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A second Colorado lawmaker targeted for recall because of her support for gun control has lost a challenge to block the recall.
A supporter of Democratic Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo argued that the petition to recall Giron is invalid because of its wording. Supporters of Democratic Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs made an identical argument last week and were rejected.
The two lawmakers aren't done trying to fight recall elections. A Democratic lawyer filed a lawsuit over the Morse decision, and a Giron lawsuit is expected within days.
The clock is now ticking for Gov. John Hickenlooper to set recall elections. Democrats hope a judge intervenes and blocks the recall elections.


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|Iran Events in History
2015 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks out in defense of the recent nuclear agreement between Iran and Western nations; the deal removes economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for reductions in its technological research and its nuclear fuel
2015 Event - Nuclear talks between Iran and Western nations fail to conclude by today's extended deadline, leading both sides to agree to another extension; Iran seeks removal of all U.N. sanctions in exchange for limitations on its nuclear development activities
2015 Event - UNESCO has added new sites to its World Heritage list, including the regions of Champagne and Burgundy in France, both Susa and the cultural setting of Maymand in Iran, and the Singapore Botanical Gardens, among others
2015 Event - Iran will receive an S-300 air defense system from Russia; though the move won't violate U.N. sanctions against Iran, other nations currently in negotiation with Iran over nuclear issues have expressed concern
2015 Event - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to speak out against the pending deal with Iran in which sanctions will be lifted in exchange for cuts in Iranian nuclear capacity; Netanyahu warns the pact may lead to nuclear arms acceleration
2015 Event - The deadline has passed for conclusion of negotiations by Iran and a group of six nations on Iran's nuclear program; however, as some progress has been made, the talks will continue
2015 Event - Negotiations continue between Iran and a group of six nations regarding limits on Iran's nuclear program, with the end of March approaching as an initial deadline; Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expresses optimism that an agreement will be reached
2015 Event - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new'
2015 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama vows to veto additional sanctions proposed by Congress against Iran, citing the delicacy of international talks currently underway with the nation regarding limitations on its nuclear program
2014 Event - U.S.-Iranian citizen Jason Rezaian, the head of the 'Washington Post' bureau in Iran, has been accused of unknown charges and is being held without bail; Iran has denied requests from Switzerland to check on Rezaian's condition on behalf of the U.S.
2014 Event - Negotiators have extended until next June the deadline for agreements regarding Iran's nuclear program; despite failure to meet the deadline, both Iran and the six-nation group claim that progress has been made
2014 Event - A planned demonstration in Iran against recent acid attacks on women has been prevented by a show of police forces; protesters believe the women were attacked due to improper covering in accordance with the nation's dress code
2014 Event - Iran is strengthening gender segregation policies, forbidding women to work in public areas of restaurants and seeking separation from men in office settings; the move will increase the 18.9% female jobless rate
2014 Event - The Pyu Ancient Cities in Myanmar and the Shahr-i-Sokhta (Burnt City) in Iran have been named World Heritage sites; the Myanmar cities were active from 200 B.C. to 900 A.D.; the Iranian city was active primarily from 3200 B.C. to about 1800 B.C.
2014 Event - Iran balks at the terms for peaceful nuclear development suggested by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States; the nations hope to reach a deal by July 20th; in exchange, sanctions against Iran will be removed
2014 Event - The U.S. may cooperate with Iran in identifying options to address the violence in Iraq, though such options would not include military aid; President Barack Obama has sent 257 troops to Baghdad to provide additional security for the U.S. embassy
2014 Event - The U.S. Congress will as for $4.5 billion for additional missile defense spending over the next five years; the funds would partially pay for new radar in Alaska, indicating safety concerns regarding missiles from Iran and North Korea
2013 Event - Syria, Iran and North Korea are condemned for human rights violations by the United Nations
2013 Event - Over two dozen companies will have U.S. sanctions imposed upon them as a result of their involvement in aiding Iran with its nuclear program
2013 Event - A meeting between Pope Francis and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is held at the Vatican; discussions include Iran's nuclear program among other global affairs
2013 Event - Iran experiences a 5.6-magnitude earthquake 35 miles from the Bushehr nuclear plant, raising concerns over the risk of radioactive leaks in the event of a major earthquake; seven people die and 30 are injured
2013 Event - Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials
2013 Event - Iran releases a new Qaher-313 combat jet which they claim can evade radar detection
2012 Event - A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps
2012 Event - Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2012 Event - Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency
2012 Event - After the U.S. delists the Mujahideen-e Khalq as a terrorist entity, Iran accuses the United States of having 'double standards'
2012 Event - The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, closes with a 60-page final document focusing on Iran's nuclear energy program and the Palestinian issue, with no mention of the civil war in Syria
2012 Event - A report on the nuclear program of Iran released by the IAEA, highlights concern over Iran's nuclear program as the country reportedly has doubled its number of centrifuges as the Fordow facility
2012 Event - The Non-Aligned Movement begins their 16th Summit in Tehran, Iran
2012 Event - Egypt's state news organization states that their President, Mohammed Morsi is going to Iran at the end of August to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meeting
2012 Event - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announces it will end talks with Iran; chief inspector Herman Nackaerts says there has been no progress
2012 Event - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA
2012 Event - U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro, says America 'is ready' to attack Iran to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons
2012 Event - The U.S., Russia and China, begin talks about Iran's nuclear program
2012 Event - As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil
2012 Event - The IAEA reports that Iran has been expanding its nuclear activities
2012 Event - The IAEA announces that Iran has denied access to the Parchin military complex where they believe suspicious nuclear activities are taking place
2012 Event - IAEA nuclear inspectors hold discussions about Iran's nuclear program in Tehran
2012 Event - In a retaliatory move against E.U. sanctions, Iran stops all exports to France and the United Kingdom
2012 Event - Iran initiates new military exercises as tensions rise over the country's nuclear program
2012 Event - Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announces that Iran is willing to discuss its nuclear program with other leaders
2012 Event - Responding to Iran's nuclear program, more sanctions are imposed upon Iran's banking and oil industries by the European Union
2012 Event - While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles
2011 Event - If Western nations impose more sanctions, Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz
2011 Event - Iran refuses to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that Iran captured after it crash landed in the country; Iran reports they are extracting data from the aircraft
2011 Event - President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011
2011 Event - Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, attacks Britain, claiming the students represent Iran's public opinion
2011 Event - More sanctions are imposed against Iran's nuclear program by the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom
2011 Event - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Iran to respond to the IAEA report stating Iran is working on nuclear bomb technology
2011 Event - The IAEA releases a report stating Iran has performed activities relating to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project is likely still under way
2011 Event - Further sanctions are imposed on Belarus, Iran and Syria by the EU, who reiterates the call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down
2011 Event - For appearing in a film critical of the Iran's harsh policies on the arts, actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year in jail
2011 Event - The Foreign Ministry of Iran calls for Musa al-Sadr to be released; they claim he has been held in Libya since 1978
2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency
2011 Event - Iran announces it has installed faster nuclear centrifuges to enrich uranium
2011 Event - A report submitted to the United Nations states Iran has been caught attempting to transfer weaponry to terrorists including Hamas and the Taliban 10 times
2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council
2011 Event - For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal
2011 Event - In Iran, opposition leaders plan a nationwide anti-government rally in an attempt to replicate the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
2011 Event - Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, commented that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of 'Islamic awareness'
2010 Event - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects Iran's successful family planning program and urges young Iranian girls to marry at age 16
2010 Event - The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, resigns
2010 Event - The U.S. government determines China is helping Iran bypass U.N. sanctions and is helping them improve their missile technology and develop nuclear weapons
2010 Event - In accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1929, Russia bans arms sales to Iran
2010 Event - After a series of delays, Iran agrees to release U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, arrested in 2009; she is released on bail and permitted to leave the country
2010 Event - Iran's Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted of adultery and sentenced to death, faces the whip
2010 Event - Russia announces its plan to sell Iran S-300 ground-to-air missiles, claiming that new U.N. sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry
2010 Event - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves
2010 Event - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls for the US to be expelled from the international nuclear system because religion prohibits the use of nuclear weapons
2010 Event - President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit
2010 Event - 60 countries are invited to participate in Iran's two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran April 17 - 18; China says it will attend
2010 Event - Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem
2010 Event - Hossein Marashi, former Vice-President of Iran, is put in jail after being accused of spreading propaganda
2010 Event - Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iran's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level
2009 Event - Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, all 168 on board are killed
2009 Event - Iran launches first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit
2003 Event - Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran
2002 Event - Earthquake kills at least 260 in western Iran
2002 Event - Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119
2002 Event - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'
1995 Death - Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1995 Death - Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
1994 Death - Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1994 Event - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed
1994 Event - Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 Death - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1994 Event - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed
1993 Death - Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1993 Event - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
1993 Event - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 Death - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1992 Death - Ali Amini, Prime Minister of Iran 1961 - 1962, dies
1991 Death - Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran 1979, assassinated
1991 Death - Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
1991 Event - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1990 Event - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
1990 Event - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 Event - 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran
1989 Death - Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
1989 Event - Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1989 Event - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 Event - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1988 Event - Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 Event - Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 Event - U.S. Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1988 Event - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war
1987 Event - Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations
1987 Event - President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1986 Event - Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1986 Event - U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1986 Event - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran
1986 Event - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
1986 Event - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986 Event - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1985 Event - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 Event - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1984 Event - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1984 Event - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1982 Death - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1982 Event - Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
1982 Event - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 Event - Iran offensive against Iraq
1981 Event - Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1981 Death - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1981 Death - Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Death - Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Event - Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 Event - Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1981 Death - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1981 Event - 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
1981 Death - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 Event - Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
1981 Event - Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
1981 Event - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released
1981 Event - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 Event - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed
1981 Event - U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1981 Event - Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1980 Event - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1980 Event - Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages
1980 Event - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1980 Event - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1980 Event - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1980 Event - Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
1980 Event - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
1980 Event - Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
1980 Event - Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
1980 Event - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1980 Event - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
1980 Event - Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages
1980 Event - Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy
1980 Event - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1980 Event - U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1980 Event - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1980 Event - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980 Event - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1980 Event - U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1980 Event - Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
1980 Event - Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1979 Event - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama
1979 Event - World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages
1979 Death - Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1979 Event - Iran accepts constitution
1979 Event - ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 Event - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
1979 Event - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1979 Event - Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1979 Event - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares U.S. The Great Satan
1979 Event - 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1979 Event - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment
1979 Event - Iran army occupies Piranshahr
1979 Event - Iran army conquerors Baneh
1979 Event - Iran army conquerors Mahabad
1979 Event - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 Event - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 Event - Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1979 Event - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1979 Event - Battles between Kurds and Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1979 Death - Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed
1979 Death - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed
1979 Event - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 Event - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
1979 Event - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
1979 Event - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
1978 Event - Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
1978 Event - Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
1978 Event - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1978 Event - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 Event - 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1978 Event - Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1978 Event - 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1977 Event - President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1974 Event - Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
1974 Event - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 Event - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1972 Birthday - Tami Stronach, born in Teheran, Iran, actress, Neverending Story
1968 Event - 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1967 Event - Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1965 Event - Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1963 Event - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1963 Birthday - Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS
1962 Event - 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1961 Birthday - Matt Ghaffari, Tehran Iran, U.S. greco-roman wrestler, Silver Medals 1992, 1994, Olympics
1960 Birthday - Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran
1960 Event - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
1959 Event - Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty
1954 Death - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1954 Event - 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1951 Event - British begins economic boycott of Iran
1951 Death - Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1951 Death - Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1941 Event - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1941 Event - English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1940 Birthday - Bijan, born in Iran, mens apparel designer, Beverly Hills, New York City, London
1935 Event - Persia officially renamed Iran
1934 Event - Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
1932 Birthday - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1925 Event - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
1925 Event - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1925 Event - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1921 Event - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1919 Birthday - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran, 1941-79
1919 Birthday - Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist, Golden Notebook
1906 Event - Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1903 Birthday - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader, KDP
1878 Birthday - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, Reza Chan, shah of Iran
1850 Death - Bab, Baha'i prophet, executed in Tabriz Iran
1487 Birthday - Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1079 Event - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1048 Birthday - Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra


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It's winter in Montreal, and the menus are all about meat and more meat: Pork, especially. And pasta and anything else that can warm your insides. Here are a few dishes we love from the winter menus around town right now. Because baby, it's cold outside…
Pictured above is the roasted cauliflower, salty pork belly and ricotta at Pastaga: The earthiness of cauliflower and the tangy, sharp-soft salt of pork belly warm us to the bone.
Chef Jason Nelsons is almost religious in his devotion to what's fresh, honest and often organic. He travels the region on Sunday road-trips in search of producers he likes, and the board at Renard Artisan Bistro, his small restaurant on Mont-Royal, lists original dishes that showcase the flavours in a way that elevates them even further. Sweetbreads never tasted so good in this town.
Tourtière is traditional Quebec meat-pie made of a meat mix that often includes pork and spices; this one made by Michelle Marek and Seth Gabrielese at Foodlab is adorned with a small, perfect pastry snowflake that tasted especially sweet and flaky. Michelle and Seth have organized a special set of holiday menus, Les Grandes tablées, which set menus for groups of six people or more – a great place to meet with family or friends over the holidays.
Speaking of pork, Lawrence Restaurant's wintry Quebec-raised pork chop with braised radicchio and local apples, a signature dish which is always salted and sweet enough to warm even the chilliest bones. Apples are bountiful in Quebec, and cooks can count on them all winter long to sweeten the deal.
Speaking of root cellar-produce, Nora Gray has a mean handmade beet and gorgonzola ravioli on their December menu, as well as some rabbit saddle and tripe that's recommended.


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2010 Presenters
David Beth
David Beth, who was born to German parents in Africa, is the author of Voudon Gnosis and has been the main force in the revival of Esoteric Voudon in the past decade. He is the founder of the Société Voudon Gnostique, a selective group of initiates and artists dedicated to manifesting the more powerful, inner revelations and transmissions of the Gods of Esoteric Voudon as well as to push evolution and research of Voudon Gnosis and sorcery freely beyond all frontiers of orthodoxy. David is also a member of the Fraternitas Borealis and Ecclesia Gnostica Aeterna. University educated in Germany and the USA, he travelled and lived all over the world from Nigeria to Hamburg, from Los Angeles to London, studying occult systems and gnosis for the past 2 decades. Currently preparing the publication of a second revised and enlarged edition of Voudon Gnosis with Fulgur Ltd., David lives and works between Europe and Brazil.
2010 Presentation
The Dark Doctrine:
The Qliphoth and Nightside Gnosis in Esoteric Voudon
The Dark Doctrine is an often talked about but rarely understood section of Western Occultism.
Work with the Qliphotic and Dark Path of occultism are central aspects of Esoteric Voudon. Cults like the Lycantrophic Voltigeurs and Shadow Power Shamans have made the Tree of Death their preferred hunting-grounds. In this talk Hierophant David Beth of the Société Voudon Gnostique (SVG) will map out the approach a sorcerer of Esoteric Voudon takes in working with the Gnosis of the Nightside. David will take us deep inside the nocturnal worlds of luciferian magic as practiced within the SVG. Amongst other things, he will explain fascinating concepts such as the Meon, Universe B, the kosmic resurrection and Sol Niger. The Dark Doctrine as understood within the SVG opens up the path to supreme realization, the enlightenment of Gnostic Luciferianism.
Debra Chesnut
Debra Chesnut recently graduated from Exeter University, England with an MA in Western Esotericism. She was raised in the Alaska bush on a homestead at the foot of Mt. Susitna near Anchorage. Her father flew his small plane to work because there were no roads, no schools, no stores, and no jobs in the wilderness. She attended school through the Calvert Course correspondence school provided by the State of Alaska to all the children like her who lived in rural Alaska. Nature was her constant companion and profoundly influenced her life.
She graduated from Nursing School at the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 1976 earning her RN. She worked in a variety of communities in Alaska including remote native villages, and around the world in countries such as Brazil, Thailand, Nicaragua and others. She received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1989.
She has been a student of the Qabalah for 32 years, 25 of them as a member of the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA). She ran a Qabalistic study group for ten years in the Fairbanks community, and presently teaches classes on the Qabalah as well as other subjects.
In 1991 she was classically initiated into shamanism. In 1993 she founded The Four Winds Foundation to promote shamanic and traditional wisdom. She was a member of the faculty for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies from 1996 to 2008 and is presently their field representative in Alaska.
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The Spoken Aspects of Ritual from the Ancient Mysteries to present day Occult Societies
The Spoken Aspects of Ritual from the Ancient Mysteries to present day Occult Societies
This brief lecture will first present an overview of the ancient Greek mysteries ritual practices with an emphasis on the observance of legomena (things recited, or spoken) in the mystery rites. The subject is vast and there exists a large body of works by scholars of the ancient mysteries who have thoroughly researched the various cults, such as Jane Harrison, Walter Burkert, Karl Kerenyi, George Mylonas, Marvin Meyer, and others. They utilized primary sources; working off of manuscripts written in the original languages and drawing on the written works of the philosophers, historians, and authors of the period; research which was beyond the scope of this paper, but, which provided a working framework for the primary purpose of this presentation.
Next, as a preliminary to considering the use of legomena in the various rites, a study of the importance of speech, and euphony in the ancient world will be presented focusing on the written works of the ancient philosophers, and the research by W.B. Stanford and Joscelyn Godwin. This is followed by a review of the translations of existing texts from the early period of the CE, The Corpus Hermeticum, the Nag Hammadi Codices, the Ritual Gold Tablets, and the Mithras Liturgy from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, with a particular emphasis on the spoken elements of the texts as authentic examples of ritual legomena from the mystery cults.
A brief overview of the use of invocation and chanting follows, with a more detailed look at the god name 'IAO', based on the works of Godfrey Higgins, Joscelyn Godwin, Paul Foster Case, and others. If time allows, ritual documents from a few representative present-day societies will be reviewed, and a comparison made to the observances of legomena in the ancient mystery cults. A complete survey and comparison will not be possible within the scope of this lecture but the evidence supports the conclusion that similarities exist between them.
Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a ChAOrder Magickian and Sabbatic Sorceror, primarily interested in the reification of spirits, deities, and elementals into the world of form via the various Artes as magickal media: drawing, sculpture, ritual theatre, musick, film, writing and various combinations thereof. He is the director of Australia's Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co. and performs globally, seeing public ritual as an access point for the further propagation of magickal memes and vibrations.
Orryelle is working on The Tela Quadrivium, a fourfold bookweb from Fulgur Limited. The Red Book, Conjunctio, was released in 2008, and he recently finished the Gold Book, Coagula, which is to be launched towards the end of this year.
The originator of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk, an international network/webplay of artist-magicians, he also publishes through his iNSPiRALink. Multimedia Press (The Book of Kaos Tarot, SilKMilK MagiZain) and has recently had work published in XVI (Scarlet Imprint May 2010) and Hekate: Her Sacred Fires(Avalonia June 2010).
2010 Presentation:
And the Fourth Fate shall Bind Thee…
Orryelle will be speaking about his magickal journeys with the creation and realization of the Tela Quadrivium fourfold bookweb — including its ritual applications — and the complex Alchemy involved to distill the Golden tome, Coagula.
He will also delve into the complex relationship between Will and Fate, relating this to the talismanic Book of Arte as a reflection of the magickian's journey: The spine of the book and the spine of the awakened human, the spinner weaver and cutter of Fate's thread, and the mysteries of the enigmatic Fourth Fate who binds together the Work into coagulated form.
This will be primarily a talk, but as a performer Orryelle will also be bringing theatrical and musickal elements into his presentation.
He will also be exhibiting original artwork (including new works for Coagula) and speaking with with other occult artists on the Esoteric Artist panel.
J. Daniel Gunther
J. Daniel Gunther is a teacher highly respected and revered by his Students and peers alike. Considered one of the world's few genuine Authorities on the doctrines of Thelema, his lectures and presentations have been hailed as dynamic revelations of Thelemic doctrine, while his engaging question and answer sessions demonstrate his collegial approach and sincere commitment to Student learning.
A member of the A∴A∴ for over thirty years, he is the author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child, and co-editor of Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings, both published by Ibis Press. He is a standing member of the Editorial board of The Equinox.
2010 Presentation:
I Am the Heart —
A Verse-by-verse Exposition of Liber LXV, Chapter 1
The Book of the Heart Girt With The Serpent, or Liber LXV as it is known to the Students of Aleister Crowley, is one of the central Holy Books of Thelema. Liber LXV is one of the revealed documents of the A∴A∴, published in Class A, a designation assigned only to works considered divinely inspired, a work not to be changed even to the style of a letter. It gives a revealed account of the relations of the Aspirant with his Holy Guardian Angel. In his Lecture, "I Am the Heart," J. Daniel Gunther gives an initiated verse-by-verse exposition of this beloved Holy Book, enhanced by a vivid PowerPoint demonstration. For the first time, many of the most enigmatic passages are elucidated in clear, precise language.
Dale Pendell
Dale Pendell is the author of Pharmako/Poeia,Pharmako/Dynamis, and Pharmako/Gnosis, a depth study of the shamanic and pharmacological virtues of psychoactive plants. Dale's first novel, The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, stories from the next ten thousand years of California history, will be released in July.
2010 Presentation:
Orpheus, Faust, Eve: Shamanism in the Western Tradition
Through the myths of Orpheus, Faust, and Eve, we find shamanic traditions in the West — some using plants, some not — that continue to affect our policies and beliefs. The three magical traditions are distinct, and lead to vastly different results in the contemporary world. The stakes are high: magic and politics intermix. By understanding the magical basis of our current political and economic system, some steps at counter-spells may be more clear.
Denny Sargent
Denny Sargent (a.k.a.: Aion 131, Hermeticusnath), writer, teacher and practicing Eclectic Ritualist, was first introduced to mythology and magick in New York where he grew up. He has since his early teens been accepted as a member of a number of initiatory groups and esoteric associations. In 1979 he received his BA in Education. During this time he was one of the founding editors ofMandragore, a journal of magick and eclectic ritualism published in New York City (The Grove of the Star & Snake), as well as a founding member of the Horus Maat Lodge. In 1981 he was awarded an MA in Ancient History/Cross Cultural Communications from Western Washington University where he also taught. His research has included the magickal/religious traditions of Egypt, Sumeria, Greece, Rome, China, India, Europe and Pacific Northwest Indians (Kwakiutl). In the early 1980's, he helped found, write, and edit Aeon and Kalika, journals that were concerned with contemporary ritual practice and creative mythology. From 1980 until today, the Western Magickal Tradition, Tantrika and Taoism have formed increasingly important foci for his studies and writing. In the mundane world he is currently a Teacher Trainer, teaching university courses as part of a certificate in teaching ESL. He has written for many different pagan and magickal magazines as well as magazines in Japan. Denny taught, lived, and wrote for four years in Japan from 1989–93. He has engaged in extensive traveling and on-site research in Japan, Australia, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Hawaii, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Thailand, Cambodia, Egypt, Turkey, as well as Central and North America (so far). Books published include: Global Ritualism, Myth & Magick Around the World, The Tao of Birth Days, The Magical Garden (co-written with his lovely and very psychic wife, Sophia), Your Guardian Angel And You, and Clean Sweep. He has several works that are going to print or are already out as this is written: Liber Sigil A IAF, a "double current" grimoire (Waning Moon Press) and Matsuri, Shinto & Buddhist Festivals of Japan (Immanion Press). In the near future, The Book of the Horned One will also be released by Ouroboros Press.
2010 Presentation:
A History of the Horus/Maat Lodge and of the Double Current
In 1979, the Horus Maat Lodge, a new magickal order, was founded. It was earthed in many lineages of the Western Occult Tradition and yet beholden to none of them. This Lodge was different in almost every way from traditional Orders of the past. It was non-hierarchical, had no set degrees or levels, had no set or firm members, had no requirements for initiation or joining, and met only on in cyberspace, on the astral, or on the physical when people felt like it. Its goal was and is to unite mages of all kinds. Now, thirty years later, it is a fully functioning Lodge that produces an online magazine, hosts a vibrant web presence and an ever growing elist. The HML has forged alliances with a number of other initiatory orders and has a large number of wildly creative members all over the world, on every almost continent.
Denny Sargent (Aion 131), one of the founding members of the HML, will present the history of the Horus Maat Lodge and of the double current that gave birth to it. He will also read a few select passages from the HML archives and from his newly published Double Current grimoire, Sigil A IAF.
"The Horus Maat Lodge is a seed-gestalt, a priesthood, and an instrumentality of the Universal Pattern of Consciousness. We accept and live by the Law of Thelema as promulgated in Liber Al Vel Legis. It is our will to assist the mutation of Homo Sapiens to Homo Veritas, and to assist each other, and all sentients living today, to find the Gateway to Maat (Truth)." — from the Charter of the Horus Maat Lodge.
Daniel Schulke
2010 Presentation:
The Richel-Eldermans Collection:
A Hidden Lexicon of European Witchcraft
In 2000, the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall inherited a large collection of occult documents, images, and artifacts from Dutch collector Bob Laurentius Richel. Amassed by several occult practitioners in private for the better part of a century, it was marked by extraordinary craftsmanship and a curious hybrid of ceremonial magic, sexual sorcery, and rural witchcraft. The cache contains a considerable number of items relating specifically to European witch practices and lore, specifically those pre-dating the modern phenomenon of Wicca, and many of which have not seen print before. In this presentation, a brief history of the collection will be given, and number of its specific witchcraft arcana examined, especially those relating to schools of lore preserved in Traditional Witchcraft. Additionally, the collection's hidden nature will be considered, and the likely rationales for its concealment.
Caroline Wise
Caroline Wise has been involved with occult book selling and publishing for many years. In the late 70s and 80s she worked with The Ley Hunter Earth Mysteries magazine. After working for Psychic Press she then initiated the republishing of Kenneth Grant, starting with Hidden Lore, at Scoob Books in 1989. Her brief career there was to establish the shop as an esoteric store and publisher, which she did. She co-edited Skoob Occult Review, and was one the first to publish articles and illustrations by the late Andrew Chumbley.
She moved to Atlantis Bookshop which she owned along with Neptune Press in 1995, selling the business in 2002. At Atlantis she revived The Occult Observer and published several esoteric titles.
In 1993 Caroline produced Florence Farr's Egyptian themed plays at the Rudolf Steiner Theatre, London, to raise money for breast cancer charities, and has been producing Florence's potent ritual drama, The Shrine of the Golden Hawk, periodically for smaller audiences.
Caroline gives lectures and workshops internationally on the Goddess, the tarot, and on the pioneering women magicians of the Golden Dawn as important figures culturally and historically. She has produced several esoteric conferences since the late 70s.
She currently works with Starfire Books, and is a senior member of the Fellowship of Isis.
2011 Presentation:
Florence Farr, a Modern Magician
Florence Farr was Chief Adept in the Golden Dawn, actress, author, and "first-wave" feminist, a progressive woman on all levels. The mystical, the philosophical and the political wove a seamless whole in a questing and pioneering life. The talk will revolve around Florence's powerful ritual drama, The Shrine of the Golden Hawk, and its subtext that reflects observations made in her Golden Dawn years and her reasons for leaving.
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Catamara Rosarium
Catamara Rosarium is an Alchemist, Master Herbalist, and Ritual Artist. She has been a student and practitioner of various Western and Eastern traditions over the past 15 years. Her current studies and practicum include Alchemy, Tantra, Spagyrics, Wortcunning, and Cunning Craft Sorcery. She is the sole proprietor of Rosarium Blends a business dedicated to concocting various alchemical creations to enliven the senses.
Her continuous passions lie in esoteric arts, with an emphasis on cross diversification, working to cultivate networking and community based events wherein diverse belief systems and traditional practices may be shared and to offer deeper understanding and education through these communal experiences.
William Kiesel
William Kiesel is a historical and practical researcher in the field of western esotericism with a particular focus on symbol systems. He is director of Ouroboros Press, an editor of CLAVIS: Journal of Occult Arts and the founding administrator at the EBC. In addition to publishing the complete and corrected edition of the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum under his own imprint, his most recent book, Magic Circles in the Grimoire Tradition was released by Three Hands Press.


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Mason Hodgson hit a home run, tripled and scored twice for the Joe Beeverz Young Guns as they doubled up the Canadian Tire Cardinals 6-3 in the opening game of the best-of-five Andrew Agencies Senior AA Baseball League final on Wednesday at Andrews Field.
Dana McNish and Sean Martin both had a pair of hits for the victors, with McNish earning the win on the mound. He scattered seven hits over 6 1/3 innings. Adam Hartman took the loss for the Cardinals, who got a pair of hits and a run from both Danny Cochrane and Kirk Graham.
Game 2 goes Friday at Andrews Field at 7 p.m.
Jagger Thomas went 4-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs for the Boissevain Centennials as they evened the best-of-five South West Baseball League final at a game apiece with a 7-6 come-from-behind win over the visiting Hamiota Red Sox on Wednesday.
Skylar Canada and Jay Pringle both scored twice for the home side, which tallied four runs in the bottom of the seventh to get the victory. Pringle went 1 1/3 innings in relief of Aaron Pugh to earn the win.
Logan McGonigal threw in the seventh and took the loss for the Red Sox, who host Game 3 on Friday at 7 p.m. Justin Knight scored twice for Hamiota, while Kyle Kostetsky and Darren Whelpton both had a run and an RBI.
John Hutton hit a grand slam home run and finished with two runs scored and six driven in as the host Minnedosa Mavericks beat the Carberry Royals 17-5 to even the Santa Clara Baseball League final at 1-1 on Wednesday.
John Lawrence added a three-run blast, scored four times and collected four RBIs, while Bryce Stephenson struck out eight in four innings of relief work to get the win. Warren Birch lasted five innings and took the loss for Carberry, while Dustin Fisher went 4-for-4 with two runs and a pair of RBIs.
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On Tuesday, the greenback was almost unchanged against the Japanese yen as well as the common currency during Asia trade, because a great number of traders stood away from taking large positions given the lack of new incentives to prompt greenback buying.
The US dollar didn't change a lot, trading at ¥109.29, compared to Monday's result of ¥109.24 in New York. The euro traded at $1.1110 midday, compared to Monday's outcome of $1.1220.
The WSJ Dollar Index, traditionally gauging the evergreen buck against six major currencies, soared 0,11%, trading at 87.60.
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There are few people I can say who have authored publications that have helped influence my career. Today Joe Gillespie, publisher of Web Page Design for Designers (or more affectionately known as WPDFD), has announced his retirement. This is the final edition of the publication that we will ever see. Thank you, Joe, for eight glorious years of great content. You will be missed. You can read one of the articles Joe wrote for us, Alien Typography, which still remains to be a popular article to this day. [from Lockergnome]
Joe has given us a great gift. I will miss the updates dearly, but the existing works are a treasure.
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I mean: the affair has been a collision between his anger with me, need for more attention and his high standard of morality.
I don't know whether I have been good sexual partner; he's not complained; I don't refuse. However, the demands of our expanding business has occupied both of our attentions, business is the first thing talked about in the morning; the last thing talked about at night; conversations are little more than checklists "did you do this, did you do that?" He then apparently reflects on the business-only relationship and feels lonely.
Can't trust me because I failed to realize that he was lonely. A good wife should know these things.
The Jerry Springer sordid nature of this whole ordeal is that she is (now "was") the manager of our business. Lawyers told me that I can't fire her; she could claim sexual harrassment. So I have had to work with her, face to face, for nearly a year. I put on my happy, professional face every day, knowing where my husband goes at night. Oddly enough, he and I would meet privately for long conversations with me as a "therapist." He would tell me about her explosive, jealous behavior, how he can't stand her kids, how self-indulgent she is; wonders if he is just a sugardaddy. I listen, try not to react; try to reason with him. Yes, I will work on the shortcomings in our relationship. I learned quickly that there is nothing to be gained by my defending myself or pointing out all the things I've done for him. In one explosive rant about my failings, he went so far to claim that I never cooked a meal except when we had company. REALLY???? Raised three children and I never cooked. His need to find fault has veered into nonsensical allegations. So I just listen; try to examine myself honestly, admit that I must have wounded him grieviously and I'm sorry. He has apologized for his actions but then adds: "but you must ask yourself, 'why would, after 32 years, would I need someone else.' you needs to ask yourself..."
My husband has a PhD and is world renown in his field. She has a high school education. We hired her as an regular employee; she quickly was advanced into a management position and I became her mentor. I told him that she reminds me of the movie "My Fair Lady." He has taken on a "project." He's helped her file a restraining order on the previous boyfriend, helped her find a more upscale place to live (within her budget- on our payroll), bought her more professional clothing; picks up her child from daycare, taught her how to pay her bills, helped her get a checking account. He admits that he likes to feel needed. I remarked that my independence has become a liability (?) and is no longer an asset. He swears that physical attractiveness has nothing to do with it (double-D implants). We three have had some hours-long arguments. For 7 days of consecutive no-call/ no-show, I fired her. He had made an occasional rent payment but no she has no job. Can't find one that pays like we did. Looked a couple of places. My husband is surprised that the experience she claims to have (law office, bank teller and us: as an assisted living facility manager) she can't find a job. Now we are supporting her even more. Once again I'm the bad guy.
I have tried to be affectionate. But in the last 3 years he has grown cold. Walks out of a restaurant without me; doesn't look back. I've pleaded for him to hold my hand. His reply: if you want to hold my hand then catch up with me. No kiss, no words of affirmation; 2-4 times per month he tells me to "Close the door." to our bedroom; that's the cue that it's time for sex. I've bought books, read some of them out loud, about the need to have an affectionate attitude all day; there would be no awkwardness about that orientation continuing into the bedroom. My repeated analogy is that I'm a plant that is dying for lack of water. I've been clear about my needs. It would seem that the all-business relationship we have, harmful as it was, was really the only place I got fulfillment. It's hard to feel affectionate when I am told on a regular basis that I am an ineffectual manager, lousy wife, bad mother, never cooks. However, I am efficient, organized and well respected by staff and the community. My husband is my biggest critic. I am finally able to sleep when he falls asleep. No telling when some point of irritation pops in his mind and he has to berrate me (10 PM, 2AM) Why do I continue to hang on? I guess it's because I have always been the fixer in our relationship. Dealing with rejection is still more painful, difficult than trying to placate each round of complaints. I think I can do it. I can and will be the missing piece to his puzzle- I just need to be given the chance. Betrayal and rejection are crushing. I have lost 30 pounds- actually look more attractive and have bought new, sexier clothing. Don't know how to approach the single life; I've been a wife and a partner for too many years. Friends/family tell me to move on; I don't deserve this and there are better men out there. All of this brings me around to the start of my request for help. I think the source of the unhappiness is him. We used to joke about his lack of contentment and how that will never change unless the summers in Arizona cool off, there is peace in the Middle East etc. He is chronically unhappy. He thought about that question posed in the movie "Bucket List" : Do you bring joy into anyone's life; is there joy in your life? He wasn't sure. His sister and brother-in-law, both MDs, think he is severly depressed. But no one can tell him anything. I've ordered 5 books about anger management/toxic anger from Amazon
I am an RN and founded/established our assisted living facility- now three locations. He was an aerospace engineer who exposed fraud, whistle-blew to the top and was promised corrective action to the offenders. Corrective action never came. His leave of absence ran out and he had no choice but to take early retirement. He has moved his attentions/drive into MY business where (he was once my biggest fan) now I am incompetent. I am recognized to have some competence in the medical arena but he has claimed dominion over Human Resources, thereby making her bullet-proof. Current status: she's been out of work for a month, my husband continues to live with her but admits that her kids drive him crazy, although she sent two away to live with the father of one; she's willing to send the other two away. Has promised for months to break it off because he sees no future with her but adamantly refuses to set a time, or be pushed. He has been waiting for the right time when she might blow up and he can then walk out. He feels that if she returns to the ghetto, then HE failed. I told him that she is a "project." He disagrees. He says he wants to leave her but wants her to be successful and not too mad at him. Doesn't want her to accuse him of leading her on. In truth, he has a reason for everything. His own family doesn't know what has happened to him.
Hi Mark,
I have bought the book you recommended and have started reading. I spoke to my husband about you and he is interested in your advice. How do we proceed? Seems like one of the "Ask the Expert" captions mentioned a monthly fee. He admits that you described him well. So now the question to me is "So, what does your expert say about how to get out of this relationship?" this is good news.
Thanks for the reply.
I don't want to have my husband use my email address to communicate with you. He could look back at our correspondence and may be derailed by the way I put him in a nutshell. His name is Ahmed and his email is [email protected]- I don't know what your professional boundaries are, but an invitation to dialogue may be helpful; from you to him. Hopefully he will contact you. Don't be surprised if he wants a second opinion. He wants advice but it must come packaged in a way that doesn't make him rush to defend his damsel-in-distress, by saying "she's no good...." He tunes out the family member who tell him that. He also tunes out when he is "reassured" that separating from her is "easy...say a few things...and it's over...she'll be fine...you weren
't the first and won't be the last"
Thanks again for your speedy replies.
Hopefully he will be contacting you soon.
P.S. Can our dialogue be deleted from your bank of previous responses (that is open for others to read)? He'll recognize me.


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Jose Pedro Carraú Esteves was on baptised 30 August 1894 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He was the son of Francisco Carraú and Margarita Esteves
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During her research on "zinesters" - people who create independent, uncensored publications on a specific subject - Ms Poletti has come across many sorts of obsessions, many of a highly personal nature.
Some people write of "coming out", others about their experiences with depression.
"It's a bit like the blogging culture, in which people write whatever comes into their heads," she says.
A couple of hundred people shared their obsessions at the Lower Melbourne Town Hall yesterday, at "Make It Up IV", a celebration of the alternative art form.
The "zines" displayed ranged from scribbled pictures photocopied and stapled together, to professional looking productions. Some were comics, some stories and others highly political.
Titles included Guide to Portland, I Hate Roaches and Bad Dates I've Been On. One zine creator said his mission was to present a different view to that in the mainstream media. Much of it is scatological humour - i.e. poo jokes.
The zine world is a friendly one, mostly involving young people who are passionate about their subjects and enjoy trading their work for other people's. Zine distributor Kristy Sullivan said a variety of people were attracted to zines, mainly through word of mouth.
Zines began in the 1930s but really became popular with the punk movement of the '70s.
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Long, boring, and poorly written trip report...
With negotiations on a BVI to France delivery going nowhere I received a un-soliceted e-mail from a guy with a Sabre 38 lying south of Miami heading to the upper Ches. Would I be interested?
"uhh, Sure!"
After a few more e-mails and a phone call with the owner, who passed the the final "AH" test, details were worked out, flights booked, and I find myself checking weather pages while packing my seabag for yet another trip up the east coast.
Arriving in Miami I'm met by the owner, Joe. Quick intoductions are made as we load bags in a rental and head for the Black Point Marina. (Stopping en route for a case of beer, always a good sign!) Upon reaching the boat Joe opens her up while telling me to "Relax!'. "Have a beer!". I do a quick survey of the rigging and deck equipment. Everything looks great, well maintained, and in good condition. After a quick tour of the rest of the boat bags are thrown below and my choice of berths offered. (Uh, I'll take the quarter berth!) Plans discussed over beers in the cockpit, then off to dinner and more beers.
Next day we pick up our third crewmember John. Joe's old fraternity brother. Joe invited him as a last resort and was actually shocked when John said yes! John turned out to be a great guy with a sparkle in his eye and a serious penchant for mischief. A perfect partner in crimes! Joe and John, who hadn't seem much of eachother in eight years, start up like it was last week razzing each other and reminding the other of their "best", and funnier yet, "worst" moments in college. We gettin along great!
Provisions are purchased, sails bent, water and fuel taken aboard, and we're off that afternoon heading for the Gulf Stream for hopefully, a quick move north. Our plan is simple, to sail outside, around Cape Hatteras, then up the Ches to Worton Creek, Joe's home port. John immediately throws out two fishing lines mumbling about Mahi and Tuna, Wasabi and Soy sauce while opening another beer. "Hey Joe!" He shouts at 08:00, "Have any rum aboard?" "Where's those rum punches you were tellin me about?"
The die is cast yet again!
That night we're motorsailing north at 9-11kts. We've put two consecutive 200+ mile days in. The sky is amazingly clear as the lights of the coast become a faint glow to the west. We sit in the cockpit trading lies, establishing watch schedules over yet more beers.
We soon settle into the grove when the silence is broken by the whine of fishing line screaming off the port side reel. John yells out a ear-splitting, "Yeah Baaby!!" "SUSHI!!" while reeling in our first catch, a 35lb Mahi!
Two days later we spot a US aircraft carrier and several other Naval ships off our starboard quarter. Over the radio comes an authoritative voice asking our intentions. "Uhhh, to sail to the Ches?" "Please maintain your current course and speed". "Uhhhh, OK!" Only 1 1/2 miles off our starbord beam, F-18 jets start screaming off the deck followed by AWACS and helicopters! WOW!! What a show!! These guys were banking in for their landings 3-400' over our mast. We could literally see the pilots looking down at us as we craned our necks looking up at them! Soon they were on the horizon. As darkness fell we heard radio traffic of US, Polish, and Croatian warships performing exercises along with the sighting of a flashing yellow light moving across our bow then south of us a mile out. A quick radio call and our thoughts were confirmed, a US submarine cruising on the surface! I decide changing course to get a better look might not be in our best interests so continue our course with jet fighters occasionally roaring overhead. Still, What a show!
Approaching the Carolina coast the winds become negligible and Joe fires us the engine and begins putting out fishing lines when he notices no water flowing from the exhaust. Yikes!! We shut her down and Immideatly begin tearing into checking the sea strainer then water pump/impeller. That all looks ok so we dig deeper into the Westerbeke to find a shaft driving the water pump worn and rounded out causing our problem. 35 miles out with winds at 1 1/5 - 2kts, total glass without a ripple on the water. I think back to a Morgan 462 delivery from Buffalo to Bayfield. We'd lost the transmission while motoring through the Keneewa. With winds of .5 to 2 1/5 kts, Dale, the owner of Dilly Dally, sailed those light winds the last few miles back into Lake Superior. I still think of it the best example of sailing skill I've ever seen. "Hell! "If Dale can do it I can damn sure do it!!".
After an hour I get the bow pointed in the right direction and we're actually making way towards our goal. We're ghosting along until Joe can't take it anymore and screams, "SeaTow!". Two and a half hours pass and a line is being passed for the 5 hour tow to shore. Although delayed by mechanical problems Joe dances happily around the cockpit expounding on the virtues of SeaTow Unlimited! That $149. per year just saved him from a $1700 tow bill! Later that evening we're on the phone trying to locate parts. Luckily we find a yard with a similar blown engine with the parts we need. Cool! We get directions and find ourselves pulling into a lane with boats blocked up with 2X4's, cut off telephone poles, concrete blocks, and a peeling faded square of plywood nailed to a leaning 2X4 with "Office" painted in running orange spray paint directing us to a 1960 era office trailer with broken, cracked windows, a satellite dish, and a old, old yellow dog with bad attitude. As the part is pulled from the junk engine we watch as one of the yard workers utilizes their high-tech parts storage system. He rolls out used, trashed batteries and oil filled engine blocks across the street and man-handles his cart into the woods, returning a few moments later with empty cart.
A toxic super-fund site in the making... we've got our parts.
With part in hand we're back to the boat. Joe chases John and I off while he tackles repairing our mechanical issues. John and I reconnoiter the area quickly finding the "The Officer's Club" at Little Creek, SC. Rick the bartender quickly tends to our liquid dietary needs as he notices the strain placed on our bodies from the 100 yard walk to the place. The staff , locals 'n sailors in attendance learn of our voyage, problems, and say, "whatta ya havin friend?". We're quickly taken under wing and treated like old, lost friends by everyone we meet. A fantastic place I'd highly recommend to anyone passing by. Stop in for excellent dinner, drinks, and trememdous hospitality. I know I'll be back given half a chance! Course if that don't suit ya there's Umberto's right next door. Dark woods, white linen, silver. A soup course, salad course, pasta course, followed by our entree. We'd ordered a good bottle of wine with dinner. Long after it'd dissapeared, Tom, bartender extraordinare, kept filling our glasses with fantastic wines.
Two days later, with John having to bail due to busniss obligations, (a two week trip to Vegas. Last year it was hosted by Jenny McCarthy!). Repairs made, refueled and watered, Joe and I are now looking at changing weather conditions so decide to hit the ICW for the remainder of the trip north. Little did we know we'd soon be facing the second worst wind conditions I've ever encountered anywhere.
Sailing into 35-48kt headwinds, we bail in search of a protected spot to anchor. We're soon joined by s/v Delta Blue and several other cruising boats. A night of anchor watch and drag alarms is followed by "relatively" calm winds next morning. We run for the channel and protection from the wind.
With weather still deteriorating we decide to pull into the Swan Point Marina in Sneads Ferry, NC. for the evening. As we approach, a short, stock guy with a wild head of hair is standing ready to catch our lines. Chris, and his partner Paul recently bought the marina and have been steadily upgrading the facilities with floating docks, new showers, a consignment shop, and friendly boat store with unlimited free coffee.
Chris we soon learn is a retired UDT, Recon, special ops, been there/did all that/can't really tell ya bout it kinda guy. He's been everywhere, seen and participated in more covert crap than you've seen in a dozen Hollywood movies, and tells fantastic stories. Matter of fact ya can't get away from him! Just open another beer and settle in. You'll enjoy the distraction!
His partner Paul is equally gregarious and both are super eager to help anyway they can. Righteous folks for sure.
Shortly our conversations end when we hear a loud "Yeah!" "We've still got six inches to spare!". We look over in unison to see SeaTow guiding in a 41' go-fast that had run hard aground. They get tied up and one of the two aboard hops ashore walking around in little circles with a dazed look in his eyes while carrying one large blade of a three-blade prop in his hand. OUCH!! After they make arrangements for a lift to check/repair damage, greetings are exchanged and soon we're invited to their boat for a few beers. The owner, a 34y/o guy and his buddy 32, had left several days before for a planned four day stay in KW. Six days motoring south to stay four days then return! Whoa! He'd said they went hard aground at speed the evening before. Come dawn, still stuck fast, a big M/Y comes along and politely slowed to pass. The aground boat's owner hailed on 16 telling the skipper he'd appreciate a pass with as big a wake as he'd care to make in hopes of being refloated. The M/Y was happy to oblige and even came about for another shot at speed. "Dude!" "It was a freakin five foot breakin WAVE!!" "It popped us off like a cork!"
With sky darkening and tornado with damaging hail predicted we settle onto their boat for a impromptu "Tornado Party". These guys were prepared! Rums, Crown Royal, several brands of Tequila, along with numerous bottles of differing concoctions and mixers started coming outta the locker with four shot glasses and assorted beers. Reports of tornado touchdown's at Camp Lajune to our north and another close to our south are met with... "Lemme have another shot 'o that Te-kill-ya!" as Brats go on the grill. By the time we made it back to Voila, Joe's Sabre 38, and racked out a bomb could have scored a direct hit and not fazed our sleep.
Squinting at the next morning's waaay too early, and way too bright sun, we coil up lines 'n collect fenders and continue our way northward leading a growing flotilla of various power and sailing vessels toward bridges, their tenders, and a short lock. Lots of debris in the water, (like 25' logs) make our journey interesting.
So far we've been lucky with the weather. Although it's blown pretty good a few days we've avoided anything serious. That's about to change.
Coming out of the waterway into the Ches we're starting to get wet and searching for the driest spot under the bimini. Fog and rain would accompany us the rest of the way to Worton Creek. I came up for a watch at one point to find Joe, in full foul weather gear, hands in pockets, totally drenched and looking equally dejected. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Joe quickly realized how he must have looked and broke into a hugh grin. "Well, people did get up and go to work today...".
Another overnighter and were tying up the boat Saturday afternoon and giving her, and ourselves, a much needed bath.
Another great trip with new friends. Although I'd hoped to be around for friends George 'n Kerri's wedding celebration I was a day late. It would have been wicked cool to have met everyone.
Well, that's my latest lies. I'm sticking to it until more recollections creep back into memory or someone with differing phtographic proof shows up.
Now, to find the next boat!
Cliff (aka ughmo2000)
Post-script, upon my return I found an e-mail sent a day after my leaving to Miami accepting my terms to go trans-At with an Irish captain friend.
Damn!! Missed it by that much!
LOL... great story cliff... :)
Cliff, two cups of coffee later I finished your story. All that I can say is, when I grow up I want to be you.
Thanks for sharing.
Your undoubtedly better off being you, too many skeletons rattling around my closets! :D
But thanks!
Really enjoyed the story, thanks.
Excellent read...thanks Cliff!
good times!
BVI to France and an Irish Captain? Could that have been for delivery of a rather large Oyster?
With "Dangerous Damian" at the helm?
Saw 'em instruct an Irish tavern owner, who was Irish born and raised, who's professed speciality was Irish coffee, on how to make a "proper" Irish coffee. That long night ended up with the tavern owner giving us a ride back to the boat! :D
P.S. I'm lookin for another berth...
Because it's still cold, even more snow coming, and I don't have any deliveries lined up I had to read something to remind me of warmer days...
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Neil Irwin does a bit of interesting gastronomic sleuthing today using a New York Times tool that counts the number of mentions of a word in the archives of the Times. The question is, how fast do new food trends go mainstream? Take, for example, fried calamari:
Now, of course, every strip-mall pizza place and suburban Applebee's serves fried calamari. But not all that long ago it was an exotic food. The term "fried calamari" did not appear in the pages of The New York Times until 1975, according to our nifty Times Chronicle tool, and didn't show up frequently until the 1980s. Lest you think it is only a change in vocabulary, the term "fried squid" made only a couple of scattered appearances before that time.
Fried calamari made a voyage that dozens of foods have made over the years: They start out being served in forward-thinking, innovative restaurants in New York and other capitals of gastronomy. Over time, they become more and more mainstream....In the last decade alone, the list includes tuna tartare, braised short ribs, beet salad and pretty much any dish involving pork belly, brussels sprouts or kale. In an earlier era, the list might include sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and hummus.
Fascinating! But readers with long memories will recall that I was surprised at how recently tacos became mainstream. In 1952 they were apparently uncommon enough that the Times had to explain to its readers what a taco was. So how about if we use this nifty new search tool to get some hard data on taco references? Here it is:
Sure enough, there are virtually no mentions of tacos in the 40s and 50s. There's a blip here and there, but they don't really get commonly mentioned until the 70s.
But that's not what's interesting. Back in 1877, a full 3 percent of all Times articles mentioned tacos! In fact, tacomania was a feature of the Times during all of the 1870s and 1880s, before suddenly falling off a cliff in 1890. What's up with that? Why did tacos suddenly become verboten in 1890? Did a new editor take over who hated tacos? And what's the deal with the blip from about 1917 to 1922? Did World War I produce a sudden explosion of interest in tacos?
This is very weird. Does anyone have a clue what's going on here?
UPDATE: On Twitter, Christopher Ingraham suggests that this is an artifact of bad text recognition of ancient microfilm. I don't have access to the full version of Times Chronicle, but a look at some of the summaries of articles that allegedly mention tacos makes this seem like a pretty good guess. It's quite possible that there are no genuine mentions of tacos until the 40s or 50s.
This is a sadly boring explanation, but it seems pretty likely to be right. However, I'm still curious about the sudden dropoff in 1890 (did archive copies suddenly improve? did the Times start using a different font?) and the blip after World War I.


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