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Whether for play, collection
What are you using your dollhouse for? If it's for play, maybe a sturdier model might be a good plan. A lot of houses are now built out of plastic or other harder materials; for years of use, plastic is definitely an option. Not only is it waterproof (hey, you never know) but is also more easily cleaned. Plastic houses tend to be sized better for plastic dolls as well. For more classic dollhouse dolls, there are many different styles of dollhouses, from Victorian mansions to little cottages. If it's purely for show, there are many wooden, decorated, and delicate houses for sale. Some houses come with furniture, some let you pick your furniture sets separately. Many collectors choose this option, carefully buying all of the furniture and accessories to go inside. The furniture can sometimes be purchased in a toy store, but it's more likely that you'll have to find a local hobby shop. Some houses have a theme: there are ones that go with movies and TV shows.
This is recommended for children over the age of three. It is very large and fits Barbie-sized dolls. It's colourful--the operative colour being pink of course--and sports a hand-crank elevator.
The Calico Critters Townhouse
The Playmobil Grand Mansion
My Take-Along Dollhouse
The It's 2 Cute Dollhouse
The Melissa and Doug Victorian dollhouse
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Toilet Tuesday - Oh ground please swallow me up....
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This is all therapy...we've all been in these awful positions with our kids and the time has come to let go and share our shame! We now all know we are not alone! This is a one off linky...but ejaculating pigeons most definitely sound interesting!ReplyDelete
How funny! I'm not looking forward to my boy getting to that stage!ReplyDelete
You can't tease us with a snippet of information like ejaculating pigeons and not follow it up....
hehe, brilliant :DReplyDelete
And I agree with Emma & Wendy - regardless of whether it's a one-off linky, you have to tell us about the ejaculating penguin. I'm too intrigued to never be told. x
Ha ha! Made me laugh. Little darlings - they are sent to try us aren't they?! Still, our revenge will come in the form of their own children (or so my mother tells me everytime one of my two embarrasses me in public!!)Pigeons are evil - that's all I have to say about that!!ReplyDelete
I'm on a major blog catch-up at the moment. I'm so glad you posted your noonie story :)ReplyDelete


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Mark Morris Dance Group
The choreographer presents two premieres at Mostly Mozart.
Tue Aug 11 2009
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FLYING HIGH The MMDG performs the glorious V
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Julie Worden and Craig Biesecker in Empire Garden
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John Heginbotham in Visitation
Costume sketches for Empire Garden (the yellow team) by Elizabeth Kurtzman
Costume sketches for Visitation by Elizabeth Kurtzman
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FLYING HIGH The MMDG performs the glorious V
After banishing my iced coffee in favor of a glass of red wine ("Dunkin Donuts, give me a fucking break"), espousing the glory of the Kindle, and reading me a choice passage from a book about Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company ("If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low"), Mark Morris gets down to business. Next week, he returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival with two new works, which will have already premiered at Tanglewood.
Morris loves music; it's just the sort of environment he thrives in. "The Mark Morris Dance Group is a music organization," he notes with a twinkle in his eye. "I go to Tanglewood and it's like, 'Welcome Mr. Morris,' and they listen to me, and we have a wonderful collaboration. I'm talking about students—not even the kind of people I deal with, like Yo-Yo and Maestro Levine." Along with V—Morris's splendid 2001 dance set to Schumann—the new program features Empire Garden (to Ives's Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano), Visitation (to Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major), and the musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. Morris spoke about music and dance at his Brooklyn dance center.
Have you been wanting to choreograph to Ives for a while?
I had been trying to work out when our schedules could sync up for Yo-Yo and Manny and me to work together. That's what it was. And they, as a team, begged me to please choreograph one of the Beethoven cello sonatas. I said, "I'll do one of the Beethovens but I also want to do something that's really hard, which is the Ives trio." I love Ives; I've never done a dance to Ives. This particular piece is so exquisite and rarely played. It's a really hard piece; it's probably not that rewarding. [Laughs] People refuse to understand it, but it's beautiful and funny and great. So it wasn't a deal [to have the Ives in exchange for the Beethoven]—but it was like, Let's do these two pieces, which is a big deal. Then, I switched the Beethovens. I started working on No. 2, and I decided it wasn't making me make up a dance and so I switched to No. 4. And that's what it remains. It's shorter, more romantic and much stranger. I thought No. 2 would be better for dancing, because it's more classical in the music history point-of-view of classical and No. 4 is much more sort of deranged and private and stormy and weird. Gorgeous. It's a smaller scale piece but it's better. I didn't think there was enough dance rhythm in it, but I was wrong. [Laughs]
You figured that out when you were in the studio?
I started working on it, and I couldn't come up with anything. I had my study score, music, everybody's ready to go—it's like, 'Here we go....' I changed everything and started without even studying the piece. I mean, I know it. I can keep up with the dancers. So, yeah, I don't do that very often. I'm usually more prepared, but a surprise is nice. And it works great with the Ives.
How short is the Beethoven? Twenty minutes?
It's less than that. It's in the teens of minutes and it's weird: It's in two movements and they're structured almost the same. There's this slow, weird kind of fantasia and then it goes into sort of bright rhythm. And then it happens again and the themes are almost identical. It's done with a very small palette—like the Schumann, where there's not a lot of musical information but it's spun into this incredible piece of music. That means you're a good composer, I think. [Laughs] That's how the Beethoven is; the themes just keep getting shorter and shorter. It's like, How did you even come up with that? It's amazing. And the dance is for two quartets and a soloist. So the soloist is either Maile Okamura or Dallas McMurray. It starts as five [dancers] and becomes nine. It's very open. It can be done interchangeably in a certain way. I like to do that.
How schizophrenic is it to make two dances at once?
I'm not schizophrenic. It's my job. I make up dances all the time. So to work on two is fun and interesting. One of the first times I was making up two pieces at the same time was long ago in Brussels. I worked on two very different dances: Going Away Party, [set to music by] Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, and Behemoth, with no music. And nobody was in both of those pieces, so it was like I was in two different companies. It was really fun and interesting. But this time, how to cast them, I'm not sure; it probably relates to [2008's] Romeo & Juliet somehow. I don't know. I just wanted a smaller piece and a bigger piece. For the Ives, it can only be this big and still have a man and a woman who can cover the piece in case someone's injured.
How many dancers are in the Ives?
A lot—15. The costumes are for three teams of five and the dancers aren't necessarily that. But like the music, sometimes it looks like three or four dances are going on at the same time in completely different rhythms, tones, and it's really complicated. And of course my dancers, being geniuses, can sing it. They can find the cello part in that mess somewhere and they're dancing to this cello rhythm that doesn't relate at all to the piano or the violin necessarily. It's wild. That's why it's so hard to play, but my dancers—I don't know how they hear it, but they do.
How do you train them to do that?
It's what we do all the time. Also, I work with a pianist always. I say, "Let's do the cello part at half speed so you understand it," so the dancers learn it and then can hear it in the texture of the rest of the piece. I have a brilliant rehearsal pianist, Colin Fowler, who performs with us a lot; he plays the Ives on the piano—everybody knows it so thoroughly that it scares musicians because if they fuck up the dancers know it. They notice. Instead of "Faster, I'm off my leg, speed up." We don't do that. [Laughs]
What are the "teams"?
That's just a costume thing. There are basically three sets of costumes; the colors are all interrelated and there's no real pageant payoff. [Pauses] There may be one where it's set up that way, but mostly they all look great together. So the costumes are in three teams of five people and maybe a little bit of the dance is. The dance is a whole bunch of different things.
How so?
I wanted it to look a little Music Man. It's a little bit uniformy, a little bit flaggy. Well, this piece was started in 1904 and it's all these college tunes and hymns, and also I wanted it to remind me—I don't care if it reminds anyone else—of the Sunday afternoon concert in the bandstand in the park. It's New England. But it's also full madness and it's very Southern and there are all these spirituals and hymn tunes like [Ives] always did.
Doesn't the second movement have a crazy name?
"This Scherzo Is a Joke." Which I don't know if it is or not, because he was so interesting. It's very surprising and strange and it's formally just spectacular.
Is it humorous?
I don't know until anybody watches it. I think it's ominous and scary and weird and I think there are some jokes in it, but I don't know if anybody will think they're funny. It's hard to say. There is a big theme at the end of the second movement that busts into this big show-business finale of a hymn of the time, "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood." Of course I had to look up the song because I wanted to learn the text; it's Jesus's blood, but it's this weird sort of marching song and the words are, "There is a fountain filled with blood," and, "If you're a good Christian" et cetera. And I refer to the text of that and "Old Kentucky Home"—I kind of make up gestures that go with the words if there were words, so it just gives it strangeness. It's gesture language, a little bit.
What do you mean by gesture language?
I mean we don't just keep our arms out of the way so was can use our legs better. [Laughs] I mean people communicate from [the arms] and not from fifth position in arabesque and not from horrible faces that people make. It's not sign-language-encoded words for gesture, but it refers to the text of the song that you don't hear the words to.


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The Dreams of Italo Calvino
It's tempting to read the prose poetry of Invisible Cities as utopian, despite its highly colored evocations of the full, terrible range of human experience. Polo says of the elusive ideal city he has used every skill at his disposal to suggest: "If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop." The recognition of "the inferno where we live every day" is in effect a challenge to recognize "who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space." Like Polo's magic cities, which in the end all turn out to be Venice, fantasy finally refers us back to reality and the challenge of everyday social engagement.
Many of the most astute letters here are drawn from Calvino's professional correspondence as an editorial consultant for thirty years at the distinguished, impecunious, left-leaning Turin publishing house of Giulio Einaudi, whose father, Luigi, had been the second president of the postwar Italian Republic. Calvino called the publisher "the navel of the world, which faithfully reflects the crisis—if not of everyday Italy, at least of intellectual Italy." It is refreshing in today's publishing climate to eavesdrop on the inner workings of a house that employed writers like Pavese, Vittorini, Ginzburg, and Calvino on its editorial staff, and where "what enthuses and amuses us…is…[the] establishing of perspectives that do not coincide with the most obvious ones."
Indeed, Calvino saw the editorial function as militant; he wrote to a would-be writer: "I am someone who works (apart from on my own books) in order that the culture of my time can move in one direction rather than another." Wood quotes "a casual, generous remark" of Calvino to the effect that "I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own," to which he added, "I do not regret it." He was to continue his association with Einaudi until his death, staying true to his view of his publishing work, "which I do badly and [which] takes up my time," as "something serious and that is why I always say I am going to leave it but I never do."
Calvino was a crisp and direct, if general, editorial intervener, even with writer friends like Eco (whom he did not publish). He had an eye for knotty plot problems and no reluctance to be critical—as when he expresses reservations to Primo Levi, who is arranging The Periodic Table, about placing the story "Argon" at the beginning of the book (it remained there). On occasion his editorial relationships extended over decades. He loved analyzing the twisted story lines in the literary mysteries of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, whose Todo modo (1974), with its "infernal vision," Calvino calls "the novel we needed to explain what Christian Democrat Italy has been and still is and no one has been able to do this before you."
Calvino considered his editorial letters to his friend, written over twenty-three years, "almost a complete guide to Sciascia." His broad experience with other people's books was what allowed him to bemoan "the flattening out of the last decade or two in literature" and to observe, in a discussion of the trials of publishing translations, that "sensitivity to style is becoming rare and rarer," mourning likewise to Zanzotto "a lowering of the level of poetic language" starting from when "Montale started writing poems with a pencil" in his less rhetorical later work. He was also a cold-eyed observer of artistic fashion, writing of an unsuccessful attempt at collaborating with Luciano Berio that "his idea of theater is confused and stuck in the avant-garde movement of twenty years ago."
Michael Wood, in his introduction, comments on Calvino's intellectual range, and his hard-won freedom from ideology—this in spite of his attraction to the major fads of his time, from communism to deconstruction. In 1971, at the height of the structuralist moment, he writes to Paolo Valesio: "To be able to study a writer, he must be dead, that is—if he is alive—he must be killed…. Furthermore already the existence of the work is a sign that the author is dead, happily dead if the work is worthwhile; the work being the negation of the writer as empirical living being."
Calvino portrays himself as more an observer than a combatant in the critical wars—though he clearly was attracted to the ideas of his friend Roland Barthes ("perhaps the contemporary critic I admire the most," he writes in 1965). He told Pasolini in 1973, arguably a bit disingenuously:
I quickly realized that I had no place in actuality and I stayed on the sidelines…. It is no accident that I've gone to live in a big city where I know nobody and nobody knows I exist. In this way I've been able to realize a kind of existence which was at least one of the many existences I had always dreamt of: I spend twelve hours a day reading, on most days of the year.
Maybe so, but the boy who vowed he would never go near Paris ended up moving there in time to catch the heady wave of theory, and it had an undeniable effect—who knows how salutary?—on his approach to storytelling.
Martin McLaughlin's translation, while vigorous, is not always up to his writer's finesse, and his annotations don't always dig deeply enough into the issues they are meant to clarify. Wood makes much of the fact that the book, dealing as it does with an antiautobiographical writer, is only minimally reflective of the events of his life (though it is arranged chronologically and not thematically). Unfortunately, therefore, only the occasional personal detail crops up in what, with a little astute editorial intervention, could easily have been announced as what it in fact is: the chronicle not only of Calvino's intellectual development but of postwar Italy's. When did Calvino meet the Argentine Esther Singer, whom we learn he marries on a trip to Cuba in 1964? How did his life intersect with the signal events of his time? Why did the Calvinos move to Paris? Why did they leave Paris for Rome? One feels justified in wondering these things without feeling the slightest bit prurient.
Wood says that the letters show us not Calvino's "real self" but his "plain self": "We eavesdrop not on his secrets but on his devotion to clarity," and imbibe his faith in literature as "a tool of knowledge." Calvino confesses to Guido Almansi in reference to Isaiah Berlin's division of thinkers into foxes, who know many things, and hedgehogs, who know one big thing, that he is a fox: "I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running," repeating that his approach to his own work is "always unsystematic, empirical," and "proceeds by trial and error." He was delighted, however, that Gore Vidal, writing in these pages in 1974, discerned a Platonic hedgehog lurking under his fox's pelt. "Reading Calvino," Vidal wrote, "I had the unnerving sense that I was also writing what he had written," and that in his work "writer and reader become one, or One."4
Still, a level of sardonic detachment, a dispassion, always preserves Calvino's antisystemic approach to things:
It is clear to me more than before that imagining the world as "system," as a negative, hostile system (a symptom that is typical of schizophrenia) prevents any opposition to it except in an irrational, self-destructive raptus; whereas it is a correct principle of method to deny that what one is fighting can be a system, in order to distinguish its components, contradictions, loopholes, and to defeat it bit by bit.
At heart he was an empiricist, who came to see knowledge as "successive approximations and corrections of mistakes."
A man who defined himself as pessimistic and "laconic," both "out of moral conviction" and because "I am continuing the heritage of my Ligurian ancestors, who are a people more contemptuous of effusiveness than any others," Calvino also complained of being a "chronic depressive" and suffered from enduring periods of writer's block. Unsurprisingly perhaps, Peter Schneider tells us that the writer admired the "intelligenza leggera," the buoyant or light intelligence, of his friend the architect Renzo Piano, and "lightness" is the first of the qualities he extols in the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he had planned to deliver at Harvard before his death:
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.5
For Calvino "perhaps only the liveliness and mobility of the intelligence escape…the dense net of private and public constrictions that enfolds us." The letters in this book deal with great subtlety, sophistication, and wit, and occasionally even a certain cynicism, with challenges that might have overburdened a less mercurial, multifarious, essentially sane spirit. In Il barone rampante (The Baron in the Trees, 1957), the book that arguably established Calvino's fame, his twelve-year-old hero, the young Count Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, leaves his reactionary father's table after refusing to eat snails, climbs into a tree in the family garden, and vows never to come down—and remains there until his death in his sixties. Cosimo has a full lifetime of adventures, amorous, intellectual, military, political—this is the Age of Enlightenment, after all—yet remains always literally in touch with the family garden.
Calvino calls him "a committed man…who takes a profound part in history and the development of society, but who knows he has to travel roads that are different from ones the others take." Yet one is tempted to see Cosimo, and his creator, who after all was the son of gardeners, in another light. He ventured far, intellectually and artistically, but remained fundamentally rooted, loyal to a cultural and intellectual tradition that he playfully, exasperatedly, lovingly tested but did not feel the need—or is it the capacity?—to reject. Hence the geniality and melancholy charm of his work, the disarming buoyancy that enabled its creator to stay afloat on the turbulent seas of his era as few of his contemporaries managed to.
4 The author is grateful to Domenico Scarpa for pointing this out, and for other trenchant contributions to this review. ↩
5 Published as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, translated by Patrick Creagh (Harvard University Press, 1988). The other lectures were on "Quickness," "Exactitude, "Visibility," and "Multiplicity"; the sixth, "Consistency," was never written. ↩
The author is grateful to Domenico Scarpa for pointing this out, and for other trenchant contributions to this review. ↩
Published as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, translated by Patrick Creagh (Harvard University Press, 1988). The other lectures were on "Quickness," "Exactitude, "Visibility," and "Multiplicity"; the sixth, "Consistency," was never written. ↩


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Makers audiobook: direct from the author, no DRM, no EULA
I've just set up a store selling direct MP3 downloads of the Random House audiobook for my last novel, Makers, thanks to the good offices of Random House Audio, the eShop WordPress plugin, and Mike Little, my WordPress tech guy.
The Makers audiobook runs 18.5 hours and is formatted for burning onto 15 CDs. It's read by Bernadette Dunne. I really like Dunne's reading (here's a sample) and RHA's production job is tops. The MP3s are 128K/44KHz.
I get an additional 20 percent on top of my customary royalty if you buy it from me, and you get a book that has no DRM and no crappy "license agreement" requiring you to turn over your firstborn in exchange for the privilege of handing me your hard-earned money.
Right now, sales are only available through PayPal, though I hope that'll change soon. And if this is successful, I hope to add the audio for Little Brother and my forthcoming YA novel, For the Win.
Downloadable 3D cover for MAKERS is now also an article of commerce
Now Shapeways is selling 3D prints of the cover for your delectation in a variety of materials (just in case you don't have a 3D printer of your own with which to run off a copy!). For the record, I don't get any of the proceeds from it -- I just think it's way cool.
Cory Doctorow Makers cover 3D print
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3D-printed version of the cover illo from Makers
Joris Peels from Shapeways liked the cover on the HarperCollins UK edition of my novel Makers, which features a variety of objects depicted in the novel as plastic model-parts attached to a sprue. Shapeways being a custom 3D printing shop, Joris whipped up an incredibly detailed 3D version of the cover illustration, which arrived in today's post. Color me grateful, delighted and gobsmacked. Thanks, Joris!
Update: Joris adds, "The design was modeled by Shapeways Community member Dmitry Kobzar; He spent 13 hours and 7 minutes making it. He will be thrilled that you're happy with it. The reason I asked Dmitry to model it was so we could make Makers come to life just like the people in your book do."
We're going to release the model files under a Creative Commons license. Watch this space!
Shapeways 3D printed version of the UK Makers cover
Makers tile game: the final, 9×9 edition
Tor.com's just posted the final iteration of the little rotating tile-game based on the Creative Commons-licensed illustrations that accompanied the serialization of my novel Makers. The 9x9 grid is truly a thing of awesome beauty.
Makers Tile Game, final 9x9 iteration now live
Makers tile game – embeddable flashtoy edition
Each installment in Tor.com's serialization of my latest novel Makers was accompanied by a Creative Commons licensed illustration from Idiots' Books, in the form of a tile that can be interlocked with previous tiles on all four sides. We're planning to release these as a limited-edition deck of cards in the future, and we've also been releasing little flashtoys that let you play with the tiles onscreen as they were released.
Now Tor has an embeddable version, courtesy of Malloc, which you can stick in your blog or wherever you choose! Here's the code:
Makers Tile Game, now embeddable!
Free holiday reading sampler PDF including MAKERS
JC Hutchins -- he of the boundless energy! -- has assembled a free "holiday sampler" of excerpts from great new books, handily bundled together in a handsome PDF, well suited to loading onto your device or printing out for your Xmas holiday. In it are excerpts from recent books by some of my favorite authors, including Cherie Priest, Seth Godin, and Scott Sigler (as well as an excerpt from my latest novel, Makers.
In The Nick of Time holiday sampler (PDF)
JC's page on the project with full contents and links
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Profile and MAKERS review in the Guardian
The Guardian's Michelle Pauli has written a stupendous profile of me and review of MAKERS for today's edition:
Small World Podcast interview on Makers and the writing proces
I did a really fun interview on Makers and the writing process for the Bazooka Joe podcast, which has many other interesting writers in this latest instalment (Annalee Newitz, JC Hutchins and Steve Eley).
Makers DRM-free audiobook
The reading is by Bernadette Dunne, a very talented actor. I just listened to this for the first time yesterday and I was blown away by Dunne's reading. I'm a huge audiobook nut, and I'm incredibly glad to have professional audiobook adaptations of my books from Random House -- and doubly grateful to them for supporting my commitment to DRM-free distribution. When you buy this book, you own it. The "terms of service" are "Don't violate copyright law," not "By buying this audiobook, you agree that we get to come over and kick you in the ass."
Makers, read by Bernadette Dunne
Doctorow is also a master of one-upping himself, which should come as no surprise given his interest in the Singularity. In 'Makers' he manages to keep the readers' jaws dropped, as one mind-boggling scheme is supplanted by another, each new plan in equal parts wacky, intelligent, and plausible.
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How to Resize or Move Windows Taskbar
The Windows taskbar is the one that appears on the bottom of Windows XP by default. Most people associate it with the Start button that shows on one end and the system time on the other. In between, you have the ability to customize what displays such as other toolbars or even hide it. In the thumbnail below, I've labeled the areas of my taskbar:
1. Start button
2. Optional Quick launch toolbar
3. Toolbar divider (only shows when taskbar is unlocked)
4. Open programs
5. System tray items
In my case, I kept the default location, but some people prefer to have a vertical orientation or to place the bar at the top of the screen. Windows doesn't care about the placement. There are restrictions on the taskbar width, as it can't exceed 15 lines.
How to Resize the Windows Taskbar
In the thumbnail below, you can see this taskbar is twice the default width. There are a number of reasons why this can happen. Sometimes, it's a result of an action we did such as dragging or dropping items. Other times, this is the result of some software change such as installation.
To change the taskbar width,
1. Right-click any blank area in your taskbar and deselect Lock the Taskbar. One or more dividers will show such as the one circled in the screen snap below
2. Place your mouse over the top border of the taskbar. Your cursor will change from an I-beam to a double-arrow as circled.
3. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the top border. In our example, we'll drag down.
As you move the mouse, you will see a horizontal line that represents your new width. You can use this as a guide. Unlike dialog boxes or windows, you can only resize the taskbar in one direction.
4. Release the mouse when the taskbar is at your desired width.
5. Right-click a blank area in the taskbar and select Lock the Taskbar.
The procedure is the same if your Windows taskbar is vertical instead of horizontal. The difference is that you grab the inside border (the border that doesn't touch the monitor side) rather than the top border.
Repositioning the Windows Taskbar
Another frustrating item about the taskbar is when it moves to some place you didn't expect. This undocumented phenomenon tends to happen when friends or relatives have borrowed your computer. As example, instead of being at the bottom of your screen, your taskbar is now on the left side. You mistakenly think you can grab hold of the task bar and reposition it like any other window. You can, but there are two little tricks.
How to move the Windows taskbar,
1. Right-click on a blank area in the taskbar and deselect Lock the Toolbar. A divider line should appear next to the Start button.
2. Left-click the area between the Start button and your divider.
3. While keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the taskbar to the new location. (top, bottom, left or right)
4. Release your mouse.
5. Right-click any blank area and Lock the Toolbar.
Although we'd like to say these problems only occur when small children are around, we know better. Some of you may have noticed that you didn't need to unlock the toolbar when following the instructions. Yes, keeping your Windows taskbar unlocked does increase the odds of it moving around. As a big kid, I can attest to this.
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Chicken Wrapped in Pandan Leaf
Chicken wrapped in Pandan Leaf is a popular restaurant-style dish in Bangkok. The leaf keeps the juices of the chicken inside, so you get very soft & juicy fried chicken. This is an excellent dish to make for a party. I've given a large recipe here for that purpose. This recipe makes about 30 leaf-packets.
- Cut the chicken into 2″ chunks, leaving the skin on.
- Smash the garlic, peppercorns & cilantro/corriander roots together in a stone mortar & pestle to make a paste.
- Transfer to a bowl. Add soy sauces, palm sugar, cooking wine, sesame oil and milk. Mix well.
- Add the chicken and mix well. Cover and marinate for an hour or more in the refrigerator.
- Dry roast the sesame seeds in a pan on medium-low heat until browned and set aside (optional).
- In a saucepan, simmer the sauce ingredients on medium-low heat until thicker, about 5 minutes.
- When the chicken is finished marinating, create little 'pandan-leaf' packets as shown in the slideshow. Add one piece of chicken per leaf packet.
- Fry the leaf packet on medium heat for about 3-4 minutes per side, until brown.
- Top the sauce with the sesame seeds and serve. (Unwrap & discard leaf before eating).
Pandan leaves ('bai dteuy' in Thai) are available frozen in many Asian groceries. Thaw them and clean well before using. Do not rinse in hot water as you will lose a lot of flavor. (Frozen leaves are already less-flavorful, so you want to keep all you can get!)
Pandan essence is also available in little bottles at many Asian groceries. If your frozen pandan leaves have no fragrant smell or flavor, try adding a few drops to your marinade. The flavor of pandan should be noticeable in the finished chicken. If you use fresh leaves, you won't have this problem.
There are many different ways of folding these packets. The way shown leaves a bit of chicken exposed, so that you get a bit of crispiness. You're welcome to experiment! Do make sure you fold them tight, otherwise the juices will leak and the chicken will be dry (and your oil will pop.)
This is a more difficult (time consuming) dish. Most Thais don't make this at home — it's more of a special dish which is ordered at nicer restaurants.
Cow's milk is used in the marinade to tenderize the meat. It can be left out.
You do not eat the pandan leaf. Make sure to tell your guests to take it off before eating the chicken.
Ingredients: What You'll Need
- 500 grams (about 1lb) chicken thigh, free-range is best
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped coriander roots
- 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic
- 3/4 teaspoon white peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon palm sugar (or white sugar)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons white soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons golden mountain brand soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chinese cooking wine
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon milk (from a cow)
- 30 pandan leaves, cleaned well
...And The Sauce:
- 4 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons black soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon white soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons palm sugar
- a small slice (about 1/2 teaspoon) ginger
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
13 Responses to "Chicken Wrapped in Pandan Leaf"
I can't wait to try this recipe. This was one of my favorite discoveries during my trip to Thailand. And I love the slideshow!
Look so yummy!
ITs so Thai!!! really make my mouth watering.
WOW this web site is so good. That slide show makes it so much easier. When I was in thailand these were the best thing there. (well close to). Thanks so much.
never had a thai meal without chicken inpandan leaf
many thanks for sharing this recipe. your site is my fave.
Wow, the cooking way of this dish is great and easy to cook, I'll try it later and I hope it tastes delicious. Just one suggestion: If you add some cooking pictures it will be easier to follow! One question:How to add you blog into my rrs reader? thanks so much.
Very good. Thank you.
oh , its looks so yommy , i ll ask my mom to cook it tonight for me
well i see ,those food look like delicious.so i can try cook tonight.Thx for sharing.
looks so yummy! thanks for the recipe
Looks very delicious!A bit like Chinese zongzi!Thanks for you sharing.
I tried this before in a Thai restaurant, miss the food and want to try to cook. But I am curious if the chicken is well marinated, why do you need the sesame seeds and sauce as extra? why not mix everything n just fry the chickens?


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1. Where does Will's nephew live?
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(b) Rochester.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Boston.
2. What does Will talk about that makes him smile in some pictures?
(a) His children.
(b) His house.
(c) His wife.
(d) His farm.
3. Why is Meg not surprised when Molly gets a boyfriend so fast in the new school?
(a) She is pretty.
(b) All of these.
(c) She likes being in relationships.
(d) She always has a boyfriend.
4. How many lenses does Meg's camera have?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.
5. What does Charles say is the worst month?
(a) March.
(b) May.
(c) February.
(d) June.
6. What does Will offer Meg when she brings him the egg she made for him?
(a) Tea.
(b) Cake.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Pie.
7. What does Will make?
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(b) Sheds.
(c) Toys.
(d) Cabinets.
8. What is Charles writing a book about?
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(b) Irony.
(c) Science.
(d) Marriage.
9. How does Will know so much about Meg's new house?
(a) He made his house in the same pattern.
(b) He lived there as a boy.
(c) His wife grew up there.
(d) He sold it.
10. How many lenses does Will's camera have?
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(c) 3.
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11. What is Meg doing when she meets Will?
(a) Doing homework.
(b) Walking the dog.
(c) Jogging.
(d) Taking pictures.
12. What advantage does Molly have over Meg?
(a) She is older.
(b) She is smarter.
(c) She is taller.
(d) She is prettier.
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(a) She is smarter.
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(d) She is prettier.
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(d) Her photography class.
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(a) An artist.
(b) A critic.
(c) An architect.
(d) A professional.
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1. Why does Clarice make excuses to see Will?
2. How does Meg say her parents act while Molly is in the hospital?
3. Who draws the line in the room?
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Jun 22, 2009
General Nonsense
It's obvious that the election in Iran was rigged. Yet Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei denies it was rigged and asks an interesting question: How could one rig 11 million votes?
You might also wonder WHY anyone would rig an election by such a large margin when it is so obvious that rigging it for a smaller victory would have been more clever.
I'm here to answer those questions.
But first, let's discuss what I call liar talk. It's a minor hobby of mine to detect lies by the way people choose their words. For example, liars often answer an accusation with a question, as in "What evidence do you have that I killed that drifter?" Innocent people might ask a question too, but it would be more along the lines of "What are you talking about?"
So when Khamenei asks, "How could one rig 11 million votes?" it sounds like a lie from a guy who knows exactly how he did it and hopes you don't. And it's possible that the huge margin of victory was a blunder. Perhaps a smaller victory was intended and some underlings overshot the mark. So a clever lie would involve asking how anyone could believe that a smart guy like the Supreme Leader could make such a mistake.
Allow me to describe how the election could be rigged by 11 million votes. It's a conspiracy theory and it goes like this. Imagine that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, identifies the Iranian who is in charge of their election process. They send him a secret message from someone allegedly speaking for the Supreme Leader: "The Supreme Leader wants you to rig the election for a landslide. But in case anyone finds out, he must have plausible deniability. Don't speak to anyone about this. Just pass the word to each of your local vote counters. Don't disappoint the Supreme Leader."
This conspiracy theory fits all of the data. It's not hard to imagine Mossad getting a fake message to one guy who has the power to rig the election. And it's not hard to believe that one guy would do as he believed he was told and keep the secret. Likewise, his underlings would keep the secret for fear of serious consequences.
Israel has the greatest motive for keeping the crazy-sounding President in office, in case they feel the need to attack Iran. You can bomb a country whose President says your own country should be wiped from the face of the map, but it's politically problematic to bomb a country that has a new president who speaks in a less menacing way.
In conclusion, the vote was rigged, and it was either a huge blunder by the Supreme Leader's minions, or a clever plot by someone who has an interest in destabilizing Iran.
If you are trying to decide which theory is more likely, a good place to start is with the track record of the current Iranian administration. How often have they lied to their own people or to the world? If you give examples of those lies in the comments, include the evidence, not just your gut feeling.
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Jun 24, 2009
I do not have example of lies in mind (as I am only 95% sure "we do not produce nuclear fuel for weapon" is a lie), but they are shutting off all journalists. So, they will - at best - lie by omission (and at worst just say some direct lies and having nobody checking if what they are saying is right or wrong).
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Jun 23, 2009
Hmm ... how interesting. I believe this is a test of our ability to pay attention.
In the first part of your article, you make the argument that the Supreme Leader is lying when he says the election wasn't rigged, and that he even knows how it was done. In the second part of your article, you then make the argument that it was Mossad that spoke to a single person, disguised as a follower of Supreme Leader, and convinced that person to sway the vote by 11 Million votes.
If the first part of your article is true, it disproves the second. If the second is true, it disproves the first.
The last part of your article is a classic straw man argument.
Sometimes I wonder if you say the things you say just to provoke a reaction, or if you really believe they are true. I am hoping it's the former, and based on what I read in your book (and what I believe I understand about you're personality) I'm probably right.
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Jun 23, 2009
Regarding this story:
which says that statistical anomalies in the distribution of digits in the vote tallies are evidence of tampering - I'm unimpressed.
Statistical sampling is completely worthless for samples less than 30.
Reputable polling companies normally use samples of around 1000.
The article's complaint is based on a sample size of 116. I wouldn't give a couple of outliers much weight.
I'm not saying the election wasn't rigged. I'm just saying this isn't evidence that it was.
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Jun 23, 2009
[How do you know the elections are rigged? I am not convinced]
Don't you people read anything apart from comics?
1 - In 50 cities, more votes were counted then the number of registered voters.
Here is a link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6553843.ece
2 - The outcome of the elections are way off from the outcome of the polls.
3 - The margin of victory is too big.
Merkel (Germany) demands a recount with international supervisors. That makes sense.
As for the conspiracy theory: that does not explain the liars talk of Khameini.
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Jun 23, 2009
Ahmadinejad - "the holocaust never happened"
anything else he says after that has me convinced he is crazy
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Jun 23, 2009
Definately Mossad.
1. Why would a leader responsible for 70 million people lie?
2. Democracy is a choice, Iran has chosen otherwise. Authoritarian leaders (aka dictators) are just as compentant and responsible and obligated to their peoples well being and democratically elected leaders.
3. Accountablility? their supreme leader thinks he is accountable to G-d(!), what higher judgement do you want?
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Jun 22, 2009
How do you know the elections were rigged? It is not obvious to me.
On a lot of issues there can be found a very vocal minority and a relatively silent majority.
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burt trub
Jun 22, 2009
I love how your post never went on to say that you are assuming that the elections are rigged. Its like you think its a clear fact.
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Jun 22, 2009
I'm of the opinion that the simplest explanation is usually the most plausible. Nate Silver has a theory which is both simpler and in my mind more plausible than either of yours Scott, especially if you are willing to accept fraud in the election as a given:
Here's the gist: Unlike in the United States where election results are reported at the local level, in Iran election results are reported all at once by the Interior Ministry. The Iranian election process is opaque enough that the Interior Ministry can essentially make up whatever results it wants with no one being able to definitively dispute them. I think its much more likely the election was manipulated at a high level than at the local level. For one thing its a little easier to just make up ballot totals than to manipulate millions of ballot - even if you are very careful about what numbers you make up. Second you have to include way less people in the conspiracy, only a few at the top, not thousands of bureaucrats across the country.
So where did the eleven million vote margin come from? Well if you're making up election results you want to hit a certain sweet spot. If you make the election too close people will suspect voter fraud and protest. If you make the margin of victory implausibly high (say Saddam Hussein 99% high) than people will dismiss the results on their face. Nate draws a curve of this phenomenon (which share of votes ostensibly received on one axis and risk of political unrest on the other) and suggests the sweet spot is probably somewhere between 55% and 75%of the vote (this sounds reasonable to me.) Ahmadinejad claims to have won 63% of the vote - right in the middle of that range.
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Jun 22, 2009
My thoughts are theres two problems, as you've already stated the Ayatollah doens't need to rig the election he's already chosen the candidates. Personally I think he's already decided the votes that would be announced beforehand.
Now he hasn't updated the votes to reflect public mood (to show a more even race) for 1 of 2 reasons:
A) He's just old and incompetent, supported by the way the establishment is almost surprised that people are protesting
B) For him modifying his actions due to the will of the people is a slippery slope to democracy and although its still rigged, making it less rigged due to the people's votes isn't what a dictator does.
Oh and if the Mossad or outside forces can have that much control why dont they just send an anonomyous message "from the Supreme Leader" to pack all their nuclear scientists in a bus and drive into the deserted desert where theres no radar close to Israel with a GPS transmitter and wait there.
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Jun 22, 2009
The signs are in English because Tehran is an imperial capital. Iranians speak Persian, Lur Persian, some other variants of Persian, Arabic, Kurdish, Baluchi, Armenian, Azerbaijani, and god knows what by some three million or so (very or so) Afghan refugees.
Not counting tourists, diplomatic personel, and businessmen visiting a country of 70 million that controls a significant percentage of the world's oil and a more than significant percentage of the world's natural gas.
Then figure that most people in the world that are interested in foreign affairs and are even watching these western channels (because they are not available in Iran) speak or at least read English. They are the ones the forward the video clips with signs in a language that they can understand.
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Jun 22, 2009
Reposted because the blog software can not handle an apostrophe. Among other things.
Well, after an exhaustive 5 min search on Google, I am not convinced that the election was rigged. I am not even sure that the rigging or lack thereof is the real issue. Imagine living in a country where the rights of the minority are not protected, and the majority had the right to dictate to you what you wear, eat, who you can associate with etc. It is just like here with the recreational drugs - just slightly expanded. I think that is what they are protesting. Iran is a young country, and for youngsters in particular looking forward to several more years of social oppression is a living night-mare.
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Jun 22, 2009
Well, after an exhaustive 5 min search on Google, I'm not convinced that the election was rigged. I'm not even sure that the rigging or lack thereof is the real issue. Imagine living in a country where the rights of the minority are not protected, and the majority had the right to dictate to you what you wear, eat, who you can associate with etc. It's just like here with the recreational drugs… just slightly expanded. I think that's what they are protesting. Iran is a young country, and for youngsters in particular looking forward to several more years of social oppression is a true night-mare.
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Jun 22, 2009
It's also possible that those who manipulated the election results (assuming they actually were manipulated; has that been confirmed satisfactorily?) were suffering from the same general derangement that my friends who are politically on the opposite fringes have. Namely they mistake their circle of friends for a representative sample of the rest of the population. Not the self-reinforcing echo chamber that they are. Does anyone remember the NYT columnist who famously remarked that she didn't know how Nixon could have won an election as she didn't know ANYONE who had voted for him?
Again, lots of people protesting in the streets doesn't necessarily mean the results were rigged. It would be much easier logistically to manipulate protests rather than actual votes. Also, with the perceived history of unfair political process in most theocratic regimes was there ever a belief that Iranian election process was fair in the first place?
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Jun 22, 2009
Do you think people in other countries were contemplating who rigged W's elections so the US would look like morons to the world?
The problem I have with the Iran election is that the 2 biggest whiners about it being corrupt are; 1. The losing politician, and 2. A bunch of young people. Sounds a lot like our first election of George W. Just with fewer fatalities.
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Jun 22, 2009
Based on past history, the most likely candidate to have rigged the elections is our own government. After all, we're the ones that destroyed their last democratic government.
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Jun 22, 2009
If Amadinajab (I bet you can't spell it either) was not elected, Israel would have no need to attack Iran, so it was definitely NOT the mossad.
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Jun 22, 2009
I believe they rigged the votes by 11 million to throw suspicion as to it being rigged. They knew if it was close it might look like they did something suspicious, but "11 million? Obviously the people have spoken!" would be the thought process. And they tried to sell it hard, but everyone was looking around and asking did you vote for him? did you? and when no one was answering yes, it became too obvious. Now they are trying to quash the rebellion. We should be blowing on those embers. We are already iin Iraq and Afganistan, SO HELPING THE PEOPLE GAIN THEIR FREEDOM WOULD NOT COST US THAT MUCH MORE!
But we won't since our dictator is friendly with their dictator.
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Jun 22, 2009
Another way of looking at it:
If Mousavi had won by a small margin, there is some doubt as to whether he could have significantly changed anything. But if he wins now, with the current clerical leadership in serious distrust, things might change drastically. Possibly for the better.
But it is a big risk to take, unless you think you are in total control of the outcome. And let's face it: If we were that good, Iraq would be a paradise by now.
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Jun 22, 2009
I don't have any evidence of the Supreme Leader's lies and secret agents do crazy stuff. But Israeli agents hoping to shore up Ahmadinejad so as to escalate hostilities to the point where Israel can attack is a strategy with so many possible negative outcomes, I can't imagine Mossad investing in it. It isn't a transparently sensible conspiracy theory. The Israelis absolutely depend on advance knowledge of a strike and getting in first, and would not want to bring that forward. If anything they would be seeking to destabilise the regime by shoring up Mousavi, because the anti-Israel rhetoric will continue to flow from the Supreme Leader regardless, but it would be useful in the event of said attack for the parliament to be insecure. Various agencies - and incidentally Saudi and Egypt have just as great an anti-Iranian interest as America, Britain and Israel, neither would want to see a Shia missile travel even half as far - will have worked Iran to their own ends inasmuch as they can, but it still is more probable than anything that given the groundswell of support for Mousavi the present regime decided to manipulate the vote and did not foresee an insurrection.
The question stands as to whether Mousavi will or ever could enact meaningful reforms, and with that in mind the street confrontations, even if protesters win their point, may well amount to a pointless tragedy.
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- Saturday 12-1pm
The Splendid Table is a culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, award-winning host Lynne Rossetto Kasper leads listeners on a journey of the senses and hosts discussions with a variety of writers and personalities who share their passion for the culinary delights.
From the vineyards of Provence to the city-street diners of Philadelphia, Lynne uncovers hidden delights and offers her modern take on getting food to the "splendid table" with cooking tips, recipes and her own personal advice. And each week, listeners are invited to call with their questions.