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: AIM: Objective of the present study was to evaluate the quality of care and outcome in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) according to international guidelines. METHODS: We used data from the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE). A sub sample of 1693 patients from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was analyzed. RESULTS: In all ACS patients, aspirin and statins were adequately prescribed on admission and at discharge, whereas, the treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI)/angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARIIB), clopidogrel, and beta-blockers (BB), increased at discharge according to guideline-recommended treatment. The use of clopidogrel and BB at discharge was significantly different in the three ACS classes. Patients who were receiving all five guideline-recommended drugs, were mainly males (P=0.0001) and more in the age groups of (< 55 and 55-74 years). Smokers were better treated than non-smokers, but patients with prior coronary artery disease (CAD) did not receive optimal treatment. Mortality was significantly (P=0.0001) less among the subjects who received adequate treatment (0.1%) than those who did not (4.3%). Multivariate regression analysis, showed that age [adjusted OR: 1.051; 95% CI: 1.015-1.089; P=0.005] and the use of all five guideline-recommend drugs [adjusted OR: 0.042; 95% CI: 0.005-0.319; P=0.002 (protective effect)] were independent predictors of death. CONCLUSION: The quality of care for patients with ACS in the UAE seems to be modest and the use of guideline-recommended drugs is suboptimal. The need for improved care, particularly, among elder patients, and adherence to guideline-recommended treatment is highlighted.
Article: Prevalence, Characteristics, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Metabolic Syndrome among Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in the United Arab Emirates[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: To evaluate clinical profiles, management and in-hospital outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). MetS was defined according to the criteria for its diagnosis by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (AHA/NHLBI). Participants were admitted to various hospitals in the UAE with a diagnosis of ACS in 2007 as part of the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE) project. We compared baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and in-hospital outcomes stratified by MetS status. Of 1259 patients with ACS in the UAE (mean age: 52 ± 11 years, 88.8% males), the majority (n = 851, 67.6%) had MetS. MetS patients were more frequently males (86.4 vs 13.6%; P < 0.001). They were more obese (waist circumference and BMI, P < 0.001) as compared with non-MetS patients. MetS was more frequently associated with hypertension (51.1 vs 37.7%; P < 0.001) and diabetes mellitus (45.6 vs 24.3%; P < 0.001). After multivariate adjustment, certain MetS criteria rather than MetS itself were associated with higher in-hospital mortality and heart failure. Paradoxically, hypertension was associated with lower in-hospital mortality. Prevalence of MetS among patients with ACS in our study population was high. Certain MetS criteria were associated with higher in-hospital mortality and heart failure.
Article: Characteristics, Management, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Diabetic Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in the United Arab Emirates[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We describe the baseline characteristics, management, and in-hospital outcomes of patients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with DM admitted with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and assess the influence of DM on in-hospital mortality. Data was analyzed from 1697 patients admitted to various hospitals in the UAE with a diagnosis of ACS in 2007 as part of the 1st Gulf RACE (Registry of Acute Coronary Events). Of 1697 patients enrolled, 668 (39.4%) were diabetics. Compared to patients without DM, diabetic patients were more likely to have a past history of coronary artery disease (49.1% versus 30.1%, P < 0.001), hypertension (67.2% versus 36%, P < 0.001), and prior revascularization (21% versus 11.4%, P < 0.001). They experienced more in-hospital recurrent ischemia (8.5% versus 5.1%; P = 0.004) and heart failure (20% versus 10%; P < 0.001). The mortality rate was 2.7% for diabetics and 1.6% for nondiabetics (P = 0.105). After age adjustment, in-hospital mortality increased by 3.5% per year of age (P = 0.016). This mortality was significantly higher in females than in males (P = 0.04). ACS patients with DM have different clinical characteristics and appear to have poorer outcomes.
Article: Gender Differences in Acute Coronary Syndrome in Arab Emirati Women-Implications for Clinical Management[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Gender differences exist in many aspects of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), including presentation and delay in diagnosis and treatment. The aim of the study was to evaluate gender-related differences in ACS patients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We analyzed a subset (n = 1697) of the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE) data collected in 2007 of patients with ACS from 18 UAE hospitals. Women were significantly older (mean age: 64.0 ± 12.4 years for females and 50.9 ± 10.6 years for males, P < .001), more often had cardiac risk factors and were significantly less treated with β-blockers and reperfusion therapy. The adjusted mortality rate of women was 4.6% versus 1.2% in men (P < .001). Heart failure was higher in females compared with men (24.6% vs 12.5%; P < .001). Reasons for the high in-hospital mortality in women need to be investigated further.


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Shortly after Strom Thurmond died, the flags at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia were lowered to half-staff. Every flag except one, that is. There on the northern grounds below the Capitol steps, facing Main Street, the Confederate flag waved high. On that late-June evening, the flag served as a visible, and shameful, reminder: Racial politics in the South would long outlive their most resilient practitioner.
Thurmond's death marked the end of an era, in that he was one of the South's last living political links to the days of colored water fountains and segregated lunch counters. But even as that era is passing into history, history itself is becoming a battleground, demonstrating once again the truth of William Faulkner's famous line: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
On one side is the version of history promoted by conservative whites, who venerate the brave Confederate soldiers and their gallant generals. On the other side are blacks and the beleaguered, shrinking ranks of liberal whites, who prefer to speak about slavery as the horror it was. Now, a pair of major museum projects–one an unvarnished memorial to the realities of slavery, the other a celebration of the Confederacy–are about to make permanent the segregation of the region's history. Both will be located in or near Charleston, the heart of the antebellum South, where the Civil War started.
The first project, a museum of African-American history, is being spearheaded by Charleston's popular long-term Democratic mayor, Joe Riley, a white progressive who has built his career on racial reconciliation. The second project, a museum for the Hunley, a Confederate submarine recovered off Charleston's coast, is championed by Confederacy-obsessed Republican State Senator Glenn McConnell, playing to the same impulses that fuel the pro-flag movement.
In the coming years, Riley and McConnell likely will be competing for limited public funds. But more important, they also will be competing to define how the South views its history–and by extension, how the rest of the country views the South. "This is always how it's been down here, unfortunately," said Democratic State Senator Darrell Jackson, an African-American whose slave ancestors were freed in the Civil War. "In this state there are two histories of South Carolina: one for the descendants of white slave- owners, the other for the descendants of slaves."
These competing histories spill over into national politics. The "vital South"–the eleven states of the old Confederacy–is the nation's most populous region, home to 84 million people according to the 2000 census. Courting African-American voters ahead of South Carolina's February 3 primary, the first in the South, most of the Democratic presidential candidates have already declared their opposition to the Confederate flag's presence on the Statehouse grounds. For Republicans, the conservative white vote is more important, which is why, during his 2000 primary run, George W. Bush made a controversial appearance at Bob Jones University.
"In much of the Deep South you're seeing increasing separation between the races–in politics for sure, but also in residential patterns and schools," said Dan Carter, an award-winning historian at the University of South Carolina. Carter believes the two museum projects are symbols of this resegregation. "There will be two very different visions of the past, existing parallel."


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Easton Havoc 35 Carbon Riser Bar
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Easton took the industry-leading Havoc Carbon handlebar - the strongest handle bar on the market - and made it stronger, lighter and stiffer. As well as 50mm wider to a full 800mm.
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Mr highamThese bars are amazing.. Carbon finish on the underside is a bit patchy but the emblems on the top and the matt finish on the area you can see are good and they feel really sturdy and the 800mm width makes steering really responsive and 105g lighter than my Cube 720mm bars
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Grand Touring Series 12" subwoofer with dual 4-ohm voice coils
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Got an urge to get the lows bumping? JBL's GTO subwoofers may just fit the bill. They work great in sealed or ported boxes, so you'll get bass the way you like it. And these compact subs offer a lower profile so they fit into smaller boxes that save you space.
The GTO1214D 12" subwoofer sports a polypropylene cone, with a big rubber surround that allows plenty of cone movement without sacrificing control. A cast aluminum frame and heavy-duty dustcap reinforce the cone for lows that kick without distortion. A special integrated vent keeps the sub's internal workings cool and improves power handling capability. Dual voice coils give you more flexibility for getting the most out of your amplifier.
Note: If you are wiring this DVC sub for lower impedance, make sure that your amp is compatible. Most 2-channel car amplifiers are stable down to 2 ohms in standard mode, or 4 ohms in bridged operation. Most mono amps are stable down to 2 ohms.
To drive this single subwoofer, we recommend a mono amplifier rated between 260 and 525 watts RMS at 2 ohms. For more information, please refer to our article on How to Match Subwoofers and Amplifiers.
A component sub is simply a speaker that's designed to reproduce bass once it's installed in a compatible enclosure. Think about the impact of a movie soundtrack in a big theater or even in your own home HDTV setup. A component sub can add the same kind of power to the music in your car. And a car sub is not all about the boom that you hear on a street corner (although that's cool too) - you can pair a component sub with your choice of enclosure to get bass just the way you like it, from tight and punchy to fat and loose. And once you experience music in your car with a well-tuned subwoofer, you'll never go back.
I bought one, knowing that JBL quality came with it. The sub impressed me very much!!! The sound quality (which it does best) was awesome!! It also provided great lows in the Sound Ordinance Bass Bunker. Awesome sub for not much investment!!
Pros: Awesome sound quality!! Great flexibility as far as enclosures go!! Dual voice coil means easier system adaptation. Quick, responsive, yet will stretch out to get LOW!!
Cons: Unfortunately the amplifier I am using, is just too dang much for this guy!!! I wish I had room for two of them, that would be perfect. The voice coils just couldn't take the power!!
Easy to install went to crutch field diagrams - perfect! Sounds great!
Ok for a beginner system not for advanced system
Pros: Ease of use!
Cons: Cheaply built speakers
Recently got this sub and man it hits hard. The sub does take time to break in but even at low volume levels slams. I have it in a ported box powered by a Jbl GTO501EZ its around 700w, but is 500rms giving the sub more than enough power putting it around 130% a perfect sweet spot for this 350rms sub. The sub hits its highs and lows very well, it definitely shows 1400w peak. The sub unlike many others has a very solid frame keeping it strong at higher volumes. its very loud!!
Pros: inexpensive, powerful,solid, hits every frequency
Cons: Stinks waiting for it to break in, but its the same for almost any sub
I took a shot, not knowing much about JBL, and it was worth it. Once I got it broken in with only a 750watt amp it was really great. Superb highs and fantastic lows. Once I got a 1000watt amp then it REALLY started making noise. It's got alot of kick in it, and just for one sub! I would recommend getting this, I'm really glad I did.
Pros: It's great if you want to have more than one subwoofer at a time, since there's dual voice coils which makes for easy wiring. It's got some weight to it, I've always liked a heavy subwoofer haha. It come with a JBL sticker! All around great sound and great quality. I'm satisfied
Cons: If you only use one (like I am) the dual voice coil wiring is not necessary. But it doesn't affect the product to me at all, you just have to make sure you wore it properly(which isn't hard, the book tells you how to do it) other than that, there's nothing I have to complain about
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93 dB at 2.83 volts
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|23 - 400 Hz
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Enclosure Compatibility
Woofer Cones: The JBL Grand Touring Series woofer features a polypropylene woofer cone with a heavy-duty molded dustcap.
Rubber Surrounds: The woofer features a rubber surround to provide exceptional cone-edge suspension and long-throw linearity with control and stability at the excursion limits.
Spider: The woofer's progressive spider provides better control at the excursion limits and reduces woofer distortion.
Dual 4-ohm Voice Coils: This woofer features dual 4-ohm voice coils that offer flexibility in wiring. When the voice coils are wired in parallel with each other, the woofer presents a 2-ohm mono load. When the voice coils are wired in series with each other, the woofer presents an 8-ohm mono load. In addition, each coil may be connected to a different amplifier channel and each channel will see a 4-ohm load.
Tinsel Wire Protector: The woofer uses a unique tinsel wire protector that also strengthen the joint between the cone, the voice coil and the spider. That joint is the most critical of all and must be able to withstand more stress than any other point in the moving assembly.
Terminals: The woofer features dual binding post terminals which can accept bare wire, pin connectors, spade lugs, and single banana plugs. Because of the spacing between the + and - terminals, they cannot accept dual banana plugs.
Die-Cast Aluminum Basket: The JBL GTO woofer features a die-cast aluminum basket for added rigidity.
Recommended Sealed Box Volume: JBL recommends a 1.00 cu/ft sealed enclosure.
Recommended Ported Box Volume: JBL recommends a 1.75 cu/ft ported enclosure. One 4" diameter x 10" long port, tuned at 33Hz, should be used with the 1.75 cu/ft enclosure.
Recommended Bandpass Box Volume: JBL recommends a bandpass enclosure with a 1.00 cu/ft sealed rear chamber and a 1.25 cu/ft front ported chamber. One 4" diameter x 8" long port, tuned at 62Hz, should be used with this enclosure.
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Comparison by PriscillaWWatch
©2012-2016 PriscillaW
My Katy Perry drawing next to the reference photo
so amazing, your are so good.
This so colorful, amazing and pretty. I like the hair color you chose and everything else too.
your drawing has a lot better, more natural color palette! i know you used colors to make the effects and highlights like on the reference, but it just looks a lot better
Love it
thank you
Your drawing is so much better than the original photo!! Brilliant!!
thank you so much I am still deciding what I want my next color pencil one is going to be.... I always pick really loud and colorful pictures.
i thought the one on the left was the referance photo for a sec o-o, cant really see any differnaces
amazinggg...your one is better than the original !!
Don't worry about proving yourself, I said to someone else that those gifs have been made to look as though you can't argue, but seeing your drawing like this, makes it very clear someone is being spiteful
I agree. I see enough differences when placed like this. I was also contacted claiming this artist was a fraud, but I don't believe that. Most frauds claim to do their arts very fast and there are no differences from the original.
The drawing is beautiful and Priscilla should be very proud!!
The drawing is beautiful and Priscilla should be very proud!!
She definitely should be I think I know exactly who the trouble maker is and it's pretty low and pathetic to do this
thanks Paula I thought it would also be good to post just because
I think you overdetailed the background a bit which is a bit distracting and doesn't make the figure "pop". Dunno if I make myself clear.
Btw, I like you watermark/signature
Btw, I like you watermark/signature
oh no, I know what you mean. I worked at toning it down and eventually just said screw it lol Comparing this to the reference is.... interesting. It helps me understand what I need to do better next time. The drawing looks pretty good without the reference next to it
Gorgeous work. And a perfect illustration of what traditional art can achieve that photography can't. Your drawing has a luminescence entirely of its own. You really are a spectacular artist.
thanks I wish I had more purple in my drawing like the reference, but I guess I had it in my head that her wig was blue and left out the purple tones from the lighting. I should also start looking at the references from afar as well as up close I think.


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.Hand study. by moni158Watch
©2011-2016 moni158
i hate drawing hands D: there a demon from the dark depths of haidies!!!! TT^TT thank you for this awsome helpful hand studt 8D
hands and feet are a nightmare to draw.. too many flaily dangly bits or knobbly stickey outey parts (and i haven't even mentioned perspective yet ).
so this did kinda help
so this did kinda help
Yeah damn hands all right XD Good thing we got you around! This hand study is helping a lot (even if it's just a few ''pose''
Thank you for tutorial
why is it the only part of a hand that im good at is the thumb???
I THANK YOU for this ;v;
Hands are hard to draw. All your studies just seem to show you have no problem drawing anything despite your words otherwise lol.
Hans. Are. The. Hardest.
I'll have no problems on hand anymore
Man I've been looking for a good hand study. Hands are so hard to draw.
This is ridiculously helpful
Awesome tutorial! Keep up the good work!
Thank you :'D
This is fantastic! Thank you so much!
thank you very much for the tutorials) they really help me)
you r awwwwesome!! thank you for the tutorials/studies!
So the palm is made of three pieces, more or less: the thumb part, the fingers side, and the meaty side, yes?
Hands are hard..thank you ;__;
Damn hands is right! Thanks so much, this is unbelievably helpful ~chu~
SOOOOOOO helpful THANKYOU~!
These are amazing and helpful studies that you've posted! Thank you!
I know, right! DAMN hands!! I hate drawing them... I think most people probably do... This is awesome, though. What a service you have done for us all.
This will help me alot!! Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you!!!!!!!! lol I can't draw hands at all!!!
awesome! very simple and easy to follow
i really needed that for my drawings. ur awesome for uploading this
Thanks for more tips!
i hate haaaaannnds DX huh never noticed finger started about where the thumb ended XD intresting
This is cool, cause everybody stucks in the hands... so do I!! Hehe! Helpfull...
This might be useful...*favs*
very good
Thanks, this will come in...handy
Sorry for the bad pun BTW
Sorry for the bad pun BTW
YOu are an awesome source of reference.
very helpful
Hands have always been hard for me; even before I started to draw anime. I'd just draw what my friends called "little sausages on a circle" and be done with it. Your Hand Studies have given me a lot of help :3
Oh my fucking god this like me seeing jesus or something. - :'D this is awsom! thanks for the refrences!
Tip on the "Fingers begin roughly where thumb ends":
If you put your hands out like that, and press your thumb to the side of your index finger (Just put your hand how the pic shows LOL), the last knuckle on your thumb should roughly align with the first knuckle of your pinkie.
Tip on the "Fingers begin roughly where thumb ends":
If you put your hands out like that, and press your thumb to the side of your index finger (Just put your hand how the pic shows LOL), the last knuckle on your thumb should roughly align with the first knuckle of your pinkie.
omg awesome. I HATE DRAWING HANDS THE MOST D=<
omg, this helped me SOO much with an art project! really really awesome! thank you so much!
There are quite a few helpful little notes in here that I will put to use! Good job, btw.
Yep, hands are a pain. One day I spent hours drawing hands in my sketchbook. And I didn't get any better.
This is going to help me so much ;w;
so helpful. thank you. hands are the hardest.
Oh wow. Hands I find are one of the trickiest things to draw, and I personally hate doing them. You've made them look easy!
Its so hard for me to do hands I think this would be a big help :3


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Two clinical studies for the treatment of late-onset Tay-Sachs with Zavesca, a drug used to treat Gaucher disease, produced neutral results — "a scientific way of saying that it didn't work," said Kim Crawford, director of member services for the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association.
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Richard Fishel describes DNA-mismatch repair as the human body's spell-check program. In most people, this surveillance system is always on, correcting thousands of errors as cells transfer information to new cells. Fishel and his research partner, Joanna Groden, are heading a major new project devoted to finding a cure for Bloom's syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes cells to be DNA-repair deficient, essentially shutting down the body's natural editor.
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Working with cork, a complete rod handle treatise by Dave Lewis
As many people have observed, I do indeed turn my own cork grips. I have always done them that way because in the beginning there was no such thing as a preformed grip.
Back when I was a kid I made my own grip turning lathe with four pillow blocks, a couple of pulleys and a motor I got from an old appliance. I still have that original lathe but don't use it any more. In fact I robbed the motor to use on another lathe I built more recently. The whole affair was really quite simple. One end had a shaft with a pulley on it, between two pillow blocks, which was run by belt from the motor. I drilled a hole in the end of the shaft and tapped it with a 1/4" tap so I could thread threaded rod into it. Corks were glued up on a foot long piece of threaded rod and tightened on either end with nuts. I waxed the rod to keep the glue from sticking and used the nuts to clamp the cork till the glue dried. The other end of the rod threaded into another shaft that ran in two more pillow blocks. It could slide back and forth to accommodate different lengths of threaded rod, and facilitate getting the rod in and out of the contraption.
With that little home built lathe, I made my own preformed grips. The whole works turned at motor speed - 1725 rpm. That was a bit slow but worked fine. I finally gave the contraption up a long while back when I started doing rods to sell. I then started using two other lathes which enabled turning the grips already glued up on the blank. I'll detail those two lathes in the next section.
I inherited a Sears wood lathe from my dad. It is nothing special, just one of those with the big round pipe for the lathe bed and the simple threaded head stock with an inner Morse taper and a plain dead center tail stock. Luckily, many years ago, when I was doing some gunsmith work, I traded an old Colt pistol for a 10" Atlas metal lathe. I used to use it to do barrel work for the guns I built for folks. I gave the guns up long ago but kept the lathe through all of my other mechanical endeavors, including lots and lots of motorcycle work that leaned on its abilities lots of times. With that lathe I currently do winding checks and a few other rod items, but not grips. I did use it to make an aluminum stud with a Morse taper that is threaded to accept mandrels of various sizes that will, with a little shimming with masking tape, fit into the butt sections of all the blanks I build. That stud is a good fit in the head stock of the Sears lathe and holds the butt end of the rod for grip turning.
The tail stock end required a hollow attachment that would allow the rod blank to pass through. I machined and threaded a replacement for the dead center one. It has a ball bearing affair on the end that with a small bushing and some tape over the blank allows a perfect fit of the upper end of the blank above the grip. To keep everything from flying apart under speed, I made a steady rest that can be moved along to suit the length of the blank after the tail stock. Towels draped over the blank in a couple places keeps the whole works from whipping and breaking.
I have mounted a shop vac hose attachment on a little wooden mount that can position it under the grip to catch all sanding dust when I do the turning. The lathe turns at twice motor speed - about 3400 rpm. Now that is my main lathe. I have turned nearly 3000 grips with it and have been very pleased with its performance. I actually paid nothing for the whole thing.
The Sears lathe does all my serious grip work. Several years ago I realized I needed a lathe I could turn a grip on a finished rod. I sometimes have a customer who would like a grip slimmed just a bit to suit his personal needs. So I set about to make up a little lathe to turn butt sections of rods that I had already built.
For that project I used the old appliance motor from my original lathe. I machined a hollow tubular affair that I attached to the shaft of the motor that is large enough to accept the back end of a reel seat on most any rod, by covering it in a fairly thick wrap of masking tape. I wrap it tight till it is a good snug fit into the tube. On the other end, I made up a steady rest affair using three caster wheels mounted on a little stand with the top wheel adjustable to make a snug fit on the rod. I found the wheels had hole diameters exactly the size of some metric bolts I had left over from my motorcycle mechanic days. I machined the wheels to have a nice flat surface.
I simply bush up the back of the reel seat with tape to fit, put a good bushing of tape on the butt section a couple inches above the top of the grip and another tape pad up along the lathe base at a good spot for another steady rest which is nothing more than a hole in a piece of plywood that the blank can run through. Like the Sears lathe I drape towels over the blank in a couple places and go at it. The lathe base is nothing more than a piece of 2X6. I can attach the first and second steady rest at any position along its length.
I also have a vacuum cleaner pick up attachment to catch the dust. That lathe runs at only motor speed - 1725. It is slow but, to just slim down a grip, it is just fine. I have the price of the three caster wheels in this lathe. The wood was building scraps.
You can tell I haven't invested any money in my rod building equipment. My lathes cost almost nothing. My epoxy turning motors cost about $5 each for four of them, and I use an old single speed electric drill to turn the rod while applying the epoxy. I've rebuilt it several times. I will admit to being on my third drill though. I get them at yard sales for $3 each. Now computers, that is a different matter.
I'll talk about cork and doing grips, next.
Quality cork for rod grips is getting tougher and tougher to come by every year. It is hard for me to forget the rings I bought for fifteen cents each back in the 70's. Today's best is not in nearly the same league as that and costs nearly two dollars. I look for cork to be the most expensive item on a fly rod in a few years. I buy the best available and still am able to get only a few rings that are suitable for my best rods. All of it is usable though if you are careful to position it right. I'll talk more about that later. What I look for in cork is small pits and no heavy bark areas. Uniform color with limited bleaching and few dark drying streaks is most desirable. I stay completely away from "burl" cork. That is a dark composition looking cork item that has no place on a quality fly rod, in my mind.
Ok, let's get down to business. I turn all my grips on the rod, so first thing is gluing the rings to the blank. Getting the best out of the rings always takes a little studying up front. They all have imperfections, more now than ten years ago. You can, if you are careful, minimize the consequences of them if you try and figure where the worse ones are going to fall and try and position the rings so that the worst spots are either sanded away or buried under an eighth inch of cork. That is not always easy and doesn't always work out, but it doesn't hurt to try. Filing the holes to fit the blank is easy and doesn't have to be all that exact. In fact I like to have a bit of a taper with the open end facing back to trap the glue as you slide the ring back to meet the last one.
I use epoxy. I have used marine glue, white glue, Cork Bond, Pliobond, plastic resin glue, the new polyurethane glue, polyester resin, and probably a couple others I'm forgetting. I liked polyester resin best for a long time. That is the stuff you use to impregnate fiber glass when covering boats and the like. It is not a tremendously strong adhesive, but cures
totally without shrinkage and allows cleanup with lacquer thinner, removing any trace of glue line. The stuff really works great, but you have to have the front cork really tight to prevent loosening
Like I said, the stuff doesn't hold like epoxy, but holds pretty well. Trouble with the stuff is the vapors remaining for a long long time. They simply irritated me to the point of not being able to stand them any more. I used a ventilator fan and vacuumed the cork dust, but the smell remains in the cork for months. It even got to me when I did the thread wraps. I have opened rod cases two years later and smelled the stuff. I had to quit with it several years ago.
I started using epoxy then and am pretty satisfied with it. You will get very visible glue lines with it if you get it out to the surface. I am careful to use it sparingly enough to not have it come up along the edges of the rings much. I think a grip is better if the cork edges are not glued together on the outside surface, anyway. The rings can "work" that way.
I have used the new polyurethane glue some too. Glue lines are the same problem with it. I use it sparingly too. The problem with it is that it foams and expands while it cures and will ooze out of any even remotely loose joint. That is a big problem with grips that face on open areas with uplocking reel seats. The stuff will come out in a big foaming, oozing mess. I only use it in grips that will be tight in the back and the front. It does a good job.
Everything else is no good. Here is why. Any solvent glues - Pliobond, Corkbond, white glue, marine glue, any other glue that dries by having any kind of a solvent evaporate from it suffers from two problems. First and most dangerous is solvent entrapment. The stuff dries on the outside but remains soft on the inside. The only grips I have ever had work loose were glued with Corkbond several years ago. I had to replace two grips that worked loose in the middle. Second problem is shrinkage. Solvent glues, including old white glue, shrink as the solvent evaporates. You glue up the grip, let it dry over night, then turn it on your lathe. It looks beautiful. Two weeks later the glue finally pretty well dries out and you find that it has shrunk at each joint, pulling it in toward the blank, making a scallop at each ring joint. I have a bunch of old rods I built back in the early 60's that I glued with marine glue. Everyone of them has scalloped grips.
So, I glue them up, with epoxy now, clamp them with my clamp, which I describe below, and let dry. Then I set her up in my lathe and do the turning.
I welded up a clamp that I can use to clamp two grips. It allows the front of the blank to go through a hole in the one end of the clamp and has a threaded pusher that pushes up on the butt of the rod from the back. I can clamp my corks down against the reel seat just as hard as I like. I have another clamp affair I made from wood, where one end has a block with a hole in it to allow the blank to pass through, the other end is a threaded pusher. That one allows me to move the front block so I can glue up any length of grip. I recently glued up a very long one that way.
Seems like werod builders are tool fabricators first and foremost.
My lathe spins at about 3400 rpm - pretty fast. You can't use lathe cutting tools with cork. It is too rubbery and would simply gouge out in big chunks. You can use a wood rasp, but it clogs and really isn't all that necessary. The best cutting "tool" for cork is sand paper. I start with 60 grit, go down to 120 for final shaping and finish up with 320 wet and dry paper. My shop vacuum catches all the dust. If you do much of this you quickly learn the need to prevent dust and vapors of any kind. I'd not like to die of this vocation-avocation.
Some folks do a lot of measuring as they go along so they end up with just the right dimensions for their grip. The only time I do that is when I am trying to duplicate a previously done grip for a customer. The rest of the time I simply eye it and give it a squeeze or two. Some days are probably fat grip days, some days skinny days. It is, after all, an expression of my inner self. A bit of my soul goes into each grip so I wouldn't think measuring would have much application.
Well it's done and it looks pretty good.
I've got her out of the lathe and have taken the tape off and am ready to decide whether I need a little filler for a pit or two here and there.
Currently available cork is not very clear, though. Looks like we have a lot of holes that are a little bigger than I like. Best we fill them. Commercial preformed grips have filler that is applied like a paint then sanded off. I guess that is a good way. They retain a bit of a painted look, though in my mind. I like cork indentations to retain some of their indentation qualities, so I fill them later and clean off the excess with lacquer thinner after it has dried. That leaves the filler lower than the surface and retains that "feel" of real cork.
My filler is simple - cork dust mixed with a good glue. I like glues like Pliobond. They retain their flex and mix well with cork. Trouble is when you mix in the glue the whole works turns dark. Use that stuff and you have very dark pits. The secret is to mix in some cream or tan paint when you mix the whole works up. Add just enough to lighten the mixture to the proper color. Adding a little lacquer thinner will get the stuff to the right consistency. I mix up about three or four ounces of the stuff at a time. That is enough
to last me for a couple dozen grips.
Dig out the loose waste in the pits then apply the filler sparingly with a knife. Bring it to a little mound above the pit, so it dries flat. I let it dry for a couple hours then clean off the excess with a paper towel soaked with lacquer thinner. Rubbing with the towel around the grip will remove the excess without pulling the filler out of the pits. It ends up looking nice and natural.
Final step is gluing in the butt cap and fitting the winding check. Now, if you've been careful in your choice of rings and have positioned them so you don't have bad spots on the surface, if you've been conservative in the application of the glue you will have a first class job. Good - It looks like you have a really nice job and it is your grip with some of yourself buried in there.
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Hello I need help. L
Hello I need help. Lol I was wondering if I can put a new cork handle system on a already built rod? Also what size cork would would I need. The rod is a field & stream 7"6 in length if so how. Thanks
G'day Dave, I'm ne
G'day Dave,
I'm new to rod building and was just verifying that you stack and glue your cork rings straight onto you'r blank? i have read a few other people's forums and they say to shape and then stack the rings on a piece of dowel where they are glued, removed and then fittted. what do you reccomend i do?
cheers, Luke
I'm new at rod build
I'm new at rod building. I want to build a rod with a pistol grip. I have the handle kit. How do I ream out the pistol grip. Do I have to cut the end off, ream the longer piece then glue the butt back on?
I am trying to make
I am trying to make my cork handles smaller to fit my hand. T&T wants 25 bucks a pop to do this. Do I need a lathe? Or can I do it by hand as the handle shape is already there, I just need it smaller??
Dear Dave I'm a Bas
Dear Dave
I'm a Bass fisherman from Texas. I use Shimano,Kistler & Falcon
rods. Priced from 90.00 to 300.00 each.
The palms of my hands are so big the standard grip size is to small.
Bass Pro makes a pole with a palm swell. Called a power grip. There are several
rod manufactures that make a pistol grip. Both are more comfortable.
Neither are offered on the high quality rods. Most of my rod handles
appear to be rings 1 inch long. Some have no ring marks.
Are the ones without ring marks turned from a single piece of cork?
My objective is to build a grip that fits my hand. Either from Rings or
a single piece. I can carve a prototype that fits my hand from a piece of balsa
wood thats cheap before I work with the cork. Would like your input & where to get
cork thats close to 2" square x 12'' or 1 1/2" X 2" x12" or 2" dia X 1" rings.
If this works & your interested in building some big boy grips. I know a lot of big handed
Texans that would sign up. Thanks for any & all input.
Hi Mike The best re
Hi Mike
The best remover of glue residue from labels, on any surface is normal cooking oil. Apply over label or residue, leave for 10 minutes and wipe off.
Regards Korrie
Dear Dave,
Dear Dave,
I recently purchased a used sage fly rod. The rod looks like brand new except the store I purchased it from put a price sticker on the cork handle. I tried to remove the sticker but could not get all of the sticker or adhesive residue off of the cork. Do you have any suggestions on how I might remove it? If I sand it do I need to seal it?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike
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I'm confused at all the hype over Jay Leno and Conan. Why is Leno a bad guy for taking back something he didn't want to give up in the first place? Conan didn't seem to feel bad when he took over the Tonight Show.
He was also offered a deal to keep the tonight show but he thought it was beneath him. The best thing about the Conan O'Brien show was the opening show when he ran across the country. I tried watching Conan's show but it didn't entertain me. I found him annoying and self-serving. The only humility was the monologue he gave when leaving (yet, still self-serving.) All of this drama took place during the Haiti tragedy and I just wanted to slap him and tell him to grow up and get over it. He tried and failed. This happens to all of us in jobs everywhere. Jay tried to accommodate him in every way, it didn't work. Also, having said that, I remember David Letterman making a comment years ago when NBC forced Leno out with a contract for Conan, now Letterman has sided with Conan blasting Jay for taking the spot back; why doesn't Letterman but out now instead of taking sides? Why are celebrities weighing in? Which celeb would give up a job for themselves, their staff or audience so someone else could have it? Go Jay, I am looking forward to seeing you back in your old spot.
All those Conan supporters- so what you are saying is that it's okay for Conan to take Jay Leno's dream job but it's not okay the other way around. NBC didn't offer it to Jay until Conan decided to walk away. Let's be honest, would you have walked away from your dream job just because some other person wants it? I don't think so. I'm not a Jay Leno fan but I can see his side of the story. I think overall Conan walked away a winner- he tanked in the rating but still get $45 million and seen as hero but Jay gets all the blame. I don't understand the anger. I wouldn't mind being in Conan's place. Another thing is that Conan's boss had given him suggestions on how to broaden his viewership. But being Conan, he does whatever he pleases. So Conan has no one to blame for his failure but himself....not Jay Leno.
I totally agree with you. Conan seems like a self-serving guy- who doesn't take responsibility for his failure and like to blame someone else.
I am trilled that Jay will be back. I watched his new show too. The fact the Conan humor didn't
entertain me like Leno humor was a big problem for me. I also did not like the fact that Leno
was blammed for Conan's failure. How stupid is that! Leno was "fired' from the Tonight Show. It
was not his choice. It amazes me that he is made out to be the fall-guy., Put the blame where it
belongs--NBC. I got really tired of Coenen's dramatics when he lost the show but I wish him well. If
Coenen had the numbers, popularity, he would not have lost the show. Common sense tells me that
Jay Leno is not the culprit.
I totally agree with Terri, NBC fired Jay 5 years ago so now it came back and bit them. We are thrilled that Jay is coming back to the Tonight Show. Thanks Oprah for having Jay on your show.
I love Jay, think his job was taken away when he was on top. Conan is a whiner and doesn't have the class that Jay does. I think Letterman should butt out, he has a lot of nerve to say anything about anybody. You go Jay, we will be watching you every night. We watched you at 10:00 and enjoyed you there too.
Thought Oprah was a little tough with Jay Leno. He was moved from the Tonight show to 10 pm show. He didn't ask to be moved. When they asked him (he didn't ask them) if he would come back, he said "Yes". I don't see what is wrong with that. Conan said he wouldn't change times for another show and because Jay said "Yes", he is being criticized for it?????
Jay is the King. Conan suck it up.
Let get back to the way things were, Jay at 11:35. This way I can go to sleep in peace again. Conan thats life.
Leno rocks, and gets the ratings. Conan, lifes is tough move on.
You Leno lovers make me sick. Do you see what he has done? TWICE or THREE TIMES? He pushed Johnny Carson in to retirement, Letterman left for CBS and now CoCo is out of gig because of this has been. Get a life already...
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The name ignited a light in Carl's mind. Saint. He'd been covertly recruited for Black Ops and given his life to the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. He was here because he belonged here. To the X Group.
He's an assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet...Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth - but not all of it.
Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity and made him someone new - for this, he is grateful. But there are some things they can't take from him: the love of a woman, unbroken loyalties to his past, the need for survival.
From the deep woods of Hungary to the streets of New York, Saint takes you on a journey of betrayal in a world of government cover-ups, political intrigue, and one man's search for the truth. In the end, that truth will be his undoing.
©2006 Ted Dekker; (P)2006 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
"Kevin King's delivery of the ultimate showdown drives the plot as Carl's rapid-fire self-talk is delivered at a heart-pounding pace." (AudioFile)
"Fun Read"
Lots of plot twists and suspense and action, the kind of book that is hard to put down. I enjoyed it. I would also recommend his trilogy, "White", "Black", "Red".
"One of the best ever"
Amazing characters and a memorable story. A continuation of another story arch, so be sure to watch out for the other books. Awesome! I can't wait to read the others.
"Great as always"
Great as always. My only negative comment would be that it seemed like the volume levels changed a couple of times and about in the middle of the book we thought the narrator changed, which caused a bit of distraction.
"A Stroke of Genius!"
If you have ever listened to or read one of Dekker's books, you must check this one out! From the beginning to the end it had my full attention. You always have to be ready for that twist in his books and this one delivered just as expected. If you are a Dekker fan, you will not be disappointed. It might get a bit imaginative at the end, but which one of his books doesn't. I've listened to it several times. Kevin King does a masterful job narrating as well. Delivers a five star rating on all counts in my book!
"Typical Dekker Style and Story"
Yes. I really like the Military/Espionage genre and this was Dekker's attempt to marry his stylized writing and the Spy type story. He can be a little over the top and this book is no different.
The X Project story thread, the back story of the agency that supplied assassins to all comers for a high price and used experimental drugs and treatments to train them. I'd like to see what Vince Flynn or Stephen Coonts could do with this idea.
Didn't seem forced, natural. Played individual parts very well.
Only if they kept to the spy story arch.
Stars?....don't know who I would cast off the top of my head
Not Dekker's best title, but I did enjoy it.
this is just an amazing book !!!! it is heart pumping till the end...i advise you to get this book!
"Poor Narrator"
In my opinion Saint is one of Dekker's finest works. However, I feel that King did not come close to doing it justice. I have certainly heard worse narrating, but Saint deserves better.
If you like Dekker, read Saint. Perhaps not this version, but some version.
"Worst Audible purchase ever"
Very inconsistent plot. Unbelievable characters. Poor narration. I can't really think of anything good to say about the novel. I obviously will not read the other novels in the series.
"Very Strange Book"
Very strange beginning; don't know that I would have read it if I hadn't read other books of Dekker. Glad I continued, but... you have to have a very big imagination to believe it.
"Better than Showdown"
This is the follow up to Showdown and brings back Johnny Drake and a few other characters. While this is not in the same class with Adam and Three, it was pretty good until it got to the end. The Paradise Trilogy attempts to convey a message rather that tell a story like Red, Black, and White. I'm hoping Sinner will be better.
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Whatever comes from love, love it will exude. It's no wonder why Il Pellicano Hotel in Italy is considered to be one of the world's best-kept travel secrets. Its history is so charming that it makes you want to catch a plane right here, right now, just to be apart of such a thrilling vibe.
Back in the early '60s, British army pilot Michael Graham and American jet setter Patsy Daszel were searching all over Europe to find a property in which to celebrate their magical love. They ended up purchasing a splendid piece of land on the Argentario peninsula in Tuscany and decided to call the secluded resort, which opened in 1965, Il Pellicano, in honor of Pelican Point, the promontory in California where they had first met years before.
What is today known for being one of the hippest and most sought-after destinations in the world soon became the perfect relaxation ground for an elite cache of VIP guests such as Henry Fonda, Charlie Chaplin, Slim Aarons and all the European royalty.
"Michael and Patsy were definitely among the most subtly elegant couples in those days — maybe a bit overly selective, yes, but they were so good looking that they could get away with anything," admits Roberto Scio, an elegant Italian entrepreneur and hotelier who, in 1979, ended up purchasing the property. He was a regular at The Grahams' and one of the few selected Italians invited to join Il Pellicano's exclusive parties. "Michael was never without a cigarette and a scarf around his neck, and Patsy, well, she was particularly selective about everything," Scio says. When the couple decided to sell their resort and asked him if he knew of anyone interested in buying that hidden haven, he had absolutely no doubt.
"The location was amazingly beautiful," Scio says, "and I bought it because I didn't want someone without an appreciation for the place to buy it and ruin it. I knew nothing about the hotel business at that time, but I was in love with Il Pellicano and the way the place felt. I wanted to be certain it would remain as perfect as it was the first time I stayed there. Of course, I've tried to improve it quite a bit over the years, but I believe our guests experience the soul of the place
exactly as I did all those years ago."
exactly as I did all those years ago."
Forty years later, this spectacular hotel built in the midst of the gorgeous nature of Monte Argentario by Porto Ercole on a stretch of cliffs overlooking the sea with gorgeous secular gardens designed by architect Paolo Pejrone is now home to Scio and his family. The major transformations from the Grahams' ownership to Scio's takeover mainly involve the hotel's room capacity. When the Grahams bought the land, it had 18 rooms and then there were cottages around the hotel owned by different people. Eventually, Scio ended up buying those, and they are now an integral part of the hotel.Scio also transformed the original houses into hotel rooms. The hotel slowly started to expand, and in the late '90s, many more rooms were added. Today Il Pellicano has 50.
It would be impossible to resist the temptation of asking Scio' about some colorful anecdotes involving the exclusive Grahams VIP party guests. "Obviously, there are too many stories to recount at the moment," says Scio, reminiscing, "but one that I consider the most precious is when I visited the hotel as a young man in my late 20s. The Grahams always had live music on Friday nights with a candlelight dinner followed by dancing. Back then, men wore jackets and ties in the evening and women were known to change their outfits numerous times throughout the day. I was the youngest male guest one weekend when Charlie Chaplin and his daughter, Geraldine, were there. Geraldine must have been in her mid-teens at the time. At one point, a waiter came over to my table and told me that Charlie Chaplin wanted to see me. When I arrived at his table, Geraldine had just gone off to the restroom or something. He told me that his daughter was painfully bored and asked me if I would ask her to dance without letting on that he'd requested it. Of course, I was happy to grant him this favor but was also pleased to dance with such a charming young lady."
Today, the parties are still going on at Il Pellicano. "The Grahams created a private club atmosphere for a very selective few," says Scio, "and I believe I've maintained this atmosphere while opening it up to a much larger range of guests who still feel the exclusivity of being part of a club."
Scio's daughter, Marie-Louise, who presides over all the design and architectural projects of the hotel, has continued the Grahams' and her father's tradition of having these wonderful parties. "There was always a woman of the house at Il Pellicano," she says."[In the beginning,] it was Patsy, then there was my mother, and now I have sort of taken over." Every year she throws The Globetrotters Reunion where the cream of the international globetrotters society gathers around the pool on a full moon. Marie-Louise, now 33, lives in Rome and goes to Porto Ercole a couple of days a week. She has fantastic memories of her parents' parties. "When I was 5 years old," she recalls,"every Friday night there was a party, and men had to go in suits while women had to wear long dresses and turbans. I hid behind the cypress trees and was amazed to see the most chic, glamorous and sophisticated group of adults dancing around the swimming pool drinking martinis and smoking cigars."
A very fascinating aspect of Il Pellicano is that it has the flair of a private home. "This is what Patsy has done by decorating the place as if it were her house," Marie-Louise points out. "This is still a quality that Il Pellicano has today, which I think is what makes it really special. This is a place that people can actually call home."
A lot of modern-day celebrities hang around here all the time, continuing the illustrious legacy of the resort, "but no names,"says an adamant Marie-Louise. "That's why they come here. It's their place." The hotel has around 25 percent repeat clients, she adds, "and we still have guests who used to come when the Grahams were here. No Hollywood gossip. That's forbidden. Our clients are very understated; they don't come here to be seen or watched but just to be on their own as no one bothers them, especially today where everyone is so flashy."
A recent book edited by Rizzoli, titled appropriately Hotel Il Pellicano, documents the history of the hotel with images by three incredible photographers.
"It's a project I started five years ago,"Marie-Louise says. She had spent all her summers at Il Pellicano, and she still does with her family and friends. "We looked into all the archives, and we had images from John Swope, who documented the opening and early years of the hotel, and then images from Slim Aarons, who visited Il Pellicano in its most glamorous years from 1967 until 1991. And after putting all those images together,
we thought it might have felt a little nostalgic because it stopped in the '90s. So we chose another photographer, Juergen Teller. He came two years ago and stayed 10 days."
we thought it might have felt a little nostalgic because it stopped in the '90s. So we chose another photographer, Juergen Teller. He came two years ago and stayed 10 days."
The book was released in Europe last March with an opening party launch in London.
"I'm very proud," admits Marie-Louise."It's been a long road to get it together."


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What does the two set appart from each other?
By that I mean someone that develops the poster from scratch, as opposed to building images that others have done together. Don't get me wrong designing is an art in and of itself, but I love seeing that physical image created with a hand in these contests.


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What are the inner and outer limits of the habitable zone in distance for the sun?
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Estimates for the habitable zone within the Solar System range from 0.725 to 3.0 astronomical units based on various scientific models.
Would these models take into account different albedos, geological activity and atmospheric pressure? The habitable zone from what i understand is complex.
Those are naive estimates based on unsupported guesses on statistical parameters.
Im my mind i would think that if Earths atmospheric pressure was raised to 2 bar it would raise the boiling point making the habitable zone closer to the sun. Even if there were more clouds in the atmosphere they would reflect more of the suns rays making the zone closer as well. The albedo of Venus is .70 while Earth is .30-.35 which means Earth recieve more sunlight.
I guarantee you it isn't that simple.
I just find it intesting that Earth is considered on the inner part of the zone when we have had ice ages that covered a great deal of our planet.
Life could exist at 3au if it evolved there but the ecology of that life system would be very different to that of the earth. The length of the days and years are intrinsically bound up with life forms on earth. If for some reason the earth moved to 3AU with or without the moon I believe 99.9% of life on earth would cease to exist for a myriad of ecological and biological,seasonal reasons, but having said that, some forms life would likely "find a way" and evolve on a different evolutionary ladder.
The other thing to take into consideration is that the earth has a molten iron outer core which gives 'us' a magnetosphere. This prevents our delicate atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind! Take away 'our' magnetic field, and life as we know it here would be vastly different regardless where we sit in the habitable zone.
I agree Damo, we seem to have hit a billion to one sweet spot. What I wonder are the odds that it exists anywhere else in the universe? The thought that we are alone is a very foreboding one don't you think!?
This article shows how they go about calculating the habital zone. It also includes atmospheric and other considerations.
Its also nice and recent. Covers alot of considerations.
I have no doubt that there is life outside our miniscule point of reference in our local group of stars, let alone the unimaginable expanse of our galaxy, to the incomprehensible size of the local group of galaxies, and then onto 99.99% of the rest of the universe which is outside of that! Have no fear, we are not alone!
The 'uniqueness' of our present solar system layout is based on what 'we' think would be typical, and it is hard to imagine that all the critical bits of the gigsaw are common to other systems, but the more that is found about other systems, the less unique our one becomes. It all comes back to the idea that our sun is just a typical star in a typical patch of space, which formed a set time in the past from a nebula of typical space lego. We are not so special.
I don't disagree that there's a possibility Damo, after all "we" happened. It's the probability of life even remotely evolving along our lines. Most people envisage highly sophisticated extraterrestrials with advanced warp-drive ect, how often do people consider that the Human race are in fact the most advanced beings in the universe?
That would be an interesting thing to discover.
The technology required to detect a civilization like our own is a daunting task. Even assuming a planet with a history and conditions identical to our own does not guarantee an identical evolutionary outcome. After all, we humans were on the brink of extinction a mere 75,000 years ago. I sort of like the 1 in a billion odds. Sounds reasonable. The problem arises when you factor that into the billions of years this galaxy has existed. That suggests there may have been as many as 400 civilizations as advanced as our own in the history of our galaxy. It is also pretty obvious they were spread out over billions of years. This makes 400 in a billion look like a pretty small number. I would hazard to guess that only a very few occupy our galaxy at any given point in time. And that raises another question, how many of those very few actually have the resources and inclination to agree on the merits of investing capital to contact ant hills in Africa? So my point is human like intelligent life is probably extraordinarily rare in our galaxy at any given point in time, and, few [if any] are near enough to succeed in a SETI endeavor.
I agree whole heartedly. Life, and intelligence are 2 vastly different things as we are well aware. I would expect that anyone with a basic understanding of the evolutionary process on our planet (which has enabled life to get to the stage where it is today), wouldn't be expecting any life we potentially find in the nearest 1000 suitable systems to contain anything more than the simplest bacteria, if anything at all.
It might be possible that at the present time we may be the most advanced species in our Galaxy, but that will be dependent on a few things. If interstellar space travel proves to be the massive hurdle it appears to us to be at present (which affects all intelligent species around the Milky Way the same), and there is no solution to the practical speed limits imposed by physics regardless of technological advances, this would mean that any intelligent species could be wiped out completely by one single asteroid, never to explore again. This would vastly reduce the timescale that 'other' life is actually around for us to see it. As Chronos has pointed out, using probability doesn't make the likelyhood of co-existing intelligence in the Galaxy at the same time promising. One thing though, if you consider that the timeframe of evolution 2nd and 3rd generation star systems and corresponding planets are in the same ballpark time wise as our sun, I think this would shorten the odds of intelligent life existing at the same time as us.
If interstellar space travel is a scientific step away, then I would expect other civilizations to be already around the Galaxy.
Who knows, our planet may have already have been canvased in the past billion years as a potential 'life harboring planet'. If this were the case, I would expect that the visitors would leave some form of calling card, probably not on the surface as they would be smart enough to understand the geology of the planet, but somewhere (like the surface of the moon) where whether and geological process wouldn't erase their calling card.
Life in general is extremely sensitive. Even the simplest 'hardcore' lifeforms (extremophiles) are prone to temperature and pressure.
We can envision a more complex and intelligent lifeforms because it is 'allowed' prior to our latest understanding. It is mathematically possible and indirectly provable.
We are one transition(life) of that massive computation(nature). Such transitional products are not divisible to one type even given extreme sensitivity because that processes(life) is extremely adaptive too. If time is the only considered variable in comparison to our present knowledge then it is more unlikely (quantitatively) that we are the peak of cognitive evolution.
An asteroid cannot destroy a whole solar system, but intelligent life can destroy (or even use) an asteroid.
The average lifetime of intelligent and technological species is a completely unknown factor. Is it of the order of 100-1000 years, because they all tend to kill themselves as soon as nuclear power and similar things are available? Is it of the order of millions of years? Is there a reasonable probability that the species (or some descendants) will exist for billions or trillions of years?
Life exists everywhere on our planet (excluding the molten interior), and there are indications that life from earth might be able to live permanently on Mars. I would not call this "sensitive" - we don't even know where the limit of our life is. Life which evolved in different conditions would be able to adapt to different conditions.
Sure, you cannot take a bacterium which is adapted to live in rocks 3km below the surface and expect it to survive somewhere in the antarctic ocean. So what?
Not really. All P-life 'as we know it' has that degree of sensitivity until given the opportunity(It will happen eventually) to adapt gradually under conditions(local/General) while most of them died and became extinct. Case of Mars. In general. It is different to earth but such local criteria has similarity to earth which is compatible to certain life. We can say that simple lifeform thrived and has lesser biological limitations compared to most complex P-life that requires a larger condition to exceed.
I agree we don't know the limits to life but we do have a positive hint and a critical analysis on conditions to life (P-based life)to which we can draw local limits like biological potential and/or multiple adaptations of certain species. Question like; "Do they have the intermediate profile that enable them to adapt in those conditions?"
Well. Adaptation-mutation is a gradual process you don't expect a fish to develop limbs or wings overnight (Tiktaalik roseae) or drain your fish tank and expect them to grow limbs or more so survive . Same is true with bacterium adaptation?
I don't get your point. There is no place where all organisms can survive. How does that matter if we consider places where life is possible?
There is no place on earth where life is impossible (again, excluding the molten interior).
What is "P-life"?
If Mars is similar to Earth, there are similar planets on many stellar systems.
Sure. Life on other planets will be adapted to the conditions of that planet, as it always faced those conditions during its evolution.
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