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In the following you will be instructed on how to restore a used Barbie into her former glory without complicated methods. This is simple and safe way to do it – provided that you have a Mattel made genuine Barbie-doll made after the year 1973, as this tutorial does not refer to other fashion dolls or ponies etc. If you suspect that your Barbe doll could be older than that, do not go ahead with this. The number 1966 in the dolls back does NOT refer to a manufacturing year, but can be found on dolls made in the late 70′s up to early 2000′s. It is safe to use this tutorial on both collector and playline Barbie dolls.
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- Shampoo, liquid soap or dish washing liquid.
- Detangling spray (for dogs for example) or hair conditioner.
- Preferably a metal comb (for cats or dogs).
- Long stemmed eye lash comb, preferably one-piece one, that has the stem formed of the same plastic as the comb part. Multi part combs can break into pieces in hot water. OR a full size flea comb if you can find one – better than an eye lash comb but harder to find in some areas that don't really have fleas!
- A plate or another shallow dish. For a very long haired Barbie, the bathroom floor (drained) might be best.
- Boiling hot water (if your house doesn't have thermostats, you can probably do with the hot tap water.)
- Optional: light, preferably spray-on hand cream / body lotion.
Blue: their faces are the same.
Red: the barbie on the left before picture has bendable joints, where the barbie on the left after picture doesn't.
Green: also the barbie on the right before picture does not have bendable joints, but on the right after picture, it does have bendable joints.
This proves how the barbies in the before pictures aren't the same barbies as the ones in the after picture.
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This warm and welcoming piece is clutching an overflowing bunch of gorgeous roses, a symbol of love and beauty. The sentiment is 'so much love', perfectly representing the abundance of feelings felt for a special someone.
Part of the stunning Willow Tree collection by artist Susan Lordi, this delightful 14 cm high resin is a wonderful representation of a treasured relationship.
Whether it's a gift for your mother, a friend or for a loved one on Valentine's Day, it perfectly displays your deep and loving feelings.
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This Willow Tree You and Me conveys true love through a thoughtful and simplistic gesture.
This piece shows a man and woman in a warm embrace and represents a couple who are navigating life together with all the joys, challenges and daily decisions that it brings. The couple are there to support each other through it all.
Part of the stunning Willow Tree collection by artist Susan Lordi, this delightful 17 cm high resin piece comes with the sentiment 'every day, building our love' to perfectly represent a couple who are building a life together.
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The Willow Tree Surrounded by Love figurine is the perfect gift for someone to show you care about them.
Part of the stunning Willow Tree collection by artist Susan Lordi, this delightful 13 cm high resin piece depicts a figure taking in the scent of a beautiful bunch of red poppies.
Willow Tree has been designed as an intimate, personal line of figurines that represents qualities that help people feel close to each other, heal wounds and treasure relationships.
The red poppies were inspired by the artist's trips to France, and this piece was designed as a gift for someone facing difficulty, as a tribute to war veterans, or simply to show that someone they're cared about.
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This Set of 2 Vera Wang With Love Tealight Candle Holders come beautifully Gift Boxed - the perfect present for that special someone
From Vera Wang's With Love collection of tasteful gifts, this set of 2 silver plated tealight candle holders will illuminate a sideboard or mantelpiece in style as well as light.
Reflecting the range's emphasis on elegant designs and sophisticated finishing touches, the tealight holders will blend neatly into both classic and contemporary settings. Delicate 'love knots' add a final note of class, and they'll arrive beautifully boxed in a distinctive packaging with integral ribbon detail.
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This Willow Tree Together figure aims to emulate the love felt between a couple.
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Part of the stunning Willow Tree collection by artist Susan Lordi, this delightful 23 cm high resin piece has a warm and welcoming design to enhances the appeal and perfectly represent an intimate and treasured relationship.
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An original newspaper from a date of your choice presented in a silk lined gift box with a bottle of Taittinger champagne.A perfect gift to celebrate a milestone birthday or other special occasion.
Taittinger has long been famous for the lightness and elegance of its Champagnes, attributable, in part, to the high percentage of Chardonnay in the blend. The Brut NV displays these characteristics to perfection. Awarded 4 stars by 'Decanter Magazine', December 2007. 'Delicate and fresh due to 40% Chardonnay, with an elegance and depth coming from the 2 Pinots. It receives 3 to 4 year aging prior to release results in subtle hints of biscuits and brioche'.
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I love to entertain, but with a full-time job, a 2-year-old and another one on the way, I don't have a lot of time. This is one of my favorite quick ways to have a memorable time with others. There's nothing like catching up with friends as we gather around a fondue pot! —Tonya Vowels, Vine Grove, Kentucky
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- 1/3 cup strong brewed coffee
- Assorted fresh fruit
- In a heavy saucepan, melt chocolate with milk over low heat, stirring constantly. Stir coffee into chocolate mixture; keep warm. Serve with fruit. Yield: 2-1/2 cups.
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Great basic recipe. We took it over the top by using a whole bag of choc morsels and adding 1/2 teaspoon of instant espresso, plus a pinch of allspice. It was fabulous! In addition to the fruit dippers, I would suggest soft cookies and nuts. We put the fondue in individual small bowls so we could double-dip if we wanted..and we did!! Finally, I did the whole thing in the microwave, doing the coffee first, adding the morsels, then the milk, stirring well after each addition, using a few seconds at a time (30 for my microwave) and watching so nothing scorched. This is now one of my go-to recipes!
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Next time I go running over Cunswick Fell I will do so with some trepidation.
For this book reveals that the hill overlooking Kendal is apparently haunted by Roger de Leyburne, who killed his father to gain the Cunswick estate.
It is intriguing stories like this that can bring a walk to life and Graham Dugdale has uncovered some hidden gems in the 40 rambles he charts in this book.
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Dietitian's tip: This twice-baked cookie is a classic with coffee or tea. The whole wheat and nuts provide the mineral manganese, which helps bone formation, and the antioxidant selenium, which is important for thyroid hormone function. Makes 24 cookies.
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
In a large bowl, combine the flours, brown sugar and baking powder. Whisk to blend. Add the eggs, milk, canola oil, honey and almond extract. Stir with a wooden spoon until the dough just begins to come together. Add the chopped apricots and almonds. With floured hands, mix until the dough is well blended.
Place the dough on a long sheet of plastic wrap and shape by hand into a flattened log 12 inches long, 3 inches wide and about 1 inch high. Lift the plastic wrap to invert the dough onto a nonstick baking sheet. Bake until lightly browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer to another baking sheet to cool for 10 minutes. Leave the oven set at 350 F.
Place the cooled log on a cutting board. With a serrated knife, cut crosswise on the diagonal into 24 slices 1/2 inch wide. Arrange the slices, cut-side down, on the baking sheet. Return to the oven and bake until crisp, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. Store in an airtight container.


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College players dominate Seattle's list of picks
SEATTLE -- The easy part of the First-Year Draft ended on Thursday.The hard part comes next as the Mariners try to get as many of the 52 players they selected under contract as possible. Many of them, including No. 1 pick Dustin Ackley, must be signed by Aug. 17 or return to the talent pool in 2010.
ROUND 1 PICKSFollow every pick
1 WAS: S. Strasburg
2 SEA: D. Ackley
3 SD: D. Tate
4 PIT: J. Sanchez
5 BAL: M. Hobgood
6 SF: Z. Wheeler
7 ATL: M. Minor
8 CIN: M. Leake
9 DET: J. Turner
10 WAS: D. Storen
11 COL: T. Matzek
12 KC: A. Crow
13 OAK: G. Green
14 TEX: M. Purke
15 CLE: A. White
16 ARI: R. Borchering
17 ARI: A. Pollock
18 FLA: C. James
19 STL: S. Miller
20 TOR: S. Jenkins
21 HOU: J. Mier
22 MIN: K. Gibson
23 CWS: J. Mitchell
24 LAA: R. Grichuk
25 LAA: M Trout
26 MIL: E. Arnett
27 SEA: N. Franklin
28 BOS: R. Fuentes
29 NYY: S. Heathcott
30 TB: L. Washington
31 CHC: B. Jackson
32 COL: T. Wheeler
36 LAD: A. Miller
72 NYM: S. Matz
75 PHI: K. Dugan
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Seattle selected 20 more players during Thursday's fast-paced third-day session and afterwards, amateur scouting director Tom McNamara took a deep breath and looked straight ahead."I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment," McNamara said. "I felt relieved when it was finished, but now it's back to work. We've got to get these guys signed." How many of the 52 would he like to sign? "As many guys as possible," McNamara said. "You're basically signing [late-round players] for pocket change and a plane ticket. It's great for your entire scouting staff. Everybody could walk around with their chest out knowing we got a 38th-round guy to the big leagues." In summing up the final two days of the Draft, which is the meat-and-potatoes of most Drafts, McNamara said, "We have a wide variety of places and players. My attitude is somewhere between 20 and 50, I'm hoping we've got a couple of big leaguers in there. I can't guarantee it, but we take it serious. There's a reason we took each guy there." McNamara said, "The ideal Draft would be that we signed every one of our players. [But] some are guys we're going to watch a little more over the summer. Some of the later-round guys you'd like to see a little more." As of Thursday, none of the 52 players had signed. It will take four or five years to determine how the first McNamara Draft works out. But he was pleased with the quality of players that were selected. The final tally in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft shows: The Mariners selected 24 pitchers, including nine left-handers, 15 infielders, eight outfielders and five catchers. Seattle went heavy on college players, selecting 43 with at least college experience, and just nine high school players -- including two on the first day. Players from 21 states were selected, led by California (eight), Texas (seven) Washington (three), Georgia (three) and New York (three). Three of the players selected are from Canada, and the other 49 are from the U.S. Hawaii was represented with one pick, but there was no one drafted from Alaska. Five selections will play in the College World Series, including three from the University of North Carolina, including Ackley, the second Draft pick overall, second baseman Kyle Seager (third round) and left-handed pitcher Brian Moran (seventh round). The others are right-handed pitcher Andrew Carraway (12th round) of Virginia and Cal State Fullerton pitcher Kyle Witten (41st round). Right-hand pitcher David Holman, son of former Mariners pitcher Brian Holman, was selected in the 47th round.
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"We know he was drafted last year by Atlanta," McNamara said. "He came to the pre-Draft workout. Obviously, he's got real good genes being the son of a popular big leaguer. David has the frame. It's not going to happen overnight, but I've been around guys like him where all of a sudden it clicks in."Holman pitched for Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College this season. Meanwhile, the Mariners organization will be represented at the upcoming College World Series in Omaha, Neb., where the three drafted Tar Heels try to bring home the university's second national title in the past three months. The basketball team captured the hoops title in early April.
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Kayak Shack owners open new location
PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Coast Paddleboard Company is the newest addition to the Kayak Shack family of businesses.
The new store, located at 498 Route 3 next door to Champlain National Bank, opened the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Patty Husband, who owns the business with her husband, Dave, said the new store offers an alternative to their seasonal businesses — the original Kayak Shack at 3999 Route 9 in the Town of Plattsburgh and Baggs' Landing Paddlesports Centre at 3004 Route 9 on the AuSable River next to the Carpenter Flats bridge.
"This will be our year-round home," she said of the new store. "We always thought about having a year-round location."
Features high traffic
The new location provides great exposure due to the extremely high volume of traffic on Route 3 and Exit 37 of Interstate 87.
The store allows them to display many more of their stand-up paddleboards. She said that sport is the fastest-growing form of outdoor recreation in 2013.
They have 20 or more paddleboards on display at any time with models from Rogue, Pau Hana, NSP, Bic and Traitor.
"Traitor is a line we actually designed and had manufactured," Husband said.
There are boards for all abilities, including boards specifically made for whitewater, fitness and racing. Materials include fiberglass, carbon fiber, polyethylene, bamboo and one with a dek made from recycled coconut husks.
There are also several lines of kayaks on display, including models by Perception and Hurricane. Husband said the latter is their biggest seller.
They carry Werner paddles for both kayaks and paddleboards. Accessories for those sports are also displayed throughout the store.
They also have a variety of water-oriented active wear and footwear. That includes clothing by companies such as Merrell, O'Neill and Level 6.
Pre-Christmas opening
Husband said it was great to be able to open before Christmas so customers can get that special gift for the paddler in their life.
The new store has four additional employees. In the summer, there are between 15 and 20 people employed at the various locations.
That includes five instructors certified by either the American Canoe Association, British Canoe Association or the World Standup Paddleboard Association.
"People come to us because we have people who know what they're doing both in the store and on the water," Husband said.
Husband said they plan to offer Introduction to Standup Paddleboard lessons on Saturdays starting Jan. 25 at the swimming pool at the CVPH Wellness Center on New York Road. Husband said they also plan to offer floating yoga with positions performed on a paddleboard.
The Husbands opened the original Kayak Shack in 2007. They were honored as Small Business of the Year by the North Country Chamber of Commerce in 2010.
The Baggs' Landing Paddlesports Center opened in 2012. It is on a smooth section of the AuSable River that is a short paddle from Lake Champlain. It is the site for lessons, which are available for those age 7 or older.
Staff offer Intro to Kayaking, Youth Intro to Kayaking, Youth Intro to Paddleboard, Youth Paddling Day Camps and Half Day Camps and Family Paddling. Prices include watercraft and equipment.
Many tours featured
Tours have been very popular, Husband said. Those include Bluff Point Lighthouse Tours, Sunset Tours, Full Moon Tours, Father's Day Family Paddle and Family Fun Night.
Adirondack Coast Paddleboard Company is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Husband said those hours may be shortened in January.
Payment is by cash, check or major credit card, and layaway is available.
For more information, visit www.adirondacksup.com or call 566-0606.
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Aug. 29, 2014
Commerce Department raises its estimate of annual second-quarter growth to 4.2 percent from 4 percent; Labor Department reports that applications for weekly unemployment benefits fell by 1,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 298,000, pushing eight-week average to below 300,000 for first time since before the onset of the recession; data is latest in series of signals that point to a period of sustainable growth ahead. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Latest Commerce Department data suggests that American economy is gaining renewed momentum, with durable goods orders jumping 22.6 percent in July, as well as rising consumer confidence; housing market prices fell slightly. MORE
Aug. 26, 2014
Commerce Department reports that sales of new single-family homes fell for second consecutive month, slipping 2.4 percent to seasonally adjusted annual rate of 412,000 unites; surge in supply of properties on market and slower price gains are expected to stimulate demand in coming months. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet L Yellen says economy is improving but Fed will await more evidence of labor market recovery before deciding whether or not to raise interest rates. MORE
Aug. 21, 2014
The Upshot, news analysis; new data from Sentier Research shows that income of middle-class American families is now lower, when adjusted for inflation, than when recovery began five years ago; study illuminates why opinion polling shows that most Americans remain pessimistic about economy despite increased GDP, soaring stock prices and other positive signs. MORE
Aug. 16, 2014
James B Stewart Common Sense column; investors seem to be getting nervous, after nearly five years of rally in stocks and bonds; fluctuations in market may be normal risk and market behavior, but could also be harbinger of more worrisome, renewed financial instability as Federal Reserve bring its money policies of recent years to an end. MORE
Aug. 16, 2014
Floyd Norris Off the Charts column; more jobs are now available for United States workers, reaching pre-recession levels, but remain unfilled as number of people being hired by companies has not fully recovered. MORE
Aug. 16, 2014
Labor Department reports that its Producer Price Index rose 0.1 percent, meeting economists' expectations; producer inflation data remains volatile, with overall inflation having risen in recent months. MORE
Aug. 15, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column contends economic woes of Europe should serve as a lesson to the United States; maintains stalled growth in Europe is result of European Central Bank doing too little to stimulate economy; laments that Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen is under pressure to raise interest rates. MORE
Aug. 10, 2014
The Upshot; trucking industry complains of too few qualified long-haul tractor-trailer drivers, but inflation-adjusted wages for those behind the wheel have fallen 6 percent over the past decade; shortage of drivers is indicative of bigger problem for economy. MORE
Aug. 9, 2014
Labor Dept says productivity increased at 2.5 percent annual rate in second quarter 2014, after contracting at revised 4.5 percent pace in first quarter. MORE
Aug. 8, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column cites growing evidence that raising taxes on the rich to help the poor may well raise, not lower, the economy's growth rate, due to the extremity of American inequality; maintains this new view of inequality should change the country's political debate. MORE
Aug. 7, 2014
Cheap credit, lower tax bills and a desire for revenue, more than economic optimism, may be behind this year's surge in corporate acquisitions. MORE
Aug. 5, 2014
News analysis; United States is still producing around $800 billion a year less in goods and services than it would if it the economy were at full health; residential investment, durable goods consumption, state and local government spending, business investment in equipment, and federal government spending are major culprits in malaise. MORE
Aug. 3, 2014
Robert H Frank Economic View column contends prompt, effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could prevent much of the damage from climate change at relatively modest cost; discusses five myths, each one rooted in bad economics. MORE
Aug. 3, 2014
Jeff Sommer Strategies column contends the not too hot, not too cold economic climate engineered by the Federal Reserve has supported the long bull market in stocks; points out Fed's stimulative polices under Ben S Bernanke have not changed much under new chairwoman Janet L Yellen. MORE
Aug. 2, 2014
Editorial warns that the labor market remains stubbornly weak despite growth in GDP, stock gains and corporate earnings; calls on Pres Obama to continue using his executive authority to improve pay and working conditions, to work with Labor Department to re-establish overtime rules and to keep pushing for a higher minimum wage. MORE
Aug. 2, 2014
Labor Department reports its estimate that United States economy added 209,000 jobs in July, with unemployment rate reaching 6.2 percent; report follows trend of strong pace of job creation over six-month period since 2006; numbers may pressure Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates sooner than anticipated. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column discusses troubling question of whether we as societies are even capable of taking good economic policy advice; contends when politicians pick and choose which experts to believe, the odds are that they will choose badly; concludes one has to wonder whether and how the nation will avoid disaster. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Labor Department reports that its Employment Cost Index rose 0.7 percent in the second quarter, the biggest gain in more than five and a half years; also reports that four-week average of initial claims for unemployment benefits fell 3,500 to a seasonally adjusted 297,250. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Op-Ed article by Prof Laurence J Kotlikoff posits that federal government should have to report all its debts, like Social Security, not just the official ones; contends it is not just an economic problem, but a moral issue; questions whether we as nation will continue to hide most of bills we are bequeathing our children, or measure bills and begin reducing them. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
Commerce Department reports United States economy shook off negative effects of unusually harsh winter and grew in second quarter at seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 percent, surpassing expectations; some experts are encouraged, while others caution economy has yet to break out of underlying pattern of steady but relatively sluggish growth. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
Pres Obama, at talk in Kansas City, Mo, delivers optimistic report concerning effects of administration's economic policies in spite of congressional inaction, buoyed by announcement that economy grew more than anticipated in the spring. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
Federal Reserve, as expected, announces it will reduce its monthly bond purchases to $25 billion and will continue to hold short-term interest rates near zero. MORE
Jul. 30, 2014
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene column argues that focus on income inequality may be causing United States to ignore more pressing issues like slow economic growth; questions real significance of earnings gap on country's economy. MORE
Jul. 29, 2014
National Association of Realtors says that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index fell 1.1 percent to 102.7 in June. MORE
Jul. 26, 2014
Floyd Norris Off the Charts column; long-term unemployment, which soared in 2009 to heights not seen since the Great Depression, finally begins to decline; problem cuts virtually across all parts of society, with substantial portion of the unemployed in all education and age categories being out of work for more than six months. MORE
Jul. 24, 2014
Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column offers so-called Idiot's Guide to Inequality in America comprising five major points; holds that main lesson is that inequality and lack of opportunity for average people constitute national infirmity and vulnerability; says policy tools exist to reduce opportunity gap, if only America would use them. MORE
Jul. 24, 2014
International Monetary Fund says United States economic growth in 2014 will probably be at the weakest pace since recession ended; attributes trend to sharp, weather-related contraction in first quarter. MORE
Jul. 22, 2014
Joe Nocera Op-Ed column asserts lawmakers from both parties agree that country should eliminate institutions that are 'too big to fail,' noting widespread skepticism that Dodd-Frank Act would prevent repeat of 2008 financial crisis; contends that there is ultimately no way of knowing whether 'too big to fail' will happen again until another crisis occurs. MORE
Jul. 22, 2014
The Upshot; news analysis observes that five years into economic recovery, investment by American businesses in equipment, software and facilities remains below its pre-recession levels relative to overall economy; observes that capital spending improves worker productivity, and worker productivity leads to better living standards. MORE
Jul. 18, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column expresses exasperation at people who remain convinced that runaway inflation is either happening or about to happen, despite having been wrong in their predictions for years; contends conservatives' obsessive focus on problem that does not exist shows that the nation is not having a rational debate over monetary policy. MORE
Jul. 18, 2014
The Upshot news analysis; Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet L Yellen's decision to use her bully pulpit to explicitly criticize certain overvalued assets marks stark departure from the subtle and sometimes inscrutable messaging that defined Fed under Alan Greenspan; departure raises host of questions related to the proper role of government officials in trying to influence the stock market. MORE
Jul. 16, 2014
Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet L Yellen tells Congress that financial markets remain in reasonable health despite signs of bubbles in some areas, including stocks of social media and technology companies, but says Fed does not plan to curtail its economic stimulus plan. MORE
Jul. 16, 2014
Commerce Dept reports that retail sales rose 0.2 percent in June, held back by drop in auto sales, after upwardly revised gain of 0.5 percent in May; core retail sales increase 0.6 percent in June, latest indication that economy has ended second quarter on stronger footing. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
National Assn for Business Economics survey finds economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter; predict growth of 3 percent in quarter, down from 3.5 percent in previous survey. MORE
Jul. 11, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column contends much of hysteria over Federal Reserve policies designed to stimulate the economy is fueled by richest 0.01 percent of society, as that section of the population is most harmed by low interest rates; warns that as a result, monetary policy has become as bound up in class and ideological conflict as tax policy. MORE
Jul. 11, 2014
Floyd Norris High & Low Finance column scrutinizes contradictory government report saying first quarter of 2014 was worst for United States economy since 2009, but that hiring was at its highest rate in over six years, signaling a strengthening economy. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
Federal Reserve says that it plans to stop adding to its bond holdings in October, sign of its confidence that the economy is gaining strength even as it gradually withdraws its support; decision signals end of one of central bank's most aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy. MORE
Jul. 9, 2014
Bureau of Labor Statistics says that employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in past seven years; employers posted 4.63 million jobs, 3.8 percent increase from April's total of 4.46 million. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
The Upshot; prices for nearly every asset class around the world are high by historical standards, bringing economic risks and lower returns for investors; big question for global economy is what happens next in wake of current boom and possibly bubble. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
Op-Ed article by public policy researcher Lew Daly notes many debates about role of government boil down to size of government compared to size of economy, as measured in gross domestic product; rejects such comparisons because GDP framework fails to note both public value in economy and fact that many government services are provided free; says by obscuring value of government, GDP framework is ignoring potentially crippling trade-offs between fiscal and regulatory austerity and public's needs. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column holds that wishful thinking, which often leads to willful ignorance of facts, is at work in United States economic policies; points to conservative economists' warnings of runaway interests rates and inflation and their refusal to acknowledge that dire predictions have not come true; holds ideology drives economic views as much as it shapes religious beliefs, and faith often trumps evidence. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Labor Dept reports that American employers added 288,000 jobs in June, fifth month in row that hiring has topped 200,000 mark, and jobless rate declined to 6.1 percent, best reading since Sept 2008; despite gains, economy is still long way from its peak before recession began at end of 2007. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Editorial welcomes jobs data that shows United States economy added 288,000 jobs in June, bringing job creation in last year to 2.49 million; notes that unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent, lowest level in nearly six years; warns that there is still enormous slack in the economy, that hours and wages are not growing for most workers and the economy still needs fiscal and monetary support. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
The Upshot; employment data for June offers good news, with job growth now hitting a good average of 272,000 new jobs a month, but reports must be taken with a grain of salt; while rumblings abound that robust growth is on its way, anybody hoping for a better economy should not read the latest numbers as conclusive evidence that everything is fixed. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Strong jobs report suggests that employment growth is accelerating, while bringing into question validity of big contraction in first-quarter gross domestic product. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Pres Obama and Democrats in Congress are hopeful that jobs reports numbers, which investors are celebrating as sign of rebounding economy, can lift their party's prospects in midterm elections. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet L Yellen says central bank does not plan to raise interest rates or alter its stimulus campaign to address concerns about excesses in the financial system; says monetary policy should focus on stable prices and maximum employment; calls for stronger regulation. MORE
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stop with the talk of nonito donaire being P4P, until he proves he's the best in his division
stop with the talk of nonito donaire being P4P, until he proves he's the best in his division
Oct 15 2012, 06:15 PM
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i've always thought p4p talk was silly and just an excuse for certain fighters to avoid others, but lately, this shit is getting ridiculous. let me put this in perspective...when a guy like floyd dominates at 130 to 135 then moves up to win straps against quality opposition in the 140, 147 and 154 weight classes...ok, i'll listen to p4p talk. when a guy like pac fights 3 of the best fighters(jmm, em, barrera) in his division a total of ten times and comes out on top...yeah, i'll listen to p4p arguments on that one too! u want to be considered p4p one of the best in boxing...prove you are the best in your division. andre ward just fought in a tournament involving all the best at 168....and when the dust settled...he was the last man standing. he has proven to be the best in his division. i don't see anyone out there that would argue otherwise.
when a guy like donaire, who i think has the potential to be something special, chooses not to acknowledge the best in his division...and hasn't really proven to be the best in his division...that's where the p4p discussion needs to end. stop!!! i think agbeko, mares, moreno and rigondeaux all have something to say on the matter. i'm not saying he has to fight all of these guys....but at least beat 1 or 2. maybe a tournament is in order for 122 as well?
what say u?
Oct 15 2012, 08:21 PM
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The big elephant in the room is, what division has Nonito even conquered? We can start there.
I mean the only names that he's fought was Darchinyan and Vasquez Jr. People started riding his sack after the Montiel KO, and Nishioka was so hesitant to the point that fans who didn't know him, will never know how good he really was.
That's the shit that bothers me, Donaire knocked Montiel back into his childhood years with a counter left hook, and people crowned him King. I still cant believe this P4P mess is still going on, with his name involved. I mean like the dude's personality, and he's a good fighter, but let's not go overboard here.
As I mentioned recently, he tried to jump ship from Top Rank a little over a year ago, and now Bob is making him pay for it. He's getting stuck in the ring with no name guys who are afraid to fight, but these guys are put in there to make him look good.
Guys who aren't afraid to go in there and crack his head, are being mentioned, but kept away from him. His opponents that are supposed to make him look good, are really hurting him. They're proving that with his high level of athleticism, he still cant break through solid defense.
They have this guy jumping all over the place looking like a fool...and some of them have managed to mess his face up with simple punches (jabs). So again, how in the heck is this dude considered P4P? He cant even stay in a division long enough to save his life.
People are actually saying that this dude doesn't have any competition, like he's a beast, but a guy with a solid jab that he works behind, and isn't afraid to force an exchange with Donaire...makes him look bad. I actually had more respect for Vasquez after the Donaire fight.
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Doctor Who 6.08 "Let's Kill Hitler" SlugfestA tv review article by: Dave Wallace, Kelvin Green
Episode 6.08: "Let's Kill Hitler"
Writer: Steven Moffat
Director: Richard Senior
The TARDIS crashlands in Berlin in the 1930s and the Doctor suffers the ultimate betrayal while facing the greatest war criminal of all time.
Doctor Who airs in the UK Saturday nights at 7:00PM on BBC ONE.
Doctor Who airs in the US Saturday nights at 9:00PM on BBC AMERICA.
Dave Wallace:
Doctor Who's big mid-season comeback is a fantastic showcase for the creativity, originality and unpredictability of the series' current showrunner, Steven Moffat. A historic romp through Nazi Germany that also takes in complex time-travel causality, a threat on the Doctor's life, and a chameleonic robot piloted by 'miniaturised cross people' it's a breathtaking rush of imaginative concepts that leaves viewers with very little time to think before the next big plot twist or character development is introduced.
Unfortunately, it's also a perfect example of how great ideas don't always translate into great drama. Moffat throws out his crazy notions in rapid-fire manner, one after the other, but seems to forget to add elements that will tease out characters' emotions or help viewers to emphasise with them. As much as his incessant slew of ideas leaves us with very little time to think, it also leaves us with very little time to establish an emotional reaction to the developments of the episode--and given that so many important character twists take place here, that feels like a severe misstep.
(For example, given that the cliffhanger of "A Good Man Goes To War" was built around Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory's (Arthur Darvill) quest to recover their baby daughter, it's remarkable that this episode barely acknowledges their discovery of whether they are destined to succeed or not.)
It feels as though Moffat wrote this episode in stream-of-consciousness fashion after a mammoth caffeine bender during a which he watched Terminator 2, Star Trek, Judge Dredd and Downfall in quick succession whilst also flicking through old issues of The Beezer to pick out the "Numbskulls" pages. And then submitted that first pass as the final shooting script in the hope that no-one would ask him why the individual pieces of the story hang together so poorly.
Because I'm trying to avoid spoilers in this review, I can't go into too much detail about the various ways in which this episode doesn't add up (although I'll happily discuss the episode at length on the ComicsBulletin message boards). But let's take the new character of Mels (Nina Toussaint-White) as an example. Her appearance feels like a hurried and forced attempt to quickly establish a character who we're supposed to believe has been integral to the lives of Amy and Rory ever since they were children, before almost immediately pulling a twist that turns her character into something completely different.
Had Mels been set up in advance--even if only by a couple of episodes--we might have been able to feel something when Moffat reveals that all is not as it seems with her. But by suddenly introducing her as one thing and then turning her into another, the episode only draws further attention to what a contrived character-as-plot-device she is.
Perhaps Moffat thought he could get away with something similar to the development accomplished by Joss Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Buffy's sister Dawn was suddenly introduced at the start of season five, despite there having being no previous mention of her in earlier seasons. However, Moffat doesn't seem to have anywhere near as coherent a plan as Whedon did (although to say more at this point really would involve severe spoilers, sweetie).
It's not even as if Mel's character is particularly consistent within this single episode: once we find out who she really is, I struggle to find a genuine reason for her forcing the Doctor (Matt Smith) to take the TARDIS crew back to Nazi Germany in the first place. And if she was really Amy's best friend and wanted to get the Doctor's attention, why didn't she try to do so during any of the Doctor's previous visits to Leadworth?
It's a shame that there are so many little niggles like this, because there's a lot to like about the episode. For one thing, it's very funny. Sometimes the humour takes the form of amusing wordplay or adult innuendo, and other times it wrings laughs out of the sheer absurdity of the characters' situation (who couldn't laugh at Rory's "Shut up, Hitler!", or another character provocatively mentioning to a group of Nazis that she's just on her way to a "gay, gypsy bar mitzvah for the disabled").
I also have a huge appreciation for Moffat's ability to come up with so many compelling ideas, most of which could sustain an entire episode (if not a whole season) but are tossed out and discarded as though the writer knows he can do better. But if anything, the episode's focus is diverted so much by these clever, inventive ideas that it fails to really get the audience to care.
I'm also slightly concerned by the increasingy self-referential nature of this season's core storyline, which is so preoccupied with linking everything together and adding layers and layers of complexity to an already complicated plot that it feels as though this complexity has now become the show's objective in and of itself: that Doctor Who is no longer about providing exciting, imaginative all-ages sci-fi drama, but has instead become an intellectual puzzle that drags its central ideas round in circles like a mini in a cornfield without ever actually taking them anywhere that makes for good drama.
(And as I said earlier, I wouldn't mind this so much if all of these ideas hung together coherently--but there are so many elements that don't line up, or feel as though they've been written on the hoof, that I'm rapidly losing faith in Moffat's reputation as a tight, forward-thinking plotter.)
My biggest worry is that this episode is indicative that Doctor Who is going to fall into the same 'mythology' trap that The X-Files and Lost did. By becoming so preoccupied with revisiting the same concepts but adding layers and layers of twisting complexity and oblique mystery to these central ideas, I'm worried that the show is going to progressively alienate all but the most devoted fans by prioritising intellectual teasing and mechanical puzzlement over elegant, affecting drama. And I think it would be a great shame if Doctor Who were to lose the humanity and the emotional quality that makes it such a distinctive voice in science fiction.
A journalist and sometime comics reviewer, Dave Wallace was raised on a traditional European diet of Beano comics, Asterix collections and Tintin books before growing up and discovering that sequential art could -- occasionally -- be even better than that. He has an unashamed soft spot for time-travel stories, Spider-Man, and anything by Alan Moore or Grant Morrison, and has been known to spend far too much on luxurious hardcover editions of his favorite books when it's something he really likes. Maybe one day he'll get around to writing down his own stories that have been knocking around his head for a while now.
Kelvin Green:
There's lots to enjoy about "Let's Kill Hitler". It's fast-paced and often quite funny -- like Douglas Adams before him, Moffat's background in comedy is a great fit for the series -- and it's full of fun scenes and interesting ideas, from the simple pleasures of seeing Hitler getting punched on the chin by Rory, to the off-kilter idea of a tiny Star Trek-like crew stomping about inside a mechanical, shapechanging person. As I was watching the episode, I had great fun.
It's only when I thought about it later that I realised it's not a brilliant episode. Hitler's not in it that much, which makes the title a bit of a cheat, and while Moffat never intended to use the programme to examine the Nazi leader's history and personality, he did make a big fuss in the press of wanting to ridicule Hitler, and we didn't really get much of that either.
The miniature space police people quite literally disappear into thin air at one point, which doesn't make them seem that dedicated to their task -- although it is suggested a couple of times that they're not the most competent police force around -- and it is never quite explained why they travel around with a bunch of homicidal security robots; one would assume they use the robots to deal with the criminals they capture, but that doesn't explain why the things roam around the person-ship posing a threat to everyone.
Well, that's not true; the reason why the robots roam around the ship as they wish is because they need to do that so that there's peril later in the story. That's the big problem with "Let's Kill Hitler"; the moving parts are rather visible, not only in the minor details like the security robots, but also in the episode's main plot, which is more or less a glaring continuity bodge designed to get River Song to a certain point.
I like River Song a lot. She's a great character, one of the best characters introduced into the series in years, and Alex Kingston plays her so very well, but for all her charms she's never outshone the Doctor, until now. The episode is an origin story for River Song, and the poor Doctor gets rather pushed to the sidelines; whoever's playing the lead, whatever the trappings of the episode, the Doctor shouldn't be passive -- unless the story is about his lack of action, as in "The Waters of Mars" -- but here he gets dragged from one scene to another, or lounges about on the floor for ages, as Moffat gets on with the more important business of putting River where she needs to be next.
In fairness, it's done quite well and River's change of heart from deadly assassin to roguish hero is just about convincing despite the speed of the conversion and all the special effects, but the whole thing feels weighted in the wrong direction, as if it's the pilot of The Adventures of River Song or something. Perhaps it will look better when viewed as part of the series as a whole, but taken as the first episode of the half-series, it doesn't quite work.
Even so, there's still lots to like about the episode. Seeing River running about Berlin with a machine gun clenched in each hand is a delight, and I enjoyed the parallels between the TARDIS and the person-shaped vehicle thingie in which the space police were riding about. The murder-robots are quite well done, a nice clean design reminiscent of 70's science fiction movies, and the scene in which River and the Doctor try to outwit each other -- told through quick-fire flashbacks -- is well written and well played by both Matt Smith and Alex Kingston; it does remind me a bit of the ending to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but that's not a bad thing.
All in all, "Let's Kill Hitler" is a good, solid episode with lots of excitement, a bit of effective drama, and a fair few laughs. I'm just not sure it's a good episode of Doctor Who.
Kelvin Green erupted fully formed from the grey shapeless mass of Ubbo Sathla in the dark days before humans walked the earth. He grew up on Judge Dredd, Transformers, Indiana Jones #12, the Avengers and Spider-Man, and thinks comics don't get much better than FLCL, Nextwave and Rocket Raccoon. Kelvin lives among garbage and seagulls and doesn't hate Marvel nearly as much as you all think he does.


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An Augusta Commissioner says not only should city leaders travel...they should be made to do it.
As we first reported, city leaders have spent nearly $40,000 attending three conferences since April.
Mayor Pro-Tem Corey Johnson is one of four Commissioners who attended each one, including a national conference in Texas earlier this week, and he says attending conferences should be a requirement.
"We pay annual dues to these conferences and we should go. We would be buffoons not to go, George. If you don't want to learn, you don't want to do anything to make a difference, and that is something in my opinion. It should be mandatory, you should go, you should be made to go. Otherwise, you keep doing the same things, you get the same results," said Johnson.
Johnson, Marion Williams, Bill Fennoy, and Bill Lockett are the four Commissioners who attended all three conferences.
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The Pittsburgh Panthers and the West Virginia Mountaineers kicked off in the annual "Bakyard Brawl" game between the two heated rivals. The Panthers jumped out to an early 14-0 lead thanks to two rushing touchdowns by Panthers running backs, including a 1-yard touchdown run by Zack Brown. The Panthers offense didn't really dominate the 'Eers defense, but they got the ball back enough times to put points on the board.
The Panthers defense however stifled the Mointaineers offense for much of the first half. The 'Eers didn't convert a third down until nearly the second quarter. Outside of a long touchdown pass from quarterback Geno Smith to wide receiver Stedman Bailey, West Virginia couldn't get much going. On Bailey's touchdown catch, it looked like it would simply be just a long gain, but he stiff armed a Pitt defender and made his way to the endzone. The Panthers tacked on a field goal however and lead 17-7 at the half.
For further reading, news, discussion and more, visit Pittsburgh blog Cardiac Hill and West Virginia blog The Smoking Musket. Here's the complete Week 13 college football TV schedule, and stay tuned to SB Nation's college football news hub for more.


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Jacksonville, Fla. - Jacksonville University has announced the promotion of Robin (Kibben) Mignerey to the position of head volleyball coach. Mignerey succeeds Ann Marie Indorf who resigned in January. Mignerey has been the assistant coach at JU for the past three seasons.
JU enjoyed unprecedented success in conference play in 1999, going 7-2 in the Trans America Athletic Conference, the most conference wins in JU volleyball history. The Dolphins finished 15-12 overall, reaching the semifinals of the TAAC post-season tournament. "Robin has been a vital part of the program for three years," said JU Director of Athletics Tom Seitz. Her knowledge of the program will be crucial in our reaching the next level of play."
Mignerey came to JU after leading Lake Worth Christian HS to the 1996 Class A finals. She was named the 1996 3A-2A-1A Coach of the Year by the Sun Sentinel. Prior to coaching LWCHS, Mignerey was an undergraduate assistant at Clemson University, where she helped her former team to a second place finish in the ACC.
Mignerey was a four-year letterwinner for the Tigers, and the team MVP her first three seasons. She was a first team All-ACC pick her final three years, and was voted All-South Region as a junior and senior.
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Investigators say on Sunday deputies responded to a shots fired call at a home on Old Mount Olive Highway. At that location, deputies found three victims; Anthony Kornegay and Nakiea Garner were deceased and Tre Stokes was injured with a gunshot wound to the thigh. A fourth victim was found a short distance from the residence with a gunshot wound to his arm.
Both the victims and witnesses identified the shooter as Jujan Cox, according to a news release. Witnesses also said Cox used an assault rifle and fired into a residence and a vehicle. Cox was located at a motel in Smithfield Tuesday morning; he's been formally charged with two counts of murder. Investigators say additional charges are pending.
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Former Tottonians junior David Sisi has moved north.
The former England Under-20s player, who turned 21 this week, has signed for Leeds Carnegie on loan from Bath until the end of the season.
The 6ft 5in back row signed for Bath last year after playing in the successful England U20s side which won the RBS Six Nations and Junior World Championship.
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Near the end of a joyous conference call with local media late Friday night, Hugh Thornton was asked what comes to his mind when he hears the words Indianapolis Colts.
"I think of champions," the former Illinois offensive lineman said without hesitation. "World champions."
Yes, it appears the Colts' third-round draft pick is going to fit in just fine around a building the team has plastered with images of the Lombardi Trophy this offseason.
Thornton was just the second player selected by Indianapolis in the 2013 draft, 62 spots after the Colts took Florida State pass rusher Bjoern Werner in the first round Thursday night.
Head coach Chuck Pagano has emphasized two things above all else since he took over in January 2012: Running the football and stopping the run.
General manager Ryan Grigson signed 11 free agents in the past two months, with many moves focused on improving Indianapolis' run defense.
Thornton, who played every offensive line position except center as a four-year starter for the Illini, is one of the few additions aimed at improving the rushing offense.
The 6-foot-3, 320-pounder is capable of being a Week 1 starter at guard according to NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah. And Pagano made it clear what role Thornton is expected to play.
"He's big physically," Pagano said. "He's got nasty written all over him. We talk about running the football and stopping the run, this guy is really going to help our quarterback. He's going to move people. He's going to change the line of scrimmage for us. He's going to be able to help us run the football."
Thornton already has close ties to the Colts coaching staff.
Offensive line coach Joe Gilbert, who was promoted this offseason after one year as the assistant to Harold Goodwin, recruited Thornton to Illinois and coached him for his first three seasons with the Illini.
The two remain so close that Gilbert was the man who put Thornton threw his paces during his pro day workout last month.
"I think that's just God looking out, putting me in the right position," Thornton said of reuniting with Gilbert. "I have a great relationship with Coach Gilbert, and I'm excited to work with him in the future."
Grigson was excited to make the reunion happen.
He said Thornton was the team's target from the moment he woke up Thursday morning. The Colts have had a high grade on the guard since last August, and the fact Thornton acquitted himself well as a left tackle last season did nothing to change that opinion.
Indianapolis learned how important that kind of versatility can be last year when its projected starting five played together along the offensive line just four times in 17 games including the playoffs.
Thornton is the third player added to that offensive mix this offseason -- joining free agent signings right tackle Gosder Cherilus and guard Donald Thomas -- and all three of them could be starters.
But that doesn't necessarily mean the Colts -- who have four picks in today's final four rounds -- are done tinkering with the line.
"You know we feel pretty good," Grigson said about the moves already made. "We have a lot of capable players. But just like Coach and I, from Day 1, we want to create a cauldron of competition. You know if we're going to be champions here and win championships, true champions, they like that type of environment. They want the cream to rise to the top. They welcome that. We feel like we have guys that have that mindset, and you can never have enough good big men."
Pagano later added that names on the depth chart this time of year are written in pencil, not ink.
That philosophy is fine with Thornton, who makes no effort to hide the fact he's looking forward to moving back to guard and getting back on the football field.
"I love to play football," he said. "I love learning the game. Being a Colt is so crazy. I've got a lot of family from Ohio so I'll have a lot of my support system at games. I'm an overcomer. I've overcome a lot of adversity, and I'm going to give nothing but the best to the organization."


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Sprinkle your favorite Cajun seasoning on both sides of the skewered shrimp. Now apply the sauce liberally to both sides of the shrimp. Place shrimp over hot coals. This can be done on a gas grill too. The shrimp won't take long, maybe three minutes on one side and two minutes on the other side. Don't overcook the shrimp as they will turn to rubber. They will be done when they have a pink color to them.
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The lake and the frontier villages, a white puff of steam on the distant railway to Luino, the busy boats and steamers trailing triangular wakes of foam, the long vista eastward towards battlemented Bellinzona, the vast mountain distances, now tinged with sunset light, behind this nearer landscape, and the southward waters with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden haze, made a broad panoramic spectacle. [114]The novel's very good on this sort of panopticism, both in itself and in a self-aware and indeed self-critical manner that articulates the dangers in thinking utopianly Big and ignoring the day-to-day human Small.
There are incidental plaeasures, too: Wells' horrid eugenicism rearing its head from time to time for instance; or the way his animadversion of Victorianism ('No, the Victorian epoch was not the dawn of a new era; it was a hasty, trial experiment, a gigantic experiment of the most slovenly and wasteful kind') blinds him to his future, our present:
Will any one, a hundred years from now, consent to live in the houses the Victorians built, travel by their roads or railways, value the furnishings they made to live among or esteem, except for curious or historical reasons, their prevalent art and the clipped and limited literature that satisfied their souls?[40]Our survey says ...
If I were to put together a critical reading of this novel, though, I would argue that it's not really about politics, howevermuch Wells wants to pretend it is. There's a great deal about the imaginative stimulation of modelling the world, planning utopian societies etc., which is presented as the conceptual preparation for a life in politics. But its actually all, fairly patently, about the conceptual preparation for a life in writing, like Wells's own. This is veiled autobiography, not a fictionalisation of the career of Lloyd George. 'For an imaginative boy,' the narrator notes at one point, 'the first experience of writing is like a tiger's first taste of blood.' I honestly couldn't put it better myself.
That's how I read the splendid account of boyish play in the second chapter; about the worldbuilding imagination of Fantasy, not about nascent prime-ministeriship.
When I think of how such things began in my mind, there comes back to me the memory of an enormous bleak room with its ceiling going up to heaven and its floor covered irregularly with patched and defective oilcloth and a dingy mat or so and a "surround" as they call it, of dark stained wood. Here and there against the wall are trunks and boxes. There are cupboards on either side of the fireplace and bookshelves with books above them, and on the wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the portrait of a brainy gentleman, sliced in half and displaying an interior of intricate detail and much vigour of coloring. It is the floor I think of chiefly; over the oilcloth of which, assumed to be land, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep square hills (geologically, volumes of Orr's CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SCIENCES) and the cracks and spaces of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine.Not that the unselfconscious imperialism isn't interesting too ... I just think it's trumped by the gigantic clockwork crocodile.
I still remember with infinite gratitude the great-uncle to whom I owe my bricks. He must have been one of those rare adults who have not forgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of them he caused a box of bricks to be made by an out-of-work carpenter, not the insufficient supply of the toyshop, you understand, but a really adequate quantity of bricks made out of oak and shaped and smoothed, bricks about five inches by two and a half by one, and half-bricks and quarter-bricks to correspond. There were hundreds of them, many hundreds. I could build six towers as high as myself with them, and there seemed quite enough for every engineering project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge every gap in the oilcloth and make causeways over crumpled spaces (which I feigned to be morasses), and on a keel of whole bricks it was possible to construct ships to push over the high seas to the remotest port in the room. And a disciplined population, that rose at last by sedulous begging on birthdays and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhabited this world.
Justice has never been done to bricks and soldiers by those who write about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration. I had such a theatre once, but I never loved it nor hoped for much from it; my bricks and soldiers were my perpetual drama. I recall an incessant variety of interests. There was the mystery and charm of the complicated buildings one could make, with long passages and steps and windows through which one peeped into their intricacies, and by means of slips of card one could make slanting ways in them, and send marbles rolling from top to base and thence out into the hold of a waiting ship. Then there were the fortresses and gun emplacements and covered ways in which one's soldiers went. And there was commerce; the shops and markets and store-rooms full of nasturtium seed, thrift seed, lupin beans and suchlike provender from the garden; such stuff one stored in match-boxes and pill- boxes, or packed in sacks of old glove fingers tied up with thread and sent off by waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there were battles on the way.
That great road is still clear in my memory. I was given, I forget by what benefactor, certain particularly fierce red Indians of lead-- I have never seen such soldiers since--and for these my father helped me to make tepees of brown paper, and I settled them in a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they died, no doubt through contact with civilisation--one my mother trod on--and their land became a wilderness again and was ravaged for a time by a clockwork crocodile of vast proportions.) And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors from a Noah's Ark made a various, dangerous, albeit frequently invalid and crippled fauna, and I was wont to increase the uncultivated wildness of this region further by trees of privet- twigs from the garden hedge and box from the garden borders. By these territories went my Imperial Road carrying produce to and fro, bridging gaps in the oilcloth, tunnelling through Encyclopaedic hills--one tunnel was three volumes long--defended as occasion required by camps of paper tents or brick blockhouses, and ending at last in a magnificently engineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. [17-18]