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The Fountain ProposalMature
Aside from Gina mentioning Alicia, Thanksgiving went really well. My family really embraced Deidre and I was happy for that. Gina didn't talk to her at all during the dinner or afterwards when we passed around early Christmas gifts from my two uncles who wouldn't be there. They had both gotten Deidre some perfume.
"I know it's not much," Uncle Kyle said but Deidre beamed.
"It's great! I'm sorry I didn't get anything for you!"
"Don't worry about it."
Another football came on and Deidre yawned. She leaned into me and I smiled down at her. Her eyes were slowly closing until she finally fell asleep.
"She's a wonderful young woman," Uncle Kyle whispered.
"Yeah, she is," I said, smiling as she snuggled closer. She was shivering and my mom passed me a blanket to put around her. "I'm a very lucky guy."
"How long have you been together?"
"About three months."
Aunt Amanda smiled. "When are you going to propose?"
I blushed as Uncle Kyle said, "Oh, come on, Amanda. They haven't been dating for that long."
"He loves her, though. I can tell."
I just smiled nervously and turned my eyes to the TV. I had planned to propose to her today at dinner but, after what happened with Gina, I figured it wasn't a good idea. Now that I thought about it, though, it wasn't a very romantic way to propose.
I sat here, Deidre starting to snore quietly, and contemplated different ways and places to propose. It took me about an hour before I thought of the perfect place.
Deidre woke up just as everyone was leaving. She went to shake hands but they all pulled her into a hug. She looked uncomfortable but accepted them all the same. Gina, though, left without saying anything.
"Hurry and change into something warm," I told her and she frowned. I ushered her to the stairs. "Go, go. Be ready in ten minutes."
"What are you doing?" my mom asked and I gestured for them to follow me to the dining room.
"I know where I'm going to do it," I whispered. "But I need your help."
I was still a little sleepy after all the food. I changed into a pair of blue jeans, black winter boots, and a long sleeved red shirt. I stopped by the coat closet and got my coat on, buttoning it up.
"Okay, Artemis," I called. "I'm ready."
He didn't respond and I frowned, going into the kitchen. My mom and Evelyn were standing in there with their coats on, too.
"Where's Artemis?" I asked.
"Oh, he wants us to meet him there," Evelyn answered.
I frowned. "Meet him where?"
"Let's go," my mom said, her voice shaking.
"Are you okay, Mom?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired from all the food."
"Okay," I said slowly and followed them to the garage.
Evelyn groaned as she started the car. "I really don't like driving on the ice."
"So why isn't Artemis driving? Where is he?"
Evelyn didn't answer and I got worried. He didn't go to talk to Gina, did he? I hoped not. She was just a little girl who didn't understand. When I was her age, I couldn't understand why my father was hurting my mom and I.
I yawned and closed my eyes. I didn't know how far Gina lived so I leaned my head back. Perhaps I could take a nap and be awake enough to try and calm Artemis down. I didn't get a chance to fall asleep, though, when the car pulled to a stop.
"This is where we drop you off," Evelyn said cheerfully.
"Why?" I asked, frowning. "The fountain is closed."
"We'll be back in an hour," my mom said. "There are some gifts we need to get now that the prices are down."
I sighed heavily. "All right. But if Artemis isn't here and you're ditching me, I'm going to kill you."
My mom just laughed and I got out. They drove off and I frowned around me. It was snowing again and I climbed over the small gate. I put my hand out to catch snowflakes, wandering around and waiting for Artemis to make himself known.
I smiled down at the holes on the ground. When spring came, I was certain it would be open again. I hummed to myself and skipped around the holes.
"Careful or you'll trip."
I squealed. "You scared me."
Artemis was standing in front of the bigger geyser. He had his coat on and a pair of nice jeans. He smiled at me and held his hands out. I walked over and took them.
"What's going on? Our mom's totally abandoned me here," I pouted.
"That's because I asked them to," he said and I glared at him.
"Not funny, Artemis," I said and he dropped my hands, smiling tenderly at me. "I have no gloves, it's freezing out, I'm sleepy, and- What are you doing?"
He put his hand into his pocket, slowly getting down on his knee. I gasped and put my hand over my mouth. I took a step back, my heart pounding in my chest.
"Ar-Artemis?" I whispered but he just kept that smile on his face.
He took a small red velvet box out of his pocket and I was finding it hard to breathe.
"We've been through a lot, Deidre," he whispered. "From the first time we met, to Julia, to your father, to today. Looking back on it all, I see how much I love you. I know our moms pretty much forced us into this," he added and opened the box, "but I'm doing this because I love you. All I can do now is hope that you agree to be my wife. Not because of our moms, not because of the business, and definitely not because of what people are expecting of us. I want you to say yes because you love me, too."
He bit his lower lip and looked up at me. I was stunned. I had no idea he would actually go through with a traditional proposal. I tried to find my voice but I couldn't. The ring was gorgeous. It was silver with a heart shaped diamond. His smile was starting to fade and he was looking scared.
I got down on my knees carefully and took his face in my hands. His eyes flicked between the two of mine as I leaned forward and kissed he gently.
"I love you, Artemis," I whispered. "I don't care what happens around us. I don't care about your family, your business, and I definitely don't care about the money. Even if we were to become homeless, I would still love you." I took a deep breath, closing my eyes. "There is nothing I'd love more than to marry you."
He pressed his lips to mine and pulled me close. I kissed him back, tears of joy falling down my face as I wrapped my arms around his neck. I leaned into him and he fell onto his back, laughing into my lips.
I heard people clapping and looked up. Our moms were gathered as was Larry and some of his family members. I laughed and got off him, standing up and straightening my jacket. He stood and slid the ring onto my finger. I kissed him again.
"I was afraid you were going to say no," he said breathlessly.
I hugged him, grinning into his neck.


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Sep 23, 2013 at 10:29 am #1307957
I'm having a heck of a time determining or finding info on bear can requirements for SEKI and Yosemite. More specifically, what is approved. I have an old, green Ursack TKO with the aluminum insert upgrade and a Bearicade Weekender along with me. The Garcia is at home in the closet. Help!
Headed out Thursday after work if the snow is gone by then up high. Snow on Jobes Peak which is SE of Lk Tahoe, can see it from work. May go to Evolution Valley via Lemarck Col or if I can't get to any place worth seeing in a five/six day trip, may opt for Yosemite.
DuaneSep 23, 2013 at 10:42 am #2027317
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For Yosemite or SEKI, just about any commercial hard bear canister is OK. I've gotten my permit before with Garcia, Bear Vault, and Bear Boxer. I have never seen anybody getting a permit with Ursack.
At most of the permit stations in Yosemite, they have a printed illustration that shows each of the common commercial hard bear canisters. They ask you which one you have, and you have to point at the right one in the illustration. If you have -something- that is not in the illustration, they will ask to see it, and that will give them a chance to reject something that is nonapproved.
–B.G.–Sep 23, 2013 at 11:20 am #2027327
Don AmundsonBPL Member
@amrowincLocale: Southern California
The approved list is here.
For overall information and requirements in other jurisdictions
Backcountry rangers are more practical so if you happen to have something like the Bearikade Scout or a custom sized Bearikade that are not officially approved I highly doubt and there would be any question.Sep 23, 2013 at 1:00 pm #2027370
Thank you, on my break.
DuaneSep 23, 2013 at 10:00 pm #2027576
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"Backcountry are more practical so if you happen to have something like the Bearikade Scout or a custom sized Bearikade that are not officially approved I highly doubt and there would be any question."
I believe all versions of the Bearikade are accepted. I have the bearikade Scout and in response to the question I have answered Bearikade or Bearikade Scout and I they have always accepted that.Sep 24, 2013 at 5:55 am #2027642
Last week, I was able to see where cans were required in SEKI, but could not find the list of approved canisters. I brought my TKO and my Weekender both in case I went one place or the other. One for peace of mind, the other for any approved canister areas. I'll have to see how deep snow is later.
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Apartment includes 2 bedrooms, free WIFI, big terrace, kitchenette, bath and toilet.
quiet - windows and terrace are to court side.
Garage parking close the apartment in parallel street in the price 500 CZK per 1 day (cca 18 EUR) or guarded parking at metro stop Florenc in the price 400 CZK per 1 day or free street parking on parking clock, which is gratis from Friday 18:00 till Monday 8:00 (for example close at Prague main railway station) or free street parking in Prague 5 on the other river side in str. Janackovo nabrezi.
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Mirek värd min son som var på resa med två vänner. Detta är hans recenzione:
Vi var hälsad av Mirek, som hade många slag och förklarade allt.
huset är liten men väldigt mysigt och ligger i stadens centrum så mycket bekvämt att komma runt. wi fi var inte för iphone Huset är utrustat med alla bekvämligheter som jag rekommenderar det mycket trevlig resa
Mirek ha ospitato mio figlio che viaggiava con due amici. Questo è la sua recenzione:
siamo stati accolti da mirek, che era molte gentile e ci ha spiegato tutto.
la casa è piccola ma molto accogliente e posizionata in pieno centro quindi molto comoda per spostarsi. il wi fi c'era ma non per iphone la casa è dotata di tutti i comfort ve la consiglio vivamente buon viaggio
Perfect location, right in the centre of Prague. Walking distance to major points of interest.
The apartment is located next to a bar or a disco. It was very noisy until late at night. Loud music and people yelling and arguing. I couldn't sleep.
The bathroom was dirty.
I didn't feel comfortable in this place.
The host sent someone to pick me up from the airport - for a fee. That person was nice.
This apartment is in a great location, right between Wenceslas Sq and Old Town Sq. The Living/bedroom and kitchen are very spacious with high ceilings and big windows. The bathroom is adequate but cramped. The only other negatives are that the bed could be more comfortable and there is a disco nearby that is audible well after midnight (easily blocked out with earplugs). The positives far outweigh the negatives.
We were picked up by Mirek at the central bus station and led to the apartment. It is situated ideally close to the Old Town Square and really quiet at night, although all the amenities are close by: good inexpensive restaurants,shops of all kinds.
The apartment is fully equipped, everything is working. The furniture could be re-
newed, however. We really enjoyed our stay.
Warning: Do not exchange money at changing offices without asking for commission rates ! I forgot to ask at Uhelny trh , close to Havelka ulicka,
and they charged me 27% !!!! commission. Shame on them!
Mierk met us at the train station which was so generous of him to do. Once we got to his apartment he spent quite a bit of time recommending various sites to see and places to eat. THANKS Mirek for the tip on eating at the nearby " Two Cats"! We ate there twice!! The location was perfect...so near to Old Town Square and the middle of things but because of that it was a bit noisy for us at night. If noise is not an issue for you, we would recommend it as a good place to stay.
Rob and Cie
The flat was alright, cheap and the introduction by the host was good as well.
It was a warm welcome an introduction to the flat an its specifics. We enjoyed the various tips and informations that were made available. The flat itself is clean and useful equiped. We did not miss anything and were enjoying a flat in the city center of Prague. A very recommendable flat for a city trip. W-Lan was a plus.
Everithing just perfect
What you see is what you get. The apartment is old - and so is the interieur. The tiles are still loose in the hallway, and are actually a little risky to step on. The apartment has some nice big rooms and is funtional. Their is a small balcony, but not really anything you would sit one. The elevator was brand new, so no problem there. When you´re taking a bath, you most hold the showerhead in the hand all the time, because it cannot be fixed at the wall.
Mirek was a nive guy and took him self good time to show us around in Prague and tell us about good places and found a place where we could park for free. The biggest problem with this apartment is that the noise from the railway station is extreme from 0600 in the morning.
What a great apartment! It's exactly like the pictures, easy access to everything you'd want to see.. Trains just across the road ..tram right outside.. We want thank the lovely people (N,J n D) who made our stay extra special (helped us with our "how do we get to this or that" who very so very helpful!) We'd stay again! We loved the apartment and Prague!
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Apartment of 57 sq. meters, situated on the second floor, in Sithonia, Chalkidiki, only 110 meters away from a sandy beach. It consists of two bedrooms, a living room with fireplace, fitted kitchen and a bathroom. There are also a barbecue and parking space in the fenced land area with the well-groomed garden. The balconies offer an amazing view of the sea.
Apartment – Poligiros, Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Poka yoke was initially conceptualized in Japan over half a century ago by Shigeo Shingo who was employed as an engineer by Toyota. In Japanese, poka yoke means "mistake-proofing". Yoke is literally "to avoid," and poka translates as "inadvertent errors." Poka yoke, therefore, is a technique for building mechanisms into a process that prevent people from making mistakes.
It's illogical to expect that production staff can perform like machinery, with identical outcomes each time. Just one minor interruption or distraction can result in work being processed incorrectly. Badly designed processes needing close supervision will often contribute to unplanned problems.
Poka yoke encourages designing or developing equipment, methodologies, and procedures to make it very difficult for anyone to make errors. It's based on the principle that everybody should work collectively to attain zero defects and that product quality begins with good design.
Many examples of poka yoke exist in daily life even outside of the workplace.
- Microwaves turn off automatically when the door is open to prevent waves from escaping.
- USB cables only fit into computers or laptops in one direction.
- Elevator doors sense when someone is in the doorway to prevent people from getting crushed.
In manufacturing environments, poka yoke is used in many ways:
- Machine guards prevent people from reaching into dangerous machinery.
- A piece of equipment won't start when someone is standing too close to it.
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Official figures published last month showed consumer debt stood at £993bn in May, with mortgage lending accounting for £818bn and the remainder made up of money outstanding on credit cards, store cards, loans and overdrafts. Thursday's figures will show the £1 trillion barrier, equivalent to the entire economy's annual output, was broken in June.
Record employment, low interest rates and easy credit have led to a 'spend now, pay later' frenzy that is increasing personal debt at the equivalent of £1m every four minutes. The average household has debts of £40,000.
The figures indicate the four interest rate rises delivered by the Bank's monetary policy committee since last November have failed to dampen consumers' appetite for borrowing. They will also add to concerns that many are taking on debts they cannot afford, with rising interest rates expected to put the squeeze on thousandsof families. The number of people going bust in the final three months of last year surged to its highest in more than a decade.
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said: 'The debt bubble facing the British public is truly awesome. Even the interest we pay on that debt is beyond comprehension, running at £6 billion every month. If interest rates continue to rise, as they are expected to do, if house prices fall, if oil prices continue to rise and inflation rises, many people could find themselves in difficulty.'
Laurence Baxter, senior policy adviser at the Consumers' Association, reckons credit cards create the biggest problems. He said many people use plastic like a personal loan, failing to clear their balance at the end of each month and getting stung by a relatively high rate of interest.
'People are spending their working life racking up debt when they should be paying into savings accounts and pensions. If the situation is bad now, it is going to be even worse in 10 to 15 years' time,' he said.
Research by Citizens Advice, which has seen an alarming 47% increase in the number of new consumer debt problems over the past five years, found that the amount owed by more than 9000 of its clients surveyed over a one-month period averaged nearly 14 times their monthly income. Almost half had found their creditors unhelpful and a quarter were receiving treatment for stress, depression and anxiety.
Citizens Advice chief executive David Harker said: 'The credit boom of recent years has brought great advantages to many individuals and families and helped raise standards of living generally, but it is also taking a huge toll on the lives of those who have found themselves on the wrong side of the very narrow dividing line between successfully managing credit commitments and plunging into serious debt.'
Even the Bank is getting twitchy. Alastair Clark, chief adviser to Governor Mervyn King, said recently that Britain could suffer a Japanese-style stagnation if household debt triggers a consumer slump.
True to form, City economists are divided on whether the borrowing binge will end in tears. Vicky Redwood at Capital Economics says that, on the face of it, households are having an easy time servicing their debt. Interest payments as a percentage of income are just 7.6%, half the 1990 peak of 15%.
Once repayments are taken into account, however, the situation is more worrying. Redwood has calculated that if interest rates rise to 5.25%, as markets expect, and debt continues to rise at its current rate, the ratio would reach 24.5%.
But David Hillier, chief UK economist at Barclays Capital, is sanguine. 'If the key question is 'Can we really afford this?', the answer is, in our view, a resounding Yes,' he said.
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A One-Pan Lemon Rice And Chicken Recipe Made For Busy Nights
You know those nights when you want a nice home-cooked meal, but you don't want to spend hours getting it prepared? This dish is your answer. It's been a regular in my dinner rotation for years and I don't know what's taken me so long to get in on here!
I was inspired to make this dish when I first came across this recipe on Pinterest. I love a good one-pot meal. The hands-on time is minimal and then you get to kick back and relax, or knock a couple of things off of your to-do list while your dinner simmers away and your house fills with delicious aromas. Bonus -- not only is the prep super easy, but so is your cleanup! One pot and done.
Even if you're not a huge kale fan, you'll like this one. Cooking the leaves makes them more tender and less bitter, and with the lemon and spices, it's the perfect combo. Even the kiddos will like this one!
What are your favourite one pot dishes? I'm always looking for more and would love to try out some of your go-tos! Share your creations with me on Facebook or Instagram and tag Lindsay Jang,RD or @lindsayjangrd with the hastag #inthekitchenwithLJ.
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One Pan Turmeric Lemon Rice with Kale and Seared Chicken
Serves 4
- 1 lb chicken thighs, boneless and skinless
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 large shallot, minced
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 large head of curly kale, torn into bite sized pieces (thick middle stems removed)
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 1 cup of brown rice
- 2 cups chicken stock, low sodium
- 1 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt
- 4 tsp olive oil for drizzling at the end
1. Salt and pepper both sides of the chicken.
2. Heat the oil in a medium sized frying pan for one to two minutes until hot. Add the chicken and sear for about two or three minutes on each side, allowing the edges to brown.
3. Remove the chicken from the pan and place on a plate.
4. Add the shallot to the pan and sautée for two to three minutes until it becomes translucent.
5. Add the cumin, turmeric and kale. Stir around and let the spices brown for one to two minutes until they become fragrant.
6. Add the rice and chicken stock. Place the chicken back on top of the mixture. Place a lid on the pan and reduce heat to a low simmer.
7. Simmer for 30 to 45 minutes until all of the chicken stock has been absorbed and the rice is cooked.
8. Remove from heat and divide the Greek yogurt and olive olive between the dishes.
Serve and enjoy!
For more recipes and kitchen inspiration, check out www.lindsayjang.com or find Lindsay on Instagram here or Facebook.
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The fun of paella is that it's a dish whose flavor you have to build, phase by phase, as you layer ingredients into the paella pan. You can see the dish darkening and intensifying as you move through the steps. In NWB's Moorish Paella you blend a spice mixture of caraway, smoked and sweet paprikas, and cumin, and add it a spoonful at a time so the heat and flavor magnify, and by the end you have a dish that reminds us in its burly spirit of jambalaya. - Amanda & Merrill Get the recipe Photo: Sarah Shatz
This pilaf breathes new life into a familiar classic. Both the quinoa and the hearty strips of lacinato kale (you can use chard or standard kale) crunch lightly between your teeth, and Meyer lemon juice and zest keep the quinoa from being bland. Fresh goat cheese and walnut oil just barely coat the warm pilaf, giving it a creamy, tangy finish, and toasted pine nuts lend some crunch. We love the technique of layering the quinoa and the kale and cooking it all in one pot. - Amanda & Merrill Get the recipe Photo: Sarah Shatz
There is nothing skimpy about healthierkitchen's brown rice version of this Bayou classic. Brimming with shrimp, chicken and andouille, this virtuous one-dish dinner feels absolutely indulgent. - Amanda & Merrill Get the recipe Photo: James Ransom
We were a bit skeptical of this traditional Jordanian dish -- especially for summer -- but boy were we wrong. This is one of those recipes, like pot au feu, that seem to defy the laws of cooking by coaxing an intensely flavorful sauce from water rather than broth or wine. Here, beef and beans soften into lushness, enveloped by a silky gravy of tomatoes, garlic, coriander and cumin. We used cheap stew meat, which still required almost two hours of cooking, and sturdier-than-average green beans, which held up nicely even after nearly double the recommended cooking time. - Amanda & Merrill Get the recipe Photo: Sarah Shatz
Anyone who knows pho knows that it's all about the broth. WinnieAb uses turkey leftovers (meat and stock, which should really be homemade for this) to coax the most out of this soup. She also adds some warm spices -- coriander, cloves, star anise and cinnamon -- which she toasts beforehand to amp up the broth. Chopped kale is an unusual addition that adds some welcome heft -- we preferred 1 cup rather than 2. As with any pho, don't forget to squeeze in some fresh lime juice just before eating -- it provides a welcome hit of acid that really wakes up the dish. - Amanda & Merrill Get the recipe Photo: Sarah Shatz
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reviews – The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn
Deseret News, Dennis Lythgoe
This entertaining collection of essays includes eighteen articles that originally appeared in the quarterly, all about growing up in Utah. There is a lot of laughter and energy in these essays because most of them concern childhood experiences, those unique events that become emblazoned upon the memory. Some are written by historians, but an educator, a physician, a musician, and a poet are also represented among the authors.
Stanford Layton, former managing editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly, is now teaching at Weber State University. He is the editor of three other anthologies based on his favorite articles from the quarterly.
As implied in the title, the theme of this volume has to do with youth and the experience of growing up in Utah. There are eighteen articles; nine are first-person memoirs and nine are third-person narrative histories.
With a title like "The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn," one would expect that many of life's lighter moments would be highlighted in the collection. In fact, in the title story you learn of how the skeleton of a convicted (and executed) murderer ended up in the barn of a member of the LDS First Presidency. Other favorite moments for me included Fae Dix's "Never Change a Song," in which she tells of her adolescent humiliation when her father refused to get on board with the church hymn committee and loudly sang the old militant lyrics to the LDS hymn, "O Ye Mountains High" during a choir performance at a ward sacrament meeting.
In "My Garden of Eden," LaMar Petersen recalls the time in his fifth year when he was led by his father into the family kitchen where, "in the presence of my four sisters, I was placed on the table and pinioned with firm hands while Dr. Olsen wielded his efficient scalpel. My screaming bloody murder did not dissuade him from performing the ancient rite of circumcision. I was plenty mad for two good reasons: it hurt like hell and my sisters were not welcome at ringside.
In "Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City," Robert Mikkelsen includes a description of the town's "crack wine gang" who, under the cover of night "armed with braces, half-inch bits, pre-shaped hardwood plugs, hammers, shovels, and gallon lard cans" could rob an east-bound train of several gallons of "California red" from its wooden wine-tank car as it stopped in preparation to enter Echo Canyon. He also remembered a time when he watched an attractive young Hollywood-bound actress get off of a train. He watched her for some time and felt duty bound to watch over her until her connecting train came in. He was very attracted to her but recalled his disappointment at her reaction to the train depot's outdoor toilet. He stated, "It was the nicest one in town, a big, roomy four-holer, two in the women's side and two in the men's. The women's side had a strong latch, and it got scrubbed clean once a week. But when she saw it she said, 'Good gawwd.'"
My review of the book's fun moments would not be complete without mentioning "Glimpses of Ice Skating and Coasting" by Miriam Murphy and Craig Fuller. It includes disruptions of games my wife absolutely refused to let me read to our children. One is the game of "pomp," which is a game of tag played on a frozen lake with burning tires for goals, the other was "hooky bobber," which was a form of skating behind automobiles by holding onto the bumper while wearing smooth-soled shoes.
There were also a number of serious, somber, and even heart-wrenching recollections. It is hard not to weep with Saline Fraser in "One Long Day That Went on Forever," as you read her memoirs of what happened in Castle Gate when "Castle Gate Mine No. 2" exploded on March 8, 1924. This article is especially timely because of the recent coal mine accidents that have occurred in Utah and elsewhere.
"Hide and Seek: Children on the Underground" is an unintentionally timely inclusion, considering what has happened recently in Texas with the FLDS children. It recounts the painful experiences children and families were put through when LDS polygamists went "underground" to evade U.S. marshals in the 1870s and 80s, as the polygamists attempted to follow God's command to live "the principle." It puts a human face on so many pioneer stories, as well as the stories currently on the news, and raises many interesting questions: How did they simultaneously teach their children to obey God's commands and be honest and at the same time deceive strangers and even friends about their family relationships? How much should parents let children suffer for their religious convictions? One idea I especially pondered after reading the article was how, given the similarities between present polygamists and past polygamists, modern Latter-day Saints can celebrate the willingness of nineteenth-century Saints to suffer for their convictions while so quickly dismissing the FLDS for their determination to do the same?
Two other serious articles caused me much contemplation. In Yoshiko Uchida's "Topaz: City of Dust," she described living in the Topaz concentration camp and of the vain attempts she and her fellow prisoners made to keep up a normal life during their imprisonment in the "land of the free." In Sondra Jones's "Redeeming the Indian: Enslavement of Children in New Mexico and Utah," the author tells of the attempts by Catholics and Mormons to Chrstianize the American Indians of the Southwest and the lasting impact this had on the native culture.
The only problem I had with this book was Layton's inclusion of Gary Bergera's article, "The Murderous Pain of Living: Thoughts on the Life and Death of Everett Ruess." It seemed out of place within the theme of "growing up in Utah." The other articles all followed the theme as either recollections of people who had spent some portion of their childhood in Utah or as third-person accounts of what it had been like during different periods of Utah's history. I must admit that I had never heard of Ruess, and it seems he may be more significant than I realized. However, it seemed to me that Reuess did not do much "growing up" in Utah. He spent some time in Utah's wilderness and found great solace there. He even disappeared and probably died there. But the article is about how Everett may or may not have had medical problems, may or may not have had depression, may or may not have been bisexual, and may or may not have committed suicide in Utah. It is an intriguing article and has merit in its own right. It deserves to be in a collection, just not this one.
As I read "The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn," I laughed, I cried, I learned some great lessons, and I gained a greater appreciation for my home state and all of its idiosyncrasies. The articles in this book are the kind that make history fun and cause you to care about all of those names you read in books or hear about in church and school classes. I recommend this book to all. It is a worthy entry to the series, a great complement to the historical quarterly, and a wonderful accomplishment by Stanford Layton and Signature Books.
Utah Historical Quarterly, Colleen Whitley
"The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn" presents episodes in Utah history from the viewpoint of children, a crucial and often overlooked perspective. Stanford Layton, former editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly, has chosen eighteen excellent articles previously published in the quarterly, each accompanied by an historic photograph, dealing with topics that reflect the state's history and that range from hilarious to tragic.
That contrast becomes evident in the first two articles. Fae Dix recalls her acute teen-age angst when her father refused to follow the instructions of the LDS Church's music committee to soften the militant lyrics of several old Mormon hymns. When he belted out the old lyrics, louder than the rest of the choir sang the new ones, her sister found a method of revenge that could occur only to a Mormon child and that left me laughing out loud. Immediately following that are Saline Fraser's memories, carefully recorded and annotated by her daughter, Marianne, of March 8, 1924. She traces her experiences and emotions as the family hears the explosions at the Castle Gate Coal Mine and subsequently learns that both her father and grandfather were among the 172 miners killed.
Eleven of the eighteen articles are first-person accounts. Seven describe the authors' lives in specific Utah towns: LaMar Petersen recalls his family home and his father's store, which included the post office, in Eden. Robert S. Mikkelsen describes growing up with Union Pacific trains running near his home in Echo and then the town's death when those trains stopped coming. Josephine Pace remembers the buildings, but most of all the people, of Kimberly. "Growing up Greek in Helper," Helen Z. Papanikolas felt safe in her small town of Greeks, Italians, Irish, and Americans despite forays by the Ku Klux Klan. Fawn M. Brodie remembers the debts and difficulties associated with the family farm in Huntsville.
Yoshiko Uchida recalls a very different kind of town, Topaz, the camp hastily cobbled together to contain Japanese Americans interned during World War II. From the poignancy of a Boy Scout marching band greeting new arrivals at the gates of the still incomplete town to dust and cold that drove people inside inadequate buildings, she helps readers feel her own emotions and those of the children in the nursery school where she and her sister worked.
Herbert Z. Lund Jr. remembers the skeleton of a murderer executed at the Utah State Prison, "bedded down with old issues of the Improvement Era." His father, a physician at the prison, had been given the remains and boiled it to a skeleton in a field north of Beck's Hot Springs (reportedly terrifying a passing hobo) to make it into a teaching specimen. Nevada W. Driggs shares her mother's stories collected from the pioneers of Parowan, including her grandmother's recollections of a nearly frozen John C. Fremont recovering in her bed.
Seven articles are academic in approach, from David A. Hales's collection of stories about gypsies coming through town to Miriam B. Murphy and Craig Fuller's study of children's winter games in ice and snow. Gary James Bergera uses Everett Ruess's writings to examine his mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert. Sondra Jones compares whites raising Indian children purchased in New Mexico (to be slaves) and Utah (to be redeemed) and finds striking similarities between the treatment children received in both states. Davis Bitton compares views of late nineteenth-century Mormon frontier youth from LDS members and gentiles.
Two articles focus on polygamy. William Hartley's "in-depth look at an everyday, garden variety plural LDS family during its child-rearing years" between 1865 and 1896 presents a careful study of the ordinary elements of growing up and the children's subsequent behavior as adults, while Martha Sonntag Bradley's discussion of children hiding from federal authorities when one or both parents were sent to prison in the late nineteenth century may well offer insights into the feelings of FLDS children recently taken from their parents in Texas.
"The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn," the fourth volume in Signature's Favorite Readings series, entertains while it informs. Each selection is fascinating by itself, and collectively they present a broad and inclusive picture of significant elements in Utah's history.


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From the video, it sounds like a good shoot. The neighbor is for no charges (not that that matters) and the cop indicated it sounded like a good SD shoot (reading between the lines), but he left room for the DA to move forward. Given that he knows the DA (as does the OP), it sounds dicey for the appartment dweller.
To me, he gave notice that he was armed and told the invader to get lost. Invader gets lost but comes right back - sorry about your luck, but you are doing a B&E in an occupied bedroom... In my opinion, the DA should no-bill this one if it has to go before the GJ, otherwise, drop it.


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The ground floor of the old Edinburgh Victorian railway hotel is flooded – apparently something to do with the tram system the city has been struggling to build for so many years. Soggy cardboard sits on top of where the carpeting should be. The hotel rooms have a faded Gothic air. It's an appropriately jarring location for an interview with Toby Jones, the brilliant 45-year-old British character actor who has landed a rare starring role in Peter Strickland's very strange new feature, Berberian Sound Studio.
Jones plays Gilderoy, a sound engineer from Dorking recruited to work on a very lurid Italian horror movie. He's a nervous, repressed, lower middle-class Brit adrift in a world of arm waving Mediterranean types. As Jones puts it, he's a "supremely timid, unconfident man who relies on his ears." His job, listening to and recording curses, screams and incantations, slowly drives him mad.
Gilderoy is certainly a departure for Jones. "One of the key benefits of being an actor is that you have to turn unpredictability into a virtue," Jones declares. "That's requires not bracketing yourself into what you do."
We're more used to seeing Jones portray real-life characters. Like Michael Sheen, he is one of British cinema's kings of the biopics. In the last decade, Jones has been on screen as American writer Truman Capote (Infamous), as Eighteenth-Century British artist William Hogarth (A Harlot's Progress), as Marilyn Monroe's agent Arthur Jacobs (My Week With Marilyn), as George W Bush's svengali/pit-bull Karl Rove (Oliver Stone's W.) and as talent agent Swifty Lazar (Frost/Nixon.) Later this year, he will be on our televisions as Alfred Hitchcock opposite Sienna Miller's Tippi Hedren in The Girl, Julian Jarrold's psycho-drama about creativity and sexual obsession.
Jones was drawn to the "poetry" in Strickland's screenplay for Berberian Sound Studio and relished appearing in a film in which narrative wasn't the be-all and end-all. He felt a "kinship" with the harassed and increasingly neurotic Gilderoy. Jones himself grew up in Surrey, not far from Dorking. His father is the character actor Freddie Jones, who appeared in David Lynch and Federico Fellini films as well as plenty of British horror movies almost as cheesy as the one Gilderoy is working on. Furthermore, Jones knows how it feels to be marginalised and persecuted. Years ago, he won a small role in Working Title's Julia Roberts movie Notting Hill, but ended up on the cutting-room floor (the experience, which still rankles, inspired the experimental play Missing Reel.)
The actor's background isn't quite what you'd expect. He is not Rada and the RSC. He studied at the Lecoq School in Paris. Lecoq, like Marcel Marceau, was a master of mime. Jones is intensely interested in the physical aspects of the characters he plays: how they move, their tics and mannerisms. When he speaks about any given role, he sounds like an anthropologist describing a subject.
Gilderoy is a slight and unobtrusive figure who hovers in the background. By complete contrast, when he was playing Hitchcock roughing up Tippi Hedren, Jones had to pile on the pounds (or, at least, endure four hours of prosthetics every day).
"Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me," Jones reflects on the task. The actor studied his subject with typical diligence, delving into Hitch's "fantastically interesting interior life" and trying to penetrate beyond "the carapace" that the celebrated English director created.
"The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?" Jones falls into an uncanny Hitchcock impersonation, capturing perfectly the "woody, cigar and drink" soaked tones with their hint of LA and remnants of Cockney.
"At the end of the day, I will be inventing stuff that isn't in any public domain – how I get out of a chair, how I offer a drink, how I open a door, how I shake a hand," he says of his Hitch.
One key element to Hitchcock, he adds, is the drooping jowl. "That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial," Jones says. "There is something about his silhouette that became his brand."
It's an impressive performance combining creepiness and pathos in equal measure. At one point, we see him leaping at Sienna Miller's Hedren in the back of a car. He moves lithely for a man of his girth and age. We're also treated to Jones's Hitch reciting endless dirty limericks. He's the boss and the predator, but Jones is also able to convey the character's insecurity. The actor is at pains to point out his Hitch is a performance, not a piece of mimicry. Biopics, he adds, are only worth watching if they "tell you stuff you didn't know."Before he was recruited to play Truman Capote in Infamous (2006), he "had only ever been a day player on movies." Even if he had appeared in a Harry Potter film, he was used to playing blink-and-you'll-miss-them roles. In Infamous, by contrast, he was in almost every scene. The film was well received. All of a sudden, Jones was in demand. "A diminutive actor with a titanic talent," said The New York Observer.
"There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about – the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that," says Jones. On Berberian Sound Studio, director Peter Strickland acknowledges that there were details in Jones's performance that he didn't even notice until he started editing.
These days, at least, Jones doesn't have to worry about ending on the cutting-room floor. He has just finished Serena, Susanne Bier's new Depression-era movie starring Jennifer Lawrence. "I play a sheriff, which I never thought I'd get to do." Meanwhile, as an antidote to screen acting, he's preparing a West End show inspired by The Crazy Gang.
The character roles in Hollywood movies remain in plentiful supply. However, Jones laments, films as idiosyncratic Berberian Sound Studio simply don't come along very often. "They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground."
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-708?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12852501#action_12852501 ] Joshua Harlow commented on HDFS-708: ------------------------------------ Looks good to me as well. Just a couple thoughts/questions. 1. Would it be correct to have a "create" set of jobs job that would ensure before reads/deletes/writes.. that the files exist (instead of generating in a previous job)? That way the data is created on demand, instead of needing to have a separate job that runs beforehand that just does data population (this stage would not affect the overall timing allotted and could be done at the start of the testing)? 2. It would probably be useful to add in a seed number so that the tests can be "mostly" repeated (ie write and deletes can't really be truly repeated since they modify underlying storage)? 3. Might it be useful to add in the future the ability to specify your own distribution "objects" that "generate" operation objects so that the current set of operations can be expanded without core changes, ie a plugin like framework for generating the distribution and for generating the actual set of operations that will occur (allowing for something like a AppendReadDelete operation or similar which will be created distributed according to a square wave as an example)? > A stress-test tool for HDFS. > ---------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-708 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-708 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: test, tools > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: SLiveTest.pdf > > > It would be good to have a tool for automatic stress testing HDFS, which would provide IO-intensive load on HDFS cluster. > The idea is to start the tool, let it run overnight, and then be able to analyze possible failures. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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