text: Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion2010-05-28 14:09:51On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:14 AM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> wrote: So I understand your line of reasoning. But today, I believe ADSP can provide a benefit. Brett has data that supports that.Once again, we have a pernicious confusion between manually maintained drop lists and ADSP. Brett has data that supports the former, not the latter. Strange, you replied to Brett's message showing the latter two hours before this message. But I'd like to see if I understand the difference your are trying to highlight between a manually maintained list and a self published list. Manually, there is confidence in understanding the ramifications. Self published (ADSP) there is no assurance in the understanding of the ramifications. Therefore the data collected from one method is not applicable to the other? The end result (discarding) would somehow end up different? John, is your manually maintained list done in co-operation with the those in the list? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html


text: On 04-Feb-2001 Jon Earle wrote: > At 07:34 AM 02/04/01, you wrote: > >>I didn't mention anything about a battery powered car, just an electric car, >>nor did I say the car would *run* off of solar panels. I said it would >>recharge from the solar panels. This is the beauty of hydrogren power. If >>your car hasn't produced enough hydrogen from sitting in the sun, then go buy >>some and refuel it that way. Thing is, if you drive your car for 15 >>minutes to >>work every day, and then leave it in the sun for 8 hours, and then drive it >>home, you won't need to. > > How would it produce H2 just from sitting in the sun? If via electrolysis, > then are you suggesting that we'll have to install electrolysis equipment > in our vehicles? Let's see, we'd need to carry: > > - water storage tank > - electrolysis equipment > - solar panels > - wiring > - H2 storage tank > - plumbing (pressure and standard) > - fuel cell > - electric motor(s) > > How much weight and bulk and systems do you expect to carry? If you're > building a compact or subcompact car and expect to carry all that junk, > where do you expect to put the people and payload? You'd need to build an > SUV to carry all that and still be useful. Nice benefit though is the > driver could have fresh O2 piped into the cabin. Not a lot of extra weight is needed at all. First, keep in mind that Ford will have the Topaz on the market, this fall.. based on Ballard fuel cells. This entails a hydrogen tank, fuel cell, and electric motor, the heaviest parts of your list above. Ford has stated repeatedly that it will be functionally identical to a gas powered Topaz (as in, it will have the same range on a tank of fuel, it will travel as quickly, it will carry the same load). Compared to a hydrogen tank, the water tank is actually very light, since it can simply be made of lightweight plastic. There is obviously no need for the complex tanks that are used with h2. Since the water tank would only fill as the h2 tank empties, then I suggest you keep your tank full. Keep in mind here that we aren't talking about storing the great lakes in your water tank. The electrolysis equipment isn't large, isn't hefty, and isn't expensive, nor is a small compressor. The plumbing isn't either. Mostly likely, WITH solar panels, I'd add ~ 150 lbs to your car with the h2 tank empty, and the water tank full. With it empty and the h2 tank full, I'd add 80 lbs. Considering the Topaz Ford is bragging about is supposed to be functionally identical to a gas powered one (for range of travel on a tank, and speed and weight it can carry), I really doubt the extra 150 lbs is going to make a massive difference. I have 150 lbs in the trunk of my Jetta now. It helps keep the rear end on the road in the winter ;) > > I think this is wholly unpractical compared to a gasoline engine, not even > considering what could go wrong with a complex system like that. > > And, H2 powered cars are not necessarily electric cars. In my poking > around for a useful H2 storage tank, I came across an experimental hydrogen > gas powered truck. > Yes, but Ballard is the way to go. Every major car manufacturer has looked into it. Buses in Vancouver and Victoria and New York are running on them right now. >>Hydrogen power has made the electric car *very* viable. Ford Canada will >>have >>a Topaz out this year based on the Ballard fuel cell. _THIS YEAR_. The >>PRESIDENT of Ford Canada specifically said that it will travel just as far >>and fast as the standard Topaz. No differences _at all_. How's that for >>viable? FYI, Ballard fuel cells produce electricity from hydrogen, and >>are 93% >>efficent at doing so (only 7% of the energy is lost in heat). This is >>_incredible_ compared to any other form of conversion. > > I can't find the article on Ford's website. In fact, I can't find a > reference to a Topaz any longer being a model of car on ford.com. There's > mention of their concept car, the P2000 program, but that's all. Do you > have the link? > I do read the business section of the local newspaper, and I have watched the President of Ford Canada on CPAC with the PM stating all these things, just before he took a drive around the block with it. This link : http://www.ford.ca/english/LearnAbout/ConsumerEd/Environment/Kids/Future/Future3 .asp ------------------------- P2000 Fuel Cell Did you think it was possible to accelerate from 0 to 97 kilometres per hour in 12 seconds while producing zero emissions? Well, it's possible if you are driving the newest member of Ford's ultra energy-efficient P2000 family zero-emission vehicle. Ford's P2000 Fuel Cell is an advanced, hydrogen fuel powered sedan; a midsize family car designed to achieve the performance of today's Ford Taurus, going from 0 to 97 kmh (0 to 60 mph) in 12 seconds, and produces 90 horsepower. ----------------------- Is probably what you found, and it is indeed the car I was refering to. Sorry I thought it was the Topaz, but obviously its the Taurus. I think that "designed to achiecve the performace of today's Ford Taurus" explains the statements I'm making. >> > H powered vehicles are more likely to make BIG BOOMS. >> >>Such statements show your lack of knowledge on the subject. This isn't >>horrible, and its understandable. Don't let an accident that occured almost >>100 years ago cloud your judgement. > > The Hindenberg didn't explode, it caught fire and burned. I'm considering > more recent (more recently than 1990) examples such as liquid hydrogen > rockets exploding. When they go up, they light up the sky quite > impressively! > Yup, they do. So does a gasoline truck that explodes, yet we use that today in vehicles all over the place. Such a flammable liquid, and yet its everywhere. >>Secondly, there are ways to design fuel tanks for H2 that don't cause >>problems >>if they are literally smashed to pieces. Several issues of Discover (now >>defunct :/) went on at length about these designs over 15 years ago. One of >>the favourites was a metal honeycombed design (to give you a good visual >>picture >>of it) that's membranes would slowly release h2 at a controlled rate. The >>only >>way to begin to make explode (and its _very_ hard to make h2 explode, it >>disipates so quickly into the air when released) was to rupture _all_ the >>small >> honeycombed areas at once. Testing showed this to be virtually >> impossible. > > I remember this from years ago. The trouble with it, IIRC, was that it was > quite heavy and rather bulky - moreso than a propane or nat. gas > tank. According to fuelcellstore.com, the tank can only store about 1-2% > of it's weight in H2, and that will decrease over time as impurities in the > incoming H2 gas are absorbed. Compressing or liquefying H2 is expensive, > and requires special equipment to chill, deliver and store the H2, robbing > about 30% of it's efficiency just in the cooling and compressing > process. Other means of storage are still being researched. > Yes, years ago. I initially read about it 15 years ago. Times have changed, and prototypes have improved into workable market models, that are used in buses now, and will be used in cars this fall. > The current H2 propaganda insists that because of relatively safe > industrial use (which is highly structured and monitored), that it will be > safe for the general public (who typically pays little heed to maintenance > issues like changing one's oil or transmission fluid). It is relatively safe. Haven't you heard about the tanks that the h2 are going to be stored in? Why do you keep shoving that aside, and keep saying "Danger, danger Wil Robertson!". H2 WILL NOT EXPLODE AND KILL YOU BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT IT FUNNY. Feel more secure about it? I know you're just arguing a point here, but why aren't you worried about people who have a natural gas furnace, or stove? They're obviously too inept and stupid to not kill themselves with them. Natural gas is actually MORE dangerous than H2, since it disipates more slowly. > > I don't fully buy these pro-widespread-H2-usage arguments... yet. That > doesn't mean, as you've been suggesting through your post, that I'm a > blathering, paranoid, oil-loving idiot. It simply means I have my concerns > based on real-life bad things that have happened. You can go on till the > cows come home about H2 being perfectly safe, and if handled properly, > you're quite right. The fact is, it's more combustible per volume than > gasoline, and that means, more of the product will be consumed. While this > means it's more efficient than gasoline (good!), it's also got a negative > side - that being it's quite explosive if something goes wrong (bad!). If > NASA and the US Air Force and the Chinese (three users who have had recent > rocket explosions) can't have a perfect operational record - and they're > _trained_ in the handling of H2 - then what can we consumers expect when > the number of H2 vehicle applications jumps from a few rockets a year, to > several million vehicles on the road? 1) Take the same volume of gasoline, and use it to launch a rocket (leave aside other issues). What would happen if something went wrong with the rocket as did with the h2o rockets? Correct! It would explode. Its odd how cars aren't exploding right now, all over the street. After all, a car is just a rocket, right? Same concerns, same amount of fuel, same technology. BAH! 2) Erm, trying to liken gas and h2 explosive potential through volume is silly. h2 is way _LESS_ explosive per volume than gas, since to compare volume you have to compare the volume at the SAME PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE. Gasoline at one atmposphere and 20C compared to h2 at the same results in h2 loosing. H2 is in a gaseous state at 20C and one atmposhere, gasoline isn't. 3) How combustable something is doesn't equal the amount of energy you get from something ONCE its ignited. The combustability of something only dictates how easy it is to get it ignited. 4) Less hydrogen is consumed then gasoline to create electricity because of the incredible efficiency of the ballard fuel cell. I suggest you read : http://www.ballard.com/pem_intro.asp and find out more about this fuel cell. Its not fire as you know it. Its not going to explode and kill you. > > I don't know, and you don't know, and so I think we need more information > about the possible risks (we are all well aware of the benefits). > > Aside: Nuclear reactors are perfectly safe (not counting waste > products)... until they go Chernobyl on us. Never underestimate the power > of human error (or stupidity) to make a good situation go horribly wrong. > >>In short, in 5 years everyone will be driving them. The beauty of it is that >>no matter how you see the h2 being manufactured, pollution in the city will >>drop dramatically. I'm just worried about how humid the summers are going to >>get ;) > > I remember something about fuelcells using gasoline to run it's > fuelcells... sec... Okay, the cells themselves use pure hydrogen, but, to > get the hydrogen, you need a source (obviously). You can get hydrogen > from fossil fuels using a converter. Given that there is a huge abundance > of gasoline service stations in the world, I would speculate that this is > how the first vehicles will be produced. > Not at all. My link above points to a site that lists a car that uses h2, and a SUV that uses the method you stated above. Considering this is round ONE of a new technology (for mass market), I find it quite impressive. Ten years down the road h2 power will change dramatically, as even more research and money goes into it. > Some final points: > > - According to Ballard's FAQ, only vehicles with pure hydrogen systems > will have zero emissions. Cars equipped with fossil fuel converters (to > get at the hydrogen) will have reduced (20-30%) greenhouse gas emissions > and trace smog-producing elements compared to standard fossil fuel engines. Which is why pure h2 is the way to go. > > - According to Ford's website (which BTW, contains no reference to a Topaz > being a model of car), a fuelcell car will achieve about 60mpg. Not bad, > but not stunningly impressive. Toyota's ugly little Echo gets about that, > does it not? No, but it makes reference to the Taraus, a larger, more luxurious and more powerful car than the Topaz. My mistake. However, it doesn't list anything about mpg ratings, and since you're giving me mpg I would expect you are refering to a US site. The American branch of Ford would never undertake something like this, to much pressure from the oil tycoons, I suspect. Honda, Germany car companies, and Ford (with a government grant) up here are going to release models based on Ballard cells. > > - Fuelcell powertrains are heavier, and the only offset in weight comes > from redesigning the car's body to use more composites and plastics instead > of metals. Fuelcell powertrains?! What are you refering to here. Fuelcells don't have powertains. They provide electricity to electric motors. > > - According to DaimlerChrysler, fuelcells are still far too expensive for > consumers and take up to 30minutes to get started (requiring a battery pack > for the interim), which for an inner city commuter vehicle, would prove > utterly useless. They are completely and utterly incorrect. Ford has claims to the contrary. I don't think you really looked to hard around ford's site to find any info on the above, since this : http://www.media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4762 Lists a summary (although incomplete, and changed) of the press release done on Parliment Hill. You can even see a little picture of our good old buddy, the evil PM, driving around in it ;) Its interesting that they clearly (and I mean *clearly*) stated that these vehicles would be out for fall 2001, and now it states 2004. Perhaps the President of Ford Canada meant "some ballard powered vehicle" instead of the Taurus based on. No matter. > > In short, I reiterate my original statement: Electric cars are, today, > just a dream. > Electric cars aren't just a dream. The prime minister has driven one around Parliment Hill. That shows a massive difference from "Just a dream" to "Designed, developed, planned, and built". 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Johnny Depp Covers 'Entertainment Weekly' For 'Dark Shadows' (PHOTO)
by Megan Lindsey on May.04, 2012, under Articles
Johnny Depp is featured on the latest cover of "Entertainment Weekly" in full character as Barnabas Collins from his new flick, "Dark Shadows". In the magazine, they talk to Johnny as well as director Tim Burton. The magazine talks about the longtime friendship between Johnny and Tim, who have worked together on eight movies over the past twenty years.
Helena Bonham Carter said, "None of us gets their jokes, but they get their jokes and they're laughing, so whatever."
Johnny said, "I feel as though he's my brother. It's a weird understand, this kind of shorthand we have. I truly understand him and know him, I think, just as well as anybody can. He certainly knows me as well as anybody can."
Tim said, "We don't wear our 'This Is Our 8th Movie Together!' t-shirts every day."
The movie centers around Barnabas who is a 200-year-old vampire who is looking to exact his vengeance on a witch who changed him into a vampire. This issue is out today, May 4th.
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Like People magazine and Us Weekly, Entertainment Weekly has placed singing icon Whitney Houston on their latest cover. The magazine discusses the late singer's life and legacy.
Whitney Houston's tragic death on the eve of the Grammy Awards was a shock to the music community and the world. Her fans and colleagues have struggled with her legacy in the days since her passing, reconciling her one-of-a-kind talent with her battle with substance abuse and troubled personal life. In this week's issue of EW, we explore Houston's life, her influences, and how she will be remembered.
At the Grammys, Houston's impact was apparent. Bonnie Raitt, Diane Warren, and other major music industry figures spoke to EW about her influence on their own work and on the music business as a whole. "She broke the glass ceiling for female R&B singers to cross over," Raitt said.
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'True Blood' Does American Gothic On Entertainment Weekly (Photos)
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True Blood's Anna Paquin and Alexander Skarsgard revamp (ha!) the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly in their version of the famous American Gothic painting.
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Alexander spoke of his female fanbase, saying, "I'll never get used to that. It's just very, very humbling and flattering. The character Eric means so much to me and I'm having so much fun playing him. Of course it means a lot when you meet fans and you can actually tell there are people out there who really do care about the character. It means something to you, then. That's kind of why you do this whole thing."
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Robert Pattinson talks about Reese Witherspoon & his future
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In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Robert Pattinson discusses his future in the movie industry and says that his Water For Elephants co-star Reese Witherspoon isn't annoying. Well, if that's not a bonus, I don't know what is!
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Henry Cavill covers Entertainment Weekly – Photo
by Roberta Ferguson on Feb.17, 2011, under Articles
Our new Superman: Man Of Steel, Henry Cavill, appears on the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly!
Speaking to the magazine about his latest role, he said, "All I could think was, Oh, God, they're going to look at me and go, 'He's not Superman. Not a chance.'"
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My 1999 k1500
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I am still not sold on the step guards that came with the truck. Feel free to give some opinions! They do help with loading the baby and getting in and out, but they don't look that great....to me anyways.1993 GMC Suburban K2500, 454 TBI, Baldwin Filters, Towing Mirrors, Magnaflow, HiFlo Cat
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i love your mirrors on the burban. i have a 99 as well but i have stock mirrors, my burb didnt come with steps at all. i like the steps you have on yours but if your not planning on lifting it or putting bigger tires than you have now then idk id prolly go with the stock steps that ran down the side and didnt have a gap in between the cab and step like yours do.. i had a chevy before that had that type of step on it and my 6 year old broter rolled his ankle getting out cause he had slipped when they were wet. just my advise
love the truck - james1999 Suburban 4x4 5.7 loaded
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they don't look good but it does provide an easy access.
As other mentioned, be careful when wet. The other day I test drive a 99 with the plastic stock running board, so slippy that I almost fall :(
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so i started thinking what would be a good way to make the steps safer and i talked to a buddy of mine, i came up with this idea idk if it will work or not but it could..
rhino line, i have seen a lot of people rhino line entire trucks before and i had my chevy rhino lined and even on a stormy day i still had grip in the bed, if you rhino lined the steps you like most just where you will actually step up into the truck it may give better grip on the step for anyone getting in the truck on a stormy day.. more grip is always best
10-05-2012, 02:17 AM #6That's a good idea, but I already took them off day before yesterday. It looks better and I don't really miss them. Now to just sell them!!
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Incidentally, JK Rowling must be a fan of this novel. I had missed the Mrs Norris reference when I read the Harry Potter novels; there's no missing now on reread the mention of the children of the Bertram household learning "of the Roman emperors as low as Severus."
Jane Austen is one of my top favorite authors, and when it came time to rate her novels on Goodreads and LibraryThing, I gave her Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion five stars, the highest possible. When it came time, however, to rate Mansfield Park, the novel Austen herself most esteemed among her own, I rated it only one star to reflect my remembered loathing for it. Looking at others' reviews on LibraryThing and Goodreads, I can see I was not alone in my disdain. The introduction to the annotated Norton Critical Edition called Mansfield Park Austen's "most controversial novel" and her darkest and "most ambitious and disturbing."
In a lot of ways, I think Mansfield Park is an outlier among Austen's mature novels and that might be why even fans of her are thrown by it. Austen's novels are a lot more than romances, but they are romances, and I'll admit that's a great deal of the appeal for me. I love her other heroines, which I can usually identify with and admire: Catherine Morland the tomboy and bookworm, sensible Elinor Dashwood, her passionate sister Marianne, witty Elizabeth Bennet, dignified Anne Elliot. Even Emma Woodhouse who might not seem likable at first won me over by the end of the novel with her name. I think because Emma does learn and grow, is humbled--not unlike the way Darcy is humbled--in seeing her flaws through the eyes of the person she most esteems.
And the other Austen heroes are easy for a reader to fall in love with: Henry Tilney with his playfulness, Edward Ferrars with his shy diffidence, Colonel Christopher Brandon with his passionate devotion, proud but principled Fitzwilliam Darcy, the compassionate George Knightly and Captain Frederick Wentworth who wrote among the most melting love letter in literature.
Not only do Austen's characters usually attach you in their own right, you usually end her novels feeling that her couples have found the best possible "partner in life" in each other and have grown because of each other. And the other novels have a charm and lightness and a tone of amused fondness at the foibles of mankind.
But then there's Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram of Mansfield Park.
I remembered Fanny as a prig and utterly unlikable. I have a close friend who is an Austen scholar who is writing her doctoral thesis in literature on Mansfield Park. She urged me to give the novel another chance, and to look for several things: Sir Thomas Bertram's disturbing musings on child rearing, Fanny's bitterness and the reasons for it, and to pay particular attention to the last chapter and how deliberately crafted is the sense of dissatisfaction.
Doing so I embarked on another read of Mansfield Park, and here below is my reaction (and SPOILERS aplenty). Without the expectation of finding in it a satisfying love story, I found doing so the novel did rise in my estimation. I don't know I can say I like Fanny any more, but I do feel more sympathy for her situation and actually no longer consider her a "prig." A prig is not just someone with an "exaggerated conformity or propriety," but someone smug in it--and Fanny is too diffident, too shy, unhappy and bitter to be counted smug. Nor is she a goodie-two-shoes. There's a passage early on that captures her personality and situation well. She has had harsh treatment from her uncle Sir Thomas, who is soon to be leaving for the West Indies, that causes her to cry "bitterly." Sir Thomas' daughters don't feel any fondness for him and (correctly) assume Fanny doesn't either, and "when her uncle was gone...her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite." Fanny by the way, is all the more miserable because she believes she should care about Sir Thomas but is well aware she doesn't. Fanny is no hypocrite or flatterer, but there's often a wide streak of bitterness and jealousy in her private reflections; she's the poor relation treated as an unpaid servant, often treated with negligence and many attempts to put her in her place--a low place. Often such swipes coming from the aunt, Mrs Norris, who urged the Bertrams to foster their niece at Mansfield Park.
It's because of that treatment that her cousin Edmund makes so strong an impression on her. He's the only one who treats her with any consideration or kindness. Despite all that, I heartily disliked Edmund for pretty much the whole of the book. He is a prig. Too often I felt that he and Fanny both cared more about propriety and appearances rather than principles based on kindness or integrity, and that propensity was all too much to the fore when early on he and Fanny dissected Miss Mary Crawford and censured her for not being prim and proper in criticizing her uncle for abuse of her aunt. (Though I admit it is hard to imagine say even the lively Elizabeth Bennet making that joke about Admirals' "Vices and Rears.") But then later in dealing with Miss Crawford, once Edmund falls in love, he becomes a hypocrite as well--trimming and tailoring his principles to please her.
As to Miss Crawford, until the last chapters, she was my favorite character in the book; She's as witty as the sparkling Elizabeth Bennet, and she's no Caroline Bingley or Lucy Steele; there's no true malice in Mary Crawford and more than one incident that suggests a true disinterested kindness, and I thought for much of the book that Fanny was blinded by jealousy in how she interpreted Miss Crawford's actions (and possibly Fanny simply just missed Mary's playful if scandalous and tasteless humor in say a certain letter.) I find Mary Crawford one of the most complex and problematical characters in any Austen novel, and I don't think dismissing her as shallow and unprincipled really does justice to her.
By the end I did come around more to Fanny's way of thinking of the Crawfords, but keeping in mind what my friend said about that well-crafted sense of dissatisfaction in the last chapter... As I said, the heroes and heroines of Austen's other mature novels tend to learn and grow through their experiences of love with each often providing a balance to the other. I don't get any sense of that growth in Fanny and there is something in her relationship with Edmund that smacks too much of Pygmalion for my liking, that is too incestuous beyond their being cousins. Part of the attraction between both is that "her mind in so great a degree [was] formed by his care." Through much of the book Edmund is correcting and instructing Fanny, and it struck me very unlike say the way Mr Knightly treats Emma. Partly I suppose because I agreed more with Knightly's criticisms of Emma, but also because Emma was capable of disagreeing and pushing back, while Fanny constantly frustrated me with her meekness for so much of the book.
Moreover, Austen explicitly states that Henry Crawford and Fanny could have been happy together--that this was a woman he had "passionately and rationally loved" and there's more than a hint that Edmund and Mary might have been happy as well. Happy if events were different? Or their characters? Probably the second, but Mansfield Park leaves me wondering about that in a way her other novels certainly didn't. Indeed, much space is given to what-might-have-been paired differently, and short shrift to Edmund and Fanny's courtship. Finally, I'd also say I find something disturbing in the way in the end Fanny's sister Susan takes her place, becoming the "stationary niece" while Fanny moves to Mrs Norris' place. Austen begins that last chapter saying she intended now to "restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to a tolerable comfort." A tolerable comfort makes for a rather uncomfortable note when I contrast it with Austen's other novels.
If I can't quite put Mansfield Park in the same beloved place as her other mature novels and it's still my least favorite, I did finish respecting it on reread, and raising its rating to four stars. Certainly the secondary characters like Mrs Norris, Lady Bertram, Mr Yates, Maria Bertram and Mr Rushworth can be listed along with characters such as Lucy Steele or Mr Collins or Lady Catherine de Bourgh as memorable and indelible creations. And of all her novels, arguably Mansfield Park provides the most food for thought on such subjects as propriety and principle, the enduring damages of childhood and just what in a life partner can help us grow and flourish.
Since the copyright has long expired, you can find legitimate free etexts of Mansfield Park online, including here. But if you're going to buy a bound paper copy, I highly recommend the Norton Critical Edition--the critical essays in the back are worth the price alone, particularly those by Lionel Trilling, Nina Auerbach and Joseph Lew.
The 1999 feature film version directed by Rozema tried to make Fanny appealing by injecting a lot of Jane Austen's own personality into the heroine--it doesn't suit Fanny Price and makes a travesty of her character and the novel.
In other fan(of) news, I got pushed into watching Battlestar Galactica and am now an avid fan, though I doubt it'll ever inspire fanfic from me. Not that anything does these days *sigh*
In terms of reading fanfic btw, I've never been interested in Austen fandom, or the many pastiches professionally written--because they just in my opinion can't come up to the originals, and I didn't in other novels feel this need for course correction. Well with Mansfield Park I do rather have that itch and wouldn't mind reading fiction based in it, whether amateur or professional. If I weren't so terrified of trying to hit anything like an Austenesque style, I might even have given writing a MP fanfic a try. Which does say something about how this novel frustrates me still--but also how it still has me thinking.


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Lt. John Corina has told a press conference Friday that new information is substantial enough to take another look at the case.
Wood's body was found floating off Santa Catalina Island as the couple were on a boating excursion. The death was ruled an accidental drowning.
Corina was asked if Wagner is a suspect and the detective said no.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A yacht captain said on national TV Friday that he lied to investigators about Natalie Wood's mysterious death 30 years ago and blames the actress' husband at the time, Robert Wagner, for her drowning in the ocean off Southern California.
The circumstances of her death remain one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries and continue to create renewed intrigue, with homicide detectives unexpectedly re-opening the case Thursday that had long been classified as a tragic accident.
A Los Angeles County sheriff's detective will speak to reporters Friday about the decision to take another look at the Oscar-nominated actress' nighttime demise in the chilly waters off Southern California on Nov. 29, 1981. Wood drowned after spending several hours drinking on Catalina Island and a yacht with Wagner, fellow actor Christopher Walken and the ship's captain, Dennis Davern.
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Davern told NBC TV's "Today" show on Friday that he made mistakes by not telling the truth about events leading to the Thanksgiving weekend death and had urged Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide investigators to reopen the case.
"Was the fight between Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner what ultimately led to her death?" show host David Gregory asked.
"Yes," Davern replied.
"How so?"
"Like I said, that's going to be up to the investigators to decide," the captain said.
Davern said he believes Wagner had intentionally kept the investigation into Wood's death low profile and didn't do everything he could have done. When Gregory pressed Davern for supporting details, the captain said that was the duty of investigators.
The Associated Press could not immediately reach Davern or Wagner's representative Friday.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Thursday the renewed inquiry was prompted by unspecified new information about Woods' case. The Los Angeles Times quoted Sheriff Lee Baca as saying recent comments by Davern, who was interviewed for a book project and whose comments from a 2000 article by Vanity Fair are being featured on a new print edition and a "48 Hours Mystery" episode that focus on Hollywood scandals.
In the magazine, Davern is quoted as saying that Wood and Wagner fought in their cabin before the actress disappeared. Coroner's officials ruled her death an accidental drowning, perhaps caused by her slipping off the boat while trying to tie down a dinghy.
Wood's death sparked tabloid speculation that foul play was involved, but Wagner and Wood's sister have dismissed any suggestion the actress' death was anything more than an accident. Coroner's officials at the time agreed, writing that Wood was "possibly attempting to board the dinghy and had fallen into the water, striking her face."
It is not the first time Davern has contradicted statements he and others made to investigators after Woods' death, and the magazine notes that he has told his story through tabloids and has been shopping for a book deal for years.
Sheriff's officials are also hoping for tips from the public that may shed new light on how Wood, who was afraid of being in the water, ended up drowning.
"Although no one in the Wagner family has heard from the LA County Sheriff's department about this matter, they fully support the efforts of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood Wagner is valid, and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30 year anniversary of her tragic death," Wagner spokesman Alan Nierob wrote in a statement.
Wood, a three-time Oscar nominee famous for roles in "West Side Story," `'Rebel Without a Cause" and other Hollywood hits, was 43 when she died. She and Wagner, star of the TV series "Hart to Hart," were twice married, first in 1957 before divorcing six years later. They remarried in 1972.
Lana Wood wrote in a biography on her sister, "What happened is that Natalie drank too much that night."
Wagner wrote in a 2008 autobiography that he blamed himself for his wife's death.
He recounted the night of Wood's disappearance, during which the couple and Walken drank at a restaurant and on the boat. Wood went to the master cabin during an argument between her husband and Walken. The last time Wagner


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District Court Judge Nan Nash deemed the proposal invalid in a ruling issued Tuesday morning.
Local group OLE collected more than 25,000 signatures for a ballot initiative that would've raised Albuquerque's minimum wage from $7.50 to $8.50 in 2013 and increased it along with the consumer price index every year after that. The proposal would also give tipped workers a major pay hike.
Although one sentence of the ballot question had a typo, mixing up "employees" with "employers" in the sentence dealing with tipped workers, Judge Nash wrote in her decision that that problem was not enough to keep the question off the ballot as the city had argued.
However, Judge Nash did say that the question asked voters to approve all parts of OLE's proposal or deny all parts. That would cause a dilemma for someone in favor of a minimum wage hike but opposed to raising the wage for tipped workers, something the judge says does make the proposal invalid.
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Vero has always been a "seasonal" place. Renting a house for the less than 30 days is not for "seasonal" people. Plenty of places to stay besides a neighborhood. My issue with Vero growing too fast is not about the number of people it's about the way some of the newer buildings and remodels are done, it doesn't represent how Vero is (or use to be) If short term rentals are allowed in neighborhoods then soon we will be like Miami or the Keys and that is not who we are. Just my thoughts.
The net impact of the changing demographics is that the population is static but the the ability of young families to find affordable housing and the aging of the residents, requires fewer school facilities to accommodate the reduction of COVB students.
Thus, COVB has indeed changed, the combination of seasonally occupied and unoccupied residences, for some periods of the year is over 20%.
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Grand Slam winners Fiona Coghlan and Nora Stapelton have returned the Women's RBS 6 Nations trophy to Chief Executive John Feehan at the Six Nations offices in Dublin.
The former Ireland A coach continued his charm offensive yesterday as he talked up the visitors' chances, despite the injury doubts surrounding star centres Brian O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy.
"No matter who the Irish have in their line-up, they will be a top class combination and we will prepare for all the options," admitted Williams - who has named an unchanged side for tomorrow's Murrayfield meeting.
"They are obviously a side that Willie Anderson, my assistant, and I know very well from our time working and living in Ireland.
"They are very talented throughout their squad, but particularly in the back-division where they have such strength in depth. As a team, they are powerful - and as individuals, they have a great deal of flair.
"Shane Horgan and Kevin Maggs are seasoned international players, the former especially, whom I rate one of the best in the game, having coached him at Leinster."
On current form, Horgan is amongst the best backs in Europe - leading the Heineken Cup scoring charts with seven tries, and bagging twelve in his first ten games for Leinster this season. The 26-year-old's performances in midfield, in the absence of D'Arcy last autumn, against South Africa and Argentina also caught the eye.
Scotland full-back Chris Paterson - who kicked three penalties in their agonising 16-9 loss to champions France last Saturday - has also hailed Eddie O'Sullivan's outfit as "world class".
"Individual players have to be given a platform from their team-mates," said the former skipper.
"The attention is always going to be on Brian O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy - and they are wonderful players.
"But the Ireland team are also strong and hard-working from front to back and have five big ball-carriers in the back row. They are also very strong at half-back.
"Their individual players are capable of doing anything and something special, but they are very well-balanced side too," added the 26-year-old Edinburgh kicker.
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You Don't Have to Be a Pack Horse Any More!
For the last 30 years I've been traveling to different powwows around the western United States and a bit into British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Now that I have two grown daughters who each have two small children, it's become quite a challenge getting everything to and from the powwow venue.
You've got chairs, a small cooler or other container for food and drinks; fan and feather cases; bags or containers of outfits; blankets; purses or backpacks with all the other essentials like phones, iPads, cameras, etc. You just grab everything you can, hope the wheels work on the suitcases, enlist the kids to carry their own backpacks, and even make several trips if necessary. At almost 52, I think I need a break.
I saw a lady with a wagon at Julyamsh and vowed to get one some day. It was a gardening wagon that she'd gotten at Ace Hardware, but I found a similar one in April of this year: The MAC Sports Folding Wagon now on sale for $79.99, and it is worth every penny.
For packing things to get to the powwow, it's perfect. The wheels are extremely sturdy so you can navigate over the roughest terrain without a problem. It's easy to unfold and it holds a lot, and it can even double as a bed for the baby with its high sides. Best of all, It collapses down to a small size and can fit in any car trunk.
The first time I used it, during the 2012 Kyi-Yo Powwow in Missoula, I got a lot of comments on it, particularly from people with small children. The Mac Wagon has been a real lifesaver for me and I highly recommend it.
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After an average day at The Foundation, Doctor Alto Clef suddenly has to deal with an entity quite unlike the ones he usually has to deal with...
I originally posted this on the SCP wiki itself. Needless to say it was met with plenty of downvotes on account of it being terrible.
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Meredith (vocals), John (guitar), Nick (bass), Michael (Drums)
Where are you from?
Name of band:
Smallz the Cat
Who else is in your band (if applicable)?
Just us
How would you describe yourselves?
Pop punk in an Alkaline Trio or Bayside kind of way… like a darker pop punk, but we feel like that is going to shift the more we change and write and grow as a band.
Who are your main influences musically?
Insane Clown Posse, Justin Bieber, Cradle of Filth, Lady Gaga, One Direction, Sublime and No Doubt.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
Orgasms. Straight up orgasms.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Punching that bartender at our last show… because Smallz aint no bitch.
And what's the moment you want to forget?
Punching that bartender… cuz Smallz doesn't know if we are now banned from that bar
If you could choose one of your songs as an advert for your music, what would it be and why?
We have a lot more to write, but out of the songs we have, that would be Slow Yellow. It showcases the essence that we have found in our music up to this point.
Where can we listen to it (direct link)?
Where can we find out more about your music (Facebook, Twitter, official site, iTunes link, etc – all and as many as possible are welcome)?
You could visit us on Twitter, Facebook, Reverb Nation or at Smallzthecat.com
Anything else you'd like to say about your band that I forgot to ask?
Ehh… not a whole lot. We have been a band in concept since February 2012 but we have really been a solid band since about August 2012, so we still have a lot to work out and grow as a band. Since we are so new we haven't gotten much recorded. We are working on a demo right now and after all of our school schedules and the business of the holidays chills out we will be putting it up on Reverb Nation and our website (smallzthecat.com).
We work hard and we play hard and have a damn good time doing it. We really appreciate everyone who takes the time to listen and get into our music.


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Posted by Mary Lawlis Schott on 1/11/2010, 9:54 pm
Reuben Lawlis/Lawless [b. 1824] and Frances Stanton had 2 children, Eli and Luvena, in 1850 Census of Russell County, KY.
Reuben later married Nancy Mary Rousey [b.1836] in St.Joseph, MO, who was from Milledgeville, Lincoln County, KY. and had Eli and Luvena with him.
Can't find marriage records for Reuben and Frances [Matilda?]or record of her death. Need to know more about this marriage.
Reuben Lawlis was son of Jesse Lawless [b. 1783], grandson of Augustine [Austin] Lawlis/Lawless [b.1752].
Hoping someone can help me out, and will gladly share information.
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Road Warrior: How Sandy fooled NJ Transit
Unlike an earlier appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing, NJ Transit's beleaguered executive director — James Weinstein — didn't get many softball questions in Trenton this week as the Assembly Transportation Committee demanded reasons for his agency's decision to leave hundreds of railcars exposed to the savagery of superstorm Sandy.
"I live in Hoboken … and we all moved our [passenger] cars," said Assemblyman Ruben Ramos. "People want to know why NJ Transit didn't have that kind of common sense."
Four days earlier in Washington, Weinstein blunted such criticisms by explaining that U.S. Weather Service advisories said chances of floods missing the 323 pieces of equipment stored at the Meadowlands Maintenance Complex in Kearny were in the 80- to 90-percent range. That answer played well more than 200 miles away in the nation's once-swampy Capitol. But in Trenton, just 70 miles from the swampy Meadowlands, legislators from water-logged Hoboken to storm-ravaged Union demanded specific short-range and long-range answers.
An assemblywoman from Union wanted to know why stewards of the nation's biggest statewide rail system spurned attempts to analyze the impact of climate change on its rolling stock months before Sandy destroyed $100 million in equipment. Consultants "were told to skip" the analysis, said Linda Stender.
But Weinstein insisted that the only part of the study that was skipped dealt with "actual equipment," which didn't require study because the overall "study … concluded that we had as much as 20 years to … adapt to climatological changes."
The widely held notion that the maintenance facility is in a flood zone is wrong, Weinstein said.
"It's not!" he noted. "There is no history of flooding" there. The same is true for the western part of the Hoboken terminal, he added.
The NJ Transit chief sounded like the pitcher who delivers the exact pitch that the opposing team's slugger rarely manages to hit — only to see the ball sail over the fence anyway.
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Homemade Wheat Pasta Recipe
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- Dishes: Pasta
- Ingredients: Egg, Olive Oil, Salt, Flour
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- 2 cups whole wheat flour
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The Nauset Bike Trail between Salt Pond Visitor Center and Tomahawk Trail will be closed from October 30 to mid-December for rehabilitation. No bike or pedestrian access will be allowed during this time.
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Cape Cod National Seashore Re-opening Saturday September 4
Contact: Barbara Dougan, 508-246-3867 Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price has announced that after early morning assessments it appears that the seashore experienced minimal damage as a result of Tropical Storm Earl. Park personnel are working hard to open parking lots, beaches and facilities for the public as soon as possible. Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham and Province Lands Visitor Center in Provincetown will open by 10 AM. Parking lots at Coast Guard, Nauset Light, Marconi, Herring Cove and Race Point are open with limited access to the beach because of high tides. The seashore anticipates returning to full operation including guarded beaches with fee collection by early afternoon. Throughout the storm event the seashore maintained a 24-hour Incident Command Post and worked with surrounding communities. Preparation for the hurricane was extensive involving everything from removing signs, lifeguard chairs, trash receptacles from beaches and parking lots, to securing historic structures. It will take some time to get everything back in place and ready for visitors. Please remember that dangerous rip currents, variable surf conditions, and storm tides will be present for an extended period of time. Visitors should pay close attention to seashore lifeguards and posted warnings. The seashore's top priority is public safety and any water rescue puts multiple people at risk. ### |
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JONESBORO "I can read in red.
"I can read in blue.
"I can read in pickle color too."
— Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
Clayton County Parks and Recreation will throw an early birthday party Friday night for the man who gave the world two things, a grinch and a town full of whos.
Saturday would have been the 109th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was better known to generations of children as "Dr. Seuss." Each year, the National Education Association organizes Read Across America Day to commemorate Seuss' works, and this year's celebration will be observed on Friday.
This will also mark the second year Clayton County's parks and recreation department will participate in the celebration.
A "Dr. Seuss Night" will be held from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Jim Huie Recreation Center, located at 9045 Tara Blvd., in Jonesboro. Pre-kindergarten through first grade-aged children, as well as children from daycare centers across the county, are invited to attend the event, which will feature storytellers and guest readers who will read some of Dr. Seuss' works.
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Tesla Motors (TSLA -0.7%) CEO Elon Musk explains in a blog post the rationale for the company...
Tesla Motors (TSLA -0.7%) CEO Elon Musk explains in a blog post the rationale for the company setting up its own retail stores to disrupt the dealership model by noting any salesperson selling a electric vehicles alongside gas-powered cars faces a conflict of interest. Musk on dealers: "It is impossible for them to explain the advantages of going electric without simultaneously undermining their traditional business."
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Smart! Can't push this non-traditional car through traditional distribution channels. Tesla is at the mercy of generic sales people to push its product. It has to break away from that dependency and gain control over everything from personnel, to supply chain management, to the showroom layout.
Might be a huge investment, but if they're really in it for the long haul, this is the way to do it right from the beginning. -
It does not seem that any 'dealers' are clamoring to represent Tesla on the basis that they could do a better job of evangelizing this technology to the public, generating a larger order stream, or supporting Tesla's products on the road.
We are looking at nothing more or less than a political monopoly that is screaming as their ox gets gored. -
Spoke to a Tesla salesman this AM in Santa Monica. Such stores are not illegal in California, so just maybe the auto lobby is not as strong here as I feared.
Got to sit in one of the cars. They are nice cars -- forget electric! Nice fit and finish, comfortable seats, big view screen for instrumentation and entertainment.
In all a nice car. That it's electric and will save me $300 a month is gas is ...(you guessed it) priceless. -
In the interest of offering a reasoned response rather than the rants already posted, the evidence suggests Musk is right. But why pay any attention to evidence when one can so easily spout off-the wall uninformed opinions?
In fact one of the complaints that many Volt owner have made about some Chevy dealers is that the sales staff try to push potential Volt buyers into Chevy ICE models. There's a whole thread on the Volt web site devoted to this topic and the bad dealer experiences Volt buyers have had. And some GM dealers have even gone on public record about their unwillingness to sell Volts, these I think representative of the large contingent of fossil fuel junkie dealers. -
So let's see, Tesla has improved the design of automobiles (more room, quieter, better handling, quicker acceleration...) and they have improved the efficiency (89 EPA mpg) and they improved the sustainability (zero CO2 from the vehicle) and they made intercity travel fuel-cost-free (SuperCharger network) and now they are improving the buying experience (fashionable stores, no comissions, delivery to your door).
All this stuff sounds like some touchy-feelie things a California hippy run outfit like Apple might do. It'll never work! -
I don't own any TSLA stock but I[m following it closely. Musk is an intriguing personality, it may turn out to be some kind of Steve Jobs. I believe that while the gas saving is an important factor little attention is paid is to the fact that the sum of the cost of the parts, not to mention the repairs, of any fuel car is well above its purchasing price. If we don't have cheaper and far more advance electric cars is, I believe, in no small part because the auto industry knows well where its larger profits come from. This may not be a consideration for those who change cars every other year but not for the bulk of owners who keep them long after the warranties have expired. It looks like finally the bells are tolling for the fuel car in exchange for less noise and cleaner air. Not at all a bad deal.
Tesla is doing the right thing in setting up the stores: this way it can retain a much higher margin (main reason behind the choice), drive the sales more effectively and have a better control of the sales process and customer experience.
However, the idea that the dealer has a conflict of interest is not factually based: if a dealer could invest money in setting up a Tesla outlet, he will probably set up a separate legal entity and a separate team managing it and these people will not have the opportunity to steer the customer from an electric Tesla to an ICE Tesla. The dealer will try its best to make that outlet profitable (unless we are thinking about multibrand outlet which are not really what we are talking about here).
From a legal point of view, I think that Tesla is breaking the law in those states where OEMs are not allowed to sell directly, since the store cannot be compared to a motor show. They sell cars there and all comments about the fact that you are just told to do it on the web are nothing more than an attempt to circumvent the law.
However, I also think that the law should be changed since it's plainly stupid, I can't find another definition (and I'm sorry for my friends at NADA, but it is what it is). In Europe it's perfectly legal for OEMs to have and manage retail stores, provided that the condition at which they sell their product to their stores are the same they apply to franchised dealers. It's called fair competition conditions.
So much for America's claim of being a society based on competition and freedom in business and Europe being the cradle of socialism and protectionism. I prefer the European way (at least in this case, that is).
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I have four kids — two teens, 14 and 13, and two pre-schoolers, 4 and 3 — and this summer, we are rethinking the summer vacation. We are going on one small trip for a few days during the final week of summer (before school), so now it's up to me to make the next 57 days "FUN!"; no pressure.
I have been racking my brain (sigh, does not take long) to come up with some exciting, family-friendly "staycation" ideas. But having such a different age range with the kids is making this more difficult than I thought. Typical staycations can involve camping in the backyard, visiting local museums and movie nights — and all of those are all well and good if all your kids are into them. But taking 2 pre-schoolers to the museum during a long weekend, when every other hapless parent has the same bright idea? A nightmare; frankly I would rather chew glass. So, my new staycation goal is to find activities where the older kids "help" me with the younger ones, while having fun at the same time, and I'll still need to work a little and, of course, keep the house clean. No problem! (Send help!! Please! If you can't send help, send money. Speaking of which…) I am looking at my teens as I type this, and realizing that I might have to resort to bribery. This staycation may turn out to be more expensive than an actual vacation.
Here are some of my ideas for having fun/making it through the next eight-or-so weeks. In September, I will let you know if my sanity is still intact. I know: Wow, such a cliffhanger. Cross your fingers that it goes better than the "Cooking Bacon on the BBQ Plan of 2003" (a whole other story)…
Here's my plan:
Let the big kids pick the events
Put the kids "in charge," from breakfast all the way to dinner, with fun things to do in between. Yes, "in charge" is in scare quotes, and we should be scared (you, too). No matter their age, all kids like power. But they also like bubbles, sidewalk chalk, picnics or just running through the yard kicking around a bunch of beach balls. The point here, is, I am going to make available all of these activities (and more), and let them decide what to do, when. Hmm: calls for a trip to the party store.
Yard sale
Get the kids to pick out all the toys they don't play with anymore and set up a yard sale on the front lawn. Mix up a batch of Kool Aid or lemonade. They will have a blast. Let them know that the money they earn is theirs to keep — always a great incentive. This sale can last a day, a week, or however long you can tolerate it. In the end, take all the unsold toys and donate them to charity. A win-win, for everyone.
Yes, this is where the "PAY"cation part of this post's title kicks in. Pay your older kids to help out with the younger ones. Make it like a "little" job for them. Bear in mind they will need some "older-kid time," too, so reward them with a trip to the mall or movieplex to spend their (your) hard-earned cash. They say money is the root of all evil, but in my world right now it is the root of all sanity.
Hope you all have great vacations or staycations — regardless: PAYcations — this summer with your family and friends. Cheers!
Dee Brun is the award-winning author of Libations of Life: A Girl's Guide to Life One Cocktail at a Time, a cocktail chef and stylist, TV personality, home entertaining guru, writer, humorist, wife, mother of 4, TV Junkie, shoe-aholic, and borderline George Clooney stalker. Read her column, Isn't it Deelightful, every Friday on Slice.ca.


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In 1839, in waters off the coast of Cuba, a group of forty-nine Africans ensnared in the Atlantic slave trade struck out for freedom. They had been captured, sold into slavery, carried across the ocean, sold again, and they were being transported on what was, for millions of Africans, the last leg of the slave trade when they found the chance to seize the initiative. One of them, a man the world would come to know as "Cinque," worked free of his chains and led a shipboard revolt. The vessel they won was a schooner that had been named, in a grim bit of irony, the Amistad ("Friendship"). The Africans tried to force two Cuban survivors to sail them back to Africa, but the Amistad wound up instead in U.S. waters, just past Long Island Sound, where the Africans were again taken into custody. Spain promptly demanded their extradition to face trial in Cuba for piracy and murder, but their plight caught the attention of American abolitionists, who mounted a legal defense on the Africans' behalf. The case went through the American judicial system all the way up to the Supreme Court. The Amistad Case became one of the most important slavery cases that the nation had ever seen. A case that would not only bring different anti-slavery groups together, but a case that would prove to be a corner stone in the fight against slavery. It would prove to be a case that would have many influential people step in or try to, including the president of the U.S., martin Van Buren, and a former president, John Quincy Adams. Both cases were strong and provable, but it would be the Supreme Court that would have the final decision to free the slaves.
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