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Orchardsby Holly Thompson
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on/b>
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There Kana spends hours under the hot sun tending to her family's mikan orange groves.
Kana's mixed heritage makes it hard to fit in at first, especially under the critical eye of her traditional grandmother, who has never accepted Kana's father. But as the summer unfolds, Kana gets to know her relatives, Japan, and village culture, and she begins to process the pain and guilt she feels about the tragedy back home. Then news about a friend sends her world spinning out of orbit all over again.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editorial Reviews
"Thompson has crafted an exquisite, thought-provoking story of grief and healing that will resonate with teen readers and give them much to discuss."
Review, Publishers Weekly, January 3, 2011:
"Eloquently captures a teenager's anger, guilt, and sorrow after a classmate takes her own life. . . . Understated yet potent verse."
Review, Kirkus Reviews, January 1, 2011:
"A fast-paced page-turner that explores the rippling effects of suicide."
Review, Booklist, January 1, 2011:
"Readers will want to talk about the big issues, especially the guilt of doing nothing."
Review, VOYA,
"Compelling. . . . Teens who enjoy learning about other cultures will relish Thompson's ability to evoke the sights, smells, and tastes of Japan, while poetry fans will enjoy the novel's unique format."
Review, The Winston-Salem Journal, March 20, 2011:
"This lyrical look at bullying and the afterschocks of suicide may be gut-wrenching, but Orchards is crafted with a sensitive beauty."
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- Publication date:
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Read an Excerpt
Chapter One
Because of You
One week after
you stuffed a coil of rope
into your backpack
and walked uphill into
Osgoods' orchard
where blooms were still closed fists
my father looked up
summer airfares
to Tokyo
I protested
it wasn't my fault
I didn't do anything!
my mother hissed
and made the call
to her older sister
my aunt
in Shizuoka
nothing would change
their minds
all my mother
would say
as I followed her
through garden beds
transplanting cubes of seedlings
she'd grown under lights
in hothouses
all she'd say
row after row
in tight-lipped
you can reflect
in the presence of your ancestors
not that I'm alone
in being sent away--
Lisa's off to summer school
Becca to Bible camp
Mona to cousins in Quebec
Emily to help in her uncle's store
Erin to math camp
Abby to some adventure program
Noelle to her father's
Gina to her mother's
Namita to New Jersey . . .
all twenty-nine
eighth-grade girls
scattered, as Gina said,
like beads
from a necklace
but we weren't a necklace
strung in a circle
we were more
an atom:
arranged in shells
around Lisa,
Becca and Mona
first shell solid,
the rest of us
in orbitals farther out
less bound
less stable
and you--
in the least stable
most vulnerable
outermost shell
you sometimes
hovered near
sometimes drifted off
some days were hurled far
from Lisa
our nucleus
whose biting wit made us
around her
always close to her
indifferent to orbits
like yours
farther out than
after you were
found in the grove
of Macs and Cortlands
that were still tight fists
of not-yet-bloom
and the note was found
on your dresser
by your mother
who brought it to the principal
who shared it with police
who called for an investigation
and pulled in counselors
from all over the district
word got around
and people in town
began to stare
and talk
and text
about our uncaring
I don't think I
did anything to drive you
to perfect slipknots
or learn to tie a noose . . .
with what?
I wonder
backpack cords?
drawstrings in your gym shorts
as you waited for your turn
at the softball bat?
because of you, Ruth,
I'm exiled
to my maternal grandmother, Baachan,
to the ancestors at the altar
and to Uncle, Aunt and cousins
I haven't seen in three years--
not since our last trip back
for Jiichan's funeral
when Baachan
told my sister Emi
she was just right
but told me
I was fat
should eat
fill myself eighty percent
no more
each meal
but then I was small
then I didn't have hips
then was before this bottom
inherited from my father's
Russian Jewish mother
my mother was
of four children born
to my grandparents
mikan orange farmers
in a Shizuoka village of sixty households
where eldest son
inherits all
but there were
no sons
in her generation
so my aunt
eldest daughter
took in a husband who
took on the Mano name
took over the Mano holdings
became sole heir
head of household
my uncle
into my suitcase
my mother has stuffed
dish towels
framed photos of Emi and me
last year's raspberry jam
pancake mix
maple syrup--
and ten books for me to finish
by September
books she didn't pick
I know
because she only reads novels
in Japanese
and these ten are
in English--
books chosen by a librarian
or teacher
or other mother
with themes of
reaching out
I want to shout
she also changed dollars
into yen
and divided bills
into three envelopes
labeled in Japanese--
one for spending
one for transportation and school fees
one with gift money for Buddhist ceremonies
to honor her father--my Jiichan,
this third summer
since the year
of his passing
the nonstop flight to Narita
is thirteen hours
door to door
my home in New York
to theirs in Shizuoka
is a full twenty-four
on the plane there is
time . . .
for movies
journal entries
I have never been to
Japan alone
never traveled anywhere alone
except sleepovers
and overnight camp
for a week in Vermont
on the plane
flight attendants chat with me
unaccompanied minor
praise my language abilities
assume it's a
happy occasion
my returning
to the village of my mother's childhood
for the summer
but they don't know
what I know, Ruth--
that it's all
because of you
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
HOLLY THOMPSON was raised in New England, earned her B.A. in biology from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. in English from New York University. A long-time resident of Japan, she teaches creative writing at Yokohama City University.
From the Hardcover edition.
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... said the side that "lost" World War II.
"Three years after Vermont legalized assisted suicide, pro-lifers are beginning to witness the abusive effects of the law on the elderly and disabled.
Mary Beerworth, executive director of Vermont Right to Life, shared the story of a 91-year-old woman who was staying in a rehab facility because she broke her wrist. When her family was not in the room, Beerworth said rehab staff repeatedly asked the elderly woman if she was in pain or depressed; then they would remind her that she could commit doctor-prescribed suicide under the new law. Beerworth said the woman never was diagnosed with a terminal illness; she just was old and had a broken bone.
Coercion and abuse are major problems in states where assisted suicide is legal. Beerworth said the Vermont legislation makes it worse by requiring that every person diagnosed with a terminal illness be told that they can commit assisted suicide with a doctor's prescription.
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I'm glad we have Peter Sean Bradley to determine the time and circumstances of our individual deaths. Its a nice fall-back from personal control to know such decisions can be made by a an unrepentant neo-Conservative, Catholic, pro-Western Civilization kinda guy rather than making our own decisions.
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Anonymous prefers that the elderly and disabled be "persuaded" to kill themselves.
Yeah....given the choice, I will go the approach that the Nazis didn't try already.
In case you haven't noticed, "Anonymous," yes--you're looking like quite the know-nothing and not doing very much to improve your situation.
But don't let that shut you up--you don't start out with very much.
Great, both Lauran and Peter Sean can form a committee to enforce their own views on death and dying on the entire population. Maybe you could call it a "Death Panel."
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I never really thought,
That I would experience a broken heart.
All those times I teased the thought,
Of a crack spreading through an organ mean't simply for blood.
But of course, I didn't understand,
I'd never felt love,
And never felt abandon,
I'd spoken too soon.
Once I thought that I was strong,
Bravery was my middle name.
Emotions were a weakness,
And nothing that I had.
I felt even stronger on the day,
When my body glowed inside,
When I looked across the room,
At you, at you my love.
And I felt that one emotion,
The one beside the laughs.
The happiness and the giggles,
The one I thought wouldn't belong to me,
An emotion that only pricked me,
When I found a figure who made me smile,
And laugh and leap,
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On the inside as well as out.
It was love.
It made my chest feel thick,
And I wasn't sure why.
It made my laughter a little spicier,
And my smile a little sharper.
Then you, you my love,
You're eye was on how to tear away this new thing,
To break me down like a wall,
To watch me crumble, disappear,
Watch me become nothing.
You held that emotion inside your palms,
Like butter, you melted my gold,
I finally understood the term,
A broken heart.
What is a broken heart?
It's where your chest is thick,
You don't know why,
Your laugh is spicey,
And your smile is sharp,
But the emotion that gave you that has been torn,
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A crowning year for QueenMore than a decade after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen go on and on. Is this band immortal?By Lawrence FerberThis year was the Queen's jubilee—and we're not talking about Queen Elizabeth II. In 2002 the legendary rock band Queen continued to reign, even though the band effectively ceased to exist on November 24, 1991, when front man Freddie Mercury succumbed to AIDS complications.These days surviving members Roger Taylor, Brian May, and John Deacon ably carry the torch—along with any number of testosterone-bursting heterosexuals who regularly stomp along to the refrain "We will rock you" at sporting events."One may not realize Queen is all around, but is it *so* all around," opines Stephin Merritt, puckish New York musician and closet Queen fan. "I was just reading a book in which all cassettes left in cars turn into Queen's Greatest Hits in two weeks, which is so true to my life experience. If it's not labeled, it's probably Queen's Greatest Hits."This year the champion's presence practically spanned the media: A musical based on their songs had audiences singing. The band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. A concert tribute to Mercury just came out on DVD. And, yes, Queen took part on that *other* British Queen's jubilee pop concert.What's the band's enduring appeal? Sheer virtuosity, for one thing. Queen's swoony, soaring sound is as thrilling today as when the songs were recorded. And Mercury's obvious, through never admitted, homosexuality also added spice into the mix. "Having a flamboyant gay front person allowed them to do all kinds of absurdly sexual music," says Merritt. "*Queen* was a triple entendre name. Whatever the name means, it ends up being sexual."In a year when everybody wanted to forget their troubles, London's West End musical We Will Rock You took Queen hits and wove a silly but fun story around them. Written by Ben Elton and musically supervised by May and Taylor, We Will Rock You imagines a conformist world—Planet Mall—in which a rebel named Galileo Figaro (after a character in a Queen song) recaptures the world for rock and roll. Critics blanched, but audiences went wild.In May came the queen's jubilee concert (celebrating Elizabeth's 50 years on the throne), at which May performed an electric guitar version of "The Star Spangled Banner." And to crown Queen's de facto jubilee, December saw the release of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Special Anniversary Edition DVD. Originally organized to raise AIDS awareness and funds for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, this 1992 all-star concert event starred a crazy mix of celebs, including David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, Axl Rose, Elton John, Annie Lennox, George Michael, and Liza Minnelli. The DVD includes bonuses like rehearsal footage and a TV documentary. For those disappointed that 2003 won't be the year of Liza (on reality TV, at least), the disc features the diva's rendition of "We Are the Champions"—a rousing, if not strangely drag queen-esque, debacle.Mercury would be proud. "The original was a strangely drag queen-esque debacle," Merritt rhapsodizes. "Just a little too early for video."[Notes: The person quoted here, Stephin Merritt, is the lead singer/songwriter of the band Magnetic Fields, and their 69 Love Songs 3-CD album is great. There's a couple of factual errors to we Queen fans – John's involvement and Brian's playing of "Star Spangled Banner"! – but here is the article is verbatim. I'll scan it and upload it as well.]
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Author's Note:: A Brarl (Bree/Karl) fic, written from Bree's POV. Meeting Karl's son Evan. Set in S5.
Waking up in his arms, I came face to face with the son, that unimpressed angelic face stared back at me, it was Evan. Naturally, I gave the boy a smile before I looked up at his father, who happened to be still in deep and peacefully slumber, Evan looked to me and it soon became apparent as to why; I was undeniably exposing myself to him. How of me! Of course, I immediately clutched the blanket around my naked torso like it was some life raft, and with all the sudden movement I'd made, I looked up at Karl, he hadn't even so much as flinched.
I give a sigh and Evan's still staring at me, I see why MJ Delfino didn't like this boy, I can certainly imagine Evan picking up that dead squirrel and chasing after sweet, adorable MJ and clocking him over the head with it. So, now I used my initiative and I ever so tactfully reached for Karl's shirt and boxers, I dressed them under the blanket, trying my best to nudge Karl, hoping to wake him, but no, he was such a heavy sleeper. Anyway, so I rolled out of the bed and smiled to Evan as those eyes burned into mine, it was definitely uncomfortable for me, I had no idea what to do except take Evan downstairs to get him some breakfast.
"Why were you in bed with my daddy?" he asked me.
Shit! What the hell do I say back to that?! How do I know if Karl's told him about me or if I was supposed to be seen by Evan?
"Hey buddy"
Heaven! Saved by him. Wow...! Drooooool...anyway, I gasped when I turned to find Karl standing there in his boxers, just his boxers, obviously just woken up because of the lack of warmth beside him under the blanket, he looked absolutely divine in one of those Adonis type of ways.
"I see you've met Bree" Karl said to his son as I stood there pouring Evan a beaker of breakfast juice before spilling it over the counter, overflowing the beaker because I'd been staring at Karl too long, remembering last night, feeling that body pressed tight against mine, those lips along my neck, the way he...
"Yes she was in your bed..."
"We had a sleepover, like when you went to MJ's" Karl smiled to his son, then winked to me, causing me to blush.
"I saw her boo..."
"Evan! Do you want some waffles for breakfast?" I jumped in. I could see Karl's smirk broadening as his son almost confessed to seeing my breasts. Not. Good.
Karl pulled his son away and smiled to him as he made him sit down at the table before he kneeled and placed a hand on Evan's shoulder, "Hey look, since mommy left, daddy's been lonely" Evan gave a soft nod, "So that's why Bree's been staying with daddy, she makes me very happy buddy and she's a stunner isn't she? Not like those other uggo's I get in my office, Bree's a good woman Evan, and I want you to be good to her, understood?"
It was at that moment, I felt my heart was going crazy for Karl, if he had been alone, I would have jumped his bones like I did after Mike's wedding when Orson was passed out in some hedge somewhere. Who the hell was this man? For something, he was not the Karl as he had been when he had been around in the past, he was now a reformed man, like a born-again Christian, minus the church going and confessionals. I looked to Evan and saw he didn't seem to be too impressed with and his father.
"Did you and Bree have sex?" the boy questioned.
Karl chuckled and gave a little nod, my eyes widened. This kid was bright. Too bright. He was like Juanita almost except Evan seemed to be a possessed child, Mike had joked with Katherine after the sleepover that Evan could have been cast in the movie The Omen as the kid Damian...okay, that was mean. This boy couldn't be that bad could he? Of course there had been the drawings he'd done in school, Susan had told us girls...oh no! Was he going to grow up to be a man like Rex?!
"Bree...?" Karl seemed to be calling me.
I looked over to Karl with raised brows, "Uhm, yeah?"
"You're staying over tonight again right? Evan wants you to read him a bedtime story...how are you on Stephen King novels...?"


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The Road to War mod in Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword involves playing as one of 11 or 16 civs (this number was increased in patch 3.19) in one of three scenarios. They are Europe 1936, Europe 1939, and Pacific 1936. There are three historical options. Accurate events take place at the exact time they happened in history. Random events happen within a few months of when they actually happened. In open play players can declare war whenever they see fit.


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Civilisation, Madness, Light
Like her sibling, Maraena ceased to enact her will upon the universe and lacking purpose, her form faded away until everything she was ceased to be, the results of her Acts the only memory she had ever been.
Malachi sought to define a new universal law, an edict that would define the very nature of Life itself. Through his lips the words were spoken and the law was written indelibly upon the fabric of existence. Those whom the Gods create will die as decided by their creators. The law was made and so it was so, however no Gods had yet deemed any of their creations to be subject to this law and so the undying lives of universes inhabitants continued unending as before. However, all it would take was one utterance, one decision by a God upon one of their creations and it would take effect, the law of the universe forever changing the race irreversibly by God or mortal.
Upon the vast island of earth within the broken, icy sphere Aqualuna exerted her will over the elements and again crafted two humans, a male and female, with the abilities to think and reason. Unfortunately, they were not alone, the Hybrids had been colonising the vast expanse and eventually over the years, the Hybrid civilisation came across the fledgling one of the Humans. The Hybrids were shocked, they had seen their ancestors erased and now they saw them again, renewed and this time intelligent, sentient. A shockwave of questions rippled through the Hybrid's civilisation. What did this mean? Should they return to their old way, enslaving them for breeding with the Mylanni spiders they kept enslaved? Would these new Humans with the newly awoken spiders create the same Hybrids as before or would they be tainted, different? Should they just destroy the Humans? Much discussion was had and no decision was made. Instead, the Hybrids decided to wait and watch, building a vast wall between their empire and the slowly developing Human civilisation so that there would be no interference between them. Falling back on their hedonistic ways, the Hybrids treated the walled off civilisation of the Humans as a zoo, creatures to watch for their amusement. For now.
The Humans, undoubtedly, discovered the existence of the Hybrids though accident and exploration. Some were terrified, others, seeing the resemblance between the Hybrids and themselves thought of them as perhaps Gods or creatures of great power. Hybrid worship cults formed amongst them as their civilisation grew while other Humans sought to learn more about them, setting of centres of study and learning about these strange, elusive creatures that seemed to watch them from afar. Eventually, they came across the Wall, a vast, tower expanse of dirt and ice that seemed to stretch on as far as their race had ever explored. Had they found the home of these creatures? The cults thought so and the believers moved to the Wall, setting up their own cities and towns near the holy place, the barrier between their own world and what they believed must be a paradise beyond. Digging through the Wall was considered a blasphemy most foul and the believers would kill any one who dared attempt such a thing, patrolling the Wall constantly to defend it against intruders.
While this was happening, Ixilixi touched the essence of one spider as it plotted the downfall of it's impure fellows. It imbued the spider with knowledge, sharing with it the vast plan for all things. Images of conquest and unification spread through the spider's mind, visions of a utopian future where only pure spiders, the chosen ones, ruled supreme and all others were destroyed, the universe cleansed of their taint. Alone, the spider would unite the tribes of the pure and together they would grow until they were unstoppable force. It saw it, one of many possibly futures and knew it would be the true future in it's icy heart.
Immediately the spider began his work, taking for himself the name Ixi, the name of the chosen one, after the name of the God, their God, who had chosen him to be the leader of his people. With every meeting he had, every word he spoke, more came to his cause, imbued as he was with a divine conviction that it was impossible for the other spiders to deny, knowing instantly that he alone had been spoken to directly by their creator, truly a chosen one indeed.
Ixilixi was not done however, it sought to bestow upon Ixi power that even the Gods themselves did not possess, the ability to see the future perfectly, to be able to see the consequence of every action throughout all time. Such a thing was beyond Ixilixi's power or even the Traveller himself and the Act was wasted. The Traveller was angered by such an attempt to out do even his own powers and to give them to a mere mortal as well and as such, his Wrath reached out into Ixi's mind. Rather than understand all possible consequences, Ixi's mind instead became awash with convoluted, bizarre visions of futures both possible and impossible, the laws of cause and effect in his mind twisted and warped so his future sense told as many lies as it did truths, but Ixi had no way of telling one way or the other, in fact as the visions became more bizarre and twisted, Ixi believed he was seeing God's true will and following the paths his visions laid out for him, he led the Church towards performing increasingly more chaotic, twisted acts, his followers going along blindly, captivated by their Prophet, the thought of doubting the one chosen by their creator never even crossing their minds.
Mylann mourned the passing of her sibling and saw the Traveller's pain inflicted upon the universe. She cried and her tears fell across the heavens, bursting into balls of flame and filling the infinite skies with stars, lighting up the previously pitch black expanse for all to see, warming it with their light. Where stars formed too close to an icy island, the island and the spiders that inhabited died, melted. The vast walkways through the void began to melt as stars randomly formed amongst them, some crumbling as they lost their integrity sending many of the few remaining Aqualunians tumbling to their destruction.
Now that the universe had warmed, due to the stars, and was bathed in light, the Humans began to venture beyond the icy-sphere but they could not go far as there was no food beyond their lands. Some enterprising Humans took earth and seeds from the plants that grew in their home and set up to the new lands, hoping to make new lands suitable for colonisation. However, as they spread out onto the icy plains of the ice island the sphere was on, they came across spiders, being like the Hybrids some worshipped, but different for they had no human features at all. Some fled in terror but a few tried to communicate and when the spiders began to help them grow their plants, helping them make farmland with the soil they had shipped from their island, the Humans realised they had found another race, a friend and that unlike the elusive Hybrids that seemed to many to be merely myths, these were real. They were not alone.
The Mylanni spiders had found an ally with the Humans and they helped them expand away from the lands of the Hybrids, hoping that one day together they might work to turn the Hybrids from the dark path of slavery and hedonism they were on to a new path of understanding and caring. The divine edict to ate with humans still lurked within the Mylanni spiders but these Humans were not the old humans and so the urge was weaker, especially now they had gained sentience, but some Humans, especially those who worshipped the hybrids, did mate with the spiders that approached them and soon a new race of Hybrids began to grow. This new race was identical to the first in all but one respect. These new Humans were not tainted by the amorality and rampant self-interest of the first and thus nor were this new race of Hybrids, who lived in harmony with both the Humans and the Mylanni, were peaceful. They were fewer in number and did not multiply as fast as the other Hybrid race had done, for the Mylanni were only very weakly inclined to mate with Humans unlike before.
The Human's who worshipped the idea of the Hybrids, upon hearing of these events began vast pilgrimages from the Wall to see these new Hybrids from beyond the sphere and soon the Hybrids intermingled with the Humans. The Mylanni however warned them of the other race, their dark cousins beyond the wall and horrified, many of the Humans who had previously worshipped the Hybrids begged the Mylanni for forgiveness, which they were of course granted by the kind, caring race. The new Hybrids avoided entering the sphere, not wanting to be seen by the other Hybrids and draw their wrath down upon the humans and themselves.


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MARTIN SKRTEL is unsure if he will ever get his place back in Liverpool's side.
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Skrtel has just started just two games since – Liverpool's embarrassing FA Cup exit to Oldham and the 2-0 Europa League defeat away to Zenit St Petersburg.
The defender is currently out with a knee injury but admits he is not sure whether he will get back into the team when fit.
He said: "When I was healthy, I was training with the team, giving 100 per cent and doing all I could to prove to the coach that I belonged in the starting XI.
"I was waiting for a chance, one then came in St Petersburg, but then I was not playing again. However, now I'm injured and we'll see what happens when I'm back fit.
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The 23-year-old secured her London 2012 place at the British Gas Championships in March after setting a new English record of 2:26.63 minutes to win the 200m breaststroke.
However, that followed on from heartache in the shorter 100m event at the Olympic Aquatics Centre where Tadd finished second and more than a second outside the qualifying standard.
Tadd will have one last chance to qualify for the 100m breaststroke with the ASA Nationals at Sheffield's Ponds Forge in June acting as the last chance trials.
She won't be making drastic changes between now and then but Tadd admits she is determined to make the most of the opportunity and ensure one becomes two this summer.
"My training will stay the same right through to the Olympic Games now. I won't rest until the second trials where I will give the 100m a shot and see what time I can do," said Tadd.
"It will be pretty similar to what I did from Christmas up to the trials with maybe a few tweaks to drop the couple of seconds that I need to qualify for the 100m.
"I thought I did pretty well at the British Gas Championships, especially my breaststroke. I did a medley event, which was not so good and it did get me down.
"But I just had to forget about that and concentrate on my breaststroke and I managed to qualify, which is what the aim was all along.
"A home Games means everything as it is probably the only one I am going to do. I am very excited, trying not to think about it too much yet, but I can't wait to experience it all."
Tadd spent last week, along with the 37 other London 2012 qualified British swimmers, at the annual national squad camp - training in the pool at the Olympic Aquatics Centre.
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- 4 boneless chicken breasts
- 3⁄4 cup white wine
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons grated ginger
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
Fruity Salsa
- 1 (225 g) can pineapple slices, drained
- 1 small mango, peeled
- 2 kiwi fruits, peeled
- 150 g watermelon, peeled,seeds removed
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped of fresh mint
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- Place chicken in a glass dish, I use my pyrex roasting dish.
- Combine wine, oil, ginger and garlic in a jug; pour over chicken.
- Refrigerate, covered with glad wrap, for several hours, turning occasionally.
- Place the chicken on hot oiled barbecue plate.
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i also saw dan menendez "the piano juggler" who plays a piano on the ground by juggling several balls and bouncing them off the keys. i dont know how he does that. i also saw an act called "dreamstate circus" which was all about acrobalance.
one of the acts i missed was pedro tochas.. im not even quite sure what he does. but a girl i met at the hostel, anna, had seen him the day before and lost her ring. she thought it may have slipped off her hand when she went to put money into his hat after the show. i told her i'd try to get it back for her, and she said if i did, she would cook me dinner while we were in galway in the coming days.
i asked pedro about the ring, and sure enough he knew exactly what i was talking about. he found it in his hat and had it back at his hotel room. i got in touch with the event organizer and exchanged contact information. anna got her ring back shortly thereafter, so i had lots of great dinners for the rest of my stay in ireland.
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Amazon has spent nearly two decades revolutionizing the way we consume music, movies and entertainment-and now, the company is changing the way movies and TV shows are being made. Amazon Studios is the original film and series production arm of Amazon.com located in Santa Monica, CA. Known for its television series such as multi-Golden Globe winner Transparent, Annie-nominated Tumble Leaf, and Mozart in the Jungle, along with the recently announced Amazon Original Movies, Amazon Studios continues to be successful player in the entertainment industry.
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The Strange Diary of Asphodel
This is the diary of Asphodel, a long forgotten young woman with a strange tale to tell.
The clouds were dark and pouring on the day that I found the diary. I was staying at Nana's house with Mom, Dad, and my brother. Nana is a wiley one and used her "Positively Perfect Pumpkin Pie" to convince my brother and I to clean up the house. Both the attic and the basement had to be organized. Naturally, I chose the attic. Everyone knows that basements are full of spiders, snakes, and murderers.
Cleaning was going as cleaning does when I came across a lovely little book. It was a dark leather diary with a silver clasp. There were no words on the front or back, but the yellowed pages were filled. The script was small and written in deep red ink. Fascinated, I took it down to show Mom and Nana.
Neither one of them had ever seen it. They didn't find it very interesting, either. Nana told me to keep it, but I suspect she just wanted me to stop talking so she could watch TV. Regardless of her reasoning, I was ecstatic.
I rushed through finishing the attic and curled up in a dusty corner. I began to read the diary and it seemed typical at first, but soon things began to get very strange. I am going to start typing up the diary for you, so that you can see what I mean.
Some might think that this young woman had an imagination, but I choose to believe that the events she describes are real. Maybe one day I will find out for myself.
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I lie down on the mattress at first feeling the odd sink of the cushion beneath me. In Oterium we slept in hammocks and always in groups. Lovers slept in their hammock then siblings in another. You'd never have one child on Oterium. Never. To be a single child was to sleep alone.
So as I lie on the mattress with Angelo lying over on what he called a camper bed or futon I felt so alone. So cold without my brothers arms around me and his warmth to send me off to sleep. I tossed to see Angelo watching me. "Are you okay?" he asks to which I shake my head. "Can't sleep? Why not?"
I send him an image of the hammocks and accidentally of my brother. He sits up and watches me.
"Whose that?" he asks.
'My brother' I send to him.
"You slept in hammocks together?" he says. "Is that why you can't sleep?" I nod and he sighs before brightening. "Actually, I think I can set you one of those up"
He leaves coming back with a thick blanket and some tools. He motions for me to move and I do as he sets up the hammock welding the hammock to the wall so it hangs down. He turns and smiles at me. I quickly move over and get in swinging in it with a giggle. 'Perfect' I tell him.
"Great" he smiles and moves towards his own bed. I shift nervous at what I want to ask and bit my lip.
"Angelo" I say the words heavy and odd on my tongue coming out sloppily. Angelo turns round and looks at me with wide eyes. 'Could you.... Could you pretend to be my brother?' I think to him.
He nods slowly and moves over getting into the hammock awkwardly making it swing. I'm unable to stop the laugh that slips pass my lips. Angelo looks at me smiling warmly and my heart skips a beat. His look makes me feel so warm that I become confused. What is this feeling? I blush and look away rolling onto my side away from Angelo.
He gets it though because he slips his arms round me holding me just as my brother would. This is different though cause I can feel Angelo's breath against my neck. I can smell his musky earthern scent that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, even a little dizzy cause he's so close.
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FARE OF THE COUNTRY; Italy's Aged Balsamic Vinegar
By ANNE MARSHALL ZWACK; ANNE MARSHALL ZWACK is a writer who has lived in Florence most of her life.
Published: January 3, 1988
IN Modena, until not long ago, a girl could hope to find a husband only if she could make pasta and if her dowry included a little barrel of balsamic vinegar. Eating well is very important in Modena, hometown of Luciano Pavarotti and Ferrari cars, as it is in next-door Bologna and throughout the region of Emilia-Romagna, the gastronomic heartland of Italy.
Balsamic vinegar may be relatively new to stores and menus in the United States, but around Modena they have been making it for centuries - it is mentioned in documents as early as 1046. Lucrezia Borgia recommended balsamic vinegar to alleviate the pain of childbirth, and during the French Revolution it was included in the auctions of luxury goods confiscated from aristocrats. Indeed, some balsamic vinegar has actually been around for centuries. Many families in the region have in their attic a batteria, or set of working vinegar barrels, that has been handed down from generation to generation for over 100 years, and the dukes of Este -the noble family that held sway over the Duchy of Modena throughout much of its history - were said to have aged vinegar for up to 360 years.
Climate is one reason that this vinegar, known as balsamic because of its curative properties, has always been made in Modena. Extremes of temperature are essential to its production, and Modena has the requisite hot and humid summers and very cold winters; in one recent, but admittedly exceptional year, the temperatures were so extreme that they ranged from 31 degrees below zero Fahrenheit to 100 above. The low-lying landscape is another reason, since it is said that making balsamic vinegar is impossible above an altitude of about 2,300 feet.
The vinegar is made by boiling the must -or unfermented juice, of white Trebbiano grapes until it caramelizes, which usually happens when it has been reduced to about one-half to one-third of its original volume. This boiled-down must is known as saba and was used as a sweetening agent before the advent of sugar. When cold, the saba is poured into a batteria of at least five barrels, each of a different size and made of a different wood; chestnut, oak, juniper, cherry and mulberry woods are usually used. In a typical home batteria, the largest barrel holds 50 liters (about 13 gallons), the second-largest 40, then 30, 20 and 10 liters. A gelatinous substance known as the mother, which forms on the surface of old wine through the action of a fungus, is added to each barrel, although local experts say the role of the mother is not as important as often believed. It is not the mother that gives balsamic vinegar its flavor and quality, they say, but the fact that it is made from must instead of wine and aged in different woods (ideally, the woods should be at least half a century old).
A year later, half of the quantity remaining in the smallest barrel (much of the liquid evaporates or seeps into the wood) is poured off; this is the family's supply for the coming year. The barrel is replenished from the next largest one, which is in turn filled from the next largest and so on; the largest barrel is topped off with new must. Although vinegar made from one year's grapes would be usable the next year, good results do not begin to show for seven or eight years; to achieve the official status of riserva takes 12 years. One hundred liters (about 26 gallons) of must will yield no more than six liters (1.6 gallons) of balsamic vinegar - enough for the family's use for a year, plus a few phials to give away as Christmas gifts.
One phial is always submitted to the Palio, a competition held during the Festa di San Giovanni (Feast of St. John) from June 24 to 28 in the town of Spilamberto. The entries are judged by members of the Consorteria dell'Aceto Balsamico, an association of balsamic vinegar makers, and rivalry is keen; after some Palios, families have been known not to speak to each other for years. The origin of balsamic vinegar, like wine, is certified, and the bottles carry the appellation D.O.C. (for Denominazione di Origine Controllata). After the event, the remaining vinegar from the hundreds of phials entered is poured into little 110-gram (4-ounce) bottles, quaintly packaged in parchment-covered boxes, and sold for about $25. Also sold at the festival is nocino, a liqueur made from the green skin of walnuts; traditionally, it is on the night before the Feast of St. John that the women pick the still-green nuts for the liqueur.
The gran maestro of the 900-strong Consorteria is a professor of archeology, Benedetto Benedetti, who, like everyone else, has a cherished batteria of antique barrels in his attic. ''It's like raising a child,'' he said.
The professor took us to see one of the area's oldest vinegar works, one belonging to Venusta Barbieri, a mercurial personage in her 60's. Her workroom was like an alchemist's den, the ceiling hung with medieval utensils, ancient barrels covered in dust and cobwebs. (Many people believe that the room where vinegar is made should not be cleaned.) Venusta flitted from barrel to barrel like a magpie, diving into each with a long glass rod and letting a few dark brown drops fall on the back of our hands to taste.


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Tulkinghorn would like to take the opportunity to issue a public apology to Mrs Tulkinghorn for attending what is known in common parlance as a 'lap dancing club' with two very high-profile partners from the leading international law firm Clifford Chance.
Tulkinghorn is forced to make his apology this public as Mrs Tulkinghorn has taken to throwing the Le Creuset in his direction every time he tries to explain.
Tulkinghorn is not quite sure how he got himself into this situation. Tulkinghorn is a gentleman and would not usually 'squeal' on his friends, but he would like to humbly suggest to Mrs Tulkinghorn that the Clifford Chance partners hoodwinked him into attending the Spearmint Rhino lap dancing club.
Mrs Tulkinghorn, this is how it happened:
Just over a week ago, as part of a rare publicity drive, Clifford Chance took a number of its partners, some legal journalists and Tulkinghorn on a boat ride along the Thames.
The partners, journalists and Tulkinghorn were served a fantastic three-course dinner, along with not a small amount of champagne.
The boat docked around 10.30pm, which is about the time the Tulkinghorns are usually tucked up in bed with the cocoa.
Some partners then suggested further drinks. Thinking he would risk the ire of Mrs Tulkinghorn and arrive home a little late, Tulkinghorn hopped into a black cab with the two Clifford Chance partners – which he will now refer to as partner X, a leading player in litigation, and partner Y – assuming he was off to the Athenaeum or the East India Club.
Imagine Tulkinghorn's astonishment when, on asking where he was being taken, partner X bellowed: "We're going for some sex!"
Bemused, and not willing to offend, Tulkinghorn sheepishly stayed in the car and then tottered out behind the two partners on to Tottenham Court Road and then into the Spearmint Rhino. On our arrival, and much to Tulkinghorn's surprise, partner X announced that he was "off for a private dance", and promptly disappeared.
Alone and confused, Tulkinghorn sat in the corner of the bar, nursing his drink and desperately trying to ignore the 'amorous' attentions of several young dental floss-clad ladies until his friends returned.
But when they did return, things were no better. Partner X, now very excited by the ready availability of the… ahem… entertainment, simply sat grinning while a parade of girls, one after the other, were brought along to entertain him. During this episode, Tulkinghorn found out that partner X is rather a connoisseur of these establishments. He often travels to Eastern Europe on business, where, he told Tulkinghorn, "lap dancing clubs are better because there you're allowed to touch the girls".
Partner Y behaved impeccably, Tulkinghorn would like to point out, and talked mostly about international finance.
Tulkinghorn left the club as soon as was politely possible to do so, and confessed his misdemeanour to Mrs Tulkinghorn as soon as he arrived home.
Tulkinghorn was not forgiven immediately, as he was clearly very naughty. But all those nights spent sleeping in the shed have done nothing for his rheumatism. Tulkinghorn hopes that apologising in this public manner will go some distance to repairing the Tulkinghorn marriage.
Tulkinghorn would also like to take this opportunity to ask his readers: why is this establishment called the Spearmint Rhino?
In the lap of the goddesses
Tulkinghorn would like to take the opportunity to issue a public apology to Mrs Tulkinghorn for attending what is known in common parlance as a 'lap dancing club' with two very high-profile partners from the leading international law firm Clifford Chance.