Re: [lace] Exhibit/exhibition
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Annette Gill wrote: What you in the US call an exhibit, we in the UK call an exhibition. We use the word exhibit to mean a single item on display within the exhibition. So, if the National Gallery had an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings, one of the exhibits in that exhibition might be his Wheat Field with Cypresses painting. My question is simply this - what word do you use for what we call an exhibit? probably we'd use the term piece... as in one of the pieces in the exhibit was the Van Gogh. Katrina (who never worked with art exhibits, but did more than her fair share of archaeological and ethnographical exhibits while in grad school). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Exhibit/exhibition
Dear Annette, Pardon the personal reply, but didn't want to start WWIII on arachne! Can't resist asking: are you reminded of the line from My Fair Lady? You know - in America, they haven't spoken it for years Regards, with giggles, Ruth Budge (Sydney Australia) --- Katrina Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Annette Gill wrote: What you in the US call an exhibit, we in the UK call an exhibition. We use the word exhibit to mean a single item on display within the exhibition. So, if the National Gallery had an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings, one of the exhibits in that exhibition might be his Wheat Field with Cypresses painting. My question is simply this - what word do you use for what we call an exhibit? probably we'd use the term piece... as in one of the pieces in the exhibit was the Van Gogh. Katrina (who never worked with art exhibits, but did more than her fair share of archaeological and ethnographical exhibits while in grad school). - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Exhibit/exhibition
Dear lacemakers, May I please assure you that my comment about English was not meant seriously or to cause offence - just a bit of silly nonesense. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] ALG Triennial award
Looks like it's just you and me not at Ithaca, Ruth! Still don't know the results of the rest of the Triennial awards at the recent AGM in Adelaide, but Liz did send me a scan of her prizewinning entry in the Mixed Lace category and I have put it on my website. It is stunning! Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Australian Lace Guild Trienniel Awards
Now that I'm home again with my piece of scrap paper in front of me, I'm reminded that as well as Liz Lighetti, another Arachne member won a prize in the Australian Lace Guild Trienniel Awards. Jenny Rees won the Bobbin Lace category - congratulations, Jenny! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI magazine
I find it interesting that 2 people in Britain have received their copies of the IOLI Bulletin and I, who live so much closer to the States, have yet to receive mine. On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 08:56 AM, Barron wrote: I have to second everything Jean said - got mine this morning, Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Test - sorry
Thanks to everyone who reassured me that I am still on Arachne. I have been to Ithaca in previous years and it is a wonderful weekend. Sadly I couldn't fit it into my schedule this year. Sue - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] ALG Triennial award
I have often wondered about needlelace with bobbin lace worked round it. Liz has managed it beautifully, whit wonderful balance of the design and weight of the different sorts of lace. Many congratulations to Liz. Sue - Original Message - From: W N Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Liz did send me a scan of her prizewinning entry in the Mixed Lace category and I have put it on my website. It is stunning! Noelene in Cooma - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] IOLI
Hello, No, I am not in Ithaca either! I live in New Jersey and I have not received my new Bulletin yet either. The mails must be slower closer to home! Have a great October weekend. Yours in life and lace, Laura Oppedisano New Jersey - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] 3 pairs Flanders
the lumbermen's contests. And each little item in, say, the craft show (or craft exhibit) would be called ... wait for it ... an item in the craft show. In the lingo of the Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition (not very far from Vancouver, BC), individual items are always called 'entries'. Even when they're only there for display, and no competition is involved. Even my little corner with lace samples, books, pillowstand, pillow and myself demonstrating, has been called an 'entry' ;-( Esther Perry - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fw: Interesting correspondence :-)
I don't think we have seen this one before - my sister sent it to me... --- Forwarded message follows --- In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kate Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: sue butler To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Kate Willis Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 7:03 AM Subject: Interesting correspondence Here is a bit of reading for you: This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter. SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Montcalm County Dear Mr. DeVries: It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity: Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files shows that no permits have been issued. Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the stream channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 2003. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorized activity on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions. Sincerely, David L. Price, District Representative Land and Water Management Division ** Here is the actual response sent back by Mr. DeVries: ** Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Montcalm County. Dear Mr. Price: Your certified letter dated 12/17/02 has been handed to me to respond to. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan. A couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials debris. I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic. As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity. My first dam question to you is: (1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers, or (2) do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued. Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, annotated. I have several concerns. My first concern is; aren't the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation -- so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect. In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than
[lace] Whoops! joke sent to wrong list -sorry!
I've just realised I forwarded the dam joke to the wrong list - that'll teach me to have a glass of wine before reading my emails! Apologies - it should have gone to chat - I can only hope it brought a few smiles. Sorry! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] ALG Triennial award/etc
Wish I could do needlelace like Liz. Congratulations, it is a beautiful piece. Makes me want to take a needlelace workshop next year at convention but I know I will end up with some ugly grey thread and lots of knots and uneven stitches!! Sue, I was beginning to think I had been unsubscribed as the digest is so slow in coming. Maybe someone should come up with a question similar to what happened when we were away at convention. I came back to about 30 digests after a week away. Margot, I hope you have got your Bulletin by now but mine only came last week and I am a bit closer to the editor in Wisconsin than you are. I thought Debra Jenny did a wonderful job with the cover but then maybe I am biased because the mask was mine. ;-) Janice - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Needle and Bobbin Club
As some of you may know, the Professor is trying to assemble a complete collection of the Needle and Bobbin Club publication. He has done a marvelous job so far, and we have been lucky enough to receive a few from generous friends. But I thought there might be someone on Arachne, or someone who knows someone, who might have any or some of the volumes he is missing and be willing to share them for a short scanning time. Here is the list: YearVol Nos 1916 1 1 1916 1 2 1917 2 1 1917 2 2 1918 3 1 1919 3 2 1920 4 1 1920 4 2 1921 5 2 1922 6 1 1922 6 2 1927 11 2 1928 12 2 1931 15 1932 16 1 1933 17 1 1942 26 2 1948 32 1963 47 Please answer me privately about this. I would be very grateful for any copies, offers, or leads you might have. Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] travel pillow
Hi, I had a look at Theo Brejaart's web page and had a look at the Finish pillow. There is a lacemaker in Washington State who makes something similar. I have seen her pillows while at the lace convention in Victoria. Her name is Marj. More than that I don't know. She shared a cluster with me. Miriam in Arad, Israel - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Test - sorry
Not long ago, I went away for a little over a week. Since my messages usually run about a hundred a day, I was surprised to find only four or five hundred backed up when I came back. Then, while plowing through the pile of messages, I discovered that Tamara had lost her keyboard for a substantial part of the time I'd been gone. I'm claiming it as cause and effect! ;-) -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/WEB/WEB.HTM west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where most of my messages are from 18c Woman. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Telemarketers
As the list is quite I thought I would send this article that my DD sent to me. Interesting, we have not had any calls since the Don't Call list went into action. Janice Dave Barry Can the planet be saved? I've been writing columns for a long time now, two or three centuries at least. I've written on topics that touched a nerve among you readers - the moronic-TV-commercials nerve, the loud-cell-phone-talkers nerve, and of course the low-flow-toilet nerve. I even touched - and I regret this deeply - the Barry Manilow nerve. But I've NEVER touched a nerve like the one I touched when I wrote about telemarketers. To review: In August, I wrote a column about the National Do Not Call Registry, which allows you to go to an Internet site (donotcall.gov) and register your phone number. The plan is that most telemarketers would then be prohibited from calling you. The Do Not Call Registry is wildly popular with the human public. More than 50 million households have signed up. This displeases the telemarketing industry, which believes it has a constitutional right to call people who do not want to be called. Several telemarketing groups have filed lawsuits to block the registry. So in my August column, I printed the toll-free telephone number of one of these groups, the American Teleservices Association. My thinking was: Hey, if the ATA feels its members have a constitutional right to call you, then surely the ATA feels that you have an equally constitutional right to call the ATA. Well. It turned out that a LOT of you were eager to call up the telemarketing industry. Thousands and thousands of you called the ATA. I found out about this when I saw an article in a direct-marking newspaper, the DM News, which quoted the executive director of the ATA, Tim Searcy. Here's an excerpt from the article: The ATA received no warning about the article from Barry or anyone connected with him, Searcy said. The Barry column has had harmful consequences for the ATA, Searcy said. An ATA staffer has spent about five hours a day for the past six days monitoring the voice mail and clearing out messages. That's correct: The ATA received NO WARNING that it was going to get unwanted calls! Not only that, but these unwanted calls were an INCONVENIENCE for the ATA, and WASTED THE ATA'S TIME! I just hope nobody interrupted the ATA's dinner. Anyway, you can imagine how I felt. I would have called the ATA myself to express my feelings, but the ATA finally had to disconnect its phone number. Really. I myself received approximately 7 billion phone calls, letters and e-mails on this topic. About 99 percent came from consumers who are wildly enthusiastic about the idea of calling telemarketers. Many of these consumers wanted me to publish more telemarketers' numbers, including residential numbers. As one e-mailer put it: I think we should call them at home and try to sell them the idea of not calling people at home. The other 1 percent of the response came from people in the telemarketing industry, who pointed out that I am evil vermin scum, and - even worse - a member of the news media. Their main arguments were that (a) telemarketers are hardworking people, and (b) if they're not allowed to call people who don't want to be called, telemarketing jobs could be lost, and the U.S. economy would suffer. Searcy of the ATA was quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying that the impact of the Do Not Call Registry would be (I did not make this quote up) like an asteroid hitting the Earth. Yes, an asteroid! As I write these words, lawyers and politicians and lobbyists and judges are swarming all over the telemarketing issue, so I don't know what the legal status of the Do Not Call Registry will be when you read this column. But it appears that the telemarketers plan to continue their efforts to save the planet by fighting for the right to call people who do not want to be called. I realize that this makes many of you angry. I realize that many of you would like to, once again, let the telemarketers know how you feel. And I am, frankly, tempted to reveal to you here that the American Teleservices Association (ataconnect.org) seems to have a phone line working (at least for now) at 1-317-816-9336. But would it be right to reveal this? I mean, yes, you could call the ATA again. But the ATA surely doesn't WANT you to call again. It's inconvenient! And to insist on calling somebody who doesn't want to be called, even if you have the legal right to call, well, that's just plain rude. So I am taking the high road. * Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Write to him c/o The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: telemarketers
Janice wrote - . Interesting, we have not had any calls since the Don't Call list went into action. Good for you, Janice. Ourselves continue to receive calls but the volume has diminished considerably. We now get 2 - 3 every 2 days vs. 13 - 17 per day. And thanks for putting that article on for us to read. Loved every minute reading how upset ATA was about getting incomvienient calls with no warning!! ROFL!!! Jane O'Connor in New Lenox, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
