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Nichole Schrafft writes-
So, Joey asked if I'd like to put together a little list of things to do to help keep the kiddos busy while on February Vacation (I read that as a challenge in how to keep parents somewhat sane during February vacation). I'd like to make note that there are some great options in town that are already highlighted on the blog…such as The Hive and Art Haven. If you follow GMG, you have heard of them! They are beyond cool and are an incredible asset to the city! Be sure to check them out! I also have to point out that while I have been to most of these places, I am no expert. Please check out the links that I've provided before heading anywhere incase things have changed since I have visited!!
I'd like to start by saying that, while I know this post is about finding possibilities of things to do outside of the house, I'd be remiss to not mention that the Winter Olympics are AWESOME and having your kids get excited about watching these amazing athletes wouldn't be a bad choice either!
There are lots of great ways to get their brains and bodies moving while enjoying the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a family. My kids are psyched to make flags from the participating nations, cook some treats from some of the countries (HELP!), make torches (not real ones), keep a chart of the medal counts, and simply watch the events!
We'll be tracking the Olympics here:
Fairly local activities:
1. Kids bouncing off the walls? Here's an idea…take them to a place to bounce off the walls…literally!
School vacation screams, "TAKE ME TO SKY ZONE" if you ask me!! They have a toddler jump for little leapsters under 45″ or regular jump times for bigger kids! There is an Everett location as well as a Boston location. If they don't leave Sky Zone tired, you're just plain out of luck.
2. For some great indoor rock climbing check out MetroRock!
They have a location in Newburyport and one in Everett. Their website was "under construction" last time I looked, but you can find it yourself with Google or any other search engine….obviously.
3. Snow Tubing at Amesbury Sports Park! Come on, a no brainer. Fun! The kids need to be 4, I think, to hit the tubes. Helmets are required for younger kids.
4. Eurostove in Beverly offers all kinds of cooking classes for couples, families, girls nights out, and even for young kids. Check out their website and see if you find anything that looks good to you or contact them to set up your own small group event!
5. While, I do not have little girls, what little girl wouldn't love a tea party? The Wenham Tea House is such a special place for some one-on-one time with a daughter, granddaughter, niece, etc.
6. Skating at Talbot Rink at O'Malley Innovation Middle School is super cheap and easy. If the kids can skate independently then the grown-ups can sit and relax (think hot coffee and Baileys) while they get their crazies out on the ice. Win, win.
Skating is offered most days from 2:00-3:50 but be sure to check their schedule first incase games were scheduled.
They rent skates also if need be!
7. Skating at the Market Street Rink and/or Bowling at Kings in Lynnfield
Dinner at the Yard House either way afterwards…the Spicy Tuna Roll is a must have!! It has to be about 8 inch in diameter and is SOO good!
My warning here is that when we've gone, there has been a long wait for bowling and for dinner. So plan accordingly! We put our name in for bowling, took the pager with us to the skating rink, and it buzzed nicely when it was our turn to bowl. One person headed to Kings to save our lanes for us while the others took off their skates and we were good to go!!
8. In the category of, I've never gone here but want to is, The Melting Pot in Burlington. Who doesn't love fondue?
9. As of late, if I'm in Burlington, I'm at The Rainforest Cafe, but I'm happy to report that my boys are beginning to outgrow that venue!
10. Lowell Winter Fest's claim to fame is the National Human Dogsled Competition…with an award for best costume. Need I say more? In all seriousness…it is actually loaded with fun activities such as ice skating, snowman building, horse drawn carriage rides, music, poetry slam contests, etc. Check out the link to see a whole list of activities. The festival takes place on Feb 21st-22nd and begs the question, "When will we be having our own Winter Fest because this looks really cool?"
Fun in the city!
11. I love this Boston Scavenger Hunt text style!!!! Check out the link for more information, but the premise is that you head to Boston, purchase the pretty inexpensive clues right on the website and they get sent right to your phone. Once you arrive to one location, you do what you need to do, and then the next clue is sent! Fun for groups of 2-12! They do these scavenger hunts in other cities too, fyi.
The next two go together…kind of. It's my "one if by land, two if by sea" duo because my boys like anything that moves on land or at sea.
12. The "by land"
I have yet to visit this place, but as a mom to two young boys who like all things shiny and fast, it is only a matter of time. I was actually surprised to learn about it not long ago, and have wondered why I've never heard about it before. The Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline looks beyond cool and is definitely near the top of our little bucket list.
13. The "by sea"
My boys love going to the Charlestown Navy Yard and on the USS Constitution. During vacation week there is also a Ship Model show for the budding boat builders in the group!
14. Skating at the Frog Pond is such a great activity just because it is truly so cool to look up and see the city of Boston rising up all around you. You can't beat the view and it is, in my humble opinion, a nice treat and an easy way to get the kids into the city if they don't go in that often.
15. Likewise, ice skating at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge is cool too. I used to spend a lot of time in Harvard Square and it can be a really nice place to take the kids if the big city overwhelms you at all.
and then lunch/dinner at Fire and Ice
16. Also in Cambridge…and good old fashion fun…is the Bugs Bunny Film Festival. Come on, right!? If you want to get your "What's Up Doc" fix, it is showing at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square throughout the entire vacation week!
17. Celebrate Chinese New Year in Harvard Square…not sure about the timing of this event as it seems a few weeks late, but it is happening over vacation, so cheers.
February 23 1:00pm – 3:00pm
18. Hairspray is playing at the Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston….which for the record, has never disappointed me. I've seen 4 shows there and each one has been fantastic! This particular production says, "Recommended for adults, teens and youth 9+."
19. If Eurostove doesn't work out for you and you don't mind traveling to Newton, check out Create a Cook for some pretty awesome parent/child cooking classes. Their vacation schedule is loaded with fun activities, but is filling up fast!
20. My favorite museum in Boston by far as I tend to like the smaller, less obvious choices….check it out for sure sometime. All museums, etc are obviously going to be a bit more crowded over vacation….so if not now, be sure to head back there later.
21. You don't need me to tell you that the Museum of Science is a cool place to go, but you may not know that the Planetarium will be showing a Magic Tree House adventure. I don't know about your kids, but mine LOVE the Magic Tree House series and those little adventurers named Jack and Annie. I'm so psyched to go see this (insert, sigh, what has my life come to)!
There are also several great shows in the IMAX theatre over vacation week. The one I'm the most excited about is called Journey to the South Pacific. With an introduction that says, "Swim with the world's largest shark, encounter mysterious creatures of the sea, and explore the planet's most spectacular coral reefs" I'm in!!
22. If you're a Beatles fan, RAIN: a Tribute to the Beatles is playing at the Wang Theater on February 21 and 22nd. This is a pricier option than most of the others that I've shared, but is a pretty cool way to infuse some culture into the kids without it be too formal and straight laced.
23. Of course, there's always Disney on Ice. I personally dread it a bit, but it is back at the TD Bank Garden for all of vacation week…
Just a bit out of state to the North or to the South!
24. While a bit of a drive… if you're looking for a longer day trip or a quick night away, head to Providence. The Roger William's Zoo is my favorite zoo around…even in the winter. During January and February they charge half price admission. For a mere $7.50 for adults and $4.95 for kids you can see zebra, giraffe, elephants, eagles, river otters, wolves, buffalo, kangaroo, etc. I'm pretty critical about animal enclosures and the treatment of normally wild animals when in captivity, but I assure you that this place does it right. I was super impressed with their habitats and the knowledge of the many volunteers we met along the way. Again, we were there in January, and were still not disappointed!
25. Also in Providence, if you have any hockey fans in the family, are the Providence Bruins. If you're not keen on paying hundreds of $$ to see the Boston Bruins, this is a phenomenal option. We recently attended a game in the 3rd row and paid a total of $78 for our family of 4! Their only home game of vacation week takes place on Sunday, February 16th @ 3:05 pm. You can opt for a "Buy one, Get one" option or a "Family 4 Pack" option. Some come with hotdogs and drinks. Fool around a bit with seat availability and price/package options and get yourself a great deal. Parking at the mall that connects with the Dunkin' Donuts Center cost us a whopping $2 and we left our car there for easily 4 hours!
26. IF you happen to land in Providence and have kiddos between say 4 and 18, you could also check out Dave and Busters. For the record, you won't catch me in a Chuck E. Cheese or Bonkers ever, but this place is awesome!! You can load a card with as much, or as little, cash as you'd like and the kids simply swipe and play. The place is loaded with cool games..some that the whole family can play together. The kids will score tickets to spend on the way out and, as is typical for this type of place, a gazillion tickets will buy you a rabbit's foot key chain or a pair of whacky giant-sized plastic sunglasses. My 4 and 6 year olds had a blast running around playing games for a couple hours after we enjoyed a pretty decent dinner!
If you don't land in Providence, Dave and Busters has a location in Braintree, Massachusetts too. Worth the drive for some fun.
27. This is a small but nice museum about 15 mins away from Portsmouth, NH…in Dover. This place is really cute and user friendly, so to speak. You're only going to spend about 2 hours here, but it is easy, manageable, pretty quiet, really clean, and full of original, educational, and really fun activities. My boys loved it here and I felt like they could really take their time in the exhibits without being rushed by the massive crowds that we experience at bigger museums.
28. Speaking of Portsmouth, the small-but-packs-a-big-punch SeaCoast Science Center is a must. Ordione Point State Park is gorgeous if the weather is nice, but the science center is a hit no matter what the weather!! It isn't crazy like the New England Aquarium, which I love…but I leave there feeling exhausted. It is hands-on and really cute, while being super educational! It is perfect for kids between 2-10 or maybe even a bit older.


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ Illinois is going to sell Powerball lottery tickets on the Internet, and at least one lawmaker predicts a big payday.
Sen. Jeff Schoenberg says online sales could produce an additional $25 million a year for state government. The Evanston Democrat says the money will pay for public works projects and create jobs around the state.
Illinois became the first state to sell lottery tickets online when it started offering Lotto and Mega Millions tickets in March. A new law adds Powerball to that mix.
The law also requires the state lottery to come up with a way of limiting online purchases by problem gamblers, and the state has to study how it affects convenience stores and other places that physically sell lottery tickets.


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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Button from Lifes Rich Pageant Tour, 1986
Okay--I promised/threatened in a post from last year that I'd soon be writing a longer piece on R.E.M., and here it is. So, if you don't like R.E.M. and/or have never had a favorite band or have never been moved by music(any kind of music, but especially rock and roll), then just skip this and come back next week...
Last night I watched R.E.M. get inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. I first discovered them my freshman year at college and it changed my life. No joke. I was a horribly lonely and insecure skinny little art major at James Madison University, looking for something/anything to connect with, something that spoke to me. I came to college with all the holdovers from my early 80's suburban high school years: stale prog rock(Genesis, Yes), Claremont & Byrne comics that I thought were the epitome of the comic book art form, polo shirts, and lots of other boring stuff that I was quickly growing disenchanted with. I spent my first semester at JMU feeling miserable and scared, not really socializing and just sort of going through the motions to get decent grades. I started hanging out alone most of the time, walking around Harrisonburg and spending a lot of time haunting record and book stores. On one such record store trip, I realized I was sick of everything I had been listening to and I wanted something completely new that I had never heard before. I scanned the albums until something caught my eye in the "R" section: Reckoning by R.E.M...the album cover was bizarre and captivating, with strange song titles like "So. Central Rain" and "7 Chinese Brothers." I dimly remembered reading a positive review of one of this group's albums somewhere, and I think I might have seen the "So. Central Rain" video on MTV(this was back in 1984 when they still played music videos). Whatever it was, something about this weird little album did speak to me, so that was that: I was trying something new and R.E.M. was it. Back in my dorm room, headphones on, I listened to the album and was instantly and powerfully hooked! I don't think I can describe the music very well and do it any justice, it was just a "Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan" kind of eye-opening experience for me.
Things started to change very quickly after I bought that first album...Not only did I become an R.E.M. fan, but through interviews with the band and by researching songs they covered I found dozens of other new and interesting musicians to get excited about(Robyn Hitchcock, The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, Television, X, Billy Bragg, and on and on)--I was saved from dreary Prog-Rock Hell! I also began to come out of my shell--finally making friends at college, going on group road trips all over Virginia to see R.E.M. play live. I'll never see another concert as good as that first R.E.M. show I saw in 1985: me and six or seven friends who knew every word to "Gardening At Night"(well, as much as anyone can know all the words to any of those early songs), an encore set that went on longer than the main set, covers of everything from "Toys In The Attic" to "Behind Closed Doors!" All these changes in my musical life inspired me to experiment with my own chosen art form, trying non-superhero comics (like Love & Rockets, at least after the early issues) for the first time, which led to me trying to discover other art styles and art forms and break out of my very stilted comic book only drawing style. I actually stopped drawing comics for a while(something I'd been doing since I was a little kid) and started to let go of old influences as I took in new ones, concentrating on figure drawing from models and life drawing--the two most important art-related things I took away from my college experience.
Okay, I know it may seem like a stretch, but it's hard for me to put in words--I'm an artist not a writer! All I know is that I had sort of a creative and social awakening at the same time I was discovering this band, and it is absolutely impossible for me to think of that period of my life without hearing R.E.M. songs in my head.
I continued to follow the band, and their music continued to be the soundtrack to my life. I distinctly recall listening to Automatic For The People repeatedly while working on Legionnaires, going to see a great show on the Monster tour with a new group of good friends, and how much "Why Not Smile" from Up helped make some bad times a little better later on. Sounds corny, but that's me--sappy and sentimental...
In 2004, thanks to the love of my life, Xan, I was able to meet R.E.M. after a show in Cincinatti, almost exactly twenty years after I stood in that Harrisonburg record store looking at the cover of Reckoning. We splurged on tickets for good seats and went on our own little two-person road trip. I brought a camera and took some pretty decent photos from the sixth row, and I could have gone home right then and would have considered it a great concert just because of our phenomenal seats, the great setlist, and all the photos. I had heard the band would meet and greet fans after shows, but I just thought it'd never work out, and if it did I'd spaz out and feel like an idiot fanboy. Xan, a veteran of waiting around after concerts to meet bands and get autographs, prodded and reassured, and we ended up waiting with other fans after the house lights came up. The band did indeed come out and shake hands and talk with everyone--they were as nice as could be, and even a little shy, (except for Mike Mills, who looks like he should be the shy one) and very humble-- every one of them. Of course I was a complete spaz and blanked completely on what to say to them(I think I managed "thank you"), but we took some photos and got our ticket stubs autographed, and I was buzzing all the way home(non-alcoholically, of course). Incidentally, I eventually had Peter Buck sign my old copy of Reckoning at a Robyn Hitchcock show(see the archives for November 2006), but by then I was a veteran of these things myself, having met tons of bands after shows and I knew enough to bring something to get signed.
So...as I said at the beginning of this monstrosity of a post, I watched the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction last night. I found it unexpectedly moving--from Eddie Vedder's funny and touching induction speech(which strangely mirrored a lot of my own feelings and experiences with R.E.M.) to seeing how choked up and nervous Mike Mills and Michael Stipe were; as well as seeing and hearing Bill Berry playing with the band again after leaving ten years ago. There was also some of that old-style R.E.M. unpredictability with Peter Buck throwing his monitor offstage as well as the band unearthing "Gardening At Night" during their performance. What most moved me was thinking about how much had changed since 1984--who I was back when I first heard that unknown little band as opposed to who I was last night, watching a superstar rock band with a twenty-six year career behind them. I don't know—like I said. I'm an artist, not a writer—I'm not sure what I wanted to say or exactly how to end this except that it was just fun being excited about my favorite band again and being happy for them, like watching your team win the Superbowl, maybe? Oh, well—enjoy the photos, at least!
Reckoning LP cover, signed by Peter Buck 23 years after I bought it!
Ticket stub from 1986--check out that price!
Cincinatti, 2004--"Begin The Begin"
Cincinatti, 2004
Cincinatti, 2004
7 comments:
- Strangewingz said...
Music is a major part of my life,too and has been forever.
Growing up, when I was torturing you with heavy metal/hard rock like Def Leppard and the Scorpions or even 'pop' rock by Loverboy, I was trying to share my intense passion for music (even though my taste was probably suspect)!
and don't be so hard on yourself; you shared some nice, personal little vignettes and I learned some things about my brother. What is that if not storytelling?
- Chris & Xan said...
Thanks, Mike. I just get a little uncomfortable when putting something so personal out there, especially when about a paragraph in I realized it was going to be more difficult than I imagined to put the feeling in writing. I always knew you were pretty passionate about music, and that you understood following a band around and collecting all their stuff. You'd be surprised by how many people both Xan and I have met that just aren't into music--the people that only buy what's in the Top 40 or won't buy an album unless it has a bona fide hit single on it; the kind of people who have said to us(and probably to you at some point): "boy--you sure have a lot of CDs...have you listened to all of them?"
We saw one of those VH1 list shows recently, and on it Brian Posehn was tearing apart that horrible Bryan Adams/Sting/whoever song from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie. He wondered who could possibly like such a soft rock by-the-numbers abomination like that and concluded: "oh, well--I guess secretaries need music too...sorry, secretaries." I agree...I feel like those people are the ones who just want music to be pleasant background white noise or something. I can't figure out any other explanation for Celine Dion and her ilk selling a gazillion CDs year after year...Sorry, Celine Dion...
- Neil Hill said...
You're probably aware Chris that as an artist yourself, you've influenced fans and been there at their own life changing turning points- influencing their artistic yearnings and creating joy in their comic collecting hobby. For me music has always been something I've enjoyed parapherially, and to nowhere near the degree that you've been moved by that most unique of expressive avenues. However, I can completely empathize with life altering experiences that bring you out of your shell and broaden your view of the world. For me that experience was art school (only a little bit like the film Art School Confidential) and I wouldn't trade those two years of my life for anything.
Anyway, this response isn't about me. Thanks for sharing that personal part of your life Chris. It IS sometimes hard to put yourself out there and expose that delicate underbelly for the scrutiny of all, but in those moments when you reveal your true self, you make it okay for others to do the same.
- Neil Hill said...
Oh, and I agree with you regarding your observations about "white noise" music. I think much of what is currently popular in the Pop market falls into that category (at least for me). I know the teenie-boppers love their inane "booti-liscious" music from the likes of so-called musicians like the aforementioned Fergi, however, I doubt any of that music will outlast it's era or be seen as moving and life altering to future generations.
- Deb said...
You are SOOOOOOOOO wrong when you say you are not a writer. . .writing is about creating engaging prose that illuminates the personality and passion of the person behind the words -- this entry does exactly that. I, of course, was reminded of U2 and being so besotted with every song they recorded in the 80s, and of my own ACTUAL Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment. (yes, I am very old--old enough to have actually seen the Beatles live in 1964 for $5.50) Having the writing talent to take your readers squarely into their own musical memory bank is not to be taken lightly. . . So, regardless of your opinion of your own writing, take it from someone who used to teach English 101 that you ARE a writer, as well as being a wonderful artist.
Deb L.
- Chris & Xan said...
Thanks for the kind words, you guys! My difficulty with writing is actually the same difficulty I have with drawing: getting what's in my head down on paper as faithfully as possible. I feel like I'm more successful at it with artwork.
- Eric said...
Love the R.E.M. post. Ticket stub is great. I saw them a few of days later in Williamsburg, the stub has been lost to time, but I still have my noisy cats pin!


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No, Tifosi — not in every clothing item with a prancing horse on it that you can find. F1 weekend is more fun in an actual horse head mask.
I often go to races in a glorious blue velvet sombrero, but even that was quickly upstaged by the Horsemen of Formula 1 crew.
The great thing about a Texas race is that there are plenty of gratuitous cowboy-themed decorations to ride like a horse.
There are also giant sausages. You know, because race-sausage. Something like that.
These guys have taken photobombing to a level that Fluffy Bunny can only dream of achieving.
You can lead a horse to water, but...ewwww. Don't drink that, horse.
Support races are always a highlight of the weekend.
"Neeeeeeeeiiiiiiiggggghhhh!" (Translation: "Why are you driving the horse-car like that?!")
The chrome lilac Ferrari Challenge car that was near the front of the pack had the most fabulous racecar livery ever. At some point in my life, I need to own a chrome lilac racecar.
Big nostrils make for plenty of lulz.
Another awesome thing about F1 weekend is that they often have fun things on display, like this World Challenge Mercedes SLS.
Our seats at Turn 12 were pretty good, too.
"Hey, I need binoculars."
"No, no, the view-hole is the mouth."
Formula 1 may be done for this year, but next year—bring a horse mask.
Photo credits: Sondra Sondregger (group and water pics)


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Snaking Your Engine
I'm officially moving to Los Angeles. Nothing changed in the last few days to make it any more official – but I've been talking about it so much that if I backed out now I'd be a real weenie.
I did two things recently that signify that I'm actually moving to LA. One, I priced cars. Two, I watched a movie based in Los Angeles to see if I could recognize any places. It happened to be the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles from "Escape from LA," but it was still Los Angeles.
"Look there!" I was hoping to say. "That guy in the cloak trying to behead Snake Plissken is like a mile from the Laugh Factory!"
For those of you who have seen the movie, Steve Buscemi's "Map to the Stars Eddie" character really does remind me a great deal of my agent.
I am torn about what kind of car I should buy. Having more knowledge of subway cars than automobiles, I am convinced that any used car being sold has something inherently wrong with it that I will only discover 30 seconds after the warranty expires. I feel the used car dealer will put a bomb in the car set to explode the engine directly after the warranty expires just so he can laugh at the sucker from New York who bought the exploding car.
"Only a New Yorker wouldn't know to look under the hood for an engine bomb," he'll say to his tweed-wearing co-worker named Crazy Earl. "Those fool Yankees and their lack of knowledge of how easily cars can explode."
Maybe that won't really happen. Maybe I've been watching too much Snake Plissken.
I know that not all used car dealers wear tweed and try to explode their customers. But that is the impression I've gotten from years of television commercials where tweed-wearing used car dealers named Crazy Earl are yelling about new models through thousands of balloons. If they're willing to do all that stuff, beheading me in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles is well within their capabilities.
I do trust at least one used car dealer. I have a fraternity brother who used to own a few used car dealerships, and we hung out a good deal in college. And there was this one time where...wait, this story doesn't end anywhere good. It certainly wouldn't refute the idea that used car salesmen can be insane. But he never wore tweed, so that's a start.
I turned, as most consumers do for most things, to eBay. eBay is a good way to see what other people are paying for consumer goods before you end up going to a store anyway and paying much more. If you were worried about the authenticity of that Kirk Gibson baseball, what chance do you have to get an authentically working engine? About as much chance as Snake Plissken had of making it back in time to save the world, but he managed it twice, didn't he? Oh, sorry to ruin the ending for you. If you haven't seen the "Escape" movies, ignore those last two sentences. Snake, um, dies. Yeah. The hero of the movie totally dies. It's a real buzzkill. You should go see them.
I'm deciding between getting a nice mid-sized car with good gas mileage (like a Nissan Sentra or Toyota Camry or one of the other three cars I've heard of) or a late 80s sports car. They're about the same price on eBay, and you can't get a girl with a Nissan Sentra. Actually, getting girls is not why I want the sports car. In Hollywood, you are successful when you present the image of success, and you can't do that in a Sentra.
Yes, I am the first guy to ever consider getting a sports car solely because it will help me get a job. Wait, that's wrong. I am the first guy to ever consider getting a sports car solely because it will help me get further in my occupation. Plenty of guys have tried to use their sports car to get a job. (Badum!)
The main problem, of course, is the insurance. I'll be under 25, living in LA, spending a great deal of time on the road, and driving a sports car with an engine that may or may not explode after having just gotten my license (next month, I hope). Do you know what insurance agents say when they hear about someone like me? "Ha ha ha, let's all go to Hawaii."
I hope Snake Plissken is there waiting for them.


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TOWNSEND — The Townsend Fire-EMS Department will have a new headquarters in about nine months thanks to an anonymous donor.
"We need the blessing of the board to accept the donation and begin building within the next 12 months," said Fire Chief Mark Boynton.
After a proposal to build a new headquarters was rejected at spring Town Meeting, a donor approached Chief Boynton saying they would pay for a new building. It would be a partnership in which the donor and the Fire-EMS department would focus on developing and advancing the department.
"The donor may be willing to step up on a later date but wants to be anonymous for now," he said.
The construction would require Fire Department personnel to vacate their headquarters 13 Elm St. and plan to use trailers in the back.
"It's fantastic," said Selectman Colin McNabb, "The donor's generosity blows my mind."
The audience clapped after selectmen voted to allow the Fire Department to accept the donation and begin building.
Also, Council of Aging screening committee chairmen, Ed Snapp announced Kimberly Dee from Ayer as its choice for the new COA director contingent on salary negotiations.
Town Administrator Andy Sheehan said he has spoken to Dee and she is seeking more than the budget permits. Currently the budget is for $37,929 for 35 hours a week.
A member of the screening committee, David Profit, said that if salary is not raised, it is going to be difficult to hire someone for that position.
"We thought the salary was negotiable based on the extra requirements outlined on the job description," he said.
He also said that current COA Director Chris Clish built a foundation and brought the center to what it is now, but that he thinks the center is ready for the next step.
Selectman Sue Lisio said the town does not have more money to pay more than what was offered.
Sheehan made a suggestion to ask Dee if she would accept the position at he current pay rate and then bring a proposed increase to fall Town Meeting.
Lisio's concern is that if Town Meeting does not approve an increase the person in the position would then leave.
"I want to make sure this person is committing to the job," said Lisio.
McNabb suggested Sheehan speak to Dee again and see if she would be willing to come on board with the current salary with a possible contingency at fall Town Meeting.
Currently volunteers have been helping with everyday duties during the transition. Profit said he is concerned that the center will be stagnant until the position is filled.
"The volunteers are fantastic and people have really stepped up," he said, "But they are not doing the managerial things that need to be done."
McNabb made a motion to continue discussions at the next meeting on Aug. 26 after Sheehan discusses salary arrangements with Dee. If she rejects the offer, the search for a director will continue.
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CHARLESTON, Ill. – The Tennessee State men's basketball team led by 10 points with four minutes left, but couldn't fend off Eastern Illinois as the Tigers lost on a buzzer-beater, 70-69, on Saturday.
Guard Patrick Miller tied a career-high with 30 points on 9-of-19 shooting and added a 10-for-11 mark from the free throw line.
Senior Jacquan Nobles and big man M.J. Rhett also scored in the double figures for TSU (1-13, 0-1 OVC) with 14 and 10, respectively.
Nobles was also 4-for-7 from behind the three-point line and Rhett led the Tigers in rebounds with eight.
Miller got the TSU offense going with a wide-open three two minutes into the game, but TSU's second field goal did not come until the 6:44 mark of the first half.
In the meantime, the Panthers (4-8, 1-0 OVC) raced out to a 28-13 lead thanks to 10-for-20 shooting from the field, including 2-of-4 from beyond the arc.
TSU's second basket of the contest started a 10-0 Tiger run that was capped by a contested lay-in from Rhett that pulled the visitors within five with 3:25 to go in the half.
Nobles closed the first period scoring with a triple with 53 seconds left and TSU went into the locker room down, 33-28.
The Tigers were 1-of-14 to start the game (7.1 percent), but finished the half 6-of-12 (50 percent). TSU's stellar free throw shooting (84.6 percent) kept the team in the game, early.
Nobles started the second stanza with another three, and Miller converted a fast-break layup at the 17:26 mark to tie the game at 36. It was the first time the game had been tied since it started 0-0.
Miller's hoop sparked a 9-2 Tiger run to give TSU a five-point lead, and an old-fashioned three-point play by the senior later in the period made the score 59-51 with under six minutes to play.
The Tigers would not relent, and a great rebound by Rhett led to a quick lay-up by Kennedy Eubanks on the other end of the floor to put Big Blue up by double-digits.
The Panthers clawed back following a TSU timeout and rattled off seven straight points to pull within three and force another Tiger timeout at the 2:35 mark.
The contest remained a one-possession game until a pair of missed free throws by TSU gave EIU a chance to win the game, down by one with 20 seconds to play.
A pair of missed shots from inside the paint allowed Chris Oliver a rebound with just two seconds left. Oliver nailed the shot and got fouled. He missed the ensuing free throw, but EIU hung on to win, 70-69.
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Just about every adult on the planet has calluses. Women who wear high heels, men who wear workboots, people who go barefoot, and anyone who spends most of the day standing, get them on their feet. People who lift free-weights, play a stringed instrument, or use their hands to make a living, get them on their fingers and palms. I get them in the summer, on the sides of my feet, because I don't like to wear shoes, and tend to sit with my feet curled up under me.
Having calluses isn't a bad thing, in fact, they're part of the body's natural defense to protect your skin from injury. The only problem is that as we continue to do the activities that cause calluses, they can keep thickening until the skin becomes hard, dry, and can sometimes even crack and bleed.
So what is a person to do about these unsightly areas? The good news is that with a little bit of home maintenance, and regular trips to see your favorite nail technician, you can have healthy skin in no time!
**Side note for the guys out there**
I often hear men say that manicures and pedicures are for women only, and that it's too effeminate (or "gay") for a 'real' man. Let me tell you something though Mister, it's not all about painting your nails; it's skin care we're talking here. Now, if your wife or girlfriend flinches when you caress her cheek because your rough, dry skin is in danger of cutting her open, how good do do you think your chances are of getting to touch her other, more sensitive bits? Trust me here, go get the mani/pedi. No one will take away your man card, and the woman in your life will thank you!
I'm going to assume that you've read my post on NSS salons, and that you've gone, or are going, to see a reputable nail technician for a treatment on your hands and/or feet. It's important to see a professional regularly, because they have products and tools that you can't use safely at home. So get a pedicure every one or two months, and a manicure every two to four weeks. It's not that expensive and you can schedule them to coincide with your regular haircut.
Now we're going to talk about what you should be doing at home, between salon visits, to keep your skin looking good and feeling smooth.
To prevent the build up of calluses, use a good sugar scrub on your problem areas in the shower or bath every day. I recommend sugar scrubs because the sugar dissolves as you scrub, preventing over scrubbing and the development of sore spots (which just make calluses build up faster). You can also purchase salt and pumice scrubs, but they can be a little too abrasive, especially for every day use. Scrubbing once a day will work for most people, but if you have especially thick calluses you can use the scrub twice a day until the hardened skin is more manageable.
Next, lotion, lotion, lotion! I can't tell you how much a good lotion can help smooth out rough, dry calluses. Use lotion on your hands every time you wash them, and on your feet twice a day. For hand and body, I like Qtica Smart Spa lotions, and for feet, CND's non-greasy Cucumber Heel Therapy can't be beat. Most importantly though, what you're looking for is a lotion that has a low alcohol content, and moisturizing skin oils like Vitamin E, Sweet Almond Oil, and Jojoba.
A good soak can also really help penetrate thickened skin as well. If you're you're abusing your hands or feet on a daily basis, try soaking them once a week for five to ten minutes in water that has bath oils, or a mani/pedi soak mixed in. Be sure to finish up your soak with lotion to keep your calluses soft and smooth.
Last but not least is to resist the temptation to cut off your calluses! I know they can get annoying, and sometimes even painful when they start to get really thick, but cutting them off only makes your body rebuild them faster. They're there for a reason, you need your calluses, so you should never, ever cut or file them off completely. Also, if your nail tech ever uses a blade on your feet to cut your calluses, stop the service and leave the establishment! Cutting calluses in a salon is illegal in most US states, so if your tech does it as part of a pedicure, there's a good chance you're in a NSS.
If your calluses are getting too thick to handle, and you just can't make it into the salon for a treatment, use a medium to fine grit file, or a pumice stone to bring them down a little bit after you've soaked them. If you're a guy, I'll even let you use a fine grit sand paper to do the job (in the interest of making sure you're able to keep your man card); use 150 grit or higher. Don't take them down too far, just file off the dead skin on top, and then moisturize with lotion when you're done. If you use your sugar scrub daily though, you shouldn't have to file your calluses down between salon visits.
That's it, that's all there is. Keeping your hands and feet soft and smooth is as easy as brushing your teeth or washing your hair. So now there's no excuse not to have skin that your significant other will love to touch (I'm talking to you guys out there)!


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Smartphones make up only 43 percent of the mobile market, but the majority of all U.S. adults aged 18 to 44 who are mobile subscribers own one, a recent study revealed.
The highest number of smartphones owners are aged 25 to 34, according to Nielsen's third quarter survey of mobile users. Smartphone usage for adults 18 to 24 and 35 to 44 are almost identical, 54 and 53 percent respectively. Numbers drop off considerably for adults 45 to 54 to only 39 percent and kids 13 to 17 at 38 percent. The lowest rate of smartphone use, not surprisingly, is for adults 65 or older who likely are content with a feature phone (just like my mom.)
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last new book: Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, a Cook's Manifesto." A distillation of all I've learned. I'm hoping it's every bit as fascinating and pompous as my previous book, Ratio. But it's very different, a big lavish book with great color photography to illustrate the techniques and recipes.
Twenty is the exploration of a single idea: that all of cooking can be reduced to a handful of techniques. It's not as if you have to master a thousand techniques in order to cook well. Or even a hundred. You only need to know about about 20 things (you surely know more already than you think you do).
My goal is to explore the basic techniques we need to know to cook everything else. This is all I've been doing since I began cooking for real, attempt to reduce the fundamental act of cooking to its essence.
We're taught by the processed foods companys, the Duncan Hines and the Krafts and the Swansons that they're going to make our lives a breeze by selling us their product. Not true and not necessary. Cook for yourself.
I asked a while back what were the cookbooks that teach? I hope Twenty will be one of them. It's filled with techniques, yes, but also with 100 great, well-tested recipes that illustrate the techniques, and process photography by my awesome wife Donna.
The book is dedicated to Marlene Newell, a Canadian self-taught and passionate cook, who tested all the recipes, then oversaw repeated testing by others at her site cookskorner.com. She's created a forum devoted to Ruhlman's Twenty for anyone who wants to cook along, ask me and Marlene questions, make comments, share their experience with the book. I hope you'll join us.
But most of all I hope you'll simply cook, for yourself and for the people you care about.
Let me know what you think!
Update: two errors have been found in the book, one of them serious. On page 161, the snickerdoodle recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar. The correct amount is 1/2 cup.
On page 22, I say that 40 grams of salt in a liter of water will result in a 1% brine; it should read 10 grams.
More links:
- See my books page if you want to buy a personalized signed copy of Twenty, and don't forget to tell me who you want it signed to!
- Here is a map that plots local farms, food institutions and restaurants together around the world.
- Studio Kitchen discusses the idea of reverse grilling.
- No Recipes is a blog written by Marc Matsumoto who says that cooking is "50% technique, 40% inspiration and 10% ingredients," a sentiment I agree with (I'd up the technique percentage to about 75% but he's got the right idea!).
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Democrat, Republican...in NYC, it's the same thing
Adolfo Carrión Jr., a former Bronx borough president and Obama administration official, is all but certain to jump into the 2013 mayor's race, not as a Democrat, but rather as an independent seeking the Republican nomination, according to his spokesman and others.
Should Mr. Carrión, a strong fund-raiser, prevail in a Republican primary, he could pose a credible challenge to whoever emerges from what is expected to be a wide-open and bruising primary for the Democratic nomination. And though Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York City by more than six to one, no Democrat has won the mayoralty since David N. Dinkins in 1989.
An adviser to Mr. Carrión, Davidson Goldin, said Mr. Carrión had recently left the Democratic Party and was unaffiliated. Mr. Goldin also said that Mr. Carrión, who would need the blessing of three of the five Republican county leaders to run on their line in the city, had been talking to individual chairmen regularly, and was to meet all of them Wednesday night. Mr. Carrión is also seeking the backing of the Independence Party.
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Carrion would be the city's first Hispanic mayor – a fact that is not lost on his GOP boosters, particularly since the party failed so spectacularly last week in capturing the Latino vote in the presidential race and quite clearly needs to make inroads with that key voting bloc ASAP.
There are several other party switchers angling for the GOP nod in next year's mayor's race, including supermarket/oil mogul John Catsimatidis (he made the change in preparation for a 2009 mayoral bid, but then dropped out when Bloomberg announced he would push to overturn term limits and run again); DOE Fund founder George McDonald; and Manhattan Media executive Tom Allon,
In addition, Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat, has been chatting up the GOP chairs in hopes that they'll give their ballot line to him next year.
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, a registered Republican, has been talked about as a potential mayoral contender since his success in bringing the subway system back on line after Sandy.
And, of course, there's always the possibility of some yet-unknown self-financing type throwing his (or her) hat into the ring.
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Demo-crime or Republi-crime.
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Exactly right. The local leadership of both parties work hand-in-hand. It's the permanent government.
- Friday, November 16, 2012
I am raising the awareness of my friends in national Republican politics or in red states -- urban Hispanics elected (and electable) are and will continue to be merely impatient Democrats who want their turn in power now rather than waiting for non-Hispanics to die, retire, or be indicted.
They are for an bigger federal government and higher taxes as much as the former phony Republican Bloomberg is.
- Friday, November 16, 2012
It is not possible to elect a real Republican in NYC, it never was. Somoene of the Koch, Giuliani, Bloomberg mold is the best you can do, just don't let them pretend to be Republican and contaminate the state or national parties.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins continued to embrace an "all-in" mindset on their quest to win another Stanley Cup as late Wednesday night they acquired future Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla in exchange for a first-round draft pick and two college prospects.
All night long, there had been reports that Iginla was going to the Boston Bruins, but after 1 a.m.. ET, the Flames announced the trade was completed with the Penguins, who gave up forwards Kenneth Agostino and Ben Hanowski, plus their first-round pick.
Earlier this week, the Penguins acquired veteran winger Brenden Morrow and rugged defenseman Douglas Murray in separate trades. In the three trades, the Penguins have given up a first-round pick, a second-round pick, a conditional second-round pick and a fifth-round pick, plus three quality prospects to acquire three rental players and a third-round pick.
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None of the players the Penguins have acquired this week have contracts beyond this season. Iginla, 35, will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. He had to waive a no-trade clause to approve the deal.
General manager Jay Feaster said in a news conference that he had fielded offers from three teams that Iginla suggested.
"The deal that we consummated, this is where the player was prepared to waive for," he said.
All three of the players acquired by Pittsburgh this week are known for their high character and gritty playing style. All three players are trying to win their first Stanley Cups.
"Jarome will add leadership, grit and the skill to complement our forward group," Penguins general manager Ray Shero said via email. "He's a player who has played big in big games and we are thrilled that he is part of the Penguins organization."
Coach Dan Bylsma could play Iginla on the team's first line with Chris Kunitz and Sidney Crosby, or he could play him with James Neal and Evgeni Malkin.
In talking about the Morrow deal earlier this week, Bylsma said that Morrow would probably play with Malkin and Neal, but he might use him with Brandon Sutter and Matt Cooke.
The only pause that Bylsma might have with putting Iginla with Crosby and Kunitz is the fact that the Kunitz-Crosby-Pascal Dupuis line has played exceptionally well this season. No matter who plays with whom, the Penguins are going to have three impressive lines.
The Iginla drama began early Wednesday evening when the Flames announced that he would not play in the team's game against the Colorado Avalanche. He had not missed a game since the finale of the 2006-07 season, and his 441-game ironman streak came to an end.
Iginla is a power forward who had scored 30 or more goals for 11 consecutive seasons before this season. He has been a Flames player since 1995-96. He originally came to Calgary when the Flames dealt veteran Joe Nieuwendyk to the Dallas Stars.
Winger Agostino, 20, just completed his junior regular season at Yale, where he netted 15 goals and 37 points in 33 games. He is a fifth-round draft choice. Hanowski, 22, has played four years at St. Cloud State, where he scored 39 goals over his last two seasons. He's a 6-2 winger who was drafted in the third round.
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So, there's an update on the Kevin Hart story, and it turns out that the whole thing was more "con" than "prank."
You gotta feel pretty bad for the kid; it looks like a nasty recruiter was doing the whole thing as a scam.
Hart claims, in a police report, that a Kevin Riley falsely represented himself as a recruiter — a middle man to big-time college football programs — and led the 6-foot-5, 290-pounder and his family to believe there were scholarship offers available when there were none.
Obtaining money with a false pretense is the charge on the report at this time, said Deputy Dan Lynch, who took the report. Finding Riley could be difficult, though.
The cops say they have "no info to identify a suspect." So the guy, really, is gone. This picture, we think, is the saddest part: He actually had a hat for California and a hat for Oregon, and made a big dramatic production of choosing which one he was going to put on. That really breaks our heart a little bit.
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The special 100th anniversary issue of The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO, Vol. 40, No. 1, Parts A and B) celebrates the AAVSO's centennial by featuring papers presented at the 2011 Spring and Annual meetings of the AAVSO, as well as a section of thirteen invited review papers covering the latest developments in variable star astronomy.
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The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are due to hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London on the Afghan peace process.
Cameron initiated the meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari last year, aiming to boost cooperation between the countries and promote regional stability.
The talks are expected to focus on preventing a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan when British and other NATO troops withdraw from the country next year.
Cameron plans to dine with Karzai and Zardari at his country residence Chequers later Sunday, before holding formal talks with both leaders and their top officials early Monday.
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Praise for The Lynburn Legacy:
"A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart."
—Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author
"Breathtaking, heartbreaking—a compulsive, rocketing read!"
—Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author
"Readers will laugh, shiver, and maybe even swoon over this modern Gothic novel."
—Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author
"A darkly funny, deliciously thrilling Gothic."
—Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author
"Captures the reader with true magic: alluring, dangerous, fascinating, and breathtakingly real."
—Esther Friesner, author of Deception's Princess
"Fans of Maggie Stiefvater's Wolves of Mercy Falls books need look no further for their next series."
"Witty, take-charge Kami reads a bit like a British Veronica Mars. . . . Refreshing."
—The Horn Book
"Kami is a charming protagonist—full of vinegar and spice. Fans of romantic fantasy will devour it."
"A laugh-out-loud delight."
—Publishers Weekly


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Aging Gracefully, China's Internet Heads to Launch Insurance Venture
When the two biggest names in the Chinese Internet sector get together to start an online insurance business, it can mean only one thing: China's heroes of online innovation are getting old.
Speaking together at an event in Shanghai on Wednesday, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, 49, and Tencent Holdings Chief Executive Pony Ma, 42, both agreed that growing older in the fast-changing tech sector is a challenge.
"My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like," Pony Ma said, speaking to an auditorium of students from Shanghai's Fudan University, where the two announced the new venture—called Zhong An Online Property Insurance and jointly invested in by Tencent, Alibaba, and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co.—which will sell insurance products online.
Pony Ma then admitted that he couldn't understand "the fun" of the popular American mobile photo-messaging app Snapchat despite its popularity in the U.S. among teenage girls. Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal reported that Tencent is vying to lead a fundraising round of $200 million for the app.
"If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits," Pony Ma said, adding that growing old can be the biggest problem for the leader of a large Internet company like Tencent. "Even if you don't make any mistakes, the mistake is that you are too old and need to be replaced."
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Pony Ma's comments were redolent of those made by Jack Ma earlier this year in a letter announcing his resignation as chief executive of Alibaba. At that time, Jack Ma wrote that at 48 years of age he was "no longer 'young' for the Internet business," adding that it was time for him to step aside so younger leaders could rise. Echoing that sentiment Wednesday, Jack Ma said the delight he gets now is not in the new products he can create, but instead in supporting the younger generation in their endeavors to do something new.
Despite their lamentations, neither Jack Ma nor Pony Ma are really rusting unburnished. Though Jack Ma has stepped back from the day-to-day operations of Alibaba, he has been busy meeting with Chinese officials. Meanwhile, Pony Ma's Tencent is responsible for the most popular mobile application in China, WeChat, and the company has more recently been making waves in Silicon Valley with a series of investments in startups there.
Nonetheless, the direction both Alibaba and Tencent are taking shows a new level of maturity. While Alibaba first helped anyone with an idea open an online store, it is now pushing out products to help young people save and invest their money, or take out loans to expand a business. Meanwhile, Tencent is hoping to complement its online gaming business with a new endeavor for which it has applied for a banking license.
And the new insurance company itself shows that old age has yet its honor for the two Mas, who are not related. Both were quite excited at the fact that the normally hidebound Chinese regulators allowed them to start the nation's first Internet insurance company, which is geared in particular to helping get young people insured.
Though he may feel old, Jack Ma certainly didn't sound it when he discussed the curiosity that has fueled his career in the Internet and his desire to grow Alibaba's e-commerce business into a financial-services operation.
"A lot of people say you can't do this, that's not OK. We are curious, why isn't it OK? Why can't we do it? There are people who say that the financial industry is too risky, Internet companies shouldn't touch it. Well, I'm curious."
The peroration gives hope there may yet be some work of noble note for him before he fades out.
--Fanfan Wang and Paul Mozur
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"Rumsfeld Says U.S. Victory Will Serve as Powerful Message", By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/politics-iraq-usa.html It will. Sadly, it will. But the "message" is not as Mr. Rumsfeld understands it to be. The overall goal is Peace. But Peace cannot be achieved through resort to Force, because resort to Force instantiates its own diametrically-opposed Reaction-Force. The "Powerful Message" that's been sent is along these lines. This stuff has been adequately explained in AoK all along. Nervous systems deal in energy. Energy is 'slippery' stuff. The only way to 'control' it is through lifting-up nervous systems with respect to their own capacities for doing exactly that. Nothing else can 'control' the 'slipperiness' of energy. The first 'step' is to do the work inherent in understanding the 3-D energydynamics of 'blindly'-automated 'resistance' to "rendering useless". Leaders should have their Science liasons 'boil-it-down' for their understanding. Nothing else will work. It's 'just' the nature of 'the beast', "Abstract Ignorance", that constitutes Humanity's only actual Enemy, that Necessitates the doing of the information-processing Work inherent. K. P. Collins -- "Schmitd! Schmitd! Ve vill build a Shapel!" "KP-PC" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net%remove%> wrote in message news:OQeta.138193$ja4.6337040 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... "The Fog of Peace", By MICHAEL R. GORDON http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/international/worldspecial/02GORDON.html I wanted to quote the entirety of this Article because discussion with respect to all of it is Important. But, rather than 'break' the Article's context, or unfairly use it in its enirety, I'll just provide the discussion, here. I encourage folks to take the 'time' to read, and think about the Article's discussion by following the linkto it, given above. The article discusses, in a refreshigly forthright fashion, the dynamics that American forces are confronting on the ground. What I want to do is 'fill in the blanks', a bit, with respect to the Article's discussion. What's going on in Iraq is that U.S. exertion of Force has resulted in a generalized elevation of TD E/I within Iraqi nervous systems. Iraqi nervous systems will 'blindly' and automatically 'seek' to achieve TD E/I-minimization in any way that they can. The first 'casualty' within such will be Truth. In all commonplace interactions between American forces and the Iraqi Citizenry, the Iraqi 'side' will 'strive' to implement what it thinks the U.S. side wants to hear - in a way that's "inverted" with respect to U.S. force, proportionately. [The Iraqi Citizenry is But, in private, Iraqi behavior will "invert", again, with respect to it's long-enduring Suffering, and in accord with the larger background context in which their version of 'free speech' occurs - the 'whispering' of Truth within the 'interstitial spaces' of their, 'Public' personas. Be-cause of its long experience at the hands of the Iraqi Dictator's use of force, the Iraqi Citizenry is 'well-schooled' in the dynamics of such "inversion" with respect to the experiential forces inherent in the 'moment' at hand. So, what seems 'overly-fancy' capability to folks who've not experienced as Iraqis have experienced is 'just' what Iraqi nervous systems commonly do. A big part of what's entailed derives in pan-Arab background communications, which constitutes a powerful [the most-powerful?] unifying guide for the 'private' way [which, as above, is "inverted" with respect to applications of external 'force']. For the most part, all that has happened in Iraq is that the "biological mass" that was constructed through the Iraqi Citizenry's experience of the Iraqi Dictator's Brutality is all still extant within Iraqi nervous systems, but it's 'just' been 'transferred', almost of-a-piece, to 'The U.S.' The only differences entailed derive in the 'caricicature' of 'Western Civilization' that the Iraqi Citizenry had formerly developed through the distorting 'lens' of the Iraqi Dictator's 'moving away from' Truth with respect to Western Civilization. Because of such Dictatorial manipulations, the common [Dictated-to] folks just have no way of experiencing the actuality of Western Culture. All their experience is "through the lens [distortedly]" - through the doubly-convoluted "wavy-glass 'brick' of my posts in the "What do brains do?" thread. With respect to all of this, all the nervous systems of folks who are Dictated-to in a way that inherently 'moves away from' Truth can accomplish is 'blind' and automatic convergence upon TD E/I-minimization that incorporates variations of the 'moving away from' Truth inherent in their Dictated experiential realities. [An important correlated aside: Another significant factor in this 'caricicature' of 'The West' derives in Iraqi 'underground' viewing, and private interactions with respect to, Western Arts and Literature - primarily from the U.S. [Hollywood], in which 'western fear' with respect to Terrible acts of Violence perpetrated by 'foreigners', against 'the west', is experienced only incompletely within the nervous systems of the Iraqi [and other] Citizenry[s]. In their viewing of such Hollywood faire, they tend to 'stop' gaining overall comprehension where their 'familiar' experience results in TD E/I(up) occuring within their nervous systems. They tend to 'stop' following the plots at 'points' in the Productions at which 'western fear' is dramatically emphasized. [2001-09-11 got its start in other folks' 'stopping'-right-here in their viewing of Western Action dramatizations. Sans Western Aculturation, to the degree of such, such Western Art 'just' resonates with respected the experience-derived "invertedness" of non-Western Cultures, 'reinforcing' the "invertedness" at the experientially-prejudiced 'stop-actually-viewing-point'. Non-Western viewers 'thrill' to the portrayal of 'western fear', and experience the stereotypical 'failure' of Art's 'villains' only as a Challenge to 'achieve' the 'fear-filled' affect that's portrayed, without so 'failing'. Western Art has been, in this way, a incitement to Terrorism. As videos circulate, the wellspring stuff inherent is compounded. There's Pavlovian and Hebbian stuff going on within nervous systems which cross-correlates, and links, the 'little thrill of rebellion' inherent in just viewing 'banned' 'western' Art, with the larger 'stop-viewing-point' 'learning' I've just discussed. What occurs as small-group 'heroics' [akin to 'trash-talking' at a local pub in Western Cultures], gains "behavioral inertia" as the 'heroes' of the discussions seek to gain the experience of more of the same 'triumphant adulation' - and, so things escalate, and this escalation of 'back-room' experience continues until it precipitates the Violence of Terrorism. In every Terrorist Act, those involved will, in this way, have 'gone to school', via their Culturally-skewed viewing 'western' Art. In their 'minds', the Terrorists are literally Living the 'moment' of 'failure', with Determination to 'rewrite the script' to inflict the stuff of the 'thrill' they experience at their 'stop-actually-viewing-points', without Failing. [These dynamics actually occur in a generalized way, even within sub-cultrues within the U.S. Culture. I encourage anyone who 'doubts' to set-up prepared to make careful observation in the parking lot of a theatre showing a street-racing flick. [But park your own car in an out-of-the-way place :-] What you'll invariably observe is Young viewers 'living in the spirit' of the Art that they've just viewed - reving engines, 'peeling-out'. 'being cool', etc. An altertnative observation opportunity is with respect to observing at theatre exists when a 'martial arts flick is letting-out. This case is, however, more-subtle than is the street-racing case. The general thing is True, however, folks 'stop-actually-viewing' at the 'points' that 'hook' their capacities to 'thrill', which derive in their larger experiential realities. It's all 'just' TD E/I-minimization with respect to that which is actually experienced by any nervous system. This's why well-rounded Education is so Important. Sadly, the 'cool'-attitude stuff that so impedes the Educational process these days also derives in the 'disrespect-for-what's-in-learning' attitude that's portrayed in common TV and movie faire. [I've Studied all of this, first hand, during my periods of working as a Substitute Teacher. Everything I've discussed in this 'aside' stands Verified. I'll 'gladly' [Sorrowfully] take it up with anyone who wants to argue such.] Anyway, take what's here into your reading of the article that's linked-to above. The Real 'war' is with respect to all of this stuff that can only be seen when NDT's 'lifting of the veil' is put into practice. Anything else results in 'just' more of the same-stuff 'squeezing out through the cracks' left in enforced-external-'control' - and, since nervous systems deal in energy-flow, and energy is 'slippery' stuff, it's best to imbue nervous systems with their own capacities for Volitional Control that's simultaneously in their own best interests, and the Best Interests of Humanity as a whole. This is what NDT's understanding is all about, and is why I persist in working to lift folks up in NDT's understanding - and why I so Beg folks to just allow the understanding to be Communicated. It is the only stuff that'll work. Anything else just 'squeezes' stuff here, with the result that it 'pops-out' elsewhere. K. P. Collins -- "Schmitd! Schmitd! Ve vill build a Shapel!" "KP-PC" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net%remove%> wrote in message news:q29ia.8918$cO3.535999 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... [...] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The North American P-51 Mustang
The North American P-51D Mustang:
Who would have thought, back in 1944, that this escort fighter would still be flying over 70 years later? The Mustang was built for the highest performance with less thought for longevity.
With the hard work of warbird fanatics around the globe, about 280 P-51s still exist today with more than half still airworthy! A few of the remaining P-51s ( Survivors) have the distinction of serving for more than 30 years with 4 different Air Forces around the world!


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Member FAQ
What happens at EGAP meetings?
EGAP meetings present the opportunity to make connections within the field; increasing access to policymakers, researchers, and implementing organizations. They contain methods teach-ins, research design and paper consultation sessions, and plenary presentations on cutting-edge social science research topics. The meetings occur approximately three times per year. Attendance at one meeting per year per member is advised, but members can occasionally attend more frequently.
Who decides each meeting's attendees?
Each year, all EGAP members submit their preferences for the 3 upcoming meetings, as well as proposals for anything they wish to present. The meeting hosts and their committees make the final decisions regarding attendance based upon a review of past meeting attendance, desire to present, and overall participation in EGAP
Do I have to pay to attend EGAP meetings?
Each member is reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses up to $1000 per meeting. Members based in non-OECD countries can receive up to $2000. Only one representative per EGAP institutional member will be allowed at each meeting.
Who sets each meeting's agenda?
Each meeting has an agenda committee consisting of that meeting's host(s), along with 2 or 3 additional EGAP members who are attending the meeting. The committee reviews all presentation proposals and sets the agenda.
I have a research design in mind, and would like feedback from fellow members. How do I get it?
One way is to present a design proposal at a meeting. However, if the timing doesn't work out, or if the agenda is already full, there is a peer response process that is guided by a core feedback committee and chaired by EGAP member Betsy Levy Paluck. To initiate a request, simply fill out this form. Within one week of the request, a member of the committee will assemble a few other EGAP members with expertise on the topic, and convene a quick meeting on Skype, Google hangout, or over the phone.
Once the project is complete, can EGAP help me disseminate the results?
Results from member's research are shared with policymakers, NGOs and development agencies through our policy briefs series. These briefly summarize research and help make the research accessible to policymakers and organizations. If you would like to have some of your research posted in this form, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the research attached. We will prepare a brief of the paper and send it to you to edit and offer comments before it is posted online.
I'm interested in making connections with policymakers working in the areas I research. Can EGAP facilitate that?
Throughout the year we also periodically convene policy meetings with institutional members and other agencies/organizations. EGAP members often initiate these meetings; if you have one in mind, let us know at email@example.com. We are always looking for participants that are interested in the topic or the training so we will send around emails to the membership looking for volunteers when the meetings are in the planning stage.
I heard that EGAP runs principal investigator (PI) trainings; can I participate in those?
Yes! You can view the past Learning Days events here. We are working on planning several more Learning Days events over the next few years. If you are interested in scheduling a training with a specific university or organization, or would like to be a Learning Days instructor, please let us know. If you or someone you know would be a good participant, please let us know as well. You can send an email to email@example.com.
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Methods guides serve as EGAP's "how-to" behind key methodological aspects of experimental research. The topics covered range from the simple, to the logistical, to the very technical. They are very popular on the website. You are invited to write a methods guide or to suggest topic ideas. To do so, email EGAP's Methods Manager, Matt Lisiecki (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Can I preregister my research designs through EGAP?
The EGAP research design registry is an online database for submitting research designs and pre-analysis plans. The designs include experiments and observational studies on the topics that EGAP covers. To register a design, please visit the site and complete the registration form. Doing so provides an automatic timestamp for your submission, which will then be reviewed prior to publishing. If you have any questions about this process, please contact us at email@example.com.


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Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale
At the Frankfurt Auto Show, Lamborghini unveiled yet another supercar – the limited edition Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale. With only 150 units produced, this is supposedly the most extreme Gallardo to ever be produced. Powered by a V10 engine with 570 horsepower, the car goes from 0-100 km/h in just 3.4 seconds. Lamborghini went as far as creating a special 'Rosso Mars' red paint for the car, combining it with a matte black finish on the engine.


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Monday, January 9, 2012
It's easy to forget to cut back a garden. You live around it, and don't always notice the overgrowth. It is only when you've been away, and return after a season, that the garden seems to cry out for the pruning shears. It has become shaggy and lost its shape. Neighboring plants are crowding each other out. And some things have not survived the fall.
It is the same for me with intellectual work. I spend months burrowing into a project. There doesn't seem to be time to step back. It is only after a project is finally put to rest, when the words are on the page so firmly that I can no longer alter them, that I can finally see the horizon again.
And a time like that is always a good time to reconnect. So, dear readers, I am glad to be back.
2 comments:
- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
The pictures allow me to smell your garden!
- January 9, 2012 at 7:47:00 PM EST
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
That's because the third photo (lower right) is of the remains of the most overgrown opal basil plant you have ever seen. It turned into a real bush while I was away -- and is now cut down to a more modest size. In the same photo are cuttings from lavender, also overgrown. In other piles was rosemary. Who knew that herbs could be so ambitious!
- January 9, 2012 at 8:57:00 PM EST
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Snow and Fire
The movie house in Jerusalem was a source of great disturbance to the leaders of the city's religious Jews, especially Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld. When the city was hit by a severe snowstorm in 1919 the venerable rabbi saw it as a sign from Heaven that his troubles would soon be over.
Arriving at a synagogue in Meah Shearim to perform a circumcision he noticed the Jew who had in partnership with an Arab built that offensive theater. Turning to him he quoted the passage, "Though your sins be like scarlet they shall be washed white as snow," as a warning that the snowstorm would wipe out his abomination. Turning to the crowd he asked if the movie house was still standing. When informed that it was, he announced that the day was still young.
It wasn't long afterwards that the roof of the movie house collapsed under the weight of the snow. The Arab partner, however, failed to appreciate this as a Heavenly sign and proceeded to rebuild the theater and even show movies on Shabbat. A few weeks after the reopening a fire broke out on Friday night and completely destroyed the offensive building.


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but if it simply was cast characters vs eachother, it'd still be jar cause of the numbers and trent's G.U.S.
RandomPING wrote:-----
"Zach looks a lot like Kanazuchi Yuuki(The Valkyrie's male name) when you really look at them."
Got an interesting comment in my mail today. Kanazuchi Yuuki looks like Zach Mecha from the Jar with brown hair?! No no, he's just in cute mode right now. He found some new magical girl stuff; give the guy a break. They do have the same eye color, though...
Monkeyzboyking wrote:"We wish you a happy Fridge Day, we wish you a happy Fridge Day, we wish you a happy fridge day, so buy us new paint!!!!"
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