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Happy Birthday (a few days late) to Gustave Flaubert, who is best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary. Flaubert was born 12 December 1821 in Rouen and spent five years writing his book, which was published in 1856.
The narrative follows a provincial doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who engages in a series of adulterous affairs and runs up massive debts to bring some exhilaration to her boring life. It ends badly, in true tragic fashion, for practically everyone involved.
The year after Madame Bovary was published, Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity, acquitted, and his book became enormously successful, establishing his literary reputation.
The fact that the book is about an adulterous wife, and Flaubert was accused of obscenity for writing it, has cemented Madame Bovary as a naughty book. By today's standards – with Fifty Shades of Grey a best-seller and teenaged girls using bukkake-esque poses for their Facebook profile pictures – Madame Bovary seems yawningly tame.
That's not to say Flaubert wasn't naughty. In the mid-nineteenth century subtleness was the norm.
One of the waltzers, however, who was familiarly called Viscount, and whose low cut waistcoat seemed moulded to his chest, came a second time to ask Madame Bovary to dance, assuring her that he would guide her, and that she would get through it very well.
They began slowly, then went more rapidly…
Their legs commingled; he looked down at her; she raised her eyes to his. A torpor seized her; she stopped. They started again, and with a more rapid movement; the Viscount, dragging her along disappeared with her to the end of the gallery, where panting, she almost fell, and for a moment rested her head upon his breast. And then, still turning, but more slowly, he guided her back to her seat. She leaned back against the wall and covered her eyes with her hands.
This dance with the Viscount is part of one of my all-time favourite scenes in literature, when Emma is invited to her first ball. Innocent little Emma sees and does all sorts of things: glamour, wealth, a lady boldly dropping a note folded into a triangle into her lover's hat, dancing. When the night is done Emma and her husband go to their guest bedroom.
Emma threw a shawl over her shoulders, opened the window, and leant out.
The night was dark; some drops of rain were falling. She breathed in the damp wind that refreshed her eyelids. The music of the ball was still murmuring in her ears. And she tried to keep herself awake in order to prolong the illusion of this luxurious life that she would soon have to give up.
Madame Bovary is an exquisitely crafted novel, and you get more out of it with every reading. There are hints and symbols on every page; some are subtle, and some are more blatant, like when Emma and her lover Rudolphe are walking together and have to briefly separate to make room for a gravedigger. I wish I could read it in French, because I imagine the word play is masterful.
So happy birthday, Flaubert, and thanks for giving the world such a wonderful novel.


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After how many months I've been lost, finally i'm back! decided to blog again starting today. Maybe i'll just have a schedule when to blog.
I'll give my blog a new look and a new name i guess... maybe this weekend, i'm gonna brainstorm some ideas that will give my blog a fresh new LOOK!
ONE BRIGHT IDEA! *ting*

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WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Just like some people, apes have emotional responses to the outcomes of their decisions, researchers say.
Chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries sometimes became angry and had a tantrum or pouted when a risky move failed to go their way, according to the results of a study published May 29 in the journal PLoS ONE.
"Psychologists and economists have found that emotions play a critical role in shaping how humans make complex decisions, such as decisions about saving or investing money," study co-author, Alexandra Rosati of Yale University, said in a journal news release. "But it was not known if these processes are shared with other animals when they make decisions about their important resources -- such as food."
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I grew up celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday in which several tables were pulled together to ensure that there was plenty of seating for the 20-30 people who would attend the dinner. This year we will enjoy a Thanksgiving Feast For Four.
Once I married and moved far away our Thanksgiving tables have fluctuated in size over the years. This year we will have between 4-6 attending. Yet even with such a small gathering, I want to create a memorable meal.
Perhaps if you too are cooking for a small crowd this post will provide some inspiration.
Of course, the star of the show is the turkey. For years I had to cook both a turkey and a ham because one of my kids would not eat turkey. That all changed the year I made Crock Pot Turkey Breast with Cranberry Sauce.
Not only is it super easy, with just 4 ingredients, but it is moist and delicious.
Now let's talk side dishes.
One must have stuffing and we love Cornbread Dressing with Sausage. I personally omit the can of cream of chicken soup and it is still really moist.
Carrots always add a pop of pretty color to the buffet. This recipe for Ombre Carrots produces a yummy showstopper. I use a food processor so it takes mere minutes to prepare.
If you are looking for an alternative to the soup drenched green bean bake this Green Bean Casserole is it. It can also be made ahead of time which is wonderful.
In a nod to the first Thanksgiving, we always like to have a corn-based dish. Roasted Corn Pudding is SO flavorful that there are generally no leftovers.
Now, of course, the two men in our family are always hungry WELL before dinner so I generally try to set out some hors d'oeuvre's. The Fashionista has recently become enamored with making charcuterie boards. So she will be in charge of this.
She plans on making a Baked Brie with Cranberry-Apple Chutney to serve with crackers for the board.
My favorite part of the meal is dessert. I generally make a Rustic Apple Tart that serves double duty as breakfast the morning after.
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Now I am thinking I still might make one more dessert….
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Vasché: Our resolutions to you, our readers
I've never been big on making New Year's resolutions.
First, they're almost always focused on some really bad habit or behavior. Second, all too often they're too extreme, pleasing to the ear but highly impractical. And third, even when they're admirable and achievable, more often than not they're abandoned almost as quickly as they were made.
This year, though, I've decided to make a list of resolutions — not for me, but for this news organization of which I've been privileged to be a part for nearly 40 years.
They're resolutions — actually, pledges — I'm making to you on behalf of the men and women who work with me. Most are things we've been doing for some time now, and in some cases for the nearly 80 years we've been The Modesto Bee.
In that sense, they're recommitments.
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We don't make these pledges lightly. We feel proud and privileged to be the pre-eminent source of local news and information for the communities we serve, and we take very seriously the role and responsibility you have entrusted to us.
On behalf of the men and women who work with me at 14th and H streets in downtown Modesto, thank you for having read The Bee and modbee.com in 2009.
On behalf of them, thank you also for choosing to spend a part of this first day of 2010 with us.
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…the situation in the Lal Masjid did not crop up overnight. The significant build up of arms and the training to the students had continued for years with the help and connivance of the Pakistan authorities. The authorities didn't learn about the presence of alleged militants within the Lal Masjid just hours before the operation. The whereabouts of these individuals should not have been unknown to the vast intelligence network based in Islamabad… Even now other seminaries exist, where militants are trained and arsenals of arms stocked. The existence and location of these seminaries are well known to authorities. Indeed, the violent events seen at the Lal Masjid are an outcome of the collusion between the military and the militants backed by the clergy that has continued for decades.
Wall chalking after wall chalking advertised jihadi outfits and announced recruitment for jihadi fighters. Just a few kilometres from the Havelian Cantonment, there are slogans such as 'jihad is the shortest route to Paradise' and 'contact us for commando jihadi training'. Walls between Havelian in Abbottabad to Haripur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are full of jihadi slogans and adverts.


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How interesting--so they are just out there in the community garden?ReplyDelete
What do you do with the chickens after processing? Do you have a big deep freeze?
yes they are just "out there". They are locked in a predator proof coop at night and fenced in during the day. This batch is 20 chickens for 4 people so 5 each to store, but yes I do have a large freezer, but if you split chickens in half you can fit more in a freezer. I'll try and post more on this projectReplyDelete
That is definitely plenty big :) How are you planning to do the processing?ReplyDelete
Nice birds!ReplyDelete
You need to be careful when the Cornish Cross reach this size. They tend to overheat (and die) very easily. I have had this happen before with nice otherwise healthy birds. I usually butcher mine at between 4 1/2 and 5 pounds. I also like to raise my birds later in the year so I can finish a few roasting birds to almost full size, usually in October. I had one bird of this kind that weighed 10 pounds dressed weight!
If you need instructions on how to process the birds there are step by step instructions at http://www.ubuilderplans.com in their Poultry 101 section.
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Jennifer Chen '12 has won first prize in the Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest, sponsored by the New York State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section. In addition to a $1,000 prize, her piece will be published in both the NYU Environmental Law Journal and the New York Environmental Lawyer, the latter a publication of the bar association.
In "The Efficiency and Management of the International Trade in Electronic Waste: Is There a Better Plan Than a Ban?" Chen analyzes the economic efficiency of the international electronic waste trade, the existing regulatory regime, and potential improvements to the regime in light of the efficiency analysis. University Professor Richard Stewart, director of the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, and Adjunct Professor Michael Livermore '06, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, provided helpful commentary on her draft, Chen said. She is currently a law clerk at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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