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COVER- The war comes home: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville connect
If war breaks out in the Middle East, and nobody's there to hear it, does it make a noise?
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center during the week of May 26-June 1, the news stories Americans are following most closely are the presidential election, the earthquake in China, the tornados in the midwest, the collapsing housing market, the new tell-all book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, and the NASA Mars landing. Nowhere on the list were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yet for some locals, places like Fallujah and Kabul are as familiar as Crozet or Lovingston. As skirmishes erupt among the rocky cliffs and dusty streets halfway around the world, Charlottesvillians wonder if loved ones are safe and how long it will be before the sectarian violence can be peacefully resolved.
Such is the case for these five Charlottesvillians: two parents still grieving the loss of their oldest son, and three teenagers who escaped their war-torn countries and came to America to start over, but still dream of the day they can go home again.
Tuesday's children
On Tuesday September 11, 2001, the lives of these five changed forever when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center.
It was 8:46am in Charlottesville. At that moment, 17-year-old Brad Arms was in class at The Covenant School, where he was a senior preparing to head off to college in a year. But Arms found himself much more at home at Gold's Gym, relieving the stresses of adolescence by enduring the challenges of weight training. Here is where he decided that his was not going to be the typical college experience.
"The recruitment center for the Marines was just across the street, and he got to know some of the guys there," recalls his mother, Betty Arms. "The more he thought about it, the more he was sure he wanted the challenge of being in the military- and if he was going to be in the military, he wanted to be in the toughest branch."
Still intent on going to college, Arms agreed with his parents that he would join the Marine Reserves. Now, with the living room filled with TV images of the plumes of smoke and ash pouring out of the Twin Towers, Arms' parents were having second thoughts about the pact they had made with their son.
"Before that day, we figured, 'When was the last time the reserve had been called to active service? It would be a safe place for him to serve,'" says Betty. "Now we knew it was all fair game, and it wasn't so safe.'"
They implored their first-born to reconsider.
"We asked if he would wait a month before he signed the final papers, and he did," says Bob Arms, Brad's dad, "but there was zero pause. He knew more than ever he wanted to be a Marine."
It was 4:46pm in Moscow. Half a world away from the destruction, 11-year-old Hadiya Abdul-Satar and her 10-year-old sister, Roman, were just getting out of school.
"We turned on the TV and saw the buildings on fire, and they were talking about the numbers of people who could be dead, and I couldn't believe them," says Hadiya. "Then I watched the first tower collapse, and I knew they were right."
The sight sent the family into a panic.
"We immediately thought of my aunt who worked in New York near the World Trade Center," says Roman. "We tried calling, but the only contact we had with New York was TV."
They would eventually account for their aunt, but days later the sisters found that, for Muslims like them, the nightmare of 9/11 was just beginning.
"Everyone was terrified of Islam," says Hadiya. "Classmates called us suicide bombers. It was hard for my mother to go to work at all, let alone wear a head scarf. My father had to bribe police $1,000 a week in order to protect his shop and stay in business."
To make matters worse, not only were Hadiya and Roman Muslim, but they were also Afghani, and soon the world would know that the terrorists who planned the attack were hiding in the country they had fled as young girls. In the weeks after the attacks, it became clear that their extended family, most of whom lived in Kabul, the capital, would be in the middle of a war zone.
It was 3:46pm in Baghdad. Like people the world over, 11-year-old Fatin Hameed watched the images of collapsing rubble and fleeing New Yorkers. When word came that the terrorists who had perpetrated the acts did so in the name of Allah, the young Muslim girl became incensed at the idea that the so-called martyrs claimed to be members of her faith.
"I don't believe in jihad," Hameed says. "In Islam, you're not allowed to kill yourself or other people. These men did not go to heaven."
Some Iraqis were more ambivalent. While most world leaders offered unconditional support to the United States and grieved along with citizens of the world's great superpower, the president in Hameed's country offered this statement:
"Notwithstanding the conflicting human feelings about what happened in America yesterday," said Saddam Hussein, "America is reaping the thorns sown by its rulers in the world."
Little did Hameed know at the time, but when those American rulers heard those words, they determined to make them his last.
It was on this day that the lives of Brad, Hadiya, Roman, and Fatin began a course that ultimately united them as both Charlottesvillians and as four of the millions of people whose lives were forever changed by the United States' "war on terror."
A new kind of war
In the month between the destruction of the Twin Towers and the first American strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan, nobody was quite sure what a "war on terror" would look like. But Hadiya and Roman Abdul-Satar knew plenty about both war and terror. When the sisters were born, the forces that had united to overthrow Soviet rule in Afghanistan were beginning to disintegrate into warring factions scrambling to fill the void left by the Russians.
By 1994, a group calling itself the Taliban– Arabic for "the students"– had begun to dominate the others, seeking to govern the mountainous, spartan country by the strictest interpretation of Muslim sharia law at the barrel of a gun. By the next year, the Taliban had gained control of Kabul, the capital city and the sisters' hometown.
It wasn't long before the little girls understood that this would have consequences for their lives.
"They had bombed a house just a mile away from us," recalls Hadiya. "They beat up our father once– enough for him to know they meant it, anyway. We knew we had to leave."
Seeking safety and to assure their daughters of an education (forbidden under Taliban rule), when Hadiya and Roman were five and four, the Abdul-Satars abandoned their home, boarded a bus with about 50 others, and made the dangerous trip 90 miles south to Jalalabad.
When men from the Taliban or the other warring factions inevitably boarded the bus every few miles, they did so to rummage through purses and wallets, and generally harass and extort. The girls were told to stay quiet. This was a rule Hadiya could not obey.
"When one of them got on the bus, I started yelling at him," she recalls. "I said, 'You burn our houses! You rob us! You kill our people!'"
For a moment, everyone on the bus feared the worst. Instead the man smiled at Hadiya and got off the bus.
"Everyone clapped," remembers Roman. "Nobody could believe my sister had done that."
For a while, the Abdul-Satars could. Four years later, when the Taliban's reign had engulfed all of Afghanistan, they made the long, clandestine, and life-threatening journey to escape from the only country any of them had ever called home.
"We were on a bus for five days, with 55 people, and the only things we had to eat or drink were bread and Kool-Aid," says Hadiya. "The only times we stopped were to use the bathroom, which we all had to do at the same time, and to bribe government officials."
The escape route ran from Jalalabad, through Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and eventually to a train to Moscow, where the Abdul-Satars had some relatives to stay with. Every intersection, however, presented the threat that they could be discovered and returned to Afghanistan to face the swift, harsh judgment of the Taliban.
"I don't remember much," says Roman. "We couldn't see anything, because we had to hide from the windows."
"All I remember," adds Hadiya, "is silence."
Growing up in Baghdad, Fatin Hameed never experienced any such peril. She went to school, it was safe to walk the streets, and she never saw any of her fellow Iraqis suffer violence at the hands of her government. That's not to say a life under Saddam Hussein was fulfilling, or that Hameed saw much of a future for herself.
"Women didn't have any freedom," she says. "A woman couldn't own her own home, or live by herself. I couldn't wear shorts or a skirt in public. The government had very old ideas."
Of course, neither Hameed nor anybody else could express an opinion.
"I remember once my grandfather said something bad about Saddam," Hameed says, "and I asked my mom, 'Is [Hussein] a bad person?' And my mom looked at me very seriously and said, 'No, he's a good person. Do you understand?'"
Hameed didn't need her mother to remind her of the repercussions if she ever said otherwise.
"I knew people who had family members who disappeared suddenly," she says. "We never bothered with politics. We never touched it."
That was the situation Lance Corporal Brad Arms hoped to change when he said goodbye to his parents and boarded the bus in Lynchburg on July 5, 2004, to deploy with his fellow Marines in the Fourth Combat Engineer Battalion to Al Anbar province. His parents at once feared for his life but also stood proudly as he walked away.
"He really believed God had called him to this," says his father. "One of his buddies told me later that as they got ready to go, everyone else was all pumped up and ready to do battle, but Brad was really quiet. They asked him why, and he told them, 'Even if I don't come out alive, I know where I'm going.'"
After Hameed first spotted U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, it didn't take long for the 13-year-old to realize her life was going to be different in ways good and bad, as symbolized in two stark images.
"The first thing I saw were the big American tanks rolling into the streets of Baghdad, past signs that the Iraqi government had turned around to throw off the Americans, not realizing that they had GPS. Everyone celebrated, because they knew Saddam was gone," she says. "Then, not long after that, my mother was driving me somewhere and saw a dead body in the middle of the street just a few blocks from my house. I didn't see the body, but I saw her face, and I never forgot it."
It didn't take long for the war to arrive quite literally at Hameed's doorstep.
"After the invasion, my mother was always very careful, because she worked at the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone," she says. "One day we were having a celebration at our house with family, when, out of nowhere, a mortar hit our house. Nobody was hurt, but nothing had ever scared me like that. I still don't know where it came from, and until recently, every time I heard a boom, I couldn't stay standing up."
While Hameed tried to get used to the shelling, it was a regular experience for now-Corporal Arms. But more emblematic of the war were not the dusty explosions of the improvised explosive devices, IEDs, he detonated each day, but the faces of the Iraqis he had come to the country to help.
"He would write us e-mails," says his father, "and tell us that the old men's faces had hardened into frowns, but that the children always laughed and smiled and welcomed the Americans when they would come by. He would look at those children and know why he was there."
But not long after, the war– at once seemingly so far away– arrived at the Armses' doorstep in Charlottesville in the form of two Marines in dress uniform.
"There was no question what it was," says Betty.
On November 19, 2004, while part of the Marine offensive on Fallujah, Brad Arms, in a flurry of small arms fire, had been shot in the inch-wide gap between the protective Kevlar plates strapped on his chest and back. At the age of 20, he died instantly.
Hopes for the future
Now, in Arms' hometown, Fatin Hameed, and Hadiya (both now 18) and Roman Abdul-Satar (now 17) have come as refugees, all three students at Charlottesville High School, all with the hope of attending an American university.
The three girls just finished their junior year at CHS. Among the large international population brought to Charlottesville by the International Rescue Committee's placement program, the students have been part of the fabric of CHS for some time. Still, each says that upon meeting their new American classmates in the fall, they had to dispose of lots of misunderstanding and misinformation.
"Last year, I had a class with a boy who said he wouldn't vote for a Muslim for president or any other office, because he wouldn't vote for a terrorist," says Hadiya. "I asked him, 'Do you think I'm a terrorist? Are you afraid to sit in the same classroom as me?' He was silent. We never talked again until this year, when he came to me and told me he didn't think I was a terrorist and that he was voting for Obama."
"People ask me sometimes if I'm Sunni or Shi'a," says Hameed. "I just tell them I'm Iraqi. That's what people don't realize. People in Iraq don't think of themselves as Sunni, or Shi'a, or Kurd. Only the Iranians, the Syrians, the terrorists they're sending into the country, and the corrupt government officials they're setting up. They are the ones dividing the country. Iraqis just want peace."
All three say that while they're skeptical about the troops' ability to rebuild their home countries, their family and friends on the other side of the world report shops staying open longer and streets getting safer– and they warn against a sudden pullout of the American military.
"I'm afraid for Afghanistan after the Americans leave," says Hadiya. "I'm worried there will be some other coup, and I'm afraid of the situation getting worse. I don't know if Afghanistan is ready to be independent."
"I don't know if it was a good idea for the Americans to come in the first place," says Hameed, "but I know that if the next president pulls out the troops, it's not going to get better because the Iranians, the Kurds from Turkey, the Syrians, will all come in and try to take power. It was good to get rid of Saddam, but I don't know if that would be better."
As for the place where Arms died, Al Anbar province– and the city of Fallujah in particular– is one of the infrastructure success stories military and civilian officials in Washington continue to credit to the prolonged troop presence in Iraq. As conditions improve, however gradually, both American and home country officials are encouraging former citizens residing in the U.S. to return and help with the rebuilding effort.
"Brad believed in children like these," says his father. "I hope that some day these children will go back and be leaders in their country."
"I would go back to help," says Hadiya, "but Afghanistan isn't the only poor country that needs us."
"It wouldn't be easy," says Roman. "I hope that once the country can get on its own feet, there would be an opportunity to help."
Says Hameed, "I want to be an architect, and there's plenty to be built, so why not?"
According to the Armses, it's just what their son would have wanted. In an e-mail dated 20 days before his death, he wrote: "It's the future of this country that will be different down the road; it's extremely hard to change hearts that have hated for so long. But as long as we can keep younger generations open-minded, then we will win this war, even though the fruits of my labor will not be realized for many years when the children of this country now rule."


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criodain necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
I am based in Ireland, and trying to set up a website to initially offer part time Pay Per Click services for Irish and European clients.
CreedClicks creates strategic and targeted Pay Per Click campaigns in English, French and Italian. We can also create German language PPC campaigns, and will consider other languages.
CreedClicks was set up in Ireland by Barry Creed who has a background in technical writing, languages, teaching English as a foreign language.
I also liaise and deal with experts in SEO and web design, so contact me now to find out how I can help you.
I would expect to be targetting smaller companies or business who are looking for tweaks to their websites or landing pages to make them more search engine friendly for the markets they are targetting.
English websites or business (for example, hotels) wanting to do foreign language landing pages and targetting French, Italian, and German speaking markets.
German, French, or Italian websites who want to target English language markets with sponsored search marketing campaign, or Pay Per Click campaigns.
I would also hope to offer English SEO and Landing Page Optimisation services for foreign language companies with English language landing pages, or French and Italian SEO services.
I am looking for a homepage design and an inner text oriented content page similar in design to the homepage (except it is more text oriented)
I would like to have a fairly basic site to begin with. It would also have to be Search Engine Friendly, so clear and easy for the user.
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I am open to suggestions with colours and suggestions, as long as it is easy to navigate. I would stay away from Flash as well. (not SEO friendly from what I can gather!)
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Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1936, deep-voiced singer Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career in his hometown when he and friends Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and Lawrence Payton formed the Four Aims vocal group in 1954 (some accounts put the date a year earlier). The group worked as a supper club act for a couple of years, changing their name to the Four Tops and, following unsuccessful recording stints with Chess and Columbia, signed to Berry Gordy's then-fledgling Motown Records in 1963. They completed a debut LP for Motown in their polished and jazzy supper club style but it wasn't really what Gordy was looking for and he switched their style to a harder, more pop-flavored R&B sound, wisely placing them in the hands of the in-house Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team. Pure magic happened. With Stubbs singing lead, his natural baritone pitched at the top of his range to create a sense of vibrant urgency, the Four Tops delivered an impressive run of hits for Motown, beginning with "Baby I Need Your Loving" in 1964 and following it with "Ask the Lonely," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," and "It's the Same Old Song" in 1965, and "Something About You," "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)," "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever," and the soul symphony "Reach Out, I'll Be There" in 1966. "Standing in the Shadows of Love" and "Bernadette" followed in 1967. Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown over a financial dispute at the end of the year, though, and the Four Tops suffered for it, eventually leaving the label themselves in 1972 and signing with ABC-Dunhill, where they were teamed with producers/songwriters Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who did their best to re-create the group's trademark Motown sound. The first single, "Keeper of the Castle," was a hit, as was "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" early in 1973, but the creative well was running dry for the group, at least as a chart-topping act. They continued to tour and perform shows, occasionally notching a song in the lower reaches of the charts. Benson died in 1995 and Payton passed away in 1997. Theo Peoples joined the group and took over the lead vocal work when Stubbs was diagnosed with cancer and was unable to continue touring. Aside from his work as a singer, Stubbs also did some acting, appearing in several television shows (usually as himself) and provided the voice for the carnivorous plant in the movie musical version of Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and the voice of Mother Brain in the animated TV series Captain N: The Game Master (1989). Levi Stubbs passed away at his home in Detroit on October 17, 2008. ~ Steve Leggett~ Rovi
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Owachomo Bridge is one of the three natural bridges at the Natural Bridges National Monument. It spans 55 m (180 ft) and has a height of 32 m (106 ft). Sipapu Bridge and Kachina Bridge are even higher and span an even greater distance.
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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Alternatives to traditional credit and debit cards are now processing €165bn ($214bn, £133bn) annually – 22 per cent of global e-commerce – and that's just the start as the next generation of consumers grows up without seeing a plastic card.
The numbers come from WorldPay, which should know a thing or two about online payments, and are accompanied by an interactive map showing how country-specific payment schemes risk creating islands of commerce and are already making it harder for companies with international aspirations.
Alternatives to card payments include real-time bank transfers, direct debits, electronic wallets, paper-based payments and costs tacked onto a mobile-phone bill, but the popularity of such schemes is very regional. PayPal, for example, dominates in the UK and US but is almost unknown in the Netherlands, where iDEAL-moderated bank transfers dominate.
That makes it harder for a UK company using PayPal to sell into the Netherlands, or Germany, or France, or just about anywhere else in Europe (with the notable exception of Italy), despite the international banking agreements which should permit international commerce.
Despite that, WorldPay reckons alternatives are set to grow, predicting that by 2015 more than half of the world's e-commerce payments will be made using such alternative schemes, to the cost of the credit card companies (WorldPay provides services to both sides, so is primarily interested in increasing the overall number of transactions).
Explaining the growth, WorldPay's report shies away from the obvious cost advantages and instead points out that the reluctance of traditional credit cards (and PayPal) to sully themselves with gambling or porn has driven consumers into the arms of alternative suppliers.
Not that this is necessarily a bad thing; WorldPay reckons fraud isn't significantly higher among the 230 alternative payment mechanisms running around the world, though as they continue to proliferate some will no doubt prove susceptible to keyloggers and suchlike. What is clear is that electronic payments are undergoing an extremely slow revolution, and like any revolution there will likely be blood on the steps before it's over. ®
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The Library maintains a collection of more than 8,000 videos. The video collection is used primarily in support of teaching, although faculty and students can also request videos for their research. Several hundred videos are added to the collection each year, almost exclusively in response to requests from faculty. (Cost considerations and the scarcity of reliable selection tools make it difficult to build a video collection in anticipation of future need.)
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Maybe being the reigning "Voice" champ isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That must have been how Adam Levine felt as the second week of blind auditions wrapped up Tuesday on "The Voice" with a total Team Adam shutout.
The Maroon 5 frontman's pickiness wasn't the only reason he failed to pick up a single team member. One spirited sales pitch he made to one of the night's most sought-after singers fell flat, too.
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Adam's long-time coach frenemy Blake Shelton nabbed the first singer of the night, Megan Ruger, a 26-year-old whose rock and roll chops (and hair) belied her career's Nashville country start. The self-professed "rocker at heart" had one goal in mind with her performance of Pink's "Just Like a Pill": "Four chairs!"
Megan didn't turn all four, but the two she did turn — Usher's and Blake's, both as she wrapped up her performance — were plenty. The winner came down, she said, to could claim to love '80s rock more. That, apparently, was Blake. "I just felt the Nashville part of me had to go with Blake," she explained afterward.
Usher picked up the next performer, soft-spoken Tennessean landscaper Morgan Wallen, 20, who had turned his attention to music after an injury dashed his hopes of a college baseball scholarship. His raspy performance of Howie Day's hit "Collide."
His gentle, emotive rasp turned Shakira's chair almost instantly, then Usher's as well — to Shakira's frustration. "I think that there are no voices like your voice on today's radio. That's why I turned," Shakira told Morgan. But he picked Usher as his coach, citing the R&B star's coaching techniques. "He kind of goes about it the way my baseball coach would," the long-time baseball player said.
Shakira found a team member of her own soon thereafter in Emily B., who was still struggling back from a pair of recent emergency brain surgeries. The 33-year-old mom from Idaho tackled Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game," gorgeously conjuring the song's haunted quality with her moody, jazz-inflected voice.
Shakira turned her chair, then Blake and then Usher — but Shakira was clearly the coach most in tune with Emily's performance, and not just because she was standing in her chair and singing along for much of it. Shakira lauded Emily's arrangement, and Emily — whose vocal tone bore similarities to the Latin pop star's — picked her as her coach.
Usher picked up a new, and very gutsy, team member next, albeit one who didn't look like he expected. Stevie Jo, 19, an R&B singer by way of heavy metal (with a stint as a theater kid), took on Usher's very own "There Goes My Baby," and he did it with enough aplomb to encourage Usher to turn his chair and stay poker-faced as he did. Nobody else pushed their buttons.
"What?! That's not who was singing that," Blake exclaimed at the end of the song, as he and the other coaches agreed they hadn't expected to turn around and see the white guy Stevie Jo very much was. Usher hadn't expected it, either, but was triumphant. "I got myself a Texan!" he said.
And the final contestant of the night — another four-chair turner — meant that Blake, his last "Voice" victory two seasons behind him, continued his streak of good fortune when he beat out all his rival coaches for 21-year-old Audra McLaughlin.
It helped that her performance was of a country song — the John Prine song Bonnie Raiit made famous, "Angel From Montgomery" — that Blake had a particularly personal connection to.
Adam may have hit his button long before Blake, but his aggressive push to win Audra for his team and his standing ovation still were no match for Blake's mention that "Angel From Montgomery" was one of his wife Miranda Lambert's favorite songs.
(Neither, for that matter, were Shakira's and Usher's lavish praise for Audra's voice, or Shakira's puzzling decision to refer to herself as "the missing link.")
Audra picked Blake to be her coach, clinching a week of blind auditions redemption for the country star after he seemed all but shut out for some of the most talented vocalists last week.
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers - Tol E. Rance; Been There, Done That; and City of Rain
Brian Brooks Moving Company- I'm Going to Explode, DESCENT, andFALL FALLS
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Rosie Hererra Dance Theater- Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret
Doug Varone and Dancers- -to-be-announced
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Eiko & Koma- White Dance and Flower Dance
John Jasperse-Fort Blossom Revisited 2000-2012
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ROYAL WORCESTER Plates - Artist E Barker
Posted Monday, November 11 by CAG • no comments
I own a set of 12 of what appear to be ROYAL WORCESTER (NOTE SPELLING) Made in England charger plates. They were apparently imported and probably decorated by Burley and Co, Chicago. There appears to be a dealers mark of c 1167 on the back. There is a logo of a crown over a circle with scrolled W's and a C with the a number 51 inside. The name Royal Worcester appears underthe logo. Under this are eight dots with a star in the center. Under the dots it says Made in England.
These are a set of 12 with green painting embellished with gold on the rim a gold band then ivory embellished with gold on the inside and a signed (appears to be E Barker) picture of flowers in the center. All the pictures are on the same theme but each picture if different. There are at least 8 plates in very good shape and the other four a crazed and two are chipped.
My mother bought them at an art show about fifty years ago. Any information, including their possible value, would be appreciated. Thank you, Pamela
That is the correct spelling and the correct mark for Royal Worcester. The 8 dots with the star in the middle is the date code for 1924. They were a special order for Burley (either for a customer order or for general stock, with the Burley name in the mark), but were made and decorated by Royal Worcester.
The artist was Ernest Barker, a Worcester artist. He painted primarily plate centers, cup & saucer sets, and a few vases. His subjects are typically florals (like yours) and sheep (go figure). Cows and sheep are common subjects of paintings in the UK. All Worcester artists were highly skilled.
Plates your size, 10 1/2", are not quite large enough to be considered chargers, usually 12" and up. Although they are dinner or service plate size, most in the business would call a single one of these a cabinet plate. Since it was a set of 12, they were probably bought as service plates. They would be used when the table was set (as place holders), and removed when the first course was served.
Pricing your set is tricky. The green background is probably the least popular color. Your pattern came not only in this green, but cobalt blue (most popular), also burgundy and ivory (both closer to the blue in popularity).
8 Similar Green plates
6 in your pattern but burgundy
10 Cobalt by Barker in similar pattern
12 with Ivory background
All of the above are from the 1920's and even though the pattern might vary slightly and the artist may be different, I believe they are all comparable. Most of the sets sold for about $40-$70 per plate with a few exceptions.
You said that 2 of your plates are crazed. Hard porcelain cannot actually craze. Crazing is when the glaze cracks but the ceramic body does not. Hard porcelain or china is fired at a temperature high enough to fuse the glaze and the body. So, if there are cracks they almost always go all the way through.
Keramic Studio Print - Chromolithograph
Posted Sunday, November 03 by CAG • no comments
Hello, I have been browsing the internet trying to find out what type of an antique print I have.
This print is 13" x 10 1/2" on thin cardboard. The print was from an original oil painting by master artist Franz B. Aulich of the late 1800's and early 1900's. His paintings are very rare and highly collectible. The print feels very smooth.
I've taken photos of the print which include some very close ones where you can see a pattern of dots and lines. Can you please tell me what type of lithograph this is? If possible, can you take a guess as to it's value? Any info you can provide will be very much appreciated. Thank you, Josie
Your print is a chromolithograph. It is printed on heavy coated paper, or card stock. It was included as a supplement to Keramic Studio Magazine, which was a monthly magazine for pottery & china painters. China painting was a popular hobby for women from the late 1890's into the 1920's. It also became a profession for the more talented artists, as pottery companies like Roseville, Weller, and Rookwood became more popular. And China painting companies like Pickard and others in the china painting business. Some women opened there own studios, or worked for smaller local studios.
I believe later color illustrations in Keramic Studio Magazine were color separations, but I don't have any at this time to check.
These supplements along with patterns printed in the magazine were used by artists for ideas, and as guides in painting china and pottery. They could have tried to copy it exactly or more likely use it for inspiration for a design, or learn a technique for painting a specific flower.
Unfortunately, they are not particularly valuable. A number of them have survived, and demand is low. Arts ad Crafts images and designs are more desirable. Your print is beautiful, and would look great framed, but would not sell for a lot unless you sold it to someone who didn't know they are available inexpensively. In a shop it might sell, as is, unmatted and unframed for $10-$20, but not quickly. The fact that the artist who painted the original painting is famous or his paintings rare, does not really affect the value of your print.
Complete magazines are available for $10-$30, but not all had the color chromolithograph supplements.
Mario Spampinato - Sculptor in Bronze
Posted Sunday, September 23 by CAG • no comments
I was recently asked to help with the estate of a local artist, Mario Spampinato. The estate included a number of bronzes, created and cast by Mario Spampinato. His works include figure studies, florals, and abstract sculptures. Figures include action sports figures (golf and tennis), female dancers, and female figure studies. Some of his works will be included in the upcoming Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction being conducted by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on October 7, 8 & 9, 2012. The bust at left will not be included in the auction. It is a self portrait of the artist, and will be retained in the family.
The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy.
During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well.
After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas.
Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in
Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman
Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell's works on commission from the Findlay Galleries of Chicago. Spampinato Art Foundry records indicate that there were 16 different works done, all in editions of 30 or less. The recasts are well represented in the collection of the R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana. Many of these are published in a book titled
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), paintings, drawings, and sculpture : in the collection of the R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana written and published by the staff of the art gallery.
Records in the estate indicate that Spampinato did works for Pabst Brewing Co., University of Notre Dame,, Indiana University, Encyclopedia Britannica, Webster College and others.
He attended the following institutions:
Liceo Artisticao
L'Accademia delle Belle Arte
Academy of Arts on Via Margutta in Rome
Scuola Internazionale del Nudo
Accademia di Francia
Member of:
International Society of Sculptors
Society of American Sculptors
The auction will include 7 original works by Mario Spampinato, and 4 of the Charles M Russell bronzes cast at the Spampinato Art Foundry. To find all of his lots in the auction, enter Spampinato in the SEARCH Forthcoming Sales box on the Online Catalog page.
Information about Mario Spampinato and his work was gleaned from papers in the estate.
Mayor Daley and Mario Spampinato at the re-dedication of the Police Memorial in Haymarket Square. Spampinato restored the bronze statue after it was blown off its base with dynamite at the end of the turbulent 1960's.
1940's Royal Arrow Typewriter
Posted Sunday, May 20 by CAG • no comments
I have a Royal Arrow Typewriter in good working condition. How much is it worth? How best do I sell it in the Chicagoland area?
I just ran a church rummage sale and kept the piece with several other items to try to sell as antiques and get more money for our missions' project than we would have at a rummage sale.
Can you advise please. Thanks - Stacy
Typewriters have been around since the 1870's. Typewriter collectors have traditionally focused on machines that looked as radically different from modern machines as possible. So, typewriters like yours were generally difficult to sell at any price. When personal computers came out making typewriters all but obsolete, it appeared to be the final nail in the coffin for typewriters in general.
Recently older, but not previously collectible machines started to move in antique shops and on eBay. Today some good usable typewriters bring pretty good money, $100 and up. I used to sell typewriters from the 1920's for $10 or $15.
People now buy typewriters for a variety of reasons. Many just like the nostalgic look, and use them as accent or decorator pieces. But, there are still people who buy typewriters to use them. So, clean machines in good working order and reasonable good cosmetic condition are selling pretty well.
Recently on eBay there have been about 10,000 listings with the words "typewriter" and either "antique" or "vintage". Nearly half, about 48%, actually sold. With antiques averaging $85 plus shipping and vintage averaging $48 plus shipping. Shipping ran mostly in the $20-$25 range. But some very rare models sold in the thousands of dollars.
For yours specifically I would recommend starting about $40 and try it on Craigs List. I think the cosmetic problem on the cover will hold yours back. In excellent working and cosmetic condition, Royal Arrow typewriters have sold for as much as $200 (including shipping), but most sold around $100 or less.
For more information on the history of typewriters, Click Here.
Antique Maps
Posted Friday, September 23 by CAG • no comments
Chicago Antiques Guide was recently asked to write some articles for WorthPoint.com . Our first article Charting the Art and History of Antique Maps has just been published. It is the first in what is expected to be a short series of articles on how to begin a collection of antique maps.
The article gives a brief overview of the printing techniques. It also introduces some of the reasons people collect antique maps.
Future articles will suggest some possible themes for putting together a collection, sources for antique maps, and strategies for building your collection.
To read the complete article, CLICK HERE
The map shown here was published by Anthony Finley in 1824, just 6 years after Illinois became a state. It shows, that unlike today, the population center was in Southern Illinois. Immigrants to Illinois typically arrived by river, either the Mississippi or more commonly the Ohio River. So, towns grew and counties formed closest to the rivers where immigrants first reached Illinois.
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and later the coming of railroads sped up travel and immigration to Northern Illinois.
1760's Miniature (Thumb) Bible at Auction
Posted Tuesday, August 02 by CAG • no comments
I am interested in the "ball park" value of my 1769 Thumb Bible 7th Edition with Amendments. Published in Philadelphia, by A. Steuart. Size is appx. 2" high, 1 1/2" across and 1" wide. I am not sure of the best way to proceed in order to get the best price for it. Please feel free to email me with any questions. Thank you! Judy
I know enough about books in general, and Bibles specifically, to know that age alone isn't enough to make this item valuable. Bibles especially, are not necessarily rare even from the 1700's. What made me suspect that this "thumb" Bible was special were two things. First it was printed in Philadelphia before the Revolutionary War. And, second that it was a miniature.
Knowing that this was beyond my expertise, I contacted Mary Williams, the Director of the Fine Books and Manuscripts Department at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. After further research and seeing the Bible in person to confirm its condition, she estimated the piece at $3,000 to $5,000. The Bible is part of their next Fine Book and Manuscript Auction being held on Tuesday, August 9, 2011.
To see the full description of this item, and another photo Click HERE
To see the entire catalog for this auction Click HERE and then click on the Fine Book and Manuscript link.
Roos Cedar Chests - History & Information
Posted Sunday, January 16 by CAG • 11 comments
It appears that I am doomed to become an expert on Roos cedar chests. After I answered the first inquiry about a Roos chest and posted the answer, I have received at least a hundred more inquiries about Roos cedar chests.
Before I go on and tell what I have learned about them, let me tell you what I don't know. I have no idea what a Roos cedar chest looks like from just the model number or serial number. I have probably received 50+ inquiries that just give a model number, serial number or both, and ask what their chest is worth. To the best of my knowledge, there is no publicly available reference that gives years of manufacture by model number or serial number. Neither is there any reference that would let me look up a photo of that model. So without a photo I can't tell anything. If you send a photo, I can narrow the time period down a little by style, and estimate a value.
After considerable searching, I learned several rather interesting facts.
The "Roos Manufacturing Co." of Chicago was established in 1871 by Edward Roos (born in Germany in December 1848), died in 1906. He had several children including Otto (born 1877) and Edward (born 1880). Otto took over the Roos Manufacturing Company when his father died in 1906. They did manufacture cedar chests, but it is unclear when they started. The business began making curtain rods and later wooden boxes. They used a rooster in several variations in some of their logos.
The "Ed Roos Company of Forest Park" started in Chicago as the Roos Cedar Chest Company in 1916, and also manufactured cedar chests, but it is a different company. They used a tree (presumably a cedar tree) in a circle as their logo. There are also other logos without the tree, and one with a heart for their "Sweetheart" chests. They also used a variety of paper and cardboard labels.
It was started by Otto's brother, Edward. The company moved to Forest Park, IL in 1918 and changed its name to the Ed Roos Company of Forest Park
In the 1920 federal census, Otto Roos is listed as President of a wooden wares business. So it is clear that the original Roos Manufacturing Company was still at work in 1920, after Ed Roos opened up shop in 1918 in Forest Park. I have found no information yet that says whether the original company continued to make cedar chests or not, although one of their marks does say "Original" as part of the mark. This would imply at least some overlap when both companies were making cedar chests.
There are at least two possible explanations for why Edward left to start his own company. First, Edward disagreed with Otto about the business and split off to start his own company. Second, they agreed that to expand the cedar chest business, it should be split off and moved. There are of course other possibilities that I haven't considered. I lean toward the first as the most likely.
Lalique? (Not) Vase -Lamp Conversion
Posted Saturday, December 15 by Brian • 2 comments
I was given a few item's from my Great Aunt & Uncle The First is a glass lamp, I was told by a friend that it should be insured. I've searched on all my item's, only to come up with a whole lotta nothing! Can you tell me what kind of lamp this is? How much it might sell for & to whom I might sell it? Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Jamie
Although the glass part of the lamp appears to be a Cherry vase by Lalique from the 1930's, the piece is either a reproduction or a fake. It is called a reproduction in Warman's Lalique book by Mark F Moran.
But, commenter Craig Orkney states in his comment, "The vase was never produced by Lalique. It is a Czech piece produced by Barolac. It is pattern number 12111, and made from the 1930s to 1970s at Rudolfova hut. The moulds were then transferred to Rosice, and manufactured there until 1996. It is shown on the website Lalique.com as a fake Lalique item." I couldn't find any reference to fakes on their site, but it could be there and I missed it.
Taking all of this information into consideration, it would appear that the original vase is neither a fake nor a reproduction, but a vase made by Barolac that has falsely been attributed to Lalique. This has been done knowingly by some trying to pass it off as Lalique with a fake signature.
So, I will officially stand corrected by Craig, and will revise my original response below.
To make the vase into a lamp, a hole was drilled into it to allow for the electric cord. Fortunately, in this case a piece of Lalique was not sacrificed. I don't ever recommend making a vase into a lamp, but if you must, there are ways of making a vase into a lamp without drilling or otherwise damaging the piece, but none of them look quite right. If you must make a vase into a lamp, choose a method that will not affect the original piece's value, or realize that it will greatly reduce any future appreciation.
A lamp identical to yours sold on Ebay 4/22/06 for $62.
McCoy Jack-O-Lantern Cookie Jar
Posted Wednesday, April 04 by Brian • no comments
My wife bought this cookie jar at a garage sale 25 years ago. She always said it was valuable. Is it? Thanks Bill
Valuable is a relative term. But, I would say your wife was right. Your Jack-O-Lantern cookie jar was made by McCoy in the mid 1950's. I contacted Mercedes DiRenzo-Bolduc of Jazz'e Junque Inc., Chicago's first vintage cookie jar shop. She said that in 18 years of buying and selling cookie jars, she had only had this McCoy Jack O Lantern twice. In the past she has sold them in the $600-$700 range.
In today's market you would likely find one in an antique store for $500 and up depending on condition. It is definitely one of the harder cookie jars to find, especially in good condition.
Slag Glass Lamp with Metal Overlay by N.W. ART SHADE CO.
Posted Friday, February 16 by Brian • 1 comment
Dear AntiquesGuide,
I'm delighted to find a Chicago group who can look at my lamp. This lamp was in grandma's house in the 1940's and I was lucky enough to acquire it. It is marked - N.W. ART SHADE CO. / CHICAGO,ILL. / N 40
Any info you would care to provide would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you. John
Lamps made with so called "slag glass" and decorative metal overlays were popular in the 1920's and early 30's. Lamps with bent glass are more labor intensive to make as well as being more attractive. They were more expensive when new, and still are. The lighted base is also a sign of a more expensive lamp.
A lamp nearly identical to yours sold last December at Skinner in Massachusetts for $3,250. You can see a photo and description of that lamp on the Live Auctioneers site.
You should notice a few differences. The most obvious is the color of the blue/turquoise glass in their lamp. Although I see some blue/turqoise in your lamp, it is not nearly as vibrant. I don't know if it is the glass itself or the lighting in your photo. A second difference is the finial. I believe yours is original, but the other is certainly more eyecatching.
I also found your lamp in Electric Lighting of the 20's -30's Vol. 1. The book reproduces pages from old catalogues. I don't consider it a particularly good reference book for two reasons. First, they did not even identify the company that the catalogue page was from.
Secondly, the prices in the back of the book said that all lamps on the page were $750+. Clearly some of the lamps were worth much more and some might not be worth the $750. The only really useful information was the picture of your lamp which confirmed that the finial on you lamp is original.
Finally the finish in the metal overlay on your lamp appears to be a dull gray, almost like it is the bare pot metal with no finish at all. The one at auction was said to have a gold finish and the catalogue listed the lamp with a polychrome (multi color) finish. Antique gold was mentioned on the catalogue page as a finish on other lamps.
Variations in glass color and metal finishes were not uncommon. Given all the minor variations, it is very hard to tell if yours would sell for the same price. But clearly, it is "a very high grade number", as the catalogue entry described it.


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Surrounded by picturesque crimson mountains and azure seas lies the exotic holiday resort of Taba Heights. It is ideally situated in one the most breath-taking spots on the Sinai Peninsula and lies on the border of Israel and Egypt. It is fast becoming one of the most sought-after destinations on the Red Sea Riviera and a much loved holiday spot.
Taba Heights offers a relaxed yet luxurious retreat thanks to its simple yet characteristic Bedouin camps boasting remarkable views of the sea and surrounding mountains as well as clear views of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Taba Heights is truly the perfect destination for a lazy beachside holiday.
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Taba offers a fairly wide variety of cuisine for visitors on holiday to enjoy, ranging from Tuscan to all sorts of Asian, with many a seafood restaurant gracing Taba's selection of hotels. There are also pubs and grills and even a popular splash bar located at the InterContinental.
Taba Heights does not offer diverse nightlife venues but it does have a 24-hour casino as well as nightly entertainment programmes featuring local talent.
While on holiday it's not common to find a golf course that offers a view of three different countries, especially in the desert, but Taba Heights Golf Resort does just that. The marina also offers boat trips across the Gulf to neighbouring Jordan and Israel. Watersports include windsurfing, water-skiing, wakeboarding, parasailing, canoeing and sailing, and the Gulf's extravagant and beautiful marine life provides wonderful opportunities for diving and snorkelling as well as glass bottom boat trips.
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Roller Blinds - Urbanshade and Skye thermal fabric ranges
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Introducing our new premium blackout range, Skye with its distinctive, muted textured look. On trend shades from the softest Swan white, beautiful silvery greys through to the charcoals and Raven black are perfect for today's New Zealand's homes.
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Just wanted to say how much we love your service and offering. We've ordered from you multiple times, and every experience has been fantastic. We recommend you to all our family and friends, haven't seen any other blind service as good!
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Measuring Guide
- How do I measure for blinds?
What You Will Need
- A metal tape measure (don't use dress maker's tape as they can stretch)
- Pen and paper
Handy HintsWe require all measurements in millimetres to the nearest millimetre to ensure the best possible fit.
When measuring your window be sure to take into account the position of handles, air vents and tiles if necessary which may obstruct fitting and function of the blind, this will ensure the location and fitting of the blind is perfect.
All our blinds are simple to fit and can all be face fixed into the wall or window frame, or top fixed into the lintel, giving you complete control over the fixing position. You will also need to note down which side of the blind the controls are to be located.
Remember to always double check you measurements!!
Exact or Recess?You can choose to have your blind inside the window recess(frame) or hung on the outside(exact), this applies to all blind types:
Exact ExplainedThis term is used when you want your blind to be fitted on the outside of your window recess, your blind will then be made exactly to these measurements.
Recess ExplainedThis measurement is used when your blind is to be fitted inside the window recess; you haven't got to make any deductions as we will then make your blind so it fits perfectly into the window.
NOTE:There will be a small gap each side of the blind fabric to allow for the brackets and sidewinder to fit inside the frame.
How to Measure - Exact (outside frame)Use these step by step Instructions if you want you the blind to hang on the outside of the window recess.
- Step 1 - Start by measuring the exact width you want the blind fabric to cover as shown and note down this measurement (see fig 1).
- Step 2 - Now measure the exact drop of the blind from the top where it is to be fitted and measure the required length you want the blind drop to be then note this measurement down. You now have the two measurements you require to choose any blind type from in our range.
Check that the window sill projection isn't going to obstruct the function of your blind.
NOTE: Your brackets will go beyond this measurement again.
IMPORTANT! Should you wish your blind to fit outside the frame but within a restricted space which will then include the fixtures you must then put inside frame fit.
HELPFUL NOTES: Remember when you give us the exact blind fabric width that you require, the brackets will come out an extra 17 mm on each side of the blind.
How to Measure - Recess (inside frame)Use these step by step instructions if you want the blind inside the window recess.
- Step 1 - First measure the window recess from wall to wall or width in three places as shown (please measure where the actual blind is to fitted or located). Note down the shortest width measurement this is the measurement we need (see fig 2).
- Step 2 - Then measure the drop of the window recess from the top down to the sill in three places, again note the shortest drop measurement this is the measurement we need. Now you have the two measurements you require you can choose any type blind from our comprehensive range.
- A metal tape measure (don't use dress maker's tape as they can stretch)
- Which way should my blinds roll?
There are two ways your roller blinds may roll - either front roll or back roll.
Front RollThis is where the fabric rolls off the front of the blind. This is the usual way a blind will roll when it is fitted inside the frame. We recommend this way for nearly all applications - especially if your window has aluminium window joinery.
Back RollThis is where the blind rolls off the back of the blind. This is the usual way a blind will roll when it is exact or fitted on the outside of the frame.
- Can we link roller blinds in the same window?
Yes, it is possible to link blinds in the same window. Please see specific questions below and refer to our linked blind page.
- How long will my order take to be delivered?
We usually take between seven to twelve working days to process orders for sunscreen blinds, blackout roller blinds, venetian blinds, curtain rods and tracks and ready made curtains. If there is a delay ,you will be notified at time of placing your order. If you require your order by a certain date, please let us know and we will do our best to meet your deadline.
On our Easy-Fit curtain track range , we have same day dispatch on your order. As long as we receive your order by 1pm it will be dispathed that day . Delivery is usually the next day for most North Island customers and three days for most of the South Island. Our three day dispatch blinds will be sent within three working days.
- My window is wider than the maximum width?
This is quite a common problem. Your window will require two blinds. Please contact us or phone us on 0800 763 748 so we can discuss the best options with you.
- What is three day dispatch?
Three day dispatch means that this particular item will be dispatched within three full working days of receiving your payment. Orders that consist of both three day dispatch and standard delivery products will all be processed at the standard delivery times.
Excellent roller blind, great fabric and it looks in place. Thanks to all the team..Posted on 2nd June 2020 by Patrick from Lower Hutt
I ordered 4 sets of blinds and will be ordering more as we renovate the rest of our house. The product quality, service and correspondence was fantastic. I was surprised our delivery arrived prior to the lockdown. Rods and Blinds obviously went above and beyond to get them out in time.Posted on 1st April 2020 by Trish from Christchurch
Great communication and blinds fit perfect!Posted on 16th February 2020 by Matt from Auckland
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Sean I learnt so much about roller blinds from talking with you; your personalized service was awesome ... see you again :-)
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Staff very pleasant and a prompt service from ordering to receiving blinds Am very very pleased with the thermal blinds we receivedPosted on 6th July 2019 by Adrienne from Wanganui
Thank you very much. The blinds look great, are very good value for money, and when there was a delay, you let me know. you also credited me with the special discount at the time, when I missed inputting it at the time of the order. Excellent service, and I will recommend.Posted on 9th June 2019 by Rosemary from Masterton
great service as usualPosted on 14th May 2019 by David from Christchurch
Easy ordering, good price, quick delivery, easy to install and great quality!Posted on 26th February 2019 by Jennifer from Auckland
The samples allowed us to chose the perfect blind for us. Once we measured our window (using the great instructions Rods & Blinds gave us) our blinds arrived in less then a week and fit our window perfectly! Would definitely use again!Posted on 30th July 2018 by Grace from Wellington
This is the 2nd batch of blinds I bought from Rods and Blinds Theyre really good quality roller blinds and Im very happy with them. The 1st batch are still working and looking new even after a few years.Posted on 11th March 2018 by J from Palmerston North
I have just (easily) installed, all on my own, my 2.4m wide roller blind- crystal clear and fool-proof instructions, the beautifully-made and reasonably-priced blind fits perfectly! Thrilled, only wish I had got it sooner, it makes such a difference in my west-facing kitchen on these scorching summer afternoon. Thank you!Posted on 2nd March 2018 by Fleur from Hamilton
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DEAR ABBY: I am a 62-year-old lady who has been a dedicated mother, helpful grandma and a good wife. I don't mean to imply that I'm perfect, but my heart has always been in the right place.
I'm writing now because I have a problem. I have been so used to being a mother that now I don't know how to break the habit. My children think I do too much for them, and it hurts me when they call me "annoying" and "impossible to deal with."
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DEAR MELANCHOLY: You are a successful wife and mother, having raised independent children. Now it's your turn.
Think back to before you were married and had children -- what were your interests? Was there a class or subject you wanted to take at a community college? Did you want to act in a play, paint a picture, photograph a landscape, read Shakespeare, join a hiking club, travel the U.S., learn to dance? Learn to speak French, plant a garden, raise rabbits, write a novel or the story of your life, study architecture, learn more about the stock market, raise funds for your favorite charity, or (you fill in the blank)?
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Please let me know what you decide to do from the hundreds of options available. You have a lot to offer.
DEAR ABBY: "Jamie" and I have been close friends for almost 50 years. She has always been there for me when I needed her and vice versa. However, I can't get past her continual bragging about herself every time we meet for lunch or talk on the phone.
Jamie always manages to bring up how some person told her how young she looks, or another told her she's a wonderful manager at work, etc. Yesterday at lunch I mentioned how much I love doing crossword puzzles. I said I love learning new words and if I don't know the meaning, I look it up in my dictionary. Jamie replied she doesn't need a dictionary because she knows the meaning of all words!
Jamie is a good friend, but lately I've been wondering why she feels the need to spin tales. She is always out to impress everyone with how smart, young, savvy and sophisticated she is. She even told me some of her co-workers compare her to Jackie Kennedy, which is nowhere near the truth. Why do you think she has to act like this? -- PERPLEXED IN PHILLY
DEAR PERPLEXED: Jamie's behavior is a sign of extreme insecurity. People who are comfortable with themselves do not feel the need to constantly self-promote as she does. When your friend announced that she doesn't need a dictionary because she knows the meaning of all words, you were kind not to contradict her, because it's obvious she doesn't appear to be familiar with the definition of "humility."
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