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The NSA Can Wait. Let's Talk Dinner
Friends have been asking me what I'm going to write about the NSA and Mr. Snowden and my concerns about privacy. Here's the answer. Nothing. It's not that I don't care or have an opinion – god knows I have opinions about everything. But we're hearing quite enough about it at the moment.
So tonight I composed something other, as Christopher Fry once wrote, something altogether else. Dinner. Because I was doing some cleaning and assorted other things today and it got late and – well, here goes:
I see by the old clock on the wall that I've now waited too long to cook a decent dinner and will be resorting instead to something from the reliable old freezer.
I'd go out but I've already used up my "damn-the-expenses-four-course-dinner-ahead!" money for the week. Actually, I don't remember the last time I had a four-course dinner. I do remember a time, though, when I was traveling on business – a dreary activity most of the time – being served a four-course dinner all at once in a Holiday Inn.
I would not have chosen to dine in a Holiday Inn restaurant at all, but I was stuck halfway between Connecticut and some nuclear power plant, without a car and too tired to try to figure out an alternative. But let me give you the full picture. When I say the four-course dinner was served all at once, I am not exaggerating by one stale crouton.
Apparently the waitress disapproved of women traveling alone on business – so many did back then – and took it as her personal mission to make me sorry as hell for ever hanging up my organdy apron and hitting the road in a business suit.
She started by seating me at a tiny table about the size of a large TV tray smack in the middle of the dining room where I seemed to be the most interesting attraction to hit this Holiday Inn for some time. Now, that's not saying much and you'll understand why in the next paragraph.
This Holiday Inn was essentially under construction or some kind of ongoing remodeling, and the lobby was temporarily decorated not with chairs and side tables and attractive lamps and paintings but with upholstered bench seats apparently taken directly from a passing Greyhound bus and installed for the customers' pleasure.
The only thing on the plasterboard walls were marks to let carpenters, if there actually were carpenters involved know where to drill or cut or pound. The bus seats and plasterboard went well with the area across from the lobby, an area draped in heavy, semi-clear plastic kept in place with two by fours. All the room needed really to make it perfect was crime scene tape.
But I digress. I was hungry after a day of travel and interviewing relatively boring executives for the project at hand, so I decided to treat myself to a nice dinner, small table be damned. The dinner special I ordered came with soup, salad, a main course with vegetables and some kind of dessert – now forgotten in the "let's not think about that again" memory bank. I found a tiny place on the table for my book – always bring a book when you're traveling on business and likely to dine alone – and I waited.
Nothing happened for the next twenty minutes and then everything happened. The waitress arrived with my soup and salad together which was odd, left for thirty seconds or so and returned with every single other item I'd ordered – main course, vegetables, roll and butter, coffee, and dessert. The entire table was covered with dishes – hot things getting cold, cold things getting warm. I didn't know where to start.
I mean, I didn't grow up with servants who came when you rang, bringing one lovely course at a time. But I also didn't grow up with a family that wanted it all on the table at the same time. I mean, there are rules!
The only thing I could relate this dinner service to was lunch at the junior high school cafeteria where you only got one pass and the ladies in hair nets put it all on your tray at the same time. Iceberg lettuce that passed for salad, some kind of unidentifiable casserole, over-steamed vegetables you were never going to eat and the lumpy, crusty dessert called something exotic like Cherry Surprise or Butterscotch Delight.
I would have given a pretty penny for a nice Cherry Surprise that night, but there was no room left on my little table for anything but the check. Which came with the last item of my four-course-all-at-once dinner. A tiny after-dinner mint. There was no room for anything larger.
The next morning I skipped breakfast and took a limo into Manhattan and never looked back. I've also never stayed – or eaten – at another Holiday Inn.
The microwave just dinged. Dinner is served. One course of something resembling a junior high school casserole. If only I had a nice cafeteria lady in a hair net to add a dish of Cherry Surprise.
Saving the World from One More Whiny Memoir, Novel or Poem!
I apparently had a terrible childhood although I wasn't quite aware of it at the time. I have a few bad memories of childhood – who doesn't? – but a lot more great ones – fun, goofy times, happy days, weird events, errors in judgment (that little stream really was deep in the middle) and all.
Apparently childhood can be something like childbirth when it comes to fading memories of bad things happening. I know they're not really the same at all, of course. Trust me, I know whereof I speak. I've been through both.
I've also been through the requisite late 20th century/early millenium therapy where I learned about all the bad and sometimes very bad things that happened to me. These were not repressed memories that the therapist dredged up out of whole cloth. They were real memories, and I remembered them well once we began to talk. I was unhappy at the time and the therapist was doing her job and doing it well.
As a kid, I knew things were not always story-book great at home. I read story-books all the time and nearly lived at the Library. I knew my life and the lives of people in the books were not the same. I especially knew that the lives of my friends differed in lots of ways from mine – money, the kinds of houses we lived in, the clothes we wore, the vacations we took.
I'm not a psychologist so I can't really tell you from my own experience how these differences affected me at the time except that I had what's a fairly standard kid reaction to the "wrong" family – I couldn't belong to these people. I must have been adopted. The thought crossed my mind more than once although I knew all the stories of my birth and young childhood and, in the deep place of my heart, I knew them to be true.
Which, of course, made it worse. I really did belong to these people!
So I'd think about that for ten or twenty minutes and wish that I could be adopted by people who understood me or at least lived in a big, fancy house where I could wear ruffled pinafores and take piano lessons. Then I'd dash out the door to meet my friends and play jump rope or jacks on the sidewalk or outfit the dolls in lovely new creations we'd make out of cloth napkins and safety pins or to walk around the neighborhood and investigate anything new since we'd been there the day before.
A side note: When I was a kid, kids could do that kind of thing. Helicopters had barely been invented and helicopter parents were so far into the future as to be unknown. I really think this may have been the key to a happy childhood, at least the one I had even though it was apparently terrible. I certainly would not have wanted "those people" who didn't understand me hanging around any more than necessary.
Over the years, I've learned that some of the kids I envied ended up in worse places than I ever visited. I'm always sorry to hear these things, but it's another truth of growing up:
A happy childhood is no guarantee of becoming a happy adult.
When I grew up, I became a writer, and writers love to indulge all the worst things that ever happened to them. It was good luck that I had such a fine therapist who helped me uncover the best possible material – painful, wrenching events in my young life that could make me a million bucks if they ever got into print. I wrote and wrote and wrote and some things did get into print although not much about my apparently miserable childhood.
Any time I seriously tried to write about it, the words just sounded pathetic and whiny. Besides, I knew my life was not as bad as that of the girl in the sixth grade who wore her coat in class every day. Word on the playground was she did this because she didn't have blouses to wear under it. Who knows the truth? I just know I had blouses.
I was disappointed, of course, that I couldn't write about the angst, but now I'm really glad it worked out that way. Because I've come to see that it was the happy stuff I remember that was the best. I know all about perspective and how our memories change, but I'm opting for a choice. I love those happy memories so much more than any of the others. I'm not kidding myself about things that went wrong, but those other memories have bogged me down for too many years.
I'm going for the gold now – the gold of memories that let me remind myself that jumping rope and playing jacks and being with my odd family were pretty wonderful, even with all things considered.
I know there are kids in families that make mine look like a Mary Poppins story, and my heart goes out to every kid in such a bad situation. We need to do as much as possible to keep the kids all right, all the kids, all the time. But "all right" is not necessary perfect and you know what they say about perfection: "Perfection is the enemy of the good." So I say to parents and kids:
Parents – be as good as you can be to your kids but forget about trying to be perfect.
Kids – know that your parents are trying to be as good to you as they can be. Forget about nailing them because they're not perfect and don't even think about writing a whiny memoir, novel or poem twenty years from now.
My writing? Well, I used to do a lot of art, but somewhere along the line I stopped and started trying to write those intense grown-up novels and stories instead. I'm shifting gears now to writing and illustrating children's books. I've signed up for an art class this summer. I'm reading children's books everyday. And I'm already having a happier adulthood than I could possibly have imagined.
I don't know where it's all going and I don't care. I may be too old for hopscotch now, but we're never too old for the dance! So I invite you, as Alice did in her delightful and wildly fantastic book:
"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"
A Book for Children of All Ages
I want to tell you about something completely different today, a truly small volume I ran onto among the big books on the shelves of the Big Library. This little book was published during World War II, and has a message inside regarding wartime necessities and what even the publishing industry must do without – excess paper. No wasteful blank pages, no wide margins or wasted space at the ends of chapters. A note on the title page tells us:
Under Government regulations for saving paper during the war, the thickness of this book has been reduced below the customary peacetime standards. The text is complete and unabridged.
The pages give new meaning to the words "paper thin." Expensive bathroom tissue is thicker than this paper.
But I'm not here to talk about the mechanics of wartime publishing, but about the subject of the book and its authors. This slim volume, which I found tucked away among much larger books at the Big Library, is titled First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Elspeth Grahame, his wife, who also wrote a wonderful introduction.
The book includes not only the genesis of The Wind in the Willows, but also a great story about a book store on the edge of the Grand Canyon that sold mostly tourist guides and such, but had a copy of The Wind in the Willows in a prominent place. An English friend of Grahame's on a trip to see the Grand Canyon ("Having seen it, I am relieved of any desire to see it again.") also visited the book store and saw Grahame's book.
He asked about it and the owner of the store said "I am very pleased to meet you." She then told him about buying the book years before in Chicago and making a vow that if she ever owned a bookshop Grahame's book would be there in a place of honor.
"It helps me to retain my self-respect while I am selling to the daily tourists the sort of fiction that they read in Pullman cars." Today it would be 747s. But her other motive was that she knew who people were when they commented on the book. "That is why I said at once that I was pleased to meet you."
This exchange, Grahame's friend noted, happened at the outset of Bright Angel Trail. "No other place on earth could be farther in feeling from the English countryside."
I first read The Wind in the Willows as a child, but it seemed too complicated for my little mind. Then I read it again at Whitman College when it was assigned reading for a wonderful freshman class with a reading list that included Hesse's Magister Ludi, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, War and Peace, The Wind in the Willows and Goethe's Faust.
Quite a lineup for a freshman lit class. And one of the most stimulating classes I ever had. One of our assignments was a paper comparing any two of the novels. I chose Magister Ludi and The Wind in the Willows.
The Wind in the Willows is much more than a children's story although it began that way, as an entertainment from Kenneth Grahame in bedtime stories and letters to his son, Alastair, nicknamed Mouse. The book first centered around the adventures of Mr. Toad, but over time expanded to include the Mole and the Water Rat and the rest of the creatures living near the willows.
Two of the chapters near the center of the book, "Dulce Domum" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" are among the most spiritual and tender chapters ever in print. These two chapters are meant for the grownups who read the book to their children. "Dulce Domum" speaks to the concept of home, no matter how long one has been away from it or how humble it may be.
I had a sweetheart once who loved this book as much as I did, mostly because he loved "messing about in boats," much like the Water Rat who explains to the Mole that "there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing."
But we both loved "Dulce Domum" and one Christmas I recorded a tape of it for him. I wonder if he still has the tape. It was a very long time ago.
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is a tale of a lost creature, faith, and rescue in the presence of – well, something greater than oneself. It's a beautiful story.
One of my favorite pieces of advice for living comes from The Wind in the Willows. It's in the chapter "Wayfarers All" when the dashing Sea Rat describes his adventurous life to the Water Rat and urges him to come along on the next adventure:
"Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!"
I try to remember these words when I'm boggled by so much new life these days…one thing after another. I try to take the blithesome steps forward but often, like the Water Rat, just end up more boggled than ever.
In the book, when the Water Rat sinks into a daze of confusion about the irrevocable moment, the Mole comes to the rescue – gently and with great tact. He puts a few pieces of clean paper in front of his friend and a pencil and says the magic words:
"It's quite a long time since you did any poetry…You might have a try at it this evening instead of—well, brooding over things so much. I've an idea that you'll feel a lot better when you've got something jotted down—if it's only just the rhymes."
It's a beautiful book. Two beautiful books.
I think I'll go write some poetry.
She's a Grand Old Flag, She's a High-Flying Flag!
It's Memorial Day weekend in America. Big things are happening in your neighborhood. Or a neighborhood near you.
As is our tradition on any long weekend now, we have juggled the actual date for which the celebrating once happened to the nearest convenient date. Thanksgiving and Christmas and the Fourth of July are the only dates still sacred in our calendar. Memorial Day was once celebrated on May 30, but that's in the dim and distant past.
We love three-day weekends, mini-vacations as it were, and cram them full of activities. We've got the Indy 500, bike races, marathons, humongous department store sales, parades, festivals, concerts and rallies.
There will be speeches and flags and the sound of mournful bugles blowing "Taps," ball games and picnics where the weather is warm enough, and traffic jams up and down the highways of America as people head "somewhere else" for the long weekend.
The provenance of Memorial Day is up for grabs, but it was officially declared a national holiday to honor veterans of both sides of the Civil War and changed after World War I to honor all who had fallen in any war.
The poem "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a doctor in the Canadian Army brought to us all the image of the red poppies which have become a symbol of Memorial Day. Here's the first stanza of his poignant poem:
"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below…"
When I was a child, the holiday was still celebrated on May 30 and it was still called Decoration Day. This was an important holiday in our big family. My grandparents had lived in the same town for many decades and we had a lot of graves to decorate.
My grandmother marshalled all hands to create the many bouquets of peonies, iris, and lilacs which we then carried in all the cars available to the cemetery in La Grande, Oregon, where most of the relatives were resting in what we hoped was peace, although from what I know about a few of them, it might have been otherwise. After we'd decorated all those graves, we took the rest of the flowers to our old pioneer family graveyard outside of town at Hilgard where my grandmother's family had homesteaded.
On Decoration Day, we kids in the family learned about death and the proper respect for those who were in the ground. "Be careful where you walk. You don't step on the graves." And we heard stories about relatives long gone including the saddest memories of children lost through typhoid or influenza. The day was a family history lesson itself.
Things have changed now. My grandparents are buried in the big cemetery along with my father, a couple of my aunts, and other close and not so close relatives that I once knew. My grandparents' house belongs to someone else, and our family no longer gathers in LaGrande for the ritual of filling jars and vases with water, mixing the bouquets, loading them in the car and decorating graves. We've scattered to many places now as so many families have.
But I'm thinking about my grandmother today, and the memories of those Decoration Days are as fresh as the sweet lilacs from the big bushes in her yard. Please indulge me as I include here a poem of my own about those memories. I like to think I got my spirit of determination from my grandmother.
In late spring,
on Decoration Days,
after we'd carried peonies and iris
to the cemetery near the high school,
we gathered in whatever family car
would hold the most
and headed for the lonely graves
at Hilgard.
Grandmother called the shots
from whichever seat she occupied,
a bucket of lilacs
on her lap.
She had the right. The hand-dug
graves that waited year to year
belonged to her, and all the memories in them.
"My Grandad Hawes' old homestead,"
she'd remind again,
as if we could forget.
We'd find the narrow road that shot
straight up the muddy height.
The lucky devil at the wheel
would give 'er the gun. Halfway up,
the car would lose its grip and
slowly slide back down
with Grandma resolutely watching
everything run backwards
through those lilacs on her lap.
Stopped at the bottom of this
always muddy track, she'd leave the car,
a struggle with the bucket, and announce
without a moment's pause,
"We'll walk."
Apple Banned From Miss Molly's Planet
As I wrote just four days ago, on my planet we go for Clean Energy which includes:
"Clean Energy means corporations pay their fair share of taxes."
Look, I don't care if the tax code is "Byzantine" (and what the hell does that mean anyway, when it comes to the tax code except that it gives companies an excuse when they don't want to pay their fair share).
I don't care if what Apple did is "within the letter of the law." As Charles Dickens once wrote, "The law is an ass." In this case, I say he was absolutely right.
I don't care if the shareholders love what Apple's doing, and I don't believe for a minute that all the shareholders approve of the tactics anyway.
I care that a major corporation that's making billions by pushing their products on every man, woman, and child in America and beyond, decides it can blow off its responsibility and live high instead of being a good citizen of its own homeland.
I care that bean counters and lawyers and corporate execs think their country's future is a game and really don't give a damn about contributing to the health of that future.
I care that a company that's done plenty to undermine the infrastructure of America by promoting everything on-line (we don't need no stinking postal service to pay our bills or send letters to our friends)is copping out on helping to pay for what infrastructure remains.
I care that our country is infected by an attitude of disregard and disrespect and greed, and that our children and grandchildren need to be vaccinated against this infection.
I care that although the people at Apple have become technological whiz kids, they have remained social neanderthals.
I care that the rest of the corporadoes jumping to Apple's defense are pulling the same shenanigans on the American people and laughing at the rest of America all the way to the bank.
I care that I can't stop feeling a deep ache about what's happening to the country I have loved all my life.
That said, I have now revoked Apple's passport to Miss Molly's planet, have strapped a Buck Rogers jet pack onto the leadership team and am sending them off to parts unknown. And don't bother to leave that Apple computer you brought with you either.
Ciao, babies!


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The trailer of Divya Khosla's directorial debut "Yaariyan" will be launched with the release of Hrithik Roshan-starrer "Krrish 3″.
Khosla is eager to see the audience's reaction to the promo.
"The first trailer of my film 'Yaariyan' is attached with 'Krrish 3′. This is my first film as a director and I am eagerly waiting to see the audience's response. We have shot the film in Mumbai, Kerala and Australia and it has been made on a tight budget," Khosla told IANS.
"It is a very youthful and commercial film," said Khosla, who is married to producer Bhushan Kumar.
The film stars Himansh Kohli and Rakul Preet Singh.
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AT LAST, the world's first portable electronic Braille display. It is small enough to fit in a pocket and can even be rolled up like a newspaper.
The display consists of a sheet of tiny plastic paddles that bend in response to a voltage. It is designed to connect to a cellphone or laptop, and could also replace the liquid crystal screen of an ordinary PDA.
Existing dynamic displays for blind people use an array of pins that pop up when stimulated by piezoelectric actuators. But the smallest versions are the size of a phone book and weigh about 500 grams, mainly because of the rigid fibreglass board the actuators are mounted on. "It's moderately portable, but you certainly can't put it in your pocket," says Curtis Chang of the National Federation for the Blind in Des Moines, Iowa. At $3800 each, they are also too expensive for most people. ...
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Tractor Talk
Tips for preparing your Bobcat compact tractor for spring
Bobcat compact tractor product specialist Joe Miller
If you haven't used your Bobcat� compact tractor this winter, now is a good time to follow some basic steps to get it ready for the upcoming spring work season. Bobcat compact tractor product specialist Joe Miller recommends the following for anyone who needs to make sure their tractor is primed for work.
Springtime tractor to-do list
Step 1:
Check the engine oil and coolant, diesel fuel, hydraulic and front axle fluids. Bobcat makes it easy for any owner to check and fill these fluids. Both the engine and hydraulic dipsticks are easy to get to; the front axle uses a sight gauge; and the coolant reservoir is situated conveniently underneath the hood.
Step 2:
Check all of the filters and replace them as needed per the service schedule.
Springtime tractor to-do list
Step 3:
Check for any leaks and make repairs or tighten fittings.
Step 4:
Properly inflate the tires. Refer to your tractor's operator manual for the correct pressure.
Step 5:
Check the battery for corrosion and clean it. Check electrolyte level in cells. Replace battery or components as needed.
Step 6:
Check all electrical functions, including work lights, turn signals and hazard flashers.
Step 7:
Lubricate all of the grease zerk fittings.
Step 8:
Check all hardware for loose or missing pieces. Tighten or replace as necessary.
It's a good idea to closely follow the recommended service schedule. You can find this on a decal under the hood or in the Operation & Maintenance Manual. The Operator's Handbook, conveniently located near the seat, is helpful resource for proper operation of the tractor.
Recommended service schedule
You will be ready to go once you've completed this list of eight basic steps. Concerned about doing any of these tasks or don't know where to get parts? Contact your local Bobcat dealer for help. They have parts and service departments ready to stand behind you and your compact tractor.


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Keyshia Cole was recently featured as a special guest performer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and she performed her second single "Long Way Down" Live at his late night show on November 29th.
"I Ain't Thru" is the first, and also the lead single from American R&B singer/songwriter Keyshia Cole's upcoming fourth studio album, Calling All Hearts. The track features female Young Money Rapper Nicki Minaj. The music video premiered in early November 2010.
"I Ain't Thru" is the first, and also the lead single from American R&B singer/songwriter Keyshia Cole's upcoming fourth studio album, Keyshia. The track features female Young Money Rapper Nicki Minaj, and the song leaked in mid October 2010.
The 2010 BET Awards took place over the weekend in Los Angeles. This year the show was hosted by Queen Latifah and there were many performances from such artists as Drake, Young Jeezy, Diddy – Dirty Money, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, T.I., Alicia Keys, Usher, Kanye West, Eminem, B.o.B, Keyshia Cole, Trey Songz and many more! Check
New Albums from Brian McKnight – Evolution of a Man, Michael Jackson – This Is It OST, Triple C's - Custom Cars & Cycles, Tech N9ne – K.O.D., & Mike Epps - Funny Bidness Da Album. New singles from Lady Gaga – Bad Romance, Amerie feat. Trey Songz – Pretty Boy, Gucci Mane feat. Usher –
1. Diva – Beyonce 2. Dead And Gone – T.I. f./Justin Timberlake 3. Never Ever – Ciara f./Young Jeezy 4. You Complete Me – Keyshia Cole 5. Blame It – Jamie Foxx f./T-Pain 6. Rehab – Rihanna 7. I Get It In – 50 Cent 8. I Run – Slim Thug 9. Rap Up 2008
"You Complete Me" is the second single from R&B singer Keyshia Cole's third album A Different Me. This song is about Keyshia having a man that loves and completes her and she knows he will be the best man he can because he loves her. This track was produced by THE-RON Feemster.
1. Outerspace – Yung Berg 2. 24/7-365 – Huey f./Maino & Glasses Malone 3. Beep – Bobby Valentino f./Yung Joc 4. Live Your Life – T.I. f./Rihanna 5. Move (If U Wanna) – Mims 6. Come Over – Estelle f./Sean Paul 7. Mr. Feel Good – Dem Franchize Boyz 8. Playa Cardz Right – Keyshia
1. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce 2. Live Your Life – T.I. f./Rihanna 3. If I Were A Boy – Beyonce 4. Pop Champagne – Jim Jones & Ron Browz f./Juelz Santana 5. IfULeave – Musiq Soulchild f./Mary J. Blige 6. Playa Cardz Right – Keyshia Cole f./2Pac 7. Freeze –
1. Body On Me – Nelly f./Ashanti And Akon 2. A Milli – Lil Wayne f./Jay-Z & Chris Brown 3. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (Remix) – Mariah Carey f./T.I. 4. I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry 5. Game's Pain – The Game f./Keyshia Cole 6. Swing – Savage 7. Dat Baby –
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'Man and Boy': A Broadway play about greed and guilt
The Occupy Wall Street protest moved uptown to Times Square, and the chants of "shame, shame, shame" followed by police sirens could be heard inside the theater as the play, about an international billionaire who swindled people, unfolded.
The coincidence ends there because in "Man and Boy," the felonious financier, Gregor Antonescu ( Frank Langella), is hunted and is either going to be arrested on international warrants, shot or he'll kill himself.
So life doesn't quite imitate art. Then again Terrence Rattigan's play, revived at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre, is set during the Great Depression. Rather than get handouts from governments and encouragement to bilk people so he can live like royalty, the great Antonescu is in deep trouble.
The play feels creaky at times, and a couple of the actors are too obviously acting and not just telling a story. It's not a great play, and the references to Bolshies and FDR sadly sail by some of the audience.
It is, however, the perfect vehicle for its star, the incomparable Langella.
Langella, who was the sexiest, most intense Dracula when he won over Broadway in 1977, has become a maestro of the stage, proven in last year's "A Man for All Seasons." Now in his 17th Broadway play and with three Tony Awards, an Emmy and an Oscar, Langella is justifiably celebrated.
In this, he plays a Romanian financier who has long cooked his books. Given that he's considered the savior of postwar Europe -- he brought electricity and roads to Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and heads of state in the U.S. and throughout Europe will take his calls -- no one wants to believe that Antonescu is a swindler.
He needs a final deal and refuge. He seizes the latter in his son's Greenwich Village apartment. A dingy basement space, Basil Anthony ( Adam Driver) plays piano at a village bar for $26 a week, has an actress girlfriend ( Virginia Kull) and has tried to Americanize himself.
The gist of the play is between the father, the man, and the son, the boy. All parent/child relationships are fraught with emotions, but theirs more so than most. How many sons have shot at their father -- with a gun the father gives him and tells him to shoot?
That was the last time the two saw each other -- on Basil's 18th birthday. Since, he moved to the Village, changed his name from Vassily, became a citizen and tried to distance himself from his father. But he can't -- not when his father is the most important financier in the world and a huge influence on his life.
"I'm not a Marxist," the son tells the father.
"What are you?" the father asks.
"A socialist."
"I never could tell the difference."
Langella is completely believable as an imperious European. With a flick of his wrist, the way he lights his cigarette, the way he sneers at those beneath him (everyone), Langella may as well be an exiled prince.
In fact, Mel Brooks told him decades ago that he sounded like a prince in search of a country, as Langella related to me in an interview a few years back. For a kid from Bayonne, N.J., Langella exudes a European elan usually found in people born to the manor.
The always-excellent Zach Grenier plays Mark Herries, an American magnate with whom Antonescu was about to merge a company. It was Herries' self-righteous -- and right --- accountant who found Antonescu's fancy accounting.
Just in case Antonescu wasn't slimy enough, he tries to pimp out his son to Herries.
Though Sven ( Michael Siberry) -- Antonescu's lifelong assistant, bodyguard, secretary and all-around protector -- is interesting, and the Countess Antonescu ( Francesca Faridany), the financier's latest wife -- a former stenographer now fancy woman with firs and boyfriends -- is what's expected, what isn't is the raw emotion between father and son.
Though Basil wants to rip himself away from his father, he can't. He worships him and needs to help him. Ultimately, Antonescu is beyond help.
When Antonescu walks out into the night, there's a bit of ambiguity. Will he be caught? Will he kill himself? Will he somehow escape?
It's hard to imagine such measures being taken today, especially when police line Times Square, dozens of extra plastic handcuffs hanging from their pants, ready to arrest more protestors enraged over greed.
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He appears to have belonged to the group which attempted to form a compromise position between monophysitism and the orthodox teaching. His writings were first cited in 519 in a work by Severus of Antioch, Adversus apologiam Juliani, who cited the Fourth Letter. Dionysius was initially used by monophysites to back up parts of their arguments, but his writings were eventually adopted by other church theologians as well, primarily due to the work of John of Scythopolis and Maximus the Confessor in producing an orthodox interpretation. The Dionysian writings and their mystical teaching were universally accepted throughout the East, amongst both Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians. St. Gregory Palamas, for example, in referring to these writings, calls the author, "an unerring beholder of divine things." And in the West, the manuscripts grew to be very popular amongst theologians in the Middle Ages, but debates over the authenticity of his works began in the Renaissance.
The monastery of St. Denis, which had inadvertently conflated the two Dionysiuses, had a good Greek edition of Pseudo-Dionysius's works given to them by Charles the Bald, which was translated into Latin by John Scotus Eriugena in the late 9th century. This translation widely popularized both Pseudo-Dionysius' teaching and his explanation of the angels.
The first defense of their authenticity is undertaken by John of Scythopolis, whose commentary, the Scholia (ca. 540), on the Dionysian Corpus constitutes the first defense of its apostolic dating, wherein he specifically argues that the work is neither Apollinarian nor a forgery, probably in response both to monophysites and Hypatius--although even he, given his unattributed citations of Plotinus in interpreting Dionysius, might have known better. Dionysius' authenticity is criticized later in the century, and defended by Theodore of Raithu; and by the 7th century, it is taken as demonstrated, affirmed by both Maximus the Confessor and the 649 Lateran Council. From that point forward, the authorship is largely not in question until the Renaissance.
The Florentine humanist Lorenzo Valla (d. 1457), in his commentaries on the New Testament, did much to establish that the author of the Corpus Areopagiticum could not have been St. Paul's convert, though he was unable to identify the actual historical author. The fictitious literary persona had long been accepted on face value by all its readers, with a couple of exceptions such as Nicholas of Cusa noted by modern historians, but whose reservations went unheard.
William Grocyn pursued Valla's lines of text criticism, and Valla's critical viewpoint of the authorship of the highly influential Corpus was accepted and publicized by Erasmus from 1504 onward, for which he was criticized by Catholic theologians. In the Leipzig disputation with Martin Luther, 1519, Johann Eck used the Corpus, specifically the Angelic Hierarchy, as argument for the apostolic origin of papal supremacy, pressing the Platonist analogy, "as above, so below".
During the 19th century modernist Catholics too came generally to accept that this self-identified disciple of St. Paul must have lived after the time of Proclus, whose works he paraphrased in transforming Neoplatonism into Christian terms—which is the philosophical approach that had interested the Christian Neoplatonist Valla in the first place.
Dionysius identity is still heavily under dispute. The compilers of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy find pseudo-Dionysius to be most probably "a pupil of Proclus, perhaps of Syrian origin, who knew enough of Platonism and the Christian tradition to transform them both. Since Proclus died in 485, and since the first clear citation of Dionysius' works is by Severus of Antioch between 518 and 528, then we can place Dionysius' authorship between 485 and 518-28." Ronald Hathaway provides a table listing most of the major identifications of Dionysius: e.g., Ammonius Saccas, Dionysius the Great, Peter the Fuller, Dionysius the Scholastic, Severus of Antioch, Sergius of Reshaina, unnamed Christian followers of everyone from Origen of Alexandria to Basil of Caesarea, Eutyches to Proclus. Georgian academician Shalva Nutsubidze and Belgian professor Ernest Honigmann were authors of a theory identifying pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite with Peter the Iberian. A more recent identification is with Damascius, the last scholarch of the School of Athens.


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NICOSIA: The Syrian vice president's criticism of leader Bashar al-Assad has highlighted the cracks in the regime's highest ranks, pitting supporters of compromise against the president's hardline inner circle.
Assad's closest aides believe the regime should keep fighting and that they can still win a war against rebels which has left more than 44,000 dead in almost two years.
"Power has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of just a few people in Assad's clan, which has grown autistic and seems to have chosen to just keep going," Paris-based expert Karim Bitar told AFP.
Assad's circle includes his brother Maher, 44, who heads the army's elite Fourth Division and his wife Asma, an analyst told AFP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The group also includes Assad's notorious businessmen uncle Mohammed Makhluf, 80, cousin Rami Makhluf, 43, and Damascus security chief, Hazem Makhluf, 41.
Like Assad, all are members of the minority Alawite community, except his wife, who is a Sunni Muslim.
Presidential affairs minister since 2009, Mansur Azzam, 52, and former Al-Jazeera journalist Luna al-Shibl are also close to Assad. Both are members of the Druze community.
Alawite Hussam Sukkar, a security advisor to the president, is also key, as are two Sunni veterans: National Security director Ali Mamluk and Political Security chief Rostom Ghazali.
"This is the group that takes the decisions," the analyst said. "Bashar, who runs the show, only listens to people who owe him, for the most part, for their rise."
But several high-level officials, members of the state apparatus and part of the army command, understand -- like Vice President Faruq al-Sharaa -- "that neither the rebels nor the army can secure an all-out victory," said Bitar.
"As such, they are hoping for a negotiated solution, which would prevent them all being swept away should Assad fall,."
In an interview published in a pro-Damascus Lebanese daily, Sharaa, who for 22 years served as foreign minister, said he favours a negotiated solution to the conflict, rather than the president's strategy of crushing the revolt militarily.
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After 50 years in power, differences have emerged even among Alawites, as young members of this offshoot of Shiite Islam are killed daily in battle.
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Identifying great dividend stocks can be a difficult task. It's a kind of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" problem, as appeal is often based on who the investor is.
For some younger investors, high dividend growth is key to generating a sufficient income stream once they reach retirement. For older investors, on the other hand, income stocks with the highest yields might be the best for income during retirement[1].
Some investors also like to concentrate their portfolios[2] in no more than 15 to 20 carefully selected securities, while others try to hold as many stocks as possible.
Generally, I try to avoid extremes — whether choosing high-yield or high-growth income stocks or when choosing between a concentrated or diversified portfolio. Instead, I prefer to focus on companies with yields and dividend growth in the middle[3]. I also prefer to hold about 40 to 50 income stocks.
With that in mind, these three stocks, all chosen by me one year ago as part of a collective effort by a group of dividend newsletters, are prime examples of my moderate approach:
Chevron (NYSE:CVX[4]) engages in petroleum, chemicals, mining, power generation and energy operations worldwide. This dividend champion has raised distributions for 25 consecutive years — and has managed to boost dividends at an average rate of 8.8% per year over the past decade. Currently, Chevron trades at 8.7 times earnings and yields 3.1% — not too shabby. For more, check out my full analysis[5] of the stock.
Enterprise Products Partners LP
This next company, Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD[6]), provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, refined products,and petrochemicals. It has also been a dividend achiever, raising distributions for 15 consecutive years and boosting them by 7.6% a year over the last decade.
Currently, Enterprise Products Partners yields a solid 4.9% and is one of the few master limited partnerships (MLPs) without incentive distribution rights, which eat into distribution growth for limited partners. In addition, the company is also one of the few MLPs with very good coverage of their distributions from cash flows. Most of its assets generate fee-based income anytime crude oil or natural gas is being transported through its vast network of pipelines. I would like to add to my position on dips below $51. Find more on the stock here[7].
Another dividend champion is worldwide fast-food franchise McDonald's (NYSE:MCD[8]), which has raised distributions for 35 years in a row. On top of that, over the past decade, the company has managed to boost dividends at an average rate of more than 27% every year. Currently, McDonald's yields 3.4%. The company earned $5.27 per share in 2011, but that is expected to jump to $5.42 a share in 2012 and $5.96 a share in 2013. Read more on the stock here.[9]
These three securities generated a return of 8.6% year-to-date and just over 26% since their selection in September 2011. The S&P 500 has returned about twice as much year-to-date, but only beats my picks slightly over the past year, with returns just short of 30%.
The performance of other bloggers is listed below. Each of the eight bloggers selected three income stocks for a total of 24 picks:
- Wealthy Canadian 37%
- The Dividend Monk[10] 34%
- Dividend Mantra[11] 28%
- Dividend Growth Investor 26%
- Passive Income Earner[12] 22%
- My Own Advisor[13] 16%
- The Dividend Guy Blog[14] 12%
- Dividend Ninja[15] 10%
As of this writing, Dividend Growth Investor was long MCD, EPD and CVX.
Related Reading
- How to retire with dividend stocks[16]
- Dividend Portfolios – concentrate or diversify?[17]
- 10 by 10: A New Way to Look at Yield and Dividend Growth[18]
- Enterprise Products Partners (EPD): A Pipeline Cash Machine[19]


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Puba Brooke Banner knows she's got a great ass and she is not afraid to show it. Brooke Banner is a babe with long blonde hair that falls below her shoulders, hot body and definitely an ass that turns heads. In this movie and photo set, Brooke Banner lets us see her sexy body as she strips off her black clothing one by one. Teasing us first is this photo of Brooke Banner still dressed but with her leggings down and both of her hands pulling at her ass cheeks.


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Per Theater Chart: New Releases Are Overshadowed
May 15th, 2012
No new releases managed to earn a spot in the $10,000 club on this week's per theater chart. That doesn't mean it was empty, as The Avengers remained potent with an average of $23,696 during its second weekend of release. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was arguably even more impressive, as it expanded into more than 150 additional theaters, but its per theater average only fell to $15,012. It did well enough to grab eighth place overall, and with this average, it will certainly expand more. On the other hand, the best new release was Dark Shadows with an average of $7,906. This is good, but not great. The best limited release was Girl in Progress. That was was playing in more than 300 theaters and managed an average of $4,298. That's a good start, but I don't think it will expand greatly.
The best of the rest of the new limited releases was Small Beautifully Moving Parts with $3,087 in one theater. I Wish was next with an average of $2,184 in five theaters. At least that film avoided the Mendoza Line, the rest of the new limited releases were not as lucky. God Bless America came very close with an average of $1,951 in 14 theaters. This isn't good, but it did debut Video on Demand, and that almost always costs a film at the box office. Nobody Else but You was close behind with an average of $1,880 in just two theaters while Otter 501 was at $1,815 in three theaters. There was another logjam a little lower down. The Road earned an average of $1,134 in 50 theaters, Tonight You're Mine earned $1,072 in two, and Sleepless Night earned $1,053, also in two. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview returned to theaters but only managed an average of $200 in 13.
This past week also saw milestones reached for a few Per Theater Chart alumni:
- The Deep Blue Sea just reached $1 million by the end of the weekend, but that's as far as it will go.
- Monsieur Lazhar also reached $1 million over the weekend, if you only count its run in the United States. Including Canada, it has more than $2.6 million.
- Girl in Progress opened with more than $1 million, so obviously it got to that milestone over the weekend.
- Since this time last week, Jiro Dreams of Sushi topped $2 million.
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel got to $1 million just before the weekend and over the weekend topped $2 million and then $3 million. By Monday it reached $4 million and should get to $5 million before long. How far will it go? Too early to tell, but it has already reached some measure of mainstream success.
- C.S.Strowbridge
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Rap and Hip-Hop Panel Reflections- Melissa Green
I found the Hip-Hip panel to extremely interesting and entertaining. I was surprised to learn that rap is a subset of hip-hop, rather than a new form altogether. I had always assumed that hip-hop was rap but with more "traditional" musical conventions than rap. However, hip-hop is a kind of sub-culture, complete with its own elements and various artistic styles such as dance, graffiti, music, and poetry. I also found it reassuring that there still exists hip-hop that makes social commentary on issues such as poverty, race, and drugs. The commercialization and involvement in capital has unfortunately kept much of this kind of music underground. Instead, we are innundated with hip-hop that revolves around sex, money, and the objectification of women. This crap rap does not really represent the original spirit of community togetherness that rap once did, nor does it attempt to affect social change. What I hope will happen in the future is that another group like Public Enemy will become popular in the mainstream, and thus bring important issues to the forefront of American consciousness. As whites are the largest consumers of hip-hop in the country, hearing socially conscious music will bring these problems to the ears of all those who need to hear it.


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Nathaniel P. Langford
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Nathaniel Pitt Langford (1832 - 1911) was an explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante and historian from St. Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields, territorial government and the creation of Yellowstone National Park.[1]
Montana Gold Fields
On June 16, 1862, Langford, as a member and officer of the Northern Overland Expedition, commanded by Captain James L. Fisk, left St. Paul to establish a wagon road to the Salmon river mine regions of the Rocky Mountains via Fort Benton[1][2]. The expedition ended up at the Grasshopper Creek gold fields in the area soon to be named Bannack, Montana. There Langford and his fellow businessmen established freight companies, a saw mill and other businesses.
Langford was also part of the vigilante movement that dealt with lawlessness in Virginia City and Bannack, Montana during 1863-64[1]. In 1890, Langford wrote Vigilante Days and Ways to chronicle the eras of pioneer justice in the West. [3]
Territorial Tax Collector
In 1864, shortly after the Montana Territory was established on May 28, 1864, Langford was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue and National Bank Examiner, positions he held for five years in the Montana Territorial government[4].
Yellowstone Exploration and Creation
Langford was a member of the 1870 Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition which explored portions of the region that soon would become the Yellowstone National Park [5]. Mount Langford, 10,440 feet in the Absaroka Range, 7.5 miles east of Yellowstone Lake, was scaled by Langford and Doane during the expedition and named after him.[6]
After his participation in the Washburn expedition, Langford was appointed as the first superintendent of the park. He soon got the nickname National Park Langford because of his initials N.P. There was no money available to offer him a salary for this new position, so he had to make his living elsewhere. This left Langford with little time to run the park, and he entered it only twice during his five years as superintendent. The first time was as a guest on the second Hayden Expedition in 1872, and his second took place in 1874 to evict a man named Matthew McGuirk. McGuirk claimed to own the Boiling River - one of the park's hot springs rumored to have healing powers.
Langford had no salary, no funding for the park, and no legal way to enforce protection for its wildlife and geologic features. Political pressure, which took the guise of accusing Langford of neglect, forced the removal of Yellowstone's first superintendent in 1877. He was replaced by Philetus W. Norris. In 1905, Langford published Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole In the Year 1870 as a comprehensive insider's view of the expedition.
After his Yellowstone experiences, Langford returned to his home state of Minnesota and began a career as a Western historian. Prior to his passing he served as the President of and on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Initial text adapted from [1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nathaniel Pitt Langford, The Vigilante, the Explorer, the Expounder and First Superintendent of Yellowstone Park, Olin D. Wheeler, Speech to the Montana Historical Society, April 8, 1912
- ↑ Chittenden, Hiram M. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River. Francis P. Harper, NY, 1903
- ↑ Langford, Nathaniel Pitt Vigilante Days and Ways-Pioneers of the Rockies-The Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. D. D. Merrill Company, New York. 1890
- ↑ Johnson, Dorothy M. The Bloody Bozeman-The Perilous Trail To Montana's Gold, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York. 1971.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, The Discovery of Yellowstone Park--Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870, Frank Jay Haynes, St. Paul, MN. 1905.
- ↑ Chittenden, Hiram Martin, The Yellowstone Park-Historical and Descriptive, Stewart and Kidd Company Publishers, Cincinnati, OH. 1918
Additional Sources
Correspondence, diaries, genealogical data, clippings, and other papers relating to Nathaniel Pitt Langford and his family are available for research use: Nathinal Pitt Langford and Family: An Inventory of Their Papers. Included is data regarding the family's life in New York before migrating to the Lake Pepin area of Minnesota in 1854; on numerous aspects of life in Minnesota Territory (1854-1857); and on Nathaniel's career as Montana collector of internal revenue and on lawlessness and vigilante activity there (1863-1869).


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Philips BDP7500 Blu-ray player on sale in the UK
The Philips BDP7500 Blu-ray player is now available in the UK, bringing 1080p, 24fps, Full HD images as well as the ability to upscale standard definition DVDs to near Full HD quality.
Claiming a "unique design with rounded edges and an elegant inlaid lip with a subtle blue light", the front panel has a black, mirror-like finish and touch-sensitive illuminated controls.
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First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin amid tight security.
Obama and her daughters spent about a half-hour on the morning of June 19 visiting the sea of 2,711 steles that comprise the memorial, according to Uwe Neumaerker, its director. They were guarded by helicopters hovering over the area, which was cleared of visitors, so the memorial "was totally silent and they were alone," Neumaerker said by phone following the visit. He said Obama and her daughters had a chance to wander among the tall, tomb-like concrete slabs.
"They were impressed that we Germans have such a memorial in the center of our city," Neumaerker said, adding that the first lady "really has an aura."
American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman designed the memorial, which was opened to the public in May 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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...and there will never be another fighter like him.
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...and there will never be another fighter like him.
Make sure you mute the video before you hit play.

Jesus, he was a monster. How is it I've never heard of this guy before?
Genki Sudo. Sorely missed.
Well then, here is a Merry Christmas present for you:

Gives a new meaning to the word clinic.
Genki was one of the plank holders of Grabaka, and had a nice run in K1 as well. Unorthodox, charismatic, and never a dull moment...he was my very favorite fighter. He made the decision to retire while standing in a public bathroom when he read a sign that said "take one step forward." He has published several books of poetry and philosopy, makes odd/insane dance music [w/videos] with a Japanese group called the World Order, and coaches the wrestling team at Takashuko University in Tokyo, where he's getting a Masters in Public Policy.
It should have rained the day Genki Sudo retired.
Praying for Royler Gracie
Always has been one of my favorites. The day he retired I was pretty bummed.
Great fighter!
His loss to Ludwig still angers me. The rule of re-starting a fight from the same position was a result of that fight.
and no need to get me started on his fight against Yamomoto.
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The site's not responding right now, so I can't look at it. But...
> and can't figure out two things:
> 1. how are the lines around the boxes drawn? i would've thought that would
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Perhaps something like this:

 2. how does the background image (the black part) "know" how far down to
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Really can't tell without seeing, but it sounds suspiciously like it's
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Cinnamon Blueberry Buckwheat Chia Muffins
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Cinnamon Blueberry Buckwheat Chia Muffins
This recipe is a mouthful, with blueberries and buckwheat and chia you will get lots of flavor and nutrition in one bite. If you have kasha lying around you can grind it to make buckwheat flour, that is what I did. Recipe adapted from anediblemosaic.com
- Prep Time : 10 min
- Cook Time : 25 min
- Ready Time : 35 min
- cooking spray for muffin tin
- 1 1/4 cups buckwheat flour
- 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 4 tablespoons chia seeds, ground
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4-1 cup sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk or milk mixed with a tablespoon of lemon juice
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup blueberries
- Preheat oven to 375F; grease a 12-muffin tray with cooking spray and use ramekins or another muffin tray for extra muffins.
- Whisk together the flours, ground chia seeds, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. .
- In another bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until well combined. Whisk in the buttermilk, oil, and vanilla.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Stir in the blueberries.
- Divide the batter between the 14 muffin/ramekin cups and bake until a toothpick inserted inside comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes.
- Cool completely before removing the muffins from the tray.
Servings Per Recipe: 14
Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 195
- Total Fat: 7g
- Sodium: 230mg
- Total Carbs: 31g
- Dietary Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
About Tamar Genger MA, RD
3 Responses to Cinnamon Blueberry Buckwheat Chia Muffins
I've never used chia seeds but I see lots of recipes with it recently. Have to learn more about them. The muffins look packed with berries, they must be wonderfully moist.
I have made these so many times and love them.
I cut the sugar by a little more than half the minimum by using Stevia and I also cut the oil a bit. I also double the blueberries…just great!
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – For the third straight game, junior forward Candace Williams (Norfolk, Mass.) led the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team in scoring, but four players posting in double-figures for Yale allowed for a 76-55 Bulldog win in the Consolation Game of the Courtyard LaGuardia Classic on Saturday afternoon at the Wellness Center.
Williams, with 16 points and nine rebounds, was just shy of back-to-back double-doubles and earned America East Player of the Game honors for New Hampshire. Also posting in double-figures was Amy Simpson (Waterford, Conn.) who had 13 points for the Wildcats.
Simpson received the tip from Rachel Fowler (Glassboro, N.J.) on the jump and drove in for a quick basket to put the Wildcats (0-4) ahead, 2-0, just five seconds into the game. That would be the only lead for the Wildcats as Yale, with the score tied 10-10 with just over 14 minutes to play in the half, went on a 12-0 run to make it 22-10 with just over ten minutes left in the opening frame.
With 2:44 remaining, New Hampshire cut the deficit to just two, 26-24, on a 10-0 Wildcat run, which was sparked by a layup by Abigail LaRosa (Hampton, N.H.) at 4:48. The Bulldogs pulled ahead once again and took a nine-point lead into the locker room at the half, 35-26. Williams, who went six-for-six from the foul line in the game, finished the half with 10 points for the Wildcats.
To open up the second half of action, the Bulldogs held New Hampshire scoreless for almost seven minutes, which allowed for a 22-point lead (48-26), but with 13:18 remaining, Lauren Wells (West Chester, Pa.) connected on a layup to end the drought for the Wildcats.
With 7:40 left to play, the LaRosa hit a jumper to propel another Wildcat run. The 9-2 run got the Wildcats within 14 points (63-49) with 4:30 remaining. With minutes to go in regulation, Melissa Colborne hit back-to-back shots and Jamie Van Horne drained her third 3-pointer of the game with under a minute remaining to seal the game for the Bulldogs. Colborne finished with 15 points, while Ashley Carter and Mady Gobrecht added 12 apiece for Yale.
Kate Early (Corning, N.Y.) led the team in rebounding with a career-high ten boards for the Wildcats. Chrissy Hall (Northbridge, Mass.) recorded three of the Wildcats' four blocks in the game. Fowler finished the game with eight points, seven rebounds and a team-high four steals for the Wildcats.
The Wildcats continue their road trip at Harvard on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Gametime in Cambridge, Mass. is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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My Pizza Oven Build in Cleveland, OH
This is a documentation of my journey through the pizza oven construction process. I've done a fair amount of research on talked to a lot of people that have also built ovens in their backyards. I'm very fascinated by the entire process.
Normally I wouldn't go to the trouble of writing all of this stuff down, but because others have taken the time to advise me, I feel obligated to add to the body of knowledge that already exists.
I'll kick this whole thing off retroactively by going back to May 2012 when I had to submit plans to my city's architectural review board.
Thanks for reading!
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Welcome! Can't help but ask. Cleveland requires architectural review for pizza oven?
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Actually, the suburb I live in requires it. Anything requiring a footer 42" below ground is going to draw scrutiny from the building inspectors. I also poured a slab for the adjoining patio as well. I'm pretty sure the City of Cleveland would never catch such a thing.
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I guess it all starts with a plan. With two giant (horribly located) ash trees sitting between mine and my neighbor's house, I knew they needed to come down before I could even think about drawing up any kind of plans.
In my mind I knew I wanted a fence around my lot so my dogs could run free while we were out on our new patio (cooking delicious wood-fired things). As it stands right now, there is no fence and with the number of dogs in our neighborhood they last about 10 minutes before darting off.
The trees and their roots sat squarely in the path of the fence location, this coupled with the fact that they clogged the hell out of my gutters and weren't getting any smaller.
So on April 11th, 2012 the trees came down at a cost of about $750! I thought that was a ridiculously good price for being so large and in such a precarious location.
With the trees gone, I could now focus on drawing up plans for the patio and the oven. As mentioned before, our city requires architectural review most anything that requires a footer.
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Now you have wood seasoning, before you build. Cool!
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Im curious, were the 42" footers a requirement of your zoning folks?...(that seems awfully deep)
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Welcome to the fun.
Can you post some pics of your site and your plan? Those footers are dddeeep!:D Must be a big oven or get really cold or soil is loose?
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Here in Cleveland it's pretty much heavy clay soil (that absorbs a ton of water) and winter temps have the potential to get pretty low. Combine soaking wet soils with freezing temps and you can get all kinds of fun things happening to foundations.
To get below the frost line here in Northeast Ohio, you could probably go 36" and not have a problem. Since I had to go through the city and didn't want to have to sit through another building review I made them 42" just to be safe. My father, who is an excavator suggested the 42".
Am I really worried about it heaving with footers at 36"? Not really; especially with the winter we had last year. I was actually concerned more about the city's building/architectural review more than anything.
I'll post some site plans as well as an oven elevation tomorrow.
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Id be more concerned about punching through the earth's crust and hitting magma!!!
....(just kidding)
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I'm interested in this set. How easy are the posts to clean? I know it's aluminum but doesn't say anything about non stick.
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They're not too hard to clean. No, they're not non-stick. Subjectively, you have to consider in that what it is you're cooking and whether you're letting the food residue dry up before washing or if you've burned the food. Most of the time it's an easy wipe out after cooking, but a little scrubby sponge in your kit and a little hot water will go a long way in cleaning up any pots and pans that anyone makes. This is a nice little lightweight set, but it's definitely a solo deal. The top makes a much better lid than it does a frying pan though.
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A distributor is a device in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine that routes high voltage from the ignition coil to the spark plugs in the correct firing order. The first high-tension distributor was developed around 1904, independently by Napier, Bouton, and Winton.
It consists of a rotating arm or rotor inside the distributor cap, on top of the distributor shaft, but insulated from it and the body of the vehicle ("earth"). The distributor shaft is driven by a gear on the camshaft. (Usually the distributor shaft extends to also drive the oil pump.) The metal part of the rotor contacts the central high voltage cable from the coil via a spring loaded carbon brush. The metal part of the rotor arm passes close to (but does not touch) the output contacts which connect via high tension cables to the spark plug of each cylinder. As the rotor spins within the distributor, electrical current is able to jump the small gaps created between the rotor arm and the contacts due to the high voltage created by the ignition coil.
The distributor shaft has a cam that operates the contact breaker. Opening the points causes a high induction voltage in the system's ignition coil.
The distributor also houses the centrifugal advance unit: a set of hinged weights attached to the distributor shaft, that cause the breaker points mounting plate to slightly rotate and advance the spark timing with higher engine rpm. In addition, the distributor has a vacuum advance unit that advances the timing even further as a function of the vacuum in the inlet manifold. Usually there is also a capacitor attached to the distributor. The capacitor is connected parallel to the breaker points, to suppress sparking and prevent wear of the points.
Around the 1970s the primary breaker points were largely replaced with Hall effect sensors. As this is a non-contacting device and the primary circuit is controlled by solid state electronics, a great amount of maintenance in point adjustment and replacement was eliminated. This also eliminates any problem with breaker follower or cam wear, and by eliminating a side load extends distributor shaft bearing life. The remaining secondary (high voltage) circuit was as described above, using a single coil and a rotary distributor.
The distributor cap is a prime example of a component that eventually succumbs to heat and vibration. It is a relatively easy and inexpensive part to replace if its bakelite housing does not break or crack first. Carbon deposit accumulation or erosion of its metal terminals may also cause distributor-cap failure.
The distributor cap has one post for each cylinder, and in points ignition systems there is a central post for the coil voltage coming into the distributor. In HEI (High Energy Ignition) systems, there is not a central post, and the ignition coil sits on top of the distributor. On the inside of the cap there is a terminal that corresponds to each post, and the plug terminals are arranged around the circumference of the cap according to the firing order in order to send the secondary voltage to the proper spark plug at the right time.
The "rotor" head is attached to the top of the distributor shaft which is driven by a gear on the engine's camshaft and thus synchronized to it. This rotor is pressed against a carbon brush on the center terminal of the distributor cap which connects to the ignition coil either through the top and wired directly to the coil in HEI systems, or via the center terminal in points ignition systems and remotely connected to the coil. The rotor is constructed such that the center tab is electrically connected to its outer edge so that voltage coming in to the center post travels through the carbon point to the outer edge of the rotor. As the camshaft rotates, the rotor spins and its outer edge passes each of the internal plug terminals to fire each spark plug.
Cars that use a mechanical distributor often fail if they run into deep puddles because the water that leaks into the distributor shorts the electric current that should go through the spark plug, rerouting it directly to the body of the vehicle. This, in turn, causes the engine to stop as the fuel is not ignited in the cylinders. This problem can be fixed by opening the distributor's cap and wiping the cam and the contacts dry with tissue paper or by blowing hot air on them.


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Wastewater treatment plants remove only half of drugs in water
A new report by a joint U.S.-Canadian organization reveals that not all prescription drugs and other chemicals are removed by water treatment plants, leaving a significant proportion of the chemicals in treated effluent.
The International Joint Commission (IJC), which regulates shared water uses, has raised concerns that the Great Lakes and other bodies of water are being contaminated with so-called "chemicals of emerging concern" (CECs), which may eventually show up in drinking water. CECs have recently come under scrutiny because of their suspected negative impact on the environment, although their specific effect on health is not clear. The chemicals are often used in household items, agriculture, personal care products, pharmaceuticals and flame retardants.
RELATED: Pharmaceuticals, personal care products detected in Lake Michigan
Between 2009 and 2011 the IJC carried out a study looking at how effective wastewater treatment plants in the area of the Great Lakes were and how successful they were in removing 42 CECs through different technologies. At least six of the chemicals, including two antibiotics, an antibacterial drug, an anti-seizure drug, an anti-inflammatory drug and a herbicide, were removed very rarely and frequently remained in the treated effluent. A further five CECs also had a low rate of removal but were not often detected in the treated water. The study concluded that about half of the examined chemicals were likely to be picked up and removed in municipal wastewater treatment plants.


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New Releases: A Wolf Among Us Ep. 2, Fable Anniversary, Bravely Default and Dustforce!
What a week! Telltale Games lets loose the 2nd episode of A Wolf Among Us, but this week also offers Bravely Default on 3DS, Fable Anniversary on Xbox 360, Outlast on PS4 and more games for just about every gaming device you own.
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The minor gameplay innovations in The Wolf Among Us' premiere episode played out as a stylish step forward for Telltale; strangely, though, I have more confidence in the follow up than I do in the progression of the Walking Dead's second season.
Lego games are always fun. Hopefully one based on a movie (directly) keeps up the pace.
The wolf of wall street among us. Do that game next tell tales.
TWAU Episode 2- WANT!
I thought the Fable game was also gonna be out for Xbone?....no?
stoked about dustforce comin to psn!
still waiting for the steam linux release of dustforce :\
I really appreciate the HD version of Fable The Lost Chapters but Im more interested to see what this Fable Legends is all about...hmm
Outlast could be good too though....
Sweet the only Fable that I liked has gotten remade. I'm all over this release.
Outlast doesn't look too bad...
I'm psyched for that next episode of Wolf Among Us. I just wish the episodes came out every month.
Double Fine released Wolf Among Us? Uh... wouldn't that be Telltale?
@MJ12-Conspiracy Outlast?? Its the most amazing horror game ever, next to Clive Barker Undying
@13wormwood13 I'd just wait until they're all released ;)
@13wormwood13 I'm really psyched too...the devs said they are gonna start releasing them sooner apart so we should be good :)
@helbertpina SHe might got confuse of the visuals.
@helbertpina Came down here to post the exact same thing haha


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text: Ultra1 hung again while trying to write tapes. I need to get the system backed up so I've got to try again. I am keeping a close eye. If it hangs while you're on the shell, if you wait it out, usually about ten minutes, everything should pick up where it left off.