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Re: What's your biggest bonehead move sailing?
My biggest boneheaded sailing experience. I was young. Doing deliveries up and down the east coast, to the Caribbean, worked for a sailmaker with generous leave times etc. I get a call from a racing and drinking buddy. His younger brother and his trophy wife with some friends want to charter a boat to cruise Buzzards Bay, Elizabeth Islands, Martha's and Nantucket. The charter company wasn't comfortable with their experience level and he asked to send them my resume if I could do it. I agreed. It was all great. Nice people. One single lady guest took a shine to me which kept me from sleeping on the cabin sole.
My mistake was they insisted on being in Cuttyhunk Harbor for a night. We arrived late after dark and it was blowing 18- 24 out of the Southwest. I had been there before and thought we will just grab a mooring and pay in the morning. No moorings. They beg to stay. I want to go anchor back outside the harbor entrance. I give in and drop anchor in the far northeastern corner. With 5 to 1 scope our stern was 50 or 60 feet from hitting the breakwater. I stayed awake the whole night with my hand on the ignition key thinking we would drag on the breakwater.
In hindsight I should have ignored their pleas and anchored safely outside the harbor entrance. Those that know Cuttyhunk know what I mean. I literally get goosebumps every time I think of that bad decision. Total bonehead.
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I can't believe that anyone has done anything more stupid than this:~
The Skipper of the Sailboat 'Alacazam' Does Something Really Stupid
Re: What's your biggest bonehead move sailing?
In the days before electronic navigation or 'reliable' weather forecasts, I encountered a tropical cyclone at sea off Fiji in the SoPac. We were only about 25 miles west of Fiji's western reef, so we had no choice but to keep some sail up and try to work to windward away from the reef, or at least not go backwards too fast.
As we entered the eye some ten hours into the storm, it was suddenly very calm and quiet and being near sunset, there was an eerie yellow light all around. We came on deck and began cleaning up the mess; broken stanchions, the main boom broken in two places, cockpit locker lids broken or missing, etc.
It was such a wonderful respite that I gave no thought to what I should do and unfortunately I allowed us to reenter the dangerous semicircle of the storm again. What followed can only be described as another four days needlessly spent in hell.
The proper move would have been to power across the eye and reenter the back side of the storm, leaving us only a few hours more trauma as the storm moved away from us.
But as proper as that would have been, how many of us could intentionally drive back into the maelstrom?
Re: What's your biggest bonehead move sailing?
I had bought new bronze wheel from Edson, and chained it to the helm station padlocked it , then came the next day to go sailing , cast off the dock with engine in reverse, backed out of my slip when I realized the wheel was still chained, lol!
Luckily the key was in my pocket, so no harm done ......
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Now another real stoopid one but thankfully with no damage to man or boat. We were hauling the boats yesterday and the marina operators had us rig lines around the hull at the lift points so they could simply pull the slings around with no messing about time. I had done this a couple of days ago and had then worked on a bunch of other stuff like winterization and so on. As they called my turn I ran over to my slip from helping others with their boat and hopped on to pull around out of the harbor and into the area outside where the crane was picking us up. The friend who pushed me off yelled as I was about a boat length off that I was trailing a line under the boat. The basin is docks on two sides and rocks on two sides and I am now drifting with the wind and momentum towards the rocks about 2 boat lengths away. I couldn't understand where the line was from so I threw her lightly in reverse to slow momentum thinking I had to avoid the rocks. A second later she stalled when the line wrapped the prop and I really was now stumped as to what to do. I found the line which was a tail off the sling line and could not pull it free as people are yelling and running to help keep me off the rocks. I shifted the control into neutral, started her, and gave the tiniest shot of forward I could then back into neutral. After some struggling the line came free and I was able to pivot after freeing the line my helper had heaved to shore where a few people had gone to fend us off the rocks.
All is well that ends well I suppose but I cannot imagine ever letting that happen again....though I did try to leave the slip with the shore power on once more!
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Started out of my berth with shore power still hooked up. Fortunately I heard it behind me and stopped before I ruined anything except my pride.
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Started out of my berth with shore power still hooked up. Fortunately I heard it behind me and stopped before I ruined anything except my pride.
Re: What's your biggest bonehead move sailing?
Started out of my berth with shore power still hooked up. Fortunately I heard it behind me and stopped before I ruined anything except my pride.
Re: What's your biggest bonehead move sailing?
Let me tell you about these 2 boneheads I met a few days later...
I was anchored in the harbour at Thessalon. It's a designated anchorage on the chart. The city marina is in the harbour. You can tie up for free during the day to do your shopping. Grocery store and liquor store are close by. Then anchor out in the harbor for free.
The marina guy told me that I couldn't tie up anyway because a racing fleet was arriving and they booked the entire marina for the night.
I was quite content being anchored in a protected harbour. Had a few beers and used my binoculars to watch for the approaching fleet.
I finally saw a boat approaching the harbour under sail. The winds were strong and I was expecting some action.
But the approaching vessel didn't look like a racer. It was too small and they only had a mainsail up.
Maybe they were just having fun sailing around all the breakwalls? The more I kept looking, the less fun they seemed to be having. Once they got a bit closer, I could see one guy on the bow, one guy on the stern, both wearing bright red life jackets and waving their arms.
I pulled my anchor out of the mud and motored around the breakwalls and towed their sorry asses to a finger dock in the marina. I lashed off to the next dock over.
I went to see how these guys were doing and the captain slapped a 50 dollar bill in my hand. I wouldn't accept it. I told him that this is what sailors do. He insisted, and I accepted. Didn't want to offend him, and besides, now that I'm lashed off, I might as well go to the liquor store anyway.
But he did tell me his story, and this is what happened:
They were coming down current from Sault Ste. Marie following the race fleet. They wanted to get ahead of them and decided to travel at night. They rounded a green marker on the wrong side and properly grounded themselves.
They tried to rock the boat like a car stuck in the snow by putting the motor in forward then reverse until the gearbox blew apart.
They had 2 anchors that they tried to throw from the boat to pull themselves off. They were stuck there for 8 hours until the wind kicked up and blew them free of the sandbar. They cut both anchors loose.
The guy didn't want to go into much detail after that, but I can just imagine these guys at night without reliable navigation, no power, no radio, no lights, no anchors, no motor and snotty wind kicking froth up.
To add insult to injury, the marina guy reminded us that we couldn't stay there because the race fleet was approaching and I hooked off into the harbour.
These poor guys couldn't move and soon found themselves surrounded by huge 50' racing boats and lots and lots of sailors. A normally empty marina became full in an hour. All these guys could do was hang a tarp over their boom and hide until it all went away.
Not much I could do except file this one under the "Glad it wasn't me" category.
Lessons Learned:
1. Navigate at night only when necessary.
2. Carry 3 anchors if you think you might lose 2 of them.
3. If all else fails, don't forget to bring a tarp.
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I have to say I agree with
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Beguiling the Beauty
. Having said that, I really enjoyed
Ravishing the Heiress
and got to bed past 2.30am reading it in one sitting! It does remind me a bit of Heyer's
A Civil Contract
, although here the hero is more forthcoming about his feelings for the heroine. Millie is a lovely heroine, and I think she is also mentally one of the strongest heroines I have read in a long time. I can only think of Melanthe in Kinsale's
For My Lady's Heart
who can compare (although Melanthe was more cunning and inscrutable). I do feel that although Sherry Thomas is a very good writer, her books always seem to end in an unsatisfactory manner for me - usually I feel the ending is too rushed and could be developed more. But all in all, this is a very good book, and I loved how Fitz and Millie were really good friends. It made me think of Loretta Chase's
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I loved Millie and Fitz. The plot was really well done. I thought that the ending should have been about 20 more pages. I did not mind Helena and Hastings, I think that their book will be excellent.
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During most of the time I was reading RtH, it had a
feel to me. But by the end, it had settled into a solid
. I admit I had a love-hate relationship with this book. Liked the writing, did not much like the characters.
What I liked:
1. In my opinion. RtH was much better than BtB, in terms of construction, tightness, use of language, and a more credible story line. Sherry Thomas has a way with words and imagery that really pulls me in.
2. It was a compelling read! Much of the story was "angsty" for me because of Millie's constant longing for--and repeated disappointment at failing to achieve--her husband's love. But I knew that there would be some sort of turning point that would lead us to an HEA, and that kept me reading.
3. Thomas' usual flashback technique worked really well here. Not only did it give us increasing insight into the evolution of this marriage and the H/h's "partnership," it kept us reading. If this book had been linear, starting with the marriage and then taking us, chapter by chapter, through the ensuing years, would I have been able to stick with it long enough to get to 1896? I'm not sure.
4. I liked that Thomas did not shy away from bringing Fitz's (pre-consummation-with-Millie) sex life. Millie's struggle to accept it as part of the bargain she'd made with him was interesting to see. And it emphasized how she longed for him to see her as the person he wanted sex with.
What I didn't like:
1. For about 3/4 of the book, I didn't like either of the two principals. (Yet I kept reading, which says a lot for the author's ability to keep the reader engaged.) In fact, I hated Fitz right off the bat. His shameful treatment of Millie before, and in the first year or so of, their marriage totally chapped my hide. Self-centered much?
My Millie dislike grew more slowly as I realized that, both by nature and upbringing, she was not going to stand up for herself when I thought she should have (or in the manner I thought she should have). I thought she was basically a martyr--gladly sacrificing her own happiness so that Fitz could be happy. It's one thing to do that at age 17, when you're inexperienced in life and you are still under your parents' guidance and doing what they want you to do. But really, once Isabelle came back into town, I expected Millie to realize that she and Fitz had a good life and that she shouldn't just let him go without a fight. Have some pride, woman!
It was only in the last few chapters of the book that I knew enough about the marriage, and saw enough growth in the characters, that I stopped disliking them. I cannot say even now that I love them, though.
For one thing, IMO, there was not enough (if any) contrition on Fitz's part for his past treatment of Millie and his blindness regarding her feelings. You know, even when he was deciding between Isabelle and Millie, his concern was how Isabelle would react if he rejected her. And could he really put his own wishes above his promise to her? There was no thought about how he might hurt
, indeed, how he would continue to interact with Millie, his business partner and one-time lover, if he took up with Isabelle. This bugged me.
As for Millie, even when she finally (thank God!) did draw a line in the sand regarding his choice, she never really displayed the kind of fierce pride I think she should have.
2. There was no final "heart to heart" talk. At least in NQaH, Leo and Bryony talked about their respective roles in hurting their marriage and what they wished they'd done differently.
3. The timeline. It confused me. So...in two years--based on the chapter headings that displayed the year--Henley Park went from being a run down eyesore to a lovely estate that folks wanted to visit? Hmmm.... Likewise, it looks to me like Isabelle had two babies in 1890, and one of those babies was born in August (after the house party). Please correct me if I'm wrong about that, because even if baby #1 had been born January 1, I think August is a little early for baby #2.
4. Use of some modern language/vocabulary. "Nitty gritty," for example. ("Lordships didn't involve themselves in the nitty-gritty details of how their money was made.") I had to look it up when I saw it in this book, and the consensus seems to be that it originated in the States during the 20th century.
5. The six-month intimacy period. At first, I thought Fitz intended to allow up to six months for Millie to get pregnant, but that he could leave sooner if pregnancy were achieved sooner. Then I realized it was a solid six-month deal. But then he stops sleeping with her, because he feels he's "promised" to another (Isabelle). So--how are they going to have a child if he's not sleeping with her? I'm confused. Of course, I'm also confused about why he never felt a twinge of guilt that if they did have a child, he would be somewhat peripheral to the child's life.
The only way Sherry Thomas can make this up to me is to have some lengthy and luxurious Fitz/Millie convos (preferably pre- or post-coital) in the next book, lol.
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Stl_reader, I agree with most of your analysis, but I think you are too kind about this book. I'm beginning to think that Sherry Thomas has jumped the shark for me. I definitely, unlike so many people here, will not be buying or even reading her next book.
The ill-entitled RAVISHING THE HEIRESS reminds me of the beginning romances in the 80's, not because Thomas gives us love at first rape (as a talented reviewer wrote here months ago), but because readers suffered through hundreds of pages of separation, misunderstandings, anger, and division, and then, and then received two pages of happiness. It was like taking a long and difficult trip to Paris, only to have to leave immediately after glancing at the Eiffel Tower.
The hero, Fitz agonizes about the woman he loves and prefers to his wife for 95% of the book. This is painful to read, as we know that Millie truly loves him and demonstrates it, in her calm acceptance, every day. When his former great love returns as a widow, when he finally realizes that he wants to be with his wife in the last few pages of the book, he STILL is in great anguish, worrying about how she (the other woman) will cope if he leaves her; after all, he knows that it is she to whom he owes his allegiance. I waited in vain for him to catch himself, to realize with a start that not only does he love his wife, but that he has betrayed her callously and repeatedly. Yes, he gradually, toward the end, realizes that he loves Millie, but this book lacks the climax implicit with such a plot: the big, sincere apology that indicates that he regrets, with every atom, the pain he so ignorantly inflicted on his wife. Instead, for about half a page, we get his shaking Millie, when she comes back, hours after he has expected her. The climax, that the whole book demands, occurs off stage. We do not see his fear that she has left him, what his immaturity and self-absorption may have cost him Millie. Instead, he says, "You should have told me that you loved me years ago. Why didn't you?" This is too much like the faithless husband blaming his young wife for an unsatisfying marriage. The scale is not even between 17-year old daughter of trade who marries and the man who spends his honeymoon, totally drunk and in apparent contemplation of sucide (why DOES he have a gun, even if it's a toy, anyway?), a man who, from the beginning and throughout the marriage, proclaims his love for another woman, who moons after she weds, who is distraught when she has children, and when she returns as a widow, he rushes to her side. Even when he plans to leave Millie to live in adultery with his "true love," he decides that Millie (for her own good) should give him a legal heir. Are we, as the readers, supposed to be satisfied with Thomas's total ignoring what any reader must want? Instead of Fitz awakening to his own stupidity, callousness, and blindness, Thomas continues to inflict more pain and unwarrented responsibility on Mlllie by the shift in focus to her complicity by her silence. Are we supposed to be charmed by Fitz's inquiry of "Why did you tell me that you loved me, years ago?" instead of outraged that he was too blind and besotted with another woman to see his wife's love every day in every word and deed for eight years?
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Lynda, thank you. What you wrote was exactly what I anticipated from this book and why I won't read it. I witness plenty of angst and heartache in real life and I read to
it, not revel in it. Only a nice long grovel coupled with a solid demonstration of HEA could make up for what Fitz did to Millie. Also, I can't stand quietly long suffering heroines - I don't admire their "quiet strength," they annoy me.
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I agree with
's comprehensive analysis of this book too. And I also agree with
Lynda X
's points about
Ravishing the Heiress
- however, I enjoyed it despite those issues. This is a marriage of convenience story, where the hero loves someone else for most of the book. And there's a bit of
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
like Henry Higgins says in My Fair Lady when Fitz realises that he does care a lot about Millie. I think I buy into this kind of story more because I know of people who had arranged marriages who then fell in love with their spouses, and to me that is incredibly romantic. The long-suffering wife (usually the husband is not the long-suffering one) who finally triumphs is also more a trope in women's fiction with some romance, than in the strict romance genre. The heroine's lack of empowerment in some areas (certainly not when it comes to wealth) frustrates us readers. I think Millie is someone whom many of us cannot really identify with - we who are empowered and would prefer to leave a man like Fitz (uncaring, selfish, callous, unrepentant of his carrying a torch for his first love, etc) and find someone more deserving of our love. And I think that is where the crux of the matter is - she loved him, and to her it was good enough that she was his wife and could share his life. It's a very self-sacrificing love. The two protagonists are very different, and I think this story shows us a love which is selfless on the heroine's side, and she loved him more than he loved her. As romance readers, I think many of us prefer a story where the man is the one who loves the heroine more, and is more demonstrative. We also very seldom see romances featuring such self-sacrificing love. The one that comes to my mind is Francis Crawford and his heroine in the Lymond Chronicles' Checkmate - and that series is not really categorised as romance (although it does have DIK status at AAR).
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:23 am
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I agree with
It is not your typical romance novel, but none of Sherry Thomas' books are. I just loved it!
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Just popping in to say that I really loved it, though I do agree with others that I would have liked a bigger payoff at the end--more of a release to all the emotion building up over the book. I am hoping that Thomas is going to feature them a bit in the next book--since she did show a few private scenes with Lexington and Venetia in this book I think it will be the case with Fitz and Millie. This was her first group of interconnected novels that she has ever written and I think she approached it as one story broken into three books--they are very much meant to be read together.
I know people think Fitz is being a big jerk to Millie throughout their marriage by having mistresses and not realizing that she loves him. I see it this way:
*Millie tells him when they are first married that she was in love with someone else. She lies about this all during their marriage. Fitz feels that they have this in common. He feels comfortable talking to her about his heartache since he thinks she feels the same for another.
*When Fitz gives up drinking, he takes up another addiction--women. They are nothing more than a physical release for him and they help him to forget for a time. Isabelle is lost to him and he sees Millie as a partner, not a lover, so why not.
*Fitz does esteem Millie and loves her as a friend--he brings her into the business, he trusts her and enjoys their partnership. He even fantasizes about when the eight years are up so he can be with her physically. But he mainly sees her as a friend--he has built his life like this with her agreement.
*Yes, he is clueless about how much she loves him. He is caught up in his own pain and he believes her when she says there is someone else. She is very self-contained and only we are privileged to know her inner thoughts.
I liked how when they finally came together at the end of the eight years that she stuns him with her ferocity and rips the blinders from his eyes--that was very satisfying. It was a whole new world for him and he finally started to be able to read her fleeting expressions and begin to understand what is under her quiet surface.
As far as Isabelle goes--yes, she was clingy and annoying. She had held on to the dream of them someday being together all of her adult life and she couldn't understand that he had changed over those years. But I don't think she was a bad person--she was afraid and alone and felt Fitz was hers--especially when he told her repeatedly that he would always love her and her alone. But that scene when Isabelle goes uninvited to the train station and Millie gets out of the cab and sees them together--UG. Most painful thing I've read in a while. And then he comes home and tries to apologize get Millie to go to tea--oh man. I tear up just thinking about it.
There was a lot of talk about love and friendship and the scene with Millie talking with Venetia about love was one of my very favorite parts:
"We've only ever been friends. Friendship is love without the wings and who would ever choose something without wings?" <snip>
Venetia gazed at Millie, her beautiful face saddened but no less radiant. "No, my dear Millie, you are wrong. Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.
Anyway, I did love it--and I am biased because I think Thomas is putting out the best new romance out there right now and I feel people hold her to a different standard--I think her work can stand up to it--but when I buy and read some of the utter crap that gets the same letter reviews I really wonder.
For the first time in her life, she saw exactly what shed thrown away when she decided to have him by means fair or foul that shed not saved him but wronged him by consigning to him all the ability of a box turtle to make his own choices. ~Gigi
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Anyway, I did love it--and I am biased because I think Thomas is putting out the best new romance out there right now and I feel people hold her to a different standard--I think her work can stand up to it--but when I buy and read some of the utter crap that gets the same letter reviews I really wonder.
Merryweather, thank you so much for expressing exactly how I feel about Sherry Thomas.
I haven not read this book yet, just the 1st one but will read it soon (so I am avoiding all the spoilers). Looking forward to it.
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I finished it last night. I agree with the posters who said the book is too short and ended too abruptly. After all this angsting and pining Fitz finally buys a clue, they barely are together like 5 minutes and then the book ends and we are on to the next couple. I wanted more of their togetherness. And just like with the first book in this series the sex that we got was kind of on the tame side. Thomas can do the hot stuff - so where is it??
On the whole I thought Thomas did an excellent job portraying these two very young people, teenagers when their story starts, trying to make the best of the bad hand they were dealt. While Fitz did hurt Millie with his denseness and blindness to her feelings, Millie hurt herself with her emotional reticence. With some guys you gotta spell it out or they never catch on - and Fitz was definitely one of those guys. Besides Millie he was the last to know that he had fallen in love with his wife. I think Isabella knew before him too.
I really don't know how he and Isabella thought they would make this work without hurting themselves, their families, her children, etc.. Well, one thing Fitz and Isabella had in common besides that immature teen love of theirs was that both kind of had the emotional intelligence of a bunch of fruit bats. Luckily Fitz came to his senses before he ruined everything.
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Thank y'all for giving so many spoilers and insights. I like imperfect heroes and heroines with quiet strength. I know the hero spending much of RtH being in love with someone else will annoy me greatly as I like to see a hero and heroine spending much of the novel falling for each other building their romance. Since I was on the fence about buying RtH now I'll get it at the ubs.
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merryweather wrote:
Anyway, I did love it--and I am biased because I think Thomas is putting out the best new romance out there right now and I feel people hold her to a different standard--I think her work can stand up to it--but when I buy and read some of the utter crap that gets the same letter reviews I really wonder.
This. I love what you said here so, so much.
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Stlreader & LindaX, thank you for being blunt with your take on this book. Reading it confirmed my decision not to read this book. I've found her books to have too much angst without the satisfying pay off at the end. That's probably why I never felt the need to re-read her books. Not because I don't like angsty books, I do, but I better have a good heart warming ending in the end to balance the scale a bit. Unfortunately, only very few authors can pull it off and Sherry Thomas is not one of them.
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Jaime, they "had the emotional intelligence of a bunch of fruit bats"? Too, too funny. I'll try to remember that one (there are so many people that it can apply to).
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Takes a bow.
One thing I learned in life is that there are a lot of otherwise very smart people who are emotionally quite stupid. Romance fiction is full of the kind - indeed they are the engine of romance in some ways. (Think of all the romances you have read which would have been over in 3 chapters had the hero or the heroine - or both - not acted like a dumb-ass.)
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This is nice to see from this club, as the 2006 season proved what magic can happen when both the big boppers and scrappy "piranhas" alternate in picking each other up.
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In both modern and pre-modern critical writing, both "East and West," the brushstroke eventually came to be characterized as a vehicle of personal expression in defiance of the "stifling" rules of naturalistic representation. By the mid-twentieth century, the image of the bohemian master flinging paint would have been familiar to both Chinese and European art lovers. It doesn't follow, however, that the seductive rhetoric of the brushstroke has been thus deconstructed, or understood. This paper surveys the cultural politics of the brushstroke in debates between and among European, American, and Chinese intellectuals, over a period of four centuries.
Martin Powers is Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, and former Director of the Center for Chinese Studies. In 1993 his Art and Political Expression in Early China, Yale University Press, received the Levenson Prize for the best book in pre-twentieth century Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the role of the arts in the history of human relations in China, with an emphasis on issues of personal agency and social justice. His Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China, was published by Harvard University Press East Asian Series in 2006 and has been awarded the Levenson Prize for 2008. He has served on numerous national committees, including NEH, ACLS, and the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. He has taught in the History Departments at Tsinghua, Peking University, and Zhejiang University, and has published articles and essays in multiple venues in Chinese, including an editorial series in the journal of culture and current affairs, Du Shu. In 2009 he was resident at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton writing a book on the role of "China" in the cultural politics of the English Enlightenment. In the Spring of 2012, he delivered the Wang Guowei Memorial Lectures at Tsinghua. Together with Dr. Katherine Tsiang, he is co-editing the Blackwell Companion to Chinese Art.


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If your lunchtime routine is getting a little tired, try out the free Gallivan Center Lunch Bunch Series.
Every weekday offers something new. The performance line-up includes variety shows, bluegrass groups, pop singers, storytellers and more.
Lunch Bunch has been a Gallivan Center offering for approximately six years. "This series is a treat to those people who are coming to our plaza during their lunch time. It promotes good emotions, positive attitudes and this is what people need," says Lunch Bunch Administrator Tatyana Koshevaya.
Lunch at the events is catered by The Copper Onion and Plum Alley.
On Monday, June 11, the crowd enjoyed a variety show by Showcase USA Vocal and Dance Company.
"It was a kick-off for the upcoming Miss Utah Pageant with younger potential Miss Utah contestants performing in between," says Jeana Harmon, director of the company and choreographer for Miss Utah contestants.
Miss Utah hopefuls put on a variety show at Gallivan Center on Monday. Photo courtesy of Dustin Topham
Ten Miss Utah hopefuls showed off their skills and warmed up for the competition that will be held on Thursday at Capitol Theatre. They displayed an impressive array of talent ranging from jazz dancing to opera singing.
Harmon says the younger students find it inspirational to share the stage with the contestants. It gives them something to aspire to, and a former student has already found her way to a brighter spotlight. "One of the girls that trained at our studios is actually trying out for Miss Utah," Harmon says.
Showcase USA Vocal and Dance Company have performed at Gallivan Center for a couple of years now. "It's one of their favorite performances. The audience and the downtown location are perfect," Harmon says.
Catch more of the Lunch Bunch series on weekdays through September 14.
Here is the schedule for the next week:
June 13, Premier Productions, song and dance
June 14, Rosewood (Suzi Rose), folk/rock/blues
June 15, Galen Young, folk/rock
June 18, Soren Green, classical guitar
June 19, The Performance Academy, singing and dancing to pop music
June 20, In Ship Down, alternative rock


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|Tennis schedules announced
MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho men's and women's tennis teams announced their spring schedules Monday, with 22 matches for each team leading up to the Western Athletic Conference tournament April 25-27 in Las Cruces, N.M.
The Vandal women will spend the first five weeks of the season on the Palouse, with their first nine matches scattered between Moscow, Pullman, Spokane and Lewiston. The women will play regular season WAC matches against Seattle U, UMKC, Grand Canyon and New Mexico State.
The Idaho men open the season on Jan. 25 with a pair of matches in Cheney, Wash., against Seattle U and Eastern Washington. Idaho's lone home match is the regular season finale against LCSC on April 19.
"I feel we have strong schedules for both the men and women going into this spring with a combination of some nationally prominent programs, strong regional competition and several of the top Big Sky schools that helps us see where we are at moving into the Big Sky after this season," Idaho Director of Tennis Jeff Beaman said.
The Vandal women have five matches against future conference opponents from the Big Sky, which Idaho rejoins in 2014-15, with Montana State, Eastern Washington, Idaho State, Northern Arizona and Montana on the schedule. In addition to four WAC matches, the Idaho men face four Big Sky opponents; EWU, Portland State, Sacramento State and Montana.


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Controlled-Release Fertilizers
by Warren Davenport
Compared to most fertilizers, controlled-release kinds are convenient and predictable
Gardeners shopping for fertilizer face a bewildering array of choices. There is such a variety of liquids, powders, and granules, all promising fabulous results, that many gardeners essentially give up and choose the most prominent package on the shelf, or the most heavily marketed one. But two types of fertilizers are increasingly important to gardeners: the kinds called slow- and controlled-release.
These fertilizers share some similarities but differ in key respects. Rather than releasing a quick rush of nutrients as liquid, soluble crystal, or granular fertilizers do, these release their nutrients slowly over a longer period. Slow-release fertilizers relinquish their nutrients at a less predictable rate that depends mainly on the activity of organisms in the soil. In contrast, controlled-release (sometimes called coated) fertilizers release their nutrients at a specific rate over a specific period of time.
A Steady Diet for Plants
While no fertilizer is ideal for every garden or situation, slow- and controlled-release kinds offer many advantages for most home gardeners. They avoid the common "feast-or-famine" syndrome that occurs when fast-release fertilizers are applied inconsistently. Roots are briefly surrounded by plenty of nutrients, but these soon wash away again leaving roots to starve. Likewise, fast-release fertilizers are easy to apply in excess consequently damaging the plant. But since slow- and controlled-release fertilizers dole their nutrients out gradually, both potential problems are minimized.
Another advantage of slow- and controlled-release fertilizers is environmental. In many areas of the country, waterway, stream, and groundwater pollution is a problem, and some of that pollution has been traced to fertilizers washing through or off lawns. Because these regulated fertilizers release nutrients slowly, they are less likely to contribute to this kind of pollution.
In most cases, temperature is the most important influence on release rates. Not only does it affect nutrient diffusion across the coating of controlled-release fertilizers, but it also exerts a major influence on microbial activity, and thus on the release of nutrients from slow-release kinds.
Slow-Release Fertilizers
Two kinds of slow-release fertilizers are currently available. Because they are less expensive than controlled-release kinds, they are best used when the precision--and higher cost--of controlled-release is not required, and where natural organics are not desired.
Synthetic organics. Several kinds of fertilizers are produced by combining urea, a common form of nitrogen, with formaldehyde. These are called urea formaldehyde or methylene urea fertilizers. One example is light blue nitroform, a 38-0-0 nitrogen fertilizer that is 70 percent "water insoluble nitrogen" (abbreviated WIN on product labels). The release rate is determined largely by bacterial activity rather than by temperature and water. Depending upon the manufacturer, nutrients may last weeks or months. Urea formaldehyde-based fertilizers are a component of many lawn and garden fertilizers, such as Jobe's Plant Food Spikes.
A similar product is isobutylidene-diurea (IBDU), a 32-0-0 fertilizer, which is 90 percent WIN. Nutrient release is controlled by moisture, pH, and fertilizer particle size (smaller ones release nutrients more quickly). It is also a component of many lawn fertilizers.
Natural organics. Many home gardeners favor natural organics, primarily for their soil-improving qualities. There are numerous kinds, and each has unique qualities. Nutrient release rates are highly variable and determined primarily by soil bacteria and fungi, both of which require warm soil temperatures to be active. The more biologically active the soil, the faster the release rate. Examples of natural organics include blood meal, cottonseed meal, soybean meal, fish emulsion, manures, and composts. All are common.


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Spearfish, S.D. – Black Hills State University freshman Bryar DeSanti was named the Dakota Athletic Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week today.
DeSanti, a native of Merino, Colo., scored three touchdowns of 50 yards or more in the Yellow Jackets' 28-25 win over Jamestown. The first came on a 56-yard pass from quarterback Drew Hodgs. The second was a 54-yard reception from Hodgs. The third was a 53-yard run with 1:12 to go in the game.
"Bryar (DeSanti) had a great game," said head coach Jay Long. "He made some big plays for us and got in the end zone three times."
Black Hills State will return to action of September 25 against Mayville State in Mayville, N.D. at 1 p.m. CT/12 noon MT. The game can be heard on KDSJ 980 AM or purchased for online streaming at www.AmericaONe.com.
For more information on Black Hills State Athletics, visit www.BHSUAthletics.com.


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Results tagged ' Pacific League '
From The Land Of The Rising Sun…
With JJ Hardy gone to Baltimore and O-Dawg recently signing with San Diego, the Twins needed to make a splash to shore up their middle infield. It doesn't get a whole lot splashier than this.
For the first time in team history, the Twins organization reached into the Nippon Professional baseball league of Japan to nab Tsuyoshi Nishioka.
Last year, Nishioka hit .346 to lead the Pacific League of Japan, and is expected to either play shortstop or second base on the 2011 Twins.
Of course, as we all well know, transitioning from "east to west" is never a sure prospect. For every Ichiro Suzuki or Hideki Matsui, there are two Kaz Sasaki's or Kaz Matsui's.
I like this move, though, as (if this guy can hit even close to as good as he did in Japan), then he could be a great #2 hole hitter, or even light a little fire under Span for the leadoff spot battle.


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Former Westchester County CIO Norman Jacknis isn't much of a golfer, but he can take some credit for boosting attendance at seven public golf courses that the county operates in southeastern New York. Since Westchester's IT department began using statistical analysis under Jacknis' leadership in mid-2005, government officials in many of the county's departments, including parks and recreation, have moved toward a "performance measures" approach.
Staff working in the county's Department of Information Technology overlaid weather data with attendance figures, and the dates of special promotions and discounts at the golf courses. From that data, the county figured out it could do a better job of attracting golfers on bad weather days. "High humidity - not so much the rain - but high humidity is a real killer because I guess it really drains your energy," Jacknis explained.
The end result is that the county's golf courses now call hardcore golfers to announce open tee times on especially muggy days - a reverse 911 for duffers. That's just one innovation spawned from the county's statistical analysis unit that operates within the IT department. Other surprising conclusions have long-term ramifications for how the county does business, from building roads to deploying police officers.
"We're sitting on this gold mine of data, so we created a unit to start analyzing all the data we've been collecting to figure out what program policies work for what kinds of people, and what doesn't," Jacknis said.
The IT Department's statistical analysis unit is "pretty rare" among local governments, said Jacknis, who remains an unpaid consultant to the county after joining the global strategic consulting unit at Cisco Systems Inc. in February. Analysis is typically farmed out to a budget office or an individual department - assuming the data is analyzed at all. Westchester County, at minimal cost, took a step beyond the traditional IT mission of processing information, hardware and software.
The county isn't just managing information; it's interpreting it.
Behind Bars, Ahead of the Curve
In early 2006, Department of Correction Commissioner Rocco Pozzi teamed with Jacknis to crunch numbers to determine if the county's drug dependency treatment program, Solutions, was effectively treating inmates. The study, which was recently submitted to the American Society of Criminology, found that Westchester County prisoners who participated in the drug program are re-imprisoned 9 percentage points less often than nonparticipants. Various studies estimate New York state's recidivism rate is 25 percent, which is about the national average. The study spurred the county to continue funding Solutions, which costs $600,000 per year.
"The mindset is to look at the good things we know we are doing, and really statistically prove that they are doing what we know they're doing," Pozzi said. "We know these are good programs; it's just that we never counted them ... and then we created a report that we can hand to the public."
The past five years, the federal prison system has latched onto the buzzword "re-entry," which refers to the rehabilitation of prisoners when they are released back into society, either via parole or other social programs.
The concept of re-entry also has become a concern for local governments such as Westchester County, which oversees 400 to 500 sentenced inmates at any one time - a total of 10,000 admissions in one year. Most of those people go home sooner or later.
"By measuring [our drug rehab program], we realized one glaring discrepancy was the outreach piece, which is being talked about around the country," said Clyde Isley, the county's Department of Correction deputy commissioner. "We can begin to identify what makes these people involve themselves in criminal activity, but when they're only here for an average of 45 days. ... Once they leave our facility, we have no influence whether they follow through or they don't."


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Buttery Bow Cookies RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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My aunt shared this recipe with me many years ago. Family and friends look for these tasty edible bows on my cookie trays each Christmas.—Diana Mangelsen, Frederic, Wisconsin
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- Red and green colored sugar
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; cut in butter until crumbly. Combine egg and cream; gradually beat into crumb mixture until a ball forms. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
- Divide dough into three portions. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion into an 8-in. x 6-in. rectangle. Brush with melted butter; sprinkle with colored sugar. Cut into 8-in.-long x 1/4-in.-wide strips. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; form into bows.
- Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool for 1 minute before carefully removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Yield: 6 dozen.
Originally published as Buttery Bow Cookies in Taste of Home Christmas Annual
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Reviewed Feb. 18, 2011
"The test kitchen has reviewed and retested this recipe to make the cookies sweeter. We added 1 cup of confectioners' sugar to the flour mixture and feel people will be pleased with the result. The correction will be made here soon.Taste of Home Test Kitchen"
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2011
"These cookies are terrible!!! With no sugar in the dough they aren't sweet at all! I wouldn't recommend this to anybody!"
Reviewed Dec. 24, 2010
"Looks pretty, but extremely bland. Definitely will not waste butter, egg and whipping cream again."
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"I wish I could gie a negative star rating. Terrible cookies. No sugar in the dough! That was the problem. My husband advised me to throw them in the trash. What a waste."
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AUSTIN, Texas - University of Colorado junior Joe Morris got the track and field team off to a good start on Thursday at the NCAA West Preliminary Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals in the 100-meter dash.
Morris clocked a personal best time of 10.31 seconds to finish third in his section of the 100, 13th overall, and automatically advanced to the quarterfinals on Friday afternoon. The time ranks seventh on CU's all-time performance list and is the fastest run by a Buffalo since Jeremy Dodson in 2008. He will race in the 100 quarterfinals, as well as the first round of the 200 on Friday.
"Joe was probably the highlight of the day," coach Mark Wetmore said. "Getting through was kind of expected in this first round, but to run 10.31, his best time ever, in breezy conditions after a long hot day, was a nice run for him."
Three other Buffs advanced in their respective events on Thursday. Adam Salzmann advanced to the quarterfinals in the 400-meter hurdles. He had the 24th best time of the afternoon, crossing the finish in 52.33. Katie Cumming moved on to the quarterfinal round in the 1,500 after clocking a time of 4:26.00. Both the 1,500 and 400-hurdle quarterfinals are on Saturday. Liz Tremblay finished the 800 in 2:08.75, third in her heat and 17th overall, to earn a spot in the quarterfinals on Friday.
"Adam, Liz and Katie got through, although it's only to the next round and not to Des Moines yet," Wetmore said. "They probably weren't on the form chart but each had a nice race and did a good job to advance."
The Buffs raced the 10,000-meter run at the end of the night in extremely hot and humid conditions as the high was in the 90s during the day. CU didn't advance any of its participants to the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, June 6-9, as just the top 12 finishers qualified.
"The first couple of years of this meet, which used to be called regionals, the 10,000-meter runners advanced the same way as the decathlon and heptathlon athletes do on a descending order list and I would rather it be that way," Wetmore said. "We are here in Austin and the other meet is in Florida and it's in the 90s in both places. It's abusive to have the athletes run a 10k in these conditions."
Andy Wacker led the men, finishing 18th overall in 30:51.62. Christian Thompson placed 23rd (31:00.93) and Martin Medina took 37th (31:45.31). Rachel Viger had a good race on the women's side, finishing 22nd overall. She recorded a time of 35:49.79.
"Rachel managed these tough conditions very well," Wetmore said. "She ran conservatively to begin with. She is brilliant, a 4.00 student, and she calculated the physics of the whole thing and out foxed quite a few people. She managed the conditions well and did better than expected. It was a nice run for her."
The NCAA West Preliminary Championships will continue Friday and Saturday at the Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Mike A. Myers Stadium (Austin, Texas)
Track Events
Men's 400-Meter Hurdles - first round: (1. Reggie Wyatt, USC, 50.33) 24. Adam Salzmann, 52.33q; 37. Kyle MacIntosh, 53.20
Women's 400-Meter Hurdles - first round: (1. Kianna Elahi, ISU, 57.37) 32. Brianne Beemer, 1:00.79
Men's 1,500-Meters - first round: (1. Rob Finnerty, Wisconsin, 3:45.98) 26. Matt Biegner, 3:52.58; 36. Blake Theroux, 3:58.33
Women's 1,500-Meters - first round: (1. Katie Flood, Washington, 4:22.02) 14. Katie Cumming, 4:26.00q; 32. Camille Logan, 4:34.58
Men's 100-Meters - first round: (1. Aaron Brown, USC, 10.13) 13. Joe Morris, 10.31q
Women's 400-Meters - first round: (1. Regina George, Arkansas, 52.38) 46. Eileen Gehring, 56.34
Women's 800-Meters - first round: (1. Justine Fedronic, Stanford, 2:06.07) 17. Liz Tremblay, 2:08.75q
Men's 10,000-Meters -semifinals: (1. Cameron Levins, SUU, 29:58.44) 18. Andy Wacker, 30:51.62; 23. Christian Thompson, 31:00.93; 37. Martin Medina, 31:45.31
Women's 10,000-Meters - semifinals: (1. Aliphine Tuliamuk, Wichita State, 33:31.54) 22. Rachel Viger, 35:49.79; Jana Stolting, DNF
Field Events
Women's Long Jump -first round: (1. Christabel Nettey, ASU, 21-06.25) t33. Brittany Lewis, 19-01.25


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September in Salt Lake City offers concert-goers a rare chance to see three music legends. And yes, "legend" is a way overused term, but it's valid when applied to three gentlemen hitting the Wasatch Front in September. And while none of them are at the height of their powers - they're all past 70 - they're all worth seeing for various reasons. They are Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard. Three men who have helped define, enrich and beautify the country realm for more than half a century.
The parade of legends starts Tuesday night at the Gallivan Center when Nelson and Family come calling. If you've seen Willie at any time in the past 35 years or so, you know the drill, because it doesn't change a lot - nor should it. After opening with "Whiskey River," the group winds its way through a hits-paved tour of Nelson's kajillion-selling catalog. And for fun, he usually throws in a tribute to some of his country music heroes, Hank Williams and Bob Wills and his departed fellow outlaw, Waylon Jennings. Although last year's show at Red Butte was an uneven affair that featured a rocky beginning, it ended with a sterling second half. And with Nelson nearing 80, you take what you can get. And about 5,000 of us will be there to relish in whatever that is Tuesday night.
Shifting toward the end of the month, twin songwriting legends Haggard and Kristofferson are at Kingsbury Hall together for one of several shows pairing the two this fall. They've played a few sporadic gigs together the past few years, but this is the first full-on tour featuring the duo, which starts in the Pacific Northwest a few days before they arrive in SLC.
It's billed as an acoustic evening, and in previous shows the two share the stage and swap songs as two of country music's most revered songbooks spill open. "Working Man's Blues," "Footlights," and "Big City," are just a few of Hag's chart-toppers that remain iconic in the country genre.
Kristofferson? If he had done nothing but write "Me and Bobby McGee," he would still be remembered. Add in, "Sunday Morning Coming Down," "Help Me Make It Through The Night," and The Pilgrim #33," and about two dozen others I could name and you've got well, a guy with almost no equals not named Dylan or Prine.
The acoustic evening promises a stripped down evening focused on songs - and with those two, what more could you want? Also, this fulfills a couple of long-standing concert-going goals of mine. I've never caught Kristofferson, who only plays about 50 shows a year and Hag is finally in a worthy venue here in SLC. I've seen him the past two years in the schmaltzy, but serviceable Peppermill Casino out in Wendover, Nev.
Taken as a trio, you couldn't write the history of country music without Nelson, Kristofferson or Haggard. And as country plods on ahead largely ignoring its past, it's up to the rest of us to enjoy the true kings of country while we can. So take advantage this month - legends aren't to be missed.
Here's a Kristofferson song from '09: "Closer To The Bone."
And here's an old-school Hag fave: "Ramblin' Fever."


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