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NORMAN, OK (RNN) - The spring of 2011 is shaping up to be a record-breaking season for weather fatalities. At 45, the number of people who have died from April storms now matches the total number of weather fatalities in 2010.
With severe storms forecast for the South and Midwest, that number is just going to continue to climb.
"We're not yet to the time of year when these types of tornadoes are most active," said Greg Carbin, forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) storm prediction center.
Severe storms will continue to move across the eastern part of the U.S. on Wednesday, with the Western Appalachians seeing the greatest threat, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
Similar to the deadly storms of a few weeks ago, these storms are anticipated to produce tornadoes, hail, strong winds and flood-inducing rain. Schools, day cares and businesses were closed early in anticipation of the weather event.
Tuesday's swelling rivers and a burst Missouri levee is adding to the stress of the severe storms. More than 50 tornadoes were reported Tuesday, spanning Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, according to NWS.
"This front isn't going anywhere, so you get repeat storms and repeat heavy rains," Carbin said.
A high-risk severe weather warning has been issued by the NWS for areas northeast of Memphis, TN, to Dallas and parts of Arkansas.
"Eventually this system will shift to the east, but it's going to do it slowly," Carbin said. "This is about as bad as you can get, in terms of repeat storm activity."
Nationwide, more than 600 tornadoes have been reported in April. That number far exceeds the average number of tornadoes produced during the month, at 163.
During the storm that started April 15, 240 tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
Last week's fatalities, at 38, had already matched a record set 10 years ago. The record for the most deaths due to tornadoes was set in 1953, at 519.
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Our friend Andy has been hosting a big backyard BBQ for us for many years now, and there are always tons and tons of wines brought by the gang to go along with the amazing food he cooks up. This year, he was joined by a few other grillmasters, so the bounty was even fuller than usual. It is an all day and all night affair, so the wine flows for many hours, giving ample opportunity to sample a wide range of the offerings on tap at a leisurely pace.
Sparkling wines and whites:
N.V. Alfred Gratien Champagne Brut. This is a very pretty style of Champagne. The aromas of baked apples, cream, ginger and light baking spices are airy and pleasing, while the balanced and harmonious palate is soft, creamy and easy-drinking with a juicy core of tree fruit. It really is a nice way to ease into things.
N.V. Eric Rodez Champagne Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru Brut. The nose here is dark, smoky, flinty and schist-driven, with overtones of dark toasted bread, citrus peel and yellow apple. In the mouth, it is full and toasty in nature, with big, serious flavors of citrus, apple, pear and graphite supported by an almost chewy acidic spine. It is less welcoming than the Gratien, but perhaps more interesting and characterful.
N.V. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Champagne Brut. Served from a double magnum. I never got around to trying it.
2004 Mumm Napa DVX Rosé Napa Valley. The bouquet of this wine features aromas of smoke, mineral, strawberry and watermelon that lead to a softly-sweet but sufficiently juicy palate of cherry and strawberry fruit. Sure, it is a bit obvious at times, but I have no problem enjoying it.
1998 Pol Roger Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill Brut. There's a wonderfully deep pitch to the aromas of this wine—featuring serious and deep notes of graphite, apple, pear and herbs that demand your attention. In the mouth, it is vinous, round and luscious, yet effortlessly breezy at the same time. The core flavors of sour lemon, apple and spice have great grip to them, but there's also a certain finery there, as well. On the whole, this is a thoughtful, well-made and highly enjoyable bottle of Champagne.
2011 Weingut Keller Riesling von der Fels Rheinhessen. This wine comes across as an easy summer quaffer, starting with sweet but simple aromas of peach, honeysuckle and apple blossoms. It is much the same on the palate, where it is light-bodied and presents a lattice of peach and flowery flavors atop a barely-there acidity. There's really nothing wrong with it, but there are more interesting QPR bottlings out there for my tastes.
2003 Schoffit Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Rangen de Thann Clos St.-Théobald. There's a dark but very bright golden color to this wine and it shows a lot of rich glycerin character on the inside of the glass. Aromatically, it is loaded with interesting scents of lychee fruit, baked apricots, wax bottle candy and exotic brown spices. In the mouth, it is incredibly sappy in texture, with an unctuous, luscious quality to the draped flavors of lychee, peach juice, and intensely exotic spices. For all that, it is very solidly-structured and not at all overdone or overtly flashy. It is moderately sweet, but not from residual sugar, and there's enough soft acidity in the background to keep this flowing beautifully despite the viscosity. For me, it is loaded with character and displays a depth of flavor that I find highly appealing.
2009 Les Vins de Vienne Condrieu. This is intensely floral on the nose, with aromas of orange blossom, honeysuckle, citrus and peach fuzz lifting up out of the glass. It is similarly floral in the mouth to go along with flavors of white peach and orange zest. For all that, it tastes a bit taut and tight still, with some sneaky structure inhibiting the full release of flavor and textural complexity, in my opinion. I think holding for another two years or so will help with that dimension.
2009 Domaine Rolet Arbois Naturé du Jura. This wine displays an impressively stony and chiseled sensibility on the nose—with scents of limestone, granite, lemon peel, white peach and blanched nuts providing a sense of cool reserve. In the mouth, it is grippy and sticky, with a squeaky sort of texture that fits very well with the elements of limestone, yellow apple, white peach, verbena tea and faintly oxidative nuttiness. It's good stuff, with a serious edge to it that I find intriguing.
2009 Peay Vineyards Chardonnay Estate Sonoma Coast. This wine presents an overt bouquet that is loaded with aromas of wood smoke, grilled herbs, toasted wood and spiced pear—with the smokiness seeming to linger the longest. The smoky, toasty notes continue on the palate, where one encounters tart but mouth-filling flavors of pear, apple, chalk and herb. It seems a bit disjointed to me, though, and I think my advice might be to wait on it a short while.
2005 Faiveley Mercurey 1er Cru Clos des Myglands. Served from magnum. The nose is enjoyable, featuring fine aromas of cranberry and liquid cherry beneath white pepper and toasted herb accents. It is on the light side on the palate, not showing a whole lot of depth or grip, but instead a pleasing briskness to the dark red fruit and peppery flavors. It's a bit tight, though, and some turgid tannins come out after a while. It may just be the magnum format, but I think a few more years will still be good for this.
2006 Méo-Camuzet Frère et Sœurs Bourgogne. There's a shy, compact quality to the nose of this wine, although it does show glimpses of pretty cherry, raspberry and chalk dust aromas. On the palate, it has a bit of a compacted and attenuated finish, but is otherwise fleshy and a tad chewy through the cherry and red berry-flavored mid-palate.
2007 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chênes. This was quite popular, and was gone by the time I had a chance to turn my attention to it.
2009 Domaine de la Vougeraie Gevrey-Chambertin. Even though this has been open a good while before I try it, the nose is just overpoweringly dominated by sulfur aromas. There are some additional notes of smoke, gunpowder and skunk fern in there, but it is really impossible to find any fruit notes beneath that shadow of sulfur. In the mouth, it is again marred by those same characteristics, and it is just impossible to evaluate at this stage of the game. I wouldn't go near it for a while.
2002 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir Hellenthal Sonoma Coast. The nose here is fresh and briery, with aromas of blue fruits leading the way. In the mouth, it is very dark berry-driven, with a wild, zesty character. It's still a bit tannic at times, but still showing plenty of life and freshness.
2001 Marqués de Riscal Rioja Baron de Chirel Reserva. I really enjoy the bouquet of this wine, which is all about sweet, sexy aromas of eucalyptus, sandalwood, cedar shavings, crème de cassis, berry cobbler and dark spices galore. In the mouth, it is soft and creamy in texture, but again very spicy. It is very earthy at its core, and in fact at times comes across as perhaps a bit dirty. Also, there's a bitter smoke quality to the charred finish that I'm not so sure about, either. I'm not sure if it's a variable bottle or just needs a bit more time to resolve itself.
1997 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino. Served from a 5L bottle. A bunch of us drank a 750 ml bottle of this about 2 years back, and at that time my feeling was that it had pretty much peaked. However, if you were to drink the wine from this 5 liter bottle, you'd say it isn't even close to that. The nose here is smooth and lithe, with nice aromas of smoke, menthol, graphite, black cherry and lava rock. In the mouth, it is showing awfully young, with a lot of structure and tannin carrying along the flavors of black cherries, roasted herbs, black earth and bitter dark chocolate. I enjoy drinking it, for sure, but it can last a real long while in these big bottles.
1989 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac. This wine shows off wonderful aromas of suede leather, jalapeno pepper, dried cherries, red currants, dried flower petals, tobacco and chocolate powder that are layered and giving. In the mouth, it's a bit darker-fruited, showing more of a black cherry and dark berry fruit profile. It is smooth and elegant through the fine mid-palate, with fine-grained tannins lending just the right amount of support. I find it to be extremely enjoyable from start to finish and would have to call it my favorite wine of the night.
1999 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Napa Valley. Served from magnum. This was my third-favorite wine of the night. The nose is really deep, sweet and warm, pulling you in with its rich aromas of raspberry and cassis accented by fine wood spices and classy earth tones. On the palate, it is drinking fantastic right now, with great intensity of warm fruit and perfect balance. It has a certain class and finesse that allies nicely to the classic Cabernet fruit and just hits the spot for me.
2002 Etude Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley. This wine presents a nice nose that is a bit coiled, but fresh and lifted with scents of red cherries, red licorice rope and red currants accented by leafy greens and toasted wood aromas. In the mouth, it is loaded with pasty cherry and raspberry fruit, showing great stuffing and fullness of flavor. The tannins are a tad dry and raspy, though, and do grow with time in the glass. There's a lot to like here, but out of magnum it still seems a bit on the young side.
2001 Domaine Auguste Clape Cornas. This was definitely one of the top wines of the day. There's a whole lot going on aromatically for such a young Cornas and it just keeps drawing you back for more nuances and facets. My notes refer to a meaty, spicy and bloody bouquet that features a sweet, pure undercarriage of kirsch and red currant fruit. Secondary notes of cooled bacon fat, tree bark, hickory, charred steak, rust, limestone and rawhide leather all swirl around, as well. It is just outstanding. In the mouth, it is kind of thick and youthfully pasty in texture, showing the more serious side of its personality. Chalky tannins are certainly in play, but the black plum and blackberry fruit carry the play and are pulled along by cool, driving acidity. This is a wine standing at attention, perhaps needing a few more years to lengthen out a bit, but delicious and thought-provoking now. It was my runner-up for wine of the night.
2000 A. Rafanelli Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley. This presents a somewhat mellow and restrained bouquet, giving off fine aromas of warm bricks, limestone, dried cherries, red flowers, cool earth, chocolate powder and random leafy notes. In the mouth, it is warmer and a bit more fully-blown—showing nice sweet berries riding along a smooth-textured and creamy frame. There's good zip and life to it, but it keeps it all pretty refined, and I like the way it's drinking right now.
1999 Ridge Lytton Springs Dry Creek Valley. This is bigger and meatier on the nose than the Rafanelli, with smoke, creosote and grilled meat notes riding atop a blackberry-infused sweetness deep down. In the mouth, it still seems pretty young to me, with a good deal of serious tannin running up and down the palate journey. The texture, too, is real grippy and the backbone of the wine is still quite firm. For all that, the wine shows great girth and thickness as the tasty dark fruit fans out across the mid-palate and through to the impressively long finish. It's a serious mouthful of wine and I see a long future ahead for it.
2007 Carlisle Zinfandel Papera Ranch Russian River Valley. There's a bold, explosive bouquet to this wine--loaded with sweet briery berries that toe the line perfectly between candied and luscious. In the mouth, it is full of black and blue berry fruit, but also showing a good deal of tension and structure underneath. Indeed, this is a nicely-balanced and controlled wine for something so sweetly-fruited. It's big and brash, but well-done.
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I'm glad her ninja class is going well!
I do not believe in physically picking up a child to put them in the water and that happened to Savana at her first lesson ever, after dbf had specifically told the teacher not to and that she may just sit on the side and watch for a bit. Then the supervisor came along and dragged her in as Savana was actually fighting her! I've since enrolled them at the YMCA which has gone well but they also had the kids all hanging onto the edge as the teacher would take one child at a time and it was very unnerving to me that if a child let go, it would HAVE to be a parent to notice since the teacher couldn't avoid having his back to the kids during several moments. Suja and L, I feel upset just reading your accounts. While we were swimming last night I also chastised myself for not getting the kids into lessons since last winter but they do seem to be teaching themselves...
I'm glad that the party went well! I took Savana and Kai to Aladdin today, theater production, and we had a really good time. They were asking me on the way there if it was going to be disney version or book version since we read the orginal Aladdin story which is very different than the disney and I told them I wasn't sure. About 15 minutes into it Kai said, "Oh, it's movie mode, Mom". That cracked me up and he was right that it was more the disney version but still very good. Dbf kept Sawyer with him and all went well even though he acted like it was going to be so difficult that I actually texted my dad to see if he could hang out with Sawyer instead, forgetting he already had plans.
I really had such a good day until I came home and dbf started making passive aggressive comments about the playroom being messy and he's sick of the house being messy. Which, by the way, hasn't been but was today because I was GONE all day and he was here but does no housework ever so of course breakfast dishes were still out and such. Also, this added to a comment he made yesterday, that has been eating away at me, about how "my way doesn't work" because Kai still puts his mouth on weird stuff like shopping cart handles and bites on broomsticks and things of that nature and I don't yell at him for it. Well, I lost my cool. I yelled at him and cried and basically became a bit maniacal. I told him if there was any balance whatsoever, meaning in the division of duties OR in his comments by way of sometimes being thankful for the fact that I take care of the kids and the house completely on my own and then once in awhile complaining...I might be less inclined to flip out when he is critical. Now he's all sorry and I don't care. I'm very angry. It's hard weekend for me already, missing my mom so much and I don't expect a darn thing for Mother's day but I at least wanted to be relaxed and joyful and he took that away from me.
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I'm terrified of J drowning. She is a good swimmer but much more confident that she should be. She starts her first round of swim lessons next week and will probably do at least two more. They are so stupid expensive but I really want her to know how to swim because she is around water so much.
Glad your party went well, L.
We had two birthday parties today and then our neighbors' daughter got married and we went to the reception with J. It was pretty cool because they are from Mexico and don't speak any English at all. We have gone to both of their daughters' quinciñeras and now the first wedding. Each one of these events is huge, with hundreds of people and the best barbacoa and cabrito and tons of beer. The dresses are amazingly huge and everyone gets so dressed up that we feel like country mice next to all the glitter! They had a huge poster-sized wedding photo at the door next to the guest book and then after the two hour long dinner with strolling six-piece mariachi band they turned down the lights and showed the wedding album and then the wedding photo shoot movie! The wedding cake had eight smaller satellite cakes. Everything was turned up to 11. It's always fun to go to those things though no one sits with us because we don't speak Spanish - I can't imagine having to pay for an event like that every couple of years. Lavish and over the top!
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
B - I don't see any reason why you should feel bad about losing your cool. He sure does have it easy and doesn't seem to have any trouble criticizing all the work you do. I don't know that I would thaw out any time soon, especially since he was pulling this on mother's day weekend when you are missing your mom. And I'm sorry, but they are his kids too and that S can be that old and he still feels like spending the afternoon with his child is so much work that you call your Dad to do it instead?!? No. Is he ever going to man up?
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L, S's party sounds awesome!! I'm sorry we couldn't be there. I know Noe would have loved to come and I would have liked to, too. I saw the invite while out getting ice packs and an inflatable donut and I thought, Oh, maybe we can do that, and then I promptly forgot about it in the hecticness (is that a word?) of the weekend. And it turns out I couldn't have done it anyway because I had a phlebotomy appointment this morning that was an hour-long snafu ending with no phlebotomy at all. But anyway, his party sounds lovely and it was a very nice day for it. Happy birthday to S! I can't believe he's 3 already, either.
I also can't believe what a hard time people gave you about the parties -- the Mother's Day thing astounded me the first time I heard it, and even more today. I'm glad you worked it all out to everyone's satisfaction, but the fact you even had to do that would have had me really annoyed. You handled it so well. I'm kind of speechless about your co-worker and the themed birthday cake. Really, a 3 year old needs a themed cake now? Ugh. Isn't anything we do good enough? I'm sure S was more than happy with his blue frosting.
Speaking of swimming. My mom took Nolan swimming for the first time yesterday while hubs took me maternity shopping. She said they started out just sitting him on the edge with his feet in so that he would get used to it and as soon as his feet touched the water he started laughing and splashing! He had SO much fun and cried after an hour or so when they went to get out. Mom said while they were in the water he kept asking to 'get down' cause he couldn't understand why there was no floor under his feet
I hope everyone is having a fantastic Mothers Day! We went to the flea market and yard-saleing this morning, just being out in the hot sun wears me out these days. So I am vegging finishing up a bit of my assignment while Nolan is taking his nap. Maybe I'll get lucky and get to take a short one too doubtful, but I can hope!
Happy Mother's Day to all you lovely ladies...I already had my day back in March.
I'm glad Nolan liked swimming, Christina.
Suja, that is terrible about what happened to Mira in her lesson. I hope you get an apology and that Mira isn't scarred by what happened. With Travis' swim lesson, there were 5 kids in the water along with 2 swimming instructors and all the parents as well.
Travis made me laugh today. I told him I loved the color of his skin because he's got the best tan going on from the little bit of sun (and you can see where his glasses should be when he takes them off because he has white lines!) I said something like, "The sun has really given you a nice skin color," and he said, "Yeah, mummy J and K at school both stayed out in the sun for quite a long time and their skin is really brown." (They are 2 mixed race kids). I couldn't help but to laugh and tried explaining to him that that was not due to the sun but because of their parents color.
I'm sorry, Bridget I know you're thinking of your mom more than usual today and you deserve to have a relaxing day.
I too had a sort of meltdown at DH the other day because he was harassing Josh for not eating, when I try not to make a big deal out of not finishing what's on his plate and I have discussed with DH that I do not want to make a battle out of that. He has a hard time letting it go because he grew up poor and was always taught not to waste food. Whatever he didn't finish was saved for the next day and I think that is a rather nasty practice and that kids shouldn't be punished for not being hungry. But anyway, I may have gone off the deep end a little because I feel like with both DH and Josh all I do is repeat myself and nothing ever changes.
DH bought me a new radio/iphone player for the kitchen. My old radio was falling apart! Mom and her boyfriend came over and gave me my birthday presents since it's on Tuesday. Almost all the presents were wine and cheese related, LOL. She also gave Josh this really neat rainbow maker that's solar powered and when it's all charged up the crystal on the bottom spins around and rainbows go around the room It's really pretty already, even though it hasn't gotten enough sun for the crystal to spin yet.
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I hope you have all had a wonderful Mother's Day.
I have officially reached the point in STC where Mother's Day feels like Valentine's Day used to when I was in high school and didn't have a date. Not bittersweet, just bitter. But at least my puppy loves me and knows I am his mommy.
So here is a brief run-down of how I have spent the last 30 minutes. Sunday nights my big event is watching Mad Men. It comes on at 7:00. At 6:58, I turn the TV to the correct channel, pause the DVR, and go to the bathroom. Having planned ahead to meet my toileting needs, I go into the kitchen and get myself a bowl of potato chips. Take the potato chips out to the living room, where I have to sternly turn away an interested Rottweiler. Three firm "nos" and he backs off. So I decide to go back into the kitchen for a drink, start to walk toward the kitchen, to hear DH ask "Where are you going?" As I turn, I realize there is a large Rottweiler eating my potato chips. Yell at Rottweiler as I remove potato chips from his reach. He looks contemptuous of me. Take bowl into kitchen, where I throw away potato chips while Rottweiler watches with great interest from outside the baby gate. When DH complains that I am wasting the potato chips, explain to DH that I am not eating the potato chips, and I am not going to feed them to the Rottweiler simply because he failed to listen when I told him not to eat them. Re-fill the bowl of potato chips and get myself a glass of limeade. Go back out. Turn on my show, eat potato chips. Rottweiler is 2 feet away, watching my every move. Finish bowl. Rottweiler looks sad. Decide to reward Rottweiler for not eating the second bowl. Pause DVR again, go to shelf where we keep dog treats. Rottweiler excitedly runs into his pen (because we get him to go to his pen by rewarding him with a treat). Have to call his name to get him to realize he doesn't have to go into pen, he can just come and get the treat. Rottweiler launches himself into the air and grabs treat from my raised hand. Laugh hysterically. Go tell the whole story to DH. Hear suspicious noise in living room. Return to find Rottweiler sniffing around empty potato chip bowl, and that he has somehow changed the TV channel in his snouting around. Meaning that all the pausing I did is totally gone because it wasn't recording and now the channel has been changed. Changing it back means I will have missed 20 minutes of the show.
Good thing AMC airs Mad Men back-to-back three times in a row! Guess I'll be watching the 8:00 showing! This time without potato chips.
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Can't help but feel the above story is a genuine motherhood experience! Complete with DH doing nothing to help while complaining about the way I handled the situation! Happy Mother's Day to me.
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Although I can't help but be excited to hear that there will be a new season of Mad Men in my future sometime!!!!!
We just finished watching The Borgias (season 2) and now we've just started watching John Adams, a 3-disc HBO series. Both are worth watching, in my opinion. The Borgias had a lot of sex and violence and intrigue in it, which might be a bad thing or a good thing, depending on who's counting.
I'll have to check out them both. I'm glad to hear it's the Borgias that was filled with sex, violence and intrigue, rather than John Adams. But who am I to say?
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Mandy, I'm sorry the day is so hard on you. And sincerely hope that this is the last time it is so.
You've somehow missed your Rottie sacrificing himself for your health and well being, so your arteries wouldn't clog and such. Poor puppy!
I should say there was some brief full frontal nudity in John Adams, but it was a prelude to tarring and feathering. Not sexy, and not very violent. And Paul Giamatti just does not do it for me, despite his intellectual arguments in the statesman's role (I'm a sucker for a well-spoken man), and all the puritan garb and wigs are fairly off-putting. Hard to believe I come from a long line of protestants. The only thing that is at all appealing to me is the stark bareness of the houses. No clutter whatsoever. Just plain furniture and wood floors and a few obedient children, one of whom is destined to be a president. Not even a decoration or two.
The Borgias, on the other hand... that reminds me of my days doing historical re-creation. Beautiful hair, magnificent gowns, fabulous bodies. And the women were beautiful as well. Sigh. Utterly sumptuous.
Ack, I came back to edit to add that I cannot watch any historical piece without thinking about the presence or absence of bedbugs in the surroundings. So in the frosty New England town, I instantly thought, "Wow, no bedbugs there" and in the Italy of the Borgias, I thought about plague and bedbugs and all the other pests and pestilences there were at those times. I also have thoughts about how much people smelled and how often they washed clothes and brushed their teeth and what bathrooms were like in different time periods. I love history, but it's so hard for me to just think that everyone was the same as they are now, but just hundreds of years ago.
L, have you ever read the novel The Doomsday Book? It's filled with rats and fleas and plague germs and influenza and time-travelers from the future being totally freaked out by the experience. You'd love it. Seriously, though, the best part is how she really shows people in the 13th century as being shaped by their times, of course, with different circumstances but very real passions and emotions that are so recognizable despite the differences. Really worth the read.
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You guys are making me glad I never signed my kids up for swimming lessons...and making me wonder how Missy's been doing without me there. I miss her! She really is another child to me.
I'm heading home tomorrow. Not really ready for the cold (it was a nice 100 today in Phoenix!), but I miss my kids dearly. Rich is bringing Conner & Syd to the airport so they can give me my mother day gifts there. I wish Missy could come in & wait too.
I loved swimming lessons as a kid! I started around 3 or 4 with going in the water and mom was outside it. Mrs Mac was our teacher. I'm a floater, even as a little kid so getting me under the water was always a trick. If we do have a kid, I would like to start lessons asap. I need a suit first though. We don't have much opportunity to swim and my suit is a like 4 sizes too small.
I haven't seen the Borgias, but loved John Adams. It really brought that period of our nation's struggle to life for me. I watched it again later with DD1 and she liked it too -- it was great to show her that people like Jefferson and Washington and Adams were real people, and how they had to work to create these things we take for granted, like the Constitution. It was also a great portrait of life in that era, although a lot more realistic and not as glamorous as some of the other shows.
Ladies, apparently, Travis has been a hellion at school for the past few days. My SIL says she thinks it's just the rock n rolldom of his birthday week that's just past. I hope that's all it is. He is usually a very helpful little angel at school and saves all his devilish ways for home...what am I going to do with him if he all of a sudden just lets loose at school? Ugh. I've e-mailed his teacher for details of the naughtiness since it's just been passed to me from SIL since she picks him up for me from school. We'll see what teacher says!
Ash, hope you get to the bottom of whatever is up with Travis. Hopefully, it's just a passing blip.
I called the aquatics director, but she is conveniently out today. So, I sent her a long-winded email. Hope she calls me back.
Hope she calls you back and kisses your butt, Suja.
Ash, your interpretation of Travis' rock'n'rolldom feels right to me. And I think there's nothing wrong with letting him ride that wave for a little bit. You can deal with his naughtiness in time, but I hope whatever correction happens doesn't quash his spirit. Because I can totally relate to Travis right about now. (I'll tell that story some other time.)
And I'm all caughts up on you ladies! Phew!
Bridget, I seriously don't understand how M can't figure out that you're pretty much doing an impossible task all by yourself - an unreasonable task, at the very least - and that you deserve to be celebrated for it, and not critiqued. Is he just dumb? I ask this in all seriousness, because, I mean, I don't know him, but I feel I know you well enough to know that you're articulate and can lay out a case for yourself. So my question really is, WTH is he not getting? He's starting to seem like the elevator doesn't go all the way up with him. Sorry to say.
Gretchen, what a bummer (no pun intended) for Inge that she got a fracture. How are she & R doing? I did have a near-fracture of my coccyx once when I was rollerblading in Venice Beach down a big hill straight into traffic. I threw myself down to stop myself onto rough asphalt, and I'm pretty sure my bone landed on a rock that was jutting out of the asphalt. It hurt like Aitch-EE-Double-Ell. My doctor wouldn't xray the area because she didn't "want to irradiate my ovaries", and since I was still fully mobile, there was little more that she would have done anyway even if it had fractured except keep me on ice. I had it on ice for a good month. It was a bummer too, because I went to Tahiti just a few days after the accident and had to sit on a donut on the plane to keep the pressure off of it. This was pre-911, so ice packs were allowed on board the aircraft. Lots of things about that trip were uncomfortable because of my butt. So I somewhat can feel her pain. Anyway, I hope you're able to keep up with your charges while they heal up, and that they heal up quickly.
Chrissy, welcome back. I hope you got tons and tons out of your time spent with friends. I just spent only 2 days with old friends, and – even with the depressing sight of my ailing grandma in the middle of my visit – I feel like I have a new lease on life. So I hope you're feelin' groovy and can hang onto that feeling for as long as possible. I tend to make music playlists for myself when I go on trips just so I will have a little something to remember them by. If you have a song from your "soundtrack" of the trip, hope you can crank it up and can catch the buzz from it.
L, blue frosting is the coolest. That is all.
Mandy, I think dogs are totally our babies. I definitely don't think of Bodhi as my first child. And it totally stinks that Mother's Day brings bitter feelings with it for you. I hurt for you that STC has affected you so deeply. I can't believe I'm even suggesting this, because we would be the losers in the long run, but have you ever considered that you might need a break from APA? You're already around children all the time at work. And then parenting, pregnancy and motherhood are inescapable topics here. I wonder what it would be like for you if you were able to step away and do something that has nothing to do with your struggle. Parenting is a very foreign concept to some folks, and they for their own reasons live contentedly without children. Maybe you should explore what their lives are like, what they're into, and see if you can heal some of your hurt in the process. Doing something like going on a long distance hike, or going to the mountains and writing your novel... I don't know… those are things I'd consider doing. As much as it would pain me to not see "Gwenn" pop up in the forums, if I were in your shoes, I honestly would consider immersing myself in something completely different for awhile. I'd hate to think this were true, but maybe we are part of the problem. Even if it's just temporary, a break from us could be a way to reset your perspective and make it easier to live with your challenge day-to-day.
L, I'm glad you said you were still going to need to catch up on Mad Men. No spoilers from me then. This season is a good one! We just got rid of cable, but are trying to keep up with our shows thru, Netflix, Apple TV and the apps from each of the stations we watch. I may end up falling behind myself.
Suja, what exactly do Ninja lessons entail?
Oh, and all this talk about swim lesson incidents is giving me the chills (and "swimming with the fishes" and "drowning lessons" made me LOL in the office). We are pulling Bodhi out of swim lessons for awhile for a different reason. He's been taking lessons with the same teacher for almost a year and a half now. This is the same teacher I'd confronted for acting coldly towards him. Anyway, he can swim, but he's not progressing on earning stickers towards some of the skills he needs to put towards his next ribbon. When I asked his teacher about how I could work with him on earning those stickers, she replied that he can already do all the things he needs to do intermittently, but he just needs to develop more attention and focus before she awards him the stickers (presumably for being able to do the skills consistently). So I decided I'm going to pull him from her class and just let him mature a little bit, or maybe find another teacher. I don't know. There's something that really bothered me about her response. I had been asking her for teaching techniques to practice with him on our own, and her response just felt like a slap in the face, like "There's nothing more I can do." That's the only logical conclusion, right? So if she can't do anything more to help him with the skills, then WTH am I doing paying his swim school tuition for him to not progress?
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Mylah, thanks for that message. I don't think it is you lovely ladies who are the root of my issues, although I am recently a little more selective in my responses to this thread. I get what you are saying - but really I just need to figure a few things out. My life is what it is. Kids are my business (and that will never change) so I will always be faced with issues of child development - and actually I get a lot of insight from you all as to what typical kids are like which helps me out for work as much as personally! So I don't really see myself leaving at the moment, but I can and will take some steps back when I need to. Just all of you know that if I don't respond to something in particular, don't take it personally.
I just have to come to terms with the fact that the life I planned for myself is looking very different from the life I have. But many of us have that, in different ways.
G, my partner at work, had a miserable day yesterday. She has a son and grandson, but lost her older son when he was in his 20's. Mother's Day is sad for her too - but she can't avoid it either because of her son and grandson. It is what it is, and it sucks. At least we relate with one another.
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Why Ensemble and Pandemic ClosedWith both Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires, Halo Wars) and Pandemic Studios (Mercenaries, The Saboteur) having shut down across the past year, veterans of both took the stage at Game Developers Conference 2010 to explain what went wrong.
"The reality is that every single game we shipped took twice as long as we said it was going to take, and cost twice as much to make," said Ensemble's Paul Bettner, as relayed by Eurogamer. "We were simply too expensive."
He added that "everyone was a workaholic" at Ensemble, noting "as an employee, and later as a manager, I didn't take a stand. I just kept hoping for that next high."
It's an industry-wide problem, Bettner explained. "This is a horrible vicious cycle. We burn out all our best people. We destroy these precious artists, we wreck their families and we sacrifice their youth. So they leave, and they take all their experience with them."
Former Pandemic employee Carey Chico pointed to similar issues, as the now-defunct studio also had problems hitting milestones on time and within the budget.
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Every year around the Holiday's I can't control myself when it comes to indulging in the Christmas Cookies, cakes and all the special recipies that the season brings.
To counter that, I try to work out more, sometimes twice a day if my schedule allows. (I know that loosing/maintaining weight isn't just a calories-in vs. calories-burned game, but it just makes me feel better about splurging more often this month.
I came across this article that talks about when, from an immunity standpoint, is TOO much when it comes to exercising. (It's from www.paleodietlifestyle.com) Read it HERE: http://paleodietlifestyle.com/exercise-immunity/
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(RNN) - With the record-breaking April tornadoes, precipitation causing extensive flooding and extreme wildfires and drought, the spring of 2011 took severe weather to the next level.
April's tornado outbreak was one of the worst seen in more than 50 years. More than 750 tornadoes were reported nationwide - far exceeding the average number, 163, usually produced during the month of April.
The severe weather outbreak on April 25-28 alone killed more than 300 people.
April 27 set a one-day record for tornado fatalities since 1950. The tornadoes spawned across the Southeast are currently blamed for 314 deaths, topping the previous record of 310 deaths caused by an April 3, 1974 outbreak in the heartland. Final death statistics are still being gathered.
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According to the AP, the death toll for the year is still far behind the record of 794 deaths in 1925. Tornadoes have killed 546 people so far this year: 334 in April, 117 in May, three in June, one in February and one in March.
But it wasn't just tornadoes that swept through the U.S. and broke records. Precipitation levels and scorched acres of land made their mark.
There were 1,300 daily precipitation records broken in April, with 72 locations reporting their wettest day, and five of which set all-time daily records for any month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In April, Texas and New Mexico suffered through a 26-day dry spell. These conditions set the stage for the most wildfire activity on record in April since 2000, with more than 1.7 million acres burned.
Overall, the month of April was the seventh-warmest since record keeping began for NOAA in 1979, but not record-setting.
With all this severe weather pummeling the landscape, interest in the effects of climate change and global warming seems to be at an all-time high.
"Any single weather event is driven by a number of factors, from local conditions to global climate patterns and trends. Climate change is one of these," Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center said. "It is very likely that large-scale changes in climate, such as increased moisture in the atmosphere and warming temperatures, have influenced, and will continue to influence, many different types of extreme events, such as heavy rainfall, flooding, heat waves and droughts."
Other experts say it is extremely hard to prove that climate change is to blame for the record-setting month.
"We conducted a rapid, preliminary investigation to determine if climate change contributed to the unusually large number of tornadoes experienced in the United States during April 2011. A change in the mean climate properties that are particularly relevant to major destructive tornado events could not be detected for April during the last 30 years," Martin Hoerling with NOAA said in a news release.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), a strong La Nina could be to blame.
La Nina occurs when very cool air in the North meets warm air in the South, leading to an active and powerful jet stream that can produce severe storms and decimating tornadoes. It is also associated with extremes in temperatures.
"Climate models have said that because of changes in instability and water vapor, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes should increase in the future," said NOAA research meteorologist Harold Brooks. "But it may take another 30 years for the predicted slow increase to be statistically noticeable."
One thing is certain, experts say severe weather systems have always been around and are not going away. Familiarizing yourself with forecasts and safety is the No. 1 way to be prepared during severe weather.
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A little after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, residents of our area will have an opportunity to witness one of the rarest predictable celestial events: a transit of Venus.
Some Madison residents hope to check it out by heading out to Garvan Point at the or, or , if the weather holds. So far, the weather looks iffy. Check out the latest forecast at the National Weather Service website.
Often referred to as the "Evening Star" or "Morning Star," Venus is the brightest natural object in our sky after the Sun and the Moon. As the second planet from the Sun, it's closer to the Sun than the Earth is.
A "transit" of Venus occurs when Venus passes between us and the Sun in such a way that we can see Venus's silhouette backlit by the Sun's brilliant light. It last happened in 2004, but it won't happen again until 2117. Unless you plan to shatter some human longevity records, this is probably your last chance.
Were Venus either large enough or close enough to block out the Sun's light as it passed, we would call this event an eclipse, as we do when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. Venus, however, is a little bit smaller than the Earth and about 27 million miles away. When its tiny silhouette is viewed against the Sun, which lies another 66 million miles beyond, it can offer viewers a dramatic sense of the solar's system's vast scale.
Assuming sufficiently clear skies, the transit will be visible for us starting at about 6:04 p.m. on Tuesday and will remain so until the sun sets. Those in the central and western U.S. will be able to enjoy it longer, while viewers in Alaska, Japan, and large sections of Australia, China, and Russia will be able to see it in its entirety. By the time the Sun rises on the East Coast on Wednesday, Venus will have completed the transit.
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Never look directly at the sun with your naked eyes. You can damage your eyes. Likewise, viewing the sun with either binoculars or a telescope can direct the sun's magnified rays directly into your eyeball and cause serious injury―think about what happens to ants under a magnifying glass.
Sunglasses do not provide sufficient protection. If you know someone who works in plumbing or construction, ask them if they have any #14 welder's glass. You can look directly at the sun through this material without risking injury.
If you have a tripod or a partner and a pair of steady hands, you can use binoculars to project an image of the Sun onto a white piece of paper. Remember, don't look through your binoculars at the sun!
If none of these options is feasible, the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers and the Upper Merion Township Library are each offering viewing events in Montgomery County.
- Colonial Middle School, 716 Belvoir Road, Plymouth Meeting. Go to the rear of the school, near the ballfield.
- IMAX United Artist Movie Theater, 300 Goddard Blvd, King of Prussia. Go to the parking lot west of the theater.
Though it's not quite the same as viewing the phenomenon in person, there are several places to watch the transit of Venus online:
- The Slooh Space Camera will offer an 8-hour webcast of the transit that includes real-time video feeds from 10 telescopes around the world.
- Astronomers Without Borders will carry a video stream of the transit from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
- NASA will offer a live video feed from Mauna Kea observatory in Hawaii with expert commentary.
- The San Francisco Exploratorium will host an online video stream from the Mauna Loa telescope in Hawaii.
Lastly, there's Don Pettit, an astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station. Pettit's not doing a video feed, but he will become the first person to ever photograph a transit of Venus from outer space.


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Daniel Rogov wrote:As for me, I promise to purchase the books and to prepare at least one recipe from them on the day that Syria, Palestine, Iran and Iraq and each of the other members of the Arab League sign a peace treaty with Israel. Or, if it should occur first, on the day that Hell freezes over. ... Best (and yes, Smiling)
Bob Ross wrote:...please accompany me back in time to 1903, when we read togther, sitting perhaps on the banks of the Seine or perhaps corresponding by telegraph when we exchange news of a revolutionary new cookbook, "Le Guide Culinaire", said by the breathless French press to be written by the "roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois."
Would you have waited until that cold day in Hell to dip into it? Prepare at least one recipe from it? Discuss it in your brilliant Edwardian column devoted to the culinary arts?
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I would not have waited a moment. Although Escoffier's recipes were complex and time consuming they strove to bring food to its most natural flavors and elements and that was apparent even then. My major objection to "molecular" or "modernist" cusine is that it attempts is to take food as far from its natural elements as is humanly possible. In a sense, if I want an olive contained in a condom, I will put an olive in a condom and if I want sea water foam I will eat oysters on the half shell.
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These are absolutely compelling. I am not a fan of modernist cuisine and techniques in general, and some things in here are just over the top for me. I certainly have no intentions of running pureed carrots through a centrifuge for instance or trying out cryogenic cooling methods, and some of the equipment and recipes here are for those with a lot more time, kitchen space and funds to devote to cooking than I have.
But other parts - like a 100+ page section in book 2 on traditional cooking methods like grilling, stir fry and sauteing are amazing to read, and some of the dishes he writes about are certainly quite inspiring and have me thinking about modifying them for my (comparatively spartan) kitchen tools.
And for those who think that Myhrvold is basically getting into ridiculous things like deconstructed soups and foams - worth at least scanning book 2 of this, and reading his sections on charcoal grilling (which I've been trying to follow since) or broiling. Now I want to try making pizza under the broiler soon...
Salil wrote:These are absolutely compelling. I am not a fan of modernist cuisine and techniques in general, and some things in here are just over the top for me. I certainly have no intentions of running pureed carrots through a centrifuge for instance
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