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Niagara Falls isn't just a great place to visit during the Summer, in fact there are just as many things to see and do in this great city during the other three seasons. In fact, winter time in the Falls is an entirely different and exciting experience all together.
While some popular attractions like the Maid of the Mist or Marineland are closed during the winter months, other places remain open year round. Add to that the many "winter only" attractions and events and your almost guaranteed a great time to be had by all.
Most hotels, restaurants and stores are open year round along with the casinos, malls and many major attractions.
There are some specific attractions, events and things to do that can however, only be enjoyed in the winter months and those are what we are covering here.
Public Ice Skating As the weather changes from the beautiful colors of Fall to the cool crisp days of Winter, so do the activities that couples and families like to do. Ice skating has been popular for ever and Niagara Falls has many public skating rinks available for both public and private skating or hockey events.
Rink at the Brink As one of Niagara Falls' newest seasonal attractions, the Rink at the Brink is a public skating pad constructed each year directly across from the Table Rock Welcome center and offers great views of the Falls while you skate and listen to the music playing over the speakers.
New Years Eve As Canada's largest outdoor New Years Eve celebrations, Niagara Falls gets better every year. With popular live bands, local and other well know celebrities and multiple displays of fireworks over the Falls, this televised event rivals New York's famous party in Times Square.
Ice Wine Festival Celebrate the new years vintage of Niagara's Ice Wines every January in Niagara Falls. With Catered events, a showcasing from many of the areas wineries, ice sculpting, ice bars and even glasses made of wine.
Niagara Falls Santa Claus Parade Each year, near the end of November, people visiting Niagara Falls can usually catch Santa as he stops by the Honeymoon capital for a parade in his honour. OHL HockeyIf your into hockey than you may want to get in on some local Ontario Hockey League action by taking in a Niagara Ice Dogs home game. This fan site is a great place to get all the info on past and upcomming games.
If planning a trip during winter in Niagara Falls you may want to book your accommodations early.


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You are currently browsing the monthly archive for September 2011.
Just in case you missed it, here's what happened on here in September:
-I took a few weeks off from working on the novel–using the time to clean up a few new short stories for submission–but am now reading and editing my first complete draft. It's a lot of fun to read so far, seeing how things come together, and where they don't.
-The Uninitiated released its comprehensive and authoritative rankings of MFA and PhD programs in creative writing. The University of Texas at Austin took the top spot.
-My review of Rahul Mehta's Quarantine was accepted for publication by The Iowa Review Online, and will appear shortly in the month of October.
-My review of David Philip Mullins' Greetings from Below—previously accepted for publication by Prairie Schooner—has been scheduled to run in the Spring 2012.
Dispatch from The Hyphenates of Jackson County
"The noise was so frightening that Jacob couldn't stand still. He had to move his feet, around in the crowd, or he felt like someone was going to take a shot at him. A block over there was a nervous cop who sprayed shotgun fire into the air whenever someone approached the car he guarded. The cascading noise of tumbling glass was punctuated by the fraught screams of woman in jeopardy. Or maybe that wasn't it at all, what Jacob thought he heard. Maybe that was the sound of a woman's prurient cheer as government windows were smashed to shards. There was the roar of voices, people fighting and being hurt. The flash of small arms erupting. The police sirens, their barking orders. The steam valve had been blown clean off and Jacob couldn't stay where he was. He had to run into it, into the noise and fighting. He had to see everything, to document it in his mind. Speeding cars rushed into the crowds. Young men jumped on the sideboards of cars to swing around to where the action was. There were cars with Sicilians, Lithuanians, Greeks, Serbians. Once word of the melee spread, anyone who wanted to take a swing at a cop made a bee-line to Scandal Flats. A gang hijacked a streetcar and plowed into the mess, clanging the bell to announce their audacity. Teenage boys and musky husbands rushed out of houses with whatever hammer or club or bat they could lay hands on, and then hopped in a taxi to get there fast. A mechanical rumble filled the atmosphere. Roadsters and jalopies, homemade in Little Italy garages, swung recklessly around the blocks. They swerved to miss people and each other. Jacob couldn't always see the cars but he could hear their pop-pop motors hammering at full throttle a block away, spreading echoes between buildings, echoes that bounced back from the high-rises of downtown. Trucks, commissioned or otherwise, hopped hot over the pavement to load up with furniture or produce or women's clothes. Taxis slumped cockeyed and labored up the hills, packed full inside, passengers on the footboards.
"People shouted out to groups of strangers any news they heard. There was lots of talk in the mob about the smutty details of the rape—conjecture about Will Brown's body in relation to the girl's. They made him out to be huge, a towering man, arms like a gorilla's, legs like a mule's. They talked about Agnes Loebeck as if she was a little girl, pious and pure, like she only ever wore little white Sunday dresses, like she picked berries in a pristine field, like she'd never even heard of anything like a dick before."
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Bomb for "Shame Cycle."
Just Finished
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen. Eh.
My Antonia by Willa Cather. I really enjoyed this book, and can see why it's often noted as Cather's finest. I was surprised at how Modernist this novel is, it's really quite innovative, as I'd always thought it was more of a Victorian, continental-style book for young women than anything. I stand corrected. A masterful work.
Also, if you haven't heard this NPR piece by Bradford Morrow on My Antonia, you should really check it out. Here's part of what Morrow has to say:
What's interesting about My Antonia is how it manages to function as a perfectly inviting story for young readers, and how an adult willing to revisit it with a more developed critical eye can appreciate it for the subtly sophisticated narrative it truly is. In this regard, it's not unlike a wildly different book, Alice in Wonderland. Great fun for kids, psychologically captivating for grownups.
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Shadow Traffic by Richard Burgin.
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Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda.
An update today too, and some good news, as my review of David Philip Mullins' short story collection Greetings from Below has been scheduled to run in the Spring 2012 edition of Prairie Schooner. The review had previously been accepted, but had not been scheduled yet.
Because no one asked me to, I devised a system to rank creative writing graduate programs in the U.S. in order to provide an alternative to the controversial rankings published by Poets & Writers. (It's not too late to join in the fun is it?)
The ranking system consists of several weighted categories. These include:
-Points for each member of faculty who signed the complaint letter that disputed the methodology of the Poets & Writers rankings. Having a faculty that is engaged–as has a little spunk–is vital to success in any program.
-Deductions for every time I saw someone criticize the rankings on social media because their school was ranked too low.
-Deduction for each school that Seth Abramson has attended. This one is just for fun. Seth's work–along with the Creative Writing MFA Blog and the Creative Writing MFA Handbook–has moved the debate on creating transparency in the MFA application process, and has been great. The P&W rankings are really the least of what he and the MFA Handbook have accomplished.
-I reversed the Cost of Living rankings. If a city is more expensive, it must be better! A low cost of living is fine, but you also have to live there for 2-6 years. Is it really better to rank Syracuse, NY as more desirable than New York, NY? Or Spokane as more desirable than Seattle? I don't think so.
-Added bonus for great college football tradition, minor and major league baseball, and for any school I attended, or that accepted me at some point. (My ranking is very open about its inherent bias.)
-Schools received a bonus if I have good friends who live in their city. Conversely, if my wife would never move to where a school is, points were deducted.
-Finally, I factored in popularity and prestige, using the P&W rankings. Here's my thinking. Everyone wants to be liked and respected, right? Also, you don't want people making sour faces at AWP when you tell them what program you're in. It's a little thing, but one that still counts.
Here are some other things to remember. First, I only did one list for MFA and PhD programs, and left low-residency programs out altogether. There's a significant amount of farce in any ranking system, so deal with it. Second, what's good for me may not be good for you. I'm sorry if you don't like minor league baseball. But, to me, its presence is a critical part of any graduate program.
And the winners are…
1 University of Texas-Austin (64.3 points, #8 in the P&W MFA rankings)
2 University of Washington (63.7, 64)
3 Boston University (62.5, 50)
4 Portland State University (60.8, 68)
5 The New School (58.4, 42)
6 Emerson College (56.3, 63)
7 New York University (56, 16)
8 University of Oregon (54, 11)
9 Columbia University (52.9, 47)
10 Brown University (52.2, 4)
11 University of California-Irvine (51.1, 15)
12 Hunter College (49.8, 28)
13 University of Southern California (49.5, 6 in PhD)
14 Ohio State University (46.8, 33)
15 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (46, 10 in PhD)
16 University of California-San Diego (44.5, 31)
17 Arizona State University (43, 21)
18 University of Houston (40.7, 19 in MFA/4 in PhD)
19 University of Utah (40.5, 4 in PhD)
20 University of Iowa (40, 1)
21 Florida State University (39, 69 in MFA/2 in PhD)
22 University of Alabama (38.3, 18)
23 University of Idaho (37.9, 71)
24 George Mason University (37.4, 52)
25 University of Miami (37, 56)
You know, it's not actually too bad of a list, for people who are biased against massive northern rust belt schools, of course. All of the listed schools above should expect to see a healthy boost to their application numbers this year. Feel free to thank me later.
A Max Fleischer cartoon, 1930.
Some good news to report this morning, as my review of Rahul Mehta's debut short story collection, Quarantine, has been accepted for publication on The Iowa Review Online! The review should run early in October. I'll be sure to post a link at that time, certainly.
This is my first time working with The Iowa Review, and I'm very excited to be associated with another high-quality journal. This also marks my tenth review to be accepted for publication! I'm not really sure how I've written that many, but I'm proud to hit a benchmark of sorts. Book reviewing wasn't something I thought I'd ever enjoy doing, but the pleasures of the form have surprised me. It's actually pretty fun, figuring out what makes a book good and getting to tell people about it. What's not to like?
Some excellent news to announce today!
First, my short story "These Things That Save Us" has been chosen to help launch the debut issue of Conversations Across Borders, an online journal that will feature literary writing and journalism from around the globe. The first issue will be available early in October, and will also feature work by Ilya Kaminsky (!), Sam Green, and Gary Lemons, among others. I'll be sure to share some links and more information about CAB as it becomes more pertinent. From everything I've heard, it should be a pretty cool endeavor, and I'm excited to be in on the ground floor, so to speak.
Second, I've received a partial scholarship to attend the Key West Literary Seminar in January, 2012, and will be part of a workshop led by Robert Stone the following week! How awesome is that? I attended KWLS two years ago and am pretty amped up to be returning. (And I was scheduled to go three years ago to participate in a Robert Stone workshop, but had to cancel once we learned that Maddie's due date was the same week. Looks like I'll be getting a second chance at the workshop after all.) The theme of the seminar is, Yet Another World – Literature of the Future, and features Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, Rivka Galchen, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, Joyce Carol Oates, Gary Shteyngart, and Colson Whitehead, among many others. They always have such a great lineup; this upcoming year's is especially compelling. In addition to the literary program, I also get to spend a week on a tropical island during the heart of winter, which isn't too shabby.
I'm also still up for a "named" scholarship, which would cover all expenses, including travel and a stipend.It would be nice to have everything paid for, of course, but I'm thrilled to have it all confirmed now, at least, with a large portion of it paid for by KWLS. I'm very lucky.
(Oh, and I apologize to anyone who might have been expecting ecclesiastically-themed content after looking at the post title. I have no updates on Holy Week at this time.)


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The monitors of the Rio Grande have a button labelled 47 on the right-hand side.
Gul Jusad is told that the 4th Order will arrive in a days time as reinforcements for the 7th Order.
[Episode 1, Season 1]
Julian labels his antidote series for the Aphasia virus as File 839472-39.
The number 947 appears several times on Julian's monitor.
[Episode 3, Season 1]
The Passenger
Bashir says that he is picking up a ship on long range sensors, bearing 347 mark 08.
[Episode 9, Season 1]
47 other people living on the 5th moon of Bajor, besides Mollibok, had already left.
The 4th piece of land wanted by the Bajoran Provisional Government is 7 tessipates in size, and is owned by Jake and Nog.
[Episode 15, Season 1]
The Circle
Odo's viewscreen shows: "Bajoran Regional Comm Network, Routing Code 47-00076".
[Episode 22, Season 2]
Bashir searches through 7420 files for a mis-spelling of Rigel's name. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 25, Season 2]
Rule of Acquisition #47: Never trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.
[Episode 31, Season 2, Teleplay by Joe Menosky]
The planet Parada IV has 7 moons.
The computer tells O'Brien that he has a lead of 7 minutes and 4 seconds. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 34, Season 2]
Playing God
Dax changes course to 130 mark 47.
[Episode 37, Season 2]
Blood Oath
Kang syas that he discovered the Albino's hideout 7 years ago on Dayos IV. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 39, Season 2]
The Marquis, Part II
Dukat counts down the time until he will fire photons: "15...10...7...4". (Inverted 47)
Between the monitors on Cal Hudson's ship is a panel with a label 947.
[Episode 41, Season 2]
The Wire
While trying to determine what's wrong with Garak, Jadzai and Julian read a file labelled File 839472-58.
[Episode 42, Season 2]
The Search, Part I
The Defiant's registry number is NX-74205. (Also note that the sum of the last 3 digits is 7) (Inverted 47)
[Episode 48, Season 3]
The Search, Part II
The display panel shown at the beginning of the episode has the number 947 on it.
[Episode 48, Season 3]
The House of Quark
O'Briends PADD includes the label 947.
[Episode 49, Season 3]
Joran Belar was born on stardate 1024.7.
[Episode 50, Season 3]
The Abandoned
The Jem'Hadar 'baby' was transported to Starbase 201 on board the USS Constellation, registry NCC-1974. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 52, Season 3]
O'Brien says that according to Doral's calculations the dimensional shift should occur within the next 47 minutes.
[Episode 54, Season 3]
Kira's access code is Delta 5 4 7.
Reference is made to Cardassian Outpost 47.
[Episode 55, Season 3, Written by Ronald D Moore]
O'Brien says that Keiko will be gone another 4 months. Keiko later says that her project will be extended 2 or 3 months. O'Brien says: "That's 7 months".
[Episode 56, Season 3]
The Romulans are moved to quarters in section 47, level 2.
[Episode 63, Season 3]
The Die is Cast
The registry number for the ship searching for Odo and Garak, the USS Portland, is NCC-57418. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 67, Season 3]
Family Business
On the Promenade, Sisko begins to tell Bashir and O'Brien "I'll be in cargo bay...", "Four" Interrupts O'Brien. "Uh, Seven" Sisko corrects.
At the Ferengi Commerce Authority, you need 7 strips of latinum to take a turbolift 40 floors. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 69, Season 3]
O'Brien is about to win his 47th dart game in a row.
[Episode 70, Season 3]
It took Jadzia 4 days to meet all 7 of Dax's pervious hosts.
[Episode 71, Season 3]
The Adversary
Dax says that there are 47 people on board the Defiant.
The ship's course is changed to 015 mark 47.
[Episode 72, Season 3]
The Visitor
Jake writes on a PADD with the number 4747.
[Episode 75, Season 4]
Hippocratic Oath
Worf is holding a PADD with the number 4747.
[Episode 76, Season 4]
Little Green Men
Nog tells Jake that they've spent 2,147 hours together in 'their' spot above the promenade.
[Episode 79, Season 4]
Our Man Bashir
There were 74 lasers spread around the surface of the planet. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 82, Season 4, Teleplay by Ronald D Moore]
In the first shot of Earth we see a tunnel that is labelled section 47.
Jaresh-Inyo's PADD has the following numbers displayed on it: 4347, 4547, and 4747.
[Episode 83, Season 4]
Paradise Lost
The transporter log shows that Red Squad returned to the base at 1947 Hours.
The access code for the file viewed by Sisko and Odo is Leyton-1-Omega-4-7.
A transit tunnel shown several times during the episode is labelled with 47.
[Episode 84, Season 4, Story by Ronald D Moore]
Item 7 on the crime report involves graffiti painting in section 4.
[Episode 85, Season 4]
Return to Grace
The time of the first battle drill is 3:47.
Kira tells Ziyal that the Cardassian phase disruptor rifle has power capacity of 4.7 megajoules.
[Episode 86, Season 4]
Sons of Mogh
Kira detonates all mines in sectors 22-Alpha through 47-Gamma.
The runabout USS Yukon has the registry NCC-74602. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 87, Season 4]
The legendary Akorem had left Bajor in 9174. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 89, Season 4]
Hard Time
O'Brien gets a phaser out of a locker labeled '47 | Weapons Locker' in a cargo bay.
[Episode 91, Season 4]
Shattered Mirror
Sisko, Kira and O'Brien all get phasers out of the locker labeled '47 | Weapons Locker' in ops.
[Episode 92, Season 4]
The Muse
Jake's PADD has the number 4747 on it.
[Episode 93, Season 4]
To the Death
Sisko shows 'Tactical Scan 347' to the senior staff and the Jem'Hadar.
[Episode 95, Season 4]
Broken Link
A button on a panel that Worf uses to access a Jefferies tube is labelled 47.
Dax bets that since Kira is in her 4th nasal irritation, she'll sneeze 7 times.
[Episode 98, Season 4]
Apocolypse Rising
Dax shows the crew an image of the Polaron Emitter X-47.
[Episode 99, Season 5]
Nor the Battle to the Strong
Jake's PADD has the number 4747 on it. (Again)
Jake is asked to take a tray to a patient in G4 (G is the 7th of the alphabet). (Inverted 47)
[Episode 102, Season 5]
The Assignment
O'Brien refers to a PADD labelled 'Station Schematic 4747'.
[Episode 100, Season 5]
The Begotten
Shakaar and Dr Mora board shuttle 4709.
[Episode 110, Season 5]
A Simple Investigation
Julian shows O'Brien a picture of a woman from his new holosuite program. The image on the PADD is labelled 'Holosuite Program - 5547'.
[Episode 115, Season 5]
Ferengi Love Songs
Nagus Zek's access code is 374-156. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 118, Season 4, Co-Executive Producer Ronald D Moore]
Blaze of Glory
Sisko's override code is Sisko A 4 7 1.
[Episode 121, Season 5]
Empok Nor
O'Brien instructs one of his team to go to conduit G4 (G is the 7th letter of the alphabet). (Inverted 47)
[Episode 122, Season 5]
A Time To Stand
The location of the Dominion Ketracel-White facility is displayed; it is shown to be on an asteroid labelled 345-447.
The panel the admiral uses to display the Jem'Hadar ship is, at one point, labelled Cartography 4747.
[Episode 125, Season 6]
Sacrifice of Angels
An anouncement is made ordering all Dominion personnel to docking bays 4, 7 and 12 to evacuate Deep Space 9.
[Episode 130, Season 6]
Statistical Probabilities
Bashir is holding a PADD with the label "Analysis Mode 947" on it
[Episode 130, Season 6]
Who Mourns for Morn
During the negotiations for a split in Morn's estate, Morn's ex-associate says "We'll take 70%", Quark responds with "40%?". (Inverted 47)
Quark notes that the Morn's account number is CG57436. (Inverted 47)
[Episode 136, Season 6]
One Little Ship
The Star Date for this episode is 51474.2.
The button that the miniaturised Rubicon nudges in order to gain access to the turbolift and the Bridge, is labelled 47.
[Episode 138, Season 6]
Director Sloan is carrying a PADD with the label 847.
[Episode 142, Season 6]
In the Pale Moonlight
Sisko is handed a PADD containing information on the Romulan Senator. The PADD carries the label 4778.
[Episode 143, Season 6]
Images in the Sand
Kira discovers that the Romulan Hospital base on the 4th Moon of Bajor (Derna), is being used to store 7,000 quantum torpedoes.
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Ching Chong Chinaman (City Lights Theater, San Jose)
Original post made by Interesting on Feb 6, 2013
Comments (5)
on Feb 7, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Hey, Duke University just suspended a fraternity house for giving Asian-themed parties because it offended the Chinese students, who in turn threatened to transfer there overpriced tuition to other schools. Is this play not just as offensive, if not more???
on Feb 7, 2013 at 3:19 pm
The title is quite offensive to me and my husband but it sounds like a funny play. They should have chosen a less offensive name. There is a comedic play called Chinglish, which is an unoffensive title.
Re the Duke University Chinese-themed party, the theme in itself is not offensive to me, but I'm guessing the fake accents and jokes at the party would be quite offensive. I know of some whites who live here on the Peninsula with diversity and they toured Duke and felt there was an air of white elitism so they passed on the school and stayed in California.
on Feb 7, 2013 at 4:12 pm
There's a big difference between this play's title and the Duke incident. This play was written by a Chinese-American and is presumably somewhat based on her life experiences. The Duke incident involved an all-white fraternity making fun of Asian stereotypes. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
on Feb 7, 2013 at 4:31 pm
If we censure parody and satire then we are in very serious trouble indeed.
I am 1/2 Chinese and I find nothing at all offensive in the Duke satire.
This is America-we believe in freedom of speech, satire, parody and humor.
Love it or leave it
on Feb 7, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Know your half Chinese Sharon? How does that work? Are you American on even days and Chinese on odd days? Seems at me point you were all Chinese.
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There's a drawing of Don Quixote tacked to the wall of David Keith's University of Calgary office; one of Gustave Doré's famous illustrations showing the aging knight flying backwards off his horse as his lance bends against the blade of a windmill. The 45-year-old environmental scientist purchased it as a self-mocking reward after the publication of his 2004 paper, "The influence of large-scale wind power on global climate." Using computer modelling, Keith and his colleagues posited that wind energy might not be quite as green as envisioned, potentially changing climate on a worldwide scale as fields of turbines slow the winds, changing rainfall and the amount of moisture in the soil. Their conclusion that the much-touted benefits from wind farms might actually be outweighed by the costs didn't meet with broad public approval. Keith's email inbox quickly filled with hate messages, a rare trick for an academic.
Should the trend hold, the professor might want to start clearing space on his wall for a crucifix. The work Keith is engaged in now messes with nature itself, breaking some of the greatest taboos of the world's environmental movement. Spurred by new data suggesting global warming is progressing faster, and at a much more profound level than even the worst-case scenarios, he is at the fore of a small group of scientists proposing a quick technological fix: a "Plan B" to slow climate change and cool the earth almost overnight via massive human interventions. Among their science-fiction-style ideas: the deployment of millions of lenses the size of doughnuts in geo-stationary orbit between the earth and the sun, the creation of vast banks of artificial clouds over the world's oceans, covering deserts with reflective material, and Keith's preferred solution—seeding the stratosphere with sulphate or other particles. All schemes designed to send a portion of the sun's rays back into the cosmos, and buy politicians, business and the public time to finally get serious about cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
When Keith first took an interest in such ideas—lumped together under the broad rubric "geoengineering"—as a grad student 20 years ago, they could hardly be discussed in polite scientific company. Even less so in environmental circles, where many viewed any proposal to manage climate change as a threat to efforts to stop it. "It was a freak show," he recalls. Verboten in mainstream forums, the topic was only debated at secret NASA and White House-organized confabs.
But somewhere amid reports of melting icefields, worsening droughts, and soaring CO2 concentrations, previously closed minds snapped open. In the last two years, geoengineering has gone from the implausible purview of Dr. Evil-style kooks to a subject of serious scientific and political debate. In the U.K., the Royal Society, the country's de facto academy of science, has launched a major study (Keith is on the panel) and a parliamentary committee is preparing a report. In the U.S., the National Academy of Sciences is planning a similar probe. Last week, President Barack Obama's chief science adviser, John Holdren, revealed the administration has been discussing the options, with a focus on scattering—perhaps by plane, balloon, giant floating chimneys, or even artillery fire—massive quantities of sulphates or other aerosols in the upper atmosphere.
The idea is to mimic the effect of massive volcanic eruptions like Mount Pinatubo, which lowered global temperatures by 0.5° C after spewing out 18 million tonnes of SO2 in 1991. But what he didn't mention should be of particular concern to Canadians. The logical lab for such experiments—100,000 tanker plane flights a year per one estimate—would be the Arctic, where the cooling would be of the greatest benefit, restoring sea ice and turning down the global thermostat.
Look at the eccentric history of geoengineering over the past two decades and Keith is there every step of the way. But now, with the research money about to start flowing, he worries things are maybe moving a little too fast. In late January, a joint Indian-German expedition defied a United Nations ban and dumped 20 tonnes of iron sulphate particles off Antarctica in hopes of fertilizing the growth of CO2-eating plankton. It failed—schools of hungry shrimp ate the plankton blooms.
And that's the basic problem with geoengineering: no one is quite sure what happens "downstream" when you start messing with bits and pieces of the global climate. Would a colder Arctic mean more or less rain in the tropics? If you dissolved more CO2 in the seas, how would that effect marine life? Would the ecosystem be able to handle all that extra sulphur in the atmosphere? The cure could very well end up being worse than the disease.
"I have mixed feelings about it," says Keith. "I think there are a lot of ways to manipulate the system, and when you start thinking about them, you just come up with more and more." He clicks through on his computer to a research paper on "levitating particles," a possible alternative to sulphate. For months, he wasn't able to bring himself to submit it for publication. "I'm worried about opening up Pandora's box," he explains. "Even though I am basically doing it."


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3740 S Nellis Blvd
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vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4 | $$
Got here by using the free shuttle bus from Downtown (back of California Hotel) to Sams Town and walked the mile or so from there.
Late afternoon on a warm, sunny May day. Couldn't see a thing when we walked in, it didn't get much brighter when our eyes adjusted to the darkness. As you enter there is a room off to your left, don't stumble into there because it is just a space with tables and chairs in, you want the square shaped bar which is straight in front, lite by a few neon beer adverts and sports screens, it is down a couple of steps or a ramp.
Lindsay looked after us and anybody and everybody else, about eight max during our three beer and meal stay. Rock music filled the room, not over loud, just enough so you couldn't hold a conversation without raising your voice up a few decibel levels.
I started with a pint of Rogue 'Dead Guy Ale' which was delivered in a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale glass. My wifes draught also came in the same branded glass as mine. My other two beers were just as good as the first, these coming from Joseph James and the Dogfish Head Brewery. Didn't take note of the wifes beers, but they tasted good too (I always check out her beer, just in case it is poison or something).
I ordered a basic burger and fries with everything, the wife a Garden Salad with Chicken, both were good, produced by an under worked (on our visit) cook.
Well worth the effort to get here (3 hour drive to London, 10 hour flight, half hour taxi ride, half hour shuttle bus and half hour walk).
It isn't cosy, nor over friendly, we didn't feel threatened or anything, it just seemed 'rough and ready' more than 'welcoming'. Lindsay was fine, worried about her young son taking some girl to the pictures and chatting to a couple of regulars who were drinking bottles of Lite something or other.
The draught beer selection however seemed very welcoming, the bottled choices challenging too, I'll revisit if I ever return to LV.
05-16-2010 02:02:31 |
More by BlackHaddock
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vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | $$$
Decided to stop in here on around noon time on a Thursday. Place was very quite, only one patron there. It was very easy to find, but based on the feedback from the locals this isn't located in the best part of town.
The bar iteself is a weird shape and can seat about 20. There were beer lists of both draft and bottles. As I found out three of the beers I order were kicked, so the list was not really accurate. But the seelction was very good with offerings from Deschuttes, The Bruery, DFH, and some of the Vegas locals. The bottle list was very impressive despite some of the higher costs per bottle ranging from $15-$50 for some more of the one off beers like Abyss and Firestone Anniversary.
There is a large stage for live music, and plenty of beer related signs on the walls. Kind of a dive with a mix of upscale beers. And of course you can play video poker while drinking.
Service was prompt as I was one of two people there. The bartender seemed to know the beer selection.
This place definitely offers a nice beer selection, but it is off the beaten path so unless you have a car it will cost you. IMHO this place is good not great.
04-02-2011 20:10:38 |
More by Gavage
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4 | food: 4 | $$
Was excited when I found out there was a new beer bar in Las Vegas. Me and my wife went to check it out Last night. Huge sign out front cant miss. The front wall has a ROGUE AND STONE beer bottle poster that has to be 15-20 feet tall. Gets ya thirsty! Its a nice and pleasent typical Vegas gambling pool bar once your inside. At first the service was not good at all with the 2 girls bartenders. Very slow, almost like they didnt want you to spend $ on a beer. But everything changed once the owner Keri took over . He was fantastic. He was helpful and had no problem answering any questions. The night really took off when the CEO of STONE SHOWED UP Steve Koch. He was kind, He even signed the 12th anniversary bottle I purchased. They had around 14 taps some yellew fizzy beers. . 3 STONE, 2 ROGUE , SIERRA NV BELGIUM TRIPEL,YOUNGS DOUBLE CHOCO. those are what we tried. I think they had 30 bottle list to. Overall, we will go back. Thank you Keri for making us feel welcome.
09-15-2009 04:37:21 |
More by KNORDSTROM
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4 | food: 4 | $$
Aces and Ales is a good well rounded beer bar. They always have a good variety of craft beer on tap, and usually have a rare or reserve on tap, like Abyss, Jubel 2010, Parabola, etc. Nice mellow to busy atmosphere, and decent prices. Decent Aps, however the hamburgers are surprisingly good. They're hand pressed, charbroiled, and delicious. They held a strong beerfest a few months back: They had a lot of beers that I wanted to try, but I only got to try a few because the selections were stagered throughout the three days due to limited taps, and I could only make it to one. They had great beers like sculpin, Black Butte XXII, Sami Clause, Red Chair, and about 20 others I cant remember off hand. A great place to eat and get beers that are either hard or impossible to find in Vegas.
11-17-2010 07:55:19 |
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vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | $$
Stopped by Aces last night to watch the game, and for a Sunday night football night it was a bit empty. It did start picking up a little near the end of the game, but still a good atmosphere. They offered a good list, and were big on Deschutes beer, though they offered many more. They offer a flight of 6 tasters that were pretty generous for a good price, and had plenty of television monitors for a sports bar feel. By the looks of it, they have pool tournaments for time to time, or week? Good atmosphere, friendly service, and will probably be going back on my next trip to Vegas.
12-20-2011 09:46:39 |
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vibe: 3 | quality: 4 | service: 3 | selection: 4 | $$
i was looking for a good beer while in Vegas for a friend's wedding, and after reading the reviews, I figured I should give this a go. I strolled in on a slow weekend afternoon. Just two people who turned out to be regulars sitting at the bar playing video poker.
Interesting atmosphere, definite dark, somewhat dingy feel with uninteresting decor and lackluster design. Video poker in the bar. There are some nice big-screens above the bar, and the pool room off to the side looked pretty decent. But I was there for the beer. Had it been a different time, different/any crowd, it might have been a bit better.
The gal behind the bar was exactly what the reviews I'd read lead me to expect - service wasn't quite a first priority, but nothing offensive. Asked about a tap-list and got a finger pointing to the chalkboard off in the corner. After browsing, I asked for my top choice, which they didn't have any more. Second choice, same deal. Finally found something they still had that sounded good. Pour was solid, clean with appropriate glassware. Worked for me.
Chatted with a few of the locals for a bit while I enjoyed a good beer in an acceptable atmoshpere. Nothing amazing, but by Vegas standards, from what I've seen, pretty damn good. And the best tap selection I've seen in town.
05-13-2011 20:54:34 |
More by djeucalyptus
vibe: 3 | quality: 4 | service: 3 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4 | $$
Enjoy this place, simply put.
Try and get there once a month. They have 20 beers on tap, constantly rotating plus a wide bottle selection. I have yet to have been there when the same thing is always on. They keep it mixed up and try to have new things coming through.
Prices are great. Draft menu is $6 for a pint or goblet, depending on the beer. $4 beers on Sunday.
Food is fantastic. No idea who the cooks are but they better keep them around because nothing goes better with good beer than good food. Food ranges from finger appetizers to pizza, burgers, house mac n' cheese, and sandwiches.
If you're ever in Las Vegas, venture off the strip for an afternoon/evening and check this place out. Well worth it.
06-26-2013 05:25:15 |
More by Bradthoc
vibe: 1.5 | quality: 2.5 | service: 2.5 | selection: 3 | $$$
Well I did have high hopes for this place, as everyone from Vegas was saying it was the best place in Vegas to grab a beer so I made sure to go here. Maybe I caught it on a bad night, but I was not impressed the second I walked in, charging us an $8 cover charge for some really bad rap music. Sat down and ordered a beer from there moderate selection of good beer. About 1/3 or their website advertised drafts were tapped out, so I settled for a Stone Cali-Belgique. Now I wouldn't consider myself real particular about glassware, but they served it to me in a plastic party glass. What the hell? At least serve it in a glass shaker or something. So I endured the awful rap music and drank my beer and got the hell out of there. Very disappointed. Actually the one good thing about my visit was that I saw Chumlee from Pawn Stars hangin out there.
01-10-2011 01:50:42 |
More by ahq514
vibe: 2 | quality: 2.5 | service: 1.5 | selection: 3.5 | $$$
Well I really hate writing a bad review, but in this case I feel it was justified. Came out from California for a friends bachelor party. Made Aces and Ales one of our first stops, boy do I regret it. When we first walked in it seemed like a decent beer bar. Beer themed decor and dim lighting. We had been on the road for about 5 hours so we all needed to make a pit stop. We finally found the unmarked restrooms, and I'm sorry we did. One of the stalls was caked with vomit that had obviously been there for quite some time. That should have been my first warning. We then proceded to order some beers. One of my friends ordered a Kasteel Cuvee de Cheatu(sp?). After the bartender returned 3 minutes later she told my friend she didn't have that and she got him something else. When he asked what she poured instead she told him she wasn't sure, but it was something like the one he ordered. It ended up being a black butte xxi. While not a bad beer by any means but not even close to what was ordered originally. I then came up to the bar, and had to wait about 5-6 minutes for someone to take my order. Once the bartender showed up, I asked a question about one of the beers and she handed me a list and said "I don't know, look on here". She handed me a list with very minimal information. I ended up ordering the black butte xxi and got charged $1 less than my friend. Cool for me but sucks for him. Once she took my order she proceded to pick up ash trays, empty bottles, and wipe down the bar before she poured my beer. She didn't even wash her hands. About 3 minutes later she returned my with beer that was in an 8-10oz tulip with about a 3 inch head. She took my money and once again proceded to clean the bar, do dishes, and converse with other patrons before bringing me my change. We quickly finished our beers and left. It seemed like the bar was filled mostly with regulars, which is fine, but I didn't see one craft beer on the bar. Most patrons there seem to enjoy MGD, Heiniken, and Mixed drinks. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it doesn't seem to support their craft beer program. Safe to say I will never be back and will stick with the Freakin Frog when I'm looking for decent beer in Las Vegas. I really hate to sound like a dick but I really wouldn't recomend this place to anyone.
Edit: also wanted to point out that there were at the most 10 patrons there and 3 bartenders. No excuse for the slow and poor service.
08-20-2010 04:24:13 |
More by BigEBeer
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.5 | service: 1 | selection: 2 | $$
Lots of talk about this place, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Lots of beer signs and posters outside and in the entrance. Cool so far. Pool tables and TV's in a small room to the left upon entering. The main room has a large wooden bar in the center (with poker machines built in), a few scattered tables, some pool tables, and a chalkboard with taps. Beer posters are on the walls and I can clearly see a fair number of decent bottles there for the display.
I grabbed a table...and waited...and waited...and waited. I finally flagged a waitress and asked for the beer menu. She seemed nice at first and found one hiding somewhere in the back. She pointed out the draft list as well. It was mentioned that some of the bottled items weren't available due to a pending event in the coming week. Fair enough - no big deal.
The bottled list was pretty nice. Lots of items from Stone, DFH, the Bruery, as well as some Belgian and German imports. The tap list wasn't bad, too. Nothing amazing, but pretty good.
After making our decisions, I waited for another 10 minutes and again had to flag her down from talking to some other patrons. I'm all for keeping things friendly but c'mon. We weren't alone - other people were having to track her down as well...both at the bar and at tables.
After ordering I was informed that the items we wanted weren't available...and apparently haven't been for quite some time. In fact, almost nothing on the menu was available and 3 of the 10 or so drafts were also gone. They didn't have anything less than 6% ABV anywhere...and after copping attitude with us after placing 4 orders for items that they apparently might *never* have had, we just got 3 'Lil Sumpin Sumpin's and got out of there. It's probably worth mentioning that there were a whole host of dirty dishes at various tables and bar seats that were there when we arrived and still weren't cleared 1/2 hour later when we left. Service was a joke and the menu made the Falling Rock's seem up to the minute accurate. I didn't stick around long enough to eat, and the only signs I had of the food were dirty plates scattered around. Luckily my friend from the area was able to drive us elsewhere. The only real upside is that the prices on the menu appeared to be good/low in general. Of course that doesn't matter much when nothing on the menu is available and you can't find anyone to order from.
Not going back here and I don't recommend it...local or not.
01-16-2011 03:14:30 |
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Jun 11, 2009 12:04 PMDistrustful as I am of Washington, generally, and this Administration in particular, I like one idea that's being floated. That is the creation of a new oversigjht board to regulate over the counter derivatives.
Derivatives are dangerous, or as Warren Buffett put it, "finanical weapons of mass destruction." That's because their notional value is far greater than the actual investment aka :"skin in the game." Therefore, creating another agency to oversee them is a good idea.
Within the pool of derivatives, the over-the-counter variety are the most dangerous. That is because they are most likely to be "off the books," which is to say the most likely to be badly accounted for. That's why devoting a separate agency to track this problem makes sense.
I'm no fan of regulation. But I will aceept regulation to prevent a worse evil. Derivatives seem to be a worse evil.
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Two weeks ago, we addressed the difference between knowing about God, and knowing God.
I was given an assignment recently in one of my college classes, and it kinda related to the topic, so I wanted to share it.
I even made reference to Relevant Church, and the difference you have all made in my life:
"Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so." Sad as it may seem, I never even opened the Bible until I was in college! Having grown up in the Catholic church, Catholic teachings were always filtered down to me through workbooks, hymnals, psalms and people. When I was exposed to faiths outside of the Catholic church, I was amazed that some people could quote the Bible, like I could quote a movie!
The image of God was also portrayed to me by the Catholic church, both visually and figuratively. Visually, the image of God, for me, is equivalent to the image of Jesus — a man with long hair, sad eyes and a beard. The picture of perfection that we should all strive to be. But Jesus was the Son of God.
My image of God, as compared to Jesus, is significantly different. Without meaning any disrespect, I see God just as the Wizard of Oz. He can be kind, and he can be punishing. Just as a father to his children, so is God. He offers guidance and support, and punishes his children to teach us right from wrong. The influence of the Catholic church has lead me to portray the image of a God that is very strict, and has many rules. If any of these rules are broken, there will be consequence. God had also been portrayed to me as an untouchable king, someone whom I could never speak to directly, nor could I ever be casual with. I was always very reverent and formal, which created an environment of intimidation and fear.
As I've continued to explore more about my faith, it has become less of a religion, and more of a spiritual journey. I feel that the Catholic church, and all its grandeur, has made it to where I've always had a very distant relationship with God. I do not believe that I need to confess my sins to a priest in order for God to hear my words and to be forgiven. I believe that I can have a personal, direct relationship with God, at any time of day, any day of the week … not just on Sundays. I've also come to believe that church does not always have to be held under a grand display of stained glass windows and a marble alter. The church I attend today is held in the heart of Ybor City. We wear jeans, bring in Starbucks coffee, and feel like we're at a rock concert. Even still, the message is there, and I receive that message through a channel that appeals to me and that I can understand and relate to.
My spiritual journey continues each day, and there are many things that now influence what my image of God is. My faith and my image of God could be influenced by another individual, a song on the radio, something in the news, or even something as simple as the rays of sunshine peering through the clouds. Each and every day presents a new opportunity to build upon my image of God.


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Featherweight Titlist Billy Dib – Promoted by Entertainer 50 Cent – to Defend Title Against Evgeny Gradovich on ESPN's Friday Night Fights 50 Cent to Visit ESPN Thursday, Appear on TV & Radio Shows The March 1 edition of ESPN's Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra will feature an IBF Title fight between Featherweight titlist Billy "The Kid" Dib (35-1, 1 NC, 21 KOs; The Ring Magazine's No. 4, ESPN.com No.8 ranked Featherweight) and undefeated challenger Evgeny "The Mexican Russian" Gradovich (15-0, 8 KOs) in the 12-round main event. Friday's show from the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., will air live at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2 HD, and will be available online through WatchESPN.com and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app. The card will also air live on ESPN Deportes+, the new digital extension of ESPN Deportes, and will air tape delayed on ESPN Deportes Saturday morning at 3 a.m. The card is co-promoted by DiBella Entertainment and SMS Promotions, owned by multiplatinum recording artist and entrepreneur 50 Cent. Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas will be ringside describing the action for ESPN2 HD, while studio host Todd Grisham (@GrishamESPN) will be on site presenting the latest boxing news and highlights. Alex Pombo and Delvin Rodriguez will call this week's fights for ESPN Deportes' Viernes de Combates (Friday Night Fights) with Leopoldo Gonzalez and Pablo Viruega in the studio. Bilingual reporter Bernardo Osuna (@osunaespn) will present live interviews and reports for both shows. 50 Cent, who promotes Dib, will be at ESPN's headquarters on Thursday, February 28, for an ESPN "Car Wash" to discuss Friday's main event on ESPN TV and radio shows. On Friday, he will be at Foxwoods performing a walk out song prior to the main event. He will also be the sparring partner in Friday's "Fight Plan" segment with Atlas, in which Atlas and a sparring partner outline what each fighter needs to do to win. Main Event: "I am really excited to be headlining against the 'Mexican Russian,'" Dib said. "It is going to be an all-out punch up. The fans can definitely expect to see a great fight on March 1st." Gradovich, a native of Russia, is trained by 2012 Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) "Trainer of the Year" Robert Garcia. Gradovich scored a seventh-round TKO win over William Villanueva in his last fight. "Becoming a world champion has been a life-long dream of mine, and on March 1, I will finally have that chance," Gradovich said. "This is going to be a very special night for me, as not only am I fighting for my first world title, but the entire country will have the opportunity to watch it. I am already in great shape and I am going to show the world what I am capable of come March 1." Co-Feature: Follow ESPN's Friday Night Fights on Twitter @ESPNFNF or like it on Facebook. Follow ESPN Deportes' Viernes de Combates on Twitter @ESPNBoxeo. Also score the fights round-by-round with the "Live Friday Night Fights Facebook Voting App," an application on the ESPN FNF Facebook page that allows viewers to score the fight round-by-round. deepwater says:
is 50 no cent gonna come down a rope again saying the same ole thing? kinda sad to be on fri night fights at this stage of your career dib. 50 cent next time you come down on a rope say something like this= hey kids,I am just acting with this gangster rap thing.please dont try and sell drugs and become a hip hop star like me. you see its all an act. rockerfella drug laws in ny will ruin your life. dont try it. stay in school and read a book. rockafella drug laws will ruin your life! amayseng says:
dear Lord i am a 34 year old father and healthcare professional. I also coach baseball. i want to watch some fights with some beers and my girl on friday, not a 37 year old rapper rapping his way to the ring "performing" how the F is that a performance and how is it not an insult to this 200 year old sport? deepwater says:
anyone check out the fight poster or credential card for friday night fights? its got the boxers on it around the edges. its got sweet lou dibellas ugly mug and 50 cent sour face right in the middle. you gotta love boxing, the cheap *** promoter and fake gangster rapper are using these fighters to promote themselves. hey promoters get the f outta hear. stay behind the scenes and run the freakin show! no one wants to see lou dibellas ugly smirk or 5o cents angry face. billy dib. get out now. you should be on ppv at this point of your career. 50 cent is gonna rap b4 your fights. thats it.nothing more. get outta that contract now if you ever want a decent future in this sport.


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by Cloggie Downunder
a heartwarming story
The Secret of Everything is Barbara O'Neal's second novel. This is the story of thirty-seven year old Tessa Harlow, who leads hiking tours for adventurous vacationers. After a freak injury in a hiking trip marred by tragedy, Tessa is drawn to the New Mexico town of Los Ladrones, once the setting of a childhood trauma that Tessa can only remember in confusing flashes. The story is told in several voices: Tessa, looking for her past; Sam, her ex-hippie, surfer father, running away from that past; Vince Grasso, a widowed search and rescue worker and father of three daughters; Natalie, Vince's troubled eight-year-old; Vita Solano, the proprietor of the town's most beloved eatery, 100 Breakfasts Café; and Annie Veracruz, a recent prison parolee and employee at 100 Breakfasts. As Tessa explores the town on the pretext of setting up a hiking and gourmet cooking tour, she visits the Green Gate farm, the latest incarnation of the 70's commune when she spent her early childhood. A heart-warming story of family, food and love, this novel has some wonderful characters, evocative descriptions and a plot with a few surprises. Oh, and of course, mouth-watering recipes! I look forward to Barbara O'Neal's next novel.
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"The Secret of Everything" by Barbara O'Neal
If you are a product of the sixties you will want to read "The Secret of Everything". Tessa Harlow has a job most of us can only dream of, but with this comes along a quest to find out who she is. Tessa has only a few memories of her childhood, but after an accident that brings her close to death she decides to search for the answers that have plagued her since childhood.Where or who will have the key to unlock her memories? Along the way she finds great food, new love and all the answers she has been searching for. A great fast read that book clubs will find very engaging!
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Lisa is trying to recover from an accident on a camping trip and at the same time she is trying to remember her youth in New Mexico and why her father has never wanted to return. When she visits her home she starts to remember her past, including another girl and to question the things her father has told her. Along the way she identifies with the people in the town and starts to feel comfortable with them from the young widower and his children to the people who now live where she remembers growing up. The author makes her characters alive and reins in the reader to try to figure out the secret of Lisa's birth. This should make a fun book club read, especially for those with ties to the 60's.
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by Teresa C. (Pickerington, OH)
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I found this book to be an easy read. It kept my attention but wasn't as much of a page turner as I had hoped. The main character, Tessa Harlow, has nearly recovered physically from a hiking accident but is still struggling to recover mentally. As she pushes herself to face her past so she can move on she discovers some hidden family secrets that threaten to further impede her quest for recovery.
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I knew I was going to like this book from what I read on BookBrowse's synopsis of it, and I was not disappointed; it captivated me from beginning to end!
I enjoy books that are about women who overcome odds, and this is one of those. There were times, when I was on the edge of my seat, which I think also makes for a good novel.
Though I guessed some of what happened, it didn't spoil it for me; and I think others, who enjoy books that combine romance, mystery and action will like this book.
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Everyone has secrets
Tessa Harlow is a tour guide recovering from a terrible accident on her last tour, a tour that ended with a death and Tessa recovering from severe injuries. After months of recuperation she is looking to get back to work and heads to Las Ladrones, New Mexico to determine if it would be a good tour for her company. Tessa has a bit of a past there, she lived there as a child and almost drowned. While there Tessa comes face to face with her past and she begins to discover "The Secret of Everything".
This book was an easy read, pretty standard chick lit fare; beautiful emotionally damaged woman meets incredibly handsome but equally damaged man, sparks and sex fly and together they help each other heal. Nothing earth shattering here, although there was a bit of an interesting mystery involving Tessa's past. Some small magical realism bits seemed a little out of place. The characters were very likable, especially the character of Natalie, a little girl grieving the loss of her mother. The descriptions of New Mexico make you want to pack your bags tomorrow. The storylines eventually come together in one big happy bow at the end, not too believable but if you just want to have a nice beach read this is the book for you.
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There are some classic misconceptions and stereotypes about autistic people that come and, for some, go with fashion. I fit none of them, except, maybe, when I'm having a nervous breakdown.
When I was little and first diagnosed, in the early '50s, the diagnosis was extremely rare. In my case, it was stated in the adjectival form, as in "autistic" behavior. Another virtually interchangeable term in my case notes was "schizoid". Back then, autism was seen as a personality disorder caused by a withholding and cold mother. In those days, so many conditions were blamed on the mother.
The stereotype was that autistic children had no interest in the world around or outside them. Only people with no first-hand experience with autistic people think autists are unreachable, lost in their own world. I, for one, have never met a single autist like that, nor was I like that. I couldn't talk until I was almost 5 though I was singing songs when I was a year old.
I was nonverbal, freaking out, obsessed with my grandmothers' friends' stimmy diamonds, the lipstick-fragrant inside of their purses, and also weather patterns. My nosiness showed an interest in the outside world. My love of sparkly things, soft fragrance and weather persists and my list of "obsessions" has grown. If I were neuronormal, these would be considered simply "a few of my favorite things", to quote Maria in "The Sound of Music".
I have always been an extrovert, my attention directed outward into the world rather than internalized and self-contained, as is the autistic stereotype. From the time I was 5, I was garrulous, making up for lost non-verbal time. I was social, though socially inept; my mother's word for it was "oblivious". I had a best friend until she moved away in junior high and I started to be plagued by a succession of false friends. I wanted friends desperately but didn't know how to choose them. This all goes to show that some of us on the spectrum are social, which, given our primitive social skills, is actually more painful than fitting into the stereotype by being socially aloof.
Another stereotype is a fear of change. When I was 7, I moved from my grandparents' house in Iowa to live with my parents and siblings in Lebanon. I was thrilled to be moving into a new and less structured environment, though "structure" was a concept I didn't have. I was intrigued by novelty, at least until I actually had to adapt to it. I preferred staying overnight with just about anybody to being at home. Even when my family was evacuated from Lebanon during the June War in the summer of 1967, I was actually intrigued by the "adventurous" prospect of being a refugee, thrilled to be let out early from odious 7th grade. Until I got my first job working for people other than friends, change was a blessed reprieve from the status quo of stifling and often incomprehensible rules.
When I moved to Lebanon to be with my parents and siblings at age 7, no mention was made about my 4-year absence while living with my grandparents in Iowa and no explanation was given as to why I was suddenly in their midst. I had been away since my youngest brother was a year old and the second youngest was 2, so they didn't remember me. My two older siblings were only 18 and 36 months older than I. Suddenly having another sibling must have been strange for them, but what is strange–or normal, for that matter–when you're that young?
I was, as my grandparents' generation called it, "a little peculiar", which is a kinder and more accurate euphemism than the ones we go through by turns now, discarding them as they gradually acquire the connotation as well as denotation of the somewhat shameful phenomenon to which they're alluding—and avoiding. Back when fewer diagnoses were household names and the word "handicap" (the locution for disability back then) was reserved for people with mobility problems, people were often more allowing of people who were odd.
All the way down to school in Beirut, I hummed and rocked, which took up even more valuable space in our cramped VW, with my two youngest brothers squeezed into the back storage pocket and us 3 older kids in the back seat. I was composing symphonies, but who knows what others were hearing?
Walking up the Stinky Stairs to my father's office one dismal rainy day after school, I stepped in some urine and feces. Men urinated on public walls outside. Depressed, hungry, exhausted from school, my delicate senses overwhelmed, I cried inconsolably for 4 straight hours. My father made me write and hand-deliver letters of apology to all the professors in his department at the American University for my disruptive behavior.
Penmanship has always been excruciating for me. Though I didn't even know of the existence of carbon paper, I fantasized about some kind of paper that you could place in between other pages and copy letters without having to write each of them. (I'm convinced I would have invented some primitive form of it by 3rd grade.)
I presented these letters to each of the professors, who accepted it kindly, perhaps taken aback by my need to apologize. After that, I sublimated any sadness into quiet resentment and anger, as well as autistic frustrated rage.
My precocious older sister, with whom I shared a bedroom, found me embarrassing. She had no idea why I was clumsy and uncoordinated, socially immature and demanding of attention; why I had such a hard time tying my shoes, dressing myself in any coherent way, cleaning my part of our room; why I whiled away hour after hour rocking myself into a natural high to my Four Tops or Ricky Nelson singles. My mother explained that I was "artistic". As an offspring of a serious artist, who absolved us from chores only if we spent the time drawing or, better yet, posing for her, weren't all us kids artists, she wondered?
Though nobody back then used the word "autistic" in polite company, my third-grade teacher, at least, knew of my diagnosis. She was educated enough to attempt behavior intervention techniques just then coming into vogue. I knew and resented that I was being treated differently from my peers. I chafed at not being "normal".
Class size was very small, so there was time and room for kids who needed extra help—in my case, in arithmetic, which required a prodigious working memory of too many nonsensical steps for my slow brain, and an instant recall of times tables whenever the teacher snapped her fingers loudly in my face, a sensory shock that would shut down my brain.
I still have a difficult time mastering things that involve lots of sequential steps, such as computer applications, or navigation—be it sense of direction or the ability to move between pages in a database or even Facebook. I am constantly looking for something misplaced, even if I'm looking right at it, making my way out of a maze in a parking lot, or on some obscure page of KindTree's database that no one else ever knew existed. I'm forever "on the wrong page", a lost soul wandering from one no-zone to the next.
This brings us to another stereotype: the computer savvy Aspy. My autistic diagnosis from early childhood was recently upgraded to Aspergers. I have mixed feelings about this. Ignoring my early speech delay doesn't bother me. Just as people learn to read at different ages but end up at the same level by the time they're adults, the same applies to learning to talk.
"Dork" is a more apt description for me than "nerd" when it comes to computer savvy. Though I've been working with computers in some menial capacity or other since the early '80s, I continue to need intensive special education to master any but the most bonehead level of any new or even updated application. I need a ridiculous amount of hands-on at my own computer station, my instructor monitoring my every click; printed facsimiles of each bar, box or button with written explanations of their functions; plenty of hands-on patience with my same question over and over again, until it's hardwired into my long-term memory. Then the stubborn rigidity of my long-term memory renders it all the harder to accommodate "updates", all too frequent in office procedures and software applications.
I do have my social difficulties and delicate sensory processing but these I consider to be differences more than defects. Though overtuned senses can be annoying in a fast-moving and overstimulating world, being able to parse scent or reproduce flavors from distant memory, for instance, enriches my life. Also, I have been learning over time to accommodate myself to these differences through observing myself and practicing easier ways of interacting.
My truly frustrating and intractable deficits come with no such silver lining. These are with executive function: changing focus especially in real time, multi-tasking, being able to return to what I'm doing after being interrupted, making fast decisions especially in a new situation with insufficient information. The best tools I have come up with are typographically consistent lists and charts in outline form, step-by-step and visually organized. When I am able to manage this part of my brain successfully, my anxiety–and the behaviors that go with it–all but vanish.
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does anybody here no the wiring color codes for radio in a 1999 silverado plz and thanks zach
01-23-2008, 03:58 PM #2If I have the time when I get home, I'll try to get you that info.....
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Parker named president of MAHO
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Sirena Parker, director of community living, was named president of the Mississippi Association of Housing Officers at the annual conference recently held in Gulfport.
The Mississippi Association of Housing Officers exists to provide an opportunity to college and university housing officers for personal and professional growth. The organization meets in order for the exchange of ideas with professional colleagues. MAHO is an association that is open to all institutions of higher education in the state of Mississippi.
Parker also is a member of the Southern Association for College Student Affairs, The Southeastern Association of Housing Officers and Association of College University Housing Officers-International.
She joined MUW as director of community living in February 2008.