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With Lou Rosenfeld (Polar Bear book) and Steve Krug
(Don't Make Me Think).
IxDA is holding a social Face2Face on November 11, 2008 from 5:30 - 8:00pm
Lou and Steve are coming to D.C. for 2 fantastic workshops on November 11th and 12th, and while they are here, we are happy to host a Face2Face to get together, talk User Experience, Interaction Design and Usability. IxDA D.C. has a full calendar this fall leading all the way up into the New Years so stop in and get the deal. For those that haven't - I highly recommend
registering for the workshops - it's not everyday that leaders in our field come to this town, and you don't want to miss it.
*Mackey's Pub*
1823 L St NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 331-7667
RSVP: Please indicate your interest in the Face2Face by going to the IxDA
D.C. website.
*Lou Rosenfeld's "Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience" workshop*
Washington, DC: November 11, 2008 (early bird deadline October 17)
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld-"co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers-will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. He'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site's content, navigation, metadata, and search performance, and expose new opportunities for improving your business strategy.
*Steve Krug's "Discount Usability Testing" workshop*
Washington, DC: November 12, 2008 (early bird deadline October 17) http://www.sensible.com/workshops.htmlIn In this day-long session, Steve Krug--author of Don't Make Me Think!--will teach you how to do your own low-cost/no-cost testing that's simple enough to make it a routine part of your design process. He'll provide a complete explanation of his simple, fast, and inexpensive approach to testing, demonstrated through two live
usability tests on attendees' sites. You'll have a chance to practice conducting a test on your own site, learning from Steve's advice on how to interpret your findings and decide what changes to make.
I believe Lou and Steve are offering some kind of discount for IxD members - I will check with them and see what is up.
~ will
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and what you innovate are design problems"
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If you can overlook the intrusive commercial breaks and the ho-hum attitude of host Penny Marshall, this second annual cable showcase for female independent filmmakers is worth two hours of your time. The best of the four short films is Dani Minnick's touching World upon Her Shoulder, which stars Karen Young (Daylight) as a woman whose mental breakdown is seen through the eyes of her young daughter (Kashmir Jones). Our runner-up choice is Paula Walker's Seed, which combines terse narrative and flashy camera work in the story of a pregnant cop (The Jackal's Diane Venora) and her shadowy sperm donor. Also on the bill are Carol Mayes's Rituals, a sexy but implausible tale of voodoo and adultery, and Icebergs, Nicola Hart's offbeat comedy of food as a source of family conflict.
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Small Comfort's in the Bag for Breast Cancer Patients at Women's Diagnostic Centers of Community Healthcare System
American Sewing Guild member Flo Schneider of Valparaiso (left) adjusts the shoulder strap on the "Anti-Ouch Pouch" being demonstrated by (right) Suzanne Ruiz, RN, MS, NP-C, certified Breast Health Navigator at the Women's Diagnostic Center in Munster.
MUNSTER — Breast cancer patients undergoing treatment at the Women's Diagnostic Centers of Community Healthcare System each take home a little bit of comfort, packaged neatly into one convenient tote. The "Anti-Ouch Pouch" is a wedge-shaped pillow with an adjustable shoulder strap. Breast cancer survivor Deon Maas intentionally designed it to resemble a tote bag so that it can be used inconspicuously in public.
This soft pillow is designed to be worn snugly against the underarm to cushion the area after breast surgery. The wedge shape gently holds the arm away from the body when the user is standing. The strap holds the pillow in place without having to use sore arm muscles to "clutch" it. The strap is adjustable and the fiberfill amount may be adjusted via the overlapped opening to provide maximum comfort.
"We've been distributing the Anti-Ouch Pouch to our patients who come in for needle localizations over the past six months and the feedback has been very positive," said Suzanne Ruiz, RN, MS, NP-C, certified Breast Health Navigator at Community Hospital in Munster.
In her role as Breast Health Navigator, Ruiz helps patients understand their treatment options and guides them along their journey through the healthcare system. She is the main contact for these patients who undergo needle biopsies and other surgeries, including mastectomies, all the way through recovery.
The pillow originally was introduced to the Women's Diagnostic Centers at the hospitals of Community Healthcare System: Community Hospital in Munster and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart and, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago by Flo Schneider of Valparaiso. Schneider is a member of the American Sewing Guild (ASG), the non-profit organization from which the project stems.
The "Anti-Ouch Pouch" by Maas is dedicated to her mother, Doris Lock, who taught her to sew. Both women are breast cancer survivors and members of the American Sewing Guild. In the fall of 2005, Maas herself was recovering from a mastectomy. Although she tried holding a small pillow to ease the painful area under her arm, she disliked the fact that the pillow kept one of her hands occupied at all times. It prevented her from getting back to the activities she loved, especially sewing. Right away, the creative wheels in Maas' head began to turn. She combined her ingenuity with her sewing talent and came up with a smart, stylish solution: The Anti-Ouch Pouch.
Inspired to share her great invention on a wider scale, Maas got together with the American Sewing Guild. Chosen as its nationwide service project for 2008, ASG members, including Schneider, have been working hard to not only create the pouches, but distribute them as well.
ASG is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) with more than 20,000 members and 130 chapters across the nation. It is driven by the volunteer power of its membership who sponsor local special events, community service projects, membership drives, fashion shows, produce local newsletters, establish educational programs, run Neighborhood Groups and much more.


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Day 3. My body was hot as Harry's eyes fucked me over breakfast. His green orbs rolled carelessly over my face as he ran his wet tongue along his bottom lip, etching the corner of his mouth upwards. I raised my eyebrows at him as he stretched his neck to one side, bringing attention to his cutting jaw and the outside edge of his collar bone. Harry's eyes widened as I leant over the table...
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When Shaun Ellis saw the home crowd at Gillette Stadium rejoice so heartily the structure shook, he knew Baltimore Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff had missed the 32-yard field goal.
And the Jets-turned-New England Patriots defensive end had one thought: Finally.
After 12 seasons in the NFL, Ellis will play in his first Super Bowl. He grinned, acknowledging that it being with the Patriots would have been inconceivable to him five years ago.
"I wouldn't have believed it, because I thought I would finish my career with the Jets," Ellis said after the Patriots' 23-20 win against Baltimore in yesterday's AFC Championship Game. "God had other plans. That was one of his plans to bring me here. I said earlier, 'I'm just going to put it in God's hands, and wherever he leads me, that's where I'm going to go.' And look where I am at now."
Ellis played his first 11 seasons with the Jets and figured he would retire with the team. But when he was a free agent this summer, he saw the Jets' one-year offer at the veterans' minimum as a sign they didn't want him back. He instead signed a one-year deal with the Patriots worth between $4 million and $5 million, and assimilated himself into the rivals' locker room.
Nearly six months later, the decision has paid off. He's headed to Indianapolis, while the 8-8 Jets missed the playoffs.
"I played my heart out for them guys for years," Ellis said. "If you would have cut me open, I was bleeding green."
But, he added: "Once I got the call from Bill (Belichick), there wasn't any hesitation in my mind that this is where I wanted to be. I just put everything aside — in the past, the rivalry, and moved on."
Ellis praised Belichick, explaining that the organization's sustained success comes from the top down, and the inspiring work ethic of quarterback Tom Brady.
"I just wish everybody could be able to see what goes on here," he said.
Ellis had a quiet performance in yesterday's game, in what has been an up-and-down year for him. He did not register a tackle on the stat sheet. But he was proud to be part of a defensive effort that held up despite criticisms. Of the Patriots' run, he vowed, "It's not done."
"It's definitely a humbling experience, considering where I came from," Ellis said. "That's what I say; I call it (the Jets) 'where I came from.' To be able to come here, to be able to go with the rivalry between us and then to be able to be here and see how they do things and be able to get over that hump, for me, it's definitely a great feeling."
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Posted by Chelsea on February 08, 2010
I've waxed on and on about how much I love Erin Condren stationery…it's graphic and modern, yet still classically sweet and traditional. A couple of years ago I sent out personalized Valentine's Cards from her Valentine's Day line (she has all sorts of other seasonal card offerings too), and they were a huge hit. This year, I didn't quite get my tush in gear (blame it on the thousands of feet of snow we've been getting here in D.C.). Instead, I'm sending out good 'ol Hallmark cards, but I'm attaching some of Erin's customized heart labels on the envelopes. Here are some of the styles she offers:
They're $20 for 25 labels, and if you order today, you can still get them in time for Valentine's Day! Visit erinconcren.com to order. Want to win a set? Email me at email@example.com and tell me who your Valentine is! One winner will be chosen at random.
Posted by Chelsea on December 09, 2009
What's that old saying about houseguests being like fish…both start to stink after a few days? If you need some help on handling houseguests this holiday season, there are some great tips currently up on The Family Groove. Check them out below, and be sure to check out the site for all sorts of other fantastic holiday survival advice.
Guest Room Basics
Start with a quick round of season's cleaning! There's no time like the present to go through (toss, organize, donate or recycle) all of your stuff. You know, the stuff that you forgot you had that's taking up space in the attic, basement, closets, cabinets, etc.
Be sure to give your guests a place to unpack in both drawers and the closet. Provide several empty hangers and either a bench or a stand for their suitcase, too.
Be sure the bed you give your guests is a comfortable one. If you have an old mattress, invest in a topper for added plushness. Fresh sheets and pillows—that are in good shape!—are a must. Provide a quality comforter or duvet and extra blankets.
The bedside table should have a lamp for reading, flowers in a small vase, magazines, books, paper and a pen. Other basics of fine hospitality include a pitcher of water and a glass. A clock and music, either an iPod docking station or Sirius radio, will make your guest feel right at home.
Hang a bathrobe on the back of the door and stack fresh towels in the bathroom. Be sure the shower has shampoo, conditioner and shower gel.
Consider purchasing and having your guest's favorite tea on hand. Or if your guest favors a particular cocktail, have all the mixings ready to get him or her into the holiday spirit!
Bring a little holiday décor right to their door by placing a wreath or door ornament on their door handle and/or placing a bowl of sparkling ornaments on a tabletop in their room.
Room fragrance or a scented candle keep the air fresh. A small bowl of candy is also a sweet touch.
Just remember: Whether you choose to incorporate some, a few or all of these tips, the idea is to make your guest(s) feel at home.
Colleen Mullaney has enjoyed a long and dynamic career devoted to style and entertaining. Whether it be through her many published works or with her friends and family, Colleen has made it her passion to bring style to the world through floral design, home decorating and crafting. Colleen is a former editor in chief of Family Circle Homecrafts, FTD In Bloom and Jo-Ann magazines. Most recently, she partnered with Chris Madden on the launch of her magazine At Home with Chris Madden.
Her books include Shells, Faux Fabulous Florals (Sixth&Spring) and her popular Punch (in its third printing with Chronicle Books; more than 30,000 copies have been sold in such outlets as Williams-Sonoma and Anthropologie). Colleen will celebrate her take on bridal with One-of-a-Kind Weddings (Creative Publishing) as well as the global entertaining landscape with It's 5 o'clock Somewhere (Sixth&Spring). Colleen has created interiors for residential and commercial spaces, and she's designed cottage gardens and floral arrangements for clients up and down the East Coast. You can also see her work in full color on HGTV's Insider's Garden and soon on the web with a yet-to-be-announced project. Colleen lives in Westchester, N.Y., with her husband and three children, where she is constantly hosting playdates and dinner parties, toiling in the garden, and working on future projects.
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Posted by Chelsea on December 10, 2008
Need a good new baby gift or wee one holiday gift? If buying something adorable and doing good is your bag, you must get yourself over to pediped.com. From Dec. 17-31, the makers of that gorgeous children's footwear are reducing the price of select shoe styles and then donating 50 percent of the sales from said shoes to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. So far, pediped has raised more than $87,000, enough to grant the wishes of 12 children with life-threatening medical conditions.
For more information, visit pediped.com.
Posted by Chelsea on December 09, 2008
Choosing gifts for all of the loved ones on your list can be tough - especially when your wallet's a little lighter than it's been in years past. In the market for some cool, sure-to-please gifts that offer a big bang for your buck? As always, I'm here to help!
This afternoon (Tuesday) at 1:00 PM EST, I'll be joining Broads Molly and Christine of Sirius and XM Radio's "Broadminded" (tune in on XM Channel 155 and Sirius Channel 120!) to discuss my favorite holiday gift suggestions - nearly all of which are under $50! Here they are, below:
1) The Perfect Cashmere Robe, $35, BathandBodyWorks.com
This snuggly soft cashmere-blend robe (which comes boxed and gift-ready) is seriously luxe - especially considering the price. For and extra $29, you can add the matching slippers.
2) Erin Condren 2009 Family Calendar, $40, erincondren.com
This personalized 11.5" x 17.5" 16-month calendar from whimsically wonderful designer Erin Condren features a centered hole punch for easy hanging and is backed with heavy-duty acrylic should you prefer to rest on any cookbook holder in the kitchen for easy viewing. Its front page is an info guide you can complete with valuable information for babysitters or housesitters. Also included are 216 colorful circle stickers to highlight birthdays, vacations, doctor's appointments, & more. You can also use the colorful "blank" stickers to create your own color-coded system. Each month features a different bright design and inspirational quote. For an extra $48, you can add a matching life planner. Can't get enough Erin? Check out the ultra-affordable line of holiday cards she created for Shutterfly.com.
3) C.O. Bigelow Barber After-Shave Balms in Elixir Blue, Green, Red and Black, $10 each, BathandBodyWorks.com.
He'll love these stocking-ready aromatic, after-shave moisture lotions for just-shaved skin are formulated with healing aloe vera and cooling, calming extracts to ease skin discomforts and promote healing of minor nicks and cuts. And the fragrances….so subtle and classic.
4) Chesapeake Bay Candle's Green Bamboo Jasmine Home Set, $60, chesapeakebaycandle.com
This clean-smelling fragrance set contains one 7 oz. soy wax filled candle in a silkscreened glass vessel, one silkscreened mini diffuser bottle and set of reeds, one 100 ml bottle of fragrance oil and one embossed ceramic fragrance ball (containing sachet with scented beads). It's an ideal hostess gift or gift for your boss.
5) Nuvo Sparkling Liqueur, $30 for 750 ml, popswine.com.
This pink sparkling liqueur is made with vodka and a small amount of delicate French sparkling wine (chardonnay with a touch of pinot noir), natural raspberry, peach and strawberry fruit nectars. It can be enjoyed chilled over ice in a champagne flute, or served over a pink sugar-rimmed glass of ice with a splash of Prosecco. Housed in a chic bottle that is reminiscent of luxury perfume bottles, it's the perfect hostess gift.
6) Lavanilla's The Healthy Candle, $32, sephora.com
An ideal gift for your favorite greenie, this good-enough-to-eat candle is all natural, non-allergenic, non-toxic, and eco-friendly, burning clean to create a safe and healthy environment without releasing harmful smoke, pollutants, toxins, or soot into the air you breathe. My favorite scent: Vanilla Coconut.
7) Trish McEvoy Snowdrop & Crystal Flower Roll-on Eau de Toilette, $20, nordstrom.com
This elegant, roll-on fragrance, a romantic, modern blend of white narcissus, snowdrop flowers and crystal musk, is a pocket-perfect Trish fragrance. Encased in a pretty organza drawstring pouch, it's perfect to slip in a stocking or give as an elegant gift.
8) Lambie Sleep Blanket, $35, bathandbodyworks.com
Your favorite little guy or gal will love wrapping up in this big, snuggly blanket all winter long.
Posted by Chelsea on November 12, 2008
Robeez, the makers of those little shoes you know you all put on your babies, recently launched its fourth annual Season of Giving campaign, a charitable initiative to donate shoes to infants in need during the holiday season. Here's how it works: For every Happy Holidays e-card sent from the Season of Giving website, Robeez will make a $5 product donation via its charitable partner, Kids in Distressed Situations (K.I.D.S.). It's easy: one card = $5 worth of Robeez footwear; 10 cards = $50 worth of Robeez footwear, and on and on!
A little bonus: For taking the time to send an e-card, Robeez is offering senders a chance to win one of seven new Shoes and Socks Gift Sets. The initiative ends December 20. It only takes a few minutes, so visit seasonofgiving.robeez.com and help others keep their feet warm this winter.
Posted by Chelsea on November 29, 2007
As my 5th grade teacher used to say, times flies when you're having fun…and even when you're not. Do you believe that it's almost Chanukah? And Christmas is right around the corner. Damn, when did December happen?
This past weekend I realized I needed to get my butt in gear and get my holiday cards ordered already. I'm a big fan of photo cards - especially when you have kids. It's always fun to show off how cute your kid is and when you get others' cards, see how everyone's kid has grown since last year.
For my son's first holiday season, when he was only a couple of months old, I sent out photo cards (I ordered them off Shutterfly.com) with this photo:
Though my son is not named Rick Jr. after his father, when I was pregnant with him, I referred to him as "Rick Jr." because I knew he was a boy and I thought it was funny, particularly because Jewish people don't name for those who are alive. We think it's bad luck or something, and instead name for someone who has passed away. Though using your deceased relative's actual name works, of course, you can use the name's first letter. So, if your late grandpa was Mordecai, you're not screwed; Max (or Meredith) is sufficient. Additionally, if you are having a hard time picking an "M" name you like (or you didn't really like your grandpa that much but your mom is going to "die a thousand deaths" if you don't honor him), the middle name works too.
Anyway, I digress….so, I guess I referred to this baby as Rick Jr. so much that one of my mom's good friends actually thought I was naming my son Rick Jr., and purchased this pillow for me. I included it in his nursery, thinking it was so cute and a good reminder of what I called him in utero. Well, when he came out, he WAS (and, naturally, still remains) Rick Jr. As I've lamented before, he's a clone of my husband. Therefore, the pillow - and the card - was all the funnier.
Last year, I sent out a GORGEOUS card from Tiny Prints with a black and white version of this photo of my son, my husband and myself (with that annoying lock of hair over my forehead Photoshopped out) from our annual Cape Cod trip:
This year, I chose another cool card from Shutterfly.com, and I have to say, it's my favorite holiday card yet. I'll post it later so as to not ruin the surprise for those who will be receiving it, but I gotta tell you, it is really cute.
If you're needing to order some holiday cards for yourself (and seriously, if you haven't yet done it - you need to do it soon, people!), I definitely recommend checking out Shutterfly.com. Not only are its cards reasonably-priced, but have it has a selection of cards designed by well-known artists/personalities like avalisa, Martha Stewart, Stacy Claire Boyd and Shirley Lee. Additionally, Kodak Gallery has all sorts of beautiful cards (and photo gifts) too. A word to the wise: before ordering your photo cards from a big-time online vendor, check the site's homepage or couponchief.net for discount codes - if you order early enough, you can often get 20-30% off your order!
If you're looking for something different, check out Simply Silhouettes. Their cards are so cool; you take a picture of your child or childrens' profile/s, which they turn into silhouettes and then place them on a card, like this:
or this
Happy holidays (and card making!).
Posted by Chelsea on November 01, 2007
Thankfully, this Halloween the Kaplans avoided the costume scandal of last year. Luckily, I got it right this time by purchasing with a seriously adorable Batman getup for my son. Not the most original, I know, but is there anything cuter than a little boy in a Batman costume? I think not.
While I imagined he'd look cute in the costume, I was concerned that my son would not be into donning the best parts of it - the cape and the mask. Fortunately, however, he didn't protest about either. Phew!
By the time we were ready to go trick or treating, Batman was WIRED. He had no nap yesterday (too much excitement, I guess) and had eaten like 3 packages of Whoppers.
Here are some photos of all the Halloween glory:
Batman with his weapon of choice, a plastic pumpkin
Riding his version of the Batmobile
Getting ready to go out, minus his hat
Trick or treating/saving the neighborhood with Dad
Back at home, saving the rug from fuzz balls
And kissing Mommy, the biggest superhero of all, right?
Hope everyone had a great Halloween!
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AR15 barrel change
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January 20, 2003, 05:02 PM
Is it safe to change the barrel assembly on an AR-15? What do I have to do? Check headspace afterwards and make sure it is safe and thats it?
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January 20, 2003, 05:10 PM
Not difficult at all. Remove the handguards (slip ring back so you can lift top off first, then bottom). Use Roll pin punch to push out gas tube roll pin located at the front sight base. Slide out gas tube (be sure not to "kink" it). Put barrel in barrel blocks (if you don't have a set, you can make it out of oak - take calipers to the bbl and measure and find a drill that fits. Drill & cut wood in half on bandsaw) then use wrench to loosen barrel nut. Off she comes. Viola!
Assembly is in reverse order. You should headspace it when you're done.
Jeff White
January 20, 2003, 05:56 PM
Yes, it's safe and fairly easy to change the barrel assembly of your AR15.
Headspace isn't an issue, because it's set when the barrel is put into the barrel extension at the factory. If you buy a new (or near new) barrel from a reputable manufacturer, you should have no headspace issues.
You will need a barrel wrench, barrel or upper receiver vice blocks, a pin punch to remove the gas tube roll pin, a new gas tube roll pin for reinstallation, retaining ring pliers for the retaining ring that holds the barrel nut/slip ring assembly together, a foot pound torque wrench and molybdenum disulfide grease.
Clear the weapon and remove the upper from the lower receiver. Remove the bolt and carrier from the upper receiver. Remove the handguards and place your upper receiver in the vise blocks (or barrel, whichever you prefer, I like to use the barrel vise blocks, even though they leave aluminum on the barrel that you later have to clean off, you are less likely to damage the upper when torquing the barrel the final time.), drift out the gas tube roll pin in the front sight base. Now remove the gas tube by twisting and pulling it to the rear. Once it clears the front sight base, carefully pull it forwar, past the front sight base and out of the upper receiver.
Now put the barrel wrench on the barrel nut and loosen the barrel nut. Pull the barrel out of the upper receiver. Use the retaining ring pliers to remove the retaining ring from the back of the barrel nut. Now you can remove the spring and slip ring for use on your new barrel assembly. Remove the old barrel assembly from the vise and insert the new one. Put the slip ring and spring on the new barrel nut and using the retraining ring pliers, re-install the retaining ring into the groove in the back of the barrel nut.
Clean the threads on the new barrel nut and apply some of the molybdenum disulfide grease to them. (the grease acts as an anti-seize compound)
Wipe the threads on the upper receiver clean and make certain there are no burrs. Apply some of the molybdenum disulfide grease to them. Align the upper receiver assembly using the slot in the upper receiver and the alignment pin on the barrel extension. The alignment pin should fit in the slot almost perfectly with little to no rotational play present. Tighten the barrel nut to the upper receiver. Tighten to 30 ft-pounds. Loosen and repeat. torque operation, then loosen and repeat again. The three times torquing procedure provides for better thread fit and prevents the barrel from loosening. Now tighten the barrel nut a little more until you can align the notches in it with the hole in the upper receiver for the gas tube. Caution; Do not tighten to more the 80 ft pounds to align the notch and hole.
Use an old gas tube or a number 15 (0.180 inch) twist drill to align the parts of the barrel nut slip ring assembly with the hole in the upper for the gas tube. Insert the gas tube into the upper then into the front sight base. Drive a new gas tube roll pin into the front sigt base and you are finished.
If you are really worried about headspace use a USGI field gage and check it. There is no adjustment, so if you have excessive headspace you can either change the bolt or the barrel. In practice, I have never known headpsace to be a problem as long as you started with good parts from a reputable manufacturer.
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Hi, my name is Lauren. I'm not new around here at Babble. In fact, I got my start here back when I was a newly pregnant first-timer-mom-to-be about two-and-a-half years ago and since then have written for not only Babble Pregnancy, but also for their beauty, style and toddler channels. My daughter will be turning two in January and now here I am…doing it all over again to document my second pregnancy.
I am currently 13 weeks pregnant with our second child (you can check out our pregnancy announcement here) and will be sharing my pregnancy journey here at Babble. I'm really excited to have a second go at this pregnancy blogging thing, because honestly, I was totally clueless the first time around. I have a degree in child and family development, but I knew very little about anything baby-related going into my first pregnancy. This time around, things should definitely be a little bit different since this ain't my first rodeo.
Honestly, when I look back at some of my old pregnancy posts, I can't help but laugh a little. I was so naive. There were so many things I said I would never do, or things I wanted surrounding pregnancy and birth that flew out the window pretty quickly. I was also super uptight about everything and doing it all by the book. This time around, I've probably eaten my weight in deli meat sandwiches and undercooked eggs.
A few things you may want to know about me if you don't already follow me on Babble:
*My last pregnancy turned me into a sometimes hippie. I live in Portland Oregon, so I suppose it was only a matter of time.
*I had an out-of-hospital birth at a birthing center with my first child (you can read my birth story here).
*I plan on having a home birth this time around.
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In Which We Always Retain The Image Of Ourselves As An Outsider
Manhattan in Middle Age
by ELIZABETH GUMPORT
New York is a city that looks better from a distance. The gap can be temporal – the poverty of youth becomes, in time, one's golden freedom – or spatial. A friend from Chicago complained that Manhattan lacked alleyways: in the summer, our garbage stunk and burned on the sidewalks. On the Brooklyn Bridge, the smell disappears, and all you can see are buildings massed at the edge of the island, the offices crowned with lights, glowing like bottles in a dark bar. The boundaries of other cities blur – at what point do the sprawling lights become suburb? – but Manhattan is an island, cut cleanly against the night. As pure image, New York is flawless: tidy, discrete, simple to hold in your mind, and for this reason particularly easy to romanticize. Emblem, icon, colophon: its skyline stands for a story.
It is this fantasy that makes the reality bearable. "There is really only one city for everyone, just as there is one major love" the novelist Dawn Powell wrote in 1953. "New York is my city because I have an investment I can always draw on – a bottomless investment of twenty-one years (I count the day I was born) of building up an idea of New York – so no matters what happens here I have the rock of my dreams of it that nothing can destroy."
Born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, Powell arrived in New York in 1918. The city was the largest in the Western Hemisphere: 2.3 million people lived in Manhattan alone. Her life sounds like the life of many new arrivals: she moved frequently, first renting on West 85th Street, and then West End Avenue, and finally a series of apartments in Greenwich Village. For a time she worked as a typist; once she appeared as an extra in a film. Before she became a novelist, she freelanced: American Agriculturalist, Southern Ruralist, Oil and Gas Journal, a piece on "Pekinese poodles" for Dogdom. She went through a phase of screaming in her sleep.
In 1920, Powell and Joseph Gousha took the ferry to Staten Island for their first date. That November, after addressing a brief letter to her aunt – "please come and give me away next Saturday" – she married Gousha at the Church of Transfiguration, known as the Little Church Around the Corner, on East 29th Street. In the following years, Powell would give birth to an autistic son, who once beat her so hard she had to be hospitalized. Powell drank a lot, Gousha drank more, and they were almost always broke or near-broke.
In Powell's New York novels, scenes and images accumulate; parties propel, or stand in for, plot. Restaurants and cafes figure prominently in many of her novels; Café Julien, which serves as the hub of The Wicked Pavilion, was inspired by Powell's beloved Hotel Lafayette, on Washington Square between University Place and Ninth Street. The hotel was demolished in 1950 and replaced with apartments.
Powell's novels feature artists and editors, writers and failed writers, the "quartette of midnight friends (male) who would not know each other by day but view everybody's business (particularly their catastrophes) with a philosophic pleasure" and the "completely New York people" who "only remember you when you've gone into your fourth printing." Her subject is the man who believes, or once believed, that "New York loved him as it loved no other young man."
"… spangled skyscrapers piled up softly against the darkness, tinseled parks were neatly boxed and ribboned with gold like Christmas presents waiting to be opened. Sounds of traffic dissolved in distance, all clangor sifted through space into a whispering silence, it held a secret, and when letters flamed triumphantly in the sky you felt, ah, that was the secret, this at last was it, this special telegram to God — Sunshine Biscuits. On and off it went, Eat Sunshine Biscuits, the message of the city."
In many ways Powell's life was what one imagines the life of an author to be, at once glamorous and sordid: drinks and debts, famous acquaintances (Edmund Wilson was one, Hemingway another), pithy asides ("I don't make beds," Powell said. "I break them."), and perpetual professional dissatisfaction. Over the years, she bounced from publisher to publisher. For a time she worked with Maxwell Perkins, after whom she named her cat.
Powell saw herself as a descendent of Edith Wharton, and her novels as Menippean satires, but believed their subject matter caused critics to dismiss them as frivolous. "This is obviously an age that can't take it," Powell complained. "When someone wishes to write of this age — as I do and have done — critics shy off — the public shies off." No subject is in itself serious or unserious: whether something is drama and comedy depends not on the events of the plot but the attitude of the author.
"Thirty is really the most important age for women. . . They have to be started towards fame or a family by that time, and if they're not, they're done for. So you see it's very necessary that I should crowd the next few years." Powell often lied about her age.
People think New York changes, but it never does. It doesn't matter whether the year is 1919 or 2009: the city has always been too expensive and too vicious. A letter Powell wrote to a college friend shortly after her arrival in New York touched on what would become the central themes of her novels. "Beauty," she stated, "is after all the only thing in the world that matters — not mental or spiritual beauty or any of that lying rot, but splendid physical beauty. . . Let us not mention money — it is so obvious that it is money that makes beauty possible, so that very likely money is the only thing that matters more than beauty."
What is true is not always nice, and it is true that happiness begets happiness. People who luck into money or beauty find more of it, and more; its early absence only makes its later arrival more unlikely. Money burns, youth melts away, and the failure of one person makes possible the success of another: in Turn, Magic Wheel, a young author uses his friend's failed marriage to a Hemingway-like figure as fodder for his novel. To survive here, you must protect yourself: "I will be absolutely free," Powell wrote when a long-term affair ended. "No affections can touch me." The city demands a novel as hard as itself: "Nothing will cut New York but a diamond."
Powell's novels are like New York parties, where familiar faces – ravaged by alcohol, the hour good for going home having long past them by – appear again and again. A number of characters who figure or are mentioned in Turn, Magic Wheel return for A Time To Be Born, set in the early days of World War II.
"Drink," muses one, "seemed the only protection against the lacerations of his mind, now that he was back in New York, his foot rocking away once more on the touted ladder of success. At this time the famous ladder was propped against nothing and led nowhere, and anyone foolish enough to make the world his oyster was courting ptomaine; yet the ladder tradition was still observed, and until the flames reached them young people were still found going through the motions of climbing." Later, he tells another character, "Youth is all I demand of a woman."
A title Powell considered but never used: Promiscuity Recollected In Senility
The city that unduly privileges youth also extends it. Powell called Manhattan "the town for middle age. Elsewhere, middle age is surrounded by its grandchildren or young and chaperoned into discretion." We become addicted to our endless childhoods. Trying to leave proves futile: if New York is bad, everywhere else is worse.
On a trip home to Ohio, Powell found in Cleveland "private homes as big as our public libraries, the beautiful country clubs, the glorification of material conveniences, the vast invincible Magazine Public that in New York we can thank God forget. . . I caught the language again quickly and the familiar combination of open hearts and closed minds that represents so much of the country except New York, where we have closed hearts first, and minds so open that carrier pigeons can fly straight through without leaving a message."
While working at the MacDowell Colony, Powell learned Edward MacDowell had gone mad on the estate, and wondered if his wife "started this place after his death to see how many other artists would be driven nuts by it, too." Once you get out of the game, it's hard to get back in, and for some people this is reason not to play at all. Even those like Powell, who love the hustle, or are addicted to it, know a world exists across the river. Powell always retained an image of herself as outsider.
In the autobiographical short story "What Are You Doing In My Dreams?" she envisioned a split self, half of which lived by day in New York and "the other half by night with the dead in long-ago Ohio." Edmund Wilson described Powell's real theme as "the provincial in New York who has come on from the Middle West and acclimatized himself (or herself) to the city and made himself a permanent place there, without ever, however, losing his fascinated sense of an alien and anarchic society."
Located to the north of the Bronx in Long Island Sound, Hart Island – accessible, like Staten Island, only by ferry – has served since 1869 the home of New York Cemetery, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world. New York Cemetery is a potter's field, and each year inmates from Riker's Island inter over a thousand bodies in its mass graves. When the executor of her estate declined to claim her remains, Powell was buried on Hart Island.
She was lucky: those of us raised in New York have no other half, no dream-island to fall back on when the real city disappoints. We are all New York, and it is the rest of the world that seems unreal. Failure here means failure in full; a life lived elsewhere would be less than a life. In the end, of course, it hardly matters. Nobody wins the game: youth is all anybody demands of a woman, and we are not so long young. The best we can hope for is to die and be buried in New York.
Elizabeth Gumport is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in New York. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here. You can find her website here.
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6 Innocent-Sounding Topics That Are Guaranteed Flame Wars
Cutting off the foreskin isn't for everybody. Jews and Muslims do it. Women can't. For lots of other people, it's a case-by-case choice. Or at least most of us think it should be a choice.
Start a discussion on it in any public forum, though, and someone's going to pop up tearing into anyone pro-circumcision as a "mutilator" or "child abuser" or "butcher."
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There's definitely drawbacks that are worth looking at (Cracked previously covered some reasons it might not be a great idea) but it seems like a bit much to suggest women who circumcise their babies have their vaginas removed en masse.
Or call them a "promiscuous dirty person."
You can't start a flamewar without effort from both sides, and there's always a bunch of pro-circumcision people willing to add fuel to the fire.
And of course, here comes Hitler.
You don't have to even start a thread about circumcision to invite these people in. Unlike vampires, they can wander into competely unrelated threads uninvited, like this thread about what the Jehovah's Witnesses spend their money on. I don't even know how that turned into a circumcision debate.
It's not just "those internet debates" either. There are anti-circumcision people moving to outlaw circumcision for everyone. San Francisco managed to get a law on the ballot for this upcoming November before the governor quashed it Sunday.
Now, I think we can all agree preachy vegans are annoying, and that if someone tries to badger you into converting to veganism, you have the right to uppercut them. (Just once. Those are the rules.)
But what's inexplicable is that should a person just announce they themselves are going vegan, without trying to convert anyone else, I guarantee someone will feel the urge to pop up and attack them.
All this person said was they were going vegan and wondering if anyone had any recipes. And in response?
Not that the thread didn't get a visit from your average Angry Vegan too:
Another forum had some interesting things to say to a guy who was going vegan:
I don't even know what to say about that last one.
One of the ways people justify these attacks is by saying that veganism is dangerous and they're doing a public service by quashing it.
One blogger reposted a news story claiming a mom's vegan diet killed her baby. Here's the actual story from an actual news outlet, if you want it without the crazy person spin.
When one person in the comment dared to mention that many vegan moms breastfeed and don't end up with dead kids, so maybe veganism in itself doesn't directly kill children, but poor attention to vitamin deficiencies, the blogger lost it:
You'd think this was some ultraconservative person against the hippy dippy ways of vegans, but no, their site goes on about how all you need in your diet are "traditional fats" and "sacred foods", including the mysterious "Activator X," which sounds like a Six Flags ride.
Anyway, the point is that this person is a nut who is annoyed that other nuts are getting all the good press. Most of the time vegan hate comes from general hippie hate, but sometimes you'll find these types mixed in there too.
Dog Poop
How can something that brings joy to so many teenagers when set on fire in a paper bag also cause so much strife among adults? It is a mystery. But dog poop makes people really really angry.
One person's measured response to a dog poop problem in their neighborhood:
Another person's reasonable suggestion regarding a couple who bagged their dog's poop and left the bag on a bike trail:
Of course, people complaining about dog poop sometimes get yelled at too:
That thread had over 200 replies, by the way. And let's not forget physical threats:
I mean, this is obviously a vital, life-and-death issue. Extreme measures are called for.
Like apartment complex homeowner associations (HOAs) collecting DNA samples of all resident dogs, so they can pin poops on the guilty parties with DNA analysis.
I think you can guess what's coming here.
That's right. Hitler.
Now I'm not saying everybody's wrong or these aren't important issues to argue about, especially dog poop, but it just seems like there's a switch that goes off in a lot of people's brains that turn potentially reasonable debates into screaming matches full of physical threats and Hitlers.
Maybe none of these set you off, but I'm pretty sure we all have a thing. Maybe for you it's whether the toilet paper should go over or under the roll, or what really counts as "techno," or whether skinny jeans are an abomination, but you should probably figure it out before you kill someone over it or smear their car with feces.
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CLAYSBURG - Asked why their town has seen so many child sex abuse cases in just over a month, many Claysburg residents offered the same answer late last week.
"It's in the water."
It's a grim joke, of course, but it hits at a deeper question: Why have police, in just over a month, charged five Claysburg-area residents for crimes at three locations, each barely a mile from the others? And how does the ongoing front-page attention affect a relatively close-knit community of 1,500 people?
"I don't know what it is in this town," said a man smoking with friends outside a tobacco shop. "It wasn't like this when I was younger."
Many locals interviewed asked not to be named, for fear either of reprisal or being associated publicly with the cases.
Even among the few who hadn't heard the case names - the Partsches, Patrick and Tabatha, who allegedly abused young children; the Bryants, Rickey II and Christina, in which the husband allegedly assaulted a child while his wife failed to tell police; and Brittany Weyandt, a 20-year-old who allegedly had a baby with a 14-year-old boy - it usually took only a quick reminder from a friend to recognize the suspect.
"That's so-and-so's daughter, remember?"
"Oh, yeah."
Those living in Claysburg, which comprises the more densely populated eastern half of Greenfield Township, all seemed to have their own explanations for the apparent rash of bizarre sex crimes.
Some put it down to excessive news coverage, arguing that child abuse happens everywhere, not just Claysburg.
"Go to Portage, go to Cresson. There's some weird cases up there too," a waitress said between coffee refills at Peggy's Diner.
But even police in Greenfield Township acknowledged that the monthlong spate of arrests has been unique.
In 2011, the township had only two sexually-based offenses, according to the state's crime reporting system. The year before that, there were five.
"My very first call this morning was a complaint of a sexual-type harassment," Greenfield Township Police Chief Ron Givler said.
Givler said high-profile prosecutions and convictions in sex cases can inspire more victims, even in unrelated crimes, to step forward, noting what he called the "old adage" about rape: A huge number are never reported simply because victims fear the publicity.
"How many of these have gone on [elsewhere] that have gone unreported?" he said. "We're - I don't know whether you could say fortunate - that we got these cases."
Pastor Marcus Tanner, who lives in Duncansville but is senior pastor at the Claysburg Church of God off Old Route 220, said he's seen "an overall depression" in many communities, including Claysburg, that can contribute to serious crime.
The past month's reports have intimidated many parents, he said.
"It gives most of the people a feeling of caution with everybody. It would probably make them guard their children closer," Tanner said.
As for the mental state that could allow local adults to sexually abuse children, Tanner was at a loss.
"I just cannot imagine somebody's mind going in that direction," he said. "How can it go there? Even subconsciously?"
A surprising number of Claysburg residents blamed the rise of low-income housing, which they claimed draws an undesirable element to the small town.
One man - part of a definite minority - stressed at least one suspect's innocence, attributing Tabatha Partsch's serial-abuse case to a family rivalry.
No matter what they say about the individual cases, however, nearly everyone interviewed agreed that the allegations have shed a harsh light on Claysburg. With news organizations as far away as England picking up the stories, it could be difficult to repair the small community's sudden new reputation.
"Anytime you have cases of child sex abuse being reported on a weekly basis, it does bring up a bad image of a town," Rich Gergely said as he ate at Peggy's Diner. "But it's a great place to raise a family. ... It's not a fair reputation."
Onlookers shouldn't apply the past month's arrests to Claysburg as a whole, Givler said.
"It's an unfair assumption to make. There are a lot of good people in this community," he said. "And like any other community, we have our share of bad apples."
And while Givler acknowledged that no police force can stop every sex abuse case, Claysburg's five recent arrests might provoke more victims to come forward, he said, noting that more allegations against Jerry Sandusky surfaced after the first reports last fall.
As they described other possible child-abuse cases in surrounding neighborhoods, the friends smoking outside the cigarette shop said Claysburg might see more arrests soon.
"They haven't even scratched the surface," one said.


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aka daddy's "wine"...for when family is on the way for turkey day...
|Bourbon (Overproof, Shy)
|Pimm's No. 1 Cup
|Bitters, Angostura
|Chocolate bitters, Bitter Truth Chocolate
|Maraschino cherry, Luxardo (Generous Syrup)
Shake on ice, strain into vessel of choice - ideally a wine glass for incognito
The idea is a 'flat red wine' so ratios can be altered to taste....develop your own 'terrior' to get through the day!
It should pass for a wine in the glass to throw-off suspecting in-laws and kin about your perspective on the event
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This is good. I used 1/4oz
Submitted by christina in tacoma on
This is good. I used 1/4oz cynar, and I used plain old Jim Beam instead of an overproof bourbon. My cherries are Amarena Toschi, and I didn't add extra syrup. I'd probably just leave the cherry out next time and go with a lemon twist instead. I don't know that my version would pass for wine, but it is a good use for the Pimm's I'm trying to use up.
sounds close enough for
Submitted by sorensencup on
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More importantly, it was in the semifinals of the Shore Conference Tournament, where Manasquan (24-1), ranked No. 2, beat No. 8 Neptune (20-5), 49-40, on Tuesday night at Brookdale College in Lincroft. PHOTO GALLERY
Manasquan took an early lead in the first quarter and never trailed, slowly pulling away.
Manasquan will face St. Rose for the Shore Conference championship, 6 p.m. Friday at Monmouth University in West Long Branch.
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My soup dumplings (left); photo from Bon Appetit (right)
THE RECIPE: Shanghai Soup Dumplings
Like Bridget, I was not thrilled about this assignment. I live next to San Francisco, for heaven's sake, a world-class center of Chinese cooking if ever there was one; why would I bother to make this recipe? In the end, though, the reason was clear: you. If you've never had a soup dumpling, and you don't live near an Asian restaurant that serves them, you owe yourself this discovery.
The selling point of these dumplings is that they're sort of an inside-out soup, a wonton wrapper filled with soup and a little meat. They're dense with flavor, juicy, and luscious. And, I'll add, mysterious. As many times as I've eaten then, I never knew the method used to make them. Well, you're about to find out.
This recipe can be broken into three parts, each of which can easily be carried out on successive days: the "soup" itself, the filling, and the forming and cooking. You could even split the last task in two and make things even simpler.
They say a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and mine was a shortcut. Rather than worry with chicken backs, necks, and wings, I gathered everything else and simmered it in ten cups of canned chicken broth. Believe me, I've paid my dues over the stockpot, and I'll skip out on it any chance I can get. It's not the simmering that gets to me; it's straining that hot mess (as Bridget noted).
Surprisingly, I already had all the pantry ingredients (even the Shao Shiang)—with the exception of the Chinese smoked ham. It's strange stuff—smoky, sweet, and intensely salty; mainly for flavoring, and not the sort of thing you would snack on (although I did).
Thanks to my shortcut, the soup was done in a little over an hour. The taste was… kind of odd. Slightly washed-out, with a deep, funky mushroom presence (courtesy of the dried shiitake) and a salty punch from the ham. Okay, I'll admit it would have tasted better with some fresh chicken in it, but I had just won back two or three hours on a weeknight (and the straining? A breeze!). I boiled it down to two cups (pretty salty stuff; no need to add any salt), mixed in the gelatin, and closed up shop for the night.
The next evening I made the meat filling, which is a straightforward pork-shrimp potsticker mixture. The aspic, which had congealed in a firm, jiggly mass, sliced easily and mixed into the meat without difficulty.
Filling the dumplings was not a problem, but shaping them was… uh, problematic. I have perfectionist tendencies. Perhaps if I shaped dumplings eight hours a day, six days a week—for a month—my results would be uniformly beautiful. As it was, I was just grateful they didn't spill their contents all over the work surface.
I planned to take these into the office for lunch. So I steamed the dumplings at home, then lifted the steamer (bamboo, nifty and new, from Sur La Table) from the wok, put it on a plate, and drove them to my office, where a short zap in the microwave (heresy, I know) rendered them piping-hot once more. Steamed rice and some dry-cooked green beans from a local (excellent) Chinese place rounded out our meal.
Making the dipping sauce
I had worried these wouldn't make enough of a meal by themselves, but I was quite wrong. They are complex little morsels that light up a spectrum of flavors as they pass over the tongue. And here's the secret: The aspic (which is a gelatin) "soup" melts in the steamer, blending with the meat filling to produce a juicy, substantial mouthful. They're rich and filling, and one is tempted to eat more of them than strictly necessary. We were no match for temptation.
Will I ever make them again? As long as I am within striking distance of Oakland's Chinatown, probably not. But it's good to know I can, and maybe now, you will.


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Many classical nova ejecta are enriched in CNO and Ne. Rosner et al. recently suggested that the enrichment might originate in the resonant interaction between large-scale shear flows in the accreted H/He envelope and gravity waves at the interface between the envelope and the underlying C/O white dwarf. The shear flow amplifies the waves, which eventually form cusps and break. This wave breaking injects a spray of C/O into the superincumbent H/He. Using two-dimensional simulations, we formulate a quantitative expression for the amount of C/O per unit area that can be entrained, at saturation, into the H/He. The fraction of the envelope that is enriched depends on the horizontal distribution of shear velocity and the density contrast between the C/O white dwarf and the H/He layer but is roughly independent of the vertical shape of the shear profile. Using this parameterization for the mixed mass, we then perform several one-dimensional Lagrangian calculations of an accreting white dwarf envelope and consider two scenarios: that the wave breaking and mixing is driven by the convective flows; and that the mixing occurs prior to the onset of convection. In the absence of enrichment prior to ignition, the base of the convective zone, as calculated from mixing-length theory with the Ledoux instability criterion, does not reach the C/O interface. As a result, there is no additional mixing, and the runaway is slow. In contrast, the formation of a mixed layer during the accretion of H/He, prior to ignition, causes a more violent runaway. The envelope can be enriched by < 25% of C/O by mass (consistent with that observed in some ejecta) for shear velocities, over the surface, with Mach numbers < 0.4.
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Prasat Hin Phimai
Built mainly of dusky pink and greyish white sandstone, Prasat Hin Phimai is a seductive sight from a distance; closer inspection reveals a mass of intricate carvings. Entering the complex from the main southeastern gate, it's worth checking out the visitors' centre on the right-hand side after the ticket office, which uses simple wall-hung exhibits to explain the history of the site.
Outer areas
Heading into the complex from the southeastern gate, a staircase ornamented with classic naga (serpent) balustrades leads to a gopura in the outer walls, which are punctuated on either side by false balustraded windows – a bit of sculptural sleight-of-hand to jazz up the solid stonework without piercing the defences. A raised pathway bridges the space between these walls and the inner gallery that protects the prangs of the inner sanctuary. The minor prang to the right, made of laterite, is attributed to the twelfth-century Buddhist king Jayavarman VII, who engaged in a massive temple-building campaign. His statue is enshrined within; it's a copy of the much more impressive original, now housed in the Phimai National Museum. The pink sandstone prang to the left, connected to a Brahmin shrine where seven stone linga were found, was probably built around the same time.
The main prang
After more than twenty years of archeological detective work and painstaking reassembly, the towering white-sandstone main prang has now been restored to its original cruciform groundplan and conical shape, complete with an almost full set of carved lintels, pediments and antefixes, and capped with a stone lotus-bud. The impressively detailed carvings around the outside of the prang depict predominantly Hindu themes. Shiva the Destroyer dances above the main entrance to the southeast antechamber: his destruction dance heralds the end of the world and the creation of a new order, a supremely potent image that warranted this position over the most important doorway. Most of the other external carvings pick out momentous episodes from the Ramayana, starring heroic Rama, his brother Lakshaman and their band of faithful monkeys in endless battles of strength, wits and magical powers against Ravana, the embodiment of evil. Inside, more sedate Buddhist scenes give evidence of the conversion from Hindu to Buddhist faith, and the prasat's most important image, the Buddha sheltered by a seven-headed naga, sits atop a base that once supported a Hindu Shiva lingam.
Phimai boat races
Phimai boat races
Phimai's biggest event of the year is its festival of boat races, held on the Mun's tributaries over a weekend in early November, in a tradition that's endured for over a century. In common with many other riverside towns, Phimai marks the end of the rainy season by holding fiercely competitive longboat competitions and putting on lavish parades of ornate barges done up to emulate the Royal Barges of Bangkok. During the festival, a son et lumière show is staged at the temple ruins for five nights in a row.