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My post-Bailey's prize reading
11th June 2014 By Antonia Honeywell 3 Comments
So we know know that the Bailey's Prize went, not entirely unexpectedly, to Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half Formed Thing. I loved that the prize went to a new novel that had difficulty finding a publisher. A Girl is a Half Formed Thing is a bleak, desperate novel that reads as though James Joyce turned feminist and discovered plot. I also love that my copy is the original Galley Beggars Press edition, because the prize is a triumph for Galley Beggars too, and a vindication for small presses everywhere. And it's quite fun seeing The Guardian Review section falling over itself to applaud Eimear McBride, after its two-page hagiography of Donna Tartt just days before the result was announced. But enough. I'm not the only reader whose faith in book prizes has been restored by the result. Tartt got the Pulitzer, Adichie sold her film rights, Lahiri's been on two major shortlists, Magee and Kent both had huge boosts for their debuts, and McBride won. Good call, Baileys Prize. Good call.
But bleak. So bleak. I had to reread Cold Comfort Farm and The Diary of a Provincial Lady before I could read anything else, which didn't do much for my TBR pile (although they both do wonders for my spirits). When I did, it was Carys Bray's A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson, 19th June). Issy is the youngest child in a Mormon family and the novel is the story of the family recovering – or not recovering – from her death. It's beautifully told and absorbing but its main attraction for me was the glimpse into the Mormon way of life. Eve Harris' The Marrying of Chani Kaufmann, longlisted for the Man Booker prize last year, held a similar fascination.
Emily St John Mandel's Station 11 is due out in September. Mandel is an American writer; Station 11 is her fourth published novel but the first to be published in the UK. As readers of The Ship will know (or will find out), I love speculative fiction. Not science fiction per se, but the kind of novels that push our current world to its very edges and examine the results. In Station 11, the characters' relationships and the images of America at the end of civilisation are linked by a group of travelling players who perform Shakespeare as Shakespeare would once have been performed (I found myself thinking of Geoffrey Trease's classic children's novel A Cue for Treason); the idea alone is worth the price.
Maybe it was the thought of my childhood reading that sent me back to John Christopher. His Tripods trilogy made a huge impression on me when I was ten/eleven. In A Wrinkle in the Skin, the world's been changed by a huge earthquake; in The Death of Grass, a mysterious virus is killing off all the grasses, including the cereal crops. Like John Wyndham, John Christopher was writing at a more confident time. The Triffids, the Kraken, the earthquake, even the virus, happen to humanity. Humanity doesn't cause them, but triumphs over them. It's a treat to revel in a world where, y'know, the good human beings are really super. But the casual misogyny (the novels were originally written in the 50s and 60s) jars horribly. We're destroying the planet, but some things really are getting better.
I loved Katharine McMahon's The Woman in the Picture (W&N, 3rd July); Laline Paull's The Bees (out now) deserves all the accolades it's had for sheer originality; every child in the land should own a copy of Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers (out now). And I finally read Wolf Hall. Enough said.
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hastanton says
I really want to read Station 11 ( and The Ship obvs!) love dystopian fiction. I have read Issy too ….a great debut which I am planning to review soon . What did you think of WH ??
antoniahoneywell says
9th July 2014 at 2:00 pm
It was very, very long. I didn't want to notice how long it is (Middlemarch is very, very short, as is Anna Karenina). But I did.
I thought of you when reading an interview with Emma Straub ( the vacationers). She said she has 4 copies of Middlemarch scattered about her house as you never know when you might need Dorothea. So true !!!

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Karnataka Surya Raitha Scheme 2022: Application Form & Benefits
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The government of Karnataka has launched the Karnataka Surya raitha yojana to provide solar water pump sets for farmers. The state government is stressing the use of these solar pumps in place of existing irrigation pumps as additional capacity for irrigation. Thereafter, the government will launch the scheme in Kanakapura on January 19, 2019.
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Surya Raitha Scheme Objective
Karnataka Suryan Rath Yojana was launched to help farmers for irrigation purposes, as the use of these solar pumps should not be dependent on their IP kits at night. The use of these solar pumps makes it possible to largely avoid the loss of electricity and water. The Karnataka government will begin by pooling funds, investments, and central and state government funds raised by farmers for the system. The grant and concessional loan will be obtained from Bangalore Electric Supply Company (BESCOM).
Karnataka Surya-Raitha BESCOM initiatives
The loan amount will be adjusted for the cost of additional energy exported to the BESCOM network. After repayment of the loan amount, BESCOM will deposit the additional amount into the farmers' bank account. The maturity of the loan amount should be between 12 and 14 years, as the cost of electricity and utilities will be charged based on income.
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) will set tariff schemes and thus deposit the meter's net profit in the guarantee account. The government will use this tariff to provide the company with some value to repay loans, production, and service-based incentives.
Karnataka Surya Raitha scheme BESCOM
Under this scheme, BESCOM will do the following:
Building cooperatives for farmers.
After that, the BESCOM channel will also provide grants.
Providing easy loans to farmers.
The signing of a contract for the sale and purchase of energy for a period of 25 years.
Providing a suitable power source for the pump set.
Farmers have to provide shade-free fields to successfully establish such a system. Apart from this, farmers have to protect their installed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
Karnataka Surya Raitha Yojana – The Karnataka State Government will build "Harobelay Surya Raitha Vidyutchuki Balkeedara Regular society" to successfully implement this mega-project. The main function of this company is to distribute this value among farmers by raising funds from BESCOM.
Benefits of Karnataka Surya Raitha scheme
Farmers can benefit from the following:
Increase in agricultural production
Steady and nutritious food throughout the day
A permanent source of income for farmers even in adverse weather conditions.
This system will eliminate the need for energy subsidies for farmers. In addition, the solar water pumping system will also reduce the cost of BESCOM infrastructure and reduce BESCOM's demand and technical losses.
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Judd stressed the fact that while there were years where we had up to 1.5 million apprehensions during the 1990s and early 2000s, those were total arrests, not total number of people arrested. That is because almost all of those crossing were single adults from Mexico who were repatriated back to Mexico almost immediately. As such, many tried to come back again, and Border Patrol counted new arrests of the same individual multiple times. "Last decade, we arrested the same people multiple times in one year. For example, I caught the same group of seven people three times in the same shift, so although I made 21 arrests, it was still only seven people."
Additionally, through the first six months of FY19, CBP has encountered 104 large groups composed of 100 or more individuals totaling 17,242 apprehensions. In comparison, U.S. Border Patrol encountered 13 large groups in FY2018 and two in FY2017.
The root cause of much of the migration, as The Daily Wire reported yesterday, is the systemic loosening of our statutory asylum law to cover many economically motivated migrants — which is in direct conflict with the legal requirement, under 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(B)(i), that asylum is only properly considered for migrants who have been persecuted in their native countries for "race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." But, under the erroneous prevailing status quo wherein a mention of "credible fear of persecution" to a U.S. border agent amounts to something closely akin to magical words granting automatic entry (and often a subsequent quick release, pending a follow-up adjudication hearing for which an alien may or may not show up), asylum claims have skyrocketed. As Rachel Bovard noted at American Greatness in October, "asylum cases more than octupled from 5,523 in 2009 to 81,864 in 2016" — and the trend has only metastasized under President Trump.
Enter Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a perhaps-unlikely prospective legislative hero. (Among other immigration-related historical deviances from conservative orthodoxy on the issue, Graham was a co-sponsor of the failed "Gang of Eight" amnesty bill in 2013.) The senior senator from South Carolina appears to now be focused on legislatively rectifying the underlying asylum loophole problem.
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A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such–and–such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will be too painful to bear? Maybe we think that if a spouse or lover leaves us, we will have to get high. If we lose our job, surely, we think, we will use. Or maybe it's the death of a loved one that we expect to be unbearable. In any case, the reservations we harbor give us permission to use when they come true–as they often do.
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Local foodbank and café gets free mural makeover
Great Yarmouth Pathway Cafe and Resource Centre has been given a bright new look thanks to community organisation Reprezent Project and a group of asylum seekers.
Reprezent wanted to use volunteer asylum seekers to help with its plan for a vibrant new mural for the resource centre and approached Great Yarmouth Borough Council's Communities Team which made the necessary introductions.
As a result, seven asylum seekers joined Reprezent to help with the mural and other painting. Work was finished this week and management of the Pathway centre were delighted with the results.
A Pathway spokesperson said: ''The mural and painting of other walls has made a massive difference. We offer a warm, welcoming space to people in our local community yet it felt a bit dull and bland. This wonderful mural has brightened up the room and provided a local talking space.
''I'm sure the mural will become a talking point for guests and visitors.''
The artwork was created entirely free of charge with Reprezent using materials left over from previous projects and the artists donating their time.
Reprezent's Ruben Cruz said: "We wanted to work with some of the asylum seekers currently living in Great Yarmouth as a way of helping them expand their connections and knowledge of the town.
"Now they have some experience volunteering, we hope other organisations also offer them opportunities to get involved with local events and projects."
Paula Boyce, strategic director at Great Yarmouth Borough Council, said: ''I'd like to thank Reprezent for its kind offer to provide asylum seekers currently living in the borough with a worthwhile project which also benefits the Pathways food hub.
Davide Almeida, Reprezent Project Director, said: "It's always rewarding to start new projects, and this is the first time we have worked with asylum seekers. We focus on driving inclusion through our art projects and this is another example of that work. We are pleased Reprezent Project has been able to reach out to and create a positive impact.
"It was also very rewarding to see how engaged, talented and organised the asylum seekers were. We hope we can be involved in more projects like this in the future."
Pathway is an independent charity operating out of The Minster Mission in Admiralty Road. It provides lunches, practical help and advice in a warm, friendly environment. This year it launched the Yarmouth & Magdalen Food Bank in partnership with the Trussell Trust, which on referral from professional agencies, helps people with emergency food parcels to feed them as well as assisting with advice.
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Chicago Art is Getting Decentralized
By Paul Klein on February 23, 2012 3:46 PM
I've gone to meetings about a new Cultural Plan for Chicago and have heard the citizens insightfully want art & culture in their communities. I applaud their wisdom. The beauty of Chicago's segregated communities is that the neighborhoods have their own cultural heritage and identity and we are all benefited by seeking it, sharing it, and not homogenizing it. Matt Tuteur honors the dignity of the people of the 46th Ward in his photographs and presents those images in the Ward in a one-day show Saturday, from 4 PM.
Jason Brammer is one of the stars of my Klein Artist Works program. He's got massive talent, a disarmingly unique vision, and I can't tell where he'd be without me, but I'm proud to be associated with him. Brammer lives in Wicker Park and is showing in Bucktown at Firecat Projects. He's subtly segued from his previous time machines to a reflective, yet futuristic, look at global cartography and the human soul. Trend following is ridiculous and Brammer steadfastly carves his own successful path. He is an artist of the people and it is appropriate that his art is in a gallery where the people go.
Part of bringing art to the people is to present it beyond the usual locations. It is possible to meld local interests with a global perspective as seen in Catherine Forster's works at the Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum where she examines the human instinct to mess with nature; improve it, stamp it, record it, document it and alter it.
There's still strong art to be found where we're accustomed to seeing it - in gallery districts and museums more or less in the city center. Joseph Seigenthaler, at Carl Hammer, is a powerful, focused, sculptor now rendering (political) icons of culture and commenting on his and their world view like Ralph Nader, David Rockefeller, Shel Silverstein and Ron Paul, or maybe their hunting trophies.
Synergies abound in the paired exhibits of Dana DeAno and Camille Iemmolo at Packer Schopf where DeAno's elegies on the 'positive' possibilities of detritus complement Iemmolo's search into the near-tragedies she's endured, like being thrown from a horse a year ago, breaking 7 vertebrae and emerging on the bright side of life with her humor intact.
Bill Conger's formal paintings at Roy Boyd suggest complex cityscapes with highways, byways, waterways and a lush and crowded panoply of color, but are more akin to color poems and the pleasure of painting.
Okay. So wherever you are, wherever you're going, go see some art. It's out there.
Innovative Art Exhibits Opening this Weekend
Of three really powerful exhibits opening this weekend the one that most excited me is Crossing Wires at the Evanston Art Center, opening Sunday. Powerful, new media, intelligent work, with timely commentary on today's social issues abounds. Much of the work is interactive; you get close and it barks, or starts spinning. Innovative and a great Sunday afternoon opportunity for the entire family.
Two exhibits opening tonight are also splendid. I've seen two good shows at the Chicago Artists Coalition recently. Last month Homa Shojaie's show was truly challenging and inspiring, and this evening Dan Giordan's exhibit makes a powerful statement, made from materials (tyvek or paper towels) that literally and figuratively resonate with his content, in a show called Hits Close to Home.
At Dubhe Carreno, Melissa Weber's work resembles a reincarnated Ruth Duckworth, with elegant, formal, quiet, beautiful porcelain sculptures and wall pieces. The subtleties, details and shadows augment the spiritual, pristine forms and surfaces.
Let's get out there folks. The perennial Fall is turning into an early Spring. It's a great time to see some art!
Young Artists who Know, and Aren't Replicating, History
By Paul Klein on February 2, 2012 5:08 PM
There's a lot of new talent emerging on the Chicago art scene, right now; talent that is art-historically knowledgeable and relevant. Artists are taking risks and galleries are following suite.
Antonia Gurkovska is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute and makes a worthy entrance, participating in two exhibits opening tonight. In a one-person show at Kavi Gupta, the gallery matches the artist's brave, creative, new look at minimal and historical issues, by letting her totally remake one of the galleries exhibition spaces. I'm impressed.
Gurkovska's art sits comfortably in a definition-pushing exhibit at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, titled The Question of Their Content, curated by Carly Silverman. The show looks at the fresh perspicacity of artists under 30. Issues for today's younger artists perpetually morph, treading new ground. Those who do so most convincingly are those whose art historical knowledge enables them to comment and create instead of existing in a void. This show does a good and enjoyable job of broadening our expectations and serving up glimpses of inconsistent delights.
This is also evident in Molly Zuckerman-Hartung's paintings and installations at Corbett vs. Dempsey. Brave, aggressive, fragmented, disparate, yet beautiful, Zuckerman-Hartung's playful, confidence reiterates and reinforces what is revealed at multiple venues; young artists who - or a first time, again - have a sense of the history that informs their media, expression and art; and have the talent and energy to comment on it intelligently and engagingly. Given just a bit more time, several of these artists are going to explode to significance in a larger-than-Chicago realm.
The same is true of Brooklyn-based artist Sharee Hovespian, opening Saturday at Monique Meloche, where she expands on the history of photography and the sub-context of photo-grams as she elegantly explores minimalist forms. Her exhibit is accompanied by a large window installation by Kerry James Marshall.
Artists invariably say they make art because they have to. They're compelled. There's something explained in their art about their calling. At Linda Warren, Alex O'Neal 's buoyant, colorful, over all, peoplescapes and Nicole Gordon's sculptures on paintings and intensified, magical interiors from the "Velvet Age," synergistically reveal the artists' inner drive.
At Chapel Projects at The Charnel House, Robin Dluzen presents skeletal, minimized, ghosts of urban history; the remains of the scaffolding that supported Chicago's ubiquitous water towers. And she does so in Chapel Projects - a theater and former funeral home, at the Charnel House (Charnel means "building where bones are stored.") The romantic, nostalgic installation is a distillation of our recent past and a commentary by an engaged and socially aware artist. Another development that I'm seeing more of in recent months - art that forays outside the traditional restraints of gallery spaces, to be more contemporaneously engaged in community.
Some of this can also be seen at Secrist Gallery, in a group show about "Holes," that deals with the subject literally, by including images of holes, and metaphorically, in the portraits of men who could fill the hole of the an artist's fatherless childhood. The show has promise, but I was there too early to get a sense of whether the entire gestalt congeals.
One of my favorite painters is Ted Stanuga whose show is opening at Park Schreck. He, too, is nostalgic and romantic in his consideration and dialog with abstract expressionism; yet he is more direct and purposeful in the creation of his lyrical paintings.
Russell Bowman presents a show of drawings by diverse American Artists from Elizabeth Murray, to Philip Guston to David Smith. It is always a pleasure to be surprised by Bowman's presentations and the joy of seeing relatively recent examples of art-historically relevant work. Obviously some examples are better than others, but there's always a treasure or two that make the jaunt worthwhile.
Lastly, let's welcome Bert Green to Chicago. Green's Gallery has been a significant contribution to the LA art scene for years. and he's upped and left LA for a small but worthy space across Michigan Avenue for Millennium Park. Always a dealer who has been interested in the dialog with artists and their art, it's clear than his inventory and exhibits are going to grow beyond his collectors' present enthusiasm for LA artists to embrace the local scene. Bert Green is a good dealer. He's going to be rewarding to watch.
That's it for now. With no need to shovel, we have so much more time for art. Go find some somewhere you haven't been before.
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Adventist Health Ukiah Valley (AHUV) hosted hundreds of community members, partner agencies and leaders from near and far for a festive event celebrating the completion of the new, state-of-the-art Emergency Department (ED), Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and rooftop helipad Thursday, September 6, 2018. The Ukiah High School marching band led the way for the Greater Ukiah Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting as the Ukiah Valley celebrated this new era in local healthcare.
"The day finally came when we could share with our community this state-of-the-art Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and rooftop helipad, and we couldn't be prouder. Having the opportunity to share this momentous occasion with our community near and far made all these years of hard work well worth it. I am happy to say that we expect final approval from regulatory agencies very soon to begin services in this new space and are excited to have had this opportunity to showcase this great project with all of you." Says David Weis, AHUV Operations Executive.
The new 14,700-square foot ED is four times as big as the existing space. It has 19 private treatment rooms, including rooms for special types of care such as assessment and triage, psychiatric care, gynecological care, negative pressure rooms for highly infectious patients, and two trauma rooms equipped like mini-operating rooms. Patient flow has been carefully designed so patients brought in by ambulance or helicopter are received through a separate entrance from the public walk-in and drop-off entrance.
As with any project of this size, it takes a team of experts to transform plans into reality. Lionakis designed the building with Herrero Builders as our general contractor for this project. Local contractors like Valley Paving, Peterson and Son's Welding, Wipf Construction, and HL Weaver all played significant roles in the project. "We used local contractors whenever possible," Weis explained.
The new Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and Rooftop Helipad are scheduled for final regulatory approval. Once we receive approvals, we can open our doors. For more information, call (707) 456-3213.


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The TuanChe tiff
New EV entrant prompts derision from Li Auto
Jan 28, 2022 (WiC 571)
Li: in a weibo war with Wen
Is there room for yet another Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up? Wen Wei, the co-founder and chairman of TuanChe, thinks so.
In mid-January, the Nasdaq-listed car sales marketplace announced plans to launch two models of its own within three years.
Wen said that TuanChe has assembled a core team of 100 experts with experience spanning R&D to manufacturing. The group's first milestone will be selling 100,000 EVs, he added.
Wen claims a key advantage over other start-ups in the sector, who may have raised plenty of cash to build their first models but lack the sales network outside of tier 1 cities that TuanChe enjoys. That reach will be crucial when demand starts to boom, the company thinks, with claims that there is "still a two-year window for new players to jump on the bandwagon".
Li Xiang, the founder of fellow Nasdaq-listed EV brand Li Auto disagrees, however.
In mid-January he published a Sina Weibo post slamming the claims from Wen and warning that "entrepreneurs who declare they're an industry's saviour are liars".
"The bottom line should be to avoid lying, but Wen Wei has even broken that. The true nature of entrepreneurship is rhythm and patient long-term growth," Li added of the new entrant in a derisory tone.
Wen responded within hours. "I didn't expect the first shot along the Long March to come from you Li Xiang. Have you forgotten about vision and judgement – in addition to rhythm and patience?" he asked.
He went on to flag Li's ongoing row with Volkswagen China CEO Stephan Wöllenstein. "Best not to consider yourself a prophet," he concluded. "Don't be the person that everyone hates the most."
Back in September 2020 Wöllenstein annoyed Li by arguing that Li Auto's extended-range EVs weren't environmentally-friendly (largely because the LI One model has a 1.2 litre petrol engine turbocharging its 40.5 kWh battery). Li shot back that he was happy to test his cars against VW's in terms of energy efficiency and environmental standards. Last month he posted figures for their respective sales in November as well: 13,438 new registrations for Li Auto's mid-sized SUVs, compared to 12,445 for VW in a similar category.
"Thanks for the prodding," Li added. "We'll keep going."
The new row with Wen is giving TuanChe's EV strategy terrific publicity, something that Wen has tried to exploit further. "The one constant in life is change," he commented in another weibo post.
"Our power comes from the knowledge accumulated by our predecessors and our fearlessness in facing the future. It would be great if Li Xiang could find the time to attend our first product launch," he goaded.
Others also need more convincing about TuanChe's ambitions in EVs, however. News website 36kr points out that the company's roster of about 100 staff doesn't stack up well against the 2,224-team employed in Li Auto's research and development division alone, for instance. XPENG has 3,091 people working in its R&D team, it also reported (XPENG, an Alibaba-backed Chinese automaker, is also US-listed).
The founder of NIO, another of China's leading domestic brands in the EV sector, has claimed previously that it requires at least Rmb40 billion ($6.32 billion) of investment to get an EV company into a competitive position. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence data, TuanChe had cash and equivalents of just Rmb100 million on its balance sheet at the time of its third quarter results. Third quarter revenues came in at Rmb61.1 million and the car sales platform has yet to report a net profit since it listed in late 2018. During the most recent quarter, it lost Rmb36.8 million, slightly better than the same quarter the previous year.
TuanChe's share price has also collapsed since hitting the $30 mark shortly after its IPO. It's now trading at around $2.
However, stranger things have happened in the world of Chinese EV start-ups. At their low point in 2019, NIO's shares slid to just below $1.50, with investors betting that the new EV brand would go bankrupt. After some judiciously timed investment, it used the cash boost to fuel a sales-driven recovery and its shares are back at the $30 mark again.
China ConsumerCeline handbags in focus as inflation hits the luxury goods sector
TobaccoInvestigation of billionaire tycoon hits vaping sector
Energy & ResourcesBYD lithium deal rapidly undone by Chileans
Banking & FinanceWhy Bytedance shut its investment arm down
And FinallyTwo blind dates and two very different outcomes…


Hotspots include Hanoi, Hoi An and Ho Chi Minh City, each of which has a temping selection of everything from avant-garde art to sumptuous silk suits.
Vietnam has very strict regulations about exporting real antiques. There are several shops to hunt for art and antiques. Both traditional and modern paintings are a popular item. More sophisticated works are displayed in art galleries, while cheaper mass-produced stuff is touted in souvenir shops and by street vendors. Be careful and check your sources for certificates if they claim to sell you an original or antique piece.
Vietnam is emerging as a regional design center and there are some extravagant creations in the boutiques of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
The Vietnamese traditional conical hat, can be found everywhere throughout the country, but hats made in Hue are most famous as they have a poem embroiled on the inside.
Non (conical hats) are favorite items for women in both rainy and sunny times. The best quality ones can be found in the Hue's area.
Vietnam is rich in gemstones. The jewelry business is also increasing during current years, and sophisticated works are produced by both big businesses and traditional craftsmen. The quality of the gemstones sold is sometimes doubtable, so it is recommended that you buy gems at prestigious locations and be ware with cheap prices.
Bargaining should be good-natured, smile and don't get angry or argue. Once the money is accepted, the deal is done. Remember that in Asia, "saving face" is very important. In some cases you will be able to get a 50% discount or more, at other times this may only be 10%.
DON'T miss the markets: among the most atmospheric in Southeast Asia and still the hub of commercial activity everywhere in Vietnam. Notable markets in clued floating ones in the Mekong Delta, Cho Lon market in the district of Hochiminh City that bears the same name, the large fruit and flower market in Da Lat, any of the major markets in Hanoi, the colorful Sa Pa market and other ethnic minority markets in the mountainous north of the country.
DO go early when shopping at local markets. Goods are brought fresh everyday from the countryside and without refrigeration they will suffer from the heat as the day drags on.
Shopping in Hochiminh City is now little different from shopping in Bangkok or any other Asian metropolis. Commercial complexes and supermarkets are also sprouting up in Hanoi and other sizeable towns.
DO check the expiry dates carefully on any imported produce you buy: many of the more obscure items in these shops have been quietly gathering dust (not to say rotting away) for years. In Hanoi, you may notice a baffling remnant of the city's old ways. Tradesmen as part of Chinese-style commercial guilds were traditionally grouped together geographically (as many have remained in the Old Quarter), but a more modern breed of shopkeepers, such as those selling televisions or making photocopies, often elect to bunch together in a similar way. The practical upshot of this is simply impossible for the moment to obtain, say, a tennis racquet. Then, one day, you will turn a corner into an unexplored street and be confronted by an entire row of shops selling nothing but tennis racquets.
The idea of a fixed pricing system is still quite novel in most commercial contexts, which means that a little good natured haggling is an important habit to develop. Anywhere outside of supermarkets, restaurants and anything controlled by the state, bargaining is possible and usually essential.
DO be warned that, as you are always easily spotted from a distance as a foreigner, you will be asked to pay more than locals. Sometimes just a little more, but often outrageously more, even if this is not always immediately obvious to you, especially when relatively small sums are involved. It might seem like a snip, but you may be paying ten times the going rate.
If you feel mean haggling over such small sums or are tempted just to pay up for a quiet life, DON'T forget to think of other people who will pass this way after you. You should not be too afraid of offending local sensibilities: if you pay vastly over-inflated prices without a murmur, you'll simply be seen as the sucker you're letting yourself be taken for!
DO negotiate firmly if you want to rent a place: as a foreigner, you are a good prospect, since you will almost certainly pay more than a local, you won't start worshipping your ancestors in the house and refuse to ever move out – and you may even attract other monied foreigners to the neighbourhood. However, you should also be aware that there is no legal protection for people renting accommodation: if you have a problem, you must solve it with your landlord – again, through negotiation. The pleasant result is that Vietnam has actually been getting cheaper over the last few years.
Much of Southeast Asia is notorious as an earthly paradise for counterfeiters and Vietnam is no exception.
DO consider your motives carefully if you purchase counterfeit goods: if you buy a Rolex wristwatch for $20, you know that there is no chance of it being anything like a real one, except for its superficial appearance. If this is all you want, that's fine, but DON'T complain if you get searched at customs o your return home, have your fake Rolex confiscated and are made to pay a fine equivalent to the cost of a genuine one. Copies of expensive makes (especially good ones) pose a real threat to business and these luxury goods companies are determined to defend their interests – and have the means to do so.
Very good copies can be found in Vietnam, particularly items such as clothes, sports equipment and luggage. The Vietnamese are redoubtable and wily business operators, and both foreign and domestic companies often find it impossible to prevent know-how from leaking out. Even products made from materials imported exclusively find their way onto the local market at budget prices.
However, DO let the buyer beware that it's possible to find excellent deals, but only if you really know what you are doing.
DO check the quality of what you're buying, especially if there are safety concerns involved.
DON'T expect to get your money back if you change your mind after making a purchase, or even if you realize belatedly that the goods you have been sold are not as advertised… Check everything checkable yourself before you hand over your money. If it runs on electricity, get the assistant to plug it in and test it.
What not to buy in Vietnam?
Coral and coral products. Buying these products encourages destruction to Vietnam's irreplaceable coral reefs.
Sea Turtle products. You may find preserved sea turtles in shops - particularly sold in the open in Hanoi. This should be obvious--but sea turtles are endangered and all products made from them are illegal.
Rice wine containing whole animals or animal products. Wildlife populations have been decimated in Vietnam. Many of the animals and animal parts used as ingredients in rice wine are globally threatened and endangered - including the snakes.
Ivory, bone and tooth products. This animal product will be illegal in most home countries, regardless of which animal it came from. The only allowable products may be those made from farm animals--but this may be very difficult to distinguish.
Alligator and crocodile leather. This is illegal to transport between many countries.
Drugs - including marijuana are illegal and the sale or use of them can carry SEVERE penalties.
Prostitution is illegal and destroys not only yourself, the person you engage with, and your family. Aids and other serious STD's are VERY COMMON in Vietnam--even the countryside.
DO always ask around to get an idea of basic prices: a ride on a motorbike, a plate of fried noodles, a packet of cigarettes, a kilo of mangoes, etc. For more important purchases, try and get a local friend to go along with you, or better still, let him do the buying without you: prices are often lower when foreigners aren't around.
DON'T feel awkward or rude about bargaining: everyone bargains in Vietnam and you'll look like a green tourist if you don't.
DON'T look happy or resigned to paying what you're asked: always begin by showing your gentle disapproval, tut-tutting or saying something like: Đắt quá! (Too expensive).
DON'T hesitate to walk away if you cannot agree on a price: either they'll come after you or you'll find the same thing on sale somewhere else.
DO stay Zen… Shopping can be quite a rodeo when you're surrounded by eager stallholders all shouting, smiling, waving and pointing at their wares.
DON'T buy antiques to take home unless you're confident that you can get them out of the country. The law prohibits their export, but remains vague as to what exactly constitutes as an antique.
DO buy ethnic minority products directly from ethnic minority people, if at all possible, rather than from shops run by ethnic majority merchants, who often exploit their suppliers ruthlessly.
DON'T expect to get the better of any deal: Vietnamese have boundless reserves of experience and patience in doing business.
CD-ROMs: Once in Vietnam, visitors can make the acquisition of different CD-ROMs created by the Tourism Information Technology Centre. They present different aspects of Vietnam, of the culture, or they focus on one special region. Useful for the traveler, these CD-ROMs are also nice souvenirs to bring back home or to other.
Add: 24 Hai Ba Trung St., Hoan Kiem Dist.
This gallery is more like an ethnographic museum, library, and gallery all rolled into one. The space is divided into five theme rooms (e.g. "Functional Objects", and "Shamanism") and co-owner Mark S. Rapport is more than happy to play guide for a day. Rapport is a self-described collector, baseball cards when he was a kid, African art while living in New York, and then Vietnamese minority art when he moved to Hanoi. Rapport has a natural gift for bringing the artifacts to life and, given the range of affordable pieces (small mounted prints made from antique stamps or seals got for less than $10/£5.55) and exquisite antique artifacts, few people walk away empty-handed.
This gallery features minimalist artists like Le Thiet Cuong, whose family fled Hanoi for the countryside from 1964 to 1973 to escape American bombings, and Le Thanh Son, whose colorful canvases of village life impressed Mr. Clinton enough that he bought one to take home.
This large, well-lit, air-conditioned space holds some works by Vietnam's most well-known contemporary lacquer painter, Dinh Quan, as well as other artists of the current vanguard (all priced accordingly, of course). Apricot Gallery carries 80% famous artists and 20% upcoming artists. See if you can spot which paintings fall into which categories. The gallery has hosted several international customers, including former president Bill Clinton, who purchased a landscape piece by Hoang Hai Anh. Hoang, naturally, falls into the 80% group.
This store has a random, but good selection of foreign labels that appears to have fallen off the export truck. You'll stumble across pieces by boutique darlings like Vanessa Bruno, Baby Phat, BCBG, and even some familiar Abercrombie & Fitch cotton separates. They have western sizes, but whatever is on the rack is what they have, so if it's not your size, it's not meant to be.
This small boutique is sandwiched between the Hilton and the Metropole and caters to high-end shoppers. They carry three lines only, Kenzo, Korloff and La Perla. The La Perla lingerie and swimsuit selection is top notch.
This large corner space carries a large collection. The friendly staff greets you with smiles. Here you'll find standard copies and some very unique pieces.
Different from all the rest by virtue of the fact that this little open-air storefront sells only old Communist propaganda posters, mostly artful copies that are "worried" to look old (the difference is obvious), but the stark images are quite appealing.
A small selection of porcelain and lacquer flatware is sold in this smartly laid out store. Rather than leaving you to dig through assorted stacks of plates and bowls, Hanoi Moment displays a small selection of pieces arranged in eye-pleasing display areas.
On the corner adjacent to the cathedral, the cramped two floors here are stuffed with lots of copy works of both famous Vietnamese artists and European masters. This is the best place to drop off a family photo and have it done in oil in a few days.
This gallery carries the works of two prominent Hanoian photographers whose color prints of the Vietnamese hinterlands, including some of the finest portraits and scenes from the hilltribes of the far north and Central Highlands region, have been published widely. You'll find some of their best prints here, framed and at prices unheard of in the West. Pick up a great souvenir or get some inspiration for your own snapshots. The eccentric photographers themselves, Mr. Le Quang Chau and Mr. Do Anh Tuan, are often on hand and happy to chat.
Like the Apricot Gallery and Art Vietnam, this gallery carries a good deal of work by well-known and established Vietnamese artists. It also has a handful of exclusive artists, whose works are only available at their gallery. These include the latest darling of Vietnamese landscapes Phan Thu Trang, a young painter (born in 1981) who has been with Mai Gallery since 2004. Staff here is helpful and the gallery has an excellent layout with good lighting for easy viewing.
Odd that you can buy a knockoff of the latest Louis Vuitton bag just around the corner -- any corner really -- but these are the real deal at the real deal prices. They also have beautiful original antique LV trunks on display in-store, and sometimes in the lobby of the Metropole. Next door is a Cartier Watch boutique. You have arrived, darling.
Hanoi Silk has a collection comparable to Khai Silk and carries good ready-to-wear as well as tailors' silk garments.
Like their affiliated restaurants and cafes in Hanoi (and in Sapa), the folks at the Hoa Sua Showroom are an outlet for disadvantaged children, many of whom are hearing-impaired, to receive on-the-job training and placement in a career. The shop here carries a nice collection of daily-use items, tablecloths, and slip covers, as well as made-to-order goods. An expat favorite, and your money goes to a good cause.
You've come to the right place for gaudy little Zakka fashion bags and accouterments for the ladies. Run by jet-setting Hong Kong lawyer-turned-designer Christina Yu, the place is popular with Japanese and Singaporean ladies and has managed to cause a small stir in other international markets. Celebrities Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Osbourne (admittedly, not your typical fashion icons) have been known to sport an Ipa Nima creation or two. Yu herself admits that you either love it or you hate it. Her bags are creative, glitzy affairs adorned with rhinestones, metal grommets, and contrasting materials. They have two stores: a newly opened flagship Ipa Nima store in the south end of town, and Tina Sparkle in the heart of the popular Church Street cafe area.
This store uses traditional Vietnamese crafts and combines local materials with a modern edge. It's an excellent place to scope out little gifts to bring back home that people will actually like.
Add: 37A Van Mieu St.
Add: 148 Giang Vo St., Ba Dinh Dist.
Add: 179 Hang Bong St.
Add: 108 Hang Gai St.
Add: 121 Nguyen Thai Hoc St.
Young designer Ha Truong's creations are, according to her slogan, "understated, artful, contradictory."
Here is a popular little boutique and a great place to pick up some designer silver jewelry, silk hangings, or ready-to-wear items, and home goods from furnishings to lamps. Major credit cards are accepted.
Add: 102 Hang Gai St.
Add: 2B Ly Quoc Su St.
Add: 79 Hang Gai St., Hoan Kiem Dist.
Add: 93 Hang Gai St., Hoan Kiem Dist.
Soapstone carvings and fine statuary.
Stop by this large upstairs gallery space and the friendly staff can arrange reproductions and commission work. They also have the standard Vietnamese copies lining the walls.
If you're truly keen on learning about the scene in Ho Chi Minh, this is the place to start. Three floors house an evolving modern collection, featuring new and established Vietnamese artists' works in sculpture, oil, and lacquer, as well as a nice collection of ancient Buddhist artwork and some Cham statuary. The museum offers a good glimpse into the local scene. From there, have a look at Lac Hong Art Gallery, located on the ground floor of the museum (tel. 08/821-3771), which features the works of many famous Vietnamese artists. There are galleries throughout the city, many clustered around Dong Khoi and near all the major hotels. Here, you can get some great deals on reproductions of popular works (reproduction being a big industry in town), and those with deep pockets will find easy introductions to the artists or their representatives themselves. For a price, you can turn any photo into an enormous oil painting.
This store has exclusive linen and silk cotton blends in elegant neutral tones of white and cream. Bedding, cushions, and runners are designed with tasteful embroidery and everything has a luxuriously high thread count.
This store carries a beautiful selection of clothing, home décor, and furniture from one local Vietnamese and four expat designers. Everything is of serious quality. The linens are from Catherine Denoual, so expect a beautiful collection. Clothing is by Cambodian-born, France-raised Romyda Keth. The dresses are beautifully cut and are often multi-colored and touched with embroidery or a bit of sparkle. It can look like too much on the hanger, but more often than not looks smart and sophisticated once you put it on. The quality of material and cuts are amazing and the staff has an excellent eye for fit.
Tailor Lien can make you a lovely ao dai or a silk separate according to your style and design in 24 hours. If the fit comes out wrong or is off, she is excellent at tweaking and working with you until it comes out right.
The place to get funky, original handbags decked out in tassles, patterns, and busy prints. Their Saigon stores are not as large and expansive as their flagship in Hanoi, but there is still a great selection on offer.
A brand-name supplier with some of the best ready-to-wear silk garments in the town.
With outlets throughout the country, Khai Silk is one of the best places for ready-made and tailored silk in Vietnam. The signature store is right downtown at 107 Dong Khoi St., but they have shops throughout the city in some of the finer hotels. Good business sense says, "If something works, then copy it," so there are lots of Khai Silk look-alikes, but Khai is the best.
Come here for a fine collection of silk, jersey, and cotton separates and dresses as well as silk sleep and lounge wear. Some designs are simple, like long, roman-style jersey dresses, and others are eccentric, like silk wraparound halters and sequined skirts.
Gold, silver, and precious stones for all budgets.
A fine selection of imported goods, with Italian and French wines as well as European chocolates and other comfort foods.
This outlet is just across from the Majestic Hotel, at the terminus of Dong Khoi Street at riverside. The place is two floors of warehouse-style shopping, with every chachki you could imagine. On the first floor, find unique table settings that are decidedly modern, but made from local materials and with a Vietnamese/Chinese flair. Upstairs are lots of little bins with trinkets, as well as furnishing and gifts. Prices are marked, but they offer discounts if you buy in bulk (and this might be a good place to pick up a handful of small gifts for family and friends back home).
Expat communities bring their luxury tastes with them, and this stylish storefront carries hundreds of fine vintages for the discerning.
The best area to look for maps, books and stationery is along the north side of Le Loi street, between the Rex Hotel and Nam Ky Khoi Nghia street, in the Dong Khoi area. There are many small, privately run shops as well as the large government-run ones.
On De Tham street, around Pham Ngu Lao, there is a handful of shops dealing in used paperbacks and bootleg CDs. Here you can also swap books. Check out the following places.
One of the best government-run bookshops, with good dictionaries, maps and general books in English and French.
Carries imported books and magazines in English, French and Chinese, mostly of the instructional variety.
Not so much a bookshop as a backdrop of used English and French titles for the cosy Bo Gio cafe.
Hue is known for producing the finest conical hats in Vietnam. The city's speciality is "poem hats", which, when held up to the light, reveal shadowy scenes of daily life.
Hue is also home to one of the largest and most beautiful selections of rice -paper and silk paintings available in Vietnam, but the prices quoted are usually inflated to about four times the real price.
This popular gallery features fine lacquer-works by artist Nguyen Trung Viet. These stylized images, mostly of young women, are quite appealing. Prices are affordable and they can ship anywhere on the globe.
Hand-painted Chinese scrolls make a great souvenir, and Mr. Ly Si Binh, down the street from this gallery at 21 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. (Tel. 0510/910-721), can script anything from peace or determination to your best buddy's name in Chinese (if it's wrong, he won't know the difference anyway). And it's fun to watch cheery Mr.Binh at work.
A centralised marketing service for gifts & handicrafts made by disabled Vietnamese. "Great gifts for a Great Cause".
If you're confused by the glut of small tailor storefronts and wonder about the quality of the work, Yaly Couture is your answer. Yes, the prices are higher, but quality comes with more of a guarantee and the same efficient service (12-hr. turnaround for a new suit). Also try their many ready-to-wear items in the small showroom at the town center. Good track record.
Popular tailors specialising in made-to-measure fashion, formal wear and casual clothing. Well patronised and enjoying a good reputation.
Bambou produces their own unique T-shirts with local themes and designs, all in real cotton with big Western sizes available. They also have cool Asian-inspired clothes, like string-button Chinese shirts and loose travel togs like fishermen's pants and loose shirts.
This is one of the best of the town's many budget tailor shops. Ms. Hung is friendly, speaks English well, and cuts good budget deals or can do higher-quality work with better materials for just a hitch more. You can't miss this two-story, neon-lit place on the corner of Phan Dinh Phung and Nhi Trung or at 02 Le Loi (also near Phan Dinh Phung). It's open daily from 8:30am to 10pm.
Napkins, table linen and mare all beautifully embroidered by hand. Son Ca also offers bespoke fashions and ready-to-wear.
Foreign-managed tailor shop housed in a converted ancient shophouse which was used as a set during the filming of The Quiet American.
High-quality tailors specialising in modern fashions for ladies and gentlemen. Wide range of fabrics & styles. All tailoring is carried out on the premises - unlike many other Hoi An outlets.
Tra My Cinnamon Cuisine Art Production & Trading Co.
Non Nuoc fine arts stone products are on sale everywhere at the Non Nuoc Fine Art Village at the foot of the Marble Mountains in Hoa Hai ward, Ngu Hanh Son district of Danang City and mostly at all hotels in the city area.
T-junction linking Nui Thanh - Trung Nu Vuong street.
Along with Hanoi, HCMC and Hoi An, Nha Trang has emerged as a reasonable place to look for art. Though actual galleries are scant, there are several local painters and photographers who display their work on the walls of Nha Trang's resorts, restaurants, cafes and bars.
Run by a French expat, Bambou Company produces high-quality T-shirts (75,000d to 100,000d) featuring cool original designs.
Also worth checking out are the hand-painted T-shirts done by a friendly local painter named Kim Quang (Tel: 0913-416 513). Quang works every night from his wheelchair at the Nha Trang Sailing Club.
You can watch the artisans at work at this embroidery workshop and gallery, where intricate embroidery 'paintings' are painstakingly worked by hand.
Stocks a good collection of used books in a variety of languages.
Carries a great selection of mostly English-language books.
These are best kinds of rice that are grown in Muong Thanh rice field, one of the largest ricefield in the North West of Vietnam. They are known all over the country and especially popular in such provinces as Son La, Hoa Binh, Ha Noi and other neighbouring provinces.
According to local people, Sau Chit is a good kind of alcohol for the health, which have been favored by the administration of villages and group of villages. Nowadays, all of visitors coming to Dien Bien Phu want to taste it.
Brocade products reflex clearly the cultural and spiritual life of ethnic groups. In addition, they are made by hard-working and skilful ethnic women. They also show their soul and feelings through every single design of such brocade products as costumes, Pieu scarves, bags, blankets, matresses, etc.
In every day life, the ethnic people have used natural materials to make useful objects. They are also very nice souvenirs for tourists such as rattan desks, chairs, baskets, etc.
Coming to Dien Bien Phu, visitors will feel the greatness of Dien Bien Phu historical victory. Visitors also have chance to taste special local made products, to enjoy beautiful folk songs and to buy nice souvenirs for relatives and friends.
Once you are lucky enough to be in Da Lat, a wide range of souvenirs and specialties are available for your choice. Markets in this flowerful town are also flowerful. Be bent with fresh colorful flowers and beautiful arts & handicrafts, like Da Lat dinner wine, sweaters, wooden sculptured paintings, brocades, jams, fruits, and so forth.
You can reach Hoa Binh area, or at Da Lat market's shops, A zone. Prices range from 35,000 to 60,000 VND/sweater.
These are popularly sold in Hoa Binh area. Wooden sculptured paintings express the delicateness of Da Lat people via delicate and nice drawings and poems onto the paintings. You can also order the artists to draw what you would like. Prices are from 20,000 VND to hundreds of thousand VND/painting.
It's best to buy fruits at Da Lat markets in the early morning for best quality. Persimmon, avocado, peach, strawberry, etc. are available at your disposal. Prices are around 20,000 VND/kilo.
Not so much a bookshop as a backdrop of used English and French titles for the cozy Bo Gio cafe.


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I "borrowed" this from CBS.
There are days — and this is one of them — when I watch the news and wonder how I then turn about and engage in such frippery as this blog. Today — probably for One Day Only — I may just be less fripperous (not a word, but it should be) than usual.
People in Nebraska — just one state away, and my mother's and stepdad's homeland — are literally underwater. And half a world away, in news that barely seems worth mentioning in the United States, a cyclone took out 90 percent of a port city in Mozambique. The cyclone made landfall twice, and has caused massive damage in three different countries, a death toll likely in the thousands . . . there are days (again, this is one of them) where I wonder what I am doing, fixating on building a new house when others have no house left due to what seems to be an ever-more-vengeful Mother Nature.
I doubt, in reality, that Ma Nature is any more or less angry than she's ever been: we just have a LOT more people to put in harm's way, and we seem to be fouling our own nest at an ever-increasing rate. (Don't even start reading the stories about plastic waste.)
Also on CBS this morning [it's a touch confusing, because that's also the name of the show: CBS This Morning] was my favorite correspondent, Major Garrett, with a snippet of his interview with new Environmental Protection (we can probably dispense with this word) Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, former coal lobbyist.
And from this I learn that we really have nothing to worry about: climate change is a problem that doesn't need to be addressed for another 50, 75 years (although this does seem to acknowledge that yes, we might indeed have human-induced change), and while the U.S. is fine, with 92% of its residents drinking safe water —
Mr. Garrett (I like to think of him as "Major") first pointed out to Mr. Wheeler (I'm not sure I like to think of him at all) that this would be cold comfort to those other 8% and then noted to us, his viewers, that municipalities have been shown to under-report and even falsify water test outcomes, so the 92 is an optimistic percentage at best —
the rest of the world is in dire trouble, and this is the problem we need to focus on: bringing safe water to other countries while deregulating here at home. And Mr. Wheeler is also fine with a 30 percent reduction in his agency's budget, as proposed.
Down in Texas, a chemical fire is out after three days of churning a volcanic amount of black smoke skyward. "Officials" have asserted over and over that there is "nothing to worry about," and that all this billowing black smoke is "perfectly safe." As one eyewitness declared, "No one saying that lives here."
And in the meantime, Nebraska has a lot of unsafe water, currently spread in unsafe places. One hog farmer reported that of his 700 head, he had located 14 alive following a flood.
The human death toll is a lot less in Nebraska than Mozambique, but the livestock lost will be in the thousands, the damage is estimated in the millions, and they are likely to top one billion in lost revenues. The news noted that Midwestern farm bankruptcies were up something like 12 percent last year, with tariffs and other forces beyond the farmers' control threatening the livelihood of many more.
And now comes Inundation, with a guaranteed certainty of more rain, combined with warming temperatures that will increase snowmelt, and Nebraska is not a happy place to be today.
These farmers in "America's breadbasket" may not recover in enough time to plant a spring crop, which soon enough is liable to impact those of us not currently in harm's way but who like eating food.
It is hard, when every day brings a story of weather disaster, to know where to focus, and it is easiest — at least for me, but I'll bet I'm not alone — to look out at my local weather and decide if I'm liable to be inconvenienced in any way. Was my street a slushy mess for a week? Yes. Does that have any resonance to a Nebraska farmer already teetering on the brink of insolvency who has now lost almost all of his livestock and probably his first planting of the season? Or a resident of northern California who was first burned out and then completely done in by a mudslide? Or someone in the crushed city of Beira, Mozambique, searching through masses of rubble for loved ones?
I think it was 1903 when a volcano erupted on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. A pyroclastic flow rumbled through a city of 30,000, leaving precisely two survivors. News of this did not reach the United States for something like two weeks. Ignorant bliss was an easier state to maintain a century ago, although, as noted, we here in the U.S. aren't really paying much attention to southeast Africa.
I see that I am celebrating the First Day of Spring with real joy, but some days it just strikes me — particularly these days, when the world can be so interconnected — about how much worldwide woe the weather brings. And even as I think to myself, "I don't live in any of those places," a Denver meterologist the other night posted drought maps of the state.
As recently as February, the southwest corner of the state was still in "exceptional" drought, but with our abundance of moisture (our salvation, Nebraska's ruination), Durango has managed to put that behind itself. For now. If you look, we are still in drought conditions, just not as severe.
I heard once, several years ago, that heat is really the most lethal weather pattern, but because it rarely results in a mass take-out the way a cyclone does, we don't notice it. And so it is easy for me — this year, at least — to look out at a yardful of snow, with more on the way, and view my weather as more fortunate than any of the places the news talked about this morning. And even places it didn't talk about.
Tomorrow, I assume, I will be back in full fripperous form, worried about the colors of a house in progress, but for now, it seems unseemly to not give a thought or two to people whose livelihoods and possibly lives are in tatters.
Even when you think you're safe from adverse weather, you might not be. But this map isn't nearly as red and orange as it was just two months ago.
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Q: How can I add extra column classes in Bootstrap 3? Bootstrap 3 changed the previous approach of span classes for the grid system for the more explicit col-xs, col-md, etc. An excellent improvement imo, but still I find that I would like to add extra column classes. In specific, I want to create a column class for something between col-md and col-lg.
I know that I can change the LESS variables in order to change the lengths of the standard column classes, but I do not want to modify them. Instead I want (if possible) to add extra classes for different screen sizes.
Any suggestions on how to do that? I did some research, but since Bootstrap 3 is quite new, I didn't find anything of that sort.

A: Well, that would be less Bootstrap and more LESS. It wouldn't necessary be difficult, just time consuming. That being said, if I wanted to create an in between size (say col-mdlg-*), here is what I would try to do:

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*Create a new .less file, and @import in the bootstrap.less file. This will allow you to use all of the Bootstrap specific variables and mixins.

*After that, copy in some of the grid stuff from grid.less for either md or lg below that import, ensuring to get both the default stuff at the top (delete the xs, sm, and md/lg, depending on which one you chose), as well as the size specific stuff at the bottom, and change the classes to your new class name.

*At the top of the size specific stuff, you would see this:
@media (min-width: @screen-desktop) {
  .container {
    max-width: @container-desktop;
  }
  //rest of specific stuff here
}

You would want to change the @screen-desktop to an actual value that is the minimum screen width you want it to trigger, and then @container-desktop to an actual value that is the max width for the container.

*Compile new less file and/or hook up your code to the output, and enjoy your new styles.

A: You can also take more of a hands off approach and not alter any of the LESS or CSS at all:
http://tmaiaroto.github.io/gridline/
... Put that on your page and use data attributes to adjust the number of columns on the fly and row by row. You don't need to adjust the classes at all, you'll just get new ones, so something like "col-md-24" will just work as if it was always defined.

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LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- There's big-screen and really big-screen television, like the world's largest plasma screen on sale for $99,000 in London.
Panasonic's new television is 103 inches wide -- 8 feet, 7 inches -- and weighs about a quarter of a ton, Sky News said Wednesday.
Delivery and installation cost $9,800 extra, and if you want to order one of these babies for this Christmas -- you're too late.
The screens must be ordered from Panasonic's factory in Japan and there's a three-month waiting list, a store spokesman said.
Commenting on the television screen on display at John Lewis, spokesman John Kempner said: "It's really there as a statement to show off what plasma technology can do and to say, 'This is the ultimate.'"
The Panasonic breaks the former record for a television screen by one inch.
LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A top British lawyer asked his firm to reimburse him nearly $700 for an encounter with a prostitute, a magazine reports in its annual scandal-mongering issue.
The annual Legal Business Christmas Quiz issue also describes a married lawyer who goes "dogging" with his secretary, a partner who was thrown out by his wife after getting his au pair pregnant and a senior attorney who confessed to cross-dressing and a fetish for latex, The Daily Mail reports.
One leading London firm hosted a party for clients at which a trainee and an associate came to blows over the attentions of a married male partner. A partner at another London firm attended a university career fair, but instead of promoting his firm, he took an undergraduate out to dinner and then slept with her.
The names of the lawyers are not disclosed. The idea is to guess who they are.
That's why the magazine calls the saucy gossip-mongering a Christmas Quiz.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Two Swedish border officers face disciplinary measures for keeping photos of "exceptionally beautiful" women who go through their checkpoint.
The national police disciplinary board recommended a warning be issued to the men, who photocopied the women's passport photos and put them in a binder along with the women's birth dates, Sky News said Wednesday. The officers worked at a ferry terminal near Stockholm.
The binder included instructions on how to compile the collection, and orders to make backups in case the album became lost or was confiscated, officials said.
The officers established rules for the project, such as: only "exceptionally beautiful" women belonged in the collection, and no personal data, other than birth dates, should be included.
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- British police were hunting for a Grinch-like thief who stole Christmas presents destined for sick children in Southampton, England.
Closed-circuit TV footage showed a man taking four presents from a Southampton Pizza Hut restaurant as restaurant workers tried to stop him.
The presents were destined for sick youngsters at Southampton General Hospital, The Daily Mail reported.
The thief even asked staff who the presents were for before he stuffed them under his jacket, restaurant workers said.
"I am disappointed and annoyed someone would do this to local children," said area manager Tim West, 33.
"This thief has been very callous and he must have seen these presents were being given to children at the hospital this Christmas," a police spokesman said.


World Finance » Earnings Per Share » Company Earnings Per Share » Earnings Per Share of Citigroup Inc.
In the recent times the quarterly earnings per share of Citigroup Inc. has been more or less consistent with the exception of the last quarter of 2007. However, the company has faced some difficult results as far as annual earnings per share are concerned.
Quarterly Earnings Per Share of Citigroup Inc.
During the last quarter of 2006 the earnings per share of Citigroup Inc. went up by $1.03. During the first and second quarter of 2007 the earning per share was $1.18 and during the third quarter the earning per share was $0.47. However in the last quarter of last year the company experienced an earning per share of $1.99 .
The first quarter of 2008 saw a loss of $1.02 on the earnings per share. It is expected that in the second quarter of 2008 the earnings per share would be $0.39 and in the third quarter it would be $0.55.
Annual Earnings Per Share of Citigroup Inc.
During the year 2006 Citigroup Inc. experienced an earning per share of $4.17 and during the last year the company experienced a setback in its earning per share, which stood at $0.72. It is being estimated that the earnings per share would be $0.63 per share on an annual basis at the end of this year and after the next year the annual earnings per share would be $2.94.
Quarterly Revenues of Citigroup Inc.
During the last quarter of 2006 the Citigroup Inc. earned $23.8 billion. During the first quarter of 2007 the company earned $25.5 billion and in the second quarter the earnings were $26.6 billion. At the third quarter of 2007 the Citigroup Inc. earned $22.7 billion but in the last quarter the earnings were only $7.2 billion.
It is expected that in the first quarter of 2008 Citigroup Inc. would earn $13.2 billion and in the second quarter the revenues would be $24.1 billion. The earnings in the third quarter are expected to be 25.2 billion dollars.
Annual Revenues of Citigroup Inc.
The year 2006 saw Citigroup Inc. generate $89.6 billion by way of revenue. However, by the end of the last year the annual revenue score dropped to $81.7 billion. It is being estimated that in 2008 the annual revenue of Citigroup Inc. would be $90.2 billion and for 2009 the figure is supposed to be $114 billion.


You don't have to follow every trend because sometimes there are just trends that are not very "you" That's what I had with the wedge sneakers… until that is… I did saw the Nike's Dunk Ski High's before in White Mesh (I'm loving the Black Mesh too) and had to admit I liked them but still considered them to be nothing for me. The other day I tried them on, just to give it a go… and wow, I really really loved them seeing them on! I think this is a trend that somehow needs to suit you. The moment I tried them on I imagined them wearing long length dresses, short dresses and shorts! I really say give them a try and you might love them the way I do and then some!
Make your wishes along with flowers to various locations of Germany. Flower Delivery Locations in Germany makes people to reach out for Germany. For details visit http://www.germanyflowershop.com/Germany_Delivery_Information.asp that will reveal the delivery details.
I have to admit I also succumbed to this trend…my Nikes came today, powder blue and gorgeous. I cannot wait to parade them.
My very first wedge sneakers were from Ash…and now I'm considering to buy a new pair: the Dunk Sky Hi from Nike! But I'm not sure about the color.
I already have them, they're very cute and comfy!
They are awesome and very comfortable!! LOVE.
I love wedge sneakers. Comfortable yet provide height.
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Big yellow taxi - Renault reveal yellow livery for 2016 works team return
Published 16 March 2016 by Christine
Adding a splash of colour to a muted livery palette this season, Renault revealed their official paint job for the 2016 season, bringing back their yellow branding in style. The launch of the livery was undertaken with a litany of Australian stereotypes - the car was revealed perching on a surfboard, and the drivers appeared in shorts and flip flops - but even so, it was a refreshing glimpse of colour to add to the grid this weekend.
Managing director Cyril Abiteboul explained why the team had gone for such a striking look: "Today is about what's in the season to come, and the important thing is the colour, that it says a lot about your identity and who you stand for. I look around and it looks like people are trying to disappear from the tarmac, so we've gone for something different."
He mentioned that yellow is the traditional Renault colour, since the 1940s, and that the team are opting for a matt finish - like the Red Bull - rather than the slightly heavier gloss paint. Naturally, the drivers aren't worried about what colour it is, as long as it can go just a little bit faster than last year's efforts.
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