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Recently, someone bragged to me they were "summering in the Hamptons." Inquiring further, I discovered they only go for a week, which doesn't sound like "summering" to me and clearly didn't deserve a brag. Is there a rule of thumb about time spent somewhere before you can call it "summering"?
Thank you for relaying the anecdote. Please join me in explicating this touchingly pathetic error.
The braggart flamboyantly attached a present participle (summering) befitting the girlhood of Jacqueline Bouvier to a prepositional phrase (in the Hamptons) reeking of vulgar opulence. Because a week's vacation is, on its face, not grand enough to rate as "summering," this status-seeker has, with his overreaching choice of words, contributed to the vulgar atmosphere of that place even before his arrival. This is the setup for a micro-comedy of manners. The guy's not just putting on airs. He's putting them on incorrectly.
Despite the polluted aura of Long Island's South Fork, some people of good taste spend a lot of time in the hamlets and villages there; they tend to avoid ostentatious mention of a monolithic "Hamptons," you'll notice, as the status-seeker evidently has not. It's a minor bit of buffoonery, yes, but this is one of the realms where a command of linguistic nuance—of knowing to say that one is on Cape Cod (rather that in or at it), or that in England one always goes down to the country (rather than up or out to it)—distinguishes the adept poseur. This klutz obliquely brings to mind F. Scott Fitzgerald's phrase for a secondary character in Tender Is the Night: "an arriviste who had not arrived."
How much time must you spend somewhere before you can correctly call it summering? One plausible answer to this question is at least six weeks. (And I suppose that bona fide snowbirds—retirees seasonally shuttling between the Gulfs of Maine and Mexico, say—have a right to the word.) Another plausible answer is two generations. (But I'd like to think that people born to the manor are those most keenly aware that this usage is terribly antique and may paint the speaker as some stereotypical Muffy or central-casting Chip.) Overall, it would be wisest to use summer as a verb only in limited contexts, such as when describing the migratory patterns of humpback whales.
And it would be worthwhile to consider this braggart in the context of the larger American tradition of trying to impress people by telling them where we spend our leisure time. Take for example those oval stickers—known within the trade as "Euro stickers" on account of their overseas inspiration—designed to awe you with the fact that a driver has been to MV (Martha's Vineyard), say, or ACK (Nantucket) or OBX (the Outer Banks). LOL (tacky). These decals, currently celebrating their 20th birthday, seem permanently adhered to middle-class culture, and I know that any attempt to shame the public into renouncing them will be futile, but here goes: I defy you to disprove the social scientist who explained to the New York Times that "those oval bumper stickers stand out as the ultimate in gratuitous boasting." Here's his challenge: "You can't even invent an excuse [for buying one] that wouldn't be embarrassing to repeat in public."
Leaving Euro-sticker apologists to struggle at that task, the rest of us should now move on to a refresher course in hospitality, which derives from the Latin word hospes, which means both host and guest. That co-identity of terms neatly reflects the golden rule of vacation-house behavior: Imagine yourself in the other guy's shoes (and, therefore, when in doubt, assume it's a rule of the house to remove your shoes inside and that your host will be too polite to correct a misstep).
The last time the Census Bureau checked, there were 4.6 million "seasonal, recreational, or occasional use homes" in the United States. I interpret this fact to mean that there will be tens of millions of opportunities this summer for Americans to be good guests. The good guest arrives at the appointed hour, which he has calculated while bearing in mind that no one in the history of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways has "beaten" Friday traffic without waking at 4 a.m. The good guest departs relatively early on his last day after stripping his bed of its sheets. It is very difficult for a good guest to bail out ahead of schedule, no matter how dreary his environment; as Emily Post dictated in 1922, you've got to attempt a ruse while keeping a smiling upper lip:
If you go to stay in a small house in the country, and they give you a bed full of lumps, in a room of mosquitoes and flies, in a chamber over that of a crying baby, under the eaves with a temperature of over a hundred, you can the next morning walk to the village, and send yourself a telegram and leave! But though you feel starved, exhausted, wilted, and are mosquito bitten until you resemble a well-developed case of chickenpox or measles, by not so much as a facial muscle must you let the family know that your comfort lacked anything that your happiest imagination could picture.
The good guest does not touch the TV remote, or make any suggestions about which of its buttons to push, unless invited to do so. The good guest does not become absorbed in his laptop or tablet or phone and in fact tries to stow all electronic devices in his room whenever possible.
The good weekend guest treats his host to at least one meal. The good guest helps with the dishes. The good guest places his drink upon a coaster. The good guest does not have to be told that a book is not a coaster because, if you put a drink on a book, I will reflexively bark that sentence at you, and that'll be bad: A good host behaves as if his guest can do no wrong.


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Jason Derulo To Perform In Dancing With The Stars Season 18 Opener
According to E News, Dancing With The Stars first LIVE performer will be Jason Derulo!He's going to perform his hit song featuring 2 Chainz "Talk Dirty" . Too fun!! This season can't start soon enough. Bring it on!
ETA NOTE: E online made a mistake with the date of the premiere below, but, be rest assured, the date for the premiere of Dancing With The Stars is March 17th!
E! News has exclusively confirmed that the R&B singer will kick off season 18 of the competitive reality show, which premieres on Monday, March 24 on ABC with a special two-hour episode.
Derulo will take the floor performing his hit song featuring 2 Chainz "Talk Dirty," making this the first time a musical act has accompanied a season's opening number. Each couple will then perform a cha-cha, foxtrot or contemporary routine as they begin a new season vying for America's votes.

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Set on a working arable farm amidst gloriously peaceful and attractive farmland these two delightful ground floor and first floor holiday apartments have been converted from the former granary and adjoin the owners' home. They boast spectacular views across undulating countryside and are ideal for a relaxing break whatever the season. Both properties offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy bird watching walking and cycling along the many farm tracks. Situated in the little hamlet of Wimbish just 3 miles from the bustling town of Saffron Walden with its quaint pubs restaurants and shops. Ideally placed to visit the many attractions in the area just 50 minutes by train to the centre of London for a days sightseeing Duxford Imperial War Museum 8 miles Newmarket famous for its racing the city of Cambridge with its famous Backs and universities the pretty town of Ely with its waterside pubs and English Heritage Audley End which is a venue for many concerts are all within an easy drive. Shop and pub under 1 mile.
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A core requirement to learn digital painting in motion, scene design, character development, technical direction, and related animation production pipeline standards for developing animated stories, shorts, films, and animated cinematography. This course examines the media production requirements for animation students in applied professional studios. This course serves to develop the animator's core mechanics and vocabulary in the broad areas of animation integrated workflow (story conception, storyboarding, animatics, motion studies, character flow and design, scene, set, and props (look artists), technical direction, and summary of post-production flow) to meet industry expectations and professional output. Offered spring.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5135
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 no.2 Cape Town feb. 2011
Doctor IPT ignorance contributing to TB epidemic - study
A recently released study powerfully suggests that doctor resistance to prescribing highly effective isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) to their TB-negative HIV patients is contributing to the national TB epidemic.
Until now, much to the chagrin of the HIV Clinicians Society of Southern Africa, there has been significant anecdotal evidence about clinician resistance across the country to use the World Health Organization (WHO)recommended preventive TB therapy. The qualitative study is the first to produce actual evidence of doctor ignorance and/or fears of IPT in spite of exhortations, including from the national health minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, to make it standard practice.
Isoniazid, also known as isonicotinylhydrazine (INH), is an organic compound that is the first-line medication in prevention and treatment of TB. It is a simple and cost-effective measure that, most importantly, prevents TB bacteria from becoming active if present. The drug is never used on its own to treat (as against to prevent) active TB because resistance quickly develops.
The 'Barriers to IPT use' study setting was the Aurum Institute, an internationally recognised, not-for-profit specialist research and health systems management organisation set up by Anglo-Gold Ashanti in 1998, but now an independent body. The institute specialises in TB and HIV prevention, treatment and care and delivers ART and prophylaxis, including IPT, free of charge.
Aurum CEO, Dr Gavin Churchyard, and his colleagues collaborated with researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to probe why IPT was so seldom prescribed in the public clinics under scrutiny.1 They concluded that a change in health care worker perception was needed if IPT was to be widely used in the public sector.
Exhaustive interviews with 22 clinic staff and 20 patients showed that the mindset and a lack of experience among physicians were the biggest barriers to implementation - well ahead of the unwieldy systemic need to refer patients to separate clinics for TB screening. The requirement to rule out active TB prior to beginning IPT was perceived as a critical barrier by most clinic staff.
Prescribers were unaware of the benefits of IPT, unclear about the guidelines and believed that existing screening tools were inaccurate in HIV-infected individuals.
The study found that clinic staff prescribed IPT according to inconsistent criteria. Only one site prescribed according to Aurum guidelines. Two sites used IPT in patients with CD4 cell counts less than 200 and one site thought IPT should only be used in patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART). Although all doctors had heard of IPT, several were either unaware of its efficacy in preventing TB or believed that the evidence was equivocal.
Perceived operational barriers included a number of practical issues that staff believed were prohibitive to the use of IPT. One was that using isoniazid without other TB medications would induce drug resistance, particularly in the South African context of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB. The consensus from current literature is that IPT does not promote isoniazid resistance.1 Another perception barrier was the belief that the high prevalence of TB meant that starting empirical courses of full treatment for TB was safer and offered greater benefit than prophylaxis.
TB-exclusive screening a real problem
All nine doctors who took part in a focus group discussion cited the need to screen for and rule out active TB prior to commencing IPT as a major concern, arguing that false-negative sputum tests and chest radiography, as well as atypical presentations among those infected with HIV, made TB screening difficult.
One 'low IPT usage' doctor was quoted in the Aurum research paper as saying: 'Testing for TB is difficult - it's paucibacillary, extrapulmonary. Standard pulmonary TB is not more than 30% of our patients. Sputum, abscesses, lymph nodes, X-rays are very often negative. I would never use INH on my patients, for this reason alone.'
The researchers concede that most investigations for TB screening were performed offsite (only one clinic had chest radiography and none could test sputum on site). They reported clinic staff as frequently citing a lack of co-ordination between TB and HIV activities as a barrier to starting patients on IPT.
However, the researchers said that in a programme that had promoted IPT since its inception in 1999, the lack of clarity around its benefits among health care workers was 'all the more remarkable'. The research team speculated, without naming anyone, that public opposition to IPT 'among some senior clinicians in South Africa' was the reason for the physician resistance they encountered. Policy clarification and dissemination of accurate information were urgently required and well-chosen local opinion leaders were needed to act as 'IPT champions'. The authors said a much greater effort was needed to achieve widespread IPT roll-out. Overcoming operational barriers, while necessary, was not enough without a parallel bid to change the perceptions of health care workers.
Dr Francois Venter, President of the HIV Clinicians Society of Southern Africa, said that within the wider South African context IPT was 'more of a hostage to a bad system than to physicians'. Agreeing that education of physicians was important to counter low IPT usage, he said that far more critically 'we need to think harder about what carrots we can dangle to get healthy HIV-positive people back into the system'.
IPT was 'great' for preventing TB in patients who did not need ARVs, 'but we've been dreadful in retaining them in the system - the problem is the system required to give IPT is grossly dysfunctional'.
Even if 'the perfect tablet (with no resistance) was available, these folk would still not come into the system. They don't see any benefits, particularly when the health system is unfriendly.' Venter said that nationally, 'I don't think health care worker fear (of IPT) is the biggest issue - nor is it insurmountable,' he added.
WHO fully backs IPT
Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of WHO's HIV/AIDS Department, said full implementation of the 'three I's for HIV/TB strategy in collaboration with all partners was urgently needed'.
IPT, intensified TB screening and infection control for TB were vital as part of comprehensive HIV services. Hirnschall said key recommendations from new scientific evidence were that all children and adults living with HIV, including pregnant women and those on ART, should receive IPT. Isoniazid should be provided for 6 -36 months or as a lifelong treatment in settings with high HIV and TB prevalence (89% of miners are infected with TB). People living with HIV who may have TB symptoms should be further screened for active TB or other conditions so they could access the appropriate treatments.
Added Dr Mario Raviglione, WHO's Stop TB department chief: 'We need to break the chain that links TB and HIV, leading to death'. The WHO would support all countries and communities to implement the new guidelines.
The potential preventive efficacy of isoniazid is best illustrated by a proven 36% rise in the risk of TB for every drop of 100 CD4 cells/µl among HIV-positive people.
Other studies conducted among miners by Churchyard and his colleagues included the Thibela TB study, which is evaluating the efficacy of community-wide IPT, which was the focal point for the much-acclaimed findings, first presented at the 2nd Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB epidemic, (CREATE), in Cape Town during the first week of November last year.
A total of 24 221 miners were started on IPT from April 2006, the largest number of participants ever enrolled into a trial of IPT globally. Knowledge among miners was poor, but once the concept was popularised through a highly successful and sophisticated awareness campaign across mine shafts, mine unions actually threatened to strike unless the programme was implemented.2 Final efficacy results are expected early in 2012.
One sub-study found that adding chest radiography to symptom screening increased by 2.5 fold the number of definite TB cases detected.3 Only 0.2% of active TB cases among 19 609 individuals correctly screened for TB who started IPT and had more than 90 days of follow up, were missed.3 The researchers also found that the risk of adverse events, particularly hepatotoxicity, was very low in the mining populations they worked with.4
In a separate study among platinum miners the research team found that mortality among people receiving IPT with or prior to ART inception was lower, supporting the routine use of IPT in conjunction with ART.5
Chris Bateman
1. Lester R, Hamilton R, Charalambous S, et al. Barriers to implementation of isoniazid preventative therapy in HIV clinics: a qualitative study. AIDS 2010;24(suppl 5):S45-S48. [ Links ]
2. Grant A, Coetzee L, Clark D, et al. 'Team up against TB': promoting involvement in Thibela TB, a trial of community-wide tuberculosis preventive therapy. AIDS 2010;24(suppl 5):S37-S44. [ Links ]
3. Churchyard G, Fielding K, Grant A, et al. Symptom and chest radiographic screening for infectious tuberculosis prior to starting IPT: yield and proportion missed at screening. AIDS 2010; 24(suppl 5):S19-S27. [ Links ]
4. Grant A, Mngadi K, Churchyard G, et al. Adverse events with isoniazid preventative therapy: experience from a large trial. AIDS 2010;24(suppl 5):S29-S36. [ Links ]
5. Charalambous S, Grant A, Dowdeswell R, et al. Association of isoniazid preventative therapy with lower early mortality in individuals on ART in a workplace programme. AIDS 2010; 24(suppl 5):S5-S13. [ Links ]


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Welcome back to another addition of Vintage Quilt Mondays. I'm having a lot of fun with this little weekly feature, and it's been great for me to get out my old quilts and really take a look at them. I hope you all are enjoying it, too.
This quilt is another thrift store find that I purchased probably seven or eight years ago. I'm not sure what the pattern is, or how old it is, but I love this quilt. And I especially love that square that has the blue flying geese in it. How fabulous is that, mixed in with all the pink and green?
This quilt is not in the best shape: there are lots of areas where the appliqued designs have worn off, there are holes, there are areas where the fabric has faded, but I think it's absolutely stunning just how it is. And it means it probably was used for years and years, which I love.
The quilt is looks like it was entirely hand pieced and hand quilted. And even though it is most likely at least 70-80 years old, there are a lot of things about it that feel very modern to me: the solid pink and green fabrics combined with the plaid fabric in the photo above, and the circular areas of quilting, like in the photograph below, and that unexpected square with the blue geese, as mentioned above.
They aren't in the best shape (and some are more threadbare than others), but you can see that they all were appliqued by hand with turned edges.
And I found the price tag while I was taking these pictures yesterday. Guess what I paid for it?
I paid a whopping $18 for this at a thrift store. Can you imagine? It's really kind of sad to me to think that someone's gorgeous handiwork ended up at a thrift store at such a cheap price. But, the quilt now has a good home, and I'm lucky to have the quilt.


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We know young entrepreneurs can be more tech-savvy, more heavily engaged in social media, and more empowered to start businesses in their college dorm room than any previous generation. Turns out they're different from older business owners in another way, too — they're more likely to sell their business.A new study from The Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute reports Millennials (the generation born after 1981) are 100 per cent more likely to sell their business than older entrepreneurs. In other words, they're sellouts: Owners who aren't so emotionally attached to their business that they wouldn't sell it to a big company or another entrepreneur if the right offer came along.
A few other interesting differences the study found in the Millennial generation:
- Only 8 per cent of Millennials inherited their business — so they are idea people.
- They are projected to have 12 different jobs in their lifetime.
- Previous generations are less likely to start multiple businesses than Millennials.
- Millennials are also 50 per cent more likely to expand their business than older entrepreneurs.
- It is 120 per cent more likely that Millennials will start a business as essentially their first job, with no prior workplace experience.
As it happens, Millennials have good timing right now as merger and acquisition activity is increasing, according to business-broker site BizBuySell. Business sales were up 3 per cent in 2010 compared with 2009, the company reports, with more than 4,500 businesses changing hands.
Personally, I think the results from the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute report may be a bit deceptive. I think more businesses are being bought and sold in general, by owners of all ages. The study is comparing historical data for older generations of owners with opinions voiced by young entrepreneurs. Our whole society has become more mobile and fast-changing. For instance, consider divorce rates, the increased economic uncertainty and how much more people move across country now than in decades past. All of that points the way to more frequent selling to me, not just the entrepreneur's age.
Certainly most of the dot-com boom generation who started businesses in the late 1990s are a bit older than Millennials, but I think they're no more deeply attached to their startups. I've seen many sell in a blink.
So, what makes your business likely to sell? It's already making a profit and has clearly defined operating procedures, BizBuySell found. Perhaps more Millennials are starting online businesses, which have low operating costs, aren't complicated to run, and can see profit quickly. That puts them in a good position to sell.
But here's a sobering thought: The typical business doesn't sell for much. The average was $150,000 last year, down more than 6 per cent from 2009, reports BizBuySell. That dovetails with companies' lower revenue last year, down 2 per cent.
Maybe more Millennials are likely to sell because when you're younger, $150,000 seems like a fortune. When you've been working a while, maybe you want more — say, enough money to retire on.
This post originally appeared at Entrepreneur.
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text: Though its name may suggest otherwise, Seaweed is actually an essential and desirable part of our oceans. Also called kelp, these sea plants provide food for sea urchins and fish, offer protection from predators, provide shelter for larger animals, and act as nurseries for many marine species. This ocean flora also helps clean the sea of carbon dioxide, creates oxygen, and prevents erosion of sea cliffs. Despite its critical role in the survival of our underwater ecosystems, seaweed is often overlooked or seen as a nuisance by beach-goers. They often tangle swimmers, and leave an unpleasant aroma when cluttered on the beach, and thus are at risk of being cleared from coastal areas. Artist and author Josie Iselin is helping to raise awareness to the beauty and importance of seaweed in the ocean in her book "An Ocean Garden." As an artist, she has captured the intricate detail and eye-popping color of seaweed for many years, using a digital scanner. The book includes photographs with seaweeds mostly from Maine and California. We recently had the opportunity to chat with Josie about her artistic process and the creation of her new book: National Aquarium: Why did you choose seaweed as the subject of this project? Josie Iselin: Seaweed is really an unsung hero of the near-shore oceans, or intertidal zone. When I first realized how visually varied and fantastically gorgeous seaweed, or marine algae, is—an intensity of color and variety of form that makes designing a book an absolute joy—how could I resist? Then I met Kathy Ann Miller, the curator of marine algae at the University Herbarium at UC Berkeley. She is that special scientist whose enthusiasm for her specialty, seaweed, is infectious and whose ability to make the science understandable and fascinating to a visual artist like myself is rare. She made the idea of putting a book together that combined the art and science of seaweed a thrilling project. NA: What do you hope to inspire in your readers? JI: I have been using the scanner as a camera since 1994. I have used it to create seven books on forms in nature, so it is my preferred method of image making and book designing. For the seaweeds, the scanner is able to capture the translucent qualities and true color that a regular SLR or point-and-shoot camera can't. Also, the scanner, by stripping away context and background, allows me to highlight the details of the morphology or form of a given specimen that are often hard to see in the field. But I had to be ready to bring goopy and large specimens into my studio and place them on the scanner! My guiding premise is that something we learn to love, we will learn more about and feel compelled to preserve. Seaweeds are such a holistic element to the ocean shore ecology, they are oxygenators, create habitat and are the base of the food chain. They hold the nutrients of the ocean within them so directly. And yet they are so often ignored when describing life in the sea. Rachel Carson's ecological view-point and stupendous writing is my guiding light. NA: How do you capture the movement of seaweed in a still image? JI: The scanner allows me to capture a seaweed's dynamic quality that gives a sense of its life under the lid of the tide. If I stick a seaweed or kelp that is fresh from the field on the scanner I can give it a posture that comes naturally to it. It is still wet and malleable. Even when seaweeds dry they often dry in an organic way that gives a sense of their motion. Again, the scanner is a fantastic tool for capturing these organisms; each image is a well-wrought portrait of perhaps a mundane, everyday seaweed. NA: When did you first start to take an interest in seaweed and capturing it in an artistic way? JI: When I was developing ideas for my book "Beach: a Book of Treasure," which takes a close look at almost everything you might find at the beach and asks/answers questions about why it is the way it is or why it is important ecologically and culturally, I joined a group that docents the Duxbury Reef, just north of San Francisco. When out on the reef, I just happened to hold an innocuous scrap of seaweed up to the sky and was blown away by the intensity of color and fabulousness of form. As a visual artist and designer I knew I had to get some specimens back to my scanner to experiment with. I also became aware that the group that I was a part of, the Rocky Shore Naturalists group organized by the California Academy of Sciences, knew lots about invertebrates and shore birds and marine mammals, etc. but not so much about marine algae. I had to find the pockets of expertise to learn about seaweed. NA: How does storytelling help further the creative process, and enhance the final product? JI: As a bookmaker, I love working with the interplay between the visual story line and the narrative text. The visual sequencing is very important for making the book flow and where and how the stories of color, how the tide works, seaweed architecture etc. fit in is part of solving the puzzle that is the challenge for each book. Word and image are such great complements for story-telling, but the power comes not in straight illustration or caption. There is a conceptual leap from image to text that makes the book come alive and the various mini-stories resonate. There is also the pure poetry of the names of each specimen that add a layer to the whole. How to pose the science in the context of my own experiences on the beach was also a challenge in terms of making it accessible but also to cover complex ideas. I was determined to write without the jargon that you might find in guide books or scientific writing, but that puts up a barrier to non-scientists like myself. NA: How do you hope the perception of seaweed changes as a result of this book? JI: My hope is to have more people actually look at seaweed. Seaweed has not had a positive brand in our American culture but that is changing rapidly as people realize its fantastic nutritional and other healthful benefits. My hope is that people broaden their idea of what to think about when they are on the beach and all the access points the beach provides for thinking about the oceans. Seaweed and kelp are as important as the rain forests of the continents. The rain forests as a concept have had a great branding campaign over the past decades; everyone now knows how important they are to our planets future. Now it's the kelp forests' turn! If that awareness translates to a bit of interesting knowledge and the sense that we must be good stewards, not just of individual species but of the wholeness of the ocean, then that's great. But if the book just gets people to stop and rethink something they might not even notice, or might turn their nose up at…well, that's plenty! If it prompts a college kid to take a course in marine botany or phycology, even better! For more on Josie's work and how to order prints, click here. Images courtesy of Josie Iselin. Tags: seaweed, seaweed-conservation, conservation, kelp-forests, josie-iselin, interview Categories: Conservation Previous Post Next Post


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Hy really needs to meet her deadline for the Super Saver and finish her article on how to cook lobsters. She also needs to find a speaker for the Women's Institute meeting she's hosting. To kill two birds with one stone, she invites who she thinks is an expert on lobster cookery but in reality is part of the Lobster Liberation Legion, a group devoted to lobster rights. This does not go down well in a town dependent on the lobster fishery. To make things worse, the lobster lover won't leave.
If Hy ever wants to face the Women's Institute ladies again, she'll have to get the lobster lover out of the village. It won't be easy since 'that woman' has plans of her own, plans that will get Hy entangled with poachers, vandals and maybe even murderers.
It took me awhile to get into Revenge of the Lobster Lover by Hilary MacLeod. The story starts out slowly and it gets a bit complicated. MacLeod also tends to make asides that I found distracting and pulled me out of the story. However, I was pleased at how everything came together in the end. I was also impressed with the characterizations. There are a lot of characters in Lobster Lover, a whole village, but each one has their own particular quirks. And I want to know more about them. I want to know what will happen next to Hy, Ian, and Gus. Will Moira ever stop courting Ian? Will we get to see more of dedicated Mountie Jane Jamieson? I guess I'll find out when I read Mind Over Mussels.
If you like mysteries with a salty flavour, you might like Revenge of the Lobster Lover.


text: This is a hotel that you can stay in for about $100 a night, they are old life raft/boats that have been re-purposed. The designer specializes in making things from garbage and this is one of his latest creations. While it is a neat idea, the interior leaves leave much to be desired for buy has real potential.


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The Disability Law Center represented people in 81 of Minnesota's 87 counties on issues related to their disabilities in 2016 and 2017. Advocating for access to community services needed for independence, such as Medicaid waiver services, PCAs, mental health services and enforcing clients' individual rights comprise the majority of cases.
Working to ensure clients' rights
Legal Aid attorneys work with people with disabilities to ensure they: 1) receive the necessary support and services to live independent and productive lives in the community; 2) are not victims of abuse or discrimination; and 3) receive vocational rehabilitation services to which every individual is entitled.
Services range from educating clients about services that are available to them, to advocating on their behalf and representing clients in court and hearings. We also offer access to community legal education resources and other materials to help inform people with disabilities about their rights to services.
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School Restraint and Seclusion Project
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PCA Changes
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In this webinar, we demonstrate how MathWorks tools may be used to model and simulate systems containing multilevel converter technology. A modular multilevel converter example will be used to explore the following topics,
About the Presenter: Graham Dudgeon is the Energy Industry Manager at MathWorks. Before his role as Industry Manager, Graham was a Principal Technical Consultant at MathWorks and has worked with a broad range of customers across multiple industries, primarily in the areas of electrical power systems and power electronic technologies.
Before joining MathWorks, Graham worked at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence, in the Flight Management and Control Department, and also as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Electrical Power Systems at the University of Strathclyde.
Recorded: 30 Sep 2013


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30th Win is a L-O-N-G One
Wednesday night's marathon win gave the Phillies 30 wins for the season. They earned their 30th win in less than 50 games (49th game) for just the 5th time in the last 50 years. The four other times were 2001 (30th win in 47th game), 1995 (30th win in 47th game), 1993 (30th win in 43rd game) and 1976 (30th win in 41st game).
The 19-inning game fell two innings short of the longest game in club history, 21, a 2-1 loss in Chicago, 7/17/18. There have been 4 20-inning games and now 3 19-inning games. Oddly, the only road game in that list is the 21-inning one.
Valdez became the Phillies 19th position player to take the mound. Tomas Perez was the previous one, .1 of an inning in 2002.
The 6 hour, 11-minute game ended at 1:19 a.m. That's not even close to the club record, 4:40 a.m., 7/2/93, against San Diego at the Vet.
Anyway, the players had to hustle home, pack and get back to Citizens Bank Park for a 1:05 p.m. game on Thursday.
On The Road
Following Thursday's game, the Phillies head for a nine-game road trip over the next 10 days. All nine games are against teams with losing records, three in New York, Washington and Pittsburgh. Thursday's game ended 20 straight against clubs with a winning record.
Saturday's game is another prime time national telecast on FOX, 7:10 p.m.
While Memorial Day is the official start of summer and picnics, it doesn't mean the road trip will be a picnic for the Phillies. In their first four games at Citi Field last season, the Phillies didn't score a run, losing 8-0, 5-0, 3-0, 1-0.
Nationals Park in DC is a different story as the Phillies are 20-10 there, including 2-1 last month. But, PNC Park in Pittsburgh has been a real nightmare, 12-20.
Phillies will use three different modes of transportation on the trip. Two buses will take the team to New York following Thursday's game. An AMTRAK charter train will take them from New York to DC on Sunday. Then, the usual Delta charter flights will take the team to Pittsburgh and back to Philly.
Wall of Fame Finalists
The five finalists in the Phillies Wall of Fame are (alphabetical order) first baseman John Kruk, catcher Mike Lieberthal, pitcher Curt Schilling, catcher Jimmie Wilson and pitcher Rick Wise. Fan voting on phillies.com was during a four-week period of spring training.
Now, a special Wall of Fame Selection Committee consisting of baseball writers, broadcasters and team executives will decide the 2011 inductee.
Winner will be inducted on Friday night, August 12, the start of the annual Alumni weekend. Ceremonies will begin at 7 p.m.
Minor Leagues
While the Phillies are out of town for the Memorial Day weekend, fans can catch future Phillies in Lehigh Valley and Lakewood. Reading will be in Erie, PA, if fans want to take a long road trip. For a longer trip, you can drive to Ft. Myers to see Clearwater play.
Answer E-Mails
From Bill: "How many baseballs does the team go through during the course of a major league season? When a pitched ball goes in the dirt and is removed from play, what happens to it? When did this practice of putting a new ball in play begin and why?"
While I don't have the figure for last season, in 2009 the Phillies used 49,536 baseballs, a cost of $346,752. When a ball goes in the dirt and is removed from play, it sometimes will sneak back in the game or most likely used for batting practice. Unfortunately, don't know when this practice began or why.
From Dennis: "I enjoyed last year's Alumni Luncheon immensely; will there be one this year?"
We've tentatively scheduled one for Thursday noon, August 11. When the details have been finalized it will be posted on phillies.com.
From Paul: "I purchased an autograph book that has an autograph of Max "Lefty" Wilson who played for the Phillies in 1940. Is there any value to this autograph?"
Unfortunately, I don't believe it has much value. Max pitched in four games with the Phillies in 1940 and nine with the Washington Senators six years later. His career record: 0-1.
Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend!
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Larry, I'm not sure how one emails you, so let me post my question here. My kids got that nice Chooch t-shirt last weekend, which made me think of the great Chooch chest protector-shaped backpack of a couple years ago (which they didn't get because the game was a SUnday night and they couldn't stay up that late–boo to ESPN for "flex"ing that game).
Anyway, what do you think are the five greatest Phillies giveaway items ever? For me, five of the best (not necessarily in order, and certainly I am forgetting some) are:
– Whitey and Harry bobblehead (this may be #1)
– 2008 World Champs pennant
– 1980 replica ring (a bit cheap-looking, but pretty cool)
– Phil & Phillis bobblehead
– Chooch chest protector backpack
Honorable mentions:
– Harry Kalas memorial service photo package
– Wall of Fame postcard set
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thanks.


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Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
September 19, 1992 - November 29, 1992
Leonardo da Vinci's accomplishments in architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture, engineering, and scientific studies are legendary. Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will present a selection of the great Renaissance artist's considerable output of anatomical drawings, among his finest creations on paper.
August 15, 1992 - November 8, 1992
Eugéne Delacroix (1798-1863) was the leader of the Romantic Movement in French painting. His innovations in subject matter and richness as a colorist will be explored in seven oil paintings from the Museum's collection, supplemented by several works on paper, excerpts from the artist's own writings and the methods of the restorer.
June 20, 1992 - September 6, 1992
Pablo Picasso worked within an early modern tradition that, following Cézanne, found the still life the ideal tool for exploring spatial relationships. In conjunction with the major exhibition, Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso, the Museum will display over 50 works from the collections to demonstrate how different modern artists have approached the still life.
June 9, 1992 - August 30, 1992
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), widely regarded as the greatest artist of this century, consistently turned to the genre of still life throughout his long and amazingly varied career. This exhibition of over 100 paintings, reliefs, constructions, collages, drawings, and sculptures from museums and private collections throughout the world is the first to focus on Picasso's extraordinary contribution to still life.
July 18, 1992 - August 23, 1992
Women's Work: American Printmakers in the 1930s is an exhibition of some 85 works drawn from the permanent collections. Among the artists represented are Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Lucienne Bloch, Caroline Durieux, Mabel Dwight, Wanda Gág, and Helen Lundeberg.
May 20, 1992 - August 16, 1992
An installation in the American galleries features works by late 19th and early 20th-century African American craft artists. Although self-taught and completely outside academic art circles, the power of perception and directness of observation shown by these artists have attracted the attention of a wide contemporary audience.
May 20, 1992 - August 16, 1992
A selection of work by 20th-century artists of African-American heritage will be on view May through August in the American and 20th-Century galleries.
May 16, 1992 - August 16, 1992
Julius Bloch (1888-1966) was a Philadelphia artist who left a poignant record of the sad spectacle of Depression life and its effect on the working-class poor. Pertaining to Philadelphia: Contemporary Acquisitions from the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund presents a selection of works the Museum has acquired with a fund created in Bloch's memory.
Summer 1992
The production of glazed earthenware pottery was one of the earliest and most developed industries of New Spain, as colonial Mexico was called. The principal center of production, Puebla de Los Angeles, located south of Mexico City, was making wares by 1573. By the mid-seventeenth century, the Spanish had established a number of workshops in Puebla, and a potters' guild was formed to control quality.
April 25, 1992 - June 28, 1992
The young British photographer Nick Waplington (born 1965), whose striking and idiosyncratic color images have already won him wide recognition, will have his first one-person museum exhibition in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
February 29, 1992 - June 21, 1992
American Ceramics presents outstanding examples of pottery, porcelain and stoneware from the Museum's collection of porcelain by the Tucker and Hemphill China Factory of Philadelphia.
February 29, 1992 - May 15, 1992
To celebrate the NCECA (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts) meeting in Philadelphia, the department of European Arts is preparing a new display of Italian Renaissance majolica (tin-enamelled earthenware) from the permanent collection.
Spring 1992
This installation draws primarily from the Museum's permanent collection of contemporary American crafts objects and includes works by potters, ceramicists, textiles artists, as well as basket and furniture makers.
February 23, 1992 - April 26, 1992
The greatest authors of the ancient world including Ovid and Virgil told sensuous and compelling tales of the lives and loves of the gods. Centuries later, the leading French painters of the 18th century, including Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard, used these stories as subjects for charming, poignant, and passionate paintings. Many are among the most ambitious and beautiful paintings of the period. Some 65 of these, never seen before in America, are included in this exhibition, which was first shown in Paris.
January 4, 1992 - March 29, 1992
This exhibition will present 125 prints by artists working during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century in the German-speaking regions of Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Drawn entirely from the Museum's own collections, the exhibition will reveal the exceptional accomplishments of artists celebrated in the past, but little known today.
December 21, 1991 - February 29, 1992
The first one-person exhibition in the United States devoted to the Scottish artist, poet, and garden designer focuses on Finlay's magnum opus, the four-acre garden in Scotland called "Little Sparta."
November 16, 1991 - February 2, 1992
This painting of great rarity and superb quality by Hendrick Goltzius is the most important old master work to enter the collections in the past two decades. In celebration of its coming to Philadelphia, the Museum has organized an ambitious and intensely focused international loan exhibition of works by Goltzius that relate to this remarkable painting and clarify its unique position in Northern Mannerist art.
August 24, 1991 - January 26, 1992
This exhibition will display three fashion dolls from the Museum's permanent collection, along with a dozen of their elaborate outfits which will include hats, gloves, shoes, jewelry, parasols, and other accoutrements.
October 20, 1991 - January 5, 1992
Considered by many as the most important architect of his time, Louis Kahn will be the subject of a major international exhibition which will premiere in Philadelphia, his home town. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition will include over 125 drawings, 48 models and 125 photographs and archival material, and will focus on 56 notable public buildings and projects.


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It's getting down to the wire on "The Voice" as the final 12 contestants take the stage for the live rounds beginning Monday night.
As with prior years, the fates of the final 12 contestants rest solely in the audience's hands. Each Monday artists will perform live, and America votes to save their two favorite performers from each team. The two hopefuls with the lowest numbers of votes on any team will exit the competition on Tuesday's result show.
The coaches will be able to save one remaining artist to complete their roster. The remaining contestants move on to the final phase of the competition - the live shows.
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News from around the country and around the globe
In the end, one is named "The Voice" and receives the grand prize of a recording contract.
"The Voice" airs Mondays at Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.


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In the popular imagination Rudolf Nureyev was everything a classical dancer ought to be – larger than life and rarely out of the headlines. He was also the greatest male dancer of his generation and indubitably the most thrilling classical stylist of the second half of the last century. Those members of The Royal Ballet who were fortunate enough to have worked with Nureyev have never forgotten the experience. But he bequeathed more than great performances to The Royal Ballet. There's a choreographic legacy too.
Of course, the dancing was sensational. Quite simply Rudolf Nureyev danced with a passion and style that audiences at Covent Garden and elsewhere in the West had never seen before. As Doreen Wells, who partnered Nureyev in his first production of the full-length version of Raymonda, remembers: "He was wonderful to dance with, very exciting. He had amazing energy."
It was restless energy that drove Nureyev's dancing, just as it was a restless dissatisfaction with life in the Kirov company that had led him to defect at Le Bourget Airport in Paris in June 1961. Indeed, Nureyev's whole career was characterized by a need to do new things and to do them differently. Having established a thrilling partnership with The Royal Ballet's own star, Margot Fonteyn, giving her a new lease of creative life that was little short of miraculous, Rudolf Nureyev announced that he wanted to create his own productions as well as dance.
He had in mind two works that The Royal Ballet didn't have in its repertory. La Bayadère and Raymonda were full-length ballets from the great Russian classical tradition that had been choreographed by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Theatre, the Mariinsky in St Petersburg, in the second half of the 19th century. They were ballets that Nureyev had learnt while growing up in the Kirov company that had inherited, and developed, the Russian classical tradition after the Revolution.
In 1963 Frederick Ashton had taken over the directorship of The Royal Ballet from De Valois and John Tooley was Assistant General Administrator of the Royal Opera House. And it was to Ashton and Tooley that Nureyev went with plans to stage La Bayadère. Tooley recalls the gist of the conversation: "Nureyev said he wanted to do these pieces while he could still remember them. These ballets were very much his heritage… and because of his standing within the Company and with audiences in London he thought, 'Well I'm going to push my luck here and see if I can persuade them to do them.'" Nureyev managed to push his luck only so far with John Tooley. "Rudolf ideally would have liked to do the whole of Bayadère. But we did say 'no', and since The Kingdom of the Shades was the most famous and the most appealing part of the ballet we thought, well, let's do that for starters."
The result was Nureyev's Kingdom of the Shades quite as much as Marius Petipa's, as Anthony Dowell remembers. "He very much put his own mark on it. He created challenges, for example for the corps de ballet. In some productions of La Bayadère all those girls come on in the long line-up and go into their arabesques standing on one leg, which when you are dancing in a group is already pretty nerve-racking because you feel that if you wobble you'll be seen even more. But instead of having them just standing, Rudolf made them dip into a penchée in the arabesque, which is even harder."
John Tooley says, "Rudolf pushed everybody to extremes. That long opening sequence was a real eye-opener for the corps de ballet because they had never been exposed to anything requiring such precision."
The former Director of The Royal Ballet, Monica Mason, who danced in Nureyev's Bayadère, thinks it was the young Russian's respect for The Royal Ballet's British tradition that made him so attractive as a teacher and producer. "He never tried to make Royal Ballet dancers look like the Mariinsky dancers. I think that it was so generous and so intelligent really that he didn't see our qualities as limitations. He saw us as a group of young people who were extremely keen to work for him and wanted to learn. He had lots to give us and we were as hungry as could be."
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But Evernote is also a platform. There are APIs, and more than 10,000 developers have taken advantage of those APIs to extend both Evernote's and their own applications' functionality. Additionally, Evernote recently acquired Skitch, a nifty and useful application that lets you take and annotate screenshots. There's even a version of it for the iPad.
As Libin said: "It's a platform--but it's a platform for the world's memory." The idea is to take your information and make it that much more useful.
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CREATION TIME: Typically, 4 weeks. For urgent orders, an upgrade to priority processing may be requested and will be accommodated where possible. Additional fees apply.
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All pages are archival quality, acid free and photo safe. Photo-safe permanent glue dots are recommended for adhering photos and media to page options with a cardstock backing.
1. Cardstock
Premium heavyweight cardstock that will not degrade your photos, writing, or artwork over time. This is a good option for a guest book, journal, or sketchbook. Also available in black by request.
To select this option, choose "Cardstock" in the page options drop-down menu.
2. Recycled Cardstock
100% Recycled environmentally friendly cardstock. This premium off-white cardstock is made using no new trees and is 100% post consumer fiber. This stock has a neutral pH, it is chlorine free, archival quality, acid free and FSC certified. This is a good option for an environmentally friendly guest book or journal.
To select this option, choose "Recycled Cardstock" in the page options drop-down menu.
3. Double Thick Cardstock
Premium double thick heavyweight cardstock that will not degrade your photos, writing, or artwork over time. This is a good option for instant photo guest books, scrapbook journals, or multimedia sketchbooks. Also available in black by request.
To select this option, choose "DBL Thick Cardstock" in the page options drop-down menu.
4. Torn Edge pages
High quality heavyweight pages with hand torn edges that give an ultra rustic and vintage look. Also available in black by request. Specialty papers may be available for this option – inquire for availability.
To select this option, choose "Torn Edge Pages" in the page options drop-down menu.
5. Alternating cardstock and clear pages
Alternating pages of premium cardstock (described above) and clear/transparent archival plastic sheets (every second page is clear plastic). This option makes it easy to access the cardstock to write on or adjust photos, but still adds a layer of protection for the contents of the book. The plastic is NOT STICKY. This is a great option when both sides of the pages will be used and easy access to them is ideal. This option helps protect your contents from smudges and transferring when the book is closed. This is a popular option for guest books and journals.
To select this option, choose "Cardstock + Clear" in the page options drop-down menu. Also available in black by request.
6. Scrapbook album pages
Clear plastic scrapbook style pockets (one large pocket encasing premium heavyweight cardstock). Cardstock can be slid out and photos can be adhered, or you can add your own pages. This option is ideal for use in projects where additional protection is needed and where multiple sized photos/media are being added.
To select this option, choose "Scrapbook Album" in the page options drop-down menu.
NOTE: For wedding guest books, it is recommended that you remove all pages and have guests fill them out separately, then add them back into the book at a later time - otherwise this option is not recommended for guest books. Removing the cardstock from the protective sleeves and then re-inserting it can make signing your guest book a challenge.
7. Professional scrapbook album pages
The highest quality available, these are a thicker more durable version of the standard scrapbook album pages. These are ideal for business, professionals, or any projects that require a higher level of protection for archival. This is a popular choice for portfolios, family chronicles and wedding albums with multiple sizes of photos, and memorial books.
To select this option, choose "Pro Scrapbook Album" in the page options drop-down menu.
8. Professional slotted album pages
The highest quality available, these are thick and durable clear archival album pages with slots to fit three 4x6" photos per side of each page. These are ideal for businesses, professionals, or any projects that require a higher level of protection for archival. This is a popular choice for family chronicles and albums, wedding albums for 4x6" photos, and memorial photo albums.
To select this option, choose "Pro Slotted Album" in the page options drop-down menu.
HINGES - Three hinge types are available – large black metal T hinges, medium black metal H hinges and a braided leather hinge. If you would like a different hinge type than the one shown in the first example image, please contact me.
CUSTOMIZATION - Further customization is available. If you are looking to add a custom engraving to your piece that is different from what you see in the example images, you can add one in the add-ons section of the shop. Custom staining is currently not available. Custom size books are currently not available. Book sizes available are:
8.5X11" Portrait
12X12" Square with a portrait look
11X8.5" Landscape
11X17" Large panorama
TIMELINE – To keep the scheduled shipping date, designs must be confirmed within five days of receiving them.
You can visit rusticengravings.com or email info [!at] rusticengravings.com for more information
Paypal and Etsy direct are the preferred methods of payment. Currently I do not accept money orders.
Everything in my shop is made in, and ship from, Canada. If you are having your item shipped outside of Canada, please be aware of the import duties that may be charged to you by your country. I will not cover these charges under any circumstances.
Please complete your payment as soon as possible. I will not start the creation process on your project until payment has been processed and we have communicated details about your project. If I do not receive payment and communication within one week of the order being placed, I will cancel the order.
All orders will be shipped to your Etsy Address. If you would like to arrange for delivery to another address, please contact me to make arrangements.
Please provide a contact phone number with your order. This number will only be used by the courier delivering your package in case of difficulty delivering your package. The courier will only guarantee delivery times if a contact number has been provided.
Since everything I create is made to order and each project can take several weeks to complete, creation + shipping time should be taken into consideration if you need your order by a certain date. If you require rush delivery on an item, please contact me to make arrangements (an additional fee may apply).
Contact me to upgrade your shipping to Priority or Express and tracking.
International shipments outside of Canada and the US are shipped with International Parcel - Surface service and can take up to 3 months to be delivered depending on the country you are in. Larger items may also incur additional shipping fees which will be noted before your project is started. If you need to receive your order quickly you can upgrade the shipping on your package by requesting a shipping upgrade in addition to priority processing.
Shipments to Canada and the US using standard ground shipping typically take 1-10 business days to arrive at their destination. Upgrades to express and overnight shipping services are available (additional fees apply). A different courier and service from the one you selected may be used depending on couriers' history of delivering packages safely and on time to your area - Rustic Engravings will make this call and may contact you if a different shipping method from the one you chose is recommended.
All customs fees will be paid by buyer. If your item is not picked up from the post office or it has an incorrect address, and it is sent back to me as a result, a second shipping fee will be charged to send your package a second time.
Although Rustic Engravings does ship to the US, there may be an additional charge for shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico. Also, if you live in an extremely rural area, there is a very small chance that I will not be able to ship to you or there will be an additional fee to cover the extra postage. If you live in the absolute middle of nowhere and you think shipping to your address may incur additional fees, send me a message and I will double check for you. I will not add on any fees without your permission.
Request a cancellation within: 2 days of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Since the items sold in my store are custom made to order art pieces, no returns will be accepted under any circumstances. These pieces are custom made usable artwork and I check everything before I send it out and I will only ship products that meet my high standards of quality.
Since all items are made to order, wood grain will differ from the example image but I always try to select wood with an interesting grain pattern so each book will have character. Note that creative liberties are taken in the creation of each piece. The coloring and texture of your piece will vary from the original listing as well as from the mockup design. When you are purchasing one of my pieces, you are ordering a unique, customized, made-to-order art piece. If your book contains screws, please note that screw color may also vary. Screws may be black or brass depending on what I have in stock. Screw color is not guaranteed but if you prefer a specific color please send me a message and I will try to accommodate your request.
I can only refund items that are damaged during shipping if you, the recipient, open the package with the mail carrier present and initiate a damage claim through the mail carrier. I can issue a refund once that claim has been resolved.
Please be aware of your country's import laws. Rustic Engravings will not issue a refund for any package that is held at the boarder due to import restrictions. Note that as of 2019 USA import laws have become more strict. All products sold by Rustic Engravings comply with USA import regulations however, you may be required to fill out an additional customs form for importing wooden products to the USA which can delay your package. If you are concerned about a delay, please contact me as soon as possible.
I am happy to work with you to create a custom order. I can also take bulk orders.
If you are having trouble sending me a message using Etsy, please send your message through rusticengravings.com or send a message directly to email@example.com.
Dec 4, 2018
I ordered a wedding album for a wedding gift. I was excited to open it when I received it and couldn't believe how BEAUTIFUL it was!!!! I can't wait to gift it to the Bride and Groom! Tylir provided amazing customer service and did an amazing job at providing exactly what I wanted and it looked even better than I thought it would. Thank you again! Your work is greatly appreciated!


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Ubisoft made it official this afternoon: Ubisoft Bucharest is currently developing near-future air combat sim H.A.W.X 2 for the Xbox 360, Windows PCs, PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Wii. A fall release is planned.
"With over 1 million units sold worldwide, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. has become a very successful brand for Ubisoft," stated Bogdan Bridinel, creative director at Ubisoft. "This new H.A.W.X. game is directly inspired by Tom Clancy's books, and it will enable fans to once again experience the excitement and intensity that established H.A.W.X. as a successful brand."
From Ubisoft:
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 plunges fans into an explosive environment where they can become elite aerial soldiers in control of the world's most technologically advanced aircraft. The game will appeal to a wide array of gamers as players will have the chance to control exceptional pilots trained to use cutting edge technology in amazing aerial warfare missions.
Sharkey says: Ubisoft is really working the Tom Clancy name these days, with Conviction out now, a new Ghost Recon coming soon, and now H.A.W.X 2 in the mix. And you can likely add a new Rainbow 6 to the list as Ubisoft is expected to make an announcement on that franchise soon.