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Joining a Twitter chat is a great way to actively engage with what's happening right now in the field, and gain some valuable information and connections. We encourage anyone who can to join us for the inaugural #libchat this week!
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I recently read "The Inner game of Tennis" by W.Timothy Gallwey . It is more about the mental side of Tennis and the jist of it goes something like this:-
"Letting it happen and not making it happen- Avoid stroke by stroke instructions. The primary goal of self 1(mind) is to set goals for self 2(body) and then let self 2 perform. The native tongue of self 2 is imagery:sensory and lose mucles. Hold the image in the mind of where you want the ball to go and let the body do the rest. For learning absorb the images in front of you- concentrating without thinking. When we unlearn to be judgmental, it is possible to achieve spontaneous, concentrated play. Judgments are personal reactions to sound, sight, feeling and thoughts within our experience. Visual and feeling images- feel images. Words were not learnt by self 2 for a lot of time after birth. Once having programmed the body, self 1s role is to observe the results in a detached manner as if it is observing somebody elses stroke. Having programmed yourself with the desired flight of the ball, trust your body to do it. " If I were to sum it up in one sentence, it would be to try and experience the game as much as possible instead of intellectualizing.
When I mentioned it to our chief coach here, he dismissed all this by saying that Tennis is more about getting the mechanics right. I was wondering if people in this forum agree to whatever is mentioned in the book. I recall reading something on this forum about getting the feel right(instead of thinking) but could not trace the article. Kindly let me have the link if it is there.


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(AP) - In a story Dec. 7 about the South Korean rapper PSY, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of a charity concert where the singer is slated to perform. The concert is Sunday, Dec. 9, not Dec. 21. It will be broadcast on TNT on Dec. 21.
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Viral rapper PSY apologizes for anti-US protests
PSY apologizes for anti-US protests; says they were `deeply emotional' reaction to Iraq war
By CHRIS TALBOTT
AP Music Writer
South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY is apologizing to Americans for participating in anti-U.S. protests several years ago.
Park Jae-sang, who performs as PSY, issued a statement Friday after reports surfaced that he had participated in concerts protesting the U.S. military presence in South Korea during the early stages of the Iraq war.
At a 2004 concert, the "Gangnam Style" rapper performs a song with lyrics about killing "Yankees" who have been torturing Iraqi captives and their families "slowly and painfully." During a 2002 concert, he smashed a model of a U.S. tank on stage.
"While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted," he wrote in the statement. "I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused by those words."
The 34-year-old rapper says the protests were part of a "deeply emotional" reaction to the war and the death of two Korean school girls, who were killed when a U.S. military vehicle hit them as they walked alongside the road. He noted anti-war sentiment was high around the world at the time.
PSY attended college in the U.S. and says he understands the sacrifices U.S. military members have made to protect South Korea and other nations. He has recently performed in front of servicemen and women.
"And I hope they and all Americans can accept my apology," he wrote. "While it's important that we express our opinions, I deeply regret the inflammatory and inappropriate language I used to do so. In my music, I try to give people a release, a reason to smile. I have learned that thru music, our universal language we can all come together as a culture of humanity and I hope that you will accept my apology."
His participation in the protests was no secret in South Korea, where the U.S. has had a large military presence since the Korean War, but was not generally known in America until recent news reports.
PSY did not write "Dear American," a song by the Korean band N.EX.T, but he does perform it. The song exhorts the listener to kill the Yankees who are torturing Iraqi captives, their superiors who ordered the torture and their families. At one point he raps: "Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully."
PSY launched to international acclaim based on the viral nature of his "Gangnam Style" video. It became YouTube's most watched video, making him a millionaire who freely crossed cultural boundaries around the world. Much of that success has happened in the U.S., where the rapper has managed to weave himself into pop culture.
He recently appeared on the American Music Awards, dancing alongside MC Hammer in a melding of memorable dance moves that book-end the last two decades. And the Internet is awash with copycat versions of the song. Even former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, the 81-year-old co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission, got in on the fun, recently using the song in a video to urge young Americans to avoid credit card debt.
It remains to be seen how PSY's American fans will react. Obama, the father of two pop music fans, wasn't letting the news change his plans, though.
Earlier Friday, the White House confirmed Obama and his family will attend a Dec. 9 charity concert where PSY is among the performers. A spokesman says it's customary for the president to attend the "Christmas in Washington" concert, which will be broadcast Dec. 21 on TNT. The White House has no role in choosing performers for the event, which benefits the National Children's Medical Center.
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2 February 2009
Two years of Blogging....and a Giveaway!!!!
It's hard to believe that two years ago on February 2nd I posted my first entry on this blog. My posts had no comments and no readership in those days. I was recording my recipes for my family and friends starting with Fried Zucchini Blossoms with Feta & Mint which I learned by the shoulders of Aglaia Kremezi on an island in Greece at Keartisinal; plus family favourites like Seafood Salmon Roulade and Val's Rhubarb Cheesecake. So much has happened since those early days!!! I've met many amazing foodies who share a passion for food. I have improved my baking and cooking skills and have been challenged to think outside my comfort zone and spread my wings. I'd even like to think that I have improved my photography and writing skills which is still a work in progress.
I could go into a long speech, giving thanks and pointing out my favorite things that keep me coming back to blogging each and every day, or, even all the recipes that I've tagged from all of the talented foodies along the way....that I still hope to make "someday". Countless times I've turned to food blogs for tips, answers and inspiration and I have never been disappointed. There is so much talent and creativity out there in the blogging world. I just hope I've left my mark and contributed in my own small way.
Of course, this blog would be a lot less fun without all of your comments and I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to read and comment. It has meant so much to me!!! It just goes to show you the way in which food brings people together from every corner of the world! Wouldn't it be something if one day we could sit down and share bread together or better yet join in a cooking class together!!!! Since this won't be happening right this second I would like to show my appreciation to my readers !!!!
What keeps me coming back to blogging day after day is YOU!!! It's been a blast!!!!! I am offering a gift to one lucky reader to show my sincere gratitude for all your support in these past 2 years. More Than Burnt Toast is having a giveaway!!!! Those of you who read this blog know that I am one of the biggest supporters of Canadians out there (in addition to my love of all things Greek!!!!). Therefore, it stands to reason that I would offer a cookbook by a Canadian author.
To be included in the giveaway simply comment on this post and let me know which of the following books you would choose from Amazon. If you would like a second entry simply mention this giveaway on your blog and comment a second time to let me know. I will choose a winner at random and one person will be the lucky winner of their cookbook of choice!!
"The Main: Recipes" by Anthony Sedlak
"In the Kitchen with Anna: New Ways with the Classics" by Anna Olson
"French Taste" by Laura Calder
"Weekend Cooking: Ricardo & Friends" by Ricardo Larivee
"Anita Stewart's Canada" by Anita Stewart
"Chef at Home" by Michael Smith
You are reading this post on More Than Burnt Toast at http://morethanburnttoast.blogspot.com. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to the author/owner of More Than Burnt Toast. All rights reserved by Valerie Harrison.
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Two years! Wow! Happy blogging anniversary!ReplyDelete
I'd love any of those cookbooks. Probably my first choice would be Anita Stewart's Canada (I've seen a lot of great recipes from that one). 2nd would be Ricardo's.
Congratulations Val! Happy 2nd blogging b'day! It's been lovely visiting you here and seeing all your lovely creations! All the best.ReplyDelete
I would choose "French Taste" by Laura Calder.
Congratulations on your 2nd birthday! I have been enjoying your posts since I joined blogger. It is nice to see so many Canadian foodies and your giveway of a Canadian cookbook is certainly fitting. They are all so great...like have to say Chef at Home Michael Smith is the one I like the best. Although they all have unique and fun styles.ReplyDelete
Happy 2nd birthday my Blogging Hero!I will stay a devoted reader for many years to come hopefully!!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on celebrating your second anniversary. Since I've only been at it 6 months, I feel like the little sister (probably not in size and age, but...). Anyway, I'd like to turn the table and thank you for reaching out and supporting me in my efforts. It really is a great experience.ReplyDelete
Happy 2nd birthday my blogging hero.I will be a devoted reader for many years to come hopefully.ReplyDelete
Happy Blog Anniversary! Congrats and keep up with the great work!ReplyDelete
The book I'm most interested in is "Anita Stewart's Canada"...
CONGRATS on two fabulous years!! And what an amazing giveaway--yay Canadians! Of course I would love the Anna Olsen book--anything baking related is my thing.ReplyDelete
And will get cracking on my Blogger Aid recipe! :)
Happy 2nd birthday Val! I would have to choose Anita Stewart's Canada!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your 2nd Blogiversary, Val! What a milestone! You are one of the most prolific bloggers out there, and each new recipe is more tempting than the last. I don't know how you do it all! You really are an inspiration to me.ReplyDelete
As for the cookbook I'd choose - Canada, by Anita Stewart.
Happy second bloggerversary! Wow! Congratulations! thank you for the give-away, thank you for your untiring efforts in BloggerAid. And yes, I have just the recipe for BloggerAid cookbook. I have recently posted the picture in my blog, but still has to send in the complete recipe through email.ReplyDelete
Wow! Happy 2nd Blogiversary! Here's to seeing many more posts from you!ReplyDelete
Congratulations Val! Happy 2nd blogging anniversary!ReplyDelete
Thank you for BlogAid and all that you do for good of others!! Thank you also for being you a great cook/baker/blogger!! I always seem to be playing catch up these days due to my on-going back condition but I do enjoy calling by your blog and reading your posts!! It's a privilege to have *met* you!
Hugs Rosie x
Congrats on your second blog anniversary! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
What a great give away and so many choices.
I think I would have to pick Michael Smith's cookbook though.
Here's hoping I win.
Happy 2 Blogiversary Val!!! You have one of the most beautiful blogs: with a warm heart/soul beating love/food every day ♥ReplyDelete
Today is my birthday too... he, he what a coincidence :D
A big hug to you darling!
happy birthday valli!ReplyDelete
Two years!! How time goes by so quickly and all of those lovely recipes you have cooked, photographed and shared with us all.ReplyDelete
I'm not familiar with the books in question, but Anna Olson sounds like my sort of author.
Congratulations! I would choose In the Kitchen with AnnaReplyDelete
Congratulations, happy blogging anniversaryReplyDelete
Congratulations Val on your 2nd Bloggoversary. May you blog for many years to come and keep those delicious recipes coming in. If I am lucky enough to be selected I would donate any of these books to BloggerAid so that later on we may auction it.ReplyDelete
Well I guess they say 'Time flies when you're having fun' for a reason. Congrats, Val on your two years of blogging. I love reading your post, they are always full of great info, tips and show so much compassion to your fellow people.ReplyDelete
If I was the lucky winner of the give away I'd choose "Anita Stewart's Canada" by Anita Stewart.
Happy Birthday to you...Happy birthday to YOU!....Happy birthday, Happy Biiiirrrrthhday....................ReplyDelete
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! (and maannny mooooorrrrre!)
My birthday was last month and I didn't even get a present!! boohoo (hehe)
So...if someone (meaning you) would like to give me a belated birthday gift, I'd accept "Anita Stewart's Canada" by Anita Stewart. Keep up the awesome work!
Congrats Val, it's been a pleasure!ReplyDelete
I'd opt for Laura Calder's book (who I met recently).
Congratulations! What a great idea for a giveaway! I'll go for Laura Calder's French Taste. =)ReplyDelete
You're two! Now you can walk! Yeah!ReplyDelete
Oh weekend cooking! Oh yes, that's the one!
Congrats on keeping us all entertained with your beautiful blog. You are a wonderful hostess!
Congrats on two years of tasty posts! I look forward to more! I would have to go for Laura Calder's book as I have been wanting to explore more French cuisine.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your blogiversary -- it's a huge achievement to maintain a blog for two years, and I'm looking forward to Year Three of delicious (especially Greek-inspired) recipes! I'd probably choose the Anita Stewart book, as I'd like to learn more about contemporary Canadian cooking.ReplyDelete
Happy Two year Anniversary Val!! Any one of those books would make me very happy!ReplyDelete
Wow! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you joined the world of food blogging. I love your blog.
Also, great choices for cookbooks. I own Ricardo and it's a great cookbook to have.
My choice would be: The Main. I love the guy and his recipes. I would love to meet him.
Happy Blogiversary, Val!ReplyDelete
I'm really getting going with a blogger aid recipe - truly. It's been a hard month.
Happy Birthday!!! I'll choose "In the Kitchen with Anna: New Ways with the Classics" by Anna OlsonReplyDelete
WAY to Go Val. Congrats on one of my favourute blogs turning 2. Your blog is refreshing, brimming with new ideas & passionate. It's always wondeful stopping by & I feel like you are talking to me over every post! I love your blog.ReplyDelete
If, IF IF IF (LOL), the RIG were ever to choose me, then I'd probably pick "Anita Stewart's Canada".
Cheers & looking forward to "much more than burnt toast" in the years to come! HUGS Deeba
Oh, Happy 2nd blog anniversary. I think I'd be happy if I can win Ricardo's book.ReplyDelete
Happy two year anniversary, Val.ReplyDelete
What an amazing giveaway!
It's hard to choose, but I would pick Anita's Canada. You know I love sweets!
congrats, val! that's an impressive accomplishment. :)ReplyDelete
i'd pick anita stewart's kitchen, just because my mom's name is anita and i love her so. :)
Congratulations on your 2nd anniversary! This giveaway is a great idea. Thank you.ReplyDelete
I would choose "French Taste" by Laura Calder.
Congratulations! Two for me this year, too. Time flies, doesn't it?!ReplyDelete
Oh what a gracious giveaway!ReplyDelete
Thank u! N congratulations!!
I love Ricardo...his recipes are simple n lucid. :)
Happy Blogiversary! Two years is an achievement! Here's wishing you many more years of blogging success and enjoyment. I hope for nothing but the best for you! As for the book, I'd choose French Taste, by Laura Calder.ReplyDelete
Congrats on 2 years!! Keep the posts coming! Thanks for a giveaway! I would choose Anita's book...I think. It is a tough choice:)ReplyDelete
Val really congrats by the two years you have blogging!!! You are one of the first I kew in the blogging word and still love to come here all the time!!!Thanks to you by your support when I begin and for your lovely recipes.I hope you have a lot of yours blogging!! I will try to sendyo some recipe to the book..ReplyDelete
Dear Val I love Ana Olson and love her recipes,the last year I saw her in TV but this year I dont see in Food Gourment, but I love her recipes, so a book of her would be lovely, love ya, xxxxGloria
Congrats Val! You've got an amazing site and I always look forward to your recipes. Here's to many, many more delicious posts ...ReplyDelete
Oh, and Anita Stewart's book looks like it might be the one for me!
Congrats on two years! I can entirely relate, and its amazing to look back at where it started compared to where things are today. And my vote goes towards the Stewart bookReplyDelete
Love your all Canadian giveaway!!ReplyDelete
Happy 2nd year anniversary, sweetie.
I would love the Laura Calder - I have her first book and really like her style.
WOW, Happy Blogoversary Valli! Amazing how quickly things can change in two years! It is wonderful to see you and all the progress you have made in the blogging community! Keep up the good work, my friend!ReplyDelete
Definitely French Taste!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to MTBT!thanks for all the amazing recipes and guidance.Looking forward to many more delicious recipes.ReplyDelete
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Congrats to you! I would choose Anita Stewart's Canada by Anita Stewart.ReplyDelete
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Congratulations on 2 years! I'd love to win French Tastes! :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on two years! Time has just flown by, hasn't it?ReplyDelete
I love Michael Smith so I already have that book, I'd probably go for the Anna Olson.
Congratulations Val on your 2 year mark. What a huge accomplishment! Isn't it fun looking back on those years and seeing how far you have come?ReplyDelete
I would choose the Anita Stewart book as it looks to be the most Canadian!
Happy 2nd Birthday!!! :)and we're looking forward to plenty more post to come... Cheers to you!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 04, 2009
Congratulations on your second anniversary.ReplyDelete
i am a proud Canadian who has been to Greece once and fell in love with the country.
i would like Anita Stewart's book if I win.
I think it highlights the diverse and wonderful food of our country very well.
thanks for the opportunity!
Two years! Wow! Happy blogging anniversary! I would choose "Anita Stewart's Canada" by Anita StewartReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 04, 2009
Happy bloggy birthday!ReplyDelete
I would get the French Taste one I think...but the others looks so good I dont know!
Congratulations! Gratulerer! Felicitations!ReplyDelete
You've got a great site. I'm a completely ignorant when it comes to Canadian cooking (is it similar to Minnesotan cooking? I know all about that), so the Anita Stewart book would be much appreciated.
Have a great second year, Siri
2 years - fantastic!!! Congrats!ReplyDelete
I've got a recipe coming, just have to write it up.
- AnonymousFebruary 05, 2009
Happy blogiversary, Val. I'd choose the Anita Stewart book (and I'm hoping to make/send along my BloggerAid recipe this weekend!)ReplyDelete
Wow, happy birthday!! The Anita Stewart book would be awesome, as would the Ricardo one... he's so cute! Have a wonderful bloggy birthday... must figure out a recipe for you guys - I'd love to get a copy of that finished book!ReplyDelete
Oh dear Val- congratulations on your 2nd bloggiversary! I must say that you have been one of the greatest gifts I have enjoyed since I started blogging- so many, many thanks to you- you wonderful you. If I have to choose a book it would be the Anita Stewart's Canada- what else?ReplyDelete
looking forward to many more years of MTBT to come.
What a great give away to become familiar with Candian Cookbook authors. I would love to win French Taste. Happy Anniversary!ReplyDelete
congratulations on two years of excellent cookingReplyDelete
the authors of the books are new to me, i'd opt for anything!
Happy Blogging Anniversary!!!ReplyDelete
Congratulations and too many more years!!!
My favourite book would be Anita Stewart's...thanks a lot for this opportunity and ...good luck to everybody!
Congratulations Val! I'm sure the third year will only be richer and richer. Thank you Val.ReplyDelete
Happy blogging birthday Val. I look forward to many more years of your delicious recipes!ReplyDelete
Happy blog birthday - and many, many happy returns!! It's been a real pleasure getting to know you via your lovely blog and I look forward to many more years of MTBT!ReplyDelete
Cheers for wonderful 2 years of blogging, and many many years to come!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I love the fresh unique look, lovely spirit, the photos and recipes. I am getting to know you more every day!!!!!!!
I don't mind a book for Ricardo or Micheal Smith
I have visited this site.it give me information about work from home. i like to know more about this site.ReplyDelete
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Do poets have trouble finding rhymes for "hangover"? Or believe that all kids go to bed early on Dec. 31? For whatever reason, there are few good children's New Year's Day, compared with the many about Christmas, Thanksgiving and other major holidays.
But John Updike has written a lovely poem about January that appears in his A Child's Calendar (Holiday House, 32 pp., ages 4-8), and in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (Random House, 248 pp., $22.99, ages 12 and under), selected by Jack Prelutsky. "January" doesn't mention the New Year and instead celebrates the charms of the month with rhyming iambic quatrains: "The days are short, / The sun a spark / Hung thin between / The dark and dark." The Random House Book of Poetry for Children also includes Sara Coleridge's poem "The Months," which consists of 12 rhyming couplets, one for each month, that begin: "January brings the snow, / makes our feet and fingers glow."
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Above me was a perfect roof crack; around me, a continent of poverty and war; in front of me, a nightmare.
I reached up to steady a kitchen knife on the dashboard. Light from the big blade bounced across my forehead, and I felt the heat.
I hadn't been to Africa in over a decade. As the rattling Toyota Corolla shook things off the dashboard, orange dust in our wake shot up and settled onto emaciated tree limbs. Black rocks in the gully to our left looked like molten lava.
As far as I could tell, Swaziland hadn't changed. I had snapshot memories of the small mountain kingdom from my childhood, a bizarre mental album of cow-dung huts and tin-roofed shanties, a sprawling hospital where my father worked and a morgue, wild animals and tame animals and other animals in between, and a feeling somehow in the midst of it all of being special and safe.
As the child of a mission doctor, I was tolerated almost everywhere and so, while other kids herded cows or sold mangoes for pennies, I ran around with a stick and pretended to be in the special forces. One day, as friends and I raced through the hospital, I stumbled on a bucket of spaghetti in the surgery room—spaghetti that, on second examination, turned out to be relocated stomach worms, still moving.
Now we were going to Mantenga Falls for a picnic. Our knife was just for a pineapple. Bill, my brother, leaned over the steering wheel like a horse jockey.
My family never visited the falls when we lived in Swaziland. We tried once on foot, but a group of men by the streambed saw us and started dropping their beers to put on ski masks. They had bush knives. We turned around. They didn't follow.
By the time, a few years later, the Lonely Planet crew came through, there had been enough strong-arm robbery on the road to warrant a warning in the guidebook. The authors didn't discourage visiting the area but suggested staying in a vehicle.
Bill swung our Toyota around a sharp corner and I noticed a cave in the wall of rocks above the streambed. Twisted vines dangled from the entrance. A deep, zigzagging hand crack split the roof.
"Wait, stop here a second," I said. Perfect splitters had come to mean more to me than just a way to climb insanely overhanging faces. They had been my introduction to climbing and, in turn, American culture.
Hand jams and ring locks were the way an awkward kid of the Swazi middle veld managed to belong in the maelstrom of teenage California. I couldn't form a good sentence about cars or wakeboards or cereal flavors, but climbing culture was simpler. In climbing, effort was everything.
When I led my first climb (on nuts), most of my pieces wound up on my belayer's ATC, but I finished. As I acquired cams, I dreamt of longer cracks and bigger routes.
When a friend and I climbed the eight-pitch Whodunit (5.9) on Tahquitz our freshman year in college, we fretted over the size of the route till midnight the night before. To maximize our time, we started early in the morning. We lugged two ropes and a load of leaver 'biners in case we had to rappel, then finished before noon.
Other climbs didn't go as well. On our first attempt at the Nose on El Cap, we dropped so much gear we had to retreat just to re-rack.
Years later I met Todd Skinner in the Valley, just days, it turned out, before the accident on Leaning Tower. Though he was trying to free Jesus Built My Hotrod (VI A4 5.7), his mind was already on his next project—to find the ultimate roof crack, 50 feet or more, hundreds of feet off the ground.
"Imagine how that would be," Skinner said, while giving us his leftover barbecued chicken. "Do you know where one might be?"
The cave crack in Swaziland wasn't quite the free-climbing Shangri-La that Skinner had in mind, but its angles were perfect. I hadn't brought any gear, but it looked like I could solo the start. To finish it, I'd return with a rope.
Two hundred yards from the car, the pearl skull of a Nyala, an antelope with stout, dagger-like horns, greeted me near the base of the rock. I could have guessed from its position that it had bounced down from the cave but I wasn't thinking about that at the time.
The cave was 30 feet up, the crack 20 feet above that. I grabbed the woody vines, tested them, and climbed up into the cave on its right side. I moved into the center and out on the edge to check out the crack. Its geometric doglegs drew my eyes back into the hole, where it began on a pile of sharp rocks.
I mimed the sequence and imagined how far I could reach off each twist in the crack. It stayed horizontal for 25 feet, the last five feet jutting over the wash. Where it turned the lip, a lattice of vines and tree roots clogged the best jams.
I was imagining how I'd clean it when I first noticed the gravelly sound at my feet. I didn't hear it so much as feel it in my stomach. I looked down.
Time slowed. My eyes widened as I tried to take in all 20 feet of the snake in front of me. The massive body writhed. Its head hovered. Three feet off the ground, one python eye watched my every move.
Snake experts say that a rock python responds in one of two ways to intruders. If it hisses and heaves, it's angry and wants to scare you off. If it's silent, it's thinking about eating you.
I yelled to Bill and my sister-in-law, Erin, "There's a t-wen-ty-foot py-thon right in front of me!" My hands floated by my neck for no explicable reason.
"Where?" Bill shouted back.
"Right in front of me!" I didn't move. I stood helpless at the entrance to the cave, blocked off from the vines that were my only exit. The snake didn't move.
I yelled again to my brother. He was reaching for the pineapple knife. The snake didn't move.
I imagined what would happen if it did move. I pictured its jaws springing open, slow-motion like in a National Geographic film, hurtling toward me. I imagined being crushed and swallowed, engulfed in blood and guts and pieces of Nyala. Still the snake didn't move.
I wondered what it would mean if I was killed by a python on my soul-searching trek back to my childhood home. I felt chagrinned for wanting to climb in a place like Swaziland, where most people spend their days battling poverty and disease.
I remembered the worms in the hospital, saw the patient's feet. The curtain was drawn in the surgical unit but I could tell from the commotion that they had just removed that mountain of worms from her stomach. I wondered if she had survived.
Without notice, the snake swung around and poured into a basketball-sized hole. Adrenaline animated my limbs, and I dashed past the snake's retreating tail and fled down the vines.
I've often wondered how close that python came to attacking me. Was it hungry? Angry? Maybe it thought I was too big. Perhaps my brother scared it. Maybe it thought I was special.
Josh McCoy spent seven years in Swaziland and a year in Papua New Guinea. He is now a reporter for the Amador Ledger Dispatch in northern California.


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Just picked up Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (Columbia University Press, 368 pp., $29.50), the new book of poetry criticism by William Logan, who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Undiscovered Country. I'd read and enjoyed many of the pieces in Our Savage Art when they appeared in The New Criterion and elsewhere. (Sample opening line: "John Ashbery has long threatened to become a public monument, visited mainly by schoolchildren and pigeons.") But I'd missed a 2002 Contemporary Poetry Review interview with Logan by the poet and critic Garrick Davis that's reprinted in the new book.
In the interview, Davis asks, "What do you think of the present situation of poetry? Of its current health as an art?" Logan replies:
"I distrust the motives of the question. Much of what we dislike about the poetry around us won't bother the readers of the future, because it will have been forgotten. I doubt even the Pulitzer Prize winners of the past two decades will have many poems in anthologies half a century from now. This isn't simply a problem with the prize, though it's a scandal that Amy Clampitt never won it and another that Gjertrud Schnackenberg has yet to win it.
"Our poetry is healthy, if the sole measure is that there's a hell of a lot of it. Much is mediocre, but most poetry in any period is mediocre. What bothers me, as a reader, is how slim current ambitions are – too many contemporary poems start small and end smaller. They don't bite off more than they can chew – they bite off so little they don't need to chew."


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In an effort to explore some of the different career opportunities for genealogists, the following interview was conducted via email with Leslie Lawson, President of the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy.
Note from Leslie: Some of the answers to these questions I have pulled straight from the website for the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy at: http://www.forensicgenealogists.com/index.html. We worked long and hard to define ourselves and our goals for all the world to see!
1. What is "forensic genealogy"?
Forensic genealogy is research, analysis, and reporting in cases with legal implications.
Using methodology and ethics consistent with the highest standards of the profession, Forensic Genealogy is conducted by unbiased, disinterested, third party practitioners with no personal or professional stake in the outcome.
2. What is the difference in methodology between forensic genealogy and traditional "ancestral" genealogy?
Whether going back in time or coming forward in time it takes an educated research skill and knowledge about the available databases that can help you with this search. Each state decides what records will be available. Some states are extremely difficult to research in and others try to make it fairly easy. Going back in time is easier to a point, usually about 1850, and then it takes a different skill set, or mind set, to figure out how to go back further. To come forward from 1930 to today you must have knowledge about the place you are researching in and what information is available for that place. Are there newspapers, city directories, voter's registers? Can you access the SSDI to help bridge the years? Is there an online tree somewhere to help you locate living family members?
3. What are some of the issues that forensic genealogists confront?
Broken families where siblings don't talk to each other; they also don't talk to other living family members. Fifty years ago there was almost always a family member who was the one person that kept up with every person in their extended family. Today people are so busy that they often don't know what is going on within their immediate family.
There is the constant threat of closing record sets. Some records that are closed to researchers might include funeral homes or cemeteries that refuse to give answers citing privacy issues or HIPPA [dead people don't have HIPPA coverage]. Some businesses want to charge a large sum of money to open a book or access a computer. With all the scams in the news the next difficulty comes when we try to contact living people. Many are very wary, as they should be, but it does make it difficult at times to convince them to speak with us. I usually start the conversation talking about their grandparents, information that scammers wouldn't necessarily be aware of.
4. Who are the most common clients of forensic genealogists?
Most of our clients are attorneys; oil and gas companies; banks; trust accountants; guardians for the elderly.
5. What is the mission of the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy?
From the homepage of our website, under "Our Objectives"
- Advance public awareness and understanding of the profession.
- Encourage broader use of the services of qualified forensic genealogists.
- Promote and maintain high standards of professional and ethical conduct.
- Encourage best practices in client services and business models.
- Promote interchange of information among members through electronic forums, trade publications, meetings, and seminars.
- Provide education and training for professional advancement of membership.
- Assist fellow members in professional development though mentorship, full membership, credentialing, and awarding of fellowships.
- Influence legislation that impacts the profession or the ability to access public records.
6. What advice would you give a genealogist who is considering a career in forensic genealogy?
Understand that these cases can be very challenging; time sensitive affairs. If a judge is nipping at an attorney, you can bet that attorney will be nipping at you. Know the law of the state you are working within. Ask a practicing forensic genealogist if they can mentor you so that you can learn the ropes. You might not be able to access the professional's files because of their confidentiality agreements, but you can certainly practice on your own family by picking a line you know nothing about and bringing all those lines forward to today; then contacting said family members. Perhaps you'll have a fmily reunion with that new information you've uncovered. Understand that we are constantly learning about available records, and networking with others to be our legs on the ground when we need onsite researchers.
If you want to pull records for anyone, learn how to write citations! We're not looking for perfection; we're looking for accurate citations. If I receive a document with citations you can be pretty sure I'm going to call you again if I have work in that area. And you can also bet I'll share your name with others. Understand if you are a record puller, forensic genealogists need prompt response, follow through, and citations.
And if you really want to learn about forensic genealogy, come to the Institute! At this writing there is one slot left open. You can learn more about what we are offering at the website. It will be an intense 2 ½ days, and your mind will be swimming when you return home. It is our intention to walk you through all kinds of real life scenarios that we have run in to while doing this work. We hope to give you answers to many of the common and not so common questions. Our hope is to truly stretch you as a professional genealogist.
UPDATE: For another perspective on this subject, see Barbara Matthews, "Response to 'What Is Forensic Genealogy?,'" The Demanding Genealogist blog, posted 23 May 2012 (http://demandinggenealogist.blogspot.com : accessed 23 May 2012).


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The Beer Nut: Pour a taste of autumn with cider
A man, even a beer geek like me, can't live on beer alone. That's why, when I just need something different, I grab a cider.
Like craft beer, cider has undergone a huge transformation over the last year, with small, artisanal cider makers opening up throughout the country. It is no longer just mass-produced ciders such as Woodchuck or Strongbow.
Instead, the ciders being produced today are some of the most flavorful and best-tasting alcoholic beverages that you will ever have the chance to taste. And a bonus for all those who can't ingest gluten: All ciders are gluten-free.
New England is home to some of the best cider makers in the country. My favorite is the Downeast Cider House, which recently relocated from Maine to Johnny Appleseed's hometown of Leominster, Mass. They currently produce one cider, which is available in cans.
This cider just screams New England. When you walk into an apple orchard and smell the air, you pick up the aroma of fresh local apples. That's exactly what Downeast Cider tastes like. It is hard not to like.
Another top-notch Massachusetts's cider is Bantam Cider, based in Cambridge. Bantam's Wunderkind, a crisp cider with touches of honey on the palate, is wonderful.
Another excellent cider to look for is Farnum Hills Ciders at the Poverty Lane Orchards in Lebanon, N.H.
Farnum Hills makes the biggest variety of ciders in New England, using a combination of American, English and French apple varieties. This results in extremely complex ciders.
They have several sparkling ciders (carbonated), such as the Farnum Hill Semi-Dry and the Farnum Hill Summer Cider. They also have several still (non-carbonated) ciders, which reminds me more of a wine. The Farnum Hill Kingston Black is worth seeking out.
Another winning cider is the Fatty Bampkins Cider from South Casco, Maine. The brewers of Fatty Bampkins Cider, both the regular and the dry, borrow some of their methods from the craft beer world, fermenting their ciders in bourbon and rye barrels, giving them a slightly boozy flavor.
Even some New England breweries are getting in on the action. The Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams beers, and the Harpoon Brewery both brew ciders.
Harpoon's Angry Orchard Hard Ciders, in particular, are winners. They brew three year-round ciders – Crisp Apple, Traditional Dry and the Apple Ginger – all really good ciders.
They also recently released the Cider House Collection – two high-octane ciders that are made with French and Italian apples. The Iceman and the Strawman are both 10 percent alcohol by volume and are worth seeking out.
The Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton makes more than wine. Along with wine and beer, Nashoba makes the New English Cider. It is crisp and fresh tasting, which makes sense since they use apples grown on their own orchard. The cider is only available on-site, so if you are there, pick some up.
These are a good representation of ciders to get you started, but don't ignore other ciders. There are excellent ciders being produced throughout the U.S., as well as in England and France. Give them a try and you may be surprised to see how different ciders can taste.
Norman Miller is a MetroWest (Mass.) Daily News staff writer. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 508-626-3823. Check out the Beer Nut blog at blogs.wickedlocal.com/beernut. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/realbeernut or on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/beernutnorman.


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One of the criticisms of Jodie Foster's already legendary Golden Globes speech was the idea of expounding a need for personal privacy on, you know, a nationally broadcast awards show. Its detractors could have predicted this next turn of events, which, of course, is a resurgence in tabloid stories about Foster, particularly the paternity of her sons Charles, 14, and Kit, 12.
The Daily Mail is now claiming that the father was Randy Stone, a publicly gay Academy Award-winning casting director who worked on Foster's 1991 movie Little Man Tate. Stone, who Foster called "her best friend," passed away of heart disease in 2007. His mother Reverend Beverly Bates told the Mail that although Foster refuses to confirm or deny her suspicions that her son is the boys' father, she believes that he did "give her the gift."
"Randy told me that Jodie said she would tell the boys who their father is when they're 21. He said he could never tell me because Jodie was his best friend. He said 'Mom, I can't discuss this with you'. He told me he had had to sign documents, it was a secret he took to his grave, that was how much he loved Jodie. He said 'I can't break my promise to Jodie,' and he kept his promise to her."
Stone had also urged Foster to come out in public for years, and an associate of Foster's says that her coming-out speech at the Globes was "her way of honoring Randy." [Daily Mail]
Poor Britney Spears' ex-fiancee Jason Trawick went over her head and teamed up with her dad Jamie Spears to carefully extricate himself from their weird engagement/business deal/partnership thing:
"Jason wanted out, and in the fragile state that Britney is in, it's not like he could have a rational conversation with her about it, so it was really between him and Jamie... They decided how the relationship needed to end and how to go about the technicalities. Britney was left out of everything and really didn't even know what was going on."
This is SOOOO what "Lucky" is about, you guys.
"Jason and Jamie wanted to make sure that Britney didn't lose it, so they had to water things down for her a bit. She knows that the engagement is off and that Jason has been removed from the conservatorship, but she still hasn't exactly grasped yet that the relationship is totally over."
:-| [Radar Online]
If you enjoy "the occasional cheeky punt," which I guess means a bet (??), you should take part in the pool of people laying odds on whether Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton will pop little people out of their Wonder Orchids on the same day. The bookmaking began the day a St. James Palace spokesman confirmed that Kate'n'Willz were expecting their spawn in July, the same month of Kimye's projected delivery.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes is offering odds of 50/1 that Kate and Kim will give birth on the same day and if they give birth in the same week the odds are slashed to 7/1. If Kate's baby arrives first punters can expect odds of 6/1 (until Kim announces her birth date). [...] Paddy Power is offering better odds on the famous mothers 'doing the double' at 66/1.
Also includes the quotes: "We'll all be wetting the baby's head sometime late July" and "We fancy Kate to start pushing first!" Guhhh, UK, I thought you were classier than us. [Entertainmentwise]
BREAKING: Kim Kardashian got bangs "for real." [Us Weekly]
Ann Romneybot (Who? Egg?) has previously exhibited some interest in reality television in the past (Direct quote: "Who keeps up with the Kardashians? Who can keep up with the Kardashians?!") and was approached by Dancing With The Stars producers just after Mitt Romneybot lost the election. Mrs. Romney, who showed up at the last season finale and proclaimed herself a #1 fan, was "very interested" but ultimately decided against it after a few meetings with the network. However, one hopes she will continue to twerk it, pro-bono, in the privacy of her own alien pod. [TMZ]
As it turns out, despite his comments about Lena Dunham ("She's a fat chick who looks like Jonah Hill and keeps taking her clothes off"), Howard Stern is a fan of Girls and has since gone back on his self-proclaimed "hatchet job" on the show. "It makes me feel bad and I think she is getting the impression that I somehow think she's just a talentless little fat chick," Stern said. [Radar Online]
Lindsay Lohan turned down a rehab-mandated plea deal by firing her lawyer minutes before she stepped inside the courthouse. Theatrical! [TMZ]
Mama June doesn't want "Crazy Tony" on Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo anymore. I have no idea what that sentence means? [TMZ]
HA. HA. Fucking HA. [Hollywire]
Hulk Hogan is suing the Laser Spine Institute of Florida for giving him bad back surgery. [TMZ]
Terminator 2's Edward Furlong was arrested once again for domestic violence. [TMZ]
Nicki Minaj explains to Jay Leno that she and Mariah Carey are both just "passionate" people. [HuffPo]
Blue Ivy's first sonogram photo is here, courtesy of the upcoming Beyonce documentary Life is But a Dream. [NYDN]
The peanut butter cups of One Direction are in Ghana for the UK charity Comic Relief. [Sugarscape]
Ryan Gosling's "perfect day" involves knitting. [Yahoo News]
Charlie Sheen says he wasn't on drugs at the time of his infamous meltdown: ''It was just my brain was kind of separated into itself." Very convincing. [Contact Music]
NASCAR driver Danica Patrick is divorcing her husband. [USA Today]
Anne Hathaway will headline in an upcoming modern reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. Dude, you can't beat this. Just don't even try. [The Sun]
Megan Fox's husband Brian Austin Green picked her Golden Globes dress. [Us Weekly]
Adele "has eczema from boiling bottles," still won't reveal her kid's name: "It's very personal to me." [Us Weekly]
Tara Reid spent New Years Eve in Russia, where citizens can actually match her grain alcohol intake. [Page Six]
A Speidi sex scene on Celebrity Big Brother UK was banned for being too racy/existentially depressing? [Radar Online]
At the Weinstein Co. afterparty for the Globes: "Richard [Gere] was the first guest to arrive, without his publicist, and he seemed to be very confused and lost. He left shortly after and couldn't find his car, panicking and calling his agent for help." Remember that time celebrity confusion is always the LOLs? [NYDN]
Weinstein Co.'s Globes party nearly went up in flames when a drunk woman crashed into a heating lamp, sending the contraption and the guest toppling into a wooden table and chairs. A witness said, "There was a gasp as guests could only watch the flaming tower fall and wonder whether it would then ignite the wooden patio furniture. But luckily the fire went out and the wobbly woman was attended to, then escorted to the exit." At the same time, [Heidi] Klum jumped up on a wobbly cocktail table at midnight, dancing to hip-hop. Castle star Nathan Fillion told the supermodel if she got on the table, he'd take off his pants, which he did.
Soooo the Weinstein party is the best one, then? K. [Page Six]