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Special Request- December 28, 2012 Episode- Phyllis Summers
Tagged with: the young and the restless, Barney's New York, VPL
Special Request- October 30, 2012 Episode- Phyllis Summers Newman
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Phyllis wears a houndstooth jacket. Remember that time Miss Clavel had to rush little Madeline to the hospital in the middle of the night to get her appendix taken out? Phyllis, although no longer sharing the littlest orphan's hair color, may have to do the same with Jack if he doesn't get the surgery soon because it is clear that "something is not right." Who knows, maybe even his enemy Victor will visit him while he's recovery since Madeline's pesky neighbor Pepito even payed her a visit. Victor and Jack may never "break bread" together but hopefully they will reach a point where they can at least be civil.
ICB Houndstooth Structure Jacket
$595.00 by ICB at Barneys New York
Tagged with: the young and the restless, ICB, Barney's New York
Special Request- October 25, 2012 Episode- Chelsea Lawson Newman
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Chelsea wears a teal dress with an open back. As she unknowingly jousts with the other only member of Adam's fan club for his attention, she is left rather dejected. Chelsea needs her husband now more than ever but it just so happens that so does Sharon. Adam rides off into the sunset to be Sharon's knight in shining armor, which is ironically something he once told the blond she didn't need in her life. Especially every time Nick tried to play the role. In this tale, only time will tell who will eventually win Adam's affections.
L'Agence Cap Sleeve Open Back Dress
$380.00 by L'Agence at Barneys New York
Tagged with: L'Agence, the young and the restless, Barney's New York
Special Request- July 9, 2012 Episode- Phyllis Summers Newman
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Phyllis wears a lavender silk top. It isn't a coincidence that while wearing this color, her son lays her out in lavender and really puts her in her place. Phyllis is practically celebrating Daisy's murder and Daniel is not too happy about his mother's reaction. While her daughter-in-law's disappearance is as aromatherapeutic to her as soothing lavender, perhaps Phyllis would be better off keeping her two scents to herself.
3.1 Phillip Lim Sleeveless Square Top
$350.00 at Barney's New York
Tagged with: the young and the restless, Barney's New York, Phillip Lim
Special Request- May 1, 2012 Episode- Chloe Mitchell Fisher
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Chloe wears a striped dress. It's fitting she would go with a nautical themed wardrobe considering she recently tied the knot with Kevin. It's aboat time her very own perfect storm ended although one can say Chloe's been taking all life's been throwing at her in tide. It is a bit fishy Carmine is currently sticking around town but at least everyone thinks he's a pain in the bass. Another thing that's not hard to wrecken? The new Mrs. Fisher looks fabulous in this adorable frock. Whale done, Chloe, whale done.
Thank you Alanna for finding this dress!
$275.00 by Opening Ceremony at Barneys New York
Get the look for less with this dress.
$49.99 at ModCloth
Tagged with: the young and the restless, modcloth, Barney's New York, Opening Ceremony
Special Request- October 15, 2010 Episode- Sharon Newman
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Sharon agrees to give Adam a ride home in the storm. She is wearing a camel coat similar to these choices.
$795.00 at Tory Burch
$299.00 at Kenneth Cole
Update 10/18: Here are several other suggestions. If anyone has any information on the coat Sharon is wearing, please post in the comments section or email email@example.com so I can share the information with everyone else. Thanks!
$1,195.00 at Barneys New York
Juicy Couture Military Felt Coat
$378.00 by Juicy Couture at Neiman Marcus
$258.00 by 3.1 Phillip Lim at YOOX
Tagged with: Barney's New York, Kenneth Cole, Juicy Couture, Neiman Marcus, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Tory Burch, Yoox
Special Request- October 4, 2010 Episode- Gloria Abbott Bardwell
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Gloria suspects Jeffrey is hiding something from her. She is wearing a sequin cardigan similar to the ones below.
L'Wren Scott Mini Sequin Cardigan
$2,995.00 by L'Wren Scott at Barneys New York
St. John Paillette Knit Cardigan
$695.00 by St. John at Saks Fifth Avenue
Cavalirie Sequined Cardigan in Charcoal
$298.00 by Diane von Furstenberg at DVF.com
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Hey all,
So my new used trailer last year had a wheel bearing failure while being towed back from a dirt bike trip. It sucked...it's a '96 Triton single axle trailer...I pulled a MacGuyver and fixed it "good enough for government work" in a parking lot, got it home and then repacked both sides.
Well, it looked like the other side had never been serviced...and yes I should have known better. Safe to say this is the first and last bearing failure I'll ever experience.
My questions is how many miles do you all typically run before a cleaning and repacking? To me annually simply seems like overkill...I would think they should be able to run 10,000 miles or so prior to needing to be pulled apart, cleaned and repacked. Also, this trailer does have zerks, but I think they only fill the inboard bearing. And yes...it does have the little tires on this bad dog, and it's only an open trailer too...so very light.
Thanks in advance--

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Hello Everyone, I am new to the Forum and have searched to find out if Blown Insulation from the 70's contain anything that may be health hazardus? The insulation is a Grey color and feels kinda like cotton but just not as soft.My daughter and I have Asthma and I am wondering if it may affect it any.
We just moves into this modular 2 months ago. Any input would be great.
It could be blown cellulose fiber. Could have been treated with a fire retardant. Unless it's leaking into the living space it shouldn't cause any health problems IMO. But I'm not a doctor. When I work in it or around it I wear a respirator.
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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. - John J. Augustine of Port Chester died Jan. 25. He was 78.
Augustine was born Sept. 5, 1935, to Andrew Augustine and Mary Chmielowiec.
Augustine is survived by his daughters, Joyce and Janice; brothers, Andrew, Fredrick, William and their spouses; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his wife, Marie; brother, George; and sister, Virginia.
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"We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, "Because." There was no satisfactory answer."
Jonas Salk was still a student when he began to look for a better answer to his classroom question, and the answer he found led to one of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the history of medicine.
In America in the 1950s, summertime was a time of fear and anxiety for many parents; this was the season when children by the thousands became infected with the crippling disease poliomyelitis, or polio. That burden of fear was lifted forever when it was announced that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed a vaccine against the disease. Salk became world-famous overnight, but his discovery was the result of many years of painstaking research.
Salk went on to found the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he continued his research into the causes, prevention and cure of diseases such as cancer and AIDS. Dr. Salk never patented his polio vaccine, but distributed the formula freely, so the whole world could benefit from his discovery.


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Dr. Philip Meyers Reviews Two Decades of Stroke Trials
Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center was part of a team to look at twenty years worth of peer-reviewed research on the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Specifically they looked at trials involving recanalization, procedures done directly inside an artery to remove an obstruction such as a blood clot.
In the end, thirteen trials were included in the review and the researchers said,"a significant improvement in recanalization/reperfusion was noted over the last two decades." In other words, they found that these procedures have increasingly resulted in improved blood flow in the brain.
Their research paper, Improvements in recanalization with modern stroke therapy: a review of prospective ischemic stroke trials during the last two decades (authors: Kyle M Fargen, Philip M Meyers, Pooja Khatri, J Mocco) has been published online here for early review in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.Posted on Feb 5, 2013 by Department Author
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" Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Graham Ison / Hardcover / 192 Pages / Book is published 2002-01 by Severn House Publishers Ltd "
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I have had this book on one of my many bookshelves for a few years and for one reason or another never got round to reading it. That sounds very grand I suppose but it's not I love reading and have lots of bookshelves but not much else!! So as a wet and cold weekend was forecasted the other week I decided to give it a crack, so with several cups of coffee and a cuddly blanket and set myself the task of doing just that.
==About the author:==
Graham Ison is a well-respected crime novelist, having written 27 books to date. He began his career as a Soldier before spending the next 30 years in Scotland Yard's Special Branch, working in a variety of different roles. These days he is a full time author as well as being an after dinner speaker and occasional obituaries writer for the Daily Telegraph.
==Synopsis of the book:==
A prostitute, Monica Purvis's body is found in her London flat having been brutally murdered. Detective Chief Inspector Brock and his partner Dave Poole are called to investigate the crime. Initially they check with her co-workers and find she was a popular lady with seemingly few enemies.
On further investigation into her life, the detectives discover she was up to 18 months ago working at Heathrow Airport as a check in girl, but got fired because of her bad time keeping. Why had she turned to Prostitution? As she was by all accounts an intelligent and very capable young lady with no expensive habits.
Further enquiries discover an estranged husband who has recently been realised from prison after serving a three year sentence for armed robbery. Brock discovers that her co-worker at Heathrow Sylvia Moorcroft and boyfriend have a more intimate relationship with Monica and her husband. And after questioning Sylvia's partner is found the following day drowned in the river. Can Brock and Poole solve the puzzle?
==My thoughts on the book:==
I thought this was a very realistic, believable and highly enjoyable crime novel. I often criticise crime writers in particular for be unrealistic in their writing, the way things seem to conveniently slot into place. With this author I felt a more honest and frank approach to Police work with many roads leading no-where at all. I think maybe the fact he was in the Police force demonstrates his understanding of their painstaking work and therefore the realism of what they have to do.
With this being my first novel I have read from Graham Ison, I didn't have a clue what to expect. Some times this can be a positive thing as you are pleasantly surprised by what you read. But conversely it can be bad and you end up not liking the style of writing and give up after a few chapters. I'm glad to say this book was definitely in the formers class.
This is the first in the series of so far eight books that feature Brock and Poole as the investigation team and as such introduced them. Although I wouldn't have necessarily guessed this by the way the book was written. As the author did not dwell on either man's history, he just provided tantalising remarks about them as the case unfolded and potential for scope in his future novels. I would have liked more background as I always think it allows you to build up not only a better picture but a greater understanding into their characters.
What originally attracted me to the book was the title 'Working Girl'. As I thought this opened up many possibilities, especially once I read the short summary on the back of the book. And I discovered it was an investigation into a Prostitutes death, I thought it threw up many options as to why she would have been murdered.
I must admit I love a good well-written crime novel. In which you are seemingly working along side the detective as he seeks to solve the case. I thought this book was very well written and Ison is excellent at describing both the scene and the colourful characters within it. What surprised me and what first made me think this book was a bit dated was the lack of forensic evidence. A woman does not just get stabbed without evidence being left certainly these days with the advances in Medical Science, DNA and forensics.
I do not like any books regardless of their type when you are waiting for something to happen. In this one we were straight into the case, as the first scene dealt with the Police's reaction to the discovery of the body. From there it remained a face paced mystery, where the further the Police investigated the more suspects were discovered but few with any motives to want this mysterious girl dead.
For me the best part of this book was undoubtedly the story itself. I found the investigation exciting and I never knew what information was coming and what avenues they would have to take. I found it realistic which was refreshing with a Senior Police Officer really struggling to find the answers.
I enjoyed the book from start to finish; its pace was fast throughout, with an exciting concluding chapter, which was again honest and very realistic. Too many times to the guilty parties collapse under questioning and give the game away, in this novel Brock and Poole had to work cut out to achieve anything.
So far I have said lots of good things about the book, but it can't all be good! I did struggle a bit with the lead character DCI Brock. He was a likeable man but he never convinced me that he was a great copper. Too often did he struggle to get anywhere in the case and I found a few of his decisions odd. I do not feel on the strength of this novel that I have really got to know the lead character well enough. I think this tells me the author probably did not spend long enough on his profile and getting the reader to feel an affinity towards him.
The other support characters were by contrast more convincing, I liked the relationship between Brock and Poole and the way they understood each other's actions before they were made. I also found their humour and sarcasm refreshing and clearly it was something they employed to survive in their work. The other characters were all very diverse maybe it would have been good to have a little more details on each of them so I could have understand their characters slightly better and their motivations then they would have been more memorable to me.
The book was written back in 2002. But to me it seemed more dated than that and if I have a true criticism it would be that the Police procedures and practices in this novel seemed very slow and cumbersome. Even DCI Brock at times seemed a dinosaur in his attitude and approach to the crime investigation, but maybe that was just being realistic as it can't be all fast cars, swift action and brilliant deductions.
That said there was always enough to keep me more than interested in the plot. I found the dead women's life fascinating and I was keen to understand why she had decided to go into Prostitution but towards the end of the novel the answer to that question was revealed.
I do think this thriller did lack a proper build up of suspense. I think that had a lot to do with the author's style of writing. He was better with the dialogue and the facts rather than building up either mystery or suspense.
The author seemed to lack real depth in his descriptions and as a result you feel you are definitely missing something in his writing. He fails to set a scene properly and to do justice to the characters he employs within his story. If they were described in greater depth I'm sure I would warm to them better and have greater empathy or at least understanding towards them.
It was a compelling story and although it was comparatively short book it was long enough to explain and excellent story. Being well broken up into decent size chapters that signposted a new scene for the two detectives.
I am really pleased I finally read this novel. I did enjoy it in the main and would recommend it to all crime fiction fans. I particularly liked the authors down to earth approach and found his style to be logical, practical and very believable. I certainly will be reading more books from this author over the coming months as I think he has more to offer and this was a good introduction to his writing abilities, I just hope he expands his descriptions in the next one as that was what the story lacked real depth in not only that but his characters backgrounds.
Pages: 217
Publisher: Severn House
Price: £0.16-£16.99 Amazon
Year: 2002
About the author: wwwgrahamison.co.uk
Thanks for reading my review.
This review was published on both Ciao and Dooyoo under my user name.
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Zambales Mango Festival gets green light
IBA, Zambales–Zambales, known for producing some of the world's sweetest mangoes, marks another milestone this week when it plays host to the 15th National Mango Congress, an annual convention of stakeholders in the country's mango industry.
Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. said this is the first time that the mango congress would be held in Zambales, which hopes to be a major player in the regional mango trade.
The congress will be held on March 20-22 at the Ramon Magsaysay Technological University convention center here. At the same time, the 13th Zambales Mango Festival will be held until Sunday, March 24, at the Zambales Sports Complex, also in this town.
Ebdane said the congress is an important step to revitalize the local mango industry and realize its full potential.
"Mango production is undoubtedly a major industry in Zambales and, in fact, our produce is now known worldwide as one of the sweetest and most delicious. Yet we have lagged somewhat in terms of production and marketing in the previous decades," Ebdane said.
"We hope to change that and put Zambales on top of the industry under this administration," he added.
Evelyn Grace, president of the Zambales Mango Growers Association, meanwhile expressed pride that Zambales got the chance to host an event that has eluded the province for quite some time.
"We have tried to bid twice to host the Mango Congress under the previous governors, but lack of facilities and financial support bogged us down," Grace explained.
She added that the this year's congress is very significant to mango producers in the country because it will focus on various means to increase mango farming income by stabilizing domestic prices through mango tourism and by synchronized mango production and efficient handling system.
The congress will also highlight topics on disease control, use of appropriate and safe pesticides, and the campaign towards organic mango production.
Grace also said that experts will be on hand to speak on pest control and technology to make mangoes more resistant to diseases like the locally-known "batiktik". Speakers will also discuss policy proposals on how to protect the industry in relation to international trade; on how to market mangoes, from handling and packaging to promotion and selling; and how to better care for orchards through proper nutrition and pruning.


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A report out yesterday suggested that British workers are four times more productive than when the Queen's reign began in 1952. We still work roughly 920 million hours each week, but the value of our economic output is 60 times greater. There are the same number of public sector jobs; fewer skilled manual workers; and many more managerial, professional and technical jobs. One of the biggest changes, the report said, is in how much more stressed we are in the workplace.
But the far more instructive comparison is not between two eras of British workers, but between today's workforces in Britain and China. By that comparison, we're not nearly stressed enough. Last week the Daily Mail reported on the astonishing productivity of workers in Foxconn's Chengdu plant which makes Apple products in south-west China: "working excessive overtime without a single day off during the week, living together in crowded dormitories and standing so long that their legs swell and they can hardly walk after a 24-hour shift."
Or take this from The New York Times recently: "Apple had redesigned the iPhone's screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly-line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the [Chinese] plant near midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day. 'The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,' the executive said. 'There's no American plant that can match that.' "
A beautiful report in this week's New Yorker by Leslie T Chang describes how the Chinese bestseller lists are full of "success manuals" and workplace novels, all celebrating extreme hard work.
What does this imply for our allegedly stressed, super-productive workers? As Thomas Friedman put it recently in a masterful New York Times column: average is over. "In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won't earn you what it used to. It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above-average cheap foreign labour, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra – their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in ... their field of employment."
We might seem productive compared with 60 years ago. But to Chinese eyes, we're looking very 1952.
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Vega Case Study: Mid-Georgia Ambulance Service
Mid Georgia Ambulance Service is an internationally recognized EMS operation with 29 ambulances and over 140 dedicated EMS professionals, who respond to over 30,000 requests for service each year. They provide 911 emergency response coverage across a large portions of Georgia including Cook County and Chattahoochee County; approximately 40% of Bibb County, and supplemental 911 coverage in Muscogee County. In addition, Mid Georgia Ambulance Service provides hospital and private responses in Macon County and Muscogee County.
As Mid Georgia expanded its 911 response service in south central Georgia, they understood that their VHF radio system needed to be compatible with Southern LINC, iDEN communications system. The Southern LINC system is a primary communications platform for hospitals in their coverage area. They wanted to maintain a consolidated dispatch facility in Macon, where they had strong infrastructure and experienced staff, but this facility was nearly 130 miles away from their most outlying coverage areas. Their existing solution utilized leased lines, which were very expensive to maintain. They also wanted to have redundant, back-up dispatch capabilities in the event that something happened to their primary dispatch center. With all of these factors in mind, Mid Georgia Ambulance Company began to evaluate new radio dispatch solutions.
System Requirements
- Extend VHF system coverage to all locations within response area
- Link VHF radio system with iDEN based Southern LINC system
- Dispatch all response areas from a single consolidated dispatch center
- Reduce monthly leased line expenses
- Built-in redundancy and back up capabilities
- Allow for low cost system growth in the future
Mid Georgia chose Telex's revolutionary IP-based dispatching solutions. The Telex equipment allowed them to replace their leased line with a low-cost DSL network connection, at a significant monthly savings. The IP-based infrastructure also facilitates radio network expansion as their response area continues to grow. Connecting additional towers, and adding dispatch positions or radios are simple IP connections. The system linked Mid Georgia's VHF radios to the Southern LINC, iDEN radios by connecting both to a C-6200, 18-line dispatch console. The C-6200 bridged all of the disparate systems onto the IP network, and they were then accessible from all five of the primary dispatch positions, each running C-Soft, Dispatch Console software. Now Mid-Georgia's dispatchers can place and receive calls on the iDEN system and on the VHF radios, as well as being able to crosspatch the two systems together, thus achieving interoperability between them. Mid Georgia utilized their existing network infrastructure for their new IP-based Dispatch system, so there was no additional investment in network development necessary. The new system also allows Mid Georgia to be able to create back-up dispatch locations anywhere along the network, by simply deploying another C-Soft console in the remote location of their choice. All that is required is access to the IP-network.
Mid Georgia not only successfully integrated their VHF system with the iDEN based Southern LINC system, they realised significant savings by eliminating their dedicated leased line. "This will be the way to communicate in the future," states Joe Robinson, Chief Operating Officer. Expressing great pleasure in not only the system performance, but also the service by the Telex representatives who installed it, Mid Georgia now plans to expand it to all of their operating sites statewide. With future expansion to other remote sites on the horizon, Mid Georgia is excited about the ability to simply plug into their existing network.
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|Cliff Vaughs ca.1974, on one of his custom-built HD choppers
|Cliff Vaughs today
|Thus far, the only image associated with Vaughs' civil rights documentary; 'What Will the Harvest Be?'
|Cliff Vaughs being dragged by National Guard troops at Cambridge, MD, May 2, 1964. Incredibly, this photo was taken (and c.) by photographer Danny Lyon, whose photo essay of time spent with the Chicago Outlaws MC is documented in his fantastic book 'The Bikeriders'. I look forward to exploring the story of these two 'outlaw' bikers, one black one white, in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"I was working in the News Department at KRLA when Henry Fonda's son, Peter, was arrested for possession of marijuana. I was mildly amused that so much interest was engendered by the incident, considering the number of citizens detained and incarcerated for smoking "pot".
|Peter Fonda with his father, Henry. It must be the the late 60s; Dad has a paisley shirt.
He came by a few days later accompanied by Dennis Hopper, whom I hadn't seen since his performance in "Rebel Without A Cause" with James Dean. We talked and I learned that they [Fonda and Hopper] had been planning to develop a movie that centers on motorcycles. I agreed that the themes of the 'Western' were careworn but an American adventure with the protagonists riding motorcycles instead of horses was apt. We adlibbed a story line: two friends (not quite "bikers"), traveling across America seeking adventure. I offered the name "Easy Rider", taken from the Mae West performance of "Where Has My Easy Rider Gone", in the production "She Done Him Wrong"… The title had been an adornment of my house, on the wall; a tapestry with a hidden message sent to me by Susan Mansour, erstwhile friend.
We had several discussions about the project at my home in West Hollywood and agreed that we would have to develop interest in the movie outside my parlor. We were not particularly known well enough to raise interest or financing. Peter and Dennis had a long background in the industry; they would raise the money. I would design and build the motorcycles and develop the visual themes. Captain America and Bucky [Captain America's sidekick], costumes, colors: red-white-blue. I was accorded the title of Associate Producer. We named our company Pando.
|The Captain America comic book, here on a motorcycle with his sidekick, Bucky(c.Marvel)
There were no African Americans in the film as actors or participants in the production. I didn't have any contact with the production long after 'ER' was released.
[At that time,] the casualty rates on motorcycle accidents were so high that I asked Peter Fonda for a letter of intent to fund "Not So Easy"[1973], an educational film on how to ride a motorcycle safely. Filmfair financed the film with full support of Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson provided Evel Knievel, who was under contract to them at the time. I had Evel Knievel's Coliseum jump on film, and a performance by the LAPD motorcycle drill team. Two of my cronies from Hollywood Chosen Few appeared on film: "Rabbit", and "Billy Diamond" (deceased). It was required viewing at judicial traffic school for quite some time.
The [ER] motorcycles were designed and built by me in my back yard. My longtime friend and mentor Mr. Ben Hardy assisted me wholeheartedly. We had met when he taught me how to wire my first motorcycle, a 1947 "knucklehead" in 1961. He had contacts developed over years of repairing motorcycles in his shop on West Florence Ave. Jim Magnera of MC Supply was a valuable asset. He had arranged to act as my agent when Harley Davidson sold me an unnumbered engine (shovel head) which required a new law from the California Legislature. Mr. Magnera was also active in financing the burgeoning black motorcycle enterprise in South Central Los Angeles. Mr. Magnera and Mr.Hardy were instrumental in my relationships with motorcycle specialists in Los Angeles.
|From 'Easy Rider', the 'Captain America' and 'Billy' bikes, built by Cliff Vaughs
After I had completed the construction of the machines, the registration (pink slip) was in the name of Pando Company. I asked Mr. Hardy to assemble the two disposable motorcycles in his shop. I was simply too busy with the daily task production of 'ER' at the time to complete them at home.
|Ben Hardy on his H-D Panhead
Mr. Dean Lanza, The Artist: Brilliantly designed my marijuana plant on candy-apple petrol tank. Mr. Larry Hooper, ever a fugitive…the best leather craftsman ever.
Mr. Larry Marcus knows more about tools than anyone.
Mr. Dennis Hopper, Director, underlined my contribution to the production of "Easy Rider".
There has been a remarkable marketing of "custom motorcycles" since ER.
Items and modifications I worked out with Mr. Hardy et al are now manufactured on a production line. Harley Davidson had "Low Rider". Innumerable entrepreneurs have made a good living popularizing and promoting the so called "chopper".
I missed my fifteen minutes of fame…..
Clifford A. Vaughs
Tuesday 29 March, 2011
Portobelo, Panama
PS: As an addendum to ER:
The fiery ending is an example of art imitating life. I was riding my "chopper" on the highway between Pine Bluff and Little Rock; pursuing an assignment for SNCC to initiate a school boycott there. I had with me a staff member of the Arkansas Project, a Miss Iris Greenberg. A pickup truck passed us going in the opposite direction; stopped and turned around. They took a shot at us from behind and missed. They didn't pursue us any further...so I lived to tell this tale.
The genesis of Captain America theme may be found in comics of WW II. Captain America had a sidekick named Bucky. Captain America's ride was a motorcycle."
|'Choppers' from May 1969
"In terms of my own relation with my own motorcycle, it's the final romantic expression that is left in this country. Obviously the frontier is gone. The cycle is the one thing that you can build from nothing—just a basket, and make something very, very beautiful and really put yourself into it. This goes from a simple question of chrome, to developing new designs, sissy bars, new ways of riding and things like that."
"Certainly bikes attract a great deal of people who have basically been frustrated in their life. I haven't been frustrated but I do view my bike as another way of relieving a lot of tension from myself. I have been riding since 1962. I even missed the March on Washington because I was building a chopper. I like my bike and I like Choppers and I'm very concerned about the restrictive legislation that is coming out from most states against the rider. Laws that are trying to keep Choppers off the road, and I think that a Chopper is a typically American expression."
In "Easy Riders" the cycle is just a vehicle to get around on. It's like the horse from the old days. What we are basically doing is psychological western. We have two guys who have problems and are into their own bag. They are good friends, they've made one big score and are off to Miami to retire. Now in the course of the film a number of things happen to them on their trip. These are things that could happen to a guy if he were driving a car, flying in an airplane or riding on a train—except for the fact that being on a bike—they are more vulnerable to what's going on."
|Bikers as modern-day cowboys
"No Peter and Dennis are very heavy into a lot of cultural things. They are in a position to be very, very socially aware of what's going on. A lot of bikers just don't know what's going on because the whole weight of having to deal with everyday situations or hustling to live precludes any awareness of other problems. I mean, theirs is a hunting and gathering culture. You must remember that most bikers are not in a medium where they can project anything. Even if an average rider went on "Meet the Press," he would give the same rap about oppressed bike riders, patriotism, etc."
He stated that before the film was started he indicated that one of the main things "Easy Riders" should do was break down the whole idea of black and white motorcycle clubs. "Because my investigation showed that white clubs had restrictive clauses and it's only the blacks that are integrating. The Chosen Few has been integrated for a long period of time."
|The Chosen Few MC in the late 1960s
"The cities are still going to burn despite the fact that these black cats stopped to help these white cyclists on the road."
And a recent addendum, from Peter Fonda himself: after 45 years, Peter finally gave credit where it has long been due, in an email of October 2014:


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text: David Bond Last updated on 9/21/2016 Print this page Contact details David Bond School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX Tel: +44 (0)1482 466536 Fax: +44 (0)1482 466340 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com NERC Advanced Research Fellow School of Environmental Sciences Profile Teaching Research Publications Profile I began my NERC Advanced Research Fellowship here in GEES in August 2013, following a year and a half working at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso where I was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow. Broadly speaking, my research looks at the record of environmental change during Earth's greatest mass extinction events. Whilst in Norway I worked on the causes and consequences of climate change associated with the Middle Permian (c. 260 million years ago) and end Permian (c. 250 Myr) catastrophes in Spitsbergen (then, as now, in the "Boreal Realm" of high northerly latitudes). I spent three fantastic summers (2011-2013, see my Youtube videos) in the field in Spitsbergen collecting data and samples for palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analysis (my main "tools"). My new, five year project, will expand the Boreal mass extinction theme as I look at the three largest ecological events between the Middle Permian and Jurassic in Spitsbergen (again!), Arctic Canada, and far-east Russia (Vladivostok / Magadan areas). Thus my fieldwork allows me to avoid the excess summer heat which seems to be a perennial feature of the East Riding. Before moving to Norway and then Hull, I spent 15 years down the M62 at Leeds, where I studied Environmental Geology (2000), and completed a PhD on Devonian mass extinctions (2004). I went on to teach Geological Sciences at Leeds and travelled the world many times as part of my post doc from 2006-2010. Now, I help deliver several modules on our BSc Geology with Physical Geography programme, and say to any budding geologists that the best thing about the job is getting paid to travel and research the geology of some of the world's weirdest destinations. It's also nice to share my research with anybody that cares to listen! Teaching I enjoy teaching and include my ongoing geological research into my material wherever possible, with the aim of engaging students with the stuff I am most fascinated by: how past environmental changes have driven the greatest ecological catastrophes in Earth history. In the 2013/14 session I will be contributing to: 16121 : Geological Materials 16140 : Dangerous Planet 16359 : Earth, Climate, Evolution I am primarily a field geologist and so will be out an about on a number of our undergraduate geological field courses. Research I have worked on 4 of the "Big 5" extinctions (all except the end Cretaceous, which is too big a field and far too young an event for me!). For the past few years I have extensively studied one event that doesn't belong to the exclusive "Big 5" club: the Middle Permian mass extinction. From 2006 I examined the relationship between Middle Permian marine extinctions and contemporaneous large scale volcanism in southern China, thus establishing the first direct link between these two phenomena (see e.g. the Wignall et al., 2009 paper in Science on my "Publications" tab). The volcanism-extinction link is profound in many extinction scenarios, and it has become a focus of my research in recent years. But I want to know how volcanism in one region (South China in the case of the Middle Permian) can affect ecosystems on a global scale – and so I began my latest research interest: the record of mass extinctions in the Boreal Realm (high northerly latitudes). My new 5 year NERC project will involve a major study of climate / environmental change and its effects on high latitude ecosystems during the Permian-to-Jurassic. This will involve fieldwork in regions that were in the Boreal Realm at that time (and still are!), namely Spitsbergen, Arctic Canada (Ellesmere Island) and the Russian far east. We know so little about the fate of life in these areas, since most of our knowledge of extinctions comes from low latitude settings. One of my goals in the next few years is to establish whether there exists a latitudinal bias to extinction risk, i.e. does living in high latitudes make things more or less likely to suffer extinction due to environmental change? To that end, my research will not only be of interest to the mass extinction community, but I hope also to provide data that can influence the debate on modern environmental change. You can see what I've been doing from my "Publications" tab, which I will endeavour to keep updated. I'm also a keen gold panner... as well as panning my wedding ring, I have developed this interest into research that links sedimentology to the study of placer gold, particularly in the Yukon. I am yet to make my fortune, although did stake a mine out there in 2009 (since lost in a bitter feud over 6 feet of pine forest...). Features Publications View my Google Scholar profile for full details of my publications. Below is a full list of my papers, with hyperlinks to their DOIs. If you can't access any of these through your institution / subscription, please email me at email@example.com and I will send you a PDF. 2015 Zaton, M., and Bond, D.P.G. Insight into tube-building behaviour and palaeoecology of some agglutinating worms from the Upper Devonian of Nevada, USA (submitted, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology) Smolarek, J., Trela, W., Bond, D.P.G., and Marynowksi, L. Lower Wenlock black shales in the northern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: sedimentary and geochemical controls on the Ireviken Event in a deep marine setting (in review, Geological Magazine). Sun, Y.-D., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M.M., Bond, D.P.G., Grasby, S.E., Lai, X.-L., Wang, L.-N., and Zhang, Z.-T. Warming, euxinia and large carbon isotope perturbations during the Carnian Crisis in South China (in review, Earth and Planetary Science Letters). Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Sun, Y., Grasby, S.E., Beauchamp, B., Joachimski, M.M., and Blomeier, D.P.G. (2015). Ultra-Shallow Marine Anoxia in an Early Triassic Storm-Dominated Clastic Ramp (Spitsbergen) and the Suppression of Benthic Radiation (Geological Magazine). Grasby, S.E., Beauchamp, B., Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2015). Mercury deposition in association with three extinction events in NW Pangea (Geological Magazine). Jerram, D.A., Widdowson, M., Wignall, P.B., Sun, Y.-D., Lai, X.-L., Bond, D.P.G., and Torsvik, T.H. (2015). Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M.M., Sun, Y.-D., Savov, I., Grasby, S.E., Beauchamp, B., and Blomeier, D.P.G. (2015). An abrupt extinction in the Middle Permian (Capitanian) of the Boreal Realm (Spitsbergen) and its link to anoxia and acidification. Geological Society of America Bulletin (open access). Grasby, S.E., Beauchamp, B., Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., Talavera, C., Galloway, J.M., Piepjohn, K., Reinhardt, L., and Blomeier, D.P.G. (2015). Progressive environmental deterioration in NW Pangea leading to the Latest Permian Extinction. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Sun, Y.-D., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M.M., Bond, D.P.G., Grasby, S.E., Sun, S., Yan, C.-B., Wang, L.-N., Chen, Y.-L., and Lai, X.-L. (2015). High Amplitude Redox Changes in the late Early Triassic of South China and the Smithian/Spathian extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 427, 62-78. 2014 Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2014). Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions: an update. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 505 (open access). 2013 Bond, D.P.G., Zaton, M., Wignall, P.B., and Marynowski, L. (2013). Evidence for shallow-water 'Upper Kellwasser' anoxia in the Frasnian–Famennian reefs of Alberta, Canada. Lethaia, 46, 355-368. Dustira, A.M., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M., Blomeier, D., Hartkopf-Froder, C., and Bond, D.P.G. (2013). Gradual onset of anoxia across the Permian–Triassic Boundary in Svalbard, Norway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374, 303-313. De Vleeschouwer, D., Rakocinski, M., Racki, G., Bond, D.P.G., Claeys, P., and Sobien, K. (2013). The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 365, 25-37 2012 Song, H.-J., Wignall, P.B., Tong, J., Bond, D.P.G., Song, H.-Y., Lai, X.-L., Zhang, K.-X., Wang, H.-M., Chen, Y.-L., Xiong, Y.-L., Tian, L. (2012). Geochemical evidence from bio-apatite for a link between redox history and recovery from the end-Permian extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 353-354, 12-21. Hammarlund, E.U., Dahl, T.W., Harper, D.A.T., Bond, D.P.G., Nielsen, A.T., Schovsbo, N.H., Schonlaub, H.P., Bjerrum, C.J., Zalasiewicz, J.A., and Canfield, D.E. (2012). A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 128-139. Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Haas, J., Wang, W., Jiang, H.-S, Lai, X.-L., Altiner, D., Vedrine, S., Hips, K., Zajzon, N., and Newton, R.J. (2012). The Capitanian (Middle Permian) mass extinction in western Tethys: a fossil, facies and d13C study from Hungary and Hydra Island (Greece). Palaios, 27, 78-89. 2011 Song, H.-J., Wignall, P.B., Chen, Z.-Q., Tong, J., Bond, D.P.G., Lai, X.-L., Zhao, X.-M., Jiang, H.-S., Yan, C.-B., Niu, Z.-J., Chen, J., Yang, H., and Wang, Y.-B. (2011). Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, 39, 739-742. Stevens, L.G., Hilton, J., Bond, D.P.G., Glasspool, I.J., and Jardine, P.E. (2011). Radiation and extinction patterns in Pennsylvanian-Permian floras from North China as indicators for environmental and climate change. Journal of the Geological Society, 168, 607-619. 2010 Racka, M., Marynowski, L., Filipiak, P., Sobstel, M., Pisarzowska, A., and Bond, D.P.G. (2010). Anoxic Annulata Events in the Late Famennian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Southern Poland): geochemical and palaeontological record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 549-575. Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E., Anbar, A.D., Bond, D.P.G., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G.W., Knoll, A.H., Nielsen, A.T., Schovsbo, N.H., and Canfield, D.E. (2010). Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 17911-17915. Bond, D.P.G., Hilton, J., Wignall, P.B., Ali, J.R., Stevens, L.G., Sun, Y.-D., and Lai, X.-L. (2010). The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans. Earth Science Reviews, 102, pp. 100-116. Sun, Y.-D., Lai, X.-L., Wignall, P.B., Widdowson, M., Ali, J.R., Jiang, H.-S., Wang, W., Yan, C.-B., and Bond, D.P.G. (2010). Dating the onset and nature of the Middle Permian Emeishan large igneous province eruptions in SW China using conodont biostratigraphy and its bearing on mantle plume uplift models. Lithos, 119, pp. 20-33. Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., Wang, W., Vedrine, S., Jiang, H.-S., Lai, X.-L., Sun, Y.-D., Newton, R.J., Cope, H., and Izon, G. (2010). The mid-Capitanian (middle Permian) mass extinction and carbon isotope record of south China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 292, pp. 282-294. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2010). Pyrite framboid study of marine Permo-Triassic boundary sections: a complex anoxic event and its relationship to contemporaneous mass extinction. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122 (7/8), pp. 1265-1279. Chapman, R.J., Bond, D.P.G., and Lebarge, W. (2010). Particle size distribution of gold within the Sulphur and Dominion Creek drainages, Klondike District, Yukon, and implications for gold winning and the formation of distal placers containing fine gold. Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, pp. 135-142. Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Kuwahara, K., Kakuwa, Y., Newton, R.J., and Poulton, S.W. (2010). An 80 million year oceanic redox history from Permian to Jurassic pelagic sediments of the Mino-Tamba terrane, SW Japan, and the origin of four mass extinctions. Global and Planetary Change, 71, pp. 109-123. 2009 Chapman, R.J., Leake, R.C., Bond, D.P.G., Stedra, V., and Fairgrieve, B. (2009). Chemical and mineralogical signatures of gold formed in oxidizing chloride hydrothermal systems and their significance within populations of placer gold grains collected during reconnaissance. Economic Geology, 104, pp. 563-585. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009) Latitudinal selectivity of foraminifer extinctions during the end-Guadalupian crisis. Paleobiology, 35, pp. 465-482. Wignall, P.B., Vedrine, S., Bond, D.P.G., Wang, W., Lai, X.-L., Ali, J.R., and Jiang, H.-S. (2009). Facies analysis and sea-level change at the Guadalupian-Lopingian Global Stratotype (Laibin, South China), and its bearing on the end-Guadalupian mass extinction. Journal of the Geological Society, 166, pp. 655-666. Wignall, P.B., Sun, Y.-D., Bond, D.P.G., Izon, G., Newton, R.J., Widdowson, M., Vedrine, S., Ali, J.R., Lai, X.-L., Jiang, H.-S., and Cope, H. (2009). Precise coincidence of explosive volcanism, mass extinction and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China. Science, 324, pp. 1179-1182. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009). Abstract of "The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 273, pp. 265-267. Zaton, M., Marynowski, L., Szczepanik, P., Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009). Redox conditions during sedimentation of the Middle Jurassic (Upper Bajocian-Bathonian) clays of the Polish Jura (south-central Poland): an integrated approach, Facies, 55, pp. 103-114. 2008 Lai, X-L., Wang, W., Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Jiang, H-S., Ali, J.R., John, E.H., and Sun, Y-D. (2008). Palaeoenvironmental change during the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction in Sichuan, China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269, pp. 78-93. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2008). The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 263, pp. 107-118. Raiswell, R., Newton, R., Bottrell, S.H., Coburn, P.M., Briggs, D.E.G., Bond, D.P.G., and Poulton, S.W. (2008). Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization, American Journal of Science, 308, pp.105-129. Wignall, P.B., and Bond, D.P.G. (2008). The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinction records in the British Isles, Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 119 (1), pp. 73-84.


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There is something for everyone at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Below is a list of our scheduled events classes, and exhibits. For details on any individual listing, just click on the event for more information. If you still have questions, feel free to call the garden at 413.298.3926. See you at the Garden!
Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot at Berkshire Botanical Garden for a 9am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 3 pm. Program time in Northampton, MA, is 10 am – 2 pm.
Cost of lunch is not included in the fee.
Join BBG staff for an in-depth field study of Smith College Arboretum and Lyman Conservatory. First, tour the exceptional collection of woody plants at the height of the fall foliage with Landscape Manager and arborist, Jay Girard. Consider shrubs, small ornamental trees and large trees that thrive in our gardening zone that are particularly beautiful during the late summer and fall. Then explore the extensive collection of tropical, citrus, semi-tropical, succulent and cactus collections with longtime Lyman Conservatory Manager, Rob Nicholson. After studying this extensive collection of plants, participants can choose to purchase lunch at Paul & Elisabeth's, a popular Northampton restaurant in walking distance of the college. Director of Education, Elisabeth Cary, will lead the tour from BBG and will contribute her "two-cents" on the wonderful woody plant collection.
Rain date: Sunday, October 19, 9 am – 3 pm
Dress for outdoor work and bring safety glasses, heavy gloves, sturdy, waterproof footwear and a bag lunch.
This hands-on program will cover the basics of dry stone wall building, including planning and layout and demonstrations on cutting and fitting. The morning will consist of a lecture, a walk through the garden to view a variety of stone walls and site preparation. Students will learn how to set up a batter frame and cut stone, and will practice laying stones to create structural integrity through interlocking placement. Following the demonstrations, students will work on a dry stone wall and practice wall-building. The workshop will pay special attention to building a freestanding wall using field stone.
Artist Mark Mendel started Monterey Masonry in 1982. He apprenticed with Maine stonemasons in the 1960's and taught at the Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME. He has built scores of walls, arches, terraces and walks and hundreds of fireplaces in both brick and stone. Locally, his work includes the stone walls in front of Guido's Marketplace, the fireplace at the Route 7 Grill and the stone walls at the new entrance to Berkshire School. He designed, built and donated the stone spinning fan at the Berkshire Botanical Garden rose garden. Working as a stone consultant for Cuningham Group Architects of Minneapolis, Mendel was part of the design team that received the 2012 Tucker design Award, a biennial award presented by the Building Stone Institute. The Tucker design award is the most prestigious national award given in the stone industry. In August 2014, the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, RI, will unveil a glass and stone memorial to its founder, Seung Sung, designed and built by Mark. In June of 2015, Centerbeam, a project created in 1977 by Mark and fellow artists from the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, will be recreated and installed in Karlsruhe, Germany at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology).
Join Jacqueline van der Kloet for a talk on plant combinations in her garden designs. She will focus on how she combines bulbs, perennials, flowering shrubs and trees in a naturalistic garden style. Using a case-study approach, she will suggest perennials and spring flowering bulbs and how to use them in all kinds of situations: private gardens small and large, estates, public parks and exhibitions. The program will include her inspirational lecture, a short break and time devoted to the technical "how to" aspects of her designs. She will answer all of your bulb questions and suggest solutions.
Jacqueline van der Kloet is an internationally known garden designer based in Weesp, Holland. She is known for her artistic combinations of bulbs, perennials and flowering shrubs and trees. Her designs for public, private and corporate clients are found throughout Europe. She designed displays, both in 2002 and 2012, for Floriade, the international exhibition of flowers and gardening, held every ten years in the Netherlands. She renovated the bulb plantings at the famous Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, Netherlands, and has worked extensively with "New Wave" garden designer Piet Oudolf to create bulb planting schemes for three of America's newest and most exciting public spaces: Millennial Park and the Lurie Garden in Chicago, Battery Park in New York City and the Seasonal Walk at the New York Botanical Garden. She has designed planting schemes at private gardens, including the Linden Allee at Martha Stewart's Bedford, NY, estate.
All levels (some knowledge of crow quill pen techniques is suggested)
This class meets on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, October 29, 30 & 31, 10 am – 4 pm. Bring a bag lunch. Materials list available here.
Pen and ink is an expressive medium and is particularly well suited to the detailed nature of botanical subjects. However, it is often considered difficult to handle. In this class you will learn to take the fear out of inking by mastering the development of an ink drawing from pencil sketch to finished ink rendering. Developing the drawing in stages, you will have the freedom to make a pencil sketch and a tonal study, plan compositional ideas, try out ink techniques to test which ones you like for your subject and transfer your image before you proceed to ink your drawing. Dry and live plants will be available to study in class. You may also bring your own plant to draw, but make sure that you choose a plant that will survive for the duration of the three days of the class.
Carol Ann Morley is a professional artist and dedicated teacher working in Milton, NH. She founded the Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program at the New York Botanical Garden and teaches botanical art and drawing at The New York Botanical Garden, the Wellesley College Botanic Garden and Sanctuary Arts in Eliot, ME, in addition to the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
All levels (co-enrolled with Horticulture Certificate Program)
(To have your project considered, call 413-298-3926 for details)
Dress for outdoors, waterproof footwear and a bag lunch.
This fast-paced, information-saturated clinic will introduce design students, homeowners and others to opportunities to problem-solve the design process. It will lead to the basic conceptual elements of a landscape master plan. All attendees will participate in the process of observing and designing and will come away with coherent examples of how design happens. An active discussion format will focus on common design principles. A step-by-step PowerPoint presentation will focus the discussion later in the afternoon. The field trip will be held rain or shine.
Walter Cudnohufsky is owner of Walter Cudnohufsky Associates Landscape Architects, Land and Community Planners, Ashfield, MA. He is the founder and for 20 years was the director of the Conway School of Landscape Design.
Dress for outdoors demonstration.
Chain saws are powerful tools that can be intimidating to use. The importance of safe operation of this dangerous machine cannot be stressed enough. Learn the correct way to safely operate, maintain, and store a chain saw. Observe a demonstration on chain saw use and discuss when to call in a professional. Basic chain saw maintenance will be covered. This program will be very useful those currently working with a chainsaw and those considering purchasing a chainsaw.
Ken Gooch, is the Forest Health Program Director for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Additionally, he is a Massachusetts Certified Arborist and teaches arboriculture at the Garden. He lectures widely on a variety of topics including forest health, pruning and arboriculture.
Join Peter Hatch, Emeritus Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello, for a journey into growing food in Thomas Jefferson's 1,000-foot-long vegetable and 7-acre fruit garden. Learn about this revolutionary garden and Jefferson's profound legacy in gardening, food and wine, as well as the enduring techniques used to maintain this historic but thoroughly inspiring garden. Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." Monticello's 1,000-foot-long, terraced vegetable garden became an experimental laboratory, an Ellis Island of new and unusual vegetable novelties from the around the globe. While growing over 330 vegetable and 170 fruit varieties, Jefferson was also a pioneer in supporting farmers' markets and promoting vegetable cookery. This revolutionary garden resulted in a revolutionary cuisine in the kitchen at Monticello. Restored in 1984, the garden and the Jefferson legacy continue to inspire the farm-to-table movement today.
Peter J. Hatch is a professional gardener and historian with 38 years' experience in the restoration, care and interpretation of historic landscapes. A celebrated author of four books on the gardens of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, where he served as Director of Gardens and Grounds for 35 years, Hatch has lectured in 36 states on Jefferson and the history of garden plants. Presently, he gardens and botanizes from his home on Lickinghole Creek in Crozet, Virginia, and travels extensively to promote his latest work, "A Rich Spot of Earth": Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello, and consults on the installation and maintenance of both public gardens and private estate landscapes.
This class is near capacity – please call 413.298.3926 for more info.
All levels, limited to 20 (materials fee of $10)
Back by popular demand! Join woody plant specialist Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery for a workshop focused on hardwood and evergreen propagation. This workshop will cover how to collect, prepare and propagate evergreens and other woody plants by cuttings. Set at the best time of the year for collecting, participants will learn techniques needed for insuring successful rooting. Cultivation requirements, timing and care of easily propagated varieties will be covered. Take home a selection of unusual deciduous and evergreen plant material in a simple propagator to grow on. Participants will be able to collect a very interesting selection of woody plant material on the grounds of the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
Adam Wheeler is the Propagation and New Plant Development Manager for Broken Arrow Nursery located in Hamden, Ct. a specialty nursery with a focus on woody plants. He teaches wood plant propagation workshops throughout New England.
Unfortunately, this trip has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Join mad garden shopper Elisabeth Cary for a trip to the newly opened, fabulous garden/lifestyle store, Terrain, located in Westport, CT. The brain-child of the founders of Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, this gardening emporium is a treasure-trove of fabulous lifestyle products with an emphasis on GARDEN. Known for an exceptional selection of terrarium supplies, unique glass containers and phenomenal plants, join a terrarium specialist for a terrarium demonstration. The day will include the demonstration, time for shopping and lunch at the cafe. This program is scheduled for the beginning of the holiday season, so save your pennies! For more information about Terrain, visit www.shopterrain.com.
Lecture/offsite field study to Woven Roots Farm, Tyringham, MA
All levels (co-sponsored with Horticulture Certificate Program)
Learn how to extend the season's harvest to enjoy your own garden greens throughout the late fall and early spring months. Consider growing under cover in an unheated greenhouse, cold frame or high/low poly tunnels, and learn techniques needed to achieve a true four-season harvest. Investigate a variety of structures and learn the pros and cons of each. Crop selection, soil preparation, timing, planting, cultivation and harvesting will be covered, with a focus on early and late season production. Following the lecture, Pete will lead a field study to Woven Roots Farm in Tyringham, MA, and will explain season-extension structures and the various growing techniques.
Peter Salinetti owns Woven Roots Farm, a small family farm and CSA that grows vegetables and culinary herbs using traditional farming practices. For over 10 years they have grown local produce for Berkshire County families. Their vegetables are grown using environmentally sustainable gardening practices, and they produce amazing top-quality, delicious produce. Both Peter and his wife Jen are committed to raising awareness about the importance of the local food supply, along with teaching technical information on how to do so. They have lectured on growing food for both NOFA and other regional organizations.


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Pleasanton, Calif. -- Ross Stores reported Thursday earnings for the quarter ended Oct. 30 rose 16% to a record $121.4 million, compared with $105.1 million in the year-ago period.
Sales increased 7% to $1.874 billion, with same-store sales up 3% on top of a strong 8% gain in the prior year.
"The best performing merchandise categories during the third quarter were Dresses and Home," said Michael Balmuth, vice chairman and CEO. "Geographic trends were relatively broad-based, with the strongest performance in Florida."
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Topsham St James were 12 run winners when they came up against Whimple in an Under-14 game.
Topsham openers Jim Shepherd and Fraser Chave made a steady start against an accurate home attack, but wickets began to fall until, at 44 for 5, captain Alex Davison was joined by Inder Singh.
Together they set about the Whimple bowling and put on 57 in just six overs to give Topsham a respectable total of 101. Both batsmen remained unbeaten, with Davison on 23 and Singh on 42, a knock which included nine 4s.
Topsham St James' chances rested on keeping the wides and no balls well below their recent record, and the bowlers responded to the task.
Vice captain Tom Sage led by example, bowling his four overs for just 10 runs without conceding a single extra! At the other end Ryan Darke made the breakthrough with his first ball and went on to take two more wickets.
Inder Singh followed up his batting display by taking 2-18 and Jim Shepherd spun his way through the middle order to claim 4-30.
His figures were dented by an exciting late rally from Whimple, but in the end the home side ran out of batsmen and finished nine short of their target, with Joe Beauchamp and Darke taking the last two wickets.
Saints coach Malcolm Shepherd said: "What a difference bowling straight makes! Eight Whimple wickets were clean bowled and we conceded just eight. Compare that with the 28 we shipped just four days before in our defeat at Heathcoat!"


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DALLAS - Dec. 15, 2004 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found a gene family involved in determining the potential for acquiring lupus, a debilitating autoimmune disease that affects more than one million Americans.
"Our findings indicate genetic susceptibility to lupus results from imbalance between genes that increase and genes that suppress the immune system's responsiveness," said Dr. Ward Wakeland, director of the Center for Immunology and the Harold C. Simmons Arthritis Research Center at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study in today's issue of Immunity. "Individuals with increased risk for lupus may simply have the misfortune of expressing a 'bad' combination of versions of genes that are 'good' for resistance to infectious diseases."
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease causing the immune system to attack the body's own tissue and organs, including the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood and skin. The Lupus Foundation of America estimates approximately 1.5 million Americans have the disease, which affects all age groups. It is 10 to 15 times more likely in adult women than adult men.
In its study of a mouse strain that develops autoimmunity similar to human SLE, Dr. Wakeland's research team identified a cluster of genes, the SLAM/CD2 family, occurring in the same region of the human genome associated with genetic susceptibility to the disease. The genes played a crucial role in the disease's development in the mice, but only when they were expressed in specific combinations with other genes.
"The SLAM/CD2 family interacts with sets of highly variable genes, which can provide a pathway toward disease," said Dr. Wakeland.
In addition, the researchers linked this gene family to resistance to infectious diseases. The latest findings follow an earlier discovery by Dr. Wakeland and his colleagues of four genes that can halt lupus. These "suppressor" genes - Sles1, Sles2, Sles3 and Sles4 - can block the disease even if the susceptibility gene family is active.
"For example, Sles1 specifically suppresses the autoimmune activity associated with the SLAM/CD2 gene family found in the mouse model," Dr. Wakeland said. "With the identification of SLAM/CD2, we now have half of the combination of genes that can either lead to or suppress severe disease. Once we fully characterize Sles1, we'll have the complete picture."
Researchers in the Center for Immunology are currently working with faculty in the Division of Rheumatology and the Simmons Arthritis Research Center to expand analysis of these genes and their functions into humans with SLE, as well as individuals who may be at increased risk for developing the disease so they can be identified earlier.
"The way the disease is treated now is through a broad spectrum of drug therapies that basically suppress the entire immune system," Dr. Wakeland said. "Patients with lupus under this therapy are at risk to develop infectious diseases because their immune system is completely impaired. If we can understand what the suppressor gene is doing to block SLAM/CD2, we may be able to tweak the immune system back into normal balance."
Other Center for Immunology contributors to the Immunity study were Dr. Amy Wandstrat, assistant instructor; Xiang-Hong Tian, senior research associate; Charles Nguyen, Medical Scientist Training Program student; Alice Chan, MSTP student; Nisha Limaye, student research assistant; Srividya Subramanian, student research assistant; and Dr. Young-Sun Yim, former postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Harold Garner, professor of biochemistry, and Dr. Alexander Pertsemlidis, assistant professor in the Eugene McDermott Center for Growth and Development at UT Southwestern and Dr. Laurence Morel of the University of Florida School of Medicine also contributed.
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Brandi went out of town at the beginning of the week and, even though it leaves me with feelings of abandonment, she always makes it okay by returning with beer. All is forgiven. But this time, my mind was blown: a beer I'd never even HEARD of, featuring a 90s icon!


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Everyone knows that the bathroom is where most of the action happens in horror movies. Whether it's bloody murder as in the iconic film Pyscho, or just a gratuitous shower scene from take-your-pick-of-80s-slasher-films, many of the genre's most memorable moments happen in the very same room where people poop. This bloody footprint bath mat adds a twisted touch to an ordinary lavatory, with its obvious homage to scary flicks (not to mention macabre shows like Dexter).
Despite the sloppy, "splattery" look, the red paint on this blood bath mat is permanent. In other words, there's no chance of tracking it elsewhere. The bad news is, the footprints don't magically appear when the rug gets wet, as some people might expect (we will report back if/when we find such a rug, because it would be seriously cool).
This bloody bath rug makes a sweet gift for horror fans (duh), but given how picky people can be about home decor, it might be more realistic to get one for yourself (unless you really know the person well). If nothing else, bring it out for your next Halloween party.


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Paneta Sagale shouted out the hardest goodbye he ever had to utter in his life, amid tears, shock and a great onset of grief, to his 6-year-old son Seti Paneta as the wave ripped him from his arms.
"I could see his head pop up and down while he was being dragged away. I had to save myself another child who was in my other arm," Paneta said.
Then Paneta ran as fast as he could up the mountain away from the devastating tsunami that hit Samoa last year.
"I could not hold back my tears, my son was gone, and in a strange strange way all I could think of was to say goodbye, because I couldn't do anything else," Paneta said.
But Seti, the 6-year-old, was not meant to die that day.
He was pulled into the mighty wave along with houses, cars and every man-made structure caught in its way, but miraculously he was not hit.
He was merely underwater for minutes at a time, and due to his weight, floated most of the time.
"I was scared, but it was like a ride," Seti told nzherald.co.nz.
Seti, who grew up by the ocean, was channelled along with debris by the wave into the river of the village of Lepa and into the depths of the canyon.
And there he fought to survive.
"I saw a banana trunk and grabbed a hold of it because it floated," he said.
His banana trunk made it halfway back to the village and there he began shouting out.
"I called for my Dad, I called and called and I cried but I kept calling because I was scared of being alone in the river," Seti said.
His calls were soon heard by survivors who were also scrambling near the river, and someone jumped into the water and brought out the heroic little boy.
Paneta said he could not believe his eyes when Seti ran up to him.
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But the next few months were not easy for Seti, who was traumatised by the experience.
Paneta said that for many nights after the tsunami Seti would wake up screaming "tsunami" or shouting for his father.
"It was hard, but we made it through," Paneta said.
When I saw Seti two days ago in the mountains of Saleapaga where his family now resides, he was playing with other children on the swings, he was happy and laughing.
The nightmares are gone for Seti, whose story will be told for years to come.
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By Manika Casterline, News editor.
Thursday, April 8, 2010—Reprinted from Monitor.
Music has been widely recognized for its innate and extraordinary ability to bridge the gap between ethnicities and generations.
On Wednesday night, Tim Roberts' jazz/rock combo and his songwriting classes came together at a local venue, Mission Pizza, for a night of music played to a packed house.
It served as a showcase of the talent that Roberts has cultivated in his classes.
Jazz/rock combo student and first-time performer Anh Huyh sang a rendition of Nina Simone's "Sea Lion Woman," which recieved a wave of thunderous applause.
Huyh said, "I don't care too much about the reaction. I just do what I do in my car."
Huyh grew up in Vietnam and moved to the United States when he was 12, and hopes to major in sociology.
He said he believes that the greater the oppression the greater the inspiration. And he uses this premise to drive his creative interests in music and in poetry.
"Roberts' class is great because it exposes you to all types of music you might not have been exposed to, like jazz standards," Huyh said.
Classmate Melody Stedman said while the event was not mandatory, most of the students in the class wanted to participate in it or attend anyway.
One of the singer-songwriters who performed was Von von Lindenburg, who said he plans to release an album of original music this summer.
According to von Lindenburg, his debut CD is a mix of genres including jazz, country, pop and rock. It will also feature contributions by Roberts and Associate Professor James McManus.
The music selections also included Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It," "Sweet Dreams" by The Eurythmics, and "This Kiss" by Faith Hill.
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Could this be why Barbara "Bouncer" had so much trouble balancing her checkbook when she was in the House? As a different Barbie used to say: "Math is hard!"
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University of Surrey researchers have found a way to make ultra-small pure carbon crystals entirely formed from the spherical carbon 'buckyball' molecule known as C60. The method used involves mixing two liquids together, one of which contains C60, at low temperature.
Lozenge shaped crystals can be quickly obtained with widths of 80 nm which is about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a pencil and much smaller than previously thought possible using this method. The electronic properties of the C60 molecules that make up the small crystals are of particular importance for developing new nanoelectronic devices such as solar cells and gas sensors. This new development may therefore allow researchers to accelerate the development of these nanotechnologies based on this simple method of making these high purity ultra-small C60 components.
The work, which was recently highlighted on the cover the Journal of Materials Chemistry, demonstrates a fast and simple method of making C60 fullerite crystals with diameters of 80 nm. Importantly for future applications the fullerites are produced in high yield and their shape controlled through the variation of solvent, concentration and temperature. Significantly this work demonstrates that existing models of fullerite growth need re-evaluating as these models predict a minimum size of ~400 nm, well above that demonstrated by the team.
The ability to produce large quantities of fullerites raises the potential for their incorporation into devices to enhance a desired property [1]. Possible applications of fullerite rods include adsorbents, catalysts and membranes due to their relatively high surface area to volume ratio. Potential electronic devices that may benefit from such materials include n-type organic transistors due to relatively high electron mobility of C60 (~0.1 cm-2V-1s-1), optical devices, thin film organic solar cells, organic light emitting diodes and photodetectors.
Researcher Lok Cee Chong said: "The ability to control fullerite growth on a nanoscale may lead to a number of exciting applications. We are just beginning to obtain glimpses of these in my current work as I complete my PhD".
Dr Richard Curry who leads this research said: "The results of this work are of immediate significance to a wide range of technologies that use organic materials. These new nanoscale carbon materials will allow us to continue to develop enhanced devices such as sensors and solar cells to address the grand challenges facing society today".
Prof Ravi Silva, Director of the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), said: "This is very exciting work of the type that leads to further serendipitous discoveries. Ultimately it demonstrates how the ATI and wider research carried out in the UK continues to lead the world in the development of new technologies".
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"[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples." — Virginia Woolf
"[Ulysses] is a revolting record of a disgusting phase of civilisation; but it is a truthful one; and I should like to put a cordon around Dublin; round up every male person in it between the ages of 15 and 30; force them to read it; and ask them whether on reflection they could see anything amusing in all that foul mouthed, foul minded derision and obscenity." — George Bernard Shaw
"Filth. Nothing but obscenities." — Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence
"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." — Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound
"Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity — all this is difficult to admire." — Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky
"My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness." — D.H. Lawrence on James Joyce
"That's not writing, it's typing." — Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac
"A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local colour to intrigue the superficial and the lazy." — William Faulkner on Mark Twain
"His vast paragraphs sweat and struggle ... And all for tales of nothingness … It is leviathan retrieving pebbles. It is a magnificent but painful hippopotamus resolved at any cost, even at the cost of its dignity, upon picking up a pea which has got into a corner of its den." — H.G. Wells on Henry James
"An idiot child screaming in the hospital." — H.G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw
"An unmanly sort of man whose love-life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse." — W.H. Auden on Edgar Allan Poe
"The awful Whitman. This post-mortem poet. This poet with the private soul leaking out of him all the time. All his privacy leaking out in a sort of dribble, oozing into the universe." — D.H. Lawrence on Walt Whitman
"I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective." — Evelyn Waugh on Marcel Proust
"I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective." — Evelyn Waugh
"Here are Johnny Keats' piss-a-bed poetry, and three novels by God knows whom... No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don't I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the driveling idiotism of the Mankind." — Lord Byron on John Jeats
"A great cow full of ink." — Gustave Flaubert on George Sand
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Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is calling on Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to explain why the department posted a series of overtly political posters throughout the building. Walsh is responding to a report in the Free Beacon revealing that signs posted in at least 20 DOL elevators depict Secretary Hilda Solis carrying a bullhorn and rallying alongside the [MSNBC Host] Rev. Al Sharpton. Next to the pictures is a quote from Solis that reads in part: "We all march in our own way."
One DOL employee who spoke to the Free Beacon Tuesday also said that the signs are inappropriate for the workplace. "It is propaganda. This is what being in a Chinese factory during the Cultural Revolution is like," the source said. "It's offensive. It's saying that we're all on the side of Trayvon Martin, or whatever Sharpton is doing, and the people of Labor should be for it."


text: Back in 2008, model and actress, Juliana Redding (bottom photo) got involved with a man named Munir Uwaydah from Lebanon. They had a brief fling and Juliana introduced Uwaydah to her father so they could do a business deal. During the negotiations, Uwaydah told Juliana's father that he had a woman working for him who he called his female James Bond who was his enforcer. She would rough up or kill anyone he wanted. Her name is Kelly Soo Park (top photo). For the first time yesterday, prosecutors have finally accused Kelly of being just that. Kelly is on trial for the beating death of Juliana. Apparently Uwaydah was upset that Juliana broke off their fling and wanted to teach her a lesson. Unfortunately no one can prove that part of it so Uwaydah has not been charged with any crime. Yet. How many enemies do you have to have before you decide to have on your staff a full-time hit woman?