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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Blogging and The Marley
We put up one for The Judy Scarf after we finished making her. We figured we would start one for The Marley before we started making him. This was the first week that we were actually making The Marley. We had just a couple glitches along the way.
First was the original design. It would have weighed over 100 pounds. That is a little excessive even for a Long Scarf. Not to mention just plain heavy. We took the icord down from 6 to four stitches. We also reduced the design by three stitches. This brought down the overall weight of the scarf to under fifty pounds. Still, a little on the heavy side, but not for three people.
Next was the fact we were going to have to turn 200 skeins into icord. This was solved by using the Bond Embellish Knit. This gizmo is not designed for worsted weight yarn. Still, with a bit of a aggravation we can do it.
The last problem was that it would take 200 skeins of yarn to complete the scarf. We were going to scrap until another knitter stepped in and bought the yarn, namely Ddancer. She has a blog with a link on my daily read list. In addition we were able to get it all in one dye lot. I feat not easily done I am sure.
Any way this has little to do with the actual blogging that I did today. I broke down and I used the new Blogger page formatting gizmo. It is your basic orange blog. The most important aspect of this blog is that it lists everyone that has Cranked on The Marley. It will also have a list for those that actually Knit the Icord when we knit it.
Just a note to those that have cranked on The Marley there is a badge for that. I will be making up some more as soon as I can. There will also be a badge of the electronic variety that will link to the The Marley Blog.
It is at: www.themarleyscarf.blogspot.com
Just another few programming notes. For those that keep track of the flags on the right. You will notice Canada has moved up to the 500 visitor category. Actually they vaulted over it with a couple hundred visitors in two days. I may be an American but I have never been shy about the nation that I worked in as a circus clown. As you know I do not get into politics here. Mainly because you should go to the Zeeppo's Really Annoyed About the World Blog. Seriously no one cares about my views on the world. And if you do there is a pill for that.
All I want to know is what is so wrong with clean streets and universal health care? And maybe we could spend a little less time smoking and collecting guns. There is also something called manors. I am sure the folks from NYC can Google that to figure out what they are. Sorry about that political rant. Oh and would it kill us to have The Red Green Show on in prime time. We would be better people.
Also on the countries visiting front Israel and Korea moved up today. Life is good.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
The Wide World of Knitting
To answer a couple more questions.
Question 1: Why do you call icord icrod? I have several people sk this. The answer is simple I am a clown not a typists. I am a lousy typer. It should rightly be called Icord. If I type directly into blogger and not in to Microsoft Word and then paste their spell check does no fix that word.
Question 2: If I have an icrod machine can I help knit on The Marley? The short answer is yes. The machine we are using is the Bond Embellish Knit. It is not designed for worsted weight yarn, which is what we are using. It is a royal pain in the keister to do. You also have to do it relatively slow so you do not damage the machine. In the next couple weeks I will have an instruction sheet and hopefully a Internet video of me doing it so that people can see what to do.
We have just now figured out all of the ins and outs of making the icord this way with the the wrong machine. Six or so people said they would like to knit on The Marley. You can email me your address at firstname.lastname@example.com
Once again I am greatly flattered by the emails and comments. I will endeavor to say something interesting once and a while.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
Friday, March 30, 2007
Holy Where did all of These People Come From Batman?
She Cranked on The Marley a bit and apparently thought this was all interesting enough to put on her blog. Thus the huge up take in my daily readers. This brings me back to the questions. There have been many and they fall into several categories.
Once upon a time I promised that I would answer any comment left on the blog or email sent to me. I guess I never though more than three people would read this thing at any one time. So here goes. If I don't answer your question satisfactorily please let me know. I have grouped some questions and answer for brevity's sake.
Question 1: Are you Single, Married, Gay? Married to a woman. Once upon a time that would have sounded like an odd way to answer that question. It is a brave new world.
Question 2: What is The Marley? Why the Name?The Marley is what clowns call a Long Scarf. It will be made from 200 skeins of 3oz. worsted weight Canadiana verigated yarn. It is named The Marley because those 200 skeins of yarn will be turned into icrod and then knit into the scarf. The icrod is thought to look like dread locks. Ddancer made up the name. It is the tradition of our Clown Brigade to name every scarf that is longer than 100 feet long. We currently have two long scarves. The Barry and The Judy.
Question 3:What do you do with a Long Scarf? This is clown prop that is used for various routines. There is walking through a mall with a long scarf such a pictured here. There is also a tug of war routine and pulling it off someone and making them spin like a top.
Pictured is The Judy. She is named for Judy Garland and was named by CarlaK. The name works on several levels.
I am the clown in front. Behind me is Segeant Knit Whit {who knits during our stage shows}. Behind him is Sergeant Major Jimbo. We are in our humor Therapy costumes and not our Salvation Army Uniform costumes we use during our stage shows.
Question 4: Isn't using a machine cheating? HMMMMMM....... I just posted something like that. The answer is that you bet your sweet bippy it is. We have two hundred skeins of yarn that need turn into icrod. We would be completely insane if we did that by hand.
Clowns as knitter are what most would call project knitters. Our goal in life is to make a particular thing. Of our two scarves that we have one is very old, The Barry. And The Judy is a springy scarf that is good for some routines but not others. The Marley will be stiffer and better for the routines that The Judy is not. Our clown Brigade is one year old and we still have many things to build and make. We must do some of this very quickly because it will be used in the next couple months for our Spring shows.
Question5: What is with you sign off? Well be safe out there is fairly obvious. It is dangerous world out there and we must keep our head about us. Keeping you stick on the ice refers to Hockey. Namely that you care supposed to keep your stick bellow your knees. If you do not this is called high sticking. This is not a good thing for many reason. The primary reason is that it very tempting to clobber someone with your stick {see picture}.
It is mainly a reference to fair play. I lived in Canada for a while and am a hockey.
Question 6: What is a clown knitting group like? Well is is like any other knitting group with the addition of balloon animals and small children. This is me in the back actually making the swatch for The Marley. Our group is not exclusively for clowns. We have a clown practice just prior to our knitting group. So sometimes there is overlap. Actually the only real difference is that we have more men in our knitting group. Be sides that there are few differences except for the occasional odd project. Only about half our our knitting group is made up of clowns. The rest are just Pittsburghers that come to our group. It is open to the public and meets every Monday at 7:00PM at the Bee Hive.
Question 7: Donations - We have a couple projects we are working on. First is knitting items for our homeless shelters. Basically any knit or Crochet items or yarn can be dropped off at Knit 1 in Squirrel Hill. Those items are given to residents at our family shelter and Men's Shelter. We also have a knit together there on Sundays at 1:00PM.
Donations - Monetary- Several folks have asked how they can support our humor Therapy program. These donations may be mailed to our Corps: The Salvation Army Steel Valley Corps P.O. Box 395 Homestead, PA 15120. Please make Checks out to The Salvation Army Steel Valley Corps and put Clown Brigade in the memo section.
If anyone is interested in attending service at out Corps {Church} we are located at 104 E. Ninth Ave. in Homestead. Church services at at 11:00 AM. I will post our next round of shows once we have all of the locations locked in.
Well that covers most of it. I thank everyone for stopping by. If anyone decides to link here let me know so I can add you to my link list as well. Once again thanks for dropping by.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Machine Heads - Needle Heads
I have not done much hand knitting recently. Between the icrod maker and the Knitking that I am still working on learning I have not had time. I have discovered a dark undercurrent in the Knitting world with my renewed exploration of knitting machines.
Firstly because of my position in the clowning world for many years I hand knit because I was moving around so much. We did have a couple Brother's Knitting Machines. These were used to produce sweaters and the odd clown prop.
I did use our machines on occasion. I found them useful and liked them. Until recently I did not have one of my own. So my knitting was limited to the hand variety while I was in the real knitting world in the last few years. In the circus no one cared how you did something as long as you did it. There was never a mention of cheating while doing something if you are using a machine. I realize that ninety percent of the people who have accused me of cheating were joking. This is one of the things that I like about the real knitting world.
What I was not aware of was the fact that some hand knitters hate machine knitters. Furthermore some machine knitter hate hand knitters. I mean hate like a Red Neck at a N.W.O. convention. I was shocked. Of course you expect the off Kook in any group of people. Still, this is a burning hatred that cannot be quenched. What can you do. I you don't hear from me it means that one of these factions has go me for straddling the fence.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Another GoodDay Knitting
Just wanted to report that.
Nothing Earth Shattering really.
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Irrelivant Stuff
I had a productive day knitting yesterday. I dropped off a couple posters for my classes at Knit 1. I have a couple signed up for the Machine Knitting Class. No men for the men's class. Apparently finding men who want to knit is going to be interesting.
Apparently I have a hard time deciding. Although it would not be one person I would have to meet with the Five Stiles brothers to figure out which one of them was our ancestor. My mother's father line is stuck in
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Quick Update
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Friday, March 23, 2007
More Rambling About This, That and Very Little That is Important
This will be my first time teaching knitting for the sake of knitting. I have taught knitting to many clowns including the church clowns that I am training at my Corps. This has made me face the odd view that I have of knitting. Actually I do not think it is odd. I think everyone else is odd for doing it for fun. I do not mean that in a judgmental way. It is simply that I have had to knit. I currently do it for fun mostly even though I still knit for hire.
Perhaps it is not that I am put off by people who knit for fun. It is more along the lines of the "Knitting is the New Yoga" people that put me off. Sure it releases stress and all that good stuff. So does walking your dog. But that is not why you should have a dog.
A clown that wants to have a nice long scarf of funny stripped socks must make them for themselves. Or hire someone to do it. That is a thing that must be done. And more to the point. There are not enough clowns to justify some factory making long scarves. Heck I have not seen a good long scarf routine out side of the ones that I have done recently.
Anyway I digress. Another thing that I am going to be doing with my newly opened schedule is knit stuff for profit. I am going to make felted bag. Bother of my long time readers will recall the pain and turmoil that I went through trying to make a black knitting bag. I have decided to get myself one of those Etsy shops and sell felted bags on line. That will be my first stop on Monday. I am going to the Pat Katans and picking up some good cheap felting yarn. By the middle of April I should have some bags for sale.
Many people have been an inspiration in this venture. Ddancer and CarlaK have been supportive as well as everyone at the Water Front Knitting group on Wednesdays. Also of particular help was Natasha Failkov who was in inspiration by example. I had once joked that I wanted to be her when I grew up. Well I like the whole being male thing. I imagine it is simpler than being female. I am also sure there is a men are simple joke in there somewhere but I digress.
I don't imagine I will make more than a little pocket change. Still, it will be the closest I have been to being back in the Circus in a long time. And one thing I have learned in the last five years is that even if you have a calling. It is never God's intention to make you miserable. Sometimes it is man's intention. Or at the very least a product of the things we create. If you know me then you know what that all means.
Moving along to something more interesting. If the Murrysville Knitting group is meeting in the afternoon on Monday I will be stopping there as part of my world tour. This as always should be fun. This evening you will find me out at the knitting group at the Barnes and Nobles in the South Hills Village. We it is not really in the South Hills Village it is twenty feet away in it's own building. So it is South Hill Village Adjacent. Well what ever. I suppose I should digress at this point.
My first class at Knit 1 is next Thursday. I hope someone signed up. If you are male and would like to learn knitting visit the people at Knit 1. Their link is over to the right somewhere. I have a terrible time putting links in this thing.
Moving along I will see you tonight if you are there.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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A Couple Quick Notes
Hey at least it is a relatively manly color. I just could not take knitting all of this on something pink.
I would also like to note that some folks from Hungary stopped by. This means that every country that my ancestors come from is now represented. This is a good thing.
Be safe out there and keepyour stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
The Marley Badge - The First Day of Workin on The Marley - The Year After Next
For any one that cares the red orange and green are the predominate colors in the yarn we are making The Marley from.
Any way the first public day of working on The Marley will be Sunday at Knit 1 during Charity Knitting.
Also for any one who is think about the year after next we are thinking about it. We have no name, still we are thinking about a three color cable. If we start this summer it might be done by 09.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Lost of Random Things
That is once again one of the truly interesting things about knitting that makes it such a strange and wonderful thing. For all intents and purposes there really is no pressing reason anyone should knit. Everything that a knitter can make a machine could make usually cheaper and faster. I know there is the whole artistic side of it. And I respect this.
In no way shape or form am I suggesting that it is unimportant. Many incredible important things can be done with out. Clowns for instance. Would the world come to an end if there were no more clowns, probably not. Still, the mosaic that makes up our society would some how be less.
Oh I have heard that it is the new yoga. And I am sure it has many benefits in that regard. I am also sure that making something with your own two hands it a good thing as well. And survivalists could say that it is necessary if civilization falls apart. All of this is true.
I am not sure where this is all going to I will just go onto my next random bit of knitting stuff today. Well some one from Greece stopped by the blog. So welcome to the pantheon of nations that have visited here. Thank you and enjoy.
Also the good CarlaK sent me a link to a Machine Knitting list. I signed up and am waiting for my first posts from them.
It is good to see there are still some machine knitters out there. From the lack of people selling high end machines in this area I was beginning to wonder if people still used them.
One interesting thing today was working on The Marley. I have found that turning the skein into a ball makes it easier to knit with the icord gizmo. Oh boy that is a lot of skeins of yarn to turn into balls. Of course this would be the time that my ball winder would drop dead. Well I got it second hand and it never really worked right to begin with. I suppose I should break down and just get a new one. Although doing a couple hundred skeins by hand would be character building.
Something else I noticed is that the dye lot we received is more brilliant than the original skein that we made the test swatch with. I mean it is noticeable a better color than the test swatch. I recall when we made the test swatch I wished it had a bit more purple and was a little less muted. It is as if my mental critiques of the first skein were taken to heart by the manufacturer. If I had to imagine the perfect color for this scarf the way this icrod turned out would be it. I may be loosing my mind. Still, it is as if forces greater than us mere mortals were guiding The Marley.
Yeah I know that sounds booko crazy. What can I say? The Marley may be the perfect long scarf. This does bring me to my next crazed realization.
This long scarf thing has become the first tradition of our Clown Brigade. I suppose I have talked about clown tradition before. It is interesting how much of our budding tradition centers around knitting. There are many things that everyone is working on from juggling to balloon animals. Some of them would appear to be more important to clowning than knitting.
Maybe it has to do with us spending so much time with yarn. I don't know. I know personally I have spent more time juggling the last few months than I have knitting. This is all very interesting. And I am sure someone out there might have a good explanation why this is unfolding like this. Well I don't know what it is. I suppose we are all just along for the ride.
By the way has anyone heard the Flyleaf version of "Smells like Teen Spirit". This song really annoyed me when Nirvana first performed it. I mean I wanted to rip my ears off to prevent the horrible pain it caused my brain. And this was my first reaction to the song before the end of the first verse. Imagine how I felt after it was played on the radio until I contemplated destroying every pop rock station in North America with my bare hands and a dull serving spoon.
By the way I would like to take a moment to apologies the people at Clear Channel Broadcasting. I did dig a brick out of their building in Green Tree before I realized that a dull spoon was not the best weapon for mass destruction. Some lessons are harder to learn than others.
Anyway back to Flyleaf. I heard their cover of the Cobain power opus recently and found that I was enjoying it. Even after I realized what they were singing I still liked it. It is possible I have short changed grunge all together? Well I wouldn't go that far. Still, I liked their take on one of the most evil song every written.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Machine Knitting
I realize all knitters may not be looking for the fast way to do things. Still, there is a gray area between knitting and knitting with gizmos. The Marley Scarf for instance will be made mostly on a gizmo. Granted it would be completely insane to knit a couple hundred skeins into icord.
Any way I am very pleased with my progress on the gizmo knitting front.
I have someone from the Point Park News Service email me about a story she is doing on Knitting. I wonder if that is a fancy name for a school news paper. Well at any rate any PR is good PR.
It is getting late. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
World Tour: Homstead - Water Front & Shady Side S&B
This group is one of the more diverse groups out there. They are laid back and a font of knitting knowledge. At this point there are three people that teach knitting classes. A former Yarn Shop owner and at least one other person that works at Knit 1. This is simply one the most knowledge able groups of knitter out there. The thing that is most impressive about them is that they do not intimidate novice knitters.
One of the things that anoys me most about some knitting groups is when they kind to new knitters. Of course this is also thegroup the meets closest to my church. That is until we start our own group that will be meeting in the church. Any way, this is the group that is most frequently attended by the Clowns of my Brigade.
They have been a great blessing to my Brigade and very welcoming even though none of them have been knitting for more than seven months. If you have the time free you should stop by. A goodtime is always had by all.
The second group that I stopped by was the S & B at the Coffee Tree Roaster in Shady Side. I attended this group last year. When I went last time there were only four people there. This time I got there for the last half hour of the group. There was no one there. Either they broke up early or they are not meeting any more. I will send off an email to their group leader and see what happened.
If you have a group in Allegheny County and would like me to visit post a comment.
Be safeout there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
World Tour: Purls of Wisdom Knitting Group
The group is slated to meet from1:30 to 3:00 PM. Although they were going strong until at least 6:00PM.
They are friendly group of folks and even avoided asking the usual silly male knitting question. If anyone is looking for a Tuesday afternoon group this is a good one. Not only is there a good mix of knitters but they meet in an excellent knitting store.
Well happy tails and be safe out there.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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Monday, March 12, 2007
World Tour Begins Again
My world tour will begin another leg tomorrow. I will be visiting the good people at Knit 1. I happen to know that this group is still meeting. At least I will begin this leg with an actual group. Last time I think it was the third group before I found one that met. And that group did not want any new people.
We will see how it goes.
I will be going to drop off a list of classes I would like to teach at Knit 1. It should be a good day for knitting no matter how you look at it.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Savage Chickens
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Teaching Classes, And why Clowns are Right and you are all Wrong
Firstly a great day was had at Knitting For Charity Today. Our Phantom Young man and his entire family was able to join us today. The Phantom knitter helped out with knitting Squares for the Knitking. Much was accomplished today. There was a new young lady who is working on a hat for us. She had been knitting for less than a week.
I am always glad to see new knitters joining the knitting community.
Has any one heard the new Sunny Sweeny song "If I could" How cute is that? If you are not into country it is still a good song. It is definitely a country song and not this rock and roll with a twang that is popular these days. It is nice to see someone making some actual country music.
And who is that guy in the "Say it Right" song from Nelly Furtado? I want to hear some of his music. I suppose the Yahoo music thing is sending me off track.
Back to knitting. The most boring sock obsession continues. I am onto a cotton pair of black socks. These are in a DK weight yarn on 6mm DP. By the way three people have sent me emails about why I rotate my needles as I do socks. The most popular reason is to prevent laddering, the gaps that sometimes develop while using double points. I suppose clowns have been right about knitting all along. Sorry everyone else you are wrong.
Also on the same subject of clowns being right and everyone else wrong. I am sick of remembering American sizes for the purposes of this blog. The Americans, Canadian, Brits and Japanese are all wrong. I will not go into great detail why you are all wrong. You know in your heart of hearts why that is.
I will put it this. The Americans are smoking pot. Our system is silly, still, makes sense if you are on pot.
The Japanese I have no idea what you are doing, a 4.8 mm needle what were you thinking? At lease you start at a small number and go to larger numbers. Still, You go to millimeters in the larger sizes. You should have stuck with the increasing numbers. Your system makes sense if you are dropping acid.
Ah Britannia home of my ancestors. What can I say. Large numbers to small numbers and then to the Zero thing. Hey I know the American do it with the small 2mm and lower. Still, those 2mm people are sadists anyway. They should have their own confusing knitting system. I know you based your needles on the size of wire the needles were made from. And rail road tracks are the same gauge of the wagon wheels left by Roman Chariots. Sometimes a specification must die for the sake of progress. I could go on for hours. I will leave it at this. The British system makes sense if you are smoking crack and someone hits you as hard as they can with a cricket bat. And I mean with the skinny edge of the bat so it cracks your skull. You know so the air hits you brain and messes with your mind. Like Trepanation only with a big crack in the head.
Hmmmmmmmm…… I wonder what the original point of this entry was. Well I forgot what it was. So I shall continue as if I had a point.
I did consider a clown system for naming knitting needles. 0 would be a quarter millimeter and the numbers would go up every quarter millimeter. I gave it up because it would be too mind blowingly simple. And yes I know no one uses a .25 millimeter needle. Still, with the popularity of knitting still not plataueing it is only a matter of time. And if someone makes a sixty millimeter needle then you will already have the size. You will not have to make it up.
Well I will leave the needle thing alone for the moment. I may start scratching out the sizes on my needle and writing in the new clown size. Imagine how long that would have been if I really spent some time thinking about it
News of news the good people at Knit 1 are going to let me teach knitting classes. I will be teaching classes aimed at men and machine knitting classes. Good times will be had by all. I will post when I have the schedule from Knit 1. I am turning in the class out lines in on Tuesday. I imagine there will be schedules once I make a couple samples from their lovely yarn. I hope the people at Red Heart will understand. It is nothing personal. You will always have the best place in my stash. Remember "Red Heart Means that Someone Loves You." They just may not like you very much.
I suppose this is where the male domination of the knitting world comes in. It is nice to finally be making some progress. I realize men dominate most things on this planet. And for the most part I think we have done alright. Well there are all of those wars and other silly things. Still, no one is perfect.
I would like to thank all of the people who thought I could dominate the knitting world. Alright so the only ones that encouraged me in this are woman. And the person that is going to let me teach the classes is a woman. Well it is not really male domination.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice. And go Pens.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
More Black Sock Yarn -The Quest for World Domination Continues
Also on the people that visit her front. Three new nations have stopped by here this week.
First is one of our luke warm allies in the "War on Terror" the good people of Jordan. I am glad they stopped by. It is good to see that people can get along no matter what their view on the world situation.
Also thePhilippinens made a couple hits this week. One of the young ladies that attends Knitting for Charity is of Phlippeno decent. Her family is keep the ties of tradition much in the same way us kilted American are remebering Scotland.
The last country is Columbia. Yet another country with a pr problem in theUnited States. It is not easy being a democracy sometimes. And we forget that up here. Those nations that are strugling need our prayer and support not our scorn.
And the last thing on my world knitting domination quest I may have found someone willing to pay me to teach knitting. No deal has been finalised yet, still, it is a deffinate possibility. If everything works out this week end there may be clown influence at your favorite local knitting store.
Well we have to get ready for a fire association meeting. I just wanted to give both of my faithful readers the good news. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
New Black Sock Yarn
It is looking like a couple Thusdays in April for the Blanket Knit Togethers. We can probably use the Corps I think I amgoing toask Knit 1 if they are interested. They have some table we could probably bolt some things to. We will see how it goes and I will keep you posted.
Well it has been a long day. I will talk to you all tommarrow.
Savage Chickens
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Good Times at the Waterfront in Homestead
We were hoping to have the once monthly knit together for our shelter at the Bee Hive. Unfortunately we discovered at the Barnes and Nobles that the Knitking does not like coffee shop tables. The Hive has mostly kitchen tables and I do not know how many we will be able to clamp the knitting machines onto. When we got to the Corps we were easily able to bolt it to our tables.
I clamp my Bond down with a couple quick grip clamps and it would be able to be attached to anything. Next monday I will have to take them both down to the Hive. There are severalrectangular tables there.
If that does not work out we will have to look at other places. Maybe the Corps in Homestead or Knit 1 in Squirell Hill. Good times we be had no matter where we meet.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Some New Visitors
We have had a couple visitors from Macua the Portugese answer to Hong Kong. Well good times and thank you for stopping by.
Savage Chickens
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
A Kind Soul
I am still amazed by how generous the knitting community is compared to others
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Blanket Knit Along
As always with Knitting for Charity anyone can drop off a donation at Knit 1 in Squirrel Hill. I am planning to have a special Knit Together at the Bee Hive on the South Side. It would probably be a thursday evening close to the end of the month. That will give us some time to assemble the yarn and such.
We are looking to make your basic bed blankets. And I know that takes a lot of yarn. I have had my Bond out and will be using it to make square. One of the nice things about the Hive is that where we knit is made up of old kitchen tables. And I have not found a table that works better for the Bond than an old kitchen table.
The Army Men's Fellowship had a Bowling Tournament today that myself and the Steel Valley men attended. We did not do very well. Apparently I am still not the world's greatest bowler.
We did not place. Still, the point was fellowship.
Be safe out there everyone and keep your stick on the ice.
Friday, March 02, 2007
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
The New Great and Strange Plan - Charity Knitting News
We have named our next long scarf The Marley. The Marley will be knit out of icord. And because we are clowns and not insane we are going to use a gizmo. We do have to turn over200 skeins of yarn into icord.
Here is new great and strange plan. We are going to find a large indoor space that is several stories tall. We will then knit the icrod over the banister and then knit it into the scarf.
We just have to find a place to allow us to do this. There have been a couple suggestions. I am open to more.
The Brigade continues to get ready for our first shows.
Also on the charity knitting front we have received request for blankets. As the winter moved into the spring we need knitted blankets for our shelter. We would also like to give a blanket to each family that leaves our shelter. As always you can drop off donations at Knit 1.
Well be safe out there and keep your stick on the nice.
Savage Chickens
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In honour of the news that a New Zealand/ Australia production is going to be updating Monkey for 21st Century screens. I re-post my poem, The King.
The King by SB Wright
first published in Tincture Journal 5, March 2014
Sun Wukong
was my first
No journalist Jesus
with his undies
on the outside.
No dark defender
of the city's
status quo.
It was . . .
philosophy lite
on a weekday
a broomstick
to a seventies
pop tune.
His journey
to the west
gave us cloud surfing
and Buddhism
...before Tenzin.
He was a larrikin
in yellow skin
before chip shop
owners and
card playing
brought us to hating
those like
It didn't matter
back then;
the colour of his skin.
He was irrepressible,
the King.


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We've provided some answers to a number of questions that you might have about SWAN.
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There is a SWAN roadmap of additional value added services which is regularly updated and maintained for SWAN Members. This includes the SWAN Managed LAN Service which was launched in 2015. For more details please contact your SWAN Business Development Manager.
Capita only charges for connectivity services but the SWAN Authority requires a membership fee and shared services charges to be paid by SWAN users.
SWAN works hard to really understand our member's needs and to provide the most cost effective and innovative options. We operate with vendor neutrality, only partnering with and then selecting the carriers which offer the best value. In addition, as the number of services managed and supplied via SWAN increase, discounts are given to all the members on rental charges and shared service charges.
Many of them are similar such as DSL and fibre but by building out our regional networks and unbundling of exchanges SWAN users can make significant savings and access a wider range of technologies such as EFM and wireless.
Each SWAN user has one of more VRFs within the SWAN MPLS network to segment their network traffic from other SWAN users. SWAN provides a shared VRF which all users can access, in simplistic terms this provides a private internet for SWAN users to share applications, services and data with other SWAN users.
As soon as NGB is available from BT at a local exchange this will be available to SWAN users to order. 15. Alternatively as we continue to unbundle exchanges as part of the initial SWAN rollout, fast cost-effective connectivity may be available long before NGB is rolled out for many areas.
No, SWAN is a dedicated infrastructure for public service organisation in Scotland and not shared with anyone other than other SWAN users.
IL3 is not currently delivered within SWAN but development of the service is already underway.
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Welcome to my Transition Portfolio!
Transition Portfolio
Updated May 15, 2015, 8:30 PM
An online Transition Portfolio intended for high school students. Create a website for each student which asks them to research and develop plans for their post-high school life in the areas of Education, Employment and Independent Living.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Master H. L., aka Hans Lemberger
German sculptor, printmaker, and woodcarver
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500124225.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Master H. L., aka Hans Lemberger:
|Master H. L.
|St. George, 16th century
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Carl O. Sauer
Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the dean of American historical geography"[1] and he was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his best known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."
Early yearsEdit
Sauer, of German ancestry,[2] was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915.
Carl Sauer's paper "The Morphology of Landscape"[3] was probably the most influential English-language article in introducing ideas on cultural landscapes[4][5][6][7] and is still cited today. However, Sauer's paper was really about his own vision for the discipline of geography, which was to establish the discipline on a phenomenological basis, rather than being specifically concerned with cultural landscapes. "Every field of knowledge is characterized by its declared preoccupation with a certain group of phenomena," according to Sauer.[8] Geography was assigned the study of areal knowledge or landscapes or chorology—following the thoughts of Alfred Hettner.[9] "Within each landscape there are phenomena that are not simply there but are either associated or independent of each other." Sauer saw the geographer's task as being to discover the areal connection between phenomena.[10] Thus "the task of geography is conceived as the establishment of a critical system which embraces the phenomenology of landscape, in order to grasp in all of its meaning and colour the varied terrestrial scene"[11] A collection of Sauer's letters while doing fieldwork in South America has been published.[12]
Sauer was a fierce critic of environmental determinism, which was the prevailing theory in geography when he began his career. He proposed instead an approach variously called "landscape morphology" or "cultural history." This approach involved the inductive gathering of facts about the human impact on the landscape over time. Sauer rejected positivism, preferring particularist and historicist understandings of the world. He drew on the work of anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and was influenced by German Latin Americanist geographer Oskar Schmieder—a disciple of Hettner—, and later critics accused him of introducing a "superorganic" concept of culture into geography.[13] Politically Sauer was a conservative[citation needed], but expressed concern about the way that modern capitalism and centralized government were destroying the cultural diversity and environmental health of the world. He believed that agriculture, and domestication of plants and animals had an effect on the physical environment.
After his retirement, Sauer's school of human-environment geography developed into cultural ecology, political ecology, and historical ecology. Historical ecology retains Sauer's interest in human modification of the landscape and pre-modern cultures.
Sauer was awarded the Victoria Medal by the British Royal Geographical Society in 1975[14][15][16][17], the Alexander von Humboldt Medal by the Berlin Geographical Society and the Humboldt Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959[17] and the Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) and by the King of Sweden in 1957[18][16][17].
He was awarded a Doctor honoris causa by the University of Heidelberg[17], an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow[17] and LLD by Syracuse University[17] and the University of California, Berkeley[17].
He was named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 1931[17] and served as a member of the Selection Board of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1936-1965.
He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1935, and its Daly Medal in 1940.[19]
Graduate studentsEdit
Sauer graduated many doctoral students, the majority completing dissertations on Latin American and Caribbean topics and thereby founding the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.[20] The first generation consisted of Sauer's own students: Fred B. Kniffen (1930), Peveril Meigs (1932), Donald Brand (1933), Henry Bruman (1940), Felix W. McBryde (1940), Robert Bowman (1941), Dan Stanislawski (1944), Robert C. West (1946), James J. Parsons (1948), Edwin Doran (1953), Philip Wagner (1953), Brigham Arnold (1954), Homer Aschmann (1954), B. LeRoy Gordon (1954), Gordon Merrill (1957), Donald Innis (1958), Marvin W. Mikesell (1958), Carl Johannessen (1959), Clinton Edwards (1962), and Leonard Sawatzky (1967).
Among them, Parsons remained at the University of California at Berkeley and became prolific in directing Latin Americanist doctoral dissertations. His doctoral students formed the second generation of the Berkeley School: Campbell Pennington (1959), William Denevan (1963), David Harris (1963), David Radell (1964), Thomas Veblen (1975), Karl Zimmerer (1987), Paul F. Starrs (1989), John B. Wright (1990), and David J. Larson (1994). Apart from Latin America, Parsons' Ph.D. students such as Alvin W. Urquhart (1962) also worked in Africa.
Denevan became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, in turn, produced a third generation: Daniel Gade (1967), Bernard Nietschmann (1970), Roger Byrne (1972), Roland Bergmann (1974), Billie Lee Turner II (1974), Gregory Knapp (1984), Kent Mathewson (1987), John M. Treacy (1989), and Oliver Coomes (1992). Mikesell became a professor at the University of Chicago and also produced a third generation.
A member of the fourth generation, William E. Doolittle studied with Turner, earned the Ph.D. in 1979, became a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin, and has extended the school into the fifth generation: Dean P. Lambert (1992), Andrew Sluyter (1995), Emily H. Young (1995), Eric P. Perramond (1999), Phil L. Crossley (1999), Jerry O. (Joby) Bass (2003), Maria G. Fadiman (2003), and Matthew Fry (2008).[21]
See alsoEdit
- ^ Christopher R. Boyer, "Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity," in A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, ed. William H. Beezley. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2011, p. 126.
- ^ University of Virginia Press Books
- ^ Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California Publications in Geography 2 (2):19-53.
- ^ James, P. E. and Martin, G. 1981, All Possible Worlds: A history of geographical ideas, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1981: 321-324
- ^ Leighly, J. 1963. Land and Life: A selection from the writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 6
- ^ Price, M., and M. Lewis. 1993. "The Reinvention of Cultural Geography". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 83 (1):1-17.
- ^ Williams, M. 1983. "The apple of my eye: Carl Sauer and historical geography". Journal of Historical Geography 9 (1):1-28.
- ^ Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California Publications in Geography 2, p. 20
- ^ Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California Publications in Geography 2, p. 21
- ^ Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California Publications in Geography 2, p. 22
- ^ Sauer, C. O. 1925. "The Morphology of Landscape". University of California Publications in Geography 2, p. 25
- ^ Carl Ortwin Sauer, Andean reflections: letters from Carl O. Sauer while on a South American trip under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, 1942. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1982.
- ^ Duncan, J. 1980. "The superorganic in American cultural geography". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70:181-198. But see also Solot, M. 1986. "Carl Sauer and cultural evolution". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(4):508-520.
- ^ "Royal Geographical Society - Medals and awards". www.rgs.org. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Victoria Medal (geography)", Wikipedia, 2019-01-16, retrieved 2019-01-29
- ^ a b "Dr. Carl O. Sauer Dies; Dean of Geographers, 85". The New York Times. 1975-07-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "CARL O SAUER". geog.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
- ^ "Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography", Wikipedia, 2018-08-15, retrieved 2019-01-29
- ^ "American Geographical Society Honorary Fellowships" (PDF). amergeog.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ^ Scott S. Brown and Kent Mathewson, "Sauer's Descent?, Or Berkeley Roots Forever?," APCG Yearbook 61 (1999): 137-57
- ^ Kent Mathewson, "Sauer's Berkeley School Legacy: Foundation for an Emergent Environmental Geography?," Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine. In Geografía y Ambiente en América Latina, Gerardo Bocco, Pedro S. Urquijo, and Antonio Vieyra, eds. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011)
Further readingEdit
- Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape:Readings and Commentaries, edited by William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson. Baton Rouge, LA:Louisiana State University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8071-3394-1.
- Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography, edited by Kent Mathewson and Martin S. Kenzer. Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications, 2003.
- Carl O. Sauer: The Road to Cíbola. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1932.
- Carl O. Sauer: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals, American Geographical Society, 1952.
- Carl O. Sauer: The Early Spanish Main, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1966.
- Carl O. Sauer: Northern Mists, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1968.
- Mercatanti L.: Carl Sauer e gli ultimi lavori sul continente americano. The Early Spanish Main, in Rivista Geografica Italiana, 121, 2014, pp. 275–288 ISSN 0035-6697.


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I am pleased to announce the 1.0a8 release of e4Graph, the seventh Alpha
e4Graph is a C++ library that allows programs to store graph-like data
persistently and to access and manipulate that data efficiently. With
e4Graph, you can arrange your data in the most natural form that
reflects the relationships between its parts, rather than having to
force it into a table-like format. The e4Graph library also allows you
to concentrate on the relationships you want to represent, and not on
how to store them in a database. You can modify data items, and add and
remove connections and relationships between pieces of data on the fly.
e4Graph allows you to represent an unlimited number of different
connections between pieces of data, and your program can selectively
manipulate the data according to the relationships it cares about, not
having to know about other connections represented in the data set. The
e4Graph package also provides bindings in several other languages,
currently Tcl, Python and Java, and allows input/output of object graphs
via an XML representation.
The e4Graph package is built on top of Metakit 184.108.40.206, and optionally
uses Tcl 8.4.4, Python 2.2.3, Java 1.1 or later, and Expat 1.95.5.
Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e4graph/
Homepage: http://www.e4graph.com/e4graph/
Changelog: http://www.e4graph.com/e4graph/changes.txt
Installation: http://www.e4graph.com/e4graph/e4install.html
Support for MacOS X 10.2 and several other platforms was added. Support
for Python 2.2 and later releases was added. The Java binding was
updated. The event mechanism was completely overhauled and support for
user defined events was added. The vertex caching mechanism was moved
from the Tcl binding to the core e4Graph library to enable other
language bindings to benefit from the increased performance afforded by
the cache. The interface between e4Graph and data base drivers was
formalized in preparation for supporting new data base drivers in
addition to Metakit. Additional work was done to support 64-bit systems
and very large storages; more work is needed. Support for SWIG was added
so new language bindings can be created with SWIG, in preparation for
incorporating Perl, PHP and Ruby bindings in the next release. Many bugs
were fixed.
Michael Krimerman contributed the Python binding. J.P. Fletcher helped
me get started with SWIG support. Daniel Steffen and Nicholas Brawn were
instrumental helping with MacOS X support. I wish to acknowledge support
from the HP test-drive facility and from the SourceForge compile farm.
Many people (too many to mention) contributed bug reports and bug fixes.
Geoff Shapiro and David Van Maren suggested many useful API changes.
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Kids go racing at the Curragh
Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) held a 'Go Racing Kids' Club' Day at The Curragh Racecourse on Wednesday to promote interest and awareness in horse racing, among primary school children in Kildare.
Over 300 fith and sixt class pupils from local schools took part in demonstrations from RACE (Racing Academy and Centre of Education) and farrier, Donal Bennett. They heard talks from jockeys Jamie Codd and Mark Enright and Valet Paul Fox and local trainers James Leavy and Shane Duffy. The pupils also met Racecourse Manager, Paul Hensey who explained how the team at The Curragh Racecourse prepares for a race day. The children had a chance to try out the RACE horse simulator, to assist the farrier with his work and they even took part in a running race right on the famous Curragh racetrack.
All of the children received a 'Go Racing Kids' Club' goodie bag at the end of the day and were invited to enter an essay competition based on their experience at the racecourse. The top ten finalists and their parents will be invited to the Newbridge Community Race Day at the Curragh on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6, where the winner will be presented with a laptop,. There will also be prizes for the nine runners-up.
"We were delighted to welcome so many children from local schools to the racecourse," said Evan Arkwright of The Curragh Racecourse,
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Do you want to earn better returns than a bank CD? If so, then investing in the stock market may be for you. Before you go crazy, however, and pull all your money out of the bank, you need to learn some of the ins-and-outs of stock market investing. You will find the pertinent information in this article.
If you would like to make the maximum amount of money from investing in the stock market, try to create a long-term plan. You'll get more return if you make realistic investments instead of making high risk, unpredictable investments. Once you have a target for your profits, hang onto the stocks you buy until you reach them.
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(CNN) -- Accused "barefoot bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of airplane and boat thefts in the Pacific northwest, federal prosecutors in Washington state said.
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He is also charged with interstate and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm for allegedly stealing a .32 caliber pistol in Canada and carrying it into Idaho and on the stolen plane he flew to the Granite Falls area, according to the indictment.
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One Year of NEOWISE Observations Mapped
This movie shows the progression of NASA's NEOWISE survey in the year after its Dec. 2013 restart. Each dot represents an asteroid or comet that the mission observed.
WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home
NASA's WISE telescope has discovered that there are fewer brown dwarfs in our solar neighborhood than previously thought.
WISE Finds Fewer Asteroids near Earth
New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE
This animation demonstrates how the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, surveys asteroids and comets in the solar system.
Space Rock Census
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Rhode pick up where they left off with win over Tubber
Rhode restarted their quest to regain the Dowling Cup after the long layoff since the first round with a comfortable win over Tubber
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Rhode were in control of the game from the off and a goal from Anton Sullivan helped them to a 1-7 to 0-5 half-time lead.
The second goal came late in the game from Paul McPadden to round off the win.
It was Tubber's opening game of the campaign as Group 2 has just five teams and Tubber were the odd team out inb the first round.
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Ash gourd or White pumpkin or Vellai Pusanikai or Boodidha Gummidikai is loaded with Vitamins(b1,b3 & C) and minerals. It contains almost 96% water, and is a dietitian's delight. Also high pottasium content helps to maintain a healthy blood pressure. It is a must in weght-loss diet.
This is also called as Thayir Kuzhambu. This is my mom's recipe and one of my fav. She suggested me this quick recipe in one of my lazy day. It is very easy to prepare and tastes delicious.
Ingredients :-
|Ash gourd / White Pumpkin
|1 cup
|Big Onion (finely chopped)
|Green Chillies (finely chopped)
|Thick Curd
|¾ cup
|½ tsp
|Urad dal
|1 tsp
|Curry leaves
|Coriander leaves(for garnishing)
|Grated Carrot (for garnishing)
|1 tbsp
|1 tsp
|to taste
Method :-
1). Scrap off the outer skin, remove the seeds and chop the Ash gourd in to small pieces.
2). Boil it in a cup of water until it becomes soft and transparent or Microwave high for 5 minutes stirring in between.
3). Heat oil in a pan, add mustard and let it splutter. Then add hing, urad dal and saute till it turns translucent. Add chopped onions, curry leaves, green chillies, salt and saute till it turns translucent. Now add the boiled ash guard(without water) and combine well. Switch off and cool it.
4). Whisk the yogurt until smooth. Add the ash guard mixture after it cooled down and garnish with grated carrot and chopped coriander leaves.
Serve with steamed rice and spicy poriyal !
Notes :-
# Ash-gourd has a bland taste and it absorbs the flavors of the spices used. It goes well with raitas, soups and sweets.
# Ash gourd is available pre-cut into large pieces and wrapped in plastic. Select those with firm flesh and store it in the refrigerator. It keeps fresh for 3 - 4 days.
# You can also grate the Ash gourd instead of chopping.
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The Energy State of the Union Annotated
President Obama recognized the importance of natural gas and the new, disruptive technologies which have made at least 100 years of this fuel available to us; that's the good news from the State of the Union Address. The bad news is that the President appears to have learned a lot of wrong lessons about the proper role of government in innovation and appears poised to take a lot of wrong-headed actions. Here's that section of the speech as reported in The New York Times with annotations by them (NYT) and by me (TE).
POTUS: And nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. (Applause.)
NYT: An administration official declined to explain exactly what this potentially huge expansion of offshore activity meant, except to say that the Interior Department would be announcing new lease sales in the coming weeks. Those sales will not include areas the administration has already ruled off-limits, including most areas off Florida and along the Atlantic Coast, the official said, so it is not clear how the president reaches his target.
— John M. Broder, reporter
POTUS: Right now -- right now -- American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years. That's right -- eight years. Not only that -- last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past 16 years. (Applause.)
TE: That is good news but obviously most of the increase in domestic production comes from actions taken before the present administration was in charge. Also a recession-related decrease in demand cut into imports. But still good news.
POTUS: But with only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. (Applause.)
A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years. (Applause.)
And my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I'm requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. (Applause.)
TE: Amazing how he managed not to say the f-word, fracking or even the proper names for the innovations which are unlocking vast stores of both oil and natural gas, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He did make a nod to opponents of hydraulic fracturing with the line about disclosure of the content of the fluids used in the process when drilling is done on public lands, actually good policy from my POV.
POTUS: Because America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk. The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don't have to choose between our environment and our economy. (Applause.)
TE: Applause! (Interestingly Boehner was applauding during this section the speech but Biden wasn't.)
POTUS: And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock –- reminding us that government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. (Applause.)
TE: Ahem. In 1865 Col. Edward A. L. Roberts received the first of his many patents for an exploding torpedo; it was used not for war but increasing production from hydrocarbon formations. He died a wealthy man. The co-inventors of modern fracking combined with horizontal drilling were Joseph Clark and Riley Farris. By vastly increasing the supply of natural gas, they have arguably done more for energy independence, energy abundance, and lower carbon emissions than all the well-intended grant-funded green efforts in the last twenty years. That being said, surely some aspects of government and university basic research must have helped: perhaps studies of geology, sound wave propagation, GPS technology, and many other things. The President is right that government has a role in funding basic research.
POTUS: Now, what's true for natural gas is just as true for clean energy. In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries. Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled, and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.
TE: Whoops. Wrong conclusion. There were no government incentives for fracking as opposed to other means of gas production, no special tax credits for this technology, no mandates that we use fracked natural gas rather than alternatives, no tariffs to prevent us from buying foreign natural gas when it was cheaper, no DOE-led grant programs tucked into the stimulus bill for hydraulic drilling. The wealth of natural gas didn't come about because of "federal investments"; it is a result of plain old-fashioned marketplace economics. Growth in "renewable use", on the other hand, is only because of government programs, just as the President says; that's why much of it unsustainable and, as the President points out later in his speech, why the "green jobs" created will die back without further subsidies while the direct jobs in drilling for natural gas and building pipelines are here for a long time to come and the indirect jobs in American manufacturing enabled by cheap domestic energy are "sustainable" – as long as the savings are not eaten up by subsidies for energy sources which aren't ready for prime time.
POTUS: When Bryan Ritterby was laid off from his job making furniture, he said he worried that at 55, no one would give him a second chance. But he found work at Energetx, a wind turbine manufacturer in Michigan. Before the recession, the factory only made luxury yachts. Today, it's hiring workers like Bryan, who said, "I'm proud to be working in the industry of the future."
Our experience with shale gas, our experience with natural gas, shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don't always come right away. Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. I will not walk away from workers like Bryan. (Applause.)
TE: Unfortunately Mr. Ritterby's new job may not last past the expiration of tax credits for wind turbines at the end of this year. Our experience with shale gas (fracked natural gas) shows us that effective technologies can be developed by the private sector with no help from the government other than possible funding of basic research. The example of a government program the President should examine is corny ethanol: that set of incentives, mandates, and protective tariffs has led to less fuel efficiency, higher prices not only for fuel but for food as well, and probably environmental damage. The private sector goes down many blind allies as well; but it can't double down and insist that we use more expensive products – at least not unless it can hire lobbyists to convince congresspeople that such laws are needed. Anyway, it was ethanol the government was "investing" in while the natural gas answer to environmental and economic problems was developed outside the Washington Beltway.
POTUS: I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here. We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. (Applause.)
It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs. (Applause.)
TE: By all means take the" taxpayer giveaways" away from oil (and gas and nuclear and coal) companies. But giving them to new politically-connected industries is exactly the wrong thing to do. Yes, the government should support research into many energy sources including renewable ones. Once these sources become competitively viable – and some of them will, the winning technologies will be good for America and good for the world and its environment – just as natural gas is. Government doubles down when it makes a mistake (see ethanol above); private investors move on to the next new avenue until they find something that works. That's the lesson I wish the President had learned from our recent energy past.
Nevertheless, the President is absolutely right that the abundance of American natural gas is a very, very good thing.
Full disclosure: I have invested in line with my beliefs and will benefit as an investor if inexpensive, clean natural gas displaces oil.
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Brilliant! If your latest change in configuration breaks one of your servers, your safe.
When you have almost 200 Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X servers, you must know who, when, and what has changed in that file in /etc on server #153. Subversion is perfect for this. All of our sysadmins use Subversion when they create or modify configuration files, so we have a central repository of changes to our systems.
We can roll back configs, compare files in two similar (but not identical) systems, create "system skeletons" for fast system reconfiguration, and keep a vigilant eye out for changes in a centralized way. Subversion is not for developers only!
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Lincoln Continental Concept Makes Splash at 2015 New York International Auto Show Lincoln Motor Company has shown its new Lincoln Continental Concept at the 2015 New York International Auto Show. Kept quiet until the week before the show, Lincoln clearly timed the release of the Continental Concept to coincide with the first public showing of the competing Cadillac CT6 sedan. Ford (Lincoln) used a similar tactic to take the wind out of the sails of the Acura NSX introduction at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show with its striking Ford GT.
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With Happy Ferien you can
• book pitches at the most beautiful campsites in Croatia, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
• book hotels in Mali Lošinj and Cres.
• book different types of yachts based in Mali Lošinj.
• get individual advice about the holiday in the different countries.
When you decide to place a booking with us, we will send you two copies of the rental agreement. One copy must be signed and returned to us by mail, e-mail or fax. After signing the agreement, you have to make a down-payment of 50% for campsites or yachts and 20% for hotel reservations. Upon receipt of the down-payment, the booking is confirmed. The final payment is due four weeks before the beginning of your journey and must be made without further notice. After that, you will receive your final travel documents, such as vouchers, timetables for ferries, directions, etc. Upon arrival, you must hand-in any vouchers at the reception desk. We wish you a pleasant stay.
You cannot check availability on our homepage. We kindly ask you to send us an e-mail (booking request) and we will answer your e-mail as soon as possible and inform you about available pitches during your requested travel period. Of course, we are also happy to answer your questions about available pitches on the phone. Please be prepared to take notes!
Should there be a change at a very short notice (e.g. more persons / pet / motor boat), it is not a problem. You just hand in the voucher at the reception desk upon arrival. The number of persons paid for is noted on the voucher. Please inform the campsite about any extra persons and then they can be paid for, directly on-site.
If you did not yet sign a rental agreement, nor paid the down-payment, you can request the changes in writing. You will then receive a new rental agreement, which you must sing and return to us.
You have the possibility of booking the most beautiful camping pitches in advance. Should you wish to travel during high season, obtaining a pitch in the first row is not always guaranteed. If you place a booking with Happy Ferien in advance, you will have a hassle-free journey, because you know that your pitch is already reserved for you.
You already know beforehand what awaits you, because you've seen the map of the site as well as pictures of your reserved pitch on our homepage. You know, where you can put your hammock, where the closest power outlet is as well as how far it is to the closest sanitary building, etc.
The payment can be made by a standard bank transfer. In case of an international bank transfer, please use the IBAN and BIC codes, because that way you don't have to pay the high transaction fees. You'll find our bank details on the documents you receive from us (rental agreement and accompanying letter).
We also accept following credit cards:
At the price of € 40.00 per rental agreement, Happy Ferien offers a travel cancellation insurance.
In case of an illness, which has to be confirmed by a medical certificate, the guest gets his money back. Only a cancellation fee of € 37.00 will be deducted from the total amount. To return the money to your account, we need your IBAN and BIC codes as well as the name of your bank.
Motorway toll stickers (if you drive through Austria and Slovenia), toll for some motorways or roads, fee for the ferry passage, tourist tax, registration fee, fee for the tunnel and the bridge (if you travel via the island of Krk)
Please inform us, at the campsite or the hotel about the late arrival.
It is best to have your customer number or HZ-number (number of the rental agreement) ready, that way we can quickly find your booking in our system. You will find these numbers on your rental agreement, on the left hand side, directly underneath your address.


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The health benefits of negative ions are well known, and their unique properties are what makes an ionic foot bath detox so effective. When water is ionized and split into H+ and OH- ions (and sometimes into H3O+ and H2O2 ions), these ions are able to enter the body through the 4,000 large pores of the feet. A detox foot spa offers a way to utilize this opportunity to revitalize and cleanse yourself with all-natural mechanisms.
At this stage, the circulatory and lymphatic systems transport the ions throughout the body. The ions from the foot bath detox neutralize oppositely charged toxins in the cells that are normally slow to exit the body. In this way, all the body's organs can become energized and stimulated to function optimally. The body then rids itself of these toxins through its normal processes of urination, defecation and sweating.
People of any age, sex and background can greatly benefit from this natural cleansing approach, and you'll notice big changes in a very short period of time. A detox foot bath can be your key to a reinvigorated, healthy lifestyle.
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Listen to Dr. Don Colbert, M.D., in this 3 minute video, as he speaks to the phenomenal benefits of the TherSauna, the very best system in the world. We are the only clinic to offer this particular type of sauna in this area. Our Dry Far Infrared Sauna Room is luxurious and spacious. Feel like you're on the beach when you're here. You get a huge, private room with a sauna Tiki hut in it. You will lose 600 calories just sitting on your rump. Our sauna room is spacious & extremely private. Our guests sleep, read, work with devices or simply meditate in there. You should treat yourself today.
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I can't believe how long it has been since I posted on this blog. But finally got this little dollie finished, she has been sitting there naked for a few weeks. If you wish to purchase the e-pattern or the mailed version, just click on the link on the side button. I have to get busy finishing up patterns for this site. The fall issue of Country Sampler just came out so I am busy making scarecrows for the ad.
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The International Conference on Desertification Control in the Arid Region (DCAR)
Venue: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
|Event Date/Time: May 12, 2007
|End Date/Time: May 15, 2007
|Abstract Submission Date: Mar 31, 2007
|Paper Submission Date: Apr 15, 2007
KISR is firmly committed to combating desertification by promoting sustainable use of natural resources, developing sustainable re-vegetation techniques and enhancing public awareness in the conservation of natural resources. It is also working with other regional and international organizations to utilize the available scientific tools to achieve this objective. Over the past three decades, Aridland Agriculture and Greenery Department (AAGD) at KISR has conducted several projects on characterization of desertification process, biodiversity conservation, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and optimization of livestock husbandry practices. In continuation of these efforts, AAGD is proposing to organize an international conference to facilitate exchange of information among regional and international experts on various issues concerning desertification in the arid regions.
1. Bring together leading experts, policy makers and organizations, and share latest developments in desertification control and management of natural resources in the arid zones.
2. Bring forth and share Kuwait¡¦s experience in combating desertification and biodiversity conservation with leading experts and organizations
3. To identify constraints and obstacles in combating desertification in the arid region.
4. Review modern technologies and tools for controlling desertification and biodiversity conservation.
5. Prepare action plan for combating desertification in Kuwait and in the GCC countries.
6. Establish international linkage and promoting collaborative research and development projects in the region.
The main themes of the desertification Conference will be:
1. Desertification in GCC Countries (Country Paper)
2. Desert Biodiversity Conservation and Gene Bank Establishment
3. Modern Techniques for Combating Desertification and management of Natural Resources in Arid Zones
4. Re-vegetation of Degraded Ecosystems and Monitoring of Ecosystem Health
5. Plant Conservation Strategy for the Arabian Peninsula.
English will be the official language of the conference and symposium; however, efforts will be made to translate selected papers in to Arabic for the benefit participants from the industry/ local nurseries.
The Airdland Agriculture and Greenery Department of Food Resources Division will be responsible for organizing both the international desertification conference and the symposium. The Oral and poster sessions on different thematic areas will run concurrently. The preparation, editing and printing of the proceedings will begin immediately after the conference and completed within six months.
The scientific committee welcomes participation of scientists in areas related to desertification and re-vegetation of degraded ecosystems and scientific achievements related to the themes of the conference. Participants are required to submit abstracts in English that include objectives and briefing of scientific work and conclusion. Abstracts shouldn¡¦t exceed more than 300 words, and contain 3-5 key words.
Abstracts will be compiled and distributed during the conference. Papers presented in various sessions will be edited by international experts and published as proceedings. Proceedings will be mailed to all speakers and related institutions / organizations.
Abstracts should be sent to the following email:
And if you have any question please don¡¦t hesitate to send your query to:
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research- Aridland Agriculture and Greenery Department- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON¡¨ DESERTIFICATION CONTROL IN THE ARID REGION¡¨
P.O. Box: 24885 Kuwait Safat 13109
Tel: 00965- 4989811
Fax: 00965- 4989809
The organizers will provide 1.0 X 2.0 m panel and other accessories for each approved poster
• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research - KISR
• Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science - KFAS
• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research - KISR
• Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science - KFAS
• Islamic development Bank - IDB
• United Nations Environment Program - UNEP
It is proposed to invite ten (five from USA and Europe, three from Arab Countries and two from GCC Countries) for the desertification conference and ten experts for the APSG symposium. These experts will deliver key note addresses in various sessions, participate in discussions and share their experiences for developing an action plan to be adapted for implementation in Kuwait. In addition, to encourage participation of young scientists and interested people, it is proposed to provide accommodation and meals for ten persons for the international conference and 40 persons from the Arabian Peninsula region for the symposium.
The program
Session I: Desertification in GCC Countries
Session II: Desert Biodiversity Conservation and Gene Bank Establishment
Session III: Modern Techniques for Combating Desertification
Session IV. Management of Natural resources in the Arid Regions
Session V. Revegetation of Degraded Ecosystems and Monitoring of Ecosystem Health
Session VI. Application of New Tools for Combating Desertification in Arid Regions


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The shop was named Best Retailer at the 2013 Mystery Shop Awards, which were conducted for the second year running by the Liverpool municipal council.
Mystery Shoppers visited city shops in search of good service and professionalism. In total, 300 outlets were evaluated.
Meagan Hughes, who has been working as a Fragrance Shop store manager for 5 years, commented: "My team and I are very glad to have been rated so highly again by Mystery shoppers. We have great clientele and a wide choice of perfumes, including Chanel. Our promotions and sales make the store a happy place for the customers. It's unbelievable; we're the best store in Liverpool!"
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