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I straightened my Shania Twain "Any Man of Mine" denim vest, sucked in, and turned as the classroom door opened.
"Evan Lindsay! Glad you could join us today," remarked Mr. T, our sarcastic (and possibly drunk) Social Studies Teacher.
A tall, skinny, sullen-looking teenaged boy with a mop of curly ginger hair entered the room. As I examined his baggy jeans and Air Walk sneakers my first impression was that the new boy looked more like a skater than a polished imported WHL hockey player.
|Likely re-calculating his save percentage
I didn't really get to know Evan until December of that year. He was quiet and often appeared a bit resentful about being traded to the Raiders. As I desperately attempted to climb the popularity ladder, Evan Lindsay appeared to care less about his high school social status and more about his goals against average. He intrigued me. He didn't seem to mind being alone (in high school? Gasp!), he didn't have a locker in the "square" with his teammates, and although he attended team parties, he always hung back quietly observing his surroundings. Evan Lindsay was different.
One night at a Christmas party, Evan and I seemed to hit it off. Spending most of the night seated on the floor next to each other, we laughed for hours, mocking the drunks as the party spiralled out of control. Reflecting on my relationship knowledge, all gathered from the teenage relationship bible, "YM Magazine," I made the executive decision to play hard to get and wandered away from Evan to talk to some other boys. Evan did not follow me, and in fact, left the party soon after without saying goodbye. Undoubtably, according to YM Magazine's relationship quiz, "Does he like you?," this was a sure sign that we were "in the friend zone." Sigh. Now I knew.
Despite YM's sound advice, I continued to have a sneaking suspicion that Evan Lindsay liked me. In Social Studies class, he often casually walked by my desk, dropping a handful Mike 'n Ike candies in front of me. Occasionally, as a special surprise, he would tear a Mike 'N Ike in half and fuse it with another flavour. C'mon, people. That's gotta be flirtation? Something hot was brewing.
I met up again with Evan after Christmas at a house gathering. He immediately approached me and we picked up right where we left off, laughing and joking easily with each other. I was confused. It seemed as though he was interested, but my test had blatantly indicated zero romantic potential. So I did what any intelligent 17 year old girl would do, I delivered Evan another relationship "test."
I headed to the kitchen and reached up for the hot chocolate on the top shelf. I beckoned (in my best sultry tone), "Evan, can you help me reach the hot chocolate. It's too high."
YM Magazine specified that if the boy reached around and touched you while he was retrieving the object, this gesture indicated that you had succeeded in "catching your crush."Obviously.
"Sure. Move."
Evan (very unromantically) bumped me out of the way and retrieved the hot chocolate.
Damn. According to YM Magazine, Evan and I had zero chance of being the next "it couple."
Despite the failed tests, I still felt chemistry with this tall skinny goalie, and given the fact that I talked about Evan all the time, my friends had begun to suspect that I had a crush on him. One day after school, as I sat on my best friend's bed discussing Evan's hilarious comment in class that day, my bestie shouted, "You like him! You totally like him!"
"No way. We're just friends. Seriously."
Without blinking an eye, Janna picked up her super cool see through phone and dialled Evan's phone number. When Evan answered the phone, Janna threw the receiver at me. Unprepared for a mature conversation, I squealed loudly and frantically hung up the phone. Epic fail.
A few weeks later we found ourselves at another party together. As soon as I entered the room, one of Evan's teammates approached me and said, "Evan Lindsay has been asking where you are."
My stomach fluttered excitedly. Evan Lindsay was asking about me? Perhaps he WAS interested? I decided to forgo all my YM relationship knowledge and just be "me" for the night.
As soon as I saw Ev that night, I knew that something had changed. We made small talk for a few minutes with stupid teenager, "I like you" smirks on our faces and then it happened. He asked me out on a date!
Three days later, on February 3, 1997, Evan and I stiffly sat side-by-side at the Cinema IV theatre in Prince Albert. "Star Wars" was being shown, but I don't recall processing one second of that movie. I was focused solely on Evan's hand, which moved closer and closer to mine, only to retreat a few seconds later. Evan never did get up the courage to hold my hand during that two hour movie. But I knew that he wanted to.
On the way back from the movie, in Evan's silver 1986 Mazda 626, we chatted easily about school and hockey. I was surprised when Evan rolled down his window and the -25 degree winter air shocked our faces.
"It's kinda hot in here," stated Ev calmly. I only found out years later that he had farted, and was desperately trying to mask the smell. Romance at its finest.
That night Evan walked me to the door of my mom's house and stood in the foyer grinning madly. Awkward silence ensued for what seemed like hours until I finally decided to break every YM relationship rule and stated, "I really want to kiss you."
And so we kissed. You know how some teenage kisses (and first kisses) are really bad? There can be tongues and teeth and uncoordinated nose placement in those early years when you are attempting to solve the mysteries of lip locking. Well my kiss with Evan was awesome. It was just a really great kiss with a boy whom I really liked. As we reluctantly pulled away and said goodbye, I knew that I had already developed real feelings for this sullen teenage boy with curly ginger hair. Although I kept it a secret for an entire month (Gasp!), I was in love.
Even though it was immediately apparent to me that Evan and I shared a special connection, I did not imagine that his lips would be the lips that I would kiss for the next 20+ years. (So screw you, YM Magazine!)
Cheers to 20 years of ups, downs, highs, lows, tears, laughter, and joy. What a ride!
"As soon as I saw you I knew that an adventure was going to happen."
- Winnie The Pooh
- Winnie The Pooh
|Another pivotal kiss in our relationship!
|Our first picture together. No awkwardness here.
|First summer as a "couple"
|One of us has always tanned easier than the other ;)
|Teaching Ev how to two-step. It was short-lived.
|Another awkward couple photo
|Grade 12 Graduation. Ev slicked back the curls for the occasion.


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My uncle in Holland has the collected diaries of Thomas Mann, and I am bemused by the fact that Mann would report daily on the weather and on his accomplishments of each day. There are other commentaries, references and memoranda that he includes in his diary entries, but the weather report and the record of his achievements in his writing and research are almost always there.
Well, the weather here in Noordwijk has been extremely variable since my arrival. It was initially very hot, then cold and windy, overcast and rainy weather followed, and now it is again sunny and hot. The dark overcast day, the wind and rain from the North Sea, I find conducive to the study and appreciation of Dutch culture, and I welcomed that gloom of rainy weather in my early wandering in Dutch cities.
But it all started last week in San Diego, on June 14, at Lindbergh field, where I went through the many motions of boarding the plane, clearing security, checking the luggage, and preparing psychologically for the thirteen hour trip. As I surveyed my environment, I was struck by the affluence of the people who were traveling alongside me, a radiance in their countenance, elegant clothing and luggage, polite children. The class divisions in America are increasingly evident and can be sought out in different locales where the identification becomes easy.
As the plane descended over Minneapolis I began to see the green that would accompany me to Holland and beyond. The green started there. I saw the Mississippi, unexpectedly narrow in those latitudes, winding its way through the city, and surrounded by trees on all sides. It was cool weather upon arrival, a contrast with the boiling hot and dry San Diego, and there was little to do at the airport for an hour. A class of young girls, about ten or eleven-year-olds, boarded the plane there. They were loud and boisterous, and ran about in the aisles. But it wasn't their rambunctiousness that struck me, rather their narcissism and arrogance, strange at their age. I had them all about me, behind me and to the side, and so I could overhear their conversation for several hours. Everything they said was self-referential, and they acted contemptuously towards the services provided, arrogantly dismissed the quality of the food, as if they were entitled to gourmet fare. They were modestly attired, which made me think it was probably a religious institution they hailed from, and they were all wearing the same colors. The plane inched its way over the desolate regions of Eastern Canada, a bumpy ride. A short night followed after we began to fly over the Atlantic. As the dawn began to clear ahead, I saw Dublin all lit up. I thought of my previous flights to Europe, the past of England and Ireland, and began to feel the emotional pull of the old world. The slow descent to Amsterdam began when we were still over Nottingham. It is remarkable to me how close England and Holland are, historically, culturally, and geographically in space and time. In no time at all, we were aiming at Amsterdam. The clouds parted over the North Sea just in time to see the dunes of South Holland, and then came the green again, a clearer green, the green of the polders and the waterways that determined the history of the Dutch. Early in this Dutch morning, I arrived at Schiphol airport.
Shiphol Airport, Amsterdam
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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text: In order to achieve the goal set by the Synod, namely, an increased emphasis on the Bible in the Church's pastoral activity, all Christians, and catechists in particular, need to receive suitable training. Attention needs to be paid to the biblical apostolate, which is a very valuable means to that end, as the Church's experience has shown. The Synod Fathers also recommended that, possibly through the use of existing academic structures, centres of formation should be established where laity and missionaries can be trained to understand, live and proclaim the word of God. Also, where needed, specialized institutes for biblical studies should be established to ensure that exegetes possess a solid understanding of theology and an appropriate appreciation for the contexts in which they carry out their mission.Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB CEO Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation The readings for this Sunday are Sirach 15.15-20; 1 Corinthians 2.6-10; Matthew 5.17-37. - Image: Sermon On the Mount by 19th century Danish painter Carl Heinrich Bloch.


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Monday, June 3, 2013
California, here I come...
RE reminded me tonight to be sure to pack it.
As usual I'd forgotten.
All this to say, I won't be near my computer for the next few days.
PS. Interesting fact: I was born in California. And when I was a child taking long road trips with my family, we sang songs to pass the time. "California, here I come," was one we sang every now and then. Not often, but when we did, I always felt like only my older brother and I should really be able to sing it, because we were the only ones who'd actually 'started' there. Just like my middle sister thought that the chorus of the Battle Hymn of the Republic was actually about her: "Laurie, Laurie Hallelujah!"
Ah, the things kids think.
See you Sunday.
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It changed my mood soooooooooo badly, but i don't even remember the detail in my dream. Geez! i need somethin to charges my mood. Eat??? No, i don't want too. Draw somethin? Nooooooo. Umm, what else....thinking...thinking...over thinking...
i woke up, take my meals then open up my browser...
and so you know what's inside a woman's mind hahaha let's do shopping online :""""") .I do love it because it's safe and easy. No need to go out, no need to meet the traffic jam. All we have to do just stay home, let's browsing to freshen up our eyes with those cute stuff hihihih.
What's your favorite website that have anything you want? Umm, i prefer this one!
This is Dskon Fashion Portal.
Express the solution for your online shopping. Being known as not only a deal agregator, in which their collects every offers and deals that appeared in Indonesia's daily deals websites - They also known as the first Online Shopping portals in Indonesia.
Wooottt wooottt...such a pretty and awesome idea if you guys want to do online shopping i bet you to look this.....XD XD
Moreover, as a part of its commitment in bringing up fresh infos around online fashion, sales, new shops and the most trendy clothes, they also owns its very own blog, in which every online shop customer can read articles about reviews on various fashion products and brand, tips and trick on mixing-n-matching different fashion items, latest updates on sales around the city, and of course many other articles that would be very useful and relevant to the needs of an online shopper.
Wow!!!! See, it's pretty simple...so many brand that you can choose to shop ;)
Which one that i click. hemmm...well, i go here by the way.
Not just thinking about clothes, bags, shoes...we also must thinking about our face. Let's make up our mind and make up our face hehehe... They had this blog article that talked about make up. They just really know what's that we need right???
|follow the trend from them ;)
so know, yiiihaaaa!!!!
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From The Star 31 Aug 2009:
Hisham:Create racial tension and you'll pay dearly
By LOURDES CHARLES, FLORENCE SAMY and WANI MUTHIAH
SHAH ALAM: The Home Ministry will take stern action against any group that tries to create racial tension, says minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.
He said the security of the people and peace far outweighed any other issues in the country.
"Friday's incident, if left unchecked, will lead to more conflicts and tense situations," he warned.
"This is a very sensitive matter," said Hishammuddin. "I am issuing a stern warning to any party or group not to resort or act beyond the confines of law that can be detrimental to the security and peace of the country."
The Government, he added, would not bow to any pressure in matters involving race and religion.
A group of more than 200 people had marched to the Selangor state secretariat after Friday prayers to protest the relocation of a Hindu temple in Section 23, here.
The group had left a cow's head at the entrance of the building.
Hishammuddin also suggested that Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and his exco members should meet the disgruntled group to sort out the matter amicably instead of leaving it to the local authorities.
He said the decision to relocate the temple was made by the excos and they should be held responsible for the move.
He also warned those instigating the Hindus through articles posted on the internet that the Police and the Malaysian Commission and Multimedia Communication, together with the Attorney-General's chambers, were monitoring such actions.
Meanwhile, Upko president Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said there was no room for extremism in Malaysia.
Expressing regret over Friday's incident, Dompok said such action would divide the people, not unite them.
To date, more than 50 police reports have been lodged at the Shah Alam district police headquarters over the protest.
So… How much are you charging yourself 'dearly' for this:
And how much are your charging them 'dearly' for these:
"Ah Pek, sit down and keep quiet!"
"I'm talking about Muslims, not keling."
– Badruddin Amiruldin ( Deputy Permanent Chairman of UMNO)
"Datuk Hisham has unsheathed his keris, waved his keris, kissed his keris. We want to ask Datuk Hisham when is he going to use it?"
"Force must be used against those who refused to abide by the social contract."
– Hashim Suboh (Deputy Chief of UMNO Kangar)
"Malays will kill Chinese, Chinese will kill Malays, Indians will kill everybody else."
– Tengku Adnan (Tourism Minister under Barisan Nasional, Setiausaha Kerja of UMNO)
"Burn down the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall."
– Abdul Aziz Sheikh Fadzir (Deputy Leader of UMNO Youth)
"Revoke the citizenship of those who opposed the Malay rulers."
"May 13 has begun."
"Soak it (the keris) with Malaysian Chinese blood."
– Najib Tun Razak (Prime Minister under Barisan Nasional, President of UMNO)
"The Jews robbed the Palestinians of everything, but in Malaysia they could not do so, hence they do this, depress the ringgit."
"Today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them. They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong so they may enjoy equal rights with others."
"1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews."
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text: Historic Studio, which is morphing into a whole new level of wonderfulness with all the usual statement pieces and now a bigger emphasis on home accessories. I caught up with the always inspiring and energetic Robb Whittlef and saw how busy he and his crew have been collecting even more goodies from all over the world and expertly displaying them. And this week they've been even busier gearing up for this Saturday's sale (Oct. 6, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 4950 W. 35th St., St. Louis Park), which, if follows suit of the last sale, will have hundreds—yes, they said HUNDREDS—of people waiting in line. I've got to tell you, it's worth the wait. Not just because everything is 50 PERCENT OFF, but there's so much inside to delight. Shoppers can score a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk, a cafe au lait leather settee, wire birdcages, cool metal pendants, armchairs, couches, mirrors, vases, pillows...price points are all over the place with some accessories on sale under $50 and others with quite a few extra zeros attached. Even if you're browsing, you'll love Robb's eye, because it's not just the stuff, it's how he displays things."Im such a display junkie," he says. "A lot of people have great stuff, they're just not showcasing it properly. A lot of people like blue and white, but it's so scattered throughout their house. I call it 'design dropping' where everything is dropped every seven feet."Walking around the studio is like a lesson in design, clustering your vases, mixing up your lighting, decorating your coffee table trunk, mixing mirrors and wood. Since this place is usually to-the-trade and only open to the public maybe twice a year for these sales, go early and soak it all in. Here's a sneak peek at what you'll see.[caption id="attachment_586" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Blue + white, expertly displayed"][/caption][caption id="attachment_577" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Vintage Louis Vuitton trunk"][/caption][caption id="attachment_578" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Lots of new lighting"][/caption][caption id="attachment_579" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Extra large Monopoly hat anyone?"][/caption][caption id="attachment_580" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Lots of leather and accents"][/caption][caption id="attachment_581" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="A little country here, a little modern there"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_582" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Spotted a few rolling carts"][/caption][caption id="attachment_583" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Stag heads + birdcages"][/caption][caption id="attachment_584" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Love this—one of the under $50 accessories"][/caption]


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Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990293
Name: Myagmarjav
Parent's name: Dondov
Ovog: Hongor
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1937
Ethnicity: Halh
Occupations: retired
Additional Information
Education: graduated a literacy group
Notes on education:
Belief: Buddhist
Born in: Saihan sum, Bulgan aimag
Lives in: Saihan sum (or part of UB), Bulgan aimag
Mother's profession: herder
Father's profession: herder
To read a full interview with Myagmarjav please click on the Interview ID below.
Summary of Interview 090741A with Myagmarjav by Khishigsüren
Many relatives and the children of Lamjav guai (see interview 090102; interviewee 990080) gave interviews in our project and one of them is D. Myagmarjav. The interviews of the many family relatives of the Lamjav guai is one of the interesting aspects of the 20th century Mongolian oral history study. It is very interesting to trace by one family's developmental history the oral Mongolian history of the socialist period, its end, and the democratic period.
D. Myagmarjav is the oldest sister of Lamjav guai. Her husband Pülee (090740; interviewee 990292) and her son Bavuujav (090742; interviewee 990294) also gave interviews. She was born the eldest daughter of Dondov in 1935 in Saihan sum, Bulgan aimag. She grew up raising livestock. She is a representative of the ordinary countryside herder women who have tended livestock all their life. She has also raised ten children along raising livestock.
Her husband was a collective agent and always went to the countryside to deliver goods to the herders and he also collected the raw animal products. And while he was away to fulfill the standard work norm she used to safeguard the livestock in the severe natural conditions together with her little children. She used to watch the livestock in the night rain with her children. She said, 'she didn't take better care of her children than the collective livestock.' She feared the collective lamb dying, for if it died, she wouldn't be able to fulfill the plan. But she never feared her children would get sick. In such a way they tended the collective livestock and endeavored to fulfill the work norms. Also, she used to make all her children's clothes except the footwear by herself, and now she jokes about the Chinese clothes. There are so many of them that you might be choked by them. She compared the present day countryside herders' children's work with children's work previously and as well as the livestock rearing methods. There are a lot of children's contributions in tending livestock. Without their assistance they couldn't cope with the work.
She joined the collective in 1959 and she milked the cows there. Then in the autumn she took some sheep and since then she continuously pastured the sheep.
She pastured sheep until the privatization process was over and the collectives split up. Some sheep from the sheep flock she has been pasturing at the very end she gave to some people and some she privatized, acquiring private possessions. She thinks that consideration for the livestock, and the energy to work have decreased with the acquiring of private livestock because they wouldn't be punished if the livestock perished. It's my own property therefore it's my own business, so I won't pay anything if it dies. She is upset at such attitudes of the people towards the livestock.
She was taught the 35 letters at an one-week group training and there was no requirement for her to study and she doesn't regret not being educated. She feels the cultural campaign enlightened the Mongolian people and it made the people clean and neat and taught them to use blankets and mats. She approved of the cultural campaign's contribution.


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Address by
R. Hewitt Pate
July 1, 2004
Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here to speak with you about an issue of great importance to both our countries: the relationship between innovation and economic growth. Today I would like to discuss two of the policy tools that the United States uses to promote economic growth through innovation: private intellectual property rights and market-based competition. Promoting innovation is an important societal goal, one that both our countries recognize. Just last month China's Intellectual Property Development Research Center held a symposium that examined how intellectual property rights will stimulate innovation by Chinese enterprise and research bodies. In considering that topic today, I would like to begin by discussing the differences between invention, innovation, and competition, and how these concepts can best be fit together to promote economic growth.
When we talk about innovation and its importance to economic growth, what do we mean? Initially our thoughts turn to the invention or creation of newer, better, and cheaper goods and services. China has a very long history of invention that includes things many of us take for granted in our daily lives, such as decimal mathematics, paper money, gunpowder and rockets, and even the game of chess.(1) Our daily lives are also affected by new technological inventions. We communicate information faster and more reliably thanks to the mobile phone and e-mail, we live longer thanks to advances in pharmaceuticals and medical technology, and we can enjoy music and films in our homes, our cars, or as we walk on the street through CD and DVD technology. All of these products have been drivers of the so-called "new economy."
The invention or creation of something new, however, is just the first part of the innovation process. American economists Dr. Frederick M. Scherer and Dr. David Ross have identified four other stages of this process called innovation: entrepreneurship, investment, development, and diffusion. Entrepreneurship is the stage in which one decides to commercialize an invention, organizes the process and gets initial financial support. Investment is the stage during which capital funds are risked. Development is the stage in which the invention is perfected for commercial marketing. Finally, diffusion is the stage where other competitors follow the pioneering firm into that commercial market.(2) As we can see, innovation is a complicated and multi-faceted process, so when we use the term innovation it is shorthand for the entire process of taking a new invention or the expression of an idea and bringing it to market.
Although there is certainly more to learn about the innovative process, we do know quite a lot about innovation already. We know that successful innovation can be an uncertain process, with many "failures" before a particular invention results in successful innovation. We know that the later stages of innovation can be expensive and that while much innovation is privately funded, public funding of innovative effort can play an important role in some industries.(3) We know that market leaders tend to focus on incremental innovation while challengers to the market leaders are more likely to move in new directions. And we also know that the welfare of a society is improved when public policy encourages not only the initial spark of creativity, but also the entire dynamic process of developing improved goods and services or developing more cost-effective methods of producing and delivering these goods and services.(4)
Encouraging Innovation through Intellectual Property Policy
Why do some societies bring more inventions to market? I do not believe that the answer has anything to do with the nature of the population itself. Rather, what distinguishes societies as innovators is likely to be the presence of effective systems to harness the inventive spirit into innovation and economic growth. In the United States, innovation has been a key driver of our economy, and two of the many factors on which we rely to promote that innovation are the creation and enforcement of private intellectual property rights and the nurturing of a competitive open market economy.(5)
Why do we believe that protecting intellectual property rights promotes innovation? I will start by explaining the difficulties that businesses face when intellectual property rights do not exist, then explain how protecting intellectual property rights can solve the problem.
In a market economy, competition pushes firms to be the first to introduce new products at a price and level of quality consumers want. Where there is no intellectual property right or other barrier to making a product, competing firms may quickly drive the price of an existing product down to something close to the cost of production. This can present a problem in industries where the cost of producing a new product is very high, because the inventor firm may never be able to recoup its research and development costs. The result can be lessened incentives for investment, and stifled technological growth. As China becomes a leading player in a number of sectors of the world economy, China has a similar stake in protecting intellectual property rights to that of countries such as the United States that seek to promote technological innovation.
Let me pause here to give an example of this problem. Let us suppose that you wish to design a software program that instantly translates English technical documents into Chinese characters. Assume that you will need to hire twenty computer programmers and two translators for six months of work, and you have to invest, say, one million Yuan. But the day after you begin selling your program for 1000 Yuan per copy, your competitors flood the market with exact copies for only 8 Yuan apiece. Each time you make an improvement, the same unauthorized copying occurs. And even worse, some of these unauthorized copies have defects, but they have your name on them, and customers call to blame you for any problems that occur. How will you ever pay back your million-Yuan investment? Even if you cut your price to 8 Yuan, you will need to sell more than 100,000 copies just to break even.
Clear and enforceable intellectual property rights can be a solution to this problem. If a firm bringing a new product to market can protect its invention via intellectual property rights, it will have the incentive to invest. Does this mean that firms with patents or copyrights will charge excessive fees and destroy their competitors? No. A new invention always competes with all that has gone before. If the firm with the new patent sets its prices too high, consumers will simply buy the old product instead. The competitors also have their own incentives to create new, different and better inventions, either by making improvements or by creating an entirely new, pioneering product. This process of "inventing around" a patent happens constantly. This system of intellectual property rights creates a beneficial business cycle: with intellectual property protection, firms compete repeatedly to create new and better products, and overall welfare increases over time.
A competitive market also enhances the innovative efforts of our society. By rewarding innovative efforts with the opportunity to increase earnings, competition encourages individuals and firms to capture sales by being the first to market a new better, or cheaper product or service. We rely on our antitrust laws to protect this valuable competition because such protection maintains opportunities for innovation by those competing in the market. But we do not use our antitrust laws to constrain the legitimate use of intellectual property rights. It would make no sense for an intellectual property system to grant property rights in order to promote innovation and then for the antitrust system to take those property rights away. As antitrust enforcers, we only intervene when rights holders attempt to harm competition in ways their rights alone would not permit.(6) I will return to our antitrust law as my last topic today.
US Intellectual Property Rights
I will turn now to the topic of the United States intellectual property law system and how that system acts as an engine of innovation and economic growth. As I mentioned, the American intellectual property system rests on two fundamental foundations: first, protecting and enforcing private intellectual property rights; and second, a trust in markets, which means a belief that private solutions are usually more efficient than government solutions. This does not mean exclusive focus on private profit without attention to public benefit. But it does mean faith that individual initiative and the freedom to compete and win are the best avenues to increase public welfare. The American system is not uniquely American, but is really a model based on economics and human nature. If there is one theme I would like you to take away from this discussion, it is that the intellectual property rights I am about to describe are simply a way of using human nature, such as the desire of inventors to seek financial rewards, as an engine for the public good.
Let's begin with the history. I am always a bit embarrassed to mention history before a Chinese audience; after all, China was a great civilization thousands of years before my ancestors even thought about sailing to the New World. But we do have a history, and it is an important one in the area of intellectual property rights.
The United States arrived at the beginnings of its intellectual property system through the experiences of Great Britain. In Britain, patents and copyrights dated back hundreds of years. Their purpose was to trade some type of state-enforced monopoly for a benefit to the sovereign. In the case of patents, this benefit might be a political favor, a large payment, or the development of a weapon of war for the King.(7) In the case of copyrights, the benefit was that each of the King's libraries received one copy of any copyrighted book, which is how the great University libraries of Britain began.(8)
The primary goal of these monopolies was to benefit the monarchy, not the public at large. By the time the United States Constitution was drafted in 1787, American leaders had observed the abuses of the British patent and copyright system and were skeptical of placing unlimited rights in the hands of private inventors and the government.(9) For that reason, our Founders mentioned intellectual property in the very first Article of our Constitution, and they did so in a way that is still meaningful, two centuries later.
The first Article of the United States Constitution states that one of the primary functions of America's government is, and I quote:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." U.S. Const. art. I, § 8.
To understand how remarkable this sentence is, you need to understand what was meant by the word "Progress" in 1789. This was the "Age of the Enlightenment," a time when political philosophers believed that reason and science could transform whole societies for the better. "Progress" was a term of art that meant not only an advancement of science, but also a triumph of the general good. So when the Founders established the goal of these rights as "Progress of Science and the useful Arts," they were focused not on a private benefit to individual inventors and authors, but on the benefits to society as a whole.
The United States recognizes four primary forms of IP rights. What you will notice about each right is that it is a powerful private right, but at the same time it preserves rights for the public good. Each of these rights permits the owner to prohibit others from using or making copies of the thing governed by the right. The first right is patent, which applies to new and useful processes, machines, and other items of invention. Patents are created by the Patent Act,(10) a federal government law, and they last for 20 years. The second right is copyright, created by the federal Copyright Act,(11) which covers "works of authorship" such as books, music, and some aspects of computer software. Copyrights can last for a very long time; for example, the author's lifetime plus 70 years, if the author is an individual. The third right is trademark, also governed in part by federal law,(12) which applies to words or logos we call them "brands" or "marks" that identify the source or quality of a product or service. A trademark does not have a specific term or expiration date but it lasts only as long as its owner maintains the quality or source-identifying nature of the mark. And finally, trade secret applies to any business information that derives value from being secret. Trade secret is largely a matter of state law, not federal, and is very similar to the state laws against theft stealing a trade secret is against the law. Each of these rights creates a property interest, and each right can be sold or licensed, in whole or in part, in almost any way that maximizes the owner's return on his investment.
Each right also is subject to important limitations that protect the public's interest. For example, patents are extremely powerful rights, but they become completely public at the end of their 20-year term. Even during the term, the public gets to learn about the invention since the patent itself is made public and the public has a limited right to use the patent for pure research. With copyrights, an owner can only prevent actual copying of the expressive elements of a work, so that the public remains free to copy facts or to independently create anything so long as no copying occurs. In addition, a copyright owner cannot prevent "fair use," which is a term of art meaning copying performed as part of some minimal, usually non-commercial use such as teaching and scholarship.(13) A trade secret does not prevent anyone else from discovering the same secret, so long as the discovery did not occur, essentially, via theft. And trademark rights will be lost if the mark ceases to indicate a particular source of a product.
The United States believes, and we believe our economic success has proved, that creating a strong private market is the most efficient way to drive economic growth. Private and individual decisions simply tend to be quicker, more varied, and more directly responsive to consumer demands than are government decisions. In addition, government decisions are expensive they may require bureaucratic consensus and expert studies, which cost time and money whereas private decision making is often less costly to society as a whole. The potential cost savings to the government and society, if more decisions can be left to individuals in the marketplace, is huge.
While the US generally trusts markets, we admit that sometimes markets fail. This is to be expected, since no system is perfect. The solution is not to abandon the incentive system; instead, we simply address specific failures. We have found, for example, that occasionally the potential rewards for very high-risk research for example, some types of medical research concerning very rare diseases are so low that no one will perform the research under our incentive system. We have responded with a command: government agencies perform some of this research themselves. Another complement to the market is the use of a reward, in which the government pays private individuals to create useful inventions, and then permits the public to use the inventions for free. We use such rewards occasionally in the form of government grants, again usually in high-risk areas such as medical research. Finally there is the option of coercion, in which the government uses penalties to deter undesirable outcomes. We use this approach to some degree as part of our antitrust laws, which I will discuss next.
The Role of Competition in Promoting Innovation
As antitrust enforcers, we do not object if a firm comes to dominate a market purely by competition, including successful innovation. "The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins."(14) But our system is not perfect, and the potential exists that intellectual property rights -- like any type of advantage in the market -- could make a few firms so powerful that they could conspire to fix prices, limit output, or set up anticompetitive barriers to prevent new innovation. Therefore, strong laws to protect competition are a necessary complement to vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights. But antitrust law and intellectual property are not opponents, but instead serve the same goals. Both seek to promote innovation and competition -- intellectual property law by promoting them affirmatively, antitrust law by prohibiting anticompetitive acts. An equally important point is that because United States antitrust laws are concerned with consumer welfare, our antitrust laws protect competition, not competitors.
The Justice Department does not use our antitrust laws as a method to determine the proper scope or duration of intellectual property rights or to mend any existing imperfections in intellectual property laws. Rather, such responsibilities fall to those in charge of administering or creating and amending our intellectual property laws, primarily our Patent and Trademark Office, our Copyright Office, and our elected officials sitting in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Our sister agency, the FTC, has recently issued a report discussing ways in which the system might be improved.(15)
We do sometimes use our antitrust laws to prevent the inappropriate use of intellectual property rights in the creation, dissemination and marketing of a product or service.(16) The possession of an IP right does not bring with it carte blanche to act anticompetitively in any activity that might involve the IP right.(17) On the other hand, IP rights do not necessarily confer market power or monopoly power in the antitrust sense.(18)
When applying our antitrust analysis to transactions or agreements involving intellectual property, we take into account the special characteristics of intellectual property, such as the ease with which others can misappropriate it.(19) Our analysis takes into account the fact that intellectual property may also require different forms of protection than other tangible types of property, particularly when the fixed costs of developing it, such as filming a movie, are very high and the marginal costs of copying that film to VHS tapes or DVDs are low. In addition, problems of marking the exact boundaries of intellectual property may create analytical difficulties for antitrust enforcers. I may know exactly where the walls of my factory begin and end, but may be less sure about the precise limits the intellectual property protection accorded the technology that I use in my factory. Such ambiguity sometimes makes it difficult to discern whether a competitor is legitimately competing with a protected intellectual property right or is an illegitimate competitor whose removal from the market is entirely appropriate.
Licensing and Contractual Restrictions on the Use of Intellectual Property
Typically, a license imposes some restrictions on the use of intellectual property, which under one manner of thinking could be seen as a restriction on competition. But, generally speaking, we at the Department have found that the exploitation of intellectual property through licensing is both efficient and procompetitive because it fosters the efficient commercialization of new products, and increases incentives to engage in research and development. Except in certain extreme cases, such as naked price-fixing, bid-rigging or market allocation, we will oppose a particular use of intellectual property rights only in those cases where the anticompetitive effects of the parties actions outweigh the competitive benefits.(20) We call this balancing analysis "the rule of reason."
Let's take patent pools as an example. In a patent pool, multiple firms jointly license their patents to each other and third-party licensees, often in industries where numerous patents are necessary to make a certain product or comply with an industry standard. On the one hand, a patent pool can be procompetitive in a number of ways. It may allow licensees to have access to complementary technologies. It may reduce the costs of licensing patents from multiple licensors. It may help licensees avoid infringement litigation, or, where inventions are closely related, stop patentees from blocking each other from using their own technology. Having identified benefits such as these, we would weigh them against any evidence of harm from the pool we might discover. For example, the pool might harm competition if it enabled members to set prices, or to agree to limit production. In some cases, the pool's licensing restrictions might cause the members of the pool or their licensees to stop trying to invent new technologies, thus retarding innovation. What conclusion one reaches after weighing the pros and cons of a patent pool will depend, of course, on the facts of each case.
The Department of Justice also provides "safe harbors" to firms when there is no fear that behavior will harm competition. "Safe-harbors" allow cooperation among competitors where it is necessary to promote innovation and provide some certainty to the private parties that are not subject to antitrust enforcement.(21)
We have learned that flexible antitrust rules that weigh efficiencies against any anticompetitive effects of a specific business practice, combined with safe harbors, can both protect competition in dynamic markets and provide rewards to private firms that innovate in a competitive environment.
How might this description of the American intellectual property rights and competition systems be useful to China? Certainly I do not presume to claim that ours is a one-size-fits-all system, or that it is perfectly tailored to China. I am conscious of the fact that China and the US have very different histories and traditions. But I do not think that these differences change the potential value of strong intellectual property rights, markets, and competition as a formula for economic progress. This type of system is based on the fundamental human nature of pursuing incentives, and it can be carefully designed to balance private gains with benefits to society as a whole. Our system is not perfect, and we are constantly discussing changes to keep abreast of shifts in the global economy. But empirical evidence suggests that strengthening intellectual property rights leads to sustainable economic growth, and that certainly has been the United States' experience.
China's decision to became a signatory to the TRIPS agreement demonstrates that China recognizes the value of a strong intellectual property regime for its economic development. It may be that growth in higher technology segments of the Chinese economy can be enhanced by promoting innovation through the continued development of a strongly-enforced intellectual property regime, a marketplace that encourages innovation, and the protection of competition by appropriately rigorous antitrust enforcement. So as you adapt China's system to meet your incredible growth over the coming years, I would urge you to emphasize the incentives-based aspects of your system. History suggests that an incentives-based system can efficiently turn invention into innovation. I wish you great success as you go about harnessing China's great creative energy.
1. See Robert Temple, The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention (1986).
2. F.M. Scherer & David Ross, Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance 616-17 (3d ed. 1990).
3. See, e.g., American Association for the Advancement of Science, Analysis of Research and Development in the FY 2005 Budget (2004), available at http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/prel05p.htm.
4. Federal Trade Comm'n, To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy (2003) ch. 1 at 1, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf [hereinafter FTC Innovation Report].
5. Alan Greenspan, Intellectual Property Rights, Address Before Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research Economic Summit (Feb. 27, 2004), at http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200402272/default.htm.
6. See U.S. Dep't of Justice & Federal Trade Comm'n, Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property § 2, 3.1 (Apr. 6, 1995) at http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/guidelines/ipguide.htm [hereinafter Antitrust-IP Guidelines].
7. See UK Patent Office, Origins [of Patents], available at http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/history/fivehundred/origins.htm.
8. UK Patent Office, Origins [of Copyrights], available at http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/history/index.htm. This system continues today: in the United States, an author seeking to enforce a copyright must submit copies of his work to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. 17 U.S.C. § 408(b) (2000).
9. See generally Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186, 201-04 (2003) (discussing Eighteenth Century British and American concerns over excessive granting of copyright monopolies).
10. Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. §§ 1-373 (2000).
11. Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101-1332 (2000).
12. See generally Lanham Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051-1141(n) (2000).
14. United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, 148 F.2d 416, 430 (2d Cir. 1945) (L. Hand, J.).
15. FTC Innovation Report, supra note 4.
16. See Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, Creativity, Innovation and Economic Growth in the 21st Century: An Affirmative Case of Intellectual Property Rights 11 (Jan. 2004), at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/45/23375023.pdf.
17. United States v. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3d 34, 63 (D.C. Cir. 2001) ("The company claims an absolute and unfettered right to use its intellectual property as it wishes: That is no more correct than the proposition that use of one's personal property, such as a baseball bat, cannot give rise to tort liability .... Intellectual property rights do not confer a privilege to violate the antitrust laws.") (citations and quotations omitted).
18. Antitrust-IP Guidelines at § 2.2.
19. Antitrust-IP Guidelines at § 2.1.
20. Antitrust-IP Guidelines at § 3.4.
21. Antitrust-IP Guidelines at § 4.3 (with some exceptions, antitrust "safety zone" available to private parties entering into a licensing agreement if licensor and licensees together account for no more than 20 percent of each relevant market significantly affected by the licensing restraint); National Cooperative Research and Production Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 4301-06 (2000) (potential antitrust liability reduced for qualifying research and development joint ventures created by private parties).
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Hello you lovely Inspiration Cafe readers Amy from Clippie Dips here!
Today I'm going to show you how to sew a cute little case to keep all those little hair clips in. The idea for this came when I reached in my purse to pull out a hair clip for my daughter which was apparently stuck to something gooey. Now, for those of you who have small children, you understand that most days you're either going to find something weird or gross in your purse that was put there by the little humans!
Okay, here we go!
-fabric scraps
-fusible fleece
-scrap medium weight interfacing
-3" piece of velcro (hook and loop)
-jumbo ric rac
-sewing machine
-thread, scissors and iron
-rotary cutter and mat (optional)
Cut (1) 6 ½" x 8 ½" exterior fabric
Cut (1) 6 ½" x 8 ½" interior fabric
Cut (2) 6 ¼" x 8 ¼" fusible fleece (one for interior and exterior pieces)
Cut (2) 4" x 4" pieces of fabric which will be your flap
Cut (2) 3 ¾" x 3 ¾" pieces fusible fleece
Cut (1) 6 ½" x 8 ½" heavyweight interfacing
Cut (2) 7" ric rac
Iron fusible fleece on to the backside of both of your flap pieces (4" x 4" pieces).
Place them right sides together and sew where indicated.
Clip corners and then turn inside out. Press and then topstitch as shown in pic below.
Place one of your 3" pieces of Velcro about ½" down from the top of the flap on the interior side. Sew in place and then set your flap aside.
Iron both pieces of fusible fleece onto the backside of your interior and exterior pieces just like you did for the flap.
Place ric rac on each end of interior piece 2" in as shown below. Pin down in the middle to hold in place. Make sure to keep the pins out of the seam allowance.
Now let's make a sandwich. Place your interfacing down on your workspace. Then place your exterior case piece right side up. Then your flap piece with the Velcro facing up.
And finally, lay your interior case piece right side down. Pin in place.
Mark a 3" opening on the side of your case. Sew from one mark to the other backstitching at the beginning and end.
Clip corners. Then reach in and pull out the pins you used to secure the ric rac. Pull the inside out through the opening. I'm not going to lie, this part sucked!
Push corners out, then straighten and iron….A LOT! :)
Once, it's flat and looks nice, sew all the way around 1/8" from the edge closing the opening as you go.
Fold your case in half, letting the flap come over the top. While still holding the flap down, lift it enough to place your other piece of velcro where it needs to go. Pin the velcro in place.
Now, turn it over and flip the ric rac over and pin it out of the way like in the picture below.
Turn it back over once again and sew the velcro in place. Then unpin and flatten the ric rac.
Let's see what it looks like all filled up, shall we?!
Enjoy your new clip case! :)


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The ICAC investigated the circumstances surrounding the formulation and adoption of Byron Shire Council's Residential Development Strategy and certain events arising within this context; and the Council's conduct in relation to land known locally as the Conference Centre site.
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Trysil is Norway's largest ski destination with 31 lifts and 65 different slopes. There are also golf courses, horses and boats to rent during the summer.
Close to the Tourist Center on the south side of the mountain the Hut Community "Bakkebygrenda" is situated. Each house has four apartments – two with 14 beds and two with 8 beds. The accomodation can be booked at Trysil Resort.
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The bathroom has heated floor, shower, sauna and a toilet. There also is a separat toilet in the appartment.
The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, microwave oven and a washing machine. The living room has heated floor, a fireplace, TV and DVD player. A radio/CD player is also present.
Some 50 meters from the door you can easily slide into the slope on your skis or snowboard and reach the lift one hundered meters further down.
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"The FBI has argued that there can be no inherent expectation of privacy when a conversation takes place in a common area, no matter the distance from other human beings," writes Daily Dot contributor Dell Cameron.
Cameron adds: The FBI and other agencies use a device called a stingray, which while "masquerading as a cell-phone tower and transmitting intermittent signals, can deceive a mobile device to force a connection. Once this link is established, the data collected by the Stingray can be used to ascertain the identity of cell phone user, along with who, when, and to which numbers a call is placed."
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1. Mood: Loved.
2. First words out of my mouth this morning: "Reset the alarm for 8:30."
3. What I'm looking forward to this week: Finding uses for my new MAC Fix+ spray.
4. One thing I'd like to improve about myself: Clean up the damn house!
5. On my makeup lust list: MAC Purple Rite lipstick (still) and possibly some things from their Naked Honey collection.
6. What i ate: breakfast: eggs, bacon & an english muffin. lunch: a turkey club.
7. What's on my face: Nothing at all.
8. Outfit: a blue v neck tee, jeans and black flip flops.
9. Fragrance: Ed Hardy for Women.
10. Weekly goals: Do some homework!!!
Monday, June 15, 2009
A Case Of The Mondays
1. Mood: Loved.
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MichaelTara posted a topic in The Display CabinetHello guys, I'm new player and I would like to make my own Morticians goal. I have no idea where to start. It would be nice, if you can give me advice, about what materials/tools/paint should I use. I would like to make me a coffin (something like on the picture attached, sorry for stealing to whoever did that great goal). I've been googling, but I'm little bit confused. Thanks for any advice! PS.: (I couldn't find any thread like this, so hopefully it will not be deleted, thank you.)


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The rally runs from 31 December to 15 January 2006, with 508 teams competing on a route through Spain, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea and Senegal.
A limit of 150kmph (93.2mph) has been imposed on bikes and trucks to make the event fairer and safer.
The use of global positioning systems is also being reduced to make drivers and navigators rely on road books.
Two motorcyclists - two time winner Fabrizio Meoni and Jose Manuel Perez - died in this year's race.
Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz will be making his debut in the event, driving a Volkswagen Touareg.


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I went completely insane when I heard that Puscifer was going to put on some shows in Vegas! I thought, "All those lucky a-holes get to see Puscifer!"
After a bit of 'what-if-ing' me and the hubby decided to go for it.
We found an awesome room rate at a four star hotel and we even scored some super SWEET seats for the show too!
I drove the whole way to Vegas and we checked in to the hotel kind of late. We ended up drinking a bit!
The next day we got up and hit the breakfast buffet then went back to bed!
Later on we went to check out the strip..
I had some super high hopes for Las Vegas. I wasn't sure what to expect but I knew it would be fun! I had more fun in my hotel room than on the strip... more fun on the road than on the strip. The strip is cheesy, crowded and dirty.
It's just not my thing! Maybe if I liked to gamble it would have been a completely different experience.
Then there was Puscifer! :) The absolute best part of the trip!
I have to say that the Pearl Theater in the Palms is such a neat venue! I absolutely love how small it is and there is a bar on every level just outside of the doors that lead you to your seats! The ushers or security are all dressed up like giant douches but that is an easy flaw to overlook.
Wow... Puscifer delivered!! It was an amazing performance by Maynard James Keenan and the whole crew. The skits were funny and the crowd was really into it!
We met a little family who flew in from Switzerland just to see the show!
I had the whole experience, someone even spilled beer all over my feet. Good times.
It was an experience but next trip I'm going back to Cali!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
What a trip!
I went completely insane when I heard that Puscifer was going to put on some shows in Vegas! I thought, "All those lucky a-holes get to see Puscifer!"
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
As Featured in the Etsy Gift Guide
I came home from the post office and hopped right on CraftCult to check my views for my new Heart Shaped Cake Pendant and whoa!! I had over a hundred views on it! I knew it was a mistake so I checked my username on Featsy.... Yup. It was a mistake! I wasn't featured. :(
It bummed me out so I logged on to Etsy and there was Heart shaped strawberry
cake with cherry frosting! It is the VERY FIRST item in the 'My Funny Valentine' Gift Guide!
I have gotten many views and hearts so far. I'm just enjoying the ride.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Calorie-free Confections
Just finished these two cuties last night! So proud I am! :)
I'm inspired to make more sweet little fake foods so stay tuned for more calorie-free confections! :)
BTW, they are available in my shop and I can do other 'flavors'! ♥
Monday, January 26, 2009
V is for....
VEGAS! I recently learned that Maynard Keenan is packing up his Puscifer and heading out to Las Vegas to perform for us lucky fans! Three nights ONLY, Feb 13th, 14th and 15th, and I will be there for the final night!
My hubby and I almost automatically started planning a little weekend road trip. We found some VERY decent tickets which should be arriving tomorrow. A friend will be joining us too!
This will be my first trip out to Las Vegas and I have to say that it has been way too long since my last trip out of town. As a matter of fact, this will be my first trip with my husband and no kids since we got together eight years ago! Um, yes. Long overdue.
Still have a bit of planning to do but nothing major. I'm bursting at the seams to get out of town and see this show.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Warm me up.
Yay! My wrist warmers are complete. I finished my first cabled knitting projects on my home made dpns and I could not be more pleased with the outcome!
The problem is that the weather couldn't be more lovely here in Tempe! It's supposed to reach a dreamy 79 degrees out and I will not be sporting my newly finished project.
Poor me, 79 degree weather! ;)
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Autumnal Market Saturday 28 September
Our Autumnal event is upon us. We're excited! Make sure you pop down and say hi. We're open from 11am – 5pm (extended hour).
Our beautiful new poster has been designed by the talented Kate Seaward aka i like pens. Check her out here and at the market.