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Above is my progress with my American Jane scraps quilt. I've got more blocks assembled and I think I'm going to make it twice as big, at least. Finally giving those scraps a good home (because there are a lot of them)! This quilt was inspired by a project in this book and this quilt by Rita of Red Pepper Quilts.
Gift Tags from A Spoonful of Sugar
For keeping track of more Scraps ideas, I've started a Scraps pinboard that I update regularly, if you want to follow it for the latest projects and ideas:
Have fun! And Happy St. Patrick's Day. Those silly Leprechauns finally got their act together this year and remembered to pull some fun little tricks at our house. Last year they were pathetic slackers. Loosers.

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Inside This Issue - Opinion
The likelihood that Hank Mullany will ever join CVS Caremark as president of its drug store unit is rapidly vanishing.
It is widely recognized that the health care reform legislation enacted last year will have a profound effect on patients and providers. Less apparent is the impact the Affordable Care Act will have on employers and the people who work for them.


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Use unique resources and hands-on activities to explore topics related to healthy eating and personal identity.
Programmes are adaptable to your specific needs. Contact educator Anne Gordon on 06 355 5000 to discuss options or email Anne
Primary education programmes
•Bodies and Bones
•Kiwiana - A Sense of Identity
Body in Action
- Bodies and Bones
Become a skeleton detective investigating different animal skeletons and skulls, and the role bones play as part of an animal's body. Compare exoskeletons and endoskeletons; explore how our bones help us and what can be done to keep them healthy.
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Kiwiana - A sense of Identity
What makes us Kiwi? Students explore our customs and traditions, famous New Zealanders, iconic symbols and experience life in the 1950s.
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Pioneer NZ
Life in the 1950s
Toys and Games Through Time
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The show that puts your body to the test.
Explore the amazing workings of your body and learn how to keep it healthy in this interactive programme utilising the fun Body in Action exhibition developed at Te Manawa.
Imagine walking up steps through a wide open mouth, sliding down the throat and ending up in the stomach of an enormous walk=on board game ...
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Big-City Comics and a New Blogger
- Posted by Johanna on January 4, 2006 at 10:28 pm
- Category: LinkBlogging
Some quick links, just to have something posted today. I planned to do more, but we got caught up playing Perplex City again — we've solved 90 cards so far out of 132, which puts us at rank 244 with almost 3000 points.
Entertainment Weekly editor Marc Bernardin talks about how hard comics writing is. I especially liked this part:
The more people I met, the more frequently I was asked the question: "So, ever think about writing comics?" And my answer was, invariably, "Yeah, since I was 12. But as long as I review them, I can't write them." Stupid professional ethics.
He's already posted a followup that goes into more detail about WHY comics are hard to write: they're uniquely visual. Some good observations there — welcome to the blogiverse, Marc.
Ian Brill elaborates (link no longer available) on my comment about "cultural capitals". He compares his comic experiences in San Francisco (a place with lots of great shops and artist appearances) to his prior lack of opportunities in a California suburb.
Will comics fan looking for an all-encompassing reading and social experience have to live in cities to find what they want? There are many cultural aspects that one, for the most part, can only get living in an urban area such as large and multi-faceted museums and seeing independent films in their first (and sometimes only) opening weeks. Will an intellectual and democratic bent on comics be something like that? Perhaps. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so.
3 Responses to "Big-City Comics and a New Blogger"
- Tony Isabella Says:
January 5, 2006 at 1:33 PMWhat a load of crap. Mystery writers review mystery books. Science fiction and horror writers review science fiction and horror books. I bet there are even romance writers who review romance novels. Why should writing comics and reviewing them be considered unethical?
Of course, since I've been fighting this battle since you were a toddler *smile* I may be taking these comments a wee bit personally.
- Johanna Says:
January 5, 2006 at 1:46 PMBook publishers are a lot more mature/professional than comic publishers are in many ways. I also think it's a different situation when an already established writer reviews something in their field than when someone who wants to be discovered does so. I personally look askance at someone who's reviewing comics at the same time they're trying to break into writing comics. Part of that is due to my championing reviewing as a craft in itself — too many people see it only as a way to get noticed and gain traction to do what they really want to do. I think that's bad for the field, and I want a higher level of professionalism than that. I also think that newbies should concentrate on one or the other, at least while they're getting started and learning the ropes.
I remember having to explain to a reviewer one time that if he was praising issue #1 of an anthology while he knew that a story of his was going to be in issue #2 of the same anthology, he really needed to tell his readers that.
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Hi you two! What a lovely blog update - such photos! And I take it all back - you both wore helmets on that scooter!! I am really sorry I assumed in an earlier comment that you may not have done!! Poor Giles - I really do hope that you are feeling heaps better now. Nice to have your own private nurse though.....? I hope my email reached you - it seems my text messages certainly haven't! Annoying or what? Take very good care - much love Mum,Susie and Tessa xxx PS. Miss you both v. muchxx
A lazy gam and siles.
Trip Start
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Where I stayed
Giles: Mum don't panic about the food poisoning, it wasn't anythign like you're imagining! All is fine now with Nurse Bonito watching over me, restricting my diet to water and rice (something I bet she would like to do the entire time to lose my belly, only now she has a reason to do so! Even then, I would lose the name toad boy...) Still had a lazy few days so far, sun and alcohol and food and water and sleep all thrown together. Lost my chain of thought now, just had two consecutive powercuts which are annoying as hell. Thankfully this travel blog site autosaves every ten seconds. Had a few powercuts now, not lasting more than a few seconds each time, but the more rural we get the more often this will happen. Apparently Laos is famous for having this all the time, with hostels and hotels having notices such as "hot water and electricity only from 0800-1200 and 1600-midnight" and even then its cagey. That'll be a fun few weeks there, so don't hold your breath for a blog update! Anyway, Vietnam, finding it hard to spend money, even the night before last at dinner I ordered for Sam a vodka and lemonade... got lost in translation as a bottle of vodka and a few limes sliced up with two shot glasses. Nevermind, didn't take us long to finish it all either. The bill came... and the vodka was less than a quid! And officially a bottle of beer is 9000 dong and a bottle of water sits at 10,000. There be places that exist where beer is indeed cheaper than water. Off to dinner now, can't wait for my steamed rice and water! I may have two bowls...


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Kylie - posted on 07/27/2009 ( 18 moms have responded )
someone posted a conversation on disciplining other people's children. I started to post a comment and it turned itself into a new question so I want to ask this
Should I be angry if someone smacks my child......
the reason I ask is this - when my eldest son was about one he was playing with a cuboard door which he knew he wasn't allowed to touch. My brothers girlfriend who is now 18 smacked him, not knowing I was only a few steps behind her. now When I disciple my boys I always get to their level and at such a young age (because they are still learning) firmly say no or Oh oH and remove them from the situation and destract them. I was absolutely furious as I, their mother can not even smack my boys myself, nor would I do that to anyone elses child. So I spoke to my brother as I did not want to approach the girl myself.
To this day nearly 2 years later this girl takes it upon herself to "act as mum" and jump in when I am trying to, or on my way to discipline my boys, who are relatively well behaved anyway.
At the same time I know us mums dont see everything but I would prefer people to tell me so I can deal the situation the way I see fit
Would love to know other peoples opinions on this....


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In some criminal cases, mostly murder trials, the family of the victim chooses to file a civil case after the criminal case is complete.
This is more common in cases where the defendant was found not guilty of the murder, but where they are considered guilty in the court of public opinion, so to speak.
In civil cases that follow criminal trials, the plaintiffs sue the defendants seeking monetary damages for pain and suffering and lost wages suffered as a result of the crime.


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On a return visit, I arrived with an entourage, my plan being to blend in and thus avoid having one of the waiters point me out to the others: "Hey, there's that dork with the fork!" To be fair, I must say the staff here is friendly and functions with an impressive degree of competency.
This time we ordered Rosa's renowned guacamole, and minutes later a cart rolled up bearing a bowl brimming with knobby Hass avocados. The waiter asked our preference of heat and then went about the task of barely mashing the three Aztec elements (avocado, tomato, and chili) with onion, cilantro, and salt in a lava molcajete. Handmade corn tortillas and cleanly fried tortilla chips were served alongside the unctuous green custard. Other starters were equally satisfying, particularly zarape de pato, pulled morsels of roast duck layered between corn tortillas and bathed in a sweet, sultry yellow pepper–habanero sauce.
The Yucatecan specialty cochinita pibil entails marinating pork shoulder in achiote, spices, and bitter orange juice; wrapping it in banana leaf; and roasting it in an underground pit, or pib. There is no pit here, and though the pork was served in a neat banana leaf boat, the meat didn't carry the herby taste of having been cooked in it. Still, the stewed pork was tartly tasty, topped with pickled onions and sided by a circle of grilled green and yellow squash perked with pineapple. No less impressive was a whole deboned roasted red snapper, the fleshy fish butterflied like an open book and piquantly painted with guajillo chili sauce. Tomatillo salsa gets freshly mashed tableside in a molcajete and dolloped atop the snapper.
Nothing beats a beer with dishes such as these; the choices here are exclusively Mexican. A limited wine list leans toward budget choices, including a category of "$25 and under." Food prices are family-friendly, too, most starters going for $7.50 to $8.50, main courses $14 to $22.50. The other Rosa locations charge a few dollars more for everything; the guacamole, for instance, is $10 here, $14 everywhere else. Appreciate it while you can, for this differential is not likely to last long.
Desserts are pretty much the same as those found at other restaurants, except with seemingly makeshift Mex twists. The ubiquitous molten chocolate cake is Hispanicized with sweet tomatillo dipping sauce. Flan is flecked with coconut. The tres Marias sundae brings a scoop each of peanut butter crunch, Mexican chocolate, and raspberry-rose ice creams accessorized with roasted pineapple, plantain, spiced blackberries, chocolate and cajeta (caramel) syrups, and whipped cream. All the ingredients melt and meld into an indistinguishably creamy hodgepodge of sweetness — which, I suppose, is the point of a sundae.
Miami folks in 2007 are in the same place New Yorkers were in '84: hungering for the clean, complex flavors that characterize real Mexican cooking. Just like back then, Rosa Mexicano comes through for its new hometown.


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It's not a bad premise. What would happen if all the world's power ceased to exist? No cars, no electricity, no mechanics, no technology, no medicine. Basic necessities (like clean water and food) define life or death and basic amenities (like toilet paper) become a thing in the past. It really is a cool idea: Bows and arrows, horse drawn pick up trucks, the word "Google" being spoken in awed whispers. And it's got some excellent names on its roster: JJ Abrams (Lost, Star Trek 09) and Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Cowboys and Aliens). All and all, it looks like it could be a winner. But then again, so did Terra Nova. So while I was generally impressed with the pilot, and really want to see the show do well, I think it needs to step it up a notch if it wants to last more than a Terra Novan season.
The Samsung Galaxy S III started shipping this week in the US and we took a deeper look at 4.8-inch screen sized Android beauty. Samsung has been on a tear lately with its Android phones, outselling even Apple and its venerable iPhones with over 50 million Galaxy S2s sold. With the new Galaxy S III, Samsung seems to continue its momentum with company claims of over 10 million pre-orders of the phone before the Galaxy S III has even shipped. Samsung triumphantly unveiled the phone this week in New York to the US public and press for the first time and we were able to get our hands on one. Here's our review of the Samsung Galaxy S III Android smartphone.
Over time, unused programs clogged my memory and slowed down my computer considerably. I currently run windows vista on my Mac Pro, which is stacked with 8 gigs of ram and two Radeon graphic cards. I love my current set up, but I haven't been able to get everything out my system that I would of hoped for. So where is the answer, how can I finally dethrone this problem and finally rage against the machine? The answer is simple with the latest software from iolo technologies called System Mechanic 10.7.
With new Android tablets on display everywhere at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) in Las Vegas, there's good news for retailers this year. Ecommerce software developer Ability Commerce has reported that its full-service clients saw an explosion in holiday revenue stemming from Android devices, as consumers bought everything from videogames to electronics in record numbers using mobile devices instead of the traditional PC. Mobile shopping overall was a huge success as retailers experienced increased visits, transactions and revenue across all of the major operating systems. The Galaxy Note tablet is shown in the video below from CES 2012, and is sure to introduce even more consonumers to mobile shopping, as well as gaming.
The cloud gaming folks at OnLive may not have a booth on the show floor, but it's certainly leaving its mark at the Consumer Electronics Show. It has announced a partnership not only with Google TV, but also with Razer, in an attempt to bring its gaming services to more devices, other than the PC, MicroConsole and, most recently, iOS and Android devices.
With Amazon's entry into the burgeoning tablet market today with Jeff Bezo's introduction of the new Kindle Fire, Apple's iPad might finally have some competition. While based on Google's Android mobile and tablet operating system, Amazon's Kindle Fire differentiates itself from it's Android tablet brethren on four competitively unique features, 1) it will be sold thru the biggest e-commerce storefront in the world which has already had huge success with its Kindle e-book reader; 2) it will leverage Amazon's massive content library and licenses in books, movies and music that is bigger than even Apple's iTunes; 3) it will leverage Amazon's massive cloud ecosystem delivering new and interesting services; and 4) and perhaps the biggest differentiator, it will sell for $199 which is $300 cheaper than the cheapest Apple iPad 2. Keep in mind, the HP TouchPad, while a flop at $499, sold out in less than 24 hours when its price dropped to $99-149, even with the prospect that the WebOS it runs on would not be supported moving forward and there were very few apps for it. But what will the Kindle Fire do for gaming?
NVIDIA posted a video on its YouTube channel early Thursday announcing that YouTube 3D videos and channels now run and support NVIDIA's 3D Vision active shutter 3D glasses technology. This is good news for PC gamers that love posting video captures of their favorite kills and gameplay highlights from their favorite games as they can now do it in all their 3D glory.
BARCELONA -- Google (GOOG) and its Android operating system dominated Mobile World Congress being held this week in Barcelona as the search engine company's foray into the mobile world has quickly reached a crescendo. Google's fun green and white two story booth, complete with a smoothie juice bar and a circular slide where attendees could slide down in the middle of the booth and get their picture taken, represented a stark contrast to the more formal and stuffy business-like booths in this B2B-oriented, mobile industry show. The booth itself represented a departure from Google's normal trade show appearances, which have usually been much smaller and more utilitarian in design.
LAS VEGAS (CES) -- Google made official its new Android 3.0 mobile operating system, code-named Honeycomb, by posting a video on its site showing off the new OS following Verizon's LTE 4G Press Conference. At the press conference, Verizon demoed the new Motorola Xoom Tegra 2-based tablet. Android 3.0 is the first Android operating system optimized for the tablet and its bigger screen. Previously, Android Tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab used slightly modified phone versions of Android 2.2, which were not designed for tablets.
In June, Sprint launched the first 4G smartphone, the EVO 4G, onto the market with great anticipation and fanfare. So how does Sprint top the EVO 4G? With the new Epic 4G from Samsung, of course. The Epic 4G offers a great combination of features including the 4.0-inch AMOLED display, that is sure to wow with its super bright screen, vivid colors and high contrast ratio, and the full QWERTY keyboard. It also comes with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording plus a front facing VGA 640x480 camera for video chatting, and, of course, 4G WiMax connectivity, which is Sprint's biggest advantage over its mobile competitors currently.
BlackBerry owners who feel left out of the smartphone party recently dominated by iPhone and Android can now rejoice, your phone is here. The Blackberry Torch, also known as the Bold 9800, represents Research In Motion's (RIM) latest attempt to attract more consumer users and is the first RIM phone to feature their latest Blackberry OS 6, with a revamped user interface and a ton of new features.
Sprint's EVO 4G Android smartphone by HTC is the first Android smartphone from a major carrier to get the long awaited version 2.2 (Froyo) of the Android mobile OS from Google. Among the main features of the new version is support for the Adobe Flash 10.1 mobile player giving the EVO 4G the ability to browse websites with Flash videos, animations and/or graphics. Adobe, having been shunned by Steve Jobs and Apple, has made a great effort to get cozy with Google and its Android OS using it as its launch platform for its Flash mobile initiatives.
SAN FRANCISCO -- With Steve Job's and Apple's introduction of the iPhone 4 and its new 960 x 640 high resolution IPS touchscreen display, the iPhone 4 has four times more pixels than the iPhone 3GS and is approaching desktop PC screen resolutions. With a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, the iPhone 4 offers more than twice the pixel density of the iPhone 3GS and has about 60% more pixels than its nearest Google Android competitor, the just released EVO 4G from Sprint. Apple calls it a "Retina Display" because, at that pixel density, Apple claims it is beyond the human eye's limit of distinction. Which begs the real question, is the iPhone 4 ready for true gaming?
It appears that it might pay to be a game developer, at least as an attendee of the Game Developers Conference. It was just announced that attendees of this year's upcoming GDC 2010 are eligible to receive a free Android phone. To help promote game development on the Android mobile platform, Google has partnered up with the conference's promoters to offer the promotion.
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By JACOB MAYER
During our stay in Buenos Aires we visited Mercado de Liniers, the world's largest stockyards. During its peak, 40,000 head of cattle per day were sold through its gates. During our visit they were selling a mere 10,000 animals each day. Mercado de Liniers sells cattle Monday through Wednesday and Friday. All of the cattle sold through the auction go to slaughter, there are no feeder cattle. There are between 50 and 60 packing houses in Buenos Aires and on the day we visited, 35 of them had buyers present. Instead of bringing the cattle into a central location, buyers walk from pen to pen and cattle are sold from the catwalks. Due to the large size of the market several auctioneers sell cattle simultaneously in multiple places. The auctioneers move rather quickly and spent less than two minutes at each pen.
Ranchers consign their cattle through one of the many consignment companies. For this service the seller pays a commission between 6 – 7% and the trucking costs. Cattle are brought in late at night, sold and shipped the next day by 2 PM, and slaughtered that same day or the morning of the next day. The animals are weighed when they arrive and when they are shipped; the average of these two weights is the pay weight. Finished cattle were bringing ARS$6 – ARS$7 per kg (US$0.71 – US$0.82/lb) on a live basis at the time of our visit. What we would consider sound, quality cattle brought the same price as cattle that were in poor condition because there are no incentives for producers to raise quality cattle.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina hosted a seminar for our group and we listened to several speakers from the school discuss some of the same issues Mr. Hayes had shared with us the previous day, but from a more academic perspective. There were a few new topics of interest that were brought up. One major issue affecting the cattle industry is the expansion of row crops, especially soybeans, in to the fertile Pampas region. Grazing and beef production is being pushed off onto more marginal land to make way for the more profitable enterprises.
We were surprised to learn that most of the cattle in Argentina are owned by small producers, much like the United States. There are approximately 146,000 operations with <100 head of beef cattle in Argentina and only 32 with >10,000. A typical operation can expect to see a weaned calf crop between 60 – 65% of the number of exposed cows. The cattle in Argentina are primarily British influenced and 80% are Bos Taurus with the most common breeds being Angus, Hereford, and Angus X Hereford (Black Baldy).
Retailers in Argentina offer 30 – 40 different cuts of beef. Prices for these cuts vary significantly, but those who can afford them prefer the round and loin. Most of the beef is still sold through small family owned butcher shops. The average Argentine citizen knows a lot about meat and how best to prepare it. There is very little ground beef, although it is becoming more popular with young people.
Our last speaker, Rodrigo Troncoso, works for the Argentina Feedlot Chamber an organization that represents nearly 500 feedlots. This industry did not exist 15 years ago, but because of the expansion of row crops the Argentine cattlemen have been forced to become more efficient to stay competitive financially. There are around 2,200 feedlots in Argentina that finish between 5.5 – 6 million head per year, which is about 45% of all the fat cattle in the country.
Our group really enjoyed learning more about the beef industry in Argentina from so many different perspectives, but what we were most excited about is the next leg of our trip to the province of San Luis to see the things we had heard about for ourselves. Check back in next time as we visit an American owned feedlot and a large Hereford ranch.
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What a week. Now I've really got myself caught between a rock and a hard place, though not the hard place I want to be at. I really am feeling more for my current crush (I'll call him Jake) than I've been feeling for the ones in the past, I think, and this has motivated me to write my first gay story. The story should be posted shortly, called "My first night with Jake".
Jake continued the nipple play in the other two physics lessons I had this week, with me reciprocating. We certainly weren't doing it all the time, but it was great when we were. The longest his hand was on me was maybe seven seconds. The trouble is I only have him in physics, which means only three times a week. Another problem is that we don't hang around one another that much, and I haven't come up with much of an excuse to hang out with him more.
Then there is the question of my trying to advance this whole thing. Statistically, it's pretty hopeless. But then, how many guys would do what he does? So assume that Jake is bisexual or gay. I can imagine that he's only going to experiment and figure this out in university.
Even if he is willing to do it here, and with me, then I need to figure out where this is going to go. I would like to get to know him better, but I realise that what attracts me to him is really that he has sex appeal. I don't have a problem losing my virginity to this guy, since I don't really value virginity that much. But if I don't draw the line at sex, then I'm going against a law which risks 20 years. I would like to just get to know him better, but that's really not what I'm after.
So, my end-goal at the moment is to get laid by him, but I don't know how to achieve that goal safely. My parents go catatonic every time I bring up my promise not to mention to anyone that I'm gay till I'm in university. So I continue here, burning with desire, trying to put it all to something useful like writing this story.
I'm assuming you mean that there's a law in Malaysia aginst gay sex, and the max. sentence is 20 years? How is that enforced, anyway?
You're definitely in a strange position. He does sound like he's at least questioning, but it's hard to say... Sorry, no advice, except for enjoy the nipple play while it lasts!
Yes, that's right. They arrested over a hundred people last year - which really isn't that many - most of them Malay Muslims. Someone usually tips them off, they go to the place. If they find two guys there, they assume they're guilty.
That's just scary! Wow, I'm very sorry to hear about that.
It also seems to me that that law can be used as a tool against people one doesn't like-- a shunned lover, for instance. Gosh, the world really is going to hell in a handbasket, isn't it? And this isn't some of the worst news I've heard recently. Let's just say it's been a bad week in Canada, and Toronto especially. ~sigh.


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The Bishop Broncos football team ran into a brick wall by the name of the Paraclete Spirits at home Friday night, suffering their second loss of the season at 40-14. The Spirits are huge and fast, with the bulk of the fast concentrated in running back Melquise Stovall. ParacleteŌĆÖs line is impenetrable, the Spirits run the ball well and their defense played havoc with the Broncos offense. Paraclete put up 21 unanswered points in the first half. Bishop put together a solid drive late in the first quarter with a shot at a 44-yard field goal, but the kick was wide.
The Big Pine Lady Warriors volleyball squad is on a winning streak with back-to-back 3-0 wins over the Lee Vining Lady Tigers and Thursday afternoonŌĆÖs monster win over the Mammoth Lady Huskies, 3-2. Following a shaky start to the season, the Warriors have transitioned from a young, inexperienced group of girls to a focused, hard-hitting, tenacious team of Warriors.
The Bishop Broncos tennis team hosted the Rosamond Roadrunners at the City Park courts Thursday and sent their guests home with a 13-5 loss. Like SaturdayŌĆÖs match up with Pacifica, the final match of the day went down to a tie-breaker. This time on the singles side. Tessa Wright beat RosamondŌĆÖs number one seed, Eileen Grimes, 7-1, adding to her other two wins, 6-2 and 6-3. BishopŌĆÖs singles squad provided 9 of the teamŌĆÖs 13 points with Gabi Morales and Laura Rossy both going 3-0 against Rosamond. Morales won 6-1, 6-2, 6-1; Rossy, 6-0, 6-1 and 6-2.
The Bishop Broncos football team and the crowd were up for the first home game of the season Friday night ŌĆō the traditional match-up with the Mammoth Huskies. One has to choose oneŌĆÖs words tactfully. There are strong friendships and a lot of history between the two schools. As Bronco coach Bill Egan said, ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm great friends with the Mammoth coaches; I root for them every week, except for this one game.ŌĆØ But, sorry guys, the Broncos wiped up the field with the Huskies. Bishop shut out Mammoth, 50-0.
The Bishop Lady Broncos headed to Mammoth for the annual volleyball tournament last Friday and came home with the tournament championship. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm happy for the program,ŌĆØ said coach Linda Frigerio, ŌĆ£happy for the team. ItŌĆÖs nice to see us getting better and better.ŌĆØ Over the past three years, the Broncos have progressed from third place at the tourney, to second with last yearŌĆÖs team and now theyŌĆÖve claimed the title. The final matches were played back to back against the Yosemite High School Badgers.
For the past few months, I have been hearing and seeing reviews for Tenkara fly fishing rods and had been hoping to give one a try. I enjoy the challenge of a new skill but I like to get all the help I can when learning it. So this past week I linked up with fly fishing guide and Tenkara instructor Pat Jaeger at Eastern Sierra Guide Service to have him show me the ropes. Pat and I went out and threw some flies with some of his Tenkara setups on the Lower Owens River and I learned a few things about Tenkara fishing.
Lake Sabrina A bit of wind, a dip in temps, shorter days, a spot of color here and there, a lack of children during the week ŌĆō could it mean that fall is just around the corner? But first, we have the last holiday weekend of summer, Labor Day and the Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair. Fishing this week was on and off. Saw some nice stringers leaving the lake and some not so nice stringers. Anglers not catching fish can come on into the store and get some advice.
The Bishop Broncos football squads will start their season this Friday under a new program, one that similar sized schools have used for a while. Both the varsity and junior varsity teams will be practicing together and partially sharing the coaching staff. ŌĆ£It brings the teams closer,ŌĆØ said head coach Bill Egan. ŌĆ£Schools like Sierra Canyon and Paraclete have been using this program; it puts the emphasis on consistency and experience.ŌĆØ
Summary and Trail Report Highs in the 70s and lows in the 40s and 50s with afternoon cloud cover made for a spectacular week of fishing and hiking in the Bishop Creek Canyon. All of the passes are open with Pacific Crest Trail, John Muir Trail and Sierra High Route hikers showing up in force to resupply and grab a bite to eat before continuing their adventures in the Sierra backcountry.
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Jay P. Christofferson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Utah in 1961, a master's degree in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1970 in zoology from the University of Hawai'i.
Jay was employed at California State University, Stanislaus (CSUS) from 1970 to 1996, where he was promoted from Assistant Professor to Professor. He served as the Biology Department Chairman for three years, Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences (ALS) for four years and the interim Dean of the College of ALS for two years. He left CSUS to become the Dean of the School of Science and Natural Resources at Lake Superior State University, where he served until accepting the position of Vice President, Academic Affairs at the California Maritime Academy, a campus of the California State University system. He retired from this position June 30, 2004.


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The Last Grande Dame of Australian Art
By Eric EllisFebruary 9, 2012
Mitty Lee Brown was the daughter of the Sydney establishment who revelled in shocking it. She was the toast of the Australian art scene, a gifted artist, a contemporary and collector of Dobell, Drysdale, Friend, Smart and Olsen. She died in her sleep at her beachside home on June 3 in Sri Lanka. She spoke with The Global Mail late last year.
DAZZLING in a sarong of a shade best classified as unspeakably orange, Mitty Lee Brown emerges regally from a nap through Sri Lanka's tropical torpor to receive an unexpected well-wisher.
She's a little startled at the intrusion because these days, at 89, Mitty doesn't get too many guests at her estate at the island's wilder reaches. "I'm rather sick, so stay away from me," she croaks, squinting through air dappled with seaspray suspended from the Indian Ocean surging metres away. "I've got a fever and I'm not with it. I'm very annoyed with myself because I very rarely get ill."
Mitty Lee Brown
Mitty's shrivelled body is shocking, much reduced from the hale woman I first met here seven years ago after the tsunami that nearly drowned her, her partner, Les, and their local Tamil staff.
But she's quite magnificent in her decrepitude, anything but the prickly battle-axe described in recent reviews. Indeed, she evinces the courtly charm and clipped speech of the privileged, of an era when Sydney's beau monde was a waspy clique that moved elegantly and entitledly between Bellevue Hill and Bowral, Belgravia and the Balearics, and, if you were arty like Mitty and her rich, often louche collaborators, to places such as Bali and Sri Lanka too.
This beachside hideaway has been Mitty's home, atelier and muse since the 1970s. Nearly 40 years on, she's one of the last surviving members of the fêted Merioola Group, named for the bohemian Woollahra boarding house of the 1940s that was patronised by Donald Friend, Russell Drysdale, Margaret Olley, William Dobell et al.
They all were Mitty's friends and collaborators; indeed they all remain her friends. Mitty speaks lovingly of them in the present tense even though most are long departed. "Bill Dobell… a very shy, gentle creature. I sat with him all the way through his court case, a lovely man." Sadly, also soon departed might be their various works that Mitty displays, deteriorating on her villa walls. Her once-glorious paintings are faded and untended, alive only with colonies of equatorial bugs and geckos nibbling away what may well be one of the more significant private collections of Australian art abroad.
Decades ago, abandoning an ill-advised marriage in Australia, Mitty "bolted" to this place with a then-new lover, a Cooma tradesman called Les Barwick, scandalising polite society as they fled. Sprawling 15 hectares along the island's desolate eastern coast, here was paradise then, with its peacocks, monkeys, elephants and epic flora, a utopia she'd found with Les, who would become her rest-of-life partner.
But Les was never to become her husband. She'd already had three of those; an intellectual, a filmmaker/poet, and a pastoralist. They and the punctuating lovers and fiancés whose hearts she broke were quite enough for a woman who has lived well and large, sometimes a little too much so for some.
Today, both Les and paradise have long gone. Les died by Mitty's side in 2005, his body blighted by years of asbestosis and cigarettes. And her Shangri-La has been blighted, too, by Sri Lanka's long and brutal civil war. Mitty's part of this shattered island has been a no-man's land hellhole, fought over by Tamil Tiger separatists and the Sinhalese-led government army commanded from faraway Colombo for 26 of her 35 years here. "Les went out for a swim once and a shell exploded next to him," Mitty recalls, with a giggle. "It blew his bloody sarong off."
Civil wars have a habit of discouraging guests, and Lankans have died in crossfire on Mitty's estate. In any event, most of Mitty's friends, patrons and artist contemporaries are long gone. And for those still going, including James Fairfax, Jeffrey Smart and John Olsen, the long flight to Colombo, then seven-hour drive — with 30 military checkpoints — deterred. Sri Lanka's government brutally vanquished the Tigers just near here in 2009 — "both sides were always very polite to us," notes Mitty — and only recently allowed public access to this devastated corner of a land which nature presciently fashioned in the shape of a teardrop.
Mitty's beach is an exotic, abundant place, where bamboo and frangipani, Palmyra and tropical ferns grow as if on steroids, where bread is baked from coconut, where giant turtles track across the sands. It's where passionfruits, papaya and pineapples grow wild, where breakfast is a lunu miris over manioke and dahl, a fiery onion sambal on tapioca with a lentil curry. Since the war's end, it's also become a sleazy Paedophilia-sur-Mer for obese German rockspiders touching up slim-hipped paramours plucked from impoverished local villages.
This paradise has other limitations, such as appalling health care. And Mitty's world is troubled. She fears she is being steadily killed, even poisoned, though she's not entirely sure by whom. "I'm frightened, I'm bloody frightened," she says. "I don't feel secure here. I'm worried about me. I'm expecting to be attacked, to be killed."
Who is trying to kill you, I ask. "God only knows, I wish I knew," she says, "I'd try to get them first. There's some very questionable people who have no morals at all wanting the house; Lankans, foreigners, a bit of both."
Friends dismiss this as fabulist paranoia, saying she's always been given to fantasy and dramatics. I tell her there are people who are concerned about her welfare. "Including me," she declares. "I'm top of the bloody list!"
I've brought her some wine, plantains and roasted cashews from Colombo. "That's very sweet but you'll have to drink the wine, I'm over 100 and I don't drink anymore." [The National Gallery of Australia has her born in 1922.] She offers cold water and beer, summoning Thervan, her loyal butler for 25 years, with a well-practised tap of her cane to a fridge that rarely works for lack of power.
"I'm scared silly. What I want to do is get the hell out of here before they get me," she says. "I'll throw [the art] out to sea. They are trying to kill me.… I'm sounding like a sixpenny thriller now but I'm ill, I don't usually get ill and I fear it could be poison.
"What I want is for somebody to take me over, lock, stock and barrel, to sell this, get what they can out of it, and get me out fast."
She claims much of her art has "vanished," though some friends dispute this. "I've lost all my collection," she laments. "It went astray. I did have a very nice collection, oh, of this and that, of … hmm, let's not make lists." It may have disappeared in the tsunami, or some other more sinister manner. "I don't know, it hurts too much [to think about it]," she says.
I remind her of a John Olsen she proudly showed me in 2005, which she said the artist had given her after a "you-beaut" evening with him somewhere in Europe. It seems a revelation to her, at the edges of dementia. "Oh, yes … what's happened to that?" she asks herself. "What has happened to the Olsen?" She despatches me to the guest wing to see if it's hanging there. She has many paintings decaying there, including some by her own brush. But none is by John Olsen.
ADVANCING mortality is the certainty we endeavour to bear with as much resignation and dignity as declining mind and body allow. For most of us, family steps up to comfort our last days. That is probably not going to happen for Mitty Lee Brown. And she'd probably be the first to admit, she's got only herself to blame. Or perhaps not.
Born in San Francisco, where her doctor father, Robert, was studying medicine, and raised in an establishment family on 'Pill Hill' at Sydney's Palm Beach — a locale so named for the moneyed Sydney physicians who owned houses there — uanita Lee Brown's has been a theatrical, eventful life.
Known as Mitty since childhood, she lost both her parents before she was 21; her father crashed his self-piloted biplane on a Botany Bay beach when he was 39 and she 13, and her 45-year-old artist mother, Ailsa, who had remarried a pilot, perished in a traffic accident in 1943 as she returned home from volunteer coast-watching for Japanese warships at Palm Beach. An only child, Mitty is thrice-married and has been 60 years abroad; in Paris, an island in Rome's Tiber, the Greek island of Kos, Bali, Sri Lanka, Ischia and, she claims, Kashmir, Japan and Hong Kong.
Mitty's been a people collector, and her admirers over the years have been Fairfaxes, Packers, Lloyd Joneses and myriad establishment dynasties, even if the admiration wasn't always reciprocated. A daughter of the establishment, she lived amongst it through the 1960s as the wife of a squattocratic grazier.
Gwen Friend, Donald's 87-year-old sister, remembers Mitty as "a real stunner, a knockout" in her younger years. "She had eyes like a Siamese cat, she was tall and always slim, with jet black hair and a wonderful, low voice, and a string of young men behind her. She constantly fell in love with everybody, and everybody adored Mitty. She was absolutely a magnet. And when Mitty talked to you, she absolutely talked to you — you were the only person in the world."
Mitty was quite the social fixture around Sydney's eastern suburbs in the 1960s, after she married into the squattocratic clan of the grazier and racing indentity William Gordon. In particular, she drew admirers for her elegant gardens and tasteful restoration of their landmark Runnymede mansion in Woollahra, where the NSW Governor from 1891-93 Victor Child Villiers, the Seventh Earl of Jersey and a godson of Queen Victoria, once kept a mistress.
But Mitty ultimately found it all rather dull and stifling, and she escaped to a peripatetic bohemia, eventually alighting on Sri Lanka with Les. She's painted along the journey, and by universal agreement she is immensely talented, if not prolific. Gwen, herself resident at Merioola for a time, says Mitty was "a bloody good painter but wasn't prolific because she didn't have to be."
National Gallery of Australia board member and art dealer Philip Bacon says that though Mitty wasn't productive enough to be better known, he admires her limited portfolio. He has one of hers — a 1944 work called Escaped Convict —on sale at his Brisbane gallery. Friends say she didn't paint so much in Sri Lanka because she didn't want to abuse her visa status with the Colombo government. But others say that's nonsense. Says Gwen Friend: "Other painters had to sell a picture in order to get some bread and cheese on the table, but Mitty had plenty of money and she could afford to take her time."
What isn't in much dispute is how Mitty has entertained, amused, appalled and alienated many with her loves and feuds, her tantrums and myriad fallings-out. But widowed, childless and an only child, Mitty today is alone, virtually abandoned on this remote foreign beach save for her loyal Tamil retainers.
A friend says that Mitty's closest direct relatives are a distant Sydney family who haven't seen her since the early 1980s and "couldn't care less about her anyway." Then there is the clan of NSW pastoralists related via her third marriage to William Gordon.
Mitty recalls: "I was married to Bill Gordon, the main gentleman of the Gordon family and that was a great mistake, disastrous.
"The one that messed me up was Bill Gordon. I refused and refused [his proposals] and he convinced me he was going to kill himself if I didn't accept. Bill was waving a pistol at me … he threatened to blow his brains out, and mine, too." Gwen Friend says this "sounds about right. Bill Gordon was always waving guns around, full as a tick, I would think."
Gwen remembers Mitty leaving Runnymede for the move down south to Bobingah, the Gordon family seat outside Cooma where the art critic Robert Hughes penned much of his magisterial study of her brother, Donald. Packing up a removalist van, Mitty almost forget a Dobell she'd hung over the fireplace. Bobingah famously had Mitty's Dobells displayed in the toilet. "She worked like a Trojan on the house and garden at Bobingah," recalls a friend, "and she was doing some wonderful paintings at the same time."
But Bobingah couldn't hold her either. In 1967, she "bolted" from Bill Gordon, running off with Les Barwick, the builder she'd met while he was fixing Bobingah.
Her affair with Les — "the great love of my life" — caused huge ructions with two families, the Gordon clan and Les's family in Cooma, that resonate even today.
Mitty claims it was "love at first sight" with Les and insists that she "managed not to do anything until I'd left Bill."
But memories are still raw at the Gordons. One septuagenarian relative-by-marriage we contacted, a rural grande dame of the extended clan, was generous about Mitty when we called, describing her as "great fun" and "a hugely entertaining and brilliant woman." But when The Global Mail described Mitty's current situation, and recounted her pleas for help to return to Australia, this matriarch didn't quite say "she reaps what she has sown" but she may as well have. "I think it's probably better for all of us, and Mitty in particular, that she die there in Sri Lanka," she said. Sydney society clearly has a long memory.
Gwen Friend says the Gordons were a bit stuffy and didn't approve of Mitty because she was bohemian. But another of the artist's friends says, "Mitty treated Bill Gordon appallingly," adding that she exhibits "extraordinary generosity but has also been appallingly selfish and a bully. And she makes things up, and then forgets what she has said."
Not that Mitty articulates any regrets. Sydney, she dismisses with a cavalier wave, "is about as snobbish as any place can be," while Melbourne is "constipated."
So why didn't Mitty and Les marry? "Why bother?" Mitty says, "I married Bill and then I said I'd had enough of marriage. And I was with my beloved, remember — Les, a darling, an absolute darling."
MITTY'S second husband, the Italian film director Nelo Risi, was also a darling. "He's ringing me up even now, he's a poet, Italy's best poet, an absolute pet." She lived with Nelo in an apartment on the Isola Tiberina, the storied island in the middle of Rome's Tiber River, and in Paris, too.
"I had a darling little house in Montparnasse," she recalls. It was described in November 1953 in the Sydney Sun-Herald's gossip column, Mere Chatter, as a "sweet, if startling tiny home … decorated in a scheme of pink, purple and yellow." The item cited Mitty's "one-man show" in Rome and her marriage to Risi, too, while hinting at "a rumour she may come home for a visit at the end of the year."
Indeed, the archives of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian Women's Weekly social pages are littered with Mitty titbits: her 1937 graduation from Sydney's Alliance Française; a 1939 account of her entertaining "in a frock of white chantilly lace … a party in town from Melbourne and the country for the spring race meeting;" a 1941 despatch describing her "adding colour to Palm Beach gaieties … in a heavy seashell necklace, mauve jumper and grey slacks;" her 1942 engagement to a Free French naval officer, François Paul Fourlinnie; the 1944 notice of her marriage to Dr Peter Vasquez Russo — "a Melbourne University scholarship winner, Dr Russo went to Japan, where he became Professor of European Languages in the University of Tokyo. His bride this year was runner-up in the New South Wales Art Travelling Scholarship;" a follow-up picture of her radiant self, honeymooning in Melbourne with Russo; a 1958 item from Vogue about her Rome apartment, "one of a row of old church properties, a 14th Century house that has been turned into a 20th Century flat where the sound of the water comes in through the windows."
I remark how she's often appeared in the social pages. "I've got an awful habit of, wherever I am, however much I hide under the table, I seem to get written up," she ventures.
With Mitty's links to an important art movement at Merioola, and her deteriorated, faded Drysdales and Friends and Dobells, hers is an estate that is part of Australian history. Her old friend and noted collector James Fairfax said her collection is "meritorious." The Australian High Commission in Colombo claims it is in regular contact with her. Mitty says that's nonsense.
Her property should be a museum but instead it will most likely pass to Thervan's family of servants, who don't know much about her colourful past. They know how she likes her tea and that she likes breakfast papaya with a squeeze of lime. "I've been through a lot with these people," Mitty says. "We were bashed around by the tsunami together, but we all managed to survive. They are marvellous." But Mitty worries about the integrity of the professional advisors in Colombo handling her affairs.
For Philip Bacon, this is all-too-familiar terrain. He's well acquainted with the plight of the artist who escaped Australia's suffocating philistinism only to decay and die unacknowledged and unknown in foreign climes. "It's a tragically familiar story, I'm afraid," Bacon says. And Sri Lanka has more than its fair share of the unscrupulous, foreigners and locals alike, exploiting the country's rampant corruption and lawlessness.
MERIOOLA was a grand mansion in Rosemont Avenue, Woollahra, the family seat for generations of the prominent legal dynasty, the Allen family, who founded Australia's oldest law firm, Allens — today's Allens Arthur Robinson. In 1941, when the then-patriarch Arthur Wigram Allen died, his heirs decided to lease Merioola as a boarding house, to be run by a Melbourne chatelaine called Chica Lowe. The art historian Christine France describes Lowe as "an exceptional character … she had already run several boarding houses, she was interested in the arts and liked to have interesting people as tenants."
Writes France: "[Lowe's] warmth, generosity and ability to amuse, as well as her maxim that the house should be run for the convenience of the tenants not the landlady, attracted artists." One of them was Mitty, studying art under William Dobell and others at the nearby East Sydney Technical College, the old Darlinghurst Gaol and today's National Art School. "I lived at Palm Beach and it was too far go home every night," Mitty recalls, "so I moved in there with Chica.
"Chica is one of my greatest friends," she recalls. "She got her hands on [Merioola] and turned it into the best boarding house there ever was."
According to France, "Part of the success of Merioola also came about from [Lowe's] belief that it was bad for artists to live in isolation. In post-war Sydney, Merioola was probably the most exciting place to live."
"It was marvellous," remembers Mitty. "We had such fun there, everyone was falling in love with everyone else, but it was also very creative."
As an artist colony, Merioola was a more hedonistic, free-spirited antidote to John and Sunday Reed's rather more earnest Heide Circle in Melbourne. In Woollahra, matronly eyebrows were raised in neighbouring drawing rooms about the real or imagined goings-on at Merioola, shockingly perpetrated by wayward scions of the elite, their kind. "I think Victoria was more stuffy than New South Wales," says Mitty. "But we weren't out to shock, we were artists and it was great fun."
Mitty's lover at Merioola was the debonair Alec Murray, who would enjoy a celebrated career as a celebrity and fashion photographer in London (and who famously shot a cherubic six-year-old Kerry Packer by a Sydney fish pond).
But her best and lifelong friend was the artist Donald Friend, who also would live and love extravagantly in Ceylon through the late 1950s and early 1960s. Indeed, several of Friend's works adorn the walls and garden of Brief, the magnificent but little-visited estate of Sri Lankan lawyer and aesthete Bevis Bawa, elder brother of the architect Geoffrey. Friend died in 1989, and though his life on the island pre-dated Mitty's time here, I ask if he ever visited her here.
"Oh, heavens yes, wherever I go, he goes. I've known Donald virtually all my life, being a painter and all." She talks of Friend in the present tense. "We are brother and sister … not lovers or anything like that."
She recalls grand times with Friend in Bali, where Mitty initially fled in 1968 with Les Barwick after she left Bill Gordon in Nimmitabel. Before Les died in 2005, he and Mitty told me he built Friend's house in Bali. Friend's Sanur residence, Villa Batujimbar, is much celebrated. Inspired by the architecture of the ancient aristocratic Balinese seat of Klungkung, it was designed by Geoffrey Bawa and later acquired by the Czech-Indonesian hotelier Adrian Zecha of Aman Resorts fame. Not only does Friend's art adorn the walls still, his ashes are sprinkled around the grounds. But the connection with Friend has long past; Batujimbar is now a boutique hotel owned by the controversial mining magnate Graeme Robertson, brother of the celebrity barrister Geoffrey.
There is plenty of discussion about Mitty and Les in Friend's meticulous published diaries, though no mention of Les building the Friend residence. Friend described a long and great friendship with Mitty, but also a steadily declining one as the years wore down. Indeed, Mitty's friendship with Friend — he often described her as his sister — seems to have been severely strained when she ran off with Les. Says a mutual friend of both: "They [Donald and Mitty] really did adore each other but the relationship became strained when he advised her in about 1967 never to marry Les. Donald told her, 'You fucked up the three previous relationships by marrying them, Mitt. Don't commit the same error by marrying Les.'"
Friend was characteristically snobbish about Les. His diary entry of June 9, 1968 observes that Les makes Mitty very happy but then describes him as "one of those competent, somewhat gnome-like 'realistic' Australians with feet so firmly planted on the hard ground that his acknowledgment of the existence of clouds is a matter of pure politeness."
Les, Friend sneers, "speaks with an Australian accent so thick you could hardly cut it with an axe…. I don't think he has any esteem for the trappings of wealth and culture in his own society, probably reading them as messages of hostility to what he stands for."
As for Mitty's romantic dramas, Friend is withering. In 1968, a fortnight after he had entertained the visiting Australian Prime Minister John Gorton and wife, Betty, at Villa Batujimbar, and Mitty, too, Friend opines that "with glazing eyes and heaving breast, haughtily she cast her emerald tiara in the dust, smiling scornfully to see the sordidly grasping knave grovelling after it greedily in the gravel. Really, women are bloody absurd, especially when tired of an old mate and being sexually excited by a new one, they must put up a fine show for themselves and the world to admire. One feels a sort of shamed compassion.
"[Mitty] may go on to Hong Kong — in fact she has told me two dozen destinations, which probably signifies she has decided on a smokescreen and trails of red herrings to conceal her actions from herself. I expect her back here in a couple of weeks."
Mitty says it was Friend who encouraged her to live in Sri Lanka with Les. "He had come back from here and he kept going on and on and on about it," she remembers. Curmudgeonly, she says she didn't want to be on Sri Lanka's south coast, where many foreigners have sumptuous seaside villas with echoes of the Raj. "That's precisely why I'm not there. I've done all that in my teens. I don't want a whirling social life."
MITTY has lived in the midst of a war most of the time she has been in Sri Lanka, just a few kilometres from the formal 2002 ceasefire line, demarcated because neither the Tigers or Colombo could reliably hold the ground around it. Government forces were based three kilometres away, holding a position known locally as the Three Mile Post. Some 500 metres away were the Tigers. For years, the territory beyond, including Mitty's estate, was in Eelam, as the Tigers called their Tamil homeland.
Mortars would whizz overhead and sometimes miss their target. "Frequently," notes Mitty.
"We wouldn't go out on the bad days."
She remembers the ill-fated Indian intervention, which ended in Rajiv Gandhi's assassination by a Tiger suicide bomber. Sometimes the army made territorial gains, sometimes the Tigers did. And then the other side would fight back.
"The army had a big gun next door for a long time," she says.
Getting food was often difficult. Electricity, capricious at the best of times, would go down for months on end, as each side did what it could to smoke the other out of foxholes and bunkers. The longest time without power was nine months, she says. Likewise the phone. Pillboxes punctuate the coast along here, scars on paradise. Sometimes Mitty and Les provided sanctuary for petrified villagers, who believed that neither side would shell foreigners.
Did you ever think to leave, I ask. "No," Mitty says firmly.
Then came the tsunami. "It wasn't a wave, it was a wall, a surge and a most peculiar noise, very, very loud," she recalls. Mitty remembers yelling at everyone to drop everything and run with her. She tells the story with gusto. She gathered her pets and tried to link arms with panicking staff as the water inundated the house. In the end, they all went with the flow in the debris — exhausted, because they couldn't run anymore. Mitty says her childhood years swimming at Sydney's northern beaches probably saved her. She tried to save a cow, holy in these Hindu parts. Cars, dead bodies and a Hindu priest, alive, floated by, finishing up in a coconut tree.
"It washed the cemetery out, too," she says. Up on the main road, they recognised the bloated body of a local Tamil friend who had recently died of cancer and whose funeral they'd attended just days earlier. Her body had been exhumed by the force of the tsunami. "They were horrific scenes," Mitty recalls. She says she broke her back in three places. Mitty and Les had only the sopping clothes they were washed about in, now in shreds. They stayed as refugees for six weeks in a local community centre, returning to rebuild their devastated house.
"I was unbelievably lucky," Mitty says. "We all survived but we lost a hell of a lot of the art." A tranche of the severely damaged pieces was sent to Colombo and abroad for repair. "The good ones I left in Australia, the really good ones."
As 2012, Mitty's 90th year, arrived, well-meaning friends arrived too, as the reporting of this story alerted them to the situation in paradise. They are logging her deteriorated art for posterity, for the enjoyment of later generations. And the missing Olsen was located and is now secure. But the future is uncertain for Mitty Lee Brown.
"At the moment the only thing I want to do is go home," she declares, unprompted.
To Australia? I ask. "Yep," she offers firmly. "I should go back, to put my little flat feet on Double Bay or something like that. Eventually I'd want to stay there but at the moment I'm not well enough to pack the house."
I gently press her. "Do you really want to go home?" I ask. "You've been here a long time, you'll miss here, no?"
Mitty sighs. "I don't want to go home forever. I don't think I'd make it."


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Joe Budden "Aftermath"
Honestly that crap of yours you should raffle off/ With me they getting Genius Bars without the Apple store/ Under the microscope I rebut' the scrutiny/ If I'm to be compared, it's only to who I used to be
A bar is basically a line in a song. If you count four beats per measure, that is one bar (usually one line). In the lyrics above, I am analyzing four bars. Joe Budden explains to the listener that his bars are truly the best when compared to others. Bars from other rappers are crap, and they might as well raffle them off in attempts to gain attention/profit. However, Joe Budden's bars are genius, because of the intelligence in each line. And, as a convenience to the listener, they do not have to go to the Apple Store to get this service (like most people when they need expertise on their products). They only need to listen to Joe. A clever pun detailing the witty bars Joe Budden provides, it emphasizes why Joe has better bars compared to other rappers' crap. It also emphasizes that he does not need to be compared to anyone but himself and how he is constantly improving.
Considering Apple generally sells the same products but with annual upgrades and expansions, it is a clever metaphor to use in Joe's description of his "genius" ability.


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Quoted from Shane !!I had no idea we could do so much with Quinoa! I only have the quinoa cereal, and it tastes a little slimy. I'll have to buy some aguave nectar for it. Where do you find the rest of the quinoa items like pasta??
Quoted from ISA-MANUELA hey Madl fine for you about the quinoa-thingy...but Peppy...did you ever tried the amaranth-pops ...weew great with more than 30 % of protein....very yummy as well & of course gluten & gliadin free
Quoted from Edna I made a FANTATSIC tabouleh with it yesterday, which one would traditionally make with bulgar wheat.
Quoted from outdoordrea Way to go, PT! I told ya it was easy peasy.
Quoted from Ron-O-Non/BTD Conference Attendee w/Most Photogenic Smile, 2007 Peppermint, You really are bursting with energy... It's a good thing.
Quoted from Isa the Tomatilla here are the suppaa bio (organic) amaranth poppcorns
Quoted Text Interesting ponderings on grains, Peppy. After a few years of being nearly grain free, I have begun eating millet again. It makes me feel grounded. So your timing is serendipitus. As in GCG's mention of Southern Grits, I am cooking my millet on the soft side (I can't stand hard grainy millet) and serving it for breakfast with a soft egg and a couple of tsp. of tuna for flavoring.Oh, listen to this seasoning of the common egg over easy. Before flipping the egg, I sprinkle on cayenne pepper, tumeric and a little high quality sea salt. Wow, what a fantastic egg, when placed on a bed of soft millet!
Quoted from gulfcoastguy Okay Twisty, the mint was allready in the back yard when I bought the house. I guess spearminty type but that is just a guess, worked fine with yogurt and garlic as a goat marinade anyway. Mint is invasive like kudzu and spreads. Several years ago I planted a little 1 inch square pot from Lowes of chocolate mint at my folks house in with the asparagus . Within a year it had spread to 3 feet by 3 feet, real hard to kill . You might want to use metal flower bed edging to contain it.
Quoted from Edna Not that I had a recipe anyway, I just went by, okay, I know this goes in and this goes in and that goes in...*lol*, see that is the kind of "cook" I am: scary!
Quoted from Joy Thanks P.T. for this thread about quinoa as a substitute in tabouleh. I just posted that I want to try making this soon. I suppose a lot of dishes can be made with quinoa as a base. Joy


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5 Ezio is back with an agenda!Plato67 | 20/08/2011 | See all Plato67's reviews (45)Top 100 Reviewer Top 100 Games Reviewer Top 100 Books Reviewer AC Brotherhood picks up exactly where the second installment left off. As a gamer who truly enjoyed AC 2, I do consider this third chapter as a natural advance in the narrative. After the final confrontation between Ezio and his templar nemesis, Rodrigo Borgia, whose life was mercifully spared by Ezio in the second installment, the templar and his son Cesare Borgia mount a full scale attack on Ezio`s estate in Tuscany, razing the assassin`s villa and compelling him to travel to Rome, the hub of templar activity, in order to settle the score once and for all. Determined to visit justice upon Cesare, Ezio will have to carry out a number of missions throughout all 12 districts of Rome, which will bring him into contact with several characters from AC2 and new entries as well. In this respect, a remarkable introduction to the third chapter is the presence of twelve Borgia towers overseeing the districts, each representing Cesare`s control of the area. These lofty barbicans are guarded by one captain, whom you are required to assassinate in order to burn the building to the ground, and finally wrest control of the area from the enemy. These towers are very much a key element of the game because destructing them allows you to open up the area for business, and so renovate blacksmiths, tailors, banks, stables, which in turn will allow you to update your armour, weaponry, collect income, and so much more. But the real innovation of these towers is the fact that as you liberate districts, you will be able to recruit assassins as more citizens will then turn against the oppressor and decide to join your cause.In terms of gameplay, mechanics have not changed much from the previous chapter. The bulk of missions is pretty similar in nature to those from AC2, with a number of innovations nonetheless. As aforementioned, one of the major changes is the presence of an assassin`s guild. As you liberate areas, more citizens will be available for recruit whom you can call upon at any time, especially when Ezio becomes embroiled into combat and the odds are stacked against him. As soon as you recruit citizens by saving them from Borgia soldiers, they will automatically join your guild and you will then have to train them up to the rank of assassin by sending them off to complete contracts throughout Europe. The harder a mission , the faster they rank up. On the downside, however, your options are quite limited here. While you can call them upon to even the odds during a fight, you can neither control any of them nor follow them on any of their missions, and since combat is not exactly that hard, one might well argue that there was no reason to tip the scales in Ezio`s favour as it might well make the game a bit less challenging!The real innovation of the game, however, is the introduction of a multiplayer mode, which is both refreshing and inventive and quite addictive. The basic idea is that you are given a target and you have to assassinate them, and yet Brotherhood has four multiplayer modes which allow you to work in groups, be a pursuer and a target at the same time and so much more. What is more, while most of the action in single player takes place in Rome, in multiplayer you have a plethora of different locations at your disposal, including more familiar locations with AC2.In conclusion, Brotherhood is certainly a great game and a natural choice for fans of the series, and of AC2 in particular. However, because this game really was designed as the natural continuation to AC2 my recommendation to those who are new to the series is to play AC2 first and then Brotherhood to make sure they make the most out of this awesome title.
3 More of the same...tigsygnome | 05/07/2011 | See all tigsygnome's reviews (1)Entertaining game, but if you already have AC2 I would not bother, hardly any differences to the second installment. It's seems Ubisoft have taken a leaf out of the Call of Duty series and created the same game within a year. Very, very lazy.
5 Amazing gameSobsoniK | 01/07/2011 | See all SobsoniK's reviews (1)This is an AMAZING GAME and at VERY GOOD PRICE making it a must buy for everyone who played the game before or people who never got into adventure of ''Altair'' and "Ezio''. The good thing is that with that version you get 2 extra online characters: The Harlequin & The Officer and you also get The Copernicus Conspiracy missionswhich are very fun to play especially meeting the polish born astronomer and doing few missions for him!Hope I've helpedSeb
5 The Best yet...MartinsBluRay | 07/09/2011 | See all MartinsBluRay's reviews (46)I have probably played this game for longer than any other, graphics are top notch, the city's and landscapes are beautifully realised and are a beauty to behold, it is quite possible to get competely lost in the world doing sub quests and collecting feathers/boxes of loot. The story is as complicated (and as good) as ever with a decent variety of mission methods and weapons, upgrading is straightforward as is sending your assassins on their quests, a pasttime that becomes quite addictive. A mention should also go to the soundtrack/incidental music which is superb and fits the game perfectly. If you have even a passing interest in this genre you really should get this game and play it through to the end... you'l probably be playing a lot more after the end credits have rolled as well...
4 First Impressions!jonathansammut | 02/07/2011 | See all jonathansammut's reviews (1)I have only begun playing AC: Brotherhood very recently and from my point of view it is a pretty solid game. Having previously played AC1, I decided to go for the Brotherhood instead of AC2 due to the multiplayer.Multiplayer is one of the best I have played!! It creates an environment with the sort of tension that hooks you on further on the game. In fact in my opionion it's the best part of the game so far.Single player on the other hand is a different story. It moves a little slow, and I found a couple of parts a little repetitve but thankfully not in the horrifying state of AC1. Apart from that the story is interesting, missions are fun, and a good single player overall.Sounds and Graphics are good as well, though I did encounter one an instance were Ezio walked through another person but it only happened once so it doesn't really matter.Finally these are my scores for the game and as a final note I would say for only 16 Euros, dig into your pockets and buy the game.Graphics: 8/10Sound: 9/10Single-Player: 8.5/10Multi-player: 9.5/10


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<< Back to News IndexProposed Tree works-Paradise LNR's26 November 2009 by Ellis Selway Proposed Major Tree Works at Paradise Local Nature Reserve Access and Habitats Project (Paradise LNR, Owlstone Road, Newnham, Cambridge) The proposals for Paradise LNR involve lowering sections of the marsh and diverting water from an existing ditch through the marsh, reducing the amount of time the marsh dries out in the summer months. It is evident that the marsh and wet woodland are drying out and this is having a negative impact on the wildlife that is supported by these habitats. By creating a sustainable drainage system (SUDS) we are aiming to utilise runoff to increase biodiversity and improve the water quality before it is finally discharges into the Cam. Access improvements include the extension of the existing raised boardwalk to allow year round access and the installation of a seasonal interpretation trail to encourage families to experience the reserve. Proposed tree worksSubject to Environment Agency Consent currently being sought and the necessary Planning Permission*, groundworks and construction of the boardwalk is proposed in September 2010. *if required for soil movements. Tree works are proposed in the winter of 2009-10 utilising the approved tree contractors list. Ellis Selway, Community Reserves Officer and Kenny McGregor, Arboricultural Officer have selected trees on the following basis;
Management of the trees contained within the reserve is outlined in the Paradise LNR Management Plan. To minimise disturbance to wildlife and protected species listed under the Habitats Regulations, operations need to be completed before 1st March 2010, in order to achieve groundworks and construction in September 2010. There is no major replanting proposed. Maiden willow trees will be established on river bank utilising pollarded materials to preserve local tree stock. The removal of selected trees would allow for an overall increase in biodiversity associated with the habitats found within the reserve. Public ConsultationPublic consultation on these proposals is now closed and there were no objections. These proposals can be viewed at: Cambridge City Council 2nd Floor Planning Reception The Guildhall Cambridge CB2 3QJ Cambridge City Council Customer Service Centre Mandela House 4 Regent Street Cambridge CB2 1BY If you would like to discuss these proposed tree works please contact: Ellis Selway Kenny McGregor Community Reserves Officer Arboricultural Officer Tel: 01223 457367 Tel: 01223 457138 email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com Details of the tree protocol can be found at http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/planning-and-building-control/historic-environment-and-trees/ |
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Salmon: Beware Schwab's High-Cost Index-Fund 401(k)
NEW YORK ( Reuters Blogs) -- I like index funds, and I believe that the best way to maximize your retirement savings is, simply, to save more money. So I was intrigued to see a press release from Charles Schwab this week, touting its new 401(k) product, which combines index funds with opt-out advice services. The results, according to Schwab, are impressive: Investors save 77% on operating expenses, and also tend to put more money into their plans:
Nearly 90% of workers in Schwab Index Advantage plans are receiving low-cost, professional, third-party advice to help manage their 401(k) investments. Prior to the transition, only about 4% of these same workers elected to receive advice.Schwab data shows that employees who have chosen to use independent, professional, point-in-time 401(k) advice services in the past have tended to save twice as much, were better diversified and stuck to their long-term plan, even in the most volatile market environments.
Sounds good! But it really isn't. The headline of the press release says that "Schwab's Index-Based 401(k) Offering Cuts Investment Costs by 77%, Delivering on Low-Cost Goal" -- but that's incredibly misleading, precisely because the overwhelming majority of plan participants wind up paying for that "low-cost, professional, third-party advice."
Here are the numbers: The weighted average operating expense ratio for the new index-fund product is 14.78bp, down from 65.11bp in Schwab's old actively managed plans. That's a handy savings of just over 50bp. But as part of the deal, all the participants in the new plans automatically get enrolled in a plan that gives them something called "independent point-in-time advice." How much does that advice cost? Turns out, it's about 45bp. Which means that far from seeing their expenses fall by 50bp, the new savers are actually only saving about 5bp, all-in. (Under the old system, the advice came free, although it did so on an opt-in basis rather than an opt-out basis.) Still, it might be worth paying 45bp for advice, if doing so led plan participants to double the amount they are saving. The problem is, there's no real evidence that it does. The "Schwab data" cited here is based not on the activity of people in Schwab's new index-fund plan, but rather on the activity of people who took advantage of the old, opt-in plan. And it's well worth parsing the exact wording of the results of that study:Approximately 70% of participants that receive and implement 401(k) advice make a change to their deferral rates, and those savings rates nearly double on average as a result, jumping from approximately 5% to 10% of pay.To recap: when given the opportunity to opt in to advice-giving services, even when they're free, only a tiny minority of plan participants -- about 4% -- actually did so. It's reasonable to assume that most of that 4% of people were thinking about significantly increasing the amount they save, and wanted advice on how best to do that. Now Schwab doesn't tell us how many people received advice but didn't ultimately end up implementing it. It does say that of the people who both received and implemented advice, 70% changed their deferral rates. And within that 70%, deferral rates roughly doubled. But at a maximum, we're still only talking about 70% of 4%, here, which is a by-definition highly unrepresentative 2.8% of participants. In other words, Schwab has given us no evidence at all that the people enrolled in its new index-based 401(k) plan are saving more money as a result of paying 45bp a year for advice. I'm sure that a small minority of people who want to save more will ask for advice on how to do so -- but that doesn't mean that the advice causes them to save more. Indeed, the causality probably runs exactly in the opposite direction. It seems to me that Schwab is looking a bit desperate here. It used to be able to make lots of money by charging high amounts for its 401(k) plans, but now that everybody understands the superiority of index funds, Schwab is being forced to offer its own index-based service. Obviously, the only way to sell such a service is to talk about how much participants will save on fees. But Schwab doesn't want lower fees, it wants higher fees. So while removing management fees with one hand, it simultaneously inserts huge new advice fees with the other -- and the advice fees probably have even bigger margins than the management fees did. What's more, Schwab's messaging around this product has always been less than fully honest. Here's the launch press release:
"Fund operating expenses for index mutual funds and ETFs are typically lower than those associated with most actively managed mutual funds offered in 401(k) plans today. We believe index funds can provide employees with a better opportunity to accumulate more savings for retirement," said Steve Anderson, head of retirement plan services at Charles Schwab. "Through such low-cost investments, fund operating expenses could be cut significantly. For the average worker in a 401(k) plan, that can mean nearly $115,000 more at retirement."The irony here is deeply hidden: In order to end up with $115,000 more at retirement, you would have to opt out of the advice plan that the Schwab index-fund offering automatically enrolls you into. But actually, "the average worker in a 401(k) plan" is never going to wind up with an extra $115,000 at retirement just by switching to index funds. If you look at the assumptions behind that $115,000 figure, you'll find that our "average worker" is, in fact, very far from average. For one thing, she starts saving money at age 25, when she's already earning $50,000 per year. That's pretty much the median income for a U.S. household, within just a couple of years of entering the workforce. Well done, that person! She then gets a 3% raise every year for the next 30 years -- and once she's in her 30s, she manages to sock away a full 10% of her income into her 401(k) account every year until retirement. Oh, and she managed to save 66bp by switching to index funds: That's significantly larger than the real-world 50bp that we saw with the Schwab participants. And all the while her investments are growing by 7.5% per year, even when she's near retirement and ought by rights to have switched largely to bonds. But all of these assumptions are deeply buried and hard to find. As far as Schwab is concerned, the main thing to do is to come up with a large headline figure, something that will make it easier to sell the new index-fund retirement service to the less-sophisticated end of the HR spectrum. Schwab is pretty well positioned in this market: it's known mainly as a discount broker, which means that the brand comes with connotations of low fees and low margins. But if you want to sign your employees up for an index-based 401(k) plan, which is a good idea, then the Schwab plan is not the right way to go, since it's quite possibly the highest-fee index-fund plan out there, once all those advice fees are taken into consideration. I work for an enormous company with a very financially literate HR department; they're not going to fall for this kind of pitch. But we shouldn't live in a world where every medium-sized company needs to have people who can navigate the hard sell from people like Schwab offering fabulous new 401(k) plans. Right now, it's incredibly difficult and time-consuming to choose between them, and it's easy to see why plan administrators might easily just plump for a known name like Schwab. There really should be some reliable and impartial resource for those administrators. But I'm not holding my breath. -- Written by Felix Salmon. Read more of Felix's blogs at Reuters.
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Given Name: Kenley Geronimo Jansen
Born: Curacao, , Netherlands Antilles, in 1987
School: Did not attend college.
Primary Position: Pitcher
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Major League Games: 217
Primary Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
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And man is she a beauty I picked her up from a guy on PAFOA. It is a field grade CMP Garand with matching parts... I made a thread earlier with some questions about an M1... now here are my photos as I know some of you wanted to see. She is a real gem I can't wait to get her out and stretch her legs. Enjoy the photos!
The 1945 date that matches the serial number...
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Apparently a guy got out of his vehicle at his home and was walking toward his door when 3 BG's approached him, one of the BG's pulled a gun on him. The homeowner pulled his own gun and shot the BG.
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The Presidential field has narrowed down to two top candidates in each party...and as "Super Tuesday" draws closer, many voters still haven't made up their minds.
So, what are the polls telling us right now? Not just about who's leading in each race...but about why...and about what issues are really important to voters right now.
Nationally, the latest Gallup poll shows Arizonza Senator John McCain with a healthy lead over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney - with him gaining momentum following a win in Florida, and a series of endorsements, including that of former candidate Rudy Giuliani.
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When we replaced an old stove/microwave unit with a separate stove and microwave/range hood, we found an ugly patch of bare, greasy drywall between them. This "range hood backsplash" looked perfect. Sure enough, it matches the finish of our black appliances and covers the ugly area. All we needed were 4 matching flathead screws (not included). Great! But ... it's not actually 30" wide, so there's a gap on both sides where it doesn't quite meet the cabinets. Worse, it's 24" high. There's only about 18" from the bottom of the microwave to the little backsplash above the counters, so that's all we needed. Below that, there's an outlet and plug for the stove - so we are going to have to cut the metal backsplash to clear the outlet, to get it to lie flat against the wall. Warning: make sure you order the right one! There are 2 models, with different colors on each side. It's not obvious which one you're ordering - triple check before you order. I ordered the wrong one first, then ordered the right one. My credit card was charged immediately for both. But when I canceled the first order, I was told that it would take 3-5 days to cancel, and then ANOTHER 3-5 days to credit my card. Why isn't it just as fast for a credit as for a charge?
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This is one of those "little" things that make a purchase great! When we bought our stove and microhood, we couln't wait to see them installed. Imagine our horror a finding 30 year old wallpaper and grease behind our old double decker stove. We were just about to start planning a complete (and unwanted) total repainting of our kitchen when we found this item. It covered the problem and added class to the original install. It also tied the two pieces togeter perfectly!! The only negative is that no screws were included. We had to make a separate trip to find matching screws....
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The sheet is not much thicker than heavy duty aluminum foil, or a thick piece of paper. If you use screws to attach it to the wall, the sheet buckles; does not stay flat. A thicker sheet of steel would stay flat. The surface seems seems fine, we don't expect any problems in that regard. We're disappointed, the ones my mother and grandmother had were thick and had a finished 'raised-bead' around the edge. Once again, this is just a very thin, flat piece of painted sheet metal. I will probably buy a couple of pieces of sheet metal that have some body and paint them. Not happy, but we need them for the moment, it's a rental house.
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