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Nobel-prize winning author Doris Lessing has died. She was 94. According to reports, she died peacefully at her home in London.
Lessing had a prolific career. She wrote more than 50 novels including: The Golden Notebook, The Sirian Experiments, A Proper Marriage and The Good Terrorist. In her career, she received dozens of awards throughout her career, most notably winning the Nobel prize for literature, the David Cohen British Literature Prize, Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize, the International Catalonia Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985 and winning the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005.
Here is more about the author from The Guardian:
The American author Joyce Carol Oates said: "It might be said of Doris Lessing, as Walt Whitman boasted of himself: I am vast, I contain multitudes. For many, Lessing was a revolutionary feminist voice in 20th-century literature – though she resisted such categorisation, quite vehemently. For many others, Lessing was a 'space fiction' prophet, using the devices and idioms of the fantastic to address human issues of evolution and the environment.


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wikiHow to Make Sassafras Mead
Sassafras mead makes a cheap, wholesome and pleasant beverage for warm weather.
- 2 quarts boiling water
- 3 1/2 lbs brown sugar, best quality
- 1 1/2 pints molasses, best quality
- 1/4 lb tartaric acid
- 1 tsp sassafras essence (no more)
- 1/4 pound carbonate of soda
1Mix the boiling water gradually with the sugar, molasses and tartaric acid.
2Stir well. When cool, strain it into a large jug or pan.
3Mix in the sassafras essence.
4Transfer the mixture to clean bottles. It will fill about half a dozen bottles.
5Cork or seal each bottle tightly and keep in a cool place. It will be fit for use next day.
6Serve. To prepare a glass of sassafras mead for drinking, put a large tablespoonful of the mead into half a tumbler full of ice-water, stir into it a half teaspoonful of the soda and it will immediately foam up to the top.
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- The essence of sassafras, tartaric acid and carbonate of soda can be obtained at the pharmacist's and some supermarkets.
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- Mixing container
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- Clean and sterilized bottles
- Tumbler per person
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- Sourced from F.L. Gillette, The White House Cookbook, (1887) available in the public domain via Project Gutenberg. The eBook used for the source of this article is available for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Aero-Life Aeration Systems, a provider of environmentally friendly wastewater treatment solutions for restaurants and food service operations announced that it has signed a distributorship agreement with EnviroMaster in Hewitt, Texas, and a certified reseller agreement with Aero-Clean in El Paso, Texas. The agreements mark Aero-life's growing presence in the southwest, in addition to its established markets in Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico and North Carolina. "Nationwide, the cost of collecting, treating and reclaiming wastewater in order to return it to the environment and meet existing quality standards is expected to reach nearly $23 billion in the next 20 years," says Dean Keller, Aero-Life president. "About 40 percent of municipal waste collection system maintenance problems are the direct result of foodservice waste entering the system. Aero-Life's proven natural aeration technology is a cost-effective way to eliminate a large portion of this waste material at its source by turning restaurant grease traps into mini wastewater treatment plants. As we partner with more distributors throughout the company, we are helping restaurant operators and municipalities address this costly, widespread issue." Developed and patented in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories, Aero-Life's proprietary application works by creating a healthy, oxygen-rich environment in which kitchen wastewater can be cleaned and clarified cost-effectively, without the use of chemicals. A low-energy solution, the system requires only 40 watts to run, reduces waste at its point of generation by 85 percent or more, and eliminates the pollution and energy associated with hauling waste. Restaurants and food service operations can reduce their operational costs by as much as $10,000 per year using the system.
Aero-Life's distributorship agreement with EnviroMaster gives the company exclusive rights to market, install and service Aero-Life systems throughout most of Texas. Owners Coy Brewer and Ronnie Stephens also own Texas Fire & Safety, which provides hood cleaning and fire prevention equipment to restaurants throughout the state. Through EnviroMaster, they will target existing clients and have already installed systems at three restaurant locations in Hillsboro, Temple and Waco.
"Being in and out of restaurants as much as we are, we understand the challenges of treating wastewater and believe there is a real market need for this type of environmentally friendly solution," says Brewer. "The Waco system has been very well received and has attracted the attention of city industrial engineers who recognize the potential of using aeration technology on a much larger scale."
As a certified reseller, Aero-Clean will target restaurant operators and wastewater municipalities throughout West Texas and southern New Mexico. The company has already installed several Aero-Life units in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and El Paso.
"Aero-Life offers a simple solution to a complex problem, and helps address the challenge of wastewater treatment in a way that is a win-win for businesses and municipalities," says Greg Vogel, Aero-Clean president. "We have received a very positive response from restaurants and wastewater treatment officials. They know this is a serious issue and hope the Aero-Life solution will help address some of the challenges they face."


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Ten Great Cemetery Scenes For Halloween
It's Halloween, folks. There are precious few other times a year when spending countless hours in front of the TV absorbing as much horror as humanly possible isn't considered a huge waste of a day. But on Halloween, you get a pass. Unless you're me. In which case horror is just a way of life. And if you are me, then take out the garbage ya lazy ass! I digress.
If there is one often overlooked staple in the realm of the horror flick, it's the cemetery scene. The dark, foreboding gloom that meanders across a desolate landscape peppered with crooked stones and weather-worn reminders of the long deceased. Mottled gray statues precariously teeter on the edge of disarray; granite crucifixes sit wasting away atop pocked markers that once stood proud against a well-groomed yard of eternal rest. I could do this all day, but instead, let's check out ten standout scenes that feature the ghoulish graveyard.
As classically bad (slash) classically sort of good this movie has become in its cult-like status over the years, it's still a colossal piece of cinematic shit. Ed Wood was to eccentric directors what Michael Jordan was to baseball. That is to say, not even in the same league. Yet, his niche was carved and his name will forever be associated with the Hollywood bizarre. If you've ever seen Tim Burton's Ed Wood, then you know all the troubles that plagued Plan 9. If not, here's the rundown. Suffice it to say, there was a graveyard… of sorts. But you'll never forget it!
By this point in the Jason Voorhees saga, our titular killer has pretty much become a death-defying zombie. He's survived countless campers and even a few people who stupidly decided to try to stop him. Some were met with a modicum of success, only to find out in the following installment that Jason doesn't die. At all. So what happens here that makes this an entry in the cemetery genre? Check it out.
The zombie genre was really coming into its own back in 1985. George Romero had already given us Night, Day, and Dawn of the Dead and soon it was to be Dan O'Bannon's turn at the undead helm. You see, Romero and O'Bannon had an understanding: Romero could do all the 'Of The Dead's' he wanted, and O'Bannon got to make 'Of The Living Dead's'. It seemed to work out just fine. Especially in this tender little love story, where we get to see scream queen Linnea Quigly dance like you read about. The scene we want to embed is actually NSFW, so this trailer will have to do.
Stephen King's imagination is like some kind of playground for the sick and twisted. His horror tales are legendary, and quite a few have been made (both triumphantly and ridiculously) into feature films. Pet Sematary definitely falls into the far better than most category. Basically, we get the story of an emotional wreck of a father (King does these characters to perfection) who loses his cat, son and wife to untimely demises. All in turn receive burials in the eponymous Sematary, and each become… well, let's just say not the same.
Blake and Willie are grave robbers. But hey, they only do it to make cash by selling the corpses to a doctor in need of cadavers. That is, until the good doctor decides to blackmail them into free services lest he notify the authorities. On their next dig, the men unearth what might be a destroyed vampire complete with staked heart. Once the stake is removed, the corpse resumes its undead activities, until re-staked. This gives the guys an idea, and from here on out it's only the supernatural. Especially since the vampire lady ends up killing the doctor. No more free services!
Hey look! It's something I already wrote about this movie! It's not plagiarism to copy your own stuff! "Rupert Everett is our lead here, which somehow became a springboard to his future (see: current) career as a C-level actor taking roles in saccharine chick flicks. This movie was so uncomfortably effed up that Rupert turned into a closet homosexual just to get the bad taste of Hollywood dick out of his mouth, and, oddly, vice versa. Basically, Everett plays the guardian of a graveyard, all the while filling the slots and maintaining the grounds. Oh, right, I almost forgot… the dead rise as zombies! That's an important part."
Arguably the first flick that started the whole big zombie ball a-rollin'. The Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead has quite possibly one of the most classic cemetery scenes of all time. It all comes across so innocuously: Barbara and Johnny are visiting their father's grave when, out of the blue, someone starts ambling toward them who definitely wasn't there a minute ago… holy crap! There coming to get you, Barbara!
What? Another King adaptation? Yeah, why not. In a film where the entire premise is a huge allegory for women going through their "changes," where might one find a worthy cemetery scene? It's a lot of buildup featuring a chick with psychic powers, a prom, and a bucket of pig blood… oh and a school fire… but it's there alright. Right at the very end…
If there's one thing Sam Raimi knows how to do, it's amp up the absurd to the Nth degree, and somehow eke out a trilogy. Yes, he did it with Spider-Man, and we all know how that turned out: Disco Parker anyone? But long before that misguided misstep there was The Evil Dead. Made on a shoestring budget, shot entirely at a cabin in the woods, Raimi and site-friend Bruce Campbell created a horror classic that would forever set the bar for shock cinema. When the time came to make a third, the same tongue-in-cheek storyline was coated with a liberal veneer of fantasy, and so was born The Army of Darkness, complete with a cemetery that cracks me up every time.
Is your house swimming with malevolent spirits? Is it awash with the angry un-rested who have chosen your domicile as a pit stop on their way to Heaven's light? Perhaps you have a little girl who spends too much time conversing with the TV people. Well, there's a good chance your home was built atop a cemetery and all those lonely souls now being squished by your two-story Tudor are royally pissed off. Might wanna enlist the assistance of a dwarfish medium, or maybe just call the Ghostbusters. Either way, now would be a good time to pack it up. Buuut… of course there's no clip, so I've taken the liberty of providing a bunch of nice pics. It's almost the same thing. Right? Or, you can go here.


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If there was such a thing as a "supergroup" of west Texas singer-songwriters, the Flatlanders would have to be it. Between them, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock have written hundreds of songs and released more than 40 albums, often featuring one another's songs, among them such modern country classics as Gilmore's "Dallas," Ely's "Honky Tonk Masquerade" and Hancock's "West Texas Waltz."
All three hail from Lubbock, where music was a common bond as far back as seventh grade. "We all were affected by everything we were hearing at the time—things coming in over the horizon on the border radio, all the old blues guys," Hancock recounts thoughtfully by phone from his Texas home near Terlingua. "It just opened up really infinite possibilities for music."
Their very first recordings, featuring just Gilmore and Ely, were legendarily initiated by Buddy Holly's father, but those tapes promptly disappeared. The 1972 debut album from all three Flatlanders fared little better; it was released only as an 8-track tape by a minor southern label, with a limited vinyl pressing in England. (It was eventually reissued on CD in 1990.)
After that, "we all kinda lost heart about the music business and all took off on separate paths," Hancock recalls, "but we still stayed pretty much in touch."
Fast-forward three decades.
"I think it was around 2000 that the Robert Redford folks got in touch with us through Joe and were wondering if the Flatlanders could do a song for that Horse Whisperer movie," Hancock says.
They could, they did, and that was just the beginning.
"We sat down and wrote three songs and had such a good time doin' it that we got together in another few months and wrote another batch of 'em, and just kept writin'," Hancock continues, warming to the tale. "Somewhere along about that same time we did a performance in Central Park in New York. Actually, we were booked in there as three separate acts and we did a little jam session at the end and they called it the big reunion of the Flatlanders," he chuckles. "Suddenly, we started getting some calls for pretty good bookings around the country, so we decided to put a tour together."
The reception was rapturous, and an album, Now Again, soon followed. A second new recording, Wheels of Fortune, appeared just two years later, in 2004, and the trio has just released their third new team effort, Hills and Valleys.
"This last album, I think the character of the songs was a pretty deep felt reflection of the times we're going through," Hancock muses. "Homeland Refugee," the powerful opening track, offers unsentimental scenes of defeated families returning to their roots.
"Joe describes it as 'a reverse migration, from California to the dust bowl,'" Hancock offers.
"It's kinda like stepping into somebody else's living conditions, somebody else's shoes. We've all had to come back to the dust bowl from California, so there's a little bit of ourselves in that song, too. Sometime we'd strike it rich, find gold in them thar hills, and sometimes we had to come back empty-handed."
Like most of the Flatlanders' material, the new songs are the product of a three-way collaboration that remains slightly mysterious even to its participants. "We bring in rhythms and ideas and things we've collected from our travels and when we get back together. Some people have called it the process of osmosis—it just sort of bubbles through," Hancock marvels. "All the ways in which you can write songs, I think we've probably tried a pretty good percentage of 'em."
Regardless of the actual process, "What we're really tryin' to do is uncover those songs, to discover what the songs want to do," he continues. "We've always noticed that the real job of the artist is to get out of the way of the art. Of course you've got to use what knowledge you've accumulated of the craft, the practical side of puttin' together songs. But the real thing about the song that comes through is . . ." Hancock trails off.
"I've heard a lot of theories about songwriting, and frankly I don't believe any of 'em," he concludes. "Even the ones I've come up with."
The Flatlanders fire up the grill for a Memorial Day backyard barbecue on Monday, May 25, at the Rancho Nicasio, Town Square, Nicasio. 4pm. $32&–$35. 415.662.2219.