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Sydney interior design guru Sibella Court shares her eclectic sensibilities.
When it comes to showcasing your most favourite objects and filling your home with personality, Sydney interior stylist Sibella Court is the master. She travels extensively around the world, seeking out the unexpected and brings home her finds to display in a way that is elegantly unassuming, yet irresistible. Her collections work to pique your curiosity and each has an intriguing story.
Court's career has seen her work as a stylist in retail and the magazine world, in Australia and New York. She has her own hardware range, colour range and has written numerous books. Her latest is Bowerbird. Beautifully shot, it is bound to inspire. Here Court shares 10 key factors to consider when decorating your home.
1. Embrace your collections: I believe all objects have a memory or a story attached to them. It might be a memento of people, places, past times and experiences. Having these out in your home inspires a smile or a tale to tell guests, and reflect your life and loves as a 3D timeline.
2. Necessities: A friend asked me once, where do you hide all of your ugly stuff? Nothing needs to be ugly. I love to see my brown bottled detergents and sprays, loofahs and sponges and beautiful vintage hardware. Be selective and have a keen eye when you are buying the necessities of life, and you will find that they can be just as lovely as the things I buy for aesthetics only, without function.
3. Display: Don't think that you have to hide the utilitarian tools and tackle that make your displays possible. They make it all the more beautiful: exposed hand-forged nails to hang pictures, different sized glass jars, domes and vessels, coloured tapes (my favourite is brown) sticking paper ephemera straight on to the wall, string to hold it all together and sharpened lead pencils.
4. Storage: If you don't have the space to have all your things out at once, you need to get creative with storage spaces. I have floor-to-ceiling open shelves in my shop and office, which means I can still see all my collections that I constantly use for inspiration when designing. Open shelving units are great, or a solid chest of drawers labelled so you can organise your things the way you like, giving them all a place to live. Keep an eye out for old shop, museum or library furniture and then label them yourself. Mine include: tins; pegs and clips; tape; pins and tacks; and paper ephemera.
5. 10-colour palette: This is how I create colour palettes for my interiors, home, studio, product ranges, shoots and everything in between. By creating a 10-colour palette you define boundaries and have the ability to choose any number of combinations within the palette, whether it is two, six or all of the colours.
6. Paint: Anything can be painted. Paint can give old furniture a new lease on life or satisfy the change you're looking for in a room. I'm not one for preparation when it comes to painting, I see the charm in one lick of paint over whatever is already there. I like to see the history of colours in the layers. You should see the front door of my shop!
7. Paint choice: If you're not ready to commit yourself to painting an entire room, I have two easy tips. Paint huge swatches of the colours you're choosing between and tape them to the walls so you can see how they look throughout the day and in different light. Or, my personal fave, paint a dado. It's not as overwhelming as the whole room, takes 20 minutes and you can change it at a whim.
8. Styling: Rearrange your furniture, display your collections, take a moment to consider, arrange and rearrange, edit and subtract; this is all about creating a space that reflects the personality of the person who spends time in it. It should be evolving and changing as time goes on. A life is not permanent or stagnant, and neither are interiors.
9. 3D: I love a three-dimensional space. Things should be coming from the ceiling, out from the walls and up from the floor. There is nothing more boring than furniture glued to the walls and flat art. Hang puppets from the ceiling, create mini-worlds under a dome, lean art on the floor or let it drop at different heights.
10. No rules: The smallest room in my house is painted black! I think you should put more time into thinking about what sort of interior you want to spend time in, the finishes, textures, furniture, art arrangement and colours you like, than worrying about things like how to maximise space (sometimes it's best to embrace it) or follow any supposed rules.
Strange little paintings
I visited the isolated Nukus Museum of Art, Uzbekistan, with my mum. All these amazing Russian avant-garde artists whose works were banned by Stalin are on show in this incredible museum. Outside, there was a small exhibition of local children's art. I bought a drawing of a blackbird. On a recent trip to Amsterdam, while visiting Moooi's HQ, I picked up a discarded portrait with a green background and strapped it to the back of my bicycle. It now sits comfortably in my annexe with other such finds.
I like picking up flat things when travelling, and paintings fit this requirement, especially when small. Although you randomly collect paintings without a specific subject matter, it's more about the place and trip for me; you could pick a theme and run with it, for example, portraits, landscapes or trees.
I often like to use what's available - a hook not quite in the right place is perfect for these paintings. Don't worry about them not matching in subject, height or colour, here anything goes.
A loose grouping of related objects - leaf ceramics, a medicinal bottle filled with giant seeds, a box of porcelain leaves, leaf specimens and a sprig of faux fir - makes for an interesting and very unscientific mantel display.
Moustachioed men
My dad has had a moustache forever. Maybe that's where my fascination with them came from, or was it the next-door neighbour, the conductor, who had a white ringmaster one that needed to be waxed? When I travel I look for moustached men in photographs and paintings, plus I recently started stocking mugs with moustaches and even named one of my paints "Moustache".
It appears I just cannot get enough of skew-whiff, handmade, often hand-thrown plates, bowls, cups and other vessels in natural colours. On return from my travels, my luggage always contains at least one new vessel. It is more often than not made by a local artist, in an indigenous material: wood, bone, clay, stone, wire, vine, glass, shell. They're for everyday use.
Old-fashioned souvenirs
I think the word "souvenir" gets a really bad rap. I want to conjure up all the romance of travel and the idea of coming into the port of a place that was so foreign, the desire to take a piece as a memento was too strong to deny. Souvenirs were often made by local artisans for tourists (also a word that gets a hard time).
Things like shell cameos from the Amalfi Coast, Native American beaded purses from the Niagara Falls, pincushions made of conch shells from the Bahamas. A little kitsch, maybe, but the set of bamboo-handled knives and forks with 'Surfers Paradise' hand-painted on each handle that my great friends Donna and Will gave me many years ago have long been treasured and many times used.
I love a mad mantel. Play with scale, colour palette, texture and materials. If anything, make people smile. Here souvenirs are the theme: temple sticks from Laos, a paper grass parrot by Anna-Wili and a geranium (one of my favourite old-fashioned flowers) sitting on cardboard discs, scarps from my shop, green pompoms and some sea-tossed pebbles from a faraway shore. A 3D reflection of my travels and me!
VIP Viva
We are delighted to have five copies of Bowerbird to giveaway.
To enter, go to nzherald.co.nz/vivagiveaways and enter the keyword Bowerbird on the VIP Viva page along with details. Entries close at 11.59pm on Sunday September 30, 2012. For terms and conditions see the website.
* Bowerbird by Sibella Court. On sale now ($59.99: Murdoch Books). Distributed in New Zealand by Allen & Unwin.


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Alumni group hosts UTSA poet Wendy Barker
By Marcia Mattingly
UTSA Office of Alumni Programs
(March 31, 2008)--The UTSA Alumni Association will host AuthorSpeak! with Wendy Barker, UTSA poet in residence and professor of English, who will share her stories, experiences and poetry. The event is 5:30-7 p.m., Friday, April 4 at the home of Maxine Farrimond, retired UTSA manager of special events.
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AuthorSpeak! is a series of gatherings where alumni and friends can meet the authors of recent books and publications of interest to the community. Hors d'oeuvres and wine will be served; registration is required and admission is $5.
For more information and to make a reservation, visit the UTSA Alumni Programs Web site or call (210) 458-4133.
Wendy Barker has published four full-length collections of poetry including "Poems from Paradise" (2005), "Way of Whiteness" (2000), "Let the Ice Speak" (1991) and "Winter Chickens" (1990), as well as two chapbooks, "Eve Remembers" (1996) and "Between Frames" (2006).
She published a selection of poems accompanied by autobiographical essays, "Poems' Progress" (2002). Her translations with Saranindranath Tagore from the Bengali of India's Nobel Prize-winning poet, "Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems" (2001), received the Sourette Diehl Fraser Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry, The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Stand, Partisan Review and Antioch. Barker has read her poetry at dozens of universities, bookstores, festivals and conferences in the United States, Europe and India.
As a scholar, she is the author of "Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor" (1987), as well as co-editor with Sandra M. Gilbert of "The House is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth Stone" (1996). She is recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships as well as other poetry awards including the Violet Crown Book Award (received for "Way of Whiteness" in 2000 and "Between Frames" in 2007) and the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar. Her work has been translated into Hindi, Japanese and Bulgarian.
In fall 2000, Barker was a Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria.

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It's not just him, it's everyone.
Especially the coaching staff.
It's not just him, it's everyone.
Especially the coaching staff.
Mood: WOOF!
Now we play the Eli proves us all wrong game.........If we're lucky.
when did he turn into Dave Brown the last couple weeks?! Brown would have played better for christ sake. Even an average Eli would have won this game, but the dude couldn't find one reciever today. Im so pissed.
While our front office is negotiating a new contract with Steve Smith Part II... y'all keep blaming the best player on this team. You people deserve to have a team like the Jaguars. You look at stats and don't see that there isn't a receiver on this team that can get separation from ANY defensive back (safeties included), and if the defender happens to suck or falls down... they drop the ball. You idiots are the same ones that wanted to trade Eli. He is ALL THAT THIS TEAM HAS RIGHT NOW.
Figured you were the one who started this thread.......
the Steelers and Cowboys DEFENSEs wanted it more...give them credit where it is due.
we seem to only want to run or throw the deep ball. Our intermediate stuff was snuffed out just about immeadiately.
we also play soft on D when it comes to the Pass, that accounts for something as well.
NFL Championships : 1927 1934 1938 1956 Super Bowl Champions: XXI XXV XLII XLVI
If someone says it's the defenses we faced I'm going to snap... THIS IS 3 WEEKS IN A ROW UNDER 200 YARDS PASSING AND HE HAS BEEN THROWING INTS. It's a getting to the point when ever he drops back I'm expecting something bad to happen.
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looks like a good bet,
are the queens flown?
looks like a good bet,
are the queens flown?
you probably do not have alot of options over there in Nova Scotia,
where do you get your queens now?
I had very few options until this summer.
• NS had a closed border for 20 years.
• No importation of bees without special permits.
• Province imported all the queens for everyone at one time each spring from one supplier in Hawaii.
I obtained a permit this summer, and I got 10 of Bill Ferguson's Buckfast queens and queened my wintering nucs with those. We'll see how they're doing come spring.
The fruit industry (blueberries, and namely Oxford, who is the single largest beekeeper out here with 15,000, colonies pushed the province to open the border, because even with the all their colonies, they're still short on pollination. Also, I have a feeling they plan to get out of the bee business. We shall see.
Anyway, it appears that this year will be more open, and while that may increase competition for pollination contacts, it will make it easier for me to bring in strong genetic stock to build my own with. I am just getting started. My primary goal is a sustainable bee population. I am aiming to run about 100 colonies. Right now, I have 13. A ways to go.
After that, who knows?
Those Buckfast queens have a good rep
RE: Live and Let Die - Do you really reduce the gene pool? I wouldnt think the gene pool would be reduced as much as queen breeders who raise thousands of queens from just a few.
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AA, AB, BA, or BB.
Any bee with a B gene will be aggressive, SO only an AA is a calm bee that every beekeeper is looking for. So nearly all beekeepers are picking out colonies to produce queens from that are calm. the problem is that in all of these there are only A genes. There is zero chance that the B gene will get passed on.
Now beekeepers everywhere are saying, "So What"! We don't want that gene anyway. Well maybe. what if the only gene that disease resistance is connected to is a B gene?
Now it is not nearly this simple. many traits have a dosage factor involved. that means that a bee with just one B gene will not be as aggressive as one with two B genes. this simply means that more genes means the trait shows up stronger.
Now it gets complicated. it is very unlikely that aggressive behavior is the result of just one gene. but actually a combination of genes. Genes are put together in strands and different part or alleles can get on the string in different combinations. Some traits are a result of one gene being closer or further from another in the string. So lets say aggressiveness is a result of how close A and B are together. So a bee with ABXYZ gueens is far more aggressive than a bee with AXYZB genes. But Z is our disease resistance gene. and for bees to be resistant disease this gene must be right next to gene B. And B must be within one allele of A. In this case only a AXBZY or an AXZBY bee will show both disease resistance and some calmness. If you every get a very clam bee it will be susceptible to disease.
As you can see with even a few different genes you get a lot of combinatins that mix with a lto of other combinations for a huge number of possible combinations. in a good genetic pool these combinations will number in the millions. not hundreds or thousands.
In nature the end result of millions of small variations is that when a new disease comes along. nothing has to develop a resistance to it. the combination that can resist that disease already exists. That man is trying to get the bee to resist the last 4 or 5 problems is a huge problem. what man needs to be doing is breeding the bee that will tolerate the next 4 or 5 that we know nothing about yet. But man wants his big colonies that make lots of honey and do so as gentle bees. Not the making of a vast variety that is already prepared to withstand any future threat. That is a healthy genetic pool. it contains millions of variable combinations.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
It seems due to factors beyond our immediate control our best options for building better bees goes out the window for a couple of reasons:
1) Successful natural selection comes from members of a species adapting and surviving a range of variables in region which will be limited in scope by the travel abilities/habits of the species combined with the species being exposed in a limited in scope to the conditions and pathogens which would exist in that region and the limits of exposure to new threats due to the same factors. In modern times new threats or issues are introduced in multiples which would not exist in a "natural world", ie. packages of bees from Austrailia, Africanzed bees from South America or Africa as are believed to have either migrated or been introduced from a ship and migration of colonies, being kept contary to natural conditions, nation wide. This factor it would seem places a very un-natural pressure on the species. This seems to eliminate this natural selection as a having much viable impact due to the never ending cycle of what appears to be bee pandemic.
2) Treaments, which if not in existance, would have likely resulted in at least a large (perhaps I should say larger looking at CCD) depopulation of bees, a great reduction in both commercial pollinators needed to support the worlds food supply, and hobby beekeepers who would likely not be able to invest in the cost of buying from very limited bee suppliers. Drugs are not what any of us want, they negatively impact the betterement of the species but are absolutely necessary as a bridge for the industry to reach a future. Israli virus (one of many), hive beetles, varroa, wax moth, AFB, Africanization, pesticides, etc. - too many un-natural and constantly chaning factors on scene at once.
3) The "puppy mill" effect on queen breeders as a result of the perfect storm of conditions from many factors which arise from a sudden large demand for replacement bees and queens. This has decreased the quality of queens as studies have shown and may even be increasing the spread of negative survival factors on a large scale, ie. queens being shiped with unusual numbers of virus strains and the decreased ability to do more selective breeding due to losses in breeding operations.
When I look at these factors combined with the 2012 drought I wonder where is the safety net of time and resources that allows us to get out of the survival mode and develop a more comprehensive model to deal with what we face and overcome the multitude of issues on a large scale which more comprehensively deals with the current issues and treatments. Maybe some of the folks who have the protocol and have written a thesis could work on such a model or make suggestions in how we get to that model? It would be good if the research monies were distributed in a way to eliminate duplication of work and aimed at developing a model we could all understand and work with. Is this approach possible?
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>>It would be good if the research monies were distributed in a way to eliminate duplication of work and aimed at developing a model we could all understand and work with. Is this approach possible?
wow that was a breath of fresh air! I m with you on that
I was thinking about this subject because it's one that comes up again and again, posed in opposition to Bond Method beekeepers.
Here's my thought. All the bees we have are descended from a relatively small population of bees already, especially the commercially available ones. And if the stories are to be believed, a relatively small number of colonies were imported to this country some hundreds of years ago. Furthermore, the honeybee genome is a tenth the size of the human genome, containing only 10,000 genes. The honeybee genome has evolved more slowly than that of other insects and has fewer genes for immunity than other insects. In this country, there are around 2.5 million kept colonies and for the sake of argument, let's say there are just as many feral ones. Since each colony is essentially one reproductive individual and each drone only gets to mate once, we might think of colonies as individuals, at least for a simplistic view.
If I'm losing a fifth of my hives on average each year, and everybody else seems to be losing just as many, I ask again what's being lost? Bees aren't endangered. I haven't seen any evidence that the species has lost any specific gene or trait. They still do all the things they used to.
I calculated that it takes something like 29 generations before any given queen has more direct ancestors than there are base pairs in her DNA. If a hive exists in a tree and swarms once a year, then outside of any supersedures, that hive achieves 29 generations in 29 years. Any significant similarity in the DNA of the granddaughter is gone long before then.
I'm just trying to understand the scope of this subject in real numbers.
Here's what I believe according to the evidence I have gathered: The number of colonies is so great, and the amount of genetic information is so great that the chance of losing any given piece of information with the death of any given hive is miniscule or functionally impossible. That's what I believe according to the evidence I have seen, but I am always open to new evidence or interpretations of the evidence.
you would have to agree that certain traits can and will be lost after generations of selection pressures. you would also have to agree that while loosing those certain traits, they are replaced with favorable traits related to that selection pressure. So really nothing is lost right?
Biogeography in biology and evolutionary biology, one may see the same
questions asked and answered or at least theories proposed to answer the
questions raised in a "Bond" or "Live and Let Die" scenario of selection
A salient point in honey bee heredity is sex determination. Honey bees'
sexual heredity is allelic, not chromosomal (XX vs XY) as in vertebrates.
Thus, one may find their population limited by a homogeneous expression in
the sex allele area, causing poor brood pattern and general decline.
This inherit mechanism forces drone promiscuity to be positive, and forces
small populations of isolated bees to retain a specific size necessary to allow the sex
allele expression to remain diverse enough to keep the general population
Physiologically, a small, isolated honey bee population will go extinct after X
number of generations due to the inherint homogeniety that will occur
in sex allele inheritance.
One could say that drones fly and virgins fly, each to mate, to increase
the chances of heterozygosity in sex allele expression by mating with
others that have different sex allele expressions.
BOND or Live and Let Die would encourage the rapid sex allele
homogeneity, if the population became to small. The Paige-Laidlaw model for
breeding in a closed population addresses this somewhat, but folks who use
this model still bring in new breeders now and then, injecting new genotypic
combinations where specifically, sex determination, needs to be made more
heterozygus: more diverse. You get the idea.
If one has a small, highly controlled breeding population, one will indeed
need to create an artificial gene flow by bringing in new blood, or one will
lose all. If one has a small breeding population and one is open-mating, then one is
usually okay with the way the gene flow occurs.
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I understand how these models work on isolated populations like Galapagos tortoises and many New Zealand native species, but that's not what we're dealing with. What relevant information can we find that fits the conditions we have?
seems to me like a big part of the equation, and what i hope i can capitalize on at my location, is the drone contribution from the local ferals.
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I think it's because of what you just said Sol, hard selection for a FEW traits. You lose some diversity in your population of bees as you may lose most of you hives but with open mating I don't see any bottlenecking taking place. I think people would just rather see a more controlled breeding practice of bringing in your desired traits with known stock and introgressing those genes into current apiaries and keeping more of the diversity people like to see in their bees.
The only other issue I see is if something else comes in early in your rebuilding phase and now all your bees are susceptible to that because most of your hives are now base from what few surviving colonies you had left and are probably pretty similar to each other.
i think we may be giving ourselves too much credit for what we can and can't do with the bee. maybe managed, but never domesticated.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
On the nose Mr. Peg.
thanks sol,
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Carrie: Luv the orange and purple together. Its a combination I would like to try someday. Really a cheerful, bright quilt.
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Carrie: Luv the orange and purple together. Its a combination I would like to try someday. Really a cheerful, bright quilt.
The UFO finishes for March have been so amazing! Way to go EVERYONE!!
I finished 2 more off my list (just 56 more to go!) I'm looking forward to getting below 50... kind of a psychological break through or something like that! Just like I was actually happy when my starting point of 94 didn't break 100. ;)
Charming Stars (UFO Finish #21) was made from 2 charm packs using the "Little Charmers II" pattern by Anka's Treasures. I really love the soft colors and pretty florals in this quilt.
And, stockings 2,3 & 4 (UFO Finish #22) have joined stocking #1 which I finished in December 2012. This was my only UFO I carried over from 2012 (part of the the key to finishing them for me is not creating any more!). They are from a Thimbleberries pattern called "Christmas Patchwork Stockings" and I used all Thimbleberries fabrics and leftover waste triangles from my Thimbleberries tree skirt to make them. They are lined with muslin, have a flannel batting and I used the old fashioned Santa print on stocking #1 for backing them all. It will be a treat to finally have a handmade set of stockings to put out come Christmas time.
Krista- that is wonderful! congrats on getting it all done, it looks great!
Carrie- I love the colors in that quilt! However I know the feeling of wanting to be rid of a quilt...I have had several that I am pleased to see go out the door! Hope your friend likes it!
Krista: Your quilt is beautiful.
Carrie: I absolutely love your fabrics together.
Great job everyone. Final two-day push before the new month starts...let's go!!
asimplelife- Great job! I love the stockings, they are on my list to do this year!
Great finishes everyone!!!! Y'all are amazing, as I say so often!
I am having a great time here in Ohio with my grandbrats, the time is just flying by so fast!
I got the official word that I will be getting my new knee on April 23rd, so I am going to have to really get after that colossal tshirt quilt when I get home! I am determined it will be finished and on it's way home to CA before my surgery!!!
Carriem your quilt is beautiful. I love the colour range that you've used. I bet your friend from the retreat must be thrilled to bits to be given it.
Everyone is doing great, what an inspiration! I started the year with 25 UFO's, 2 crib size quilts and the rest are 60 by 80 or larger. I was able to finish 3 this month for a total for 6 an my goal is to complete them all before the end of the year. I have not started any new projects and would really like to finish all UFO's before starting something new.
Good luck everyone and keep up the good work.
Asimplelife: Great finishes! Expecially like the qult but then stars are always my favorite.
simple: Great job! The quilt is beautiful, I love the color combination. And the stockings...I love Christmas! Now I need to go try to remember how to make my pictures smaller so I can post my recent finishes here.


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There are some things you just can't lose
The word "harrowing" is described quite simply in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as, "extremely distressing."
My maiden name is Webster and perhaps that entitles me to my own lexicon. Regardless, I have developed a much more nuanced meaning to the word. To me, a harrowing experience is one which is indeed distressing, but that calls on the harrowed one to do something. If there's nothing you can do about it, then to me, it is something else, not harrowing.
Pondering this in an otherwise idle moment or two some months ago, I was surprised that I could come up with only two incidents in my life that I would call harrowing. I thought huge chunks of time must have disappeared from my memory bank but scanning back as far as I could remember, I found all but two incidents better described by other adjectives. Thus, my father's death was not harrowing to me; it was probably the saddest moment of my life. It caused my heart to hurt and left a huge void. But it didn't fit my definition of harrowing.
Driving my out-of-town nephew to the airport when he was going to France for his junior year abroad more than fit the definition. He had not only his ticket but that of 14 fellow Bucknell students so approaching the Newark Airport exit on the NJ Turnpike, and hearing him say, "Newark! Our plane takes off from JFK," harrowed the life out of me.
Some heroic driving and apparently a fortuitous alignment of the stars and the Bucknell 14 made the darn plane.
The most harrowing experience of my life, however, was when I lost a friend of mine's daughter who was playing at our house. She was around 3, and I had been listening to her and my daughter, looking out the window to check every now and then until suddenly, it was quiet.
Too quiet.
"Where's Vicky? I asked my daughter, although I didn't actually say that because her name neither was nor is Vicky.
"I don't know," my daughter said.
I ran around the outside of the house, twice, the second time looking under bushes. I looked up and down the street running two houses or so in each direction. Ran into the house, down to the basement, up to the main floor, then the second and third floors. Not a peep from a little girl anywhere. Worse, there was no sight of one.
When her mother called - what could have been worse - I didn't know whether to tell her right off or wait until we had thoroughly investigated to determine whether we did indeed have a missing child case. I told her they were having a good time together.
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Harrowed as I could possibly be, I ran outside and did what seemed reasonable. I lay prone on the raked front lawn and screamed, "Vicky, Vicky." That wasn't all I did. I pounded my fists into the ground as hard as I could. I thought that would be effective.
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Our man to the rescue went through the house and did not find Vicky. I continued to help by yelling and pounding and my friend went through the house again. There may have been other people searching for her, too, but I can only remember him.
And then the words I thought I would never hear broke through the hysteria: "I found her."
Where were you?! I wanted to scream, but didn't because I was almost unconscious on the front lawn.
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Pork chops, roast potatoes, braised red cabbage all from the farmers market this morning with braised peas from the freezer section of the supermarket!!!
Oh, and a caramalised onion and slow roasted Roma tomato tart for the vegetarian.
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Seared Pollock on a Minted Pea Puree, served with Buttered New Potatoes, Baby Carrots, Courgettes & Runner Beans (all from the garden).
Plum Batter Pudding (similar to Clafoutis) & a blob of Clotted Cream.
Note: To avoid confusion.....all the fruit/veg came from the garden...........
........as yet the sea isn't quite there yet despite global warming, so I cannot claim to have harvested the fish..
.....oh, & tectonic plates moving as they do, Cornwall isn't as yet in the Midlands so I cannot claim the clotted cream either. Shame about the latter...but there you are!
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Homemade pizzas, everyone tops their own. Cauliflower soup if anyone is still hungry. Easy Sunday night dinner!
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Pork Stir-fry............pig from my mate up the road, veg all from the garden, sauce created with dribbles & dashes of a host of bottles & jars, the contents of which originated all over Asia!
Fresh fruit Salad for dessert (probably dressed with a gingered/spiced light syrup)
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Venison and red wine casserole tonight, with mashed garlicky potatoes and leeks and carrots, with cake made by No. 1 Daughter for pudding.
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Jan 8, 2013 at 8:59 am #1297780
Richard NisleyBPL Member
@richard295Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
Why was the forum thread, that Babak Sakaki started on the entitled subject, deleted yesterday evening?Jan 8, 2013 at 10:02 pm #1942076
Hello Everyone,
I deleted the thread without an explanation because I did not have an explanation to give – yet, and I needed some time to do some homework.
I do not know all of the facts behind the posting of the details about the jacket at this time, but I do know this: that no, while Patagonia isn't Apple, and no, this may technically not violate anything legal for Babak to post this info, it *may* violate what we consider to be reasonable standards of ethics that I adhere to for BPL – publishing potentially proprietary information from a company that does not desire that information to be released. I have been in contact with Patagonia and they indicated to me that this information not only was not intended to be released, but the information that was published was inaccurate as well.
Journalists love scoops. And while it's ethically acceptable in the news industry to squeeze, buy, barter, or bribe confidential information from our politicians, corporate insiders, and other keepers of controversial news (and readers *love* and *demand* it), it's not always an ethical standard that's good for everyone involved. I'm not suggesting that Babak unethically gained the information, or published it with the intention of disclosing proprietary information. That burden of unethical disclosure should fall on his sources, since this information did indeed to appear embargoed by Patagonia.
That this involved a Patagonia product is irrelevant. I've been in similar types of situations with products from other companies as well, including the very smallest of our cottage industry manufacturers, and I will honor their requests as much as I will honor one from a large company.
Please keep in mind that for every time I've taken down a forum thread or censored it when it has come to product disclosure issues, Roger and I have rejected several dozen requests from manufacturers. These things are very carefully evaluated and we use the delete button with extreme reservation.
I've introduced Babak to a contact at Patagonia and hopefully they can resolve any issues behind the scenes and Babak can circle around and let us know how it went. If all goes well and they foster a nice relationship then maybe we can hear about new Patagonia stuff without so much drama :)
PS: And, FYI, the "stove" thread in question is still in progress. Don't worry, that horse ain't dead yet…!Jan 8, 2013 at 10:55 pm #1942088
Ryan (and to whomever at Patty who I irked):
My bad, truly. I wasnt trying to violate any ethical code or try to disclose proprietary info that wasnt meant to be released.
All information about the jacket (except fabric) was obtained by (current) Patagonia employees, including the photo. ALL said that they were only very few details (cost, colors, photo, materials) and were not told that they couldn't sell them or share that info.
Looking forward to hopefully reaching out to those folks.
BabakJan 8, 2013 at 11:13 pm #1942092
Babak — totally cool. I'm sure with some further communications we'll get this figured out well enough. Thanks for your patience!Jan 8, 2013 at 11:36 pm #1942093
Here is some not embargoed info on the down itself, per Patagonia:Jan 9, 2013 at 7:01 am #1942135
Brendan SwihartBPL Member
@brendansLocale: Fruita CO
Seems like leaving a short explanation in place of the deleted content would leave less to the imagination about what's going on. Things just disappearing makes folks (rightly) uneasy.Jan 9, 2013 at 9:04 am #1942159
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@mdiltheyLocale: MaxTheCyclist.com
The most interesting part of all this to me is how closely manufacturers watch this site. I kin of assumed, since this is where I go for the "scoop," but after this episode i'm assuming all of my posts are being read closely.
I guess I should be more vocal with my preferences in outdoors gear!
-I hate snagging zippers
-I love things that store in their own pocket
-I like vents underneath chest pockets that are compatible with backpack straps
-I love durabilityJan 9, 2013 at 10:28 am #1942180
PM me if any of you want a link with a review of the jacket (YouTube)Jan 9, 2013 at 10:32 am #1942181
Where did the other posts within this thread go? You know, all those well thought out tongue in cheek responses. So the original thread was deleted, then the seperate thread in response to the original thread was heavily edited?
Aye.Jan 9, 2013 at 11:13 am #1942199
eric chanBPL Member
Seems like leaving a short explanation in place of the deleted content would leave less to the imagination about what's going on. Things just disappearing makes folks (rightly) uneasy.
i said the exact same thing and my post got deleted
delete in 3 .. 2 … 1 …
;)Jan 9, 2013 at 11:17 am #1942200
poof!Jan 9, 2013 at 11:54 am #1942213
I should explain something to Patagonia, before they ask for this thread to be deleted:
I have, since 2009 and on numerous attempts, have made efforts to check out your line at EVERY Outdoor Retailer show. And EVERY time, you guys give me the snub. Someone at lunch, or you can't because "I am not a buyer"- and that's fine.
But like many folks on BPL, I am just searching for accurate information. We are a community that is devoted to spending time outdoors, and many of us use your (rather kick-ass) products.
That being said, I found it very irksome that you'd support websites who seem to somewhat regularly spread misinformation and misconceptions about the products they review (*cough*OutdoorGearLab.com*cough*).
So rather than contacting me directly (you have my information from a number of ways), you ask for a thread to be deleted.
Next time, Patty- holler at your boy. Don't take the lame route and just censor me, and then leave everyone puzzled….. it only bring more attention to what you do not want seen (yet). Otherwise, I wouldn't be taking the entire day off of work to write up (a rather extensive) video review of the Men's Encapsil Down Belay Parka.Jan 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm #1942252
Aside from the momentary drama here. I am sure many of us are really interested in the technology here with all of these down treatments. For example:
* How does the Encapsil technology increase loft (like many, I am an engineer)?
* Critically, how durable are these coatings? Are they going to degrade with soiling, washing, etc?
I feel like we are entering a version of the Gore Tex story here for a new generation of hikers with competing patents and marketing claims. Perfect opportunity for BPL to apply its tradition of unbiased scientific rigor to the topic, which I am sure Ryan is already planning.Jan 9, 2013 at 7:12 pm #1942340
Some of it is window dressing, and I can't sort out how / why some makers have spent the money for it (marketing?).
Then there's this other one I've tried that is nothing short of remarkable. I can't disclose who makes it yet, but It's as good as synthetic fill in resisting loft degradation in sustained rain, at least when worn in the short term (a few days of wearing in bad weather, stuffing in pack, unstuffing it, etc.).
The rest of them I've tried (all of them that are publicly available) are somewhere in between, and definite steps up from untreated down.
I'm excited about the prospects here, especially for cooler weather sleeping bags.Jan 9, 2013 at 9:24 pm #1942384
Thanks Ryan. I agree that there is real substance and reason to be excited about this new technology. It does appear to work and is far more than just marketing, just like GoreTex was not just marketing. There was real technological advances there that benefited us as outdoor gear consumers.
But there were also real world limitations, as we all know know, in terms of actual breathability and durability to those materials. It will be interesting to see what the analogous story will be with treated down in terms of the long-term performance (e.g.,durability, loft retention, etc.) with the various treated down products. Maybe it actually is better in every way. That would be great. I am actually holding off on my next sleeping bag/quilt purchase till some of this shakes out. The has someone done a patent search to see how new these are? A That would be interesting too.Jan 9, 2013 at 10:58 pm #1942400
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"Then there's this other one I've tried that is nothing short of remarkable. I can't disclose who makes it yet, but It's as good as synthetic fill in resisting loft degradation in sustained rain, at least when worn in the short term (a few days of wearing in bad weather, stuffing in pack, unstuffing it, etc"
Okay, STOP.
Ryan, is that a fair thing to say?
You have this forum and a huge audience here and you "can't disclose who make this yet".
Dude.. why not?
We are BPL.
We paid you money for just this sort of information.
I urge you to at least secure a test sample or an early review for the BPL audience.
If this is just another transitory coating that dies over time like WR treatments.. we want to know how long it lasts.
Not going to say; you owe it to us. But.. you owe it to us.
Oh yea, please disclose any interest you have in the company this time.
Thanks.Jan 9, 2013 at 11:11 pm #1942404
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
"We paid you money for just this sort of information."
I would venture to guess that some companies provide beta gear for testing/feedback to a handful, and that part of the agreement is not to make public anything about the gear.
If that is the case, they he would not be allowed to share any information until the company says it is okay.
I might be wrong. Nobody ever sends me gear… I have to buy all of it :)Jan 9, 2013 at 11:24 pm #1942406
a bMember
Yea, your right Nick.
Just feelin' fiesty.
Also a little tired of the "hot and cold" routine we get from "upper management" round here.Jan 9, 2013 at 11:53 pm #1942410
Dustin ShortBPL Member
Meh, it's all hype. I still think aluminizing synthetics to up their clo value will prove a better route than modifying down. Or maybe those new polymer based aerogels that are inherently flexible…
For now I'll stick with my reflectix suit of armor. Somewhat light and guarantees i'm visible from space.Jan 10, 2013 at 2:46 pm #1942625
Stephen MBPL Member
@stephen-mLocale: Way up North
Is Patagonia off their game charging 700$ for the jacket.Jan 10, 2013 at 4:55 pm #1942662
Hence, why I continued to post…. apparently, Patagonia has been developing this product for over 5 years and has thus, created a special launch plan for the product- NOTE: I bought this jacket from Patagonia's LiveChat, and paid the full retail price, with the specific intent of writing a review.
I fail to see where this is "my bad", and like others have expressed, I felt that this is the type of info that BPLers(such as myself) pay for.
Am I out of line here?Jan 10, 2013 at 5:17 pm #1942673
I can't comment on the ethics of the situation, not knowing specifics or wider context. But in terms of just information value, at least for me, it is high. And a product review will be awesome. Even better would be testing on the underlying down material under real or simulated conditions (dirty, wet, sweaty, and stuff sack crammed).Jan 10, 2013 at 5:47 pm #1942684
Richard NisleyBPL Member
@richard295Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
NO, I don't think you are out of line!
The topic of water repellent down has strong interest by the forum members and you did us a BIG favor. I recommend interested parties go to You Tube and search on "Encapsil" to watch your excellent video review; 34 people have looked at it so far.Jan 10, 2013 at 6:08 pm #1942688
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
If you bought this from Patagonia (legally), as it sounds you did, and did not agree to any kind of confidentiality restrictions, you are free to do as you please, IMO.
Disclosure: I am not an attorney. Just a rational human being.
That's a lot of money. I would have to ask my wife for permission — good news is that she would probably buy it for me as a birthday or Christmas gift :)Jan 10, 2013 at 6:27 pm #1942693
"I fail to see where this is "my bad", and like others have expressed, I felt that this is the type of info that BPLers(such as myself) pay for.
Am I out of line here?
You're not out of line Babak. This IS exactly one of the reasons why people come here, to geek out on gear tech and scope new technologies and options for lightweight outdoor recreation, specifically backpacking. This takes place predominately through the free forum content. No way in hell will I be purchasing a $700 down parka, but I do find the technology developments used interesting enough to take a look. Eventually this will trickle down to more affordable down garments from Patagonia.
Maybe there is an Encapsil Down Parka review in the BPL Editorial pipeline and you, Babak, just beat them to the punch, stealing their thunder?
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#1 Sat 10 Mar 07 11:32pm
Turkish pide
Does anyone have a recipe for pide? It's sort of a cross between pizza and calzone.
Instead of the dough completely enveloping the filling as in calzone, pide's dough is folded over the filling at both ends and midway over the central part of the filling, leaving some filling exposed.
I have tried to adapt my pizza and calzone recipes, including using a pizza stone preheated for almost an hour in a 500C oven.
My Chez Panisse dough doesn't work with pide, either, but is brilliant with pizza and calzone.
Any ideas, suggestions or recipes are most welcome.
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Re: Turkish pide
My grandmother lives in Sydney and buys Turkish bread and other goodies from a Turkish supermarket somewhere in Leichardt, I believe. I think they do all sorts of things, so it might be worth finding one near you and asking after a recipe or tips...?
#3 Sun 11 Mar 07 6:49am
Re: Turkish pide
Thanks Anna
#4 Sun 11 Mar 07 5:26pm
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Re: Turkish pide
Found this recipe online for pide dough.
4 tsp dry yeast
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 cup unbleached all purpose flour
3 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tsp salt
3 tblsp olive oil
1 cup + 1 tblsp warm water
make sponge of the first 4 ingredients. Let set for 30 min.
In a large bowl, add bread flour and make a well.
Pour in sponge and and remaining ingredients. Knead until pliable.
Found it online so who knows?
When I typed in pide+recipe, I got a number of sites.
Good luck.
#5 Sun 11 Mar 07 8:45pm
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Re: Turkish pide
If you can get the dough right, try some chorizo, eggs and cheese on it. I had something similar to this on a trip to Famagusta with some Turkish Cypriot friends. I managed to get about the same taste in an omelet using the above ingredients, never did work out the bread recipe though.
#6 Mon 12 Mar 07 3:36am
Re: Turkish pide
Thanks so much. Will give the dough recipe a try.
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I am making notes and plans for my 2013 season, in which I want to expand from 1 hive to 10. I have set up beeyard agreements with some local landowners and now have some non-urban space to expand into. This includes a nice empty field in a largely organic area, behind a barn, surrounded by walls of blackberries, where I can put nucs and have a queen mating yard (there are spots nearby to put drone mother hives as well).
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Edward Tiekink
UTSA First-Year Faculty: Edward Tiekink makes big career move from Australia to UTSA
By Lydia Fletcher
Special Projects Writer
(July 2, 2007)--Edward Tiekink, UTSA associate professor of chemistry, received his bachelor's of science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He joined UTSA in the Fall 2005 semester.
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LF: How did you come to UTSA? Where did you come from and what brought you here?
ET: I was from Australia, so I worked a very, very long time at the University of Adelaide, and felt it was time for a move and so I went to Singapore for three-and-a-half years. I thought it would be interesting to explore the United States and so I came to Texas, because it resembles reasonably closely where I came from in Australia -- South Australia -- with very large open space, friendly people, lovely weather, et cetera. And so this was open at the time that I applied... I like San Antonio. It was a deliberate career move.
LF: What sort of research do you do here or hope to do here?
ET: We have two major programs. The one that's really flying at the moment is crystal engineering. A lot of chemists connect atoms to form molecules, and what we are all about is taking the molecules and arranging the molecules in a specific fashion. And rather than using covalent interactions, we're using interactions that may be hydrogen bonding, and so if you can arrange the molecules in a specific fashion in a solid state you can tell their magnetic properties... their luminescence properties and such.
The second program, which is moving, but a little bit slowly at the moment because the funding has to come through, is metal-based drugs. So, we're making compounds that have metal such as gold or antimony or bismuth, and trying to make these materials so that they are water soluble. Previous experience has shown that they have excellent anti-cancer activity and some of them also have anti-viral activity, and I think that it's the anti-viral activity that we wish to pursue... it actually works... that's unbelievable.
LF: Who is your favorite author and favorite composer?
ET: My favorite author is Graham Greene. And music... probably Biber, an Austrian composer.
Read more about Edward Tiekink's research interests.