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The first of two FCIAC Tournament semifinal round games at Habor Yard in Bridgeport Wednesday night featured a terrific matchup between fifth-seeded Trumbull and eighth-seeded Greenwich.
In a game that saw both starting pitchers excel and the Cardinals and Eagles stage comebacks, it was Trumbull that earned a berth in Saturday's FCIAC final, pulling out a 5-4 eight-inning victory. Trumbull, which won the FCIAC title in 2012, plays Warde in the championship game. Warde ousted St. Joseph in Wednesday's other semifinal at Harbor Yard.
Capitalizing on two Cardinals errors in the eighth inning, the Eagles scored the game-winning run on Mat DiRienzo's single to right field. DiRienzo, who singled off GHS left-hander Mike Genaro, was mobbed at first base by his teammates after delivering the winning hit.
"This ranks first as far as the hits I've gotten," DiRienzo said.
"He's one of the guys we want up in that situation," Trumbull coach Phil Pacelli said of DiRienzo. "He's been locked in, they had no place to put him with the bases loaded and he got a good pitch to hit."
J.T. Hintzen of Greenwich and Trumbull's Avery Santos matched each other on the mound, inning after impressive inning. Hintzen had six strikeouts and allowed five hits, while Santos struck out eight. Both pitchers worked their way out of trouble throughout en route to working seven innings.
Outfielder Jake Levison had a sacrifice fly, an RBI single and drove in a run with a double for the Eagles. Hintzen, Kyle Dunster and Jonathan Dreher had run-scoring singles for Greenwich, which plated its other run on a Trumbull throwing error. Greenwich claimed a 3-2 lead with a run in the sixth inning, but could have scored more runs. With the bases loaded and no outs, No. 2 hitter Alex LoParco hit a fly ball to left field that was caught by Trumbull's Liam Moore. The GHS runner at third tagged up and Moore's throw toward the plate was cut off by third baseman Zach Sagar, who threw home and got the Cards runner out at the plate.
Dunster, one of the Cards' premier pitchers, also cut down a runner at the plate from right field when Trumbull tried to stretch a 2-1 lead in the third inning. Dunster and Dreher each had two hits for the Cardinals, who have lost seven one-run games this season, several of which have been decided in extra innings.
"We made a good run in this tournament and I expect us to make the same type of run in the state tournament," GHS first-year coach Phil Tarantino said. "We know we can beat anybody. We just have to get the kids to get over this one and move on."


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Guests will enjoy spacious, newly updated guest rooms with 32" plasma TVs, alarm clocks with iPod docking, free high-speed Internet access and complimentary expanded hot breakfast buffet. Guests will have use of our Jacuzzi and workout room and have access to our 24-hour business center. Meeting rooms are available. Enjoy drinks and snacks at our complimentary Manager's Reception Monday through Thursday evening.
A romantic, rustic, waterfront B&B. Lakeview breakfasts and sunsets, a swimming pool, wildlife, and watersports produce an atmosphere of a small resort. Full breakfast.
Victorian Rose Garden Bed and Breakfast
Home is listed by the McHenry County Historical Society. Located in downtown Algonquin, it has a quiet, romantic flavor. We specialize in personal attention for our guests.
Victorian Rose Garden Bed & Breakfast
Welcome to Victorian Rose Garden B&B for Romantic Getaways, recreation or the Business Traveler. Only 45 miles from downtown Chicago, our quiet location in Algonquins 1835 historic district lends itself to many nearby leisure activities. Take a stroll in Towne Park or on the Fox River/Prairie Bicycle Trail, walk to several excellent restaurants, or just relax on the porch swing.
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Sycamore RV Resort offers water, electric and sewer hookups on shaded and open sites. Picnic tables and fire rings are at each site. Some other amenities are clean restrooms, hot showers, laundromat, Campground Store, two fishing lakes, swimming beach, paddle boats, row boats, pedal karts, sand volleyball and more!
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SpringHill Suites Chicago/Schaumburg
Stylish, all-suite hotel designed for the savvy traveler. We're surrounded by shopping and entertainment - Woodfield Mall, IKEA, Arlington Park Racetrack, Akoo Theatre, Grand Victoria Casino Boat and downtown Chicago are all a short ride away. All suite hotel with two layouts; a King Suite, king bed with a sofa sleeper, and our Double Suite, two double beds with a sofa sleeper. All feature luxurious bedding, a large work area, flat screen TV's, and complimentary high-speed Internet access. Special amenities including a pantry area with mini-fridge, microwave and coffee maker. Enjoy our heated indoor pool and fitness center. Complimentary hot breakfast buffet. Our meeting room has approximately 360 square feet and can accommodate 20 set in rounds and 24 set classroom. We also feature a board room that can accommodate 8 for more private events.
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Royal Victorian Manor Bed and Breakfast is an 1894 Victorian home that has evolved to offer the perfect combination of modern amenities while maintaining its original majestic qualities. Featured as the "The Cherry Street Inn" in the movie "Groundhog Day" (1992), this majestic painted lady is designed to cater to the discerning traveler. Located in Woodstock, Illinois, the Manor is celebrated as a historic and cultural vacation retreat.
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RavenStone Castle may look medieval, but it is the newest edition to McHenry County's collection of B&Bs. It's straight out of Camelot and is the perfect place to indulge your royal fantasies.
Step back in time and delight in the ambience of a 16th century style, greystone castle. Located in rolling farm country just south of Harvard, IL. RavenStone Castle features three Medieval theme guest rooms, private baths and European-style breakfast.
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The curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeff Rosenheim, will be giving a lunchtime lecture on Friday at noon, about the Photography of the American Civil War exhibition. It will be a rich presentation about the works on display and the importance of photography during this period in our country's history. Tickets can be purchased on the Gibbes Museum of Art's website: http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/events. $20 for members/$30 non-members (including a box lunch and admission to the museum).


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As I've traveled through western Wisconsin as a regional political director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, I see that there is a general hopelessness among Wisconsinites these days. They seem to feel that there is no use in expecting better results from their elected legislators.
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Mayor Ashley Swearengin today praised City Manager Andy Souza for his more than two decades of service to the City of Fresno and appointed Bruce Rudd as interim city manager until the permanent replacement for Souza is in position.
Souza's last day as city manager will be Monday, Feb. 1, ending a 24-year career with the City of Fresno. He has served as city manager for more than five years and also served as city controller and assistant city manager during his career.Mayor Swearengin said the selection of the new city manager will be announced during the week of Feb. 1.
"Andy Souza has worked hard on behalf of the people of Fresno for the past 24 years, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude," Mayor Swearengin said. "His knowledge, experience, and steady hand have helped lead the City of Fresno through some of the most challenging economic times we've faced. I wish Andy well in his future endeavors and know that he will excel in whatever he chooses to do."
"It's been an honor and a privilege to work for the City of Fresno for the past 24 years," Souza said. "I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to work with outstanding people who are doing so many great things throughout our City."
Rudd, now the assistant city manager, will serve as interim city manager until the new manager comes on board. Rudd joined the City Manager's Office as interim assistant city manager in August 2005 and was permanently appointed to the position in May 2006.
As assistant city manager, Rudd oversees seven departments – Airports; FAX; General Services; Information Services; Parks, After School, Recreation & Community Services; Personnel; Public Utilities; Public Works; and Budget.
Prior to his appointment in the City Manager's Office, Rudd served as Director of Transportation/FAX General Manager.
"Bruce Rudd has been actively engaged in nearly all facets of City government and has proven himself to be extremely knowledgeable and capable," Mayor Swearengin said. "His experience and expertise make him well suited to keeping the City's day-to-day operations running smoothly during the transition period."


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Updates from Monday, July 7
Joe Stiglich of Comcast Sportsnet California reported on Jarrod Parker's recovery:
Jarrod Parker rehab coming along well. He's hoping to be cleared to start throwing in 2-3 weeks. #Athletics— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichCSN) July 7, 2014
Updates from Tuesday, March 25
Jarrod Parker updated fans on his status following his surgery via his Twitter account:
Appreciate & want to thank everyone for the support, nice messages and kind words! Finished 1st follow up/therapy pic.twitter.com/zdRWgD2S12— Jarrod Parker (@JarrodBParker) March 25, 2014
Updates from Wednesday, March 19
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle has the latest on Jarrod Parker's surgery:
Jarrod Parker's Tommy John surgery has been moved up a day to Monday. Dr. James Andrews will perform surgery in Fla.— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) March 19, 2014
Updates from Tuesday, March 18
Jarrod Parker spoke about his injury and spirits following the news (via John Hickey of InsideBayArea.com and Jane Lee of MLB.com):
Jarrod Parker also said Dr. James Andrews had been "a little concerned last fall" when Parker's forearm pain first cropped up. #Athletics— John Hickey (@JHickey3) March 18, 2014
Parker says he's received hundreds of texts of support. "Some have made me laugh, some have made me teary-eyed."— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 18, 2014
Parker's heard the numbers on second TJ surgery. Says, "I don't want to be another statistic. I want to be different."— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 18, 2014
Parker: "It's tough. It's never easy ... I've done it before. I can do it again."— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 18, 2014
Updates from Monday, March 17
Jane Lee of MLB.com has the latest on Jarrod Parker's injury:
Jarrod Parker will undergo Tommy John surgery next Tuesday, A's announce.— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 17, 2014
Assistant general manager David Forst spoke about Parker's injury via Lee:
Forst: "Obviously we feel bad for Jarrod. I know he worked hard this offseason...and was hoping to be at the top of the rotation this year."— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 17, 2014
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Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Jarrod Parker is scheduled to meet with Dr. James Andrews on Monday after experiencing tightness in his forearm.
The San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser was the first to report:
Parker will see Dr. Andrews on Monday in Alabama. Griffin to see Dr. Freedberg in Scottsdale tomorrow.— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) March 14, 2014
Comcast SportsNet California's Joe Stiglich also reports that Parker could possibly miss the start of the regular season this spring as a result:
Griffin and Parker both could potentially miss start of season, Melvin says. But doctor visits will tell more. #Athletics— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichCSN) March 14, 2014
Bob Melvin also noted that "certainly the start of the season is in jeopardy," according to San Francisco Chronicle reporter Susan Slusser.
It remains to be seen how severe Parker's injury is and whether it will sideline him for an extended period of time. But for now, the A's will be hoping for the best possible news when the 25-year-old meets with doctors early next week.
Parker has gone 25-16 with a 3.73 ERA over the past two seasons with Oakland and has made three postseason starts for the A's as well.
Through 9.1 innings pitched in spring training, Parker holds a 10.61 ERA and a WHIP of 1.61 to go along with eight strikeouts.
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In honor of Black History Month, Tyler Public Library will offer a variety of avenues to explore African-American contributions to American culture, literature and the arts. A private collection of magazine covers featuring African-American artists, entertainers and athletes will be on display throughout the month of February in the exhibit cases on the first and …
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Come and read to animals
I Read To Animals is a unique program that is being offered for the first time at the Longview Public Library in 2011. During the program, elementary-age children will attend four weekly sessions that cover various topics on animals and animal care. They will also "adopt" a stuffed animal to read books to at home. …
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Symphony stories at Tyler Public Library
Tyler Public Library and the Women's Symphony League join forces to offer musical mornings for preschoolers at Symphony Stories, Tuesday, Jan 11 through Friday, Jan. 14 at 10:30 a.m. each day in the Library's Taylor Auditorium, 201 S. College, downtown Tyler. Symphony Stories at the Library is designed to introduce preschoolers to the music that …
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Joseph A. Helm Jr.
Joseph A. Helm Jr., 84, of Marietta, died Thursday (Aug. 1, 2013).
He was born in Stone, Kentucky, on March, 30, 1929. Later his family moved to Union, W.Va., where he grew up. Joe was a Korean conflict veteran serving in Anchorage, Alaska. He graduated from North Carolina State with a degree in mechanical engineering. Joe was employed by Union Carbide, where he stayed for 35 years. He was a dedicated member of Gilman United Methodist Church. He was a member of the choir and taught Sunday school for many years.
Joe is survived by the love of his life, Nancy, who he married on June, 2, 1957. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his two sons, Joseph III and Michael (Michelle), former daughter-in-law, Ginny Cottrill (Ken), and his grandchildren, Matthew, Ryan, Christina, Lauren and Jesse. He is also survived by two sisters, Jean and Yvonne (Spot). He was preceded in death by his parents, Joe and Anna, two brothers, Lester and Moyer, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Geneva.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date. The family requests no flowers. Donations may be sent to the Gilman Choir in his memory.


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Maurice Bowling Middle School will host its Art Extravaganza May 1 from 2-4 p.m. at the multipurpose room.
Organizers have created an art digital database with all student artwork. You can go into the database and look at your child's work from this year and order keepsakes.
There will be a digital art workshop where guests can create their own artwork on a computer with name and hobbies. Guests can then order magnets or a print of the artwork for home.
City council to hold workshop
The Owenton City Council will be conducting a special meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. for the purpose of a budget workshop.
Free Internet safety lessons Thursday
Do you Facebook? Want to learn how to stay safe online? Come listen as Mark McChesney gives us the "ins and outs" of technologies from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Owen County Public Library. Call the library now to register.
Kentucky is preparing for the Great Central US Shake Out Earthquake Drill, scheduled for April 28 and the National Level Exercise 2011, scheduled for May 16-20. Scientists, experts and emergency management officials are aware earthquakes similar to, if not greater than, those that recently struck Japan and New Zealand could hit Kentucky anywhere, at any time and we are taking steps to educate and prepare Kentuckians.
A Corinth man has been arrested following the discovery of a meth lab April 14.
Kentucky State Police Public Affairs Trooper Michael B. Webb said the state police arrived on the scene at about 6:53 p.m., where they found meth-cooking vessels and other paraphernalia used to make methamphetamine at 12095 Hwy. 330.
Webb said James E. Howard, 21, was arrested at the location and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine (first offense), possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful possession of a methamphetamine precursor and possession of marijuana.
With more committee members and teams than ever before, Owen County Relay for Life Chair Jenni Duncan is looking forward to a successful year for the 14th annual event.
The Relay for Life steering committee, which begins work on the event each November, has grown from 12 to 19 members and the number of teams has escalated to 34.
As scattered showers continued to fall across Owen County Monday, one Owen County farmer began the cleanup process after a confirmed tornado just over the Grant County line on Pettit Pike destroyed four of his tobacco barns.
Asa Phillips, a longtime Owen County farmer and first district magistrate said the damages took place Saturday afternoon.
"They were all pretty new," Phillips said. "I built them myself in 97 or 98 with a few others helping me. We're going to put them back, we've got to."
The barns were each insured at about $40,000.
Since moving to Owen County two years ago, Gail Harrington has not only fallen in love with it's people, but it's thriving art community as well.
Herrington and her husband, who moved back to Kentucky from Maryland, wanted to retire to a community near a lake and wound up at Owen County's well-known Elmer Davis Lake.
Since moving to Owen County, Herrington has built a pottery studio, joined the Owen County Arts Council and will take part as a vendor at this year's Arts In the Park.
The event, which has been held in May for the past two years, will be held once again May 21.
What started off as an alleged domestic dispute in the early hours of the morning Tuesday led to the arrest of three men, two of them convicted felons.
Owenton Police Officer Tony Stigers said the Owen County Sheriff's Office was called to 376 Divided Ridge Road at about 1:17 a.m. for a domestic dispute in progress.
The suspect, Joseph Lamonte Richardson, 25, allegedly had a pistol and knife in his possession.
"Anytime there's a situation like that all available units head in that direction for officer safety," Stigers said.
Stigers was requested for backup.
Owen County High School seniors will present this year's senior play, "Promedy," at 8 p.m. April 22, 23, 29 and 30 in the OCHS auditorium.
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Roasted Red Pepper Soup With Tomato & Feta
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 10 mins
This is a restaurant quality soup - will not fail to please. Fantastic colour and taste.......... I haven't seen it in any cookbook (although I am sure it does exist somewhere). I was given it by a lady that runs a restaurant here on the Isle of Man called 'Indigo Red'.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1200 g canned tomatoes
- 250 g marinated roasted red peppers
- 100 g onions
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 125 g feta cheese
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- chili sauce
- Start by melting the olive oil and cooking the finely chopped onion over a low heat with the basil. Important that it doesn't take any colour. After a couple of minutes I usually add a little water then turn down the heat, cover with a lid and leave to 'sweat' for 5 minutes.
- When the onion is translucent add the tinned tomatoes. Please don't skimp when you buy your tinned tomatoes - you get what you pay for - the cherry tomatoes have an even more intense flavour. 3 large tins is exactly the right amount.
- At the same time add the red peppers. Drain them first. Simmer, covered for about 10 minutes. You can, if you wish, use fresh peppers but you will need to burn the skins and de-seed (you would need 4 large fresh red peppers - no other colour works). The ready prepared variety are much easier and there is no loss of flavour. I buy mine in a jar - they have been charred and the skin removed and are with brine/vinegar.
- Allow the soup to cool a little. Add the sweet chilli sauce - I usually add a good 'glug' - if I had to give a quantity I would say around 4 tbs - but to your taste. Dont miss it out though as it doesn't taste the same without it.
- Liquidise the soup, adding the feta cheese which you should cut into small cubes.
- Reheat to serve but don't let it boil. The flavour is so intense it is perfect as it is but, for a dinner party, you could crumble some extra feta on the top and add a bit of basil.
- A crowd pleaser and always sure to impress.
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A lot of atheists are liable to react negatively to the concept of doctrine, too. We've seen too much dogmatism and doctrine.
The title on this video is a bit off, you're right. Atheism is a lack of theology or doctrine, in my opinion.
The doctrine of atheism is like the color of something that wasn't painted.
Atheist doctrine is ridiculously simple: we do not believe in any form of god
But doctrines describe what people believe, not what they don't believe.
I believe in God as a perception of human minds, a poetic metaphor, the Elephant in the Room.
Atheist doctrine is ridiculously simple: we do not believe in any form of god ... or alternatively, that there is insufficient evidence to support belief in any form of god.
That's it. Anything above that leaves the realm of atheism and begins to encroach upon issues better suited to humanism or other such systems.
Thanks for the comments.
I don't think atheism can have a doctrine per se. There is no exactly a consensus about what the word means. We don't have a special word for people who don't believe in Santa Claus...
I think the word relates the absence of theology, or a lack of belief in one. I used to describe myself as an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure :)
well done. But what's the doctrine of atheism?
A very informative video.....Just shows how the Republicans in Congress do not represent these statistics and that they are way out of touch with average Americans.....It also shows how Europe is so far ahead of America in the views of Theism....I guess we just have to be patient........
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BROOKLYN, Mich. (June 11, 2009) The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Michigan International Speedway for this weekends LifeLock 400. Set in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan, Sundays event will mark the 80th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the two-mile oval.
All seven Dodge drivers are assured berths in Sundays LifeLock 400, the 15th of 36 point races that make up the 2009 Sprint Cup Series. Dodge has won five of the last 11 and six of the last 15 races at MIS.
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"Hello darkness, my old friendPaul Simon and Art Garfunkel (both born 1941) first came together in 1957 under the name Tom & Jerry, but rose to fame as Simon & Garfunkel almost ten years later, mostly due to their hit "The Sound of Silence" (1965). Both men were childhood friends growing up in Queens, New York a few blocks away from each other.With the release of "The Sounds of Silence", Simon & Garfunkel became one of the Trope Codifiers of folk-rock alongside The Byrds. The song was also their first hit on the pop charts, reaching the number one spot on New Year's Day in 1966. Subsequent hits included "I Am a Rock", "Homeward Bound", and "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", which combined the English folk ballad "Scarborough Fair" with an anti-war poem sung in counterpoint, Later, their fame took an ever bigger boost when their music was used in the film The Graduate, which not only included their older songs (which was rare at that time for film) but also new material like "Mrs. Robinson."The duo split up following the release of their album Bridge over Troubled Water in 1970. Simon went on to experience a Breakup Breakout and a successful solo career, while Garfunkel is still best known for his efforts with the duo, although he's also known for singing the Theme Song of Watership Down and for his acting roles in such films as Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, and Bad Timing (while Paul Simon appeared in Annie Hall and One Trick Pony). They have reunited (and broken up again) several times over the years. Most famously, they came together for a 1981 free concert in Central Park, which drew a crowd of over half a million.
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains within the sound of silence."
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains within the sound of silence."
— "The Sound of Silence"
Principal Members (Founding members in bold):
- Art Garfunkel - lead vocals, piano (19571965, 19661970, 1975, 19811983, 1993, 20032004, 20092010)
- Paul Simon - lead vocals, guitar (19571965, 19661970, 1975, 198183, 1993, 20032004, 20092010)
Studio and Live Discography:
- 1964 - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
- 1966 - Sounds of Silence
- 1966 - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
- 1968 - The Graduate
- 1968 - Bookends
- 1970 - Bridge over Troubled Water
- 1982 - The Concert in Central Park
- 2002 - Live from New York City, 1967
- 2004 - Old Friends: Live on Stage
- 2008 - Live 1969
They/Their work feature examples of:
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: "The Sound of Silence"'s first verse features "Because a vision softlyY creepING left its seeds while I waAS sleepING". In fact, the emphasis for that part in nearly every verse is wrong.
- Aerith and Bob.
- Album Title Drop: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. A bit of an inversion, as the title comes from the lyric itself (the lyric being from the traditional song "Scarborough Fair").
- From "Old Friends": "Old friends / Sat on a park bench like bookends."note
- All Are Equal in Death: The ending of "Sparrow".
- American Title: "America"
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: "Voices of Old People", which precedes "Old Friends", consists of Real Life interviews from residents in a Jewish old age home.
- Anti-Christmas Song: "Seven O' Clock News/Silent Night"
- Before My Time: "A Simple Desultory Philippic":When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
- Big Applesauce: "Bleecker Street", "The Only Living Boy in New York", "The 59th Street Bridge Song", and their triumphant 1981 live album, The Concert in Central Park
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Garfunkel (standing at 1.83m or 6 feet tall) towered over Paul Simon (1.6m/5'2") in height.
- Blah Blah Blah: In "Save the Life of My Child":A patrol car passing by halted to a stop
Said Officer MacDougal in dismay,
"The force can't do a decent job
'Cause the kids got no respect for the law today"
(Art then sings in bored tone) and blah blah blah...
- Bookends: The aptly-named pair of "Bookends Theme" songs on the aptly-named Bookends album aptly bookend the A-side of the album.
- B.S.O.D. Song: "Patterns"
- Call Back: "Save the Life of My Child" off of Bookends has a sample from "The Sounds of Silence".
- Central Theme: Nearly all of their songs involve an inability to communicate. Some overt, some subtle. Becomes Harsher in Hindsight when they broke up.
- Changed for the Video: When they performed "The Boxer" live for their 1981 concert in Central Park, the song has an entire verse (starting with "Now the years are rolling by me/They are rocking evenly") that is absent from the original version of the song as recorded on Bridge over Troubled Water. On the album, that part of the song is an instrumental break.
- Christmas Songs: In 1967 they recorded two carols ("The Star Carol" and "Comfort and Joy") for a planned Christmas single. It was never released, though the A-side turned up on a couple of multi-artist Christmas compilations and both songs were eventually included in the Old Friends box set.
- Also, their rendition of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" from the first album. And, of course, "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night".
- Concept Album: Much of Bookends is tied together with the themes of aging and decaying love. Also, it has that song from The Graduate on it.
- Dying Town: "My Little Town"
- Driven to Suicide:
- Contrary to what the narrator of "Richard Cory" thinks, the title character's wealth has not brought him happiness, and one night he goes home and shoots himself in the head.
- The title character in "A Most Peculiar Man", an anti-social shut-in, turns the gas on before going to bed one night and asphyxiates himself.
- Either/Or Title: "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'dnote Into Submission)".
- Folk Music: More so on their earlier material.
- A Friend in Need / You Are Not Alone: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"I'm on your side/When times get rough/And friends just can't be found
- Getting Crap Past the Radar:
- In "A Simple Desultory Phillippic":I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use... well, never mind.
- Some interpret the Traveling Salesman of "Keep the Customer Satisfied" as being a drug dealer.
- In "A Simple Desultory Phillippic":
- Greatest Hits Album: They've had several. The first of them, released in 1972, is notable for its inclusion of live versions of "Homeward Bound" and a couple other songs in place of the studio originals.
- The Hermit:
- The singer in "I Am a Rock" has "built walls, a fortress deep and mighty, that none may penetrate" and spends his time shut up in his room with his books and his poetry, touching no-one and being touched by no-one.
- The title character of "A Most Peculiar Man" was largely a mystery to the other people in his building, as he kept almost entirely to himself, and what little interaction he had with others was fractious at best.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: This is most notably expressed in "The Only Living Boy in New York" which is basically about Paul missing Art (the "Tom" in the song; in the early days when they performed as "Tom and Jerry," Art was "Tom") when the latter went to Mexico to film Catch-22.
- Hypocritical Humor: "A Simple Desultory Phillipic"He's so unhip that when you say "Dylan,"
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas (whoever he was).
The man ain't got no cultcha.
- "I Am" Song: "I Am a Rock"
- I Just Want to Be You: "Oh, I wish that I could be Richard Cory."
- Imagine Spot:
- "Fakin' It"Prior to this lifetime
I surely was a tailor
Look at me:
(Good morning, Mr. Leitch! Have you had a busy day?)
- All of the next song, "Punky's Dilemna", where the singer fantasizes himself and other things as objects.
- "Fakin' It"
- In the Style of...: Their early recordings as Tom and Jerry were a inspired by The Everly Brothers' sound (whose song "Bye Bye Love" was covered on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album).
- Intercourse with You: "Cecilia" (going by a strictly literal interpretation of the song), "Baby Driver"
- Last Note Nightmare: "Richard Cory" features this with a stinger just before the final chorus, sure to startle.He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch
And they were grateful for his patronage, and they thanked him very much
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head.
- The lyric then continues withAnd I wish that I could be, yes I wish that I could be, Oh I wish that I could be Richard Cory. Of course, this was adapted from the poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, which ended basically with the spoiled line.
- Their Bookends album has a First Note Nightmare at the start of "Save The Life of My Child", the second track of the album; made more jarring by the fact that the prelude was so gentle and puts the listener in a relaxed state of mind...and then WHAM.
- The lyric then continues with
- Laughing Mad: The end of "Cecilia", the singer's equivalent of throwing up his hands and giving in.
- Lesser Star: Former Trope Namer. Art Garfunkel has been characterized as the junior partner in the duo, and there is truth in that, as Simon sang, played guitar, and wrote all the music, while Garfunkel only sang. For many fans, that was enough because Garfunkel was by far the more talented vocalist. As such, Garfunkel had a big hand in the vocal arrangements, and helped create the close harmonies that were one of the group's calling cards. One way to observe what Garfunkel brought to the act is to listen to The Concert in Central Park and pay attention to the Paul Simon solo tunes sung by the duo: "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", "American Tune", "Late in the Evening", "Slip Slidin' Away", and "Kodachrome". The sound of the Simon and Garfunkel performances is very different from the original Paul Simon versions.
- Live Album: The Concert in Central Park, and the archival releases Live from New York City, 1967 and Live 1969.
- Location Song: "America"Counting the carsOn the New Jersey TurnpikeThey've all comeTo look for America,All come to look for America,All come to look for America.
- Lonely at the Top: "Richard Cory"
- Loners Are Freaks: Deconstructed in "A Most Peculiar Man"
- Lyrical Dissonance: "I Am A Rock", "The Sun Is Burning"
- Name and Name
- Never Be Hurt Again: "I Am a Rock" describes the feelings of someone who doesn't want to love any more because they were hurt by it once.Don't talk of love
Well, I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
- New Sound Album: Their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, had more of a traditional acoustic folk sound; the second album, Sounds of Silence, was where they shifted to more of a rock instrumentation and approach. The former album even had "The Sounds of Silence" in its original folk-style arrangement, whilst the latter introduced the familiar folk-rock version.
- Not Staying for Breakfast: "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM"
- Obsession Song: "Why Don't You Write Me", complete with a threat of suicide near the end.
- One Woman Song: "Mrs. Robinson", "Cecilia", "Kathy's Song", "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her"
- Putting the Band Back Together: More than once. The duo reunited for a single song, "My Little Town", in 1975. In 1981 they came together for a free concert in Central Park, New York City, which drew a crowd of over 500,000 people. This led to a world tour and their first new album in over a decade—until Simon mixed Garfunkel's vocals out of the album completely and released it as a Paul Simon solo album titled Hearts and Bones. In the 1990s the duo toured together briefly, and in the 2000s they reunited again and toured extensively.
- Refrain from Assuming: "Feeling Groovy" is actually "The 59th Street Bridge Song," but few people remember that.
- Repurposed Pop Song: "The Sounds of Silence" was used during the film adaptation of Watchmen. It is also the opening song for The Graduate, which also uses "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" several times.
- "At the Zoo" was used for advertisements for the Bronx Zoo and the San Francisco Zoo in the late 1970s, though this may overlap with "Isn't It Ironic?" due to the song being more of an allegory for human nature. However, Paul Simon himself later re-purposed the song in the form of a children's book with the same title.
- "Bookends" was used as a New Year's Eve song for a while by networks, reminiscing about the past year in a montage.
- Riddle for the Ages: The four letter word written in crayon on the subway wall in "A Poem on the Underground Wall". Wild Mass Guessing has ensued on that, ranging from "LOVE" to "FUCK". Garfunkel's concert intro for the song implied it was the latter (it was inspired by graffiti they saw in the subway while shooting the cover photo for Wednesday Morning, 3 AM).
- Ripped from the Headlines: Paul Simon wrote "A Most Peculiar Man" after reading a notice in a London newspaper about a suicide.
- Rockumentary: Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America is a rather unique television special that aired on CBS in 1969. Much of the special is a fairly conventional rockumentary featuring interviews with the duo, footage of the duo working in the studio, and film from the 1969 tour. This portion includes Early Bird Cameos of "The Boxer", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright". The rest of the film is a series of montages of the social and historical upheavals of The '60s (civil rights protest, Robert Kennedy's funeral train, etc), with Simon and Garfunkel songs as the musical accompaniment.
- Rule of Symbolism: A lot of it. For example, any time a betrayal is implied, thirty pieces of silver (or dollars) is referenced.
- Safety in Indifference: "I Am a Rock" is all about this.I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
- Sarcasm Mode / Self-Deprecation: At the end of "A Simple Desultory Philippic", Paul Simon sarcastically says, "Folk rock" and drops the harmonica.
- Scatting: "The Boxer" and its "Lie la lie" chorus.note
- Single Stanza Song: "Bookends"
- Society Marches On: "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night" in particular. Gee, Lenny Bruce died this year?
- Soundtrack Dissonance: "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". Big time.
- Something Completely Different: On Bridge Over Troubled Water, "Baby Driver" (a silly little Intercourse with You song in great contrast to the very serious tone of most of the other songs) and "Bye Bye Love" (a cover of The Everly Brothers, and possibly a Call Back to their earlier years as "Tom and Jerry").
- On Bookends, there's "Voices of Old People", which consists of people in a New York City retirement home making conversation with Art Garfunkel.
- The Sound of Silence features the instrumental track "Anji", composed by Dave Graham.
- The Something Song: "The 59th Street Bridge Song" and "Kathy's Song"
- Spoken Word in Music: "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night".
- Spy Cam: Referenced in "America".She said, the man in the gabardine suit was a spy. I said, "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera".
- A Storm Is Coming: Inverted in "The Sun is Burning"
- Streetwalker: "The Boxer"Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare
There were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there
- Take That: "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert Mc Namara'd into Submission)" is a rather savage Bob Dylan parody.
- "The Boxer" was also interpreted as a Take That to Dylan, but Simon has Jossed that interpretation, explaining that it was actually about himself in a period he felt like he was constantly criticised. Dylan's own Cover Version of it was seen as a Take That in return.
- There's No Place Like Home: "Homeward Bound".Homeward Bound, I wish I was homeward boundHome, where my thought's escapingHome, where my music's playingHome, where my love lies waiting silently for me
- This Is a Song: "Song for the Asking", also "Leaves That Are Green" ("I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song").
- Travel Montage: A musical version in "America".
- Traveling Salesman: "Keep the Customer Satisfied"
- Updated Re-release: "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" and "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" are more or less the same song, though the former is done as a folk ballad while the latter is poppier and begins with a bit of "Anji".
- The Cover Changes the Meaning: "3 AM" is a melancholy reflection from a man taking comfort in his lover's company one last time before the law takes him away. "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" changes the instrumentation to angry rock and adds new lyrics in the form of a chorus (including the title line) that indicate the singer plans to flee, unrepentant. Note that the same band released both the original and the cover.
- "A Simple Desultory Phillipic (or How I Was Robert Macnamara'd Into Submission)" from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is a darker, more cynical version of "A Simple Desultory Phillipic (or How I Was Lyndon Johnson'd Into Submission)" from Paul Simon's British album The Paul Simon Songbook
- "The Sounds of Silence" was originally released as a folk tune with the duo singing and Simon playing acoustic guitar. It went nowhere, and the duo broke up. Then the record company dubbed a whole new electric arrangement (guitar, bass, drums) onto the song and released the single again. It was a hit, and Simon and Garfunkel's career took off.
- Vocal Tag Team
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Very much, as anyone who's watched Paul snipe at Art onstage can verify. Simon has referred to Garfunkel as "my partner in arguments" on occasion.
- Wanderlust Song: "And we walked off/To look for America"
- Writers Cannot Do Math: Jokingly invoked on the label for the "Fakin' It" single in 1967, which listed the song's running time as 2:74. It was either a Stealth Pun (the song's called "Fakin' It" and it has a fake time listed) or a sneaky way to fool radio stations into thinking the song was under three minutes.


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Remember that multiplication distributes over a term in parentheses.
So, you can cancel in the numerator and denominator (leave the for now).
I'm having trouble with the algebraic manipulation required to find the interval of convergence of many of the Power series and Taylor series problems in my calculus class.
For example:
Using the Ratio test, and ignoring because we can, we have:
The can be cancelled:
Distributing the :
Cancelling the terms:
The next step:
I want to say that the limit is infinity but I think that would mean the interval of convergence is all real numbers; I don't think that is the answer. Perhaps I made algebraic/arithmetic mistake or perhaps I am not considering the limit correctly.


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White Chocolate Ganache Brownies with Strawberries
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Ready Time: 180 min
- Yield: 24 brownies
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1 (18.4 oz.) package Pillsbury™ Family Size Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix
- 2/3 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 2 cups white baking chips
- 6 cups sliced fresh strawberries, sweetened to taste
Preparation Directions
- PREPARE brownie mix according to package directions using oil, water and eggs. Bake in 13 x 9-inch baking pan according to package directions. Cool completely.
- MICROWAVE cream in medium microwave-safe bowl on HIGH until cream just comes to a boil, about 1 minute. Add baking chips, stirring until melted and smooth. Spread evenly over cooled brownies. Chill at least 1 hour. Cut into bars. Serve topped with sweetened strawberries.
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Serving Size (1 of 24 brownies), Calories 240 (Calories from Fat 110), Total Fat 13g (Saturated Fat 4.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 25mg, Sodium 85mg, Total Carbohydrate 31g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 24g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 40%, Calcium 4%, Iron 4%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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'Why Margaret Thatcher is Sexier than Sarah Palin': On Irony and the Iron Lady
A familiar British accent—plummy, Oxonian, with a slight raspiness that hints, to those who know the backstory, at the daily, liberal use of Rothmans Blue King Canadian cigarettes and Johnny Walker Black Label—was coming out of my radio. Talking about being spanked by Margaret Thatcher. And liking it.
It was Christopher Hitchens, promoting his just-published memoir, Hitch-22, on The Leonard Lopate Show. He was telling—and not for the last time, I suspect—the story that practically every American review of the book has managed to mention, and telling it with a relish that may not have been entirely unrehearsed. The more his host squirmed at the salaciousness of the story, and at Hitchens's X-rated flights of fancy (this, after all, was public radio, home of the pledge-drive tote bag and the Weekend Edition lapel pin), the more Hitch seemed to be enjoying himself.
Leonard Lopate: You also tell the story about getting a spanking from Margaret Thatcher.
Christopher Hitchens: Yes, I've had physical contact with Mrs. Thatcher—Baroness Thatcher.
Lopate: Were you an admirer?
Hitchens: Sexually, I was; not politically.
Lopate: You thought she was attractive, physically attractive? The Iron Lady?
Hitchens: When she was first elected as leader, most of the press…thought the Tories had gone mad and they'd chosen this shrill, suburban housewife; everyone wrote in this rather snobbish way about her. Well, they must have been wrong, mustn't they, because she went on to change the course of events very dramatically, and British society. And I thought I was earlier than most to see that she had something charismatic, I would say, that was partly sexual. She had the most beautiful skin I've ever seen on a woman, and amazingly beautiful eyes.
Lopate: Well, people say the same thing about Sarah Palin; do you support Sarah Palin because of that?
Hitchens: No, she's got no charisma of any kind. I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rent porn director. Mrs. Thatcher, you see, would be no good in that way; you can't picture it. But you've already pictured Sarah Palin, haven't you?
First, to the spanking: as Hitchens told NPR host Scott Simon (who introduced him as "a socialist who found Margaret Thatcher sexy") on another whistlestop on his promotional tour, he and the prime minister met at a House of Lords event when the post-9/11 libertarian hawk and vorpal swordsman of the New Atheism was lefter than he is now. Hitchens had written an article for The New Statesman in which he argued, "contrary to the prevailing view at the time, which was that she was a frumpish suburban housewife of no talent, that I thought she had a great future, and that among other things I thought she had some kind of charisma which was highly sexual." Apparently, the Iron Lady had caught wind of it, and welcomed Hitch into her gently smiling jaws. Talk turned to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe policy, as it so often does; he was right, she was wrong, but ever the gentleman, Hitch bowed to acknowledge the Lady's point.
And then she said—I can still hear it—she said: "No, bow lower." So, all volition deserting me, I did bow lower, and then straightened up again. She said: "No, no, much lower." So again, I found myself sort of bending right forward. There were witnesses to this, as I say in the book. And all the while she'd been rolling up a parliamentary audit paper…[and] smacked me right across my bottom. And then, as I regained the vertical with some difficulty, she walked away, rolling her hip—I swear it—and looked over her shoulder and said: "Naughty boy."
"(Soundbite of laughter)," notes the NPR transcript.
What, exactly, is going on here? I'm not referring to the near-universal inability to believe that the Hitchens tongue was not firmly in the Hitchens cheek when he suggested that Thatcher, in her prime, might have been attractive or—cue the shrieking Psycho strings—sexy, even. De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.
The more interesting question is: Why does a certain sort of Englishman squirm with delight at the thought of being taken in hand and sharply disciplined by Milton Friedman's idea of Emma Peel? And the flip answer is: the English Vice, French prostitutes' wry term for caning or spanking as sadomasochistic sex play. The Freudian roots of this fetish lie in the liberal use of the birch in the country's all-male prep schools (private schools, in American parlance, though the English perversely insist on calling them "public" schools). One source explains, "The English 'public' school system used corporal punishment for many years and and it is claimed that many an English schoolboy acquired a taste for such treatment that carried on into his adult life. You may recall Swinburne's many references to Eton's block and 'birching,' claiming that his own proclivity for that particular pasttime had been cultivated by such school practices." In Hitch-22, Hitchens exhumes memories of his public-school years, which may have given him an appreciation for the sexual frisson of a good thrashing, whether administered with a parliamentry audit paper or something…stiffer. Certainly, in his Vanity Fair essay on Eton, the Vatican of homoerotic flagellation, he approaches the subject with a suspicious eagerness, describing the "flogging block over which boys were stretched to be thrashed with a birch rod until they streamed with blood" with a zeal reminiscent of Foucault's gorenographic description, in Discipline and Punish, of the drawing quartering of the regicide. (Premonitions of his later fondness for B&D?) Hitchens: "And here in the [Eton] museum is an actual block, complete with birch. (Algernon Charles Swinburne never got over his obsession with this ritual of punishment, and produced reams of flagellomaniac verse under the pseudonym Etoniensis.)"
History repeats itself, first as punishment, then as pleasure.
Fascinatingly, Hitchens isn't the only Englishman to have fallen prey to Attila the Hen, as her detractors called her. In his review of Hugo Young's Thatcher biography, The Iron Lady, Martin Amis quotes his father Kingsley, who thought Thatcher's beauty "so extreme that…it can trap me for a split second into thinking I am looking at a science-fiction illustration of some time ago showing the beautiful girl who has become President of the Solar Federation in the year 2200. The fact that it is not a sensual or sexy beauty does not make it a less sexual beauty, and that sexuality is still, I think, an underrated factor in her appeal (or repellence)."
At a loss to explain his father's Thatcherphilia, the younger Amis wonders if it has to do with the aphrodisiac effects of power or "another cliche: the English love of chastisement." The poet Philip Larkin was in thrall to Thatcher's enchantments as well, says Amis. When the poet and the P.M. met, she quoted one of his lines back at him: "All the unhurried day/ your mind lay open like a drawer of knives." The poem from which it came, Amis notes, "is addressed to a Victorian waif who has been drugged and raped." And who said Mrs. Thatcher hadn't a flirtatious bone in her body? This is unmistakably a pick-up line. Of course, it's Jack the Ripper's idea of a pick-up line, but still.
So maybe Mrs. Thatcher's attractions, lost on this product of American public education in 1970s Southern California, are the attractions of the expensive call girl who plays the stern disciplinarian, chastising her naughty boys into an ecstasy of agony.
Of course, Hitchens's professed weakness in the knees regarding the Iron Lady may be ironic, an underhanded way of highlighting his foe's ideological unattractiveness by making us laugh at the very idea of Maggie as a hottie. Except she isn't. His foe, that is. As he writes in Hitch-22, "The worst of 'Thatcherism,' as I was beginning by degrees to discover, was…the uneasy but unbanishable feeling that on some essential matters she might be right." Perhaps Mrs. Thatcher cast a spell on the youthful Hitch because he saw his future, right-er self reflected in those raptor eyes?
Likewise, the sci-fi novelist J.G. Ballard's eyebrow-raising insistence that Mrs. Thatcher always made his heart flutter looks, from a distance, like calculated outrageousness. When the going gets weird, the weird get normal—knowingly normal, pushing the pose to the point of abnormalcy. Ballard is best known for novels like Crash, about fetishists whose special pleasure is the car crash, and stories with titles like "Jane Fonda's Augmentation Mammoplasty," a clinical account of the, er, titular operation. For an aesthetic provocateur of his reputation, living quietly in a semi-detached house in the yawningly unremarkable London suburb of Shepperton and proclaiming your mad love for Maggie, She-Wolf of the Neocons, is the best revenge. Only the unimaginative Think Outside the Box; the truly perverse can make thinking inside it look positively depraved. That's why Throbbing Gristle's seemingly irony-free obsession with Abba was Throbbing Gristle at its weirdest, just as David Bowie in a suit straight off the rack at Sears, singing "Little Drummer Boy" with an embalmed Bing Crosby, is weirder by far than Bowie in a feather bustier, with his eyebrows shaved off, singing "I Got You, Babe" to Marianne Faithfull in Mother Superior drag.
The genius of Ballard's very public crush on the Iron Lady, passionately expressed in his writings and interviews, is that we never know if it's an elaborate prank or the sincere expression of a man who is aristically radical and culturally liberal but on some issues politically conservative, in a reflexive way that has little to do with ideology and more to do with class and age.
Is he putting us on when he writes, his artistic credo, "What I Believe,"
I believe in the mysterious beauty of Margaret Thatcher, in the arch of her nostrils and the sheen on her lower lip; in the melancholy of wounded Argentine conscripts; in the haunted smiles of filling station personnel; in my dream of Margaret Thatcher caressed by that young Argentine soldier in a forgotten motel watched by a tubercular filling station attendant.
Is he the adoring fan or the Swiftian social satirist when he tells a interviewer, "I've always admired [Prime Minister Thatcher] enormously. I always found her extremely mysterious and attractive at the same time. I think she exerts a powerful sexual spell, and I'm not alone. I think there are a lot of men who find themselves driven to distraction by the mystery of Margaret Thatcher. [...] She taps very deep levels of response. There are elements of La Belle Dame Sans Merci—the merciless muse—in her. Also the archetype of the Medusa. [...] She's the nanny, she's the headmistress, and she's school-marmy as well. I think her appeal goes far beyond…it's a very ambiguous appeal. She represents all these sort of half-stages–half-conscious, primordial forces . . . that she certainly tapped."
Ambiguous is the word. Ballard, a staunch supporter of Thatcher's military action in the Falklands, seems to approve of the P.M.'s decisive leadership and British-bulldog willingness to stand up to threats on the world stage. At the same time, his Jungian and Freudian points of reference—the femme fatale, the emasculating Medusa, the maternal schoolmarm who is also a birch-wielding headmistress, come to take her naughty boys in hand—is deeply ambivalent. Male Thatcherphilia is always unsettled by its latent homoeroticism; the man who thrills to Maggie's cruel sneer, who dreams of being dominated by the nation's headmistress, also wonders about the deeper implications of his attraction to an Iron Lady whose sexual sizzle owes a lot to her symbolic masculinity—that is, her appropriation of male power, in the same way that much of a dungeon mistress's voltage is as semiotic as it is purely physical, its zap greatly enhanced by vestments of butch power like jackboots and riding crop. All that's missing is the femdom strap-on.
Amis makes this point explicitly in his review of the Young biography, when he points out that Yassir Arafat's joking sobriquet for Thatcher was "the Iron Man"; even the roaring poster woman for Second Wave feminism, Gloria Steinem, when told that the English never thought they'd have a female prime minister, snapped back, "They were right." Amis notes the pervasive worry that "one day Mrs. T. will start heading for the wrong toilet."
Of course, the insinuation that an assertive, decisive woman who knows her mind and speaks it, and who can lead a nation and project its military power as authoritatively as an man, is too manly to be all woman is sexism of the most drearily commonplace sort. There's a ha-ha-only-serious subtext to Stephen Colbert's introduction to his Glamour magazine list of "10 Women with 'Lady Balls,'" topped, of course, by Thatcher. "Good news, girls!" he writes. "You don't have to be a man to have balls. You can be a lady and have 'lady balls,' or what I like to call 'Thatchers,' after England's Iron Lady, who had a lordly pair of lead swingers." Likewise, the right-wing attack pundit Ann Coulter is dogged by the persistent rumor that she is, in fact, a transman, a secret hidden in plain sight, in her critics' eyes, who see evidence that she was not born female in her allegedly knobby wristbones and supposedly overlarge Adam's apple. The implication is clear: strong, successful women are only strong and successful to the extent that they overcome the failings of the weaker sex, at which point they're derided for for their mannishness.
Conversely, Hitchens's insistence on Thatcher's beauty, like many such protestations by men of various political persuasions, can be read as another sort of sexism, one that insists on sexualizing, and thereby diminishing, a powerful woman—reducing her, as always, to exquisite skin, arresting eyes, a rolling hip. Intriguingly, Hitchens hints that his early insistence on Thatcher's sexually charged charisma, at a time when the media elite were peering haughtily down their noses at the grocer's daughter from Grantham, was a shot across the bow of privilege in England's never-ending class war, and therefore a victory for the socialism Hitchens espoused in those long-ago days.
What makes the mystery of sexiness so impenetrable is its overdetermined nature; it has only partly to do with the physical. For this writer, for example, the mind is an erogenous zone. In all fairness, Mrs. Thatcher's skillful cut-and-thrust during Prime Minister's Questions bespeaks a nimble intellect, and her academic achievements (degrees in chemistry and law), and apparent interest in ideas (a habit her dear, dense friend Ronnie Reagan never managed to acquire) are commendable. Sadly, though, the contents of that mind are crushingly dull, depressing in their utter predictability: Friedrich von Hayek? Check. Milton Friedman? Check. A truly sexy mind ranges beyond the shopworn curriculum of its ideological worldview and questions itself, even.
(Even so, Hitchens is right in saying that Thatcher has more sizzle than Palin: as a conservative MP, she was at least polymorphously perverse enough to support the decriminalization of homosexuality and to vote in favor of abortion rights; Palin, by contrast, is as original a thinker as was ever soldered together from Real Doll parts and programmed by Focus on the Family.)
Sadly, then, those of us who thrill to intellectual arousal—especially those of us on the left—are fated to remain immune to the Iron Lady's charms, such as they are. That cruel mouth, whose downturned corners look as if they were incised with a knife, always struck me as perfectly apt for a pitiless slasher of social programs, sworn foe of trade unionism, devout believer in the economic shock treatment prescribed by neo-liberalism (a theory whose stringent application had a disastrous effect on England's working poor), and bosom friend of Augusto Pinochet, whom she lauded for "bringing democracy to Chile" (presumably by shutting down his nation's parliament, banning trade unions, and persuading 3,200 of his political critics of the error of their ways by disappearing them into unmarked graves). Aren't the eyes the windows of the soul? If so, in what sense is that blood-congealing stare sexy? The envy of any basilisk, it could render a man impotent at a hundred paces. Maybe it's just my left knee jerking, but there's no desert island small enough to make me see Margaret Thatcher the sneering moral absolutist and heartless downsizer, eager to give the intransigent laborers and the shiftless poor a good thrashing, as a hottie.
But I can easily imagine Maggie in a crush video, her stout, sensible shoe stamping on a human face—forever.
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Edward Norton's had a rocky path in Hollywood, partly by his own making. Known for tinkering with scripts, he's done films out of contractual obligation, and never courted an easy path. And yet Hollywood keeps coming back, perhaps because he is rather talented. Perhaps he's finally made peace with working within the industry, because he's the leading contender for the role of the villain in Tony Gilroy's upcoming Bourne reboot The Bourne Legacy, according to Variety.
Norton had a period where his "passionate actor" sensibilities were embraced by Hollywood, and he was nominated for an Oscar in American History X. But over the last decade he's mostly worked on the sides of the industry, with The Incredible Hulk a rare attempt at something really commercial. That he was replaced by Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers suggests that didn't go over as well as anyone hoped.
A bad guy turn is definitely in his wheelhouse, as his big break was in Primal Fear where he played a character with hidden motives, but his role in The Italian Job was noted by many as something he did solely out of a contractual obligation. Something that his performance also suggested. Of course he's just in negotiations, which means that this might not come to pass. Regardless, with Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz already attached, the production is looking for some of the best actors around.
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I'm going to quote this next part exactly from the press release, so there's no confusion: "Parents and children literally become part of the whimsical storybook adventure by getting active together through dancing, jumping, flying and more."
That's right, kids! You will literally become part of the adventure. No more of this "playing" nonsense that games have been doing. No, this game is even skipping virtual reality and going straight to literally putting kids into the scenes. Brilliant.
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Vermont Celebrates Breastfeeding Week With A Golden Bow
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BURLINGTON – Elizabeth Curran can hardly remember a time when she was not breastfeeding one of her seven children, including exclusively breastfeeding her last six children for the first two years of their life – a marathon of feedings that has lasted more than a decade.
Curran would not have raised her children any other way.
"Breastfeeding is always there, always ready and available, it is free, always the right temperature, and you never run out," said Curran, 38, of Whiting, Vt. "I tell women, with infant formula you have bottles to wash and sterilize, you have to make sure you have it with you, and then there is the cost. Formula is expensive."
Curran, who works part-time as a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor for the Vermont Department of Health, is helping to celebrate the 2008 World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1 – 7, at the Maternal Child Health Infant Comfort Station at the Addison County Fair.
Curran is an ambassador for the week as "Breastmilk: Going for the Gold" is celebrated in Vermont by passing a large golden bow among various breastfeeding coalitions around the state.
Exclusive breastfeeding has a strong protective effect against lower respiratory tract infections, middle ear infections, eczema and childhood obesity. Formula-fed infants are at a higher risk of infections and upper respiratory diseases and are more likely to develop several chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, asthma and other allergies.
"Vermont encourages breastfeeding in any location and as a state we prohibit breastfeeding discrimination," said Health Commissioner Wendy Davis, MD. "We strongly encourage women to breastfeed their babies as soon as possible after birth, and exclusively for at least the first six months of a newborn's life."
Breast milk is good for a baby's developing brain and newborns typically nurse eight to 12 times in a 24-hour period. Early, frequent feedings of breastmilk provide a healthy start, both physically and emotionally for infants.
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