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Template:Infobox Settlement Fire Island Pines (often referred to as The Pines or simply Pines) is a hamlet in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is located on Fire Island, a barrier island on the southern side of Long Island.
Fire Island Pines, along with neighboring Cherry Grove, comprise the gay community on Fire Island.
The Pines, which has the most expensive real estate on Fire Island, has approximately 700 houses on its square mile of location. It has two-thirds of the swimming pools on Fire Island.[1] Its summer seasonal population is between 2,500 and 3,000 and in 2004 12 people listed it as their full-time residence.[2]
Transportation is via foot on the boardwalks. If a person wishes to carry groceries, the traditional way to do so is to pull toy wagons (commonly the popular Radio Flyer).
Fire Island Pines, derives its name from the scrub pine trees in the area which, according to legend, started growing after a ship with Christmas trees and holly foundered off its coast in the late 1800s.[3]
The Pines was originally the site of a Coast Guard station built in 1876 and known as Lone Hill Saving Station. The area was purchased by the Home Guardian Company in 1924.
The SmadbecksEdit
Plans for development first began in 1952 when Warren and Arthur Smadbeck, doing business as the Home Guardian Company, announced plans to sell 122 lots in the new subdivision while building a private harbor for yachts, a large landing dock, and a private park facing the harbor. The Smadbecks, who sold more than 700,000 lots around the country, had purchased the property from the Sammis family, which had owned it since buying most of Fire Island in 1855 when they built the Surf Hotel near the Fire Island Light, in what is now the community of Kismet.
The basic Smadbeck layout of the Pines remains to this day, including the Botel which was designed to be a simple, no-frills, dormitory style accommodation for those who docked their yachts docked in the harbor.
The Botel and associated yacht club buildings burned on May 31, 1959.[4]
John B. WhyteEdit
Former male model John B. Whyte encouraged its reputation as a gay destination after buying the rebuilt Botel Pines and Dunes Yacht Club in the 1960s (Cherry Grove was already a gay destination when Whyte developed the Pines). The Botel is now the Hotel Ciel and still the central landmark and only hotel in the Pines. Whyte bought the property after a May 31, 1959 fire destroyed the entire complex.[5]
Whyte, who owned 80 percent of the commercial property in the Pines, instituted the community's central social activity schedule of "Low Tea" (drinks—particularly the "Blue Whale" cocktail of Curaçao liqueur and vodka that turned patrons' tongues blue—at the Blue Whale from 5 PM to 8 PM) followed by "High Tea (drinks at the Pavilion from 8 to 10 PM) followed by an evening of dancing at the Pavilion[6] (all of which were Whyte establishments).
All of the commercial buildings are located in the "harbor" area which is where the ferry from Sayville docks. The harbor also includes docks for yachts. Regularly scheduled seaplanes during the season from New York City connect disembark their passengers at the Harbor.
The central dance club was the Sandpiper which in 1979 became the Pavilion before being razed at the end of the 2006 season and replaced with the "New Pavilion" in 2007.
The Pines SceneEdit
The Pines has long had a hedonistic reputation with its culture of drugs, alcohol and sex.
While all of Fire Island may have an official year-round population of 310, the summer population swells to much higher levels especially on weekends. In the Pines, the large houses are filled with summer shares and a 4 bedroom house can easily contain 8 people at a time. The population is primarily gay men from 20–50 years old. It is affectionately referred to as "Chelsea with sand." (Chelsea is one of Manhattan's gay neighborhoods.)
Two of the Pines's most famous events are the Pines Party, an all-night dance party held each July on the beach, and the Invasion of the Pines, a drag-queen parade held each year on July 4, commemorating the time when Whyte refused service to a drag queen. After promenading through the Pines, the drag queens from Cherry Grove proclaim victory and return to Cherry Grove.
The forest between it and Cherry Grove has been nicknamed the "meat rack" because of sexual liaisons occurring at all hours in it with the Village People in the anthem entitled "Fire Island" warning "Don't go in the bushes, someone might grab ya".[7] The Meat Rack is even celebrated each year with a "Mr. Meatrack" contest at the Ice Palace
After being hard hit by the AIDS fatalities among its regulars in the late 1980s and early 1990s, GMHC began hosting the Morning Party fundraiser on the beach. The party evolved into a major Circuit Party and was GMHC's biggest fundraising event. However the party itself developed a reputation for being connected with unsafe sex and recreational drug use.
GMHC pulled the plug after the 1998 fundraiser after one man died of an overdose of the drug gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB) the evening before the party and 21 revelers were arrested for drug possession.[8]
Despite the loss of the high profile sponsor the party continued under the name of the Pines Party which is held on the last weekend of July. Proceeds go to lower profile organizations of the Stonewall Community Foundation (which uses the money to help those with HIV) and the Fire Island Pines Property Owners Association Charitable Foundation (which uses the funds to make improvements to the common areas).[9]
Drug use connected with the parties has remained high with the resident doctor Ed Schulhafer sending out a memo to residents following the another GHB fatality in 2007 stating: "This tragic incident follows an unprecedented number of GHB overdoses at the Pines Party, July 29."[10]
People associated with Fire Island Pines Edit
- Calvin Klein, Former Resident
- David Geffen, Former Resident
- Robin Byrd, Resident
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Fire Island Pines Chamber of Commerce - Retrieved October 31, 2007
- ↑ Havens: Fire Island Pines, N.Y. – New York Times – May 14, 2004
- ↑ Sites for Houses Are Being Offered In Division of Estate on Fire Island
- ↑ Blaze on Fire Island - New York Times - June 1, 1959
- ↑ Blaze on Fire Island - New York Times - June 1, 1959
- ↑ The Dearly Departed, Class of '04; John B. Whyte -- Mr. Fire Island Pines – New York Times – December 26, 2004
- ↑ Lyrics2007.com - Lyrics to Fire Island
- ↑ - The Advocate - February 2, 1999
- ↑ Pines Party - pinesparty.com - Retrieved November 3, 2007
- ↑ Gays Break Records For Deadly Drug Overdoses This Summer - Gawker.Com - August 23, 2007
External linksEdit
- Fire Island News and Online Travel Guide
- Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines News and Travel Guide
- Grove Pines Connect - 24/7 Gay Social Networking Haven
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- The lengthy series of numbered "thoughts" below started out as a further reply to Morey Strauss on LP Radicals Discuss forum on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LPRadicals-Discuss/message/135). I believe it was carried over from LP Radicals (www.groups.yahoo.com/group/lpradicals), but I was unable to find it there. As this reply turned more and more into a unwieldy ramble, I decided to clean them up a little and instead put them in the paper APA, The (formerly Libertarian) Connection (Erwin S. "Filthy Pierre" Strauss, Publisher, 10 Hill St., #22-L, Newark, NJ 07102, Sample: $1). I have modified the introduction for this on-line version, and made minor corrections to it.I've read the article (Neither Anarchy Nor Minarchy is Necessarily Libertarian, http://davidfriedman.blogspot.com/2007/10/neither-anarchy-nor-minarchy-is.html), and the comments on it. I'm not sure how much of it, or them, I understood, but I'll attempt some responses to them, and your own comment, and make some comments on decentralism, communitarianism, and contractarianism, which I believe are relevant to the larger issue.
1. I'm pretty sure most communitarians include the concept of territorial "contiguity" into their concept and idea of community. They want to share the same physical space and be enclosed in the same borders with likeminded people. If they can acheive this with either homesteading or deed transfer, then I fail to see how this wouldn't be libertarian. But though theoretically possible, I'm sure there would be difficulties. I'm skeptical of the revanchism of left-libertarians (confiscating land and property from the "bad" people like those from the "corporate and political classes".) Most or all of us have "aggressed" or involved ourselves in the aggression-riddled system, so who's to draw the line between the "bad" and the "good enough". Seems a pretty arrogant presumption to me, and such confiscation may be just as thuggish as government takeovers.
Same with the method of some sort of "democratic" takeover using current rules of local and state governments. I know this is the method of the free state, county & city movements, and actually I'd like to see these people succeed. but even this could get a little messy and make libertarians look like bullies themselves, even though we probably have a lot of justification for what we're trying to do.
If we put our money where our mouth is and advocate RADICAL decentralism and RADICAL contractarianism, then I think we should be honest and courageous enough to admit that the results may not be very pretty to a lot of people. And rather than trying to wriggle out of, or minimize, or rattle off pat answers rapped up in nice, neat ribbons, we ought to PUBLICLY own up to them. Some people and some communities will say and do things that quite offend and disgust you. But you can offset those offensive and disgusting things by doing what you see is right and good, and offering an alternative way and community.
2. Why should it matter to someone who wants freedom if anarchy or minarchy is more "efficient". Freedom is one thing, efficiency another. I want the freedom to be inefficient. And whether some way of doings things is efficient or not is based on ones subjectively chosen aims and desires. I fail to see the relevance of "efficiency" to liberty.
3. What is "libertarian law"? Is it codified/written somwhere? Has anyone attempted to do so, unofficially? Perhaps there have been different and competing versions by different individuals. I imagine it would be based on, an expansion of, the non-aggression principle. Am I right? A brief explanation and/or link would be appreciated.
4. The word "libertarian" seems to be used in many different senses. The sense that most self-identified libertarians use it in---and the way it's used in the above title, "Neither Anarchy Nor Minarchy..."---is the one behind the Libertarian Party electoral strategy. "You have the right to do anything you want ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY as long as you are not AGGRESSING against any other individual". Maybe you could call this "simple propertarianism" as opposed to "complex propertarianism". By this conception, UNTIL EVERYTHING HAS BEEN PRIVATIZED---STREETS, SIDEWALKS, PARKS---there is no justification for outlawing somebody from walking down the sidewalk naked, or wearing a T-shirt with "All Jews/Queers/Niggers to the Ovens!" or "Praise My Sweet Satan!" or an infinite number of "shocking" or "offensive" displays.
Of course, with privatization/voluntary-communitization, this problem is, largely, solved. But once you take these steps, other implications & possible outcomes follow. Sheldon Richman posted an op-ed piece he wrote on the Left Libertarian 2 forum about a law meant to "protect" workers from employees who made micro-chip insertion a condition of their employment. Correctly, he argued this was a matter between employer and employee, not the government, so such a "protective" law was unlibertarian. (I think he may have retreated from this position, but I don't recall.) I think he was right the first time, and still do. I'd no sooner get micro-chipped than drink strychnine as a condition of employment, but principle is principle. Hey, when such controlling institutions try to use "contract" to take advantage of their power, let's fight back, but do it in libertarian ways. I'm sure we have the creativity and imagination to do so.
5. In the now archives-only LP Radicals-D forum, I commented on the story about a "grandpa" that was first evicted by a homeowners association. I pointed out that he signed a contract and violated it, and that the HA was essentially like a proprietary community, something often ADVOCATED by libertarians, thus the irony of presenting the man as a victim of regulations.
Most responded with all sorts of legalistic evasions in defense of the old man. The gist of their response seemed to say that city government's existing rules exerted some degree of coercion on him. That's a fair point. But it doesn't deal with the fact that in a much more CONTRACTARIAN society, people are going to sign contracts that get them into trouble. Most people, myself included, don't have the intelligence, time or patience to totally digest complicated contracts in legalese, and even in the absence of government, will get themselves in trouble, UNLESS cultural or other changes are made. If we want people to even consider LIBERTY we need to get them ready for it, MENTALLY.
6. When secessionists advocate the "right to secede", what do they mean? A state may secede from the Union, but who represents "the state"? I suppose they could say that those who object to the secession, may secede themselves, but what are said "seceders" actually doing, or saying? Can a serial murderer declare his secession and go about murdering? Why not? Murder is aggression, you say? Who are your to impose YOUR interpretation of the non-aggression principle on him, or anybody else? OR maybe he doesn't believe in the the non-aggression principle. Does the "right to secede" trump the non-aggression principle, or is it vice versa? If you claim my question is absurd, then I say I've always thought a "state's right to secede" can be and probably has been "absurd" since during the Civil War they claimed their right to secede entailed the right to enslave and murder people. My queries are not absurd. I think many people skeptical or uncertain of the "right to secede" are concerned about these very implications. I don't think they've been very clearly discussed or dealt with by the pro-secessionists.
7. There may be any number of possible written/worded/codified minarchic constitutions. Just pointing to the U.S. Constitution as flawed and unstable isn't an argument against other possibly BETTER ones. OF COURSE such a constitution may be UNSTABLE. All complex ideas/philosophies/thought-systems are unstable and have evolved, decayed and changed over time. Buildings and infrastructures do the same thing. No brainer. Maybe there are arguments against constitutional/codified minarchy, but the argument that they don't last strikes me as a weak one.
8. The more anarchist theorists try to defend and explain anarchy and how it will work, the more it looks like a system of interlocking MINARCHIES.To the anarcho-capitalists: No, not everyone will be disciplined little entrepeneurs with business models in their heads. There is as much, if not more, emotionalism and tribalism in the human heart, as rationalism and individualism in the human mind. I don't think you're factoring in the former as much as you should be. I don't so much reject anarchism. I just have doubts that it really does or can exist, perhaps a bit like the Christian, Muslim or Jewish God.
9. If and to the extent that anarchism is coherent and well-defined, and "true" anarchy can be achieved, I strongly suspect that "anarchists", individually and collectively---mutualist, anarcho-capitalist or Georgist---CAN, AND MAY, oppress me and mine, much more than anarchists are willing to admit.
While governments, minarchic and megarchic, usually justify this with all sorts of pious traditionalism and rhetoric about the founding fathers, God, the Law, etc., perhaps anarchists will do so with a vast network of "rational" theories, drawn from obscure tomes, filled with obscure terminology and abstruse acadamese...that people like me, "who can't quite comprehend anarchism", will never be able to understand. And we will have only to take our rationally justified beating? Anybody remember Napolean, in Animal Farm?
10. Radical libertarianism entails radical contractarianism and radical decentralism. I'm sympathetic and open-minded to all of these, but it seems like every time anybody wants to take them seriously and confront possible troublesome consquences, in theory and FACT, most "radicals" want to explain them away with pat answers.James N. Dawson[The Connection, founded in 1967, is wasting away. Please consider joining us, or at least ordering a sample for a mere $1. Address above.]
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I must start this by saying I take very good care of my truck, and I hate it when my vehicles break down.
This morning seemed rather normal for my life… I shouldn't have gotten out of bed.
I meet with my father to go do a rather full day of work. Leave… Transmission on truck acts up. Check everything, and all seems fine. Go to first job… All still good. Leave the first job…
Well, let's just say my day went BAD… Quick.
Within 10 minutes of leaving the site my truck started blowing smoke. I happened to be on the phone with the transmission shop so that I could arrange the truck to go in for a check-up. I quickly stopped the truck in a safe location, and called my friend, Mike, and had him send a tow truck to pick up my truck.
Now my truck sits at the local transmission shop… waiting for the doctor to "Hit me over the head with a price."
Meanwhile my wife is screaming at me that we can't afford another vehicle, and she will now start riding a bicycle… (That's not a good thing, as she gets very moody when she talks without thinking.) So now we are sharing a vehicle temporarily.
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Contrary to other reviews, the service (front desk in particular) was actually very good. The location was also excellent if you want to be near Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf but just like many other places in San Francisco, this place gets sketchy, especially at night. There are many homeless people in the area and tons of hoodlums. I also didn't feel secure at the gym (open 24 hrs) which is located in their other building across the parking lot entrance. The door was not locked, there was no security and was accessible by anyone. Beds were not comfortable and the hotel had a mildewy odor throughout. 4 stars for location b/c it's across the street from Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf
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Hillary Clinton tried 'preaching' at a gospel awards show over the weekend at the 31st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. In the video below Clinton said:
"We all face troubles don't we. And it's easy to get discouraged. And then all of a sudden maybe you hear a song in church, you hear it on the radio, maybe a friend is singing it. His Eye Is On The Sparrow. I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he's watching me. And all of a sudden those clouds lift and you know you can go on again. So I know this is not just about music. It truly is about the message. It's about the Gospel and all that it means to so many of us. So I want to thank you. I wish all of you well, not just in these awards but in every day, in every way. And I am grateful that you are in our lives. A lot of people need to hear that message and you are helping to deliver it."


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Quickly before the end of March, here are the post of February you like the best. I cheat a little bit this time, the number one post last month was the ninja eggs ... but Easter is behind us and we have seen enough eggs until next year. So I've arbitrarily and unfairly disqualified them (Sorry Ninjas ;)
The third place went to the trivets round-up, 7 great tutorials how will embellish your table.
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As deployments of Carrier Ethernet-based services in the metro network continue to grow in scale and scope, delivering services from end to end often involves crossing an MPLS core. Our next DemoFriday, on Nov. 1, will show how network operators are using SDN to deliver services more efficiently across multiple technology domains. It builds on the well-received Aug. 23 DemoFriday from Cyan and Accedian Networks and again features those companies, joined by Colt, a major European Ethernet provider.
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• President Obama heads to Buffalo, N.Y., to discuss the economy. He'll also meet with families of passengers who died in the February 2009 crash of a Continental commuter jet.
• Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with members of Congress.
• On the economic front, look for the weekly report on new unemployment claims and the April index of U.S. import/export prices.
• Immigration law will be the main topic as hundreds of lawyers from across the country are expected in Phoenix for the three-day Equal Justice Conference. One major group of legal professionals has backed out because of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants.
• In a bid to roust anti-government protesters from a Bangkok intersection they have occupied for a month, Thai authorities announced they would shut off power, cut supplies and seal off the area at midnight.
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The Management Training Fund program provides grants of up to $600 (maximum $300 per person per training*) for the staff and volunteers of nonprofit arts groups to attend management-related workshops, seminars or conferences in the state of Minnesota. This is a reimbursement program. Groups are reimbursed after the training is completed and after receipt of the completed evaluation form.
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- This program funds 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organizations, informal and/or unincorporated arts groups applying with a fiscal sponsor and non-arts nonprofits with independent sustained arts programming.
- Applicant group must be located in the 7-county metropolitan region.
- Applicant group's annualized operating/arts programming expenses must be less than $400,000.
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Optometrists and ophthalmologists check your near vision with several basic eye tests. The exam for reading glasses only takes about a half hour to an hour. If you need a near correction, when the testing is complete you will have a written prescription for eyeglasses that will help you better see small print and fine detail.
Reading glasses correct near vision. Most people start wearing reading glasses around the age of 40 to 45 years, the time when your eyes start to lose some of the ability to focus up close because of the hardening of the lens within the eye. This is called presbyopia, and is different than distance correction (for nearsightedness) or closer-distance correction (for farsightedness).
Presbyopia literally means "old vision." It is not a disease but a part of the normal process of aging. You can be farsighted, not being able to see things nearby, or nearsighted, not able to see far away, and still need a reading prescription with either type of problem. Some people with presbyopia may only need glasses for reading or close work, with only minor or no distance correction.
During your vision exam, your doctor will do several tests. Even if you just need reading glasses, your doctor will check your distance vision with the chart on the wall, called the Snellen chart. With each test, the doctor will have you cover one of your eyes, and then the other, and ask you to read the furthest line down on the chart that is clear. The doctor will then use a Near Vision Reading Card, which you will hold in your hand. The Near Vision Reading Card is usually made up of rows of numbers that get smaller and smaller down the card. As you cover each eye, you will be asked to read the clearest line of numbers, usually from the left side of the card to the right.
The doctor will note how far you can read down the card clearly, and record your preliminary screening. Then you will be tested with an instrument called a phoropter, which is put in front of your eyes and shows you a series of lens choices. The doctor will ask you which of two lenses in each choice looks clearer, making a final determination of your reading correction.
If you are starting to hold things out further, at arm's length, to read, then it is probably time for you to be checked for a prescription for reading glasses. If you already wear glasses for distance, a reading exam will yield a bifocal prescription.
The bottom portion of the bifocal is usually written as ADD on the paper prescription. If you do not wear any type of distance correction, the doctor will sometimes write PLANO for the top part of the prescription, and the strength of your reading glasses in the bottom, ADD, section. You may want the whole lens in your glasses to carry your reading prescription. Reading glasses usually have a correction power starting at +1.00 and go up increments of +.25 or +.50.
Yearly Checkup
Most doctors recommend an eye exam every one or two years. The tests done during an ophthalmic exam check more than just your prescription. The doctor looks for eye diseases, such as glaucoma, and also checks for other health problems that are visible by looking inside your eyes, such as hypertension and diabetes.
Many department and drug stores now sell reading glasses with prescription-power lenses. While you may find a pair that works well for you, the prescription will not be as accurate for your particular case as in glasses purchased through a doctor's office, optical chain or lab.
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If you saw my doll cradle hub then you are expecting this hub on making a baby doll for our second granddaughter's second birthday.
What you couldn't know, though, is that this baby doll in a blanket is a fast and easy sewing project.
Deciding To Sew A Birthday Doll Was An Accident
When we first planned the toy cradle project I hadn't thought of making a doll to go in it. My mind was on the dolls she already has, but really, how could we send an empty cradle as a gift?
Looking online for available patterns turned up a new-to-me idea that seemed perfect for a toddler. I decided to alter the examples of an all-in-one blanket baby to fit a 2 year old's little hands.
As you look over the following step-by-step and photos, keep in mind that you could make one of these larger or smaller. I designed this one to be something that a 2 year old could easily manage during play time.
After putting this project together I have to score it with a 9.999. My only regret is that I did not allow more time to practice making the doll's head and face.
That's okay, though, because it wasn't designed to be an heirloom. It is just something she can drag around, use as a pillow, and just generally toss about.
Then there's always next time. Little girls can never have too many baby dolls--just ask them. :) As a Christmas gift, or no special reason at all--I can make her another anytime!
If you make an heirloom baby doll in a blanket consider doing a hub so we can all see it and glean ideas for our own from it. Below, you'll find the method I used to make this one.
Project Description And Supplies
This doll is formed in a triangular shaped blanket. The body of the doll is inside the blanket and the head is attached to the outside. The step-by-step directions following this supply list show how easily the project goes together.
Before beginning a similar project it would be good for you to read through all of the directions and have the basics of what you will need on hand. Here is the supply list with some tips:
• A small bag of fiber fill--this project requires very little filling.
• Up to 1 yard of printed fabric for the blanket--you will initially cut 1 large square from the amount of fabric you use.
• Approximately 3 yards of ruffled trim--the length will be taken from the final cut of the blanket's shape.
• A square of flesh colored fabric, approximately 10"--this will be cut down to a circle. I used a knit fabric to create my baby face and have some tips to share as a result:
First, I tried embroidering a face. That did not turn out so well on knit fabric. I'll need to do more research and experimenting before I try that again. It would have worked well on woven fabric like muslin.
In my second attempt to make the face I used fabric dye markers, but that revealed another problem with the knit fabric. It surprised me and stretched into a big scary face. I tried hand sewing shaping into the facial features but they were just too big, too much of an alien look.
The third attempt was more successful because I designed the features with stretch in mind and I did more shaping of the face with needle and thread. I wound up with a sendable doll in a blanket from this try.
There are some great doll making tutorials out there, but I thought I had this wrapped up. After all, I only wanted to make a simple baby doll head! By the time I was on my third attempt I would have saved time to study the tutorials.
I'll be using muslin the next time I try this, but I'll be doing a little more research on the topic of creating baby doll's faces and forming the heads before I start.
• Transfer paper, embroidery thread, and/or fabric dye markers--there are several options for creating the doll's face.
The approximate measures are not what you would normally see in a sewing project, but this is a work of art in progress and you can follow the guidelines to make any size doll-in-a-blanket that you desire.
How To Make A Baby-Doll-In-A-Blanket (with Photos and More Tips)
Refer to photos for extra tips on these directions:
1. Cut a square from your fabric. 1 yard of fabric will generally yield a 34" square. My project fo a toddler began with a square that was approximately 25" x 25".
2. Fold the square into a triangle and cut the fold. You will have two triangles. Set one triangle aside.
3. Fold and pin one end of the trim to hide raw edge.
4. Pin trim to one triangle on the right side of the fabric. (Corners can be tricky and you might want to round yours off so you do not have to turn stitches on an angle. If you want to round the corners off, do it before separating the triangles--see step #2.) Fold the end of the trim as in step #3.
5. Sew trim and triangle together with a machine basting stitch.
6. On the long side of the triangle mark an opening 6" wide by finding the center and measuring 3" out to put your mark on the wrong side of the fabric.
7. Pin the second triangle to the first one, right sides together.
8. Seam the triangles together beginning on one side of the the opening, stopping at the other side of the opening.
9. Turn blanket right sides out and press seams, folding the opening's edges inward to match the seam.
10. Using a simple pear shape (or flat bottomed oval) cut from an 8.5' x 11" sheet of paper as a pattern, line up the wide end of the pear shape on the opening.
11. Machine stitch around the outside edge of the pattern.
12. Stuff fiber fill into the opening.
13. Pin the opening shut and stitch it closed.
Have you ever sewn a doll or stuffed toy?
14. Round off the corners of the flesh colored fabric and create a doll's baby face in the center of the flesh colored fabric.
15. Hand sew a loose running stitch around the doll's face then gather it up with the face side out. Pull it reasonably tight and stuff with fiber fill. Sew the opening closed over the fiber fill. You will have a round dolls head.
16. Give some shape the head by pushing the fiber fill around to form a bit of a chin and cheek bones.
17. Hand sew indentions into the corners of the facial features. I only put a hint of a nose on my doll.
18. If you wish, sew some of the trim onto the head to form a bonnet, or eve add yarn hair to the head.
19. Sew the dolls head to the top of the pear shaped doll body and to the the blanket. The head will be floppy--a great tool for showing a little one how to hold a newborn.
20. Swaddle the baby doll in its own little blanket. Pat its tiny tummy and say, "There you go!" :)
If you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments section below.
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New Delhi: Having committed a blunder while calculating this fiscal's first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) from the demand side, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) today said it has commenced a corrective mechanism that would start reflecting in the growth figures from the second quarter, reports PTI.
"The process of rectification began immediately...it has already begun...the immediate correction was already there. So far what else I can do to improve the quality of the expenditure side figures, I have already started," chief statistician TCA Anant told PTI.
Mr Anant said he will take more corrective measures, once an internal department report gives it suggestions.
"I will build in the corrections of whatever incremental changes have been suggested internally immediately, as they come in… Some of them will become operational from next quarter release," he said.
Announcing the economic growth figures for April-June, FY'11 on August 31, CSO wrongly calculated GDP from demand side (market prices) at 3.65%. The next day, it was corrected to 10%.
Mr Anant said, "Whether there is anything more to be done in the expenditure side... Once I have a (internal) report I will decide."
Mr Anant, who is secretary with the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MOSPI), said the same degree of robustness is still not there in calculating national income figures from the demand side, as there is on the production side.
"It is also the case that these set of numbers have not yet achieved the same degree of robustness as the production side estimates, the factor cost side," he said.
The CSO had correctly calculated the economic growth figures from production side, known as factor cost, at 8.8% for the first quarter.
Mr Anant said, "Initially we released factor cost, the market price estimates and the expenditure side have started to come out only in the last 2-3 years.
"This (wrong calculation) has happened because of some gaps in that process.... I am trying to understand what are the assumptions being used in this side of the process and whether better error correction protocol can be put in place to avoid this."
He said some errors crept in, which was not picked up partly because the persons concerned were not calculating the figures.
"Clearly there were errors in the system which avoided this getting picked up," Mr Anant added.
Nakoda Ltd, formerly Nakoda Textiles Industries Ltd, has started production at its plant in South Korea.
The Korean unit has a capacity to manufacture 150 tons per day (tpd) of fully drawn yarn, 90 tpd of partially oriented yarn and 60 tpd of polyester chips.
On Tuesday, Nakoda shares ended flat at Rs14 on the Bombay Stock Exchange, while the benchmark Sensex gained 0.5% to 18,645 points.
IT solutions provider Gemini Communication Ltd said its consolidated net profit stood at Rs32.3 crore for the year ended March 2010, a jump of 223%, as compared to Rs10 crore during the previous year ended March 2009.
Its total revenues rose 21.2% to Rs350.8 crore in the year ended March 2010 as against Rs289.4 crore during the previous year ended March 2009.
The company has recommended a dividend of Re0.05 paise per share for the financial year.
On Tuesday, Gemini Communication shares ended 4.4% higher at Rs25 on the Bombay Stock Exchange, while the benchmark Sensex gained 0.5% to 18,645 points.


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JDR has won a contract with FMC Technologies in Kongsberg to design and supply umbilicals and reels for Intervention Workover Control System (IWOCS) for a West African field development.
The project calls upon JDR's field-proven experience across the whole spectrum of IWOCS componentry - from hydraulics to fibre optics - with 20km of specially designed JDR IWOCs umbilicals that will be deployed across nine JDR-designed reelers. JDR's ability to provide the full range of umbilicals and reelers, combined with the pre-qualification of its designs, will enable delivery against short lead times and can reduce project risk.
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Manohla Dargis has this to say about "Turistas":
Advancements in special effects have made it easier than ever to make fictional disembowelments and the like look super-realistic. And on a fundamental level, the charnel-house aesthetics of films like "Hostel," "Cabin Fever" and the remake of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" are not any different from the graphic passages in films like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Flags of Our Fathers." The goals of these war movies are certainly far loftier than those of a run-of-the-mill horror divertissement, but in the end they all traffic — in part or in whole — in convincing images of extreme human suffering. Some films do it for art; others for amusement. For better and at times for worse, though, the cinema of death now appears inescapable.
After seeing "Borat" I was thinking about the comparative social functions of horror and humor. Is "Borat" "extreme" in the same way as "Turistas" and "Saw"? One could argue that humor advances, that it keeps pace with social issues (if one assumes that humor serves as a social valve & salve, as "The Aristocrats" argues, following what Aristotle might have argued in his lost work on comedy). Humor must dig deeper into discomforting topics; done well, it is almost always "extreme."
I'm not so sure it's the same for horror. Blame me for crass naivete, because I don't watch the genre nor have read any of what Dargis calls the "apologists for vivisectionist entertainment." So these are preliminary thoughts, and I would be willing to be educated. But I wonder if what drives the evolution of "extreme horror" is simply technological prowess, not a social need to have stories told in a different, more violent manner.
Let me back up. I think about narrative forms through the notion of the enthymematic. The enthymeme is a structure in persuasive language which takes the form of a syllogism, but is inverted. That is, the syllogism provides the major and minor premises, from which are derived a conclusion. On the other hand, the enthymeme provides the conclusion and the minor premise. The major premise (which is often articulated as a broad cultural value) is deliberately omitted. The author doesn't present it; the audience does. Drawn to the logical hole, they insert the major premise themselves. This is the dynamic of persuasion.
In a similar way, narratives operate by a series of structured incompletions. (The enthymeme is the most basic form of this structured incompletion.) One set of incompletions are necessary for plot. Another set is necessary for any linear arrangement of language. In these, the completion is postponed and often made available by the text or narrative. There's also the completion that's offered by the audience, which (if you could get inside their heads) is the thing that makes the narrative complete and meaningful. (Take a look at the Haida myths in Robert Bringhurst's The Story as Sharp as a Knife, which seem jumbled and almost incoherent.)
In the case of humor, the completion that an audience can provide changes, so the structure of the incompletion itself must evolve. In the case of horror? I don't see how this could be the case. Why does the structured incompletion of the horror narrative need to become more extreme, when horror, pity, and disgust are such fundamental reactions?


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In collaboration with the Town of Douglas, the Arizona History Museum is proud to present "Wall of Faces: A Grateful Nation Thanks and Honors You". The exhibit celebrates Douglas Vietnam War Veterans, their families, and those who served in support of the Armed Forces.
The exhibit was created by Honorable Judge Alma Vildosola, Don Jordan, Dick Keith, Hector Leon, and Ginny Jordan in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. A Presidential Proclamation by President Obama asked "Federal, State, and local officials to honor our Vietnam Veterans, our fallen, our wounded, those unaccounted for, our former prisoners of war, their families, and all who served with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities." The resulting exhibit was on display in Douglas, Arizona and now travels to our museum. The exhibit will be on display February 25th through July 4th, 2017.
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Parallel to the military troops' operations, the government has also been holding talks with militants to end the attacks on the country's oil pipelines.
Royal Dutch Shell shut the Trans Niger oil pipeline (TNP) after a fire, threatening to worsen a drop in Nigerian output.
Nigeria has lost over 130m barrels of crude oil from January to November this year to the activities of 32 militant groups in the Niger Delta region.
Nigeria's crude oil production declined by 130,000b/d in August to an average of 1.44mb/d, as oil companies struggle to repair pipelines damaged by severe militant attacks
Royal Dutch Shell's Forcados pipeline in Nigeria will resume deliveries in September.
All freedom fighting militant groups in the Niger Delta announced a ceasefire and continued to embrace peace after seven months of turmoil due to hostile threat's towards Nigerian oil and gas infrastructures.
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During an intense live episode of 'The Voice', Season 10's Top 8 became the Top 4. As the eight semi-finalists made their way to the stage, emotions were running high. Right away, host Carson Daly revealed that Team Blake's Adam Wakefield was safe.
After what seemed like a never-ending commercial break and a performance from Alicia Keys, the remaining contestants returned to the stage where child star and member of Team Christina, Alisan Porter, heard her name announced as one of the finalists.
Another commercial break and guest performance from One Republic took place before Hannah Huston from Team Pharrell was named a finalist. With only five contestants remaining, Team Blake's Mary Sarah, Team Christina's Bryan Bautista, and Team Adam's Laith Al-Saadi had to sing for an Instant Save, the last of the season. This meant the end for Shalyah Fearing and Paxton Ingram.
Mary Sarah took the stage first to sing Carrie Underwood's "Something In The Water" in hopes of garnering enough public votes to secure herself a place in the finals. Bryan Bautista and "Adorn You" and Laith Al-Saadi sang "All Along the Watchtower".
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By International Vedic Astrologer, Howard BeckmanThe second half of 2013 promises to be one we will not soon forget. Mars has been responsible for so many conflicts this year, but soon it is to become even more troublesome for many in the world. There have been a plethora of comets seen in this year already, which are actually very bad omens. They portend wars, great storms bringing mass flooding and other natural disasters.
At the time of this writing in the middle of July, we have Mars conjunct Jupiter and Sun in Gemini, as well as with the lord of the sign Mercury. Much planning for further civil unrest and escalation of armed (and unarmed) struggles against political/governmental forces is taking place. Yet at the same time there's an upsurge in the creative work of artists and writers.
Knowledge and information, a key category of the sign Gemini and under the purview of Mercury to disseminate such information, is reaching the eyes and ears of people all over the planet. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange started the outpouring of information about the US and other governments' covert activities that is astounding the world. Bradley Manning is now paying the price for his revelations. Edward Snowden's release of documents damning the activities of US government agencies such as the NSA in front of the world is confounding the once trusting public, as well as countries considered to be allies of the USA.
The conflicts in the Middle East are about to spill over even further. There are so many ominous warnings from the planets that there will be tragedies occurring one after another this year. For at least half of each month the "serpent curse" called "Kalasarpa yoga" has been in effect since early May, and will continue until the second week of September. This occurs when all of the 7 major planets are sandwiched between Rahu and Ketu (also known as Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail), the north and south nodes of the Moon. During these months the Moon moves out for half the month, giving a short break to this yoga's malevolence.
As we pass the first of August Jupiter, Mars and Mercury remain in Gemini, but Sun has moved to Cancer and Venus to Leo. Expect tropical storms to begin to gather powerfully in our oceans. But it is Mars' move to Cancer, his weakest sign of debilitation, on the 18th of August that shifts these energies
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Mars is not only extremely malefic and harmful in Cancer, he will now cast a full aspect upon his great enemy Saturn, who is and has been exalted (thus extremely powerful) in the sign of Libra. Saturn will now also cast a full aspect upon his great enemy Mars, meaning the further unfolding of events that will cause suffering in the world.
September 1st signals the coming of the worst of it. Sun and Mercury both reside in Leo at this time, and the potency of Venus to soften the situation is rendered practically null by Venus' tenanting of Virgo, his weakest sign of debilitation. The piece de resistance will be the exact conjunction of Rahu and Saturn in the early morning of the 17th of September at 40 minutes past midnight.
I expect financial markets to teeter, and along with storms, volcanoes and earthquakes in the mix, increasing violence worldwide, quite possibly at times of almost epic proportions. By year's end things will have calmed down somewhat, hopefully changing the perspectives of at least some people in the world for the better.
What good can come from all of this? Hopefully more people will wake up and look deeply for some real meaning in their lives. Our individual lifetimes here in this world are short, but for most of us it is only when we do reincarnate that we have a chance to make further spiritual advancement, and to realize eternal spiritual truths that are the same for all of us.
Although this summer season will be a wild ride, we can take it as an inspiration to become what we really wish to be, happy and peaceful, even in the face of adversity or the midst of chaos. So open up the copies of your spiritual books, delve deeply into the science of yoga according to your own capacity and don't waste precious time worrying about those things you can do nothing about. Worrying never helps anyone, nor can it change anything destined to occur. Action shapes destiny, and our actions that will subsequently shape our futures are always in our own hands. Make them count, let your voice be heard and stand up for truth and what is right. Follow your heart, for the heart will never lead you in the wrong direction. Namaste.


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