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Lamb, Mary
Mary Lamb 1764-1847
English children's literature writer, poet, and essayist.
Initially a silent partner in the literary endeavors of her more celebrated brother Charles, Lamb has earned a reputation in her own right as an important writer in the field of children's literature. This achievement is all the more striking given that Lamb struggled much of her adult life to overcome the debilitating effects and social ostracism brought about by her descent into madness and her subsequent murder of her mother. Partly because of her chronic mental condition and partly because she was a woman, Lamb's essays and poems were originally attributed to and collected in the works of Charles, who had established himself as a respected writer, critic, and journalist. As literary collaborators, Charles and Mary Lamb produced some of the most memorable children's literature of the Romantic period, including Tales from Shakespear (1807) which has endured as a standard introductory guide to Shakespeare's plays for young readers.
Biographical Information
Lamb was born in London on December 3, 1764. Of the seven children born to John and Elizabeth Field Lamb, only Mary, her elder brother, John, and her younger brother, Charles, survived infancy. Lamb's father was employed as a servant for the prominent barrister, Samuel Salt, and the Lamb family resided in living quarters which adjoined Salt's home in the heart of the barrister community at London Temple. The Lamb children were willing recipients of Salt's largesse. With his assistance, both Mary and Charles received a primary education at William Bird's school. Mary was also permitted to use Salt's personal library, thus exposing her to materials beyond the scope of a traditional primary school. Given the prevailing social and cultural restrictions on women pursuing an advanced education, she remained with her family at London Temple and took employment as a seamstress. The family's fortunes took a turn for the worse when their benefactor Salt died in 1792. They left London Temple and took up residence in some inferior quarters in High Holborn. This relocation set into motion a series of inauspicious events which were to have calamitous consequences on the Lamb family. Shortly after their move, Lamb's mother became an invalid due to a debilitating case of arthritis and her father began to succumb to senility. Around this time, Lamb's elder brother, John, moved away, leaving the family in desperate straits. Lamb's younger brother, Charles, whose pronounced stutter had prevented him from becoming a clergyman, tried to establish himself as a clerk at the East India House on an unpaid probationary basis. Lamb nursed her incapacitated parents while also supporting the family by working long hours as an assistant to a dressmaker. In September 1796, after a long, stressful period of providing for her family, Lamb, in a fit of temporary insanity, stabbed her mother to death and grievously wounded her father.
In the aftermath of the calamity, Charles saved Mary from being committed to an insane asylum by securing authorization to have her released into his custody. Charles then filled the role that had driven Mary to the point of madness, working long hours at the East India House only to return home and care for his ailing family. With the death of their father in 1799, Charles and Mary found themselves without the burden of family obligations for the first time in their adult lives. Perhaps because of their harrowing domestic experiences and because of Mary's still fragile condition, the siblings stayed together and forged a close bond which would last until Charles's death in 1834. After a period of instability during which the Lambs moved several times between 1799 and 1800, the siblings eventually settled down in London Temple near their childhood home. At this time, Mary and Charles turned to literary aspirations, mingling with contemporary luminaries such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and William Godwin. Godwin was particularly influential in establishing the Lambs' literary careers. Having just founded a publishing company devoted to children's literature, Godwin recruited the Lambs to write juvenile stories for him. This venture resulted in The King and Queen of Hearts (1805), a well-received children's rhyme written by Charles; Tales from Shakespear, written by both Mary and Charles; and Mrs. Leicester's School (1809) and Poetry for Children, Entirely Original (1809), written mostly by Mary. Despite the success of these works and Charles's forays into literary criticism and journalism, the Lambs continued to be hindered by Mary's chronic lapses into madness. Apart from Mary's mental problems, the years between their initial literary success and Charles's death appear to have been the Lambs' happiest years. Perhaps the pinnacle of this happiness occurred in the early 1820s, when Charles and Mary adopted an eleven-year-old girl named Emma Isola. From the mid-1820s until 1834, the Lambs moved frequently, residing at places such as Islington, Enfield, and Edmonton. Over the years, Mary's bouts with madness worsened, taking an increasing toll on her mental stability and debilitating her physically. After Charles's death, Mary spent the final twelve years of her life in the care of nurses. Lamb died in St. John's Wood on May 20, 1847.
Major Works
Commentators have maintained that Lamb's enduring literary achievement primarily rests upon her contributions to Tales from Shakespear, a collection of prose essays for children that summarize the events and identify the central themes of a number of Shakespeare's plays. Of the twenty essays in the collection, literary scholars have speculated that Mary wrote fourteen, whereas Charles wrote six. Indeed, the uncertainty lies in the fact that only Charles's name appears as the author of the work; at the time, social convention generally dictated that female writers should either use a masculine pseudonym or publish under the auspices of a male associate. Critics have observed that the fundamental value of the work lies in the Lambs' ability to distill the sophisticated psychological and aesthetic elements of Shakespeare's plays into concise, yet descriptive prose which a young audience could understand. The collection proved to be an immediate success, going through five editions in the decade following its initial publication. Mary's next work, Mrs. Leicester's School, is a collection of stories written in the context of several new students who arrive at a school and who, by way of introduction, relate their personal histories to one another. Autobiographical in nature, most of the tales relate Lamb's reminiscences about attending primary school and her valuable extracurricular experiences under Salt's patronage. As with the Tales from Shakespear, Charles collaborated with Mary on some of the essays. Given that this collaboration mainly occurred in the final three chapters, some literary scholars have speculated that Charles was compelled to complete the work after Mary had suffered another one of her recurring bouts with insanity. After the publication of Mrs. Leicester's School, Lamb began writing poems which recount a vast array of mundane childhood events and experiences. These poems were collected in Poetry for Children, Entirely Original and also included some verse contributions from Charles. Commentators have generally characterized these poems as well-crafted reflections on the innocent experiences of childhood which likely resonated with the young audience to which the Lambs appealed. Critics have also pointed out that the Lambs included verses featuring topics of moral instruction and social awareness in an effort to nurture in their young readers a spirit of ethics and social responsibility.
Critical Reception
During her lifetime and in subsequent generations, Lamb's personal troubles cast a shadow over her and Charles's literary accomplishments. Contemporary critics who were largely unaware of the fact that Mary wrote most of the Lambs' successful juvenilia instead wondered at how Charles could produce such lucid and innocent prose and poetry with the frequent distractions and social marginalization caused by his mentally ill sister. Nevertheless, apart from Tales from Shakespear, popular and critical interest in the Lambs' juvenile prose and poetry waned not long after the siblings died. Analysis of Mary's literary career was virtually nonexistent until the late twentieth century when critical disciplines emphasizing feminism, gender studies, and new historicism came into vogue. From these perspectives, commentators began to examine Mary's literary works as documents that reveal the disturbing personal struggles of a mentally ill author attempting to maintain her identity in a repressive and unsympathetic patriarchal society. Among the first critics to champion Lamb's literary achievement, Jean I. Marsden has suggested that Mary's role as "the perpetrator of a lurid matricide" has been detrimental to the serious critical consideration of the significance of her contributions to the Tales from Shakespear. Marsden argues that critics have overlooked how Mary carefully crafted each essay to invigorate and appeal to a female audience, despite the fact that social convention dictated that she reduce Shakespeare's mature treatment of sexuality and relationships to "proper ladies' reading material." A host of modern commentators also have examined how the Lambs' unusual adult relationship might have informed their collaborations on children's literature. Jane Aaron has contended that these juvenile works invalidated masculinity at a time when patriarchal ideology was the foundation for society and culture, noting that the Lambs constructed a "shared identity which was essentially either female or childlike in its nature." Meaghan H. Dobson has analyzed Mary and Charles's contributions to Mrs. Leicester's School, observing that both siblings appear to have resisted the prevailing attitudes of the patriarchal order. Dobson points out that Charles did so by opposing dominant masculine gender codes, whereas Mary sought the solace of an artistic community which offers women the freedom to create their own identities through memory and imagination. Similarly, Donelle R. Ruwe has examined how Poetry for Children, Entirely Original manipulates the Romantic ideal of childhood to challenge the traditional patriarchal structure of poetics, using "representations of children to send a message about the gendering of culture to adults." Bonnie Woodbery has posited that Mary's writings reveal her struggle to recover her personal identity from the invasive mental and physical asylum experience and to oppose the cultural and institutional silencing of the insane during the Romantic period. According to Woodbery, "Lamb's writing, as painful and destructive for her as it was, offered her a chance to confront and resist her society's constructions of madness and the feminine."
Principal Works
Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of Young Persons. 2 vols. [with Charles Lamb] (juvenilia) 1807
Mrs. Leicester's School: Or, The History of Several Young Ladies Related by Themselves [with Charles Lamb] (juvenilia) 1809
Poetry for Children, Entirely Original. 2 vols. [with Charles Lamb] (poetry) 1809
"On Needle-Work" (essay) 1815
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. 7 vols. (juvenilia, letters, poetry, short stories, prose) 1903-5
The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb. 3 vols. (letters) 1975-78
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Jane Aaron (essay date September 1987)
SOURCE: Aaron, Jane. "'On Needle-Work': Protest and Contradiction in Mary Lamb's Essay." Prose Studies 10, no. 2 (September 1987): 159-77.
[In the following essay, Aaron examines the political and socio-psychological elements apparent in "On Needle-Work," arguing that despite the restraint evident in the work, it is a valuable document of social criticism.]
On 22 September 1796 Mary Lamb, in a sudden outbreak of violent mania, brought about the death of her mother. According to a contemporary newspaper account of the incident, while preparing a meal that day,
the young lady seized a case knife laying on the table, and in...
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Jean I. Marsden (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Marsden, Jean I. "Shakespeare for Girls: Mary Lamb and Tales from Shakespeare." Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children 17 (1989): 47-63.
[In the following essay, Marsden maintains that Mary Lamb played a significant role in the "gender-based division (and revision)" evident in the female-focused Tales from Shakespeare.]
On September 21, 1796, in a fit of madness, Mary Lamb picked up a knife and fatally stabbed her mother. Mary recovered and spent the remainder of her long life looking after her brother Charles and writing children's books, including the popular Tales from Shakespeare (1807)....
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Jane Aaron (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Aaron, Jane. "'Double Singleness': Gender Role Mergence in the Autobiographical Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb." In Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender, edited by Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom, pp. 29-41. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Aaron considers the influence of Charles and Mary Lamb's familial relationship on the feminine persona and lack of authoritative tone in their joint writings.]
In May 1833 an Edmonton schoolmistress noticed that her neighbours, the Waldens, had acquired two new lodgers; as Mr. Walden, formerly an asylum keeper, let lodgings to the mentally ill, "the...
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Jean I. Marsden (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Marsden, Jean I. "Letters on a Tombstone: Mothers and Literacy in Mary Lamb's Mrs. Leicester's School." Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children 23 (1995): 31-44.
[In the following essay, Marsden discussesMrs. Leicester's School, arguing that Lamb's relationship with her mother influenced the lack of a stereotypical maternal figure apparent in other similar works.]
The gift of education represented so vividly in Maria Edgeworth's "Madame de Fleury" stands in contrast to a more problematic vision of education published within a year of Edgeworth's work. In Edgeworth's tale, unlike the work by...
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Meaghan H. Dobson (essay date January 1996)
SOURCE: Dobson, Meaghan H. "(Re)considering Mary Lamb: Imagination and Memory in Mrs. Leicester's School." Charles Lamb Bulletin 93 (January 1996): 12-21.
[In the following essay, Dobson separates the different techniques used by Mary and Charles Lamb to criticize patriarchal authority, focusing on the contributions each made to Mrs. Leicester's School.]
In the rare critical essay which examines Mary Lamb's writing, the critic often draws Mary back in under her brother Charles' shadow, coming to a conclusion similar to Pamela Woof's on Mary and on Dorothy Wordsworth: 'Both Mary and Dorothy survived their brothers; they valued each other as friends, the...
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Donelle R. Ruwe (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Ruwe, Donelle R. "Benevolent Brothers and Supervising Mothers: Ideology in the Children's Verses of Mary and Charles Lamb and Charlotte Smith." Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children 25 (1997): 87-115.
[In the following essay, Ruwe argues that Mary and Charles Lamb use the depiction of siblings in Poetry for Children to expose patriarchal influence in poetry, while Charlotte Smith's representation of siblings argues for a removal of this patriarchal authority.]
We can assert two indisputable truths: one is that there were not mere dozens, nor even hundreds, but actually thousands,...
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Bonnie Woodbery (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Woodbery, Bonnie. "The Silence of the Lambs: Anti-Maniachal Regimes in the Writings of Mary Lamb." Women's Writing 5, no. 3, (1998): 289-303.
[In the following essay, Woodbery maintains that Mary Lamb's works reveal information on contemporary treatment of the mentally ill.]
This article examines Mary Lamb's poems and her short tale "The Young Mahometan" for what they reveal about Lamb's experience of madhouse confinements. I suggest that in her works for children, Lamb articulates an idiom of the body as it both reflects and resists what was often a brutal silencing of the mad body in early nineteenth-century madhouses. Roy Porter is correct in his...
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Darlene Ciraulo (essay date fall 1999)
SOURCE: Ciraulo, Darlene. "Fairy Magic and the Female Imagination: Mary Lamb's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'" Philological Quarterly 78, no. 4 (fall 1999): 439-53.
[In the following essay, Ciraulo contends that Mary Lamb's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" exhibits her view of pedagogy and interest in developing good judgement in women, focusing on her use of fairies as comic characters as opposed to allegorical representations of the imagination.]
During the period between 1806 and 1809, Mary and Charles Lamb coauthored children's literature for William Godwin's Juvenile Library. Tales from Shakespear, designed for the use of Young Persons was issued in...
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Bonnie Woodbery (essay date autumn 1999)
SOURCE: Woodbery, Bonnie. "The Mad Body as the Text of Culture in the Writings of Mary Lamb." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39, no. 4 (autumn 1999): 659-74.
[In the following essay, Woodbery considers Lamb's depiction of the maternal role and of children, maintaining that her writing, as social criticism, provided an outlet for her mental illness.]
The Mary Lamb who was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" has not received much purchase in the Lamb biographies or literary criticism to date. That this should be so is understandable. The silence that surrounded the facts of Lamb's madness until after she died in 1847 was partially grounded in what...
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Adriana Craciun (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Craciun, Adriana. "The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale." In Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, edited by Harriet K. Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, pp. 46-70. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
[In the following essay, Craciun analyzes the violent and aggressive nature of Lamb's works and of her matricide amid a discussion of the interpretation of violence in female literature.]
Would a woman be able to hold us (or, as they say, "enthrall" us) if we did not consider it quite possible that under certain circumstances she could wield a dagger (any kind of dagger) against us?...
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Further Reading
Balle, Mary B. "Mary Lamb: Her Mental Health Issues." Charles Lamb Bulletin 93 (January 1996): 2-11.
Provides the reader with an examination of Mary Lamb's psychological problems.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. "Recollections of Mary Lamb: By One Who Knew Her." National Magazine 18 (April 1858): 360-65.
Relates some contemporary comments on Mary Lamb's life.
Aaron, Jane. "A Modern Electra: Matricide and the Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb." In Reviewing Romanticism, edited by Philip W. Martin and Robin Jarvis, pp. 1-13. London: Macmillan,...
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Chassis bracing and reinforcing is permitted. Minor notching will be allowed. Ladder bars are permitted
Front suspension is limited to bolt on parts only. No fabrication allowed.
If you can not bolt it on in factory location...do not buy it. No wheelie bars.
Tires: D.O.T. approved drag radial Only.
Cars will run on a .400 pro tree, on a 1/8 mile.
The cars should have factory interiors, and no fiberglass (with the exception of a hood and/or a deck lid and bumpers).
Cars must have two front seats; (seat's can be factory or aftermarket). Back seats are not mandatory.
Cars must have factory glass in stock locations, (No Lexan). Cars must have WORKING headlights and taillights. Cars must have coolant overflow tank and secured battery mounts mandatory.
All cars must be able to pass track's saftey inspection
Rules subject to review and change.
The big differance between this and Ozark's rules are that we are allowing ladder bars. We will see how it goes. If the ladder bars prove to be a huge advatage, we will review the rules.
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... has anyone found that making smaller batches works better in terms of fitting your dough making into slow times during the day? ...
You don't "fit dough making into slow times" you schedule time to make dough. If you want your dough to be consistent and you plan on having regular hours (opening and closing at the same time each day) you need to plan the time you will make your dough so you know it is ready when you need it.It is true that every day may not have the same dough demands, but you should be able to determine the trends you will have from one day to the next so you can have the right amount of dough for normal business.If you try to just "fit dough making into slow time" you may find that you do not have slow time on a consistent basis and you will have dough that is too old or too young or you may not have any dough at all if you did not have enough "slow" time. If you schedule dough making into a daily routine you will have great dough every day (providing you make great dough ) in sufficient quantities for each days business.JMHOOC
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (593 votes).
In short: I forgot how hard this race is!In full: Rememberance Sunday. A poinient start with the last post, a firework salute and all competitors wearing poppies. Very much a feel good run...once you've finished! Prefered last year's course though. Date of review: January 20, 2009
In short: Never again, well not until next yearIn full: The one race I do make sure I do every year. Great race from the two minute silence at the start to the end with a little bit of mud thrown in for good luckDate of review: November 22, 2008
In short: forget huge races,this is where the fun is!In full: Full marks for 2 minutes silence at the start,and once again for the course,more fub than you can shake a mud pie at!Date of review: November 15, 2008
In short: Aching, Covered in Mud, Smell awful, would I do it again, You bet Ya!!!!Date of review: November 13, 2008
In short: muddy brilliantIn full: my first slog ,absolutly loved it best course i ever ran.what a graet way to spend a sunday morn.Date of review: November 12, 2008
In short: Legendary race, vintage yearIn full: Thanks Gordon; marshals; school; St John Ambulance; fellow runners and landowners... Date of review: November 12, 2008
In short: Mud. Mud. Hill. Mud. River. Mud. Beer.In full: Muddy and Cold.Date of review: November 12, 2008
In short: Mud, Mud Glorious Mud...In full: One of the best ways to spend a Sunday morning!! The combination of mud, water, mud and more mud makes the 9 and a bit miles fly by. Great organisation and the cheerful spectators, marshalls and competitors make this race a truly uplifting experience. Unless you are alergic to having fun do this race!Date of review: November 12, 2008
In short: Anyone for a wallow??In full: Don't believe anything they tell you about this race - it's ten times worse than you could imagine but a hundred times more fun than you imagine anything like that could be!Very touching at the start with the 2 mins silence and the Last Post. Everyone wearing a poppy.I'd seen the photos but nothing prepared me for the reality of the mud, the water, the mud and .... more mud! And the water .... cold ... very cold ... and you just don't want to think what may lurk beneath!I was beginning to really embrace the concept and replace my grimace with a grin when I had one tumble too many and had to be carted off with a twisted ankle :-(I'll be back next year ... it takes a lot more than an bit of English mud to beat this Celt.Date of review: November 11, 2008
In short: mud mud mud, fantastic marshalls, a few sharp hills and a packed gooody bag! I'll be backDate of review: November 11, 2008
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olivierco wrote:Just a question about koicha's consistency.
Is it close to hot chocolate's consistency or does it flow quicker?
chamekke wrote:It's thicker than hot chocolate. Almost ketchup consistency.
olivierco wrote:chamekke wrote:It's thicker than hot chocolate. Almost ketchup consistency.
Thanks for the answer.
inspectoring wrote:I will appreciate you input on two things -
1. How servings of thick tea/thin tea will this provide?
2. How long do you keep this on shelf/refridgerator once you open it?
I mean I know that itoen recommends that this be in a refridgerator for no longer than 3-4 months unopened and no longer than 1 month opened.
3. How does it compare to Matcha-Koto no Tsuki ? I have one can open that I am using right now but would love to experiment.
4. Are you not concerned about the possibility of this having pesticides etc?
5. I know this has been discussed to death - is this good for a everyday use?
joelbct wrote:In response to my inquiry wednesday, Urasenke teamaster recommended Ito En, Ippodo, and a place called Kanaemaya (sp?) for matcha.
Buzz Fledderjohn wrote:Koyamaen? Actually the full company name is Marukyu-Koyamaen. I currently have a tin of their Eiju matcha (koicha) open. I like it a lot, it's got a nice creamyness to it.
joelbct wrote:I drink matcha daily. Yum....
An update, my 2 favorites are still Ito En's Koto (red label) and Ippodo's Wakamatsu.
olivierco wrote:joelbct wrote:I drink matcha daily. Yum....
An update, my 2 favorites are still Ito En's Koto (red label) and Ippodo's Wakamatsu.
I reordered some Ippodo's Wakamatsu. I bought two cans, so I will be able to experiment if cold storage for opened matcha cans is a good thing or not.
I also ordered their best matcha Ummon no Mukashi: about 40$ shipping costs included (33% more than Wakamatsu), quite the same price as O-Cha's Uji Matcha Chiyo Mukashi.


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siae wrote:2012 Yunnan Sourcing "Spring Xi Kong"
tst wrote:Peet's also carries quite an array of teas.
They offer puerh, TKY, Phoenix Mtn, Dragonwell, etc. However, I too haven't bothered trying them. I was taken off guard to see these teas sold by Peet's, though I'm not surprised. It makes sense from a marketing POV I suppose.
debunix wrote:I think this is a puerh:
It brewed up in to a deep earthy liquor with a full-bodied mouthfeel and a spicy aftertaste, better than I guessed. Anyone able to shed any light on its likely origins?


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Thanks cpt. I must admit, I've been lax with the experiments lately and have been using the Occident flour at 61% hydration. It makes a pretty good pie, though I still plan to keep playing with different things to make it better. The oven is a Forno Bravo casa g60.
Hi, your pizzas are simply beautiful. Dont know if you posted your recipe, but I would really like to try it. If you dont mind can you direct me to it? Thank you, Vince
Steve, Maybe you should take your trailer down to DC to setup next to this thing.http://guestofaguest.com/washington-dc/things-we-love/veuve-clicquot-airstream-rolling-into-dc-next-weekendTony
Sure, but who would make the pizza?
Looks wonderful! So would you say the slice you had was kind of a "hybrid" between NY and Neapolitan?


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Minnesota legislators will be convening soon, and one of the first proposals they will be considering is a bill to allow local governments to put public notices on their own websites and abandon the requirement to pay newspapers to print them.
We strongly disagree with this proposal. Yes, it would remove a source of revenue for newspapers. But we oppose it as well because the public will not be well served by removing newspapers as the main source for legal notices.
The public notice requirement was provide important information to the public about their government in a place where the public is most likely to see it. People already look to us for news reports about local government, so it only makes sense that they will look to us for public notices as well. Public notices allow citizens to make informed decisions and be active participants in their government. They lead to transparency in government.
Would public notices be as widespread if they were only available on government web sites? It may seem like everyone is online these days, but there are many people who don't have computers, or internet access. The impoverished may not be able to afford computers or internet service. Many senior citizens are computer literate, but many are not. But they do read newspapers.
Newspapers, contrary to popular belief, are not moribund, are not obsolete. Readership remains high, especially among those eager to find the local community news they don't find on TV news, or on internet web sites clogged with the latest doings of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. Newspapers' websites are also the first place people go online to find reliable news of local happenings.
Newspapers have supported common sense changes in legal notice regulations, including the law passed ten years ago requiring newspapers that public legal notices in their pages to also place them on their web sites at no charge.
Yes, newspapers make money from publishing legal notices. The Minnesota Newspaper Association estimates most newspapers earn from 1 to 5 percent of their revenue from public notices. This is money that helps pay local taxes and provide jobs for local people.
But more than that, newspapers in America have always served as part of the checks and balances in a community, one that keeps citizens informed and government on its toes. Part of that job includes publishing legal notices. Taking that away, and putting it in the hands of government alone, would weaken those checks and balances.
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Despite her success on the road, trail running remains her passion. "It's gentler on my body and I like getting away from traffic," she says.In November, Arbogast represented the U.S. at the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) World 100K championship in Gibraltar for the third time, finishing third in 7:46:01, another personal record.
Throughout last year's rigorous training, travel and racing, Arbogast was the primary caregiver to her husband of 25 years, Brian, until he died in August after a long battle with brain cancer. Throughout it, Arbogast remained upbeat and positive. "It was amazing that she was able to train at all, much less at that high threshold," says friend and frequent training partner Craig Thornley.
What's a typical training week like for you?
I shoot for 110 to 120 miles a week, doing half of that mileage between Monday and Friday. I rarely double [run twice in one day]. Wednesdays I run up to 16 miles including a speed workout and long cool down. On the weekends I divvy up the remaining mileage by doing either 30/30, 20/40 or 10/50. I rarely take a day off.
How do you recover from an ultramarathon or big training weekend?
I pay close attention to how my body responds and modify my diet or training accordingly. My mileage is generally consistent to maintain a good base, which seems to work well for me because I haven't been injured in years. On recovery days, I run easy, from nine- to 11-minute-per-mile pace. I avoid processed food but otherwise eat just about everything—meat, vegetables and fruit.
Why was Western States your favorite race of 2010?
I experienced a miraculous comeback late in the race. From Foresthill to the river crossing (mile 62 to 78) I didn't feel very confident and the heat made me nauseated. I popped several salt pills, which helped to settle my stomach. After crossing the river, temperatures cooled down a little and I came back to life and passed two women and held off two more. The result was my best finishing time ever at Western States [19:15:58] by well over an hour.
How did you manage caring for your sick husband while running at such a high level?
Running helped me cope tremendously with his dying process. Running gives me a calm, focused mental state as well as an extended, caring family of runners who supported me during his death and the aftermath. Without them I would feel very lonely.
What health-care practices are most important to you as an older athlete?
I get a massage every week and physical therapy every three to four weeks for my low back. I also get acupuncture every two to three weeks and take lots of vitamins and Chinese herbs. A nutritional chemist recommended I take a B-complex vitamin, DHL nanoplex and Coenzyme Q10 to improve my energy. I also take fish oil, calcium, vitamin D and a green-tea extract. Caring for an aging body is like maintaining an old car; you have to take it to the shop often to keep it running well.


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Topic: Wierd, possibly rails output related formatting problem
Hey there,
I'm trying to work my way through the Agile Web Development with Rails book but decided to go off the track a bit and use one of the templates from OSWD.org. I'm having a wierd problem with the formatting of the template and for the life of me can't figure out why. I have some shots of the problem.
How it should look
But this is how it looks.
I've gone through the output with a fine tooth comb and tried viewing and saving the source of the generated wonky page and it looks like the top one (how it' supposed to). The top one is made from a static .htm page from the the source view generated xhtml from rails, and the bottom one is the rails output itself.
In the top one the image is nicely nestles in the rounded box while the rails version, for some reason, sits outside the box. If there is less text it hangs out even more. The top of the image and the box stay ok, it's just the bottom that slips up.
I've used Firefox to check out the outlines of the divs and everything seems like it should sit ok, if the box actually extended the full length of the outline.
I'm thinking that rails is pumping out the page with either wierd invisible characters or some other sort of wonky encoding that doesn't show up in the code itself.
Anyone know if that's possible or have any other ideas???
Rails Version - 1.2.2
Browsers - Camino and Firefox
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An Impossible Life
A true story about cheating death and pushing limits
At just 24 years old, Brian Boyle of Welcome, Maryland has become an outstanding endurance athlete. ...
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At just 24 years old, Brian Boyle of Welcome, Maryland has become an outstanding endurance athlete. In 2006, six weeks after his first Half-Ironman triathlon, he completed the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii with hardly two months of training. In August 2009, he competed in the Louisville Ironman followed by five marathons in just over five weeks. Then, this past November, two weeks after crossing the finish line of his third Ironman, Florida, he ran his first trail ultramarathon, the JFK 50 Mile, without having completed a single off-road training run. What makes these endurance feats even more incredible, is that on July 6, 2004, Boyle was pronounced clinically dead, eight times.
About a month after his high-school graduation, while driving home from a swim workout, Boyle was involved in a car accident in southern Maryland. A dump truck slammed into the driver's side of his black Camaro, pushing his heart to the right side of his chest, shattering his pelvis, crushing his ribs and collapsing his lungs. He lost 60 percent of his blood and all recollection of what happened. Boyle spent the next two months in the Intensive Care Unit at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, Maryland.


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Sources of data
Each participating voucher school is required to commission an end-of-year financial audit, which must be submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction by September 1st following the end of the school year. The reports may be updated by the schools subsequent to the original filing. These audited reports include enrollment and expenditure data that are used by the state to calculate the exact amount of the state payment to each voucher school. The 1999-2000 Financial Information Reports received from DPI in August 2001 were current as of July 2001. This report relies largely on data from these Financial Information Reports for enrollment and expenditure data for both years, 1998-1999 and 1999-2000. The tuition data for private schools for both years that are utilized in this study were provided by the voucher schools and collected from one or more of the following three sources: (1) Empowering Parents for Informed Choices in Education (EPIC), an on-line web site (http://www.uwm.edu/EPIC/) organized by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Center for Urban Initiatives and Research together with Partners Advancing Values in Education (PAVE), which invites all Milwaukee private schools to list information about the school including tuition rates; (2) the reports of the Public Policy Forum, a Wisconsin-based non-partisan policy organization that collects voucher school tuition rates; and (3) by information provided directly from the schools themselves, where data were not otherwise available. Using these sources, tuition rates were obtained for 82 of the 91 schools. Of the remaining nine schools, one did not report tuition information, two reported that tuition rates vary with family income, and six schools enroll only voucher or MPS students and, therefore, have no need to establish a tuition rate.
For the 1998-1999 school year, tuition data were available from one additional source, An Evaluation: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, a state audit conducted by the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau (WLAB) in accordance with legislation authorizing the Milwaukee voucher program and released in February 2000. For more information on this audit and the tuition data it provides, please see last year's report ("The 40 Percent Surcharge: How Taxpayers Overpay for Milwaukee's Private School Voucher Program").
Participating Schools
From 1998-1999 to 1999-2000 there were some changes in the roster of schools participating in the voucher program. DPI reports 91 private schools participating in the voucher program in 1999-2000, an increase from 82 schools in 1998-1999. Of the 82 schools from the first year, 76 carried over to the next year, and one, North Milwaukee Christian, dropped out of the program. The remaining five schools in fact continued in the program, after merging with other schools and forming a new entity, not under the same name. Specifically, Saint Matthew and Saint Lawrence, both voucher schools in 1998-1999, merged and in 1999-2000 were listed as a single, new voucher school, Prince of Peace; Saint Augustine, a 1998-1999 voucher school, merged with Immaculate Conception, which was not a voucher school, to form Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Academy, a new voucher school in 1999-2000; and Holy Spirit and Saint Barbara, both voucher schools, merged to form a new voucher school, St Raphael.
To enable comparability across the two years of the study, first year data for the merged schools were pooled and treated as a single school. Twelve schools were totally new participants in the program in 1999-2000.
Dual Tuition Rates
In 1999-2000, 31 voucher schools - all of them religious schools - had a dual tuition structure whereby they published separate tuition rates for parishioners and non-parishioners. There had been 16 religious schools charging dual tuition rates the previous year. Generally, this involves charging students who are parishioners of the school's sponsoring church a lower tuition amount, although there are three schools in 1999-2000 charging their own parishioners more in tuition, not less. In the absence of data on the number of parishioners and non-parishioners among each school's voucher students - data that are neither collected by DPI nor reported anywhere else - there is no way to actually calculate how much the state is making in overpayments at these 31 schools, since it cannot be precisely known what the tuition charges would have been for these students, had they been tuition-paying. In order to conduct the analysis for this report, in the absence of more complete information, the assumption was made that half of the voucher students at each of these 31 voucher schools were parish members and half were not. This was done by simply using the average of the two tuition rates (parishioner and non-parishioner). To the extent that the majority of students at a parish school were in fact parishioners the use of this parishioner/non-parishioner average understates the size of the voucher overpayment, since - at least in 28 of the 31 schools - the lower parishioner tuition rate would result in a higher overpayment. Conversely, if in fact a majority of voucher students are not parish members, this assumption would result in the amount of the voucher overpayments being overestimated.
Throughout the report we have reported results using the parishioner/non-parishioner average tuition rate for these 31 dual tuition schools. However, it is possible to calculate the possible high-low range of tuition overpayments by making two extreme assumptions: For example, if it turns out that 100 percent of the voucher students at these 31 dual tuition schools were parishioners in 1999-2000, the total amount of the voucher overpayment - for all 91 schools - would be approximately $16,875,000. If none were parishioners, the total overpayment would be only $16,183,000. The range of possible values for the tuition overpayment is $693,000. Similarly, in 1998-1999, if all voucher students were in fact parishioners, the total amount of the voucher overpayment would have been $11,754,000, while if none were parishioners, the total would have been $11,277,000. The high-low range in 1998-1999 was approximately $480,000.
Tuition rates for kindergartners
Many schools in the study offer part-time kindergarten, but few report differential tuition rates for varying types of kindergarten programs. Although it may well be that these schools do in fact charge a lower tuition to part-time kindergarten students, this report consistently utilizes tuition data as reported in the three sources identified above. The calculations for both years assume that schools offering kindergarten charge full-time tuition to part-time kindergartners, unless the schools specifically report otherwise. To the extent that any schools do not in fact do this, but instead charge less than full tuition to part-time kindergartners, the actual amount of the tuition overpayment is higher than has been estimated in this report.


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The market of microprocessors for PCs has hit the new record levels of unit shipments in the third quarter of 2008. It looks like Intel Atom processor aimed at low-power and ultra low-cost applications has boosted the market substantially, even though other chips also faced increase of shipments, according to IDC market tracking firm. But the outlook for future does not look too good.
Worldwide PC processor unit shipments grew 14.0% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 15.8% year-over-year (YoY); market revenue grew 7.6% QoQ and 4.1% YoY to $8.3 billion. Intel's new Atom processor made a notable difference in the overall market performance; without Atom, unit shipments grew 8.3% QoQ and 8.7% YoY.
"Not considering the effects of Atom, the overall market still grew at a decent pace in the third quarter. Intel's and AMD's shipments grew at a rate only slightly slower than typical for a third quarter, and seasonal demand appeared reasonable up until September. By segment, while the mobile processor segment grew aggressively, the server segment was soft," said Shane Rau, director of semiconductors: personal computing research at IDC.
In terms of processor vendor shares, on an overall unit basis, Intel earned 80.8% market share, a gain of 1.1%, AMD finished with 18.5%, a loss of 1.2%, and Via Technologies earned 0.6%. It is unclear whether Atom is to praise for Intel's gains or the reason why AMD lost 1.2% of the market is stronger mainstream mobile lineup at Intel.
In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel and AMD earned 73.5% and 26.4% share respectively; share changes were negligible. In the mobile PC processor segment, Intel earned 87.4% share, a gain of 0.8%, AMD finished with 11.5%, a loss of 1.1%, and Via earned 1.2%, a gain of 0.3%. In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 85.6% market share, a loss of 0.6% and AMD earned 14.4%, a gain of 0.6%.
Due to the market's strong performance through the first three quarters of 2008 and anticipated high volume of Atom processors, IDC has raised its PC processor market unit forecast for this year to 18.0%. However, the worldwide demand environment looks weak, and both Intel and AMD indicated an uncertain outlook for the market. As a result, IDC is conservative about 2009 and will be lowering its upcoming unit forecast for the year.


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On April 6, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement about the attack in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. The Secretary said:
"Our State Department family is grieving over the loss of one of our own, an exceptional young Foreign Service Officer, killed today in an IED attack in Zabul province, along with service members, a Department of Defense civilian, and Afghan civilians. Four other State Department colleagues suffered injuries, one critically.
"Our American officials and their Afghan colleagues were on their way to donate books to students in a school in Qalat, the province's capital, when they were struck by this despicable attack.
"Just last week in Kabul, I met our fallen officer when she was selected to support me during my visit to Afghanistan. She was everything a Foreign Service Officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people. She tragically gave her young life working to give young Afghans the opportunity to have a better future.
"We also honor the U.S. troops and Department of Defense civilian who lost their lives, and the Afghan civilians who were killed today as they worked to improve the nation they love.
"I spoke this morning with our fallen Foreign Service Officer's mother and father and offered what little comfort I can for their immeasurable loss. As a father of two daughters, I can't imagine what her family is feeling today, or her friends and colleagues.
"I also have been in close touch with Secretary Hagel, the White House, and our senior management team at the State Department, including Deputy Secretary Burns, Undersecretary Kennedy, and Ambassador Cunningham in Kabul. We will all keep in close contact as we learn more facts about this attack and the brave people who were killed and wounded. We are also in contact with the families of those injured.
"We know too well the risks in the world today for all of our State Department personnel at home and around the world -- Foreign Service, Civil Service, political appointees, locally employed staff and so many others. I wish everyone in our country could see first-hand the devotion, loyalty and amazingly hard and hazardous work our diplomats do on the front lines in the world's most dangerous places. Every day, we honor their courage and are grateful for their sacrifices, and today we do so with great sadness."Update: While in Istanbul on April 7, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry reflected on the life of Anne Smedinghoff, the Foreign Service Officer killed by the attack in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.
Katrina D. writes:
I am sorry
Erin writes:
My thoughts and prayers go out to those involved and their loved ones. Knowing first hand what they are going thru (my brother Stephen was a DSS officer and killed in action in 2005), my heart breaks for them. God Bless them all and all the people working over seas and at home to keep us safe.
Brianna in Oregon writes:
God bless these people of service, the ones who have fallen, their families and the injured, and those that continue to tend toward the need that still continues in Afghanistan. We grieve with you.
Glenye in Kentucky writes:
Can anyone confirm whether Gavin S. is still working in Kabul? We knew each other back in North Carolina and I was hoping to get in touch with him. Hoping now that he is all right; terribly saddened to hear news of the death and injuries in Kabul today.
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
A senseless war that continues to bring in casualites and a war that will never be won. They have tried for thousands of years and it hasn't worked what makes United States think it can make it work? Russians failed in the 70s. We continue spending Tax Dollars for Afghanistan all for what? Time has come to end this war and bring home our troops to protect our country not arab countries. Bring our troops and people home! Before we continue having more casulties for a war that cannot be won.
Bethany W. in the United Arab Emirates writes:
It was just terrible to learn of this story on the news this morning. My deepest sympathies to the families. I can only hope that those books meant for the children will somehow still manage to find the way there. Only education can best help turn this region of the world around and allow its citizens to look towards a brighter future. I am so grateful to see the USA doing its part. How proud their families must be to know what a service they were giving the world.
Bethany W.,
An American in Dubai
Dawodu A. in the Ukraine writes:
May God console their families
Adam in Poland writes:
Isaac in Malawi writes:
As a youth development worker, it pains me when young people with mature leadership skills depart so early. She died trying to serve fellow young people to develop into educated and responsible citizens. May God remember her works and her family.
God bless America.
May God bring sustainable peace on earth.
Robert C. in Maryland writes:
Mr. & Mrs. Smedinghoff .. As a retired Department of State employee I was deeply saddened to learn of your daughters death. Please accept my heartfelt condolences. The world has lost a beautiful person who is gone in body, but whose memory will linger on forever!
Patricia K. in New Mexico writes:
I would like to know why State did not release the officer's name in this announcement - I thought this was SOP after next of kin were notified. We should not have had to learn it from a former USIS colleague who found it via a local TV station in Chicago.
Laude C. in Virginia writes:
She was one of my best Spanish Students. My deepest condolence to her parents: Anna te voy a extranar, siento mucho saber que te han segado la vida tan joven. Hoy solo queda tu recuerdo, tus historias y otras conversaciones amenas que hemos tenido. Que Dios te tenga en su Gloria!!!
Athena in the U.S.A. writes:
Please , when will we bring our people home ?!
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
628 BILLION & GROWING cost for Afghanistan along with our casualties. I say again, is it worth it? Maybe someone can explain why we have paid this much tax dollars for a piece of nothing in the middle east. We don't own Afghanistan, we certainly do not place our flag on this country, yet our tax dollars are paying for this land. In the bible it mentioned a phrase, there is a time for everything, now is the time to end this situation before it destroys our own National Deficit in costs. The country of Afghanistan needs to stand on their own two feet. Then maybe if were not leaving, they pay the United States Government back the 628 billion it cost for secuirty. Didn't they have a copper mine in Afghanistan? They should have to repay the balance of what it cost Americans. Where was it written the United States provides free secuirty for countries?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
In offering my deepest condolences to the families of those who gave their lives and hopes of full recovery to the injured, I believe it to be appropriate to give thanks for their service.
Lots of brave and dedicated folks from many nations are involved in restoring the hopes and dreams for peace, in a nation that has known only conflict over two generations.
Now is not the time to politicize the price of freedom, or question the merit of their work and sacrifice on behalf of future generations.
For it is in the eyes of the children where hope resides for a better future, in a nation come full circle living in peace.
It's part of who we are and what we do as a free nation not just in service to others, but to constantly remind us who we are as Americans.
So to those who have expressed doubt and disatisfaction on these pages, you'all might want to reflect on this a bit.
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico
There is no question that sadness goes through the halls of American homes when they lose a loved one. You would think that after 628 billion enough is enough. We as a Nation are sinking like the Titanic ship, 17 trillion and growing, long as these wars continue. Afghanistan and Iraq are both costing our country even today in tax dollars and in lives. My vote stands, we need to finish this job and leave. We have far too many other concerns to deal with like North Korea and other countries. Afhanistan is slowly bringing United States down. We need our forces back in the States to protect our borders. Look at the National Deficit ticker and you will see how much we are spending on these wars today. We are not in a position to continue giving free secuirty to Arabs when we should be providing secuirty for our own country first.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Donald M.,
We're in agreement on one thing; that we're going to get the job done.
Whatever American presence in Afghanistan will remain after 2014 has alreadsy been established with the signing of the bilateral security agreement between our two nations, and I suspect folks in the State Dept would say we'll certainly maintain a diplomatic(embassy),and developmental(USAID) presence for many decades into Afghan's future.
On things we disagre on, I'll start with a simple premis that it has cost far more in lives and treasure to have to go back and get the job done right, than it would have cost to have helped Afghans rebuild their nation after the Soviets were driven out, rather than let folks sleep in the rubble and see taliban and terrorists work their ills on their nation and our's.
Since you complain about the cost of conflict, the same can be found true in not having removed Saddam Hussein from power in 91, rather than leaving him in power.
Hard lessons of history these...
Just as hard if not harder than letting fat cats on Wall St. get away with the fiscal murder of our economy to the tune of a $700 billion bank bailout, half of which (TARP)was then rolled over into the $787 bil. economic stim. package to keep the good ship America afloat, steaming onward through the fog.
So I would have to say that the pesky $17 tril. national debt is not because of the price of war alone, but in actuality is due to fiscal mismanagement and a failure of strategic imagination over a long period of time and a number of administrations, and obviously takes more time to get things right the second go around.
As I said; "Now is not the time to politicize the price of freedom, or question the merit of their work and sacrifice on behalf of future generations."
But since you seem bound and determined to go there and drag me into a discussion this leads me to my second premis;
"Let there be no complaint without solution attached."
I think there's enough combat vetrans home and retired from service at this point that should a call be put out seeking more manpower to secure our boarders, I don't think there would be any problem finding folks to do it.
Rather than have a continual failure of strategic imagination thinking sanction and isolation are going to change the mindsets of Iran and North Korea's leadership and lead to a change in behavior complient with their international obligations;
Folks need to apply a little fiscal imagination towards foreign policy threats that actually makes an effective permanent solution to that pesky $17 tril. debt as well.
For a government that sponsors chants of "Death to America" can never prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Colin Powell once said, "You break it you own it.", so before the President has to take the military option off the table to prevent Iran from aquiring nuclear weapons, I've said many tiumes it would be preferable to bill the Ayatolla $33 tril. for 33 years of chanting this, and threaten to collect, lock stock and every barrel of oil they got, till it's paid in full.
And if we want China to deal with the nuclear "Frankenstien" they have created by supporting the DPRK for decades, then we send them a bill for what it's cost us to keep the peace in the region for the last 60 years right now, and remind them that they don't want to see a bill for damages in the aftermath of a war the "young-Un" starts with us, let alone loose 100% market share in America when no one will be caught dead ever buying anything "made in China" again.
Lot of talk about banning assault weapons to cohabitate in peace, but not enough talk about banning dictatorships from the face of the Earth in my opinion. Unfortunately it's not practical to ban politicians and fat cats altogether, but I think it is eminantly practical to ban political stupidity, and those who would make war with America.
Future generations will thank us if we do.
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico
I always enjoyed a great debate with my friend Eric. You can always join my facebook Eric.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Donald M.,
Me too, as that's part and parcel to my third premis;
That our job #1 as citizens is to inspire our government to think...and occasionally each other in constructive debate.
And while I would never suggest the logic of my solutions could be considered subtle or diplomatic in nature, what I've proposed in my prior post is designed first of all to save lives in the long run, while addressing in holistic manner the challenges before us as a nation.
If you, or anyone else can find fault with the truth or logic at work in what I've offered as food for thought and the solutions themselves; Then I invite you or anyone else including the entire dept. of State and every think tank in DC to come up with solutions that offer permanent relief to these problems.
As far as I know, no one in this government has a plan that would eliminate the national debt and provide for an equal ammount in surplus by acknoledging that we have some outstanding "accounts recievable" no one yet has had the inginuity to submit a bill for.
If there is just one person in this government reading this, that can tell me why it would not be feasable, desirable, or practical to incorperate into this government's policy initiatives, then perhaps they should think seriously about the ways and means of putting this citizen's solutions into effect, sooner rather than later.
I don't say this in arrogence, but rather with the confidence in knowing I hate being right most of the time, seeing what happens when folks don't heed my logic.
Diplomacy after all is fully dependant on a nation's ability to inspire other governments to think,
Therefore it is entirely possible for one citizen to inspire the whole world to think, but that's the President's job, not mine.
But he's welcome to quote me if he wants to.
Donald in Virginia writes:
@ Eric in New Mexico
I noticed we can come up with ideas, thoughts and attempt to pass them on and it falls on deaf ears. However, if you ever want to join my facebook, your welcome to vist my facebook @Donald MacIver in Virginia. I know we had some great debates over the years.


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Yesterday's Poll on the dream vacation...tea or not...was pretty split. While I do want to have a tea journey, the thought of it is a bit intimidating.
Welcome to TeaDay, since it is Sunday, grab a pot of your fav tea and share it with all of us. It is a great way to introduce yourself and learn about others as well. So, Stop by throughout the day and share with us. While you are here, remember to see what is in other TraChatters' cups as well...that is half the fun after all...
Today's TeaPoll was mentioned in passing to me by Bamboo Forest.
So, where is your favorite place to enjoy your TEA? I could not mention everywhere in the poll, but you can share with us right here...maybe you can enlighten us with a new special place to enjoy tea.
I am looking forward to reading about your special place...and what is in your cup!


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Dear Tom and Ray: My husband and I are at odds on this issue. We have a 2003 Mini Cooper with an automatic transmission. He applies the hand brake before throwing the car into park. The car then makes a noticeable creak when we get out. I usually put the car in park, then apply the hand brake. If I'm on an incline, the car will roll a little, then stop — but no nasty creak. Hubby's logic is that it's better to be hard on the hand brake than to be hard on the transmission. The creak just makes me uneasy. Any advice on who's right?
— Cat
Ray: Well, we're glad this is all you're at odds over. During my brother's most-recent marriage, they were at odds because he would put the car in park, and she would hit him with the hand brake.
Tom: The good news is that neither of you is doing any damage with your respective parking methods. But we prefer Hubby's.
Ray: When you put the car in park on a hill, Cat, and it rolls a foot or so, that's because the parking pawl — the device that locks up the output shaft of the transmission and prohibits the car from rolling — is not a precise instrument. It's a ratchet with some slop in it, and it can allow the car to roll a bit in either direction before it jams into place and holds the car.
Tom: There's nothing dangerous about that — unless you just parked 6 inches up the hill from Leadpipe Louie's new Cadillac.
Ray: We've never seen a parking pawl break from rolling, so that's not a concern. But if the car rolls and jams the parking pawl, it can make it hard for you to get out of park when you try to drive away.
Tom: Applying the parking brake before you put it in park eliminates that problem. The brake holds the car in place and doesn't let the car roll until the parking pawl jams up. You just have to remember — when you come back — to take the transmission out of park first before releasing the parking brake.
Ray: The creak you're hearing is just the parking brake grabbing. That's nothing to worry about.
Tom: No. My brother creaks when he grabs now, too.
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