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well made and fits the air box nicely
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Since buying my first airaid CAI I have always used there filters. I have installed them on every vehicle I have owned. Fit and finish is great and performance is as advertised. I hope in the future thew will offer a CAI system for a 2015 Kia Forte5 SX turbo. Great product.
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FIXME: This isn't documented in Nutshell.
Since MonitorMixin#new_cond returns a ConditionVariable, and the example above calls while_wait and signal, this class should be documented.
Wakes up all threads waiting for this lock.
# File monitor.rb, line 136 def broadcast @monitor.__send__(:mon_check_owner) @cond.broadcast end
Wakes up the first thread in line waiting for this lock.
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Releases the lock held in the associated monitor and waits; reacquires the lock on wakeup.
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The Government administers the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) which consists of five HELP loans schemes to assist students with the cost of their fees. The right loan for you will depend on your circumstances, eligibility and where you want to study.
If you are studying at university or at an approved private higher education provider you will be offered either a Commonwealth supported place or a fee paying place. If you are studying at an approved VET provider you will be enrolled as either a state subsidised student or fee paying student.
A Commonwealth supported place is subsidised by the Government so that students are only required to pay a 'student contribution' amount rather than tuition fees.
HECS-HELP is a loan scheme to help eligible Commonwealth supported students to pay their student contribution amounts through a loan or upfront discounts. Before 2005, this was known as 'HECS'.
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Dr. John Queenan has a proven track record of excellence in the delivery of patient care. Patients quickly come to recognize the broad range of his skills. He is the Director of the IVF program and the Donor Egg program at the Strong Fertility Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Throughout his career, he has sought to identify factors that could lead to improved pregnancy rates.
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Trade Deficit, 'Fiscal Cliff' Threaten Economy
Imported oil and subsidized imports from China account for nearly all of the $500 billion annual trade gap. Dollars spent abroad that do not return to buy U.S. exports reduce demand for U.S. goods and services, and slack demand is the principal reason for slow growth and jobs creation in the U.S.
In 2009, stimulus spending and additional tax cuts increased domestic spending by $1 trillion and jump-started growth, but those tripled the federal deficit.
In 2010, consumer spending accelerated -- deleveraging, as measured by new consumer credit ended -- and the recovery had its best year with GDP growing 2.4%.
However, too many stimulus and consumer dollars went abroad to purchase more oil and other imports, principally from China, and too many stimulus dollars were squandered on dead-end projects like failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra or electric vehicle technologies that failed. Those kept the initial recovery from accelerating hiring and boosting wages, and in turn, from becoming self-sustaining.
Ultimately, the recovery remained dependent on huge federal deficits, which have averaged $1.3 trillion over the last four years -- three times the last Bush administration deficit in 2008.
The economic recovery began five months after Barack Obama took office, and GDP growth has averaged 2.2%. In October 2009, unemployment peaked at 10%, and has since fallen to 7.9; however, a lower percentage of adults working or seeking work accounts for about 80 percent of that reduction.
Ronald Reagan inherited a similarly troubled economy with unemployment cresting at 10.8 early in his presidency. When he sought reelection, the economy was growing at 6.3%, unemployment was 7.3% with adult labor force participation rising.
Reagan encouraged the development of natural resources and endured much criticism from environmentalists and academics. Obama on the other hand has talked repeatedly about developing alternative energy resources and has imposed limits on oil production in the Gulf, off the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts, and Alaska. Merely, replacing domestic oil with imports does little to improve air quality or curb CO2 emissions.
To boost sales of Chinese products in the U.S., Beijing undervalues the yuan through intervention in currency markets and subsidizes exports. It pirates U.S. technology and imposes high tariffs on imports. Diplomatic efforts pursued by both Presidents Bush and Obama have failed to yield much relief for competing U.S. businesses and workers.
Eliminating the trade deficit by developing U.S. energy and taking aggressive steps to counter Chinese protectionism would boost GDP by $1 trillion and create 10 million jobs.
However, in coming months the president and Congress will be preoccupied with averting the "fiscal cliff" and with deficit reduction -- without action by Jan. 1, taxes will increase by $136 billion and spending will be cut by $532 billion.


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—Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention
Does anybody else find this statement by a leading Evangelical voice a bit incongruous? I understand what he's getting at — not settling for Mitt Romney when there may be a better alternative for Evangelicals and social conservatives — but it seems quite strange for the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention to be advocating for a political affair, if you will. The language is just so odd.
By the way, this quotation was excerpted from Barbara Bradley Hagerty's excellent piece on today's NPR Morning Edition. If you are interested in politics and/or kingmaking, this report is for you.


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Things are kind of slow lately and especially so during all star break so I offer this feeble attmpt at humor.
I suppose this could be a category on the $20,000 Pyramid. "Things you hear or situations that make you cringe"
• "This won't hurt a bit…"
• "Hello, this is agent Jones from the IRS calling; I have a few questions for you."
• From your 8 year old son; "remember that nice crystal egg on the mantle…"
• "It went a little over the estimate."
• "We might have to re-break that ankle if it doesn't heal right."
• "Root canal"
• You can't find the back-up files and the server crashed.
• "Honey, the police officer wants you to pull over."
• Squeaky chalk on a chalk board
• "All representatives are assisting other customers please stay on the line and your call will be taken in the order in which it was received."
• "We're all out of that would you care for …"
• You're on an airplane and the fish was bad… and you ordered fish
• The doctor can see you on Monday… and its Tuesday.
• It's a dog eat dog world…and you are wearing milk bone underwear.
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OK, here is my detailed account of my favorite albums of the year. I think what makes music great is that every person gets something different out of it. I realize as I look at other lists of this type, how much is out there, and there is something for everyone. I hope you can find something here for you!
- The Explorers Club – Grand Hotel
This year has found me revisiting a lot of older records. I have been listening to a ton of "Come to the Sunshine" podcasts, The Kinks at the BBC box set, etc. So it doesn't surprise me that this is my #1. It both borrows heavily from records of the 60's and 70's, and remains wholly original. Making songs as good as anything released at that time. It has hooks that are incredibly catchy, which is surprising these days. The record is well produced and professional. It is a triumph, and I love it.
- Gold Motel – Gold Motel
This band was my top album of 2010, so I am a huge fan already. This album picks right up where they left off, and in some respects is better. It is better produced, and while it doesn't have the immediacy and pull the first one did, there are many solid songs on here. "Musicians" may be the best song of the year. Each time I hear it, some other awesome part of it shines through.
- Air Traffic Controller – NORDO
The long awaited album was worth the wait. Another collection of melodic, hook-filled music. His unique voice really makes it; this is a record about singing your heart out, and saying what you mean. They are sincere, heartfelt songs that take it slow when they need to, and rock out when it needs that. It almost feels like a cathartic release of emotions in a pure pop package.
- Wanderlust – Record Time
YES! The return of a great band, and not only that, they are better than ever. This record is a loud statement of we are here, and we have something to say. The record can be listened to at the surface level, and you hear great rock songs, with soaring vocals, crashing guitars, and can have a great time. Once you start delving into the songs, you realize there is substance here. These aren't just kids rocking out, they are adults who have lived in the world, and are expressing their experience with it.
- Hidden Pictures – Rainbow Records
This album came to my attention via Futureman Records, which has been releasing classic power pop records digitally, and they put this album up as a preview. It was a great move because it fits right in with all those classic records, yet has an appeal to today's audiences. It uses the power pop mold, but run through a more modern indie rock filter. Making for an engaging and fun listening experience. After seeing the other records this band released previously, I see they've been doing this for years, but I think maybe this one tops them all.
- Redd Kross – Researching The Blues
When a band hasn't released an album in 15 years, you wonder if they still "have it". As you hear the opening chord of this album, all notions of a failed comeback disappear. It rocks your socks off! They are back with a vengeance! It feels almost as if there was a kinetic energy building up for 15 years, and is released all in one fell swoop, leaving all others in the dust. It is both classic Redd Kross, and a new direction all at the same time.
- Missy Higgins – The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
This album stands out from Missy Higgins' previous efforts. It feels a lot closer to the chest, more personal. I think bringing Brad Jones and Butterfly Boucher in the mix was a wonderful decision. It doesn't take away from Missy's sound, but adds flourishes that bring out a different side to the sound. In the end, it brings it to a place of perfection for me, and is almost a new start, that can actually grow and continue to make her the strong unique artist she is.
- Mike Viola – Acousto De Perfecto
As long as Mike Viola is making new music, he will make it on this list. Something about him just always hits me just right. This might not be considered a proper album, but it does make a full statement and stands up well. It features about half new songs, half old, done in an acoustic manner, with basically guitars and a string section. It really brings out the lyrics and just the simple but effective songwriting style of Mike Viola.
- Chris Richards and The Subtractions – Get Yer La-La's Out
If you need one solid power pop record this year, this is gonna be it. It has all the required pieces put together in a way that flows well and mixes into a great sound. You've got your crunchy guitars, pulsating beat, background vocals (la-la's!), and a great solid voice. Great melodies and interesting song topics make for a wonderful all around experience.
- Ruby Free – Introducing Ruby Free
A unique and cool album that feels more relaxed and confident than his other band, Maple Mars. It has a retro feel to it as well, a kind of southern California hippie feel to it. Yet, it has a post-modern experience of that music, first as a reminiscing of the era as can be seen through modern eyes. I am unsure if an era like this even existed, but it comforts me to hear music that makes it feel like that kind of world is possible.
- The Corner Laughers – Poppy Seeds
Lighthearted pop from this group, sweetly sung and well produced. It grabs you from the start, with its bright feeling, as something different and fun. Where I see it going to the next level is thematically, with the unique take on experiences that are both relateable and abstract. It seems to have a poetic quality where things are said lyrically, but with much more meaning behind it.
- The Murphy Brothers – Thick as Thieves
Great brotherly harmony band. Musically, what I like is the soaring-ness of the whole thing. They kind of lay down a rhythm, and the vocals kind of glide around, always moving forward, then it comes to the choruses, which lift it into the stratosphere. It makes me happy, and makes me want to join in!
I couldn't stop at 12 of course. So here are 13 more albums that made my year!
13. Butterfly Boucher – Butterfly Boucher
14. The dB's – Falling off the Sky
15. Shoes – Ignition
16. Regina Spektor – What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
17. Cliff Hillis – Dream Good
18. Eytan and the Embassy – Everything Changes
19. Young Fresh Fellows – Tiempo De Lujo
20. Tim Adams and Mike Viola's Harem – Songs from the movie "That's What She Said"
21. Dan Miraldi – Sugar & Adrenaline
22. Sweet Diss and the Comebacks – Emerald City Love Song
23. Dylan Trees – Three Times of the Day EP
24. Eleni Mandell – I Can See The Future
25. Kelly Hogan – I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
Thanks for reading! If you made it all the way down here, I've got a bonus for you: A compilation of all my favorite songs from all these albums!!!!!
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Equisetum tea is a common plant tonic used in Biodynamic agriculture.It comes from the Horsetail Herb. The plant is very high in silica which is a vital element in plant growth. Equisetum tea is used to prevent aphids, fungus, blight, mildew etc. The dried plant is brewed by lightly boiling in water for an hour to create a potent tea. The tea helps to disolve the silica into a form that plants can very quickly absorb. This tea can be used fresh on plants or fermented for a few weeks in an earthenware container for an even stronger brew. When applying the tea it should be diluted (10 water to 1 Equisetum) and stirred in water for at least twenty minutes and then sprayed on plants.
Repeated applications over several days are effective in strengthening plants. 100g of Equistetum can treat up to 4 acres, so a little bit goes a long way
Hi Peter,
thanks for that information. I have nettle and comfrey growing in my garden. I've heard they make good fertilizer teas and was wondering if you knew much about how they are helpful.
Hi Natasha,
Stinging nettle stimulates soil health, providing plants with the individual nutrition components needed. It enlivens the earth and helps to release iron into the soil. Helps to improve the potency of plants by increasing their sensitivity to their surroundings. It improves the nutritive qualities of plants.
Every vegetable patch should have a clump of stinging nettles as its not only good for compost preparations, but can be used a liquid manure and its presence among other plants is a beneficial companion, especially for control of aphids. Stinging nettle tea has long been recognised for its many benefical health giving qualities for human consumption. Nettle leaf is high in organic iron, chlorophyll, potassium, calcium, magnesium, silicic, folic and pantothenic acids and vitamins A, B1, B2, C and K.
Comfrey is also a wonderful plant for your garden. It has beneficial affects on soil health, is a deep rooted plant and draws up nutrients to help surrounding plants. The leaf growth is prolific and is excellent green matter for compost and I know many peioke who also use it as a mulch. I use it as border around a number of my garden beds. Its a beautiful looking plant and requires very little care and will keep coming back each year when the cionditions are right.
Hope that enough.
Happy gardening
Hi Peter,
Thanks for that, that is a great help. I did have my nettle growing in my veggie patch, but I had to move it as I kept sticking my hand in it accidentally! I have transplanted it, but will probably find another spot in the vege garden for it after reading your post.


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Awesome alternative to sugared chocolate bars
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I am diabetic and am always looking for alternative sweeteners and products containing them. Chemical sweeteners are just not an option, agave raises my blood sugar, and no other tastes good to me. Now I can have my candy and eat it too!
Horrible taste.
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The most disgusting, kind of bitter, nauseous taste. Will never buy again.
Loved these
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I hope they are only discontinued temporarily (must be hard to ship in the summer). The ingredients are just right. Everyone in my family loves them. We keep them in the refrigerator.
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These bars taste incredible. The coconut, the texture and the chocolate are all great. They are filling and satisfying. Best of all, they are low GI. As part of a medical treatment, I've had to increase the fat in my diet and these bars make it really easy. They contain a whopping 40% of the recommended daily intake of fat. People watching their weight probably need to eat in moderation!
Not too bad but not my favorite
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I tried all 4 flavors of Coconut Secret Coconut Bars and this one is my least favorite. If I were to order again it would be the Classic Coconut Bar.
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This Old BuildingPosted Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 10:25 AM
This building looks just about like the "Old School House" But is a completely different building, in a completely different area. Still within an hour of Mtn. Home Home. East
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Hey! I was going thru these old blogs and found out that someone had answered this. Yes tj22, you are exactly right! sorry it took me so long to answer, but thanks so much for playing! I love finding people who know small little things about this area
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Wed, Jan 20, 2010, at 8:35 AM
this building is aold telephone building on the 101 ranch on 101loop road it is used for storage now
-- Posted by tj 22 on Wed, Dec 16, 2009, at 4:17 PM
my4X, that is an identical building. But that isn't where this one is. This one is near Glenns Ferry. BUT I'm impressed you recognized the building. Now, since you did, what was it used for?
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here are some of the hot stocks Jim Cramer talked about on Monday's "Mad Money" on CNBC:
Masco (MAS) and Fortune Brands Home & Security (FBHS) : Are these two home products giants a match made in heaven? Cramer made the case for why these two companies should merge.
Apple (AAPL) : Has Apple lost its luster? Cramer said this Action Alerts PLUS name is fighting an uphill battle, which is why he's trimming his position.
Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) : Cramer said this company is transforming Wi-Fi, and with its shares back on the move he's a fan on any weakness.
Research in Motion (RIMM) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Best Buy (BBY) : Cramer said all three of these stocks have run up on the hopes of turnarounds, but they could sink right back down in the blink of an eye.To read a full recap of "Mad Money" on CNBC, click here.
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Smoky Mountain Roller Girls have match on June 30
Swain County's Smoky Mountain Roller Girls travel to Haywood County to take on the Thunder Road Roller Girls in the upcoming "Debut Taunt Brawl." This event marks Smoky Mountain's first away bout as well as Thunder Road's first ever bout.
The hard-hitting, fast paced roller derby action takes place Saturday, June 30 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Doors open at 5p.m. Bout begins at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome. Tickets are $10 at the door or purchase online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/255390. Children 12 and under admitted free.
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Hi all, the last time I made a pizza, I was around 7, and I did more eating of the toppings than actually helping.Now I'm a fair bit older, and maybe wiser. I've had Chicago deep dish a couple times and love it! So I want to recreate it here at home.Equipment: oven (duh), pizza stone, 9" x 1.5" round cake pan, the wife's Kitchen Aid mixer with hook.I'm following the RealDeepDish.com recipe. I've got King Arthur AP flour and corn oil. I only have Extra Virgin olive, could I sub butter for the regular olive oil? Would it still work?I have never done anything with dough before, so if anyone has any basic things to watch out for, I'm all ears.I have nice san marzano tomatoes with basil. They're whole, but I figure crushing tomatoes is something even I can handle. Probably add some garlic and oregano too.I'm thinking of a hot/sweet Italian sausage blend, Boar's Head pepperoni and green olives. (Wife is shaking her head on the olives) Is there anything else I should be thinking about? Thanks in advance everyone!
Oh, I do have one question:What's the best way to remove the pizza from the pan intact?
simply cut and serve it right out of the pan on the table in front of you.....much safer.
Oh, and whatever you do, do NOT cook the sausage first. (Go raw or go home! )Good luck!Garvey
Again, here is your chance to be real.....I alwayssuck on that paper towel man!
Wow, this dough seems awfully dry.Does that sound right?
Good place to start when buying a scale.... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012LOQUQ/?tag=pmak-20
Actually, Bob, I'd disagree with you on that particular model. The maximum capacity is 100g, which is too small for flour, water, etc. (That being said, now I want one for IDY, et al.! )
Sorry about the lack of posting last night and the few pictures I have.Turns out repeatedly dropping delicate electronics isn't good for them! So my phone was kind of on the fritz.Overall I think it turned out well for my first time.The first pic is of my initial try at dough. I don't have a scale, so my measuring was by volume. I used slightly over a cup of flour, 5 tsp of corn oil, a bit over 1.5 tsp of butter and 1/3 cup of water.FIRST MISTAKE: I heated the water up too hot before I put the yeast in, which I think killed the ADY. I used a meat thermometer to check the temp of the water, and I don't think that was the best choice.
I had a hard time getting the Kitchen Aid to mix the dough. The hook was barely hitting the ingredients, so I used a spatula to try and push things in. Only worked it around 2 minutes or so.I felt this dough was too dry, it didn't seem to be coming together very well.
So, I re-made the dough, mixing by hand and adding maybe another 1/9 cup of water to the recipe. I worked it longer this time, to make sure things were mixed. At this point I had still over heated the water. SO an hour later I see the dough hasn't risen at all. I take some more water, around 1/6 cup, heat it less, mix the yeast and add it to the dough. I work it in along with some more flour. I set the bowl on top of the pre-heating oven to get it warm. I could have let it rise longer, but it was getting late and we were pretty hungry. Probably rose maybe 40 minutes. I don't have a pic of this guy.
SECOND MISTAKE: We over pressed the tomatoes after we drained and crushed them, so we didn't really have much tomato left to put on top. Some pieces of pepperoni got a little singed, but we kinda like that. My wife doesn't like much sauce, so she was fine with the amount, but I prefer more. We added fresh basil, one clove of garlic and some oregano to the tomatoes.
We laid Polly-O mozzarella (around 8oz) and then BelGiosioso Piquant Provolone (around 5 or 6 oz) down. Then about 1/4 lb of hot and mild Italian sausage, uncooked. A layer of Calabrese salami and then Boar's Head pepperoni. We spread the tomatoes around as best we could, then grated Parmesan on top. The oven was at 500, I turned it down to 450 and I put the pizza on top of the stone. Camera worked, so I snapped a quick pic. I put a cookie sheet on the rack right above the pizza.Baked it for 17 minutes, turned and then for another 14 minutes. I put some foil on top since the pepperonis were getting dark and baked for another 6 minutes. Total time was 37 minutes.Final pic is it out of the oven and all done.


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Here we go again with another hit from 3LAU. Pronounced Blau, the 21 year-old from Vegas has been absolutely killing it lately. His remix of Tristen Garner's Action is awesome. The original song samples a ton of different songs and 3LAU spices it up with a completely unique beat. Another instant classic from 3LAU. Enjoy!
Tristan Garner – Punx (Original Mix)
Diplo feat. Usher – Climax
Gym Class Heros Feat. Neon Hitch – Ass Back Home
The Wanted – Glad You Came
Benny Benassi Feat. Gary Go – Cinema
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Flip-Flopping Beats Staying the Course
By Richard Schmitt
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- "Read my lips: no new taxes" was too hard of a pledge to keep and may very well have cost the first President Bush a chance for being reelected to a second term. He found out the hard way that voters like a reliable candidate who holds true to their shared convictions.
Similarly, investors like a company that delivers what it promises. Yet success does not necessarily follow the candidate or investor who stays the course. Instead, as with everything else in life, success comes to those who adapt to changing conditions over time.
The last 12 years provide some pretty good examples where adapting to changing conditions would have produced different outcomes. In the interest of national security, the second President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in search of nuclear weaponry eventually found not to exist. Unfortunately, a continuation of "sticking to his guns" -- at a staggering cost to Americans of a trillion dollars and 4,500 lives before U.S. troops finally withdrew from Iraq at the end of 2011 -- as well as a faltering economy ultimately took a toll on Bush's legacy.
Perhaps a reversal, or flip-flop, in foreign policy would have ended our involvement in Iraq earlier and salvaged some of the Bush legacy.
Not nearly as tragic, buy-and-hold investors have nothing to show for holding a broad U.S. stock portfolio in a market hovering near levels first reached over 12 years ago. Closing at 1412.16 on Oct. 31, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is about 4% lower than where it started at the beginning of 2000.
Of course, along the way, investors had to endure some market volatility in the form of two major market downdrafts and rebounds, only to find their stock portfolios back where they started in 2000.
Investing in this type of volatile market headed nowhere is also a case where some flip-flopping -- otherwise known as rebalancing in investment parlance -- would be in order.
Portfolio rebalancing is a time-tested approach to take advantage of market volatility. Beginning with a balanced portfolio, rebalancing essentially involves selling some outperforming assets to reap gains and plowing the proceeds into underperforming asset classes poised to rebound. Each rebalancing is intended to restore a portfolio back to its original or target asset allocation.
In an uncertain market headed in no apparent direction, more frequent rebalancing generates more lasting gains over time. When generated through fund exchanges within a retirement savings portfolio, these lasting gains from rebalancing are unfettered by immediate income taxes or direct trading costs. Since retirement savings account fund options are generally valued once a day at the market close, you could even rebalance your retirement savings on a daily basis as long as you abide by the funds' frequent trading rules.


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A lot of Asian plants are invasive where I live. Although many of them are beautiful here, they do not always integrate in with the natural ecosystems in a healthy way. A major problem here in the mid-Atlantic U.S. is Japanese Knotweed, a beautiful (and edible) plant, which forms dense thickets shutting out the growth of native plants.
For this reason, I recommend people to exercise great caution when cultivating non-native plants. As beautiful as these plants are, they can wreak massive devastation to natural ecosystems, and in some cases, they can have immense economic costs as well (think of what Kudzu did to the south).
Many Asian plants have native analogues in North America. For example, there is a native version of pachysandra, Allegheny Pachysandra which integrates well with the ecosystems in Pennsylvania. But, typically, the Japanese variety is planted. As most gardens who have planted it know, it can become somewhat of a pest, and is difficult to remove.
I think that a new sort of beauty is obtained when people replicate Asian styles of gardening using native analogues, rather than non-native plants. This can be a challenge, but it ultimately creates something new and beautiful, something that is in harmony with nature. Keep in mind that in Asian gardens, planted with native Asian plants, the plants are in harmony with nature. When planting these same plants in North America, the harmony is lost. In order to truly replicate the essence of these gardens, one must actually do a lot more work in locating the corresponding plants from our own wild ecosystems, and working to cultivate them.


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Saving the village
Jim Goodman, Minot
I was surprised and saddened when I first heard of the possibility of closing the historical Pioneer Village at the North Dakota State Fairgrounds in Minot and eliminating it entirely due to the lack of a suitable and affordable replacement area, and not to mention, the cost of moving the buildings. I drove out there today to refresh my memory of the various buildings.
As a school teacher and administrator of Ward County schools since in the 1960s I became familiar with this excellent display of our history when we brought school children to the village to view how things had been in connection with their studies of North Dakota history, a requirement in both grade 4 and grade 8. As the sign beside the door of the entrance building, the Harmon House, states, "Our buildings are a series of snapshots in time. They represent several time periods to include early settlement, turn of the century migration, prohibition, the Great War, the Depression, World War II and the baby boom period. Insomuch, each building tells a different story …" For example, the depot is an actual depot from some small town nearby, I assume. All of our small towns had one in those years that our state was becoming a home to many.
I have attended a couple of weddings in the church in the Pioneer Village. It has been used for many weddings over the years for couples who wanted a church wedding but had too few relatives and friends in the area to warrant a wedding in a larger church. This church is a great example of those that were built in the rural communities. As a child, I remember sitting up front with the rest of the children, the ladies behind us dressed in their finest seated on one side of the aisle and the men in their boiled shirts and loud-colored ties seated on the other side of the aisle.
And what fond memories I had while visiting the "cook car," the kitchen on wheels! Fantastic meals were prepared for the workers on the threshing crews in the remote farm fields.
Oh, and the Ward County original courthouse which sat in the town of Burlington, when it was the county seat of Ward County. Powerful history. The log cabin. Isn't that a good example of what our ancestors lived in after staking their claim for their homestead? I didn't live in one but my mother, as a child, lived in a homestead "shack." Theirs wasn't quite as classy as the model displayed since theirs was made of a timber frame covered with sod, very similar to the prairie Indian's sod-covered earth lodges.
Pardon my reminiscences, but it is so important for our children and grandchildren to have some kind of experience with the type of living their ancestors had. How else can they know and see actual samples of those experiences?
I'm not an authority on the subject of the Pioneer Village, I've only been a visitor on the grounds and in the buildings. I appreciate what people are doing to keep these buildings presentable to the public. Much of the property was damaged by the flood of 2011, but it's making a come-back, if allowed to do so.
Please go to your computer and type in (www.wchsnd.org) and read about these buildings preserved in that small corner of the State Fairgrounds. There are 13 of them all together. Like the sign beside the door says, "… each building tells a different story …" I don't know, maybe there is something more desirable that needs to be on that bit of State Fair property for nine days in July.


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Mackenzie, Compton
Compton Mackenzie 1883-1972
(Born Compton Edward Montague Mackenzie) English novelist, memoirist, playwright, author of children's books, poet, and nonfiction writer.
One of the most prolific British authors of the twentieth century, Mackenzie published at least one hundred books during his writing career. He is remembered for his romantic novels.
Biographical Information
Mackenzie was born in Durham, England, on January 17, 1883. He was the eldest son of Edward Compton and Virginia Bateman, two of the most popular actors of the late Victorian era. Raised in a privileged household, Mackenzie showed a precocious interest in reading and foreign languages, especially Latin and Greek. In 1901 he entered Magdalen College, Oxford, and founded the Oxford Point of View. During his senior year at Oxford, he decided to become a writer; by 1907 he had written and produced a play entitled The Gentleman in Grey. In 1911 he revised the play into a popular novel, The Passionate Elopement. With this initial success, Mackenzie became a well-known personality in England. At the outbreak of World War I, he obtained a commission in the Royal Marines and was sent to the Dardanelles. Later, he was assigned to a high-level position in the British Secret Service in Athens. His time in Greece gathering intelligence information for England inspired his war memoirs, Greek Memories (1932) and Aegean Memories (1940). During the 1920s, Mackenzie's lavish life on the island of Capri forced the author to write prolifically in order to earn money. In 1930 he moved to Scotland and a year later was appointed rector of Glasgow University. Until his death, Mackenzie lived primarily in Edinburgh and involved himself in Scottish political issues, including the nationalism movement. In the 1960s, he devoted himself to writing his multivolume memoirs, My Life and Times (1963-1971).He died on November 30, 1972.
Major Works
Although Mackenzie published children's stories, histories, poetry, and memoirs, he is best known for his novels. In one of his early best-sellers, Carnival (1912), a young, innocent ballerina is eventually corrupted by the superficiality and promiscuity of show business. Sinister Street (1914) chronicles the adventures of Michael Fane, an upper-middle-class boy. The story begins at Fane's birth, follows his life through prep school and Oxford University, to his young adulthood in London. Fane reappears in The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1918) and Sylvia and Michael (1919), two novels that portray the life of a beautiful and headstrong young lady who ultimately falls in love with him. In 1956, he published a highly praised account of the life of an English politician, Henry Fortescue, entitled Thin Ice. Once considered a promising politician, Fortescue's career suffers as his homosexuality becomes known. A trilogy of novels, The Altar Steps (1922), The Parson's Progress (1923), and The Heavenly Ladder (1924), explore religious concerns, which stem from Mackenzie's own conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1914. His Water on the Brain (1933) is perceived as a biting satire on the British intelligence services and is said to be inspired by his own experiences in the British Secret Service during World War I.
Critical Reception
During his lifetime, Mackenzie's novels were commercially popular but critically disparaged; many reviewers asserted that he had squandered his talent by writing potboilers and publishing too prolifically. Moreover, others perceived the novels as melodramatic, full of such narrative devices as coincidences, superfluous scenes, and tedious conversations. His memoirs are considered highly readable and entertaining, but too self-indulgent and self-involved. Yet many commentators appreciate Mackenzie's accomplishments in the twentieth century. They praise his descriptive powers, as well as his biting, satirical wit. Critics note that he did not hesitate to explore controversial and topical issues, particularly such themes as homosexuality, infidelity, religion, Scottish nationalism, and espionage activities during World War I.
Principal Works
Poems (poetry) 1907
The Passionate Elopement (novel) 1911
Carnival (novel) 1912
Kensington Rhymes (poetry) 1912
Youth's Encounter (novel) 1913
Sinister Street (novel) 1914
Guy and Pauline (novel) 1915
The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (novel) 1918
Poor Relations (novel) 1919
Sylvia and Michael: The Later Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (novel) 1919
The Vanity Girl (novel) 1920
Rich Relatives (novel) 1921
The Altar Steps (novel) 1922
Gramophone Nights [with Archibald Marshall] (essays) 1923
The Parson's Progress (novel) 1923
The Seven Ages of Women (novel) 1923
The Heavenly Ladder (novel) 1924
Santa Claus in Summer (juvenilia) 1924
Coral (novel) 1925
Fairy Gold (novel) 1926
Mabel in Queer Street (juvenilia) 1927
Rogues and Vagabonds (novel) 1927
Vestal Fire (novel) 1927
Extraordinary Women: Theme and Variation (novel) 1928
Extremes Meet (novel)...
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Frederic Taber Cooper (review date February 1915)
SOURCE: "Some Novels of the Month," in The Bookman, New York, Vol. 40, February, 1915, pp. 676-77.
[In the following review, Cooper praises the wealth of cultural and sociological information found in Sinister Street.]
Arnold Bennett recently wrote, "the older I grow, the less attention I pay to technique in fiction." The same words might apply to a majority of the younger English novelists who have come into vogue within the last decade, and among others, to Ian Hay. To this younger school, the essential thing is not a certain closely correlated series of events, uniting to make a strongly constructed drama. Events, of course, there must be, or there could be no narrative; but to these later craftsmen the essential is first, last and all the time human character, and events are interesting, not in themselves, but because of the way in which they cause certain given characters and temperaments to react. A Knight on Wheels, Ian Hay's latest novel, is an admirable instance of the newer tendency. Throughout the whole series of adventures that make up the life of Philip Meldrum, from early boyhood down to the time when the course of true love suddenly reconciles itself to running smoothly, there is not one that is glaringly false or unlikely, but neither is there any that seems inevitable. Things, we are told, simply happened in such-and-such a way, and Philip reacted in such-and-such other ways. It is all very carefully done, and without being very keenly interested in Philip's joys and sorrows, we do come to feel that we know him with an almost unjustifiable intimacy; we know beforehand just what he must inevitably say or do under given circumstances, the kind of clothes he will buy, the sort of girl he will love. But of his life, as a whole, we get no structural pattern; the author's ultimate purpose, assuming that he has one, eludes us. Ten days after reading the volume, our memory is already hazy; what stand out are, not the ground plan of the book, but isolated episodes, whimsical characters. A year from now, the name and personality of the hero himself will have become a mere wraith of memory, while on the contrary, a minor character, Philip's Uncle Joseph, will remain unforgettable,—Uncle Joseph, professed cynic and misanthrope, with his twisted morality and incurable philanthropy. Of money to spare in charity Uncle Joseph has none; but he sees that the world is filled with well-meaning, credulous souls, whose happiness lies in giving away their pounds, shillings and pence to any plausible scoundrel with a clever tale of woe. Accordingly, Uncle Joseph spends his days in concocting the most ingenious and...
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Edward E. Hale (review date 3 February 1916)
SOURCE: "Recent Fiction," in Dial, Vol. 60, No. 711 February 3, 1916, pp. 122-25.
[In the following favorable review of Plashers Mead, [published as Guy and Pauline], Hale asserts that the story is "so entirely fused in the imagination that it makes its impression definitely and surely as the writer would wish."]
The name Plashers Mead will not mean much to many, but some will recall that, at a certain season, Michael Fane went into the country with Guy Hazlewood, who wanted to find a place where he might devote himself to poetry. They found a place called Plashers Mead. Here Guy established himself, and here Michael came later and wrote...
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Virginia Woolf (review date 29 August 1918)
SOURCE: "The 'Movie' Novel," in Times Literary Supplement, August 29, 1918, p. 403.
[In the following review, Woolf maintains that the characters in The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett are better-suited for films than for fiction.]
When we say that the adventures of Sylvia Scarlett are much more interesting than Sylvia Scarlett herself, we are recommending the book [The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett] to half the reading public and condemning it in the eyes of the other half. There are people who require the heroines of their novels to be interesting, and they know by experience that the adventurous heroine is apt to be...
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Francis Hackett (review date 9 November 1918)
SOURCE: "The Scarlett Woman," in New Republic, Vol. 17, No. 210, November 9, 1918, p. 48.
[In the following review, Hackett contends that The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett is full of cheap puns and slapstick and exhibits a lack of didacticism.]
For a long time the best novelists have written novels of motive. They haven't aimed to tell a story and left it at that. They have sought, practically all of them, to act omnisciently about their children, to give the how and the why of everything. The object hasn't been moral so much as psychological.
Out of this tendency Mr. Compton Mackenzie comes to narrate the early life and...
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Virginia Woolf (review date 20 March 1919)
SOURCE: "New Novels," in Times Literary Supplement, March 20, 1919, p. 150.
[In the following negative assessment of Sylvia and Michael, Woolf deems the novel boring.]
The feat that no reviewer of Mr. Mackenzie's books can possibly attempt is to explain even in the most compressed form what happens. In Sylvia and Michael the reader must be content with the assurance that Sylvia Scarlett is, in the familiar phrase, "still running." We leave her, indeed, seated upon the shore of a Greek island with her hand in the hand of Michael Fane: but figuratively speaking she is still running as hard as she can; and when the book is shut the eye of imagination...
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Rebecca West (review date 17 May 1919)
SOURCE: "Sylvia and Michael," in New Republic, Vol. 19, No. 237, May 17, 1919, p. 91.
[In the following essay, West offers a favorable review of Sylvia and Michael.]
This sequel to Sylvia Scarlett [Sylvia and Michael]—or rather this concluding half of Sylvia Scarlett which the publisher's regard for the limited weight-lifting powers of the average library subscriber has led him to issue separately—is by far the best thing Mr. Compton Mackenzie has done since Carnival. It gives scope to his gift for the vivacious rendering of quaint idioms and the recording of picturesque incongruities; and that is a very real gift and one which is to...
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Rebecca West (review date 18 February 1920)
SOURCE: "Poor Relations," in New Republic, Vol. 21, No. 272, February 18, 1920, p. 362.
[In the following review, West traces Mackenzie's improvement as an author and describes Poor Relations as "a coherent and beautiful farce."]
It was not that one really disliked Mr. Compton Mackenzie's previous books. But they were so much more like expensive cushions than like books that it seemed a social solecism, like drinking out of a finger-bowl, to be reading what was so obviously meant to be sat on. They appeared not to be created out of separate sweatings of the spirit, as books should be, but to be made up from bales of rich materials, gleaming with...
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Douglas Goldring (essay date 1920)
SOURCE: "Three Georgian Novelists," in Reputations: Essays in Criticism, Chapman & Hall, 1920, pp. 39-63.
[In the following excerpt, Goldring places Mackenzie within the context of two other popular British novelists, Hugh Walpole and Gilbert Cannan.]
If the ordinary circulating library subscriber were asked for the names of the three English novelists still under forty who have most definitely "arrived," ten to one he (or she) would mention Mr. Compton Mackenzie, Mr. Hugh Walpole and Mr. Gilbert Cannan. The success of this triumvirate when—their apprenticeship served—they assembled under the banner of Mr. Martin Secker to make their respective bids for...
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S. P. B. Mais (essay date 1920)
SOURCE: "The Genius of Compton Mackenzie," in Books and Their Writers, Grant Richard Ltd., 1920, pp. 19-26.
[In the following essay, Mais evaluates the flaws and strengths of Mackenzie's fiction.]
In Sylvia Scarlett Compton Mackenzie carries on his Balzac scheme of economical selection by continuing the histories of men and women whose acquaintance we have already made in earlier books. In attempting, therefore, a general survey of his work one is bound to come to the conclusion that his first book, The Passionate Elopement, was simply a magnificent tour de force, an exquisite "essay in literary bravura," a piece of loveliness thrown off by...
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Frances Newman (essay date October 1921)
SOURCE: "Avoiding the Abbey," in Reviewer, Vol. 2, No. 1, October, 1921, pp. 30-36.
[In the following essay, Newman discusses the critical reaction to Mackenzie's work.]
When Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-one and his literary taste was yet unformed, he had a marked admiration for Sinister Street: the title of his second novel—The Beautiful and Damned—would seem to indicate that his maturer taste has turned from the smooth octavos of Mr. Martin Secker to the more fragile volumes of Messrs. Street and Smith. When Mr. Henry James was seventy-one and his literary taste was presumably definitive, he wrote his famous article on the younger...
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R. Brimley Johnson (essay date 1922)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie," in Some Contemporary Novelists (Men), Leonard Parsons, 1922, pp. 131-53.
[In the following essay, Johnson considers Mackenzie as a romantic and a realist.]
Modern criticism has decided that, for all his outspoken revelations of the underworld, Mr Compton Mackenzie is essentially romantic. He does not, in fact, see life as it is, but as he desires it to be; that is, as it will best illustrate the characters of his imagination, best occupy the light splendour and swift precision of his most opulent vocabulary. As he says of his own Michael, even his conception of irregularity is essentially romantic. He has invented London and peopled it...
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J. W. Krutch (review date 31 January 1923)
SOURCE: "Divertissements," in Nation, Vol. 116, January 31, 1923, p. 124.
[In the following derogatory review of The Seven Ages of Woman, Krutch asserts that Mackenzie has "no philosophy to give significance to his work and no depths in himself to be moved, for he inhabits an essentially trivial world."]
Of these three divertissements The Enchanted April is the best because it is the most frankly what it is, and The Seven Ages of Woman the most disappointing because it was so evidently intended to be something else, while Mr. Bennett's Lilian falls somewhere between the two. The latter little tale of a beautiful typist who breaks the...
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Arthur St. John Adcock (essay date 1923)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie," in Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1923, pp. 183-89.
[In the following essay, Adcock offers a brief overview of Mackenzie's life and career.]
From a literary and dramatic point of view, Compton Mackenzie may almost be said to have been born in the purple. Even a quite modest minor prophet who had stood by his cradle at West Hartlepool, in January, 1883, might have ventured to predict a future for him. For his father was the well-known actor Edward Compton, author of several plays and founder of the Compton Comedy Company, and his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, one of the most...
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Cuthbert Wright (review date July 1924)
SOURCE: "Ecclesia Anglicana," in Double Dealer, Vol. 6, No. 36, July, 1924, pp. 171-73.
[In the following essay, Wright contends that the humor in The Parson's Progress "will save it for the unimaginative people who are bored by its ecclesiasticism, and the long-faced people who are interested exclusively in the ecclesiasticism will contrive to swallow the humor."]
The thing I like most about Mr. Compton Mackenzie's latest phase as a novelist is the capacity it must contain to annoy most of his former admirers. He is an author who owed much of his original vogue to the exploitation of what was, after all, a rather shallow art on the part of a great...
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Gilbert H. Doane (essay date April 1927)
SOURCE: "Books and Authors," in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 1927, pp. 170-79.
[In the following essay, Doane traces Mackenzie's stylistic maturation as evinced in his fiction.]
In this short study of the earlier work of Mr. Compton Mackenzie let us judge according to his own criteria. Speaking before the Poets' Club of London in 1912, he made this statement: "Poetry, for me, is the quintessence of life displayed and preserved in a reliquary of beautiful words … [and] life consists of action, emotion and thought, together with their corollaries of experience, tranquility and contemplation, against a background of human beauty. To me great beauty...
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Peter Quennell (review date 16 January 1937)
SOURCE: "New Novels," in New Statesman & Nation, Vol. 13, No. 308, January 16, 1937, p. 86.
[In the following favorable review of The East Wind of Love, Quennell asserts that although the novel is too long, it is "decidedly readable."]
In the list of books that have influenced one's early development—aroused one to the possibilities of literature or egged one on to probe the mysteries of adult life—books one now considers memorable are extremely few. It is not until much later that the fascination of an Education Sentimentale or the retrospective beauty of a Dominique begins to make itself felt. Meanwhile, we absorb our intellectual...
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Leo Robertson (essay date 1954)
SOURCE: "The Religious Trilogy," in Compton Mackenzie: An Appraisal of His Literary Work, The Richards Press, 1954, pp. 107-14.
[In the following essay, Robertson explores the main features of Mackenzie's religious trilogy—The Altar Steps, The Parson's Progress, and The Heavenly Ladder.]
In 1922 Compton Mackenzie published The Altar Steps, the first of a trilogy of novels of which the remaining two are The Parson's Progress (1923) and The Heavenly Ladder (1924), in which he tells the life-story of Mark Lidderdale, the son of James Lidderdale, a bigoted and dour Anglican clergyman who stubbornly refused to come to any compromise in...
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Evelyn Waugh (review date 1956)
SOURCE: "A Story with a Moral," in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Donat Gallagher, Little, Brown, 1984, pp. 511-13.
[In the following favorable review, originally published in June 1956, Waugh asserts that Mackenzie "gently and wisely expounds the deterioration of a human character" in Thin Ice.]
For forty-five years, the full reading-life of most of us, there has been an unbroken series of novels by Sir Compton Mackenzie. He has written much else, but it is primarily as a novelist of great versatility, ranging from high romance, through satire to farce, that we honour him. This year he has given us something substantial and new and...
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Robert O. Bowen (review date Spring 1958)
SOURCE: "Agonies and Anesthetics," in Renascence, Vol. 10, No. 3, Spring, 1958, pp. 144-49.
[In the following positive review of Thin Ice, Bowen deems the novel as an "extremely sympathetic history of an important homosexual in British public life written by a close family friend who is honest enough neither to deny nor to romanticize the most significant quality in his subject."]
To be a Catholic writer today is fashionable, a fact which has earned at times highly questionable laurels for writers familiar with the outward and visible signs of Catholic dogma and with the intellectualizing of the Church fathers. Few would-be modern Catholics have had...
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Compton Mackenzie with John Freeman (interview date 25 January 1962)
SOURCE: "Sir Compton Mackenzie 'Face to Face'," in Listener, Vol. 67, January 25, 1962, pp. 165-67.
[In the following interview, Mackenzie discusses his childhood, his education, and the impact of World War I on his writing.]
[Freeman:] Sir Compton Mackenzie, in the course of a long life you have been, as far as I know, a writer, a soldier, a music critic; you have been a spy, you have been a religious convert, you have been a bon viveur all the time—I take it it is fair to say that you really have led the life of your choice?
[Mackenzie:] Absolutely.
Now, at the age of almost seventy-nine, you are...
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Maurice Richardson (review date 2 March 1962)
SOURCE: "Mental Fight," in New Statesman, Vol. 63, No. 1616, March 2, 1962, p. 308.
[In the following essay, Richardson commends the personal recollections and tales of courage collected in Mackenzie's On Moral Courage.]
Oughtn't it, perhaps, to be mental courage, as the proper opposite of physical? Moral is so close to the body. It reminds you of those allegedly anaphrodisiac cold baths. And if moral, why not immoral courage? But if we hunt it into the psychological laboratory it will break down and metamorphose. We can agree roughly on what we mean by it and there are very few elders from whom we can tolerate a lecture on it. Sir Compton, always a champion...
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Kenneth Young (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie," in Compton Mackenzie, Longmans, Green & Co., 1968, pp. 5-23.
[In the following essay, Young offers a biographical and critical overview of Mackenzie's life and work.]
It may seem superfluous, if not a presumption, to write about the life of Sir Compton Mackenzie when he has spent so much of it writing about it himself. To the five volumes of his first World War memories, Greece in My Life, books about his musical experiences and his cats, personal essays and broadcasts, he has recently added My Life and Times, an autobiography in ten volumes, seven of which will have appeared by January 1968,...
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Christopher Hollis (essay date 9 December 1972)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie Remembered," in Tablet, Vol. 226, December 9, 1972, pp. 1174-75.
[In the following obituary, Hollis provides personal reminiscences as well as a brief biography of Mackenzie's life.]
Few among Monty Mackenzie's innumerable friends and acquaintances would dispute the claim that he was one of the most generous men of our time. He was generous in his unstinted physical hospitality, which he offered to all who called at his flat in Edinburgh, whether with invitation or without invitation. The last time that I saw him I found there a young journalist whom he did not know and who had called without invitation on no very clear errand. This young...
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D. J. Dooley (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Satires on the Anthill and the Hive," in Compton Mackenzie, Twayne Publishers, 1974, pp. 96-104.
[In the following essay, Dooley examines the subject matter of Mackenzie's satirical, topical novels.]
A traditional function of the writer of fiction has been to throw new light on questions of the day through imaginative treatment of them. Jonathan Swift ridicules the absurd predictions of the astrologer Partridge by foretelling the death of Partridge—and he follows it, at the appointed time, by an account of Partridge's sad ending; or he assumes the role of a Dublin drapier to oppose the patent given William Wood by the British Government to mint copper...
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Benny Green (review date 6 August 1977)
SOURCE: "OHMS," in Spectator, Vol. 239, No. 7778, August 6, 1977, p. 31.
[In the following favorable review of Water on the Brain, Green praises the relevance and topicality of Mackenzie's novel.]
The republication of Water on the Brain could not have come at a more convenient moment. Only last month the British taxpayer learned with what acumen his money is being spent, in the following of Dr David Owen in mistake for Mr William Owen, and in the shadowing of Mrs Judith Hart in mistake for Mrs Tudor Hart; Sir Harold Wilson has now admitted: 'I am not certain that for the last eight months when I was Prime Minister I knew what was happening, fully,...
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John Bayley (review date 21 May 1987)
SOURCE: "Azure Puddles," in London Review of Books, Vol. 9, No. 10, May 21, 1987, p. 20.
[In the following review of Andro Linklater's biography of Mackenzie, Bayley reflects on Mackenzie's intriguing life.]
Staying at about the age of eleven with a friend whose father was a doctor, I was put in a room where the only reading-matter was a medical textbook and the first volume of what was to become Compton Mackenzie's quadrology, The East, West, South and North Winds of Love. I embarked on it with hope and confidence, but after only a few pages had to give up and turn for entertainment to the medical book. Considering myself a mature and experienced...
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Gerald Mangan (review date 29 May 1987)
SOURCE: "A Talent to Perform," in Times Literary Supplement, May 29, 1987, pp. 572-73.
[In the following assessment of Andro Linklater's biography of Mackenzie, Mangan surveys Mackenzie's life and literary output.]
During the First World War, when Compton Mackenzie's reputation as a serious novelist was at its height, very few of his admirers would have believed that his posthumous fame would rest largely on a pot-boiler written in his sixties. Whisky Galore (1947) and other Highland farces have now effectively eclipsed the greater part of his gargantuan output, both serious and comic; but it may well be their continuing popularity that has ensured the...
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Anthony Masters (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie: The Indiscreet Spy," in Literary Agents: The Novelist as Spy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1987, pp. 66-76.
[In the following essay, Masters recounts Mackenzie's espionage activities in Greece, his trial for revealing sensitive intelligence information, and publication of his "revenge" novel, the satirical Water on the Brain.]
From the first moment I saw the little man with his mousy hair and pale, ragged moustache, his very pale blue eyes filmed by suspicion and furtiveness almost as if by a visible cataract, I recognized in him the authentic spy, the spy by nature.
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Harold Orel (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Compton Mackenzie's The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1918)," in Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992, pp. 91-103.
[In the following essay, Orel evaluates the major strengths and flaws of The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett and concludes that "the incidental pleasures and the overall readability" of the novel are apparent to the reader.]
Compton Edward Montague Mackenzie, born on 17 January 1883, died at a venerable age, on 30 November 1972. His parents were theatrical people: his father an actor-manager in charge of the Compton Comedy Company, and his mother an American actress....
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Brooks, Phillips V. A Bibliography of and about the Works of Anthony Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie: Sir Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972. Norwood, Penn.: Norwood Editions, 1984, 274 p.
Primary and secondary bibliography.
Linklater, Andro. Compton Mackenzie: A Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987, 354 p.
Comprehensive biography written by a family friend.
Thomas, David and Joyce Thomas. Compton Mackenzie: A Bibliography. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1986, 309 p.
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About the Author: Suzanne Hall serves as New Media Advisor for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
The young people of today are a population that cannot be overlooked: more than sixty percent of the world's population is under the age of thirty. Secretary Clinton has recognized that a foreign policy that ignores the impact of our decisions on young people is short-sighted. It is imperative that we mobilize young people as sources of positive change, energy, entrepreneurship, and commitment to global issues.
A major component of youth engagement is the critical and creative use of our public diplomacy tools around the world. Today's youth are the first generation to grow up in a networked world. Access to technologies is breaking down the traditional barriers of age, geography, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, and circumstance that previously prevented young people from feeling empowered. Youth, bolstered by today's technologies, are key to changing norms and building positive societies.
As this year has been marked the International Year of Youth, we have the incredible opportunity to promote dialogue and mutual understanding by and through young people all over the world. Last week in Leon, Mexico, hundreds gathered to celebrate the power and potential of young people at the World Youth Conference 2010. The United States sent a delegation to represent our country, including representatives from State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Department of Education. We were also thrilled that a young university student from Tennessee, Josh Conor, could join our delegation, as well as Scott Warner, Executive Director of Generation Citizen, a non-governmental organization that encourages U.S. students to engage in the democratic process.
The U.S. delegation interacted with youth from more than 100 countries in Leon, and discussed critical issues including poverty, environment, education and gender equality. Together, the United States and other countries present pledged to support youth in a multitude of ways. At the close of the conference on Friday, August 27, participating governments, including the United States, signed a declaration underscoring their commitment to empowering youth.
The United States is focused on engaging young people to create long-term relationships as future leaders, amplifying credible voices, and empowering them to play more constructive roles within their own societies. Leon offered a perfect opportunity to listen and learn from both youth and government counterparts around the world. In weeks to come, we will be forming a youth task force at the State Department, and the lessons we learned in Leon will help us shape this group to have as much effect as possible.
Want to learn more about World Youth Conference 2010? Check out videos from the event here, follow @WHAAsstSecty on Twitter, and Facebook.
Related: Photo of the Week: Connecting the World, One Young Person at a Time
Sarah G. in Washington DC writes:
Thank you for sharing this event with us, Suzanne. It's pleasing to learn that the State Department is harnessing the power of new technologies to engage with youth across the world. I also love the colorful, energetic photo accompanying the blog entry.
Ric C. in Italy writes:
Wrt: Israeli's and Palestinian's.
The number one issue between the two parties is Borders. There are the 1947 UN recognized borders and the 1967 Israeli recognized War boundries. Sort this out and peace will follow.
Jason A. in Connecticut writes:
Definitely an awesome event. So awesome, in fact, I'm planning on organizing a youth conference in my town for next year. I feel young adults like myself hear that the sky is the limit so much it's almost hard to believe. It's time to show them! I'm using the chance to motivate others as motivation for myself, anything is possible!
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Best Future for Youth.....
The best future for Mexican youth is to stop the drugs/weapons and human traffickers who are destroying their chance for adulthood.
Nancy M. in Illinois writes:
We also need to recognize the and promote information regarding the safety and security issues abroad. The number of non-natural causes of death in Mexico contributes 1/3 of all deaths abroad. Please search Brent Midlock for more specifics.
Vince L. in the United Kingdom writes:
The United States of America being the World Super Power should take the lead in nurturing our future generations to be a Compassionate and Socially Responsible Global Citizen.


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Joe Conason has discerned THIS interesting political development:
Leaders of the American business community, who have long indulged the Republican far right as an instrument toward their own ends, seem to be growing weary of its political excesses. Recognizing the public verdict of last month�s election, corporate officialdom is moving toward moderation on taxes and other issues, showing support for the Obama White House and edging away from congressional Republicans.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (127 votes).
In short: The dipper looks much easier at the start than halfway up.In full: Essentially a fairly masochistic warm up, an orderly queue, a chance to pretend you are about 4 again throwing yourself down an oversize sanddune and finally the race proper around the Ogmore estuary. I tried to conserve energy up the dipper, felt I walked halfway, was exhausted at the top anyway and seemed to be behind about half the field. Next time I am going to give it everything on the dipper and try and get ahead of the queue.Date of review: January 31, 2011
In short: Fab race once againDate of review: January 26, 2011
In short: Brilliant! Superbly enjoyable race as usualIn full: Shame it was postponed due to the unpredictable weather which made the Xmas fancy dress and the Pogues 'fairytale in new york' a bit surreal in January :)Great race and one I wouldn't miss. Thanks Brackla keep up the good work!!!Date of review: January 23, 2011
In short: Excellent-again!!! Well done Brackla Harriers!In full: So pleased that the organisers managed to keep the atmosphere that has always made this race so special! Thought it would be a little bit of a post-Christmas anti-climax, but it was as uplifting as ever! Keep up the good work Brackla!Date of review: January 20, 2011
In short: Great fun, very enjoyable and a tough start as everDate of review: January 18, 2011
In short: Tough, energy-sapping, mentally challenging but totally brilliant ....every runner in GB should do The Pudding Run, Nos Galan, Rhayader Round the Lakes and The Roman Run...'never forget your Welsh'!! Date of review: January 18, 2011
In short: Once you get over the fear of seeing the Big Dipper its great fun and extremely well organised. Will be waiting for next years to open!!!Date of review: January 18, 2011
In short: A really fun race, raising money for a good cause tooDate of review: January 18, 2011
In short: Excellent race, tough conditions but great organisation and atmosphere make this a must do raceIn full: 5th year of completing this race, and I keep on coming back. Great organisation, good fun atmosphere and will definitely be back for the race at Xmas.Date of review: January 18, 2011
In full: Before starting the race i was a little wary about how i was going to get to the top of the big dipper let alone run the rest of the course, but once i conquered the beast of a dune i thouroughly enjoyed this race. I wasn't too concerned about getting a fast time which made it even more enjoyable. All different types of terrain covered within the race, very well organised, good support from the marshalls and crowd throughout. I was only disappointed that i didn't thake the opportunity have some mulled wine and mince pies on the way round, will have to remember to have some next time. Date of review: January 18, 2011
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My apologies if you came here looking for the post for the recent Lavender International Incident Party. I'm really late and really sick currently, and my creations came out quite… well let's just say they aren't quite what I wanted. I do plan to try again, so hopefully I will get the post up within the week. But it will be late, for that I truly am sorry.
To somewhat make up for it, I bring to you today a hilarious post of a tiny kitchen mishap. It didn't affect the taste, but definitely did affect the look of the dish. What did I do? Well…..
See that radioactive orange rice? I meant to add a tinge of saffron to my rice to give it a nice yellow tinge for the pineapple rice. I might have added too much. Like way too much. When I went to check on the rice, I collapsed on the floor, weak from laughter. I couldn't stop laughing. It's all still very edible and very tasty of course, but it did add a lot of colour to dinner. Lots of radioactive orange!
I remember my first encounter with Pineapple Fried Rice. I was in primary school, and my parents had brought us to a steamboat restaurant that also did Thai on the side. It was my first taste of Pineapple Fried Rice but it was love at first taste. The fact that it came in a pineapple made it even more magical. I developed a huge crush and an insatiable appetite for this dish. Unfortunately it was the only place that did Thai Pineapple Fried Rice at the time and when the restaurant finally closed down, I was heart broken.
Years went by and I grew up and forgot all about my first crush. Then I got a pineapple in my vegie box delivery from Aussie Farmer's Direct. I stared at it, and felt something stir within me. Feelings that were previously buried and forgotten came rushing back up to the surface. I had to, I had to see and taste my first crush again.
So I did. Thank you to Ellie's recipe who reunited us. I have since met up with my first crush many times over, and I plan to keep to the relationship this time. Pinky promise. (I did have to skip the prawns unfortunately. The housemate really doesn't like them)
Pineapple Fried Rice
2 cups rice, cooked in rice cooker or pan
250 g chicken thigh fillet, diced
1 cup fresh chopped pineapple (from 1 small fresh pineapple, reserve the shell)
1/2 cup frozen green peas, thawed
1 brown onion, finely chopped
1 tbsp curry powder
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat oil in a wok or a large frying pan until very hot.
2. Add onions and stir fry until lightly brown.
3. Add chicken, continue to stir fry until it changes colour. Add curry powder, fish sauce and soy sauce and mix well.
4. Add rice, green peas and pineapple. Continue to stir fry until well combined. Adjust seasoning.
5. Serve fried rice in pineapple shell and garnish.
It's quick and easy to do up, we did spend a bit of time over the carving of the pineapple but no matter. It was very worth it in the end! Don't you think?
Okay, maybe orange rice doesn't look quite so enticing. My next few versions weren't orange, I promise you that. I should also point out that I added raisins to the fried rice. It adds nice little sweet spots that compliments the sweetness from the pineapple well. Very yummy!
I also want to take this opportunity to thank the folks from yesterday's cookbook gathering. Thank you April, Kat, Emma, Michele and Thanh for your understanding. I was unable to attend like originally planned due to this very pesky flu and cough, but they very kindly allowed Michele to bring over takeaway of the awesome feast for me. Good food cures illnesses like no medicine can, and I didn't even cough once through my feast! So thank you, very very much. I feel guilty as I didn't contribute, but I'll make sure to contribute heaps next time!
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Source: Charles Woodson has agreed to terms on a 1-year deal with the Oakland Raiders.
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— Josina Anderson (@JosinaAnderson) March 20, 2014
The biggest mistake of 2013 offseason was not even asking Woodson to take a pay cut and stick around as a Safety. That was an even bigger mistake than their bungling of the backup QB spot, IMO.
Instead, they decided to roll the dice on MD Jennings and Jerron McMillian. That came up snake eyes. Not only would things have been better on the field, I don't think there is a better human being available to mentor Micah Hyde on converting from CB to Safety. Safety would still be a concern this offseason but it wouldn't be quite the hand-wringer it is seen as now.
The thing is, would Woodson have taken a pay cut to stick with Green Bay? I tend to doubt it. Very few times other than what B.J. Raji did this year is not not about the money.
Woodson owns a winery. He's a capitalist and loves money just like the next guy. If someone is going to pay him more money than Green Bay it's hard to turn that down especially at the end of your career. Even Reggie White took the money in Carolina though I think God told him to go there in his defense.
"The thing is, would Woodson have taken a pay cut to stick with Green Bay?"
That's certainly a good question. One that cannot be answered with anything but opinion.
All I know is 1) he took a ton less to play in Oakland on a one year deal. 2) He really warmed up to GB after being very icy to the place initially 3) He said his agent asked the Packers if they wanted to cut his pay heading into the '12 season and the Packers said no.
Given that, it seems well worth asking. The Packers did not.
Players generally don't take pay cuts to stay w/ the same team. They take it as a bit of a slap in the face. Once they've been released they have to take what they can get. It happens occasionally, as is the case w/ Hawk, but its uncommon.
I don't know that Woodson would have taken a pay cut to stay in GB. He's very prideful. He was a great Packer, but all things come to an end in the NFL, usually before players or fans want them too.
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Green tomatoes star in a breakfast cake.
There is a limit to the number of fried green tomatoes we can eat and the number of jars of green tomato relish we can fill, so when faced with a basket of green tomatoes, we decided to do a little culinary improvisation. As any home gardener knows, green tomatoes are firm, unripened tomatoes, picked in the fall before the first frost. New Englanders, known for their frugality, will do anything to avoid waste. Before tossing green tomatoes onto the compost, they will try to figure out a way to make them ripen. One of their suggestions, which we tried, was hanging the vines upside-down in the cellar. It sounded reasonable enough until we realized that tomatoes, ripe or not, eventually soften and fall off the vine, which is exactly what happened to us. Next we tried wrapping the tomatoes individually in newspaper and putting them in the refrigerator to ripen. Before we knew it, the refrigerator was so filled with tomatoes, which incidentally never ripened, there was no room for anything else.We were left where we started, with a basket of green tomatoes. One of our best green tomato recipes is a kuchen-like version of a plum tart. It�s filled with green tomato wedges and is a cross between a dessert cake and a coffee cake. As is customary with kuchens, we call it a breakfast cake. Of course, if anyone offered us a cup of coffee and a piece of green tomato cake any time of day or night, we wouldn�t hesitate to take it. �By Jean Kressy, a food writer in Ashburnham, Mass. Brought to you by: Relish - Free Recipes, Cooking Videos & Articles


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