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lavender azalea
Does anyone know the name of the big lavender azalea that is blooming now? These are large plants and the blooms are a light lavender. There are some near the library in Guntersville and they are absolutely gorgeous. I need some for my yard.
might also be 'george l. taber', another southern indica with large flowers and shrub habit. it is listed as lavender but appears pink with purple throat splotch to me.
one of my favorites in that group, they are also fragrant.
Here is a link that might be useful: 'george l. taber' azalea
Thanks everyone for the post. It is none of the ones that has been suggested. It is a strange color, a "LIGHT PURPLE" but beautiful. Very pretty in the landscape. I'm sure it is a very old variety, the plants I saw looked like they had been planted a long time.
Does it look like the Formosa pictured in this link?
Here is a link that might be useful: Lavender Azalea
Will the "real" Pride Of Mobile azalea please stand up? Wayne, when I purchased mine years ago, they were tagged as POM so I never questioned them as being such. However, after you post above I googled it and here's what came up. I still don't know what the real POM azalea looks like.
Here is a link that might be useful: Which is the real Pride of Mobile?
I worked in several "real" garden centers over many, many years with growers all over. Two things with the Pride of Mobile. One, like many people refer to all sodas as Coke in the south, lots of people refer to all southern indica azalea types as Pride of Mobile (which according to the gurus at UGA is technically listed as an "Imperial" not a an indica at all). Your picture definitely appears to be a George Lindley Tabor. It may have just mistagged which isn't uncommon at all with azaleas in general and southern indica types in particular. Second, a picture on a computer screen can look a different color than it actually is and can vary from screen to screen, but you probably already knew that.
As for 'Formosa', I have seen them both magenta and more lavender. There is a beautiful lavender tagged 'Formosa' in my next door neighbors yard. I don't know if these are just misnamed or if there are color variations or what.
The short answer to your question is the Googled images look more like what I was always taught POM is, your picture looks like a Tabor (my absolute favorite, btw!)
May be more information than you wanted!!! If anybody knows anymore, I would love to learn! Maybe you could post your picture on Name That Plant forum and let the horticulturists who love that forum educate us :-).
Found this site with lotsof pictures to look through and see if you see the one you are looking for
Here is a link that might be useful: azalea society
I saw a lavender Azalea in bloom at the Home Depot in Pelham/Alabaster last Friday and it was labeled "Elsie Lee". I don't know as much as the other folks on here do about the different types, but the bloom looked very similar to the George Tabor in my yard. Hope this helps!
that one had to be mislabeled. 'elsie lee' looks nothing like 'george taber' and is also later to flower. i have several of them and they are very pretty. the form of the flowers has more ruffled, semi-double petals and are a true lavender. she is also more columnar in habit.
there are so many lavender azaleas that we could guess at its name for a long time! :-)
another possibility could be the korean azalea, rhododendron yedoense var. poukhanense. i have this one too and it blooms early on sparsely leaved branches.
Here is a link that might be useful: 'elsie lee'
Re: Pride of Mobile - I was a child in Mobile in the 1960's. My mom & grandmothers were avid gardeners, and we spent many hours at Bellingrath gardens, looking at all the blooms around the city. I marvelled at the beautiful dresses of all the 'Azalea Trail Maids' and was filled to the brim with sights of PRIDE OF MOBILE -- ubiquitous indeed on the gulf coast, and unforgettable even after all these years. What I understood and remember is the fucschia/purply/lavender SOLID tone, not markedly spotted like the Taber. Not pink, not light lavender, but magenta-fucshia. And they grew pretty large too.
The googled pics were quite variable in color and could be due to monitor differences. maybe there's no one right answer anymore. I've put in a link for the one that looks closest to my recollection, which I offer anecdotally, definitely not officially or scientifically...
Here is a link that might be useful: my recollection of Pride of Mobile Azalea


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Is there any way you can get streaming video (movies) on your TV without using your laptop as a modem (or whatever it does)??
Suddenly, in our house, my husband and son discovered streaming movies and my netbook is used for this task. Isn't there something else you can buy to do the same thing?
Yes, you can use a variety of Internet-enabled devices. There are several threads in this forum on this subject. Just do a search on the term: Netflix
Here is a link that might be useful: Streaming-ready devices
I guess this is beyond me. I don't want to rent something from Netflix, adding to the monthly charge. I do not want to use a cell phone.
Thought there might be something available in Radio Shack or Best Buy that would allow the streaming without tying up a laptop.
Several gaming devices are Netflix ready. We us Wii. The link above to Instantly watch TV shows & movies on lots of different devices. I believe there are some more since that page was constructed.
The whole topic of streaming Netflix could support a forum of it's own but such forums never seem to gather enough steam to keep moving. You can sometimes find answers to specific questions at Need Help with your Instant Watching System?. The people at the General Discussions forum at Streightdope.com often have good answers to Netflix questions. [Someone here once scolded me for mentioning streightdope. I am not sure why.] Searching Gardenweb's Electronics Forum for Netflix I find 10 threads but I did not examine them for quality.
You wrote: "I don't want to rent something from Netflix, adding to the monthly charge. I do not want to use a cell phone. Thought there might be something available in Radio Shack or Best Buy that would allow the streaming without tying up a laptop."
Did you look at the link I provided? It shows all the devices you can use. Since you titled the post "Netflix," my assumption is that you already have a Netflix account. If you do, it costs nothing to stream the movies. You can watch as many as you want for free as part of your Netflix membership. You just need one of the streaming devices I linked you to. So, do you have an account or not?
A basic Google search using the keywords "Netflix Streaming" (sans quotes) took me here. Pertinent information as to alternatives linked in the site banner.
Here is a link that might be useful: Netflix How it Works


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Archive for the 'literature' Category
Books That Changed Lives – suggestions for book groups
I've been in a book group with some old school friends and a motley crew of other geezers for 13 and a bit years now. Here is a summary of our first 10 years. Well it's my turn to choose the book again now – it takes 18-24 months for the honour to come round these days so you can't take it lightly. I put a call out to social media friends for books that had really changed their lives or ways of seeing the world. Loads of interesting suggestions came in and rather than let them fade away in the ephemeral world of Facebook etc. I thought I'd save them here so other people in other book groups/book clubs/reading groups could make use of the titles. (The quotations are from the friends making the suggestions.)
- Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
- Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- My brilliant friend – Elena Ferrante
- Random Family – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Kevin Barry's City Of Bohane
- Don de Lillo's Underworld
- Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera
- Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels – "made me think differently about how the past shapes your present/future and how as individuals we get to choose if the negative parts of our past consume our futures or not. It is also beautifully written and made me revisit poetry too." "it is the book that taught me how beautiful words can be"
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The social animal – David Brooks
- Do No Harm – Henry Marsh
- Andre Agassi's "Open"
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities
- Us – David Nicholls
- Amongst Women by John McGahern
- Malloy by Samuel Beckett
- The Master by Colm Tóibín
- The Country Girls by Edna O' Brien
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- At Swim Two Birds by Flann O' Brien
- The Quest for Corvo – AJA Symons
- Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
- Birchwood by John Banville
- How Many Miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnston
- The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
- Love's Work – Gillian Rose
- The History of History – Ida Hatemer-Higgins
- Inventing God, Nicholas Mosley – "felt my mind shifting on religion/geopolitics/Middle East. God as the greatest invention of humankind. Humanist but generous to those who have faith – a gentle riposte to the Hitchens/Dawkins approach. In a novel."
- A window for one year – John Irving
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving – "love, friendship and sacrifice"
- Wild, Cheyl Strayed
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- For whom the bell tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- To the End of the Land, David Grossman
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood – "felt the terror of teenage girls when read and re-read both as a teenage girl/40 yr old woman"
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy – "felt the power and grace of the quiet man"
- Things Fall Apart – Chinwe Achebe
- Cory Doctorow's Little Brother "Made me respect young people more"
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- The Mezzanine by Nicolson Baker "It's very short, very unlikely and some in the group will HATE it and for others it'll change the way they look at the world around them. You'll never see perforations or a straw in a fizzy drink the same way again."
- Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman – "had a huge influence on my going to university and recognising the need to never find oneself in a position where you are wholly reliant on a man. All teenage girls should read it."
- William Leith's The Hungry Years "taught me how not to be a food addict"
- Cervantes' Don Quixote "taught me to rely on my inner compass rather than external signage."
- Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow "showed me that our personal interpretation is where the colour and joy of the world are to be found, but to keep it just shy of solipsism"
- Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book "became my personal cultural key to unlocking New York"
- Stoner – John Williams
- Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse "made me see my middle class/ inner animal struggle in a clear & cleansing light, Damn you Herman Hesse!"
- Plumed serpent, D. H. Lawrence – "opening to the mythic underbelly"
- Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady' "because his characters are so compelling and so flawed. Our heroine's youthful arrogance and stubbornness sees her turn down suitors because she values above all her freedom, only to find herself trapped in a way she could not have imagined. I was excited at her prospects and I feared for her. There were other characters I was rooting for too! Having re-read it more than 20 years later, I was interested and surprised to find I had more compassion for some characters I disliked intensely and impatience for those I felt sympathy for when I read it as a teenager. A truly astonishing, complex masterpiece."
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road "is the most piercing book I've read. The description of the trials faced by the father and son has stayed with me for years."
- 1984 – George Orwell – ""We are the dead" "You are the dead" stopped me in my 13 year old tracks. Never saw it coming"
- Thomas Pynchon's Against The Day – "because it really does require you to take a big chunk out of your life to read it – Rams home the idea that reading is subversive: stops you working, earning, socialising and kinda does stop time."
- A fraction of the whole – Steve toltz
- Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs'
- Be Here Now – Ram Dass
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- The english and their history by Robert tombs – "Amazing and definitive book that filled in every gap for me in understanding where we live and why it is how it is"
- The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom "Despite the title, it's a real page turner. Yalom goes back and forth between Spinoza and Rosenberg (part of Hitler's propoganda machine). My book club had a fantastic discussion."
- Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
- Humanity: A Moral History of The 20th Century by Professor Jonathan Glover
- Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- Homage To Catalonia – George Orwell
- The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan Kundera
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle -Haruki Murakami – "Extraordinary writing that made me see the world differently"
- Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Again, thanks to all those who kindly contributed to the list.
In the end I opted for The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (partly because I thought Cloud Atlas was something pretty special). Will report back on how it goes.
The 10 Books which made the most impact on me
A friend of mine, Carol, (aka The Naked Novelist) via my bestman Stuart, passed on a challenge this week: to list the 10 books that have had the most impact on my life. So that's impact, not my favourite 10.
Here's my stab at it…
1. 'Here We Go' – the Janet and John book I learnt to read with: "Look, Janet, look!"
2. 'Ulysses', James Joyce – it's about everything, and very resonant if you're a Jew married to an Irish woman "Yes, yes, yes!"
3. 'Paradise Lost' Books 1 & 2, John Milton ed. John Broadbent – the poetry's pretty damn good but the footnotes were a revelation – it helped me realise school subjects are artificial divisions and everything's connected to everything else. "Of man's disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree…"
4. 'Asterix in Britain' – I loved the notion of an invasion succeeding because one side stopped for tea at a set time every afternoon (5 o'clock)
5. 'The Dinosaur Strain', Mark Brown – got me into the subject of Creative Thinking, led to me making a computer game (MindGym) and ultimately to writing my own book about Creativity, 'When Sparks Fly' (5/8 finished, interviewed Jamie Oliver for it today)
6. 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakey – emblematic of the year I had an inspiring teacher (English teacher of course – Mr Fitch RIP MA Cantab) who got me really reading
7. 'The Riddle of the Sands', Erskine Childers – made me realise what a burden material possessions can be in the scene where the protagonist can't get his trunk into the sailing boat and has to dump all his shit on the quay
8. 'The Complete Plays of Joe Orton' – bought it for a 6th form project, turned me on to satire and the Sixties
9. 'Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide' – pored over this fat tome when I first got really into movies as a teenager
10. 'On the Road', Jack Kerouac – led me to Allen Ginsberg who in turn inspired 'When Sparks Fly' (see above) and is the subject of the first chapter, With a Little Help from My Friend
If it's not too Neknominate, please do share your Top Impact 10 below (or a link to it)…
Caught in Session
Can you imagine the looks on the two teenage faces when their mother tells them that she is going to invite people round to the house every eight weeks to sing in the back room …and say poems …and read stuff? WTF?! And she wants you boys to join in. You can just listen but you're to be there. WTFF?!! On Saturday night the second such session took place. Enfant Terrible No. 2 engineered a sleep-over. No. 1 actually showed his face at the end after a no-show eight weeks earlier.
Here's what was on the menu…
Una opened with a Spring theme reading Wordsworth's Daffodils. The next morning this Wordsworth quote arrived by serendipity in my InBox (7th April being his birthday, in 1770):
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Later she read one of her own poems, Bodies, a moving and intimate Heaneyesque account of dressing her father's body for his wake. Towards the end she read another of her pieces, Underground, inspired by a Northern Line encounter and written on the spot.
Here are two of my own recent Northern Line encounters:
For my contribution this time I read one of my favourite posts from this blog, Starless and Bible Black, and then the passage from James Joyce's Ulysses to which it refers. It's when the two protagonists have an outdoor piss together under the night sky, all done in the form of a catechism, and containing that very special line:
At the first session I read the opening of the first chapter of my book in progress, When Sparks Fly, about Allen Ginsberg. I concluded with a Ginsberg poem referencing the same incident mentioned in the first line of the book.
Joyce linked nicely to the next person up, an actress specialising in Beckett (who was Joyce's secretary) – she read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot (whose masterpiece, The Wasteland, was published seven years later in 1922, the same year as Ulysses).
She also recited from memory a brilliant poem of her own about her days as a ballet dancer and how that went down in the Midlands of Ireland. And as if that wasn't delight enough, she sang a powerful Sinead O'Connor song (from Universal Mother I think). And then a song in Irish about a boy from Loch Erne (Buachaill ón Eirne).
All the music and much of the rest of the singing came from our friend Patmo and his gee-tar. Highlight for me was a song about the potboy in the Dorset Arms in Stockwell where we used to go to watch Patmo and his band The Stone Rangers play. It's called Put one in the tank for Frank and celebrates plying the late lamented Frank Murphy with beer to get access to the storeroom with all their gear in it. He also played Una's favourite of his songs, A Little Bit of Lace (as immortalised on Adie Dunbar and the Jonahs' Two Brothers), as well as some classic singalongs from Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon to John Denver's Country Road (some painful, submerged teenage memories there from the height of the punk era but surprisingly enjoyable all these years later).
Our old friend Roddy read from a great early 60s first edition he has of Brendan Behan's Island, a beautifully illustrated (by Paul Hogarth) travelogue around the old country. His other half, Alex, also by coincidence a former ballet dancer, read some Yeats love poetry (it was an evening of the Irish reading the English, and vice versa – perfect to herald the week which sees poet and president Michael D Higgins making a state visit to London, on the very day (8th April) Gladstone presented his first Home Rule Bill to Parliament in 1886). Alex closed proceedings with a parting shot of Dorothy Parker.
All in all, a pretty darn good evening (and that's not counting the Connemara whiskey and fresh homemade soup).
Dorothy Parker, when asked what she'd like for breakfast…
Just something light and easy to fix. How about a dear little whiskey sour?
Bitty Titty Soft and Bouncy (Day 72)
Another bitty day but progress was made. Kicked off with some Channel 4 work looking forward to to 2014, meeting a sports presenter to further develop a really interesting idea we began kicking around a couple of months ago. From there I walked along a golden Malet Street past the University of London to the British Library where I installed myself in the Anthropology Library to work on the music project prompted by my interview with Jon King of Gang of Four yesterday. Got a few ideas down to start to set the scope and whacked them over to my radio friend. Then settled down to process my notes from the David Amram phone interview last night – mainly making sure it's all legible in the long run.
Finished off my initial research into Sylvia Beach over a bowl of hot Greek bean soup in RADAland, sitting next to two glamorous, screwed-up actresses discussing boyfriend trouble and CBT experiences – in other words, very good quality eavesdropping material. The Beach research touched on her time in Savoy and mentioned Chambery where I went to university for a year, a not oft-mentioned town.
Once back home I gave Malcolm Garrett a ring to set up an in-person interview with him about Tony Wilson & Manchester. Malcolm, who I know through working together on the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment committee, is the excellent designer behind the Buzzcocks record sleeves among many others, so first entered my life in the form of the silver and orange cover of Another Music in a Different Kitchen which delighted the teenage me. Rounded off things by getting in touch with Barry Miles, biographer and friend of Allen Ginsberg.
Took off for Chalk Farm on that note, the work day ended, to see the opening of an exhibition of photos of Andy Warhol (who I loathe and consider the opposite of Ginsberg – I wrote a scene about their meeting out back in a New York club where Ginsberg cut the twat neatly down to size in his own gentle way) and Edie Sedgwick (who, from the vaguest memory I have of the book I wrote about her – oops, Freudian slip, read about her I consider somehow tragic, like Basquiat and all the other cowardly damage Warhol left in his wake). It was at my friend/associate Alex Proud's gallery in The Stables, an extravagantly large space, not really the right shape but different and fun.
From there to the 10th anniversary party of mySociety, a digital agency I admire hugely which is why I sacrificed the Channel 4 Christmas do to it (which was conveniently and teasingly beside the Stables) and trekked off to Mozilla in St Martin's Lane to see Tom Steinberg and crew. And that I'll leave for my next post…
9/11 is My Day
John Martyn. Herbert Lom. DH Lawrence. Mick Talbot. Pierre de Ronsard. And me. We all share one thing – a birthday on 9/11, that date now with a resonance all of its own. Each year I wait for some low-life to blacken it again. This year I'm a little more worried than usual on account of the round number.
10 years ago today I was out for my birthday lunch with colleagues/friends from Redbus CPD, the internet start-up whose production department I was running for the couple of years before I came to Channel 4. They gave me two lovely presents which have a certain emblematic quality for me looking back. One was a book about London, Peter Ackroyd's biography of the city. The other was the brand new record by Bob Dylan, Love and Theft, released on that very day. So Literature and Music, two of my greatest loves and essentially the opposite of 9/11. Creative. Fueled by Love. What makes life worth living. One of my sons is called Dylan so I take the latter as a reflection also of Family. And I'm a real Londonphile, born&bred here (I'd bear a London passport if they'd let me), so the former also captures the notion of Home. Music and Literature, Home and Family, Work and Friendship – I was basking in it all as we headed back down the appropriately named Arcadia Avenue back to the office. It was around 2pm.
As we settled back to work one of my business partners called us all into the boardroom to watch something incredible playing out on the big TV. A plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. I knew the building from when I spent a semester at high school in Montclair, New Jersey and visited the iconic twin towers for the first time. As we were trying to absorb the images a second plane appeared and the rest is history.
I went out for my planned birthday dinner that evening in Camden Town with my wife, brother, sister-in-law and my oldest friend (we've known each other since we were six). The pall of the day's events hung over our meal and I imagine everyone around the table was as numb as I felt. My stomach was in bits.
Over the years since I've felt a degree of outrage at having my birth date appropriated by such a dark and soulless act. And I'm not giving it over. This side of the water it's 11/9 and this year's a special palindromic one 11-9-11. 11/9 is about Music, Literature, Home, Family, Creativity and Friendship. It's about New York and London. It's about Soul (John Martyn), Laughter (Herbert Lom), Passion (DH Lawrence), Groove (Mick Talbot), and Poetry (Pierre de Ronsard). It's about Birth and Life and what makes life worth living.
Brynhild Olivier
Although I've kicked off various articles in Wikipedia including the ones on User-Generated Content (in 2005 when UGC was still quite new and shiny) and on Bryn's sister Daphne, I'm having a bit of trouble with the Wikinazis with this one so I'll just stick it here for now and the self-appointed UGC You Next Tuesdays can spend their time on some other self-important pedantry. In the meantime the upside of this article is that I've met two charming, very interesting women through it – a novelist and a movie producer, the latter a direct descendant of Bryn.
"'Brynhild Olivier"' (1887 – 13th January 1935, known as Bryn) was the second daughter of [[Sydney Haldane Olivier]], 1st Baron Olivier, and Margaret Cox; she was sister of Margery (1886-1974), Daphne (1889-1950) and [[Noel Olivier|Noel]] (1893-1969). She was a member of [[Rupert Brooke]]'s circle before the First World War and associated with the [[Bloomsbury Group]]. She was a prominent member of the group of young, socialist youth dubbed 'the Neo-Pagans' by [[Virginia Woolf]] and as such significantly influenced the development of Brooke.
She was usually the manager of the Neo-Pagan camps where the circle gathered for outdoor pursuits like climbing, bathing and hiking. Campers included the likes of [[Lytton Strachey]], [[John Maynard Keynes]], [[Geoffrey Keynes]] and [[Gerald Shove]]. The camp at Clifford Bridge in Dartmoor in August 1911 was referred to as 'Bloomsbury under canvas'.
Although Brooke was in love with herPaul Delany. "The Neo-Pagans – Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle". (1987 Macmillan London) p.173., she ended up marrying art historian [[A. E. Popham]] (Arthur Ewart Hugh Popham, known as Hugh) in 1912 (becoming Brynhild Popham). Hugh Popham was a friend of Rupert Brooke and worked in the Prints Department of the British Museum.[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FPP%2FPOP The Papers of Hugh and Brynhild (Olivier) Popham]They were divorced in 1924. She married F. R. N. Sherrard in 1924 (becoming Brynhild Sherrard).[http://thepeerage.com/p24033.htm The Peerage]
She was the mother of Anne Olivier Popham, who became the wife of art historian and writer [[Quentin Bell]]. She was also the mother of the poet, translator and theologian [[Philip Sherrard|Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard]] (born 23 September 1922, Oxford). She had six children in all – three with each husband. Her first child Hugh Anthony was born in March 1914, followed by daughter Anne Olivier and son Tristram.
Brynhild was the first of the four Olivier sisters the poet Rupert Brooke met[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mXu7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Brynhild+Olivier&source=bl&ots=na0q3BPgWR&sig=Ix1Rk9UezcB7Nv1bofbRiWqc-zk&hl=en&ei=cBjsTYXeBs6DhQej4sm6Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Brynhild%20Olivier&f=false Caesar, Adrian. "Taking it like a man: suffering, sexuality, and the war poets."(1993 Manchester University Press) p.25.]. Although she was reputedly the most beautiful, it was her sister Noel Olivier for whom Brooke fell. [[Jacques Raverat]] described her as having 'the startled beauty of a nymph taken by surprise'.
Brynhild trained as a jeweller. She was first cousin of the actor [[Laurence Olivier]].
==Further reading==
*Delany, Paul. "The Neo-Pagans – Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle." Macmillan. London. 1987. ISBN 0-333-44572-4 (hc)
*Caesar, Adrian. "Taking it like a man: suffering, sexuality, and the war poets." Manchester University Press. Manchester. 1993. ISBN 0-7190-3834-0
==External links==
*[http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I11262&ged=auden-bicknell.ged W.H. Auden – 'Family Ghosts']
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=272-misc30&cid=28-3#28-3 Papers in the National Archives]
Ever tried looking for a quotation online (of the literary as opposed to the insurance variety)? Wasn't much fun was it? Not that easy to find what you want. And just how accurate was it? And why does it look like the site was made by a geek with no design skills in his stinky bedroom?
But you love great quotes don't you? On your Facebook profile. In that presentation. You know, those ones you keep in that file – the one on your old computer. They're everywhere – on the tube, in that advert, on that building, in that caff.
So why don't we get the quotation sites we deserve and desire? Although there are several in the Alexa top 5000 most are labours of love, evolutions, accretions of amateur solutions stuck one on top of another like the proverbial sticking plaster. Or take Wikiquote – I search for "cars" and I get a Disney property, not a hint of shiny metallic vehicle in sight…
And how pug ugly is that homepage?
And don't get me started on the functionality which makes no real distinction between an encyclopedia article and a quotation. Don't get me wrong, I love Wikipedia as much as the next man, woman or child but Wikiquote ain't no fun.
Suffer no more, fellow lovers of wit and wordcraft – may I introduce you to Quotables (www.quotabl.es) my latest baby, a Beta finding its feet at this stage, but already I hope lovelier and with your help, advice, input, love potentially a solution to the online quotes joylessness.
Quotables is designed to work in four dimensions:
- as a Utility – an accessible place to save the quotes you love, the Delicious of quotations
- as a Reference Resource – growing into a comprehensive and contemporary repository of accurate, properly sourced quotes
- as a Reflector of Buzz – capturing what's most on people's minds at a given time, indicating the trends and zeitgeist
- as a Community of quote and language lovers – drawing together people who want to take on what was controlled by an editorial elite in the dead-tree era.
Quotables encourages contributors to draw on non-traditional sources such as bons mots heard live at public events, snappy one-liners from TV shows, tweets, a rich mix from high literature to popular culture. It also encourages short, concise selections (up to 75 words max) – that's a "Quotable". And it's keen to promote the behaviour of saving our favourite quotes as we do our links on the likes of Delicious – to abandon those lost and abandoned files and notebooks and get Quotables to help that transition from old computer to new, to help circumvent that fruitless search for a scribbled upon bit of dead-tree not seen for a dog's age.
The Beta is offered in the spirit of this quote which not so long ago defined its era:
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
We know some stuff we have yet to implement or roll-out – much of the mobile dimension of Quotables, some more of the integration into social networks, one click mark-and-publish from the browser, a long list programmed for release over the next year. But for the Unknown Unknowns we rely on you, dear reader, to tell us about via Laura Grace, our producer at firstname.lastname@example.com – observations, suggestions, gripes, words of wisdom, all much appreciated to help us shape this baby for the greater good.
Quotables has been lovingly made by Mint Digital and co-funded by Channel 4 and Arts Council England.
That master of wit and badinage Donald Rumsfeld who blessed us with the unknowable above also produced this little gem…
Oh, Lord, I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
Well tough titty, Donald – we're coming after everyone from you via Donald Duck to Donald Trump, from Jonathan Franzen to Franz Beckenbauer, from Martin Amis to Amy Winehouse, from Father Ted to Ted Hughes, not forgetting my favourite contribution of my own to date – a non-traditional source (police video), the verbal pyrotechnics of Mad Mel:
What are you looking at, sugar tits?
We'd love to revel in your own favourite(s) so without further ado please do head over to Quotables, have a poke around, and share some sugar, love and inspiration…
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Picture of the Month: E for Enigma – A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
The most striking thing for me about Un bar aux Folies-Bergère, the last masterpiece by Édouard Manet, painted in 1882 for exhibition at that year's Paris Salon, are the green booties. What on earth are they doing up there? What kind of night club were they running? Some wild place that they've got trapeze artists flying about overhead and no-one gives a monkey's – no-one is even bothering to look up at them. Circus Circus 90 years ahead of its time. That pair of bright green booties top left and the pink leggings – some kind of surreal joke on the part of M. Manet? Always gets a wry smile out of me. You can see this painting in the Courtauld Collection in London's Somerset House, London.
I'm currently reading Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge (appears on a lot of people's Books That Changed My Life list so thought I'd give it a bash) which includes a scene of a visit to the Folies in post-Global Economic Meltdown Europe i.e. the early 30s . It's in the context of a bit of a night crawl where a bunch of posh folk trawl the nighttown for thrills from the rough. The sense of classes colliding is strong in this picture, questions of power balance looming large.
Looking and not looking seems to be a preoccupation of Manet. The barmaid stares straight out at you the viewer – the last of a long line of such enigmatic stares. Olympia gives a challenging enigmatic stare in the eponymous painting [below]. As does that cheeky naked picnicker in Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe [below] (a quick tribute here to recently, dearly departed Malcolm [McLaren] who had fun with Manet's woman in his Bow Wow Wow period). Manet gets his female protagonists to give as good as they get from staring males, no matter how much at a disadvantage they are (e.g. a bit light on the clothes front).
Now in this picture, Manet puts us, by a bit of mirror jiggery-pokery, in the position of said staring male. You, evidently, are that moustachioed, top-hatted, red-nosed chap reflected in the right-hand corner. Whether you're more interested in the young barmaid or a bottle of Bass Pale Ale (spot that familiar logo, Britain's first trademark) is debatable. But she is evidently giving him a run for his money on the gazing front, much like naughty, bold Olympia and the naked picnicker (though interestingly not the woman on The Balcony [below] who is altogether elsewhere – this barmaid's stare is not quite as bold as picnic woman, not as insouciant as the odalisque, a tad more vulnerable and a little bit less there. That is where my fascination for Manet resides – it's all in the eyes, eye and eye, and I and aye, what a rich mix of stories contained in the women's eyes, looks and stares.)
Also in common (and common is the operative word – to reiterate, there's a lot of class stuff going on around here) in common with Olympia is the fact that the barmaid is wearing a black ribbon. Why is Olympia wearing just the ribbon and the odd adornment – a bracelet, a hair ribbon, slippers? The answer can be found in the writing of poet Charles Baudelaire, a contemporary of Manet, just some ten years older – he had a conviction that Nature is much enhanced by Artifice – whether that artifice (Paradis Artificiels) is a ribbon or a reefer doesn't much matter, it is the contrast which enlivens.
Interest in Manet should be livelying up in certain quarters with the announcement this week that one of the only two self-portraits of Manet (Self-Portrait With A Palette) was put up for sale this coming June, also staring in the mirror but without quite the enigma of E. Manet's women…
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Woman stabbed, killed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
3 panhandlers were arrested after they stabbed the young woman for refusing to pay them for taking photos
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LOS ANGELES — Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame," Los Angeles police said.
Officers found the 23-year-old woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Homicide detectives say the woman and a friend were taking cell phone pictures in the tourist-packed area where the three suspects were holding signs and panhandling.
Police say the photos caused a dispute after the panhandlers demanded $1, and the victim was stabbed in the torso.
The woman later died at a hospital. She was identified late Wednesday as Christine Darlene Calderon.
Family members told the Los Angeles Times that Calderon knew the Hollywood area and sometimes spent time there with friends.
The area, which saw an increased police presence Wednesday, attracts beggars and costumed street performers who demand cash for posed pictures with tourists.
Her mother, Yolonde Tassin, told the newspaper her daughter had completed her GED and had recently registered for classes at El Camino Community College.
"Her plan was to become an engineer," Tassin said. "She didn't want to waste years. She wanted to get in there and do it right."
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As I mentioned in my introduction, my wife bought me a Muji fountain pen, and that served as a catalyst to bring me back to fountain pens. However, the first pen I bought on my own after rediscovering them was a Waterman "Expert." I am really enjoying discovering its characteristics.
What Waterman pens do you own?
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Watermans 52V
The last pen?
Posted 28 March 2015 - 00:53
I just have one, a fine point Phileas fountain pen in the older red marble design. My collection is pretty small, and so far I've been looking more at getting a variety of brands than a variety of models within a single brand.
My FPs: Waterman Phileas, Namiki Vanishing Point, Pelikan Pharo, Cartier Diabolo, Jinhao 250, Jinhao 250, Parker Sonnet
Non-FPs I use: Cartier Diabolo BP, Pilot FriXion; Uni Kuru Toga, Papermate PhD Multi


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What would you grow here? (Pics)
I have a long and large steep slope on the back part of my yard that blends into garden areas and then grass. I thought Snow in Summer would be a great ground cover as I love the folige and flowers it produces. I'm concerned as I have heard so many negative comments on how it cannot be controlled. Any suggestions on what to plant on this slope for ground cover? Would Snow in Summer be a good choice? As you can see from the pictures I live where we grow rocks. Maybe something that won't die back in the winter. I've considered ivy but don't want the area to be a breeding ground for snakes.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Kemper Code: H590 Cerastium Tomentosum
Common Name: Snow-in-Summer
Zone: 3 to 7
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Family: Caryophyllaceae (same family as Dianthus, Carnations, etc.)
Height: 0.5 to 1 foot
Spread: 0.75 to 1 foot - reseeds easily and produces long runners
Bloom Time: June Bloom Color: White
Sun: Full sun
Water: Dry
Maintenance: Medium
I have no experience with Snow-in-Summer, but I wonder if there may have been some confusion between Snow-in-Summer and Goutweed, also known as Bishop's-Weed and Snow-on-the-Mountain, an herbaceous perennial plant that, once established, is extremely aggressive and invasive and hard to eradicate.
(Snow-in-Summer looks to be a nice little plant that might do well in your application - pictures show them nestled among and clambering over rocks. Good "rock garden" type plant and the silvery gray foliage looks attractive, too.)
I recently did a similar terrace. Snow in summer would be a good choice. One of my favorite plants to use in a case like this is plumbago. It spreads, but not rapidly. It has beautiful purple flowers in late summer. It turns almost orange in the fall. You must take care in early spring as it is late to come out.
I think that a ground cover or creeping type juniper would work well for your location, at least in the sunnier areas. They grow well in rocky places. They are evergreen, drought tolerant and root along the stems to bind the soil together. Another possibility is a small shrub called Northern or Dwarf bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera). It has yellow flowers, bronze tinged new growth, red/orange/yellow fall color and grows in almost any well drained soil in sun or shade. It grows up to 3 feet tall and spreads by suckering to form a ground cover and to stabilize soil. Plus it's a native plant. However it might be a bit too tall for your liking and it may be be hard to find locally.
Snow in summer (Cerastium Tomentosum) might grow there in the sunny areas if the soil is extremely well drained.
Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) should do well but dies to the ground in winter.
P.S. I noticed that there are nice mature trees within the area of your landscaping project. Changing the soil grade around mature trees and covering tree trunks with soil can kill trees. Oaks are particularly sensitive to this. Building a tree well around the them can prevent damage to you trees. A link for information on tree wells is at the end of my post. Also, I've never heard of any plant attracting snakes, but snakes often sun themselves on my brick retaining walls!
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Hi Pam,
Crownvetch is a noxious weed - IMO. It will take over.
I wonder if you've been getting the heavy rains we've had in Jasper County lately and if so - how are you handling the erosion problem until you can get something established? I suspect your soil is just like mine, although you do have trees. What was it like before the wall?
How about checking into some of the wonderful native plants?
Here is a great place to get some ideas:
Here is a link that might be useful: Critsite: Prairie and Wetland Center....


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I always wanted a Kitchen Aid Mixer but the restaurant supply store owner told me about Bosch. He said that he's had his for years and it's much better than the Kitchen Aid he also owns. BTW, he doesn't sell the Bosch brand and told me where the distributor was. I went to see it and was so impressed with the different beaters for cake, bread and especially cookies.
I want to buy it. It's $335.00 without the blender (an extra $35 for the blender) and I know it's cheaper on the net but I want to give my business to this local store.
Is this mixer as good as it seems?
Yes, it is. I have had one for years. It was quite a splurge for me, but I started making our own whole wheat bread...I make 5 loaves at a time. ANd, to justify the price I decided to sell bread for a while. I had some regular customers and after a little while it kinda paid for itself and I quit and we moved. The blender is also great...I put ice etc in it and it is powerful.
I sent one of my kitchenaid mixers to a friend (in canada, and the shipping about killed me!) and sold the other one locally on Craigslist. I used the money to partially pay for a Bosch mixer, and I am so glad I did. The things that bothered me about the KA are no longer a problem.
I can take the lid off and dump stuff in, and it just goes in. the lid keeps ingredients from flying all over the place. I don't worry that I am going to burn the motor up kneading bread dough.
I have not used the blender much. I had intended to sell my vita-mix on ebay, but after using the blender for smoothies a couple of times I decided to keep the vita-mix.
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Parameters/assumptions in a retirement plan: conservative enough?
I have a plan but wonder if my assumptions are reasonable. I'd hate to tell DH it is OK for him to retire in six months and then turn out to be wrong! I base our living expenses on a careful tracking of every penny spent in the last 10 years, so I am confident of the living expenses figure in the plan.
Do these other assumptions/parameters sound conservative enough?
1. Plan may need to cover us till we are 100 years old.
2. We will not earn another penny.
3. We will inherit nothing.
4. We will receive 70% of what appears in our annual Social Security estimate statements.
5. Inflation will average 3.5% over time.
6. Investments (balanced 60/40 equity/bond portfolio) will earn average 7% over time.
......(The above two translate to a 3.5% spread between inflation and investment earnings over time.)
7. The federal government pension system will not default.
8. The local civil service pension system will not default.
9. A sizeable untouched fund (3-4 years' living expenses) is sufficient for surprises/disasters.
- Paid for home and cash value life insurance can be tapped as a backup to above disaster fund if necessary.
I doubt *all* of the first 6 will fall out as stated, so together they seem conservative enough to give DH the green light. Any of these parameters jump out as being foolish or problematic???
celtic moon,
Makes a lot of sense to me.
I wonder whether there may be cutbacks in the amount of payments from Social Security, for they don't have a lot of money in the till, and a higher percentage of our jobs are less secure and less well paid than in an earlier generation, which means less going into that till on an ongoing basis.
I personally am inclined to have a higher percentage of assets held in equities. I'm nearly 80 years of age and have about 80% of my assets in equity-based stuff - as I, like you, figure that I should plan financing to age 100 (at least). I prefer to be able to avoid eating turnips exclusively at age 101 (and at higher prices than currently, to boot). Should I make it that far.
If I don't - well, my kids can use the money!
Partly because I've been playing this game for over 40 years, have taken the course that stockbrokers take, plus 6 courses that lead one to a CFP designation (which the best mutual fund salespeople have, but not by any means all of them).
If the stock market gets into serious trouble, I may be hurting. But as it is, I am not only living on my 3 pensions, but putting some into investments, as well. So I do not expect to need to start liquidating investments soon.
Moreover, there are some advantages tax-wise to owning Canadian stocks, which I lose if I invest to earn interest.
And I defer incurring tax liability on stocks that I own until I choose to sell them ... then get taxed at an advantageious rate on the growth.
And when I put $10,000. into the bank ... I don't get any growth.
All that that invesment will ever earn is earned now. And taxed now. At top rate, here. And I must put some of it with the principal, in order to keep purchasing power intact.
I get to call real earnings, the amount that's left.
Which has recently been very little. If anything at all.
Not my idea of a good time.
It seems to me that as petroleum supplies diminish and prices rise, we'll have higher prices on most things that we buy, which means that current rates of inflation are lower than we'll be forced to cope with in a few years' time.
Remember the whining that we North Americans have been doing recently about gasoline prices? I've heard some of it here at THS.
The Europeans have been paying $5.00 per gallon for years.
Which means that they've sought alternative means of harvesting energy.
They're far ahead of us in terms of developing power effectively using solar and wind sources.
Good wishes to you and hubby as you make your plans ... and implement them.
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Joyful, thank you for your thoughts. I will consider the equities vs bonds balance. I fear I may not be as confident as you are in equities though.
Cmarlin, RE: Social Security, I am responding to the proported fact that the system will be only 70% funded at some point in my lifetime. Possibly means testing or some other development might impact what we get. Not something I anticipate, or would welcome, but one more thing I throw in just to crunch a worst case scenario.
Coolvt, I have inflation compounding annually. You are right it makes a huge difference. Really erodes the pensions severely decades from now. We will need to fill in more and more over time. If we live much past 100, that will get harder. Now if inflation averages 4 or 4.5 or higher, and returns don't bump comparably, that crunch will come a lot sooner. I *think* I'm OK with that risk.
Any other thoughts or concerns?
Long term nursing home or in home health attendant?
How is your pension affected if only one person survives past a certain age? Will you still get both pensions or only one?
Was your career as a financial advisor? What I am really asking is can anyone take those courses?
Saphire, both pensions are figured at the lower amounts that entail survivor benefits.
LTC insurance is such a complicating issue, isn't it? Like everyone, I would rather avoid living out my days in a nursing home. I have worked in public health my whole career, and my current work takes me into every kind of facility, group home and in home support setup for elderly that you can imagine. I am increasingly convinced that some assests can be worse than no assets at all. In my urban area, you are actually better off depleting assests entirely and becoming eligible for the Department on Aging Family Care program, a creative and flexible intervention system that is designed to avoid nursing home placement. There is so much developing in supportive resources that are nontraditional - and the cynic in me questions whether LTC insurance will end up covering these novel interventions anyway.
Our disaster fund can cover the statistically predictable stretch of a year or two in a NH for a physical rehab stint. One or both of us being total care for decades, well, that is another story. I should reexplore the kind of policy that kicks in way late in the game. To date, the typical LTC policy with earlier benefits, say after 3-6 months, and caps has not seemed worth it.
Best would be avoiding a NH entirely and we are trying. DH and I have promising genes in that elderly parents all stayed independent. And we both are far, far more fit and nutrition/health conscious than they ever were. Will that mean anything decades from now? Who knows.
We are hedging bets as best we can. Steps are not an issue in our current home (huge factor in NH rehab admissions) and as I do things to the house, e.g. floor coverings, bath renovation, I am making sure that the choices enhance handicap assessibility. Door handles are levers, halls and doorways are wide, etc. So the house itself won't be the problem. We are next door to a bank, grocer, medical buiding and shopping center - and city bus access - so transportation and retail access issues won't force us out either. We have a large extended family and social community and hopefully some will still be around to help problem solve.
I have no problem liquidating everything to pay for care when only one of us is left. After all that runs out, well, the key then is a perceptive, active and yes, even pushy guardian. There is good care out there, even when resources are depleted. I am not above bribing a younger relative: help us stay independent as long as possible, then monitor our care, and you can have the life insurance. It is not a bad deal.
So, those are my thoughts on LTC. Deluded? Maybe. Perhaps I will revisit the insurance offerings once more for peace of mind. Thanks, Sapphire, for prodding me to think this piece through again.
Comparing the future required equivalent of a dollar 20 years and 40 years from now @ 3.5% and 4.0% inflation gives:
After 20 years:
@3.5% = 1.9897
@4.0% = 2.1911
[2.1911 / 1.9897 = 1.10]
After 40 years:
@3.5% = 3.959
@4.0% = 4.801
[4.801 / 3.959 = 1.21]
I am alrady retired, living on investments. I like your thoughts on LTC, we do not have insurance. WE also have some of the same thoughts, will it even cover my "event". We've already decided to hire live in care and stay home til the end.
I may decide to my poor relatives my house, we don't have lif insurance!!
I'd rather have an employee than a relative do my care.
Good idea, cmarlin20. The house AND the life insurance. Surely some relation will step up for that! Not expecting anyone to care for me themeselves, just to see that I'm not too neglected or abused. DH has always been in the "shoot me rather than put me in a place like that" camp, but now he is saying if they have better music and cocktails, it might be OK. Virtual Harley riding and he'd be happy. Me, I'm most worried about the food. I like to eat well. I always ask about the food and people always say it is horrid. Nothing fresh. Yech.
Inflation is exactly my concern, mxyplx. That 1/2 per cent does change everything! It is a pet peeve of mine that so many advice articles and programs suggest 3% for an inflation figure. The only way to come up with 3% historically is to include the great Depression years. Maybe 4 is more realistic than 3.5... But then maybe 7.5 is more realistic than 7 for earnings. Comes down to the 3.5 spread and whether that is OK.
I do appreciate your time and thoughts.
I'm not sure if you are in the US or Canada. One thing that you haven't mentioned, but maybe you have covered is health insurance/costs. This is the fastest growing expense in the US. When I look at my annual exposure including health insurance premiums and deductibles, I am looking at a possible $30,000 per year. I have an average BC/BS policy and have to pay my own premiums.
Coolvt, health costs scare me so much I have it covered twice. My civil service retirement plan includes a benefit of free health insurance for me and DH. (The main reason I gutted out a terrible job for so long). But since the local goverment is having money trouble, I got to thinking that that "free" insurance might end up morphing into a $10,000 annual deductable some day. So some years ago, I had DH start paying for health insurance for us through his federal job (even though we were both insured under my job), and he's now done that long enough to become vested. The perk is eligibility to continue to purchase health insurance for life - at the federal employee copay rate (under $200 a month for Blue Cross/Blue Shield for us both).
I agree with you health costs are a huge monkey wrench. I'm hoping we have that covered with the two separate policy options. And believe me I am grateful for both, I realize most people have no options other than self pay.
>>9. A sizeable untouched fund (3-4 years' living expenses) is sufficient for surprises/disasters.This concept is intreeging (?).
About 4 years ago we concluded to keep 1 year's living cash in our local bank (@0.5% interest). Same idea, readily availabe, etc etc.
Well I finally brought it down to a few thousand because various higher return securities/accounts can be liquified to cash and at the local bank in 1-5 days. Unless parts of the US of A get vaporized a few strokes on the computer gets that done.
Unless I go first. Ahhhh. Sacre Blu! De Rub. De Fly. De Ointment. De Wife! De Computer. She cannot do! I try to teach her turn it on. Now what you tink? She will not touch dat awful ting. I inseest! She sic on me de dog. Jeeeeezzzz...........
LOL, mxplyx, DH is the same way!
I keep taking him to the file cabinet and showing him the folder where all is clear. He still can't handle it. Can manage only the brick and mortar joint next door. I'll leave enough there to hold him over until he finds a guru to show him the way.
Thank you so much for the plan outline. I have been thinking along these lines but never really put it on paper and crunched the numbers. I think your plan is as good as you can possibly make it with out a crystal ball. You are right about the unknown. How much will they reduce SS based on income? And how much we will have to pay for Medicare again based on income.
We will have to use Medicare and buy a supplement. After all the research I did for my parents I have a pretty good idea how much it would cost today buy who knows what will happen in between now and the 3 or 4 when DH retires or in the future. I agree LTC insurance is to iffy at this point and would rather save that money than take a chance on it.
If we live to be 100 one of the issues may be every day living expenses. We all have watched the price of food and most utilities double in the last 10 years. It still blows my mind to pay $4.00 for a loaf of bread or $5 something a pound for a tomato. We could also see our property tax skyrocket here in California. Some politicians would love to get rid of our Prop 13 that keeps property taxes from going up and up.
After Joyful referred to my DH as being stupid for not paying attention to household finance in another post, he didn't know the whole story, I got to thinking about it so last month I told DH the bills were ready to be paid, money needing transferred, ect and ask him to do it. I had in the past told him I did most of it on the computer and showed him how to find passwords but really didn't think he paid attention.
Guess what it took him all of about 20 minutes to do everything. He then said if I wanted him to do this every month I had better give him a key to our post office box. LOL Never even thought about it but in the 20+ years we have lived in the mountains he has never ever stepped foot in the post office. He now knows where the extra key is. So thanks Joyful for making me think.
So all of you out there keep the questions and ideas coming. I can use all the help I can get in trying to think this through. At this point about the only thing I can think of that hasn't been brought up, not really a retirement issue but related, is pre paid funeral arrangements. Not terribly expensive but a great gift to the ones left who have to settle your affairs.
It still blows my mind to pay $4.00 for a loaf of bread
53 cents here for a loaf of day old 'white' stuff. The loaf I bought today has an expiration date of the 21st. The many wheat, potato, and rye breads are $1.29 I think.
$5 something a pound for a tomato
I hope to grow and put up lots of them again this season.
Where might I ask do you live, partst, that prices are that high?
I think you have thought things out very well. My thoughts on SS are that those who are already on it will be grandfathered, and in the future those looking at retirement and SS will be cut back...thus delaying some from retiring until later, thus having them pay into the pool longer, and draw from it less time.
A thought on inflation: The famous book "Your Money or Your Life" (which I imagine many have read) has a section on not fearing inflation. Inflation estimates assume that everyone buys the same things no matter what the inflation. Dominguez and Robin note that we have choices: if tomatoes are $5/lb, we can buy something else. Many things are less expensive (technology, clothing etc) than 20 yrs ago.
Unfortunately, the things that have gone up MORE than inflation are the things that matter most: health care/insurance (not too problematical if you are covered by employer plan); higher education (don't get me started on this!).
But reading the chapter in "Your Money..." on inflation provides a useful contrarian view.
Ironically we located 60 or so miles from the San Joaquin Valley where about 25% of the US agriculture is produced. We live in a very small resort town, population 1300, on the Kern River. We have one small grocery store that caters to the tourist population. A good loaf of bread is $3.79 to $4.29 and tomatoes, well I rarely buy them. Just yesterday I paid $1.79 a pound for onions that just a few months ago they were 3 or 4 pounds for a dollar. Onions are grown straight down the canyon from us. You can smell them when they harvest just driving into Bakersfield.
We do have a Von's market about 16 miles away but lately with the price of gas, $3.55 a gallon for regular today, I only go if I really have to. Plus that Von's is 20 to 30% higher that the rest of Ca. because it's in a resort area. I usually go to Bakersfield twice a month, 120 round trip, for a shopping marathon. The prices are not much better but I can shop the sales and buy tomatoes at around $1.99 pound. Stock up at Costco. We laugh about it but you really don't want to run out of TP and have to buy it here in town.
DH works in Bakersfield and known quite a number of farmer. In the last several years more and more have sold to developers. Where produce was once grown is now housing. This is happening up and down the San Joaquin Valley. To make matters worse most of the quality crops are sold overseas. Many crops get plowed under because the cost to harvest is more than they could sell for. Water is always an issue in Ca. and certainly will be this year.
This is my concern for trying to figure out what our day to day expense will be in our retirement years. It scare me when I think about how much a salad will cost to make 15 years from now. Will it be safe to eat is whole other conversation.
Moving is not an option we love it here and belive it or not home prices are about 2/3 below the rest of Ca. in our valley. It's a good place to live, hot summers, some snow in the winter, any kind of outdoor recreation you could ask for and it's just really beautiful
At this point about the only thing I can think of that hasn't been brought up, not really a retirement issue but related, is pre paid funeral arrangements. Not terribly expensive but a great gift to the ones left who have to settle your affairs.
It sure is! When my MIL passed, DH and his brother went to the funeral home and discovered that she had already selected and paid for a coffin! They knew that her plot was already paid for. Arrangements were made in less than an hour and the cost was about $500.
Because of her thoughtfulness, they were not faced with difficult and expensive decisions at a time when they were just emotionally overwhelmed.


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By Jamie Arrowsmith Monday 29 October 2012 Updated: 01/11 16:59
Bromsgrove 10 Hull Ionians 22
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BROMSGROVE suffered more frustration on Saturday as a strong second half performance failed to bring them any reward against unbeaten Hull Ionians.
Ionians, who sit second in the table, deservedly led 15-0 at the interval but they were merely a competent outfit who made less mistakes than 13th placed Bromsgrove and seemed to have more belief in their own ability.
This was proved early in the second half when town responded strongly with 10 unanswered points which had all the supporters believing that they were going to turn the game around and win it, but that belief was short-lived as they were unable to sustain the comeback and allowed the visitors back into the game when they had them on the rack.
Ionians went ahead in the 15th minute when Alex Forth crossed after poor scrummaging had given them a good attacking platform.
James Ferguson converted the try and added a penalty on the stroke of half time, shortly after Michael Bateman scored the game's second try.
It was a much more positive Bromsgrove outfit who emerged for the second half and they soon reduced the arrears when prop Peter Koziot barged over from close range.
John Critchlow converted and added a penalty a few minutes later to reduce the lead to five points.
Things for looking promising for the hosts at the stage but they proved unable to deal with Ionians' first real attack of the half after 60 minutes which ended with flanker Mark Wigham crossing for Ferguson to convert.
The final quarter was a fairly even affair but it appeared the harder Bromsgrove tried the more errors they made with the final whistle signalling defeat.
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Autopot used commercially.
Has anybody used the autopot hydroponic system on a commercial scale?
I have not. It seems it would be rather expensive to use that system on multiple plants.
I have been pondering how to improvise a system to make a zero electricity EnF system based on the autopots working mechanism. the only manual power would be to fill an elevated reservoir each day.
I kind of moved onto other things though and haven't finished working it out.
I like the zero electricity and low maintenance idea. In this part of the world we're only getting the autopot in 8.5l sizes. Would like to experiment with a smaller pot just to get the hang of it.
I think another concern is that you'll have to be able to isolate a problem child plant quickly and if the problem lies within the reservoir you'll have your entire row of plants in danger.
I still don't think there's another easier way and just overseeing a couple of reservoirs a day would be awesome but think it's unlikely that simple.
I was thinking you could use the autopot valve to flood a tray that held multiple plants in individual pots. that way if you have a problem, you can simply remove the problem plant.Here is a link that explains how the valve works and sells just the valve (without the pot) maybe that'll help spur some ideas.


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Well Diocle my note about Julianus was actually referring to a post by Julianus Heraclius...You might want to rollback a few posts and see what i was referring to.:no:
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Well Diocle my note about Julianus was actually referring to a post by Julianus Heraclius...You might want to rollback a few posts and see what i was referring to.:no:
Finding one Emperor that rose to the purple by civil war thinking on the best for the Empire and not on himself, is probably a very hard task :laughter:.
Jullianus you had a year with much to look...
Those are amazing Diocle. Is this a CoH mod ? If so i'll consider to purchase CoH.
Well i am under the impression that VI Century is considered to be Early Medieval, and i am also a very greyish person. On VI the wheels were already set in motion towards the Medieval Period. I...
It did happen with Justinian, Belisarius and Narses correct ?
Might the problem be due to the RTW folder being in the Program files? Vista and maybe Windows 7 usually have some problem with that. You should also check the full path of the shortcut because if i...
This is very good and there are a ton of mods to play while i wait. Congratulations.
Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus ?
And congrats to both.:laughter:
Well if someone had asked her immediately after maybe...but 24 hours later i am not so sure.:laughter:
Giving more odds to Germany it's no way calling Argentina a underdog. It's like calling underdog to L.A. Lakers or Chicago Bulls. No can do.;)
Calling Argentina an underdog ? Only thing it was obvious was that Argentina would not give the opportunities given by Brazil. As expected it was not a brilliant match from either side. It was more...
I had the same thoughts but i expected to profit from the inability of the AI in protecting the artillery. As it turned out the AI left a cavalry squadron protecting their right flank artillery and...
I think i have used Xfire once but i don't usually video record.
My Peninsular Campaign is going well, however i was surprised by a very respectable army lead by Monsieur Jean Rapp coming from the...
I think you are totally right and even more if we take into account that only good machines can fully profit from games like RTW, ETW and NTW. It takes a good rig today to use the entire potential of...
That's a wonderful pic Diocle. Congratulations. Unfortunately i cannot rep you..yet.:thumbsup2
I am going to try the ACW3 mod for Empire for a Confederacy campaign and the TGW mod for NTW (WW1). On my Peninsular Campaign I have to report a sad loss...Beresford died in mysterious circumstances...
Those are very good.:laughter:
I have come across a nice deal on NTW/ETW Game of the year edition and now i am happily driving the french out of the Iberian Peninsula. I am quite liking Napoleon Total War.
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Save the xcf as a .tga file to reduce it to one single layer. Then save it as a dds and chose for compression BC3/DTX5 and tick "generate minimaps". I think it will work but if not give some feedback.
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Your W40K pictures are always interesting to see. What version should i experiment? Dawn of WarII or Retribution ?
I could but i can always invoke that i am doing it on purpose.And in a certain way i am. I take it you are referring to similar units (infantry card vs infantry card etc,etc). Some of the cards are...
The number of factions thrown against the Romans is meaningless. They will all be "Restitutorized". Again a great work, personally i am running out of adjectives.;)
Ups, i stand corrected.:tongue:
Razor was the creator of Fall of Rome.
Great work.:thumbsup2
Awesome. Great work !!
Update. RIO's VGR pack updated with retextured roman cavalry units.
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It was an actual five ranks or similar. Actual files would go between 8 men to 16 men. It progressively increased from Philip to the Diadochi, as cavalry was less and less used on the "hammer" role.


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Any pokemon set that can 100% Check Mewtwo?
Are we talking X and Y?
It has 2 new forms, one of which changes its type. Its still unclear as to what stat changes or move changes it gets. It could be holding the mewtwonite x or mewtwonite y and your opponent can choose to mega evolve during any point in battle in which it is in play.
(as far as im aware its unclear if it is possible to have mega mewtwo x in pokemon y or vise versa)
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If the item is tradeable, yes, a Mega Mewtwo X would be possible in Y and vice versa.
I prefer Mega Mewtwo X myself, but I prefer Y's legendary.
Bug is no longer effective against X, is it?
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Oh, well in that case I have no idea, is everything I said right tho? I would love to know if there are 6 move types that if you have all 6 you can be super effective against anything. From what I came up with you need 7 because water is only hurt by elec and grass while normal is only hurt by fighting. Every combination I have come up with has bad one of these 2 types left out and I would love to not have anything left out with only 6 move types.
Ok whoever reported my topic we had a good conversation going on so screw you. A lot of people wrote very good things and now our work is dead. Smooth stuff man
Attack Form Deoxys always works for me. Here is my recipe:
Deoxys Attack
Nature: Hasty or Naive
EV: 4, At, 252 Sp At, 252 Speed.
Item: Focus Sash
Psycho Boost
Shadow Ball/Dark Pulse
Ice Beam
Firstly Mewtwo cannot exceed 394 speed and he has no access to priority attacks so unless there's a Quick Claw involved, there's no way that Mewtwo can out-speed Deoxys (A). First hit Mewtwo with Shadow Ball/Dark Pulse, a decent Mewtwo will survive this and attack back, if not wel you're done. Normally Deoxys (A) won't survive anything but with a Focus Sash it will. And If the first attack was successful Extremespeed will succeed in finishing off Mewtwo.
This always works for me at least in Gen IV and V. So hoping none of the Mega Mewtwo's get a Speed Boost or Priority attack.
(Last part is a lie, I really hope the Mega Mewtwo's will get a Speed Boost)
If we assume that there is no prior damage, switch in damage, and no entry hazards, I believe the closest counter would be Arceus-Bug in rain. (240 def, 12 spd, 252 hp, bold) Judgment is sadly a 62.5% chance of OHKOing, so it's not 100%, but on the other hand, Mewtwo (252+ spa, 252spd, specs) cannot OHKO even with a crit with any attack, except for a crit AND burn on Fire Blast.
So the odds are with Arceus, and I think this is as close as we can get. If Arceus can almost always beat this set, then this Arceus can also beat the other sets with ease with the same terms, maybe modifying the EV spread a bit.
Though, if it includes entry hazards and/or switch in damage, I believe there is no counter.
Harder question: Any pokemon that can 100% check GEN ONE Mewtwo. *shudder*
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Abridged for recording/listening purposes--Chefs-D'Oeuvre Gregoriens ,33rpm album by Benedictine Abbaye St. Martin of Liguge, monastic Choir,originally was released Aug 18, 1994 on the STUDIO SM (FRA) label. (Its composition as early as the fifth century)
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