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[A version of this article ran in the Fall 2012 edition of the Forum on International Physics Newsletter, and in the British journal China Quarterly. We are grateful to FIP and CQ for their permission to run this version – Ed.]
Fang Lizhi (1936-2012)
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Fang Lizhi, the Chinese astrophysicist and political dissident, died on April 6, 2012, in Tucson, Arizona. He left China in 1990 after a year spent inside the U.S. consulate in Beijing. Fang and his wife had gone to the consulate for refuge following the violent suppression of the 1989 democracy movement, which the Chinese authorities accused him of fomenting. In 1992 Fang took a position teaching physics at the University of Arizona, where he worked until the time of his death at age 76. He never returned to China.
Fang Lizhi's life story is remarkable, and provides a unique window into recent Chinese history. He was born in 1936 in Beijing, where his father was an accountant for the national railroad. He grew up under Japanese occupation, and joined an underground Communist youth organization during the Nationalist interlude. At the age of sixteen, Fang was admitted to Beijing University in physics, the premier department in China's premier university. Fang's professors included many of China's top foreign-educated physicists, who also served as government advisors and research institute directors. While at Beida[a colloquial term for Beijing University – Ed.], Fang was admitted to the Communist Party, and met physics classmate Li Shuxian, his future wife. He graduated at the top of his class in 1956 and was assigned to the CAS Institute of Modern Physics, where at age 21 he led a team doing calculations – sometimes by abacus, in the absence of computers – to optimize nuclear reactor design for production of plutonium for weapons.
In May 1957, during the Hundred Flowers movement, Beida became ground zero for criticisms of the Party. Physics students played a leading role, due partly to their prestige and partly to their privileged access to foreign news sources which made them aware of events in the Soviet bloc, such as Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin and the Hungarian uprising. Though he had graduated, Fang was frequently on campus visiting Li Shuxian, who had been posted there after graduation as a translator for a Soviet expert. The two took part in the Hundred Flowers criticisms, and as a result became targets the following month when Mao Zedong reversed course and launched the Anti-Rightist campaign. Li was labeled a rightist, dooming her physics career. Fang avoided the worst consequences simply because the Party required CAS to purge five percent of its personnel as rightists, and this quota was met before Fang's activities came to light. Nonetheless, he was removed from classified weapons research and expelled from the Party.
The Anti-Rightist campaign was the beginning of a twenty-year odyssey during which Fang, like many other Chinese scientists and intellectuals, sought to pursue a career and raise a family in the midst of political upheaval and frequent assignments to manual labor in China's hinterland. At various times Fang grew millet, raised livestock, planted trees, dug railroad tunnels, and worked in electronics and camera factories. He was reassigned to a teaching position at the newly formed Chinese University of Science and Technology in Beijing, and was also able to unofficially join the CAS Institute of Physics research team that built China's first laser. While his political status prevented him from publishing articles using his CUST affiliation, he slipped through the cracks of official censorship by using his informal affiliation with the Institute of Physics, and despite his manual labor stints became one of the most widely published physics researchers in China in the early 1960s. Fang and Li married in 1961 in the depth of the post-Great Leap Forward famine and had their first child in 1963. During the Cultural Revolution, students on the CUST campus engaged in violent confrontations wearing makeshift armor. Fang stayed clear of the fray initially but was denounced during the Purify the Class Ranks campaign in 1968, and sentenced to confinement in a "cowshed" dormitory room with other professors for a year, during which time 10 of his colleagues committed suicide. In 1969, as part of the "third front" mobilization that relocated strategic assets into China's interior, students and faculty physically moved CUST to its new home in Hefei, Anhui. Fang was later part of a work team that made the bricks from which the new CUST campus buildings were constructed.
A pivotal point in Fang's life and career came during a 1969 assignment to a May 7th cadre school in Huainan, Anhui, where his responsibilities included mining coal and carting the dead victims of the campaign against May 16th elements (a conspiracy later shown never to have existed) in a wheelbarrow to the morgue. While deep in the coal mine, Fang heard bitter complaints by ordinary miners who felt victimized by Mao and the Communist Party. This was a political epiphany for Fang, who up to that point had retained hope that the Party's policies were at least benefiting the majority of peasants and workers. After a day's work in the mine, Fang would hide beneath the mosquito netting in his dorm and read a secreted copy of the Soviet physicist Lev Landau's text on classical field theory, which led to a fascination with general relativity and cosmology. As Fang later described it, "during those months Landau's book became my... only sustenance. When night fell and I lay in my netting exhausted from the day's labor, my soul would roam the expanding universe... It was from this time that I fell in love with astrophysics."
In 1972, as Nixon's visit to China led to a rapprochement in the U.S.-China relationship, scientists returned from manual labor to the lab, and scholarly journals resumed publication. In December, Fang became the first Chinese physicist to publish a research article on modern relativistic cosmology; specifically, Big Bang theory. Fang's article was technical and straightforward, but its political context was not. Einstein and the Theory of Relativity had been strenuously denounced in China during the Cultural Revolution; the substance of this campaign drew heavily from similar campaigns under Stalin in the 1930s and 1940s. As a result, even though as Fang said "there could not have been more than one hundred persons in China who really understood relativistic cosmology," his article became a centerpiece of the factional struggle surrounding Mao's succession, in which the Maoist left accused the pragmatists associated with Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping of pursuing reactionary policies in science – "the satellites may fly to the sky, but the Red Flag falls to the ground." From early 1973 until Mao's death in 1976, at least thirty articles criticizing Big Bang theory in general and Fang's paper in particular were published by the Maoist left in the national news media (including People's Daily) and in academic journals. The thrust of the criticism was that Big Bang cosmology contradicted the dialectical materialist doctrine of the infinite universe contained in such Marxist-Leninist classics as Engels's Anti-Dühring and Dialectics of Nature, and Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.
Fang stood his ground in the face of these attacks, publishing several new papers arguing that recent developments such as radio-telescope observations had created an empirical basis for cosmology to be studied through the usual methods of science, rather than through philosophical discourse. The campaign against the Big Bang had the unexpected result of allowing Chinese astronomers to hold scientific conferences to conduct "mass criticism"; under this pretext, nationwide astronomy meetings were resumed in 1974, and Fang's resistance became widely known among China's scientific community. A showdown of sorts occurred at a national astronomy conference held at CUST in the summer of 1976, after Deng was purged and his "Outline Report" on science policy attacked by the resurgent Maoist left. With representatives of the Party's ideology departments attending, senior Chinese astronomer Dai Wensai declared publicly that he supported Big Bang theory. The threat of repercussions for the conference leaders ended when Mao died in September and the Gang of Four were arrested a month later.
In the post-Mao era, Fang's scientific career blossomed. He published prolifically and became China's youngest full professor in 1978, a CAS academician in 1981, president of his professional society in 1983, and vice-president of CUST in 1984. He traveled abroad extensively to take up visiting scholar positions and establish scientific relationships between foreign and Chinese institutions; his first trip to a scientific conference in 1978 was so novel that his departure required direct approval from Hua Guofeng, Mao's interim successor. His CUST Center for Astrophysics was in turn visited by foreign luminaries such as Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, who complimented the center as being "state of the art in astrophysics and cosmology." Fang also participated in the de-Maoization of science, writing articles about the Cultural Revolution experiences of Chinese scientists that were sharply critical of political and ideological repression, likening Chinese cosmologists to Galileo and their Maoist oppressors to the Inquisition. For a time, these criticisms were compatible with the aims of the Dengist leadership, who wanted to normalize and reward scientific work in support of their technology and economic goals. But a chasm eventually developed between the authorities, who criticized the Cultural Revolution's chaos and privation in order to bolster the Party's political monopoly and economic development focus, and Fang, who criticized the Cultural Revolution's tyranny and mind control as an argument for intellectual and political freedom. Publicly contradicting Party theorists such as Hu Qiaomu, who insisted that dialectical materialism continue to play a "guiding role" in scientific research, Fang said bluntly that Marxist philosophy was useless to science, claiming (some would say gleefully) that he could find a scientific error on every page of Engels's Dialectics of Nature.
As the 1980s unfolded, Fang's public critique of Chinese politics and culture extended far beyond the realm of scientific research. He charged that the greatest obstacle to China's development was not "material shortcomings" that could be bridged through "purchases and acquisitions," but rather "cultural traditions and habits of mind." In contrast to the official scientism of the Party's modernization drive, Fang argued that the greatest value of science was not as a technical discipline in the service of a technocratic state, but rather in its role as a "cornerstone of modern thought." Fang almost singlehandedly revived the May 4th movement theme of "science and democracy," which many early-20th century intellectuals, including CCP founder Chen Duxiu, had embraced as guiding principles for China's modernization. The Party's "Four Modernizations" campaign, by contrast, aimed far too low: "In the beginning we were mainly aware of the grave shortcomings in our production of goods, our economy, our science and technology, and that modernization was required in these areas. But now we understand our situation much better. We realize that grave shortcomings exist not only in our 'material civilization' but also in our 'spiritual civilization' — our culture, our ethics, our political institutions — and that these also require modernization." For Chinese intellectuals, Fang told students, modernization started with "straightening our bent backs" and speaking truth to power. He set a clear example, speaking plainly, criticizing leaders by name, and shining a spotlight on corruption and malfeasance. When asked by a reporter if his "four principles of academic freedom" might be seen as contradicting the regime's "Four Upholds" (the socialist path, dictatorship of the proletariat, CCP leadership, and the leading role of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought), Fang responded: "Is it possible that science, democracy, creativity, and independence are in conflict with the Four Upholds? If so, it's because the Four Upholds advocate the opposite of science, which is superstition; the opposite of democracy, which is dictatorship; the opposite of creativity, which is conservatism; and the opposite of independence, which is dependency."
Fang's themes featured prominently in street protests by college students against corruption and rigged local elections in late 1986. Though he worked behind the scenes to urge the students to return to their campuses, the Party's crackdown on the protests required official scapegoats, and Fang, journalist Liu Binyan, and writer Wang Ruowang were chosen. The Anti-Bourgeois Liberalization campaign had a paradoxical effect: as 500,000 copies of his selected writings and speeches were disseminated to Party branches throughout the country for study and criticism, Fang gained a much wider audience and became a folk hero. He was removed from his CUST post and transferred to the Beijing Observatory, but efforts to control or silence Fang invariably came back to embarrass the Party. Revoking Fang's travel privileges resulted in a torrent of international protest, including a letter from fellow physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
In January 1989, Fang sent a hand-written note to Deng Xiaoping, asking for the release of Democracy Wall activist Wei Jingsheng and other political prisoners. (Wei said recently, "My gratitude to Fang remains immense… for the person whom Deng Xiaoping hated most to openly offend the dictator required enormous courage.") Fang's note in turn precipitated two open petitions of support from prominent intellectuals, including the senior nuclear weapons physicist Wang Ganchang. In March, authorities used heavy-handed tactics to prevent Fang from attending a barbecue to which he had been invited by visiting U.S. president George Bush, focusing worldwide media scrutiny on human rights violations in China. In the democracy protests that erupted spontaneously in April and May of 1989 following the death of Hu Yaobang, Fang avoided playing a direct role, concerned that his involvement would provide a pretext for the authorities to suppress the movement. His views, however, remained influential among the protesters; Beijing University students wore shirts with the legend "science and democracy." After the tragedy of June 4th, Fang and his wife were placed at the top of the public enemies list. At the urging of friends they took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where their presence became an impediment to the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China for more than a year. After lengthy negotiations, Fang and Li were released, and following stays in Cambridge and Princeton, ultimately settled in Arizona.
In exile, Fang remained engaged with China, participating in human rights campaigns, giving talks and interviews, publishing articles, and writing letters on behalf of political prisoners. He worked with many organizations including Human Rights in China, the International League for Human Rights, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, and the Committee on International Freedom of Scientists. He received honors for both human rights and scientific work, and was named a fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical Society. He retained his passion for science, and for teaching science and training young people. Of the 340 scientific journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in his curriculum vitae, more than half were published between 1990 and 2012, an average of about eight papers per year. He worked with more than 125 co-authors, served on international scientific committees, helped to organize major conferences, and continued to build linkages between China and the rest of the scientific world, including the Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut (BATC) survey project, one of China's most significant collaborations in astronomy.
Fang's research focused on the structure and evolution of the early universe, the formation of galaxies, and the role of dark energy and dark matter. The range of phenomena he was conversant with was extremely broad, from quantum processes to the expansion of the universe. The bulk of his papers might best be characterized as observational cosmology, in that they took the limited data available from astronomical observations – mostly, the spectral lines of light emitted eons ago from impossibly distant objects – and applied many kinds of rigorous mathematical analyses to them, to tease out the patterns and test which theoretical models were consistent or inconsistent with the data. One of Fang's great skills in science was to recognize the patterns and underlying dynamics of the universe given the observed data, and then to explain it to people in a very simple and direct way. This was perhaps his greatest skill as an observer of Chinese society as well.
The death of a hero in exile is as tragic in real life as in mythology, and there is immense pathos for those who admired Fang to realize that he will never return home. Yet he did not pass quietly into obscurity, he did not become bitter, and he did not lose his humility, his honesty, his sense of humor, or his passion for the things he cared about. These are great triumphs in the midst of a tragic situation. For China on the other hand, the tragedy of Fang's exile – and the exile and imprisonment of others like him, from Wei Jingsheng to Liu Xiaobo, who have spoken with a clear voice and without fear about the observable reality around them – is not mitigated by its emergence as a superpower. Since Fang's path and China's path diverged in 1989, there has been prodigious progress in China's material modernization, but not in its political culture, evidenced most recently in the Bo Xilai affair's exposure of corruption, cynicism, and lack of accountability within the Party's highest ranks. This is unlikely to change until the spirit of truth-telling that Fang Lizhi embodied is finally invited home to a hero's welcome.
Jim Williams is Associate Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies andChief Scientist at the San Francisco consulting firm Energy and Environmental Economics. He translated and edited Bringing Down the Great Wall, a collection of Fang Lizhi's speeches and essays, and wrote about Fang in the scholarly journals China Quarterly and Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley, where his advisor was John P. Holdren, and his B.S. in Physics from Washington & Lee University.


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Recall elections cost taxpayers $13.5 million
GAB: Extra elections put stress on clerks
MADISON, Wis. — The Government Accountability Board says the cost of the gubernatorial recall elections to local taxpayers was $13.5 million.
The report states the June 5 recall election cost local governments $7.2 million, including $2.3 million in poll worker wages, $1.9 million in staff salaries, $984,000 in ballots and $596,000 in programming costs.
The May 8 gubernatorial primary cost $6.3 million.
"Instead of conducting two primaries and two elections this year, Wisconsin election officials will be conducting six elections, which added approximately $13.5 million in unbudgeted costs," GAB Director Kevin Kennedy said.
He said the unplanned elections put significant stress on clerks.
Gov. Scott Walker won the June 5 recall election against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after public opposition to limits put on collective bargaining for public employees.

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ART DUBAI seventh edition provided an impressive experience for over 25,000 visitors, including curators, collectors, gallerists, artists, and 75 museum groups, alongside 300 individual museum and institutional representatives. Art Dubai has become the leading contemporary art fair in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
One of the most exciting and globalised events in the international art calendar, Art Dubai's 2013 edition underscored its importance as a fair of discovery with a diverse roster of 75 galleries from 30 countries, including a curated introduction to varied art scenes across West Africa.
Deriving its global relevance through its strong regional foundation, Art Dubai operates as a hostfor pan-regional exchange and interaction, a key draw for international institutions, curators, and collectors. Of the 500 artists participating this year through exhibiting galleries or Art Dubai's various programmes, over 50% were from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
Art Dubai further strengthened its credentials as one of the foremost platforms for cultural discussion through the Global Art Forum_7. Entitled 'It Means This', the six-day forum explored 'definitionism': with at times standing-room-only presentations by artists such as Michael Stipe, Tarek Atoui, Hassan Khan, Ala Younis, and Manal Al Dowayan; curators Reem Fadda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Koyo Kouoh; composer and musician André Vida; and Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla,professor of political science.
"The growth of Art Dubai over the past seven years reflects the rising prominence of the UAE as a centre of art and cultural discourse. We see Art Dubai as a powerful venue for regional and international talents to reach out to new audiences, explore new markets and connect with likeminded collaborators. At the same time, through the Global Art Forum we act as the catalyst for discussions that ripple far beyond the region and extend far beyond the visual arts," said Antonia Carver, Fair Director, Art Dubai.
Art Dubai is held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who attended the fair on Thursday March 21. Art Dubai was inaugurated by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. Furthermore, H.H. Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated the fair's Ladies' Day.
Twenty-eight galleries made their Art Dubai debut this year, with celebrated international names such as GAGProjects (Adelaide/Berlin), Yvon Lambert (Paris) and Almine Rech Gallery (Paris/Brussels), joining returning favourites such as Sfeir-Semler (Beirut / Hamburg), Alexander Gray Associates (New York), and The Third Line (Dubai).
Highlights included Banu Cennetoglu's installation of bound volumes cataloging a collection of daily newspapers from 20 Arabic speaking countries at Rodeo Gallery (Istanbul), a curated booth of works by women artists including Louise Bourgeois and Jumana Manna at CRG Gallery (New York), and photographicworks by Marina Abramović at Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna).
Curated by Bisi Silva, Art Dubai's Marker – a section of gallery booths focusing each year on a country or region - featured artspaces from Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, Ghana and Senegal – the first exhibition of contemporary art from West Africa in the Middle East. The diverse offerings ranged from Emeka Ogboh's sound installation at Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos) to organic carved wooden figures by Amahiguéré Dolo's at Carpe Diem (Ségou). During Art Dubai's press conference, Fair Director Antonia Carver announced Central Asia and the Caucasus as the focus for Marker 2014.
The winning works of The Abraaj Group Art Prize's 5th edition were revealed at the opening of the fair, in 'extra | ordinary', an exhibition curated by Murtaza Vali that featured a floor installation of thousands of pieces of lead by Rayyane Tabet, miniature gold statues encased in acrylic by Vartan Avakian; text panels, photographs and sculptures by Iman Issa, a cabinet of curiosities, home to a variety of objects by Huma Mulji and large scale photography by Hrair Sarkissian.
An estimated 45 million USD worth of artworks were exhibited at Art Dubai over the course of the four-day fair. Strong sales – including major acquisitions by collectors and visiting museum groups – were reported at Pilar Corrias (London), Nubuke Foundation (Accra), Athr Gallery (Jeddah) Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde (Dubai), and Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels). Art Dubai 2013 also featured the largest not-for-profit programme in the fair's history, with over 40 artists participating in Art Dubai Projects - including residencies, commissions, performances, screenings, and a mobile art gallery, as well as dXb store, an initiative that supports UAE based designers.
As part of its growing programming, Art Dubai introduced two new elements this year, chief among them Sculpture on the Beach, with signature pieces by Chris Burden and Hassan Sharif. The fair also launched The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program, reaching out to a new generation of art lovers through discovery tours and activities geared at children and teenagers.This programme is held under the patronage and guidance of Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women's Establishment, Wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE. Building on this commitment to education, the fair also launched Campus Art Dubai in 2013, in partnership with Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture). Campus Art Dubai runs for 6 months (January-June 2013), offering UAE-based artists and curators monthly Saturday School sessions, culminating in an exhibition in Fall 2013. The programme also includes monthly public seminars.
For more information and the latest updates, please visit www.artdubai.ae, become a fan of Art Dubai on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at @artdubai.


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How Well Do The Vamps Know The Vamps?
We know you've been waiting for our feature on The Vamps on the website, Candy Girls. And it's finally here!
It's been almost a month since the band visited the Philippines for the second time and this time, we're lucky enough to be able to spend an hour with Bradley Simpson, James McVey, and Tristan Evans (Connor Ball was having his leg injury checked in a hospital when this happened, huhu). Aside from shooting them for the April issue of Candy—make sure to grab a copy when it comes out!—we also had a short game with them.
We're expecting these boys to know better than us when it comes to fast facts about The Vamps, but do you think they really do? Play this game, hosted by James, with Brad and Tris, and find out if you're really better than The Vamps boys. Also, can you guess which of them won this game?
Which band do you want us to feature next on the website? Let us know in the comments. We always love hearing from you. :)
Candy Bulletin
What're you up to today? Submit your OOTD, fanfic, essay, school project, org event, a pic of your latest hobby, or anything you want to be posted on the Candy Bulletin page!
I've been investing in arts, photography, and writing. I've also got back to reading the other day and I finished reading this amazing book entitled 300 Things I Hope by Iain S. Thomas. It is all about the things the author hopes his readers to do in all aspects of life. So, I decided to make a version of it with all of the things I'm hoping for.
I hope I get to see my friends be successful in life. I hope to make a big mural someday. I hope to be a well-known artist like the artists I look up to. I hope to marry the person I am in love with today. I hope to be a little kinder to myself. I hope to see happiness even in the smallest things. I hope to travel the world. I hope to be a good mother and a wife to my future family. I hope to have my artworks displayed in a gallery or an exhibit. I hope to learn more about creative writing. I hope I won't learn how to get tired and give up my passion. I hope I won't get too hard on myself whenever I don't get the results I've been wanting to see in my works. I hope to love myself more even on the days I hate it the most. I hope to lead and empower women; to be their voice and for them to believe in themselves that they can be the woman they look up to. And when I've reached my limit of these things, I hope I won't get tired of reminding myself that my emotions don't make me weak, hence, makes me stronger. These are some of the things I always hope for. What about you? What are you hoping for?
I started fixing myself this quarantine. I mean, I started trying makeup products. As a teen, I'm on my phone almost every hour of the day, scroll on my social media accounts, especially Instagram, and also Pinterest where you get to see nice and pleasing photography by bunch of amazing and beautiful people from different parts of the world. So I started taking my own as well. I did not know that taking your own photo and try to get an Instagramable one is sooooooooo hard, it's exhausting. I do not have alot of space in my room, and I would definitely not do it outside our house because of Corona Virus, and I don't want to be seen by our neighbors HAHA so I have no choice but to make tiis inside my room.
Out of atleast 25 shots, only 2 are a nice picture. While I'm all sweaty and tired, I am proud of what I could do beyond my comfort zone. And this definitely built my self confidence, (and I secret love the compliments I received from both people I know and don't know) It's not my first time visiting in here, Candy! But I'm new to writing my thoughts and experiences, so bare with me HAHA.
Until next time!
xoxo, Thea
First. Pixie dust and paper cuts – these are the first things Wendy knew about Peter Pan. Aurora first met Prince Philip when she was sixteen. Learning how to ride a bike was also a first while I was growing up, but you are probably the first of too many. The first collection of dust and stars; maybe Luna will try to ask, who was your first? I might answer and tell her that it was you.
The first of too many stars in the sky. You are the first of too many fallen leaves during fall – and you will be the most anticipated snowflake as winter comes. A dark path that you can't see without any light, hence, you were once the moon and there are the stars that shine so bright at night. Are we too early? Or we just really want to be ahead of time? Even in a glimpse, I would like to see the two of us connect as if we can reach the sky. There are other parts of the heavens you have never saw and other oceans you haven't laid your feet onto – but the constellations will always wait for you. Close your eyes, love, close your eyes. Start counting backward: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Count backward until you see the twinkling lights that will guide you to the right path. To the right satellite; to the right person. A first.
There are many firsts – first love, first heartbreak, first sport you played, the first thing you do in the morning, the first thing you remember about the person in front of you. There are a lot. It's actually up to us how we will consider something as a first. So, Primo, you are already a first of too many.


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Murderous Drug Lord Requests Leniency Due to Community Jamboree Work
Christopher "Dudus" Coke was the baddest cross-dressing drug lord in Jamaica—it literally took an army to bring him down. Now, he's about to be sentenced in New York. He'd like leniency, please. Why? Because! Stuff, and things.
The NYT has Coke's seven-page letter to federal judge Robert Patterson, who's preparing to sentence him for breaking every law ever invented by the ingenious human mind. He could get 23 years in prison, but he'd rather not get 23 years in prison. "I am humbly pleading for leniency and for your discretion, if it is possible for you to sentence me below the guideline range or if you could run my sentence concurrent, which would be greatly appreciated."
He would appreciate it!
Dudus cites his family's pain, his generally shitty and inhumane treatment in prison (fair enough), and then several pages of his charity work in Jamaica, such as founding a youth club which would "groom the elderly," and holding a Christmastime "Community Jamboree."
We would also say in his defense that the international "War on Drugs" is an unjust farce that should be ended immediately. But, on the downside, running a drug gang fond of showering people with machine gun bullets and hiding out while 76 people are killed as the police hunt for you is probably something that outweighs your Community Jamboree work (on the negative end).
Some call Coke "the Hitler of the Caribbean."


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The ROC (rest of Canada) continues to mosey along in a half-disinterested, grumpy haze, as Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois and her chief strategist, Jean-Francois Lisée, proceed to methodically cobble together the pillars of a plan first articulated by separatist premier Jacques Parizeau on the night of Oct. 30, 1995, just after his side lost the second Quebec sovereignty referendum by a hair's breadth.
"On va parler de nous!," Parizeau roared at the outset of his concession speech, at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal. "Let's talk about us! Sixty per cent of us voted yes!" (translation mine). The word "us" in this context meant old-stock, mainly white francophones descended from French settlers – about 80 per cent of the province's population. It excludes allophones, immigrants whose first language is neither English nor French. It excludes anglophones.
Then came the bit that would cause Parizeau to resign, the very next day. "It's true that we were beaten," he shrugged. "But by what, really? By money, and ethnic votes." He added this line, of particular interest today. "So that means, next time, rather than 60 or 61 per cent who vote yes, we'll be 63 or 64 per cent, and it will pass! That's all!"
The arithmetic of Quebec separation is devastatingly simple. Eighty per cent of Quebec's eight million people, roughly speaking, are old-stock francophones. Just under 10 per cent are anglophone. The remainder are allophone. As Parizeau noted that night in 1995, a clear majority of old-stock Quebecers had opted to make their province a country. But because allophones and anglophones overwhelmingly voted to remain Canadian, and because a very significant minority of francophones, 40 per cent, did as well, the "Yes" side lost. It was an exceedingly near thing, with just 50.38 per cent overall voting no, a margin of about 54,000 votes.
The separatists' strategy today, it would appear, is to take both money and the "ethnic vote" out of the equation, just as Parizeau suggested, and through Herculean effort, push old-stock support for separation from where it currently sits, at around 50 per cent, to 63 or 65 per cent, which would in turn push overall support for sovereignty above the putatively magical threshold of 50 per cent. Marois's proposed charter of Quebec values was the signal that immigrant communities were being summarily written off; media magnate Pierre Karl Péladeau's blockbuster recruitment, the signal that "money" is being brought in-house. It is an unscrupulous strategy, but not unclever.
Lisée, who was Parizeau's right-hand man in 1995 and is Marois's right-hand man now (though Péladeau may have something to say about that, before long) is, among other things, a fine writer. In a blog post timed to coincide with the media magnate's political debut, Lisée acknowledged that he and Péladeau are on opposing sides of the spectrum — he to the left, Péladeau, of course, to the right. The latter has long been among Quebec's most conservative economic voices; his conglomerate, Quebecor, has a long history of union-thrashing. But, Lisée argues, Quebec nationalism is a broad project; it should include disparate voices, and indeed can only succeed if it does. Translation: Money is in.
This is potentially Kryptonite for Francois Legault's Coalition Avenir Quebec, which now holds 18 seats in the National Assembly, is business-minded and fiscally conservative. If Péladeau's candidacy does not go supernova — still an open question — he stands to become the de facto new standard-bearer for the province's business class. The values charter, with its unabashed appeal to old-stock Quebecers' ethnic nationalism, also can be expected to bite into CAQ support, which is conservative across the board. The one-two punch could be all Marois needs to clinch her majority, even if the Liberals under Philippe Couillard retain their current seats. Marois only needs nine seats to pull it off.
Here's why this should cause all Canadians, and not just national-unity-debate geeks, to take notice: Should Marois succeed, the referendum can be expected to take place before the 2015 federal election. Marois, Lisée, Péladeau and the rest can read polls. What better time to hold a plebiscite than when the governing party in Ottawa holds just five Quebec seats? Why risk facing a new federal government under Liberal Justin Trudeau or New Democrat Tom Mulcair, either of which would have much greater federalist heft in Quebec than the Harper Tories have now, which is zilch? Why wait for your grizzled supporters to get another year older?
It is nothing like a foregone conclusion that the separatists could win a third referendum; Fifteen percentage points is a very steep hill to climb. But they'd be working within the context of a new coalition, never tried before, between rural, urban, left and right-wing old-stock Quebecers, just as Parizeau envisioned in '95. It would be foolish to dismiss the threat this poses to the country. This is not your father's PQ; they are operating with greater guile, craft and coldness than in the past.


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DOVER — Although labor leaders in New Hampshire are getting behind Democrat Jeanne Shaheen as a strong pick to be the country's next labor secretary, the senior senator from the Granite State says she isn't in a hurry to vacate her post.
Shaheen received high praise Wednesday from Mark MacKenzie, president of the state's AFL-CIO, as well as David Lang, president of the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire, and State Employees Association President Diana Lacey.
Speaking with WMUR-TV, the three labor leaders said they would support Shaheen if she were nominated by President Barack Obama to replace outgoing Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
Solis announced this week that she will step down as the president begins his second term, opening one more vacancy in the Democratic president's cabinet.
Obama has taken flak this week for nominating a roster of men to fill other vacancies that have arisen. Among those expected to fill new positions in the administration are U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who is awaiting confirmation to be installed as secretary of state, and current White House chief of staff Jack Lew, who was nominated Thursday for the position of secretary of the Treasury.
Sen. Shaheen commented on the slew of male nominations during an interview on MSNBC Thursday. During a segment that included discussion of New Hampshire's all female congressional delegation, Shaheen was asked to comment on the lack of diversity in the president's cabinet picks.
"It's disappointing," Shaheen said. "Women make up over 50 percent of the population. I would hope the president would follow New Hampshire's lead."
Officials at the White House press office declined to comment Thursday on whether Shaheen's name has been placed in consideration for the position of labor secretary.
Officials at the AFL-CIO's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., said the group isn't involved in discussions with the administration regarding potential candidates, nor is it offering up any names at this time.
Asked to comment on her name surfacing as a potential pick for labor secretary, Shaheen replied in a written statement: "I appreciate my name being mentioned but I love the job I have representing the people of New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate."


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This 4th follow up meeting dedicated to the Mediterranean sub-region was organized in cooperation with and with the financial support of the Portuguese authorities. The meeting was attended by 13 countries focal points and various cultural and natural heritage experts. The aim of the meeting was to shed light on:
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Dear All,
we have recently acquired a Philips scanner with a SensaVue system, i.e. a stand-alone presentation system that integrate a Lumina controller.
I would like to know if there is any way to obtain the behavioral response (button presses) and the trigger signal directely from the Lumina controller. I need to use them with my laptop and the NBS Presentation software.
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The Naruto Secret: Scroll of Everyone Official Fanbook (NARUTO -ナルト- 秘伝・皆の書 オフィシャルファンBOOK, NARUTO Hiden: Kai no Sho Ofisharu FanBOOK) is the fifth of the supplementary guidebooks on the Naruto series authored by Masashi Kishimoto. It is the second of two fanbooks.
The contents of this book consist of drawings by several fellow manga artists, congratulatory messages from the various seiyū and staff that work on anime, a coloured collaboration drawing by Masashi Kishimoto and Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball fame, several coloured drawings by Kishimoto himself, including an exclusive drawing of Naruto as Hokage, a conversation between Kishimoto and Yoshihiro Togashi of Hunter x Hunter and Yū Yū Hakusho fame, background information on the main villages of the series, the three Shinobi World Wars, and the main characters, concept art of the five Kage and their aides, and Kishimoto's first manga Karakuri. It also includes an omake chapter.
- The names of the guidebooks come a from a kuji-in: a collection of nine hand postures used in meditation. These kuji-in have found their way into ninja folklore as a kind of magic spells. The kuji-in the guidebooks were named after is Rin-pyō-tō-sha-kai-jin-retsu-zai-zen (臨兵闘者皆陣裂在前), with the Kai no Sho being named after the fifth.


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31-year-old sophomore arrested after attending Texas school for 8 months
SAN ANTONIO — A 31-year-old woman who enrolled at a high school in Longview as a 15-year-old sophomore was arrested this week after school officials determined that her name and age were fake.
Charity Anne Johnson attended New Life Christian School in the East Texas town for eight months under the name Charity Stevens. On Tuesday, school staff discovered her enrollment information was false and notified police. When police confronted Johnson, she provided a fake name and birthday, according to KLTV.
Johnson was enrolled in the school last October by Tamica Lincoln, 30, a shift manager at a McDonalds in Longview, school officials said. Johnson had originally told Lincoln she was a 15-year-old orphan and needed a place to stay but when Lincoln discovered the truth, she immediately notified the school and police, KLTV reported.
"I sympathized with her, and invited her into my home. I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes," Lincoln told KLTV.
"Lincoln says Charity claimed she was abused by her biological father, who since has passed away, along with her biological mother. Lincoln acted as Charity's guardian and even met with Charity's 10th grade teachers at New Life Christian School," KLTV wrote.
Johnson was arrested for failure to identify and giving false information and she remains in the Gregg County Jail, with bail set at $500, according to KLTV.
Lincoln posted a news story about Johnson on her Facebook page and a Dallas woman commented: "This girl did the same thing to my brother and his wife! This is crazy!"
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The Central Connecticut women's soccer team ended its 2013 season with a 3-1 loss to top seed Saint Francis University on Friday afternoon in the Northeast Conference Tournament semifinals. With the loss Central finishes the season with a 7-12 overall record.
The Blue Devils entered the tournament at the #4 seed, after finishing in a three-way tie for second place in the NEC with 15 total points.
Both teams had several scoring chances in the first half but it remained scoreless after the first 45 minutes. Both the Blue Devils and the Red Flash recorded nine total shots. Senior Nikola Deiter made five saves for the Blue Devils while the Red Flash keeper Abbey Collins made six before the break.
Deiter finished the match making a season-high 12 saves, including seven in the second half. Collins had 11 in the win for the Red Flash.
The Red Flash broke through in the 81st minute when senior Tesa McKibben, the league's four-time Player of the Year, scored the game's first goal at 80:34 to give the home team the 1-0 lead. They added a second goal less than three minutes later to push the lead to 2-0.
But the Blue Devils wouldn't go quietly, as junior Christina Boucher scored just 32 seconds later to cut the lead to 2-1 with just under six minutes to play in the game.
The Red Flash went up 3-1 on a goal from Brittany Hasson at 87:02 to push the lead to two and lead SFU to the win.
SFU held a 15-12 edge in shots on goal but Central had the overall advantage in shots, 24-17. SFU however, had a 12-2 edge in corner kicks in the match. Neither team earned a card.
The Blue Devils end the season with a 7-12 overall record. The Red Flash advance to Sunday's championship game at 12 noon in Loretto.


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Remember the replicants in Blade Runner???
Today marks the inception date of Roy Batty
Favourite quotes re Roy Batty...
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
(and in a different scene)
Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
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Recently I have been having what can best be described as a "style identity crisis". I have felt very uncertain and awkward in almost every coordinate I put together; unsure if I am truly expressing myself or some style I am trying to emulate. I would say that I am very susceptible to outside fashion suggestion: if I spend a lot of time looking at Harajuku street style, I want to dress like that; if I watch bad reality TV shows I want to wear tight bandage dresses and chunky bracelets; if I peruse lookbook I'm all about Peter Pan collars and printed leggings.
I find it strange that I am having this struggle with my closet lately. First of all, I own a LOT of clothes: I rent a two bedroom apartment just so I could turn one of the bedrooms into a closet. Most of it is vintage, stuff that I have scooped up at the Good Will outlet... the only thing I ever really splurge on is shoes. My closet represents every style, but a constant for me has definitely always been PINK and BLACK, the two colors I find myself consistently gravitating towards.
But the reason I find it strange is that I am at a point in my life where I am actually super certain about who I am and what I want from life. I'm more secure, self aware, and motivated than I have ever been before - so why this crisis identity with my clothing?
In a brief comment conversation with the effortlessly chic Orchid Grey, I feel like I may have worked a few things out (but it doesn't make it any EASIER for me!)
I possess duality in my personality, which is best explained by my past and upbringing. I was born and raised in a tiny, tiny town in Alaska called Soldotna, which had no more than 6,000 people. I lived at the end of a gravel dirt road, overlooking the swamp with the Kenai river and the mountains in the distance. I spent my childhood fishing, four wheeling, riding horses, respecting nature, and running amok barefoot. On top of that I was homeschooled, thus I thrust myself madly into the world of the whimsical: fantasy books, anime, comic books.
So as I matured those interests remained. My interest in fashion was ignited by Japanese Street Fashion magazines I downloaded on my 26k connection from livejournal, and I emulated that fashion all through highschool: I was either "Fruits" style or Visual Kei, depending on my mood. As I grew, I became interested in arts and culture and city living. My parents moved me to Idaho when I was a teenager, but I still experienced the agricultural world. I was an anomaly in my highly conservative and religious town with my ever changing hair and bizarre style. This was before websites like Lookbook.nu existed, and I mostly just dressed how I FELT LIKE IT... and in that teenage bliss I didn't really care what people thought about me.
Then I discovered indie music and my love of all things vintage. This resulted in floral dresses, long maxis, floppy hats. I wanted to look like I was walking out of Woodstock every day, but at times I still yearned for my crazy anime style.
Finally, when I was just shy of 21, I made the big move to Seattle - to a real city. The dreary days and the distant attitude of people isolated me, so I started wearing more and more black again. I definitely have an interest in all things "goth", and do not balk at dark lipsticks and delicate lace collars. I would say that this "goth" fashion has been a central theme to my style for my entire life - I remember smearing black lipstick all over my face at 13 in a desperate attempt to emulate Malice Mizer.
But here is the problem: Now all of those styles are jumbled up inside of me. Earthy/"mori" girl, nu-goth, Japanese street style/inspired by anime. I yearn for gentle florals and ripped up black tights simultaneously. I crave studs while wishing for rocking shoes.
And I just have no idea which direction I want to go towards.
I am certainly a fashion chameleon, but running a fashion blog or seeing the same people every day for some reason makes me feel the need to pigeon hole myself into a particular trend or style. For some reason it feels awkward or strange to dress all light and summery and airy one day while showing up rough and tumble punk rock the next.
The other struggle I am constantly facing is this: I am a curvy woman. I used to ABHOR my curves, but as I age I am starting to realize that no matter what I do they are not going away, and I can either whine about it and be miserable forever or learn how to work with it. However, this long journey to accepting my body doesn't mean that I have become careless: I know that some things don't look good at me. For example: my hips are incredibly wide, and if I wear leggings with just a t-shirt, it is exceptionally unflattering. Or the fact that despite my height of 5'10", I have quite short legs and thus wearing ankle length flat boots look ridiculously bad on me. And this PISSES ME OFF. I cannot EXPRESS to you my intense jealousy for lithe, lovely women who can wear whatever they want and look incredible in it. It adds an entirely new layer to my dressing in that I have to dress for wide hips and thick thighs (seriously - I'm built exactly like Nicki Minaj). It's ANNOYING that I can't just wear what I feel like, but that I also have to be thinking "well, will this flatter my stupidly curvacious body?"
Has anyone else ever experienced a fashion identity crisis like this? How on earth do I get over feeling like everything I wear is not me, but only a part of me?


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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Skate 'Til the Sidewalk Ends
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I just loved this post, Celia. Thanks for the memories. :) happy holidays.ReplyDelete
Celia, you brought back such memories! My best Christmas present - a streamlined tricycle. Little fenders over the wheels.ReplyDelete
Roller skates - my grandmother lived in town and had a sidewalk. Otherwise, no place to skate. I skinned many a knee (and tore the knees out of pants). Always with my brother, 4 years younger but a constant companion.
Bicycle! How I wanted one! Mom said they were too dangerous. In High School I bought one and took it home. Mom said I couldn't keep it but Dad stood up for once. Bought one for my brother, too.
Thanks for a lovely post.
-- Dac
I too got a doll every Christmas until the age of 12. My last doll was a bride doll. I still have the slightly tattered beauty! Why? Who knows.
Our generation was blessed with the comfort of feeling we had it all, though most of our simple gifts back then would would seem much less today.
Have a wonderful season!
Nancy Kay
Ah, Celia, the memories this blog brought back. The dolls, the locket, the skates, the lack of a longed for bike. The only thing I would add is books. And I think the year Little Women was under the tree, it became my all-time favorite gift. But white boots is a close second. Thanks for sharing this. Happy holidays to you and all who read this.ReplyDelete
Celia, I truly love this post. So wonderfully descriptive--it will stay in my mind when I think of you!ReplyDelete
I didn't have a sister, but I had Mom. I think that at times, Mom relived her childhood through me. I had a pink training bike for my first bicycle. Mom taught me to ride. I vividly remember that day! She ran along beside me as I rode back and forth until she was sure that I was okay on my own. Mom loved to ride bikes (horses too). She was very artistic and theatrical, and she studied tap, ballet, music, and art. She was also double-jointed and somewhat accident-prone, but I will save those stories for another day. I outgrew "Little Pinkie", and I soon set my eyes on a full-sized, royal blue beauty from our local hardware store. "The Western Flyer"--complete with front basket, double back basket, headlight, and horn! When I came downstairs on Christmas morning and saw "Big Blue" in the living room, you can bet my squeals woke everybody up! I was a chubby kid, but I was always tall for my age, and I had long, strong legs. Nobody out rode me and "Big Blue"--nobody! I have lived in Virginia all but two years of my life. We lived in Nevada at the time that I started the first grade, and that is where Mom taught me to ride "Little Pinkie". We moved back to Virginia, and I got "Big Blue", and then we lived in Florida the year that I was in the fifth grade. Riding our bikes together was one of the few real compatible and happy times between Mom and me. Florida is where we reached the zenith of our riding. We would together for hours, late at night, under the street lights of our very nice, quite neighborhood. Looking back, it was remarkable that no one ever commented on our nightly bike antics. Mom and I not only rode our bikes, we performed on them! Yes, we virtually danced with our bikes. Amazing! So much fun, so much energy--nothing else ever compared to that time. I still have "Big Blue", and she still looks good. I haven't ridden her in a very long time, but she's waiting....and remembering.
Celia, beautiful post. My sister and I also received identical gifts each year. How we loved our Little Women dolls, Barbie dolls and troll dolls. But our favorite was our side-by-side playhouses, wooden planks with plastic partitions as room dividers. The people had magnets beneath them and were guided through rooms by magnetic wands. Very clever and an excellent tool for hand/eye coordination. Thanks for the memory. Merry Christmas and lots of love.ReplyDelete
Oh Celia, this blog was right there in my childhood. My sister and I are one year apart--I was the younger one but we both had curly hair. People thought we were twins, too, and, yep, Mom dressed us alike. Like you and your sister, we pretty much got the same gifts only in different colors--mine was always red and hers blue.ReplyDelete
One year we got microscopes (I have no clue why but obviously one of my dad's ideas). At first, I thought--what the heck is this for--but later, it got to be my best gift. We made microbes by putting straw in water and letting nature take its course as different microbes grew and changed. Great fun. Although mine broke down from overuse, I still have my dad's and it's among my most treasured possessions.
Great Blog, Celia.
I'm so jealous--I wanted a Margaret O'Brien doll and never got one. I did get one that looked similar when I was six and I still have that doll.ReplyDelete
I too had a sister who received the same gifts. Odd how parents think similar gifts will reduce jealousy. My best gift was the dog I was promised for Christmas but didn't get until spring. I waited for months for the mommy dog to have her puppies. He gave me joy for many years.ReplyDelete
GREAT MEMORIES!!! My dad worked in the oil fields, too, but by the time I came along, they were pretty well settled...until my sr. year of high school when we had to move from Oklahoma to WEST VIRGINIA!
Like you, there were always certain things we could count on getting. For us, it was a new nightgown. Mom made them a lot of the time, and there was one that I think of with such fond memories--it was red and white flannel--beautiful and warm all at the same time! We always got a doll of some kind, a tradition that my mom's parents, poor as they were, had kept up for her and her sisters when they were growing up. I remember the one present I DIDN'T get that I wanted so much. It was a "PEBBLES" doll (from the Flintstones). And my best friend down the street from me got one! But I got a derned ol' baby doll. LOL
Now to the skates. I LOVED MY SKATES. I had a lanyard I wore around my neck with my skate key on it. We skated all around our neighbor's house. She was one of the founders of our little town, had come there in a covered wagon. She and her husband built a "mansion" (he was an atty.--specialized in oil, which had just been discovered)and she would just have a fit when we skated! We were afraid of her, but we skated anyhow. What a scary old woman she was--we thought she was a witch, but that feeling of freedom couldn't be given up at any price.
The gift that sticks out in my mind was "Baby First Step"--it was a doll that had batteries and you could flip a switch and make her "walk"...if conditions were just right. Great post!
My barbie doll when I was nine. I mentioned it to my daughter in law two years ago when we were shopping, and I saw the anniversary (very expensive) edition. She got it for me for Christmas!! I still get tears thinking of the moments I unwrapped both of my barbies.ReplyDelete
What fun memories of your childhood, Celia! I envy your clarity. My Christmases are mostly a blur, except for a bad one I won't mention, but oddly, the one gift I remember best of all was one my little brother got.ReplyDelete
It was a kit to make jello-like bugs and worms and spiders. You selected which color goo, poured it in the mold, baked it in a real oven, and voila a deluxe bug collection.
We were allowed to open one present without the grownups waking up, so we opened his and made all the bugs first thing Christmas morning. That was so much fun. Oddly, I can't remember what we did with all the critters.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Rose--I appreciate your visit. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
Dac--I never had a tricyle..boohoo.ReplyDelete
Our grandsons live on their bicyles--yes, my mother thought they were dangerous, too. Those decades were so different.
Merry Christmas!
NANCY KAY--I see you understand. Yes, those years were quite different, and the gifts we got would probably apall children today.Thanks for sharing your memories, and Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Well, you could have been my twin, you know. I never got a book--they weren't a big item in our house. But when I discovered the library downtown when I was in fourth grade, I became a voracious reader. It's not taught, is it? It's innate--or not.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas!
Virginia--I'll answer yours on SOTW.ReplyDelete
SHARON--I can tell you're younger than I. Those things came along about the time my daughter needed them. The Barbie dolls were the tip off! Thanks so much for sharing your Christmas memories. Those are things no one can ever take away from us.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas!
My lands,Sarah...you could have been my sister. Well, my older sister is "Sarah."ReplyDelete
I think many mothers dressed their children alike because patterns were expensive, and with one patterns, my mother could not only make an outfit for both of us, she could use that same one again and again and create a different look.
The economy, then, wasn't so good, either.At least in our home.
At that age, I'd never heard of a microscope. Wow. I'm impressed by that! Merry Christmas..
Caroline--funny, we wanted a Shirley Temple doll, but they were too expensive. So we got the MO doll. I didn't like it at first, but grew to love it--I still have it, too--with all her clothes.ReplyDelete
She is missing one shoe, though.
Merry Christmas
Barbara--I agree. I didn't mind, but I think my little sister began to resent it. That was many decades ago..I guess it was just easier to buy the same thing. I know Mother order some things from the Sears catalog--easier all around.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas!
Cheryl--I'll answer yours on SOTW.ReplyDelete
MAGGIE--you would be the one who wanted the kit to make bugs! Funny. Sometimes I wonder about my vivid memories--I've heard some of my friends say they cannot remember a thing from their growing up years. Odd.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas down in Georgia!
Celia, what a heartwarming post. I do remember those types of skates. I think my mother gave me her pair when I was a girl in the 70's and then in the 80's I got a more modern pair.ReplyDelete
I can understand where you're coming from with the panties. When I was kid growing up in the 70's, 80's, we got stuff we "needed" for Christmas - which was usually clothes and sneakers or jackets. Maybe we got 1 toy, but it was about need as opposed to "want."
Nowadays people I see people giving more according to "want-" and want means toys.
I remember getting a favorite toy as a little girl. I do remember being older and getting a Milienum Falcon for Christmas. It was the late 1970's and I must have been around 11 or 12. Star Wars was big around that time.
Skates - yes, I enjoyed skating and when in line skates came out, I got into them too, but I was much older.
Steph--yes, we often got more things we needed than wanted. Although, we did get the dolls and the cowboy stuff later on. I think less is better...we valued one or two things. I really hate to see parents just pile on the gifts.ReplyDelete
Skates are still popular-one grandson has in-line skates and a helmet, and he leaves the house and I have no idea where he goes. He might come back an hour later, just barely breathing hard, ready for something to eat...thanks for your Christmas memories...I love to read these! Merry Christmas.
Celia, I'm glad I'm the last one to comment. Thisay no one will read my comment. The only gift I received every Christmas was a book. I cherished my books and kept until I got married and moved. Once I asked for a bicycle. Never got it. Too expensive and too dangerous. One year I received a doll. I hated it and gave it to my sister, who was happy to have two. Instead I asked for a ball. My grandparents didn't believe in Christmas gifts. As a result, I lavished my kids and grandchildren with toys and Christmas gifts.ReplyDelete
Great blog, Celia. My parents, too, mixed what we needed with what we wanted, and there was always a package of knickers under my tree, too. LOL! I got a Baby Boo doll for my first Christmas. I still have her. The youngest nephew says she's creepy and hides her in the closet whenever he comes to visit.ReplyDelete
The Christmas I remember most, though, is the year Pop gave Mom a new washer/dryer for Christmas. We played with those boxes for weeks--until we put my little brother in one, put pillows all around him and "mailed" him down the steps. Mom took the boxes from us that day.
MONA--I'm truly sorry for your Christmases. I can understand why you lavish so much on your grandchildren. People do different things...it's odd, sometimes.ReplyDelete
I think many parents during those years thought a bicyle was dangerous. Well, they can be, that's for sure.
So, you go buy those dolls and things and have a ball!
Merry Christmas.
KEENA--you tell such fun stories. All kids, I think, love the boxes. Mine did. We'd take Audrey's dolls out of the box to place under the tree, and the child invariably wanted the box, too.ReplyDelete
You know the "box" was the toy of the year for the toy museum...about five years ago. The stick was also chosen one year.
Merry Christmas...


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Standard Options
- Electric front windows drivers one touch/anti-trap
- Electric rear windows anti-pinch
- Heated rear windscreen
- Rear wash/wipe
- Windscreen washer jets
- ABS EBD Brake assist
- Collision mitigation braking system
- Electronic parking brake
- ESP EBA traction control
- Hill hold assist
- Hill start assist
- VDC Dynamic Vehicle Control
- Bluetooth telephone connectivity
- Voice control system
- Cruise control speed limiter
- Drive mode selector
- Front assistant collision mitigation
- Lane departure warning system
- Rear parking sensor
- Speed sensitive power steering
- Door/boot open warning light
- Exterior temperature gauge
- Infotainment system with 7" colour monitor
- Low fuel level warning light
- Oil level gauge
- Rev counter
- Service interval indicator
- Trip computer
- Auto dimming driver's door mirror
- Auto dimming rear view mirror
- Body coloured door mirrors
- Electric adjustable/heated/folding door mirrors
- Black lacquer interior trim
- Leatherette dashboard
- 6 speakers
- Bluetooth audio streaming
- Fingertip controls for audio system
- Radio/single CD player
- USB/iPod connection
- Black lacquer fog light surround
- Black lacquer side sills
- Body colour bumpers
- Body colour door handles
- Chrome rectangular exhaust finisher
- Roof spoiler
- Satin chrome window surround
- Solid paint
- Automatic headlamp levelling
- Automatic headlights
- Follow me home headlights
- LED daytime running lights
- LED front fog lights
- LED rear lamps
- Auto air recirculation
- Rear passenger heating ducts
- Single zone air conditioning
- 12V power outlets
- 2 cupholders
- 4 grab handles
- Cloth upholstery
- Door armrests
- Front centre armrest
- Gearshift paddles
- Glovebox
- Height/reach adjust steering wheel
- Leather steering wheel and gearshift
- Multifunction steering wheel
- Parcel net in front passenger footwell
- Rear centre console
- Delay courtesy light function
- Driver/passenger reading lights
- Footwell illumination
- Front courtesy lights
- Illuminated boot
- Interior courtesy light operated by all doors
- Luggage compartment lighting
- Rear courtesy lights
- Welcome lighting
- Intouch Navigation pack - Q30
- 3x3 point rear seatbelts
- Child locks on rear doors
- Driver and passenger airbags
- Drivers knee airbag
- Front and rear curtain airbags
- Front and rear outer seat belt pre-tensioners
- Front lateral airbags
- Front seat belts warning
- Height adjustable front seatbelts
- Passenger airbag deactivation system
- Rear seatbelt warning indicator
- Seat belt force limiter
- Side (thorax) airbags
- Tyre pressure monitoring system
- 60/40 split folding rear seat
- Front headrests
- Height adjustable driver's seat
- Height adjustable passenger seat
- ISOFIX on front passenger and rear outer seats
- Rear headrests
- CAT 1 alarm
- Deadlocks
- Immobiliser
- Radio frequency remote central locking
- Driver/passenger sunvisors and vanity mirrors
- 18" 5 double spoke light alloy wheels
- Tyre repair kit
Technical Options
- HC+NOx: N
- Noise Level dB(A): 71.2
- NOx: 0.002
- Particles: N
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- Bore: 83
- Catalytic Convertor: True
- Compression Ratio: 10.3:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 4
- Engine Codes: M27016
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Type: TURBO INJECTION
- Gears: 7 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 16
- Stroke: 73.7
- Valve gear: DOHC
- EC: True
- EC Combined: 43.5
- EC Extra Urban: 51.4
- EC Urban: 34.4
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Max: 10.5
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Min: 7.4
- WLTP - MPG - Comb: 6.4
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Max: 7.8
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Min: 7.6
- Any aspect of the vehicles safety cause concern?: Data Not Available
- Based On ID: N
- Coin Description: T
- Coin Series: Luxe
- Ghost model for valuation purposes: N
- Man Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 12
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: 81
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: 5
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 156
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 1.6
- NCAP Safety Assist %: M1
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: 84
- Service Interval Mileage: N
- Special Edition: Data Not Available
- Special Order: Data Not Available
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: 60000
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- This vehicle is classed as a car for VED purposes: 12
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: 91
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: 86
- 0 to 60: Data Not Available
- 0 to 62: 9.4
- Engine Power KW: 115
- Engine Power RPM: 5000
- Engine Torque LBS.FT: 148
- Engine Torque MKG: 20.4
- Engine Torque NM: 200
- Engine Torque RPM: 1250
- PS: True
- Top Speed: 133
- Alloys?: True
- Space Saver?: Data Not Available
- Tyre Size Front: 235/50 R18
- Tyre Size Rear: 235/50 R18
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: 5 DOUBLE SPOKE
- Wheel Type: 18" ALLOY
- Height: 1495
- Height (including roof rails): 1510
- Length: 4425
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11.4
- Wheelbase: 2700
- Width (excluding mirrors): 1805
- Width (including mirrors): 2083
- Boot Capacity Saloons: 430
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 50
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 1920
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 1223
- Max. Roof Load: 75
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 1200
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 700
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1465
- No. of Seats: 5
- Payload: 455
Infiniti Q30 Hatchback HAS TO BE Q? (70/100)
Infiniti are targeting the premium hatch segment with their Q30 - the kind of buyer who'd be looking at an Audi A3 or a Mercedes A-Class. This is the smallest model available from Nissan's luxury brand and arguably the most attractive too.
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The Infiniti Q30 is an up-market five-door hatchback that's based on a Mercedes A-Class and also aims at the premium compact hatch segment that car competes in. This design has broken new ground for the Japanese firm and is British-built. Despite the Far Eastern roots, the Q30 is built at Nissan's plant in Sunderland.
Infiniti is not a common nameplate in this country, although the marque may be familiar if you follow Formula 1; they are a key sponsor for the Renault F1 team. For those of you unfamiliar with Infiniti, the brand was introduced to North America in 1989 to rival Toyota's luxury brand Lexus. Europe saw the first Infiniti back in 2008, although thirsty engines and unfamiliarity with the badge have kept sales on the low side. The Q30 looks to change that by aiming at the premium compact hatch segment and cars like Audi's A3, BMW's 1 Series and the car it's based upon, Mercedes' A-Class. Not only have Infiniti produced a genuinely attractive vehicle - vital in this sector - but it also offers a wide range of engine options and much of the quality buyers seek in this segment. This British-built model could prove to be a game-changer for Infiniti.
Driving Experience
It would appear Infiniti have learned from past mistakes and are offering a wide range of both petrol and diesel engines. The most economical/slowest option is a 1.5-litre 109PS turbodiesel that has been supplied by Renault. Next up is a 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol with either 122 or 156PS. A 2.2-litre Mercedes-sourced 170PS turbodiesel is the next rung up the performance ladder, offered only with 7-speed auto transmission and the option of 4WD. At the top of the tree is a 2.0-litre petrol with 211PS that is also turbocharged. This final engine is only available on 'Premium' and 'Sport' models. Handling is safe, predictable and not a great deal different to the Mercedes A-Class, the underpinnings of which lie beneath the surface. Like that car, there's the expected MacPherson strut front suspension as seen in the vast majority of front wheel drive vehicles. At the rear is a sophisticated independent multi-link set-up as you'd hope from an upmarket car. While 'SE' and 'Premium' models are biased towards comfort, 'Sport' models are lowered by 15mm to reduce roll and provide more entertaining cornering. A seven-speed dual clutch automatic is an option, as is four wheel drive, that AWD system standard along with the 2.2-litre diesel engine on a Crossover-style QX30 variant.
Design and Build
The Renault-Nissan alliance has been working with Mercedes for quite some time now with such diverse models as Mercedes Citan van and the smart range benefitting from Renault platforms. On this occasion, it was Mercedes helping Renault-Nissan out with the platform and selected engines from the A-Class range. Although there's the danger the Q30 will steal sales from the A-Class, you can guarantee the Three-Pointed Star branding will be enough to keep Mercedes' baby safe. Besides, apart from the overall proportions and a few switches inside, you'd never know the two were related. In terms of style, Infiniti once again rely on an interesting selection of creases, curves and angles - as well as that imposing grille - to make a statement. It could have gone horribly wrong but somehow doesn't. There's real muscle to the shape, while detailing such as the chrome squiggle by the rear door adds some visual interest. The cabin isn't the most exciting of places but it doesn't look out of place on what's supposed to be a premium offering. Material quality is good, while there are plenty of personalisation options too. Boot space is a reasonable 368-litres.
Market and Model
Prices sit mainly in the £20,000 to £30,000 bracket and the Q30 offers three basic trim levels; entry-level 'Pure', 'Luxe' and 'Sport'. The 'Pure' variant kicks off at just over £20,000 for a 120PS front wheel drive manual car, with the 1.5 litre diesel an extra £1,000 or so. Standard equipment includes a 7" touchscreen Bluetooth infotainment system, manual air conditioning, all-round electric windows, auto headlights, leather steering wheel and leather gearshift gaiter. One thing you don't get is alloy wheels: you'll need to option those separately or move up a trim level. On top of desirable 18" alloys, 'Luxe' models also get LED front foglights, heated body colour mirrors and additional chrome detailing, not to mention greater levels of tech and comfort inside. 'Sport' models get a 15mm drop in ride height, 19" alloys, colour-coded sills, dark chrome exhausts and a black front grille with a sportier front bumper. Cars fitted with the 2.2 diesel also gain active noise cancellation to help improve refinement. Go for that engine and one of the swanky trims and you'll top £30,000 without too much difficulty. This is fairly common amongst competitors however. If you're interested in the QX30 version with its raised ride height, wider wheelarches and roofrails, bear in mind that this derivative only comes with plush 'Luxe' or 'Luxe Tech' trim and with 2.2-litre diesel power, automatic transmission and AWD. QX30 pricing starts from around £30,000. All models receive seven airbags, hill start assist, brake assist, collision warning with active stop and the usual ABS, stability control and traction control.
Cost of Ownership
There are no prizes for guessing that the cheapest Q30 to run will be the 1.5-litre turbodiesel, which is capable of an impressive 72.4mpg on the combined cycle, while emitting as little as 103g/km of CO2. It should be noted that certain options such as larger wheels can worsen both economy and emissions; pay attention to the spec sheets if this is a worry. Even the 2.2 turbodiesel with AWD and an automatic gearbox in a fully loaded trim level still manages a reasonable 55.4mpg, with 133g/km of carbon being produced. For comparison, the base 1.6-litre petrol with 122PS manages 48.7mpg with carbon emissions of 134g/km. The question is, would you rather save the money on the purchase price or at the pumps and when you come to tax your vehicle? It's also worth mentioning that diesels tend to hold their value better than petrol cars too. The warranty period is a standard three years or 60,000 miles.
Infiniti have been at the fringes of the luxury vehicle market ever since their European introduction way back in 2008. But that situation is changing thanks to this Q30. In a market where looks and individuality are what really sell, this Japanese premium brand's quirky style seems a perfect match to the demands of the consumer. That this style has matured into something so attractive in the Q30 won't do it any harm either. Good looks are all very well and good but you've also got to consider practicality too. Thankfully, Infiniti haven't released the Q30 with a range of thirsty petrol engines as they've done with other models. The pair of diesels in particular are exactly what are needed for commercial success. Add a high quality interior into the mix along with competitive pricing and we can see this being Infiniti's turning point in Europe.
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Lingerie Football League Goes (Down) Under
Recently, the LFL announced it would forego the 2012 spring-summer season in the US so it could help promote the organization internationally and to build buzz for LFL Canada's debut in the fall of 2012. The league also indicated the US division would resume play in 2013. All is not lost, though, the LFL all-stars from America will play two games in Brisbane and Sydney in June, in what looks like a precursor to LFL Australia.
Chloe Butler of the LA Temptation and Adrian Purnell of the Tampa Breeze posed for pics to ease the pain of an LFL-less season in America. Fun fact: tears make for an excellent emergency lube. We don't know any straight male is able to coach these women. We could barely contain ourselves during the annual Powderpuff games in high school.


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"The Rosie Show" is living up to its name.
For the second time in two months, Rosie O'Donnell has announced pretty personal news on her eponymous talk show.
In December, it was her plan to wed her longtime girlfriend. Friday, Rosie O'Donnell told her guest, Dr. Oz, that Michelle Rounds is trying to get pregnant.
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That would make O'Donnell a mother of five. She already has four children with her ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, whom she divorced in 2007.


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Husband and Wife Jokes.
It is a collection of extremely funny Husband and Wife Jokes which will make your day. These meticulously selected jokes depict the funny side of married life of wives and husbands.
How to win an Argument with your Wife?
Happy Married Life
Why did the Wife Murder her Husband?
'Khatt Patt'
'Chand Si Biwi'
'The Habitual Husband'
Innocent Husband
'Shakki Mizaj Biwi'
'Faisla Mehfooz'
A Naughty Wife
The Sad Wife
Wakeel Sahib
Mazloom Shoher. Husband and Wife Jokes
Husband's Mobile Phone
Wife Wants to Buy 2 Kg Peas
Two very Bitter Truths
'Azad Punchi' (Free Bird)
Heart of a Newly Wed Wife
'Khuda Khofi'
Less Salt in the Sabzi
Husband's 'Sacrifice'
Advantages & Disadvantages of Eating Mangoes
Choice of a Wrong Place for Argument with Wife
This Man was Released from Jail after 12 Years
'General Knowledge' of Husband
'Happy Independence Day; 14th August'
'Healthy Competition'
The 'Generous' Woman who Closes Her one Eye
Obedient Wives get 'Official' Permission from their Husbands
'Waddhi Aaee Oxygen'
Wives can NEVER be Convinced
'Admi Aur Churrail'
The 'Clever' Husband who didn't give Newspaper to Wife
A Veterinary Doctor's Love for his Wife
'Shaadi and Haldi (Turmeric)'
"Azeem" Husband
'English Medium' Wife
Angry Wife and 'Maskeen' Husband
'Waddi aaee Jadoogarni'
Witty Husband
What an Understanding after 50 Years of Married Life!
Gum-Sum Aadmi ki Haqeeqat
Billi Choohay ka Khail
Biwi ki Maikay say Waapsi
The Unfortunate Punjabi Wife
Changay Phassay Aaan
Wife attends English Speaking Course
A Husband's Last Message from ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
Biggest Tension for a Husband??
Du'aa of a Wife for her Husband
Repetition of "Mera Mera" by the Wife
CV aur Biwi
Iodex for Husband's 'Injury'
Medical Research
'Phadday Baz' Wife
Mirch ka Achaar (Green Chilli Pickle)
Cooking by Highly Educated Wife
The Shortest Murder Story
Puttar! Hore Rozay Rakh!!
Love is really Strange
A "Good" Wife
Don't Blame Your 'Muqqadar'
A Question for all Wives about Toilet Seat
Bechara Writer
Agar Aap ki Begum Aap ka Kehna nahi Maanti….
"Aqeedat ki Inteha"
A Common "Threat" by all Wives
"Meri Piyari Biwi", a Poem by a 'Dil jala' Husband
Doctor asks a Husband about his Headache
Birthday Gift by a Wife
Announcement on Loudspeaker
Ishtehaar-e-Gumshudgi for Wife
Why Husbands Speak Less? At last here is a Pro-wives joke on the demand of some ladies.
Aik Bazzurg ka Mashwara
Husband and Wife Jokes – The Height of 'Shak'
Shohar ki Chalaakian
Aurat ki Zindagi
A Man threatens his Wife for 7 Years
Hoping for a Better Replacement
Qudrati Aafaat (Natural Disasters)
Little Girl wants to buy a gift for Grandmother
Some Wives are Like Taliban
No "Dulaasa" (Sympathy) to a Man on His Wife's Death
Stone Age Man Wants to teach his Wife how to Talk
'Mother Tongue' info in College Admission Form
"Goongi Badmashi" (Roguish Silence)
Husband & Wife ka "Anmole Payar"
Husband and Wife Jokes – 'Sahayli (Friend) ki Nishaani'
Four Marriages by a Male
Husband and Wife Jokes – In which Season the Chilies grow?
FaceBook ka Chaskaa. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Kaali Biwi (Black wife) wants Curtains to avoid Neighbour's Gaze
Blind Faith on Ariel Washing Powder. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Husband thinks his Wife is Dhamaka Khaiz Mouaad" (Explosive Device)
A Bachelor is Always Wise
A Man's Nature
'Silence' of a Husband
Husband Laments about His 5 Years' Married Life
Effectiveness of Multani Mitti Mask
Maulvi Sahib Disappoints This Husband
Husband Bought 3 Tickets of a Film for Sunday
Bazurgoun Ka 'Billi Maar' Experience
2000 Rupaye Ka Suit, 4000 Ka Impression
Dabaanay kay sunehri Asool. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Husband and Wife jokes – Whose Mother is More Likable?
Baqar Eid ka Qorma. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Wishful Thinking of a Pakistani Wife. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Is Marriage Good or Bad? There is an old saying, "Shadi aisa laddoo hai kay jis nay khaya woh bhi pachtaaya or jis nay nahin khaya woh bhi pachtaaya".
A Non Romantic Husband
Hsband and Wife in Jannat. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Doctor Tells Woman Not to Give Tension to Her Sick Husband. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Betting on a Wrong Horse. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Dua Before Marriage about the Future Mother-in-Law
Husband and Wife Jokes: The Brave Husband Refused to Eat Hard Roti (bread)
The Husband Doesn't Pray and Keep Fast in Ramzan But Willing to Have Iftar . Light Humour in Ramzan.
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Husband and Wife Jokes: Husband Protests when Wife Buys Another Dupatta
A Man finds Aladdin's Lamp. Husband and Wife Jokes.
An Advice to Married Men Whose Wives Get Angry
Couples are Formed in the Heavens But They are Disgraced on the Earth
A Husband was Sad on his Wife's Death
Husband: "Doctor, I Can't Hear When My Wife Talks to Me."
Husband Fed Up of Wife's Demands, Wants to Commits Suicide
Saddaqa Rids You from All Evils Except…..
A Newly Married Saraiki Couple Sitting in a Park. Husband and Wife Jokes.
Anger is a Manly Trait, But… Husband and Wife Jokes.
A Mouse Danced in Front of a Lion's Barat
Totally Different Thinking of Husband and Wife Sitting Silent in a Room
A Wise Married Man's Dilemma
Mother-in-Law Was Kidding
How Does a Wife Compare Her Husband with Other Male Relatives in the Family?
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Don't miss everyone's favorite Philadelphia artist Zoe Strauss, this Thursday evening at 6:30 for a free artist talk in the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Zoe will be talking about her past work, along with her project for the 2013 Carnegie International. For the International, Zoe made frequent trips to Homestead and then lived there for two months, opening a public portrait studio where she took hundreds of portraits of the citizens of Homestead. The studio also included an incredible library of books and historical documents chronicling the Homestead Strike, as well as histories of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Andrew Carnegie, art history, and labor history. Many of the portraits she made are on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art, along with street photography, large-scale photographic murals, and videos.
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Actress Kirstie Alley has been ordered to modify her diet plan's advertising campaign after a judge ruled ads were misleading.
Marina Abramyan filed a lawsuit against the former "Cheers" star's Organic Liaison company last year over allegations she purchased weight-loss items which did little to help her shed the pounds, as promised.
The unhappy customer also accused Alley of misleading the public by claiming she whipped her body into shape with the pricey products, even though much of her slim down has been credited to her stint on the reality show "Dancing With the Stars."
Both parties finally reached a settlement at the Los Angeles Superior Court in March and under the terms of the agreement, the actress has promised to remove the term "Proven Products" from the packaging, as well as issue a disclaimer on the brand's website that it is a "calorie-based weight-loss product."
According to bosses at the National Enquirer, who obtained a copy of the legal documents, the TV star must also pay Abramyan and her attorneys $130,000.


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There is no challenge to big or too small for these six men. Infinite Challenge is a show that stars Yu Jae Seok, Park Myeong Soo, Jung Jun Ha, Haha, Yang Se Hyeong, and Cho Sae Ho. Together, they complete various missions that are deemed difficult or impossible. Each week is filled with laughter and fun due to the on-screen chemistry of these six men. They may have races to win a certain prize or suddenly be dropped off at an unknown destination to complete a task. They never know what to expect when they come on set, yet despite what is thrown at them, they try their best to complete the challenges as a team and as brothers. Tune in to see these men show that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.
- Original title
- 무한도전
- Also known as
- Infinity Challenge, Muhan Dojeon,
- Volunteer Team
- Infinite Challenge Volunteer Team
- Broadcast Network
- Broadcast Period
- 05-06-2006 to 04-21-2018
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The Revival Collection is a carefully selected collection of timeless classic designs and authentic reproductions.
The collection is an eclectic mix and match range of furniture fusing rough wood finishes with neutral linens and metal work with a light classical feel, along side gorgeous handpicked accessories making this collection hard to ignore. This range has an appeal for all life styles with its unique ability to fuse different finishes and styles with no 2 pieces being the same. This collection contains solids and veneers.
Some pieces of the revival collection are handmade, using only carefully selected reclaimed or recycled solid wood. By our craftsmen working with the imperfections in the wood, it gives each piece of furniture it's unique characteristic's creating a natural beauty. Due to the nature and general age of reclaimed or recycled timber, movement, slight cracks and gaps may appear over time. This is not something to be concerned about, some parts of any piece of reclaimed furniture could be made up of several pieces of previously used wood, which gives this range its unique character and feel.


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