[lace-chat] Birth Notice in Canberra

[David Collyer]

A notice in today's Canberra Times advises of the birth of twin boys,
then continues
The gob-smacked parents would like to thank Carlton United Brewery and
the makers of Chocolate Body Paint for making this blessed event
possible.
Says it all!!
David in Ballarat
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[lace-chat] sprung back, happy time change

[Bev Walker]

Hi everyone

oh sure Happy Time Change everyone. Not.
This is my least favourite time of year. I wouldn't mind so much if there
was a logical and substantial reason. Have yet to hear one from any expert
- they are all perfectly vague. Someone at the grocery checkout was quite
optimistic - they said 'it will be lighter in the evenings now' - but two
weeks from now it will be lighter in the evenings anyway, with the
lengthening daylight.
I propose an international experiment. I propose that we don't change the
clocks at all for a year and see if there are any dire consequences.
blah.
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bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) on a rant because the list is
quiet :)

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[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Unusual lace pillow and stand

[Joy Beeson]

Since my reply is WAY off topic, I'm sending it to chat:  

At 01:10 PM 4/4/04 +0100, Jane Partridge wrote:

[snip]

>Makes me wonder what kind of spoof would be used, if any of the editors
>were ever brave enough to print one, though - trouble is, it would
>likely be quoted as fact by the uninitiated for centuries to come! 

My first thought was "well, you make it *obvious*" -- but an April Fool 
post on rec.arts.sf.written caught an *initiate* despite giving the editor's 
name as "Munchausen".  

I used to harbour an April set of safety rules for cyclists that included 
"ride as far to the right as physically possible at all times . . . this is 
called the Jack Daniels method after the impression that your graceful 
swoops give to observers."  Don't recall whether I found space for it more 
than once or not at all -- April is when the bike news starts picking up.  

T'warn't funny, McGee.  Every last rule on the list was one that 
well-meaning people teach to innocent children.  

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[lace-chat] Video recorder and DVD question

[Scotlace]

My video recorder is on its last legs and I'm thinking about a replacement.  
Can anyone advise if a combined videao recorder and DVD player is a good idea? 
 I ask because a combined washer/drier doesn't last as long as separate 
machines and I wondered if the same might apply to recorders.  Whatever I buy will 
be at the lower end of the price range, whether it be the combined machine or 
two separate ones.

Another question.  Are the DVD systems in Britain and the US compatable?  i'd 
like to be ablt to send British DVDs to America as presents.

Patricia

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Re: [lace-chat] sprung back, happy time change

[Steph Peters]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 09:38:54 -0700 (PDT), Bev wrote:
>oh sure Happy Time Change everyone. Not.
>This is my least favourite time of year. I wouldn't mind so much if there
>was a logical and substantial reason. Have yet to hear one from any expert
>- they are all perfectly vague. Someone at the grocery checkout was quite
>optimistic - they said 'it will be lighter in the evenings now' - but two
>weeks from now it will be lighter in the evenings anyway, with the
>lengthening daylight.
>I propose an international experiment. I propose that we don't change the
>clocks at all for a year and see if there are any dire consequences.
>blah.

Your experiment was done in UK in the early 70's.  It was horrible.  I was
walking about a mile to school in the winters of 1972/73 and 73/74.  In mid
winter it didn't get light until about 9-9.15 am, well after I had to be in
school at 8.30am.  And bear in mind that I lived in the north of England,
which is south of the UK north-south midpoint.  I would imagine that in much
of Scotland it didn't get light till 10.30.  The supposed benefit was that
children would be coming home from school in the light, but in fact there
were more additional traffic accidents in the mornings than the reduction in
the afternoons.  Couldn't someone have worked out in advance that UK school
times mean that children go to school during the same peak hour when adults
are going to work, but the children come home earlier?  The experiment was
considered a failure all round and is (I sincerely hope) never to be
repeated.
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Re: [lace-chat] Video recorder and DVD question

[Steph Peters]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:37:53 EDT, Patricia wrote:
>My video recorder is on its last legs and I'm thinking about a replacement.  
>Can anyone advise if a combined videao recorder and DVD player is a good idea? 
> I ask because a combined washer/drier doesn't last as long as separate 
>machines and I wondered if the same might apply to recorders.  Whatever I buy will 
>be at the lower end of the price range, whether it be the combined machine or 
>two separate ones.
Just the same as washing machines, even more so at the bottom end of the
price range.  Unless you really need minimum physical size, 2 machines will
be better, and not necessarily more expensive.  A DVD player and video don't
have much in common.  The mechanism to read a DVD is a laser, whereas a
video recorder uses tape heads and a TV tuner.  The output to the TV is the
same, but this is only a small part of the whole thing so there isn't any
great saving on parts by putting both in the same box.  At least with a
washer/dryer they share the same drum and rotation mechanism so there is a
saving to be had.

>Another question.  Are the DVD systems in Britain and the US compatable?  i'd 
>like to be ablt to send British DVDs to America as presents.
DVDs come in 'region' variants.  There's a region for US, a region for
Europe, a region for the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, China etc) and I
think a fourth one I can't remember.  Disks are encoded to one of these
regions and can only be played on a player that can handle that region.  In
UK many (maybe even most) DVD players sold are either already compatible
with all regions, or can easily (and legally) be made so by a small change
after purchase.  However multi-region players are not universally available.
I believe that they are not widely sold in US.  I think that changing a
player to multi-region after purchase might even be illegal under US
copyright laws that forbid reverse engineering.  Check with your intended
recipients before sending.
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[lace-chat] New exercise program

[Darlene Mulholland]

 Just the ticket for destressing when lace is challenging. 



 
  Subject: NEW EXERCISE PROGRAM
 
  New exercise routine if you're over 30. You might want to take it easy at
  first, then do it faster as you become more proficient. It may be too
strenuous for some.
Always consult your doctor before starting any exercise program.
 
  SCROLL DOWN...(keep going)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  NOW SCROLL UP... ...
 
  That's enough for the first day. Have some chocolate.
 
 
 

Darlene Mulholland 



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Re: [lace-chat] sprung back, happy time change

[Joy Beeson]

At 07:40 PM 4/4/04 +0100, Steph Peters wrote:

>Your experiment was done in UK in the early 70's.  It was horrible.  

But it wasn't a trial of standard time year round, 
it was a trial of putting people on schedules inappropriate 
to their latitude. 

Me, I'd like to see everybody go on Greenwich time and quit fooling around
with the clocks.  Or, at least, fiddle with their own clocks and quit
messing with mine.

Back when I lived in a Devil-Satan Time state, there was an orchard near me
that closed just when it got cool enough to go out on my bike.  When we got
the fall jumpback that year, I thought I'd be compensated for my jet lag by
being able to buy apples -- but when I turned up at the orchard store that
evening, the closing sign had been changed to read one hour earlier.  The
orchard was keeping to its schedule without regard to the vagaries of the
legislature.   

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[lace-chat] Re: sprung back, happy time change

[Tamara P. Duvall]

On Apr 4, 2004, at 12:38, Bev Walker wrote:

This is my least favourite time of year. I wouldn't mind so much if 
there
was a logical and substantial reason.
I could never see much sense to it, either. Back in Poland, we had 
about 8hrs of daylight in the wintertime and about 16 in the the 
summertime. So, in winter, you went to school/work in semi-darkness and 
came back in semi darkness (made no difference whether it was 4PM or 
6). In the summer, you went to bed in semi-dayilight and, if you 
happened to wake up "in the middle of the night" (like 4 AM), the day 
was beginning to show around the edges.  No amount of fiddling with the 
clock was going to change *that*, certainly not one hour's worth... 
I've heard tell that, in some region of USSR, they moved the clocks 
back three times in a row, always forgetting to move them forward for 
the second half of the year, and still didn't notice much difference.

I don't mind the October change quite as much, since I "gain" an hour, 
but the springtime "loss" really hurts :) And I have yet to learn which 
of the two halves of the year is supposed to be the "real" time, and 
which the "saving" one... Pfui.
-
Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia,  USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/

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Re: [lace-chat] Video recorder and DVD question

[Martha Krieg]

Another question.  Are the DVD systems in Britain and the US compatable?  i'd
like to be ablt to send British DVDs to America as presents.
Patricia

A lot of British DVDs are available in America from 
www.BBCAmericaShop.com and other places. It might be more sensible to 
order them from a place like that, which would presumably send the 
disks with the proper encoding for America DVD players.

For instance, Mr. Bean, Black Adder, Monty Python, 
Upstairs/Downstairs, Brother Cadfael, etc., are easily found.

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[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Re: broken threads?

[Martha Krieg]

I suspect it isn't how dark the color is, but the chemical 
composition of the dye and the necessary mordants combined with the 
particular fabric.
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[lace-chat] Time Change

[Lynn Carpenter]

Where I live in Michigan, the daylength varies from 9 hours, 4 minutes in
the middle of winter to 15 hours and 18 minutes in the middle of summer.

It takes 6 weeks from the "spring forward" clock change for the sunrise
time here to catch back up to where it was yesterday.  When I still had to
obey an alarm clock I loathed it.  I'm only a fake morning person.  I wake
up with the sun, but I operate on autopilot most of the morning.  My
autopilot never cared for resetting.

Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com

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[lace-chat] Re map of netherlands

[Karen]

Dear Alice,

try www.multimap.com

you can go from an overall map of a large area down to street level for
large areas of the globe - including the Netherlands.  For some places,
there are also arial photos, which you can overlay with a map.

Karen

In Coventry,

who uses multimap for finding obscure places for family history research.

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[lace-chat] map of Netherlands review

[Alice Howell]

Greetings,

Thank you to the people who replied and tried to help.  I now know the name 
of the island I was told my lace cap came from.  The next puzzle is that 
the caps shown on various webpages from that island have no similarity to 
my cap.   I'm now on a quest of research of cap types to see if I can 
locate the area my cap is from.  It could even be the next village to the 
one in the pictures.  I imagine that this quest could keep me busy for 
several years.  As I understand it, each village had a distinctive 
cap.  The ones I've seen so far have been interesting and had lace on 
them.  This will be a fun thing to search out.

Thanks for all the help!
Alice in Oregon
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[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Re: 2004 commemoratives/question

[PhaserBait]

Hi Tamera and all!
I'm posting this this way because Tamera had a good question about what is 
written on the bobbins.
The writting is done on the sprial, on two rows.  The first row says: 
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Second row:
9th Anniversary 2004
Thanks!
JoAnne Pruitt
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