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Germany tells Jews, Muslims they will be free to circumcise (REUTERS) By Stephen Brown BERLIN, GERMANY 07/13/12 8:55am EDT)
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(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel´s spokesman promised Germany´s Jewish and Muslim communities on Friday they would be free to carry out circumcision on young boys despite a court ban which has provoked concerns about religious freedom.
In a country that is especially sensitive to allegations of intolerance because of the Nazis´ slaughter of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the government said it would find a way around the Cologne court ban in June as a matter of urgency.
"For everyone in the government it is absolutely clear that we want to have Jewish and Muslim religious life in Germany," said Merkel´s spokesman Steffen Seibert. "Circumcision carried out in a responsible manner must be possible in this country without punishment."
European rabbis descended on Berlin this week to lobby against what they see as an affront to religious freedom - with the backing of Muslim and Christian leaders in an unusual show of unity, as well as the support of many German politicians.
Ruling in the case of a Muslim boy taken to a doctor with bleeding after circumcision, the Cologne court said the practice inflicts bodily harm and should not be carried out on young boys, but could be practiced on older males who give consent.
This is not acceptable under Jewish religious practice which requires boys to be circumcised from eight days old, nor for many Muslims, for whom the age of circumcision varies according to family, country and branch of Islam.
"It is well know that in the Jewish religion early circumcision carries great meaning, so it is a matter of urgency that this right be restored," said Seibert, adding that Merkel´s own office would be involved in efforts to resolve the problem.
"We know a quick decision is needed and that this cannot be put off. Freedom of religious practice is a very important legal right for us," he said.
Germany is a close ally of Israel and its ambassador there has promised parliament´s Diaspora Affairs Committee to defend the rights of Germany´s growing Jewish community.
European rabbis ended their meeting in Berlin on Thursday in a defiant mood. They plan talks with German Muslim and Christian leaders in Stuttgart next week to see how they can fight the ban together.
The ruling by the Cologne Regional Court applies to the city and surrounding districts with a total population of just over 2 million people. The total population of Germany is about 82 million. Cologne is home to about 120,000 Muslims, whose plans for a new central mosque has stirred anti-immigrant sentiment.
The head of the Conference of European Rabbis urged Jews in Germany to continue carrying out circumcision despite the ban.
But the German Medical Association, while opposing the ban because it could drive circumcision underground with greater risk of infection through poor hygiene, advised doctors not to carry out the operation until the legal situation is cleared up as they could risk prosecution.
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the Swiss-born chief rabbi of Moscow who organized the meeting, said the ban was a fresh example of creeping prejudice in European law against non-Christians, after a Swiss ban on minarets, French and Belgian bans on Islamic veils in public and an attempted Dutch ban on halal meat.
"Circumcision represents the basis for belonging to the Jewish community. It has been practiced for 4,000 years and cannot be changed," said Goldschmidt.
Germany is home to about 120,000 Jews and 4 million Muslims. Many of the latter originating from Turkey, which has also condemned last month´s court ruling.
(Additional reporting by Matthias Sobolewski; Editing by Gareth Jones and Robin Pomeroy) (© Thomson Reuters 2012. 07/13/12) (© Thomson Reuters 2012. 07/13/12)
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(Yahoo!) - When the clock struck midnight April 25, country crooner Dierks Bentley let his Twitter fans in on a pretty big surprise – he's going to be a dad for the third time!
so my wife and i will be changing our family defensive strategy come the fall. switching from MAN-to-MAN to ZONE. #3! advice @thetimmcgraw?!— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) April 25, 2013
While Bentley claims that it is too early to determine the sex of their baby, we're not so sure his shout out to fellow country hot shot Tim McGraw wasn't a hint that he has another girl on the way. McGraw, who has yet to respond to Bentley's plea for advice, has three daughters with his wife, Faith Hill.
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The iPhone 6 is coming soon … and not soon enough since Ryan recently dropped his 5 and shattered the screen.
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HESPERIA - Doreen Carrillo's voice takes on a happier tone when she talks about her 12-year-old daughter, Kristal Salcido.
"She was always happy and she loved basketball and loved to read. She loved the movies and music. She was just an outgoing 12-year-old," Carrillo said during a phone interview Sunday.
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On Feb. 28, Carrillo received a panicked call from family in Hesperia telling her Kristal had been found on the bathroom floor was wasn't breathing, she said.
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"She said the grandmother found out and talked to them about it but then this happened," Carrillo said.
Then Toni told her mother huffing was a common occurrence at the sisters' middle school.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21.7 million people in the United States age 12 and older have used inhalants at least once and more than 13 percent of eighth grade students have experimented with the easily accessible intoxicants.
While numbers from the National Capital Poison Center show a 33 percent drop in the use of inhalants from 1993 to 2008, the prevalence was highest among children aged 12 to 17, and most used by 14-year-olds.
But what these juveniles are feeling isn't really a high, said Ron Postoian, owner of AC Plus Air Conditioning and Heating Repair in Hesperia.
"There isn't anything in the Freon that causes them to get high," he explained. "What it does is it displaces the air in their lungs and oxygen to their brain which makes them dizzy and makes them think they're high. It actually doesn't allow them to breathe."
That is what most likely happened to Kristal that day in her grandmother's bathroom, Carrillo deduced.
The 12-year-old was declared brain dead, but still holding out for some sign from her daughter, Carrillo and the rest of Kristal's family wanted to wait a few more days before making the difficult decision to take the girl off life support.
"We waited for four days," Carrillo said. "It was so, so hard. I don't want anyone else to lose a family member like we did."
In the last 12 years Postoian has been in business in the High Desert, he's seen about a 10 cases where he and his technicians suspect someone was trying to take the Freon to get a buzz, he said.
Common or not, Carrillo doesn't want another family to learn about the dangers of huffing Freon when it's too late.
"I want people to know that this is what kids are doing," Carrillo said. "And it's just too easy to get. It's accessible to anyone."
According to Carrillo, Kristal and her cousins took the Freon cap off the large outdoor air conditioning unit, put a bag around the top and pressed on it ton get the Freon into the bag.
"The cap was still on the floor," Carrillo said.
Postoian said there are locking caps that can be installed by a technician to prevent anyone from accessing the Freon.
Unprepared to deal with the sudden death of her young daughter, family and friends have organized several fundraisers to help cover Kristal's funeral costs.
Two car washes and bake sales were held over the weekend in Hesperia which raised more than $600. More are planned in Blythe and in Phoenix, Carrillo said.
The High Desert Phoenix Foundation is also assisting the family with burial costs. Donations can be made by visiting HDPhoenixFoundation.com.
"This isn't something I thought I would ever be going through," Carrillo said. "She was a good girl. I never expected this from her. I never thought she would do something like this. Now I try to talk to everyone I can about this because this is a terrible way to lose a child."
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The pantheon of Inland Empire authors includes not only California's first poet laureate Ina Coolbrith, 1841-1928, who grew up in pioneer-era San Bernardino, but the state's current poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, who teaches at UC Riverside. America's first million-selling novelist, Harold Bell Wright, 1872-1944, lived in Redlands. Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830-1885, author of the classic "Ramona," and Erle Stanley Garner, 1889-1970, creator of the "Perry Mason" series of detective novels, had local roots, as do such contemporary bestselling authors as Joseph Wambaugh and Dean Koontz.
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- "Do you know the Common Tongue?"
- ―Daenerys Targaryen to Khal Drogo
The Common Tongue is the language spoken throughout the Seven Kingdoms, having been introduced by the Andals during their invasion of Westeros six thousand years ago. Its full name is "the Common Tongue of the Andals," though it is usually just called "the Common Tongue." Sometimes it is referred to in abbreviated form as just "Common".[1]
As the Andals spread across the continent of Westeros they imposed their language upon their conquests, so that the Andals' language gradually replaced the "Old Tongue" spoken by the First Men. Even in the North, where the First Men had held off the Andal invaders, due to cultural contact and emulation the Northerners gradually adopted the language of their Andal neighbors to the south. Thus for thousands of years, there has been one "common" language throughout all of the Seven Kingdoms. The unification of the Seven Kingdoms in the Targaryen Conquest three hundred years ago served to strengthen this linguistic uniformity even further.
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Over the centuries the Common Tongue of Westeros has also spread through much of the rest of the world along trade routes, and thus many people in the Free Cities do know how to speak the Common Tongue, while still primarily using their own local languages. Through trade and shipping, the Common Tongue is even spoken as far east as Qarth. In contrast to the mercantile Free Cities, the Dothraki horse raiders do not engage in trade with Westeros, therefore few of them know the Common Tongue.[4]
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The Common Tongue is surprisingly uniform in the Seven Kingdoms - no doubt aided by three centuries of unification under the Targaryen kings - and there are no major separate dialects. From Last Hearth in the North to Saltshore in Dorne, from the royal court at King's Landing to common ironborn fishermen at Pyke, everyone speaks the same language with little difference in meaning. There are some regional accents, but nothing that would interfere with comprehension.
- In the TV series, both the Northerners such as the Starks and the wildlings living beyond the Wall speak with a Northern England accent. Even actors who do not naturally speak with a Northern England accent adopt one when playing characters from these regions, i.e. Rose Leslie who plays Ygritte. One of the reasons Leslie was actually cast as Ygritte is because she had previously given a strong performance on Downton Abbey while affecting a convincing Northern English accent.
- Author George R.R. Martin has stated that Westeros is loosely inspired by Britain, super-sized into an entire continent roughly the size of South America. Both Northern England and Winterfell are located in northern regions and near a large, ancient fortification (Hadrian's Wall) separating them from the lands beyond, so a Northern accent fits the Starks. Also, within the fictional universe, both the Northerners and the wildlings are descended from the First Men (loosely analogous to the Celts), so logically, their notable accent may be a result of lingering influence of the Old Tongue.
Dorne is ethnically distinct from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, due to the Rhoynar migration, and it was also politically independent for many generations. It is also geographically very isolated, located in the extreme south of the continent and separate from the rest of it by mountains and harsh deserts. After the Rhoynar migration their descendants did learn to speak the Common Tongue, but with a pronounced Rhoynish accent - a local distinction which was reinforced due to centuries of geographical, cultural, and political isolation. Dorne was the only region to successfully resist invasion by the Targaryens, using guerrilla warfare, and only united with the realm one century ago through peaceful marriage-alliance. Due to their unique origins and isolation, modern Dornishmen speak with a very distinctive accent, differing from "standard" Common Tongue pronunciation even more than the "First Men accent" used by the Northmen and wildlings. Accents are all relative, of course, and Dornishmen such as Oberyn Martell have remarked that the "accent" that everyone in the rest of Westeros speaks with sounds strange to them.[5]
- The Dornish accent used in the TV series is based on a Hispanic accent, because Dorne is heavily inspired by medieval Spain. The novels state that the Dornish have a very distinctive accent, known as a "Dornish drawl", but the TV series had to develop what exactly it sounded like. For how it was developed for the TV series, see "Behind the scenes: Regional and class accents" below.
Class accents
While the Common Tongue is geographically quite uniform, the biggest internal distinction is between the upper and lower classes. Noble-borns, as well as other upper class people such as wealthy merchants, tend to speak a more refined and "proper" form of the language, because they can afford a better education. Learned people such as the clergy of the Faith of the Seven or the Order of Maesters also speak with a refined accent which is close to the idealized "official" version of the Common Tongue.
In contrast, commoners cannot afford an education, and tend to slur their language as a result. A specific difference pointed out by Tywin Lannister to Arya Stark is that commoners say "m'lord" almost as one word, while educated noble-born people will typically say "my lord" as two distinct words.[6] Lowborn speech also often features grammar errors that "proper" speech avoids. For example, Davos Seaworth (a former lowborn smuggler) jokes to Lord Stannis Baratheon that he doesn't mind so much that he had the four fingertips on his right hand cut off as punishment for his former smuggling career, because he now has "four less fingernails to clean". Stannis then points out that the correct grammar is "four fewer fingernails".[7] On the eve of the Battle of the Blackwater, Tyrion Lannister comments to Bronn that just because he pays Bronn for his services doesn't diminish their friendship, to which Bronn responds, "enhances it, really". Tyrion is surprised that Bronn used the word "enhances", as it sounds like the vocabulary of an upper-class person, but is a "fancy" word for a common sellsword to use. Bronn explains, "[I've] been spending time with fancy folks".[8]
In the books
The Common Tongue is virtually the only language spoken throughout the entire continent of Westeros. It is stated that about half of the wildlings can only speak the Old Tongue, generally those that live farther away from the Wall or isolated in the mountains. As for the other half of the wildlings, it isn't clear what proportion are bilingual, or perhaps only know the Common Tongue. For that matter, it isn't clear for what proportion the Common Tongue is their primary or secondary language. Nonetheless, the Night's Watch usually doesn't encounter a language barrier with the wildlings that they encounter in their rangings, still relatively close to the Wall.
Behind the scenes
The Common Tongue and English
The "Common Tongue" of the Andals is, of course, the English language which book readers and TV viewers observe. Author George R.R. Martin has stated that he is not a linguist like J.R.R. Tolkien was, and thus he never thought out all of the languages in his fantasy world to the extent Tolkien did. Infamously, Tolkien made it a point that characters in his books actually do not speak in English: The Lord of the Rings is presented as if it were a "lost Anglo-Saxon saga" that was rotting in a library until Tolkien "rediscovered it" (much as the actual Anglo-Saxon saga Beowulf was lost for centuries and then rediscovered). Tolkien worked under the conceit that the "Common Speech" (or "Westron") which the major characters in his works speak isn't really English, he just "translated" it into English. For example, "Frodo Baggins" is just a translation of the real Westron name, "Maura Labingi", and "Hobbit" is a translation of the real Westron term, "Kuduk". This extends to the point that certain significant names, puns, or allusions would only fully make sense in "real Westron", and not in English.
Martin has made no such comments about the "Common Tongue" in his fantasy world, and while Tolkien's Middle-earth was intended to indeed be our world in a lost prehistoric age, Martin has stated that the fantasy world of A Song of Ice and Fire is truly an alternate world with no connection to our own. Thus it would seem that the English used in it doesn't "represent" the "real Common Tongue" through universal translation for the sake of the reader (and TV viewer). The Common Tongue just happens to be exactly like English - though confusingly, this also means that at times it uses English loanwords which obviously originated in other languages (such as "castrati") without explanation, and certain other words that would not have sensibly developed in an alternate world (such as "romantic", in a world without a "Rome").
Note that, from examples of writing from both the books and the TV series, "the Common Tongue" is specifically American English, and thus follows American English grammar rules and spelling standards (though admittedly, sometimes grammar and word choice can be intentionally archaized to make it sound pseudo-medieval).
Regional and class accents
George R.R. Martin has admitted that logically, the different constituent kingdoms of Westeros probably have their own distinctive accents, but given that he is not a trained linguist or philologist, he has made little or no attempt to represent this in his writing.
Martin has briefly acknowledged within the novels that regional accents do exist: Pypar, who was in the same batch of Night's Watch recruits as Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly, traveled across the Seven Kingdoms as a singer in a mummer's troupe, and as a result claimed that he could tell where anyone was from in Westeros based on their accent. Highborn accents are distinct enough that they can be recognized in commands shouted out during the heat of battle. Samwell Tarly is noted to have a highborn accent, and apparently so does Jon Snow, from growing up in Ned Stark's own household at Winterfell. In the fifth novel, as Tyrion Lannister flees through the Free Cities, in his inner thought monologue he acknowledges that he "knew he sounded like a westerman, and a highborn westerman at that", which will make hiding his identity difficult - thus acknowledging that there is such a thing as a "westerlands accent" relative to a "riverlands accent" or "Vale accent". Apparently this is comparable to the slight difference between New York and Los Angeles accent relative to heavily Spanish-accented English (or London and Bristol accents, compared to something radically different like a Scottich Gaelic accent).
Apart from the Northern English/"First Men accent" used for the Northerners and wildlings in the TV series, the only other major ethno-linguistic group to have arrived in Westeros are the Rhoynar, ancestors of the modern Dornish. The Rhoynar originally had their own language but gradually abandoned it to take up the language of their Andal neighbors - much as the independent First Men in the North gradually adopted the Andal language as well. Dorne was also politically independent far longer than the North ever was: the Targaryens conquered six of the seven kingdoms in the War of Conquest three hundred years ago, but Dorne successfully repelled their invasions using guerrilla warfare, and was only brought under the control of the Iron Throne one century ago through peaceful marriage alliance. Probably due to this drastically different ethnic and historical background, the novels state that there is a distinctive Dornish accent, more distinct than any other regional accents (people who don't consider Ned Stark's Northern accent different enough from "standard" Common Tongue to comment on it do comment on how different the Dornish accent is). The World of Ice and Fire sourcebook (2014) specifically mentioned that the accent is due to their speech being influenced by the original language of the Rhoynar - not merely due to their geographical and political isolation in Westeros, though this isolation helped keep the Rhoynish/Dornish accent distinct over the centuries. There are no clear examples of what it is supposed to sound like, but the text consistently describes it as a "Dornish drawl".
At first it was somewhat curious that the original Rhoynar language didn't survive in Dorne: the Old Tongue of the First Men was displaced because the Andals conquered them, but the Rhoynar conquered Dorne (by unifying with the local power of House Martell), and indeed the Dornish were never conquered by any outside force. Even when the Andal conquered the First Men, it may have taken many centuries for the Old Tongue to completely die out in southern Westeros, but that conquest occurred 6,000 years ago - compared to the only 1,000 years ago that the Rhoynar migrated to Dorne. Yet the World of Ice and Fire also provided a direct answer to this: when the Rhoynar first migrated to Westeros they were fleeing the Valyrians who had conquered their homeland, and their warrior-queen Nymeria wanted to convince the faint of heart among her people that there was no going back (their wanderings as a refugee fleet were so desperate that some actually did try to return, only to be captured by the Valyrians). Nymeria's most famous and direct action to prevent any of her people trying to flee back was to burn all of her ships after they landed at Dorne. Nymeria didn't even want her people longing for their old lives in their old homes, however, but to focus on building a future in Dorne, so she encouraged the Rhoynar to actively switch to using the Common Tongue used in Westeros (similarly, the Rhoynar converted en masse to the Faith of the Seven, abandoning their original worship of the river-goddess of the Rhoyne). Nymeria married Mors Martell and her descendants in House Martell ruled over all of Dorne: it is said that the three successors of Nymeria's grandson outright outlawed speaking the original Rhoynar language at all. This is specifically why the original Rhoynar language died out in Dorne in only a century or two, despite the Rhoynar in Dorne never being conquered by any outside force. The original Rhoynar language, however, still ended up influencing how Dornishmen speak Common Tongue with a notable accent.
Linguist David J. Peterson, who designed the Dothraki language, went so far as to work out what Dothraki-accented Common Tongue would sound like, and gave out instructions to the actors who play Dothraki characters who have lines in Common Tongue/English (Rakharo, Irri, etc.). Given this attention to detail, and that Dornish characters such as Oberyn Martell would start appearing in Season 4, Peterson was asked if he had worked out what a "Dornish drawl" is supposed to sound like, perhaps by actually constructing an extinct Rhoynar language and then working backwards. Peterson responded that he would have been happy to develop a "Dornish drawl" accent, but the TV producers never asked him to. Thus any accents used by Dornish characters are inventions of the actors and/or directors, not rationally thought out the way the Dothraki accents were.[9]
As the first major Dornish character cast for the TV series, the accent that actor Pedro Pascal came up with for Oberyn Martell loosely set the standard for other actors playing Dornish characters to follow. Pascal himself noted that the book chapters described the Dornish as speaking with a distinct accent, and that the Dornish should logically speak differently because they are isolated from the rest of Westeros (far to the south, separated by mountains and deserts):
- "The way he sounds and composes himself is just something I went with on instinct from reading the scenes from the show, and I used an accent in my first audition tape because I figured he seemed like a different character from everyone else we've come to know on the show, and that it would be valuable for him not just to look different, but sound different."[10]
There were some fears before Season 4 aired that the Dornish accent used in the TV series would just be a loosely made-up stereotype of a "Hispanic accent", given that Dorne is heavily inspired by medieval Spain. Pascal, however, explained that he actually based Oberyn's Dornish accent on his own father's real-life Chilean-Spanish accent:
- "I remember I had this strange instinct that Oberyn Martell sounded like my Dad. I don't know what that says about my Dad. So my Dad had a somewhat thick accent, my family is Chilean as some people know, and when I was very very young coming to the states, Spanish is my first language because that is what we spoke at home. Unfortunately I don't practice it as much as I should, I can always improve my Spanish, but my parents spoke perfect English but Spanish-accented English."[11]
When Alexander Siddig was cast as Doran Martell for Season 5, he based his character's accent on what Pedro Pascal used for his younger brother Oberyn. When Siddig came in to audition he saw Pascal doing scenes for Season 4. In Season 5 the producers advised him to base his accent on what Indira Varma was doing for Ellaria Sand, but they were unaware that he was already using Pascal's Oberyn as his template.[12]


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If any of you guys know about the penn and teller show called bullsh*t on showtime, they have an episode about "dolphinatics" it is f'n hysterical. Check it out on youtube.


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Coursera Teams Up with Museum to Provide Free Online Courses for Science Teachers
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The American Museum of Natural History is partnering with Coursera, a leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider, to offer science courses for teachers worldwide. The partnership, initiated in conjunction with several other museums and schools of education, marks Coursera's first foray into professional development for educators at the K–12 level.
Doodle 4 Google Contest Winners Coming to the Museum
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This year, in a Doodle 4 Google contest, K–12 students in the U.S. were invited to redesign the Google logo on the theme of "My Best Day Ever..." Later this month, the entries from 50 state winners will be displayed at the American Museum of Natural History, in the Rose Center Gallery, from May 22 through July 14.
Whales Tweetup with Scientific American on May 1
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On Wednesday, May 1, at 6:30 pm, followers of @AMNH and Scientific American (@SciAm) on Twitter are invited to explore Whales: Giants of the Deep after hours, meet curators and scientists, and enjoy free drinks and snacks in our historic Hall of Northwest Coast Indians.
Preserving Potato Diversity in Peru
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With help from Lima's International Potato Center, Andean farmers are preserving potato diversity, as this new video from Science Bulletins evocatively reveals. Also, next Monday, April 29, and Tuesday, April 30, taste different varieties of Peruvian potato chips in the working kitchen in the Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture exhibition.


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Organizers expect strong turnout for Mines Career Day
GOLDEN, Colo., Feb. 9, 2009 – Despite the difficult economic climate, 176 employers and more than 500 recruiters are expected to participate in the Colorado School of Mines Spring 2009 Career Day, Feb. 10, in the Student Recreation Center on the Mines campus in Golden.
For more information, see the Career Center web site.
Founded in 1874, Colorado School of Mines was established to serve the needs of the local mining industry. Today, the School has an international reputation for excellence in both engineering education and the applied sciences with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's resources. For more information about Colorado School of Mines, visit www.mines.edu.
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PHOTOS: The Cookies are Here
Beginning Thursday, you'll see those Girl Scout cookie booths all over town. Click Here for the Girl Scout Cookie Locator.
We checked in with the folks from the Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida, who tell us the price remains at $4 per box this year.
There will be a cookie eating contest at the South Florida Fair this weekend, details on that here.
You can also purchase a limited edition dessert, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida. The Samoa Cookie Cupcake is available only at Duffys Sports Grill locations in our area through February 15th. You pay $1 and 50 cents goes to the Girl Scouts. Click Here for more on that.
While you have to wait until January 23rd to purchase cookies for yourself, you can go online and purchase cookies for a soldier serving here in the U.S. or overseas right now through the Cookies for the Military program.
Click Here to do that.
(Photo courtesy of Teri Severine) Meet Troop 10389! Heather, Kylie and Brandi met a solider while selling Girl Scout Cookies.
(Photo courtesy of Lynn Lovett) Cookies from Troop 30270 made it all the way to SGT Ryan Bowden and SPC Richard Anderson in Afghanistan.
(Photo courtesty of Dawn Hamilton) Meet Christina and a Sergeant! He exchanged stories of how he and his troop enjoyed Girl Scout Cookies in their coffee while overseas!


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Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra Concert
When Sunday March 23, 2014 @ 4:00 PM (1218 days ago)
Where Lehman Auditorium
Duration 1 hour
The concert will feature talented teen musicians in a variety of musical ensembles.
Then Junior Strings ensemble, under the direction of Sharon Miller, will play a classical selections by Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky and an Irish tune. This intermediate-level group has nine members from Augusta, Rockingham, and Page counties.
Next the 40-member Youth Orchestra with students from Rockingham, Augusta, Shenandoah, and Page counties as well as West Virginia will perform. This auditioned group, conducted by Maria Lorcas, will perform one movement from the "Concerto for Violin No. 3†by Mozart featuring Daniel Roth, one movement from the "Piano Concerto No. 3†by Kabelvsky featuring Evan White, "March Slave†by Tchaikovsky and "West Side Story Selections for Orchestra†by Bernstein.
The evening's featured soloists are Daniel Roth, violin, and Evan White, piano. Daniel is the son of Ken and Terri Roth. A senior at Harrisonburg High School, he has been chosen by audition for Senior Regional Orchestra and participates in the Spring String Thing at JMU. He has been a member of the Youth Orchestra for six years, and he is currently a co-concertmaster. He has studied violin with Maria Lorcas and Dr. Joan Griffing at EMU.
Evan White is the daughter of Jack Butt and Julia White. A senior at Eastern Mennonite High School, she is a member of the Touring Choir and Orchestra. She has been a member of the Youth Orchestra for five years in the percussion section. She has studied piano with Dr. Lynne Mackey at EMU and is currently studying with Dr. Eric Ruple at JMU.
A five-dollar donation is requested at the door to assist in the operation of these groups.
The Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings ensemble are part of Eastern Mennonite University's Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music Program.
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
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In medium saucepan, combine sugar and gelatin. Stir in milk; stir over low heat until gelatin is completely dissolved, 5-8 minutes.
Pour into large bowl; stir in strawberry purée. Refrigerate, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds slightly.
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any significant surf expected for next week??? i hope so.
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any significant surf expected for next week??? i hope so.
yeah, chopes is going to be going off.
yea because chopes is anywhere close to the coast of jerz
you think?
Ive been in seaside park the last 5 nights. definatly 2-3 ft waves and really fun. Good long rides. Alot of the surfers have been complaining that the surf reports everywhere arent even close to being accurate and i agree.
ya, there's been some SE background swells sneaking past the model radar this week.
The Swellinfo community surf report network has been hooking up some great reports, esp. for Jersey.
agreed its been really fun the past few days and most sites say its ankle to knee high.
looks like strong winds coming out of the northeast...are we goin to see a decent wave out of this


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UPDATE (April 12): Video from the TODAY Show segment is available to view online. You can view the embed below.
OTTUMWA, Iowa — The city of Ottumwa and Community and Economic Development specialist Himar Hernandez will be featured on NBC's TODAY Show in a piece on how communities adapt to changing populations. The show will air 7 to 11 a.m. April 11 on NBC.
The TODAY Show learned about Ottumwa and Hernandez's work there in an article in the Wall Street Journal on Nov. 8, 2012. The topic of the Journal article was increasing Hispanic populations in the Midwest. Hernandez was mentioned for his work with Latino entrepreneurs in Iowa through Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Since the late 90s, the Latino population in Ottumwa has increased from virtually zero to 20 percent. In late March a TODAY Show news crew visited Ottumwa to learn how the community has changed and adapted to its newest residents. Hernandez was asked about his work helping entrepreneurial Latinos who are interested in starting their own business.
Former Ottumwa mayor Dale Uehling told TODAY about the Latino population changes his city underwent and how the community responded while he was in office. Several Latino business owners and a representative from the school district were also interviewed.
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PHILADELPHIA – Competing at inter-city rival Temple's Ken Anderson Memorial Invitational, the University of Pennsylvania women's gymnastics team finished third on Saturday afternoon, finishing withits highest team score of the season so far, 188.350.
Penn finished third behind host Temple (191.15), and Ivy rival Cornell (191.025), and ahead of West Chester (187.125) and Ursinus (184.225).
The Quakers started on vault with co-captain Wynne Levy leading the way with a 9.625. Junior Amber Woo and sophomore Carissa Lim were right behind Levy for Penn, scoring 9.600.
Junior Makeda Constable led the Quakers on bars for the second meet in a row, improving from last week's meet at Yale, scoring a 9.500.
On beam, freshman Rachel Graham shined for the Quakers scoring a 9.650, the second-highest score of any competitor on the day. Woo followed her solid performance on vault with another 9.600 on beam.
Penn saw two 9.725 routines on floor. The first from Lim, the second from Graham, along with a 9.625 from senior co-captain Diana Moock.
Moock was the only all-around competitor for the Red and Blue and finished with a 37.250 overall.
The Quakers will be in action again next Saturday hosting a quad-meet featuring Temple, SUNY Brockport and SUNY Cortland. The meet will begin at 12 p.m. in Rockwell Gym inside Hutchinson Gymnasium.
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Roy, Lori. Bent Road
Lori Roy's debut novel is creepy from the start. It opens at night on a lonely road full of shadows and tumbleweeds where Celia Scott struggles to follow her husband's disappearing truck around unfamiliar twists and turns. The plot of the novel is similarly dark and serpentine with a few twists of its own. The Scott family returns to the Midwest from Detroit to find a better life for their children and instead finds themselves mired in domestic violence and haunted by family secrets. Arthur struggles to protect his sister Ruth from her violent, alcoholic husband Ray who becomes even more sinister once he is investigated in connection with a young girl's disappearance. What's more, the new charges call to mind the death of another sister, Eve, years before. Many suspect Ray had something to do with Eve's murder as well.
Although the ending may seem over-the-top to some, this dark, gothic tale of family secrets makes compelling reading. Roy develops interesting characters and keeps the plot moving. Readers will be drawn into the dual mysteries, past and present, that Roy so skillfully creates.


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Pilot Flying J Nearing Settlement of Federal Lawsuit
(AP) - Parties in a $70 million truck-stop rebate scandal linked to a company owned by the governor of Tennessee and his brother, who owns the Cleveland Browns, are to gather in court Monday for a federal court hearing that could end in approval of a settlement.
About 50 customers of Nashville-based Pilot Flying J opted out of the proposed settlement and have filed their own lawsuits. But the bulk of the 6,000 companies due rebates, plus interest, under the proposal have signed on to the deal.
Lawyers started filing lawsuits in April against the nation's largest diesel retailer, which is owned by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. Lawyers for the company say upper management didn't know about the scheme that cheated customers out of promised rebates, starting in 2005.
The company has annual revenues of about $30 billion.
Jimmy Haslam has denied any personal wrongdoing. Gov. Bill Haslam holds an undisclosed ownership amount in Pilot Flying J, is not involved with its operations.
The parties are to go before U.S. District Judge James M. Moody on Monday for a fairness hearing, at which the judge is to evaluate the terms of the settlement, for which he earlier granted preliminary approval.
Attorney Aubrey B. Harwell Jr. of Nashville, Tenn., who represents the company, said the settlement is a fair one, even though it excludes punitive damages.
Of the 6,000 customers affected, only about 1 percent opted out of the settlement so they can file their own lawsuits.
"There are lots of customers and their lawyers who find this to be fair to the point of being generous," Harwell said in a phone interview.
Court filing show that about $70 million wasn't paid to customers due rebates. Harwell said $45 million to $50 million has been paid out to customers, based on audits conducted by Pilot Flying J.
Harwell said that number is expected to grow to $50 million to $55 million if the settlement is approved. He said it is unclear how much money is at stake among companies that opted out of the settlement, adding those accounts are still being audited.
A lawyer for an association representing companies due settlements, Michael Roberts of Little Rock, didn't return a phone message seeking comment.
Harwell said any wrongdoing was confined to a limited number of people.
"It appears that there were certain people in the company that acted inappropriately. It also appears ... that senior management knew nothing about this, absolutely nothing, and moved to act in a very constructive fashion the minute they learned about it on April 15. They've acted responsibly," Harwell said.
Seven employees have pleaded guilty to criminal charges and two others are cooperating with the government in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Prosecutors alleged in court documents that the scheme to cheat customers out of rebate and discount money was well-known among sales staff. Plea agreements allege that sales staff took part in a training session that taught employees how to defraud trucking companies without getting caught.


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Move Silently (Dexterity; Armor check penalty)=Edit
Your Move Silently check is opposed by the Listen check of anyone who might hear you. You can move up to one-half your normal speed at no penalty. When moving at a speed greater than one-half but less than your full speed, you take a –5 penalty. It's practically impossible (–20 penalty) to move silently while running or charging. Noisy surfaces, such as bogs or undergrowth, are tough to move silently across. When you try to sneak across such a surface, you take a penalty on your Move Silently check as indicated below.
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None. A Move Silently check is included in your movement or other activity, so it is part of another action.
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Miley Cyrus treats grand prize winner to an exclusive listen of her new music
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Miley Cyrus is on hand in Miami to host the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party Saturday Night, and Friday night she treated Grand Prize Winner Natalie Bergen to an exclusive listen of new music from her upcoming album!
Natalie and her four friends met up with Miley in a very special twerked-out penthouse at the Fontainebleau Miami beach, where they had a great time hanging with Miley. Natalie's friend even helped Miley out when her top came undone! Check out photos below.


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Utah-based Winder Farms, which specializes in delivering farm-fresh groceries, launched a home-delivery grocery service in Orange County on Tuesday
The company offers more than 300 groceries online, including Rockview dairy, produce from Tanaka Farms, and hormone-free and organic meats. Winder also is delivering organic cookies, breads and pastas from Huntington Beach-based Picket Lane Bakery.
"Our goal at Winder Farms is to simplify life for busy Orange County parents who care about feeding their families natural and nutritious foods," said Mike Dutton, chief executive of Winder Farms.
Groceries are delivered weekly to a customer's doorstep in a cooler bag before 8 a.m. Changes can be made on a standing order as late as 8 the night before, the company said.
Online grocery shopping isn't new. During the dot-com boom, traditional markets and niche Web companies toyed with home-delivery services, but none was able to make the service profitable. Online grocer Webvan shut down operations in 2001.
But grocery experts say the delivery of specialty goods and produce is an expanding niche.
"With the U.S. economy starting to pick up, consumers are increasingly interested in fresh foods and online shopping," according to a report published this week by national retail consulting firm Willard Bishop.
Earlier this month, Amazon expanded its fruit, vegetable and grocery delivery business, AmazonFresh, from Seattle to the Los Angeles area. With consumers demanding locally sourced goods, the online giant is selling goods from local suppliers and specialty retailers such as La Brea Bakery, Santa Monica Seafood, The Huntington Meats, Intelligentsia Coffee, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and The Pie Hole.
In Southern California, Safeway-owned Vons and Pavilions deliver for a fee. Walmart is testing delivery in Northern California.
Online grocery sales reached $15.9 billion in 2012, up 16.9 percent from the year before, according to the "Future of Food Retailing" report.
Retailers such as Amazon are seeing success in providing a quality assortment of foods for consumers looking for "quick and easy" shopping, Willard Bishop's report said.
"Natural, organic and fresh high quality foods are in demand and retailers that can deliver them are poised for success," the report said.
Winder, which launched dairy delivery in 1880, delivers groceries in Utah, Las Vegas and Mesquite, Nev.
The company is offering new Orange County customers a one-time $30 credit on orders placed before July 30. You can use the promo code "OCLaunch." The company charges a $1.99 fee per delivery. Go to winderfarms.com for more information.
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(Lorain County) - Elyria Police are searching for two suspects in the attempted abduction of an 11 year old girl.
Police Captain Chris Constantino says the incident happened Tuesday morning as the child waited for her school bus near the Hyde Point Apartments on West River Road North.
The girl told police at 6:50, a "Hyundai looking car" rolled up with two people inside. A woman got out of the passenger side of the red compact vehicle wearing a business suit, black shirt, and pink blouse with her hair wrapped in a bun.
Constantino tells Newsradio WTAM 1100, that the woman extended her arms and asked the girl for a hug and offered a ride to school. The girl ran away and hid behind a nearby shed.
Constantino says the woman continued to call for the girl, with a man getting out of the car, but quickly returning to the wheel and driving away. The child's bus shortly arrived and she ran onboard and told the bus driver.
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February 8th 2008
Here's another mixed bag with some Afro Latin, Afro Disco, Afro Funk and Afro Pop from Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ivory Coast.
One of my favorite tracks here is Sagbohan Danialou, a musical legend in Benin who was featured in Nicolas Moncadas' amazing movie documentary "l'Homme Orchestre". If you know what's good for you, you better try and track down some of his work, there are a few clips to be found on YouTube to wet your appetite. Nicolas managed to capture the beauty and unique feel of the country of Benin and its vibrant culture and I sincerely hope that his work will soon receive the attention it deserves.
In the meanwhile, click the image below (showing multi-instrumentalist Sagbohan Danialou behind the drums), sit back and enjoy the sounds.
Thanx to my friend Cyril, who's jumped in to help me out with the hosting!
07:51 Antoine Dougbe -nounignon man kpon midji
13:24 Yom Yem Kombination -get on 'n' do it
20:55 Poly Rythmo -moulon devia
29:50 Djinns Music -djinns musi'c time
35:05 Bailly Spinto -djamo djamo
41:47 Sagbohan Danialou -ossi
47:51 Funkees -akula dwu onyeara pt.1
51:47 Bella Bellow -dasi ko
55:48 M.F.B -beware
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Selling anything on Etsy?
Posted 18 December 2013 - 04:58 PM
I am so weary of putting names on mugs, but I sold a couple of thousand dollars of them in the past month. Never thought that would happen! But people like that. They like useable, good prices, lovely work. It's not a place for original art, in my experience, although many people have excellent solid work there. There is also a price point to consider. One lady makes lovely mugs, but at close to $50, they don't sell. I sell my mugs at $22 to $25.
Northern Woods Pottery
Posted 23 December 2013 - 07:40 PM
This lady just posted on Facebook that she just hit 5000 total sales on Etsy. But looking at the shop info, that one was founded in Nov. of 2009. So that is 5000 sales in 14 years. If the average price of a sale for her is $40 (seems reasonable given her pricing listed) that is a total of about $200,000. Nothing to sneeze at. But divide that by 14 years, and you get about $14,285 average a year, for the GROSS income. Take out COGS, overhead, and other such business expenses maybe less than $10,000 a year, pretax.
These days $10,000 is not a lot of money.
John Baymore
Adjunct Professor of Ceramics; New Hampshire Insitute of Art
Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
Posted 23 December 2013 - 08:01 PM
John, not to be picky, but how about 4 years (2013 - 2009 = 4). Yeah, that new math stuff really gives me trouble, too. Any case, that's a boatload of yarn bowls.
Posted 23 December 2013 - 08:09 PM
Picky, picky, picky.
Oops... brain fa%$. Yeah..... that new math is a bear.
That is more like $50,000 a year. So an Etsy success story.
Wonder if it is sole proprieotorship or if there are employees? Also if there are other retail and whol;esale sales, or is this the whole enchilada?
John Baymore
Adjunct Professor of Ceramics; New Hampshire Insitute of Art
Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
Posted 23 December 2013 - 09:23 PM
I'm still not selling anything on Etsy-
I have been selling a boatload of potttery just not online.
$10,ooo per year-just the shipping/wrapping gives me pause at 40$ per sale.Glad its not me.That can be done in a 3 day weekend without 250 UPS shipments at a good show.
I ship enough without looking for more shipping-
Buy it now .com works best for me at my booth.Its worked for over 40 years even before the web.
When I'm to old to pack pots around I may and I say may half heartedly try my own online cart. Not etsy.That name feels like my back is itching?
I already have my own customer base-Thats what you need to work on to make selling pottery work.
My glazes are always different-thats reduction firing. Its also why folks like the pottery.
Posted 24 December 2013 - 12:39 PM
Wouldn't you have to admit though that even with shows you handle all the pottery a number of times as you move the pieces through a show and unsold back to your studio.
The labels from online would/should be automated and plucking, wrapping and boxing to a certain degree would be done in both venues. There are things in both that would be exclusive but if someone did a lot of online and was extremely organized couldn't they also pack and ship 250 pieces in the same 3-5 days you would spend on the 3 day show?
Posted 24 December 2013 - 02:53 PM
I'll grant you it could be done as in its possible -Amazon does it every nano second but on etsy-250 pieces bought in the same 3 days?maybe a $5 dollar item? and thats a BIG maybe.
Yes I handle pottery a lot of times and thats a fact but its part of the job-its keeps me in shape at 60-clay has always kept me in shape.
Some folks think moving pots is a hassle for me its all part of the whole.
The larger question is can you make a living selling on etsy what do you think?
As I know I can with my other outlets. I feel etsy is a very much supplemental income source that all it can be or will be.
One last note if you do not like handling your ceramics many times then maybe rethink clay as its all about handling the same things many many times-there is no other way. no matter how you market them.
Throwing trimming sponging bisquing handbuilding sanding waxing glazing loading firing and we have yet to get to selling wait you need to unload them-price them pack them sell or ship them take them to shows or galleries repack take home take somewhere else? it all adds up to handling them many many times.
For me as I said its all part of a single process making a good living with clay.
On etsy you are one in 850,000 sellers or less as I think the number has growen what are the odds?
Posted 26 December 2013 - 01:12 PM
Hi Mark,
Love to move the stuff at every stage of the game, I was disappointed when we started buying pre-mixed clay because It was fun starting with a bunch of bags of dirt and turning it into clay first :-)
If I understood your post as intended, you were saying the shipping is a nightmare and you can move 250 pieces through a show and not have to deal with shipping it.
I was mostly trying to point out that there are many hours involved in shows as well so If one is organized, shipping those same 250 pieces you mentioned moving through a 3 day show will not by definition take that many more cumulative hours to ship via UPS (over a longer time I'm sure). Based on previous experience with shipping other things if everything (boxes, padding etc) is just so and the labels are all automated then packing a box every 15 minutes seems doable, 4 an hour, especially since you are not doing it all at one time but a few a day tops. If the packages averaged a piece and a half that's 166 packages to move 250 items and that would be about 40 hours of packing spread out over however many days, weeks or months. I assume you agree that a three day show would take x number of hours as well so the difference may be closer than you think. I do get though that you enjoy shows and despise shipping boxes though :-)
Anyway I don't have enough experience to be arguing with you. From what I can tell almost no one sells more than a few hundred items a year on-line and that takes some dedicated hours of specialized marketing to do. I think Etsy is a popular example to use in the discussion because how long a store has been up and how many sales they have had is right there for everyone to see.
On a different note, I Hope everyone had a nice holiday yesterday!
Posted 26 December 2013 - 04:38 PM
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" If a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal "
Fredrick Bachman
Posted 01 January 2014 - 11:27 AM
Wouldn't you have to admit though that even with shows you handle all the pottery a number of times as you move the pieces through a show and unsold back to your studio.
The labels from online would/should be automated and plucking, wrapping and boxing to a certain degree would be done in both venues. There are things in both that would be exclusive but if someone did a lot of online and was extremely organized couldn't they also pack and ship 250 pieces in the same 3-5 days you would spend on the 3 day show?
(Sorry for my slow response to this ... I haven't been on the computer much during the holidays)
I don't do much online selling either, but right after my Open Studio (my last show of the year), I loaded up my online store and received a flurry of orders in two days. Remember I do a lot of wholesale so I have a very efficient setup for wrapping and packing boxes. I spent about 6 hours packing and shipping online orders. If I compare the gross sales represented by those 6 hours, to the gross sales of the 9 hours that my Open Studio was live, there is no comparison. Making sales at a show is far more efficient than packing online orders. Not to mention, my Open Studio took place during a sleet storm, could have been much better. Also not to mention, taking photographs, uploading them to the online store, writing descriptions, this all took several hours. About the same amount of time it takes to setup my display for any show. And I only listed about 25 pots online, at any show I can display hundreds of pots. Also not to mention the high volume of packing materials consumed, vs the wrapping/bags used at a show. It seems wasteful.
The major difference is this ... at a show, the customer comes to you. They spend a lot more of their own energy making the purchase, especially transporting it back to their house. When customers are sitting at their computers, the potter needs to make up for this effort themselves.
My thoughts on the example provided by John B ... it looks like this etsy store has really embraced the yarn bowl as a niche market. Their store offers dozens of items but just about all of their sales are yarn bowls. And in my opinion their yarn bowls are of a better design and quality than most of the yarn bowls I've seen. And it's the type of niche item where they probably couldn't find that many knitters at a time by doing shows. I do wonder if it requires an assistant to pack 5,000 orders. If so, that needs to be factored in as an expense. And I wonder how they feel about making only one item all the time. But if they have all of these things figured out, then they are doing something very smart.
Good Elephant Pottery
Posted 01 January 2014 - 11:45 AM
Reading her Etsy profile, she has her husband helping .....but no mention of otehr employees.
She also mentions three distinct lines she has ......... the yarn bowls, museum/guift shop pieces, and one of a kind gallery type work.
"Thanks for visiting my pottery shop. All the work you see in my store is made by my two hands in my little studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. I throw my pieces on the potter's wheel and decorate and glaze them all by myself with my own glazes. The help of my husband David Smyth with customer service and packing/shipping allows me more time to sit on my wheel and create my pieces."
John Baymore
Adjunct Professor of Ceramics; New Hampshire Insitute of Art
Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
Posted 01 January 2014 - 12:02 PM
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" If a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal "
Fredrick Bachman
Posted 02 January 2014 - 02:38 PM
Having said that, I recently read a fair bit of the guidance on SEO and making your listings easier to be found, just as the xmas buying season was starting, made a few tweaks to my listings, and suddenly had a rash of online orders from both home and abroad. I'm not talking 'retirement' level orders, but given that I had a total of 4 sales in three years, and suddenly had 12 new sales in a two-month period, I guess there's something to it. I was being found in browse as well as search within Etsy; not much from google searches.
I do find that I get a lot of 'favourties' on one particular item (hand built Espresso cups) and I'm hoping longer term that these people might come back and purchase ('Add to cart' rather 'add to favourites').
I am at a point where I'm looking at technology to make my own commerce site, but I think I might keep Etsy too, as there's an in-built customer base that comes with it. It won't take me any longer to write copy or take photos for listings than for my own shop site, so other than paying a listing fee $0.20 and 3.5% selling fee, I'm not losing anything, if this is a sale I wouldn't have had otherwise.
I guess if you're not sure, it's a case of "suck it and see" but do a little bit of work to establish how best to write your listings, and you may be pleasantly surprised. It might as well be there, as not.
Posted 10 January 2014 - 12:01 AM
I had an etsy page, but like most everyone else is saying, it was a lot to maintain. I mostly want a page for the few people who ask me if I sell online. And, I occasionally get custom orders. So, I set up a square market page for myself. It was very easy, and I can direct people to it using my own email list and social media. I find it easier to manage (not as much tagging and verbiage needed for each piece. And, I like the clean modern look.
Now when I get a custom order, I just create a listing, then email the link directly to the customer. As soon as they pay, I complete the order. 2.75% for each transaction, and the sales all report with my square card reader sales. no need to work through paypal anymore. $ goes directly into my bank account.
Posted 13 February 2014 - 03:46 PM
We just opened our Etsy site. We have had a few friends "successfully" sell on the site and are hoping to make some sales... I would be happy with even 2 or 3 sales a month.
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Miek's ClayWorks
Posted 14 February 2014 - 11:11 PM
Hello! Ive never posted on anything before but I thought I might share this. I was just the featured shop on the homepage of Etsy a few weeks ago and it has been amazing! Its my sole source of income right now! Im very excited.I will be doing some craft fairs this summer/winter but etsy is getting me by in the mean time. So I wanted to share my experience with etsy leading up to this happening.
Last March (so less than a year ago) I opened my etsy shop when I decided to get serious about selling my work. I looked at etsy a lot and thought about what caught my eye. The photographs are EXTREMELY important. I notice that a lot of the homepage items always have natural light with a soft white background highlighting the piece as the main focus. So I started with nice photograpjs hoping they would catch peoples eye.Then I decided to link my etsy shop to 4 different social media sites.I use my facebook page to highlight whats going on with shows and exciting news and events and when I list new items and so forth then I use tumblr just to showcase really nice photos of my work. Then I use instagram to show my process and let people view inside the studio and see what I am working on then I use pintrest to showcase what I have for sale. Other people seem to pin my work to interest too.I like pintrest becuase if its pinned directly from etsy it tells you the price and clicking the photo will take you right to the item on etsy. All 4 of these sites link everything back to my etsy shop. People who use these social media platforms share things like crazy. I do spend an hour in the evening or so a day doing social media stuff but I dont mind it. Its relaxing. The most time I spend on the computer is editing the photos so the pieces look like they do in life (my camera sucks). I like being able to show the whole process so people know I am a real person. I think the combination of nice photos and social media lead to being noticed by etsy. Im still not sure exactly how they found me but I am so thankful they did! I think being specific with the tagging of listings is really helpful so people can find you too.I hope this is a little bit useful becuase thats what Ive done besides make pots and it seemed to work!
I work really hard in general there really isnt a substitute for hard work but I love being in the studio making things so its great. I also want to add that staying true to yourself in what you make and taking an artist approach over just doing this for money has perhaps given my work something unique. I dunno but I do like to make things haha
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Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:27 PM
I must be incredibly dense ... I knit but can't imagine adding extra weight by lugging a pottery bowl of yarn around ... I guess they all must knit in one spot ... and never bring the knitting with them to pass the time on a long car ride or such ... Of course the pottery 'yarn' bowl could come in handy for snacks.
I crochet a lot- and sometimes go to a knitting group. The ladies want me to make yarn bowls for their living room end tables (to match) so they can plunk their yarn ball in it when sitting so to keep it from rolling on the floor or in pet hair. I keep one that i made by my desk in my office if I am watching a youtube video I can start hooking. I would never dream of taking one with me. I have however seen a pinterest "hack" where someone stuck a skein of yarn in the oatmeal cylinder with a hole in the lid - that seems lightweight and more "travel friendly".
~ Namaste ~
Home studio potter
Shanel Pottery
"To me the greatest thing is to live beauty in our daily life and to crowd every moment with things of beauty. It is then, and then only that the art of the people as a whole is endowed with it's richest significance. For it's products are those made by great a many craftsmen for the mass of the people, and the moment this art declines the life of the nation is removed far away from beauty. So long as beauty abides in only in a few articles created by a few geniuses, the kingdom of beauty is nowhere near realization." - Bernard Leach
Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:29 PM
thanks for sharing silver lining. I just started using pinterest and instagram to promote my pottery as well!
~ Namaste ~
Home studio potter
Shanel Pottery
"To me the greatest thing is to live beauty in our daily life and to crowd every moment with things of beauty. It is then, and then only that the art of the people as a whole is endowed with it's richest significance. For it's products are those made by great a many craftsmen for the mass of the people, and the moment this art declines the life of the nation is removed far away from beauty. So long as beauty abides in only in a few articles created by a few geniuses, the kingdom of beauty is nowhere near realization." - Bernard Leach
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Report: Production halted on Gregg Allman movie
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The future of the Gregg Allman biopic "Midnight Rider" is in limbo. Sources tell TheWrap.com production on the film has been suspended indefinitely in the wake of a train accident that killed a crew member last week in Georgia.
Possible legal and criminal ramifications loom over the production. Savannah TV station WSAV reported this week that the production crew was denied permission to film on the railroad trestle where the accident occurred.
Twenty seven-year-old assistant camera operator Sarah Jones was killed after she was struck by the train during set-up for a dream sequence on the first day of filming last Thursday. Seven other people were injured.
Based on Gregg Allman's 2012 biography My Cross To Bear, Midnight Rider has Tyson Ritter and William Hurt playing younger and older versions of the rocker. Allman is also serving as an executive director on the film.
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EDMONDS — A woman's body was found Monday night after a fire at an Edmonds apartment complex.
The fire apparently was started by an accident with a reading lamp.
"This was the type of lamp you can clip to a shelf or headboard. It appears the lamp came loose and landed on the victim's bed in the living room," said Leslie Hynes, spokeswoman for Snohomish County Fire District 1.
The fire was reported about 6 p.m. at Gateway Apartments along 240th Street SW.
Crews quickly extinguished the fire and found the body inside, she said.
Police and fire investigators were called to the scene. Officials were not releasing information about the victim pending identification by the medical examiner.
A cat also died in the fire, which was confined to one apartment, Hynes said.
People who live in the apartment complex were allowed to return to their homes at about 11:30 p.m.
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