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The Washington Nationals today released their 2012 schedule, a late starter compared to previous seasons beginning on the road on Thursday, April 5 at Wrigley Field, followed by the home opener on Thursday, April 12 vs. Cincinnati. Highlights include a three-game interleague visit from the New York Yankees June 15-17, and holiday matchups against the San Francisco Giants (Independence Day) and Chicago Cubs (Labor Day). The Nationals are not at home on Memorial Day.
The Nationals receive three visits apiece from all National League East rivals, including seven weekend sets against the Philadelphia Phillies (May 4-6), New York Mets (August 17-19), Atlanta Braves (June 1-3, July 20-22) and the newly-named Miami Marlins (April 20-22, August 3-5, September 7-9).
The Nationals-Orioles interleague rivalry is resumed at Nationals Park May 18-20. The Nationals visit Oriole Park at Camden Yards from June 22-24.
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If I wasn't the ggg granddaughter of James Harman, I would be just as happy to be the ggg granddaughter of his brother, Walter. He broke away from Byaduk farm life to pioneer in the High Country of Victoria at Ensay.
There are many things to like about researching Walt. He and wife Lydia Poynton chose beautiful names for their children. They also liked to be photographed and I have been lucky enough to view some of those wonderful snaps. Also, Walt's obituary was rich with history and is the kind I wish I could find from James Harman's death.
Walter was born in December 1845 at Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England to Joseph and Sarah Harman. It would be unlikely he remembered a time when older brother James, 15 years his senior, lived in the family home. While in England he would not have had much to do with any of his older brothers as, by the time he was 8, four of them had left for Australia.
In 1854, Walter sailed with his parents, Joseph and Sarah, sister Sarah and younger brother Alfred for Sydney aboard the "Queen of England". We now know the family went to Western Victoria and were in Byaduk by 1863.
In 1872, aged 27, Walter married Lydia Poynton, daughter of John Poynton and Lydia Walton. Immigrants from Lincolnshire, England, the Poyntons lived in the Macarthur area. The following year Walter applied to the Lands Board for a license on 300 acres near Macarthur.
In 1879, he applied for the land next door to the earlier allotment, a further 44 acres.
Walter and Lydia started their family without haste, with Eunice Walton Harman born the year after their marriage. Another nine children followed over the next 15 years.
Eunice Walton: Birth: 1873 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1893 to Benjamin Miller Lucas; Death: 1954 at Heathcote Junction, Victoria.
Susannah Nash: Birth: 1875 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1898 to William Condon; Death: 1957 at Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Nathan: Birth: 1878 at Byaduk; Death: 1892 at Omeo.
Henry: Birth: 1880 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1922 to Eva Gertrude Jamison; Death: 1954 at Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Louisa Mulberry: Birth: 1881 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1900 to John Phiddian; Death: 1946 at Kyneton, Victoria.
Julia Georgina: Birth: 1882 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1915 to Arthur Frances Lousada; Death: 1929 at Malvern, Victoria.
Selina Victoria: Birth: 1884 at Byaduk; Death: 1977 at Kew, Victoria.
Seth Livingstone: Birth: 1884 at Byaduk; Death: 1892 at Omeo.
Golder Alberta Arlettie: Birth: 1886 at Byaduk; Marriage: 1923 to Solomon Kerrison; Death: 1963 at Melbourne.
John Joseph Stanley: Birth: 1888 at Omeo; Marriage: 1916 to Daisy Edith Masters; Death: 1959 at Bairnsdale, Victoria.
This brings us to the wonderful names of the children of Walter and Lydia. Eunice Walton takes her second name from her maternal grandmother, Lydia Walton. Susannah Nash was named after her maternal aunt Susannah Poynton. Susannah married John Nash in 1869 but she died in 1875, aged just 34. That was the same year Susannah Nash Harman was born. Lydia's other sister, Mary, also named her daughter Susannah Adeline Skipworth in the same year as her sister's death.
My favourite name is Julia Georgina. Julia is such a beautiful name and it may have come from her older cousin Julia Harman, daughter of James. Selina Victoria is another of my favourite names. Louisa Mulberry takes her second name from her paternal grandmother, Sarah Mulberry and John Joseph Stanley was named after his grandfathers, Joseph Harman and John Poynton. I have absolutely no idea where the name Golder Alberta Arlettie may have come from!
The art of child naming carried on to the next generation, with grandchildren of Walter and Lydia having given names such as Stella Camilla Ina May, Edison Winslow, Harold Ornamen Tennyson, Cyril Montrose, Aldith Lorraine, Alban Harcourt, Beryl Maitland, Rodney Raeburn, Wilbur Henry, Athol Elwyn, Winton Harman, Jewel Victoria, Molly Lousada and Gloria Felicity Cambridge.
Just when it seemed Walter was settling into a life in the Western District, around 1888, Walter Harman packed up the family and made the long trip to Ensay in East Gippsland, Victoria's High Country. It is the move which interests me, both the reason for travelling to the other side of the state and how they made the trip of over 600 kilometres, including the route they travelled. The Ensay district did sound enticing, as this article from 1888 suggests:
In 1843, Ensay Station comprised 38,400 acres. An article from the Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle in 1917 cites the total acreage at Ensay Station at that time as 11,000 acres. Over time, land was sold off to the likes of Walter Harman.
When I started researching the Harmans and I found the first references to Omeo, about 40kms north-west of Ensay, I imagined that Walt and his family went alone. As my research continued I discovered the Condon family from the marriage record of Susannah Nash Harman and William Condon in 1898. William was born in Portland in 1870, the son of William Charles Condon and Susan Baker.
Later, thanks to newspaper reports of Henry HARMAN's court appearances in the trial of Ronald Griggs, I found John Henry CONDON, father of Lottie Condon. While John was born in Omeo, he was the cousin of William Condon, Susannah Harman's husband. Not only that, John Condon's wife, Frances Ethel HUGGINS was born at Mount Eccles, near Macarthur in the Western District. Frances' mother was a SKIPWORTH, from Macarthur and her grandmother was a POYNTON, sister of Lydia Poynton, Walter Harman's wife. That sister, Mary, was also in the area with her husband, Thomas Skipworth. Phew!
Confusing maybe, but it shows five families living in the Omeo/Ensay area all with links to Byaduk/Macarthur and all connected through marriages over three generations. Oh yes, Mary Poynton's daughter Lydia Skipworth took along her new husband Andrew BAULCH from Tower Hill, near Warrnambool. By 1890, his parent James Baulch and Ann Hulm were living at Bairnsdale.
So, the next question was, who was the trailblazer that made the first big move to the High Country, or was there a convoy of families making the move at the same time?
Using the years the children were born as a guide, the first family to make the move appears to be Henry Condon, older brother of William Condon with his wife Agnes Huggins, aunt of Frances Ethel Huggins. Married in 1885, their first child was born at Omeo in 1886. Agnes' brother James Huggins and wife Elizabeth Skipworth had a child in Macarthur in 1886 with the next child, Thomas Leslie born in 1888 at Omeo. This is also the same year John Joseph Stanley Harman was born at Omeo.
The obituary of John Tomlin Poynton, nephew of Lydia, talks of his move to the High Country in 1888 with his brother Edward with yet another family tie in, this time to the Skipworths.
The Hamilton Spectator of 8 March 1888, included the following from the Byaduk correspondent, "Several farmers in the neighborhood who have had the good fortune to secure what are said to be superb selections in Gippsland, intend leaving here for that part of the country shortly. "
Walter, with help from Lydia, worked quickly to establish a Sunday school at Ensay and they were a major force behind a State school being opened in the town.
In 1890, Walter was one of the first trustees of the Ensay Public Cemetery. The name of the Harman property at Ensay was Systonholme. This name paid tribute to Lydia's birthplace, Syston, Lincolnshire, England.
Like his brother James, Walter was a lay preacher for the Methodist Church and would travel by horseback spreading the word of John Wesley.
In 1892, tragedy struck the Harmans in quick succession. Seth died in July, aged 7 and Nathan passed away in August, aged 13. The boys were buried at the Omeo cemetery. Their death certificates are just another two on my long list of "must get" certificates, to see how the boys died so close together, although one would assume it was illness.
I love this photo of Walt and Lydia. Despite the stiffness and lack of emotion of early photographs, there is a warmth here and the two seem very comfortable in each other's company. They were a team, and this is clear from the photo. I would like to thank Linda Thatcher for allowing me to use this wonderful photograph.
In Walter and Lydia's later years, they moved into "town", taking up residence in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern. In 1923, they were living at 11 Jordan Street with their house named Systonholme, a reminder of Ensay. Daughter Selina was living with them and Julia and her husband Arthur Lousada moved from their home in Toorak to 113 Tooronga Road Malvern, only two streets from her parents.
In 1926, Lydia passed away aged 79. Walter had lost his beloved wife, the woman with whom he had pioneered and raised 10 children. A family notice was placed in The Argus at the time of her death:
In 1928, two years after Lydia's death, Walter and daughter Selina placed an "In Memoriam" notice in The Argus and the pain was still clear.
Faced with life without Lydia, Walter returned to live at Ensay, his other great love. On 22 October 1936, Walter passed away at Systonholme, Ensay.
His obituary from the Gippsland Times is a fitting tribute to such a wonderful pioneer who gave so much to his local community while ensuring a comfortable life for his family.
As yet, I have not found an obituary for James Harman but the words written of Walter may give a clue to James himself…"his sterling Christian character, his genial personality, and his extreme kindness to all whom he met". There are many similarities between James and Walter, despite their age difference and the fact they lived on opposite sides of Victoria, including their devotion to the Methodist Church and their community involvement. Both brothers played a role in establishing schools in their respective towns. The obituary also reconfirmed the Harman's journey from N.S.W. on arrival in Australia to Port Fairy and then Byaduk.
While Walter Harman is remembered as an Ensay pioneer, he also lived in Byaduk and district for 25 years from the age of 18 to 43, which one could describe as his "formative years". There was plenty of time for the characteristics, passions and wisdom of his brothers to rub off.


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A new year was just beginning _ an extraordinary year, in which so much would change.
Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the podium to give his inaugural address as governor of Alabama. His words framed a fiery rejoinder to a civil rights movement gathering strength.
"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny," he thundered, "and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"
Fifty years later, the words still have the power to shock. In college classes like "The Sixties in History and Memory," today's students recoil.
But turn the pages of their text to a day just seven months later, and there's another riveting oration. At the thronged Lincoln Memorial, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. offered a vision of a "day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: `Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!"'
The students shiver at the words and cadence of this speech _ and at the contradictions and convulsions of 1963.
"We constantly make the point," notes Donald Spivey, who teaches "The Sixties" at the University of Miami, "that you're hit with all of these things at once."
What things?
Under the shadow of the Cold War's threat of "mutually assured destruction," 1963 was the year of dawning arms control between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; they signed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In June, the adversaries agreed to set up a "hotline" communications link between the Kremlin and the White House to insure against a catastrophic mistake.
For many women, it was a year of liberation. The 1963 best-seller "The Feminine Mystique" catalyzed the modern women's movement. One author says the book literally saved lives.
Around 1963, the critical mass of the baby boom generation was reaching a critical moment. Its leading edge, teenagers by then, were starting to recognize what they wanted to do, to believe and, significantly, to buy. The music they listened to was beginning to challenge givens of the conformist 1950s. Bob Dylan, who sang in 1963 of all that was "blowin' in the wind." Motown. And soon the shaggy-haired, parent-unsettling Beatles, whose first album came out in Britain that year, leading a new wave of Pied Piper bands who'd produce much of the generation's soundtrack.
At the center of it all was the Kennedy administration, glamorous and youthful, often likened to "Camelot" _ the mythical world lasting, as a Broadway lyric lamented, just "one brief, shining moment."
Then suddenly, in November, the greatest jolt of all in a year of tumult, one felt still today: Rifle shots in Dallas that brought that moment to a close.
"So much happened in the `60s that every year is almost its own brand … and `63 has a rightful place," said Jeremy Varon, a history professor at New York's New School and co-editor of the journal "The Sixties."
The decade's themes resounded, he says. There was "the revolution in race relations," the divisive Vietnam war, widespread experimentation with drugs, the sexual revolution, a societal turn toward youth.
"All of this was experienced as a crisis," Varon said. But he added, the period was "also exuberantly fun."
Ever since, "youth has defined popular taste," and a favored demographic for marketers remains the age group 18-to-35.
"Coming of age in the `60s still is sort of the great archetype of … what youth is all about," said Varon, and the decade's early years helped define that. "Kennedy gave young people this charge to define American strength … and virtue."
And today's students appreciate that _ even while consigning Kennedy and King to a misty past. Having grown up during the shadowy war on terrorism, many show no sense of "what it's like to live in a culture of optimism."
"The biggest thing I find," Varon added, "is that students are enraptured by the fact that once upon a time young people had a sense of purpose in life."
Cultural historian Thomas Hine calls the young people of the 1960s "the luckiest generation."
Their sense of purpose coincided with an economic upswing that had propelled the nation since the end of World War II, with the promise of progress seen in relentless "Mad men"-style advertising _ everything "new and improved" _ and with Kennedy's New Frontier.
"The `New Frontier' was really a very shrewd phrase. Westerns were the most popular thing on TV, and the frontier of space was the future," said Hine, author of "Populuxe," an examination of `50s and `60s ideas.
In a popular cartoon, the Jetsons were part of a community floating above Earth, and yet they relied on updated versions of every terrestrial push-button appliance and lived the life of a suburban nuclear family. Media and political messages of the time, Hine said, met in "the idea that the whole world could be managed." Even amid global jitters and social strains at home, there was "the idea that we can take more control of our lives."
In Spivey's `60s classes at Miami, students grasp the sense of purpose in 1963's pivotal chapter in the civil rights movement, with its hundreds of demonstrations that year alone.
With other lecturers _ and with music, film and the personal recollections of participants _ he tries to bring the ferment of the time alive for students. "We try and make them feel the era," he said.
Ticking off milestones, the professor mentions Birmingham. That city was a bulwark of the resistance to progress toward civil rights begun with prior years' lunch counter sit-ins and "freedom rides." And it was there that King and others went to launch Project C, for "confrontation."
With a series of marches, they wanted to provoke a reaction and draw public attention. Hundreds were arrested, including King, whose galvanizing "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is course reading for students now.
"Injustice anywhere," its best-known line says, "is a threat to justice everywhere."
TV images and newspaper reports from Birmingham showed peaceful marchers, including children, being attacked by snapping police dogs and blasted by firehoses.
"Then the water hit them," an AP reporter on the scene wrote. "Cowering first with hands over their heads, then on their knees or clinging together with their arms around each other, they tried to hold their ground." A man's T-shirt was ripped off by the firehose blast, and afterward a woman was bleeding from the nose and a young girl's eyes were cut, the story said.
Facing howls of outrage, local officials eventually agreed to a list of reforms, which King declared "the most significant victory for justice we've ever seen in the South."
Public pressure also moved the White House, which had taken a cautious stance on civil rights.
"We are confronted primarily with a moral issue," Kennedy said in a June 1963 speech, formally supporting a sweeping Civil Rights Act. "Are we to say to the world _ and much more importantly to each other _ that this is the land of the free, except for the Negroes…?"
Resistance was far from over, of course. On the very night of Kennedy's speech, Medgar Evers, NAACP field director in Mississippi, was gunned down in his driveway by a klansman.
And Birmingham itself would witness in September an especially heartless attack, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four children preparing for Sunday school. When Spivey's students are shown Spike Lee's film, "Four Little Girls," tears flow again, decades later.
Between these Birmingham chapters came what may be the signature moment of the civil rights movement, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963.
"By special train, plane, buses by the thousand, private automobiles and even in some cases on foot, the marchers poured into the capital," an AP story reported. An estimated 250,000 people, mostly black but many white, met at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial to hear King pronounce, "I have a dream…"
Civil rights advances of 1963 spilled into a broader sense of possibilities.
Many people had long hoped for relief from the specter of atomic war _ what Kennedy called the "darkening prospect of mass destruction on earth" as he announced the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in July.
"Yesterday a shaft of light cut into the darkness," he said. "For the first time, an agreement has been reached on bringing the forces of nuclear destruction under control."
For years, people had staged "ban the bomb" street demonstrations _ but almost unnoticed in 1963, they were joined by a few early protesters against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, where Kennedy had been sending American military "advisers."
In the continuum of popular culture, no single year is definitive. Still, by 1963, record buyers, radio stations, even jukebox operators were embracing a broadening range of entertainment. There was the "Motown sound" of black pop songs _ singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson has spoken of "the barriers that we broke down with music" _ and audiences would soon embrace the "British invasion."
"The `60s revolution in music and style began somewhere, maybe here," say the liner notes for a just-released Beatles collection, "First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition," which received a nomination for this year's Grammy awards.
The music never really went away (the Rolling Stones' recent tour was playfully called "Fifty and Counting"). Spivey's `60s class ends with a sing-along, and Varon at the New School marvels at how many of his students know the old lyrics.
A quieter revolution made 1963 "a lever," in the words of historian Stephanie Coontz, who also teaches `60s courses. In February of that year, writer Betty Friedan published "The Feminine Mystique."
At the time, magazines and TV constantly reinforced a view of the American woman and her assigned place: She would marry, raise children, and not work outside the home, which she would maintain with products and appliances designed to make her middle-class life efficient and ideal.
The trouble, Friedan recognized, was that for many this was not ideal, but suffocating, said Coontz, author of the 2011 book "A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s."
When she reviews the sexism of those days with her students today _ "head and master" laws in many states making wives legally subject to husbands, help-wanted ads seeking "pretty looking, cheerful gal" for office work, and the like _ "jaws literally drop," she said.
For middle-class women who read Friedan's book, it was a revelation. They'd been told "they should not want anything more out of life _ and were `sick' when they did. These people Friedan literally rescued," Coontz said in an interview. "People I interviewed said … they were considering suicide."
The book told them they were not alone and change might come.
Transformative change is a central theme of `60s courses; some even offer `60s-style civic outreach projects as substitutes for traditional research papers. Students learn how Kennedy pushed variations of this message in 1963.
In June in Berlin, where a communist-built wall showed the Cold War divide most sharply, he envisioned the ultimate triumph of freedom. "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin," he said, "and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, `Ich bin ein Berliner.' "
That same month, promoting peace was his theme in a commencement address. "In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet," he told the graduates. "We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Five months later, he traveled to Texas, for political fence-mending ahead of the 1964 election. He was waving at the cheering crowds that lined his sunny Dallas motorcade route when the rifle shots came at 12:30 p.m. Central time.
Newsreel footage shows cheers turning to shrieks, as TV announcers break into soap operas with bulletins. Soon there would be nonstop coverage, which, though common now, was like nothing seen before on television. Broadcasts brought the nation together in a shared experience of bewilderment and grief.
Just as today's generation remembers the moment of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the memory of Nov. 22, 1963, remains crystalline and, inevitably, becomes a teaching tool.
"All of a sudden, we heard all of these rumors. Then somebody had a transistor radio," recalls Spivey, then a high school student, describing how he brings the moment to life in class today. "And I remember standing by the lockers, just listening. … Students crying, in this predominantly black school in Chicago, kids saying, `What's going to happen to us now?"'
Hundreds of miles east, Hine was heading into high school debate team practice, where at first everyone thought a student was joking when he blurted the inconceivable news. He wasn't kidding, though, and the feeling absorbed then has resonated ever since.
"Up until that point," Hine said, "there was this widespread belief in big business, big government, big thinking to lead us into a better future. The assassination didn't completely undo this, but it showed that some things are far more fragile than we ever imagined them to be."


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4 Ways to Protect Your Hearing
Changes in hearing are a common part of aging. Almost half of adults over the age of 75 will have some degree of hearing loss. Changes in hearing can occur due to damage, illnesses, or even genetics.
Although many people will experience hearing loss in their lifetime, there are ways to protect your hearing. Taking care of your ears and preventing hearing loss can be as easy as following these four tips.
Protect Your Ears
Loud noises can damage hearing whether the noise exposure is brief or prolonged. Protect your hearing by wearing ear plugs or ear muffs when you are going to be around loud noises. Limit your exposure to loud sounds by moving away from the source and keeping volumes low in your home.
Spencer Eaton, executive director of Pinnacle Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, works with older individuals and has seen how common hearing loss is. "Exposure to loud noises is a common and preventable cause of hearing loss," he says. "Use ear protection whenever possible around loud sounds."
Clean Your Ears Properly
Contrary to popular belief, it is not necessary for most people to clean their ears frequently. Earwax is a natural production of the ears, and the ears are designed to clear the earwax out on their own. However, some people may find that their ears do not clean themselves as well as they should as they age. Hearing aids, extra ear hair, and the aging process may contribute to additional wax buildup that can obstruct hearing. If earwax does build up more than normal, over-the-counter cleaning products can help clear it out. A doctor can also use special tools to clean out the ears. Regardless of the amount of waxy buildup, foreign objects like cotton swabs should never be put into the ear canal.
Treat Illnesses Promptly
Upper respiratory illnesses can contribute to hearing loss if they are not treated appropriately. Get treatment promptly for illnesses of the ears, nose, and throat in order to reduce the risk of an ear infection. Some illnesses or medications can cause hearing changes, so be sure to consult your doctor if any sudden changes in hearing occur.
Get Hearing Aids
Hearing aids do not restore hearing loss, but they can vastly improve quality of life and even help prevent other impairments. Hearing loss can be difficult for people who find themselves unable to participate in conversations and daily activities. It can also be dangerous if a person is unable to hear a fire alarm or a honking horn. Recent research even suggests hearing loss can speed up cognitive decline in older adults. If you have suffered some hearing loss, talk to your doctor about whether hearing aids can help.
When you are young, protecting your hearing may be low on your list of priorities. However, your ears may feel the effect of those concerts and motorcycle rides. Take the time to protect your ears, whether from sound or illness, and you may prevent some hearing loss. If you do suffer from hearing loss, be sure to seek medical help. Hearing aids may not reverse the damage, but they can dramatically improve a person's life.


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Carpet Care and Maintenance
A regular maintenance program extends the life of the original appearance of your carpet. Today's carpet fibers are designed to hide dirt and reflect light, and they have the ability to resist soiling and stains. However, the lack of apparent soiling does not eliminate the necessity of regular cleaning.† Give your carpet the normal protection from direct sunlight that you would give to any colored fabric. Carpet should also be protected from direct sunlight to avoid color loss.
You will need to vacuum your heavy traffic areas, such as hallways, stairs, and exterior entryways at least twice a week. Vacuum less heavily used areas weekly. For best results, use a vacuum cleaner with an adjustable beater bar or rotating brush and with a strong enough airflow to penetrate to the carpet backing.
Carpet with thick loop pile construction, particularly wool and wool-blend styles, may be sensitive to brushing or rubbing of the pile surface and may become fuzzy. For these products, and those styles with a combination of thick or thin or cable yarn, a suction-only vacuum or a vacuum with an adjustable brush lifted away from the carpet is recommended so it does not agitate the pile. A vacuum with an adjustable beater bar or rotating brush can be tested for excessive fuzzing in an inconspicuous location before regular use. Be aware of vacuums that have aggressive action which may damage the surface of your carpet.
Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® does not recommend a vacuum brand. There are brands that offer adjustable beater bars or even a feature to turn the beater bar off in some cases. The Carpet and Rug Institute (www.carpet-rug.org) offers information and ratings of vacuums.
Most dry soil has razor-like edges that abrade carpet fibers, causing light to reflect differently and give carpet a dull appearance. Soil can damage the fibers permanently if allowed to remain in the pile.
No matter how often you vacuum, your carpet will still need heavy-duty cleaning from time to time. Professional cleaning is required to maintain your Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® warranty (unless there is heavier usage, in which case your carpet will have to be cleaned at closer intervals). We would be glad to advise you about which cleaning method is best for your particular carpet. Hot water extraction, either alone or in combination with cleaning, is required to maintain most warranties. Some styles, however, must be cleaned in other ways. Be sure to check with your Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® retailer for the recommended cleaning method for your particular carpet. It is required that a trained professional perform this service at least every 12-18 months to refresh the texture and rejuvenate the fibers in your carpet.†* Have the cleaning professionals come to your home for a visual inspection and obtain a written agreement before the work is started. You must retain your receipts for proof of maintenance service should a warranty claim arise. You can keep track of your carpet care and cleaning maintenance using the Cleaning Log on page 37.
† Courtesy of the Carpet and Rug Institute, Copyright 2015.
When you and your cleaning professional choose a cleaning method, fiber content is the most important concern. Most carpet today is constructed with synthetic fibers such as nylon, polyester, triexta, or olefin and may be cleaned with most cleaning methods. Do not apply stain-repellent treatments which contain silicone, as they are unnecessary and tend to accelerate soiling on carpets. Natural fibers such as wool, cotton, silk, and sisal may require specialized care. Use a cleaning method recommended by the carpet manufacturer to maintain their warranty. If you should have any questions or concerns about your new carpet, just call your Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® retailer.
Carpet Care and Maintenance – New Generation Soft Carpets Including Tigressá Cherish™, Innovia TOUCH XTREME CLEAN™ and Innovia TOUCH XTREME CLEAN™ DREAM
Vacuum Care Instructions
Extraordinarily soft carpets represent the latest in advanced extrusion technology. Because the fibers are so fine and dense, increased suction from a vacuum cleaner is created at the point of contact on the carpet surface. Therefore, in order to provide maximum care, vacuums with specific features may be necessary to use for optimum maintenance of your extraordinarily soft carpet. The following vacuum cleaner characteristics are suitable for your exceptionally soft carpets:
- Adjustable Height
- A manual height adjustment feature is imperative, as it allows the user to accurately set the height of the brushing action to the proper level for better cleaning and mobility.
- Wide Wheel Size
- Larger wheels will help the vacuum head from sinking into the carpet pile. They also improve the effectiveness of the depth-setting feature.
- Lighter Weight Models
- Weighing less, these vacuums will exert less weight while in use, will not sink as deeply into the carpet pile, and will be easier to move.
- Adjustable Motor Speed
- The flexibility of adjustable motors often times lowers the brush roll rotation speed and allows easier operation and gentler cleaning.
- Optional Brush Roll Control
- For ultra-high pile carpets, it may be necessary to disengage the roller, as longer fibers may entangle in the brush roll and cause damage to the tips of the fibers.
Carpet Spot Removal Procedures
In between professional cleanings you may have to spot clean your carpet. If you have a spill or spot, you must act quickly to minimize staining. The longer the delay the greater the possibility that the stain will become permanent. Complete removal of spills or spots may require a single solution applied repeatedly or the use of a combination of solutions. Follow these simple guidelines in sequence.**
- Blot liquids with a dry, white, absorbent cloth or white (no printing) paper towels. Do not scrub the area! Continue to blot until the area is completely dry. Gently scrape up semi-solids with a rounded spoon and vacuum. Do not add moisture.
- Locate the spill on the spot removal chart on page 9, select the first spot removal solution recommended and follow the spot removal methods listed on page 8.***
- Pretest any spot removal solution in an inconspicuous area to make certain the solution will not damage the fiber or the dye. After applying several drops to the testing area, hold a white cloth on the wet area for 10 seconds.
- Examine the carpet and cloth for color transfer, color change, or damage to the carpet. If a change occurs another cleaning solution should be selected.
- Apply a small amount of the selected cleaning solution to a white cloth and work in gently. Work from the edges of the spill to the center to prevent the spill from spreading. Do not scrub! Blot, absorbing as much as possible, repeat if necessary. Do not saturate the area, as this may cause the spill to penetrate into the backing.
- Continue using the first cleaning solution as long as there is a transfer of the spill to the cloth. It is not necessary to use all of the cleaning solutions if the first solution removes the spill.
- Rinse the affected area thoroughly with water after the spill has been removed. Blot with a dry cloth until all of the solution has been removed. Some cleaning solutions will cause rapid soiling if the solution is not completely removed.
- Place a 1/2-inch layer of white paper towels over the affected area to absorb all the moisture, and weigh down with a flat, heavy object.†
** Carpet made of natural fibers requires special care. See methods specifically recommended for those carpets.
*** For an extensive list, please reference the CRI website at www.carpet-rug.org.
† Courtesy of the Carpet and Rug Institute, Copyright 2006.
Carpet Spot Removal Solutions
We recommend the following solutions for removal of spots and stains. If you have these on hand, you will be able to handle most common spills. Always use solutions in the concentrations recommended. See the chart on page 9 to find the best solution for your stain. For assistance in choosing the correct solution, call your Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® retailer and ask which is best for your particular type of carpet.
- Mix 1/4 teaspoon of a clear, non-bleach, non-lanolin, non-optical brightening dishwashing liquid per one cup of warm water. Allow the detergent to remain on the stain for eight to ten minutes. It may be necessary to rinse with water several times to completely remove residues. Never use an automatic dishwashing detergent because many contain bleaching agents that may destroy the carpet color and damage fibers. Never use a laundry detergent of any type, because laundry detergents may contain optical brighteners (fluorescent dyes) that discolor the fiber.
- Use powdered carpet cleaners such as Resista® Floor Care Cleaner or comparable product.
- Use caution when using a dry cleaning fluid. A non-flammable spot removal solution is preferred. Transfer solution to the spot with a damp towel – do not apply directly to the spot since direct contact may destroy the backing.
- Two types of nail polish removers are available. One type contains acetone, a dry cleaning solvent. Use the same precautions as with other dry cleaning solutions. The second type contains amyl acetate, which is used in many paint, oil, and grease removers. Amyl acetate nail polish remover leaves residue that may cause rapid soiling. When using, always rinse the area thoroughly with a dry solvent, such as rubbing alcohol. Consult your warranty before using either of these products.
Carpet Spot Removal Methods
Method A
- APPLY A DRY CLEANING SOLVENT onto a damp towel
- BLOT – don't rub
- REPEAT solvent application as above, do not apply directly to carpet
- BLOT – don't rub
- WATER – apply with a damp towel
- BLOT – finish with weighted pad of paper towels
Method B
- SCRAPE or BLOT up excess spill
- APPLY DETERGENT SOLUTION onto a damp towel
- BLOT – don't rub
- APPLY WHITE VINEGAR (undiluted) using a damp towel
- BLOT – don't rub
- WATER – apply with damp sponge
- BLOT – finish with weighted pad of paper towels
Method C
- SCRAPE or BLOT up excess spill
- APPLY dry baking soda
- SCRAPE and VACUUM
- WATER – use damp sponge to rinse remaining baking soda – don't over-wet
- BLOT – don't rub
- APPLY DETERGENT SOLUTION onto a damp towel
- WATER – rinse as above
- BLOT – don't rub – dry well
Method D
- SCRAPE or BLOT up excess spill
- FREEZE with ice cubes
- SHATTER with blunt object like the back of a large spoon
- VACUUM chips away before they melt
Method E
- APPLY NAIL POLISH REMOVER (non-oily type) – use cotton swab to apply to the spill – don't wet through to carpet backing
- PICK UP SOFTENED MATERIALS – use clean white paper towels and push toward the center of the spill each time to avoid spreading the stain
- REPEAT ABOVE – soften and carefully remove a layer of the spill each time – haste may spread the stain and/or damage the carpet
Method F
- SCRAPE or BLOT up excess spill
- APPLY DETERGENT SOLUTION – use damp towel – leave on three to five minutes
- BLOT – don't rub
- APPLY WHITE VINEGAR (undiluted) using a damp towel
- BLOT – finish with weighted pad of paper towels
Method G
- SCRAPE off excess material
- COVER with BROWN PAPER
- APPLY WARM IRON until material is absorbed. Be sure paper is large enough to cover the stained area. Take care never to touch the iron to the carpet as the fiber may melt
- CHANGE PAPER or ROTATE to clean area and repeat until all material is absorbed
Method H
- VACUUM away as much as possible
- LOOSEN the remaining material by tapping with a scrub brush or tooth-brush – tap and brush – do not scrub
- TAP with BRUSH to work powder into carpet tufts – do not scrub
- LET POWDER DRY – one hour or more
- REPEAT dry powder application, if necessary
- Carpet Spot Removal Chart
|Candle Wax
|Candy (Sugar)
|Chewing Gum
|Cooking Oil
|Dyes (Blue, Black, Green, Red)
|Foundation (Makeup)
|Fruit Drinks**/Soft Drinks
|Furniture Polish
|Grease (Auto, Food)
|Glue (White)
|Glue (Hobby)
|Ice Cream
|Ink (Marker, Pen, India)
|Mixed Drinks (Liqueurs)
|Nail Polish
|Paint (Latex)
|Paint (Oil)
|Pet Food
|Shoe Polish
|Urine (Dry or Fresh)
|Wine (Red)
|Wine (White)
** Fruit Drinks include: Artificially colored fruit drinks, Kool-Aid®, and lemonade. The Carpet and Rug Institute, Copyright 1996, Updated 2006, All Rights Reserved.
Confidence Warranty
All of our star rated floors carry a 30-day Confidence Warranty. If at any time during the first 30 days after your carpet is installed you wish to change your new carpet for any reason (other than as expressly provided below), present your sales receipt and the store where you made your purchase will replace it with another style or color of carpet of equal value. Should you wish to replace the carpet with an upgrade, you may do so by paying the difference in price. Any increase in cost due to industry price increases will be the customer's responsibility. No monetary compensation will be paid if a floor of lower price is selected. This is a one-time replacement only and does not include replacement of cushion or reinstallation charges. This is a replacement warranty and does not apply to matters covered by other warranties. Any replacement carpet cannot be the same style and color as the original purchase. Replacement quantity must be the same as the original purchase. This warranty is valid only for original owner-occupied residential installations. No replacements will be made with respect to carpet that has been glued down, subject to abuse, vandalism, alteration or damage caused by smoke, fire, flood, wind, lightning, or any disaster. This warranty applies only to the original purchaser of flooring that has been professionally installed by your retailer. Customer is responsible for all labor and reinstallation charges of all materials, including, but not limited to, flooring, walls, and countertops.
(See General Terms and Conditions on pages 25-26 for other conditions that apply.)
Confidence Plus® Warranty
If you don't love your new floor, we'll replace it. We'll even pay for labor on Four-Star and Five-Star rated floors.
All Five-Star and Four-Star residential carpets carry a Confidence Plus® Warranty. If, within the time frame of this warranty (90 days after installation for Five-Star carpet; 60 days after installation for Four-Star carpet) and after 30 days of living on your new floor, you wish to change your carpet for any reason, your retailer will replace it with another style or color of equal value. Should you wish to replace the carpet with an upgrade, you may do so by paying the difference in price. Any increase in cost due to industry price increases will be the customer's responsibility. No monetary compensation will be paid if a lower priced carpet is selected.
This is a one-time only replacement. Simply call your Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® retailer within the time frame of the warranty and indicate you wish to choose another Star Rated carpet under the Confidence Plus® Warranty. This is a style and color replacement warranty and does not apply to matters covered by other warranties. Replacement includes material and labor. Labor to move furniture, permanent construction (built-ins such as cabinets and bookcases), equipment, or electronics is the responsibility of the customer. Any replacement carpet cannot be the same style and color as the original purchase.
No replacement will be made with respect to carpet that has been glued down, subjected to abuse, improper maintenance, vandalism, alteration; or damage caused by smoke, fire, flood, wind, lightning, or any other casualty event. This warranty applies only to the original purchaser of a Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® style carpet that has been professionally installed by a Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® retailer or Flooring America®/Flooring Canada® authorized independent installer.
NOTE: Custom installations of any carpet installed with inserts or a border are excluded from the Confidence Plus® Warranty. No replacement of either the carpet, inserts, or border are covered under this warranty.
(See General Terms and Conditions on pages 25-26 for other conditions that apply.)
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PARIS — French luxury powerhouse Hermes has named Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski as its new womenswear designer.
The low-profile, 36-year-old French designer will replace Christophe Lemaire, whose departure was announced earlier this week and who will take his final bow in October.
Though Vanhee-Cybulski is not a big name, she was previously women's design director at Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen's The Row, and has worked in important behind-the-scenes roles at Martin Margiela and Celine in Paris.
She said Thursday in a statement she was "overjoyed to join the Hermes house, which I admire and share all my values with."
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The world's leading search company has decided to come out swinging against an effort by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the telecommunications arm of the United Nations, to seize a larger role for itself in Internet governance.
"There is a growing backlash on Internet freedom," Google says on its website. "Forty-two countries filter and censor content. In just the last two years, governments have enacted 19 new laws threatening online free expression."
Google worries that these censorious governments could use the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications, which starts December 3, as an opportunity to grab more authority over the Internet. "The ITU is the wrong place to make decisions about the future of the Internet," Google argues.
Founded in 1865 to manage interconnections among the world's telegraph lines and later its telephone network, the ITU had a large role in world telecommunications policy for many decades. But the ITU was a creature of state telecommunications monopolies, and the Internet was designed to route around the control of those incumbents. So as the Internet has grown, the ITU's influence has waned. Instead, Internet governance has been performed by more open organizations such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The agenda for next month's meeting is shrouded in secrecy, but ITU officials have denied that they're planning a power grab. Still, the website WCITLeaks, created by two researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, provides copies of leaked draft documents, some of which suggest that the ITU, with the backing of repressive governments such as Russia, is hoping to reverse its declining authority by seizing some of the powers currently held by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Google and other critics object to that approach because ITU is a strictly inter-governmental body, with no representation for private companies like Google, non-profits, or ordinary citizens.
Google isn't alone in opposing a growing ITU role in Internet governance. Two activist groups that played a key role in the debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act, Fight for the Future and Access Now, have launched a website of their own warning that "the ITU could put the Internet behind closed doors."
"If some proposals at WCIT are approved, decisions about the Internet would be made by a top-down, old-school government-centric agency behind closed doors," the groups warn. "Some proposals allow for access to be cut off more easily, threaten privacy, legitimize monitoring and blocking online traffic. Others seek to impose new fees for accessing content, not to mention slowing down connection speeds."


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From the Nationals Park stands to the Red Loft bar to Twitter and online discussion forums, the only thing up for debate among many fans is the exact timing. When they make the playoffs. When they win the division. When they finish their first winning season. When they host their first playoff game. When they win a pennant. When they make the Worlds Series. When they win the World Series. Everybody has a theory.
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A first-person account of hiding in a bunker during the Nazi occupation of Poland
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival. By Clara Kramer. With Stephen Glantz. Harper/Ecco, 339 pp., $25.99.
By Janice Harayda
Clara Kramer tells us early in this book that when Nazis arrested Jewish leaders in her town in Poland in 1941, her mother donated "her wedding band" to help ransom them. More than 150 pages later, she says that her family had to pay a monthly fee to the Christians who were hiding them in a bunker, and when her parents ran out of money in 1944, her mother gave "her wedding ring": "We didn't sell it until now."
This first quote comes from the story told in Clara's War with the aid of screenwriter Stephen Glantz. The second comes from one of its excerpts from the teenage diary said to have inspired the narrative. The inconsistency between the two quotes – one of a number involving substantive facts – shows a problem with this book: Its publisher bills it as a "biography," but it reads more like a novelization of a life.
As Clara's War has it, five thousand Jews lived in Zolkiew, Poland, at the start of World War II, and about 50 survived. Clara Kramer was one of the lucky ones. She survived the Holocaust because an ethnic German named Valentin Beck hid her family and others for more than a year in a bunker under his house, "a space no larger than a horse stall." Beck had a reputation as an anti-Semite, a drunk and a philanderer, and he appears to have had complex reasons, not all of them noble, for sheltering Jews during the Nazi occupation of Zolkiew. He often summoned one of the women in the bunker to his living quarters for trysts, and the affair may have begun before she arrived. His infidelity enraged his wife and, when it came to light, imperiled everyone under his roof.
If Clara's War is accurate, the Becks were nonethess heroic, saving 18 Jews, and have been honored by Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial. Valentin's acts of kindness included bringing the teenage Clara composition books and a blue pencil that she used to keep a diary, now in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
But it is hard to know how accurate the book is. With Glantz's help, Kramer describes many scenes in a detail few people could recall even with the help of a diary, such as line-by-line conversations complete with gestures and facial expressions. Some events serve literary purposes that seem too neat. One occurs in the prologue when the author is 12 years old and her sister leaves the shelter of an apple tree to look at bombers overhead – a foreshadowing of a disaster that will occur later. You never really see how 18 people could have survived in a crypt-like space the size of "a horse stall," though the book has a diagram and says that the bunker still exists and the author and others have returned to it.
Kramer kept in touch with others saved by the Becks, and they and their descendants presumably have confirmed much of the story in Clara's War. Even so, you wish the book had fewer inconsistencies and cinematic flourishes. The excerpts from the diary in the Holocaust Museum are fascinating in their own right, and you hope that readers someday will have a chance to read the entire journal in straight-up form.
Best line: "My father, like every Jewish business owner in town, had his business confiscated by the Nazis. We had to wear the white armband with the blue Jewish star above the right elbow. Any offense was punishable by death. The day the order for the armbands came down, none of us could leave the house until my mother had embroidered them. It took Mama over two hours to do one armband."
Worst line: "My father's family was so religious that they had had considered it irrelevant to have their weddings recorded by the state. So even though we went by the name of Schwartz in our day-to-day life, all of our official papers, including my birth certificate, bore the name of Gottlieb." Why Gottlieb? Was Gottlieb carried over from previous generations not mentioned in the book? Or did ultra-religious Jews choose it because it means "God love"?
Published: 2009 (first American edition), 2008 (British edition from Ebury Press, part of Random House).
Watch a video of Clara Kramer talking about the Holocaust and her book.
Consider reading instead of or in addition to Clara's War: All But My Life, a beautifully written memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein and a pillar of Holocaust literature.
Furthermore: Kramer lives in Elizabeth, NJ. She helped found the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University in Union, NJ. Glantz is a screenwriter. The inconsistencies cited in the first paragraph of this review appear on pages 43 and 219 of the book and can be confirmed by using the "Browse Inside" tool on the HarperCollins Web site to search for "her wedding band" and "her wedding ring."
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The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton: A Biography. By Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge, Clarion, 184 pp., $20. Ages: See discussion below.
By Janice Harayda
Edith Wharton said that she hoped her biographer would "find the gist of me," and Connie Wooldridge meets that test in this lively account of the life of one of America's greatest novelists.
Born Edith Newbold Jones, Wharton came from the elite New York family that inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." Her parents and their circle looked on writing anything except poetry as an unworthy profession, especially for women. And Wooldridge rightly credits Wharton with escaping from the social expectations that might have stifled her career while observing those mores closely enough to write The Age of Innocence, the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton also shows how Wharton defied sexual codes by having an affair with the journalist Morton Fullerton while married to the unstable Teddy Wharton, who was conducting his own adulterous romance. Of Wharton's marital relations, Wooldridge writes: "The sexual side of her marriage to Teddy was a failure." This sentence will shock few children at the upper end of the suggested age range for this book. But the line comes across as a gratuitous attempt to justify or at least explain Wharton's adultery, though Wooldridge doesn't link her subject's poor sex life to her infidelity. And young readers who are ready for such material could have handled more information on the great themes of Wharton's fiction (especially that of the conflict between individual yearnings and the imperatives of a rigid social order), which get less attention than their creator's fascinating life.
This biography has more than 80 black-and-white photos and illustrations of every stage of Wharton's life from early childhood through old age, including pictures of her glorious homes in Newport, New York, Paris and Lenox, Massachusetts. And all of these help to make up for the few questionable judgments in the text. One page reproduces mock reviews that young Edith wrote of a novel called Fast and Loose that she began just before her 15th birthday. "A chaos of names apparently all seeking their owners," Wharton-the-satirist said. She called "the sentiments weak, & the whole thing a fiasco." Wooldridge need not fear that she will face similar assaults for The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton.
Best line: One of many good quotes from Wharton, in this case about her girlhood: "No children of my own age, and none even among the nearest of my grown-ups, were as close to me as the great voices that spoke to me from books." The "great voices" included those of Plutarch, Homer and Milton.
Worst line: A caption on page 21 says: "One of Edith's mock reviews of her first novel." The book makes clear that Wharton started a novel at the age of 11 and that the mock reviews describe "another novel," her second, that she began at the age of 15.
Ages: Clarion bills The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton as a book for ages 12 and up, and its mature content justifies the recommendation. But many preteens and teens reject books with the format of this one, which is that of a modified picture book: They want biographies that look like books for adults. So The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton, good as it is, may be a tough sell to strong readers over the age of 9 or so.
Published: August 2010
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The People's Choice Award of $100, sponsored by the Crochet Liberation Front, is the final prize in the Crochet Guild Of America 2012 Design Competition. Voted by conference attendees and visitors to the Competition Exhibit in Manchester, NH last week, and winner by an overwhelming margin, is the Pineapple Rose Delight, designed by Carol Booth.
This wondrous design was also the winner of $200 Second Prize in the Thread Crochet category, sponsored by AllFreeCrochet.com and FaveCrafts.com. Here's what Carol had to say about her entry:
"Thread crochet christening outfit, made with #30 6-cord vintage Cartier-Bresson thread and a #10 steel hook. I crocheted a variety of different pineapple motifs, roses and Swarvoski crystal beads together to create this dress, with picot arch stitches. A lot of fun to create, just letting my fingers do the work!"
I figured out how to show everybody my images of all the entries without having to re-upload them. Please excuse the amateur photography. Please follow the link to my Flickr photo set and enjoy a slideshow of the photos!
CGOA 2012 Design Competition Entries
Oh, and while I'm at it, you can also see all the stuff that we sent down the runway in the CGOA Fashion Show, Saturday night, 30 June, following our dinner event. That show ended with a Parade of Winners from the Design Competition, so you can see what those garments are like on models. Well, sort of models. Just us CGOA members and family.
2012 CGOA Fashion Show Manchester
Here's the answer to all the questions concerning the yarns and patterns for these crochet designs. The Design Competition does not require patterns or yarn information for entries. For this event it's all about the creativity of CGOA members and not about publishing. Many of the designers are gifted amateurs who have no intention of writing patterns, sorry. Some of the entries may eventually be published, but that may take a while and depends on the desires and skills of the entrants to make that happen.
On the other hand, many of the Fashion Show garments are currently published and are available either in magazines, on-line from the designers or companies who submitted the pieces, or soon to be published.
And may I correct the mistaken impression that these are all my designs. NOT. The images for these slideshows were uploaded by me, but the crochet was designed by competition and/or fashion show participants. Please view the individual photo descriptions for information about the designers.


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South Carolina earthquake felt hundreds of miles away
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The snow and ice dumped by an unusually severe winter storm were melting, once-frigid temperatures were rising and residents of South Carolina and Georgia finally had begun to relax.
Then the earth shuddered.
A small earthquake shook both states late Friday, shaking homes and rattling residents hundreds of miles away.
The quake happened at 10:23 p.m. EST and had a preliminary magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's website. It was centered 7 miles west of the town of Edgefield, S.C., and was felt as far west as Atlanta and as far north as Hickory, N.C., each about 150 miles away.
"It's a large quake for that area," said USGS geophysicist Dale Grant. "It was felt all over the place."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported two nearby dams on the Savannah River appeared to be undamaged, but planned a thorough inspection Saturday morning, Edgefield County Emergency Preparedness Director Mike Casey said.
Casey said the quake was centered in a sparsely populated part of Edgefield County where there are a lot more rabbits and deer than people. He was driving around and hadn't found any damage, but he expects some reports of minor damages to come in once the sun rises.
"To get an accurate assessment we're going to need daylight. I could be looking at damage in the dark and not know it. Tomorrow morning, I go out to get my paper and I see the bricks in my house are cracked," Casey said.
Authorities across South Carolina said their 911 centers were inundated with calls of people reporting what they thought were explosions or plane crashes as the quake's low rumble spread across the state.
Reports surfaced on Twitter of a leaking water tower in Augusta, Ga., following the quake, but the tower was damaged by ice from a winter storm earlier this week and not the quake, said Richmond County Sheriff's Lt. Tangela McCorkle.
No damages or injuries from the quake itself had been reported, said South Carolina Emergency Management Division spokesman Derrec Becker. The ice storm felled a lot of trees in the area, which could make it more difficult to determine what damage was caused by the quake.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley felt the earthquake at the governor's mansion in Columbia. On Saturday, engineers from the state Department of Transportation were out evaluating bridges at Haley's request, although Derrec Becker of the South Carolina Emergency Management Division said that's standard procedure after a quake.
Tom Clements, a resident of suburban Columbia about 60 miles east of the quake's epicenter, said he felt the walls of his brick house shaking "and they were definitely shaking like what I've experienced before in Latin America" during an earthquake.
Clements said he immediately went outside to see if anyone else had felt it and he found two neighbors who had.
"One thought a tree had fallen" under the weight of ice dumped by the storm, he said.
Earthquakes aren't unheard of in the region. A 4.3-magnitude earthquake happened in Georgia in August 1974 several miles west of Friday's quake. Three others of similar magnitude have been felt in South Carolina in the past 40 years, according to the USGS.
The largest earthquake ever recorded on the East Coast was a 7.3-magnitude quake near Charleston in August 1886 that killed at least 60 people.
Adams reported from Atlanta.


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