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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 2 stars Do you enjoy a sweet story? Are you a religious person with deep faith? Do you enjoy books set in the South at the turn of the century? Then this book is probably a good choice for you. My own response to the two first questions is not affirmative, and that is why I cannot give it more than two stars. No, it is not a bad book. It is fine, it's OK………if a bit boring. Although it gives a pretty good depiction of small town life in Georgia, it says nothing about racial inequities which of course still remained after the Civil War. The whites certainly don't see their black servants as their equals but they are not cruel. White Trash on the other hand are looked down upon, and many of the new inventions of that era are interwoven into the plot – cars, telephones, house plumbing and electricity. But it is all so cute. This is not only a coming-of-age story, but also a story of how it is to grow old. How do you deal with that? Will is the central character. He tells the story about is grandfather and what he did when his grandmother died. Yup, he got married again, three weeks after her death! Now this is darn-right scandalous! What will people think?! But the question is why, and you learn the real answer to that throughout the rest of the book. Is Will the main character? Or is it his grandfather?Are the grandfather's actions and the way he chose to live his life and his behavior towards all those around him that is the central focus of this book? I know what I think. I also know that it drove me crazy that everyone was most concerned with what other folks would say. But you know what is right and what is wrong, and we all do when it comes down to the basics, so the book's message is rather simple. Maybe you like uncomplicated feel-good stories. There are hypocrites galore in this book. Don't say I didn't warn you, but I will add that there is at least one that isn't a hypocrite. There must be some suspense in a book, right? Well, a few bombs are thrown in, but are they adequately explored? Or are they just thrown in for the effect? OK, I have something really good to say about the book….. Well, at least the audiobook narrated by Tom Parker. The narration is excellent. You know immediately who is talking simply by the tone. Will never sounds like his grandfather. The women are prefect too. And Loomis, the black servant, he speaks just as he should. It is not hard at all to understand the Southern dialect. Just one more thing…. I have read reviews that compare this book to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". One should never compare one book to another. No two books are ever the same in content or how they are written. Stupid me; I was thinking perhaps I would get another of Lee's, and that hope made me so mad when it wasn't fulfilled. I should have known better. Completed July 13, 2013 Listened to from March 01 to 13, 2012 I love this book. I love Love Simpson & I absolutely adore E. Rucker Blakeslee. I've read it twice & now listened to it. It just doesn't get old. One thing I've learned: I block out the sad endings of books I like. This was first noticed when I reread The Great Gatsby...and now with Cold Sassy Tree it's happened again. As I was listening to the last half hour, I was driving with tears streaming down my face. 3.5 stars. I really liked this book, but I found it much easier to listen to this book than to read it. I grew up in the south, but I still had a hard time with the vernacular as it was written in this book. The 'should/would/could of' ones got me the most, more than 'terreckly' in place of 'directly', 'cain't' in place of 'can't' etc, because I kept thinking it sounds exactly the same if you write 'could've', etc, so why purposefully write it wrong? Listening to it was much less distracting. I really loved the characters in this story, which is a good thing, because this is such a character driven story that lacking amazing characters, there would be no story to tell. The story is these characters' lives; their faith and their deaths and their scandals and their everyday. My favorite character was Grandpa Blakeslee. I loved his take on life. I loved his take on faith and loyalty and life in general. He was just such a refreshing character to meet, one who had such a realistic and "homegrown" faith and relationship with his God. I loved his take on faith, that it is not a guarantee or reward, but rather a way of life. I really liked Will Tweedy as a narrator. I liked that he was young and in the thick of things because he was at that middling age where one is almost adult but still considered a child when it comes to adult issues, so he was privy to a lot of things that he maybe shouldn't have been, but his interpretation of those things was nothing if not interesting. The foreshadowing was a little heavy handed, but it served its purpose, and in a novel as gossipy as this one, it worked pretty well. I would have liked for a few of the social issues, like prejudice and racial segregation and women's rights to be addressed more fully... all were touched upon, but none really explored at all. Overall, I really liked the book. I think that Grandpa Blakeslee will stick with me for a while after reading this one. He's just one of those characters that imprint a part of themselves on everyone who meets them. I originally picked this book up because my eye was drawn to the cover. The reviews were very good, so our book club made it one of our selections. I have to be honest and say if it had not been a book club read, I probably would have set it aside after about 50 pages. It was very slow paced, and the southern dialect was difficult to read at first. But because it was a book club discussion, I kept at it, and after a few more chapters, the dialect was not only no longer an obstacle, but I began to 'think' in dialect. It took a few more chapters before I really got interested in the story. I did finish, and I'm glad I did, but it is not a book I would normally stick with. This is not exactly historical fiction; there are no 'historical' characters interacting in the book. But it does give you a look into what life was like in the the small town south in the early 1900s. The story is told by Will Tweedy, a fourteen year old from the 'right side of the tracks' in Cold Sassy. He is the grandson of Grandpa Blakeslee, and as the story opens, Grandma Blakeslee has been dead for three weeks. Grandpa shocks his grown daughters, and the town, by running off to marry his young, attractive milliner, Miss Love. As he explains to his daughters, it is 'cheaper to have a wife than a housekeeper' and grandma 'isn't getting any deader' if he waits longer to remarry. Hopefully you can tell from this that Grandpa is quite a character, and is used to getting his way. The daughters are polite, but cool towards their 'step-mother', but young Will is entranced. The rest of the book tells Will's experiences during the next year, and his perception of what is happening in relation to Miss Love and the family. If you have time for a relaxing, slow-paced read without a lot of complicated plot twists, this is a good book to try. Just don't expect a lot of action. When I don't have a strong reaction to a book, I have little to say about it. And [b:Cold Sassy Tree|306654|Cold Sassy Tree|Olive Ann Burns|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223675895s/306654.jpg|1187268] is one of those books. Now, the setting was well-drawn: Burns seemed to capture the time and culture, or at least convinced me, so uneducated on the era, that she did. Will Tweedy read as a reasonable facsimile of a teenage boy, though never having been one myself, I'll never be able to tell for sure. I found the various depictions of various griefs genuine and moving and insightful. However, while most characters had at least one sympathetic moment and were for the most part rounded, I didn't particularly *like* them, though I'll be the first to admit that's hardly necessary. I just got tired of it. There were a few too many moments of melodrama for the sake of it and author tract-ing for my tastes. Sometimes I just skimmed. At any rate, it's off my list, and I don't regret having read it.I just don't know that I'll think about it all that often.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 038531258X, Paperback)If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy's adventures began and an unimpeachably pious, deliciously irreverent town came to life. Not since To Kill A Mockingbird has a novel so deftly captured the subtle crosscurrents of small-town Southern life. Olive Ann Burns classic bestseller brings to vivid life an era that will never exist again, exploring timeless issues of love, death, coming of age, and the ties that bind families and generations.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:34:45 -0400) Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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- 1 cup(s) Black Beans
- 1 cup(s) Cooked Corn Kernels
- 1 cup(s) Red Onion Finely Chopped
- 1.5 cup(s) Old Cheddar Shredded
- 1.5 cup(s) Monterey Jack Shredded
- 12 8'' Flour Tortillas
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- 1 dash(es) paprika or cayenne pepper
- In a large bowl toss beans, corn and onion
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- On a large heavy baking sheet arrange 3 tortillas
- Sprinkle 1/3 cup of bean mixture and 1/3 cup of cheese mixture on tortillas and top with a second tortilla.
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Terror and Trust
Posted by Maryna Rakhlei in EU on April 19, 2011
The act of terrorism in Minsk on 11 April is an attempt to destroy the myth that Belarus is an 'island of stability and security,' as the Belarusians describe it.
The country has neither religious nor nationalist internal conflicts and no external enemies. The explosion comes shortly after presidential elections in December, which saw law enforcement bodies hailed for preventing what they called a coup d'etat prepared by the opposition and Western countries. So how was the blast in the very centre of the capital possible?
The bomb attack occurred in the Minsk metro during Monday's evening rush hour. Thirteen people are dead, 200 were injured. It's a huge tragedy for a peaceful country of 10 million people which has not taken part in any wars since it gained independence in 1991. A far more striking loss than the disappearances of several opposition politicians and a journalist in 1999 and 2000.
On 13 April – the official day of mourning – President Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced that the case has been solved and the bombing suspects have confessed.
The main suspects are two ordinary 25-year-old men, a lathe operator and an electrician. They also confessed to two earlier bombings – in September 2005 in Vitsyebsk and on Independence Day in Minsk on 3 July 2008 – basically, the only other bomb attacks of note during Lukashenka's rule. Nobody was killed in the earlier blasts, which had remained unsolved.
There has been a lot of speculation on who might have wanted to 'destabilise the country' at a time when it is already struggling with a complicated economic problem.
Moscow? But Minsk has pinned its hope on a loan from Russia and it will be hard for the Kremlin to seek tough conditions in the aftermath of the tragedy. In fact, the latest news from Moscow is that talks on a $1 billion loan could be completed within a month. Also, that a second anti-crisis loan of $2 billion will be considered in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community.
The opposition? After the presidential elections opposition leaders and their aides are either in prison or under house arrest, awaiting trial on charges of organising or participating in mass protests.
Islamist groups? Organised crime? Could it be an internal power struggle between apparatchiks? The fight against Lukashenka?
For sure, the explosion has caused discomfort for the government: the first reactions on Belarusian websites blamed Lukashenka himself. He visited the site just two and a half hours after the attack with his seven-year-old son (!) and urged police to catch the bombers as soon as possible.
In theory, he could benefit from distracting people from the economic crisis and use the event as a pretext to strangle what remains of the opposition. But in practice? It doesn't make much sense. How can you distract someone from his daily routine? And destroy what is already almost nonexistent? And more trials will follow anyway.
For its part, the UN Security Council condemned the explosion as an "apparent" act of terrorism on face value. It apparently saw "a more than even chance that the government was behind this".
Meanwhile, Lukashenka is indignant over the suggestions he may have been involved. He said that peace and security are the "brand" of Belarus and that the case has been solved very quickly. He added: "Am I an idiot to be the one to claim the crime is cleared?" The terrorists loved chemistry and hated people.
The President has linked the post-election protests, the current economic problems and the bombing as a joint-up conspiracy to undermine the stability in the country, saying that the opposition is acting in collusion with Western governments and could be responsible.
Lukashenka promised to stabilise the economic situation in a matter of days, or a week. He asked people "not to be mad at him" and promised that the worst has already passed.
One of the Russian yellow newspapers published the names of the three suspects, all of whom are simple guys from Vitsyebsk who worked at the Vitsyebsk Tractor Parts Factory. An opposition activist who happened to serve in the army together with one of the suspects confirmed that the guy was a real fan of chemistry.
No formal charges have yet been brought against the men, but it's pretty clear what awaits them: Belarus is the only country in Europe which still executes people. They could be trialed as quickly as they were arrested. The official discourse – that the country is in a state of war – is also alarming as for instance, the people spreading 'slanderous accusations' about the events could face criminal charges.
Unreal as it may seem, the situation in the country might soon stabilise: the government is likely to get the loans it needs and to privatise some of the biggest enterprises. Devaluation will be a tough but necessary step, foreign currency will flow back, those found guilty of the bombing will face capital punishment.
What will remain is a deep fissure in the fabric of society, recognised even by the President himself: between those who believe anything the authorities say or do and those who find it difficult to believe anything.
How many people believe that the hastily arrested are the terrorists? How many will trust the verdict?
How many will be happy with economic measures to curb the crisis? How many regret their vote in December?
The question is – can such a country be considered genuinely stable?
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Posted by Maryna Rakhlei in EU on April 11, 2011
P.P: As the post was published, shocking news came. There was an explosion in the busiest Minsk underground station Oktyabrskaya, in the very centre of the city, near the Presidential Administration. 11 dead, 126 injured.. The explosion is classified as a terroristic act. The second one after the bombing in July'2008.. and the first one which took human lives.. Lukashenka personally examined the scene and urged to search the county and arrest anyone who has explosives.
The two main weapons of the Belarusian authorities are fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency… Well, the three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and fanatical devotion to the social model of market economy… Anyhow, not the rule of law, but the law of their rules, which are not always logical.
The current economic and political self-portrait of Belarus is full of the brightest shades of the darkest colours. Since presidential elections in December 2010, the future of the country has been changing. On 12 April EU ministers will discuss potential economic sanctions against Belarusian authorities. No sweat: they already introduced economic sanctions against themselves.
The country faces a crisis in terms of hard currency: trading in foreign currency has been restricted and no flexibility in the exchange rate is allowed. It's very difficult to buy dollars or euros, which makes foreign travel difficult, handicaps the private sector and could end-up bringing the biggest state factories to a standstill.
Belarusians have hurried to empty their bank accounts to buy foreign currency as well as anything that can be traded (gold) or might get a lot more expensive (sugar, buckwheat, sunflower oil).
Belarus lives beyond its means. Foreign debt skyrocketed from zero in 2006 to $10.6 billion dollars in March 2011. The government has ruled out a devaluation, which the IMF believes is a vital step.
It looks like Moscow is in control. It promised loans ($3 billion) but is in no hurry to pay them. First the Kremlin gave Minsk 10 days (!) to bring forward a plan for economic reforms. Now this document is being studied. Is Moscow expecting Belarus to give it carte blanche to buy the family silver (Belarusian chemical and machinery plants, oil refineries)? Russian businessmen have wanted this for a long time but could not get access.
Meanwhile, Russia is to raise its gas price for Belarus. It used to be $187 dollar per 1.000 cubic metres in 2010, $223 at the beginning of 2011 and will now be $244.7.
One sign that Belarusian authorities are once again putting their hope in the West is the release of a number of detainees from KGB detention centres considered by the EU to be political prisoners. Their charges have not been dropped but10 of them now face three instead of 15 years in jail. The official story is that this is the result of the investigations.
The two main sources of stability for Belarusian authorities have always been cheap Russian gas (for whatever reasons) and the trust of the wider public (for whatsoever reasons). The lack of the first asset shows the instability of the latter. And this at least is logical.


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August 14, 2012
Obama's "you didn't build that" Absurdity
I know I'm late to the party on this, but I just saw this article which quotes the president at length and explains perfectly why the president is so wrong-headed.
Obama's defenders make numerous excuses, mostly that he was taken out of context or that he meant something other than what conservatives say he meant. The problem with the former is that the context makes what he said worse, not better. The problem with the latter is that it's contradicted by the plain meaning of what he said. Here is just an excerpt of Yuval Levin's piece, but read the whole thing:
The Hollow Republic
By Yuval Levin
August 6, 2012
President Obama must surely wish he could undo the campaign speech he delivered in Roanoke, Va., on July 13. That was where he offered up the view that "if you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen." It is a line that could haunt him right to November, revealing as it does an unwillingness to credit success and a hostility toward the culture of entrepreneurship. But the remark came in the context of a broader argument that was just as telling on a different point, and no less troubling.
After laying out his plans to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, the president said this to his audience:
You know, there are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, Well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, "You know what, there's some things we do better together." That's how we funded the GI Bill, that's how we created the middle class. That's how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That's how we invented the Internet, that's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president, because I still believe in that idea: You're not on your own, we're in this together.
This remarkable window into the president's thinking shows us not only a man chilly toward the potential of individual initiative, and not only a man deluded about the nature of his opponents and their views, but also (and perhaps most important) a man with a staggeringly thin idea of common action in American life.
The president simply equates doing things together with doing things through government. He sees the citizen and the state, and nothing in between -- and thus sees every political question as a choice between radical individualism and a federal program.
But most of life is lived somewhere between those two extremes, and American life in particular has given rise to unprecedented human flourishing because we have allowed the institutions that occupy the middle ground -- the family, civil society, and the private economy -- to thrive in relative freedom. Obama's remarks in Virginia shed a bright light on his attitude toward that middle ground, and in that light a great deal of what his administration has done in this three and a half years suddenly grows clearer and more coherent, and even more disconcerting.
Again and again, the administration has sought to hollow out the space between the individual and the state. Its approach to the private economy has involved pursuing consolidation in key industries -- privileging a few major players that are to be treated essentially as public utilities, while locking out competition from smaller or newer firms. This both ensures the cooperation of the large players and makes the economy more manageable and orderly. And it leaves no one pursuing ends that are not the government's ends. This has been the essence of the administration's policies toward automakers, health insurers, banks, hospitals, and many others.
It is an attitude that takes the wealth-creation capacity of our economy for granted, treats the chaotic churning and endless combat of competing firms (which in fact is the source of that capacity) as a dangerous distraction from essential public goals, and considers the business world to be parasitic on society -- benefiting from the infrastructure and resources provided by the genuine common action of the state. Of course, the state's benevolence is made possible precisely by the nation's wealthiest citizens, but the president seems to see that as simply an appropriate degree of "giving something back." His words and his administration's actions imply that he views the government as the only genuine tribune of public desires, and therefore seeks to harness the private economy to the purposes and goals of those in power.
And to deal directly with Obama's "you didn't build that" crap, Mitt Romney has the perfect one-liner response:
"When a young person makes the honor roll, I know he took a school bus to get to the school, but I don't give the bus driver credit for the honor roll,"
Beyond the philosophical absurdity of his "you didn't build that line, is that his reason for using it is an excuse to hike taxes. It's all part of his extortion scheme; plan ball or or I'll destroy you.
Senator Scott Brown went after his non-Indian opponent, Elizabeth Warren, who said something similar to Obama the other day, and he nailed it on the head:
My opponent says that no one succeeded on their own. She points to roads and bridges and government services we all use. But to downplay individual initiative as nothing more than a byproduct of big government is to fundamentally misunderstand our free enterprise system, and it is a backward view of who we are as Americans.Government services don't distinguish success from failure. However, they are a convenient excuse for politicians to take undue credit for the success that you create.
Professor Warren's twisted logic dictates that because businesspeople like you take advantage of government services, then you owe "a hunk" of their success back to the government in the form of higher taxes. Forget about the rather large "hunk" they already pay.
This philosophy is a dangerous one, and it turns the American Idea on its head. Because once you accept the premise that government is responsible for success, there is no limit to what you can justify taking because there is no restraining principle that says, "that is not mine to take." That so-called "hunk" will get bigger and bigger.
In 2009 I wrote about the left's war on charities, and it looks like I was onto something. These folks would actually be happy if religious institutions like the Catholic Church were forced to close their hospitals and charitable institutions. All the better, in their view, because then the government could step in and take over.
Ditto with everything else. Part of the attack on the Boy Scouts is over their common-sense refusal to accept gay scoutmasters. But what I think really grates is just their insistence on remaining independent from politically-correct leftist thought, and for that they are to be punished. The HHS mandate that has caused such an uproar is only the tip of the iceberg.
What they want is to create a situation where there is no escape from their mandates. In their ideal state, individuals will not be able to get out from under their mandates. You will not be allowed to be without health insurance, and you will be made to pay for it. You will be forced to subsidize abortion. Your private organization will be made to obey all manner of offensive rules.
Brave New World, here we come.
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Absurd pretty much sums up your interpretation of the point the President was trying to make. "You didn't build that" was in reference to the common public infrastructure, both human and built, that we all pay for with our taxes; things that the private sector can't or won't do on its own, that are essential for our society to grow and provide more opportunity for more citizens. We can, and do, have arguments all the time about what constitutes "essential", and about the levels of spending on particular areas, but I don't understand how you, or anybody else, can quarrel with the basic point the President was making. Neil Armstrong wouldn't have walked on the moon without the massive, socialistic spending on the space program. That program was vital to our economy and our nation in many ways, of course, but one could argue that while it helped create millions of white collar jobs in the suburbs and sunbelt of our country, it did little to nothing to help lift inner city, lower income Americans out of the poverty cycle. I'm not saying we shouldn't have spent the money on the space program, but it's an example of how government, elected by the people, makes choices all the time about which sectors of our economy benefit from our tax dollars. In this era, when the Republicans have managed to convince a large part of a low-information electorate that all we have to do to fix our problems is keep lowering taxes, the President was simply trying to add a dose of reality to the conversation...to remind people that, for the most part, the taxes we pay are necessary and beneficial to the continued prosperity of our country, and not the evil slide towards communism that your side makes it out to be.
Posted by: RWNutjob at August 26, 2012 11:15 AM
Hmmm. It would seem you didn't read the post before commenting. Try again.
Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at August 26, 2012 9:45 PM
Your whole post was based on a complete and willful misinterpretation of what the President said. That's about all that needs to be said about it, because it's a work of fiction! How can you guys argue that a return to the Clinton era tax rates is somehow a radical, European-style, socialistic move on Obama's part? A small tax increase on income over $250,000, combined with sensible spending cuts and the eventual healthcare costs savings that Obamacare will generate, in other words, the balanced approach that Obama and Democrats have put forward, may not be your cup of tea, but I think most Americans will see through your Republican lies and give the President another term to finish cleaning up the mess you guys left behind.
Posted by: Rw Nutbag at August 28, 2012 5:20 PM
Ok, you're obviously illiterate. So sad.
Posted by: The Redhunter at August 29, 2012 10:38 PM


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Enjoyed my stroll in the sun
down Midleton's Main Street yesterday as once again the Anuual Midleton Food
Festival drew a large crowd, and the sun! All the stalls are now on one side of
the street and that makes it easier for the punters, especially those with
push-chairs. But, in any case, no one is in a rush; it is all easy and relaxed.
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Great to see some new stalls there
too such as Bee Sensations, with their honey, as you might expect, but also
with their unusual jams where honey is used instead of sugar. Why not try their
Honeyed Raspberry Jam on your scones?
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to trying the Honeyed Strawberry Champagne and Passionfruit Jam! Their Gourmet
Honey Seville Orange and Ginger Marmalade, bought at their stall in the
Doneraile Farmers Market, is already a favourite here. Yesterday, I got a
sample of their Honeyed Potcheen Seville Marmalade; I think that should really
wake me up of a slow morning!
It wasn't all about the new.
Great to see Harrington Bakers of Youghal coming up with some old favourites on
their stand, including a terrific Brack with lots of fruit. Sorry I bought the
small one as that had more or less vanished by Saturday night, should have went
for the large size. Must try their Tiger Loaf sometime.
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There were at least three
ice-cream stalls on the stretch and I'm sure they all enjoyed a good day. I certainly
enjoyed my cone of Caramel and Fudge from Baldwin's and indeed it was a delight
to meet up and have a short chat with farmer Tom himself.
Made a few more calls as well
but only had a couple of hours to spare there. Next year, I'll just have to book
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THE BALLAD OF THE INCH Tune: "Castles in the Air"
Ah'll tell ya a story, An' I'll swear tae ye it's true, A' aboot the Pillar Box - The ane wi' E.R.II.
Chorus: Singing, Fa'll blaw it this time? Fa'll blaw it noo? The anes that blew it last time, Canna blaw it noo.
They took this mickle Pillar Box, An' stuck it in the grron', Wi Edinburgh C.I.D. An' Polis a' aroon'.
A noble Lady in the Sooth said, "Let it weel be seen By a' thae traitrous Scots up North That I'm their English Queen.
"Sae watch it weel ma merry men, An' keep it in your care, For England's nearly bankrupt, An' we hav'nae ony mair."
They guardit it richt faithfully, They guardit it fell well; But in ahint their backs there nipped A big black-coated chiel.
Ye read it i' the papers, Ye saw it i' the news - How he stuck his "Coupon" in, Wi' a yaird-lang, fizzin' fuse.
As he hirpled back across the road, Tae the Cops he bad, "Good-night! Ah wadna stand sae near the box, For yon wis gelagnite."
A minute later aff it went, Wi' a flashing an' a thump, An' noo they've taen awa' the bits Tae the Corporation Dump.
The bottom bit they left there, A' ragged-edged an' shairp; But the lid wis in St. Peter's hands, Bein' played on like a hairp.
It's said that on the next day - Pit there tae get their rag - Upon the mound o' rubble Wis a wee bit yella flag.


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Entropy is a measure of disorder, given by the amount of information necessary to precisely specify the state of a system.
Entropy is important in information theory and statistical physics.
We can give a precise mathematical definition of the entropy in probability theory.
This is just a preliminary definition.
The expected information of verification of a probability (a real number in the unit interval) is
(or more precisely , so that is defined). Notice that, despite the minus sign in this formula, is a nonnegative function (since for ). It is also important that is concave.
Both and are , but for different reasons; because, upon verifying a statement with probability , one gains no information; while because one expects never to verify a statement with probability . In general, is the information gained by verifying a statement of probability , but this will happen only with probability , hence .
We have not specified the base of the logarithm, which amounts to a constant factor (proportional to the logarithm of the base), which we think of as specifying the unit of measurement of entropy. Common choices for the base are (whose unit is the bit, originally a unit of memory in computer science), (byte: bits), (trit), (nat or neper), (bel, originally a unit of power intensity in telegraphy, or ban, dit, or hartley), and (decibel: of a bel). In applications to statistical physics, common bases are approximately (joule per kelvin), (calorie per mole-kelvin), etc.
This is a general mathematical definition of entropy.
Given a probability measure space and a -algebra of measurable sets in , the entropy of with respect to is
In words, the entropy is the supremum, over all ways of expressing as an internal disjoint union of finitely many elements of the -algebra , of the sum, over these measurable sets, of the expected information of verification of these sets. This supremum can also be expressed as a limit as we take to be finer and finer, since is concave and the partitions are directed.
(Without loss of generality, we do not need the elements of to be disjoint, as long as their intersections are null sets. Similarly, we do not need their union to be all of , as long as their union is a full set. In constructive mathematics, it seems that we must weaken the latter condition in this way.)
This definition is very general, and it is instructive to look at special cases.
Given a probability space , the entropy of this probability space is the entropy, with respect to , of the -algebra of all measurable subsets of .
Recall that a partition of a set is a family of such that is the union of and any two distinct elements of are disjoint. (That is, the supremum in (1) is taken over finite partitions of into elements of .)
Every partition of a measure space into measurable sets (indeed, any family of measurable subsets of ) generates a -algebra of measurable sets. The entropy of a measurable partition of a probability measure space is the entropy, with respect to , of the -algebra generated by . The formula (1) may then be written
since an infinite sum (of positive terms) may also be defined as a supremum. (Actually, the supremum in the infinite sum does not quite match the supremum in (1), so there is a bit of a theorem to prove here.)
In most of the following special cases, we will consider only partitions, although it would be possible also to consider more general -algebras.
Recall that a discrete probability space is a set equipped with a function such that ; since is possible for only countably many , we may assume that is countable. We make into a measure space (with every subset measurable) by defining . Since every set is measurable, any partition of is a partition into measurable sets.
Given a discrete probability space and a partition of , the entropy of with respect to is defined to be the entropy of with respect to the probability measure induced by . Simplifying (2), we find
More specially, the entropy of the discrete probability space is the entropy of the partition of into singletons; we find
This is actually a special case of the entropy of a probability space, since the -algebra generated by the singletons is the power set of (at least when is countable, and the formulas agree in any case).
Yet more specially, the entropy of a finite set is the entropy of equipped with the uniform discrete probability measure; we find
which is probably the earliest mathematical formula for entropy, due to Boltzmann. (Its physical interpretation appears below.)
Recall that a Borel measure? on an interval in the real line is absolutely continuous if whenever is a null set (with respect to Lebesgue measure). In this case, we can take the Radon-Nikodym derivative of with respect to Lebesgue measure, to get an integrable function , called the probability distribution function; we recover by
where the integral is taken with respect to Lebesgue measure.
If is a partition of an interval into Borel sets, then the entropy of with respect to an integrable function is the entropy of with respect to the measure induced by using the integral formula (4); we find
On the other hand, the entropy of the probability distribution space is the entropy of the entire -algebra of all Borel sets with respect to ; we find
by a fairly complicated argument.
I haven't actually managed to check this argument yet, although my memory tags it as a true fact. —Toby
Note that this -algebra is not generated by a partition.
In the analogy between classical physics and quantum physics, we move from probability distributions on a phase space to density operators on a Hilbert space.
So just as the entropy of a probability distribution is given by , so the entropy of a density operator is
using the functional calculus.
These are both special cases of the entropy of a state on a -algebra.
There is a way to fit this into the framework given by (1), but I don't remember it (and never really understood it).
For two finite probability distributions and , their relative entropy is
Or alternatively, for two density matrices, their relative entropy is
There is a generalization of these definitions to states on general von Neumann algebras, due to (Araki).
For more on this see relative entropy.
As hinted above, any probability distribution on a phase space in classical physics has an entropy, and any density matrix on a Hilbert space in quantum physics has an entropy. However, these are microscopic entropy, which is not the usual entropy in thermodynamics and most other branches of physics. (In particular, microscopic entropy is conserved, rather than increasing with time.)
Instead, physicists use coarse-grained entropy, which corresponds mathematically to taking the entropy of a -algebra much smaller than the -algebra of all measurable sets. Given a classical system with microscopic degrees of freedom, we identify macroscopic degrees of freedom that we can reasonably expect to measure, giving a map from to (or more generally, a map from an -dimensional microscopic phase space to an -dimensional macroscopic phase space). Then the -algebra of all measurable sets in pulls back to a -algebra on , and the macroscopic entropy of a statistical state is the entropy of this -algebra. (Typically, is on the order of Avogadro's number, while is rarely more than half a dozen, and often as small as .)
Generally, we specify a state by a point in , a macroscopic pure state, and assume a uniform probability distribution on its fibre in . If this fibre were a finite set, then we would recover Boltzmann's formula (3). This is never exactly true in classical statistical physics, but it is often nevertheless a very good approximation. (Boltzmann's formula actually makes better physical sense in quantum statistical physics, even though Boltzmann himself did not live to see this.)
gravitational entropy
The concept of entropy was introduced, by Rudolf Clausius in 1865, in the context of physics, and then adapted to information theory by Claude Shannon in 1948, to quantum mechanics by John von Neumann in 1955, to ergodic theory by Andrey Kolmogorov and Sinai in 1958, and to topological dynamics by Adler, Konheim and McAndrew in 1965.
Relative entropy of states on von Neumann algebras was introduced in
A survey of entropy in operator algebras is in
See also
A large collection of references on quantum entropy is in
A discussion of entropy with an eye towards the presheaf topos over the site of finite measure spaces is in
Mikhail Gromov, In a Search for a Structure, Part I: On Entropy (2012) (pdf)
William Lawvere, State categories, closed categories, and the existence (subtitle: Semi-continuous entropy functions), IMA reprint 86, pdf
After the concept of entropy proved enormously useful in practice, many people have tried to find a more abstract foundation for the concept (and its variants) by characterizing it as the unique measure satisfying some list of plausible-sounding axioms.
A characterization of relative entropy on finite-dimensional C-star algebras is given in
A simple characterization of von Neumann entropy of density matrices (mixed quantum states) is discussed in
Entropy-like quantities appear in the study of many PDEs, with entropy estimates. For an intro see


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Some people -- loyal readers, colleagues, parents -- have complained that this kind of criticism is nothing more than puerility hiding behind the mask of authority. One woman who has read New Times since its inception wondered if perhaps Mr. Almond and I weren't venting our own frustrations at our own
speck-of-mold-size creative achievements. I drafted a letter in response, and it began like this: "Hey, lady, shut the hell up! No one wants to hear your stupid theories!" But then I thought about it. While I'm not exactly champing at the bit -- and I do have a bit -- to hear her stupid theories, I'd rather hear them recited aloud in all the languages of the world than listen to the new Steve Winwood album again.
As a teenager, Steve Winwood was a rock star. A real rock star. Armed with precocious, ferocious R&B pipes, he fronted the Spencer Davis Group, one of the most successful attempts to turbocharge the Ray Charles sound for the rock crowd. Even today, its power eroded by hundreds of thousands of appearances on classic rock radio, "Gimme Some Lovin'" still holds up, as do "I'm a Man," "I Can't Stand It," and "Keep On Running."
At the height of the band's popularity, Winwood jumped ship to form Traffic, which let him be the top dog in a talented kennel that included Dave Mason, Chris Wood, and Jim Capaldi. The songs were jazzy, expansive, psychedelic, and memorable, from "Dear Mr. Fantasy" to "Feelin' Alright" to "Pearly Queen" and beyond. After two albums Winwood took a break to join Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton in Blind Faith, a supergroup remembered primarily for helping rock critics coin the term "supergroup." When Blind Faith petered out, Winwood returned to play in Traffic and reeled off more hits -- most notably "John Barleycorn," "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys," "Freedom Rider."
That's the good news about his career. Here's the bad news: The good news ended in 1974. In the twenty-plus years since Traffic's last jam, Winwood has done his level best to become the living embodiment of the word duh. Some critics claim that his second solo album, 1980's Arc of a Diver, was a masterpiece, in large part because of the hit "While You See a Chance."
Some critics are stupid.
"While You See a Chance," like everything Winwood has touched since 1974, is uninspiring, unintelligent, and uninteresting. It's less a song than an anesthetic. Hammer a nail into your hand and then play it loud. You'll see. And the fuzzy, fatuous lyrics are the kind of inspirational nonsense you expect to see mounted on the wall of your pastor's office.
Bad only got worse. Winwood became a huge star (again) in 1986, thanks to the lethargic "Higher Love" (which couldn't be saved even by Chaka Khan wailing in the background) and the sickly smooth "Back in the High Life." Then came Roll with It, with its disingenuously good-timey title tune and the beer commercial "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" Then Refugees of the Heart, with its ... well, with its eight songs of slightly more than tolerable length and considerably less than interesting musical content. Despite being a fixture on VH1 and AOR radio, Winwood seemed to have exhausted whatever tiny bit of energy was left in him, or in his partnership with lyricist Will Jennings. A 1994 reunion with Jim Capaldi produced a new Traffic album, Far from Home, that was far from good. Even Winwood's defenders stopped defending him.
And this summer he stopped defending himself, mostly by releasing Junction Seven, his seventh (duh) solo album and the second one in a row that as much as throws up its hands and says, "I've got nothing left to give." Jennings is gone, and in his place are Winwood's wife Eugenia and Capaldi. The results? Well, let's just say that if dull were people, this album would be China. "Just Wanna Have Some Fun" is a cartoonish carbon copy of the far superior "Roll with It." ("The far superior 'Roll with It'"? That's a phrase you don't often see.) "Plenty Lovin'" is a flat duet with the equally soulless Des'ree. "Real Love" is a wonderful ballad in the sense that balsa is a wonderful wood.
Why is Junction Seven such a bad record? That's like asking why Pol Pot wasn't great for Cambodia. Musically, this is one of the flattest, glossiest, least-textured products (and I do mean "products") you'll ever hear. The stench of Narada Michael Walden, who has sandbagged legitimate soul legends like Aretha Franklin and Al Green, is all over this disc. And Winwood's ever-deteriorating lyrics are the perfect complement to this sonic pap. "Angel of Mercy" stabs both meteorology and psychology in the back with the simple-minded insight "When the sun turns to rain/Then our loss can be gain." And "Fill Me Up" begins with what Winwood (and the rest of his ninth-grade creative writing class) must believe is clever wordplay: "There was a time when I was blind/I had no faith, I had no pride." Bring me a higher love? I'd settle for a higher standard.


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When the beautiful Florida Theatre re-opened its doors following a major restoration effort in 1983, few people could have foreseen the incredible record of activity and community service that has marked the past 31 years. More than 4,500 different events of all kinds have taken place here, attended by over 4 million people. Approximately 60% of the theatre's use has been by local not-for-profit organizations of every description, and programs have reached out to virtually every segment of northeast Florida's population. Without a doubt, the community's investment in the restoration, renovation and operation of this historic treasure has been returned many times over.
The Florida Theatre originally opened to the public on April 8, 1927, as downtown Jacksonville's 15th—and largest—movie theatre. With lavish interior decor unmatched in Jacksonville, the Florida Theatre is the city's last remaining example of 1920′s fantasy architecture and is one of only four remaining high-style movie "palaces" built in Florida during this period. The elaborate interior was designed by R.E. Hall of New York and Jacksonville architect Roy Benjamin. Hall began his career with the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead and White and is responsible for numerous theatres, including the Eastman in Rochester, N.Y., the Metropolitan in Houston, Texas and the Keith's Georgia in Atlanta, Ga. Benjamin, whose local firm was the forerunner of KBJ Architects, built several theatres throughout the South, many of which are now considered historic landmarks.
The Florida Theatre displays many characteristics of the Mediterranean Revival, one of the most prominent architectural styles associated with Florida's building boom during the 1920s. While designing the Florida Theatre, the architects envisioned a Moorish courtyard at night, resplendent with glittering stars, grand balconies and fountains. An ornate proscenium arch that reaches nearly six stories high dominates the auditorium. The incredible acoustics and near-perfect sight lines make every one of the theatre's 1,900 seats exceptional. On the building's original roof garden, patrons in the late 1920s danced under the stars, while the theatre provided a nursery for the patrons' young children. The theatre boasted many features unique in the 1920s, including central heating, air-conditioning and vacuuming systems.
Like many theatres of its day, the Florida Theatre was designed for both stage shows and motion pictures. A typical evening at the Florida Theatre included six program elements—the news, a comedy short, a cartoon or travelogue, an overture by the band on its moveable orchestra pit (with an occasional sing-along), a live stage presentation and the feature film. Unfortunately, with the advent of talkies and the decline of Vaudeville's popularity, most of the nation's great picture palaces became white elephants soon after their heyday.
Thanks to the creative management of Jacksonville's Guy Kenimer, the Florida Theatre remained active well beyond the Depression, supplementing film screenings with many other forms of entertainment. Although the theatre closed briefly several times, it was saved from bankruptcy by special programs such as "Screeno," a bingo game played on the movie screen, and "Bank Night," which gave ticket buyers a chance to win cash prizes. The Florida Theatre's management also spurred community involvement with such programs as the Happy Hearts Club, which for almost 20 years provided Christmas toys for underprivileged children.
One of the most memorable events in the theatre's history occurred in 1956, when Elvis Presley came to the Florida Theatre for one of his first headline concert appearances on an indoor stage. Presley, the City of Jacksonville and the Florida Theatre found themselves subjects of a LIFE Magazine feature when Juvenile Court Judge Marion Gooding sat through the performance to ensure that Presley's body movements would not become too suggestive.
Throughout the early 1960s, locally produced opera, dance and dramatic presentations in the theatre increased popularity, and civic use—trade shows, fashion shows, benefits and meetings—contributed to making the Florida Theatre a hub of constant activity in Jacksonville.
In the late 1960s, during a period of local and national inner-city decline, the theatre's management attempted to draw the public back into the theatre by installing the then popular rocking-chair seats and upgrading the quality of films being shown. First-run films such as "Hello, Dolly" and "Paint Your Wagon" were shown, but ultimately failed to bring in large enough crowds. From the early 1970s, until the Theatre was closed on May 8, 1980, B-grade and action movies were shown and the theatre remained only marginally profitable even with concession sales.
In 1981, grants from the State of Florida and City of Jacksonville, combined with substantial private sector commitments made it possible for the Arts Assembly of Jacksonville (now the Cultural Council) to save the Florida Theatre. The proposal for the building's renovation was enthusiastically supported by the Mayor, City Council and Duval County Legislative Delegation. Only one year later, a $4.1 million capital campaign was launched to support restoration, renovation, equipment and start-up operating costs. The restoration and remodeling of the 1,900-seat facility began in January of 1983. The grand reopening of the theatre as the Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center on October 1, 1983, was the culmination of the most ambitious and successful arts project ever undertaken in Jacksonville. The entire Jacksonville community—businesses, government, foundations, professional and civic organizations, and private individuals—generously supported the restoration effort.
A new chapter in the theatre's history began on October 1, 1987, when the theatre officially separated from the Arts Assembly of Jacksonville and became an independent entity, legally and financially, governed by its own board of directors. Today, the Florida Theatre is home to about 200 different events annually, with more than 100 days each year used by local not-for-profit organizations. It serves not only as a permanent home for many Jacksonville arts institutions such as Theatreworks, the Jacksonville Film Festival, the Florida Ballet, Jacksonville Ballet Theater and the annual Community Nutcracker, but also functions as a true community center, hosting special events, fund raisers, lectures, private receptions, conferences, school programs and corporate meetings. Scores of churches, hospitals, public and private schools, social service agencies, charitable organizations and civic organizations regularly use the theatre. While preserving both its original Mediterranean design and its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the theatre provides modern stage equipment to meet the complex technical requirements of today's artists and performing attractions.
The Florida Theatre has been increasingly progressive in programming over the past several years, emphasizing those artists and artistic disciplines which might not otherwise be available to Jacksonville audiences. Last season alone, the theatre sponsored more than 70 cultural and entertainment events ranging from family shows, ballet and jazz to rock concerts and classic films—truly something for everyone.
The Florida Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Jacksonville and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. Many of the events of The Florida Theatre's annual Performing Arts Series are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council and The National Endowment for the Arts.


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How could Daytona Fan Fare be complete without an entry from the busiest Hooters restaurant in the nation?
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I've had one too many awful experiences at the Hooters across the street from the speedway. Haven't been back to that place since '98, and don't intend to.
I will say that the Kripsy Kreme on Speedway Blvd (about a mile from the track IIRC) is the best place to pick up a hot dozen glazed donuts on raceday morning, and will last the better part of the day. Of course, I'm biased in that I've raced with/against the owner and his family for some years, nice people.
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