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Considered a significant writer of the post-World War II generation, Lessing has explored many of the most significant ideologies and social issues of the twentieth century. Her prolific body of work displays many interests and concerns, ranging from racism, Communism, and feminism, to psychology and mysticism. Lessing began her career in the 1950s, writing realist fiction that focused on themes of racial injustice and colonialism. As her writing developed, Lessing began to compose fiction that anticipated many major feminist concerns of the late 1960s and 1970s. Her strong-willed, independent heroines often suffer emotional crises in male-dominated societies and must struggle with dominant sociopolitical constructs to reach higher levels of identity and liberation. A consistent theme cultivated throughout her work is the need for individuals to confront their fundamental assumptions about life in order to transcend preconceived belief systems and acquire self-awareness.
Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) to English parents who moved their family to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the hopes of successful farming. She was educated in a convent school and later a government-run all-girls school, but her formal education ended at the age of thirteen. A voracious reader, Lessing had excelled in school and continued her education by reading the wealth of books her mother ordered from London. By the age of eighteen, Lessing had written two drafts for novels and was selling stories to South African magazines, although she would not publish her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, until 1950. In 1939 she married Frank Wisdom, a much older man with whom she had two children. The marriage, which lasted four years, inspired A Proper Marriage (1954), considered one of her most acutely autobiographical novels. Lessing joined the Communist Party in the early 1940s and also met and married Gottfried Lessing, a Jewish German with whom she had a son, Peter. In 1949 the couple separated, and Lessing and Peter moved to England. In London, Lessing established herself as a fiction writer, critic, journalist, and political activist. Though she severed her ties to the Communist party in the mid-fifties, in 1956 she was banned from returning to Rhodesia, presumably for anti-apartheid sentiments expressed in her writings. Although details of Lessing's personal life are limited, critics agree that her fiction draws significantly from her own experiences. Lessing continues to live in England.
The Grass Is Singing introduces two of Lessing's major recurring themes: the causes and effects of racism ("the colour bar") and the myriad ways that history and politics can determine the course of a person's life. The novel focuses on a white couple's impoverished, isolated life on a Rhodesian farm and the wife's reaction to her social and political condition. Lessing's highly acclaimed Children of Violence series is a bildungsroman that traces the intellectual and emotional development of Martha Quest. Like Lessing, Martha is a "child of violence" born at the end of World War I and raised in a bleak post-war era of social struggle, who must later face the tragedies of World War II. Over the course of the series, Martha moves away from personal, self-centered concerns to a broader awareness of others and the world around her. Imbedded in this process, though, is a keen exploration of feminine identity, creativity, and sexuality within a male-dominated space. In Martha Quest, (1952) Martha attempts to escape her restricted upbringing and her domineering mother. A Proper Marriage and A Ripple from the Storm (1958) recount Martha's two unsuccessful marriages to politically ambitious men and her involvement in left-wing, anti-apartheid, Communist activities. Landlocked (1965)—considered by many as an abrupt departure from the preceding concerns of the Children of Violence series—reflects Lessing's emerging interest in telepathy, extrasensory perception, and Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. The novel follows Martha as she travels to England where she experiences an apocalyptic vision. Britain—and later the entire world—are destroyed in The Four-Gated City (1969), a novel in which Martha comes to realize the limitations of rational thought and seeks to understand and embrace the collective consciousness and the higher truth of her own intuition.
The Golden Notebook (1962) centers on novelist Anna Freeman Wulf, whose life is represented by four "notebooks." Characterized by a symbolic color and narrated from different perspectives, each notebook incorporates aspects of Wulf's latest novel in narratives that assume multiple levels of significance. The title of the novel refers to Anna's desperate attempt to integrate her fragmented experiences in order to achieve wholeness through art. Similarly, The Summer Before the Dark (1973) focuses on a middle-aged woman who has a brief affair with a younger man as a means to rediscover a sense of identity. Lessing's "space fiction" series—"Canopus in Argos: Archives"—concerns three competing galactic empires: the benign Canopeans, the self-centered Sirians, and the evil Shammat. The series continues Lessing's interest in Sufism, stressing the interconnectedness of one's own fate and well-being to that of others. Manipulating events on Earth to retain a gene pool for their own immortality, these empires continue to affect human history through the intervention of immortal beings. Lessing's series of novels written under the pseudonym "Jane Somers"—The Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983) and If the Old Could … (1984)—feature the diaries of a woman named Janna who struggles with her mistakes and an acceptance of herself. In The Good Terrorist (1985) a middle-class woman's extreme liberal idealism leads her to organize a group of would-be revolutionaries who commit an act of terrorism. The rhetoric of contemporary political slogans plays a key role in the novel. The Fifth Child (1988) concerns a violent, antisocial child named Ben who wreaks havoc on his family and society. Its sequel, Ben, in the World (2000), follows Ben as he enters adulthood. In 2001 Lessing published The Sweetest Dream, a novel that examines the lasting effects of war through the relationship of Frances Lennox—a self-described "earth mother" living in the 1960s—and a group of post-war children that she takes into her home. In The Grandmothers (2004), Lessing continues to probe the human condition and questions about love, identity, and race.
Lessing has been recognized as one of the most accomplished writers of the twentieth century. Critics have praised the tension and immediacy in Lessing's work that is generated by her use of realistic descriptions, symbolism, and detailed imagery. Lessing's distinct, unapologetic rendering of marriage and motherhood, her anti-apartheid stance, and her experimentation with genre and form have made Lessing an exciting—and often controversial—literary figure. Initially criticized by some commentators for her "unfeminine" depictions of female anger and discontent, Lessing is now often commended for her candid portrayals of female characters who struggle with their roles and the division between their emotional and intellectual needs. According to Ellen W. Brooks, Lessing's appeal in her fiction "rests largely on her treatment of woman in modern life, the most thorough and accurate of any in literature. Her achievement is all the more significant in that so few writers have presented women with whom one can identify—complex, intelligent, questioning women who are not content with the status quo, who rebel against the established order."
Principal Works
The Grass Is Singing (novel) 1950
* Martha Quest (novel) 1952
This Was the Old Chief's Country (short stories) 1952
Before the Deluge (drama) 1953
Five: Short Novels (novellas) 1953
* A Proper Marriage (novel) 1954
A Retreat to Innocence (novel) 1956
Going Home (essays) 1957
The Habit of Loving (short stories) 1957
Each His Own Wilderness (drama) 1958
Mr. Dollinger (drama) 1958
* A Ripple from the Storm (novel) 1958
Fourteen Poems (poetry) 1959
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary (documentary) 1960
The Golden Notebook (novel) 1962
Play with a Tiger (drama) 1962
A Man and Two Women (short stories) 1963
African Stories (short stories) 1964
* Landlocked (novel) 1965
The Storm [adaptor; from a drama by Alexander Ostrovsky] (drama) 1966
Winter in July (short stories) 1966
Particularly Cats (autobiographical essay) 1967
Nine African Stories 1968
The Four-Gated City (novel) 1969
Briefing for a Descent into Hell (novel) 1971
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories [also published as The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories] (short stories) 1972
The Singing Door (drama) 1973
The Summer Before the Dark (novel) 1973
The Memoirs of a Survivor (novel) 1974
A Small Personal Voice: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (essays, reviews, and interviews) 1974
Collected Stories. 2 vols. [also published as Stories] (short stories) 1978
† Shikasta (novel) 1979
† The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (novel) 1980
† The Sirian Experiments (novel) 1981
† The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (novel) 1982
The Diary of a Good Neighbour [as Jane Somers] (novel) 1983
† Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (novel) 1983
‡ The Diaries of Jane Somers (novel) 1984
If the Old Could … [as Jane Somers] (novel) 1984
The Good Terrorist (novel) 1985
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside (essays) 1987
The Wind Blows Away Our Words (nonfiction) 1987
The Fifth Child (novel) 1988
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (nonfiction) 1992
The Real Thing (short stories and sketches) 1992
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (autobiography) 1994
Playing the Game (graphic novel) 1995
Love, Again (novel) 1996
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 (autobiography) 1997
Mara and Dann: An Adventure (novel) 1999
Ben, in the World: The Sequel to The Fifth Child (novel) 2000
The Sweetest Dream (novel) 2001
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (novellas) 2004
* These novels are collectively referred to as the Children of Violence series and the "Martha Quest" novels.
† These novels are collectively referred to as the "Canopus in Argos: Archives" series.
‡ The work comprises two earlier novels, The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could, that Lessing published under the pseudonym Jane Somers.
Primary Sources
SOURCE: Lessing, Doris. "Preface to The Golden Notebook." In A Small Personal Voice, edited by Paul Schlueter, pp. 23-43. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
In the following excerpt from the preface to The Golden Notebook, Lessing discusses the mixed reaction of women to the novel, the novel's original intent and central themes, and her support for the women's rights movement.
The shape of this novel is as follows:
There is a skeleton, or frame, called Free Women, which is a conventional short novel, about 60,000 words long, and which could stand by itself. But it is divided into five sections and separated by stages of the four Notebooks, Black, Red, Yellow, and Blue. The Notebooks are kept by Anna Wulf, a central character of Free Women. She keeps four and not one because, as she recognises, she has to separate things off from each other, out of fear of chaos, of formlessness—of breakdown. Pressures, inner and outer, end the Notebooks; a heavy black line is drawn across the page of one after another. But now that they are finished, from their fragments can come something new, The Golden Notebook.
Throughout the Notebooks people have discussed, theorised, dogmatised, labelled, compartmented—sometimes in voices so general and representative of the time that they are anonymous, you could put names to them like those in the old Morality Plays, Mr. Dogma and Mr. I-Am-Free-Because-I-Belong-Nowhere, Miss I-Must-Have-Love-and-Happiness and Mrs. I-Have-to-Be-Good-at-Everything-I-Do, Mr. Where-Is-a-Real-Woman? and Miss Where-Is-a-Real-Man?, Mr. I'm-Mad-Because-They-Say-I-Am, and Miss Life-Through-Experiencing-Everything, Mr. I-Make-Revolution-and-Therefore-I-Am, and Mr. and Mrs. If-We-Deal-Very-Well-with-This-Small-Problem-Then-Perhaps-We-Can-Forget-We-Daren't-Lookat-the-Big-Ones. But they have also reflected each other, been aspects of each other, given birth to each other's thoughts and behaviour—are each other, form wholes. In the inner Golden Notebook, things have come together, the divisions have broken down, there is formlessness with the end of fragmentation—the triumph of the second theme, which is that of unity. Anna and Saul Green the American "break down." They are crazy, lunatic, mad—what you will. They "break down" into each other, into other people, break through the false patterns they have made of their pasts, the patterns and formulas they have made to shore up themselves and each other, dissolve. They hear each other's thoughts, recognise each other in themselves. Saul Green, the man who has been envious and destructive of Anna, now supports her, advises her, gives her the theme for her next book, Free Women—an ironical title, which begins: "The two women were alone in the London flat." And Anna, who has been jealous of Saul to the point of insanity, possessive and demanding, gives Saul the pretty new notebook, The Golden Notebook, which she has previously refused to do, gives him the theme for his next book, writing in it the first sentence: "On a dry hillside in Algeria a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle." In the inner Golden Notebook, which is written by both of them, you can no longer distinguish between what is Saul and what is Anna, and between them and the other people in the book.
This theme of "breakdown," that sometimes when people "crack up" it is a way of self-healing, of the inner self's dismissing false dichotomies and divisions, has of course been written about by other people, as well as by me, since then. But this is where, apart from the odd short story, I first wrote about it. Here it is rougher, more close to experience, before experience has shaped itself into thought and pattern—more valuable perhaps because it is rawer material.
But nobody so much as noticed this central theme, because the book was instantly belittled, by friendly reviewers as well as by hostile ones, as being about the sex war, or was claimed by women as a useful weapon in the sex war.
I have been in a false position ever since, for the last thing I have wanted to do was to refuse to support women.
To get the subject of Women's Liberation over with—I support it, of course, because women are second-class citizens, as they are saying energetically and competently in many countries. It can be said that they are succeeding, if only to the extent they are being seriously listened to. All kinds of people previously hostile or indifferent say: "I support their aims but I don't like their shrill voices and their nasty ill-mannered ways." This is an inevitable and easily recognisable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much, though—not because there is anything wrong with their aims but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living...
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Elayne Antler Rapping (Essay Date 1975)
SOURCE: Rapping, Elayne Antler. "Unfree Women: Feminism in Doris Lessing's Novels." Women's Studies 3, no. 1 (1975): 29-44.
In the following essay, Rapping explores how Lessing's female protagonists shape feminine identity and experience, especially within the context of a male-dominated society, in The Golden Notebook and Children of Violence.
The men that we call great are those who … have taken the weight of the world upon their shoulders; they have done better or worse, they have succeeded in re-creating it or they have gone down; but first they have assumed that...
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Agate Nesaule Krouse (Essay Date November 1976)
SOURCE: Krouse, Agate Nesaule. "Doris Lessing's Feminist Plays." World Literature Written in English 15, no. 2 (November 1976): 305-22.
In the following essay, Krouse asserts that Lessing's plays Each His Own Wilderness and Play with a Tiger are "essential to understanding precisely the feminism of Doris Lessing."
Critics of Doris Lessing's work have concentrated primarily on her fiction. Her novels, especially The Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series, have received careful attention. Her numerous short stories have been...
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Title Commentary
SOURCE: Brooks, Ellen W. "The Image of Woman in Lessing's The Golden Notebook." Critique 15, no. 1 (1973): 101-09.
In the following essay, Brooks studies Anna, the protagonist of The Golden Notebook, as she struggles to transcend her divided self and archetypal female roles in order to emerge as a more aware, liberated woman.
Doris Lessing is one of the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of contemporary novelists. Her strong, straightforward prose has embraced a number of modern social, political, and psychological...
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Further Reading
Seligman, Dee. Doris Lessing: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981, 139 p.
Comprehensive bibliography of criticism on Lessing's canon through 1978.
Brewster, Dorothy. Doris Lessing. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1965, 173 p.
Biography that traces major plots and themes in Less-ing's early fiction.
Klein, Carol. Doris Lessing: A Biography. London: Duckworth, 2000, 283 p.
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Dropping bombs is the purest form of capitalism. A Tomahawk missile costs 1.87 million dollars. An AGM-114 Hellfire costs 110,000 dollars. The price of a GBU-44/B Viper Strike is currently unlisted but is likely somewhere in this range. And the moment they hit the ground, the moment they detonate, the money is gone and you must buy new ones in order to do it all over again. A computer lasts between three and five years. A car lasts eleven. But a bomb, when you use it, lasts a split second and it's gone. A bomb that kills many and a bomb that kills no one costs the same amount. It is not like throwing good money after bad or watching money burn. It's like watching money detonate, watching money explode, like a Hollywood film in which the many explosions make up for the shortcomings of the script, filling in for absences of meaning and purpose.
The term planned obsolescence is generally attributed to the industrial designer Brooks Stevens who used it as the title of a 1954 talk. Wikipedia says: Stevens defined it as "instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary." His view was to always make the consumer want something new, rather than create poor products that would need replacing. But you do not need to wait for a bomb or missile to wear out or become obsolete, or for a newer, better one to arrive on market. Instead they incinerate themselves as an expression of their use. Profit and obsolescence melding into one indistinguishably violent act.
This book is not reality. No book is reality but this book especially so. Millions of years ago there were evil magicians who hid a substance deep under the surface of the earth in order to destroy their enemies. When they cast their spell, a spell in the form of this hidden substance, it was as bright as sunlight. But over millennia it turned pitch and viscous. The evil magicians pursued enemies that were not yet born, pursued their fantasies or premonitions of enemies in the distant future. They planted a trap, a fuel for war and conquest, and a fuel over which many wars would continuously be fought. This is one explanation for the existence of oil. It is clearly not the most conventional or accepted explanation. But when you hold oil in your hands, stare into it or taste it, I believe it is an explanation you can sense, feel there must be at least a certain degree of truth to it. I have never held oil in my hands.
A news item, buried somewhere in the middle of a newspaper. Warplanes were exploding and no one knew why. It was a malfunction. An error in their design. There was an investigation that came to no particular conclusions. What baffled those conducting the investigation most was that it was not one specific model of plane, but every model, almost at random. Experts could find no pattern to it. While it seemed likely that such a phenomena might be due to enemy sabotage, or sabotage of some kind, they could find no evidence of tampering. The article was written in a dry, tepid, journalistic prose, a style that must have thought itself rather objective. While random warplanes spontaneously exploding midair was most likely a spectacular sight, and therefore a spectacular subject for reporting of any stripe, you would have never known it from the way this short news item was written. I almost ever read newspapers anymore, so it was pure chance that I stumbled upon it in an airport café while I was waiting for my connecting flight. I had brought a book with me but, reading it on my first flight, had found the book far too depressing. Therefore, in between flights, instead of continuing to read the nonfiction book that was only getting me down, I absent-mindedly picked up a newspaper sitting on the table in front of me. The only headline that caught my attention: No Explanations For Mysterious Exploding Planes.
I am ashamed I decided to take this trip. The moment I got on that first plane I already knew I was in the wrong. That by simply deciding to make this excursion I was more part of the problem I hoped to solve than the solution I hoped to become. I paid taxes in a country that was involved in between seven and nine wars, depending on who you asked. My tax money went to pay for a miniscule degree of the aforementioned bombs. In each of these seven to nine declared and undeclared wars, hundreds if not thousands of such bombs were being detonated ever year. Most of the countries these bombs were being dropped on possessed considerable amounts of oil. It is understandable that these countries might want to keep the oil for themselves but, millions of years ago, the evil magicians who implanted this oil deep into the earth had a different plan. My tax money went to ensure that foreign countries which wanted to keep their oil, or their bananas, or their diamonds – especially if they wanted to nationalize or socialize these resources, use the profits for the good of their own citizens, but even if they just wanted to use them for palaces, cocaine and extravagant parties – would be taught a lesson. The instant obsolescence of the exploding bombs would murderously light up this lesson across their various skylines.
There was a certain feeling of powerlessness, that I could only read about these wars, only imagine them, but had no idea what they were actually like, what it might actually feel like to be there, to put ones life on the line. For some reason, despite my severe depression, I did not have the courage to kill myself. But if a bomb my tax dollars had a very small part in creating were to by chance fall on me, there might be a strange kind of justice to it, as if something were coming full circle. And, if not, perhaps I would still learn something about a situation which, against every ethical desire I held dear, I still played some small (well, miniscule) part in funding.
The depressing nonfiction book I was reading on my first flight was also about war. I had planned to read it as research for my trip. More specifically it was about a shadowy historical figure known only as The Connection, a war profiteer who allegedly had a career lasting almost a hundred years. In this nonfiction book there is much speculation. Little of it is factually confirmed. It is difficult to know why it is a work of nonfiction instead of a work of fiction, except for the aspect that The Connection did, most likely, exist. He most likely sold weapons to both sides in many of the most famous historical battles and conflicts. There is some evidence that, if he existed, he became almost unimaginably wealthy through such activities.
The story of The Connection starts just before the First World War. He was only a child, at least that's how so many had heard him tell it, and there was a family friend. One day the family friend came by for a visit but his parents were not home. The friend came in anyway, he was visibly distressed, and absentmindedly began telling this child, who only much later would become The Connection, all of his worldly problems. There were revolutionaries on just the other side of the border who needed weapons, who had money to pay for them, but this family friend didn't know how to get the weapons across. This was a story, an origin myth, The Connection had told many people, many times over. There was apparently no evidence that it actually happened. But after listening to the family friend's endless complaints for far too long, the precocious child eventually said: I'll smuggle the guns if you give me a cut. And ever weekend for the next year, this child went to visit his grandparents, who of course did not exist, at least not on that side of the border, smiling sweetly at the border guards who pinched his cheek and told him what a big boy he was to be traveling all by himself. He was hooked.
I put down the book in disgust. A child gunrunner might be some kind of mascot for our times. In some countries child labor laws still hold but in so many others they never arrived or long ago slipped away. Did I have anything in my small suitcase made my small hands? Did I know? For some reason I picture giving all the children guns, then giving them permission to shoot as many adults as they like. Why does this idea appeal to me so much? It appeals to some aspect of my humor, which seems to always prefer the blackest, most nihilistic jokes. In humor I desire the worst, but in reality I hope only that things might improve, even just a little bit. This book is not reality. I think of reading a few more pages about The Connection, but the plane will be landing soon. I wonder if I can sleep a few minutes before it does. I look around, almost everyone else is asleep. I've always envied people who could easily sleep on planes, always thought they were less tormented than me. But I suppose most people are less tormented than me. I do not believe this is a contentious statement.
Going through customs, they look at my passport then ask the purpose of my trip. I say tourist. They look skeptical, replying that no one comes to sightsee war. I think: that's probably not even true. Every time there's a war I'm sure all sorts show up just to have a quick look. To risk their lives in search of adventure. But that's not what I say. With no idea whether it is wise or unwise, I make a spontaneous decision that it is better to lie, so I say that some of my ancestors had lived here, and I wanted to see what it looked like before it was all completely destroyed. From the expression on his face I cannot tell if he likes this answer, or if he believes me, or if he wanted a bribe. I rarely lie, and after I get through I ask myself long and hard why I had chosen this particular moment to do so. In retrospect, it seems stupid to tell a border official that his hometown will be completely destroyed. And needlessly cruel. Perhaps even ignorant. The best lies are also those closest to truth and, much too late, I realize the lie I should have told: that I was here to work on a book. At that moment I still didn't really believe I would live long enough to do so.
I have one friend here. (Perhaps another reason for my trip.) She kindly picks me up at the airport. I am exhausted after the long flight. In the car we drive through bombed out streets. The amount of destruction is almost breathtaking. I realize I've never seen anything like this and don't know how to react. I stare out the window of the beat up car. You had to be a complete asshole to come here just because you wanted to see all this for yourself, but I thought it was even worse to ignore it, to pretend it wasn't happening or that it didn't exist. I realized I could have come as part of a humanitarian project, to help people, feed them or rebuild their houses, but it hadn't actually occurred to me until now. I wonder if I had ever actually helped anyone in my life other than myself. In the car we don't talk, I just stare out the window in shame. For no specific reason, I begin to cry.
In her small apartment we begin to make dinner. We haven't seen each other in a long time. She moved back here to look after her ailing parents. Now both her parents are gone but she has stayed. When I wrote to tell her I was coming she was obviously surprised, so surprised I might even describe it as shocked. In her reply, she said she remembered me as someone who never travelled except for work. This is still basically true today and yet now I'm suddenly making an exception. A misguided exception. In that same reply she also said something now burned into my mind. She said that every single day she thinks of leaving. Of becoming yet another name on the list of an ongoing refugee crisis. That every day she's afraid for her life. But, at the same time, she feels there are things she can do here that are more important than what she can do anywhere else in the world. How she never completely realized home was home until its daily reality was under threat.
Over dinner we talk only about surface things. People we used to know, where are they now, what are they up to. Books we've read, movies we've seen. We're both dying to talk politics but neither of us dares.
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'Flight': One critic's pick of the year
Books, like friends and lovers, sometimes come into our lives after accidental encounters. As a book critic, I am barraged with publishers' latest offerings, a lovely kind of excess. But my favorite book of the year came to my attention only after a friend happened to sit next to the author on a plane.
Based on what he told her and she told me, I tried it, drawn by the opening lines:
"We were just two boys, seventeen and fifteen, flying to California in an airplane
built before either of us was born. Later that summer a reporter for the Associated Press
would make us briefly famous by writing that we were the youngest aviators ever to fly
America coast to coast, but it wasnt records or fame we were after. What we were really
doing was proving ourselves to my father."
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Ministers were accused today of creating "total confusion" over figures showing the number of high-risk offenders under strict state supervision.
Statistics from the Ministry of Justice appeared to show sharp falls in the number of violent and sexual offenders being monitored.
But instead of publishing a total of all the criminals falling under multi-agency public protection arrangements (Mappa), the figures for 2008/9 instead show a "snapshot" from one day.
A justice spokesman said the change would ensure consistency with the data on registered sex offenders.
But Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the probation officers' union Napo said that in all likelihood the number of violent offenders had actually increased.
He said: "The government has changed the way in which it collates statistics on violent offenders referred to Mappa.
"This could give the impression that there has been a reduction in numbers and therefore less threat to the public.
"In reality, however, the number of violent offenders has almost certainly increased.
"The government claims it has changed the way it records in the interests of consistency.
"This may be the case but the effect has been total confusion and uncertainty about what the actual trends are."
Another change in the rules means some violent attacks are excluded from figures showing how many of the most dangerous criminals supervised under Mappa went on to commit alleged further crimes.
Some 48 offenders on the highest two levels of Mappa were last year charged with serious crimes - up to and including rape and murder.
That was a fall from 79 last year, but for the first time the numbers excluded those accused of "wounding with intent to cause grevious bodily harm".
Mappa panels, which include police, local councils and other government agencies, were set up to assess and manage the risks to the public from dangerous criminals after they leave prison.
The figures showed more than 1500 of the most dangerous supervised criminals, those on levels two and three of Mappa, were being returned to prison every day for breaching the terms of their release - or four every day.
Across all three levels, 12,425 violent, sexual and other dangerous offenders came under Mappa last year - a suggested fall of nearly 30%.
But unlike in previous years when ministers published a yearly total, that figure is the number being supervised on March 31.
Shadow justice minister Alan Duncan said: "Great credit must go to those involved in the difficult work of monitoring serious offenders and serious sex offenders in the community.
"However, 'snapshot' figures, which give the impression that the number of violent offenders referred to Mappa has sharply reduced, look like just another shameful attempt by this Government to mislead the public.
"Yet again the Government has failed to publish any data about lower level offenders, when they make up over two thirds of those covered by Mappa, and when we have good reason to believe they may commit more serious further offences than any other group. What have the Government got to hide?"
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In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
1chopped sirloin — carne molida feminine
- Beef often gets denounced for contributing to health problems, but much of this risk can be minimized by choosing such cuts as top sirloin and filet mignon.
- The meat, sirloin steak, was much better than the last time.
- At celebratory meals, Nicaraguans eat steak, either grilled steak called bistec a la parrilla, or grilled sirloin known as lomo.
- The heavy eaters ate the equivalent of five quarter-pound burgers or one nine-ounce sirloin or round steak a week.
- The Scottish sirloin is marinaded in orange, lime, oregano and chillies and then pan-fried.
- On the menu, panini, fajitas and nachos sit alongside Thai fish cakes, sirloin steaks and daily specials using local, seasonal produce whenever possible.
- For main course, Karin had selected sirloin steak with black pepper sauce.
- My sirloin weighed in at 12 oz of prime tender meat with not a trace of fat.
- You cannot eat sirloin steak with potatoes and ice cream as dessert every night and expect that you will look good; it is just not going to happen.
- A bowl of white rice and a small serving of fish soup with seaweed follow, just in time to accompany the main dish, be it sirloin or tenderloin steak, mutton, chicken or cod.
- Beef sirloin is simply rubbed with garlic salt and pepper and grilled to medium-rare over red-oak coals.
- Madame Noire had the chargrilled sirloin steak, which came with fried onions and a spicy peppercorn sauce.
- Beef is perfect for broiling, especially tender cuts like rib eye and sirloin.
- Calorie for calorie, spinach has 14 times more iron than sirloin steak.
- I took her to the grill house and ordered two large sirloin steaks.
- The platters were heaped with beef fillet, sirloin, rump and kidneys as well as chicken, lamb and pork.
- Michael sat across the table from Rodhart, watching the latter having supper that consisted of sirloin steak, and baked beans, and a glass of red wine.
- For his next trick, he cranked up the heat and put on skewers of sirloin beef fillet and halloumi cheese.
- I had a great New York cut sirloin steak, which the waiter recommended, and opted to make it 'surf and turf' by added several king prawns to it.
- The underwear designer with the hearty appetite ordered the 10 oz prime sirloin steak garnished with sautéed onions and mushrooms.
preciado corte de carne vacuna del cuarto trasero
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1986 | Horror, Comedy
89 minutes /
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Synopsis:A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) is a 1h 41-min American dark comedy slasher horror film that emphasis more on gore and black comedy than its sequel The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) which is a horror classic. The movie had an estimated budget of $4 million and grossed over $8 million at the box office but still managed to have a cult following sometime after. Director and co-writer Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Poltergeist (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)) did a fantastic job executing this film that made me jump a few times. Tobe Hooper gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) which is one of the greatest films of all time - movie still manages to sends chills up my spine. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 contains one suggestive sexual act, minor upper body nudity of a corpse, extreme violence, gore, bad language, graphic murders, and gut wrenching kills.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 starts by showing us two obnoxious people shooting road signs while driving recklessly to a party in a sports car in Texas. The duo decides to call the radio station K-OKLA so that they can harass Vanita 'Stretch' Brock (Caroline Williams - Days of Thunder (1990), Halloween II (2009), Contracted (2013)) who is the disc jockey and her producer L.G. McPeters. The two ruthless guys did not think that their night would turn out to be a nightmare but they messed with the wrong vehicle. They drove in the opposite direction and ran a vehicle off the road, but that vehicle happens to be driven by Leatherface. The duo kept on driving and did not think that they will run into the same truck/vehicle as earlier but oh boy did they - well actually the truck was blocking the road, so the truck and its driver were waiting for the duo, yay, the fun begins. It did not take long after that event for the pair to really make Leatherface (Bill Johnson - Talk Radio (1988), D.O.A. (1988), The Caretakers (2014)) angry and well he began to slice and dice.
Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Talk Radio (1988), D.O.A. (1988), The Caretakers (2014)) arrived at the carnage scene and met Sawyer clan. Sawyer (Jim Siedow - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait (1988), The Windsplitter (1971)) has a vendetta against them because they murdered his niece and nephew about a year ago. Skip forward - Lefty decides to use the radio host, Stretch as bait by having her play the recordings of the carnage that took place with the obnoxious duo. Leatherface and Chop Top (Bill Moseley - The Devil's Rejects (2005), Army of Darkness (1992), Halloween (2007)) visit Stretch and L.G. but who will survive?
All of the actors gave us powerful performances that were purely brilliant and menacing. Part 2 is far gorier than Part 1. The special effects were nice, but they were not done right and did not give the scary effect I was hoping for. I applaud production designer Cary White and set decorator Michael Peal for giving us an eye pleasing job. I enjoyed the few jump scares and loved it because it meant I was in for a good horror movie that might scare the pants off of me. Watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) and most of you will not be disappointed.
About Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Original Title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
AKA: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Year: 1986
Runtime: 89 minutes
Type: Movie
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Total Avg. Votes: 8
Writers: L.M. Kit Carson, Tobe Hooper
Director: Tobe Hooper


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Staff and former employees of James Capel, the City stockbrokers, are to be questioned by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors as part of the re-opened investigation into allegations of insider dealing in the shares of Anglia TV.
The inquiry follows an investigation last year into controversial share dealings in Anglia ahead of a takeover by the television group MAI, which focused on purchases ordered by Lord Archer, the Tory peer.
The DTI's fresh inquiries include an investigation of the purchase of 10,000 shares in Anglia by Karen Morgan Thomas, the former chief executive of a James Capel subsidiary, who made a profit of about pounds 22,000 on her dealings. The inquiry is being conducted with the utmost secrecy. Witnesses have been told they face possible criminal prosecution if they discuss the affair with outsiders.
Ms Morgan Thomas is reported to have been in regular contact with Lord Archer, whose wife sat on the board of Anglia at the time of the bid. The two are said to have contacted each other on the telephone several times during the relevant period. Ms Morgan Thomas has stated that she had learned nothing from Lord Archer about the MAI takeover. She said she had bought Anglia shares after reading a tip in a Sunday newspaper.
She ordered 10,000 shares in Anglia at 431p each on 4 January 1994, and Lord Archer placed orders for 50,000 shares in the name of a friend, Broosk Saib, on 13 January.
MAI first indicated it would be interested in bidding for Anglia in December 1993 and its interest was first discussed at an Anglia board meeting on 5 January. It was not until 18 Janaury that a firm bid for Anglia was announced to the Stock Exchange. This valued each Anglia share at 637p, a significant premium to the price at which Anglia's shares had been trading on the stock market.
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Yesterday (Wednesday) I was blessed with this Hawk that could be a Cooper's or a Sharp-Shinned. Check out those talons!!! Click on the the pictures to get a bigger view.
The notched tail indicates Sharp-Shinned but the size indicates a Cooper's. OK I am confused. Dang I am still going though nicotine, etc. withdrawals and am still nuts.
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Hello friends, In this post I will explain you how to develop a simple application for Windows Phone 7. Here I will explain step by step how to develop a Currency Converter for WP7. If you are new to Windows Phone 7 Development first go through this page. I am using visual studio and creating this project in Visual Basic.
Note: You can click the screen-shots below to view them in actual/full size, they will open in new tab/window.
1] Start New Project in Visual Studio, select "Windows Phone Application" under "Silverlight for Windows Phone."
2] When the project is successfully created. You will see a Windows Phone Designer and XAML markup. Delete the "MY APPLICATION" textblock control in the Windows Phone Designer, As the application is having only one screen we can remove it (Or a matter of personal choice of designing UI).
3] Then change the textblock "page name" to "Currency Converter" and reduce its font size to display it correctly.
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.. and change the properties in properties window appropriately for each control. To open property window for a control, select the control and hit F4 key (the default shortcut). Change the names and the text/caption for all controls as shown in the above screen-shot.
5] Once you are ready with the screen layout and all the controls, double click the button to add following code….
6] Save the project, Build the solution from the Build menu. You can now test this application in Windows Phone 7 Emulator using Application Deployment tool. Find the "Application Deployment" tool in your start menu. Just browse for the .xap file in the bindebug directory of the project and click on "Deploy" button.
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Arsenal v West Ham Utd: live
Filed: Wednesday, 23rd January 2013
By: Staff Writer
West Ham travel to the Emirates this evening looking for their second win at Arsenal's new stadium.
United became the last away club to win at Highbury back in February 2006 when goals from Nigel Reo-Coker, Bobby Zamora and Matt Etherington secured a 3-2 win for the Irons.
And 14 months later Zamora scored the only goal of the game as West Ham won 1-0 at the Emirates, therefore becoming the first club to win there - since when the Hammers have lost three and drawn one of their four visits.
For those unable to attend the match in person, live updates from North London will be provided throughout the evening on our forum match thread, which may be found here: www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=145730.
Meanwhile any live video streams will be listed in our 2012/13 season streaming thread at www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=141602. As always, you use these at your own peril.
KUMB.com will, as always, bringing you match summaries at both half time and the final whistle, with the thoughts of both managers and those of the opposition fans to follow thereafter.
Meanwhile - if you've not already done so - why not check out Preview Percy's match preview, which provides a humourous look at this evening's fixture plus all the vital facts and stats you'll need ahead of the game: www.kumb.com/article.php?id=3179.
Tonight's line-ups
West Ham Utd: Jaaskelainen, Demel, O'Brien, Reid, Tomkins, Noble, Taylor, Nolan, Collison, Vaz Te, C.Cole.
Subs: Henderson, Potts, Diarra, Diame, O'Neil, J.Cole, Jarvis.
Arsenal: Szczesney, Sagna, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Walcott, Podolski, Giroud.
Subs: Mannone, Koscielny, Andre Santos, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Arshavin, Jenkinson, Frimpong.
Referee: Andre Marriner.
Assistants: M Mullarkey, A Garratt.
Fourth Official: A Taylor.
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Sebastian Puerta, Staff Writer
Sebastian Puerta is a first year Economics major as well as concurrently pursuing a Master's degree in Economics. Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Sebastian moved to the United States at an early age and currently calls Roswell, Georgia home. His interests include economics, international trade, legal matters and how they relate to business, immigration issues, and American history. Sebastian is also involved with The Multicultural Student Association (MBSA) and The Hispanic Organization Promoting Education (HoPe). He enjoys playing blues guitar, reading just about anything, and trying new foods. He hopes to either go to law school or graduate school for economics upon graduation.
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Bachelor degrees from accredited colleges and universities can be important stepping-stones toward a successful career.The most common type of undergraduate program is a bachelor's degree, usually awarded after four years of successful study
New Zealand is a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty. Kiwi are not only one of the national symbols – the others being the silver fern leaf and koru – but also the name New Zealanders usually call themselves. Overseas students will need to pay the full tuition fees and their own living costs while studying at a New Zealand institution.
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By Tiernan Ray
Amazon (AMZN) this afternoon reported Q3 revenue in line with consensus and EPS that fell far short, and forecast revenue this quarter lower as well, driving its shares down 6% in late trading.
Revenue in the three months ended rose 29%, year over year, to $32.7 billion, yielding EPS of 52 cents, excluding some costs.
The company delivered operating profit of $575 million.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $42 billion to $45.5 billion, and operating income in a range of break-even to $1.25 billion. That is below consensus for $44.577 billion and $1.7 billion in operating income.
Sales in Amazon's North American segment rose by 26%, down from Q2′s 28% level and the year-earlier 29% rate. International sales of $10.61 billion rose by 28%, speeding up from 24% a year earlier.
Amazon's Amazon Web Services cloud computing facility rose by 55%, year over year, slowing from the 58% in the prior quarter and 78% a year earlier. Operating income at AWS was $861 million, double what it was a year earlier.
CEO Jeff Bezos took the opportunity to trumpet the company's "Alexa" intelligent assistant, saying "Alexa be Amazon's most loved invention yet — literally — with over 250,000 marriage proposals from customers and counting."
He continued, "And she's just getting better. Because Alexa's brain is in the cloud, we can easily and continuously add to her capabilities and make her more useful — wait until you see some of the surprises the team is working on now."
Amazon shares are down $52.16, or 6.4%, at $766.20, in late trading.


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dr. tony campolo is professor emeritus of sociology at eastern university, a former faculty member at the university of pennsylvania, and the founder and president of the evangelical association for the promotion of education.
he's also a story-teller extraordinaire and has written more than 35 books and blogs regularly at redletterchristians.org. campolo lives with his wife peggy live near philadelphia and they have two children and four grandchildren.
in our chat with dr campolo, he shares a big part of his family's story and how it's impacted his perspective on the world around him… and tells us about a special lady in his life who inspired him to tell great stories.
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By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer.
With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!
My friends, this can't go on.
— Eugene Peterson, translation of James 3:5-10 (The Message)
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AN: This story was originally titled "Vanilla". However, once I got about half-way through, it took another direction and I ultimately changed my mind about what it meant. The new title is borrowed from the title of a very excellent book by Bernard MacLaverty, which I read when I was quite young and, looking back on it now, I realise that a lot of the initial development in my writing style is owed to it.
I humbly offer this little piece as a response to the writing challenge from His Majesty (you can look up his fanfic profile in my favourite authors list.)
Jareth-GK's writing challenge: It's summer - rain, honeysuckle, a whispered secret, a life-size crystal unicorn...and a riding crop. A romantic interlude between the Goblin King and his lady love Sarah.
Disclaimer: Labyrinth belongs to no-one but Jareth (and some guy called Jim Henson, but mums the word on that...)
Grace Notes
Saccharine bouquets of honeysuckle, elegantly fettered with a pink silk ribbon, greet her as she enters the lavish bedchamber. Rain chinks against the glass windowpanes, serenading the flickering flames coruscating from the fireplace. Ringing out strands of her wet hair, she reaches for the pleasing gift with the other hand. Her wet cheeks are flushed from the dash across the garden, seeking the sheltering stone walls of the castle, and the comfort of dry, warm rooms within.
Bringing the flowers close to her face, she breathes in their aroma, and is reminded of summer. Agreeable strolls betwixt towering trees, seeping time through cracked bark marbled in treacle sap; sinking feet into sand doused by the ocean surf; birdsong trilling secret messages across boundless blue skies; the gentle heat on bare skin, shed now in the absence of winter's bite. A smile blooms on her face. It has been a long winter this year; and spring is leisurely thrumming a sweet caress along the landscape, as though her clement arm were draped from the side of a barge, trawling her hand through a chill, tranquil stream. The air longs now for the steady haze of the sun's ardent embrace. She longs for it too.
That's why he has left her this gift. Assuaging her desire for summer with thoughtful trinkets. Last week, he had commissioned a magnificent painting to hang above their mantle. It depicted a view of the Mediterranean Sea from the vantage point of a place near Katerini in Greece. She remembers spending a summer vacation there, traversing the coastal line and marveling at the unparalleled views hosted by that great cradle of civilisation. The painting beautifully captures a single moment in time; the waves cresting at a peak, portentously poised to spill upon the craggy shore, suspended now forever in their purpose. The real dazzling feature of the painting, however, is the irradiant sunlight, glancing off the ceaseless blue tide and taking its eminent place as the cynosure of that ocean sky.
Theirs was a romance filled with sweet endeavours and gallantry; that last particularly on the part of the thoroughly besotted king. Enticed into his embrace with more than just his doting words, more than just his dulcet tones, but with his entrancing eyes that spoke to her louder than the clearest note of a song. She remembers that first touch, when he gently drew her into his dance, twirling them in that crystal shimmering splendor. Never could she have imagined then that she would be here now, a familiar aspect of his life. It was not an easy romance, for all that; their passions provoked readily antagonistic sparks that singed their hot tempers as a searing flame tickles skin. Ardor left her scars upon both lovers, seen and unseen even now. All the better to soothe them…
She remembers his first gift to her as a husband, a life-size unicorn made entirely of glistening crystal. It was a tribute to a story he once recounted on a bright summer's day. A legend shared amongst his ancestors told of a young maiden who would transform into a unicorn so that she could ride through the wild forests, utterly naked and liberated from the gaze of all men. It was in these forests that she met her lover, a huntsman, whose quick arrow pierced her ample flank. Upon retrieving it from the wounded animal, he perceived it to be not the figure of an animal, as he had seen at a distance, but instead the lovely young maiden, now stained with blood. And she loved him despite nearly killing her? she recalls interjecting, with a clever smile. Not even this can impede the course of fated love, was his sagacious reply.
From that time, every night the maiden would transform into a unicorn and ride out to meet her lover beneath the canopy of those entwined branches. But the gods in their jealousy of the lovers' earthly happiness turned the maiden unicorn into the finest crystal, that with the barest touch of another's hand would shatter into pieces. Never again could the huntsman hold his true love in his arms without his embrace obliterating her life forever. He could now only look upon her from a distance, just as the gods themselves were cursed to do in their incorporeal form. Unable to bear the loss, the lonely huntsman dissolved into the sky and his sorrow descended from the heavens as rain that he might once more be able to caress his maiden, so she would know that even trapped within her crystalline prison she was still loved and remembered. What about when it's not raining? she had thought to ask. Ah, but this simple contact with her, however brief or infinitesimal, brings him such joy as to make the sun shine through his dark bereavement.
Recited to her with such bittersweet affection and meaning, the tale filled her with a fascinated kind of sadness for the young woman whose liberty and love had so cruelly been snatched from her grasp. She supposed it was one of those stories, designed to remind one of the fleeting happiness and abandon of youth. To her, it is a story depicting the endless and elemental nature of a love remembered for all time, and even out with time itself. She likes to think the story means the same to him and that his gift is the tangible expression of all that is shared between them; all that can never be composed in a line of a poem or the tone of a song, all that exists in the rudimentary spacing between mere words or the musical break of a grace note; all the spaces between them that can never subsist as spaces of the heart; all the love, now, for all time, stretching out as hours into infinity.
Honeysuckle dew tipped upon her nose, she is reluctant to relinquish her hold upon this sweet reminder of love and summer, and thus maintains her grasp of this prize as she reaches around herself with the other hand, unfastening her wet dress. Before it can tumble to the floor, the loose flaps at the back of the dress are captured between leather sheathed hands from behind. These hands prefer to have the singular privilege of disrobing their lady themselves… But not quite yet. Instead, whilst one hand maintains its gentle grip on the dress, the other gracefully slides around her front, and begins that sublimely tantalising descent downwards to heaven. A brush of his warm mouth is felt against her ear.
"I see you got my present."
She reclines into his embrace, tracing the curve of his body with the arch of her own. Both release moans of approval at the languorous sensation. Sweet petals dewing the skin of her breast as she clutches his flowers to her heart, the rapid beat enough to match his own, is a stirring sight for his eyes to behold. They seem to sway together in their little touches and movements, even in their supposedly suspended state of simply standing.
He presses his face in the crook of her neck, as he continues in his caress. "You're all wet."
She takes the opportunity to smile mischievously while his view is so pleasantly obstructed by ministering light kisses to her hair. "It's raining," is all she teasingly offers.
Clutching her closer, burrowing deeper within the curves of her body, he suddenly whispers feelingly, "I missed you today." It is a rare moment of vulnerability and she gently clasps it within her tender hands lest it scratch or shatter in the abrasive open air. "Perhaps, my lady, it is time I accompany you to bed."
Theirs was indeed a romance filled with sweet endeavours and gallantry, particularly on the part of the thoroughly besotted king. But she longs for the ardent embrace of summer. Impulse quickens in her veins and the familiar breath of adventure dashes recklessly through her chest. Before her hand can be prudently advised otherwise, it reaches down to his hip, dexterously retrieving what she knows he has always fastened about his person.
"Not so formal, my lord. For tonight… I shall be a huntsman…" The lingering suggestion of her intent is completed in the wicked flex of his leather ridding crop against the muscle of his hard thigh.
The electric thrum of his excitement creates static charges that spark and rebound; increasing in momentum as possibilities wildly escalate in his mind. Murmuring heated words barely intelligible to the human ear, he abandons himself willingly into the hands of his lady. The pink fettered honeysuckle descends to the floor, as too does the rained doused dress. Both now forgotten objects, made sacrificial to urgent passion.
Some time later the rain outside stops; and the sky prepares to greet the summer dawn.


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This Saturday the Tigers tangle with seventh-ranked Georgia in the 106th meeting of the oldest rivalry in SEC football. With the Bulldogs only needing to beat the Tigers to win their first ever SEC Eastern Division title and the Tigers probably needing to defeat both Georgia and Alabama to win the West, this game will be a major test for both teams involved and a major heartbreaker for one.
One of the major keys for the Tigers to be able to come away victorious Saturday evening will be getting pressure on Georgia's quarterback-go-round consisting of redshirt sophomore David Greene and freshman D.J. Shockley. The duo has combined to throw for an even 2,500 yards and 24 touchdowns so far this season while completing 57.5 percent of its passes.
Junior defensive end Reggie Torbor notes that it is difficult to prepare for such a talented tandem of quarterbacks. "It is kind of hard because when you go out you can't just worry about one quarterback," he says. "If they are not moving the way they want to they can send in the other guy, Shockley. He is a real good runner and he can throw as well.
Reggie Torbor
"They can spark their offense right back up and that can be a real big momentum change and that is just one extra thing that we have got to get ready for as if they don't have enough weapons already."
With the talented combination of Greene and Shockley and talented receivers, even with Damien Gary and Terrance Edwards out with injuries, Torbor says that getting pressure on the quarterback, whomever it may be, will be very important to the Tigers chances.
"We know that Greene is a great quarterback and everybody in the nation knows about their receivers," Torbor explains. "I think they are the only team in the nation to lose two of their top receivers and still be loaded. We are really going to have to get to him and not allow him to stand back there and pick us apart because he can do it and he will do it if you let him."
Torbor has shown that he certainly has what it takes to get pressure on opposing quarterbacks this season despite having missed three games due to a nagging ankle injury. For the year the junior has recorded 17 tackles, four of those were for a loss and he also has two and a half sacks.
Another key man on the defensive front is fellow junior Spencer Johnson, who has spent much of his time on the sidelines this season with a nagging high ankle sprain. When close to healthy, Johnson has been effective in his appearances totaling 23 tackles, six of which were for a loss and two sacks.
Johnson says that his ankle is getting better and that he is happy with the way he has been healing. "I'm doing good right now. I have been getting out there and running pretty good and getting off on the ball pretty good. You know, it is coming along real well, a lot better than last week and I am real happy with the results."
Spencer Johnson
The junior adds that he also knows how important getting pressure up front will be to the Tigers' chances on Saturday. "I think that if the front four can get pressure on Greene, a great quarterback, we can force him to do things that he does not want to do, make bad decisions, and our linebackers and secondary are going to come up with some turnovers, which will be really big for us in being able to win this game."
The Auburn defensive linemen know their jobs will be tough against a veteran Georgia offensive front. However, Johnson explains that if he just does his assignments correctly on Saturday some good things will happen. "They have a great offensive line and they do a lot of good things, but throughout the game there is always something that you can find that you can do something against," Johnson says. "Basically, I am just going to give great effort and if you give great effort the whole game something is going to come up for you. I am just going to work my technique and do the things that I was taught to do."
Torbor also notes that even though Georgia's offensive line may all be veterans, the Tigers aren't exactly all young cubs up front either. "They have a lot of guys that we played against last year that came back. They are veterans, but we have just got to go out and play. We have veterans on our defensive line. We don't have too many young guys and everyone has played. But I feel that our defensive line can play with anyone if we just go out there and execute."
Along with getting to the Bulldog quarterback, the defensive line has one other big task this weekend and that is to control the running game. And Torbor explains that will certainly not be an easy task this week.
"If we can stop the run we will be OK," Torbor notes. "But Musa is a big back and he can run. Don't let him fool you. If he gets out in the open he can run. I have watched some tape on him so we are definitely going to have to do our job to stop him because he is one of the best backs that we have played."
Auburn is going for its fourth straight victory in the series. The two teams square off at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium.


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Reiki :: when you want to feel better physically, mentally, emotionally and/or spiritually
Uncertain. Disconnected. Upset. Drained. Ill. In pain. Tired. Blocked. These are just a few of the reasons why you might schedule a Reiki session, and just a few of the things that a session can remedy.
Reiki is a clearing, healing, guidance-filled experience. I bring my skill as an Master Reiki practitioner and medium to the table to channel energy to you to activate your own natural healing process.
Reiki energy carries a wisdom and power all its own, going where it's needed most to help you heal areas of dis-ease in your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body. Blocks clear, balance is restored and peace washes over you.
Tracey's sessions send healing love right to where you need it most. Then, healing happens: for real. Tracey helped me to release low back pain that had been lingering for at least six months. Now, it's simply gone. And I feel free. -Lori Claerhout
I hold safe space for you to welcome this flow of light into your whole being whether you are with me in person or miles and miles away. I share the guidance I receive during your session to help you do the work that's needed to restore your body, mind and spirit. The end result is often deeply healing.
Please take a moment to share what's on your mind when prompted at checkout, but only if you want to do so. You really don't need to share any information in order to benefit from Reiki.
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The question is: are you ready for joy?
Are you suffering from acute or chronic pain somewhere in your body? Feet? Joints? Tummy? Head? Shoulders? Back?
- Do you feel unbalanced or off in a way that's difficult to explain?
Are you stuck? Stuck sucks.
Does depression creep in and out of your life like an unwelcome houseguest?
Do you suffer from insomnia? It's difficult to function without sleep.
Are you anxious, unnerved or jittery throughout the day?
Do you feel disconnected from yourself and the source of power within you? You can never not be connected (that's a mind-trick).
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are ready for joy!
This is NOT for you if...
- You don't believe in the power of energy healing
- You're not open or willing to change
- You are hoping that I own a magic wand that will miraculously make you feel like a million bucks
- You are not willing to be responsible for your own healing process
Okay, so how can I enjoy Reiki?
In person, full session :: $80
A full session clears and balances your energy centers and targets any specific areas seeking relief. I tend to work with you while streaming to help you understand and release the root of any blockages that are ready to dissolve so that you may enjoy a fully balanced field of energy. At the end I offer tips and tricks to continue to enhance your field of energy in the coming weeks as the Reiki continues to enhance your daily life.
In person, spot session :: $60
If you are suffering from a known disease, ache or pain, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, a quick spot session targets only the area of your discomfort with the sole intention of relieving the block that is causing your present state of un-ease. Sessions normally do not exceed thirty minutes, although there are exceptions sometimes.
Distance :: $60
Energy defies space and time so distance Reiki sessions are extremely effective and comforting. I clear your energy before balancing your chakras and streaming energy to you. When your session is complete I email you with a full report of the clearing feedback and guidance I received during your clearing and flow session, as well as provide support to witness and assist with your processing.
3-Week Intensive :: $540
This is the mother of all healing sessions. It occurs through distance.
You receive a total of six sessions over three weeks. I create a password-protected space for just the two of us, so that I can share the feedback and guidance that flows through, as well as witness and support your processing over 28 days. It's essential for you to participate and move your healing process forward. In fact, it's the only way it works.
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Are you wondering...
What the heck is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced RAY-KEY) is an ancient healing practice founded by Mikao Usui in 1922. Reiki means Universal life force energy. The practice of Reiki is a spiritual practice that channels life force energy from the Universal energy field into your energy field. This energy is channeled through the chakras in the palms of the hands. A Reiki practitioner will lay their hands in, on or around your energy field during a live session or thoughtfully direct this energy to your field through meditation during a distance session.
Seriously, how can that work?
You are sustained by life force energy. It runs through your physical body, from your feet to your head, as well as your aura, the energetic field that surrounds your body. Your physical body is nourished by this life force energy. It is also nourished by the energy you source through nature—whole foods, pure water, bright sunlight, tranquil moons, gentle breezes, moist earth.
You can not be separated from this energy. That's because everything is energy (sorry if that flashes you back to physics 101, but stick with me) and energy can not be created or destroyed. Our ancestors knew this and were able to tap into their own power to intuitively heal themselves from states of dis-ease and dis-comfort, moments, incidents, thoughts and beliefs that disrupted their well-being and negatively impacted them in some way—physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. They turned to nature. We turn to so many other things, some that are not helpful, some that are.
When you turn to Reiki you actively invite this pure Universal life force energy into your system. Doing so disrupts the state of dis-ease or dis-comfort by clearing the natural pathways where your life energy flows. It's like pressure-washing your pipes, so to speak, so that your energy can be restored and flow easily (except...you don't feel pressure, you feel just the opposite—pure ease). And when the flow is restored, you are able to be nourished and thrive on all levels.
Is Reiki associated with a religion?
No. Reiki is a spiritual practice, but it is not tied to any religion.
Who or what can benefit from Reiki?
Pretty much anyone or anything can benefit from Reiki—you, your pets, your plants, your home, your food, your water, you name it. Reiki infuses everything with higher energy (i.e. love) so as it is shared, all benefit from the higher vibes that are transferred during a treatment.
Is there anyone who should not receive Reiki?
People living with pacemakers should not receive Reiki. The flow of energy may alter the device. In addition, people with diabetes need monitor their levels closely after a treatment and adjust their medication as needed.
Is there anything I need to do to prepare?
The minute you agree to receive Reiki you open your heart to the possibility of this wonderful flow of light. If you'd like to enhance your session, refrain from any alcohol and substance use (stay on any medication you need, though) 24 hours before your session, drink plenty of water and eat healthy food.
Is there anything I need to do after my session?
There are a few things you can do to help yourself even more:
- drink plenty of water
- take a warm epsom salt bath after your session to help your cells release any residual toxins and then follow the bath with a warm shower to cleanse the toxins from your skin
- honor your hunger by eating healthy, whole foods, especially root vegetables (they will help you feel grounded and satisfied)
- don't get tangled in any thoughts or emotions or memories that may surface, simply notice what appears and let go of it for good; as new energy flows through you, painful memories and experiences may rise up to be released
- enjoy the flow of love, it's your natural state of being


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Allentown Weather In August
The highest recorded temperature for Allentown Pennsylvania for the past 67 years in August was 100 degrees Fahrenheit, most recently encountered on August 6, 1955, while the standard high temperature is 82. The lowest documented temperature for Allentown for the past 67 years in August was 41 measured on August 28, 1986, and the mean daily low in the month is 61.
United States National Weather Service historical Allentown August Weather data shows that on August 19, 2007, the high temperature did not exceed 61 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest high measured in Allentown in the past 67 years. Weather Service records also indicate that on August 12, 1988, the low temperature for the day was not measured below 77 degrees, the highest low measured in Allentown in the last 67 years.
Weather Service historical data shows that the average daily high temperature in Allentown on August First is 85 degrees Fahrenheit and the average high on the last day of August is 81 degrees. The low temperature in Allentown in August on the first day of the month averages 64 degrees and the low temperature on the last day of the month averages 60 degrees.
Allentown usually receives an average of 4.35 inches of rain during August. August Allentown Weather records show that on August 8, 1982 Allentown received 4.19 inches of rain, the most rain measured in a single day in August.