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Take your game to a next level with this Knight Women’s XV II Complete Golf Set. Solely designed for women, this set is perfectly ideal for female players. This complete set includes a 460 cc graphite Driver, a Fairway Wood, a Hybrid, one Pitching Wedge, four Irons, a heel-toe weighting Putter and an attractive cart bag for ease of transportation. The clubs are featured with premium graphite and steel shafts for added durability. It is a great starter set for every female golfer and matches any level of skill. Big clubs like Fairway wood and the Driver comes with matched head covers for added protection of the accessories, while the golf bag has ample of storage to carry the clubs conveniently to the course.

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  • Clubs are designed using high quality materials, thereby ensuring increased durability.
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  • Apart from storing the clubs included in this set, the golf bag has enough storage for other equipment’s as well.
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  • The Knight Women’s XV II comes at affordable prices in comparison to other sets available.

  • The golf cart bag makes use of a very thin material for storage compartments.
  • Clubs included in the set might not be suitable for professional players.

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Knight offers extremely outstanding quality with its products. The Knight’s XV II Complete Set, distinctively designed for women includes an attractive colorful pattern of the equipment’s with matching head covers of three big clubs, making it more demanding among female golfers. It is a great set for beginners having limited or no experience in golfing. Clubs included in the set are of superior quality because of their construction material, while being available at fair prices.

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Okay, I haven't written a review for ages, but I need to justify why this book gets 5 stars. There are many other books on a similar vein out there, and I've read a few.
5 Wishes is simple, it is not contrived, and each step is plainly made and easily followed. Reading it I can feel some of what he is saying flow over me, and I'm getting those occasional twinges of excitement which are all too rare as I become more cynical. Reading 5 wishes let me be innocent again, and ready to accept the changes into my life I need to make so when I'm asked the question at the beginning, I can say "Yes."
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Denver Chavez, Jordan Ellis and Brian Mundell produced two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift No. 24 Cal Poly to a 4-3 walkoff win over UC Riverside on Sunday in Baggett Stadium, completing a three-game Big West series sweep.

With two outs, the bases empty, Cal Poly trailing 3-2 and closer Trevor Frank on the mound for UC Riverside seeking his 10th save of the season, Chavez drew a full-count walk, Ellis tripled off the glove of Highlander center fielder Devyn Bolasky for an RBI triple, tying the game at 3-3, and Mundell beat the throw to first base on an infield single deep in the hole at shortstop, knocking in the winning run.

Cal Poly's third walkoff win of the season elevated the Mustangs' overall record to 31-14 and Big West mark to 11-7, tied for third place with UC Irvine. UC Riverside fell to 18-25 and 7-11.

Junior right-hander Michael Holback (3-1) pitched four scoreless innings for the win, scattering three hits with no walks and four strikeouts. The loss went to Frank (4-1) as he allowed two runs and three hits in two innings of relief work.

Cal Poly scored single runs in the second and fourth innings -- both driven in by first baseman Tommy Pluschkell (pictured at right) -- for a 2-0 lead before the Mustang bats were silenced, producing just one hit over the next four frames prior to the ninth-inning heroics.

David Armendariz opened the Mustang second with a single to right field, extending his hitting streak to 10 games. A groundout and single moved Armendariz to third and he scored on Pluschkell's RBI grounder to shortstop.

In the fourth, two Mustangs reached base on UC Riverside fielding errors and Pluschkell's safety squeeze bunt up along the first-base line scored the run for a 2-0 Cal Poly lead.

UC Riverside scored twice in the fifth on three doubles and took a 3-2 lead in the sixth as Nick Vilter tripled and came home on a groundout.

Mundell finished with three hits and the game-winning RBI for Cal Poly while Ellis contributed two hits, including a first-inning single to extend his hitting streak to 13 games.

UC Riverside's 10 hits included two each by Bolasky, Joe Chavez and Francisco Tellez.

Mundell also knocked in the winning run in Cal Poly's first walkoff win of the season, a solo home run in the 10th inning to beat San Jose State 6-5 on March 12. Chris Hoo singled with the bases loaded in the 13th inning to give the Mustangs a 5-4 win over UC Davis on March 30.

Cal Poly was 0-for-11 in games in which it trailed after eight innings before Sunday's victory. The Mustangs are 3-12 when trailing after six innings this season, two of the wins occurring this weekend. Elliot Stewart's three-run home run capped a four-run seventh-inning rally Friday night as Cal Poly turned a 1-0 deficit into a 4-1 victory.

Cal Poly hit .276 in the series, led by Ellis, who was 6-for-14 with a triple and one RBI. Mundell went 5-for-12 with a home run and two RBI while Armendariz and Nick Torres both contributed four hits. The Mustangs had just four extra-base hits in the series and earned the sweep despite scoring only 11 runs in three games.

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1.Europe FnaticRaidCall100 points (10)
2.Australia Tt eSPORTS86 points
3.UnitedStates Trademark eSports79 points
4.Europe Blackfade.org72 points
5.Europe Team It's Gosu50 points
6.Malaysia Orange eSports42 points
7.Europe Ayy Man32 points
8.United States Clan Milk30 points
9.Europe Monomaniac eSports25 points
10.Europe Better Looking Than You19 points

Topping the rankings are, of course, now four-time consecutive DreamHack champions - FnaticRaidCall, with maximum 100 points as all 10 voters placed them on the top spot. Tt eSports retained their 2nd place due to being the DreamHoN runners-up twice in row now, as well as an excellent display in the recent Fnatic RaidCall HoN Cup #3. Falling from first to third are Trademark eSports, who once again disappointed at a LAN event, as they finished just fourth. Slightly behind them on the rankings are Blackfade, despite beating them in a head-on clash at that event.

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James Squire Orchard Crush Perry & the Pearfect Picnic

James Squire has released their new James Squire Orchard Crush Perry cloudy pear cider and is inviting Sydneysiders to host a Pearfect picnic.

James Squire Orchard Crush Perry is a traditional style cloudy pear cider, with “Perry” being the name given to ciders made from fresh pear juice. The cider is produced using seasonal, locally-grown pears that deliver a refreshing fruit hit, delicate fresh pear aroma, subtle sweetness and a soft finish.

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To sit:  Make the most of the great outdoors  on  a bright sunny day, so bed down on a comfy patch of grass in the shade with a view. Think Watsons Bay, Nielsen Park or Wattamolla or Bundeena at the Royal National Park.

To pack: A comfortable blanket, an esky or good sized basket with cooler bag, real knives/forks/spoons /plates and glassware and don’t forget the sunscreen and mozzie spray.

To eat:  Turkey, pear and pesto baguettes, firm cheese and cured meats, fresh fruits like strawberries and figs

To drink: James Squire Orchard Crush Perry and still mineral water with straws.

To relax: No books, iPhones or Sunday paper – just the company of the persons you are with.

To play: Bocce, Croquet, or Frisbee. Or pack a deck of cards for a more relaxed option.

The new traditional-style cloudy Perry (or pear cider) is available nationally in both a 500ml bottle and on tap at selected venues across Australia.

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Canadian Free Trade Agreement Signals Opportunities for Growth in Canada’s North

YELLOWKNIFE (April 7, 2017) – The new Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) will make it easier for Northwest Territories (NWT) residents to do business across Canada while making allowances for the unique economic circumstances that exist in Canada’s North.

The new Agreement focuses on reducing barriers to trade, investment and employee mobility to promote economic growth within Canada. The CFTA will replace the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) on July 1, 2017.

Through active participation in the negotiations, the GNWT achieved important flexibility for the NWT under the new CFTA, including the ability to continue to apply the Business Incentive Policy (BIP) to its procurements.

Additional improvements in the CFTA include:

  • Strong and effective regulations to protect NWT residents and environment;
  • Making northern agricultural development and food security national priorities;
  • Expanded procurement flexibility for the NWT’s municipalities, academic institutions, social services entities and health organizations; and
  • The recognition of traditional knowledge in environmental regulation.

The CFTA provides opportunities for the NWT to develop its trade economy and further diversify sectors such as the arts, fisheries, forestry, manufacturing, tourism and traditional harvesting.

“Under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement it will be easier for Northwest Territories’ residents to do business across Canada. I am pleased with the considerations that the Agreement provides for the unique economic conditions that exist in Canada’s North, including a higher cost of doing business and manufacturing as well as our special relationship with Aboriginal governments.”
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  • CFTA negotiations began in 2014 and will come into force July 1, 2017 (Canada 150).

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Proposed rule requiring proof of past discrimination riles women-owned business advocates.

Helping agencies meet a governmentwide goal to award 5 percent of contracting dollars to women-owned small businesses doesn't sound like it would be a contentious initiative. It has been more than seven years, however, since Congress passed legislation to do just that, and the program is still far from implementation.

The most recent stumbling block is a proposed rule by the Small Business Administration that would require agencies to prove they discriminated against women-owned small businesses in past procurements before awarding set-aside contracts. Women's advocates and lawmakers are up in arms, saying the administration is using the Constitution as an excuse to stonewall a valuable program.

The SBA rule stems from a commissioned RAND Corp. study, which showed that women-owned small businesses are underrepresented in somewhere between 0 percent and 87 percent of federal contracting industries, depending on which methodology is used. The report's primary author, Elaine Reardon, says RAND was hired not to determine whether women-owned small businesses are underrepresented but rather to find out how susceptible the measures are to methodology. "If you're going to base policy on these numbers, you're going to want to know how sensitive they are to tweaking," Reardon says.

The study computed disparity levels in two of four ways: using the number of contracts won by women-owned small businesses or the amount of contracting dollars awarded to them; and defining "ready, willing and able" contractors either as firms with at least one employee or as those that have registered with the government as potential contractors.

In the proposed rule, SBA used the RAND data to classify women-owned small businesses as underrepresented in only four specific industries. Women's advocates oppose SBA's decision to use the narrowest definition of underrepresentation and require agencies to prove their own past discrimination. But SBA and the Justice Department insist the rule is necessary to ensure that the set-aside program could withstand a legal challenge.

At a Jan. 16 House Small Business Committee hearing, SBA Administrator Steven Preston said the agency "has been, and remains, committed to implementing the statutorily authorized set-aside for women-owned businesses and intends to do so in a constitutionally valid manner."

The courts apply various levels of scrutiny to preference programs, Elizabeth Papez, deputy assistant attorney general at Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, explained at the hearing. The lowest level of scrutiny applies to initiatives that do not focus on race or gender, such as veterans preference, and requires the government to show a rational basis for the programs. Gender-based preferences get intermediate or heightened scrutiny, meaning programs must be "substantially related to an important governmental objective." Race-based preferences must satisfy strict scrutiny and be "narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest."

Intermediate scrutiny of women's programs requires the government to provide "exceedingly persuasive" justification through "genuine, nonhypothetical evidence of discrimination," Papez said. But many say ordering agencies to prove their own past discrimination could open them up to lawsuits from those same firms. "There's a kind of absurdity here," says Jennifer Brown, vice president and legal director for Legal Momentum, a New York-based advocacy group dedicated to women's rights. "Agencies are not going to admit a history of discrimination; they'd be crazy to."

Critics say the proposed rule amounts to unnecessarily strict scrutiny. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House committee, says the standard being applied by SBA "has no place in this rule." There has been much debate over whether the rule applies strict or intermediate scrutiny, but Brown says that debate misses the big picture. "The Department of Justice and Small Business Administration's position is way beyond anything that any level of scrutiny requires. So you really don't have to nail down exactly which level of scrutiny they're applying, because they're applying a level of scrutiny that is unrecognizable."

Defenders and critics of the proposal disagree on whether comparable evidence of discrimination is required for other set-aside programs, particularly those that are race-based. SBA's 8(a) program for small businesses with socially and economically disadvantaged owners, for example, are at least as cumbersome as the proposed rule for women's procurement, according to Justice. Still, the 8(a) regulations "haven't resulted in programs that fly through the courts with green lights," one official says. "The goal is . . . to design something where if you do get sued, which is likely to happen, you have a good chance of winning the lawsuit, getting the program out of court and moving forward with it."

Speaking at the hearing for the group Women Impacting Public Policy, Denise Farris, founder of the Kansas-based Farris Law Firm, doubted other preference programs are subject to "the new strict, strict scrutiny." She fears that the proposed rule would hobble other federal programs and would have "chilling and highly detrimental consequences at the state and local level."

Just because an initiative can be challenged in court does not mean the government must bear an excessive burden in ensuring it will pass muster, critics of the proposal say. "Can you bring a case about a program like this? Of course you can," Brown says. "Does that mean it's unconstitutional? No."

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GSA spent $7.7 million on four years of virtual employee travel

The General Services Administration spent $7.7 million during the past four years to transport its long-distance telecommuters to meetings and conferences, new documents reveal.

Reports first obtained by CNN and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee show that 60 percent of the 379 workers in GSA’s virtual employee program traveled to conferences and meetings, mostly on cross-country flights. GSA is reviewing the program after CNN reported in August that an employee who worked for a regional office in Kansas City, Mo., while living in Honolulu, racked up $24,000 in travel expenses on the government’s dime. The agency spent millions more on virtual employees during the past three years, CNN said.

According to recent GSA records, which CNN obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, the employee who traveled most often, a construction project manager from Kansas, went to New York 58 times in 2011 and 2012 at a cost of more than $99,000; that employee is no longer with GSA. Another employee living in Miami and based out of Washington racked up $143,881 in travel costs within four years, CNN reported. As with other telework initiatives, GSA’s virtual employee program was initially an attempt to rein in costs by freeing up office space.

The new findings represent another wrinkle in the intense scrutiny on the agency’s problematic conference and travel spending, which began after reports surfaced earlier this year that revealed GSA spent more than $820,000 on a Las Vegas conference in 2010.

At the urging of Congress, the agency has stepped up its efforts to curb travel spending. GSA has since reined in its travel and conferences expenses and expects to save more than $11 million from April through September by canceling conferences and freezing travel reimbursement rates.

Responding to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., GSA disclosed in June that 95 virtual employees, including a dozen in supervisory positions, billed the agency for $750,000 between October 2010 and June 2011.

GSA has pledged to continue to look at their virtual employment policies. A spokeswoman told Government Executive last week that the agency is implementing “stringent controls to drastically curb spending on travel, conferences and events for all employees, including those who work from home full time.”

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Percy Shelley: Poems

Sweet Spirit! Sister of that orphan one,

Whose empire is the name thou weepest on,

In my heart's temple I suspend to thee

These votive wreaths of withered memory.

Poor captive bird! who, from thy narrow cage, _5

Pourest such music, that it might assuage

The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee,

Were they not deaf to all sweet melody;

This song shall be thy rose: its petals pale

Are dead, indeed, my adored Nightingale! _10

But soft and fragrant is the faded blossom,

And it has no thorn left to wound thy bosom.

High, spirit-winged Heart! who dost for ever

Beat thine unfeeling bars with vain endeavour,

Till those bright plumes of thought, in which arrayed _15

It over-soared this low and worldly shade,

Lie shattered; and thy panting, wounded breast

Stains with dear blood its unmaternal nest!

I weep vain tears: blood would less bitter be,

Yet poured forth gladlier, could it profit thee. _20

Seraph of Heaven! too gentle to be human,

Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman

All that is insupportable in thee

Of light, and love, and immortality!

Sweet Benediction in the eternal Curse! _25

Veiled Glory of this lampless Universe!

Thou Moon beyond the clouds! Thou living Form

Among the Dead! Thou Star above the Storm!

Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!

Thou Harmony of Nature's art! Thou Mirror _30

In whom, as in the splendour of the Sun,

All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on!

Ay, even the dim words which obscure thee now

Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow;

I pray thee that thou blot from this sad song _35

All of its much mortality and wrong,

With those clear drops, which start like sacred dew

From the twin lights thy sweet soul darkens through,

Weeping, till sorrow becomes ecstasy:

Then smile on it, so that it may not die. _40

I never thought before my death to see

Youth's vision thus made perfect. Emily,

I love thee; though the world by no thin name

Will hide that love from its unvalued shame.

Would we two had been twins of the same mother! _45

Or, that the name my heart lent to another

Could be a sister's bond for her and thee,

Blending two beams of one eternity!

Yet were one lawful and the other true,

These names, though dear, could paint not, as is due. _50

How beyond refuge I am thine. Ah me!

I am not thine: I am a part of THEE.

Sweet Lamp! my moth-like Muse has burned its wings

Or, like a dying swan who soars and sings,

Young Love should teach Time, in his own gray style, _55

All that thou art. Art thou not void of guile,

A lovely soul formed to be blessed and bless?

A well of sealed and secret happiness,

Whose waters like blithe light and music are,

Vanquishing dissonance and gloom? A Star _60

Which moves not in the moving heavens, alone?

A Smile amid dark frowns? a gentle tone

Amid rude voices? a beloved light?

A Solitude, a Refuge, a Delight?

A Lute, which those whom Love has taught to play _65

Make music on, to soothe the roughest day

And lull fond Grief asleep? a buried treasure?

A cradle of young thoughts of wingless pleasure?

A violet-shrouded grave of Woe?--I measure

The world of fancies, seeking one like thee, _70

And find--alas! mine own infirmity.

She met me, Stranger, upon life's rough way,

And lured me towards sweet Death; as Night by Day,

Winter by Spring, or Sorrow by swift Hope,

Led into light, life, peace. An antelope, _75

In the suspended impulse of its lightness,

Were less aethereally light: the brightness

Of her divinest presence trembles through

Her limbs, as underneath a cloud of dew

Embodied in the windless heaven of June _80

Amid the splendour-winged stars, the Moon

Burns, inextinguishably beautiful:

And from her lips, as from a hyacinth full

Of honey-dew, a liquid murmur drops,

Killing the sense with passion; sweet as stops _85

Of planetary music heard in trance.

In her mild lights the starry spirits dance,

The sunbeams of those wells which ever leap

Under the lightnings of the soul--too deep

For the brief fathom-line of thought or sense. _90

The glory of her being, issuing thence,

Stains the dead, blank, cold air with a warm shade

Of unentangled intermixture, made

By Love, of light and motion: one intense

Diffusion, one serene Omnipresence, _95

Whose flowing outlines mingle in their flowing,

Around her cheeks and utmost fingers glowing

With the unintermitted blood, which there

Quivers, (as in a fleece of snow-like air

The crimson pulse of living morning quiver,) _100

Continuously prolonged, and ending never,

Till they are lost, and in that Beauty furled

Which penetrates and clasps and fills the world;

Scarce visible from extreme loveliness.

Warm fragrance seems to fall from her light dress _105

And her loose hair; and where some heavy tress

The air of her own speed has disentwined,

The sweetness seems to satiate the faint wind;

And in the soul a wild odour is felt

Beyond the sense, like fiery dews that melt _110

Into the bosom of a frozen bud.--

See where she stands! a mortal shape indued

With love and life and light and deity,

And motion which may change but cannot die;

An image of some bright Eternity; _115

A shadow of some golden dream; a Splendour

Leaving the third sphere pilotless; a tender

Reflection of the eternal Moon of Love

Under whose motions life's dull billows move;

A Metaphor of Spring and Youth and Morning; _120

A Vision like incarnate April, warning,

With smiles and tears, Frost the Anatomy

Into his summer grave.

Ah, woe is me!

What have I dared? where am I lifted? how

Shall I descend, and perish not? I know _125

That Love makes all things equal: I have heard

By mine own heart this joyous truth averred:

The spirit of the worm beneath the sod

In love and worship, blends itself with God.

Spouse! Sister! Angel! Pilot of the Fate _130

Whose course has been so starless! O too late

Beloved! O too soon adored, by me!

For in the fields of Immortality

My spirit should at first have worshipped thine,

A divine presence in a place divine; _135

Or should have moved beside it on this earth,

A shadow of that substance, from its birth;

But not as now:--I love thee; yes, I feel

That on the fountain of my heart a seal

Is set, to keep its waters pure and bright _140

For thee, since in those TEARS thou hast delight.

We--are we not formed, as notes of music are,

For one another, though dissimilar;

Such difference without discord, as can make

Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake _145

As trembling leaves in a continuous air?

Thy wisdom speaks in me, and bids me dare

Beacon the rocks on which high hearts are wrecked.

I never was attached to that great sect,

Whose doctrine is, that each one should select _150

Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,

And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend

To cold oblivion, though it is in the code

Of modern morals, and the beaten road

Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, _155

Who travel to their home among the dead

By the broad highway of the world, and so

With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe,

The dreariest and the longest journey go.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, _160

That to divide is not to take away.

Love is like understanding, that grows bright,

Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,

Imagination! which from earth and sky,

And from the depths of human fantasy, _165

As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills

The Universe with glorious beams, and kills

Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow

Of its reverberated lightning. Narrow

The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, _170

The life that wears, the spirit that creates

One object, and one form, and builds thereby

A sepulchre for its eternity.

Mind from its object differs most in this:

Evil from good; misery from happiness; _175

The baser from the nobler; the impure

And frail, from what is clear and must endure.

If you divide suffering and dross, you may

Diminish till it is consumed away;

If you divide pleasure and love and thought, _180

Each part exceeds the whole; and we know not

How much, while any yet remains unshared,

Of pleasure may be gained, of sorrow spared:

This truth is that deep well, whence sages draw

The unenvied light of hope; the eternal law _185

By which those live, to whom this world of life

Is as a garden ravaged, and whose strife

Tills for the promise of a later birth

The wilderness of this Elysian earth.

There was a Being whom my spirit oft _190

Met on its visioned wanderings, far aloft,

In the clear golden prime of my youth's dawn,

Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn,

Amid the enchanted mountains, and the caves

Of divine sleep, and on the air-like waves _195

Of wonder-level dream, whose tremulous floor

Paved her light steps;--on an imagined shore,

Under the gray beak of some promontory

She met me, robed in such exceeding glory,

That I beheld her not. In solitudes _200

Her voice came to me through the whispering woods,

And from the fountains, and the odours deep

Of flowers, which, like lips murmuring in their sleep

Of the sweet kisses which had lulled them there,

Breathed but of HER to the enamoured air; _205

And from the breezes whether low or loud,

And from the rain of every passing cloud,

And from the singing of the summer-birds,

And from all sounds, all silence. In the words

Of antique verse and high romance,--in form, _210

Sound, colour--in whatever checks that Storm

Which with the shattered present chokes the past;

And in that best philosophy, whose taste

Makes this cold common hell, our life, a doom

As glorious as a fiery martyrdom; _215

Her Spirit was the harmony of truth.--

Then, from the caverns of my dreamy youth

I sprang, as one sandalled with plumes of fire,

And towards the lodestar of my one desire,

I flitted, like a dizzy moth, whose flight _220

Is as a dead leaf's in the owlet light,

When it would seek in Hesper's setting sphere

A radiant death, a fiery sepulchre,

As if it were a lamp of earthly flame.--

But She, whom prayers or tears then could not tame, _225

Passed, like a God throned on a winged planet,

Whose burning plumes to tenfold swiftness fan it,

Into the dreary cone of our life's shade;

And as a man with mighty loss dismayed,

I would have followed, though the grave between _230

Yawned like a gulf whose spectres are unseen:

When a voice said:--'O thou of hearts the weakest,

The phantom is beside thee whom thou seekest.'

Then I--'Where?'--the world's echo answered 'where?'

And in that silence, and in my despair, _235

I questioned every tongueless wind that flew

Over my tower of mourning, if it knew

Whither 'twas fled, this soul out of my soul;

And murmured names and spells which have control

Over the sightless tyrants of our fate; _240

But neither prayer nor verse could dissipate

The night which closed on her; nor uncreate

That world within this Chaos, mine and me,

Of which she was the veiled Divinity,

The world I say of thoughts that worshipped her: _245

And therefore I went forth, with hope and fear

And every gentle passion sick to death,

Feeding my course with expectation's breath,

Into the wintry forest of our life;

And struggling through its error with vain strife, _250

And stumbling in my weakness and my haste,

And half bewildered by new forms, I passed,

Seeking among those untaught foresters

If I could find one form resembling hers,

In which she might have masked herself from me. _255

There,--One, whose voice was venomed melody

Sate by a well, under blue nightshade bowers:

The breath of her false mouth was like faint flowers,

Her touch was as electric poison,--flame

Out of her looks into my vitals came, _260

And from her living cheeks and bosom flew

A killing air, which pierced like honey-dew

Into the core of my green heart, and lay

Upon its leaves; until, as hair grown gray

O'er a young brow, they hid its unblown prime _265

With ruins of unseasonable time.

In many mortal forms I rashly sought

The shadow of that idol of my thought.

And some were fair--but beauty dies away:

Others were wise--but honeyed words betray: _270

And One was true--oh! why not true to me?

Then, as a hunted deer that could not flee,

I turned upon my thoughts, and stood at bay,

Wounded and weak and panting; the cold day

Trembled, for pity of my strife and pain. _275

When, like a noonday dawn, there shone again

Deliverance. One stood on my path who seemed

As like the glorious shape which I had d reamed

As is the Moon, whose changes ever run

Into themselves, to the eternal Sun; _280

The cold chaste Moon, the Queen of Heaven's bright isles,

Who makes all beautiful on which she smiles,

That wandering shrine of soft yet icy flame

Which ever is transformed, yet still the same,

And warms not but illumines. Young and fair _285

As the descended Spirit of that sphere,

She hid me, as the Moon may hide the night

From its own darkness, until all was bright

Between the Heaven and Earth of my calm mind,

And, as a cloud charioted by the wind, _290

She led me to a cave in that wild place,

And sate beside me, with her downward face

Illumining my slumbers, like the Moon

Waxing and waning o'er Endymion.

And I was laid asleep, spirit and limb, _295

And all my being became bright or dim

As the Moon's image in a summer sea,

According as she smiled or frowned on me;

And there I lay, within a chaste cold bed:

Alas, I then was nor alive nor dead:-- _300

For at her silver voice came Death and Life,

Unmindful each of their accustomed strife,

Masked like twin babes, a sister and a brother,

The wandering hopes of one abandoned mother,

And through the cavern without wings they flew, _305

And cried 'Away, he is not of our crew.'

I wept, and though it be a dream, I weep.

What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep,

Blotting that Moon, whose pale and waning lips

Then shrank as in the sickness of eclipse;-- _310

And how my soul was as a lampless sea,

And who was then its Tempest; and when She,

The Planet of that hour, was quenched, what frost

Crept o'er those waters, till from coast to coast

The moving billows of my being fell _315

Into a death of ice, immovable;--

And then--what earthquakes made it gape and split,

The white Moon smiling all the while on it,

These words conceal:--If not, each word would be

The key of staunchless tears. Weep not for me! _320

At length, into the obscure Forest came

The Vision I had sought through grief and shame.

Athwart that wintry wilderness of thorns

Flashed from her motion splendour like the Morn's,

And from her presence life was radiated _325

Through the gray earth and branches bare and dead;

So that her way was paved, and roofed above

With flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love;

And music from her respiration spread

Like light,--all other sounds were penetrated _330

By the small, still, sweet spirit of that sound,

So that the savage winds hung mute around;

And odours warm and fresh fell from her hair

Dissolving the dull cold in the frore air:

Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun, _335

When light is changed to love, this glorious One

Floated into the cavern where I lay,

And called my Spirit, and the dreaming clay

Was lifted by the thing that dreamed below

As smoke by fire, and in her beauty's glow _340

I stood, and felt the dawn of my long night

Was penetrating me with living light:

I knew it was the Vision veiled from me

So many years--that it was Emily.

Twin Spheres of light who rule this passive Earth, _345

This world of loves, this ME; and into birth

Awaken all its fruits and flowers, and dart

Magnetic might into its central heart;

And lift its billows and its mists, and guide

By everlasting laws, each wind and tide _350

To its fit cloud, and its appointed cave;

And lull its storms, each in the craggy grave

Which was its cradle, luring to faint bowers

The armies of the rainbow-winged showers;

And, as those married lights, which from the towers _355

Of Heaven look forth and fold the wandering globe

In liquid sleep and splendour, as a robe;

And all their many-mingled influence blend,

If equal, yet unlike, to one sweet end;--

So ye, bright regents, with alternate sway _360

Govern my sphere of being, night and day!

Thou, not disdaining even a borrowed might;

Thou, not eclipsing a remoter light;

And, through the shadow of the seasons three,

From Spring to Autumn's sere maturity, _365

Light it into the Winter of the tomb,

Where it may ripen to a brighter bloom.

Thou too, O Comet beautiful and fierce,

Who drew the heart of this frail Universe

Towards thine own; till, wrecked in that convulsion, _370

Alternating attraction and repulsion,

Thine went astray and that was rent in twain;

Oh, float into our azure heaven again!

Be there Love's folding-star at thy return;

The living Sun will feed thee from its urn _375

Of golden fire; the Moon will veil her horn

In thy last smiles; adoring Even and Morn

Will worship thee with incense of calm breath

And lights and shadows; as the star of Death

And Birth is worshipped by those sisters wild _380

Called Hope and Fear--upon the heart are piled

Their offerings,--of this sacrifice divine

A World shall be the altar.

Lady mine,

Scorn not these flowers of thought, the fading birth

Which from its heart of hearts that plant puts forth _385

Whose fruit, made perfect by thy sunny eyes,

Will be as of the trees of Paradise.

The day is come, and thou wilt fly with me.

To whatsoe'er of dull mortality

Is mine, remain a vestal sister still; _390

To the intense, the deep, the imperishable,

Not mine but me, henceforth be thou united

Even as a bride, delighting and delighted.

The hour is come:--the destined Star has risen

Which shall descend upon a vacant prison. _395

The walls are high, the gates are strong, thick set

The sentinels--but true Love never yet

Was thus constrained: it overleaps all fence:

Like lightning, with invisible violence

Piercing its continents; like Heaven's free breath, _400

Which he who grasps can hold not; liker Death,

Who rides upon a thought, and makes his way

Through temple, tower, and palace, and the array

Of arms: more strength has Love than he or they;

For it can burst his charnel, and make free _405

The limbs in chains, the heart in agony,

The soul in dust and chaos.

A ship is floating in the harbour now,

A wind is hovering o'er the mountain's brow;

There is a path on the sea's azure floor, _410

No keel has ever ploughed that path before;

The halcyons brood around the foamless isles;

The treacherous Ocean has forsworn its wiles;

The merry mariners are bold and free:

Say, my heart's sister, wilt thou sail with me? _415

Our bark is as an albatross, whose nest

Is a far Eden of the purple East;

And we between her wings will sit, while Night,

And Day, and Storm, and Calm, pursue their flight,

Our ministers, along the boundless Sea, _420

Treading each other's heels, unheededly.

It is an isle under Ionian skies,

Beautiful as a wreck of Paradise,

And, for the harbours are not safe and good,

This land would have remained a solitude _425

But for some pastoral people native there,

Who from the Elysian, clear, and golden air

Draw the last spirit of the age of gold,

Simple and spirited; innocent and bold.

The blue Aegean girds this chosen home, _430

With ever-changing sound and light and foam,

Kissing the sifted sands, and caverns hoar;

And all the winds wandering along the shore

Undulate with the undulating tide:

There are thick woods where sylvan forms abide; _435

And many a fountain, rivulet, and pond,

As clear as elemental diamond,

Or serene morning air; and far beyond,

The mossy tracks made by the goats and deer

(Which the rough shepherd treads but once a year) _440

Pierce into glades, caverns, and bowers, and halls

Built round with ivy, which the waterfalls

Illumining, with sound that never fails

Accompany the noonday nightingales;

And all the place is peopled with sweet airs; _445

The light clear element which the isle wears

Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers,

Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers.

And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep;

And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, _450

And dart their arrowy odour through the brain

Till you might faint with that delicious pain.

And every motion, odour, beam and tone,

With that deep music is in unison:

Which is a soul within the soul--they seem _455

Like echoes of an antenatal dream.--

It is an isle 'twixt Heaven, Air, Earth, and Sea,

Cradled, and hung in clear tranquillity;

Bright as that wandering Eden Lucifer,

Washed by the soft blue Oceans of young air. _460

It is a favoured place. Famine or Blight,

Pestilence, War and Earthquake, never light

Upon its mountain-peaks; blind vultures, they

Sail onward far upon their fatal way:

The winged storms, chanting their thunder-psalm _465

To other lands, leave azure chasms of calm

Over this isle, or weep themselves in dew,

From which its fields and woods ever renew

Their green and golden immortality.

And from the sea there rise, and from the sky _470

There fall, clear exhalations, soft and bright.

Veil after veil, each hiding some delight,

Which Sun or Moon or zephyr draw aside,

Till the isle's beauty, like a naked bride

Glowing at once with love and loveliness, _475

Blushes and trembles at its own excess:

Yet, like a buried lamp, a Soul no less

Burns in the heart of this delicious isle,

An atom of th' Eternal, whose own smile

Unfolds itself, and may be felt, not seen _480

O'er the gray rocks, blue waves, and forests green,

Filling their bare and void interstices.--

But the chief marvel of the wilderness

Is a lone dwelling, built by whom or how

None of the rustic island-people know: _485

'Tis not a tower of strength, though with its height

It overtops the woods; but, for delight,

Some wise and tender Ocean-King, ere crime

Had been invented, in the world's young prime,

Reared it, a wonder of that simple time, _490

An envy of the isles, a pleasure-house

Made sacred to his sister and his spouse.

It scarce seems now a wreck of human art,

But, as it were Titanic; in the heart

Of Earth having assumed its form, then grown _495

Out of the mountains, from the living stone,

Lifting itself in caverns light and high:

For all the antique and learned imagery

Has been erased, and in the place of it

The ivy and the wild-vine interknit _500

The volumes of their many-twining stems;

Parasite flowers illume with dewy gems

The lampless halls, and when they fade, the sky

Peeps through their winter-woof of tracery

With moonlight patches, or star atoms keen, _505

Or fragments of the day's intense serene;--

Working mosaic on their Parian floors.

And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers

And terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem

To sleep in one another's arms, and dream _510

Of waves, flowers, clouds, woods, rocks, and all that we

Read in their smiles, and call reality.

This isle and house are mine, and I have vowed

Thee to be lady of the solitude.--

And I have fitted up some chambers there _515

Looking towards the golden Eastern air,

And level with the living winds, which flow

Like waves above the living waves below.--

I have sent books and music there, and all

Those instruments with which high Spirits call _520

The future from its cradle, and the past

Out of its grave, and make the present last

In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,

Folded within their own eternity.

Our simple life wants little, and true taste _525

Hires not the pale drudge Luxury, to waste

The scene it would adorn, and therefore still,

Nature with all her children haunts the hill.

The ring-dove, in the embowering ivy, yet

Keeps up her love-lament, and the owls flit _530

Round the evening tower, and the young stars glance

Between the quick bats in their twilight dance;

The spotted deer bask in the fresh moonlight

Before our gate, and the slow, silent night

Is measured by the pants of their calm sleep. _535

Be this our home in life, and when years heap

Their withered hours, like leaves, on our decay,

Let us become the overhanging day,

The living soul of this Elysian isle,

Conscious, inseparable, one. Meanwhile _540

We two will rise, and sit, and walk together,

Under the roof of blue Ionian weather,

And wander in the meadows, or ascend

The mossy mountains, where the blue heavens bend

With lightest winds, to touch their paramour; _545

Or linger, where the pebble-paven shore,

Under the quick, faint kisses of the sea

Trembles and sparkles as with ecstasy,--

Possessing and possessed by all that is

Within that calm circumference of bliss, _550

And by each other, till to love and live

Be one:--or, at the noontide hour, arrive

Where some old cavern hoar seems yet to keep

The moonlight of the expired night asleep,

Through which the awakened day can never peep; _555

A veil for our seclusion, close as night's,

Where secure sleep may kill thine innocent lights:

Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain

Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again.

And we will talk, until thought's melody _560

Become too sweet for utterance, and it die

In words, to live again in looks, which dart

With thrilling tone into the voiceless heart,

Harmonizing silence without a sound.

Our breath shall intermix, our bosoms bound, _565

And our veins beat together; and our lips

With other eloquence than words, eclipse

The soul that burns between them, and the wells

Which boil under our being's inmost cells,

The fountains of our deepest life, shall be _570

Confused in Passion's golden purity,

As mountain-springs under the morning sun.

We shall become the same, we shall be one

Spirit within two frames, oh! wherefore two?

One passion in twin-hearts, which grows and grew, _575

Till like two meteors of expanding flame,

Those spheres instinct with it become the same,

Touch, mingle, are transfigured; ever still

Burning, yet ever inconsumable:

In one another's substance finding food, _580

Like flames too pure and light and unimbued

To nourish their bright lives with baser prey,

Which point to Heaven and cannot pass away:

One hope within two wills, one will beneath

Two overshadowing minds, one life, one death, _585

One Heaven, one Hell, one immortality,

And one annihilation. Woe is me!

The winged words on which my soul would pierce

Into the height of Love's rare Universe,

Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- _590

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

Weak Verses, go, kneel at your Sovereign's feet,

And say:--'We are the masters of thy slave;

What wouldest thou with us and ours and thine?'

Then call your sisters from Oblivion's cave, _595

All singing loud: 'Love's very pain is sweet,

But its reward is in the world divine

Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.'

So shall ye live when I am there. Then haste

Over the hearts of men, until ye meet _600

Marina, Vanna, Primus, and the rest,

And bid them love each other and be blessed:

And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,

And come and be my guest,--for I am Love's.

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_118 of]on edition 1839.

_405 it]he edition 1839.

_501 many-twining]many twining editio prin. 1821.

_504 winter-woof]inter-woof Rossetti cj.

[Of the fragments of verse that follow, lines 1-37, 62-92 were printed]

by Mrs. Shelley in "Posthumous Works", 1839, 2nd edition; lines 1-174

were printed or reprinted by Dr. Garnett in "Relics of Shelley", 1862;

and lines 175-186 were printed by Mr. C.D. Locock from the first draft

of "Epipsychidion" amongst the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodleian

Library. See "Examination, etc.", 1903, pages 12, 13. The three early

drafts of the "Preface (Advertisement)" were printed by Mr. Locock in

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GRAND RAPIDS — The Grand Rapids Furniture Designers Association, the oldest organization of its kind in the country, has changed its focus over 85 years.

In 1916 local manufacturer Robert Irwin came up with the idea to form an association of furniture designers as a way to foster relationships between area designers and manufacturers, according to GRFDA.

Local designers William Kimerly, J. Stuart Clingman and Thomas Handley liked the idea, as well, and interested other designers in organizing a group.

They officially established the association on Oct. 25, 1917, and E. Berkey Jones of the William A Berkey Co. was elected as its first president.

Eighteen area designers were admitted as charter members at that time, according to association records.

In the beginning, membership was limited to designers living here and employed by Grand Rapids area furniture manufacturers.

After reorganizing in 1920, the group opened its doors to qualified furniture designers throughout the United States and began granting associate memberships to people in related fields, such as furniture suppliers.

Membership was later extended to third-year furniture design students.

In 1926, then-president Thomas Johnson said GRFDA’s purpose was “to promote the welfare and enlist the cooperation of all furniture designers throughout America in the betterment of furniture design and construction.”

For many years the association’s membership constituted the Who’s Who of furniture design.

“There’s no doubt about that,” said Max Shangle, chairman of the Furniture Design Department at the Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. “For a long time it was the only designer association of its kind in the country.”

With the depression of the 1930s, some members began gravitating towards other regions, such as the Southern furniture market in High Point, N.C.

Today, the majority of furniture designers live and work in the South, and GRFDA’s focus has changed, said Shannon Lookabill, association president.

The group has 75 members presently, about 30 of them living in the Grand Rapids area and the rest scattered across the country.

At age 30, Lookabill, a furniture designer with Warren & Associates Inc., is among the youngest in the group. Most members are retired furniture designers or people who worked in the furniture industry for years, he said.

The five meetings the group holds each year have taken on a decidedly social flavor.

“It’s not so much a means of keeping furniture designers together, and we don’t necessarily share ideas or anything of that sort,” Lookabill said.

“Twenty or 30 years ago the Grand Rapids Furniture Designers Association was more involved in the industry as a whole. Now it’s more of just a social event for people in our industry.”

But that doesn’t mean it’s no longer viable.

Every year, GRFDA awards a $1,500 scholarship to a promising Kendall student in his or her final year of the furniture design program. Shangle said about a half dozen Kendall design students are currently student members of GRFDA.

However, the scholarship program isn’t the only incentive for students to affiliate with the organization, he said.

He said students can still get a lot of mileage out of the GRFDA connection, as they have in the past.

“Although it’s more of a social organization than anything, it’s a great opportunity for them to network with professional designers,” Shangle said. “I can call members of the designer’s association, at the drop of a hat and have someone come in and mentor with a student.

Over the years, Kendall also has called on GRFDA members to serve as guest speakers in its furniture design courses. And the college’s long-term relationship with the organization continues to present opportunities for its students, he said.

That’s especially true with some of the industry suppliers who are GRFDA associate members, he noted.

“They’re out there talking to any number of manufacturers and they know who is looking for design help. I know for a fact that there are people who’ve been members as long as I have that are still in contact with some of those original students they befriended back then.”

(A separate story in this edition names two Kendall graduates who enjoy important design posts with Turnstone, a Steelcase subsidiary. And one of the graduates, in fact, patented a design while still a senior at Kendall.)

Not only do GRFDA events give students a chance to socialize with a professional group, the events are fun, too, Shangle said.

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Mike MacIntyre speaks with a supporter following a news conference officially naming him as the new head football coach at Colorado Monday Dec. 10, 2012 in Boulder, Colo. MacIntyre, who led San Jose State to it's first 10-win season in 25 years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

— Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre has been rewarded with a contract extension through the 2021 season.

The school announced the deal Monday that extends MacIntyre's agreement for three more years. MacIntyre, who just led the Buffaloes to a 10-4 record, a Pac-12 South title and their first bowl appearance since 2007, will make $3.1 million in 2017. The value of his deal over the next five seasons is $16.25 million, the school announced.

"Continuity and consistency are the most important factors for us as we continue to build our program," Colorado athletic director Rick George said in a release. "So we're obviously excited that he will continue to serve in that leadership role."

In four years, MacIntyre has turned a program that was regarded as one of the nation's worst into a Pac-12 title contender. For that, he was recently named The Associated Press Coach of the Year. He also was the Pac-12 Conference coach of the year, becoming the first Buffaloes coach to earn that sort of distinction since Gary Barnett won the Big 12 award in 2004.

If that wasn't enough, MacIntyre also took home several other prestigious coaching awards, including the Bobby Dodd trophy.

"I am ecstatic that we will be at University of Colorado for the foreseeable future — there's no place my family and I would rather be," said MacIntyre, who turned around San Jose State's program before relocating to Boulder before the 2013 season. "We absolutely love it here, the people have been great and I truly believe this is just the beginning.

"The future is bright for Colorado football."

The Buffaloes finished up the season with a 41-10 loss to Washington in the Pac-12 title game and then were beaten by Oklahoma State 38-8 in the Alamo Bowl.

Colorado loses quite a few seniors next season, including quarterback Sefo Liufau, who broke a long list of school passing records over his career. The team also saw the architect of its splendid defense, Jim Leavitt, leave to become the defensive coordinator at Oregon.


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Set for October 15, the event will cover case studies, public policy, retrofits, performance monitoring, PHPP, and other Passivhaus topics

Posted on Oct 12 2011 by Richard Defendorf

Building professionals in the New England who are interested in energy-efficient buildings and the Passivhaus standard might consider a trip to Boston for Passive HouseA residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany. To meet the standard, a home must have an infiltration rate no greater than 0.60 AC/H @ 50 pascals, a maximum annual heating energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (4,755 Btu per square foot), a maximum annual cooling energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (1.39 kWh per square foot), and maximum source energy use for all purposes of 120 kWh per square meter (11.1 kWh per square foot). The standard recommends, but does not require, a maximum design heating load of 10 W per square meter and windows with a maximum U-factor of 0.14. The Passivhaus standard was developed for buildings in central and northern Europe; efforts are underway to clarify the best techniques to achieve the standard for buildings in hot climates. Boston’s Fall 2011 Symposium, a daylong event scheduled for October 15 at Boston Architectural College.

Titled “Passive House in New England: Residential and Beyond,” the conference is set to begin at 9 a.m. and continue to 4 p.m. An informal “networking and beer” gathering, beginning at 4:30, is being planned at a location to be announced.

Registration costs $30, which includes a lunch served at noon. Attendees are asked to register by October 13 via the Passive House Boston website.

Speakers and presentations

Here's the conference schedule:

9:30 a.m.: Introductory comments

9:45 a.m.; Keynote speaker Matt Beaton – a builder and a Massachusetts respresentative for the 11th Worcester district – will talk about building his own home to the Passivhaus standard, and about public policy

10:30 a.m.: Building Science Corporation field architect and project manager Ken Neuhauser presents “Teaching an Old Building Really New Tricks: Castle Square Multifamily Deep Energy Retrofit”

11:15 a.m.: Architect Fay Raynor, DEAP Energy Group cofounder Mike Duclos, architect Spencer Culhane, Taocon construction manager Sam McAfee, and Boston Green Building owner Brian Butler present “Projects 20x20: An Overview of Five Passive House Projects”

1:00 p.m.: Passivhaus consultant Peter Schneider and architect J. B. Clancy present “Post-Occupancy Project Monitoring: How, Why, and What Does It All Mean?”

2:00 p.m.: Passivhaus architectural consultant David White presents “Passive House Planning Package: An Introduction and a New England Reality Check”

3:00 p.m.: Energy consultant Marc Rosenbaum presents “Eliakims's Way: Post-occupancy Case Study of Eight Net-zero-possible Homes”

4.00 p.m.: Closing remarks

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Recent snowfall and high winds in the eastern U.S. are a reminder of the importance of making sure you are minimizing the potential for storm damage at your greenhouse. Withdrawal resistance, building orientation, and exposure are all factors to consider, and your greenhouse can act like a sail and pull the structure right from the ground if not secured and braced properly.

For example, an 80 miles per hour (mph) gust of wind can produce a pressure of 16 pounds per square foot (psf) on your structure. That means a 28 foot by 100 foot hoophouse withstanding these winds would be exposed to 220 pounds per square of length, or 22,000 psf on the entire structure. This is why building inspectors, to the dismay of many anxious growers, often require that ground posts be embedded in concrete. That is, dismayed until that first big storm hits and the greenhouse is still there with all the crops safe and sound inside.

5 Tips For Wind Loading

• Close up all the openings, including vents, louvers, and the doors. Whatever outside force is applied to the high tunnel is doubled when allowed inside the building. In essence, the wind entering the structure will attempt to force the walls and roof outwards and upwards.
• Research the typical wind patterns on your property. The building orientation can reduce the friction and pressure on your tunnel when set up correctly. You want your tunnel to provide the least resistance possible.
• For air-inflated greenhouses, increase the pressure on the inside to reduce rippling effect of the poly. Double down and make sure any slits or openings are taped with film repair tape.
• Use windbreaks to reduce the wind speed or deflect wind over the greenhouse. Typical windbreaks are conifer trees such as hemlock, spruce, or pine at least 50 feet upwind from the greenhouse — far enough that falling limbs will not come into contact with the structure. Wood or plastic fencing can also be used as a buffer.
• If you have a metal chimney, stove pipe, or any exterior ventilation susceptible to high winds, secure them with sheet metal screws.

5 Tips For Snow Loading

Snow can be light and fluffy. It can also be wet, heavy, and destructive. For example, just 1 inch of rain is often equivalent to more than 10 inches of snow. For anyone that has shoveled after a snow storm, 10 inches of snow — especially the heavy, wet stuff — is no small task to clear away. Without being removed, that weight is being applied directly to your greenhouse.

Here are five tips to consider:
• Leave at least 10 to 12 feet between individual greenhouses so snow can accumulate. This will also prevent sidewalls from being crushed in as pressure builds from added snowfall over the winter.
• If you have a heating system, it should be equipped to maintain a temperature of 60°F to melt snow and ice and prevent excessive build up. Make sure the heat is turned on at least a couple hours before the storm begins.
• Pull energy screens aside to allow heat to get to the glazing and melt snow and ice.
• Make sure you have diagonal bracing to keep the greenhouse from racking from the weight of snow and ice. If you don’t already have this installed, consider retrofitting your structure. It will add years to your investment.
• Keep the following three items on hand:
1. Durable lumber to brace your structure and complete temporary repairs.
2. Brooms to help push snow off of poly structures without damaging the cladding.
3. Backup poly for temporary repairs and to ensure heat is retained to protect crops.

A little preparation can go a long way to minimize damage from severe weather events such as blizzards, windstorms, and ice storms. Make sure that your environmental controls are working properly to heat snow and ice from the inside. And just as important, have a well-stocked generator in case you lose power.

Remember, it only takes a short time of below-freezing temperatures to destroy an entire season of work.

Note: This article was provided by Rimol Greenhouses. Rimol Greenhouses is a New England-based company that has dealt with some of the most formidable weather in the country. It has created product options such as a truss support system.

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