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By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — And maybe that's why Alabama is No. 1 and LSU is still searching for a way back into the discussion.
The Tigers gave it their best shot Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium, outplayed the Tide for long stretches, let them know they were in a game, but in the end had little to show for it.
The Tigers certainly had their chances.
But the Tide scored the game's final three touchdowns after LSU forged a tied score to open the second half and Bama ground out a 38-17 victory over the Tigers.
"I'm not prepared for this," LSU head coach Les Miles said afterward. "This kind of felt like we played better (than the final score)."
The Tide (9-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) will remain No. 1 in the Bowl Championship Series standings and seem to be on a collision course with their fourth national championship in five years.
The Tigers' effort — Miles' famous "want" — was there.
But LSU (7-3, 3-3) was left to ponder missed early opportunities and 73 yards in penalties, including four personal fouls that always seemed to push Alabama along drives that weren't doing badly on their own.
"I believe so," LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger said when asked if the final score was misleading. "You could look at the score and think one thing, but if you watched the game you know that if we didn't turn the ball over and had made smarter decisions in the third and fourth quarter it would be a ballgame."
Mettenberger did all he could, completing 16 of 23 passes for 241 yards, the biggest reason the Tigers were able to convert on 7 of 12 third downs.
But for all the early success maybe Mettenberger's end summed up the Tigers — he was sacked three consecutive times, the final time in fourth-and-27 desperation mode.
"We had a good game plan going," Mettenberger said. "We just weren't able to execute it."
Highlighting the frustration, LSU's first drive ended with a lost fumble from point-blank range and the Tigers' next possession set up Bama's first three points on a fumbled snap.
"No matter how you cut it, it's seven for us and three for them," Miles said. "That's a 10-point swing. I would certainly like to be up seven and take the ball at that point forward. I could have been a different type game."
But once Alabama got the lead for good, the Tide dominated.
"We probably played our best half of football," Bama coach Nick Saban said. "It wasn't perfect and we didn't play great in the first half, but there was a lot of character out there in the second half to control the line of scrimmage the way we did on offense."
Alabama rushed for 179 of its 193 yards in the second half, with T.J. Yeldon going for 133 and adding a 1-yard scoring run that put the Tide up 31-17.
Alabama even got the better of the trickery — the game's key play might have been the fake punt that Saban called after the Tigers tied the score to open the third quarter and thought they had stopped the Tide at midfield facing fourth-and-2.
But, after a timeout, Saban pulled the trigger on the fake, with Jarrick Williams picking up 6 yards.
The Tide went on to take the lead for good, 24-17, on Yeldon's 4-yard run and never really looked back.
Whatever hope LSU had disappeared when Odell Beckham returned the ensuing kickoff 82 yards to the Tide 18 — and Bama promptly stuffed the Tigers in their tracks.
LSU, which outgained the Tide 232-193 in the first half, managed 52 yards in the second, only somewhat skewed by the Tigers losing 26 yards on the final three snaps.
It began much more encouragingly for the Tigers — but with perhaps twice the frustration.
LSU's opening possession marched 83 yards — and ended with zilch when fullback J.C. Copeland was stripped of the ball on what appeared to be destined for a 3-yard scoring run on first-and-goal.
Moments later, Mettenberger wasn't ready for a snap from the shotgun formation and another fumble gave the Tide the ball at the LSU 27, setting up a Cade Foster field goal for the first points of the game.
"You can't turn the ball over," Miles said. "It cost us a terrible start. We overcame it and go to a tie, and we get to them to fourth down (before the fake punt). Quality defense by Bama and the way they ran the football decided the game."
"If it wasn't for the turnovers, I think they would have scored a lot more points and the game might have been different," Saban said.
But they didn't.
Posted By: Claude On: 11/10/2013
Title: LSU
The Tigers showed they had the physical ability to play with Alabama, but not the intelligence.
Posted By: Terry On: 11/10/2013
Oh Well


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exactly two weeks ago I bought two bee packages and I hived them on the same day. I put empty frames and fed sugar as per normal procedure. Also, I hanged the queen cage as advised in all beekeeping books. Two days later, I released the queen and everything was nice and normal. Two days later again I had a check and I found that they are building combs normally. Activities at entrance are also normal.
Today, I achecked the hive and found something mysterious:
I found abount ten queen cells, all capped except one (not sure hatched or not yet capped). I also found a queen but also not sure if she is the same one came with the package.
I wounder what happened. There are two possibilities for the queen I say today:
- Assuming the original queen died few days after releasing, there are not enough time for her to lay eggs that could be developed to queen cells. This is because foundations were not enough drawn. Also, there is not enough time for the queen cell to hatch, because I saw a queen today.
- Assuming the queen I saw today is the same one came with the packege, then why there are queen cells?
Can anyone help me to solve this mystry?

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I am trying run a series of difference in means tests using the code below. How can you add some sort of label to show which variable the test refers to? Stata just does one test after another after another but doesn't label. I guess I can go through the order of the variables but would be nice if it was clearly labelled. I've had a look through the help guide but can't find a way to do this. I've included just a few variables here but I wish to run this for many and so it's difficult to identify which variables are in which test otherwise.
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"Its that time of year again when contracts will be restructured, players
cut, and rosters begin to be reshaped for the new season. As such, there is
generally a lot of misconception and questions regarding the salary cap, which
of course is the basis of what a team can and cannot do. So Ive put
together this Q&A primer for you that will hopefully answer some common
questions. If something isnt addressed, feel free to shoot me a letter or post
a comment below.

Q: What is the amount
of 2012 NFL Salary Cap?
A: The number hasnt been determined yet;
however, its been projected by some to be around $122M. Last year the figure
was $120.375M. This is significant because back in 2009, the last capped year of
the old Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the cap was up around $128M,
meaning that once the cap came back, teams that were close to that $128M mark
had to scramble to get under the new $120M limit set for 2011. As teams continue
to transition under the new CBA, more of the same scrambling is expected to take
place again in the coming days.

Q: Why is it that some teams have so much space at the end of a year
while others are constantly pressed against the cap?
A: There are
numerous reasons for this, including player incentives not coming to fruition
and this being Credited back to the teams following year cap and expiring
contracts. Another reason might be contract restructurings designed to reduce a
players cap hit, players being cut, split bonuses, etc.

Q: How is a players cap value calculated?
contracts value takes into consideration base salary, prorated signing bonus,
and any other bonuses. For example, John Doe signs a five-year, $10M contract
that includes a $5M signing bonus. Johns base salary for each of the five years
of the contract is $1M. His cap number, though, is bumped up to $3M because his
signing bonus must be spread over the life of the contract ($2M per year). John
wont get an additional $2M per year the singing bonus is paid up front by a
team. But for bookkeeping purposes, he will count for $3M against the cap for
each year of his contract.

Other lesser-publicized monies paid to players that count against the cap
include per diem pay (such as for mini camps, training, camp, etc.) Any money
paid by a club to a player inflates his value against the cap. This is why
trying to calculate the EXACT cap figure for each team can be tricky.

What DOESNT count against the cap are benefits (health, dental, etc.) paid
to a player.

Q: How does one arrive at a figure reflecting how much a team has
spent against the salary cap?
A: In the off-season, only the top 51
PLAYER salaries count against the salary cap. These include any outstanding
tenders made to exclusive rights and restricted free agents. During the season,
ALL player salaries, including those on reserve lists (with the exception of
retired players) count against the cap.

Q: What happens if a player is cut before his
contract expires?
Lets use John Doe as an example. Lets say his
team decides to cut him with two years remaining on his contract. Take the
remaining prorated bonus ($2M per year times two, or $4M), and take his base
salary, $1M. Subtract the remaining signing bonus from the base. The result is
minus $3M, which means that John would cost his team $3M in dead money (money
that essentially goes to waste and cant be used on another contract.)

This is why many teams wait to cut a player in the final year on their
contract, as usually the base salary is significantly higher than the remaining
prorated portion of the signing bonus.

Q: What else do I need to know about the cap and
player contracts?
A: Under the current CBA, a veteran player is free
to negotiate his contract at any time. However, once he signs his extension, he
cannot request a new negotiation for at least 12 months, unless his present
contract expires. Players cannot go back and renegotiate for a year completed,
meaning Victor Cruz cant go back and ask for more money despite the year he had
in 2011. Also, rookie contracts cannot be renegotiated for one year after the
rookie has signed on the dotted line, or the following August 1, whichever is
Q: If a player receives a contract extension before his present deal
expires, how does that affect his cap value?
A: The new signing
bonus is prorated over the remaining years of the contract PLUS the extension.
So for example, if John Doe has two years left on his contract and a cap value
of $3M, and he signs a two-year contract extension that carries a $2M signing
bonus. That $2M is split into fourths, with $500K additional being tacked on to
the remaining two years of his first contract, and the other two $500K
installments added to each year of the extension.

Q: Does the June 1 rule still exist?
A: If a team cuts a
veteran player after June 1, the remaining signing bonus will be spread over two
years rather than accelerate into the current years cap. For example, John Doe
is cut in year 2 of his contract with $2M left on his signing bonus and a base
salary of $1M before June 1. His team is hit with dead money ($1M base salary
less $2M signing bonus equals $1M in dead cap space).

If John is cut AFTER June 1, only $1M of his remaining $2M signing bonus hits
the current cap year with the remaining million being dumped into the next
years cap. Thus, if you subtract the $1M signing bonus from the $1M scheduled
base, John Doe ends up costing his team ZERO against the current years cap;
however, in the next years cap, hell end up costing his team $1M against the
Q: What happens if a player has a voidable year in his
A: If a player reaches all the incentives in a contract
that trigger a void (shortening) of a contract year, the signing bonus will
count against the teams salary cap for the following year.

Q: What happens if a player is traded or waived?
A: If a
player is traded or waived, any remaining prorated signing bonus money
automatically accelerates against the current years cap. However, the old team
is no longer responsible for any base salaries that will be paid to the player;
that responsibility is absorbed by the new team. In essence, a trade can create
dead money against a teams cap."


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Can The Chargers Win The 2011 Super Bowl?
Among the things that were never to occur in our lifetime, including pigs flying and hell freezing over, the Saints winning a Super Bowl had to be near the top of the list. Well, we all know that the list got a little shorter after coach Sean Payton led a rejuvenated Saints team to victory just a couple of weeks ago.
While Chargers fans feel like their hopes and dreams may be creeping up the never-gonna-happen list, I have to ask one question: Why not us? A team that has had so much recent success only to fall just short in the playoffs, why not the Chargers as Super Bowl champs?
The 2010 edition of the Bolts will be largely unchanged in most areas, and improved where changes are necessary. I mean, with the 31st ranked rushing offense, how can you not improve?
So LT is likely gone...did you notice it isn't 2007 anymore? I love the guy, but the running game was below average with him (I didn't say because of him), and maybe it will be better without him. I'm not exactly thrilled to be hanging up my #21 jersey, but I can't wait to see who is going to take his place. So Darren Sproles and Antonio Cromartie may be gone as well. You can't tell me that those players are not replaceable, and quite possibly upgradeable.
All I'm trying to say is that you, Chargers fans, should be excited! Disappointment ends after the hoisting of the Lombardi Trophy. The Chargers went 13-3 before losing a close one in the playoffs. They just completed their 4th consecutive playoff season, and as Colts fans already know sometimes the 5th time is the charm.
I'm looking forward to an interesting offseason, a full compliment of draft picks, and maybe even a free agent or two for good measure. The Chargers window of opportunity is wide open. Are you ready?
February 21, 2010at 9:10 PM Posted by Jeff Williams
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Jeff...you are soooo right! I lived thru the real dry seasons, remember the Tommy P. days, ugggg and remember when us getting over .500 was a good season, and how about the glory days with the master Don C. and his ultra powerful offense? Now we are the West Champs for 4 years...what in a ROW! Look at Indy, they were close as well, but kept coming back and they finally got the trophy. Yes, I too will hate to hang up my #21, but he will always be remembered first and foremost as a Charger! But change is good, our running attack (or should I say suggestion) needs much improvement. It's not LT or Sproles, the line has to first open a gap before ANYONE can run through. But one can't forget the days of Fouts and company, we passed our brains out, so similar to today's Bolt Plan of Attack. The downside is without a legitimate or even average run threat, any defense can adjust and defend the pass every down. Rivers is turning into a great QB, one of the best ever as he is still very young and learning....he save many games during our streak as a result of the pass. So yes I am looking forward to some "freshening up" on the run attack, even ranking in the middle of the NFL is enough to keep a defense guessing and that is all we need to play our style of football. Now defense, we have some room to improve here if we truly deserve to win in 2010 at the Big Show. Look at the Jets, a young group who know how to play D like few others, and did they take us to school? I couldn't even imagine if we poised a D close to theirs, with our offensive might, and at least a reasonable run game...can you say unstoppable! I, with many of my fellow Bolt Heads, will all be anxious to see what the draft brings, but really who gets traded and picked up, that will be the key. Rarely, as we all know, does anyone fresh from college come into the NFL and immediately impact a Team. Even a super star RB, which isn't really there in the draft this year, would still have a huge learning curve to be effective in the complicated NFL mix. So, the trades in or out, I feel will be the difference in the new and improved squad. I see that there are no coach changes in 2010, while some would argue some should go, I saw continuity will be a great asset and this is good news. Limit if possible the injuries, maybe Norv can create a couple more plays besides draw up the middle when everyone expects it, and less screens with more short crossing patterns...and who knows.....a party of parties in the Gas Lamp District, a parade down Broadway, oh yeah it can happen...you gotta believe...
Go Bolts
Nice to read something positive about the Chargers, seems like that is hard to come by as of late.
This will be the year. No more drama new running back I see a new team with a goal and again no more drama.
BYE BYE LT miss ya. Bye Bye Corm i hope your next you can't tackle I am glad your trade bait for a Running Back or Draft Pick. Cason is a great young CB and he can tackle because he attacks from the pos.
BYE BYE Drama Mama's
Super Bowl? Darn right!! Why not? We are passing team now. We just need 3 solid RB's. They found L.T., why not another. Remember: Paul Lowe,Keith Lincoln,Dick Post,Mike Garrett,James Brooks,Don Woods,Chuck Muncie, Johnny Rodgers,Joe Washington,Marion Butts,Natron Means. Hey we can find another RB, he may not last 9 years. But we just need one good yesr for that Ring.I got nothing but love for L.T. We got to remember it is time to move on,and focus on the Super Bowl!!
i say we trade cromartie for a pick at least 3rd round or better. sigh sproles and get a good line men then a power back (Johnathan dwyer) cuz we got a speedy one with sproles
the only rings are going to the jets this year!
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What's up with not opening both escalators from the third level at the conclusion of the game?
What's up with not opening both escalators from the third level at the conclusion of the game?
They could fix the flow problem by adding some additional escalators. The old stadium had express escalators to each level, now they are using a combined escalator system, which feeds all levels. By adding express escalators outside of the stadium to the First and Second Levels, the interior existing escalators can be solely used for the Upper Tier Seats. The stadium is much taller than the old place and the options of getting an express escalator to the upper level is cost prohibative. It is very do-able, my guess under $35 Million. I figure 8 per the 3 corner Gates / Entrances. Pepsi, Verizon and SAP
Lets put it this way....this is the 4th season that the stadium is open....I have not left the stadium from my seats the same way twice. Escalators are jammed, stairs get jammed as you get to the 5th level, the cattle ramps are cramped. Its rough. At the very least they could put the railings up between the escalator entrances and fence off the area so that one escalator is for the fans coming from the 300 level and the other escalator for those on the 200 level, and the same for the escalator from the 100 level to the ground. Again, that is the VERY least they should do instead of closing off one of the two escalators. It may ease the bottle-necking from heavy merges.


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SCAD announces final aTVfest schedule of screenings, award presentations
/The inaugural aTVfest brings together industry professionals to discuss a variety of topics about the television and digital industry./
SCAD has announced its finalized schedule of screenings and award presentations for the inaugural aTVfest, slated for Feb. 14-16, at SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St. NW, and at locations throughout Midtown Atlanta.
Special episode screenings of "The Walking Dead," "BONES," "The Americans" and "Banshee," with cast and crew discussions afterward, and special screenings of the HBO films "Fall to Grace" and "Love, Marilyn," are among the event's highlights. Television icon Phylicia Rashad, "The Cosby Show," will be honored for Outstanding Achievement in Television. Rashad will also participate in a Q-and-A discussion following a screening of her television film, "Steel Magnolias."
The event brings together a diverse group of industry professionals, including Bravo senior producer John Hill, executive director of the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship Karen Kirkland, CEO of FreemantleMedia Thom Beers and "BONES" executive producer Stephen Nathan. Other directors, producers, writers, casting directors, marketing experts and visual effects specialists will be on hand to participate in a series of panel and Q-and-A discussions on a variety of topics about the television and digital industry. Such topics range from pitching and producing to writing and branding. Visit aTVfest.com for more information on scheduled panels.
The screening schedule runs as follows:
Thursday, Feb. 14
Opening Night Event
Episode premiere screening: Cinemax presents "Banshee"
7:30-9 p.m.
Opera, 1150 Crescent Ave.
From the creator of 'True Blood,' 'Banshee' stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with select cast members.
Friday, Feb. 15
Special screening: HBO presents "Fall to Grace"
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
SCAD Digital Media Center theater, 1611 Peachtree St.
Jim McGreevey, formerly the governor of New Jersey, famously resigned from office after declaring himself "a gay American." Since then he has been ministering to female inmates in jails, and in the pulpit on Sundays, training to become an ordained minister. From scandal to salvation, "Fall to Grace" follows McGreevey's road to redemption.
Special screening: HBO presents: "Love, Marilyn"
2:30-4 p.m.
SCAD Digital Media Center theater, 1611 Peachtree St.
Nearly 50 years after her death, two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's private writings and musings were discovered in the home of her acting coach. These papers, brought to life in this innovative documentary film, will help viewers gain a new understanding of Monroe and reveal some of her carefully guarded private life. The film features Elizabeth Banks, Lindsay Lohan, Evan Rachel Wood, Ben Foster, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Viola Davis, Jeremy Piven, Ellen Burstyn, Adrien Brody, Marisa Tomei and Glenn Close.
Episode premiere screening: Fox presents "BONES"
7:30-9 p.m.
Opera, 1150 Crescent Ave.
A special episode screening and panel discussion with select cast and crew from the acclaimed crime drama starring David Boreanaz as a self-assured FBI agent and Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist brought together to examine the human remains of possible murder victims.
Saturday, Feb. 16
Special screening: "Steel Magnolias" (2012) with special guest, Phylicia Rashad
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
SCAD Atlanta - SCAD Digital Media Center theater, 1611 Peachtree St.
In the Lifetime network's contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy's beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children, hair and nails, and all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women. A Q-and-A session with Phylicia Rashad will follow the screening.
Episode premiere pcreening: FX presents "The Americans"
2:30 p.m.
SCAD Digital Media Center theater, 1611 Peachtree St.
This new drama series stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as undercover Soviet spies in U.S. near end of the Cold War in 1981.
Episode premiere screening: AMC presents "The Walking Dead"
7:30 p.m.
Opera, 1150 Crescent Ave.
In the highly anticipated new season of the series, Rick and his fellow survivors continue to seek refuge in a desolate and post-apocalyptic world and soon discover that there are greater forces to fear than just the walking dead. The struggle to survive has never been so perilous. The third season introduces new characters, including the governor (David Morrissey), fan-favorite Michonne (Danai Gurira) and her zombie pets. Following the screening there will be a panel discussion with select cast members.
This schedule is subject to change. For more information or to buy tickets, visit aTVfest.com or call 404.253.2740.
About aTVfest
Hosted by SCAD, aTVfest is an international event focused on design, creativity and innovation in television and media production. The festival brings together professionals from all spheres of content production, including broadcast, cable, Web, social media, music videos and advertising to discuss current industry trends and showcase the best work in each field.
Panel discussions, workshops, award presentations and special screenings will occur daily. Award presentations and nightly premieres will be followed by exclusive receptions that facilitate networking and development opportunities for sponsors and attendees.
SCAD: The University for Creative Careers
The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution conferring bachelor's and master's degrees at distinctive locations and online to prepare talented students for professional careers. SCAD offers degrees in more than 40 majors.
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"A Hunger Artist" Franz Kafka
The following presents criticism on Kafka's short story "Ein Hungerkünstler" ("The Hunger Artist"; 1922). See also, The Metamorphosis Criticism and Franz Kafka Criticism.
"A Hunger Artist" is often considered one of Kafka's best works and one of the most powerful and perfectly crafted short stories ever written. It was first published in the periodical Die Neue Rundschau in 1922 and subsequently included as the title piece in the short story collection that was the last book published by Kafka during his lifetime. "A Hunger Artist" explores the familiar Kafka themes of death, art, isolation, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, personal failure, and the corruption of human relationships. Some critics have argued that it is one of Kafka's most autobiographical works, viewing the story as a depiction of the isolation and alienation of the modern artist, a condition keenly felt by Kafka himself.
Plot and Major Characters
"A Hunger Artist" is told retrospectively, looking several decades back from "today," to a time when interest in the spectacle of a professional hunger artist—a person with the ability to fast for many days—was intense. It then depicts the waning of interest in such displays. The story begins with a general description of "the hunger artist" as a type of performer, and then almost imperceptibly narrows in on a single practitioner of the "art"—the protagonist. The hunger artist performed in a cage around which curious spectators crowded. He was attended by teams of watchers—usually three butchers—who ensured that he was not eating in secret. Despite such precautions, many—including some of the watchers themselves—were convinced that the hunger artist cheated. Such suspicions annoyed the hunger artist, as did the forty-day limit imposed on his fasting by his promoter, or "impresario." The impresario insisted that after forty days public sympathy for the hunger artist inevitably declined. The hunger artist, however, found the time limit irksome and arbitrary, as it prevented him from bettering his own record, from fasting indefinitely. At the end of a fast the hunger artist, amid highly theatrical fanfare, would be carried from his cage and made to eat, both of which acts he always resented.These performances, followed by intervals of recuperation, were repeated for many years. Despite his fame, the hunger artist felt dissatisfied and misunderstood. If a spectator, observing his apparent melancholy, tried to console him, he would erupt in fury, shaking the bars of his cage. The impresario would punish such outbursts by apologizing to the audience, pointing out that irritability was a consequence of fasting. He would then mention the hunger artist's boast that he could fast much longer than he was doing, but would show photographs of the hunger artist near death at the end of a previous fast. In this way he suggested that the hunger artist's sadness was caused by fasting, when, in the hunger artist's view, he was depressed because he was not allowed to fast more. The impresario's "perversion of the truth" further exasperated the hunger artist.
Seemingly overnight, popular tastes changed and public fasting went out of fashion. The hunger artist broke his ties with the impresario and hired himself to a circus, where he hoped to perform truly prodigious feats of fasting. No longer a main attraction, he was given a cage on the outskirts of the circus, near the animal cages. Although the site was readily accessible, and crowds thronged past on their way to see the animals, any spectators who stopped to see him created an obstruction in the flow of people on their way to the animals. At first the hunger artist looked forward to the passing of the crowds, but in time he grew irritated by the noise and disruption caused by the people, and the stench, the roaring, and the feeding of the animals depressed him. Eventually, the hunger artist was completely ignored. No one, not even the artist himself, counted the days of his fast. One day an overseer noticed the hunger artist's cage with its dirty straw. He wondered why the cage was unused; when he and the attendants inspected it, however, they found the hunger artist near death. Before he died he asked forgiveness and confessed that he should not be admired, since the reason he fasted was simply that he could not find food to his liking. The hunger artist was buried with the straw of his cage and replaced by a leopard. Spectators crowded about the leopard's cage.
Major Themes
There is a sharp division among critical interpretations of "A Hunger Artist." Most commentators concur that the story is an allegory, but they disagree as to what is represented. Some critics, pointing to the hunger artist's asceticism, regard him as a saintly or even Christ-like figure. In support of this view they emphasize the unworldliness of the protagonist, the priest-like quality of the watchers, and the traditional religious significance of the forty-day period. Other critics insist that "A Hunger Artist" is an allegory of the misunderstood artist, whose vision of transcendence and artistic excellence is rejected or ignored by the public. This interpretation is sometimes joined with a reading of the story as autobiographical. According to this view, this story, written near the end of Kafka's life, links the hunger artist with the author as an alienated artist who is dying. Whether the protagonist's striving is seen as spiritual or artistic, the leopard is regarded as the hunger artist's antithesis: satisfied and contented, the animal's corporeality stands in marked contrast to the hunger artist's ethereality. A final interpretive division surrounds the issue of whether "A Hunger Artist" is meant to be read ironically. Some critics consider the story a sympathetic depiction of a misunderstood artist who seeks to rise above the merely animal parts of human nature (represented by the leopard) and who is confronted with uncomprehending audiences. Others regard it as Kafka's ironic comment on artistic pretensions. Here the leopard signifies a positive life-affirming force opposing the hunger artist's impulse towards death.
Critical Reception
Both within and apart from the debates surrounding the thematic and allegorical significance of "A Hunger Artist," critics have explored a number of other issues. Heinz Pollitzer has observed that in order to achieve fulfillment in his art the hunger artist must die, and he links this to an overall "paradox of existence." Similarly, Claude-Edmonde Magny has seen in the hunger artist's isolation a "fundamental solitude" that is part of the human condition. Forrest L. Ingram has explored the theme of anxiety in "A Hunger Artist," finding several levels of tension in the story, and Patrick Mahony has interpreted the work from a psychoanalytic perspective. Paulo Medeiros has pointed out that the hunger artist displays many of the symptoms of anorexia. A number of critics have examined "A Hunger Artist" in the context of Kafka's other works, and some have detected affinities to literature by other authors, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Baudelaire, and others. Commentators have been nearly unanimous in their praise of the organization and structure of "A Hunger Artist" and have extolled Kafka's brilliant fusion of fantastic and realistic elements in this work.
Claude-Edmonde Magny (essay date 1945
SOURCE: "The Objective Depiction of Absurdity," in Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1945, pp. 211-27.
[In the following excerpt, Magny discusses the theme of "fundamental solitude" in "A Hunger Artist."]
One must not look on Kafka merely as a spirit of denial, who ridicules all human ambitions because he cannot comprehend their nobility: he feels on the contrary very strongly the nobility of any aspiration or effort, whatever its object. The end of the ape's Report [in "A Report to an Academy"] is full of legitimate pride, the pride of the life that has attained exactly the goal it set and which does not admit the suggestion that...
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Robert W. Stallman (essay date 1948)
SOURCE: "Kafka's Cage," in Accent, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter, 1948, pp. 117-25.
[In the essay below, Stallman investigates "A Hunger Artist" as both a metaphysical allegory portraying "the dilemma of modern man: his spiritual disunity" and a sociological allegory depicting "the dilemma of the modern artist: his dissociation from the world in which he lives."]
"The Hunger-Artist" is one of Kafka's perfections and belongs with the greatest short stories of our time. Its theme of the corruption of inter-human relationships, as Winkler defines it, recurs throughout Kafka's work and has its perfect achievement here in this intrinsic whole.
The world of a Kafka...
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Meno Spann (essay date 1959)
SOURCE: "Franz Kafka's Leopard," in The Germanic Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, April, 1959, pp. 85-104.
[In the following excerpt. Spann argues that the images in 'À Hunger Artist" symbolize Kafka's own personal experiences rather than abstract allegories.]
In contrast to most of Kafka's other short narratives, "Ein Hungerkünstler" has a detailed, closely-knit plot which can be clearly outlined.
A hunger artist, easily the best in his field, enjoys great popularity, but nevertheless he is frustrated because neither his impresario nor the spectators properly appreciate his achievements. The impresario does not permit him to break his fasting...
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H. M. Waidson (essay date 1960)
SOURCE: "The Starvation Artist and the Leopard," in The Germanic Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, December, 1960, pp. 262-69.
[In the following essay, Waidson disagrees with Meno Spann's interpretation of the roles of the occupants of the cage in "A Hunger Artist" and seeks to "restore the starvation-artist to his former central position and relegate the leopard to a less exalted status. "]
In his imaginative writing Kafka gives an impression of being at an immense distance from the people and creatures he describes, and the effects of humor and controlled melancholy are intensified by this appearance of objectivity. The short story "Ein Hungerkünstler" in particular has...
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Harry Steinhauer (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Hunger Artist or Artist in Hungering: Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist'," in Criticism, Vol. IV, No. 1, Winter, 1962, pp. 28-43.
[In the following excerpt, Steinhauer interprets "A Hunger Artist" as a religious allegory depicting "the tragedy . . . of ascetic idealism." This interpretation, he claims, "fits the text in every detail, naturally, without stretching the correspondence between symbol and thing symbolized, and it is the only one that does so. "]
Since the first wave of Kafka criticism washed over us in the thirties there has been a rising tide of interpretations of Kafka's work: theological, sociological, existentialist, ethnic, psychoanalytic, even...
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Heinz Politzer (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Heightened Redemption: Testaments and Last Stories," in Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox, Cornell, 1962, pp. 282-333.
[In the following excerpt, Politzer praises "A Hunger Artist" as "a perfection, a fatal fulfillment that expresses Kafka's desire for permanence.]
[With "A Hunger Artist"] Kafka returns to the motif of the unknown nourishment which he had introduced in The Metamorphosis. In the earlier story this image pointed quite generally to the never-to-be disclosed mystery governing man's life. Here it has been integrated in the theme of art, the Hunger Artist's art.
The tale deals with the art of fasting as well as with...
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Forrest L. Ingram (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "Franz Kafka: Ein Hungerkünstler," in Representative Short Story Cycles of the Twentieth Century: Studies in a Literary Genre, Mouton, 1971, pp. 46-105.
[In the following excerpt, Ingram examines the theme of anxiety in "A Hunger Artist. "]
Situations which excite and heighten anxiety abound in "A Hunger Artist": the fasting showman is forcibly isolated (in a cage) from the community of man. He is questing toward a goal which he is not allowed to reach. Each step toward that goal leads him closer and closer to death. The shift of interest in fasting threatens the economic security of the Impresario and the stability of the Lebensweise of the...
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Richard W. Sheppard (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Kafka's Ein Hungerkünstler: A Reconsideration," in The German Quarterly, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, March, 1973, pp. 219-33.
[In the following essay, Sheppard examines the role of the narrator and its relationship to the central character of "A Hunger Artist. "]
In the general attempt to say what the figure of Kafka's Hunger Artist signifies, scarcely any attention has been paid to another person in the story who is at least as important as the Hunger Artist: the narrator. On the whole, it has been assumed that the narrator is Kafka himself, if perhaps speaking in an odd voice. But this is not the case. In fact, the narrator has a distinct personality and...
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Patrick Mahony (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "A Hunger Artist: Content and Form," in American Imago, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter, 1978, pp. 357-74.
[In the excerpt below, Mahony analyzes Kafka's literary technique in "A Hunger Artist" and provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of the story.]
In a recent book on applied psychoanalysis, two critics have rightly said that "Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist' is perhaps one of the most powerful, perfectly told tales ever written" [Morton Kaplan and Robert Kloss, "Fantasy of the Devouring Killer: Kafka's A Hunger Artist," in The Unspoken Motive: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Criticism, 1973]. Most of the power of Kafka's story, I would add, comes from the...
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Allen Thiher (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "A Hunger Artist," in Franz Kafka: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1990, pp. 80-96.
[In the following excerpt, Thiher examines "A Hunger Artist" in the context of Kafka's ironic commentary on the role of the artist throughout several of his works.]
The notion of the "artist" in postromantic Germany could still conjure up the image of a creative demiurge, though Kafka's artists hardly fit this description. They are more likely to call forth a snicker. Kafka is hardly the first writer to present the artist as a laughter-provoking beast hardly worthy of serious consideration; I ask the reader to consider the following lamentation about the poet's...
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Frederick R. Karl (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Modernism and Death, Kafka and Death," in Franz Kafka: Representative Man, Ticknor & Fields, 1991, pp. 678-81.
[In this excerpt, Karl analyzes "A Hunger Artist" in the context of Kafka's life and times.]
Kafka in "A Hunger Artist" was not merely creating emblems of the self. He was playing roles, as he had in his letters and in many other of his fictional works. The role he played out was that of a man who feared invalidation of self more than he feared death: he had to carry through in his imagination the most extreme form of art to justify himself as an artist, although his justification led to the artist's death. It was better to play such an extreme...
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Paulo Medeiros (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Cannibalism and Starvation: The Parameters of Eating Disorders in Literature," in Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment, edited by Lilian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992, pp. 11-27.
[In the following excerpt, Medeiros asserts that Kafka's hunger artist exhibits the same characteristics as actual anorexics.]
[Kafka's Hunger Artist,] in his voluntary denial of any form of consumption . . . approximates the actual behavior of anorexics. Kafka's story, like most of his writing, hinges on a paradox and the resulting aporia—in this case, the confession made by the Hunger Artist, just before he expires, that...
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Frank Vulpi (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Kafka's A Hunger Artist: A Cautionary Tale for Fausti an Man Caught Between Creativity and Communion," in Germanic Notes and Reviews, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 9-12.
[In the following essay, Vulpi views Kafka's hunger artist as a representation of the Faustian man, one who "pursues an idea or creates something primarily to please himself, gain power, or satisy his ego."]
Whether or not Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkünstler") is about the fate of the artist in twentieth-century society has been a much-discussed question. Critic Meno Spann [in Franz Kafka, 1976] comments as follows:
The word...
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Further Reading
Arbuckle, Donald E. and James B. Misenheimer, Jr. "Personal Failure in 'The Egg' and 'A Hunger Artist'." The Winesburg Eagle: The Official Publication of the Sherwood Anderson Society 8, No. 2 (April 1983): 1-3.
Compares the fates of the protagonists in Sherwood Anderson's "The Egg" and Kafka's "A Hunger Artist." In both cases, the critics note, "the protagonists try to make their bleak existences important to others and fail miserably."
Foulkes, A. P. "The Cage Image in Ein Bericht für Eine Akademie and Ein Hungerkünstler" In The Reluctant Pessimist: A Study of Franz Kafka, pp. 90-7. The Hague: Mouton, 1967....
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Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott's removal of the Australian coat of arms from Canberra's Old Parliament House site in 2002 was a brazen act of protest, one for which he was eventually found guilty of 'theft' in Australian whitefella law. As an act of protest and provocation, however, Buzzacott certainly made his point – that it was indeed he who was provoked by the denial of Aboriginal sovereignty and spirituality implicit in the misappropriation of the kangaroo and emu.
Danie Mellor may not be so bold as Buzzacott in his antics but both the artist and activist reveal a similar spirit of provocation and reclamation, in this case realised through their focus on native fauna, most notably the kangaroo. The kangaroo has been a central and familiar motif in Mellor's art, initially appearing in the meticulous drawings and prints through which he first came to critical attention over a decade ago. In these works the kangaroo is both a symbol of Indigeneity and Australiana: the former speaks of Mellor's own connection while the latter, according to Mellor, belongs to the story of 'how Indigenous people were co-opted into plans of settlement'. In this regard, the co-opting of the kangaroo as the icon of national identity aims to legitimise colonisation and its core mythologies: terra nullius, Darwinism, Enlightenment. The presence of the kangaroo bound to these narratives is also the political absence, the voicelessness of Aboriginal people.
Part of the appeal of Mellor's earlier prints and drawings lies in his deliberate evocation of a colonial-style aesthetic, not so much a reclamation as a subversion of the colonial tools of trade. The illustrative tools for botanical and ethnographic science are for Mellor a means of investigating the past and iconising certain representations of his North Queensland Rainforest heritage. As a printmaker, Mellor's preference for mezzotint is also politically inspired, as the discovery of this particular process coincided with colonial settlement in Australia.
In his research as a printmaker, Mellor came across the English company Spode, which revolutionised English ceramics with its use of hand-engraved copper plates to perfect blue underglaze printing and with its invention of fine bone china. The bone china became synonymous with the blue-and-white Willow pattern first adapted from Chinese patterns by Spode and other English firms in the late eighteenth century. Mellor recalls one early Willow design showing two kangaroos in an enclosure, apparently referencing an actual kangaroo breeding program in a Chinese zoo (that didn't get too far as the zoo had been sent two male kangaroos). It is just one piece in the curious mosaic-puzzle comprising Mellor's installation, which continues his critique of the ethnographic, museological and cultural construct. Signifying a moment of imperial reach (again contemporaneous with early colonial Australia), the Willow pattern appropriates Chinese mythology (a love story) for popular consumption. It is a visual trope of the 'Chinese whisper', the story and image so fragmented and bastardised through repetition and distortion that the original source no longer has currency.
Mellor's 'true blue'-and-white Willow wash shows just how enduring and embedded these whispers can become, perpetuated by the sheer force of numbers, status quo and blind, 'parroted' obedience. In his diorama-myth of national identity we are treated to new renditions of the kangaroo as it first appeared in his 2005 exhibition Voyages of recovery or an ongoing catalogue with moments of reason from the cabinet. They embody the process of cultural transplantation (and commodification), a travesty of nature or, at least, of totemic currency. Elements of the 'real' in the overall installation are the glimmer of authenticity needed to sustain such myths and processes, as well as Mellor's critical and often lyrical recasting of taxidermy to challenge notions of 'natural history' and museum display.
The groundbreaking exhibition Story place: Indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest 2003 was a turning point for Mellor, coinciding with his own extensive cultural research and providing an important context where, for instance, his reclaimed metal shields could be appreciated alongside historical examples and other contemporary rainforest shields by Michael Boiyool Anning and Paul and Stewart Bong. Mellor's shields also provide an important context in this overall installation. Their origin in rusted travelling trunks may conjure an archaeology of dislocation, yet the shields also anchor Mellor's identity. They symbolise Mellor's Buzzacott-like resistance in this exhibition commemorating forty years since Aboriginal people first gained citizenship status, long after the official elevation of the emu and kangaroo.[1]
Maurice O'Riordan
[1] Kevin Buzzacott's removal of the coat of arms in 2002 was also a commemoration of thirty years of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.


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That win over GB has really put me in a great mood this week. Im too obsessed.
lol some guy just walked into my office, asked if someone turned his card in....i said "well, not since we opened, if thats what you mean..."
And he literally just started stomping out of the branch screaming, dropping F-bombs....like, i was genuinely confused as to what exactly just happened....
and as he's leaving hes still screaming expletives....
my manager chases him down, and starts REAMING him out!! it was so good. She's like, how about I just call the cops to pick you up? They are pretty tight with us here.
he's like, I dont care! see that truck! i'll go dump all that **** in the back of it all over this place!! (lolwut?)
Idk why, but I hope he comes back! lol
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
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Count me in, too. I am especially interested in learning how to do the kind that is all machine stitched as I cannot do the head sewing due to physical restrictions.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Count me in, too. I am especially interested in learning how to do the kind that is all machine stitched as I cannot do the head sewing due to physical restrictions.
Linda Wedge White
I believe UFOs are like scraps, ferns and dust bunnies. Once you get two, they send spores out into the air and more just happen anywhere the spores meet.
I am along for the learning experience!
Welcome in Judy, Katfish, Dublb, Wildyard, Cbridges and Frustratedquilter. Wildyard we will definitely be covering all machine sewn QAYG techniques.
I would love to see some pictures of the orphaned or selected blocks everyone is planning to use. For practice purposes I would encourage those that are interested to select at the minimal four same sized blocks to put together. Another suggestion for this project would be to make six to eight solid 6 x 6 blocks. When you quilt each block uses a different quilt design method. For example stippling, meandering, echo, outline, diamond grid, cross-hatching. This will give you a lovely small wall quilt sampler to hang in your sewing room for future inspiration.
Have an awesome day!
I'm definitely in. I've already started putting together a mystery quilt that way with a technique I saw on line and will have to finish it the way I started it. I have enough blocks waiting in the wings to do several more techniques.
I am very interested in learning this way to get things done.
Hello I'm in thanks for showing us.. Sorry not a canuck
Jen, I found your thread! Have this bookmarked and will be following along to see if you can make a believer out of me in the QAYG method!
Gardenrgal, Quilting Nurse, Ctiption, Ronda(rwquilts) welcome in I'm glad you all found your way here.
Was a long trip today into Danville, IL to pick up my quilt from the LAQ. She did and awesome job and I can hardly wait to start sewing the binding on. Im going to get a few things done then I will sit down and post Steps for making the quilting sandwiches and discuss quilting them and squaring them up to prepare to join the first units.
Would love to see everyone's orphaned blocks..... or should we call them adopted blocks now that they have found a home in this new project.
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I have been writing, cooking and trying out recipes since a very long time. Being interested in cooking I visit a lot of different blogs. Then I started sending recipes to different blogs, now I have my own blog. My blog has been in existence for only a few months and I have found myself surrounded by the most wonderful world of blogger friends. Everyone is enthusiastic, very talented, encouraging and always appreciating each other.
My purpose of writing this post is to acknowledge and thank my dear fellow blogger friends for the awards that they have been passed onto me while I was on vacation. When I started blogging I had never ever dreamt the recipes that I post would be appreciated so much and that I would be showered with such admiration and lovely awards. I feel blessed and truly honored to receive these awards. These awards mean a lot to me.
My sincere thanks go to 2 very enthusiastic and talented bloggers 1) Preethi of Authentic Food Treasures and 2) Jyoti of Food Seasons for showering me with the Kreative Blog Award.
This award comes with some rules, and the rules for the Kreative blog award are.
1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 other Kreative Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on which of the blogs to let them know they have been nominated.
Here are 7 things about myself
1. I enjoy cooking and love to see people eat well. I like picture perfect meals.
2. I love to socialize and enjoy vacations. (You all know by now that I have been on vacation for a very long time.)
3. I love to talk, not just idle chatter, but with my mind.
4. I love to buy gold jewelry and diamonds.
5. I have learned a lot from my past experiences and hope to learn a lot more. To me life is all about learning.
6. I am comfortable with what I have. My 2 kids and my husband mean a lot to me.
7. I am very moody, sensitive and do take time to recover when hurt.
I would Love to pass the award to each and every blogger but this awards allows me to nominate only seven bloggers
1) Cilantro – Cilantro.blogspot.com
2) Lubna - kitchenflavours.blogspot.com
3) Sowjanja – mommyscuisine.com
4) Sunshine Mom – tumyumtreats.blogspot.com
5) Roma Sharma – romasharma.com
6) Rashmi – delhibelle.blogspot.com
7) Priya Suresh – priyaeasyntastyrecipes.blogspot.com
Please pass this onto another new set of creative bloggers.
Thank you again Preethi and Jyoti
My next awards and tag have been showered to me by Jyoti of Food Seasons. Thanks once again Jyoti for these encouraging awards
The rules are:
Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag other new set of people.
Here are the answers to the Tag
1. What is your current obsession?
Blogging recipes
2. What are you wearing today?
Jeans and T Shirt
3. What's for dinner?
Sorry it's Sunday, kitchen is closed today and will reopen tomorrow.
4. What's the last thing you bought?
5. What are you listening to right now?
It's very late at night. Its quiet around here all I can hear is the clock tick.
6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
Jyoti is a dear friend. I like her posts and pictures too. She is always there to encourage me with her lovely comments. She has also showered me with these wonderful awards. Btw I love fancy cooking and do admire your style of cooking.
7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Grass is always green on the other side. I am fine where I am and have no regrets to where I live.
8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Capri's and T Shirts.
9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Should I go on vacation again? I would love to go this hour why wait for the next. Australia is next on my list.
10. Which language do you want to learn?
To read and write in Sindhi
11. What's your favorite quote?
I am done for the day, see ya tomorrow
12. Who do you want to meet right now?
Nobody. I am already married
13. What is your favorite color?
14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
My newest sari collection that I just got from India
15. What is your dream job?
I am dreaming of retiring
16. What's your favorite magazine?
Home and Garden
17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
I don't need anything right now; I'll give it to charity
18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Be simple.
19. Who are your style icons?
20. Describe your personal style.
I can be simple, on the other hand be jazzy, depending on the occasion.
21. What are you going to do after this?
Sleep. It's 2.30 am and I am writing answers to these questions.
22. What are your favorite movies?
Dil Chahta Hai, Salam Namaste.
24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?
I don't use any makeup. I do use perfumes but can live without them. I am body lotion crazy.
25. What inspires you?
My business
26. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:
Am a Mom, Am a wife, also a daughter/daughter-in-law
27. What do you do when you "have nothing to wear" (even though your closet's packed)?
Do I have to blurt this out? I'll just keep it a secret. Shhhhhhhhh…
28. Coffee or tea?
Tea, no sugar, little cream
29. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Try not to talk to anyone.
30. What is the meaning of your name?
Hira –my maiden name means diamond.
Avisha – my married name means non poisonous.
31. Which other blogs you love visiting?
OMG the list will be too long, such lovely recipes, I cannot omit anyone's blog. All bloggers, you are great. Keep up the good work.
32. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Kulfi Falooda and Singhar Ji Mithai.
33. Favorite Season?
34) If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
As I wrote before Kitchen is closed today and will reopen tomorrow. When open will definitely cook Sindhi Curry Chawal, tukah, Meethi Boondhi & Sindhi Chaat
I have added this question…
How would you describe your birth sign in one sentence?
Gemini's are wonderful, practical, bright, and witty and on the other hand can be wishy-washy, moody, and restless because you never know when the other side will show up.
These awards and tag are being passed to the same 7 nominated up for the Kreative Blog Award.
Thanks once again Jyoti and Preethi, You Rock …
Keep it simple, keep it Sindhi.


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forum: Chicken
#1 Fri 21 Aug 09 12:39am
Hi all, does anyone have a recipe for a chicken paella. Not keen on the one's I have seen as I am not a big fan of squid and prawns etc!
#2 Fri 21 Aug 09 2:06am
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- Member since Fri 22 Aug 08
Re: Paella
Hi Adam, you could use Jamie's recipe below and just leave out the seafood. It's made with chicken stock, not fish stock.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/seaf … pes/paella
#3 Fri 21 Aug 09 5:39am
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Re: Paella
It is a really easy recipe, and works a treat. I have used it with chicken and it turned out wonderful.
#4 Fri 21 Aug 09 1:00pm
Re: Paella
Thank you, will try that recipe tonight then
#5 Fri 21 Aug 09 1:24pm
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Re: Paella
If you want to read about paella and have fun
while eating a panino with a beer
you can always cook it later
#6 Sun 23 Aug 09 4:15pm
Re: Paella
Thank's! Recipe was ace, really happy with how it turned out it was top notch
#7 Mon 24 Aug 09 1:50am
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Re: Paella
madamada wrote:
If you want to read about paella and have fun
while eating a panino with a beer
you can always cook it later
Mada, thankyou! What a great thread to find out the deep down about paella!


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Miracle Manor Retreat • Desert Hot Springs, CA
Escape Kit
- A Two-Night Stay for Two in a Standard Room, Sundays through Thursdays ($189) or Fridays or Saturdays ($239)
- Daily Healthy Breakfast
- $25 Spa Credit
The Destination
Just 109 miles from LA in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, overlooking Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, Desert Hot Springs is appealing to those seeking solitude and the healing powers of the area's natural hot mineral springs.
The Digs
With breathtaking views of the San Jacinto peaks and toned-down luxe décor, Miracle Manor Retreat, listed among National Geographic Traveler's 150 Hotels You'll Love in 2008, is the ideal Escape for those looking to ditch the bells and whistles in favor of natural opulence and elegant aesthetics.
This distinguished desert oasis, which dates back a half-century, has been meticulously restored to modern, eco-friendly standards, while upholding its classic 1950s style. Each room boasts minimalist furnishings—a nod to the retreat's owners, April Greiman and Michael Rotondi, a designer and architect, respectively—and features a queen-size bed designed by Greiman-Rotondi and topped with organic bedding, plus private bathrooms stocked with handmade, organic bath and body products.
While there is complimentary Wi-Fi available, the property keeps things simple with no TVs, kids, or pets allowed on the tranquil site. Start each day with a cool glass of cucumber or cinnamon natural spring water complemented by a healthy meal of fresh fruit, whole grain breads, organic nut butters and jams, and free-trade organic coffee and tea.
The Diversions
• Hike through Joshua Tree National Park, about 45 minutes from the hotel
• Take advantage of your $25 credit at the Miracle Manor spa
• Relax in the hotel's two mineral-rich therapeutic pools, open year-round
"The contrast of cool desert night air and water that's toasty but not painfully hot is surely one of life's great treats. Even better is looking up to a sky filled with crystalline constellations as you float lazily with steam rising all around."-- The New York Times
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We have dessert most of the time. We're like Craftynell, we don't need it either.LOL I don't feel like I have had a meal if I don't have dessert. I bake a lot.
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We have dessert most of the time. We're like Craftynell, we don't need it either.LOL I don't feel like I have had a meal if I don't have dessert. I bake a lot.
I would LOVE to eat dessert on a daily basis!! But we do serve it especially on holidays or family gatherings. Otherwise we have ice cream or cookies on a more frequent basis.
When it seems like the world is falling to pieces remember that the pieces are falling into place. We are nearing closer to the End Times.
We like dessert. I usually make something once a week, lasts a few days and then ice cream (spicy pop corn for me) on the other days.
I can live without it but DH has to have sweets every night...sometimes he only gets pbj
We unfortunately do dessert every lunch, our big meal of the day. It can be cookies, left over Halloween candy, home made ice cream or cut up pineapple. When I grew up we seldom had dessert, once a week or so,but plain white low fat yogurt was offered as dessert. I still like things without sugar.
Anna Quilts
I was brought up with dessert, actually it was used as a reward, if you dont clean your plate you dont get dessert. Leading to a life long emotional relationship with food. When I got married and had children I decided to have no emotions attached to food. You are hungry you eat, you are not hungry you dont eat. So my children, now young adults, can take or leave sweets, and have healthy eating habits. We always had snacks, healthy and unhealthy and they could pick and choose. I still struggle with the deep rooted, good girls clean their plates lol. What was amusing, is when the kids where little and stayed at my parents, when they came home they would ask what was for dessert. lol
LIFE IS SHORT .... EAT DESSERT FIRST. My DH and I often eat dessert first when we are traveling because most hotels know where the best desserts are served. Growing up we rarely had sweet desserts, always a fruit but my DH grew up in a house where dessert was a must after a meal. So we now have dessert with each meal. Sometimes we eat dessert first at home but it usually a bowl of fruit with some kind of sauce or whip cream of top.
I must have dessert every day, chocolate for sure.
I remember being told to eat all my food cause starving children in China (or elsewhere) would really be thankful for it. As a child I always wondered how my eating helped them! Worst of all for me was green beans. I would mix them with potatoes or anything to hide the taste. Once I pushed them under the rim of my plate. When Mom picked up the plate to wash it, there they were. I had to eat them then, with nothing else, and they were cold and awful. Never tried that again . I still don't like green beans today.
usually only have desserts for special occasions, we don't need the extra calories. If the grandkids are coming, I will make brownies or something easy.


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Snowfall starts the winter season
The five or so inches of snow the area received Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8-9, was good news for lakes area businesses, but it was only a start.
After another three or four inches blanketed the ground the weekend of Dec. 14-15, the area is watching the season heat up as temperatures cool down.
"At least we have some optimism that it does still snow in Minnesota," Cindy Myogeto, of the Crosslake office of the Brainerd Lakes Chamber, said after the first snowfall.
The National Weather Service in Duluth had reports of 5.2 inches Dec. 10 and 4.2 inches northwest of Brainerd on Dec. 17.
Myogeto said the extra inches added over the Dec. 14-15 weekend created a good base for snowmobilers.
"There are snowmobilers out and about, so that's great," she said.
John Wetrosky, at the Pine River Chamber of Commerce, echoed those thoughts.
"There are snowmobilers out on the trail. I think it'll be a busy Christmas and New Year's week," Wetrosky said.
After the first snowfall, Wetrosky reported seeing both snowmobile tracks and pavement. After last weekend, though, the Paul Bunyan Trail is covered.
"It gave us some added base. It was pretty thin before that," he said. "Now if it just keeps snowing an inch at a time that'll be great."
He expected groomers would be out before long.
In Pequot Lakes, Jenna Crawford, of the Pequot Lakes office of the Brainerd Lakes Chamber, said she'd seen several snowmobiles go by Monday, which she found encouraging for the season. The snow is also good news for Mount Ski Gull, though the hill had been making its own snow. In fact, the hill opened two weeks early this year by making snow. As of Monday, Dec. 17, Ski Gull had an 18-inch base and planned for all its runs to be open by Dec. 22-23.
At Swanson's Bait in Hackensack, Aaron Regier said the fishing was good, but the wet, heavy snow caused some problems. He's hoping it doesn't snow.
The weight of the snow sank the ice, causing water to come up through the cracks and turn the snow to slush. That means it's easy to get stuck with vehicles, he said.
Before the Dec. 14-15 snowfall, the Hackensack area had 5-8 inches of ice. Since then it's deteriorated some. Though it's messy, lots of people are still going out fishing.
"You just have to be careful and check (ice thickness) a lot. It's pretty safe as long as you're not driving a vehicle," Regier said.
He's seeing good luck with panfish and walleye.
"We're hoping it's cold here," he said.
Jason Erlandson, of Dave's Sportland Bait in Nisswa, was also hoping for a lack of snow. He's hoping for about 10 days of cold weather without a lot of snow, so that ice can build on the lakes.
"Most of our lakes, they're fishing the edges," Erlandson said of ice fishermen. "They're starting to get four to five inches along shorelines, so they're just starting to venture out. It's a little iffy yet so they haven't pushed it beyond that."
He said the walleyes had been biting on the shore of Gull, and crappies and northerns were caught on smaller lakes that had 4-6 inches. The rain last weekend made some lakes a little sloppy, he said.
This is about two weeks behind the normal schedule for ice fishing, he said.
"We just need another 10 days of cold weather, and that looks like it's coming ... as long as we don't get a lot of snow now," he said.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 18, the National Weather Service called for temperatures in the teens and 20s throughout the week, with mostly cloudy and partly sunny skies through Sunday, Dec. 23.


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About Maggie's blogObservations and updates on the situation in Southern Sudan--from the eyes and laptop of Maggie Fick, a Juba-based American freelance journalist.
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Border Bombings
In the past two weeks, there have been two separate rumblings–in the form of aerial bombardments by the northern Sudanese army–in one of the contested zones along Sudan's north-south border. Here is my analysis (for ForeignPolicy.com) of what the first … Continue reading
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Last Modified: Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:25 PM
SULPHUR — Seven state softball championships will be decided Saturday in Sulphur.
The Fast Pitch 56 began Friday with the quarterfinal round and ends Saturday night with the semifinal and championship games.
Seven area schools — Sam Houston, DeRidder, DeQuincy, Grand Lake, Hackberry, Elizabeth and Starks were in action. Sam Houston, Grand Lake, Hackberry and Starks won Friday, while DeRidder, DeQuincy and Elizabeth lost.
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Baylee Corbello finally gave up a hit, and a run, but Sam Houston beat Dutchtown in a Class 5A quarterfinal.
The Griffins (21-8) scored a run in the bottom of the second inning on a double by Jessica Crum and single by Ali McCoy, but the Broncos (19-9) responded with six runs in the next inning.
Marcella Myers led off with a single and moved to third on a Corbello double off the left-field fence. Carleigh Chaumont singled to score Myers with the tying run. Tori Lantz walked to load the bases, and Alli Fields drilled a triple to the right-center field gap to drive in all three runners and give the Broncos the lead at 4-1. Fields scored on a fielder's choice by Taylor Edwards, who scored on a single up the middle by Abby Jolie to make it 6-1.
"The way they scored, I told them it was stuff we did wrong more than they did right," said Sam Houston head coach Beth Domingue.
It was more than enough for Corbello, who threw no-hitters in Sam Houston's first two playoff games. Corbello is 21-1 in the playoffs in her career, and will have a chance to pitch in her fourth championship game if the Broncos beat St. Amant in the semifinal round Saturday afternoon.
St. Amant, a five-time state champion, is the highest-seeded team remaining in the field at No. 2. Sam Houston is the lowest at No. 19.
For DeRidder, it was like going to a gunfight without all your bullets.
After three decades of trying to get back to the state tournament, the Dragons arrived without their top pitcher.
Injured Jamie Wentzel was forced to watch from the bench, as DeRidder's run to the state championship ended at Frasch Park.
Wentzel, forced to be on crutches, tore an anterior cruciate ligament in the first game of the playoffs, and while the Dragons (23-5) tried they could not overcome the loss in the Class 4A quarterfinals.
No. 4 Belle Chasse (30-3) advanced to Saturday's semifinal game against Teurlings Catholic, which upset top-seeded Vandebilt Catholic 8-5.
DeQuincy coach W.H. Ashworth never likes seeing Riverside Academy on his side of the bracket at Fast Pitch 56, and Friday showed why.
The Rebels dominated a quarterfinal game, advancing behind a one-hit, 16-strikeout performance by pitcher Destin Vicknair.
"She's pretty dominant," Ashworth said.
This is not the first time DeQuincy (18-8) has been stymied by Riverside (25-7) in the postseason.
"Four times they beat us in the semifinals, three times in the last inning," Ashworth said. "They're well-coached and a good team. Whenever the bracket comes out I try to find them and stay away from them."
DeQuincy's only hit was a Lauren Perkins double in the first inning. Vicknair retired the next 19 Tigers in order.
The third-seeded Lake Hornets came out swinging early and often and took an easy win over the Monterey Wolves in six innings.
The Hornets scoring got going early in the game with two runs in the bottom of the first inning. Ashlyn Poole hit a triple to center field and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jensen Bertrand. The second run came on an RBI single by Blair Little that scored Rebecca Monceaux to give the Hornets a 2-0 advantage.
Grand Lake (17-5) then took a 4-0 lead after gaining two more runs in the bottom of the third inning. Poole and Bertrand reached base on singles for Grand Lake. Both scored when Little had a two-RBI single with two outs.
Grand Lake advanced to the semifinals, where it will face the Anacoco Indians at 11 a.m.
Hackberry's first-inning stats looked every bit those of a two-time defending champion: two runs on a single, a double and a triple and three strikeouts recorded by pitcher Jolie Trahan
The rest of the innings followed suit as Trahan just missed a perfect game by an error and the top-seeded Mustangs rolled into Saturday's semifinal with a five-inning victory over the ninth-seeded Elizabeth Bulldogs.
"Coming back, we've gotten more comfortable with the surroundings and the fans and everything," Trahan said.
The Mustangs (20-4) face No. 5 Northside Christian, a 6-5 winner over St. Joseph, at 11 a.m. Hackberry and Northside Christian will share a district next year.
"We started off the first inning with a pretty commanding handle," Hackberry head coach Angie Little said. "But we take nothing for granted. I've been there and done that; you lose."
Trahan struck out the first six batters she faced and 11 overall.
Though a fielding miscommunication in the top of the fifth inning resulted in an error, she still faced the minimum number of batters when Elizabeth's Sydney LaFauci was caught stealing.
Starks head coach Jack Miller told his Lady Panthers after their quarterfinal victory that they had exorcised not just their own demons, but ghosts of years past as well.
Calvin knocked Starks out of Fast Pitch 56 three times over the past 10 years.
"That's where me and David (Calvin head coach David Huckaby) became very good friends," Miller said.
The seventh-seeded Panthers (11-12) scored five runs in the top of the seventh to send second-seeded Calvin (13-7) packing.
Starks will face No. 3 Georgetown, a 4-0 winner over Kilbourne, at 11 a.m. Saturday in the semifinals.
"The girls executed our game plan and we knew if they did that we could be successful," Miller said.
Mount Carmel 5, Hahnville 2
Live Oak 5, Fontainebleau 0
St. Amant 10, Parkway 0
Sam Houston 7, Dutchtown 1
St. Thomas More 8, Vandebilt Catholic 5
Belle Chasse 13, DeRidder 3
West Ouachita 6, Neville 5
Teurlings Catholic 8, Grant 4
Brusly 9, Crowley 0
Jena 10, North Vermilion 5
Notre Dame 8, Kaplan 5
Buckeye 11, St. Charles 1
John Curtis 11, Winnfield 1
North Webster 4, Pine Prairie 1
Evangel Christian 8, Many 7
Riverside Academy 8, DeQuincy 0
Westminster Christian 9, St. John 3
Archbishop Hannan 1, Central Catholic 0
Catholic-Pointe Coupee 2, Oak Grove 0
False River 12, Ascension Catholic 5
Florien 13, Converse 0
Grace Christian 3, Zwolle 2
Grand Lake 10, Monterey 0
Anacoco 9, Stanley 2
Hackberry 10, Elizabeth 0
Northside Christian 6, St. Joseph's-Plaucheville 5
Georgetown 4, Kilbourne 0
Starks 8, Calvin 4
No. 9 Mount Carmel vs. No. 4 Live Oak, 1 p.m. (Field 15)
No. 2 St. Amant vs. No. 6 Dutchtown-No. 19 Sam Houston winner, 1 p.m. (Field 13)
No. 8 St. Thomas More vs. No. 4 Belle Chasse, 1 p.m. (Field 16)
No. 3 West Ouachita vs. No. 7 Teurlings Catholic, 1 p.m. (Field 14)
No. 1 Brusly vs. No. 5 Jena, 1 p.m. (Field 17)
No. 6 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 Buckeye, 1 p.m. (Field 18)
No. 1 John Curtis vs. No. 4 North Webster, 11 a.m. (Field 15)
No. 3 Evangel Christian vs. No. 2 Riverside Academy, 11 a.m. (Field 16)
No. 16 Westminster Christian vs. No. 5 Archbishop Hannan, 11 a.m. (Field 19)
No. 3 Catholic-Pointe Coupee vs. No. 18 False River, 11 a.m. (Field 20)
No. 1 Florien vs. No. 4 Grace Christian, 11 a.m. (Field 17)
No. 3 Grand Lake vs. No. 10 Anacoco, 11 a.m. (Field 18)
No. 1 Hackberry vs. No. 5 Northside Christian, 11 a.m. (Field 13)
No. 3 Georgetown vs. No. 7 Starks, 11 a.m. (Field 14)
Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. (Field 14)
Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. (Field 15)
Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. (Field 16)
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. (Field 13)
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. (Field 15)
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. (Field 14)
Semifinal winners, 5 p.m. (Field 16)


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Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
While it descends into B-movie territory, the franchise reboot is still one of the better movies of the summer thanks to knockout special effects.
Directors: Rupert Wyatt Rating: PG-13 Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
First things first. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is practically Blade Runner compared to Tim Burton's woeful 2001 attempt to jump-start the Apes franchise that had been so memorably launched in 1968 before being run into the ground by four much less memorable, campy sequels. In addition, this big new re-reboot, directed by Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist) and starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow and (best of all) Andy Serkis as the ape Caesar, offers knockout special effects, lots of noisy spectacle and is one of the better movies of the summer.
Franco earnestly and likably plays a geneticist who pretty much systematically tortures and is eventually forced to euthanize highly intelligent, emotionally responsive, very sympathetic chimpanzees in the cause of trying to find a breakthrough drug for Alzheimer's Disease—a plot cliché that goes at least as far back as 1999's Deep Blue Sea. The Rick Jaffa-Amanda Silver screenplay has Franco motivated by wanting to make life better for his father, John Lithgow, who suffers from Alzehimer's. When Franco's program is shut down, he finds himself unable to put down a young chimp Caesar, so he raises it at home as if it were a family dog, despite dire warnings from pretty but utterly expression-challenged animal medic Freida Pinto, stuck here with the utterly expendable role of Franco's love interest. Sure enough, though, Caesar becomes big, unruly and exceptionally intelligent, so he is sent off to an awful chimp sanctuary where he runs afoul of such meanies as father and son Brian Cox and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter saga).
The first third of the movie has heart, humor and an iron grip but as it goes along and gets bigger, noisier and sillier, it descends deeper and deeper into B-movie territory. Still, late summer audiences out for a thrill might willingly swallow the movie's missteps and limitations considering how emotionally moving it is and how astonishing the motion capture special effects are, particularly when angry apes rebel en masse and do quite a number on the city of San Francisco. Everyone in the cast pulls his weight but it's Andy Serkis who runs away with the movie, as he should do with the inevitable sequels. With little dialogue but a world of emotion in his face, eyes and body, he not only keeps us on our toes but also has us rooting for the apes to trounce humanity.
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Playboy Contributing Editor Stephen Rebello has written many Playboy Interview and 20 Questions features. He is the author of such books as the notorious Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the latter of which has inspired a dramatic feature film set for production in 2012. His most recent Playboy Interviews include Josh Brolin and Cameron Diaz.


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For those of you who want a 92A1 and are frustrated they can't be sold here in CA:
spoke with a rep from the Law Enforcement division at Beretta today.
He says the 92A1 was submitted for inclusion onto the California Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale early in the 4th quarter of this year (he's not sure of the exact date, but thinks it was about 2 months ago).
He also says that the time to get onto that list after submission can vary significantly, but in his experience, 6-8 months has been somewhat normal, if the word normal can be applied to governmental processes.
So, he's thinking spring / summer it might appear on that roster, and we CA types can finally buy 92A1's.
I'm also trying to contact the Bureau of Firearms here in CA, and see what they say from their end.


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People who want everyone on Earth to either conform to their ideals or die (and supposedly rot in Hell afterward). They are willing to use any means necessary to accomplish this task.
A group of radical conservatives burned down an abortion clinic and banned the sale of condoms countywide today.
by ~souba~ November 18, 2005


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Home > Membership > Women
The notable IEEE WIE members below have a lot of good things to say about the value of membership: how it can help start a career, sharpen research, and expand your professional network in your field.
Electrical Engineer, Bioengineer
Pamela developed a device for using electrical charge to activate nerves in the hearing system, as part of a cochlear implant. Advice to girls interested in technology: "Be a positive agent for change in the world. Make a difference!"
Pioneer Electrical Engineer
Shouleh works on bringing technology invented for NASA into saving lives. Advice to girls interested in technology: "Follow what you love. Always, always, ask questions and don't let anyone intimidate you."
Electrical and Computer Science Engineer
Valencia enjoys thinking about what new technologies will transform our world and how she will contribute. Advice to girls interested in technology: "Identify problems that you are passionate about finding solutions to."
Electrical and Mechanical Engineer
In her work as an engineer, Mariana investigates new materials, techniques, and products that can benefit humanity in several fields. Advice to girls interested in technology: "Be dynamic and studious!"
Electrical and Computer Science Engineer
"I use 3-D-printed prototypes during my design process … A highlight for me was developing a robotic system that works with kids who have autism." Advice to girls interested in technology: "Love what you are doing!"
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"I find new ways to enhance functionality and reduce the size of devices." Health care and homeland security will benefit from Elena's work. She's also perfecting a real "invisibility cloak." Advice to girls interested in technology: "Be confident!"
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Whereabouts and Whatabouts February 25
Each Monday morning Trevor opens the lines for listener questions : Here's what they wanted to know - - and the answers other listeners - the 'Brains Trust' - provided this week.
If you can add more information please do so via the contact details below!
Why are people who do rough work called cowboys
That they move around a lot and so aren't dependable. They also take temporary jobs.
What ever happened to the national fitness council of Australia in the 40's
Where did shiver me timbers come from?
It is usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction.
It is used by authors to express shock, surprise or annoyance.
The phrase is based on real nautical slang and is a reference to the timbers, which are the wooden support frames of a sailing ship.
In heavy seas, ships would be lifted up and pounded down so hard as to "shiver" the timbers, startling the sailors. Such an exclamation was meant to convey a feeling of fear and awe
Why are they called potato cakes /scallops
Because it's a scalloped potato
Potato cake is the correct term as they are potato which is caked in batter hence potato cake
Why are potato cakes/scallops dearer than dim sims
Why is the rude finger the rude finger
Archers were taken prisoners they had fingers cut out and they would give the dual finger salute to say "still got my fingers"
They would cut middle finger off so you couldn't grip bow/arrow, flipping the bird because it's the flight on the back of the arrow S
Started as a taunt to say ha ha i've still got my fingers
It has been argued by anthropologists that the finger is a variant of a classic "phallic aggressive" gesture used by primates. By jabbing a threatening phallus at your enemy like a wild animal, you aren't just belittling him, but also making him your sexual inferior. Instead of using a real penis.
The single finger was because they used to cut the trigger finger off riflemen during the war and then they'd give them the middle finger to show they could still shoot.
Why is Devon called polony in WA?
Expat Devon is Englished based as is NSW, in WA polony is from Italian for processed
Why is the lead shearer called a ringer
Because he runs rings around everyone else
Sheep run around in rings
A ringer used to ring sheep with a rubber band
They would ringbark trees to clear the round
Actually called a Gun, ringer is something different, he rounds the sheep up
The ringer is the acknowledged fastest shearer in the shed, a prestigious position to hold and defend.
To "ring the shed", when 12 to 25 men might be shearing, was no mean feat, and they put a ring around the highest tally for the day
Why did my banana cake sink?
Over beating the batter and incorporating too much air – the air can then cause a collapse. •
Temperature of the oven is too high causing the cake to rise too rapidly. Tip: Invest in an oven thermometer to check your oven temperature. •
Opening the door to check on the cakes before the batter is set can cause the cake to sink, as can closing the oven door too sharply in the early stages of baking.
Why put vinegar in water when poaching eggs.
Adding vinegar to poaching water makes the whites firm even faster to prevent them drifting
What is Camphor Board in building?
Rarely used in homes as very soft and it's almost a noxious timber camphor laurel.
Style of building is a camphor solid timber in pre war horizontal rather than vertical and cleaner line
The Brisbane Courier newspaper, of Queensland, on 5 July, 1929, page 16, stated in answer to a question from a reader 'POMMY' of Toowong: "A jackaroo (sometimes spelt jackeroo) Is a young man learning experience on a pastoral property. (2) In the English language 'Jack' is compounded with a lot of words, and in the early pastoral days it was compounded with the "roo" in Kangaroo to indicate, perhaps, the aimless rushing about of the inexperienced station cadet. • The Encyclopedia of Australia stated in 1968 that it is "most probably a coined Australian-sounding word based on a [person] 'Jacky Raw'Jackaroos (Jacky + Raw) were often young men from Britain or from city backgrounds in Australia, which would explain the use of 'raw' in the sense of 'inexperienced'.
What is a bare belly joe ?
As a traditional song "collected and arranged" by Reverend Dr. Percy Jones, a professor of music, the lyrics vary widely; "bare-bellied yoe" (yoe is a dialect word for ewe) is often "bare-bellied joe" or even "blue-bellied ewe". The "blue bellied" joe is a sheep with no wool on it's belly and is obviously quicker to shear. - from Bryan
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When Desmond Tutu became General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, he used his pulpit to decry the apartheid system of racial segregation. The South African government revoked his passport to prevent him from traveling, but Bishop Tutu refused to be silenced. International condemnation forced the government to rescind their decision. He had succeeded in drawing the world's attention to the injustice of the apartheid system. In 1984, his contribution to the cause of racial equality in South Africa was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. As Archbishop of Cape Town, spiritual leader of all Anglican Christians in South Africa, his spiritual authority dealt a death blow to white supremacy in South Africa. As Chairman of the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he helped his country to bind up its wounds, and choose forgiveness over revenge. Now retired from his episcopate, he continues to raise his voice for peace and justice all over the world.


text: Didn't see any posts regarding the topic, although I thought I would post my two cents anyways. 2011 Silverado LT Ext Cab, aftermarket Sony double-DIN head unit. Wanted to install a sub as well as aftermarket speakers, but I didn't know where I was going to put the Amplifier seeing as how there's no real flat surface to screw it into. Solution? The rear passenger seat was the perfect spot for a bit of plywood to be attached underneath the pipe outline for the seat, with the cushion off. I started with a 3'x3' piece of plywood from Home Depot. With the seat in the upright position and the cushion cushion OFF (unhook the two plastic snap clips, one on the back rear of the seat, the other on the inside area, between the other seat), I took the plywood board, and holding it 1" from the bottom pipe drew an outline of the pipe seating and cut out the template with a gerber saw. I used some double sided tape on the bottom of the piping to keep the vibrations down, and a ton of Zip ties to make sure that sucker goes nowhere. The holes for the zipties are drilled about 1" from the edge of the board. You don't want the plywood to go all the way to the edge of the piping near the bottom of the seat (when upright), this will make the fit too tight to reapply the plastic snap locks on the back and side of the seat when putting the cushion back on. Now, BEFORE you put the cushion back on, you have two options. You can predrill the holes for the amp which will make re-finding those holes difficult when the seat cushion is on, OR you can finish installing the cushion and just hand tighten the screws into the particle board. I did the second method, because I wanted the screws tight in the plywood (and it makes it easier to mount regarding the floor space) Below is the finished product.


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