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frostFriday, February 17, 2012
I can't believe it took me 2 months to make this hat.
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The Frost cap is a lovely design, and it's grand of you to give us the link to the designer's pattern.ReplyDelete
I also love knitting complex cables. Years ago I made many sweaters from Patricia Roberts patterns, and now wonder how I did follow all those charts...well, I didn't need glasses back then!
I am going to investigate that alpaca yarn.
Best wishes!
A wonderful finished knit! Fifteen minutes at a time. :) Hello C!ReplyDelete
I hadn't noticed your header. Very cute orange.ReplyDelete
The hat turned out lovely. I'm glad you were able to get the pattern worked out.
Looks great - I think it was worth the struggle!!ReplyDelete
Will feel all the better each time you wear it when you think of all the hard work you put into it.
Fleur xx
It looks perfect. I love the colour, that grey is great for bringing ones eyes out, no matter what colour they are. In that same fashion it takes me 2 to 4 months to finish a pair of socks. Though I love them when they are finally finished. So worth the effort and the time :-)ReplyDelete
It is crazy how some projects just seem to go like that. One step forward a few back. The hat does look lovely though. Hope things are running a bit more smoothly in your life.ReplyDelete
Love this hat. I completely understand the feeling of frustration at getting very little done on a small project. I'm in the same boat right now.ReplyDelete
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well, it was definitely worth all the trouble. It is really nice. I'm knitting a simple vest which is in it's 2nd year. I've ripped it back quite a few times and recently I discovered I had been reapating the back when I thought I was knitting the front. Aaaarrrggghhh.ReplyDelete
well, it looks great! and makes me think of that blasted yoke cable on the tangled yoke cardigan. never again! (p.s. miss you!)ReplyDelete
Dear Friend, I have read your blog for a long time, but have never left a comment, I would like to say that life gets busy sometimes and we just do our best to get thru the day, knitting helps - mistakes and all! Hope your life slows down just breath in and breath out. JenniferReplyDelete
it turned out wonderfully! it's all about the journey isn't it!?ReplyDelete
Your hat looks great! I completely understand about having a lot on your plate. It helped me to live my day one hour at a time - that way i could make sure that i took the time to smile or breathe deeply or listen to a good piece on NPR for just a moment each hour. I have missed you - so glad I stopped by.ReplyDelete
love the hat, it's really nice! and I love your blog it's so cute :)ReplyDelete
Cool hat! :D It's simple and looks very comfortable to wear.ReplyDelete


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I am looking for crafty moms to feature in a once a month craft corner on my blog. You would need to write a guest post with pictures on how to make any family friendly item of your choice - it can be for moms or kids. You post would include links back to your own blog and would be featured on my blog as well as permanently under my featured tutorials tab. This is a once a month feature so spots are limited but it is a great chance to market yourself! If you are interested, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com!
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is Davids tea website messed up or is it u computer??
I have been trying to order tea for 3 hours now and its so sad the website will not let me put a tea in my bag, but it will on my phone but won't let me order from my phone. So I put the tea in my bag on my phone and log in on my computer and its not there :( and I just had to call Davids tea for some problems I was having with my steeping thing and they are so wonderful I don't want to call and be a pain lol so is any one else having trouble or ran into this before?
I was actually thinking of posting something like this. Is is just me or am I seriously not able to add things to my "Shopping Cart"? I honestly can't figure out how to do it when I'm on a product page.
a bunch of people have said they've had the same issue (and only on their computer, not on mobile devices?) on the DT facebook page, so it'd be worth calling/emailing head office and asking them directly.
I had this problem and to solve it all I did was erase my browsing history and it worked! :) It might work for you too!
I think they might be having shipping issues aswell. My order was shipped Monday morning and hasn't moved yet. All it says on Canada post tracking is order information received.
That canada post problem not Davids Sometimes i received my order without a single tracking update from canada post
Yeah I called and they said it should come tomorrow still yay. I've ordered from them many times and the tracking always worked, oh well as long as my yummy tea gets here :)
I think that the website changeover has left them with some issues – I suggest calling and seeing if a customer service could help smooth things out for you. : )
thank you guys I was able to order my things!! My friend also cant track her package but once it leaves davids tea not sure there is much they can do, I am waiting on two packages so hopefully we can get them soon! thank you so much for everyones help!
I placed an order a few days ago and received it without any tracking updates being logged either. Seems to be a tracking issue, but not a shipping problem. Yay, advent calender and new tea!


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Jo Diaz has a nice post today on the upcoming Green Wine Summit, scheduled for November 29-30 at the Napa Marriott.
I will be part of a panel during the morning breakout session, Green Sales & Marketing: Communicating Green, along with Mimi Gatens, Laura Levy Shatkin, and Lisa Adams Walter. I am almost certain to offend someone with my take on wineries and their websites.
Please say hello if you're in attendance. Details on the event are here.


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I'm pretty sure this is the soonest after a wedding that I've ever blogged the images — chalk it up to a pre-WPPI convention burst of productivity. But also these make me excited for a number of reasons. First, Jenna and Aaron are awesome, hilarious, and brilliant. I really love how frequently the best man and maid of honor speeches mention how freaking smart my couples are, since if smart people hire you, maybe you're doing something right. Aaron, after all, if the sort of fellow who had Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, a thoroughly impenetrable book, out as pleasure reading. Sadly there were more important things going on than for us to sit and share a dialectical chat.
But also this was my first wedding since being named of the top 10 wedding photographers in the world by American Photo magazine, and my first wedding since the Foundation Workshops. Contrary to what you might think, the former fact never entered my mind all day. But Foundation loomed large in my mind — I have spent my entire career working as hard as I can to show lasting moments, people's personalities and how amazing they look at their wedding day, but the intensity of the Foundation Workshop made me work harder than ever at being a perfectionist along the way — stressing over every millimieter of what is and is not included in each frame. Of course, sometimes the moment is strong enough that you just go for it — the ring bearer kissing his brother was impossible to frame perfectly, but even just mentioning the existence of the photo made their mother break out in a huge grin.
Also, though for a mix of modesty and SEO purposes she doesn't want me to mention her name, I was joined by the amazing T, and she KILLED it. Lots of great photos, and even when running the photobooth she managed to take a simple setup and create art! I've never been so tempted to put photobooth images in a blog post. Thanks, T!
I'm so excited for 2013, and this was a great way to kick off the main season!


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Style # 206616
AVAILABILITY: Unavailable for immediate shipment.
Nothing welcomes warm weather like a hot hue palette. This bebe bodycon features horizontal texture, perfect scoop neckline and ultra-soft and lightweight stretch. Try yours with a denim jacket and a pair of flat sandals for a weekend-fab look.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex
- Hand wash
- Made in USA
- Center back to hem: 31 1/2" (79 cm)
- Model is 5'9" and wears a US size S
Reverse Ottoman Tank Dress is rated out of 5 by 14.
Rated 5 out of 5 by PandaBear from Great dress I have this in purple, wore it out for my bday night. I got so many compliments. I wear the P/S size, and it fits like a glove. Gives a slight lift to the backside as well, no complaints here!
Date published: 2014-06-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by ladyAlexis from sexy and fits like glove I recently bought this dress in aruba blue (light aqua)and I was unsure of it at first, but after trying it on, I love it! I am 5'4", 105 lbs., 32DD, and the dress conforms to every curve on my body. The dress is made out of thick and good quality material (but be careful because it snags easy). The dress is perfect for a night out and looks "hot" with nude heels and gold accessories.
Date published: 2014-03-07
Rated 2 out of 5 by realgirl from no boobs? I love Bebe's tight dresses, and often they are the only ones that fit me. I liked this too but, with several others I tried, there is absolutely no room for boobs. I am 5'2", 87 lbs, B cup, and these dresses fit me perfectly on the hips and are the right length, but my chest is so compressed, it hurts to just try them on for 30 seconds. Unfortunately, they have to go back. Please Bebe, don't fit all the tight dresses on the same model with a totally flat chest! Please!!!
Date published: 2014-01-05
Rated 2 out of 5 by Emme from Color not the same I got this dress in the purple expecting the color to be like what it appears in the picture but the color was a lot darker an didnt have that nice sheen as shown in the picture. I returned the item. The material was nice though
Date published: 2013-09-13
Rated 5 out of 5 by westpalmbebe from Perfection, quality and style perfect perfect perfect, the lavander color is amazing, I'm alway a small size and on some dresses size 6 and the p/s fits perfect. I wish for more colors
Date published: 2013-08-31
Rated 5 out of 5 by TDFelizzatto from Perfect dress As some reviewers bought yellow color but I never see online yellow color, maybe in the store. I bought this purple color and I love love it. I've a lot of bodycon or bandage dresses from bebe but this one is my favorite one right now.
Date published: 2013-08-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by Seabreeze2013 from Very Flattering especially if you have a larger chest I love this dress. I normally don't wear yellows, but this dress is a very flattering fun, summer dress. It enhances curves, and keeps other curves where they need to be. The quality of the fabric is also great, because it's not too thin.
Date published: 2013-07-05
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jillian from Beautiful dress I love this dress. It looks amazing on, and I love the color. I never buy anything yellow, but this is actually a universally flattering color. I am 5'4" and 115 lbs, and the P/S fit great.
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Opening a bike shop in Moab may not be a unique idea, but the owners of Hazard County Bikes hope to set their business apart by offering a wide variety of bicycles and late-evening hours.
Steve Langello and Brian Vasquez launched their new bike shop last weekend. Hazard County Bikes, located at 145 West 200 South, No. 5, in the building next door to Utah State University-Moab, is open from 5 to 11 p.m. each evening. The shop will feature a full line of mountain bikes as well as town bikes, cruisers and kids bicycles, Langello said. Bike prices start as low a $250, and Hazard County Bikes will also carry a full line of bicycle accessories.
"With Moab's bike paths and bike-friendly streets, and the high price of gasoline, we want to help outfit riders for anything they might want to do by providing a way to carry belongings or groceries by bike," Langello said. "Most shops in town are dealing with mainly mountain bikes. We want to offer mountain bikes and everything else. And if we don't have it, we will try to get it. We consider ourselves the 'everything else bike shop.'"
Langello said the shop will also carry "unique brands" that are not currently available in other bike shops in Moab. Langello and Vasquez have more than 20 years of experience with bicycling and the bicycle industry. Their bike shop will also offer bicycle repair services, Langello said.
Wireless Internet service is also available at Hazard County Bikes, and the shop features a small lounge area where people can wait while repairs are done, or watch bike videos, he said.


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Steven Brown, 30, made the move from the playing field to the
coaching staff in 2007, spending one season as a graduate assistant
on Watson Brown's staff. In 2008 he moved into an assistant
coaching role and in 2012 he took on the duties of Offensive
In addition to coordinating the offense, he also coaches the receivers and quarterbacks. It was under his direction that a pair of recent quarterbacks thrived. First Lee Sweeney set numerous school records, then Tre Lamb stepped in and re-wrote many of those same marks.
An experienced player who enjoyed two successful seasons at UAB and one at Tech, Steven had one season of eligibility remaining in 2008 but passed on the chance to play his final year for the opportunity to begin his coaching career.
The son of head coach Watson Brown, Steven played two seasons at UAB then transfered to Tech in 2007 where he played both wide receiver and quarterback for the Golden Eagles.
A highly recruited prep quarterback out of high school, he originally enrolled at Auburn in 2004, then moved to UAB and made the transition to receiver in 2005. In 2006 he played in 11 of 12 games for the Blazers, ranking fifth on the team with 14 catches for 200 yards and two touchdowns.
In his one season for the Golden Eagles, he had 12 catches for 164 yards as an inside receiver. In the middle of the season, with injuries to the top three quarterbacks, Steven stepped under center and played quarterback. He finished the year going 22-for-34 for 252 yards and one touchdown, posting a 119.02 quarterback rating.
In high school, he was named honorable mention on the Class 6A All-State team in 2003 as a senior quarterback, helping lead Vestavia Hills to a 12-2 record and an appearance in the state semifinals.


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth, while failure to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff would pose a "substantial threat" to the recovery.
"Cooperation and creativity to deliver fiscal clarity -- in particular, a plan for resolving the nation's longer-term budgetary issues without harming the recovery -- could help make the new year a very good one for the American economy," Bernanke said today in a speech in New York. "The realization of all of the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff, absent offsetting changes, would pose a substantial threat to the recovery."
Bernanke's efforts to bring down 7.9 percent unemployment and spur the three-year expansion with purchases of $40 billion in housing debt each month have been thwarted in part by Congress's inability to reach agreement to stabilize U.S. outlays and revenues and avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Bernanke also said Fed policy will remain accommodative until the recovery is on a firmer footing.
The Fed chief repeated his warning that over $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases that could take effect in January could send the economy "toppling back into recession."
While Fed policy is "by no means a panacea," Bernanke said it is helping the economy.
"We will want to be sure that the recovery is established before we begin to normalize policy," he said in remarks to the Economic Club of New York at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.
Stocks, Treasuries
Stocks pared gains after Bernanke's remarks. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was little changed at 1,386.95 at 12:29 p.m. in New York after rising as much as 0.2 percent. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to 1.65 percent from 1.61 percent yesterday.
The Fed is also purchasing about $45 billion a month of longer-term Treasury securities as it replaces the same amount of short-term debt on its balance sheet. The program, known as Operation Twist, is designed to lower longer-term interest rates without increasing the overall size of the central bank's securities holdings.
Bernanke's large-scale asset purchases have pumped up the central bank's balance sheet to $2.88 trillion, close to a record. The so-called quantitative easing has helped reduce borrowing costs and push down unemployment from a peak in October 2009 of 10 percent. The Fed cut its target interest rate to zero in December 2008 and forecasts it will probably hold it there through at least mid-2015.
Bernanke used his remarks to offer a detailed analysis of the U.S. economy since the recession and said that the potential growth has been damaged by the recovery.
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State Rep. Marilinda Garcia wants to bring youthful perspective to Congress, GOPBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
November 24. 2013 8:21PM
MANCHESTER — A Republican primary is shaping up in the state's 2nd Congressional District.
Believing that "maybe the future is now," 30-year-old conservative state Rep. Marilinda Garcia of Salem will file papers today to become a candidate for the seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster.
Garcia, in her fourth term in the New Hampshire House, said she hopes to bring a youthful perspective to a Republican Party she recently described as "being populated mostly with old white men."
Garcia faces primary opposition from 54-year-old Marine Reserves colonel and former one-term state Sen. Gary Lambert of Nashua, who announced his candidacy in September.
Garcia, whose mother is from Italy and father is of Hispanic descent from New Mexico, believes the GOP needs to broaden its appeal.
"Yes," she reiterated in an interview Friday, "there is a stereotype about the Republican Party at this point. It does concern me, so I feel it's incumbent on me to be the change you want to see."
Rising through GOP ranks
Garcia has lived in Salem since she was a young child and was 23 when elected to the New Hampshire House. She has risen through the GOP ranks, served as co-chairman of the House Republican caucus and majority whip, and is currently a member of the powerful House Finance Committee.
With bachelors degrees from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music and with a Masters of Public Policy degree from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, she was named by the Republican National Committee last year as a member of its new "Rising Stars" initiative.
Garcia said she hopes to bring to Washington the same conservative principles she said guided the 2011-2012 GOP-led New Hampshire Legislature to close what she said was an $800 million budget shortfall.
"I've learned as a state representative the federal government isn't the answer to our state problems, and most of the large issues we've had to deal with and our largest budget issues, are a direct result of federal intervention and mandates, the Affordable Care Act being the most recent."
She called for the "full repeal of Obamacare" and removal of other "obstacles to business development and job creation."
Garcia is an adjunct professor of music at Phillips Exeter Academy and said she also works in the cyber-security field. She formerly worked as a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children at the Salem District Court.
An accomplished harpist, she occasionally performed with her sister, state Rep. Bianca Garcia, a flutist, as The Seraphim Duo.
Garcia has been politically active with the national Republican Party and with the Republicans' GOPAC Hispanic Leadership Training Institute.
"It's important to me that my generation step up, have a voice and claim responsibility in decision-making about the future of our country," she said.
She said Kuster "supports and endorses most, if not all, of the adversarial policies that the current administration is pushing. Our current representation is not making the kinds of decisions necessary to help New Hampshire govern itself as New Hampshire citizens want.
"I've never had a long-term political ambition in mind for myself, but in the last few months, circumstances have led me to do serious introspection and decide that if I ever were to consider running for higher office in the future, maybe the future is now," she said.
"Americans are tired of what seems to be complete dysfunction in Washington. We have to change the kind of people we're sending there.
Damage control
"So much of what we do in the state Legislature is damage control on what's coming down the pipeline from the federal government," Garcia said. "I can't stand by while our state continues to be hurt by an overreaching federal government. It concerns me when I see the way these federal policies punish entrepreneurship and really limit our freedom."
She said, "If my participation shows we actually have a diverse Republican Party, with a lot of women and young people acting on our current concerns and turning away from what we see from the failed policies of government expansion and redistribution of wealth that the current administration is promoting, I think we can have a profound effect."
She described U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte as a role model.Garcia said she has set up the basic structure of a campaign organization with "professionals and volunteers," although, she said, he has not hired anyone from the "New Hampshire political glitterati" to work with her.
Her campaign consultant and media contact is Brad Stevens of Aegis Strategic LLC, a former Nebraska state director of the conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity.
Lambert's benchmarks
Last week, the National Republican Congressional Committee announced that Gary Lambert has reached fundraising and campaign organization benchmarks that place him "on the radar" to become a part of its "Young Guns" program for top-tier races.
Garcia said she also hopes to reach that level with the NRCC when her campaign gets up and running.
"I'll be aggressively fund-raising and aggressively out there in all the corners of the second district, and just trying to earn people's trust and support."


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What the cook added
A Camping Experience & A Camp Cook
We trekked, we fished, we had a campfire, we ate s'mores, we did crafts, we were rained on (just a little), we had cold showers ( water heater in the GIRLS cabin was out for one day), we had a talent shower and we played games. Overall, last week at 4-H camp included all the basic requirements of a memorable camping experience. The campers were awesome and fun to work with. The counselors stayed up late to ensure everyone stayed in their cabins and were up early to get everyone moving.
A major difference though was the camp cook. Katie, our cook this year, is a young college student. She planned great camp-food menus of hobo meals in foil over a campfire, build your own tacos, chili and cornbread make in Dutch ovens covered with coals, caramel rolls for breakfast and Surprise! - chocolate chip cookies for after the talent show. Meals were hot, on time and with ample servings for campers hungry after a game of "sharks and minnows". During which game I was always caught. The new seasoning Katie brought to camp was that she is majoring in elementary ed. with a minor in music and LOVES kids!
Meals were served with a dash of humor. She would place one solidary grape on the plate of camper and then dead-pan, "move along you're holding up the line" only to quickly replace it with a bunch of grapes and a laugh. After only one day of meals, the campers anxiously hoped they would be the one in line that Katie teased. Campers on kitchen duty wiped tables and swept floors to the tune of some silly rhyme Katie knew and shared. She remembered names – without looking at name tags, asked who had kept who awake all night, shared her stash of knock-knock jokes so everyone had a part during the talent show and as soon as dishes were done ran out the back door of the kitchen to join the game of sand volleyball.
Thank you Katie for the spice you added to camp – you were more than just a cook.


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A giant scrap metal dandelion -- and a host of other creative sculptures made from found materials -- is blooming amid a field of cup plants at Garden in the Woods.
A giant scrap metal dandelion is blooming amid a field of cup plants at Garden in the Woods.
Sown in whimsy and trimmed with a welder's torch, "Mega Dandi'' was planted just off the Curtis Path by Gints Grinsbergs as part of "Repurposed,'' an innovative exhibit of outdoor sculpture that cross-fertilizes nature and art in exciting ways.
The recently installed show features eight sculptures constructed from reclaimed, or "repurposed,'' material to promote conservation of natural resources.
Communications Director Steven Ziglar said a selection committee of horticultural staff and program heads sought works that suggested the idea "of artistic energy within the context of energy in the Garden.''
Initially they contacted the New England Sculptors Association to express interest in outdoor sculptures made from reused material and weighing less than 1,000 pounds. After the association sent proposals for 24 sculptures, Garden in the Woods staff chose the eight now on display. The show runs through Sept. 8 and the works are for sale.
Area artists, including Michael Alfano of Hopkinton, used throwaway materials such as a cable spool, chunks of an ancient maple tree and ice tongs to fashion intriguing works that might prompt viewers to see the landscape with fresh eyes.
Sculptures with evocative names like "Rusty Dandi,'' "Talisman'' and "Serpentine'' have been placed to striking effect throughout GITW, which serves as headquarters for the New England Wild Flower Society.
NEWFS Executive Director Debbi Edelstein said the sculptures were strategically placed "to encourage visitors to look at the garden and world around them in new and different ways.''
"The natural world is an energy cycle. Nature and art are governed by their own kind of processes. With 'Repurposed' we wanted to get some synergy going,'' she said. "It's like an outdoor gallery
Edelstein said planners chose a modest number of works so the sculptures "fit into the landscape rather than overwhelmed it."
As if finding just the right spot for exotic flora, horticulturalist Nate McCullin and senior horticulturalist Kristen DeSouza placed the sculptures just where they seem to belong amid flowers, in the grass and hanging from trees so the natural and creative worlds complement one another.
Sited near the Entrance Garden and, in effect, opening the show, Alfano's "Wired'' creates a "Slinky''-like series of profiles atop an old cable spool. Irene Fairley's marble "Serpentine'' seems to slither through the grass by the Idea Garden like a segmented sea slug looking for lunch. Like a Druid's omen, Greg Spitzer's "Talisman,'' a telephone-shaped chunk of black marble, hangs from a tree by an old pair of ice tongs.
Set across the path from his shiny "Mega Dandi,'' Grinsbergs' darker, wilder "Rusty Dandi'' sprouts in the Wildlife Garden like a giant noxious weed.
McCullin said he and DeSouza "took our time walking the garden looking for spots that felt right.''
"We're horticulturalists, not artists. When we considered a spot, we looked carefully at the plants surrounding the piece because we didn't want the work to get lost,'' he said.
Reflecting the show's theme, the sculptures of "Repurposed'' seem like natural extensions of the miniature habitats where they have been placed.
Set by the path's edge, Karen Klein's "Balance II'' transforms two discarded pieces of wood into an elegantly elemental sculpture.
The first work most visitors will see, Alfano's "Wired'' uses bent steel rods, welded atop a cable spool, to create the outlines of profiles. A light at its base illuminates the faces at night, suggesting multiple identities. Probably the most complex work in "Repurposed,'' "Wired'' suggests a force field that shocks visitors into opening their eyes a bit wider.
Partway down the Curtis Trail, Madeleine Lord's "Wildflowers 5'' sprouts in the Rock Garden amid lavender and banana yucca like a rusty bouquet of throwaway scrap.
The Winchester resident said she's loved "finding and naming wildflowers since childhood,'' but only started making flowers from metal scraps several years ago.
"The twisted metal says 'leaf' and 'petal' to me. They are fertile and beckoning, and almost arrange themselves when I find them. They are wild in the sense that they are survivors, unpredictable and thrive without an attendant gardener,'' she said.
For Lord, "Wildflowers 5'' is "an homage to the garden we do not plant but discover.''
She might be describing Garden in the Woods and its new crop of sculptures.
WHERE: New England Wild Flower Society, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham
OPEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday and holiday Mondays with last admission at 4:30 p.m.
INFO: 508-877-7630, www.newenglandwild.org


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The software giant has outlined details of the next-generation file system, which will make its debut in Windows Server 8. The new Resilient File System, or ReFS, is designed to take advantage of new storage architectures, the use of metadata and virtualization, and will succeed the long-established New Technology File System (NTFS), first introduced with Windows NT and later Windows XP.
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Microsoft outlined technical details and its roadmap for ReFS in a post on its Building Windows 8 Blog on Monday. ReFS will be compatible with NTFS but is designed to provide higher levels of resilience and scalability.
ReFS will take advantage of Storage Spaces, the storage aggregation feature that Microsoft is introducing for Windows 8, detailed earlier this month. Storage Spaces, which will also work with NTFS, will let users virtualize pools of hard disk drives and solid state drives.
Surendra Verma, a development manager with Microsoft's storage and file system team, underscored in the blog post that the company built ReFS in conjunction with Storage Spaces to allow for large volume, file and directory sizes, simplified storage pooling and virtualization within the file system, and better resilience to corruption and failures with large volumes and shared storage pools.
"Data stored on ReFS is accessible through the same file access APIs on clients that are used on any operating system that can access today's NTFS volumes," Verma noted. "In addition, ReFS inherits the features and semantics from NTFS including BitLocker encryption, access-control lists for security, USN journal, change notifications, symbolic links, junction points, mount points, reparse points, volume snapshots, file IDs and oplocks."
Microsoft didn't start from scratch when developing ReFS but rather extended NTFS, according to Verma. The team reused code that implements the Windows file system semantics, including read, write, open close and change notification. It also "maintains in-memory file and volume state, enforces security, and maintains memory caching and synchronization for file data. This reuse ensures a high degree of compatibility with the features of NTFS that we're carrying forward," Verma explained.
ReFS is designed to maximize disk reliability with a new transactional model and resiliency to disk corruption, integrity streams designed to protect files from data corruption, Verma added.
In keeping with Microsoft's past release of new file systems, ReFS will debut with Windows Server 8. The company will later add it to the client and finally as a boot volume. However NTFS-based clients will be able to access ReFS data via the file-level APIs that can access NTFS volumes. Verma didn't reveal rollout details.
Like NTFS and its predecessor the File Allocation Table (FAT), ReFS will not allow users to convert data among the different file systems. Users will not be able to implement ReFS on removable drives. It also will support failover clustering.
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Microsoft making a File System that does everything the old one does and works in the same way and uses the same code with some modification. Hmmm It sounds like NTFS. It adds some new streaming and data reliability. All of the other things listed NTFS already does. I really don't seen much new to make this news. It would be nice if they had features like Apple or Unix/Linux file systems were they do not every need defragged because of the way files are handled and stored.
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MC5- Wayne Kramer interview, Part 2
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by Jason Gross
(November 1998)
PSF: So after the problems with the record companies and sales, there wasn't any way to muster the troops together and move on?
Just couldn't get it up anymore. It was a very difficult time. It was very hard to be young and see everything that you'd worked hard for fall apart. Some of us gave it a good effort. Fred tried real hard to keep the band together. I tried for a long time but it just seemed like it was never gonna work out. I don't know what Dennis and Michael said about the circumstances of their leaving the band but the cumulative effect was to pull the rug out from under everything. We had no support, both internally and externally.
And that's the way the music business is. The troublemakers go away. The band was too much trouble and we weren't going along with the program. We weren't good little soldiers. So, pull 'em out of there 'cause we got some other bands that are way less trouble. They don't get in the middle of all this shit. They just wanna be stars. They just wanna BOOGIE.
PSF: You started talking about the MC5's place in music history. How do you see this?
To be fair, VH-1 did include me in a recent 'Behind the Music' special about 1968. I appreciate the work that you and many of my other friends that are writers do to help tell the story. I think my job today, in part, is to continue to tell the story.
The MC5's story is important because it's five guys from Detroit who, against all prevailing wisdom, at a time when the music business really didn't wanna know, tried to make something happen. I think there's something to be said for that. Unequivocal commitment to trying to achieve. The sense of possibility. I'm 50 now so I know a lot of things don't work the way you plan when you're 20. But this fundamental truth keeps cutting through, which is 'what would you be if you didn't try?' You're dead for a long time and all you're left with is the work you did. You wanna try to make something. For what I did as a young man in the MC5, I can say 'yea, I did something. I had this band, we made some noise.' It's not that bad a thing.
PSF: Towards the end of the band, there was a lot of friction with Rob and I've heard that you were pretty hurt when he died. Do you think that a lot of that came back to you later on?
In day to day life, there's a tendency to put stuff off. 'That's a little painful, I don't wanna go there.' Or 'I'm busy, I don't wanna deal with it.' When Rob died, it told me that you put that off and now you don't get a chance. You blew it! (laughs) It's a hell of a lesson to me. A wake-up call. There's no going back. You can come to things as a grown-up and have a better perspective and a more mature outlook and more understanding. You can't go back and make anything better. You can't change the past. But you can make the effort to reach out. I did with the other cats. I tried with Fred and I didn't connect with Fred. I connected with Dennis, I connected with Michael. Me and John Sinclair have remained fast and furious since the '70's.
PSF: Why didn't you and Fred connect after the band broke up?
He was drunk. Every time I saw him or spoke to him, he was drunk. I could play junior psychologist and do the long-form answer but the short-form answer says enough. There was no talking to him.
PSF: That's a shame.
I don't know that it IS a shame. It just IS. It's a shame when people die before their time. We're all gonna die but there's a natural time when you're work is done. To see someone die in their forties, which is early... It's one thing to get hit by a bus. Rob Tyner died of a heart attack at the same age. To actively contribute to your own undoing... I tried to connect with Fred but that happens with old friends. Everybody tries to go on a different path. Whatever Fred's demons were, they went with him.
PSF: I know it's kind of a prickly subject but did you think the time you spent in jail changed the way you saw things?
Jail changes you. They give you time to think. (laughs) I had a lot of time to think! Ideally, that's what they want you to do but the truth is that they don't give a damn what you do there until they tell you that you can go. It's just a human warehouse system.
I had a lot of time to consider 'how did I end up in this position?' I felt like I waited all my life to fuck up this bad. This is what I've been working for. This is the ultimate pay-off. I didn't die but I did get to go to prison. Hip-hip-hooray for me. So I had a lot of time to think about the sequence of events that led up to that. I was thinking about all the decisions that I made that ultimately culminated in my imprisonment. Then I had to go back and think of what I was going to do to make sure that this never happens again. It happens to most people again.
One day, we were in the (jail) gym and we were talking about recidivism with five other guys. Two of them had been in prison three times before and the other two had been in prison two times before. I was the only one who had been in prison for the first time. So most people go back. It's a real vicious cycle and it was one that I was determined not to be part of. I knew I had a career such as it is. I knew I had goals and things I wanted to accomplish. I just didn't want to be part of this system anymore. It wasn't the way that I saw myself: Wayne Kramer- 00180190. Somehow when I look in the mirror, I don't wanna set that. They made a believer out of me. I will never deal narcotic drugs to anyone again in life!
It was a long, long time ago now- it was in the seventies. Now it's a whole different thing. I'm really anti-drug war and the more I follow what happens, the angrier it makes me. The drug war is a war on our own people It's cowardly and it's creating a whole new under class of people who will never see their way out. $16 Billion dollars! Wasted to save the middle class from the junkies. I see that it wasn't working in the seventies when I went to prison, and it sure as hell ain't working today.
Today there's over a million people in prison and over 60% of them are there for drug related offenses. It'll never work. It doesn't work. It's all about treatment and options. You cannot legislate morality and desire. You have to look deeper into the reasons why folks turn to drugs and the culture of getting high. It's existed since the beginning of time.
At this point, it's turned into an entire self-sufficient cultural organism. Whole communities are defined by it. Whether you want to be part of it or not, you ARE a part of it. Everybody has to deal with it. It chews most people up and spits them out the other side. The knee-jerk, fundamentalist, Republican, silent moral majority created this. They've created entire neighborhoods in inner city America where the whole culture is a drug dealing culture. You see it in statistics and the amount of people locked up, the color of the people locked up and the offenses that they're locked up for.
This has all been created. This is a huge industry. Prison building in California is the biggest growth industry in the State. You can get more drugs cheaper today in any city in America than you could in the seventies. You can get cocaine for 50 dollars a gram. From what I understand, heroin is 60% purer out in New York right now. They've done all this and it's gotten worse. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. The legislators in their superstitious ignorance have created all this.
PSF: In the mid and late '70's when the punk bands were starting up, did you think that they were picking up part of what you and the MC5 were doing before?
(pauses) I didn't see the connection at first because of the derision between the bands and their fans. It's not the school that I'm from. I'm almost glad that I was in prison during the gobbing era. I don't think I could've hung with that. To me, that's not a sign that somebody likes me. (laughs)
Musically, they didn't show me anything. I appreciate the fact that they're building something from nothing. This whole idea that you don't need to know how to play and anybody can do it. I find all that honorable and worthwhile but it wasn't doing anything for me musically. I found in the late seventies, I was more influenced by what I learned in prison from Red Rodney with bebop and the more sophisticated chord changes than I was with what I heard the Ramones doing or Blondie. To me, this is just more of the same.
I still felt that I was part of it but I found more stuff that intrigued me in what Gamble and Huff (Philadelphia International Records) were doing and STILL with the original Motown stuff. I'm a guitar-rock guy. I love loud guitars and that's the way I still play. But I'm more intrigued with... I wanna hear something new, some changes together in a different way.
Part of this is just because we're in such a crappy period right now. We're in the time of ghetto-ized music. Everyone and every style being separated from every other style and retro-ed to death. I've heard enough jangly guitars to last me now and enough guitar pop. I see it all through the eyes of somebody that's seen bands come and go and come and go and how the music biz handles it all. I live in West Hollywood, the epicenter of youth culture- the Gap, Doc Marten, the movie business. I know what they're doing. They codify and market youth, and sell it back to the youth and rake off the profit. All those studio executives and record executives have 401K plans and huge salaries and health insurance. And what do the kids get? Matchbox 20. Mariah Carey. Madonna. I mean, I like the industry of Madonna but the girl can't sing. But then, neither could Janis Joplin though she did have a lot of heart.
PSF: When you came with The Hard Stuff in '95, was that your first solo release?
That was my first PROPER solo record. A couple of years before that for a small label in Toronto, there was a collaboration between me and Mick Farren and John Collins. It was an experiment. We had a friend who had a drum machine and we said 'This is great! We don't need to fuck around with drummers anymore! It doesn't cost us anything and it doesn't cause trouble and it keeps TIME!' But it doesn't wear well. The Hard Stuff was the my first record that was recorded properly and promoted and distributed properly.
PSF: There was a big gap of time between the MC5 breaking up and the release of that. Did you see that as a big step for you?
Certainly, a step. I guess in the world's perception of Wayne Kramer, it was a big step since no one had heard anything from me or of me. Last thing they heard, I went off to prison and then by the time I came out with a new record, it was a new generation. In my perception of me, it was just another step in... I think you spend a lot of your 20's and your 30's rehearsing who you're gonna be. Or how to be who you're gonna be. By the time I made The Hard Stuff, I had a pretty clear idea of who I was and I was less uncomfortable with being Wayne Kramer than perhaps I had been earlier.
It wasn't that big a thing for me to have a record out. But it was a big thing in terms of how people perceived me because they hadn't heard anything of me. It was just the next logical thing to do 'cause I had to clear out all the wreckage from the MC5. Going to prison and all that shit and reconciling the loss of the MC5, grieving over that and accepting it. Then being free from the bitterness that I carried with me for years. That's why nobody heard from me 'cause I was too busy being pissed off to be doing any work! (laughs) Getting drunk and killing the pain and chasing a bag of heroin around the lower East side. All those are time-consuming activities. That's why nobody heard of me because I was too busy being angry 'cause of losing my band: 'Nobody ever credits the MC5!' and 'We never get our props!' It wasn't really until the loss of Rob Tyner and that I really had to face all that stuff, to REALLY accept. That freed me up. To make that record was the only thing I COULD do. Then it was time to go back to work.
You start looking at it that you're only going to have, if you're lucky, 60 years or 70 years. I was already at the time in my mid 40's thinking 'how much shelf life do I got here? Let's take this shit seriously. you ain't gonna be around forever. You better get on it.'
PSF: That record and the next one Dangerous Madness had real political edges to them, talking about society's breakdown.
Those have always been my concerns. If I see something that I think needs to have the sheet pulled off it and the spotlight put on it or something annoys me, something interests me, then I find that good subject matter for a rock and roll song.
PSF: Do you think that your political viewpoint's changed or evolved since the time of the MC5?
I don't think it's changed all that much. I think it's the same consciousness. Those were the years that defined me. Living and working with Rob Tyner, John Sinclair and the years that I was in my twenties. The '60's, that's what formed my thinking. I still see the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and big business makes more money every year. So these are just continuations of the way I view the world. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here. (laughs)
PSF: On Citizen Wayne, you had songs about dope, guns and fucking while at the same time, you deal with present and how you kicked your drug and alcohol problems. Is this you looking back and forward in your life?
No, that might be a little grandiose. I call the record 'auto-mythological'. I'm trying to tell my story. I don't want to be... reverential here. I'm writing pop songs for money. I'm not curing cancer or anything. I try to write songs that have meaning. But I don't want to try to be deep.
PSF: Before you were talking about carrying on the legacy of the MC5. Is that kind of a mission for you, to make sure people know this?
I guess it's something of a mission. I want to keep it in perspective because... did Louis Armstrong make it a mission going through his life, talking about when he played in the Hot 5? No. But he did tell the story and he was proud of the work he did. So, I tell the story. I think in the final analysis, it's a great legend but the legend business don't pay that well. Doesn't matter that much. What matters now is the next record I make. My favorite record is my next one.
PSF: You had a rapprochement with Sinclair after the group broke up. What kind of common bond do you see the two of you having now?
We're both militant libertarians. (laughs) We're the only two people in the world that understands what each other is talking about. We're amongst a very small circle of people that understands what we're saying. He remains one of my dearest friends and kind of a touchstone for me, remains a mentor, a sounding board. We conspire, we exchange ideas. We work together What I get from John a lot is his resiliency. We all have it hard, nobody has it easy, and sometimes John has it even harder than some. His spirit is indefatigable. And like I've said, we've been cool since the seventies.
PSF: What are you planning in the future?
Right now, I just signed on with Pere Ubu and I'll be doing a tour with them through October and November. Ubu came up behind the MC5. David Thomas told me that all he knows about rock and roll music, he learned from listening to the MC5. He could just be buttering me up a little bit but there might be some truth to it too. He was part of that whole Rust Belt movement that was happening, making something from nothing.
I'm now working with Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain on the music for the feature film of their book, PLEASE KILL ME. (I'm) Writing material for my new record and planning a tour to go behind the record that'll come out next month (LLMF) and a European tour in the new year. I just finished working with Henry Rollins on his solo album. Did a track for the new Hempiliation 2 record, for Steve Bloom and his maniac colleagues at High Times, a cover of Fats Wallers' "If You're A Viper" that came out nice. I'm going to be on the new Was(Not Was) record. I'm really looking forward to that. They've made up and buried the hatch but not in each others' backs. It's all about the work now.
PSF: Any long term plans?
We're working on a Wayne book. Probably ending world hunger, stamping out illiteracy, curing cancer and becoming God-like. (laughs) Gotta keep it real, right?
I'm just trying to pay my rent every month and keep my phone on the air. This rock and roll business is not what everybody thinks it is. It's hard to sustain a career. This is the kind of work where you have to dig inside yourself to come up with the motivation. You invent it all yourself. It all starts with the artist. It's difficult sometimes. It's hard.
Long range... my goal is to do an album a year for the next ten years. I'm four years into it now and I've got six albums so I'm ahead of schedule. I can take a year off! (laughs)
PSF: Yeah, take a vacation.
No vacations. I'm not interested in vacating anything. I'm interested in working. Vacation means that I don't get paid. 'Cause I love my work. There's nothing I'd rather be doing.


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Another top Federal Reserve official signaled Tuesday the central bank should start winding down one of its major economic stimulus programs.
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In her first television interview since her appointment in 2011, Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, told Fox Business that she favors scaling back the Fed's "quantitative easing" bond buying program "faster and sooner," in part because of improving monthly jobs numbers.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed has purchased more than $2.5 trillion in bonds to help push down interest rates on auto loans, mortgages and business loans. The purchases, currently $85 billion a month, have raised its bond holdings to an unprecedented $3.4 trillion.
"I think it is time to begin to adjust those purchases," George said. "The labor market has shown now, for the last six months, pretty steady gains of close to 200,000 per month. That is a good indicator that there has been sustained improvement here and that I think it would be appropriate, given the size of our balance sheet, given the level of accommodation, that we begin to make adjustments that reflect that improvement as we go forward."
In remarks to an agriculture conference after her interview, George said the Fed could start tapering bond purchases at its policy meeting in September, with the goal of ending all bond purchases in the first half of 2014.
"As the economy has continued to recover, even though that's been slow, we have seen positive trends, both in the labor market and housing and other things," George said in the interview. "The discussion about how much longer -- when will the outlook for the labor market be sufficient -- to allow the committee to begin to make adjustments. We've come to that point."
In a press conference last month, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could start to reduce QE bond purchases later this year if the economy continued to grow and add jobs at the pace of the Fed's forecasts.
According to minutes of the Fed's June policy meeting, about half of Fed governors and regional bank presidents -- there are 19 in total -- said they favored ending quantitative easing (QE) by the end of 2013.
George declined to say if she was one of those. But she said, "I'm open to engaging that with my colleagues about the right pace. But I think sooner is appropriate -- to begin now, because we have a long way to go if we're going to do this in a gradual and a systematic say ... to begin to normalize monetary policy ... The important thing is to start the process."
George said that the central bank's official policy statements, not its minutes, were the "important signal" on QE and other plans.
Last week, the president of the Fed bank of Philadelphia, Charles Plosser, a QE critic, said the FOMC should start tapering bond purchases in September and end them altogether by year-end.
At the Fed's policy-making body, the 12-member Federal Open Market Committee, George and other regional bank presidents rotate on and off the panel as voting members. George rotated on in January.
She has criticized QE, saying it could promote asset bubbles and higher inflation, though she said Tuesday that inflation expectations right now "seem to be in a good place." She has dissented at every FOMC meeting so far this year; its next meeting is at the end of July.
Still, George echoed comments of Bernanke and other Fed officials about the need to base decisions about QE on incoming data on the economy and job creation.
"The (FOMC) will be meeting again in a couple of weeks to talk about the data we've seen, to talk about the next steps to policy," George said. "And so that is a decision that is made collectively by the committee. And you can expect that as we talk about it, there will be diversity of views at that table. But the outcomes, I think, will continue to be data driven, continue to be supported by what we see unfolding in the economy."
Since Bernanke mentioned the idea of tapering bond purchases in May, longer-term interest rates have risen sharply, though they remain historically low. Unlike some Fed colleagues, George declined to describe the increases as an "overreaction" to new comments on possible QE tapering.
"I think it's to be expected that when the tone of policy changes, there is an adjustment process. And the markets reacted," George said. "Those rates have settled down a little bit...I think that was a necessary communication. And I think as we go forward, the markets now will have different expectations."
With Bernanke and other Fed officials speaking almost daily about the future of QE -- and investors reacting to every comment, creating volatile stock and bond markets -- George added, "Communication around these issues, I think, are going to be challenging, because these are unconventional policies. Our experience with this, the market's experience with these is new territory. So as the communication unfolds and we seek to continue to clarify ... I think the message is clear, which is the economy continues to recover. We are seeing improvement in the labor markets. And given the very extraordinary and aggressive nature of monetary policy, now is a good time to talk about how the future might unfold...to prepare the markets."


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New Bugaboo Bee Stroller – Review
January 19th, 2010
The new Bugaboo Bee Stroller will be coming soon. The official date has not been announced, but it will be sometime in the Spring of 2010. Our best guest is sometime between May and July. We are all anxiously awaiting its' release.
The new 2010 Bugaboo Bee Stroller will look very similar to its' predecessor, however, there have been a few significant changes to improve the overall performance of the stroller. It looks like the designer, Jaap Der Boer, and the development team at Bugaboo listened to what customers had to say about the old Bugaboo Bee and worked hard to improve the already popular stroller. The seat is much larger and more aerodynamic and the knobs are easier to adjust and turn.
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Vivian D. Eaton, age 95, of Virgil, NY, passed away peacefully on July 19, 2013 at Cortland Park Health and Rehabilitation Center, Cortland, NY.
Born March 24, 1918 in Suffern, NY, she was the daughter of the late Raymond and Hazel Floyd Biehl and wife of the late Douglas B. Eaton, who died in 2002. Vivian was a City Court Clerk for the City of Middletown, NY prior to her retirement.
Vivian is survived by her daughters: Carole L. (Howard A.) Ford, and Suzanne (Ronald J.) Bradford, all of Virgil, NY; grandchildren: Donald (Cheryl) Ford, Wayne (Marsha) Ford, Roy (Debbie) Ford, Laurie (John) Case, Kim (Dan) Devlen and Jeffrey Howarth, Jr.; 10 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by brothers: Richard and Raymond Biehl.
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China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC) 2011 Successfully Held in Shanghai
Shanghai, China — March 23, 2011 — SEMI and ECS announced that the annual China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC) held on March 13-14, 2011 was a great success with a record number of 340 speakers and a record number of 741 attendees from around the world. David Wang, CEO and president of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Inc. (SMIC), T.C. Chen, IBM Fellow and vice president of Science and Technology, Chenming Hu, TSMC distinguished chair professor of microelectronics at the University of California at Berkeley, and John Lau, ITRI Fellow in Taiwan delivered the keynote speeches at the conference plenary session. Over 130 of the world's leading experts in semiconductor technology presented in the ten parallel symposia. The conference has become a world-class event covering most of the aspects of semiconductor technology and emerging technology areas including LED and photovoltaic.
Hanming Wu, CSTIC conference chair, senior director of SMIC said, "I am very happy to see that so many world's leading experts from industry and academia presented at the CSTIC conference. With this excellent platform, technical managers and engineers from SMIC, HHNEC, Huali, Grace Semiconductor, Samsung, Infineon, professors and students from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University etc have the opportunities to have face to face communication with the industry for leading edge technology and semiconductor manufacturing solutions." With the new record numbers of papers and attendees, CSTIC has become a world class technical event. Among the 340 papers, 28% papers were from the U.S., 15% papers from Europe, 9% papers from Japan while 36% papers from China. Many of the papers were from leading fabs, equipment and materials companies like IBM, Intel, Toshiba, STMicro, IMEC, TSMC, Infineon, ASE, Flextronics, ARM, SMIC, Applied Materials, TEL, KLA-Tencor and Dow Chemical.
Five solar industry executives from Daqo, GCL, LDK, Trina and ASTROnergy join the "Solar Silicon Materials — Opportunities and Challenges" panel discussion held on March 14 with more than 80 attendees. Technical experts in LEDs from Philips Lumileds and many other companies presented at an LED focus session and more than 70 attendees participated in a short course on "Fundamentals of High Power White LEDs" on March 14. Following SEMI member's example, CSTIC has successfully broadened its technical areas into solar and LED industry.
As the largest semiconductor industry technology conference in China, CSTIC 2011 was organized jointly by SEMI and ECS. Over 170 manuscripts from CSTIC 2011 passed critical review by the technical committee and have been published in ECS Transactions digital library. Dr. Allen Lu, SEMI vice president and president of SEMI China and Mr. Roque Calvo, executive director of ECS gave the opening speeches at the plenary session respectively.
The 2011 conference was co-organized by China's High Tech Expert Committee (CHTEC), and co-sponsored by IEEE, CEMIA, MRS and CSE. It was also supported by Shanghai Pudong Association for Science & Technology, Shanghai Pudong New Area Science & Technology Development Fund. Fourteen industry companies, including KLA-Tencor, sponsored this event.
Six students and young engineers won the SEMI ECS Student & Engineer Award(SESEA)at CSTIC 2011. They are Mireia Bargallo Gonzalez from IMEC, Belgium; Dandan Jiang from IMECAS, China; Shiqiang Qin from Peking University, China; Nicolas Posseme from CEA-Leti, France; Jolly Zhao from KLA-Tencor, U.S.; and Yuanqian Ji from Grace Semiconductor, China.
Dr. Qinghuang Lin, senior scientist from IBM will be CSTIC 2012 conference chair. CSTIC 2012 will be held on March 18-19 in Shanghai. The "Call for Papers" deadline is September 30, 2011.
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U.S. Olympic Committee names O'Neill Chef de Mission for 2014 Paralympic Winter Games
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The U.S. Olympic Committee announced today that Julie O'Neill has been selected to serve Team USA as the Chef de Mission of Team USA for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Selected by the USOC board of directors, O'Neill will provide overall leadership to Team USA and function as the liaison officer between the Sochi Organizing Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and other National Olympic Committees at the Games.
"Julie will do an outstanding job of leading Team USA in Sochi for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games," said Scott Blackmun, the CEO of the USOC. "As someone who works day in and day out to make the U.S. Paralympic teams the best in the world, there is no one better suited to ensure that our athletes have the best possible foundation for success in Russia."
O'Neill has worked at the USOC for more than 10 years and currently serves as the Team Leader of Sport Performance. O'Neill oversees the high performance planning process and sport development projects for track and field, cycling, swimming and alpine and Nordic skiing. Under her leadership Team USA has grown significantly in size, with 77 athletes expected on the 2014 U.S. Paralympic Team, an increase of 27 from the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
"It is an honor to be selected as the Chef de Mission for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games," said O'Neill. "Our athletes have spent thousands of hours and made numerous sacrifices to prepare for these Games. It is my pleasure to be able to support them behind the scenes to give them the best possible experience in Sochi."
O'Neill first started in the Paralympic Movement as a coach for the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team. O'Neill was named the 2006 U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Coach of the Year for leading the U.S. team that won the overall medal count at the IPC World Championships in Durban, South Africa. It was the first time the U.S. had won the medal count at a world championship or Paralympic Games in the sport of swimming.
O'Neill is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Ohio State University with a Masters of Arts degree in Slavic and East European Studies.


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175-day school year eyed as Manchester teachers voice oppositionBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 10. 2013 8:55PM
MANCHESTER - School board members are scheduled to discuss a plan tonight to shorten the school year by extending the school day for city students. The proposal has drawn the ire of the city's teachers union, which in a letter to school officials threatens to "seek recourse through any and all legal avenues" if the changes are adopted.
Union officials say they aren't opposed to the extra class time, just the fact the board wants to make the changes without negotiating first. The union says the plan violates provisions in its contract concerning changes in work conditions. Officials are expected to meet with school administrators for the first contract negotiating sessions Tuesday.
"It doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth," said Benjamin Dick, president of the Manchester Education Association. "It's not the way you want to start things off."
Tonight's Board of School Committee meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at City Hall.
The teacher contract expires at the end of this school year. If no agreement is reached on the new contract, the current one remains in effect.
The district's Coordination Committee voted last month to approve a 175-day calendar, a change from the current 180 days. The change, which would go into effect for the 2013-2014 school year, was drawn up by district officials after they realized they could achieve the state-mandated minimum of 990 hours of class time for middle and high schools and end school about a week earlier than with the 180-day calendar.
The plan also includes the required 945 instructional hours for elementary students, and the 60 hours that need to be added for missed days due to inclement weather or emergencies.
Under the proposal, the additional class time is achieved by cutting back on the lunch period in the city's high schools, from 50 to about 25 minutes. Lunch periods at the elementary and middle school levels are already approximately 25 minutes.
Mayor Ted Gatsas backs the change.
"Parents say their kids don't have enough education time," he said. "This would give them more of that."
Dick said the proposed changes add to the work load of teachers.
"To accommodate the extra work hour, part of the lunch period is taken away and work time is increased," he said.
He added: "It's not the idea of more hours that we are opposed to," said Dick. "We have discussed this with our members, and alerted them that the topic will likely come during negotiations. It's the idea that these changes can be unilaterally imposed, without negotiating, when they are a negotiable item that we take issue with."
In a letter to Manchester Superintendent of Schools Tom Brennan, dated Feb. 21, Dick writes: "This action would increase the amount of daily time teachers must work and would violate the collective bargaining agreement and state law. MEA contends that this action constitutes an Unfair Labor Practice as a serious repudiation of the parties' Collective Bargaining Agreement and is a grievable offense."
Gatsas said Sunday night if needed, he would offer an option where high school staff would work 180 days, while those at the lower levels work 175.
"If the union is unwilling to make that change, we can have separate schedules for high school teachers, and elementary and junior high teachers," said Gatsas.
The proposed calendar would also make Dec. 23 a vacation day. For the 2013-2014 year, the last day of school would be June 12 for students and June 13 for staff.


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Don't know what to say Thom.
I always get so confused reading some of your Articles. There's some sanity one day then plain weird the next.
One minute you can't stand the Apple ecosystem and closed source nature, yet you still buy and support their products.
Where's the conviction?
I'm not sure what it is, iPad is the last thing I thought you would buy. Maybe you're toughest on the ones you love hey? Deep down you're just a big ole softy for Apple and love them so much but you just have to put on a brave face and pretend you dislike them just so you don't get labelled as one of the 'sheep'. Come to the Darkside Thom. We have cookies.
I thought you'd be all over Android like a fat kid on a cupcake regardless.
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Stuffed Turkey Roast
Makes 8 servings
When we were working on this recipe, everyone who tasted it raved about how tender and delicious it is. It's also incredibly easy to prepare, and it makes a very nice presentation.
Find this recipe and more in Chef Paul Prudhomme's Fork In The Road.
1 (2 pound) turkey roast, all skin, visible fat, and the pop-up timer (if your roast has one) removed
2 tablespoons Chef Paul Prudhomme's Poultry Magic®
1 cup chopped onions
½ cup chopped green bell peppers
½ cup chopped celery
1 cup apple juice
1½ cups defatted chicken stock, in all
¼ cup nonfat mayonnaise
how to prepare
In the top of the roast, cut 8 to 10 slits, 1 inch wide and about ¾ of the way through. Sprinkle all the surfaces of the roast with 1 tablespoon of Poultry Magic® and rub it in well. Preheat the oven to 225°.
Preheat a 12-inch skillet, preferably nonstick, over high heat to 350°, about 4 minutes.
Add the onions, bell peppers, celery, and the remaining 1 tablespoon Poultry Magic®. Cook, scraping the bottom of the skillet occasionally, until the vegetables start to brown, about 5 to 6 minutes. Add the apple juice and cook until most of the liquid evaporates, about 10 minutes. Transfer the ingredients from the skillet to a blender or food processor and purée until smooth, remove the puréed mixture to a plate, and cool about 2 to 3 minutes.
Put 1 tablespoon of the puréed mixture into each of the slits in the roast. Spread 1 tablespoon of the mixture evenly on top of the roast, and place the remaining mixture in the center of a 9 x 12-inch roasting
pan. Place the roast directly on top of the purée, and roast for 1 hour. Add 1 cup of the stock to the pan and roast until tender and golden brown, about 30 minutes more.
To make a rich-tasting, healthy gravy, transfer the roast to a platter and add the remaining stock to the pan. Place the pan over high heat and scrape the bottom to clear it of all brown bits. Bring to a boil and transfer 1 cup of the liquid to a blender. Add the mayonnaise and blend completely. Turn off the heat and whisk the blended mixture into the liquid in the pan. To serve, carve the roast and drizzle some of the gravy over each portion. Pass the rest of the gravy-it's great with potatoes, rice or biscuits.
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Baselines and subsequent comparison metrics make it easy to determine whether index modifications and code changes are truly improving the performance on heavily used servers. However, many DBAs (especially reluctant DBAs) regularly fail to set up baselines before they undertake performance tuning efforts. In my experience, this oversight occurs because no perfect solution exists that can easily address all the complex variables and differences in workload, utilization, and execution that might be encountered from one execution to the next when collecting performance metrics.
Related: Debugging (Nested) Stored Procedures with SQL Server Profiler
Aggregate Values Are Good Enough
From a performance standpoint, aggregate values are good enough. In other words, if you can trace the number of operations executed in a given amount of time and then determine the average reads, writes, CPU utilization, and duration, then when you make a change it's fair to say you should expect to see a change in whatever metric or performance aspect you're targeting.
Fortunately, those metrics are trivial to obtain. Here's what I do:
- Launch SQL Server Profiler. (From the Start menu, select Programs, Microsoft SQL Server, Performance Tools, SQL Server Profiler.)
- Create a new trace. (Select File, New Trace, then connect to the server you'd like to use as a baseline.)
In the Trace Properties dialog box, which Figure 1 shows, give your trace a name (e.g., Baseline, Post index changes), make sure the Standard (default) trace template is selected, and select the Save to file option (any location will work).
On the Events Selection tab, clear all the options except the RPC:Completed and SQL:BatchCompleted events, as Figure 2 shows. This means that you only want to watch for T-SQL batches and RPCs (remotely executed stored procedure calls).
- Click Run.
On busy servers, a flurry of queries/stored procedures will fly by in the trace window. On less busy servers you'll be able to see every RPC/batch call that's executed on the server (i.e., on the instance you're profiling).
Let the trace run for a while—however long you think makes sense. On heavily used servers, this can be as little as 5 to 10 minutes. Just remember that you'll need to run the same trace for roughly the same amount of time the next time you need to gather results. (Although as we'll see shortly, the actual amount of time doesn't really matter too much.) Store the trace data in a table, as Figure 3 shows.
A Brief Warning
SQL Server Profiler is an extremely powerful tool. It's gradually being replaced by extended events (which is good news), but it remains very simple and easy to use. However, because the tool is so powerful, it's easy to make simple mistakes in using it.
Specifically, every time you enable a trace on a server, you're imposing some additional code/processing and overhead (commonly referred to as the watcher effect). Typically, you can assume that using SQL Server Profiler will add approximately 1 to 3 percent processor overhead. This should be fairly light on your disks when saving to file, because SQL Server Profiler efficiently buffers writes to disk. However, if you get carried away with the number of events you're watching/profiling, or if you grab an event that occurs multiple times (or tens or hundreds of times) per query, it's possible to create a situation in which SQL Server Profiler can quickly generate huge amounts of data.
Likewise, I recommend that you never use the Save to table feature. It's too easy to accidentally save trace data to a table on the server you're profiling, which can create a very nasty feedback loop that will negatively affect performance.
Crunching the Numbers
After you've collected some data, it's fairly easy to run queries against it, generate averages, and examine other metadata to be able to either establish a baseline or compare the latest execution details against the baseline. I ran the query in Listing 1 against my trace data (stored in a table).
WITH Trace ( [StartTime],[EndTime],[TotalMinutes],[TotalOperations], [TotalCPU],[TotalReads],[TotalWrites],[TotalDuration]) AS ( SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10), MIN(StartTime),8), CONVERT(varchar(10), MAX(EndTime),8), DATEDIFF(n,MIN(StartTime),MAX(EndTime)), COUNT(RowNumber), SUM(CPU), SUM(Reads), SUM(Writes), SUM(Duration) FROM
) SELECT StartTime [Start], EndTime [End], TotalMinutes [Total Mins], TotalOperations [Total Ops.], --TotalCPU, --TotalReads, --TotalWrites, --TotalDuration, CAST((CAST(TotalOperations as decimal(18,4)) / CAST(TotalMinutes as decimal(18,4))) as decimal (18,4))[Ops / Min.], CAST((CAST(ISNULL(TotalCPU,0) as decimal(18,4)) / CAST(TotalOperations as decimal(18,4))) as decimal (18,4)) [CPU / Op], CAST((CAST(ISNULL(TotalReads,0) as decimal(18,4)) / CAST(TotalOperations as decimal(18,4))) as decimal (18,4)) [Reads / Op], CAST((CAST(ISNULL(TotalWrites,0) as decimal(18,4)) / CAST(TotalOperations as decimal(18,4))) as decimal (18,4)) [Writes / Op], CAST((CAST(ISNULL(TotalDuration,0) as decimal(18,4)) / CAST(TotalOperations as decimal(18,4))) as decimal (18,4)) [Duration / Op] FROM Trace;
The query in Listing 1 uses T-SQL template syntax to specify the name of the table you want to query (i.e., you need to specify the table name instead of the placeholder).
You don't have to save SQL Server Profiler trace output to SQL Server in order to query it, because you can use fn_trace_gettable('FilePath_and_Name_here.trc') instead. However, I find that it's typically less work to save the results to a table within SQL Server. (Note that this function is deprecated—as is SQL Server Profiler.)
Once you've crunched the numbers, you'll get output similar to that in Figure 4.
Making Sense of the Output
The key to making your baseline work is the idea that averages are a decent enough indicator of overall performance that if your averages go up or down from one reading to the next, you can easily make sense of whether any recent changes were good or bad from a performance standpoint. That is, the expectation is that if you add indexes or made code tweaks, you should see decreased averages—but if new functionality or features for your app are released, and the averages for reads, writes, or duration shoot up, then you know that something troublesome was introduced.
The primary metric you'll want to compare from one trace to the next is the Operations/Minute value. This value will be a decent indicator of whether you're comparing apples to apples or apples and oranges from one execution to the next, based on different workload characteristics, increases/decreases in activity, and so on. In other words, if the Operations/Minute values are roughly within the same ballpark, then it should be safe to assume that the other metrics will line up well enough that any serious spikes or jumps in reads, writes, CPU, or duration might be a problem, whereas any noticeable decreases in these values should be an indicator that your performance tuning efforts have paid off. This is because, all things being more or less equal, if you're seeing roughly the same number of executions per minute but you're seeing decreased reads and duration (for example), then your operations have become much more efficient.
The primary benefit of the approach I've outlined here is that data collection becomes quite trivial. After you establish a baseline, that baseline is useful only if you regularly compare it against future or additional checks.


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