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1 Passeig de Gràcia
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08008 Barcelona
Although it used to link the old town to the village of Gràcia, it is now, along with Eixample the residential area of the upper class. It links beautiful buildings epitomising early 20C architecture, such as those by Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner and P..
2 Casa Batlló
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Pg de Gràcia 43 E - 08007 Barcelona
This masterful work by Gaudí is part of the famous "Illa de la Discòrdia" and was built between 1904 and 1906 in pure Modernist style, with ceramic coloured glass disks and a fishscale roof. At the time, the unique enlarged windows on the f..
3 Fundació Joan Miró
Museums and art
Parc de Montjuïc E - 08038 Barcelona
Housed in a fine building designed by Josep Lluís Sert (1902-83), the Joan Miró Foundation contains over 10 000 works by the artist, who is one of the great names of the 20C avant-garde movement in Europe. The remarkable Barcelona Series, comprising ..
4 Roman and Visigoth town
Archaeological and historical sites
E - 08001 Barcelona
The Roman and Visigothic town was discovered beneath the Clariana-Padellàs house and the Plaça del Rei. An extraordinary underground walk leads to the Palau Reial Major and the 14C Capella de Santa Águeda, housing the magnificent altarpiece of the Co..
5 Casa Milà (La Pedrera)
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Provença 261 E - 08008 Barcelona
More commonly known as "La Pedrera", this building, with its façade evoking the movement of the sea and its fantasy decor, is one of Gaudí's finest achievements. A tour of the roof provides wonderful views of the entire Eixample district, a..
6 Sagrada Familia
Religious buildings
E - 08029 Barcelona
Gaudí dedicated 40 years of his life to his best-known work, which remains unfinished. He gave it great symbolic power by claiming that it was an atonement for the world's materialism and an expression of human solidarity and fraternity. When he died..
7 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Museums and art
Parc de Montjuïc, s/n E - 08038 Barcelona
This museum contains ten centuries of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the modern day. Housing the art museum, department of drawings and prints, museum of modern art, the numismatic cabinet of Catalonia and an art history library, it is now..
8 Drassanes
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08001 Barcelona
The old naval shipyards, or royal arsenal, situated at the bottom of the Ramblas, are the largest and most complete medieval shipyards in the world and are one of the finest examples of Catalan civil and Gothic architecture. Following the discovery o..
9 Castell dels Tres Dragons
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08003 Barcelona
This huge Neo-Gothic style building built of iron and red brick was built by Domènech i Montaner in 1887; and was a restaurant at the World Fair of 1888, is located on Avenue des Tells, a long promenade bordered by trees and flower beds, and is home ..
10 Museu Blau - Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (MCNB)
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Pl. Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, parc del Fòrum E - 08019 Barcelona
Since 2000, this museum has been home to the city's Zoology and Geology Museums and contains a large collection of species from all zoological groups. The ground floor is dedicated to temporary exhibits, where the main attraction is a magnificent wha..
11 Eixample district
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08001 Barcelona
Born out of a need to extend and modernise Barcelona, the Eixample district was the shop window for the city's bourgeoisie in the 19C and early 20C and was a mirror for its economic and cultural growth during this period. The 1850s saw the emergence ..
12 Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Museums and art
Aragó 255 E - 08007 Barcelona
Created by Tàpies in 1984, this foundation is housed in a beautiful Modernist building by Domènech i Montaner, with a façade crowned by the famous Cloud and Chair sculpture. The museum contains the most complete collection of paintings by the artist,..
13 La Manzana de la Discordia
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Passeig de Gràcia E - 08007 Barcelona
This block of houses includes works by three of the most important modernist architects, Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch and Domènech i Montaner who are respectively credited with the Casa Batlló, the Casa Amatller and theCasa Lleó i Morera. Besides this thr..
14 Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia 7 E - 08038 Barcelona
At the time of the World Fair, this superb building was designed to represent Germany by the architect of the same name. Considered as one of the leading lights of rational architecture, Mies van der Rohe's later installations feature the chair calle..
15 Gothic quarter
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08001 Barcelona
The Barri Gòtic extends from the southeast corner of Plaça de Catalunya to the sea. Hemmed in between the Ramblas and Via Laietana, this maze of narrow streets lined by old buildings remains one of Barcelona's liveliest districts. It owes its name to..
16 Cathedral
Religious buildings
Carrer de Santa Llúcia E - 08002 Barcelona
The current building was built at the end of the 13C. on a site which once boasted the old Roman cathedral. Inside there is so much to see. There is the chapel of Saint Sacrement ; the chapel of Santa Llúcia, the last relic of the Roman cathedral; la..
17 Plaça del Rei
Architecture, castles and historic districts
E - 08002 Barcelona
This square is the setting for numerous cultural activities (concerts, plays etc) and is the heart of the Gothic quarter. Here you can view some of the city's most important medieval buildings: the façade of the Palau Reial Major, to the right the Ca..
18 Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
Museums and art
Pl. del Rei, s/n (entrée sur la carrer del Veguer) E - 08002 Barcelona
The city's History Museum is located in Casa Clariana-Padellàs (15C), a fine example of Gothic civil architecture. A tour of the museum highlighting the city's history starts in rooms dedicated to the foundation of the Roman city, and includes a visi..
19 Saint-Agatha chapel
Religious buildings
Pl. del Rei E - 08002 Barcelona
This chapel with a unique chancel is covered with a multicoloured wooden maillage. It houses the marvellous retable of the Constable (1465) by Jaume Huguet depicting scenes in the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. On the centrel level you will notic..
20 Museu d'Art Contemporàni de Barcelona (MACBA)
Museums and art
Pl. dels Àngels 1 E - 08038 Barcelona
This monumental building by the American architect Richard Meyer, is one of the cultural venues which have contributed to the rehabilitation of the Barri Chino. Its vast white exhibition rooms display a permanent collection of 1 500 works from the se..


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Tobacco, Alcohol Tax Increase Coming Soon in Philippines
by Thilaka Ravi on November 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM Alcohol & Drug Abuse News - G J E 4
The Philippines government said on Wednesday it is moving closer to raising tobacco and alcohol taxes after the Senate passed a bill aimed at weaning millions of smokers off the habit.
The Senate late Tuesday passed a bill that would raise 40 billion pesos (nearly $1 billion) in "sin taxes" each year, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said in a statement.
AdvertisementIt "also provides moderate tax increases to protect the young and the poor from the ill effects of smoking and excessive drinking", he added.
Under the proposed law, cigarette excise taxes would be gradually raised to 26 pesos (63 US cents) per pack by 2016, close to the 60 percent tax level recommended by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, he added.
The House of Representatives must pass its own version of the bill, now under deliberation, before a compromise measure integrating the Senate and House bills can be signed into law by President Benigno Aquino, himself a smoker.
Filipinos are among the heaviest smokers in Southeast Asia with nearly one in five of its citizens smoking an average of around 15 cigarettes per day, according to the department of health.
A state briefing paper said this was partly due to the very low taxes on cigarettes, which sell at an average of 27.72 pesos a pack -- the lowest in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Raising tobacco taxes by 10 percent would reduce the number of Filipino smokers by two million within four years and cut smoking-related deaths, it added.
The Senate bill would also bring Philippine taxation on distilled spirits into line with World Trade Organization rules, raising the excise tax on most distilled spirits by around 50 percent by 2015.
Last year in a complaint filed by the United States, the WTO found the Philippines' lower taxes on some domestically produced spirits had violated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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27Feb Barbie Hsu Speak Unnaturally, Had Chin Plastic Surgery?
Barbie Hsu (Da S) was known as "Beauty Queen" in Taiwan. However some observant people noticed Barbie's Hsu chin was awkward. The chin gave people a feeling of dropping down and very unnatural when looked from some angles. This year's Lunar New Year, Barbie Hsu recorded a video to wish ASOS International Fan Club Happy New Year. Her chin moved unnaturally when she talked and even her fans said that it is hard to not notice the chin of beauty queen.
Barbie Hsu had never gain weight since she became celebrity. However her chin became plump last year when she was starring with Louis Koo in the movie "Forbidden City Cop". Her starring in "Hot Summer Days" which is released this year raises the issue again. Many people suspected how she got her double chin.
Due to unnaturally expression when talking and appearance of chin falling, many rumours are being circulated. Some people suspected she took excessive botulinum injection. Barbie Hsu said that beauty is part of professional ethics and she does not reject plastic surgery.
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Even though he has lost about 30 pounds since the end of last season, Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth failed a conditioning test on Thursday according to SI.com. Haynesworth is not eligible to practice with his teammates at the Redskin's training facility in Ashburn, VA until he passes the test.
Haynesworth, who has openly complained about the new 3-4 defense that new head coach Mike Shanahan is installing in Washington, did not participate in any of the team's offseason conditioning drills. He has tried to force a trade out of Washington because he does not want to play the nose tackle position.
The defensive tackle, one of the league's best interior lineman when he puts his mind into playing hard, only appeared at practice for about 20 minutes after the rest of the team hit the showers. He was seen walking amongst overturned trash cans, serving as offensive linemen, with two assistant coaches as they discussed the new defense. He did not speak to the media.
The Redskins have said Haynesworth will continue to take the test each day until he passes. The test consists of two back-to-back sprints the player must complete in the allotted time. Haynesworth is the only Redskins player who has to take the conditioning test as all of the other players attended a certain percentage of offseason workouts.
"It's a very fair test," Coach Shanahan said. "But more importantly, it keeps a guy from getting hurt. I don't want to put a guy out there that's not ready to go, and all of a sudden there's a setback for two weeks."


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by William Shakespeare
Othello Act 5, Scene 2 Summary
- Othello is a veritable wreck. He entreats the stars to look on his deed as punishing a crime, not as though he's committing a crime himself—it's important to him to declare that he is not the criminal of this whole sordid affair. He promises he'll not mar Desdemona's beautiful skin by cutting her up or anything—she'll be pretty in death.
- Othello now notes the single candle he's brought into the bedroom, where he's found Desdemona sleeping. "Put out the light, and then put out the light," he says (5.2.7), looking at Desdemona. Othello muses that if he puts out the candle, he can easily light it again, but once he kills Desdemona, there is no way of getting her back.
- During his moment, Othello is almost overwhelmed by his love for Desdemona as he bends to kiss her. He says her beauty is almost enough to stop him from being an agent of justice. Notice how we said "almost" twice? Well, so did Othello, because feelings aside, he promises to kill her and love her after. He weeps over her, lamenting that he must kill what he loves most, alluding to the Biblical passage Hebrews 12:6: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."
- All this weeping and kissing and murderous plotting wakes Desdemona. Sleepily, she asks Othello if he's coming to bed. He asks her if she has prayed. "I would not kill thy soul," he says (5.2.32). (Think Hamlet again, like when Claudius almost dies.) Desdemona freaks out about the killing bit, and Othello doesn't deny that, yes, he intends to kill her. He again asks her to think on her sins, so she can be absolved before she dies (and so go to Heaven instead of Hell).
- Othello then brings up the handkerchief (which we've dubbed the handkerchief of death). He accuses Desdemona of giving it (among other things) to Cassio, and she tries to be very calm in convincing Othello that he has made a mistake.
- She denies ever having loved Cassio. Othello says that she's lying and that Cassio is already dead. Desdemona mourns Cassio, whom she says has been betrayed.
- Still, she won't stop fighting for her life. Rather than come out with the story of having simply lost the handkerchief and try to clear up the whole matter, she begs to be banished rather than killed—to be killed tomorrow—to be given just half an hour more to live. But Othello is relentless, and smothers her with a pillow.
- Emilia knocks at the door and calls out for Othello. Desdemona is still not quite dead, so Othello smothers her a little more. He gets lost in his thoughts about how he has no wife.
- Finally inside, Emilia reports (wrongly) that Roderigo has been killed by Cassio, and that Cassio is wounded, but not dead. Othello is furious to realize that Cassio is still alive. But so is Desdemona—for at least three more seconds. "O falsely, falsely murdered!" she says weakly (126.96.36.199).
- Desdemona declares she is guiltless, but when Emilia asks her who murdered her, she refuses to name Othello. "Nobody. I myself," Desdemona says. Desdemona finally dies asking Emilia to give Othello her love (5.2.125).
- Othello admits he killed Desdemona and tells Emilia she deserved it, and that honest Iago, Emilia's own husband, can tell her all about it. "My husband?" (22.214.171.124)
- Emilia keeps repeating this, as the truth slowly dawns on her that she married a jerk. Othello tries to get Emilia to calm down, mostly through his threatening looks, but she says she doesn't care about any harm he can do her. She continues to shout about the murder.
- Soldiers and citizens of Cyprus crowd into the room, along with Iago. Emilia confronts her husband and asks if he told Othello that Desdemona was cheating on him. Iago admits that he suggested this, but then claims that Othello's own suspicion filled in all the blanks.
- Emilia continues to lament Desdemona, and Othello continues to insist that Desdemona was false to him.
- Gratiano then announces that it's a good thing Desdemona's dad, Brabantio, died of heartbreak over her wedding to Othello, because he really wouldn't have survived this traumatic event.
- Othello continues to lay blame on Desdemona's foulness, and Iago keeps trying to silence the lamenting Emilia. Finally, the whole story clears up when Othello says that he saw Desdemona's handkerchief in Cassio's hand, and Emilia tells him that she herself stole the handkerchief and gave it to Iago.
- With this small fact, Iago's whole story begins to unravel. Othello, furious, tries to stab Iago, but Iago avoids him, and instead stabs his wife to death (seemingly), and runs out. Montano bids someone to follow the villain, but only Othello and the slow, dramatically dying Emilia are left.
- Emilia wonders aloud about the meaning of Desdemona's final song, and she herself dies singing about willows, charging "the Moor" with some serious cruelty. Emilia dies next to Desdemona and tells Othello with her last breath that his wife was pure and faithful to him.
- Othello finally realizes what he has done and curses himself. He finds a sword of Spain he keeps in the bedroom and thinks suicidal thoughts.
- Othello declares he's seen much worse in battle than this, but no man can escape his fate. He announces that no one has any reason to fear on seeing his weapon, as he's reached his journey's end. He then looks on his wife, murdered by his own hand, though innocent, he's now realized. Othello weeps to end all days.
- Lodovico, the wounded Cassio, and Montano enter with a recently captured Iago. Othello pronounces Iago to be a devil, and wounds him. Iago lets us know that he's not dead yet. Othello responds that he wouldn't wish such a peaceful fate as death on Iago (as Othello is preparing to meet such a fate).
- As Lodovico points out that grieving doesn't get you out of a murder charge, Othello says he can be called a murderer, but it's important to note that he did everything out of honor, not hate.
- Othello demands that Iago tell him why he chose to torment him and ruin his life. "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know," Iago says. "From this time forth, I will never speak word" (5.2.300-301).
- Lodovico then brings out the papers that will clear the entire mess up. Roderigo, conveniently, had a bunch of mixed letters on his person that explain, in detail, Iago's complicity in all of these plots.
- Othello, finally faced with Cassio, learns that Desdemona was innocent and that everything that happened was part of Iago's scheme. And Roderigo lived long enough to reveal that his murderer was actually… Iago.
- Lodovico orders that Othello be brought back to Venice for his punishment, and announces Cassio is to replace him. Othello wishes to say a word before he goes. He asks that he not be spoken of untruthfully, or in malice, as this tragedy is committed to history.
- Othello declares himself the "one who loved not wisely, but too well," and then sums up the bulk of the play. In his final note, Othello pulls out a hidden weapon and stabs himself, declaring himself a circumcised dog.
- He has done an evil thing, but by killing himself, he has conquered the villain (himself) and therefore become the hero of his own story. Othello kisses Desdemona's dead lips and then dies himself, a murderer, martyr, and lover to the end.
- Lodovico tells Iago to look at his work: three innocent people lying next to each other, all destroyed by his scheming. Still, Iago keeps his promise and stays silent.
- Gratiano is to inherit all of Othello's worldly goods, and Montano is charged with punishing the wicked Iago. Sadly, Lodovico decides that all he can do is go back to Venice to share this tragic tale.
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Roses are traditional flowers that are given on Valentine's Day, but they are also costly and don't last long. Save the money with these five ways to ditch the roses and spend less for Valentine's Day.
- Create roses out of fabric. Choose scrap fabric, ribbon, or strips of a special outfit. It's a great way to preserve a dress or t-shirt worn on a first date. Use the fabric roses as décor accessories or attach to a headband or buttons to accentuate a special look.
- Find a picture of those roses you gave or received from that special someone once upon a time. Select a pretty frame, and have it framed to display as a portrait of roses that will last forever in a picture on the wall.
- Make your artistic expression of roses using household items, like celery stalks, cut peppers, or cut potatoes for stamps. Paint the tops and press the paint onto paper or canvas. Make rose prints on the back of paper bags to turn into nice wrapping paper.
- Make a few dozen paper roses out of dictionary or other book pages.
- Combine chocolate kisses to form a dozen rose buds.
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"I'd like to date someone who is not an actor but understands the business. I work where I kiss other people. They have to understand that."
-Lauren Storm on dating
The younger crowd knows Lauren Storm from her time as the spoiled rich girl Taylor on the teen castaway TV drama, Flight 29 Down. These days, she's graduated to movies where she has been a reliable nanny for The Rock in The Game Plan and a steady best friend to Hayden Panettiere and Jenna Dewan in I Love You, Beth Cooper and The Jerk Theory, respectively. Lauren Storm isn't quite ready for prime time just yet, but we like this aspiring Laura Linney clone for her grounded attitude, huge heart, fresh-faced looks, and appreciation for threesomes. OK, we're just kidding about that last one… or are we?
So what kind of guy can sweep this actress/goodwill ambassador off her feet? Besides Brad Pitt, whom she's had a crush on for years, Lauren Storm has a thing for funny and sensitive guys with -- wait for it -- an unabashed love of Broadway musicals. Robin Williams would be perfect, except for Lauren Storm's dislike of body hair. Better luck next time, Mrs. Doubtfire. While she's searching for that perfect mix of humor, sensitivity and show tunes, Lauren Storm is open to a lot of other things -- like threesomes. Having had a humorous one on-screen in I Love You, Beth Cooper, she can understand why women would be into them, and can see the joys of harmless fun. So can we. Excuse us while we learn the lyrics to Annie and buy tickets for the next revival of Cats.
Should her acting jobs dry up, Lauren Storm already has a fallback career planned in architecture, but she isn't ready to start building music museums and soccer stadiums just yet. Lauren Storm fashions herself as a younger and less-experienced version of her idols Meryl Streep, Laura Linney and Nicole Kidman, and believes that hard work and humility will get her there and keep her grounded.
Lauren Storm BiographyIn suburban Chicago, Lauren Storm was going to hell, at least according to her Catholic school classmates. Picked on for her lack of height, her ample intelligence and her Jewish background, Lauren Storm faced equal parts fists and insults, but found strength from her mother's wisdom. At her mother's urging, she enrolled in modeling classes to boost her self-esteem. Her talent for being beautiful became obvious when she traveled to a New York industry event and emerged a winner in more than 10 contests. Acting lessons and commercial assignments followed, and by the time she left for Los Angeles to try television work, Lauren Storm had morphed from an insecure Chicago schoolgirl to a future California babe.
Lauren Storm's first major acting role came on television in 2001, when she appeared as a student on Boston Public. As part of her recurring role, she got to experience the horrors of on-screen education as well as her first on-screen kiss. It proved to be good practice for her wild performance as Laurie, a teenage loudmouth who plays bondage games with Frankie Muniz on Malcolm in the Middle. Lauren Storm's journey across early 21st century television staples continued on 24, where she played a teenager suffering from anthrax exposure, and on CSI: Miami as a snobby girl whose bad luck lands her on a boat-smacked bridge. In case you're wondering, the snobby character in question was named Cameron, not Paris.
lauren storm stars in flight 29 down and the game planIn 2005, Lauren Storm was in the enviable position of auditioning for lead roles on two different television series from the same creator. The shows were Darcy's Wild Life and Flight 29 Down and after multiple auditions, Sara Paxton won the lead on the former while Lauren Storm earned a spot on the latter. Similar to Lost but with a younger demographic, the show followed the teenage survivors of a plane crash near an island on the South Pacific. Lauren Storm played Taylor, a high-maintenance brat who has to stop being self-centered and start being helpful, all while wearing a bikini.
Although she enjoyed a run of over two seasons on the show, Lauren Storm made a conscious effort to push her career beyond her association with Flight 29 Down. She did so by costarring in a series of films, starting with Mrs. Harris (2005), a made-for-cable film with Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley. Lauren Storm soon made the jump into theatrical films like 2007's The Game Plan, where she was the nanny-for-hire at the hands of Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock. She later starred in 2008's Whore, a harsh examination of young Hollywood hopefuls who quickly find their dreams shattered. The eclectic ensemble cast featured Megan Fox, Rumer Willis, porn legend Ron Jeremy, and Thomas Dekker of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, who also directed.
lauren storm stars in i love you, beth cooper and the jerk theoryNext on the menu for Lauren Storm was a whole lot of eating. She desperately wanted to audition for the role of Hayden Panettiere's skanky pal Treece in I Love You, Beth Cooper, the story of a nerd sharing his love for his hottest classmate in front of their graduating class. The producers flatly stated that Lauren Storm couldn't audition unless she became heavier. After a diet that included pizza, cheese bread and ice cream, she finally auditioned and earned the role. While she found the extra weight to be somewhat annoying, Lauren Storm did enjoy the extra pounds that she gained on her chest and the attention that came along with it.
Once she worked off the weight, Lauren Storm returned to the big screen -- as a best friend to Jenna Dewan -- in The Jerk Theory. A comedic examination of whether being a jerk means bedding better women, the film cast her as Amy, a woman who reinforces that theory by letting brutish men walk all over her. The debate surrounding jerks and nice guys continues, but there's no debating the merits of Lauren Storm's career and the challenging roles that lie on the horizon.


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I was wondering if there are other people who have Fibro, and also had Rheumatic fever as a child?
Many of the symptoms of Fibro remind me exactly of how I felt as a six year old child with Rheumatic fever.
Like, could Fibro be the "adult" version of Rheumatic fever, or a cousin to this disease?
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When I was young my mother said i'd run dangerously high fevers and doctors could never figure out where it was coming from or why it was happening. Even today when i'm about to flare i'll run a high fever and then break into sweat then everything locks up and starts hurting really really bad.
But... docs say that I also have a form of Juvenile Rhumatoid Arthritis. JRA does seem to fade away with age though so it looks like I swapped the RA for FMS oh joy. I can honestly say Fibro is way way way worse on me than the JRA ever was...mainly just because nothing really works for it. At least with the RA i can get pumped full of steroids and scare it into remission lol.
Have they every checked your RH factor or Sed rate? With Rheumatic fever you may be like me and have a form of RA that acts up everyone once in awhile.
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That is an interesting thought. I never had Rheumatic fever, but I just thought I'd bump this up and see if anyone else can shed some light on the subject.
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funny you mentioned that and yes the pain in the joints feel like that...I was 7 when I woke up one morning...my joints were so inflammed I couldnt walk or move from the neck down..I spent 3 months in the hospital on antibiotics....I think our fibromyalgia is caused by the rhuematic fever...I know grannie here in the group also had rhuematic fever...
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also I want to mention...those who have had scarlet fever are also connected to them in some way or another...so how many had rhuematic and scarlet fever...I think we go on remissions and as an adult it flares back up...hugs
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Oh wow yea I had Scarlet Fever too.... I never thought about a possible connection with the fibro
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I don't know or think I ever had that, but I would get alot of very High Fevers, I got copies of all my Medical records as far back as Birth, and I would Often get the high Fevers, severe "D" as a baby, especially around Immunizations...Fevers of 105 and a time or 2 higher...
any Virus we have ever had, stays within us forever, mostly our bodies fight it down, and keeps it in check, but if our Immune systems go down, they Can rear their Ugly heads once again...Important to always do ALL you can do to keep your Immune system Healthy !!
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My mom and her mom had Scarlet Fever but as far as I know, I didn't. My anti-streptolysine titre is over 600 and normal is supposed to be 200. That's one test we ALL should get done. I was always sick as a baby and got all the childhood diseases...chicken pox, whooping cough, etc.
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At age 6, I would cry all the way home walking home from school, fever, etc. Then one more I was completely paralyzed on left side. I was taken to hospital, and tied to a bed for 3 months as treatment for Rheumatic Fever. It was extremely traumatic time for me. My entire childhood, my parents were always whispering in other room, as I was the 'sickly" one. I also got mono at age 9, at least they called it mono.....I have always been knocked off my feet when I get strange fevers, and ache in ever inch of my body.
Five years ago it started with "travelling pain", severe throbbing pain in different parts of my body. That was when the doc first used the word Fibro. Now that pain is constant and throughout entire body Rheumy has officially diagnosed as Fibro.
My point being, I think there is a correlation between childhood diseases and Fibro, in this case Rheumatic fever - the pain & exhaustion is way too similar.
So, why can't they treat it like they do Rheumatic Fever??
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rhuematic hits the upper respitory and heart...scarlet fever is a rash that developes...both are caused by strep...I think...
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Preliminary results from ACA meeting on Satruday are in
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Preliminary results are in from ACA BAR/BAR/Masters Meeting. Full details on the meeting should come out later this week but here is what is being said so far...Thanks to someone who was at the meeting for passing this on... not sure if I can expose the source though.
- Jon Tarkington (Exec Dir) started the meeting out by review the statistics and trends within the membership
- Slight increase in ACA membership overall
- Yet, there has been a decrease in the number of race days
- There has been a reduction in average field size for seniors. Particularly for SM P-1-2. Deemed to be a drop out of SM2's.
- Possible Conclusion: Excess supply of races? Change in level of interest/lifestyles?
- Lack of officials and officials complaining about long days for closed course races.
- BAR/BAT designation results in an increase in field size. For Men 45+, it resulted in a 45% increase.
Discussion followed the review of stats. The discussion was used for the BoD members on 1/11/09 to make decisions. In some cases, straw polls were taken. In particular instances, these straw polls conflicted with and overrode the straw polls taken in the ACA meeting on 12/12.
- Majority of participants did not care about focusing on a specific BAR/BAT category and may race multiple categories. In other words, a master may race 45+, 45/3 or cat 3 rather than focus on a specific category. It seems that many participants just want to race!
- 35+/cat 3, and 45/cat 4 seemed to pass in the straw poll.
- There was no discussion of modifying men 35+ to 40+
- The concept of the blue, green and yellow BAR/BAT categories seem to pass this straw poll. If so, it would only apply to closed course races, ostensibly crits and circuts. Promoters would petition for a race and a particular color/cats. (See proposal). The ACA would then review the proposals and then modify/normalize so that cats would get averaged out over the course of the season. As such, there might be a set of yellow BAR/BAT crtis on a Saturday and then Blue crit on Sunday.
- The intent of this is to: Reduce the race day for closed course races for the officials and increase field size/participation in the chosen categories for that particular day.
- While these seemed to pass the various straw polls, more thought needs to be given to how crits in stage races, omniums and state crit champs would be affected.
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Are there going to be new categories? I have heard rumors that there is now a 35+ Cat 3 and 45+ Cat 4. It will be interesting to see the minutes of the meeting. I assume they will be posted this week.
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Why was adding 35 plus 3 and 45 plus 4 voted on at the annual meeting, with most teams present, and both were totally voted down. If I remember there was less than 25% support for these catagories. So this item was answered CLEARLY.
Now, magially, they appear at this meeting, that is not attended by most clubs, and another vote is taken? Now this time it passes?
What am I missing here? Does the board get to keep having votes, until they get a small enough # of team there, to make this pass?
I just do not get this. Can anyone explain it?
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There were more Masters Racers at the BAR/BAT meeting then at the Annual Meeting. Was a large majority of racers that supported them after seeing the membership data.
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Can someone tell me why we voted on these 2 new catagories at the annual meeting, with most teams present, and they were voted down. There was less than 25% support for 35 plus cat. 3 and 45 plus cat. 4.
Now these 2 items magically re-appear at this meeting and they pass in a straw poll. Does the ACA Board get to keep having votes for their agenda until they get few enought clubs there to pass?
Can anyone explain why this was voting on again?
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London, Feb 28 : Actress Jennifer Aniston is reportedly planning to get married to beau Justin Theroux by the end of this year.
The 43-year-old actress has apparently told friends that Theroux is "the one" for her and even joked that she has issued him with an ultimatum to marry her by the end of the year. She also said that their new dog Sophie is a "test run" for having children, reports mirror. co. uk.
"I'll be married by the end of the year. We're constantly laughing. Now we've got our new baby (pet dog) things are getting serious. We have new responsibilities," Aniton told a friend.
"She's (Sophie) like a test run for kids, I guess ... although hopefully kids are easier to house-train. Justin and I argue over who takes the dog out and who disciplines her, but that's about it. Things are fabulous. I'm happy. If he's not got down on one knee, or we're mot married, by the end of the year, it's over!" she added.
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An unidentified Medical Lake player beats a throw that skipped away from the West Kootenay first baseman last Sunday.
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Nov. 9, 2012
CHICAGO - In her UIC debut, junior Rachel Story scored a game-high 17 points in the Flames' season-opening loss to Truman State, 64-51, on Friday night inside the UIC Pavilion. Redshirt junior Katie Hannemann paced the Flames on the boards with seven and chipped in 14 points, shooting 5-of-7 from the floor.
"Truman State came out and executed right away," said head coach Regina Miller. "They were hitting shots in the beginning, and we missed a lot of open looks and turned the ball over. Truman State was able to dribble penetrate and our defense needs to be better, period."
The Flames spotted Truman State 18 straight points to start the game and spent the rest of the first half playing catch up. UIC recorded its first bucket at the 13:03 mark and outscored the Bulldogs 23-15 in the remainder of the first period, bringing the halftime score to 33-23 in favor of TSU.
Senior Taylor Foulks picked up three fouls in the first seven minutes of the contest and sat the bench for the rest of the first half. Story led all scorers at the break with 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting as the Bulldogs were piloted by Courtney Strait with 11.
After the break, Truman State held a 10-point lead or more for the first seven minutes of the second half before the Flames cut the advantage down to nine. At the 10:16 mark, UIC came within seven points of TSU on the wings of an 8-2 run, which proved the smallest margin for the rest of the game.
The Bulldogs displayed superb long-range shooting in the second period, draining five threes. With 8:11 on the clock, Truman State produced a 12-3 offensive spurt to cement the road win.
A bright spot for UIC was its defense as it forced 17 Bulldog turnovers. The Flames also out-rebounded TSU 35-33 and outscored their bench 28-15. Junior Megan Wallace added seven points and three boards in 21 minutes of play in her UIC debut.
The Flames will be back in action on Thursday, Nov. 15 as they host SIU-Edwardsville at 7 p.m. CT inside the UIC Pavilion.


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The Latvian Hockey Federation announced Friday that Kaspars Astashenko died. He was 37.
The defenseman played 23 games for the Tampa Bay Lightning between 1999 and 2001, scoring one goal and two assists.
At the international level, Astashenko scored one goal and three assists in 13 games for the Latvian national team. He skated for his country at many international events, among them the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and the 2006 IIHF World Championships in his hometown of Riga, Latvia.
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Watch Kenneth Parcell Eat His Father-Pig
The '30 Rock' character shares a long forgotten secret.
On last night's 30 Rock, Jack dug deep into Kenneth's past and we all learned a deep, dark secret: Kenneth once ate Harold, his "father-pig," to win a $300 competitive-eating prize ("Even his face," Kenneth reveals). We know we're supposed to feel sorry for Kenneth, but Harold does look pretty delicious. We've got the video below.


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Heinz Fruit comes in three varieties: Peaches in Juice, Fruit Cocktail in Juice and Tropical Fruit Cocktail in Banana Purée & Passion Fruit Juice.
The new desserts will appeal to consumers who have an increasing need for convenient, single serve portions of fruit for a range of eating occasions such as healthy lunch boxes or after dinner puddings. Heinz Fruit will also provide health conscious consumers with an alternative snack.
The Fruit Pots category has grown by +46 per cent value in three years and has been fundamental in driving category value and volume growth. Of particular appeal to families with children, who account for almost 50 per cent of spend in the fruit category, Heinz Fruit pots are a fun, tasty way for families to add to their children's fruit intake.
"Heinz is investing further into the ambient desserts category," says Christina Honigfort, Senior Brand Manager Heinz Desserts. "Heinz Fruit pots are handy portions of fruit that give consumers more choice and dessert ideas as well as providing one of the recommended 5-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables."
Following the launch of Heinz Taste of Home desserts in February 2008, Heinz is also expanding its canned dessert offering for more health conscious consumers.
Heinz Taste of Home Gorgeous Light Classic Custard and Heinz Taste of Home Delicious Light Rice Pudding will appeal to consumers who want to eat healthily but don't want to give up on the treats they love or the taste satisfaction.
Almost 50 per cent of UK households say that they actively control fat in their diets and avoid saturated fats and the light custard and rice pudding category is an established market accounting for 19 per cent of Canned Custard and Rice Pudding, while in +7 per cent value growth.
"The new Heinz Taste of Home Gorgeous Light Classic Custard and Heinz Taste of Home Delicious Light Rice Pudding give health conscious consumers the choice to continue to tuck into their favourite desserts," says Honigfort. "Heinz's light recipes deliver the same great taste as the other home-style recipes in the Taste of Home desserts range."
The new Taste of Home launches form the second stage of Heinz's investment to reinvigorate the Ambient Desserts category, which is worth £388 million and is bought by almost the entire country (93%).


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Less than 60 days out from the June 12 start date, the Bonnaroo 2014 lineup has moved a little closer to complete. Today, Apr. 16, they announced the full lineup for their Bonnaroo Comedy Tent.
Heading up the Bonnaroo Comedy Tent this year are Bonnaroo Lineup Announcement Megathon hosts Taran Killam and Hannibal Buress. Buress had been announced with the main lineup and Killam was expected due to his involvement with B.L.A.M. Both are among the fastest rising stars in stand up comedy. Killam is one of the current host of comics on the Saturday Night Live cast. Buress is an actor, writer, and comic who has written for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, released 3 comedy albums, and been a panelist on N.P.R.'s hit show "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me."
Joining Buress and Killam on the Bonnaroo Comedy lineup is Craig Robinson & the Nasty Delicious. Best known as an actor with starring roles in "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", "Hot Tub Time Machine", and "This Is the End." Along with his brother, musician Chris Rob, he performs as the musical comedy group Craig Robinson & the Nasty Delicious.
Neal Brennan is another name that will excite many Bonnaroo fans. A co-creator of Comedy Central's hit comedy "Chapelle's Show" with Dave Chappelle, Brennan has also written for "Kenan & Kel", "All That", "Singled Out", and "Totally Awesome" as well as serving as temporary host for "Attack of the Show."
T.J. Miller can currently be seen starring in the HBO comedy "Silicon Valley". He has also appeared in "Cloverfield", "Yogi Bear", and "Rock of Ages", as well as having a part in the upcoming film "Transformers: Age of Extinction."
Rounding out the Bonnaroo 2014 Comedy Tent lineup are Rory Scovel, musical comedians Bridget Everett & the Tender Moments, Sasheer Zamata, Seth Herzog, Emily Heller, and Brad Williams. You can find the full Bonnaroo Comedy lineup here.
Bonnaroo 2014 will be held June 12-15 at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee. Musical acts include Arctic Monkeys, Jack White, Elton John, Kanye West, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Skrillex.
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Road rage in America is quite intense, but in other countries it appears that individuals involved in road rage incident could end up being kicked by Mickey Mouse. A new viral video from Chelyabinsk, Russia shows a driver getting kicked and punched by Mickey Mouse and Spongebob Squarepants. According to New York Daily News on Wednesday, this incident was captured on video and the suspects are still at large.
The unexpected behavior of the costumed characters has shocked the world. Nobody expects a van containing four men dressed as the furry characters who don't break character. Then, to see the characters kick around the driver, it is like a childhood nightmare come true. It makes everyone wonder just how these characters even drove with the costumes on.
The rule of thumb when it comes to road rage is never to get out of the vehicles. As AZ Central reports on Wednesday, it could be a huge mistake as the violence seems to escalate by words. In this particular case, it doesn't help if the people who are upset aren't identifiable as who would admit to being kicked around by Mickey Mouse?
It's rare to see Mickey Mouse and Spongebob Squarepants even in the same vehicle. After all, Mickey Mouse is owned by the Walt Disney Corporation and Spongebob Squarepants is a Nickelodeon character. Apparently they came together on this one incident to make their disapproval known. And while we can't condone the smacking, it has a Hollywood ending that can't be ignored. It's doubtful that the people in this incident will ever be caught as their faces aren't shown.


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When you grow up with a depressed mother, as i did, memories of the fleeting moments when she was happy start to take on the gossamer hues of a fairy tale. This is especially true for me because:
1. I myself am now a frenetic working mom of two tween girls, barely able to remember what I had for breakfast.
2. My mother has been gone now for—could it be?—nearly three decades. A German immigrant to Southern California, she died 17 years ago from the early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosed 10 years earlier, when she was 59. I have been without her for so long—facing alone such adult milestones as starting a career, getting married, buying a house and having children—that it seems even the existence of Gisela Loh before dementia is a bedtime story I tell myself.
3. Where my mother was happy was in Egypt.
Or so says my older sister, Tatjana, who, unlike me, remembers every detail, clearly, vividly, accurately. She is the rigorously organized keeper of everything: old family photo albums, handwritten letters tied in faded ribbon, ornate velvet pillows from our grandmother's circa-1940s house near Frankfurt, keys to safe-deposit boxes that store incongruous objects such as our "silver collections." That's right; whereas at each birthday my brother received cash, at ours my sister and I received silver, from standard place settings to obscure weapons like asparagus tongs, presumably to be used as ammo for—don't laugh, even though my daughters do—our dowries.
"Don't you remember that first night in our villa in Maadi," Tatjana asks me, "when Mama ran from room to room, throwing open all the doors and windows? She was so, so happy!" We're sorting through some of our mother's several-decades-old Egyptian souvenirs for distribution among the kids. "Never mind that we woke up the next day with 60 mosquito bites per arm," I reply. "I have to say, even then Egypt felt like a dream."
This was due not just to the exotic locale but also to the sudden luxury and harmony of our family life. In Southern California, our Chinese engineer father worked in the aerospace industry, and we lived in a suburban tract house. Unhappily married, my parents would stand in the cold, dark kitchen—where my dad often ate out of pots on the stove, as if he were in a lab—while they fought about money. In 1969, however, my father got a two-year teaching job at the American University in Cairo, and our family entered a life of academic gentility. Overnight we had a two-story villa just outside Cairo, with terraces and verandas spilling over with bougainvillea. We had a cook and two gardeners whose sole job it was to tend our parklike backyard, ringed by 200 rosebushes. Cairo then was an international city bustling with culture, and thanks to my mother's command of languages (she spoke English, German and French and soon learned Arabic), our at-home tutors in the arts were prima ballerinas from the Cairo Ballet, flame-haired Russian Kirov ballet mistresses, Italian maestros. We went to school with the children of oil barons and ambassadors. There were ballet premieres and dinner parties and even the donning of tennis whites at the private Maadi Tennis Club.
"Ooh, wouldn't it be fun to go back there?" my sister asks, waggling a hand-stitched camel from my mother's collection. "Aren't you curious to see Cairo again? Maybe just the two of us should go!" I laugh and say no. It can't possibly work. Tatjana has a husband to leave behind, I'm divorced with two children, the idea is madcap, the scheduling impossible.
But the evening wends on and somehow (I had too much Chardonnay to recall exactly how) my sister Scheherazades me. It's not just that we are in our fifties now and must have something like a million air miles between us ("Which you can't take with you," she reminds me). Don't I remember the Cairo Opera House, with all the gold leaf and crushed red velvet? Or Cairo American College, the school we attended, which was housed in a sultan's palace, with sunken alabaster tubs? Or the cruise we took up the Nile to see the temples at Abu Simbel? "A cruise, we could take a cruise!" she exclaims. "And on the Nile," she adds softly, alluding to the contents of yet another of her carefully cataloged boxes, "we can throw in Mama's ashes."
In that moment I can visualize it: the Emma Thompson/Judi Dench/Merchant Ivory movie moment. I see the winding river, the burnished sunset, my sister and me in white muslin gowns on a felucca with a fluttering sail, weeping as we gift my mother to the Egyptian winds. I see beauty. I see remembrance. I see healing.
Our first steps outside Cairo International Airport are neither beautiful nor memorable, nor in any way healing. Yes, Tatjana has prepped extensively for this trip, as is her Leo-meets-Excel-spreadsheet wont. We are arriving in late September, when the summer heat is fading, on an eight-day, planned-almost-to-the-minute itinerary that will take us from Cairo to Aswan to Luxor and back. Surefooted in her trek shoes and backpack, my sister is ready with Arabic phrases, Egyptian currency and culturally appropriate dress. Given that we are two American women in a conservative Islamic culture, she has decreed that we have our arms and legs covered in loose-fitting clothing—no short skirts, no shorts and no denim—so as not to signal Western disrespect.
Not even a spasm of last-minute political unrest has thrown her. A week before our trip, when 2,000 Egyptian protesters destroyed an American flag in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo (in response to a U.S.-produced film attacking the Prophet Muhammad), I had panicked.
"I checked the State Department website an hour ago," Tatjana told me soothingly, "and good news! While the U.S. has issued travel warnings on Lebanon, Tunisia, Sudan, Algeria, Libya, South Sudan, Syria and Iraq, it hasn't on Egypt. So we're fine! Besides, when we were there 40 years ago, Nasser died and there were air raids and people were hurling themselves off buildings. If you just stay away from the hot spots, you're fine."
But upon entry into Cairo, I realize I really have not mentally prepared for a place that has become so foreign to me. The layout of the hotel's various giant, glittering towers confuses me; I have become way too used to a minibar that makes sense, electrical outlets that look familiar and a Starbucks in the hotel. It is amazing how unglued I can become over my confusion about how to get that first cup of morning joe.
I have had such a romantic notion about this trip—that it will be immediately magical. You know, that moment when you feel transported out of your regular life and into the living dream of another place. But the simple logistics of getting around Cairo are tricky. In this city of 17 million people but no stoplights, the taxis have to be bartered for, the traffic is bumper to bumper, and our map is a maze of Arabic words.
As the taxi crawls through a slow-moving current of continually honking cars, we can't stop gazing out our windows at the vast, rolling megalopolis, eerily lit up even at night. Cairo looks both the same and not the same to me. Some cars appear to be new, but a surprising number are just as beat-up as the ones I remember, with rusty Egyptian plates. Some of the billboards look Western and even have words in English (many, many cell phone ads), but down on the streets, the buildings and storefronts that were sooty and antiquated in 1969 appear still to be sooty and antiquated. We see hundreds and hundreds of apartment buildings that are either going up or being torn down. It's impossible to tell.
But the smell of the place is the same, a musky aroma that I can describe only as a combination of green oranges, roasted pistachios, rotting trash and diesel. It speaks of night markets and food vendors and hookah smokers playing checkers under hanging kerosene lamps.
For the next few days, though, that Cairo smell is one of the rare familiar experiences I encounter. I can't seem to find my footing in this city. Instead of being nestled in the suburb of Maadi, as in our childhood (we decided to save our old home for our last day), we are in the mini fortress of a Marriott protected by bomb-sniffing dogs and enclosing not just the Omar Khayyam Casino but also an American steakhouse, a Tuscan ristorante, a British pub and, weirdest of all, a "Roy's Country Kitchen." Buzzing around the casino's slot machines are Egyptian women dressed more gaudily than I've seen patrons in Vegas dressed: We're talking off-the-shoulder minidresses, six-inch heels. Now floats by a woman in a burka—that's a full black burka, with only a slit for the eyes—but even she is sporting painted orange toenails and a sparkly Gucci purse.
We try to walk to the Cairo Museum. It's not far, technically, but the city doesn't exactly cater to pedestrians. Sidewalks suddenly disappear into traffic lanes, and overpasses, when they occur, are like Escher staircases that spill you out onto the wrong side of a cacophonous eight-lane thoroughfare. I also have to confess that this city, to my eyes, is not a beautiful one. It is so destroyed in parts (some buildings burned in earlier protests have not been repaired, their windows still blackened) and so not verdant that I face each foray into its streets with a bit of dread. And yet, because I hate to blame a city, I blame myself for being a person who has somehow lost the capacity for joy, pleasure and adventure.
To get to the old bazaars at Khan El-Khalili that my mom used to love, we take a 30-minute taxi ride. The old Coptic part of the city features churches and entire blocks that appear carved out of mud. The bazaar provides a welcome sea of color: alleyway after alleyway of ornately decorated bags and dresses and rugs fluttering pennant-like above cunning Pharaonic and animal figures of alabaster and brass and lapis lazuli (or at least a substance that looks like lapis lazuli). Taking comfort in the fact that they are selling exactly the same souvenirs, I buy a mother-of-pearl chessboard, toy camels and gilt hassocks that duplicate the 40-year-old ones we have at home. But the continual haggling in a country where few price lists are ever posted is challenging, as is our quest for familiar landmarks and people. The maestros and ballet mistresses we knew have either died or moved away—to Paris, Berlin, New York. The Cairo Opera House, built of wood, burned down in 1971. "That's where it was!" my sister says, throwing her arm out toward an apartment building covered with advertisements. "Cool!" I say, with more enthusiasm than I feel. Preliminary quizzing of drivers suggests that back in once-idyllic Maadi, our childhood school has moved to a new location, there is a soccer club instead of a tennis club, and no one can confirm that even the street our house used to be on still exists.
Meanwhile, overheated, dehydrated, peckish and tired, Tatjana and I are starting to wear on each other. As our schedule did not in the end permit a Nile cruise—our less romantic modes of transportation are well-worn cars, short domestic flights and trains—we take a brief sail on a felucca as a consolation prize. But it is not transformative, and we don't dispatch my mother to the wind in the single cathartic movie throw I had imagined. This is because at every other place we've been to, my sister, grinning, has waved a small plastic film canister at me, saying, "Mama loved that place—I threw a pinch of her ashes there." This horrifies me; it is like seasoning a curry.
Even more ridiculously, my sister and I snap at each other about finances. If her bible, the Lonely Planet guide, says a cab ride should cost 60 pounds, not 70, she doggedly sticks to that number even when drivers protest, loudly. I claim that it's just $10 versus $12 and life is too short, but then I order a bottle of ordinary California wine at dinner and am aghast when she points out it has cost us $100. Oh, the horror of arguing about money. It's as if we've come to Egypt to revisit not the glories of our childhood but the miseries of our parents' marriage.
To amp up the tension, we travel to the legendary and spectacular temples at Abu Simbel by police convoy (it wasn't the luxurious cruise we had imagined). Because of tourist shootings by Islamic extremists in southern Egypt in 1997, the only way visitors are allowed to travel to Abu Simbel is in groups by minibus or with a rented car and driver. That said, it's kind of a relaxed journey. The driver plays "Gangnam Style" on the radio, and our affable guide chats with us about his studies in the hospitality industry as mile after mile of barren desert flies by.
Sources, including the Guardian, estimate that Egyptian tourism has dropped 30 percent since the Arab Spring uprising began in 2011, so it is no real surprise that there are none of the usual crowds at Abu Simbel. My sister and I stand alone in the shadows under the peaceful stone gazes of the four massive seated statues of Ramses II, carved in 1257 BC out of solid rock. How curious is it that the less-than-200-year-old Cairo Opera House has burned down but Ramses II's temple is still standing—complete with 300-year-old archaically hand-lettered graffiti scratched into its walls by French and British soldiers? Just beyond the sandy shore, the Nile is placid, blue, enigmatic.
We finally steel ourselves to return to Maadi via Luxor. But because the Abu Simbel trip has taken a whole day, we are now going to have only one day in Luxor before we fly back to Cairo. Quel dommage—we are having traveler's regret. Luxor is the Egyptian city with the greatest wealth of astonishingly preserved temples, and in retrospect (mid-trip) we are feeling as if we spent too much time holed up in our Cairo hotel. No matter—while experts recommend you give Luxor a full week, we shore ourselves up and decide we will bear down and do it in one day. By 8 am we are in the Valley of the Kings and buzz through four extraordinary, mesmerizing and wonderfully fresh-looking underground tombs. Next up is Hatshepsut's Temple, which beyond its distinctive grand ocean liner–like façade offers relatively little to see within (phew—can cross that one off in an hour!), followed by the mysteriously not-as-famous Ramses II Temple, which is really quite fantastic (it has the giant fallen head that inspired Shelley's "Ozymandias"). After a quick lunch we are at Karnak Temple, which is mind-blowing in its massiveness—its many football fields' worth of —cathedral-like wonder is its own planet. Still on fire at 5 pm, we feel we can cram in one more site: Luxor Temple. Entering its grand gated walls is like stepping into a giant's storybook. As the local muezzin begins his call, the sun sets and the relatively squalid sights of the city (Luxor Temple is smack in the middle of town) melt away. Gradually, the lights come up, casting a haunting glow over Luxor's lowering colossi, with their eternally calm, sightless stone faces.
When we do get back to Cairo, driving toward where our family home used to be, through rural streets overhung with foliage, I see modern houses and boxy apartment buildings. Nothing resonates. But surely there is something—the sunlight playing on banana leaves, hissing sprinklers, the swoony heat, a curving cul-de-sac?
"Here it is—here is the number," my sister says ruefully. "I guess if it were here, it should be behind us on our left." It is of course not there. Our home was earth colored, and this is a white building. But it is of a very recognizable style. The front porch has been enclosed, which makes the entry a different shape than I remember, but as you move your gaze from left to right, you can see it—the same tile roof, the same veranda, the same formal windows that my mother threw open on that first delirious night, and oh, the parklike backyard! The garden!
Tatjana and I begin to weep—tears of sadness, relief and finally joy. To stand before our old villa is to have proof that no matter how long ago it was, our mother once existed. The narrative I've always told myself is that my mother was sad and unhappily married. But standing here on this dusty road in Egypt, I now have proof that she was also for a time happy and that however ill matched, my parents did share a love of adventure and travel. She might have had a more contented life if she had married another man, but she would not have had this life, and this life had moments of real magic.
I have also had my first real adventure without my daughters since they were born. I've begun reclaiming a self that existed before them. When I navigate the world most days, I operate as a mother, my focus on the clocks, schedules, meals, classes, doctor appointments, clothes, shoes and socks of my children. There is no time to dwell on the spaces in between—to track my own sensory experiences, thoughts and memories. Quite frankly, there is no room to be flummoxed, weepy, indecisive or even still. There is certainly no room to be the perhaps purposefully inept little sister I was until age 18 or to participate in the more hand-to-hand combat of siblings.
However fraught it has been spending this time with my sister—the person in the world who is most familiar to me—I recall the vitality of that connection. We try together to puzzle out our parents. We will never quite know them, but we try to figure them out in pieces, like blind men with an elephant. Will my own daughters try to do that with me? Probably, and whether or not they figure me out, or really "know" me, I can be sure they will grasp at least fleeting glimpses, as I have just done with my own mother's life.
But that will be for later. Girls again, Tatjana and I ride to the pyramids on camel and on horseback, for which even I have to say we paid too much. Still, the photos that our charming guide insisted on taking were kick-ass, and the stories he told, like those we all tell of Egypt, priceless.
SANDRA TSING LOH is a writer, a performer and the host of a daily radio minute, "The Loh Down on Science." Her next book, The Bitch Is Back, a humorous take on menopause, will be published by W.W. Norton in spring 2014.
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Love Goes Down was directed by Daniel Wolfe. Bourne had two nominations in the category, the second being for Plan B's
The Recluse video.
"It is really gratifying to win this award," says Bourne. "The competition in the category was really strong. Plan B videos are beautifully crafted and working with Daniel Wolfe was, as always, a pleasure."
Bourne and Wolfe collaboration on all the promos for the singles from Plan B's album, "The Defamation of Strickland Banks."
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