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NEW DELHI, Wednesday—One morning last week we visited a palace in which there was a very beautiful collection of paintings which are 300 or 400 years old and are in Persian style. They deal with scenes of life in that day and I thought they were extremely interesting. We also saw a sample of the way elephants, horses and camels used to be arrayed in processions that were held two or three times a year when India had its separate princely dominions. Every animal looked gorgeous, but the elephants had the most marvelous regalia and its weight was astonishing.
I also had a chance to walk around the gardens of a maharaja's home—some of the most beautiful gardens I have ever seen. I asked an old Indian gardener how he raised such strong hollyhock stalks, which did not bend over, what he did to his carnations, which were blooming outdoors as they used to bloom in the greenhouse in Hyde Park. He told me he had special fertilizer to strengthen the hollyhock stalks and I shall certainly make a search for it when I get home.
There was a lovely sunken circular garden, with petunias in great masses and other perennials. There were also beautiful roses, imported from many parts of the world and flourishing in their new climate. One could see this gardener loved every flower and that praise of his work was a joy to his soul.
We also visited one of the places to see how inlaid copper and silver work is done and then we drove out a considerable distance to an old temple to see the monkeys being fed. There were many more monkeys than we would see in any zoo at home.
Our luncheon was served in a charming little summer house with a lovely pool in the middle of the garden. There was one big tree at the end of the lawn, next to which was a grill much as one might see it in a very elaborate Hollywood garden. But the Maharani told me it did not work too well!
We returned to New Delhi again about three o'clock and at four-thirty we had the pleasure of having tea with the President of India, Dr. Rajenrad Prasad. We had missed him on our last visit and I was glad of this opportunity for a quiet talk.
At five-thirty I went to a meeting called under the auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Asia Institute. Sir Benegal N. Rau presided and made an excellent speech which I tried very hard to hear but, as I was almost completely deaf from the air trip, I only caught part of it and had to read it in the papers the next morning.
The constant flying which we have been doing has had a funny effect on my hearing. Though I try to clear my ears before coming down, I don't succeed, and it takes several hours before my hearing returns to normal, which is none too good at best.
We had a quiet dinner on the porch, looking out over a lovely garden and [originally: at] nine-fifteen Ambassador and Mrs. Chester Bowles called for us and we all attended a real Hollywood premier of "The River." The proceeds were donated to the Health Minister for her child welfare work, and Kenneth McEldowney, producer of the picture, told me that all the seats were sold.
We saw people there who had come from different parts of India, including our kind host and hostess, Governor and Her Excellency Rani Maharaj Singh, and the Jamsaheb and Maharani of Navnagar.


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Our accommodation is conveniently located close to some of the best attractions in Broadbeach. Aside from that, our resort has first class facilities that provide relaxation and enjoyment. In case you're wondering about what to do on your Gold Coast holiday, here are a few ideas.
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Our Budget Accommodation Broadbeach is just a few minutes away from the beach. Take a relaxing stroll along the shore. Laze around the beach, work on your tan, and finish that book you've been dying to read. Take breathtaking pictures of sunrise and sunsets. Swim, surf, jog, windsurf, paddle a canoe, choose your adventure.
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Our resort is also close to some of the most popular shopping centres. Drop by Pacific Fair Shopping Centre and buy all the must-haves on your shopping list. From fashion, gadgets, food and accessories, Pacific Fair has it all. Bring your family along and buy stuff for mom, dad and the kids.
Aside from Pacific Fair, there's also Oasis Shopping Centre just a few minutes away from our accommodation. The Oasis has everything you need. If you forgot to pack something, not to worry. The Oasis has it all.
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There are so many world class restaurants in Broadbeach. From fine dining restaurants, dessert places, trendy bars and night clubs, there are tons of dining options in Broadbeach. Head over to Jupiters Hotel and Casino and try their restaurants. Enjoy Asian cuisine, Italian favorites, and more. There are also bars and clubs where you can dance the night away. On top of that, Jupiters Casino has a wide selection of table games and slot machines. Live the high life at Jupiters.
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Sometimes you may feel like staying in, but you can still have fun. Relax and unwind in our heated outdoor pool. We also have a spa/hot tub where you can soak for a while. Close your eyes and feel the stress melt away.
Fitness buffs will be glad to know that we also have a gym/fitness room. There's no excuse for misisng out on your regular workout. Head over to our gym and work out a sweat.
Enjoy these activities and make the most of your Gold Coast holiday!
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We stayed here overnight in Sept, 2006 in a Travel Trailer. Everything was perfect except for some mud puddles that you couldn't avoid driving through. We would definitely stay here again.
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Great overnight Campground, away from I-70 (1 mile). Quiet, lots of trees, clean pool & restrooms. Very friendly and helpful owners. Sites are nice and level.
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We were assigned a down-hill pull-thru site where we couldn't possibly make level without un-hooking the TV. We specifically reserved a pull-thru site where we wouldn't have to unhook overnight two months in advance. We were very disappointed. There were many permanent campsites and they are too narrow. Also it was too noisy next to the interstate.
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This is a real nice place and makes a good base to tour the Frankfort area. We highly recommend the free factory tour at the Buffalo Trace Distillery. You can learn a lot about how they make Bourbon there. We had a concrete base and a wooden deck.
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Valerie Harper has announced to People magazine that she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer on January 15th. The 73-year-old TV and stage actress is best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern during the 1970s on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her own spinoff Rhoda. She also starred in the late 1980s sitcom Valerie and Valerie's Family later retitled The Hogan Family after Harper was written out of the show due to a dispute with the producers Miller-Boyett. In more recent years she has been a busy and award-winning actress in theater productions on both coasts. She also was a Screen Actors Guild activist, running for SAG president in 2001 but losing to Melissa Gilbert. In the People issue appearing on newstands Friday, Harper said she is suffering from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis and may have just three months to live. Harper had been publicizing her new memoir I, Rhoda and dealing with her illness privately until now.
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This is terribly hard news to read. I had the pleasure of working with Valerie many years ago. Her love and spirit are infectious. Her talent and passion, boundless. I admire her bravery and I wish for her only peace and warmth.
Terribly sad news. Just finished her memoir I, RHODA and loved all the behind-the-scenes tales of her times on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and RHODA. What a legacy she will leave–one of the best and most beloved situation character characters ever in Rhoda and years of high impact work in humanitarianism and feminism. A super talent and class act.
So sad
It makes me aware that the things that I fuss and worry about in a typical day are insignificant. Also, I used to think my Mother reminded me of Rhoda. You will not go unnoticed….
She's not dead yet, people! I love that she is living day to day as should everyone, sick or healthy.
Maybe we want to say how much we admire her work and what an impact she had on so many of us while she can still read it.
Amen to that! Nobody is promised tomorrow.. :)
Tragic. What an ebullient, dynamic woman. She made an impact on many stages and makes one now again in the most profound way. Outspoken, bright, hard working, indelible. Crushing news.
Ms. Harper, I wish you all the best and hope that your suffering is minimal. You have brought me and my family many years of laughter and joy, watching you portray Rhoda on both "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda". I hope you can find your own laughter in this time of illness and also hope that you prove the doctor's prognosis wrong.
Ms. harper, i wish you all the best. my prayers are with you. i hope the doctors are wrong. funny funny lady! class act!
You are a beautiful woman with a beautiful heart. I have so many happy memories of your work in MTM, Rhoda and Sex In The City. Thank you, thank you for all the joy you've brought to the world.
Well, hopefully she outlives what the dr. said. Keep positive Valerie
hopefully she will just outlive the doctor, that would be better still
This news absolutely tore me up. Valerie Harper has always seemed to be such a class act — in addition to being a wonderful actress. I can only pray that she proves the doctors wrong. Thank you, Valerie, for so many years of laughter and warm humor. I wish you only the best.
She was interviewed on NPR a month ago, promoting "I, Rhoda". She was wonderful–funny, smart, generous–and never give the slightest indication that she had just been given this terrible diagnosis. Life lessons for us all.
I am so sad to hear this news. I worked with Valerie, too, many years ago, and her spirit was so positive, uplifting and warm. God bless her.
Every time I eat a chocolate bonbon, I still think of applying it directly to my hips…originally said by Rhoda (Valerie Harper). However long she still has…I wish her the sweetness and joy she brought to my life over her long and wonderful acting career.
Valerie you have lived you're life extraordinarily on a daily basis and you should indeed continue to do just that. None of us know the final moment. At this point, a prognosis is simply an informed suggestion, but it is not an absolute truth by any means. I know people who have been told they have months to live and go on to live for over a decade while maintaining a nice quality of life…on meds, having mostly good days, with a few bad days (who in the hell doesn't have bad days), but most importantly still here kicking ass and taking names and doing whatever it is they choose to do (and having a blast while doing so I might add). Love and light to you!!!
Valerie, you had us laughing the moment you said, "This is MY apartment!" Thank you for being "so real." One never saw the acting. Such a huge talent you are! Also, thank you breaking the barrier of being "too Jewish." Sitcoms were never the same after YOU made the difference. Love and light to you.
We are so sorry to hear about your illness. God be with u in this time
I was very sorry hear this news today. She's a fantastic actor and one who has made many generations laugh. I wish her a peace and thank her for the many, many times she's made me personally smile or laugh – what a great gift that is.
What a truly unfortunate outcome For such a decent , talented person. I hope she catches a break. She deserves a better ending than this.
Sad news; she is one classy lady! Loved her shows and want to say thank you for all the entertainment you provided us throughout your career Valerie! I will be praying for you and your family during this trying time.
Someone imagined the Rhoda character and someone wrote her dialogue, but Valerie Harper took it and ran away with it, and revolutionized television and pop culture – Valerie Harper was definitely on loan from God, but sadly, He's calling in His marker.
Thank you is all I can say!!!! My mom also has stage 4 lung cancer and brain cancer and told the same thing. Also around feb 2013 and today she left the house with my dad and drove to the beech. You actually got her to live another day which I never thought I would so I thank you so much you you really made my mom live today. And hopefully tomorrow and every day that she has because I love her and she the most amazing mother and they really don't make them like her anymore or ever!!! Thank you thank you your dance was so powerful You saved life's with that dance that's all it took just one last dance!!!:)


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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by PRlady, Aug 10, 2012.
Excellent, less work for me Thanks, ladies!
I like the long ties, too. I might go one step further and sew them into the back (or hook-and-eye) to create a T-shape back.
What on earth do a I wear to a 5 pm wedding? HELP!
Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? What does the invitation say? Black tie, black tie optional, nothing about dress? Where is the wedding? Beach, country club, banquet hall, restaurant? Do you know the couple well? What is their style? Trendy, fasionistas, laid back?
In general a cocktail dress. Gowns are no longer the "norm" wedding attire. But, the dressiness of the cocktail dress depends on the above. 5pm is usually dressier than an earlier wedding. But, again, that depends on the wedding style.
Saturday. The invitation gives no guidelines, it's a hotel in Oakland, CA. I have a grey sheath dress with some black embroidery on the hem. Is that okay?
That setting is a little more formal than some.
Do you have a picture of the dress?
Well, then it is not "formal", but it is dressy. If you don't have a photo of the dress, what is it made of? Can you describe it in more detail?
I have been seeing a bunch of cute Mary Janes on Zappos and other places, but I can never figure out what socks I can wear with them when my feet get cold. (especially for a pair of cute red Mary Jane). Right now I can wear Mary Janes without socks but I want the sock option open
The under 30s at our workplace wear them with thin ankle sox that match or contrast with the shoe. IMO, it's not a look for someone with shorter legs. The over 30s are going with tights.
I knew there's a reason I haven't found anything to make Mary Janes work
Mary Janes look super cute with tights. Or if you are wearing them with pants, go with a nude sock or black sock depending on pant color.
Okay, the grey dress. I got it at a vintage store; it's allegedly from the 70s and has no tags indicating material.
This is the color - my dress is more of a slip dress and has spaghetti straps, and I have a little black shrug to put over it.
Is it silky? And is the bottom embroidery or lace? It sounds pretty. Just be careful that it is not too lingerie looking (the fabric too thin) for a wedding. Hard to know without seeing it.
It's not very silky. More chiffon. And mine has embroidery around the bottom.
My back up dress is black and white polka dot with a red tulle underskirt. It's a bit short, though, I think. (the bottom of the tulle hits right above the knee)
That doesn't sound too short, to me . I think either dress would be fine. I'm feeling a retro look with the polka dot one - if dressy enough, that would be very cool!
I'll take both. And decide Saturday at around 4.
Have a great time. I'm sure you will look fabulous in either dress.
When you're there you'll know the best look for the occasion.
Thx for the tip on shoes, gals
You could also try patterned tights - polka dots, stripes, etc. they would be funky with maryjanes.
there are SOOOO many cute tights right now, it is impossible to not buy a ton of them
and if you had your heart set on socks for warmth, they have the knit ones and also ones that are lined.
I'm looking for advice on what to wear on "formal nights" on a cruise. My sister, some friends, and I booked a trip on Royal Caribbean (through the Caribbean) in March and have 2 formal nights, where the dress code says "cocktail dress". Do people really bring two cocktail dresses, with jewelry and heels, on a mid-priced cruise? I have two dresses that I wore recently to weddings that could pass (and I can wear the same shoes), but I really don't want to take two dresses when they each will be worn just at dinner. From what I hear, closet/room space is at a premium anyway.
Would it be a mistake to forgo one or both of the formal dinners? Are these dinners really that much better than the food/atmosphere we could get at the more casual dining options? Since this is my first time, other tips for cruising are also welcome.
Unless you feel odd wearing the same dress twice, I can't see why you would need two. I've never cruised the Caribbean, but when cruising Alaska (on Holland America), I just wore the same skirt and fancy blouse for the formal nights ... and it was fun just dressing up for a change. However, I understand from a few friends who are travel agents that Alaska is the most informal of the cruise locations.
You may want to find out more about the casual dining options on board your ship. On my cruise (which was over ten years ago), it was the formal dining room or the buffet ... and I wanted to avoid the buffet, to make portion control easier.
I've been on the RC cruise through the Caribbean (plus two longer Princess cruises through Europe) and while some people do really really dress up on formal nights, you can totally get away with wearing a nicer skirt and blouse (bring one skirt, two matching blouses - few will even notice, because you'll be sitting down) on formal nights. I've seen people wear nice jeans on formal nights. They won't throw you out of the restaurant (it goes against their best interests, because they hope you will purchase drinks with dinner).
I've never been on a cruise but I've been to "fancy" restaurants in the Caribbean many times. And one thing is consistent -- no matter what I wore, I was overdressed. Meaning that I brought real dresses or fancy tops to wear with white slacks and hardly anyone else dressed up that much. It's a vacation, wear something nice that you're comfortable in and maybe a sparkly necklace to make it look "formal" and call it a day.
And I have a LOT of Mary-Janes because I can't wear pumps with my foot problems. I wear them barelegged in summer and with tights or trouser socks in the winter and they look good, I think.
You could bring one "nice" dress and a maxi tee shirt type of dress. The maxi would work for sightseeing as well. Just change the shoes/jewelry.
I have a pair of red Mary Janes and I wear them with black tights when it's too cold for nekkidness. I was in a fabric store the other day and a little girl saw my shoes and said "I like her shoes!" and I thought to myself excellent, I must be starting to skulk into "age inappropriate" territory if little girls are coveting my footwear.
Nope. Red Mary Janes (and now I want a pair too!) say sexy-and-funky to grownups and fairy-tale-shoes to little girls. You're good.
My red Mary Janes are Naots. I blame you entirely.
I have been craving for a pair of Naot Nina in red. But it is a freaking 180 dollars
I really like Naot's selection of colors. Naot lyric in bronze is also purdy
Yes. However, I gave up on Made in China shoes because none of them ever last longer than 6 months. The Naots, on the other foot, keep going and going and going so really in the long run they end up being the more cost effective choice.


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I removed all of the white rocks in my front yard as well from around the house. I have to say I like it like this much better.
I am still working on ideas on what to do with the area by my lamppost and tree. As you will see in the picture the hostas that grow around the perimetere are starting to come up. I also have 3 knockout roses around the lamppost and 3 flower carpet roses in the middle. What else can I place here so it fills it up better ?
Anyhow I am trying to figure out how to arrange the pavers here so it looks better. I may or may not have to put some grass seed down afterwards.
What planting zone are you in, what part of the country?
It would be helpful to know this.
Firstly you have a very nice front lawn and front beds in front of the house.
I am not a fan of 'rock or paver' necklaces around the beds. I like more
natural edges on beds. I like them edged with the moon shaped edger,
mixed with large rocks...I love rock gardens. I like that you have the
knock out roses, they'll do well for you in what looks like a sunny
location. I also like ground covers, as they fill in and then you don't
have to weed. Go to your local nursery and get some evergreen, low
rock garden type shrubs, for this bed.
I love vinca vine as a ground cover, it's invasive, (I love invasive plants)
but shares space well with other plants.
Once you get ground coverings going then you can plant annuals in
pots and bury then in the ground covering.
The front yard should have more evergreens and not a lot of flowers,
it should be neat and tidy. Our front yard in neat and tidy and very
few flowers, the back yard the opposite -- high impact.
I will look for some examples of what I mean, you can take from it what you like or ignore it completely...
disclaimer, we're not professional landscapers, we just love having a
neat front yard, and a backyard that is a retreat.
South eastern Wisconsin, right?
Here is a planting zone map for your state.
cold winters, eh...
I'm in zone 7, so don't know about the hardiness of the plants we
have in your zone, but, I'll look for something in our garden
that shows what
I mean by a more natural type edging for a bed.
I think I would change the shape a little to more in and out.
We have an Island as well in our front. It has a Japanese maple,
low growing Birds nest shrubs and lots of vinca vine.
Around the three trees in the front is hostas.
We have seven large oaks in the front, and a large maple, so we
get very little sun. notice the vinca vine, how it fills in the space
nicely and leaves no room for weeds to grow.
You have great sun in the front, your knocks will do well.
If you plant vines, like vinca or english ivy, you then can have some
pots of flowers planted in the bed. We plant our flowers in dark
pots or wire baskets with grass cloth...this way the pots disappear
and it looks like a big spray of color concentrated in a few areas.
I am going to get you a video of our backyard...look at the rock
formation in front of the pond. This is what I mean about placing
rocks in front of the beds, as well as in the beds. Build up the rocks
in the back and have ivy and flowers cascading over the rocks.
I love interesting gardens with driftwood and rocks...We also
pay attention to color of the shrubs and plants...we also have a lot
of purple palace that we keep dividing. It has a greenish purplish
color and looks like a little maple tree shrub.
this was taken from inside the house.
I'll show you the videos of the back, It's lush and fully planted
and no room for weeds. :wink:
even more rocks
How do you mean by in and out? Like a squiggly design?
yes, more creative...did you look at the videos?
come in, come out...many people just do kidney or oval
shapes...use lots of rocks...put the taller shrubs in the back
the low growing shrubs in the front. Plant close and full.
'...and pay attention to color of shrubs, light green, dark green
mix it up.
Like I said, go to your local nursery and pick out low growing
rock garden shrubs and perennial ground covers.
Go on rock hunts...all the flat rocks we bought (a few tons of
them)...all the big round rocks we hunted for them.
Everything will come back in early spring, and all you'll need to do
is add some annuals in that front bed.
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She will be so pleased. What a lovely gift. It is beautiful.
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She will be so pleased. What a lovely gift. It is beautiful.
How nice of you to make something for her. It's beautiful!!! Terrific job!!!
I'm sure she will love it, love the butterflies, also
Lori, your quilt is so pretty!
Your 90 year old friend will love it...for sure!! :)
Oh what a special treat for her. I am sure it will give her lots of comfort!! crafty_linda_b
Very cute and special too! She'll love it!
Butterflys are my favorite, if you have any scraps. Just saying :P
Very nice!
Very nice, Lori! I think I read a comment that you had backed it with flannel - that's a great idea. She will surely enjoy snuggling with this.


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Date of Stay: July, 2007
Quite clean campground with very friendly people operating it. The sites are nicely shaded and have hills. There is nice roads around for riding. We will stay here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2007
This has been our favorite campground so far. I would recommend site 18, or site 17 if you have a shorter camper. There is a beach area, boat ramps, and fishing right out of your back door. We have young children and I took my 3 year old for her first fishing experience here. The road coming in is a little twisty, but worth the drive. The curve, paved road, at site 17 will scrub your trailer tires if you are not very careful. Give it a chance, you will like it.
Date of Stay: April, 2007
We came here on opening weekend. I will give that to our rating of the bathrooms. I have friends who go here on a regular basis and like it well. I will go back at special events for my children only. If you want a nice outdoor secluded place, this is not it. If you want something that has a lot going on for everyone it may be for you. The people were nice to us.


text: I have offers that are $4500 off MSRP for WRX Premium and $4000 off MSRP for a new STI, almost $1500 and $1000 UNDER dealer invoice cost in Colorado. They reeeeaaly want to sell Subarus by the end of the month, so if you are looking to buy, strike while the iron is hot. I think I'm going STI, just have to decide on colors.


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Methylhexaneamine Rears It's Controversial Head19 Jun 2012
2012 Comrades Marathon winner, Ludwick Mamabolo, has tested positive for the use of methylhexaneamine. This substance rears it's head reasonably frequently in the sporting world, and not without any controversy.
Methylhexaneamine, an extract from the geranium plant, is a compound found in nasal decongestants, but has been baned by many professional sports bodies as a performance enhancing substance. Side effects include a heightened sense of awareness and energy, and it can mask fatigue levels. The South African Institute For Drug Free Sport prohibits the use of methylhexaneamine, in-competition.
It has been marketed as a dietary supplement, for use with caffeine, as a stimulant. In New Zealand, it is an active ingredient in some recreational narcotics.
In 1992, Comrades winner Charl Mattheus was stripped of his title after testing positive for methylhexaneamine. In 2010, two Springbok rugby players, Chiliboy Ralepelle and Bjorn Basson, also tested positive for the substance.
In both of these incidents, sports scientist Prof. Tim Noakes, was outspoken about the legality of the substance.
According to Noakes, methylhexaneamine disappears from someone's system within "24 to 36 hours". Furthermore, Noakes also does not believe that athletes can gain any advantage from the use of methylhexaneamine.
In response to the Springbok drug controversy in 2010, Noakes said "This is not a doping incident. It's an incident of inadvertent use through medication of a supplement. To call these guys dopers would be unfair. You can't label someone a crook if he's not one."
"Let's focus on what is important. Let's find the steroid-users."
Does the same school of thought apply for Mamabolo? Should sports bodies focus on more potent performance enhancing drugs, or does the mantra "rules are rules" hold true?


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19th is no man's land in the draft. One of the worst things that can happen to a team in the NFL these days is have a winning record and fail to make the playoffs. It sets off a vicious cycle of mediocrity.
That is, if you don't have a plan. The Giants have a plan (good luck trying to figure it out), and this could be the year they make some radical moves to shake things up. They have been an 8, 9, 10 win team the past few seasons and should be better. GM Jerry Reese may finally feel he needs to make bolder strokes with personnel rather than the under-the-radar ones he's been making.


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Reaction mixed to Dayton budget proposal
There was little agreement Wednesday between Democrats and Republicans on Gov. Mark Dayton's tax proposals. One point of consensus, however, was that the final package may look drastically different when the final product comes together this spring.
Area lawmakers who were reached Wednesday in St. Paul, peppered their responses with terms such as "preliminary conversations" and "starting point."
Rep. John Ward, DFL-Baxter, said there would probably be a House tax proposal, a Senate tax proposal and minority tax proposal. In his previous six years in the Legislature, he didn't recall any initial tax proposal that stayed the same throughout the session.
"Even the governor conceded this is a first step," Rep. Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby said.
"Its a balanced budget," Ward said. "There's no gimmicks. No short-term type of tactics. It has revenue. It has cuts. It has reform and redesign."
Ward said the measures address significant property tax reform and relief. He said the revenue increase called for by Dayton's tax plan were overdue.
"Had we done some of this 10 years ago we probably wouldn't be talking about it right now," Ward said. "It's about time, it's not just the right time."
Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-Cass County, said he was surprised at how big of a tax increase ($2 billion in the sales tax) Dayton proposed. He said he feared the expansion of the sales tax to include items such as haircuts and work boots will hit people who can least afford the hikes. Gazelka also expressed disappointment that even with the tax increases Dayton is asking for, the schools would still not be paid back the money taken from them in the revenue shift that was done during the last legislative session. The District 9 senator faulted the Dayton proposal for "not reducing spending just having a dramatic increase in revenue."
Republicans, he said, were unsuccessful in the last legislative session in their efforts to extend the waiting period for welfare recipients who moved to Minnesota from other states from 30 to 60 days. He said the GOP also pushed for Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards that could only be used in Minnesota or possibly neighboring states.
The total budget of $37.8 billion represents about a 7 percent increase over the last budget, Gazelka said.
By lowering the corporate tax, Gazelka said that, under Dayton's plan, Minnesota would drop from the fourth highest to the 12th highest, but many business deductions would be taken away from businesses and more revenue would be raised overall.
"Definitely, this is not giving businesses a break," Gazelka said.
Gazelka said one positive aspect of the Dayton plan is the $500 per-person rebate for property tax relief.
"When you add it all together, it's a massive tax increase," Gazelka said.
Rep. Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby, liked that there was a large investment in education and that it was a no-gimmicks budget.
"I support new revenue," he said. "I campaigned on new revenue. I don't think we can have cuts only."
The freshman lawmaker said he's reserving judgment on the sales tax with the broadened base and lower rate. He noted that families would not have to pay sales tax on clothing items that cost less than $100.
"We're not trying to make this a tax on kids growing out of their clothes every year," she said.
He applauded what he perceived as an effort to move away from reliance on the property tax. He said he would like property tax relief to be proportional to the size of the property tax bill.
Regarding the school payback, he said the governor appears to be operating on the premise that it might be better to provide schools with additional funding now and pay them back the money that was borrowed over the next few years.
"I haven't come to a firm conclusion on that," he said.
Sen. Carrie Ruud, R-Breezy Point, said she was not impressed with what she termed the largest tax increase ever proposed by a Minnesota governor. She described the extension of the sales tax to clothing as anti-family and also a move that would hurt the tourism draw of the Mall of America.
"I don't think this plays well," she said. "I think this really is anti-family. Every time a family turns around they're being taxed."
Ruud, who is starting her second, non-consecutive term in the Senate, said she wants to see spending reductions and noted that Dayton's plan does not pay back the money that was earlier shifted away from the school districts.
"Greater Minnesota legislators need to stick together on the budget," she said. "I think the majority party (the DFL) needs to be careful they don't overreach."
Rep. Ron Kresha, R-Little Falls, said he was most disappointed by the lack of equity in financing for K-12 education.
"I was hoping we were going to address the disparity between the rural areas and the metro," he said.
The freshman legislator also noted that transitional dollars for the Long Prairie School District would be lowered by about $9 per pupil. He said the district needs money for secondary language related to integration issues.
Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township (Itasca County), said Dayton has put forward a progressive document that deals with the problems that property taxes cause northern Minnesota residents, resorts and businesses.
"I think it's a northern Minnesota-friendly budget proposal," he said. "I think it's encouraging for counties, encouraging for school districts. If you believe, like I do, that property taxes don't work well in northern Minnesota — it's good for us."
He said the slightest blip in property taxes causes shock waves because of the lower value of land in northern Minnesota.
"I think the end product is going to be reductions in the dependence on the property tax," Anzelc said. "I think the Legislature is going to reluctantly accept the notion that the wealthy high income wage earner will have to pay a little bit more income."
Admitting that parts of the Dayton package will be a hard sell, the District 5B representative said he'll strongly suggest to his leadership in the House that they allow enough time for representatives to go back to their districts and conduct town meetings on the tax package. (District 5B includes portions of both Itasca and Cass counties.)
He said he talked to school superintendents who wanted a payback plan they can count on and some said they would accept more money in the funding formula instead of a quicker pay-back.
Rep. Mark Anderson, R-East Gull Lake, said the $500 property tax rebate tells him citizens were being overcharged in the first place.
"Taxes are going up and spending is going up," he said.
The freshman lawmaker from District 9A (which includes parts of Todd, Wadena and Cass counties) said middle class people should be storming the Capitol over the extension of the sales tax to clothing.
"As a minority all we'll be able to do is voice our opinions."
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- Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
- In a bowl, whisk 30g sugar into the yolks. Sift in the flour, stirring until you get a smooth paste.
- In another bowl, whip up the egg whites until foamy, before adding the remaining 30g of sugar. Continue whipping until you get shiny, stiff peaks. Mix some of the egg whites into the yolk mixture to lighten it up before folding the remaining whipped egg whites into the yolk mixture.
- Pour into a lined baking tray and rap the tray against the counter to get rid of any air bubbles. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 10 minutes.
- Leave the cake to cool in the tray for about 10 minutes before placing it on the cooling rack.
- To make your rolling easier, do roll up the cake while its still warm, right after removing it from the tray. Roll it together with your lined baking paper and leave it to cool, rolled up, on the cooling rack it's cool enough to add your filling.
- As with any swiss roll, you can use any form of filling you want. If you wish for a whipped cream or buttercream filling, do prepare it while waiting for the cake to bake. I chose to go with my homemade strawberry-apple-rhubarb jam, which was slightly sweet and tart. Be generous with the filling, because otherwise, the cake will taste rather plain.
- You can choose to put your swiss roll in the fridge for the flavors to meld together or you can choose to slice it up and consume it right away!
- Notes: I weigh my egg whites and yolks, and I tend to use about 120-130g of egg whites and 70-80g of egg yolk. Also, if you want a cake with a finer crumb, do swap the all-purpose flour with cake flour or substitute a little cornstarch with the all-purpose flour.
- Taste: If you're not a huge fan of the 'egg-y' smell, I would advise adding about 1tsp or less of vanilla extract. Otherwise, this makes a really nice sponge cake.
- Serving size: This recipe fits the 30cm by 30cm tray perfectly. I've tried using 3 eggs instead, and using a smaller 10-inch rectangular tray (the cake you see below).
- Storage: The cake keeps well for weeks in the fridge! I've tried keeping it for a month before using it and it still tastes as good. At room temperature, it stores well for about 3-5 days.
- Would I make this again?: Definitely! I have been using this sponge cake recipe a lot, because I like the fact that it doesn't use any form of oil or butter but still tastes as good, or it not better than those with!
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You roll your cake really well! Only 3 ingredients? Wow, this is really simple, the trick is the rolling part, which I am not very good at!
I have not even made a swiss roll this month to participate! Only two days left!
You made with only 3 ingredients? Amazing! And it looks so soft and spongy!
3 ingredients and no oil? This recipe is certainly interesting. 🙂
@Joyce: thanks! yup the trick is to roll it when it's warm! hurry bake a swiss roll to participate ;p
@ssb: thanks 🙂
@hanushi: yup i found it interesting and tried it, and have never regretted trying it!
this has got to be the simplest sponge cake recipe ever! and your swiss roll is rolled up nicely, and the skin is browned evenly.
i've always had problems with the skin of my swiss rolls peeling and looking ugly and had to roll them inside out/upside down to hide!
yahooo! finally i can post comment!
The roll looks adorable 🙂
I have a confession – I've never made a sweet roll 😛
Building up my courage to do it 😀
im also not a huge fan of the swiss roll too janine!! but do love sponge cake too! this def has the short ingredient outta any ive seen! 🙂 have you got your other sponge cake recipe posted somewhere on ur blog?
Like you, I'm not a big fan of swiss rolls even though I love sponge cake. I am curious to try making one though after seeing all these posts for the Aspiring Baker's challenge. The sponge cake recipe looks so interesting with so few ingredients. I think I want try it to make a regular sponge cake and maybe attempt the swiss roll at some point.
@Sotong: yeah this is actually the first recipe that I didn't have peeling skin!
@Tina: do try making your first, you won't regret it 😀
@Viv: Nope I have not, but will be getting there soon!
@Kirbie: I've tried this as a sponge cake, ie layered with some buttercream in the centre and it's pretty darn fantastic if I should say so myself ;p


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Boston, MA Governor Mitt Romney today announced the Romney for President Mid-Michigan Leadership Team. These men and women will help Governor Romney build on his already strong base of support in the Mid-Michigan area.
"I look forward to campaigning with these Michigan leaders as I talk to voters about bringing real conservative change to Washington," said Governor Romney. "With their help, we will ensure that America is prepared to meet a new generation of challenges, and that we continue to strengthen our nation's economy, military, and families."
With today's announcement, U.S. Representative and Romney for President Michigan Co-Chair Dave Camp said, "Governor Romney has a record of proven leadership and a lifetime of real world experience outside of Washington. I am looking forward to helping him win in Michigan on his way to winning the Republican nomination."
Romney For President Mid-Michigan Leadership Team:
· Dave Camp, U.S. Representative
· Valde Garcia, State Senator
· Roger Kahn, State Senator
· Tony Stamas, State Senator
· Richard Ball, State Representative
· Bruce Caswell, State Representative
· Ken Horn, State Representative
· Joe Hune, State Representative
· Rick Jones, State Representative
· Carolyn Curtin, 4th District Chair/State Committee Member
· Jerry Roe, Former Michigan Republican Party Executive Director
· Peter Ruddell, Former 8th District Chair
· Scott Haines, Midland County Register of Deeds/State Committee Member
· Jerry Nielson, Midland County Sheriff
· Matt Lance, Bay County Chair
· Dr. Tim Tarry, Eaton County Chair
· Denise Graves, Genesee County Chair
· Eric St. Onge, Gratiot County Chair
· Norm Shinkle, Ingham County Chair/State Committee Member
· Jon Williams, Jackson County Chair
· Allan Filip, Livingston County Chair/State Committee Member
· Anna Kabot, Former Tuscola County Chair
· Ken Shapley, Former Saginaw County Chair
· Vaughn Begick, Bay County Commissioner
· Jan Bunting, Gratiot County Commissioner
· James Leibeg, Midland County Commissioner
· Prudence Adam, State Committee Member
· Don Vickers, State Committee Member
· Amy Carl, State Committee Member
· Florence Connolly, State Committee Member
· Lorinda Wortz, Former State Committee Member
· Julie Atkinson, Homer Township Supervisor
· Darlene Talaske, Reed City Mayor
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I've been playing with the iPad for a while now, and I quite like it. But, I've also noticed that there are a lot of misconceptions about what the iPad is and isn't.
1. The iPad is the greatest new tech device ever! / The iPad is an ancient idea.
Some would claim that the iPad's concept is 38 years old. Sure, the idea of an iPad is ancient. I've been using Fujitsu tablets off and on for over a decade, and I've been fiddling with touch computing for even longer. So what?
You can argue that cars go back to 1769 — though if one-off experimental vehicles don't work for you, then by the 1880s, two guys named Daimler and Benz were producing cars. But it wasn't until Henry Ford combined advanced technology and the production line to start turning out Model T Fords in 1908 that cars become commonplace. The iPad, ladies and gents, is the Model T of tablet computing.
2. The iPad isn't open! / Open source, no; open standards, yes.
Some people are shocked — shocked I tell you — to find that the iPad isn't open source and so are encouraging people to avoid it. Hello? What part of the iPad being an Apple product did you not get? Apple, even more so than Microsoft, is the un-open company. If you want an open-source based iPad clone, congratulations: Linux-powered iPod-like devices are already on their way.
At the same time, Apple is supporting open standards. Sure, if you want to develop applications for the iPad, you have to jump through Apple's hoops — but if you want to develop iPad-friendly Web pages, you'll do it by embracing HTML5 and avoiding proprietary formats like Flash.
If you really want to open up an iPad's software and void the warranty, the iPad's already been jailbroken. In two weeks' time, someone will doubtlessly have Linux running on it.
3. My Kindle/Nook e-book reader/netbook is better than an iPad!
In the case of an e-reader, no, it's not. What really amazed me about the iPad is just how readable its display is. Whether it was an e-book or a news Web page, it's a pleasure to read anything on the iPad. Yes, I know all about the virtues of E-Ink. I still like the iPad better.
In addition, I can write e-mail, wander the Web, watch a movie, listen to music, read a map, and more, all on a device that costs the same price as a Kindle DX, which can be used only for reading e-books. Which would you rather have?
But the iPad is not a laptop, or even a netbook replacement. Yes, you can use it as a netbook — the display's keyboard is surprising usable — but to really use it you need to add a Bluetooth keyboard. As Jason Hiner, the Editor in Chief of TechRepublic, noted that about the iPad's business purposes, "It doesn't replace anything, yet." The key word is 'yet.' Sure, if you want to try convince your CFO into issuing you an iPad, good luck to you. But it's really not ready to be a general-purpose business device.
However, the iPad and the Linux-powered iPad clones that will follow it will be killing off special purpose devices such as vertical-market work tablets, GPSs, and, yes, e-readers. The general purpose tablet is here.
Just as there were many portable MP3 players before the iPod, the iPad is going to revolutionize the old tablet market and start a new line of computing devices: the entertainment tablet. The only real question isn't going to be how successful it will be; it's how quickly will Linux, and even Windows, vendors can catch up with it.


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I received the orange shade of the Ruffian nail polish in my birchbox and loved it. When I saw this shade, I became very excited. I was very happy that the color actually lived up to my expectation. I highly recommend this line, especially this color!!5


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I took my glasses in for repair and met a man who had just flown home from Italy, where he was married in Florence and then participated in a mass blessing in Rome, and touched the Pope. He even had pictures.
We went trick or treating in the neighborhood, and saw only one or two other children. The neighbors handed out fistfulls of candy and one man offered lovely origami flowers. A few doors down the lady had packets of glass animal figures. One family had turned the sidewalk strip into a graveyard and spooky music echoed through the trees.
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Yesterday I was stuck in traffic on a bridge when a rain storm started somewhere behind the car, black roiling clouds above us, just as the sun drooped down and disapeared behind Queen Anne hill.
The waning rays of the sun met the black of the storm and created, in the middle, all around the car, the same magical light I saw last year in Italy. The light of a frayed, elegant Rome on All Saint's Day.
The traffic cleared and I turned left, up Capitol Hill, and the light was there too -- pink and lustrous, the large foursquare houses on substantial lots taking on the aspect of the Bridge of Angels, of Trastevere.
At another stoplight I looked up to see the boughs of the the oak trees splayed, reaching, colored now like the pines I could see from our room near the Spanish Steps, the pines of the Villa Borghese.
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The other night at the Odd Coincidence Party (aka the neighbors halloween celebration) the kids won prizes for their costumes. My girl received a porcelain cup commemorating the wedding of Sarah Ferguson to her prince, which took place four years before my daughter was born but on the same day. Their daughter, Beatrice, was born on the day of my car accident, I remember, because the birth made all the newspapers and of course the accident did not.
My son received a Jim Nabors album featuring covers of such songs as There's a Kind of Hush. My son was very impressed with the album; he is a very traditional, sensitive young man, and he held the album close as we walked home.
Yesterday I played it for him and we discovered with amazed delight that Mr. Nabors started the second side with a cover of one of our favorite songs, Honey and we sang along she was always young at heart, kind of dumb but kind of smart, and I loved her so....
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Special congratulations to Carla Perry for receiving the Oregon Book Award Stewart Holbrook Special Award for service to Oregon's literary community, reflecting her efforts with the Nye Beach Writers' Series.
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I mailed Gabriel his birthday present (three months late, but that is to be expected since he shares the date with my daughter): a turquoise belt buckle with a tiny gun attached to a chain, and a holster to hold it.
Gabriel wrote and said My pistol keeps slipping out of its holster. It's the sort of thing that could haunt one's dreams.
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Today it is raining and the sky is gray except a spot of blue just past a thicket of trees I can see from my spot on the couch.
I haven't been singing since we moved here, and right now I'm missing the lamentations of the boll weevil song, and evenings with the chorus in my living room.
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We went to a party at the home of the neighbor who has so many mysterious connections to my life even though I never knew her (college barista, friends in common, etc.) and we were sitting on the couch chatting with her relatives (the people who came to my party last summer and lived on the east coast but now live here) and I looked up and one of my very best friends from junior high was standing in front of me.
Another thrilling and mysterious coincidence. I have been in Seattle since June and I don't run into hordes of friends and relatives. Instead, I find the same specific set of people over and over again, at the hardware store, restaurants, parties.
I told my daughter see, you should be careful of who you know in middle school. The friends you make now might be the most important people in your life forever.
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My mother came to visit and handed me a small box of stuff she found in the garage. It was a random assortment -- my Wonder Woman pocket mirror, a keychain with a Barbie phone, a small porcelain boy marked Made in Occupied Japan and ugly jewelry I wore in my brief adolescent New Wave phase.
The box contained a Lincoln-Kennedy penny glued to a placard detailing the Astonishing Coincidences between the lives and deaths of the two men. The placard is stamped Compliments of George's Chevron: Not Just a Gas Station East Bremerton 1973. I don't really remember my grandparents East Bremerton shop, but my mother says they used to take me there when I was an infant and put me on the counter and I would recite nursery rhymes and creep out the customers. My mother says I talked in full sentences before I could walk, always said Mother never Mama, memorized poems, held cups with my pinky extended, never dropped a crumb, refused to wear clothes if they were even slightly soiled. My mother says I was a freaky baby but very entertaining.
I wonder how these objects came to live together; they span my entire life but are not necessarily favorites. They fall into the category of things I never missed losing, though I am happy to see them now.
At the bottom of the box, dusty but still bright blue, I found the peacock sunglasses I wore in the last year of high school.
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On Monday we were still raggedy and overwhelmed -- in a good way -- from the party, from seeing too many of our friends and making so many new friends. The children voted to go to Ikea so they could play in the cupboards and generally run wild in the displays while I pretended to play housewife and buy odds and ends we might need to finish unpacking the last few (scary jumble) boxes in the basement.
We were walking past the snack bar when a small child stopped and said hello and waved at me. She looked familiar but then she raced away and I peered into the depths of the cafeteria, and saw Super Dad.
I'm easily startled and when I see people out of context, my normal inclination is to hide behind furniture rather than chat. But I had meant to invite her family to our housewarming, and had searched all over for their address with no luck. To see her at Ikea less than a day after our house cleared of guests was baffling and I hardly knew what to say, but I waved and she came over and said that she was playing housewife. We laughed and traded addresses; she knew somehow that I had moved to Seattle, feeding my confusion about, well, people. I assume that nobody talks about me unless I am present.
But I also assume that I am invisible, and that is apparently not true.
She asked why we moved and I couldn't remember so I shrugged; I suppose the answer is Byron got a job but it seems more complicated than that simple response; it feels like we moved because the slipstream of fate grabbed us by the hems and shook us and we landed here, because this is where we belong.
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Last week an old friend came over and we were talking about mutual friends and she said, in reference to one particular person, but you aren't talking. I shrugged and said I don't have arguments, I have expectations.
My primary expectation is that my friends deserve and require my respect, and that our relationships are formed on the principle of reciprocity. If I know someone, consider them a friend, that means we have both entered into a contract where we help each other, render support, act in considerate ways. I believe that there is a code of conduct, an identifiable etiquette, no matter how you dress or what is playing on your turntable.
This does not mean that I demand specific kinds of support; mostly I want to be alone. I don't talk on the phone, I rarely go out. It just means that I expect my friends to take care, and avoid the big and obvious mistakes.
There are a couple of people in my life who exhaust me, and I fade away. I can't do the drama, the toil. I have enough worries between finding time to work and taking care of a family; the friends who remain solidly part of my daily existence are the people who are helpful. The rest, no matter how delightful, get a limited amount of time.
I don't argue or fight with anyone, though I am prone to categorical opinions like if you ride a bike with no helmet, you will crack your skull and end up in a vegetative state and spend the rest of your days in a nursing home or you are absolutely wrong in your opinions about the economy / politics / history / literature but mostly, I don't care. I just change the subject. It is really fine if someone likes a band I hate, and though questionable voting habits might make me suspicious, when the skull gets cracked open I still go to the hospital and interpret medical language for those who have never been initiated.
It isn't convenient for some people that I have this particular theory. But that also falls under the heading of things that don't matter. I am not currently in an argument with anyone, and if any of my friends feel differently, they have forgotten the point of our friendship.
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Our house is now officially warmed -- approximately two hundred people showed up between four p.m. and a misty dawn to say hello, eat, drink, and watch The Dolly Ranchers. Our party combined with another celebration plus a show meant that the house was so crowded I missed the whole show except the last two songs, and those I saw through a crack in the front door.
The party was chaotic and I don't really remember much except the strange and exquisite moments-- introducing friends from Portland to friends from junior high. Sitting with the band for a few minutes before the tumult. Hearing rumours about myself that are patently false and very funny. Swarms of beautiful children running everywhere. Snail races. Warming my feet at the fire and enjoying my friends after the crowd cleared.
Since Gabriel was here, we had to have an emergency, and this time it was the kitchen sink. A tiny pate knife with a porcelain piggy handle went down the insinkerator, and Gabriel plunged the sink with his hands and then he and a very nice fellow I've never met took the sink apart, fiddled with the fuses, then put it all back together again.
Whenever I do the big parties I always think never again but I will forget all the work soon enough. Strangers broke my hammock, gouged my wooden counter, and the sink repair will be expensive, but I think it was worth it. I love introducing people who might never meet each other otherwise, meeting new people myself, and seeing my friends.
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When I was hospitalized for a month at age twelve, my sixth-grade teacher visited and brought me the Chronicles of Narnia and the adult novels by C.S. Lewis. These books were a great comfort to me as I recovered from a perilous illness; they suggested simple truths, and helped me imagine a way out of the murky horror of my situation.
My culturally atheist family offered no promises of heaven after earth, no religious justifications. There was no god and no prayer and the only salvation on offer was pure fiction, other worlds, magical creatures, brave children undertaking scary adventures.
I forgot about the books until recently, when my son bought The Magicians Nephew on tape and we listened to it over and over, the story of the book opening in my mind the story of my own past. The way the hospital sheets felt on my legs, the way my hand swelled around the IV, the poorly drawn murals on the walls of the children's ward.
Aside from the problem of my cancer, there were larger issues to worry about in the 1980's. For most sensitive children, nuclear war was of primary concern. I lived in a county with six military installations and we were informed by our elders that our town was a first strike target. We were in the top ten list for destruction. I read the C. S. Lewis books as allegory (I knew even then about his religious and academic position) about personal struggle, and about modern warfare.
Now my son is six years old, and he is exquisitely attuned to crisis and drama. We haven't been able to watch television since 9/11 because the images were too much; we have not listened to radio accounts; we have not left magazines open with photographs of the burning city. No adults have discussed the specific details of that day, or the ensuing attacks, in his presence. But he knows. He can feel it, he can taste it, and he is afraid.
We listened to The Magicians Nephew and imagined ourselves to be Digory and Polly, imagined going on their fine adventure and making the same brave choices. I thought about the witch and her Deplorable Word and realized how significant this story is, how avidly it makes an argument for peace in our own world.
Eleanor Roosevelt said Nothing we do in this world is wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will stand some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
I know too many people who say they believe in peace, or that they are committed to activism, people who need supportive friends and a community, and then sabotage their own scene with toxic gossip and stupid lies. Or worse yet, people who do not see clearly that they are hurting someone or something they love. This simple daily reality can stand in for the larger issue of rogue states and war.
This rumination may seem tangential but it leads me back to one idea: the Deplorable Word. The Word that, when spoken, can ruin everything. The Word as symbol can end cities and civilizations. The Word as daily reality can destroy beauty, community, friendship. I guess that today what I'm thinking about is how to find an antidote to that Word, how to plant a tree like Digory, that will later be made into a magical cupboard.
I don't really care if these thoughts are banal or excrutiatingly maudlin, because fundamentally, it is a romantic and hopeless pursuit to be on the side of peace and happiness. The most courageous choice is to do it anyway, to be in love, to have children and friends, to be vigilant and let go of resentment and anger, to oppose all war on principle, to embrace the scorn of the people who choose differently.
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This is the most surprising thing I have learned today: Toni Tenille did the backup vocals on Pink Floyd The Wall.
I find this vastly more strange than the Olivia Newton-John vocals on John Denver songs. Though perhaps it is less startling than the fact that a song Nico did called I'm Not Saying (I'm not saying that I care, I'm not saying I'll be there, but I'll try) was written and originally performed by Gordon Lightfoot. It sounds way less creepy when Nico does it.
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Last night we went out to eat jambalaya. The kids were drawing with crayons and we were gossiping and we looked up to find that our waitress was a friend who moved away perhaps six years ago.
Leslie. You are supposed to be in Chicago I said, blinking up at her. I was so accustomed to ordering from her at the Smithfield, I halfway expected to be served gooey muffins for supper.
This latest coincidence follows a whole host of odd connections. Byron was interviewed for his job by someone I went to grade school with. Many of his co-workers are people we knew in college. Both institutions are tiny alternative schools, and I would not expect to meet fellow grads in the course of regular life.
The new neighbor across the street looked familiar, and in discussion we discovered that she went to college with us and worked at one of the coffee shops and then moved to New York, where she knew some of our friends. In further conversation it came up that she is related to one of my Hip Mama friends, someone I met last year at the breakfast kegger, who lived on the east coast but has since moved to Seattle also. And when we tracked her down, we learned that she also went to the college.
The woman who co-produces one of my web sites lives here and I had known her for years before I figured out that we grew up about a mile from each other, ran around with the same kind of kids, and went to the same college. She remembers Byron from the era when he squatted an A dorm kitchen.
I was talking to an editor friend and she mentioned that her husband works at the same place as Byron. The odds of these two being anywhere near each other at work is remote, but they are in fact not only in the same building, but in the same group. This fellow also went to the same college. And he was roommates with some of our friends.
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A month or so ago I went to Kubota Gardens with Gabriel, Anna Ruby, and Marisa. I was telling them a story about how my daughter ran down the hill with an open umbrella in front of her and didn't notice the bridge; she careened off a bush and tumbled into the stream.
Just as I finished the story, my foot slipped on the mud next to the stream and I fell forward, skidding on rocks and mud, landing half in the shrubbery. I jumped back up and laughed and said like that.
My friends gasped and someone asked are you okay? and they clustered around, picking foliage out of my hair, wiping the mud off my clothes. I looked at my hands, red and scraped, and then pulled my skirt up to check my knees. My tights were shredded and the left knee was bleeding, rocks stuck in the wound, and I plucked at the fabric to peak underneath.
I'm fine, I said no problem and started to walk down the path again.
While the others looked for koi fish in the ponds I sat on a bench with Gabriel. He took out his sketch book and asked how are you really, dear?
I flexed my knee. It was swelling, and still bleeding, and the tights were crusty and sticking to the wound. I didn't particularly notice a sensation of pain because my humiliation was more acute. Creeped out I replied. I'm still not used to people taking care of me
He started to draw in his notebook. But it is so nice for us when we get the chance.
Back at the free apartment, I peeled my tights off and looked at the damage. It was fairly gruesome, and I could feel it. I also couldn't bend my knee. I soaked out the rocks and dug around to find gauze and tape and then asked if anyone had Arnica. Someone handed me a vial of the homeopathic and a glass of wine and I took them together.
Marisa said You know, that won't work if you drink alcohol with it.
I wrinkled my forehead. But it is just a faith cure. My belief in the in the cure won't be damaged by a glass of wine.
Marisa laughed. I don't know which I like more, the fact that you believe it is a faith cure, or the fact that you use it anyway.
For the most part, I do believe in faith cures; I believe in the power of the placebo. I think that all medicine, even the high-tech variety, is fundamentally useful only when the patient wishes to be cured.
The real problem is that I don't know how to accept help. I'm used to being alone with injuries and illness and I'm old enough now that my solitary stoicism has evolved from a bad habit to a character trait. I don't like to go to the doctor, or any healer, even when desperately ill. I struggle and chafe under a sympathetic gaze.
A few years ago I was sick, and most of my friends disapeared, scared off by the ramifications of the disease and by my bad attitude. I didn't know how to ask for help or accept help when it was offered, and then I was sad when people left me alone. I was deep in a painful, depressive fog when Stella showed up and informed me that we were going to dinner. She took me out and talked to me and that simple act of kindness was impressive, powerful. I took it as a sign that I needed to actively get better. I kept going to my acupuncture appointments and started to think about a plan, a strategy, to surround myself with friends like Stella, with people who take care.
I believe in faith cures, and I'm practicing. I take Arnica when I get hurt. I drink tea, herbal tea from the natural foods store, with helpful titles like Wellness and Calm. I open the paper tea bag, place it in my little blue teapot, and light the stove. I boil filtered water, pour it over the tea bag, steep the tea. I pour the brewed tea into an orange cup, and hold it in my cold hands. I drink the tea and believe the label, believe the promises printed in blocky green letters, and I ignore history and facts and scientific theories and all the contradictions of my own body. I practice being healthy like it is a competetive sport. Right now I'm more like a fan of good health, a member of the audience. But I'm working hard and hoping for a junior varsity level of achievement.
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When we met Gabriel and Danielle in Astoria they handed us a cooler. Inside was the wig, nicely chilled.
Back at the free apartment, my son pulled the wig out and carefully placed it in the freezer. When we moved to this house, he made sure that the wig moved along with us, and now it is resting on the bottom of the freezer in the basement.
Gabriel visited again and brought our first housewarming gift, a box of waxed paper squares from a festival in Colorado fourteen years ago. He said that while his mother served cheeseburgers he did sketches on these squares and pressed them on to the customers.
During his visit with us, I managed to flood the basement, and Gabriel was called to service in the rescue of all my books and ballgowns.
Later, on a break from helping us paint, we were sitting in the kitchen with the boxes of food that had been in storage all summer, laughing and gossiping. I looked up and saw an army of worms marching across the ceiling. I yelped and got out the vaccum, and for the next two days our visitor painted the walls orange, pink, blue, yellow; helped us preserve the stenciled rap lyrics in the sitting room; and observed as we ripped through boxes looking for the infestation of worms.
I think we found about a thousand of the worm creatures.
They are dead now.
We are lucky to have a friend like Gabriel.
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I have decanted every single one of our book boxes, and am confronting the lifetime accumulation of serious readers. The living room is waist deep in tottering towers of books dating all the way back through grad school, college, high school, childhood.... it's amazing we dragged these things around with us for so many years. The literature is justifiable but do I still need What the Anti-Federalists Were For, or Images of Organization? Chadha: the Story of an Epic Constitutional Struggle gave me the shivers. I have a perverse love of public administration, and I adored these books. They are cracked, marked up, the margins crowded with my comments on various points of policy.
I found my grandmothers copy of the Louisa May Alcott books, and my own set, and my daughters set.... I found the books my parents special ordered when I was three, my name and the names of long-forgotten friends and my pets (Captain Dum-Dum and Casper and Raspberry) inserted in the text. I was thrilled to be reunited with Greg Finds an Egg.
Byron is the fellow who read literature for his degree, and all the Conrad, Wilde, Descartes, Miller, Orwell, Maugham, all the dusty and bedraggled paperbacks, are his. But the saddest of the copies are inscribed, they have loving notes from dead friends and relatives, and I can't just throw them away.
I will for now ignore the fact that the other side of the living room is an impenetrable mass of record albums and cassette tapes and cd's and photographs and .....
This is the third move in three months, and I am rather tired of the whole process. It isn't very amusing.
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Title:Co-optation, Repression and Authoritarian Regime's Survival: The Case of the Islamist MSP-Hamas in Algeria Author(s):HAMLADJI, NouraDate:2002Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2002/07
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Title:Collaborative Data Collection in Political Science: a New Data Infrastructure on Parties, Elections and Governments Author(s):DÖRING, HolgerDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2010/21Abstract:Information on political institutions, data on parties, elections, and governments, has yet to be provided in a format which makes it easily accessible for empirical research. Contemporary data on political institutions ...
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Title:The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold: Realism in International Relations/International Political Economy Author(s):GUZZINI, StefanoDate:1992Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1992/20
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Title:The Contrasting Local Perceptions of Europe: The 2009 milk strike in the French Basque country Author(s):ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Cahiers du Centre Emile Durkheim/Centre Emile Durkheim Working Papers; 2012/11Abstract:The dairy sector is mostly concerned with market volatility and with the transformations of European regulations. In September, 2009, more than 60,000 European dairy farmers halted or reduced milk deliveries to protest ...
Title:Controlling Regulatory Bureaucracies: Lessons from the American Experience Author(s):MAJONE, GiandomenicoDate:1993Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1993/03
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RE: st: Multiple mean comparisons with complex survey design - Richard
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At 03:11 PM 2/19/2008, Sven Klingemann wrote:
You can also set it up as a regression problem, in which case you
could do it in Stata 9:
Thanks Richard. I guess I got confused by the Stata Manual:
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test _Irace_2 _Irace_3, mtest(b)
As I think about it though, I am not sure if this is giving you exactly what you want. It is giving you comparison of 1 versus 2 and 1 versus 3, but not 2 versus 3. If you were using the oneway command with non-svy data, you would get all three contrasts. So, maybe this doesn't solve your problem after all?
Of course, doing a bonferroni adjust by hand isn't all that hard and could perhaps be automated. Maybe set up a loop to do a bunch of test commands.
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• You and your boyfriend can get tested for STIs. If either of you tests positive for an STI you can find out from your doctor what treatments are available and how to best protect your partner from transmitting the STI. For example, someone with genital herpes should not have sex (even with a condom) when they have open sores or wounds present.
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