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Florencio Noel-Filomena Jaén Ancestral House
312 (367 old no.) Sta. Catalina St.
Original house and lot owners Jacinto Aldocente-Benita del Corro
Renovated by Noel: ca. 1873: Segundo Alesna (carpenter, Carcar), Críspulo Zábate (carpenter, b. San Nicolás, res. Carcar), Celestino Sarmiento (carpenter, b. Cebu City, res. Carcar), Lito [?] Alesna (mason and carpenter, Carcar), Pelagio Gutiérrez (stone-cutter).
Present owner: Jerry Martin Noel Alfafara
The original house that previously stood on this property belonged to the couple Jacinto Aldocente and Benita del Corro. Florencio Noel bought the house and solar from them on 27-Jan-1873 for 160 pesos. Obviously, a complete renovation must have been carried out because the sale described the original house only as tabla y nipa –not the coral stone edifice standing now.
Don Florencio Noel y Mercado was born in Cebu City but his wife, Filomena Jaén was born in Carcar in 1854. Don Florencio (Kapitan Insyong) was the son of Benedicta Noel, mestiza Sangley, by, according to family and town rumor, a Spanish fraile from whom must have been inherited the unmistakable Kastila feature of the Noel family of Carcar that is still recognizable in his descendants. The Noel families around Parian and T. Padilla and who have also migrated to Tuburan are related to each other and presumably to Benedicta. The Mercado maternal name he used is said to be his mother's maternal surname instead, so his mother must have been actually Benedicta Noel y Mercado. Florencio was always racially classified as mestizo Sangley in the church records.
Add to the looks that Doña Filomena was also mestiza-looking and was probably also a daughter of another Spaniard or mestizo Español. (At least, her baptismal record gives her mother as Victoria Jaén of Cebu City and her father as "unknown"). Filomena's grandparents were Valentín Jaén and Barbara Cui.
Florencio Noel earned for his certainly the most prominent reputation for a family in the town. Don Florencio first became gobernadorcillo of the town in 1879, and he and three of his sons—Vicente (who also became a Provincial Board Member), Mariano and Maximino (who also became a congressman)–ruled the town, in-between some gaps, for a total of about 32 years. No other family has come close to that hold on power. The Noel-Mercado political rivalry probably started with a land dispute but it became the life-long career of political rival Mariano Mercado to poke at that Noel factor to try to dissipate the power. The propaganda may have succeeded to some degree because after Mercado died during the war, the Noel hold of the town also ended with Maximino Noel.
Although still wielding political power because of their large landholding and number of tenants, but to this day no one in the family has decided to run for town office anymore. However, a great-grandson named after him, Florencio Garcia Noel, is presently a congressman representing the Leyteño party list An-Waray.
Of their 11 children, Florencio and Filomena only had five sons who raised their own families. A daughter, Josefa, married the music maestro Brigido Lacandazon but the couple had no children. Like many ancestral houses where the youngest is the last to remain in the house, it was also true with the Noel house. It was commonly accepted that the house would go to Inday Rita Noel.
Her immediate older brother, Manuel, survived her however. Ondo Manuel and his first family lived in the house but when he remarried, he lived with his new family elsewhere. He survived his younger sister Rita and the present holder of the house, Jerry Martin Noel Alfafara, is Ondo Manuel's grandson.
Per Records: The tabla y nipa house Florencio Noel bought from Aldocente in 1873 was described in the protócolos de Cebu as 5×3 brazos and its solar as 15×24 brazos. The property was bound on the north by the house of the then late D. Apolonio Cuison (a gobernadorcillo decades before Florencio), on the South by Don Norberto Barceló, on the east by calle Real [now Sta Catalina St.] and the west by a certain Montano [probably Lapasaran—ed.].
The tabla y nipa must have been demolished to give way to the grand coral-stone house that still stands today. In applying for a title to the property in 1888, Noel declared that that he had constructed the house of strong materials, wood floor and posts, and stone ground floor with azotea, and bedrooms.
In this second (8-Jun-1888) declaration the property's boundaries were now described as East by Calle de Latid; on the derecho to the Norte: solar of Maria Rosales; on the izquierdo to the South: D. Pedro Barcenilla; detras to the West: Liceria [Licerio ?] Alpápara.


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Today is Tax Day, among the most stressful days of the year for procrastinators across the country. But filers, take heart: this is also the most widespread food giveaway day of the year, with several restaurant chains offering sweet tax day deals. Here is our comprehensive list of Tax Day freebies, with links to whatever coupons you'll need. The deals are listed alphabetically and divided into "free," "buy one, get one free," and "free with purchase" deals, so you can decide where to eat depending on your tax bracket (and the size of your refund). Because whether you're scrambling to file, or you filed months ago and are looking to save the last few bucks of your refund, the food corporations of America know that we could all use a little help around Tax Day.
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ARTICLES:- Looking at Events from the Future
- Living One's Destiny Is a Source of Peace and Comfort for Believers
- Resignation to Destiny
Destiny is Allah's perfect knowledge of all events past or future, as if a single moment. This expresses the absolute sovereignty of Allah over all beings and events. People can be aware of a certain event when they experience it. But Allah knows all events prior to their occurrence. For Allah, past, present and future are all the same. They are all within the knowledge of Allah since He is the One Who creates them.
As the verse, "Indeed, all things We created with predestination." (Surat al-Qamar: 49) also suggests, every thing in the world is part of that destiny. The majority of people do not give a moment's consideration to the nature of destiny, and, thus, fail to recognize that it is Allah's infinite might that exists behind this flawless order. Some consider that destiny encompasses only human beings. However, everything in the universe, from the furniture in your home, to a pebble on the road, or a dried-up weed, a fruit or a jar on the super-market shelf, are all part of the destiny predetermined by Allah. The fate of every created thing has been determined within the infinite wisdom of Allah.
Secrets and Wisdom from the Quran; Secrets of Destiny (10.02.2015)
Every event a person sees, and every noise he hears, are in ever instance part of a life that has been created for him as a unit. Whether major or insignificant, no event in the universe happens by coincidence. No flower either blooms or fades by chance. No man comes into existence or dies out of pure coincidence. No man becomes sick by mistake, and neither does his sickness develop in an uncontrolled manner. In each case, these occurrences are especially predestined by Allah, from the very moment they were created.
Anything that exists, within the depths of the earth or the oceans, or the fall of a single leaf, all occur in compliance with destiny, as the following verse indicates:
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth, and nothing moist or dry which is not in a Clear Book. (Surat al-An'am: 59)
In the Qur'an, Allah informs us that even the smallest detail is predetermined by His infinite wisdom, and in accordance with a divine purpose:
Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in yourselves, without its being in a Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for Allah. (Surat al-Hadid: 22)
The fate of every thing in this universe is known by Allah, the All-Knowing, the Wise. Consequently, every detail is perfectly planned, and for a purpose and "everything is by decree" as stated by the Prophet Muhammad (saas). A person who attains full consciousness of this fact will be benefited with being pleased with every moment of his life; good times and those that seem to be bad. The reason being that His truthful servants succeed in recognizing that it is Allah who created their destiny without a flaw. They will be aware that it is ignorant to regard something as misfortune when there must necessarily be a purpose for it in Allah's sight. Such a profound comprehension of this fact enables them to discern the blessings in things that happen.
The way that people imagine that the difficulties they encounter are not created by Allah but have some other cause stems from a failure to properly understand destiny. Because every event that may seem to be a difficult is in fact a "lesson in destiny." They all need to be seen through the lens of wisdom and goodness. All events, whether they appear great or small, important or trivial, have all been created in destiny with wisdom and auspiciousness. People describe events they frequently encounter and that develop contrary to their wishes as adversities. The fact is, however, that there is wisdom and goodness in adversity, too. People imagine otherwise, but the truth is that the event takes the form it does inside destiny.
If Allah had shown the good and purpose of the apparently adverse incidents, or of the difficulties that distress and irritate people, they would understand how senseless is their disappointment. Recognizing the blessing in things, a person of faith instead feels joy, not distress. This being the case, what is incumbent on a man is that he seeks to identify the good and benefits in destiny, that is, in events that are, in reality, part of the purpose of Allah's creation, and feel appreciative of the benefit of such insight.
Fighting is prescribed for you even if it is hateful to you. It may be that you hate something when it is good for you and it may be that you love something when it is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know.( Surat Al-Baqara,2)
From the moment a person opens his eyes to the world, it is Allah Who ordains every event that takes place in his life. Allah is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise and the All-Just. All is created by Allah in compliance with a plan, and for a divine purpose just as He says in a verse of the Qur'an, "Indeed, all things We created with predestination." (Surat al-Qamar: 49) In light of Allah's infinite might and superiority, man is merely a feeble being. Without Allah's blessings he cannot survive. Through his ability to understand and reason, man can grasp realities only to the extent that his Creator allows him. This being the case, submission to Allah's infinite wisdom and the divine purpose He had ordained in all things, is a fundamental requirement upon each and every one of us. No matter what we may experience in life, we must remain aware that Allah is the Sovereign Lord of the entire universe, that He knows, sees and hears what we cannot, that He is knowledgeable even of that which might take place or occur of which we are unaware, and thus, we are to realize that it is Allah who causes every occurrence to happen, and according to a divine purpose: for our own good.
Putting faith in this truth should inspire us with a better outlook, by which we feel grateful for everything that befalls us. In other words, a person will try to recognize the "good" in everything he hears, in every sight he sees, in every incident he experiences, in brief, in every moment of his life, and thereby, achieve a proper understanding of the meaning of this life.
Seeing the good in all events, whatever the circumstance, whether favourable or unfavourable, is an important moral quality resulting from sincere faith in Allah, and the approach to life that is brought about by such a faith. Ultimately, a grasp of this truth is important in guiding one to not only the blessings of this world, but in the hereafter, where one will find never-ending peace and bliss.
Not feeling disappointment for any thing that happens throughout the course of this life is a mark of a true understanding of the meaning of faith. Failure to see good in things that happen, being fraught with constant fear, anxiety, despair, sorrow, sentimentalism, on the other hand, indicate a lack of pure faith. This confusion must be removed promptly, and the joy emanating from unswerving faith must be accepted as a necessary part of life. A believer knows that events that might at first sight appear unfavourable, including those which he caused to happen by committing an error, will ultimately turn out beneficially for him. When he uses the words "adversity", "misfortune" or "if only...", it is only to draw a lesson from an experience. In other words, the faithful knows that there is good in whatever happens; he learns from his mistakes and seeks to correct them. However, if he were to fall into the same error again, he keeps in mind that it is all for a specific purpose, and simply resolves to "conduct himself more correctly the next time." Moreover, even if the same thing were to occur dozens of times over, a Muslim must keep in mind that ultimately it is for some good; such is the immutable law of Allah.
Only in the recognition that Allah creates everything for a certain good and a specific purpose can one's heart find peace. To have a grasp of this fact is a great blessing for a believer. A person who is distant from Islam suffers from continuous torment; he lives in constant apprehension, turning out to be an ever-present source of anxiety. A believer, on the other hand, recognizes and reveres the fact that there is a divine purpose behind Allah's creation.
Being indecisive; that is, suffering from the continuous apprehension of constantly expecting both good and evil, may become an embarrassment for a believer in the hereafter. Pleading ignorance of such a plain and obvious truth, because of carelessness or laziness, may only cause torment both in this world and beyond. We must keep in mind that destiny predetermined by Allah is entirely flawless. For a person willing to recognise the good in all things, he finds only blessings and a divine purpose, hidden within an entire complex of inter-connected events. Though he may have many other things to concern him throughout his day, a person of strong faith, who is guided by his wisdom and conscience, never allows himself to be tempted by Satan's wiles. No matter how, when, or where an event takes place, he never forgets that there is always some good behind it. Although he may not be able to recognise this good immediately, what really matters is for him to be aware that there is an ultimate purpose.
Some people, who are aware of the existence of Allah, and comprehend that it is He Who has created the entire universe. They admit the fact that it is Allah Who makes the rain fall or sun to rise. They recognize that for there to be any other cause is impossible. Yet, when it comes to incidents in the course of their lives, the minor details that form part of the usual rush of the day, they cannot help thinking that they are somehow independent of Allah. Nevertheless, it is Allah Who destines a burglar to enter one's home at night, an obstacle that caused one to fall, a plot of arable land to yield crops or to become arid, a deal to be profitable, or a saucepan to be forgotten on the stove. Every occurrence falls within the infinite wisdom of Allah, and in compliance with a sublime plan. A drop of mud that stains our trousers, a puncture in the tire, acne appearing on one's face, a disease, or some other undesirable thing to occur, are all incorporated into a person's life in accordance to a specific plan.
Nothing a person experiences in this world, from the moment he opens his eyes, is independent and apart from Allah. All existence, as a whole, is created by Allah, the only One to hold control over the universe. Allah's creation is perfect, flawless and replete with purpose. This is part of the destiny created by Allah; one must not discriminate between the incidents by attributing good to one and evil to the other. What is incumbent on a person is to recognize and appreciate the perfection in all events, and to believe with all certainty that some good lies in it, remaining conscious of the fact that, within Allah's infinite wisdom, all is designed to lead ultimately to the most perfect results. Indeed, for those who believe and recognize the goodness in all that befalls them, both this world and the beyond are part of an eternal good.
Destiny is an entirely flawless agenda developed to prepare a person for Paradise. It is replete with blessings and for a divine purpose. Each difficulty a believer faces in this world, will be the source of infinite bliss, joy and peace in the next. The verse, "For truly with hardship comes ease" (Surat ash-Sharh: 5) draws our attention to this fact; within one's destiny, the patience and courage a believer exhibits are pre-ordained together with their respective rewards in the Hereafter.
It may happen during the course of the day, that a believer would become irritated or concerned about certain things that had happened. The primary reason of the irritation he feels is his failure to remember that that very event is part of his destiny, and that it has been especially created by Allah. Though, he will be comforted and calmed when he is reminded of the purpose of Allah's creation.
This is why a believer must learn to continually keep in mind that everything is predestined, as well as remind others of this fact. He must show patience in the face of those occurrences that Allah had predestined for him, in the infinite recesses of time, put his trust in Him, and strive to recognize the reasons behind them. He who attempts to understand these reasons will, by Allah's Will, be ultimately successful. Even though he might not always be able to detect their actual purposes, he must remain assured that, when something happens, it is certainly for some good and for a purpose.
Man's only salvation is found in remembering that Allah creates every event for a divine purpose and a certain good. A believer is putting his faith in Allah in the truest sense only if he remains cognisant of this fact. He comports himself in the manner of a true servant only if he does not merely endure these situations, but is patient through them. Keeping always near to Allah, by praying and putting one's faith in Him, and expecting that everything comes from Him, is a quality particular to believers.
We cannot perceive Allah's existence with our eyes, but Allah has thoroughly encompassed our inside, outside, looks and thoughts. We cannot utter any word but with His knowledge, nor can we even take a breath.
While we watch these sensory perceptions in the course of our lives, the closest being to us is not any one of these sensations, but Allah Himself. The secret of the following verse in the Qur'an is concealed in this reality: "It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein." (Surah Qaf: 16)� When a person thinks that his body is made up of "matter", he cannot comprehend this important fact. If he takes his brain to be "himself", then the place he accepts to be the outside will be 20-30 cms away from him. However, when he conceives that there is nothing such as matter, and that everything is imagination, notions such as outside, inside, or near lose meaning. Allah has encompassed him and He is "infinitely close" to him.
Allah informs men that He is "infinitely close" to them with the verse "When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them) " (Surat al-Baqara, 186) . Another verse relates the same fact: "We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about." (Surat al-Isra, 60) .
Man is misled by thinking that the being that is closest to him is himself. Allah, in truth, is closer to us even more than ourselves. He has called our attention to this point in the verse "Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat, and you at that time look on, We are nearer to him than you, but you see not. (Surat al-Waqia, 83-85) . As informed in the verse, people live unaware of this phenomenal fact because they do not see it with their eyes.
The verse "But Allah has created you and your handwork!" (Surat as-Saaffat, 96)� shows that everything we experience takes place under Allah's control. In the Qur'an, this reality is stated in the verse "When thou threwest, it was not thy act, but Allah's." (Surat al-Anfal, 17)� whereby it is emphasised that no act is independent of Allah. Since a human being is a shadow being, it cannot be itself which performs the act of throwing. However, Allah gives this shadow being the feeling of the self. In reality, it is Allah Who performs all acts. So, if one takes the acts he does as his own, he evidently means to deceive himself.
Everything we see around us, mountains, fields, flowers, human beings, oceans, everything, are things Allah tells us in the Qur'an that He has brought into existence from nothingness, they have been created and now exist. However, human beings cannot see, feel or touch the originals of these through their sense organs. What they see and feel are copies of these entities in their brains. That is a scientific fact, something taught today in all faculties of medicine.
Destiny is Allah's perfect knowledge of all events past or future. A majority of people question how Allah can already know events that have not yet been experienced and this leads them to fail in understanding the authenticity of destiny. However, "events not yet experienced" are not yet experienced only for us.
Because we live within the boundaries of time that Allah has created, and cannot know anything unless it is introduced to our memory.
Since, as a requirement of the climate of test in this world Allah has given us no memory of those things we refer to as the "future" and we cannot know what will happen in it.
Allah is not bound by time or space for He Himself has created them. For this reason, the past, the future, and the present are all the same to Allah; for Him, everything has already taken place and finished.
Allah does not wait to see the end result of any event. Every event has already taken place from beginning to end in His sight. For example, Allah knew the end awaiting Pharaoh before He sent the Prophet Musa (as) to him, before the Prophet Musa (as) was born, and even before the state of Egypt had even been founded, and all these things, including Pharaoh's end, took place in a single moment in the sight of Allah. Past and present constantly co-exist in the eternal memory of Allah, and all exist at the same moment.
If we think of a person's life as a strip of film, we watch that film in the same way we do a tape on a video recorder, and we have no way of fast-forwarding it. Allah, on the other hand, knows the entire reel at one and the same moment. Indeed, it is Allah Who has created all the details of the film. In the same way that we can see the beginning, middle and end of a satchel, so Allah pervades and enfolds time, by which we are bound, from beginning to end as a single moment. When the time comes, people witness these events and the destiny Allah creates for them. This applies to everyone in the world, as everyone is subordinated to destiny. The lives in this world and in the Hereafter of everyone who has ever lived and who will ever be created in the future, their every moment, have already taken place in the sight of Allah. In addition to billions of human beings, the planets, plants, and all other objects exist in the infinite "memory" of Allah, losing nothing and with nothing being taken away from them. The fact of destiny is one of the manifestations of Allah's title of Hafidh (the Preserver, He Who Maintains) and of the scale and greatness of His might.
Because of the impressions we are given, we imagine that we experience segments of time divided into the past, present and future. The fact is, however, that the only reason we have such a concept as "the past" is because certain things have been given to our memories. For example, our first day at school is information recorded in our memories, for which reason we perceive it as the past. Events related to the future are not to be found in our memories. That is why we regard events of which we are as yet unaware as taking place "in the future." The fact is, though, that in the same way that for us the past is events that have already taken place and been lived and experienced, so the future has actually already come and gone. But since these events have not been given to our memories, we can have no knowledge of them.
If Allah had placed events related to the future in our memories, then the future would also already have happened for us. For example, someone who is 30 years old remembers 30 years' worth of events, and he therefore assumes that his past stretches back 30 years. If that person were also given memories of between 30 and 70 years in the future, then both the 30 years and also those between 30 and 70 years of the "future" would become past. Because under those circumstances both past and future would exist in his memory, and both would consist of events he had already lived and experienced.
Time and space are concepts that are not absolute, that have a beginning, and that were created by Allah from nothing. Allah, Who has created time and space, is certainly not dependent on them. Allah has defined, determined and created every moment of time in timelessness. This is what underlies the essence of the reality of "Fate," which materialists fail to comprehend.
Today, modern science verifies facts announced by the Qur'an 1400 years ago, which are unequivocally believed in by the believers. This bears witness that the Qur'an is the word of Allah. On the other hand, materialist thought, which has been denying Allah's existence and the fact of creation for centuries, is refuted in every field by science, a discipline to which it never stops referring and in which it takes refuge on all occasions. In this book, we will produce evidence to show that the claims of materialists have no scientific and logical basis, and that on the contrary, materialism is totally demolished by contemporary science. The subjects covered here include very important pieces of evidence about the essence of matter and the relativity of time and space. Thus, you will encounter some facts which you have never pondered upon so far, and will understand that the essence of matter is in truth very different from what materialism puts forward or what you have previously been taught. >>>
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So I've had my cheated (puzzle A02 and C01, these times are from awhile ago) times removed from the actual servers (I believe, as the SP doesn't show up on something like TM-Ladder), but it still shows up in game for me. I know that I shouldn't be shown up as #716 in the world, and have 1,095,574 SP. I'm pretty sure this is only client side, and I'd definitely like to be able to see my actual rank in game.
It also still shows Puzzle A02 and Puzzle C01 with their "official" times.
I also get the message "Players have complained about your behaviour on this game server. Please respect the good behaviour chart or you'll be banned from this server." every time I log into the game.
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Federal court restores early voting in Ohio
We've been keeping a close eye on Republican efforts to suppress early voting in Ohio, and Democratic efforts to create a level playing field. Today, a federal court delivered a major victory to those who support expansive voting rights and opportunities.
U.S. District Court Senior Judge Peter C. Economus ordered Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted not to enforce a state law passed last year that closed that window to in-person early voting to anyone but members of the military and their families.
"This Court notes that restoring in-person early voting to all Ohio voters through the Monday before Election Day does not deprive (military) voters from early voting," wrote Judge Economus, a Clinton appointee. "Instead, and more importantly, it places all Ohio voters on equal standing.
"The only hindrance to (military) early voting is the Secretary of State's failure to set uniform hours at elections boards during the last three days before Election Day," he wrote. "On balance, the right of Ohio voters to vote in person during the last three days prior to Election Day – a right previously conferred to all voters by the State – outweighs the State's interest in setting the 6 p.m. Friday deadline."
[Update: the ruling is available online here.]
To briefly recap for those who haven't been following this story, Ohio allowed voters an early-voting window of three days before Election Day, which in turn boosted turnout and alleviated long lines. This year, Republican officials wanted to close the window – active-duty servicemen and women could vote early, but no one else, not even veterans, could enjoy the same right.
One prominent Republican official recently conceded he opposes weekend voting because it would "accommodate the urban – read African American – voter-turnout machine."
President Obama's campaign team filed suit, asking for a level playing field, giving every eligible Ohio voter – active-duty troops, veterans, and civilians – equal access. Today, a federal court agreed. If the ruling stands, every eligible Ohio voter will be able to cast a ballot during the three-day, early-voting window leading up to Election Day on Nov. 6.
In an amusing twist, the ruling even cites Bush v. Gore. Economus wrote the "Court stresses that where the state has authorized in-person early voting through the Monday before Election Day for all voters, 'the state may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another.' "Here, that is precisely what the state has done."
Ohio will surely appeal, but for now, this is a major development that may even influence the outcome of the presidential race – the more Ohio voters have access to their own elections process, the harder it is for Republicans to win.


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Report recommends Montville hire police chief, merge fire companies
Montville - The police department is "trapped in a time warp" and the town must move to rid itself of the distinction of being the largest in the state to rely on a resident state trooper program, according to a recent independent consultant report.
The report recommends the town form its own independent police department by 2015 and hire a professional police chief. It also should overhaul its four fire companies, consolidating them into a unified department to better meet the needs of its growing population.
The town paid $46,000 for the 147-page report. It was designed to identify the town's public safety deficiencies and present ways to address them.
While the report does not specify the costs of the changes, it generally argues that the town needs to move away from many of its old public safety practices.
"The real job ahead is for us to look at the report and identify what's doable for the town," Town Council Chairwoman Candy Buebendorf said. She declined to discuss specific recommendations before the report is reviewed more thoroughly. "I think it's very helpful to have an outside pair of eyes to evaluate where we are and the direction they recommend we go."
The town, which had a population of 19,571 in the 2010 census, is currently the largest in the state to rely on a resident state trooper program to oversee its police department, according to the report. The town pays for a state police trooper to supervise operations. The program was established in 1947 in part for small towns to work with state police to avoid expenses such as running their own jails.
The report argues that with the town's new public safety building set to open later this year on Route 32, now would be the right time to incorporate an independent police force.
Voters approved $6.5 million for the facility, which includes a lockup and the capability for a state-of-the-art dispatch center - the cost of which previously was used as an argument against moving to an independent police force. The report also said that in 2010-11, the town paid $143,140 for the resident state trooper program, and its elimination could create savings for an independent department.
The report details a number of micro-management issues within the 24-person department that have led to low morale, and identifies other problems areas. One section points out that the department's mission statement contains grammatical errors.
The report also says the town has grown too large for the mayor to act as chief of police, a provision of the town charter, and recommends hiring a new chief at approximately $100,000 per year.
Mayor Ronald K. McDaniel Jr. said he would hold off on addressing specific recommendations of the plan. At a public presentation, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 29, the consultant will answer questions and explain the report's recommendations.
"It's really up to not one or two people, but the council and all of the citizens with some of the things that are in the plan," McDaniel said.
The report also argues for vast changes in the town's fire companies. It says Raymond Occhialini, the town's fire marshal, has too many responsibilities for one person.
Fire services director
The report recommends the town, at the very least, should employ a director of fire services to oversee the four volunteer companies - Chesterfield, Mohegan, Montville and Oakdale - and its 11 full-time fire personnel. It suggests a $65,000 annual salary for the director.
Town Councilor Gary Murphy, chief of the Oakdale Fire Co., said he favors the idea of a director of fire services who could ease the burden on fire chiefs. But both he and Occhialini said Tuesday that the report provides an imperfect view of the current fire and emergency response system.
"The plan is a company's opinion," Occhialini said. "I do not believe that they have spent enough time in town to see our operations. They didn't spend enough time here for $50,000. You really need to spend time in the town and get in the trenches."
The report indicates that employees from Almont Associates conducted a site visit during five days in May. Former fire and police personnel, some of whom used to work in the state, comprise consulting firm.
Other recommendations include combining the Montville and Mohegan fire companies at one location on Raymond Hill Road and following a model implemented in 2003 in Mansfield that combined that town's fire companies into a unified department.
The Town Council voted in January to spend $46,000 on the public safety plan. The council vote was 4-3 in favor of the plan. Murphy and councilors Rosetta Jones and Dana McFee cast dissenting votes, arguing it would be a waste of taxpayer money.
Eventually, it will be left to the council and Public Safety Commission to implement any part of the plan they find suitable for the town. Some say the changes will prove too costly.
"I guarantee none of it will be followed. We spent $46,000 and threw it out the window," McFee said.
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Did Boys Over Flowers (Boys Before Flowers) star Lee Min-ho (22) go for plastic surgery? But why? Isn't he perfect already?
Today on Starnews Korea, a picture showing Lee with two plastic surgeons surfaced on the Internet. Why was he at the clinic? What did he get done?
Speculations point to Lee Min-ho's nose. Well, if you've been one (like me) who has admired his high straight perfect nose, it might not be all genes. He might have had some help from the very skillful Korean plastic surgeons. Self appointed detectives revealed that Min-ho had his nose done on 17th December, 2007.
In a recent talk show program featuring celebrities BEFORE and AFTER surgery, a surgeon remarked that it is possible Min-ho went to correct a small bump in his nose.
But in a recent interview, Lee Min-ho mentioned that he has not done any plastic surgery and is in fact 100% natural.
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I was so fortunate to be elected the NYY Representative as it allowed me the chance to meet with the Great Mariano Rivera on the date of his final All Star Game. We met prior to the game just outside the locker room and, of course, had our moment out there on the field.
Subsequent to the game, the NYY's invited me to send all of my pictures with Mo to them to have signed...just last week I received them back and couldn't be any happier. All of the pics you see here are ones that he signed for me.


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Because, well, that's what you do in Grand Theft Auto IV. You wreck cars.
YouTuber InsaneGaz has one heck of an enjoyable channel, featuring hundreds of videos in which he takes modded cars and crashes the living hell out of them. He even hits the Optimus Prime mod!
Some highlights are above, but you can go check out all of the videos at his channel.
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It's well known that a functional of the form $u \mapsto \int f(u) dx$ is continuous with respect to weak convergence (say weak* convergence in $L^\infty$) if and only if the function $f$ is affine. An even more interesting thing to study is functionals which involve derivatives $u \mapsto \int f(du) dx$. The function $f$ needs to be quasiconvex to be lower semicontinuous.
I'm interested in functionals which also depend on the $x$ variable, like $\int f(x, u, du) dx$. Can anyone tell me a good place to read about continuity and semicontinuity with respect to weak convergence for functionals of this form. For example, must the $f(x,u)$ in $\int f(x,u) dx$ be convex / affine in the $u$ for almost every point $x$?
EDIT: I should clarify the last question. Dorian has given me a good reference regarding weak continuity/semicontinuity of functionals which involve derivatives and depend on the spatial variables. The question that remains is simpler: when you have a functional $\int f(x,u) dx$ that is, say, continuous with respect to weak-* convergence in $L^\infty$, is it necessarily the case that $f(x,\cdot)$ is affine in $u$ at almost every point $x$? This question is purely measure theoretic and has nothing to do with derivatives (so without loss of generality I am asking about the measure space $I = [0,1]$ since I am interested in the case without atoms). By using a sequence of the form $\chi_{E_k} u + (1 - \chi_{E_k}) v$ for suitable characteristic functions $E_k$, we know that $f(x, \theta u + (1- \theta) v) = \theta f(x, u) + (1-\theta) f(x,v)$ for all measurable functions $\theta : I \to [0,1]$ and all bounded, measurable $u, v$ on $I$. Probably, this is enough to imply $f(x, u)$ is affine in $u$ for almost every $x$. Similarly, lower semicontinuity should imply convexity at almost every point.


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Mauri Ditzler, Dean of the College, has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.
The awards and their recipients are:
•Phi Beta Kappa Prize: Justin R. Grimmer
The Phi Beta Kappa Prize was established to encourage original work of high creative and scholarly merit, as distinct from proficiency in normal course work. It is a cash prize given by the Wabash chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to that undergraduate who is judged to have produced the most original and meritorious piece of work, whether artistic and analytical.
•Community Service Award for Outstanding Work: Mark A. Dietzen and John M. Meyer
The Community Service Award is given to the student who has embodied the spirit of selfless community service to Wabash College, Crawfordsville, and Montgomery County.
•Indianapolis Alumni Student Athlete Award: Christopher A. Healy
The Indianapolis Alumni Student-Athlete Award is given to a senior who has made a significant contribution to athletes at Wabash and who has achieved a respectable grade point average.
•Pete Vaughan Outstanding Athlete Award: Christopher A. Healy
The Pete Vaughan Award commemorates the 30 years of distinguished service Robert E. "Pete" Vaughan, a 1924 Wabash graduate, dedicated to Wabash as coach and athletic director.
•Malcolm X Institute Merit Award: Robert M. Alexander, Luke C.H. Elliott, Jean M. Kongpinda, and Milton C.A. Turner
The Malcolm X Institute Merit Award is given annually to those seniors who, in the judgment of the director, have made significant contributions to the Malcolm X Institute during their tenure at Wabash College.
•Paul T. Hurt Award for All-Around Freshman Achievement: Thomas J. Elliott, Jr.
The Hurt Award is made by the dean of students from nominations submitted by all living units on campus to a deserving freshman student in recognition of all-around achievement in his first year at Wabash.
•Angus-Scientech Education Award: Robert S. Lombard
The Angus Scientech Award made by the DJ Angus-Scientech Education Foundation goes to a student in recognition of excellence in science, mathematics, or social sciences who has shown exceptional improvement in academic performance over the last year.
•Fred N. Daugherty Award: Sean A. Gerold
The Daugherty Award is given to a student from Montgomery County who has shown significant intellectual and social growth and achievement as a result of the Wabash experience.
•Robert O. Petty Prize: Samuel D. Brotman
The Petty Prize in nature writing is an annual competition instituted by Dr. W. Franklin Harris (Wabash '64) to honor the late Robert O. Petty, professor of biology at Wabash. It is given to the student whose essay or poem which, in the view of the judges, best preserves the cogent clarity of Petty's quest.
•Dean Stephens Award: Christopher W. Ogden
The Dean Stephens Award is given to a member of the junior class who best reflects the broad intellectual and personal interests, the high moral courage, and the humane concerns of Dean Stephens, a member of the Wabash coaching staff who was killed in an airplane crash in 1958.
•Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship: Nathan T. Bell
The Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship Award was established in memory of Waldo Stephens and Andrew David Hall, and is presented to a senior of demonstrated worth who plans to continue his education.
•Lewis Salter Memorial Award: Timothy C. Flowers
The Salter award is given to a member of the junior class who best exemplifies the characteristics of scholarship, character, leadership, and service Dr. Lewis Salter embodied as a Wabash faculty member and as Wabash's twelfth president.
•Senior Award of Merit: Mark A.S. Dietzen
The Senior Award of Merit is awarded by the Student Senate in conjunction with the National Association of Wabash Men to the senior who, though out his years at Wabash College, has demonstrated outstanding achievement in scholarship, service, and extracurricular activities.
•McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award: David M. Timmerman
•McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar: Stephen R. Morillo
The Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel is held every year at Wabash to honor students with awards and prizes for their outstanding work they have demonstrated throughout their college years.
In photos:
Top right: Associate Professor of Speech David Timmerman was honored with the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Award for Excellence in Teaching. History professor Steve Morillo was named the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar. Both professors were congratulated by Mrs. Elizabeth McLain (Mrs. Reid H. McLain, Class of 1927).
Lower left: Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men President Brad Johnson '71 presented senior Chris Healy with the Indianapolis Alumni Student Athlete Award. The two-time All-American, who finished second in the NCAA Division III National Championships, also earned the College's Pete Vaughan Outstanding Athlete Award.
Lower right: Junior Chris Ogden was this year's recipient of the College's Dean Stephens Award.


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What kind of grant is Beyond Words?
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How much are the Beyond Words grants?
Individual awards are for $10,000-$20,000
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If I submit an application, when will I know whether the request has been funded?
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Buttons and dials abound – a real joy for those tired of meandering through menus
When shooting with RAW mode enabled, ISO sensitivity is limited to a maximum of 3200. If you want to to max out at 12,800 then this is possible in JPEG mode but with the resolution reduced to around 3.1Mp. At this setting, there is of course loss of detail, colour saturation is reduced and noise is increased. However, images remain impressive for a camera of this size and are certainly quite usable at these higher settings. Combine this with the fast lens and you have a camera that's very capable in low-light situations.
I was also able to achieve a pleasant shallow depth-of-field effect by using the lens at its widest aperture and in telephoto mode – even without the artificial Pro Focus processing. The EXR sensor's dynamic range control does help prevent blue skies turning white or shadow details turning black and overall I was very impressed with the results from what is still a relatively small sensor.
However it's still possible to achieve better image quality from a small camera. The Olympus PEN Mini proves that it is possible to cram an SLR-sized sensor into a camera of this size although the latter offers nothing like the level of control and sophistication of the Fujifilm X10.
If you're in the market for a high-quality camera you can take anywhere, then the Fujifilm X10 is well worth its relatively high price-tag. Quality and attention to detail is evident throughout and if you're prepared to spend some time working through the more complicated features it can reward you with some great shots.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Lynn Buckham: Advertising Art
Well here's a curiosity... an advertising illustration (below) that also appeared in Good Housekeeping - eight months later. Is it by Buckham? It seems likely... but another Cooper artist may have used some of Buckham's reference from the same photo shoot. I can almost imagine that the genesis for the ad concept was the client (Palmolive) taking Buckham's story illustration to its agency and saying, "This is exactly what we want our next ad to look like!"
During the 1950's advertisers often tried to mimic the look of romance story art in their ads for women's magazines. The ad agency would have gone directly to Cooper's and asked for Lynn Buckham. But looking at the two images displayed together we can see how inferior the ad piece is in almost every way.
Many hands are involved in the production of ad art - many meddling hands. I'm not even sure if Buckham did the artwork. No matter who it was, I know too much about the process of consensus by committee (and clients who want more, more, more) to blame the illustrator for the results.
Here's another ad - this time definitely by Buckham - that again under-utilizes the artist's input. I'm all in favour of making good use of white space -- giving the visual room to breathe -- but this is ridiculous. Again, what a shame to invest in employing the skills of a Cooper studio artist and have this as the results. What a waste of potential.
One client that made the most of its illustrators was Pepsi. Back in February of 2007 we spent a week looking at Pepsi's 'Sociables' campaign. Many Cooper artists worked on that decade-long series, including Lynn Buckham. This July '54 ad below is from relatively early in Buckham's career at Cooper's. I said at the beginning of the week that Buckham was sort of a 'hit-and-miss' kind of illustrator, and compared to some of his other work from the same time period, I'd call this piece a miss.
Since we don't know what circumstances Buckham had to deal with in getting this piece done, I'm not going to blame him too much. He may have had to crank this out over night, or the client may have asked for endless changes. It happens.
I want to end the week on a high note, and I couldn't do that better than to show you this new scan of the very first Buckham illustration I ever saw. It still knocks me out, and I think its one of the nicest pieces by Buckham I've ever seen. Amazingly, he produced this just a year after the one above and its most definitely a hit.
So what became of Lynn Buckham after this period in his career? TI list member David Roach managed to dig up a few clues:
"As magazine work dried up in the States," writes David, "Buckham moved to the U.K where he became one of the best and most prolific women's magazine artists and also found time to illustrate several books. In the mid 70's he returned to the U.S where he found success as a portrait painter."
I'm hopeful that one day we will learn more about the talented Mr. Buckham. For now, that's all we know.
* My Lynn Buckham Flickr set.
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I have to disagree, a little, about the overuse of white space in the Parke, Davis & Company ad. I think they were intentionally going for the effect of making the woman look isolated and nervous-- alone in all that empty space. I think it works fairly well that way. One could question the wisdom of provoking negative emotions like nervousness in your ads, and I do think the figure is not one of Mr. Buckham's better ones, but I don't really think it's the white space's fault. ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment. To be perfectly honest, I disagree with myself just a little as well, and even wondered if I should be so harsh when I decided to write that, but since you offered me the challenge, maybe it would be fun to discuss why I feel this ad wasted Buckham's potential and how it could have been improved upon.
I wrote in my post that advertisers often tried to imitate the feel of a story illustration, esp. in the case of products targeted at women (as in this ad) so let's assume that this client and/or art director had that in the back of their mind going in, and that's why they chose to go to Cooper's and not use some other run-of-the-mill illustrator or photography.
As you say, the design of the ad is fine. Not the most interesting, but certainly fine.
But to have Buckham illustrate a small figure isolated in a field of white, and to use a 'bulls-eye" composition (focal point in the centre of the page) with the figure seen at standard eye level is a wasted opportunity, imo.
And I don't mind that they have chosen a strategy of negative emotion - creating anxiety in your audience is a time-tested successful strategy for advertising (think 'B.O.', bad breath, germ-ridden kitchen counters, etc.)
Two posts ago I showed a couple of Buckham's story illustrations that also used LOTS of white space and minimal props (and no environment cues). Copying either one would have made this ad much more effective. The first, a down shot of a couple in bathing suits, would have been great for this ad - not the bathing suits, of course, but the down shot. Visually, the image of the isolated figure shot from overhead in a large field of white space would have created a sense of isolation and intimidation - plus it would have been more visually interesting. The bulls-eye composition would have become extremely effective with this one change (creating a sort of 'being scrutinized under a microscope' sense of isolation) , and the unusual angle would have subliminally reminded viewers more of the typical story illustration, since romance artists like Buckham often employed downshots and other unusual angles and juxtapositions of the figure.
Equally (or even more) effective would have been an ECU on the woman's face, like the last piece from two days ago, where we see the close-up of the woman's face overlapped by the man's face and hand holding a cigarette. Just an ECU of the woman's face (perhaps partially cropped vertically on the right side of the page?) dominating the white space, looking worried, would have created more of an emotional connection for the viewer (like looking in the mirror) and a sense of tension about her circumstances.
Actually, the two top pieces in your Sunday April 11 posting on your blog demonstrate exactly what I mean, Colin. Both of your (very lovely) drawings show how this ad might have been improved dramatically. The one on the right especially, with the face dominated by deep shadow - that kind of lighting would have worked beautifully in the case of this ad!
Anyway, this has been fun - I hope you don't feel I was taking you to task - I just welcome the opportunity to elaborate on where my thinking was when I wrote that this was a waste of Buckham's talents. Its a pet peeve of mine when I look through all my old magazines and see ads done by Cooper artists (and other equally talented illustrators) that are so darn dull by comparison to their story illustrations. And having worked in advertising all these years, gone through the process so many times... nothing has changed.
Illustrators have so much to offer - are usually only called in when the client wants something different - then too often they are neutered by those same clients interfering in the process. The results are often a disappointment to everyone involved...
Part of the reason I present material like this is in the hope that today's professionals will learn from the mistakes of the past - and as well, learn from the forgotten successes of the past. That's why its called "Today's Inspiration" !
Thanks again, Colin! - Leif :^)
sometimes I wonder what the fuss is about-- I enjoy looking at the work of these illustrators very much, but let's face it: they were trying to put food on the table and had to jump through whatever hoops their art directors and clients set them. The artistic feeling and design of their work was a distant priority compared to the more immediate one of SELLING THE PRODUCT. I was looking at a book of Peter Breugel's work this morning, and the incredible phalanx of thoughts and emotions that accompanied that perusal put the efforts of these illustrators to dramatize questions like "Coke.. or Pepsi?" and "Do people notice my dandruff?" into their true category of trivial ephemera.
Boy, you nailed it, Christina;ReplyDelete
That is the underlying reality of this business. However (there's always a however) since the point of this blog is to find inspiration in the work of the mid-century commercial arts, I think we can indulge in some illustrative navel-gazing now and then.
But yes, you are absolutely correct. As with comics of that same era, no one thought of what they were doing as 'Art' or that 50 years later anyone would be scrutinizing their efforts. The thought makes me nervous about what people will say should they dig up my work in 50 years! ;^)
No problem at all, Leif. I was very pleased to read your response (and to hear that you've visited my blog as well-- Thanks!). You're quite right that the composition is too flat, too straight ahead, far too ordinary in every way, and your suggestions for improvements are dead on, in my opinion.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work, it's always an inspiration!


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Gearslide wrote:Autobot032 wrote:Cyberseven wrote:PrymeStriker wrote:The Variable wrote:I foresee no stateside release, at least not without a heavy retooling/soft rubbery plastic makeover.
They confirmed months ago that they weren't bringing Breakdown or Unicron (or Ironhide, or Jet Vehicon ) stateside. Remember?
I am glad I got mine on pre-order. I am actually starting to get concerned with Hasbro releases, and the new materials they are using for (safety reasons). What has become of the U.S. where we are so obsessed with safety and regulations. I was really surprised when I saw that Voyager Dreadwing has floppy rubber tail wings, and knee caps and even his head is a just a thicker piece of rubber... ... I am glad that this is a Takara only release. If it was a Hasbro release too, we would have a suck ass toy with rubber head/horns, and shoulder horns, with a big ugly safety pamphlet inside saying try not to poke your eye out kid. ...
I know these toys are mainly for kids, but I am pretty sure Japan has kids too. They just give them a little more credit for not being complete dumb asses and stabbing themselves with a fricken toy....lol
Uh...Takara's releases are getting sloppy too.
Their Dreadwing? Same materials. Look at their promo pics, you can see his one tail fin bending ever so slightly.
Breakdown? Thin plastic and hollow limbs. (Doesn't make him less of a badass though...)
Unicron's probably hard plastic due to the design requirements, but I wouldn't be surprised if they end up giving us more and more of what Hasbro would. Rubbery junk and all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that we've seen Arms Micron Dreadwing yet.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. Here's proof: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/images/pr ... K11497.jpg (look at how the tailfin bends ever so slightly.)


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Saturday, October 1, 2011
ruffle curtain: take 2
I got this idea in my head to do another ruffle curtain, but this time use it as a headboard on a twin bed. And when I saw this lovely shade of gray in the sheet aisle at walmart...I could resist. This is done with a set of queen flat sheets, rather than the twin sheet from the previous tutorial. The finished piece will measure about 80 x 49 inches give or take. I also went ahead and re-did my original tutorial and put it into a pdf so you can easily download it and print it off if you'd like (I just hope it works now).
Ruffle Curtain
Enjoy and if you make one, I'd love to hear how it turned out, especially if it's in a nursery...I just think it would be so cute in a baby girl's room.
21 comments:
- Payton said...
Such a beautiful idea! Have a relaxing Sunday.
- October 1, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Rebecca Jo said...
I'm trying to get past my fear of even turning ON my sewing machine :) Maybe this is something I can attempt... its so adorable!
- October 3, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- Lauren said...
So cute!!!! :)
- October 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Kim@todayismysome-day said...
This is awesome! I just learned how to sew ruffles this weekend. Still working out the kinks, actually. I"ll keep your tutorial on hand for reference.
- October 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- DesignDazzle.blogspot.com said...
Great tutorial and so darling! Thanks so much for sharing : )
- October 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM
First of all, I LOVE PUGS SO MUCH. My mom and dad have two and I swear one day I will own my own little snotty snorter.
Second, love these as curtains! Once our house is done (january!!) these will absolutely be going in my daughter's room, maybe in different colors...Maybe the grey though?? Her room is lavender and blue thus far (meaning, that's the color of the quilt and sheets we've bought!) so we'll see what wal-mart sheets inspire me..
Thanks for posting this! I LOVE easy stuff. And the dogs :)
- November 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- Unknown said...
Quick question. If you started with a main body panel of 102 x 64.75 and ended up with a finished curtain size of 80 by 49, how did you loose so much length and width? I understanding hemming the bottom, sides, and the 3" rod pocket at the top, but that should only equal a loss of 1" on the width, and 5" on the length. You have lost 22" in the length and 15.75 on the width. Where does it go?
- February 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- Unknown said...
Love the tutorial by the way. What an awesome idea!
- February 6, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Jess_LyMi said...
This is absolutely completely adorable! I love it.
Your newest follower, Jess @ The Delightful Crafter
- July 7, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- MaryAnne and Rusty said...
I love how you said that it would be cute in a little girl's nursery because that is exactly what I am going to do!! before seeing your blog I had the idea and even already bought the wal-mart sheets:) I was looking for some tips and tricks other than what was in my head and found your post and this will help me perfectly!! I think the only difference I will make is I purchased a black out curtain panel($10 each at WM) as the base instead of another sheet so that it will be dark when closed for a nursery. Thanks so much for posting!
- July 9, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- SM said...
I've been lookin everywhere for ruffled curtains, and they are god awful expensive! So glad I found this. I too am impatient and only know the basics as far as sewing. I'm going to try this for my little girl's room! If I don't like it I'm only out 5 bucks, which eases the pressure a little bit. We just moved in so we still have to paint etc. but when we get it done I'll be sure to send you a picture. Thanks so much for this!
- July 24, 2012 at 7:30 AM
- Amanda said...
We want to do this for a craft day with a bunch of ladies! (yeah) and I just want to make sure I understand this, two sheets (either twin or queen) will make 1 curtain? could you possibly make two curtains form a queen set?
- August 28, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- Nina said...
Great instructions!!! I actually made a ruffle duvet too! I'd love for you to check it out... http://diyprojectsbynina.blogspot.com/2013/04/urban-outfitters-inspired-waterfall.html
- April 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM
- Coug Britt said...
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!! I am an extreme beginner on my new sewing machine, so I'm sure I'll have to read thru the directions a few times, but that will be easy since you made them easy to print/download. =)
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I teach severe special education in a middle school with lots of bookshelves that have math manipulatives, games, and educational resources on them that are interfering with learning because of students that get over stimulated easily. I decided that I am going to make curtains for the bookshelves since I don't have any cabinets that close so that I can create a better learning environment. I'm super excited for your tutorial and to get started on making these for my classroom. Thank you.
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- Cindy said...
Where can I find the queen size tutorial? It says page not found.
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