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- House Beautiful / Alex's Kitchen by Alex Hitz
Steak au Poivre
The art of tableside cooking has all but vanished from restaurants. But who's to say you can't create that same magic at home?
Stunning, succulent, easy, elegant—these are but four words to describe that indescribable feeling of sophistication and accomplishment that this short preparation gives you. The whole thing goes straight from the skillet to your gorgeous finished plate in mere minutes. I'd suggest "romantic dinner for two," "special occasion menu," and "super-knock-your-socks-off delicious" as other catchphrases. You'll have your own.
Trust me: This is a surefire way to impress anyone with your culinary acumen, your immense sense of style, your continental élan. Show 'em you have it all. Way to go, babe!
"Tableside" preparations in elegant restaurants, often associated with the style of the middle of the last century, have drastically fallen out of fashion. Now we've got elaborately plated dinners resembling specimens from the science fair—foams and test tubes arriving on black square plates curling up at their edges. I know you know what I mean. It's not often that you see dishes like Steak au Poivre, Veal Oscar, Crêpes Suzette, and Bananas Foster prepared right at the table anymore. Why not? They're sumptuous and impressive events that once flamed up nightly in America's finest establishments. These dishes, prepared just for you, are theater. They are delicious. They are wow. You're out for dinner, and they emphasize that this is one special occasion.
Tonight you're in for dinner, but it's a special occasion. Set the table ahead of time and make it pretty. Pour a glass of wine. Light the candles, and then…crush those peppercorns! It's easy and fun—and the pepper is the key to the magic of this dish. Get a pan really hot and follow these simple steps to success every time. I love medium-rare for these steaks: brown with a bit of crust on the outside and rosy red on the inside. It won't take long to sauté them to this perfect temperature. The peppercorns, cream, and cognac combine with the pan juices to make a sauce that is so much greater than the sum of its parts. Pour this deliciousness straight from the pan all over the steaks, and when you take one bite you simply won't be able to stop yourself. It's just one of those things: 1+1=3. You'll see.
Do me a favor? In addition to sharing your photos and impressions of this recipe, I'd also love to hear your memories of birthday dinners, anniversaries, and special celebrations you've had in restaurants that do tableside preparations. If you know of any of these places that are still open and good, visit them while you can. They may not last forever. "Next" and "new" are always great, but sometimes you just can't beat that old-world atmosphere—the experience of dining at its grandest and best.
Happy cooking! Love, Alex.
LEFT: Sauté the steaks for just a few minutes to achieve a spot-on medium-rare. Once the steaks are removed from the skillet, Dijon mustard, crushed peppercorns, cream, and cognac or brandy are combined in the pan to create the sauce. BELOW: To maximize flavor, use a blend of peppercorns, including pink, green, black, and white.
Yield: 4 servings
1 tablespoon mixed cracked peppercorns
¼ teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 pound filet mignon, cut into four 4-ounce steaks
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon tasteless vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons cognac or brandy
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1.Layer one ziplock bag inside another, pour in the peppercorns, and pound with a meat tenderizer or rolling pin until coarsely crushed.
2. Combine the salt, pepper, and filet mignon in a bowl and toss until the steaks are fully seasoned on all sides. In a large, heavy skillet over high heat, melt the butter into the oil. When the foaming has subsided, add the steaks and sauté for 1 ½ minutes per side for perfect medium-rare.
3. Transfer the steaks to a serving platter, and then add the crushed peppercorns, mustard, cognac or brandy, and cream to the skillet, cooking for a minute or two until the ingredients come together to form a sauce, using a spatula to break up the bits stuck to the pan. Pour the sauce over the steaks and serve immediately.
Photo by Victoria Pearson


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The previous research thread for the Polymath7 project "the Hot Spots Conjecture" is now quite full, so I am now rolling it over to a fresh thread both to summarise the progress thus far, and to make it a bit easier to catch up on the latest developments.
The objective of this project is to prove that for an acute angle triangle ABC, that
- The second eigenvalue of the Neumann Laplacian is simple (unless ABC is equilateral); and
- For any second eigenfunction of the Neumann Laplacian, the extremal values of this eigenfunction are only attained on the boundary of the triangle. (Indeed, numerics suggest that the extrema are only attained at the corners of a side of maximum length.)
To describe the progress so far, it is convenient to draw the following "map" of the parameter space. Observe that the conjecture is invariant with respect to dilation and rigid motion of the triangle, so the only relevant parameters are the three angles of the triangle. We can thus represent any such triangle as a point in the region . The parameter space is then the following two-dimensional triangle:
Thus, for instance
- A,N,P represent the degenerate obtuse triangles (with two angles zero, and one angle of 180 degrees);
- B,F,O represent the degenerate acute isosceles triangles (with two angles 90 degrees, and one angle zero);
- C,E,G,I,L,M represent the various permutations of the 30-60-90 right-angled triangle;
- D,J,K represent the isosceles right-angled triangles (i.e. the 45-45-90 triangles);
- H represents the equilateral triangle (i.e. the 60-60-60 triangle);
- The acute triangles form the interior of the region BFO, with the edges of that region being the right-angled triangles, and the exterior being the obtuse triangles;
- The isosceles triangles form the three line segments NF, BP, AO. Sub-equilateral isosceles triangles (with apex angle smaller than 60 degrees) comprise the open line segments BH,FH,OH, while super-equilateral isosceles triangles (with apex angle larger than 60 degrees) comprise the complementary line segments AH, NH, PH.
Of course, one could quotient out by permutations and only work with one sixth of this diagram, such as ABH (or even BDH, if one restricted to the acute case), but I like seeing the symmetry as it makes for a nicer looking figure.
Here's what we know so far with regards to the hot spots conjecture:
- For obtuse or right-angled triangles (the blue shaded region in the figure), the monotonicity results of Banuelos and Burdzy show that the second claim of the hot spots conjecture is true for at least one second eigenfunction.
- For any isosceles non-equilateral triangle, the eigenvalue bounds of Laugesen and Siudeja show that the second eigenvalue is simple (i.e. the first part of the hot spots conjecture), with the second eigenfunction being symmetric around the axis of symmetry for sub-equilateral triangles and anti-symmetric for super-equilateral triangles.
- As a consequence of the above two facts and a reflection argument found in the previous research thread, this gives the second part of the hot spots conjecture for sub-equilateral triangles (the green line segments in the figure). In this case, the extrema only occur at the vertices.
- For equilateral triangles (H in the figure), the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions can be computed exactly; the second eigenvalue has multiplicity two, and all eigenfunctions have extrema only at the vertices.
- For sufficiently thin acute triangles (the purple regions in the figure), the eigenfunctions are almost parallel to the sector eigenfunction given by the zeroth Bessel function; this in particular implies that they are simple (since otherwise there would be a second eigenfunction orthogonal to the sector eigenfunction). Also, a more complicated argument found in the previous research thread shows in this case that the extrema can only occur either at the pointiest vertex, or on the opposing side.
So, as the figure shows, there has been some progress on the problem, but there are still several regions of parameter space left to eliminate. It may be possible to use perturbation arguments to extend validity of the hot spots conjecture beyond the known regions by some quantitative extent, and then use numerical verification to finish off the remainder. (It appears that numerics work well for acute triangles once one has moved away from the degenerate cases B,F,O.)
The figure also suggests some possible places to focus attention on, such as:
- Super-equilateral acute triangles (the line segments DH, GH, KH). Here, we know the second eigenfunction is simple (and anti-symmetric).
- Nearly equilateral triangles (the region near H). The perturbation theory for the equilateral triangle could be non-trivial due to the repeated eigenvalue here.
- Nearly isosceles right-angled triangles (the regions near D,G,K). Again, the eigenfunction theory for isosceles right-angled triangles is very explicit, but this time the eigenvalue is simple and perturbation theory should be relatively straightforward.
- Nearly 30-60-90 triangles (the regions near C,E,G,I,L,M). Again, we have an explicit simple eigenfunction in the 30-60-90 case and an analysis should not be too difficult.
There are a number of stretching techniques (such as in the Laugesen-Siudeja paper) which are good for controlling how eigenvalues deform with respect to perturbations, and this may allow us to rigorously establish the first part of the hot spots conjecture, at least, for larger portions of the parameter space.
As for numerical verification of the second part of the conjecture, it appears that we have good finite element methods that seem to give accurate results in practice, but it remains to find a way to generate rigorous guarantees of accuracy and stability with respect to perturbations. It may be best to focus on the super-equilateral acute isosceles case first, as there is now only one degree of freedom in the parameter space (the apex angle, which can vary between 60 and 90 degrees) and also a known anti-symmetry in the eigenfunction, both of which should cut down on the numerical work required.
I may have missed some other points in the above summary; please feel free to add your own summaries or other discussion below.

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As the rest of Canada is still locked in the deep cold of Winter, it is looking and feeling more like the end of April in Vancouver. The rains have cleared away and we anticipate that the Flowers, trees and wildlife are going to be waking up from the slumber of the long nights of Winter.
Here we want to show you what Vancouver has to offer during the Spring time – it is one of the most gorgeous seasons as the city erupts in Colour and life!
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Beginning in April and departing from Granville Island in downtown Vancouver, the Wild Whales experience allows you to observe Killer Whales and the diverse wildlife of the Pacific Coast in their natural habitat. It is an unforgettable, trip of a lifetime!
Board one of our three vessels at Vancouver's unique and historic Granville Island. Keep your cameras ready as you travel down False Creek and into English Bay, where the views of Vancouver, the Coast Mountains and Stanley Park are unparalleled. From English Bay, we pass the Fraser River estuary into the Strait of Georgia.
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If you visit Vancouver you must visit Granville Island – it is famous for its world renowned Public Market, Artisan Shops and entertainment that includes Theatres, Live buskers and more.
The Granville Island Public Market features a farmers' market, day vendors, and artists offering local Vancouver goods. There are fifty permanent retailers and over one-hundred day vendors in stalls throughout the market selling a variety of artisan cottage-industry foods and handmade crafts on a rotating schedule – a true jewel in the crown of Vancouver
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This annual festival for us heralds the fact that Spring is well and truly here, the city looks absolutely incredible once the Blossoms are in full bloom, it is impressively bright and really tells us that the gloom of Winter becomes a distant memory.
Best Places to View Cherry Blossoms in Vancouver
"This is why I live here!" is a phrase many Vancouverites exclaim during cherry blossom season. Each spring, as the rainy season fades, city dwellers pack their sweaters away and are rewarded with one of the world's most cheerful sites: 40,000 cherry trees bursting with pink and white blooms.
The West End is flush with the Blossoms, Harwood St which is one block South of us becomes quite an impressive site, also, check out Bute St the architecture and the trees make this street look very romantic.
Vancouver's many parks and gardens are ideal showcases for the beloved trees, but there are also a number of urban places to view these pink beauties.
Queen Elizabeth Park touts several varieties of cherry trees, which bloom at different intervals throughout early March and late April
Stanley Park also has rows of blossoming trees near the formal rose garden and the Japanese Canadian WWI war memorial
VanDusen Botanical Garden boasts more than 100 cherry trees, representing 24 varieties.
Vancouver international Cherry Blossom Website: http://www.vcbf.ca/
This is an excellent way to sight-see around the city and to take in all the major attractions. Big Bus have an excellent reputation and the Big Bus staff are incredibly knowledgeable and fun! They offer 1 day and 2 day passes where you can Hop on and Hop off at your leisure. Tickets can be purchased directly at the Hotel, ask the staff about discounts!
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The Vancouver Seawall is absolutely breathtaking and circles the majority of the Downtown Peninsula and encircles Stanley Park. This area is great to walk around during the Spring as there is no shortage of incredible Trees, Flowers and wildlife to stun your senses. We recommend that you look all around you as there will be Racoons, Geese, Herons that nest in the Spring in the Park and plenty of Birds of Prey and more. We are very lucky to have such stunning nature within this busy metropolis.
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If you are really up for a good old fashioned spending spree why don't you go on a Shopping tour? Posh Shopping Tours will help out you out with exactly that, taking you to some great brand named stores and other major Shopping areas that Vancouver has to offer.
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Giraffe Cave Art at the NamibRand Nature Reserve
Picture credit: Namibnat
At first glance this morning, this news appeared to be a positive move, made by someone who had their heart and their power, in the right place, and was a cause for tremendous joy.
But then after reading further and seeking secondary and other stories for reference, it seems that all is not as it appears.
Paul Allen, the Billionaire philanthropist, who is seemingly strongly supportive of protecting Endangered Wildlife, has several not so nice personal blemishes, that must also be considered before we proceed to give him his Best Global Humanitarian Award.
Mr. Allen has introduced a measure to get on the Fall Ballots in Washington State, that will put a hurting on those who use the World's most at risk wildlife to make a dirty income.
The measure, called Inititive 1401, has already reached, thanks to all of his volunteers in the field, the necessary number to get on to the Ballot in November.
This is a great thing.
What I am having trouble with, is the dark side of his company Vulcan and his sister Jody, who was the CEO, and has just stepped down after some very ugly issues about wildlife poaching and sexual harassment were brought to light by accusers who work for Allen's company.
I will not go fully into these things, as they are well presented in the links below.
What I am interested in pointing out here is this.
When very rich, very powerful people make the news and receive gushing accolades without the public or the press, doing more than just a little background digging into the facts, bad things can happen.
In this case, Allen, who has passionately promoted this initiative in Washington, to save and protect wildlife, seems awesome, but something here is not right, and it all smells just a little rank, when you learn that he has regularly taken African Safaris and owns Tourist Lodges in Botswana.
Now add to this, the fact that his Company Vulcan, formerly run by his sister, has been taken to court and accused of smuggling, poaching and more.
All too often, people like Allen and his sister, are unlike you and me, frequently kept safely in a cocoon, so that the scandals, or dirt runs off of them and does not stain their pristine, public images.
My concern and primary reason for writing about this today is, that it would be so much easier to believe Allen and all the others who claim to be truly concerned about the welfare of Endangered Wildlife, if there was not so damn much money involved in all of this.
If, as you do so passionately profess Mr. Allen, you truly do wish to protect Endangered African Wildlife, may I suggest that you dispose of your African Tourist Lodges and suspend your Safari trips?
It would be wonderful to see those with so much wealth, using it to personally educate and enlighten the rest of the world to what is happening to the precious few wild animals that we have left, before they are all gone.
We absolutely must take this message out to the schools, to the young, who will become our next generation of protectors.
Sadly, access to excessive money can turn even the best people's heads the wrong way and there is just too much at stake here.
The treacherous arms of Global Smugglers and Wildlife Traffickers can have very long tentacles, some are even said to be attached to Global Mobsters, that just may reach into even safe corners, including those of the well protected, well insulated, excessively wealthy.
Places to learn more:
Washington Rare Species Trafficking Measure, Initiative 1401 (2015)
Global Efforts to Stop Illicit Wildlife Trade: Are They Enough?
China Promises an End to Its Ivory Trade, While Some U.S. Politicians Pander to Wildlife Traffickers
Paul Allen: Seeking unbroken tall bones?
Paul Allen's sister steps away from managing $17 bln fortune
Seahawks owner Paul Allen, sister settle as bodyguards claim smuggling, bribery
War threatens existence of wildlife species in South Sudan
Washington State Initiative Aims to Protect Iconic Animals Threatened With Extinction
Paul Allen bankrolls initiative to ban rare-species trafficking


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Love the game, but can't play
It's hard to sit on the bench in any sport. I know this from personal experience, though some time ago.
It's especially hard in basketball, it seems to me. There are so few players — only five can play at any one time, and then there's the tyranny of the clock: only 32 minutes to be parceled out in high school games, 40 in college.
At Middlebury College, two of the best players on this year's talented team (5-0 so far, with two more home games this week), Kevin Kelleher and Ashton Coghlan, are sitting on the bench and haven't played a minute this season.
Kelleher has no prospect of playing and Coghlan has only a vague hope. Both would love to be competing, but they are out with debilitating, chronic injuries.
One of the two senior captains this year, Kevin is a versatile player, tall and well built, 6-5, 215, with a nice long-distance shot, so valuable in today's game.
We old-timers remember Kevin's father, also Kevin, class of 1980 at Middlebury, who was one of the Panthers' greatest players — he scored 1,498 points in his college career, third-most ever.
In his first two years, Kevin was a valuable substitute on highly successful Panther teams. He was counted on to contribute last year but a back injury precluded his play, so he sat on the bench in his civvies and cheered on his teammates in the best year in the school's long hoop history.
Kevin has two herniated disks in his lower back, a condition that can only be corrected with surgery, which he said will not happen "anytime soon." Surgery introduces risks "anytime you cut that close to the nerves," and also carries the possibility of problems later in life. "Some days are better than others," Kevin says. "I can work out, do low-impact stuff."
Ashton, a junior, is blade thin and can snake to the hoop or score from the outside. As a frosh two years ago, he had a 31-point game (in 19 minutes) against Union, with eight three-point baskets. He also scored 19 points against Colby and 23 against Bates in league wins on the dreaded Maine road trip. His future in basketball at Middlebury seemed an exciting prospect.
But a hip injury compromised last year: He was seldom well enough to play. He tried everything from ace bandages to acupuncture. "I tried to play through it," he says, "but it just got worse and worse. Mentally, it was really tough."
This year he has yet to dress for a game, but at least has the satisfaction of a diagnosis: An MRI has shown he has a "hip impingement." To fix it, he needs surgery which he will schedule this spring.
Ashton holds out hope for this year. Over the holiday break, he will get a cortisone shot to see if the pain can be reduced enough to allow him to play in January. But even he acknowledges that it's a "long shot."
Teammates now, Kevin and Ashton were rivals in high school in the Ivy League Prep School League in New York City. Kevin, from Queens, was the captain of the powerful Poly Prep team: "Our games were televised and couple thousand fans showed up."
Ashton, from East Harlem, was a stalwart for Collegiate: "Kevin was the only guy I liked on that Poly team," he says of his Middlebury teammate.
Both Kevin and Ashton have lives at Middlebury outside basketball, as they must. They represent the student-athlete at his best. Kevin, a Bio-Chemistry major carrying a 3.7 average, is applying to medical schools and hopes to attend Harvard, Columbia, or Cornell. At this point, he finds a future in orthopedics a possibility, or perhaps spinal medicine.
Ashton is also a high achiever with a GPA above 3.0. He is writing his junior thesis in his history major on "The Iran-Contra Affair: National Newspapers and Historical Memory."
It's clearly hard for these athletes to sit while others play. "I love the game," says Kevin. "I've been playing it since I was five. It's obviously disappointing, but I like the team aspect of the game. I've made a ton of friends, and learned a lot about leadership."
Ashton affirms that, "Basketball is very important to me. There's no way I'm going to give it up. There will always be some way for me to participate.
"Basketball is the closest thing to religion I have. I enjoy the game in a spiritual sense — it's more meditative than anything else I do. The most satisfaction I get is to be in a gym by myself. I enjoy practice more than the games. I'll find a way."
If you want to see some good basketball, head over to the college gym Thursday night or Saturday. Both the men's and women's teams are playing. Give a small cheer too for these two young men on the bench in street clothes, who would like nothing more than to be out of the floor competing, but instead express their love of the game in their support of their teammates.
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Top 5 Ways to Reuse a CD Spindle
There is this now-almost-infamous picture floating around the internet, featuring a CD spindle (you know, those plastic domes that hold stacks of blank CDs), repurposed to hold a bagel sandwich. The picture's gone viral because it's such an epic example of creative reuse: 1) the CD spindle is made of non-recyclable plastic and is usually just thrown away, 2) the compartment itself is the exact height and diameter of a bagel sandwich, and 3) a bagelwich that's bagged will be a squished bagelwich indeed, so this solution actually addresses a real-world problem.
Being somewhat of a repurposing connoisseur myself, this picture got me thinking about those CD spindles, and wondering how else they might be re-applied in our lives. Not only to save them from an afterlife in a landfill, but also to solve some other real-world problems. Here are the top five ideas I found:
1. Store cables.
The spindle is perfect for organizing your cords and cables – it comes with a built in wand to wind them around, and the top snaps on to keep them from unraveling. Repurpose the CD spindles (stacked) to neatly store cables out of the way, or use a CD spindle to tidy up your cord-cluttered desk or work space.
2. Tupperware.
If you cut off the actual spindle (the rod sticking up from the base), then you're left with essentially a "plate", with a domed top that fastens on top. That's why these cases are commonly referred to as "cake boxes." And that's exactly how you can use them! They're great for storing food, and they're even better for transporting small cakes or cupcakes without fear of smeared frosting.
3. Hanging storage.
I love this idea, and it's perfect for a work station or craft area. Again, remove the actual spindle and then screw the base, upside down, to the ceiling (or underside of a desk or table, etc). Now, you'll be able to fill the domed top with supplies and then pop it into place, and voila! Hanging storage bins, you clever home handyman.
4. Box light.
Learn how to turn a taller CD spindle into a lovely little desk lamp. This is an easy DIY with a really pretty result. I'm not sure if I am up to attempting DIY electrical work, though, so I might enlist the help of my local San Diego electrician.
5. Planter.
I'm a plant person, so I'm always looking for more vessels to contain my beloved houseplants. These are perfect! Use the domed top, flipped upside down with a hole drilled in the bottom, as a simple pot (decorate it if you desire). Or remove the actual spindle and use the whole contraption to create a little terrarium. And finally, here's a tutorial for how to turn a CD spindle into a hydroponic growing system.
Sayward Rebhal writes for Networx.com.
Updated July 22, 2018.
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It is actually easy to downdate and I have many versions stored. What version did you likeand how would I get it to yu if I have it?
I am at 7.6.22. No issues although it tends to starve my lappy from WUs indeed. Not sure if that was better previously.


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Morning Minutes: Aug. 30
Word of the Day
Sic SIK (adverb) Intentionally so written - used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original - www.merriam-webster.com
Website of the Day
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site
Want to know more about Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein"? Check out this site, which has bibliographical information (she was born on this date in 1797), reviews of her work and more.
Number to Know
.406: Batting average of Ted Williams in 1941, the last time a player hit .400. Williams was born on this date in 1918.
This Day in History
Aug. 30, 1967: Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today's Featured Birthday
Actress Cameron Diaz (40)
Daily Quote
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


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a fire-play —
temptation, orange, blue,
many dawn colored hues,
rise with its remaining sighs
before my shuttered eyes,
gate-crashing the portal for
a bite-sized world,
lives enmeshed, unfolded
and tread upon, within
a singular blanket
of agony, of warmth.
days rising and setting
(the sea abounding
calmness) —
one page folded, two picked apart
to take control over the command
for a rekindled fire — scarlet,
sinful, still,
in tomorrow's land –
singing my hair to a crisp,
narrow-tread – spiraling
higher and higher.
Some obtrusive rhyme there — I still feel awkward using them unless in a form. I have admired Ferlinghetti's usage though; would try to be less out-there next time. For now, it works for me.
Linking it up with the Tuesday Platform at With Real Toads
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The Israeli cabinet discusses the introduction of the mechanism of the Qatar funds into the Gaza Strip.
According to the Hebrew media, according to the "Palestine Today" agency, an important discussion is being held during the armistice between Hamas and Israel.
The reports show that it is estimated that in Palestinian territories in California, according to the ambassador of Mohammed al-Emadi, according to the plan planned by Israel, the $ 90 million caribbean sum will go to the Gaza Strip by the middle of this month as much as possible.
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Dear All,
Following on from the previous post about a far-reaching rebirth of Carian energies connected with Earth and galactically, the March-April energy flows are peaking now in 'resurrection of the Golden Frequency' mode through the Full Moon into Easter/Oestre. From the ancient Germanic mother goddess of the Spring, Ostara/Oestre's symbols of eggs and rabbits ~ new life and fertility ~ continued through the Christian Easter festival of resurrection. Christed energy from a higher dimensional perspective 'opens the 3D box from within', which we'll come to later in this post.
Through the last month, there's been a continuous defusing of control-oriented energy constructs and entities releasing from lower astral hubs and pockets under the Earth's crust (and those attempting to enter it being steered away), that have been representing clearly here throughout April; such as the appearance in the photo at the top of this post of a shimmering 'Eremor winged white lion' orb on April 2nd which can be seen steering a lower 4D 'grey' orb into the arrow formation of stars known as the Hu Shi asterism, where there is a high light portal. (In the enlargements below you can see a soft rainbow sheen over white light that has consistently appeared as the soul signature of the Eremor lion beings the last couple of years, and the face of a being appearing in the smaller, dim orb as it was guided/transported toward a receiving light field).
We've seen streams of these beings gathered and escorted out of the Earth's vibrational field, to specialized light fields for recalibration/transformation, into the guardianship of angelic and other light beings who oversee and assist healings/wholings back to Love. High vibrational Carian (bird-like) beings who fly in the golden light flows of resurrection have been constantly present, activating these clearings and transformations, with many appearances of their forms and ships in clouds overhead, like the photo below, from April 3rd, with a bird-face in clouds at the left, and the defined rim of one of their diamond-shaped lightships to the right, partially decloaked to give a clear impression of its structure.
Star family wish to share about the role of mirroring vibrations; in the previous post they showed an interplay of energies between Canopus and Sirius, the two brightest stars in the sky, as orbs positioning next to the two stars, reflecting from one to the other in consecutive photo frames. Since then, star family have flashed lightships simultaneously in mirror positions in relation to these two stars, and refer to Sirius and Canopus as holding an energetic alignment they call mirror nodes ~ and also that planets, moons, many stars and constellations, even galaxies and universes, exist and co-create through a direct quantum resonance translating as simultaneous vibrational affects that can be utilized to strengthen these co-affective, co-creative reflections. We too, can and often do flow and create as mirror nodes, from the soul to cellular levels, and so does Gaia, through many specifically connected nodes in her meridian/energy flow line network that have particular energy reflecting relationships within and around her planetary body and vibrational field/magnetosphere.
In the example below from star family on April 3rd 2019, Canopus is at the left, Sirius at the right, with two ships flashing at the same moment, from 'above and below'; one above Canopus, the other below Sirius.
In the next frame, the two ships have shifted position in relation to Canopus and Sirius, still mirroring each other's movements, with the ship at the left aligned to Canopus, and the ship at right sitting exactly between Sirius and Mirzam, in a direct line to Canopus and the 'mirroring ship' stationed there.
The mirroring of 'above and below' symbolized by these two ships in the first photo is also deeply relevant to the ways in which our star family around the Earth and Solar System connect energetically with our 5D Inner Earth star brothers and sisters of the Agarthan light realms….and how their movements mirror each other. As the 5D and higher ships and soul groups converge more closely around the planet, so the light of Agartha swells from within the planet, closer toward the surface.
Everyone of us holding an embodied form on the surface of the planet is innately capable of anchoring the light flows from above and below as pure love, magnetizing love. We are perfectly (and deliberately) positioned to 'hold centre' between the above and below, aligning through our hearts ~ the heart chakra being the unifying mid-point of our 'above and below' both physically and vibrationally within our chakra column, which reflects and connects with our 'surface dweller' roles of unifying and radiating the light streams flowing from above and below us. This is natural for us, and blossoms smoothly when we have complete trust in the Divine Presence (however this omnipresence is felt and intuited, behind, supporting and moving through our beings and this planetary and galactic ascension) and prioritize our heartfelt, peaceful, clear, compassionate embrace of BEing anchors and transmitters of love and unity consciousness on Earth at this time. 🙂
For the current centering of Christ Light ~ universal rebirth and resurrection frequencies ~ I was called a few weeks ago to activate a new node in the light-grid we've established in the garden here over the last five years. Crystals placed in the centre of this new node, in a Christ Cross formation, are holding the Threefold Flame/divine triune vibration, blue, rose and golden yellow, through beautiful silvery blue kyanite pieces, rose quartz and golden calcite. Quartz clusters that have been aligned with 5D core crystals within a sanctuary in the heart of Aran, an Agarthan light city directly below the hills here (see photos in this post of lightships exiting one of Aran's interdimensional portals).
The photos below were taken as the sun rose over the eastern hillside on April 7th. Initially, three stripes of sunlight fell across the circle, one large centre stripe flanked by two smaller stripes, as the trinity/threefold energies activated.
The three stripes then merged into one bright, strong beam, and you can see in the photo below, that the circle around the node was evenly divided into 'light and dark', representing the 3D polarity/duality vibration, with the crystal cross in the centre, and the centrepoint of the cross exactly upon the 'dividing line'; literally the 'crossing point of light'. The energy of the Dawn of the New Golden Age vibrating through this node from 'above and below', as it aligned and anchored the New Earth light-grid, with the sunlight playing very precisely across the circle, was wonderfully strong and tangible as a triple helix flow from the higher dimensions…and continues steadily.
This sublime energy continued into a wider group activation of the Aran alignment, with a group of dear 'ground crew' friends who anchored the light frequencies streaming from above and rising from the Agarthan light city below, to spread through a network of nodes connected with a distortion-release point on the upper edge of a nearby quarry in the Darling Range.
Following a beautiful, calm activation at the quarry, that night was busy with ships and orbs around the constellation Orion, with the release of embedded reptilian energies being transmuted through the star Rigel, which you can see with a blue, rose-rimmed orb beside it in the photo below, with a lightship flashing brilliantly in alignment with Orion's Belt as it sent a stream of (divine feminine) light through the Orion stellar trinity.
To attune with this phase of energy clearings from the planetary and collective psychic field, imagine the multidimensional Earth like an onion composed of energy layers wrapped around layers that have distinct attributes reflected in the physical layers of the planetary body. The centre of the planet, radiating from Gaia's Heart (sixth dimensional heart frequency of the planetary soul), has a liquid outer core that translates from 6D liquid light. Around this 6D heart vibration/inner sun, are the 5D Inner Earth light realms known as Agartha, with a band of 4D frequency attributes nearer the surface, under the 3D outer crust of the planet.
As the 5D light vibrations radiate more strongly from the Inner light realms toward the surface, they're pressing deeper into the 4D layer. Energies and entities inhabiting the 4D frequencies that are of denser, control-oriented vibrations (long-embedded heavy energy pockets or hubs, and beings that seek control through manipulation of the 4D 'zero-point' natural vortex qualities into polarized energy swirls/chaos) are being squeezed toward the surface, and seep out where there are open gateways for them to do so. This can happen softly and easily, or where there are strong blockages or resistance, the pressure tends to build until it 'explodes' in one way or another.
This is one aspect of the simultaneous fires that broke out in Notre Dame (Our Lady) Cathedral in Paris and Al Aqsa mosque complex on Temple Mount in Jerusalem on April 15th, as releases and clearings on the higher levels constantly translate into 3D into mild or more dramatic forms depending on the level of resistance and blockage. During this last month's heightening of an overall 'phoenix rebirth of darkened dragon fire' many Divine Masculine Light-beings of the higher dimensions have stepped in to dig deep and transmute 4D nexus points of distortion, to allow the Ascension Light to flow more freely.
A poignant little signal of 'divine mother' energies alive and well in the Notre Dame node came in the form of the 'miracle of the bees', as the three beehives on Notre Dame's rooftop survived the fire. Bees, in ancient times, have been venerated as goddess symbols, including the Melissae, the maternal bee goddesses; just feel the resonances here of how bees were anciently perceived as parthenogenetic 'virgin mothers' (as in the Greek 'Parthenon' temple of the goddess Athena in Athens), and the symbolic preservation of a trinity of hives upon Mother Mary's cathedral, while in the 4D levels, a plug was pulled to release old draconic energies (and flood the node within the church with SUNlight). What we have seen is an outpouring of love from the people, and that the cathedral will be restored through love, in a higher flow of the Golden Frequency.
In the last two posts, Gabriel, the archangel linked with Divine Conception, has shown his light (the White Ray) in relation to purifying energies around the Moon ('mirror of the Sun's light' from an Earth perspective, often intuited as maternal) in prelude to opening the higher dimensional Lunar Portal, through which streams of the 'unearthed' lower 4D energies and entities have been released safely out of the Earth's energy field.
On April 11th, Gabriel's presence showed clearly, opening the Lunar Portal with arms/wings outstretched either side in Christ pose, in merged feminine energy form (Haniel), with a pronounced rounded belly, coming into the Easter/Oestre re-birthing energies.
In the two circled areas below, you can see the angelic light form on the left, floating above a deep crescent in the clouds below, and a human-like face with leonine qualities on the right.
Following this Angelic appearance, the portal started to open like a flower, with 'petals' subtly showing as a radiating array within the cloud around the Moon.
As the portal opened fully and stabilized, an emerald green mothership (the Neptune) flashed briefly, while steering an orb of a reddish colour toward the portal, with the orb (reptilian energies) already lightening into white and rose as it neared the Moon.
In this longer crop, the Twin Stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, are visible at the lower right, with a strong vibrational connection to the portal and trajectory of orb and ship, which is connected with recent light alignments and activations flowing from the Jellyfish Nebula within the Gemini constellation. There's so much energy moving, all interweaving as part of the recouperative process of galactic ascension!
As the portal transferred energies and flushed with light, the green and rose rainbow bands around it in 3D visibility became much more 'solid and seamless' looking, wrapped as almost opaque, slightly fluxing colour bands around the Moon, quite fascinating to watch.
During the next week, the energies continued to ramp up, as on the subtle levels dark fire has continued flushing out from the Earth, steered through the Lunar Portal into specially prepared light fields. Coming up to Easter, rabbit energies have been very much to the fore here (in higher dimensional qualities, rabbits exemplify 'that which centres the flows of above and below', moving between above and below ground), as one of my beloved bunny companions passed from physical. Merlin the bunny was as magical in 3D form as in his higher light (an angelic being), with a coat of ever-changing colours that shifted not only in colour, but in patterns and markings, every day, like a precise yet softly shifting vibrational map.
Souls and soul families anchoring their light through animal forms on Earth is a subject for an in depth post of its own, but suffice to say here that in his 5D light-form ~ as a lovely, very gentle man named Turo (Arturo), currently stationed on board a beautiful lightship named the Elam'Ashar (Sapphire Star) ~ our soul brother's warm presence has been shining through, literally, in the streak of a silvery-white pod-ship overhead the day after Merlin's physical passing, and which he flew out from behind a cloud for this photo on April 17th.
That night during another Lunar Portal out-flow, with Turo and many beautiful beings in ships above, the ears and face of a bunny formed softly next to the Moon. Just feel these super kind, gentle Easter Bunny energies in your heart. 🙂 Oestre's Gate of the egg of new life, has been and is so very open in this vibrational bridging year of 2019, in solar portal and lunar mirror reflection.
Coming into the Full Moon apex on April 18th, star family gave a most spectacular presentation to share here, of a pinnacle in the current theme of Carian transcendence and ascension. Straight above the Full Moon, an Arcturian bow-ship lit up bright white, at the top of a 'cloud figure' that merged both the cross symbol and upright bird-form with an outstretched wing.
Enlarged, you can see the bird figure (with the Arcturian ship in front of its head ie; in a guiding, leading role) is standing or hovering on a deeply curved platform ascending through the clouds. Tucked under the Carian being's outstretched wing, there's a small patch, serpentine-like, of a carmine colour, representing a 'wounded red dragon' literally taken under the wing, for healing through the deep rose/ruby light vibrations that transform destructive, aggressive 'wildfire red' energies into harmonious, balanced flows of life energy/chi represented by clear red light. So very beautiful.
We wish you all the most happy Oestre/Easter vibrations of inner resurrection of all that is joyful and loving within you, radiating like a sun far and wide, above and below. Meditations and heartfelt contemplations with the vibration of 6D ~ the sixth harmonic ~ whether in the form of the bee's honeycomb hexagons, the flower of life or the Christed Cross, all assist the stabilizing of the higher ground, the 5D light-lattice of the ascended Earth. The sixth harmonic opens the 'box of the third dimension' from within…beyond the polarity of inside the box/outside the box, and beyond the 'never-ending rabbit hole' of the vortex hypercube energy structure of the fourth dimension, providing pure, fluidly flexible light stabilization for anchoring and grounding fifth dimensional crystalline light frequencies through your embodied being. Breathe, relax, open and enjoy!
With Love, Peace & Joy to All,
Joanna&Ashura,&Tanabor ❤
*There's a Golden Light Meditation at the LoveLight Circle for the Easter period, energies are still strong tomorrow…and if these meditations resonate for you, they can be freely used whenever your inner sense feels they will assist you. ❤


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School pick-up at an International school looks much like school pick up anywhere in the developed world. Apart from looking like a Benetton ad or maybe morning tea at the United Nations. And sure, there are a disproportionate number of drivers and nannies, say compared to a regular public school in Australia or the US, but the majority of people hanging out in the school yard before the bell goes, are mums.
Mums just like me, and maybe just like you. Women who were brought up and educated to believe that we could do whatever we set my minds to. Highly educated, well travelled, sophisticated, urbane, and overall a broadly privileged set.
We women who came of age in the 80s and 90s, we reaped the rewards of the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s. We are old enough to remember the cat calls, but young enough to remember them becoming culturally inappropriate. We were generation who could be and do it all. Until we had families of our own and 'do it all' became 'compromise it all'. For working and parenting is a juggling act few people can admit to doing both well. Sure we can do it all, just not all at once.
When an expatriate position becomes available, the opportunities and experience shine like a beacon of excitement on the suburban horizon. For long term expatriates, another overseas move is a fundamental facet of life. In that first leap we put aside the concerns about our careers, and take the plunge.
We have become the dreaded trailing spouse. When the honeymoon period is over (and before the G&Ts kick in), in this age of female empowerment (in the developed world at least), the harsh reality of a spouse visa signifies all we have left behind.
spouse of Mr. R…no occupation or business for reward permitted.
A pharmacologist who worked on one of the first malaria vaccines, now mum of young, demanding toddlers, clad in tracksuits finds escape in sewing club.
A corporate lawyer, commuting between Tokyo and New York, now mum of three, develops cooking and African drumming skills.
Training spouses get a bad rap. Between tennis, coffee mornings, ladies who lunch and the (inevitable) G & T hour, what we actually do, is keep the show on the road. Not only, like millions of other stay at home parents (more the power to you I say!), keeping track of the usual after school activities and homework and keeping them reasonably clean and reasonably well fed, we're navigating cultural differences and doing our damndest to keep life as happy and normal as possible. Sometimes it's funny: we're expounding the virtues of a bucket bath when the water goes off, we're explaining why it's ok for mum to swear at the lunatic taxi driver and why sometimes mum needs to pay the policeman. Sometimes it's hard: why do people argue about Israel when my Israeli friend is really nice? And sometimes it's so beyond my experience I have to laugh: when my youngest feels inadequate that he has only lived in two countries, when his friends at school have lived in four!
My husband routinely volunteers to be the stay at home parent. He daydreams of French lessons and days at the beach. School pick-up, after-school activities, days traipsing around supermarkets, hours spent sitting in traffic and waiting for tradesmen don't seem to factor too highly in these daydreams. And what about the trailing spouses who are dads? They're out there, keeping a low profile. Mostly diplomatic families, some of whom have found a better balance than us more commercial expats. Sometimes it is the woman's career which brings them abroad, or in a few wonderfully balanced partnerships the postings are alternated between partners, taking turns in whose career takes precedence. Sometimes connections and diplomatic passports provide a window into a world of work more accessible than those of us stamped 'SPOUSE'.
There was an apparent small furor over at Mamamia (a very popular Australian news–pop culture website), over an Indian woman in Australia wanting to set up an Indian mothers group. Despite Australia being one of the most multicultural nations, some mothers deemed it racist. I read it with a wry smile after attending our Australia and New Zealand coffee morning here in Accra. It's what we do. We touch base, we ask for advice. Sometimes it's about being around people who share the same culture as us, who laugh at the same jokes. It's about asking for advice and simply sharing our frustrations and concerns. It's about creating a life, outside the work we've all come here for.
Some women love being a trailing spouse. "I've done it for 20 years and love it", others (quite rightly) take it as their job, some throw themselves into volunteer work, others take a very active role in school life. And some, like myself, have a more ambiguous relationship with the role. I've just enrolled myself at university. Freaking out, nervous and excited, it's been a long, long time since I took to a text book (but these days I'll just be taking to a screen).
When I was 14 my mother said to me "never be financially dependant on a man". Wise words, which I took to heart. And while I love being a mother, I've always struggled with the idea of abandoning my career at the feet of my family. But here, in the 21st century, in this age of female opportunity, it is what I, and countless other mum's, have done.
I've met wonderful women from all over the world; intelligent, smart, funny. And across the oceans various well-meaning friends and family have asked us all the same question: What do you do all day?
I'll tell you what we do.
We keep the show on the road.
Happy International Women's Day everyone!


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well, mawwiage plus the epic 1987 film "The Princess Bride." i can't remember the first time i saw this movie, or how many times i've seen it, but it's a lot, starting in childhood. it's a fairy tale as told by a grandpa to his sick-in-bed grandson (Fred Savage), about the beautiful Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright) and how she is about to marry an evil Prince Humperdinck, but is kidnapped and finds herself having quite an adventure. all the while, she tries to she keep the faith that her true love, Westley, will come back to her.
the movie has ACTION! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! and a big dose of COMEDY! at Buttercup's lowest point, when she is being forced to marry the prince against her will as her beloved Westley lays "mostly dead" in the Pit of Despair, the voice that comes out of the priest with his ridiculous speech impediment breaks all tension and you can't help but just giggle. there are LOTS of those silly moments in The Princess Bride – more than I remembered – and it makes it such a fun movie to watch, even as an adult.
the wedding scene, with it's high drama and equally high comedic factor, is the scene i chose to sew for film petit. Buttercup's elaborately embellished wedding dress also seemed like something my little gal would love wearing.
with this outfit, i finally answered her pleas to make her a princess dress. and i made not just any princess dress, but a princess wedding dress!
i started with the Oliver + S Playtime Dress and stayed pretty true to the pattern for the most part. for the floor length skirt i just cut a long rectangle and gathered it selvedge to selvedge (it was very wide satin).
i made a few changes to the bodice, cutting the neckline a bit lower, splitting the front down the middle and modifying the facings to match, adding buttonholes for cording, a lace underlay, and cutting the bottom of the bodice to a curve.
Buttercup's dress has an array of trim and beadwork to add texture, and i did the best i could to get that feel by adding this beautiful beaded lace flower trim and gold/white woven elastic trim to the neckline and bodice – all from the bridal section of Fabric Depot.
the dress is satin, also from the bridal section of the depot. it was on clearance and i'm glad i got "good stuff" for a lower price – this is the best satin i've ever sewed with! it didn't shift on me much at all, didn't snag easily, and it flows like water. she loves wearing this dress and actually hangs it on her closet door when she's not wearing it!
i first cut a lace cape more like a half circle to billow out under her arms, but i made a mistake and cut it too short for Em – it was only knee-length and she insisted it reach the floor! i salvaged the rest to make the floor length version you see here. i wish it was wider but it works.
so even though The Princess Bride is PG-rated (same rating as Frozen, Em and every other girl between the ages of 3 and 7's favorite movie right now), it has a LOT more questionable content that i don't want her to see just yet (ya know, stuff like nightmare-inducing ROUSes and torture chambers…). the '80s were a wild and crazy time for movie ratings, i guess. so Em has seen parts of The Princess Bride with whole scenes skipped over until she's older.
what she has seen, though, was enough to get her in character for these photos, melancholy bride acting and all.
she was cracking me up. she knew Buttercup didn't want to get married to that awful Prince Humperdinck, and she did not crack a smile through most of this photoshoot – and when we were done, she had me pretend that the Prince's men were after us and i was helping her escape!
so now it is time for you to escape, for you will surely crack a giant-sized smile when you see what Jess & Jess have in store for you today!
our guest Jess from Craftiness is not Optional had the brilliant idea to do The Princess Bride, and we said "as you wish!" Jess sewed Buttercup and Westley the Dread Pirate Roberts and found the PERFECT photoshoot setting, too, complete with rolling hill. really amazing work, and thanks SO much for joining us, Jess! check it out!
my partner Jess from A Little Gray sewed up two of the three bandits that kidnap poor Buttercup but later become Westley's allies. it would be INCONCEIVABLE not to love Andre the Giant as Fezzik and Mandy Patinkin (or as my husband has taken to calling him, "Battleship Patinkin") as Inigo Montoya! she also got photos at a CASTLE. off with you to see Jess's post, and prepare to die (but only if you have six fingers on your right hand).
here are the guidelines for film petit:
- every month or so, Jess and i (plus a guest) sew an outfit (or outfits) for our kid (or kids) inspired by a movie we love. not sure if we'll get a February post in due to the imminent arrival of this baby in my belly, but we'll be back as soon as we can.
- please add any of your movie-inspired kid sewing to the film petit flickr group. if you sew along with our film petit choices, we'd love to see that too!
- this is a pretty relaxed series, really the only rule is to make outfits for kids based on films you love. if you have any questions, please let either of us know.
- film petit archives: the life aquatic with steve zissou, amélie, fantastic mr. fox, psycho, moonrise kingdom, ferris bueller's day off, the big lebowski, back to the future, napoleon dynamite, zoolander
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Singapore's desserts were good to me. There was shaved ice as light as snow, quivering flotillas of crystal grass jelly, and the delicate but mind expandingly delicious flavors of fresh coconut, smoky raw sugar, pandan, and calamansi lime.
When I left the country after my short trip a few weeks ago, I accepted that the best of those tastes were lost to me. Calamansi lime, that delicate orange-herbal citrus fruit so essential to Singapore's cuisine, is basically unknown back in the States. And though you can find good shaved ice in New York, it's not really the same. Our shaved ice is informed more by Taiwan than Malaysia, and I've yet to find one of my favorite shaved ice desserts, a simple bowl of unflavored ice topped with grass jelly, a bit of syrup, and fresh calamansi lime juice.
But on a recent shopping trip I came across some cans of calamansi lime juice drink in a Malay grocery store—for $1 a can. I bought six, and considered the discounted flat of 24. The cashier gave a look at my stupid-excited face and just smiled. "I know," she said, "these limes just aren't the same."
And with that I became a man on a mission: to make my favorite shaved ice at home, calamansi, grass jelly topping, and all.
Proper shaved ice is made by scraping a giant ice block with a hand scraper or rotary machine. But you can also make it just like a granita: by slowly freezing a liquid base and breaking up the ice crystals every half hour or so. The more obsessively you scrape up the crystals, the smaller and fluffier they'll be.
In Singapore you're more likely to get a pile of plain shaved ice topped with flavored syrup, but if you're making it from scratch, there's no reason not to flavor the ice itself, in this case with calamansi lime.
The grass jelly topping, a wobbly, cool gel made from boiling a Chinese relative of the mint family with some starch and a setting agent, can be found in cans in Chinese supermarkets. It's more clean and refreshing than gelatin and less brittle than agar; served chilled with a bit of ginger-laced syrup, there's nothing better to cool you down. The condensed milk drizzle I add isn't strictly speaking traditional to this style of shaved ice, but the sweet jolt and delicate creaminess are a very nice thing.
If you can find calamansi limeade in Southeast Asian markets or online, you can use it pretty much unadulterated as the base for your ice. Your final flavor goal is whatever the melted ice tastes like, so if you're happy with the sugar levels in your canned limemade (not to be confused with packaged lime juice concentrate), you don't need to add more.
If the calamansi just isn't meant to be, here's an ersatz version that mimics the rounded orange sweetness of the fruit, if not all the deep, unreplicable complexity of its flavor. The base is little more than water, orange, lime, and sugar, a dead-simple ingredient list that turns into something exotic, refreshing, and altogether fascinating.


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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Etymology – The Scorpion
Scorpius or better known as Scorpio is one of twelve familiar constellations of the Classical Greek Zodiac. Its name is Latin for scorpion. Next to Virgo, it is one of the largest and brightest constellations in the night sky. The claws of the scorpion were "broken" off to form the constellation of Libra during Roman times.
Astronomy & Astrology
Much of the foundations of Western knowledge regarding the fields of Astronomy and Astrology owe its roots to Ancient Mesopotamian cultures. Many ancient cultures studied the stars, seeing in them patterns that are called constellations. These ancient astronomers were able to make predictable, annual turnings of the heavens that they could divide and mark for the passing of the Seasons and time. For the ancients, Astrology served as a precursor to Astronomy and they believed that by studying the heavens, they could foretell future events and even a person's life path.
These ancient cultures would also meet and exchange ideas frequently and in this fashion, when the Greeks encountered the Persians, there was an exchange of knowledge regarding Astronomy that becomes the constellations and zodiacs so many know today. Eventually, there is no clear distinction between what ancient Mesopotamian Astronomers and Greeks Philosophers knew. Or who influenced who regarding the stories and myths behind the constellations. Even in current, modern times, the influence of these ancients is still known.
Western Astronomy
Scorpius is Latin for scorpion and is one of 48 constellations that were identified by Ptolemy, an astronomer who lived during the second century. In modern times, it is one of 88 known or recognized constellations and is located in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the 33rd in size for constellations in the night sky. Other constellations close to Scorpius are Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, Libra, Lupus, Norma, Ara and Corona Australis.
Chinese Mythology
In China, the constellation of Scorpius is part of the heavens where the Azure Dragon rests.
The star Antares was called Huo Shing, meaning "the Fire Star" and was worshipped in order to guard against fires.
Egyptian Mythology
Among the ancient Egyptians, the constellation and zodiac of Scorpio was equivalent to the Serpent, as they were worshipped and associated with many of their deities such as Ra, Wadjet, Renenutet, and Meretseger to name a few. Each quarter of the city of Cairo, there was a serpent guardian.
The star Antares was seen to represent the scorpion goddess Serket, a symbol of Isis in the pyramidal ceremonies.
Greek Mythology
Orion the Hunter
The constellation of Scorpio is best known as representing the scorpion in the story of Orion the Hunter.
In this story, Orion, a giant huntsman went to the island of Crete to spend time hunting with the goddess Artemis and Leto. While there, Orion boasted to Artemis and Leto how he would kill every animal on earth. In some versions of this story, Artemis, being a goddess of the Hunt offers protection to the animals of the earth and Leto sends a giant scorpion to kill Orion. In other versions of this story, Gaia, on hearing Orion's boast, sends the giant scorpion after him in order to punish him for his hubris.
Orion and the scorpion fought it out and the scorpion eventually stings Orion, killing him. At the request of Artemis and Leto, Zeus, the father of the gods placed Orion along with the Scorpion up into the heavens as constellations and memorials. Every winter Orion can be seen up in the heavens still hunting and fleeing in summer when the scorpion ascends in the heavens.
Yet another variation to this story has Orion being the better hunter than Artemis but telling her that she's the better hunter so that Artemis would take a liking to Orion. Her twin brother, Apollo grew angry with Artemis' affections towards Orion and he's the one who sent the scorpion to kill Orion.
While most Greek stories mention Orion, a lesser known story involving a scorpion is that of Phaeton, the mortal son of Helios, the sun god who drove the sun across the sky with this chariot.
Now Helios had sworn by the river Styx to give his son anything he asked for. In this instance, Phaeton asked to drive his father's Sun Chariot for a day. Helios tried to discourage his son from this activity, but being oath bound, he found himself allowing Phaeton to drive the chariot.
Once behind the reins of the chariot, Phaeton panicked as he found that the white horses who pulled Helios' chariot were too much for him and he lost control. The horses ran rampant, running to high above the Earth that it grew cold. As the horses drove the chariot close to the celestial scorpion, it raised its stinger, ready to strike. The horses panicked and now moved closer to the Earth; too close as now the fiery wheels of the Sun Chariot burned all the vegetation, causing much of Africa to become desert and darkening the skin of the Ethiopians. So the story goes.
Finally, Zeus stepped in and hurled one of his thunderbolts at the runaway chariot and Phaeton. As a result, Phaeton fell into the Eirdanos River and Helios took back the reigns of his Sun Chariot.
Javanese Astronomy
Among the Javanese people of Indonesia, this constellation is known as Banyakangrem, meaning: "the brooded swan" or as Kalapa Doyong, which means "leaning coconut tree."
Mayan Astronomy
The Mayans of Central America referred to Scorpius as "the Sign of the Death-god."
Mesopotamian Astronomy
The ancient Babylonians called this constellation: MUL.GIR.TAB, meaning "the Scorpion" and can also be read literally as "the creature with a burning sting." The Claws of the Scorpion were seen as a separate constellation forming a set of Scales.
The star Antares was known by a variety of names in Mesopotamia such as: Urbat, Bilu-sha-ziri, meaning "the Lord of the Seed", Kak-shisa, meaning "the Creator of Prosperity"), Dar Lugal, which means "The King", Masu Sar, meaning "the Hero and the King", and finally Kakkab Bir, which means "the Vermilion Star." Antares is listed in the star scroll MUL.APIN as GABA GIR.TAB which means "the Brest of the Scorpion: Lishi, Nabu."
Micronesian Mythology
A story found among the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, tells the story of Dümur, the eldest son of Ligedaner who is the mother of all the stars. Ligedaner is identified as being the star Capella in the Auriga constellation, Dümur is identified as the star Antares and the youngest son is identified as Pleiades.
Ligedaner's sons came down from the vault of Heaven to visit with her where she lived on the atoll Alinablab. While there, a contest was proposed that who ever was the first to reach a certain island somewhere out in the East would be named the King of Stars.
The contest was agreed to and the sons prepared themselves to take off to claim the title of King. Ligedaner asked Dümur to take her with him in his canoe. Dümur refused as he saw that his mother wanted to take as many things with her as she could and thereby slow down the canoe with its weight.
Ligedaner asked each of her sons in turn to take her with them in their canoes and each in turned refused. Until she got to her youngest son, Pleiades who finally accepted her request to go with him. Ligedaner had seven objects she was taking with her and as she got into the canoe, she instructed Pleiades where to load and place each object.
When they were finally loaded up, Pleiades took his place to start rowing. He was surprised to find that instead of being weighed and slowed down by all the objects, that his canoe shot out into the water with great ease nor did he have to use his oars. The seven objects it turned out, had been previously unknown sail rigging and with his canoe driven by the wind, it took no time at all to catch up with his brothers.
As Pleiades' canoe caught up with Dümur's canoe, Dümur demanded, on his rights as the first-born son that his youngest brother hand over his canoe to him. Dismayed, Pleiades complied with the demands. Ligedaner proceeded to play a rather mean trick on Dümur by turning the canoe around and then when she jumped with Pleiades into the sea, she took with her the yardarm. Together, Ligedaner and Pleiades swam on towards the island to the East.
Dümur found that in order to sail Pleiades' canoe, he had to fasten the sail to his shoulders, causing him to become bent over. By the time Dümur reached the island, he found that his youngest brother Pleiades and Ligedaner had beaten him there already and that Pleiades now claimed the title of King of the Stars. Angry, Dümur desired to never see his brother Pleiades again. This separation fo Dümur and Pleiades can be seen in the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere as when Pleiades rises in the East, Dümur (as the star Antares) sets in the West. The bent back of Dümur is also seen represented by the curved line formed by the stars outlining the bent body of Scorpius.
Polynesian Mythology
In Hawaii and New Zealand, the constellation is recognized as being the demigod Maui's Fishhook.
Roman Astronomy and Mythology
The Romans broke off the claws of Scorpius to form the constellation of Libra, perhaps hearkening back to how the ancient Mesopotamians cataloged their constellations.
Among the Romans, Scorpius was also known as "The Lurking One."
Antares – The Heart of the Scorpion
Also known as Alpha Scorpii, it is the 16th brightest star in the night sky and a red supergiant. Antares is the brightest star found in the Scorpius constellation. Antares is part of a binary star system with a faint companion. Along with the stars Aldebaran, Regulus and Fomalhaut, Antares is part of a group of stars known as the "Royal stars of Persia." Antares is also referred to as the "heart of the scorpion."
Antares name comes from the Greek name: Άντάρης meaning "Anti-Ares" or "Anti-Mars" as both this star and the planet Mars have a similar reddish color. Some scholars think this comparison of Antares with Mars may have originated with Mesopotamian astronomers. Other scholars suggest that this star may have been named after Antar or Antarah ibn Shaddad, an Arab warrior-hero found in the Mu'allaqat, a series of Arabic Odes or Poems.
Antares has a number of different names from many cultures that it has been known by such as Urbat, Bilu-sha-ziri , Kak-shisa , Dar Lugal, Masu Sar, and Kakkab Bir in ancient Mesopotamia. Satevis in Persia, Jyeshthā in India as one of the Hindu lunar mansions, the Wotjobaluk Koori of Australia knew it as Djuit, son of Marpean-kurrk (Arcturus); the stars to either side represented his wives. In the same vein, the Kulin Kooris saw Antares as Balayang, the brother of Bunjil (the star Altair.)
The Maori of New Zealand called Antares Rehua and viewed it as the chief of all the stars. Rehua is the father of Puanga/Puaka (the star Rigel) and plays an important part in calculations of the Maori calendars. In the Arabic Qalb al-Άqrab, is was called Calbalakrab, a name directly translated from the Greek Kardia Skorpiū. The people of ancient Asia referred to antares as the "Grave Digger of Caravans."
Other Stars Of Scorpius
Beta Scorpii – Also known as Acrab or Graffias is a multiple star system found in Scorpius. When viewed through a telescope, it appears as a binary star. The traditional name of Acrab has a couple of alternate spellings of Akrab and Elacrab which come from the Arabic language of al-'Aqrab which means "the scorpion." The name Graffias is a name also shared by another star, Xi Scorpii which means "the claws."
Lambda Scorpii – Also known as Shaula, it is the second brightest star in Scorpius and the 25th brightest star in the night sky. The traditional name of Shaula comes from the Arabic language of al-šawla´ which means "the raised tail."
The Butterfly Cluster
Or Messier 6 was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Batista Hodierna in 1654 and given the name of the Butterfly Cluster due the shape the stars appeared to form. Charles Messier added to his catalog of stars in 1764.
The Ptolemy Cluster
Also called Messier 7, it is another star cluster found within Scorpius. It has been called the Ptolemy Cluster as it was the famous Greek astronomer Ptolemy who first recorded it in 130 C.E. who thought it to be a nebula.
The Cat's Paw Nebula
The Cat's Paw Nebula or NGC 6334 was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel in 1837. It is a vast region of star formations that lies some 5,500 light-years from Earth. It is a nursery of sorts for the numerous new stars being formed within it and believed to contain some tens of thousands of stars.
There are a couple of meteor showers associated with this constellation. They are the Alpha Scorpiids and the Omega Scorpiids.
The constellation of Scorpio is the eighth sign of twelve signs that form the Zodiac. For those who study and are into the classical Greek Zodiacs, this time is typically said to be from October 23 to November 22. Due to the changes of the earth's orbit and tilt, the best time to see this constellation is during July around 9 p.m. The planet Mars along with the dwarf planet Pluto are said to rule this Zodiacal sign and constellation. Its element is Water and is one of four Fixed signs.
Scorpios are seen as being very studious and serious and often like to learn everything they can about others. This can be a bad thing if there's anything private or personal a person wants to be kept secret. A secret is what Scorpio's love given their immense curiosities and love for learning. They're good inquisitives and know how to trust their intuitions when figuring things out. Scorpio's also love to be in charge of their own manifest destinies, doing what it takes to get them where they want to be in life. Downside is when they step on others to get their way with being a manipulative or are overbearing in the methods while pursuing their agendas. When motivated and after a goal, Scorpios can be very resourceful, bouncing back easily from set backs and being very stubborn in their drive to not give up. They can also be very vindictive whey they feel they've been wronged.


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the month of October is fast approaching ( my favorite month of all time ~ I come alive in Sept/Oct/Nov like I do no other time of the year.) I really am like a different person.
it's a perfect time for change and commitment. The ability for us to change and control what we can on our own is truly a luxury.
someone with breast cancer does not always have that option. And yes, folks. October is breast cancer awareness month… and I'm out to make you aware.
I've eluded to it before, but I need to tell you without going into too much detail, that my darling stepsister, Audra, was diagnosed at the end of the summer with breast cancer. Audra is one of the most sweetest people that I know with undoubtably the BIGGEST heart of anyone. She has lived a life that is much more difficult than average… There have been road blocks at every step of the way.
As you may know, My little sister, Jodie and I have walked in the 40 mile 2 dy Avon walk for breast cancer for 4 years now, with our daughters joining us for the last 2… and we will walk again this May.
When we first started walking it was in memory of my neighbor… a woman that I did not know all that well.. but watching her journey touched my soul. With Fran always in our hearts, we continued walking after that first year… when we were asked why.. we always answered because we can .
Hearing that Audra was diagnosed last month, this cause took on a whole new meaning for us. I talked to her today.. even with everything that is going on and hard as it is for her to comphrehend… Her spirits are up and she didn't complain one little bit. She is a fighter!.. and she has her angel son, James, looking down on her ans smiling as well…
I've also mentioned about a friend of a friend battling breast cancer with 4 young children.
4. young. children.
SHE is a fighter.
Our team will be walking another 40 miles this May.. and in October we will be walking in another breast walk… this one a 5 mile OR 1.5 mile walk. This is going to be nice because my mom ( huge helper with our fundraising.. as well as my niece, Mollie .. aslo a huge help) they can walk the shorter of the route and still be part of us.
I wrote a bit about it HERE…
( They have always been honorary Team Pinkteenies, but now they can walk WITH us 🙂 ) ANd we will be walking for Audra and Jen. In a big way.
One amazing lady that I know who started a local running group in honor of her sister who was killed by a drunk driver had a great idea…. ( and I'm borrowing it to make it grow 🙂
For the month of October can you commit to doing one thing a day for the ENTIRE month in honor of someone who has been affected by breast cancer.
You can vouch to :
walk a mile a day
walk 2 miles a day
5 miles a day.
if walking is too difficult, then can you lift light weights while you are sitting?
maybe push ups are your thing
maybe you could vouch to drink a certain amount of water
abstain from a food…
what are you willing to do?
you can think about this, as it does not start until Oct 1. by then I should have the back problems that I have been having with the blog ( I am SOOOO not technical) fixed.. and an easy way for anyone who wants to share your commitment(s) and who you are doing for.
I know many people who have been affected by breast cancer, I'm sad to say..and I will be walking for all of them.. I haven't lost site of that.
but my October goal?
jog 2 miles each day…
1 for Audra
1 for Jen
( remember, I don't love running, I love the idea of it..( I'm trying so hard) so running 2 miles a day is serious work for me… but between you and me ( and now the whole world) when I was feeling during my races that I couldn't go on.. I thought of these two women.. and somehow, they gave me strength )
and because I love you all sooo much, anyone who participates ( remember, it can be a small commitment…) will be entered and on Nov 1 I will choose one winner ( hopefully my super- cool raffle helper giveaway thingy will be working) and the winner will receive a batch of WHATEVER cookies that you want.. I will make you anything 🙂 )
because you guys are so awesome!
so what will you do?


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