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Summer is here in all its glory. Gardens are being planted and, for many of us, summer renews our love of this area.
As you plant your garden, I encourage you to plant an extra row for those who either dont have a garden or are financially stressed at this time and could benefit from the gift of produce.
This all fits together into what I think of as the Durango diet (aka Mediterranean diet). It is a lifestyle along with a quality of eating. Yes, you are what you eat, but attitude and coping skills can also have significant impact on disease prevention. Try it for just three months.
This diet is all about enjoying life with a recommended eating style. Research continues to tell us that laughing with friends and family, savoring nourishing food and treating your body with exercise will lead to a long healthy life.
Following a lifestyle pattern such as this is linked to a lower risk for heart disease, obesity, cancer and early death:
Start by slowing down. Take 20 minutes to sit down and enjoy a meal. Savor your food, have a glass of red wine at dinner and laugh with friends and family. Enjoy life.
More fruits and vegetables. Being mindful of this goes a long way. Whatever you are currently doing, do more. Buy a rainbow of colors and try something new on each visit.
Cooking. Use more herbs and spices rather than salt. Check out Mediterranean diet recipes on line, the bookstore or the library.
Heathy fats. Try the extra light virgin olive oil it has many uses and a small amount goes a long way. Just as nuts and seeds are a great addition, the portion of no more than a handful is still important.
More whole grains. When you purchase any grain item, is whole grain the first ingredient (such as whole wheat)? Sometimes, the multigrain breads are deceiving with enriched flour as the first ingredient. Things such as corn tortilla or whole-grain tortilla and breads are going to have more nutrients, lower cost and less processing costs.
Vary your protein. Meat is typically the most expensive part of your grocery bill, so remove it from center stage. Anything more than a quarter pound of meat twice a day is unnecessary and a waste. How about trying some kind of fish once a week? Everyone has something that they can tolerate (canned tuna, a few shrimp on the salad, a surprise at the restaurant). The biggest challenge is finding a good recipe and not overcooking it (making it dry).
Mindful eating and portions. Be aware of your hunger level and how much food youre putting on your plate. Are you eating from hunger, frustration, boredom or anxiety?
Play. This is important for stress reduction just 30 minutes a day. This may include vigorous activity such as running, biking or swimming, or more moderate leisure activities such as gardening, playing with the dog or walking the river trail.
Alcohol. A serving of alcohol once a day has been found to be beneficial. Alcohol of choice would be five ounces of wine for women and up to twice that for men.
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Refer to History of Cape Colony for accounts of earlier and later phases.
War having again broken out, a British force was once more sent to the Cape. After an engagement (January 1806) on the shores of Table Bay, the Dutch garrison of Cape Castle surrendered to the British under Sir David Baird, and in 1814 the colony was ceded outright by the Netherlands to the British crown. At that time the colony extended to the line of mountains guarding the vast central plateau, then called "Bushmansland", and had an area of about 120,000 square miles and a population of some 60,000, of whom 27,000 were whites, 17,000 free Hottentots and the rest slaves. These slaves were mostly imported negroes and Malays. Their introduction was the chief cause leading the white settlers to despise manual labour.
The First and Second Kaffir Wars
At the time of the cession to Great Britain the first of several wars with the Kaffirs had been fought. (The numerous minor conflicts which since 1789 had taken place between the colonists and the Kaffirs the latter sometimes aided by Hottentot allies are not reckoned in the usual enumeration of the Kaffir wars.) The Kaffirs, who had crossed the colonial frontier, had been expelled from the district between the Sunday River[?] and Great Fish river known as the Zuurveld[?], which became a sort of neutral ground. For some time previous to 1811 the Kaffirs, however, had taken possession of the neutral ground and committed depredations on the colonists. In order to expel them from the Zuurveld, Colonel John Graham[?] took the field with a mixed force in December 1811, and in the end the Kaffirs were driven beyond the Fish river. On the site of Colonel Grahams headquarters arose the town which bears his name: Graham's Town (subsequently "Grahamstown[?]").
In 1817 further trouble arose with the Kaffirs, the immediate cause of quarrel being an attempt by the colonial authorities to enforce the restitution of some stolen cattle. Routed in 1818, the Kaffirs rallied, and in the early part of 1819 poured into the colony in vast hordes. On 22 April 1817, Led by a prophet-chief named Makana[?], they attacked Grahams Town, then held by a handful of white troops. Help arrived in time and the enemy were beaten back. It was then arranged that the land between the Fish and Keiskamma rivers[?] should be neutral territory.
The war of 181719 led to the first introduction of English settlers on a considerable scale, an event fraught with far-reaching consequences. The then governor, Lord Charles Somerset[?], whose treaty arrangements with the Kaffir chiefs had proved unfortunate, desired to erect a barrier against the Kaffirs by settling white colonists in the border district. In 1820, on the advice of Lord Charles, parliament voted £50,000 to promote emigration to the Cape, and 4000 British were sent out. These people formed what was known as the Albany settlement[?], founding Port Elizabeth[?] and making Grahams Town their headquarters. Intended primarily as a measure to secure the safety of the frontier, and regarded by the British government chiefly as a better means of affording a livelihood to a few thousands of the surplus population, this emigration scheme accomplished a far greater work than its authors contemplated. The new settlers, drawn from every part of the British Isles and from almost every grade of society, retained, and their descendants retain, strong sympathy with their original native land. In course of time they formed a counterpoise to the Dutch colonists.
The advent of these immigrants was also the means of introducing the English language at the Cape. In 1825, for the first time, ordinances were issued in English, and in 1827 its use was extended to the conduct of judicial proceedings. Dutch was not, however, ousted, the colonists becoming to a large extent bilingual.
Although the colony was fairly prosperous, many of the Dutch farmers were as dissatisfied with British rule as they had been with that of the Dutch East India Company, though their ground of complaint was not the same. In 1792 Moravian missions had been established for the benefit of the Hottentots, and in 1799 the London Missionary Society[?] began work among both Hottentots and Kaffirs. The championship of Hottentot grievances by the missionaries caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of the colonists, whose views, it may be noted, temporarily prevailed, for in 1812 an ordinance was issued which empowered magistrates to bind Hottentot children as apprentices under conditions differing little from those of slavery. Meantime, however, the movement for the abolition of slavery was gaining strength in England, and the missionaries at length appealed from the colonists to the mother country.
An incident which occurred in 18151816 did much to make permanent the hostility of the frontiersmen to the British. A farmer named Bezuidenhout refused to obey a summons issued on the complaint of a Hottentot, and firing on the party sent to arrest him, was himself killed by the return fire. This caused a miniature rebellion, and on its suppression five ringleaders were publicly hanged at the spot Slachters Nek where they had sworn to expel "the English tyrants". The feeling caused by the hanging of these men was deepened by the circumstances of the execution for the scaffold on which the rebels simultaneously swung broke down from their united weight and the men were afterwards hanged one by one. An ordinance passed in 1827, abolishing the old Dutch courts of landroost and heemraden (resident magistrates being substituted) and decreeing that henceforth all legal proceedings should be conducted in English; the granting in 1828, as a result of the representations of the missionaries, of equal rights with whites to the Hottentots and other free coloured people; the imposition (1830) of heavy penalties for harsh treatment of slaves, and finally the emancipation of the slaves in 1834, all these things increased the dislike of the farmers for the government. Moreover, the inadequate compensation awarded to slaveowners, and the suspicions engendered by the method of payment, caused much resentment, and in 1835 the trekking of farmers into unknown country in order to escape from an unloved government, which had characterized the 18th century, recommenced. Emigration beyond the colonial border had in fact been continuous for 150 years, but it now took on larger proportions.
On the eastern border further trouble arose with the Kaffirs, towards whom the policy of the Cape government was marked by much vacillation. On 11 December 1834 a chief of high rank was killed while resisting a commando party. This set the whole of the Kaffir tribes in a blaze. A force of 10,000 fighting men, led by Macomo[?], a brother of the chief who had been killed, swept across the frontier, pillaged and burned the homesteads and killed all who dared to resist. Among the worst sufferers were a colony of freed Hottentots who, in 1829, had been settled in the Kat river[?] valley by the British authorities. The fighting power of the colony was scanty, but the governor, Sir Benjamin DUrban[?], acted with promptitude, and all available forces were mustered under Colonel (afterwards Sir Harry) Smith, who reached Grahams Town on 6 January 1835, six days after news of the rising had reached Cape Town. The enemys territory was invaded, and after nine months fighting the Kaffirs were completely subdued, and a new treaty of peace concluded (on 17 September 1835). By this treaty all the country as far as the river Kei[?] was acknowledged to be British, and its inhabitants declared British subjects. A site for the seat of government was selected and named King Wiliams Town[?].
The action of Sir Benjamin DUrban was not approved by the home government, and on the instruction of Lord Glenelg[?], secretary for the colonies, who declared that "the great evil of the Cape Colony consists in its magnitude", the colonial boundary was moved back to the Great Fish river, and eventually (in 1837) Sir Benjamin was dismissed from office. "The Kaffirs," in the opinion of Lord Glenelg, "had an ample justification for war; they had to resent, and endeavoured justly, though impotently, to avenge a series of encroachments" (despatch of 26 December 1835). This attitude towards the Kaffirs was one of the many reasons given by the Trek Boers[?] for leaving Cape Colony. The Great Trek[?], as it is called, lasted from 1836 to 1840, the trekkers, who numbered about 7000, founding communities with a republican form of government beyond the Orange and Vaal rivers, and in Natal, where they had been preceded, however, by British emigrants. From this time Cape Colony ceased to be the only European community in South Africa, though for long it maintained its predominance. (Up to 1856 Natal was, in fact, a dependency of the Cape.)
Considerable trouble was caused by the emigrant Boers on either side of the Orange river, where the newcomers, the Basutos[?] and other Kaffir tribes, Bushmen and Griquas[?] contended for mastery. The Cape government endeavoured to protect the rights of the natives. On the advice of the missionaries, who exercised great influence with all the non-Dutch races, a number of native states were recognized and subsidized by the Cape government, with the object - not realized of obtaining peace on this northern frontier. The first of these "Treaty States" recognized was that of the Griquas of Griqualand West[?]. Others were recognized in 1843 and 1844 in the last-named year a treaty was made with the Popdoes on the eastern border. During this period the condition of affairs on the eastern frontier was deplorable, the government being unable or unwilling to afford protection to the farmers from the depredations of the Kaffirs.
Elsewhere, however, the colony was making progress. The change from slave to free labour proved to be advantageous to the farmers in the western provinces; an efficient education system, which owed its initiation to Sir John Herschel, the astronomer (who lived in Cape Colony from 1834 to 1838), was adopted; Road Boards were established and did much good work; to the staple industries the growing of wheat, the rearing of cattle and the making of wine was added sheepraising; and by 1846 wool became the most valuable export from the country. The setting up in 1835 of a legislative council[?], on which unofficial members had seats, was the first step in giving the colonists a share in the government.
Another war with the Kaffirs broke out in 1846 and was known as the War of the Axe[?], from the murder of a Hottentot, to whom an old Kaffir thief was manacled while being conveyed to Grahams Town for trial for stealing an axe. The escort was attacked by a party of Kaffirs and the Hottentot killed. The surrender of the murderer was refused, and war was declared in March 1846. The Gaikas[?] were the chief tribe engaged in the war, assisted during the course of it by the Tambukies. After some reverses the Kaffirs were signally defeated on 7 June 1846 by General Somerset on the Gwangu, a few miles from Fort Peddie[?]. Still the war went on, till at length Sandili[?], the chief of the Gaikas, surrendered, followed gradually by the other chiefs; and by the beginning of 1848 the Kaffirs were again subdued, after twenty-one months fighting.
Extension of British Sovereignty
In the last month of the War of the Axe (December 1847) Sir Harry Smith reached Cape Town as governor of the colony, and with his arrival the Glenelg policy was reversed. By proclamation, on 17 December 1847, he extended the frontier of the colony northward to the Orange river and eastward to the Keiskamma river[?], and on 23 December 1847, at a meeting of the Kaffir chiefs, Sir Harry announced the annexation of the country between the Keiskamma and the Kei rivers to the British crown, thus re-absorbing the territory abandoned by order of Lord Glenelg. It was not, however, incorporated with the Cape, but made a crown dependency under the name of British Kaifraria[?]. For a time the Kaffirs accepted quietly the new order of things. The governor had other serious matters to contend with, including the assertion of British authority over the Boers beyond the Orange river, and the establishment of amicable relations with the Transvaal Boers.
The Convict Agitation and Granting of a Constitution
In the colony itself a crisis arose out of the proposal to make it a convict station. In 1848 a circular was sent by the 3rd Earl Grey, then colonial secretary, to the governor of the Cape (and to other colonial governors), asking him to ascertain the feelings of the colonists regarding the reception of a certain class of convicts, the intention being to send to South Africa Irish peasants who had been driven into crime by the famine of 1845. Owing to some misunderstanding, a vessel, the Neptune, was despatched to the Cape before the opinion of the colonists had been received, having on board 289 convicts, among whom were John Mitchell, the Irish rebel, and his colleagues. When the news reached the Cape that this vessel was on her way, the people of the colony became violently excited; and they established an anti-convict association, by which they bound themselves to cease from all intercourse of every kind with persons in any way connected "with the landing, supplying or employihg convicts". On 19 September 1849 the Neptune arrived in Simons Bay. Sir Harry Smith, confronted by a violent public agitation, agreed not to land the convicts, but to keep them on board ship in Simons Bay till he received orders to send them elsewhere. When the home government became aware of the state of affairs, orders were sent directing the Neptune to proceed to Tasmania, and it did so after having been in Simons Bay for five months. The agitation did not, however, pass away without other important results, since it led to another movement, the object of which was to obtain a free representative government for the colony. This concession, which had been previously promised by Lord Grey, was granted by the British government, and, in 1854 a constitution was established of almost unprecedented liberality.
The anti-convict agitation had scarcely ceased when the colony was once again involved in war. The Kaffirs bitterly resented their loss of independence, and ever since the last war had been secretly preparing to renew the struggle. Sir Harry Smith, informed of the threatening attitude of the natives, proceeded to the frontier, and summoned Sandili and the other chiefs to an interview. Sandili refused obedience; upon which, at an assembly of other chiefs (October 1850), the governor declared him deposed from his chieftainship, and appointed an Englishman, Mr Brownlee, a magistrate, to be temporary chief of the Gaika tribe. The governor appears to have believed that the measures he took would prevent a war and that Sandili could be arrested without armed resistance. On 24 December 1850 Colonel George Mackinnon[?], being sent with a small force with the object of securing the chief, was attacked in a narrow defile by a large body of Kaffirs, and compelled to retreat with some loss. This was the signal for a general rising of the Gaika tribe. The settlers in the military villages, which had been established along the frontier, assembled in fancied security to celebrate Christmas Day, were surprised, many of them killed, and their houses given to the flames.
Other disasters followed in quick succession. A small patrol of military was cut off to a man. The greater part of the Kaffir police deserted, many of them carrying off their arms and accoutrements. Emboldened by success, the enemy in immense force surrounded and attacked Fort Cox[?], where the governor was stationed with an inconsiderable force. More than one unsuccessful attempt was made to relieve Sir Harry; but his spirit was equal to the occasion. At the head of 150 mounted riflemen, accompanied by Colonel Mackinnon, he dashed out of the fort, and, through a heavy fire of the enemy, rode to King Williams Town a distance of 12 miles.
Meanwhile a new enemy appeared. Some 900 of the Kat river Hottentots, who had in former wars been firm allies of the British, threw in their lot with their hereditary enemies the Kaffirs. They were not without excuses. They complained that while doing burgher duty in former wars the Cape Mounted Rifles consisted largely of Hottentot levies they had not received the same treatment as others serving in defence of the colony, that they got no compensation for the losses they had sustained, and that they were in various ways made to feel they were a wronged and injured race. A secret combination was formed with the Kaffirs to take up arms to sweep the Europeans away and establish a Hottentot republic. Within a fortnight of the attack on Colonel Mackinnon the Kat river Hottentots were also in arms. Their revolt was followed by that of the Hottentots at other missionary stations; and part of the Hottentots of the Cape Mounted Rifles followed their example, including the very men who had escorted the governor from Fort Cox. But numbers of Hottentots remained loyal and the Fingo[?] Kaffirs likewise sided with the British.
After the confusion caused by the sudden outbreak had subsided, and preparations had been made, Sir Harry Smith and his force turned the tide of war against the Kaffirs. The Amatola mountains[?] were stormed; and the paramount chief Kreli[?], who all along covertly assisted the Gaikas, was severely punished. In April 1852 Sir Harry Smith was recalled by Earl Grey, who accused him unjustly, in the opinion of the duke of Wellington of a want of energy and judgment in conducting the war, and he was succeeded by Lieutenant-General Cathcart. Kreli was again attacked and reduced to submission. The Amatolas were finally cleared of the Kaffirs, and small forts erected among them to prevent their reoccupation.
The British commanders were hampered throughout by the insufficiency of their forces, and it was not until March 1853 that this most sanguinary of Kaffir wars was brought to a conclusion, after a loss of many hundred British soldiers. Shortly afterwards, British Kaifraria was made a crown colony. The Hottentot settlement at Kat river remained, but the Hottentot power within the colony was now finally crushed.
From 1853 the Kaffir tribes on the east gave little trouble to the colony. This was due, in large measure, to an extraordinary delusion which arose among the Amaxosa[?] in 1856, and led in 1857 to the death of some 50,000 persons. This incident is one of the most remarkable instances of misplaced faith recorded in history. The Amaxosa had not accepted their defeat in 1853 as decisive and were preparing to renew the struggle with the white men. At this juncture, May 1856, a girl named Nongkwase told her father that on going to draw water from a stream she had met strangers of commanding aspect. The father, Mblakza, went to see the men, who told him that they were spirits of the dead, who had come, if their behests were obeyed, to aid the Kaffirs with their invincible power to drive the white man from the land. Mhlakza repeated the message to his chief, Sarili[?], one of the most powerful Kaffir rulers. Sarili ordered the commands of the spirits to be obeyed. These orders were, at first, that the Amaxosa were to destroy their fat cattle. The girl Nongkwase, standing in the river where the spirits had first appeared, heard unearthly noises, interpreted by her father as orders to kill more and more cattle. At length the spirits commanded that not an animal of all their herds was to remain alive, and every grain of corn was to be destroyed. If that were done, on a given date, myriads of cattle more beautiful than those destroyed would issue from the earth, while great fields of corn, ripe and ready for harvest, would instantly appear. The dead would rise, trouble and sickness vanish, and youth and beauty come to all alike. Unbelievers and the hated white man would on that day utterly perish.
The people heard and obeyed. Sarili is believed by many persons to have been the instigator of the prophecies. Certainly some of the principal chiefs regarded all that was done simply as the preparation for a last struggle with the whites, their plan being to throw the whole Amaxosa nation fully armed and in a famishing condition upon the colony.
There were those who neither believed the predictions nor looked for success in war, but destroyed their last particle of food in unquestioning obedience to their chiefs command. Either in faith that reached the sublime, or in obedience equally great, vast numbers of the people acted. Great kraals[?] were also prepared for the promised cattle, and huge skin sacks to hold the milk that was soon to be more plentiful than water. At length the day dawned which, according to the prophecies, was to usher in the terrestrial paradise. The sun rose and sank, but the expected miracle did not come to pass. The chiefs who had planned to hurl the famished warrior host upon the colony had committed an incredible blunder in neglecting to call the nation together under pretext of witnessing the resurrection. This error they realized too late, and endeavoured by fixing the resurrection for another day to gather the clans, but blank despair had taken the place of hope and faith, and it was only as starving suppliants that the Amaxosa sought the British.
The colonists did what they could to save life, but thousands perished miserably. In their extremity many of the Kaffirs turned to cannibalism, and one instance of parents eating their own child is authenticated. Among the survivors was the girl Nongkwase; her father perished. A vivid narrative of the whole incident will be found in G. M. Theals History and Geography of South Africa (3rd edition, London, 1878), from which this account is condensed. The country depopulated as the result of this delusion was afterwards peopled by European settlers, among whom were members of the German legion which had served with the British army in the Crimea, and some, 2000 industrious North German emigrants, who proved a valuable acquisition to the colony.
Sir George Greys Governorship
In 1854 Sir George Grey[?] became governor of the Cape, and the colony owed much to his administration. The policy, imposed by the home government, of abandoning responsibility beyond the Orange river, was, he perceived, a mistaken one, and the scheme he prepared in 1858 for a confederation of all South Africa was rejected by Great Britain. By his energetic action, however, in support of the missionaries Moffat and Livingstone[?], Sir George kept open for the British the road through Bechuanaland to the far interior. To Sir George was also due the first attempt, missionary effort apart, to educate the Kaffirs and to establish British authority firmly among them, a result which the self-destruction of the Amaxosa rendered easy. Beyond the Kei the natives were left to their own devices.
Sir George Grey left the Cape in 1861. During his governorship the resources of the colony had been increased by the opening up of the copper mines in Little Namaqualand[?], the mohair wool industry had been established and Natal made a separate colony. The opening, in November 1863, of the railway from Cape Town to Wellington, begun in 1859, and the construction in 1860 of the great breakwater in Table Bay, long needed on that perilous coast, marked the beginning in the colony of public works on a large scale. They were the more-or-less direct result of the granting to the colony of a large share in its own government.
In 1865 the province of British Kaifraria was incorporated with the colony, under the title of the Electoral Divisions of King Williams Town and East London[?]. The transfer was marked by the removal of the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquor to the natives, and the free trade in intoxicants which followed had most deplorable results among the Kaffir tribes. A severe drought, affecting almost the entire colony for several years, caused great economic depression, and many farmers suffered severely. It was at this period (1869) that ostrich-farming was successfully established as a separate industry.
Whether by or against the wish of the home government, the limits of British authority continued to extend. The Basutos[?], who dwelt in the upper valleys of the Orange river, had subsisted under a semi-protectorate of the British government from 1843 to 1854; but having been left to their own resources on the abandonment of the Orange sovereignty, they fell into a long exhaustive warfare with the Boers of the Orange Free State. On the urgent petition of their chief Moshesh[?], they were proclaimed British subjects in 1868, and their territory became part of the Cape Colony in 1871 (see Basutoland). In the same year the southeastern part of Bechuanaland was annexed to Great Britain under the title of Griqualand West. This annexation was a consequence of the discovery there of rich diamond mines, an event which was destined to have far-reaching results.
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It has been a while since the last blog post, and I surely didn't do enough of a good job keeping up with the blog updates :(. Holiday season is crazily busy for most of us, holiday shopping, holiday baking, family members visiting, etc.
Good thing for me, that me and my family has never been big on Christmas gifts, it was never a tradition for us to exchange gifts, but I did try to at least bake some Christmas goodies to give for friends. Last year, it was extremely last minute, I baked some stuff the night before the last day of work to distribute to some coworkers. Then, I promised myself to plan better next year (which is this year) and bake lots of different goodies, I've already had a list of what I want to make and believe me, there are tons and they're all sounds so good! Now that "next year" is finally here, here I am being in the same situation as last year, if not worse. It's only days before Christmas and here I am typing a small part of this draft post on Sunday at work in between firmware builds, so sad I know.
It doesn't feel like too long ago I made this bridal shower cake, and now they're husband and wife!
When M asked me if I would be willing to make her wedding cake (and favor later on), I immediately said yes. Not because it's a challenge (this would be my second time), but how can I say no when it's your good friend who's getting married? This is the least thing I can do to show how happy and excited I am about their marriage.
- I don't have to worry about transporting four-tiered cake to the reception
- No need to worry about refrigeration or the cake being unrefrigerated for hours
- You can be creative about the decor as it is more sturdy (although in my case, it's just a simple decor)
- The last reason which is the most important one for me is that you can be creative with the actual wedding cake and you don't have to be limited to buttercream cake!
The display cake is very simple-decorated, I'm very fortunate that M is a very laid-back person, she's not picky, she's basically ok with everything as long as it won't add more work on my plate. She picked a design based on a magazine we saw and I think it was pretty easy to execute, I just have to match the color and add some flowers to match the theme of the wedding. She didn't request anything for the cake and favors (except for the budget of course), but she left all the flavors, and every single detail up to me, which makes it easier on my end. The hardest part was to constraint every single expense so that it would fall under the budget (or at least close). I wouldn't have so many problems if it's just a buttercream cake but since I wanted a nice (and complicated) cake, most of the ingredients are special-orderred, so it was quite a challenge.
I learned quite a number of things in this experience, one of them is that making cake for large portion is very different than making a small one. I converted each ingredients needed but the result was different for some reason. I was so scared that the taste would get impacted and that it wouldn't taste as good as I wanted to be, but my worries didn't come true. Yes, it tasted different than the small version I usually make and I hoped that it would be better, but as soon as I got a lot of people going to the kitchen asking for seconds, I could start breathing peacefully :). I even heard that some people are going around the tables after the reception to find more unopened favor (the macaron), yay! Mission accomplished!
We had a thunderstorm and a VERY COLD weather that day. We even had a blackout for about an hour in the middle of reception! Yeah, it was unprepared and pretty hectic at first, but I think it made the whole wedding memorable and quite casual as candles were lit everywhere, making it very romantic. The songs that some of the guests were singing had to be improvised to acapella too and they sounded great! Not to mention that M looked absolutely beautiful, she looked gorgeous! Jefry has got to be one of the luckiest men.
I don't have too many pictures of this as I didn't snap a thing during the reception and the cake-in-the-making, but I'm glad that at least I have something to show you in this post :). Won't show too many of the wedding pictures since they haven't been published yet :)


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An Alaska woman who finished second in last year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race grabbed the lead in the 1,000-mile race Saturday evening.
Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers was the first musher out of the checkpoint at Kaltag, which is about 346 miles from the finish. The front-runners are expected to reach the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome on Alaska's western coast early next week.
Teams have been traveling in deep snow followed by deep overflows in a trail on the Yukon River deteriorated by above-freezing temperatures. Some stretches also were marked by glare ice.
Zirkle, 43, took the lead from four-time champion Martin Buser, who was the first out of the previous checkpoint at Eagle Island early Saturday. The 54-year-old veteran from Big Lake, Alaska, dropped two dogs at Eagle Island.
Buser is hoping to be only the second musher to ever claim a fifth title in the race's 40-year-history. He was the first to reach Kaltag, arriving with 11 dogs at 2:24 p.m. Saturday.
Zirkle left Eagle Island more than three hours after Buser. Former Iditarod racer Sebastian Schnuelle said her team traveled faster for much of the day and she came within several miles of Buser before stopping her team to rest eight miles before Kaltag.
Schnuelle, who is traveling along the trail and keeping a blog on the Iditarod website, said he encountered Zirkle when he reached her by snowmobile.
"Her dogs had just finished a meal," he wrote. "When talking to her, she told me she did not want to run longer than 8 hrs, that is why she camped."
Heading into Kaltag, teams chasing Buser were traveling at faster speeds than his dogs, a possible indicator that his dogs needed a longer period of rest in Kaltag.
Buser tried a strategy early in the race that had many competitors shaking their heads, but he was hoping it would pay off by letting him get to Nome first. On the second day of the competitive portion of the race, Buser took his mandatory 24-hour rest at the checkpoint in Rohn after a blistering fast 170-mile run that had put him hours ahead of the other teams.
Since then, all the teams have taken their 24-hour rest.
Buser said he couldn't worry about the performance of others because he had no control over that.
"You got to just run it to the best of your abilities, not what other people are doing," he said Thursday in an Iditarod.com video. "It really just comes down to you and your dog team."
All mushers must take a second eight-hour layover at the checkpoint at White Mountain, 77 miles from Nome.
The first musher to reach Nome will win $50,400 and a new 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck. The rest of the $600,000 purse will be split between the next 29 mushers to cross the finish line.
The race began with 66 teams at a ceremonial start in Anchorage March 2. The competitive start began Sunday in Willow. Five mushers have scratched, the latest being Chugiak veteran Michael Suprenant. Race officials said Suprenant scratched Saturday out of concern for his 12-dog team at the ghost town checkpoint of Iditarod.
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By Father Scott M. Lewis, SJ
Special to Catholic News Service
After the supper (described in the Gospel of John, chapters 13-17), Jesus gives a long farewell discourse reminiscent of the sort of teachings that great philosophers and religious figures were expected to give to their followers prior to their departure from this world. It represents a sort of last will and testament.
Many of the verses are repeated several times and the discourse is rather circular. It probably is a compilation of many of the things that Jesus had said at various times in his ministry. Jesus tells them that in the Father's house there are many dwelling places and he is going to prepare a place for them (14:2). But they are puzzled and can't understand where he is going and how they can follow even though he insists that they know the way.
Finally, he must spell it out for his rather slow-witted disciples: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through me" (14:6).
How are we to interpret this? For so long it was thought that one must be a card-carrying Christian in good standing in order to be "saved" and be with God. And we must remember that John would have raised the bar even higher: one must be a member of his particular brand of Christianity. But we must not confuse what Jesus is saying about himself with institutional Christianity.
The "way" is the term given to the earliest Christian communities. It simply means the path — the spiritual path — that leads to God. We saw earlier that when Jesus is portrayed as the "truth" it has nothing to do with doctrine. Jesus simply knows and reveals God as God really is: love and light, in whom there is no darkness or violence. He is the "life" in that he imparts the life-giving spirit of God to all those who open their hearts and minds to him.
Jesus is the divine pattern for what it means to be authentically human and divine. Those wishing to reach God must conform to this pattern regardless of who they are or what label is attached to them. This pattern is love, humble service, and openness to the transcendent and holy. An astounding promise is made in verses 12-14: the believer will do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones!
If this is true, then it seems that we have missed something. Often we are too literal in our interpretation of the Gospel, others times not literal enough. This instance belongs to the latter. This spiritual empowerment — already indicated in the prologue (1:12-13) — is possible because Jesus shares all that he is and has with his disciples through the gift of the spirit.
But there is an important proviso: disciples must "abide" in Jesus. Abide (menein) appears 10 times in the image of the vine in chapter 15. This image of the vine is similar to that of the body of Christ in 1 Cor 12:12-27; Col 1:18; and Eph 1:22-23. The image indicates that we are totally dependent on Christ for our spiritual power and sustenance. Once cut off from him we wither and die, although we may not realize it immediately. We can even continue to go through the motions of religious practice. One abides in Christ by means of love. Verses 12, 15, 21, and 23 spell it out: If you love me (conditional) you will keep my commandments. It is then that Jesus and the Father will take up residence in the believer's heart and soul. It describes a mystical union that is a way of life rather than an experience of a few key moments.
Love is the way in which God is known as well as an empowering principle. Love — abiding in Jesus — also transforms human relationships with God. The divine friendship to which Jesus invites his followers means that nothing is hidden and that there is an easy familiarity with the Lord. Being a servant of the Lord is great, but being the Lord's friend is far better. Which are we?


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The nagging question of how ab-sessed Taylor Lautner's "Stretch Armstrong" action character is going to be is finally being answered.
Screenwriter Nick Stoller says the "Twilight" stud will not even be given a shirt when he plays the action hero part based on the famously ripped -- and shirtless -- Hasbro toy.
"Wardrobe is actually not going to supply him with a shirt," Stoller jokes with PopcornBiz. "There's not going to be a shirt option."
As a bonus, Stoller even says that Lautner will be even more ripped in the movie thanks to the magic of special effects.
"Most of the visual effects money is going into adding even more abs," he laughs. "It's actually going to be a little gross."
Okay, perhaps slight exaggerations there. But you get the idea that we'll see plenty of Lautner shirtless in the movie due to shoot in the spring for a 2012 release.
Stoller is coming off the giddy success of writing and directing "Get Him to the Greek" which comes out on Blu-Ray and DVD on Sept. 28. He is focusing on other projects such as "Stretch," which will be directed by Rob Letterman.
As far as a story to go along with the toy, Stoller says the filmmakers have "created a whole mythology" which will have a "light tone."
"It's' definitely going to be more 'Iron Man' than 'Dark Knight,' " he says. "It's a little bit outside my genre. It's not really a comedy. It's an action super hero movie."
He recently met with Lautner to discuss the part, but never got to see the famous abs during the meeting.
"I was trying to figure out how I could trick him into showing me (the six-pack)," Stoller says. "I was like, 'What kind of shirt is that, do you mind if I try it on?"
"He didn't bite."
"Stretch Armstrong" Scribe Promises Shirtless Taylor Lautner
The nagging question of how ab-sessed Taylor Lautner's "Stretch Armstrong" action character is going to be is finally being answered.


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|View Poll Results: Which book will scare the wits out of us in October?
|Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu
|Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
|The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
|The Complete Complete Ghost Stories by M.R. James
|Carrie by Stephen King
|Grave Robbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) by Jeff Strand
|The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
|The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
|We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
|Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
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Help us choose a book as the October 2012 eBook for the Mobile Read Book Club. The poll will be open for 4 days, followed by a 3 day run-off poll between the two* most popular choices. The vote this month will be hidden.
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Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Mobi
Here's a description by an Amazon user:
"I live in your warm life and you shall die -die, sweetly die- into mine."
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" is among the greatest and most influential horror stories ever told. It's a wonder that it hasn't received the mainstream acclaim and notoriety of Bram Stoker's masterpiece Dracula. The tale of a female vampire insinuating herself into a family's midst as a welcomed guest while preying upon their daughter is as timeless as any. I know what you're thinking: she's just a female version of Dracula, right? Well here's the thing about that: Carmilla was published in 1872 and predated her much more famous brother in undeath by a good 25 years. Stoker himself acknowledged the story as a primary influence on his work. So it is Dracula who owes his very existence to the queen vamp. And to this day, the novella remains a compelling read with it's deliberate pacing, first-person narration (also not unlike "Dracula"), and creative subtle horror.
One of my favorite aspects of vampire mythology is the predator who walks among us and feeds upon us in our sleep. Carmilla is the best example of this. The character devises a strategy which allows her to enter the homes of well-to-do families as an invited and welcomed guest due to circumstances which appear to be beyond her control. Using her wit beauty and charm, she becomes as a member of the family and is able to cover her tracks by playing the weak and helpless frightened little girl with odd habits which are easy to overlook. Then she slowly drains her victim night after night, savoring each feeding as one would a sexual affair while supplementing her appetite with the blood of village girls before resting in her grave and returning to her locked room before anyone is aware she has gone. Carmilla's apparent passion for her preferred victims is More then a little lesbian in it's insinuations. She intentionally seeks out beautiful young girls like her and throws herself into a deep and intimate friendship with an intensity that often alarms the object of her affection. While there is no blatant sexual inference made by the author, the innuendo is unmistakable. After all, these sorts of vampire stories are often meant to be somewhat sensual in nature and for their time were about as close as one could get to sexualized material. It's hard to picture somebody wrapping their mouth around your neck without feeling a little twinge of something at the thought. And with two women (or men) involved it's downright scandalous.
While female vampires are typically portrayed as oversexed and domineering, Carmilla stands out as a character whose greatest strength is as an active and vivacious conversationalist and a very girlish intelligent but creature capable of thinking on her feet and beating her prey to the punch. In one rather impressive passage Carmilla is greeted by a girl whom she visited and attempted to prey upon as a young child, she very quickly realizes the danger of recognition and turns the subject around by claiming happily that she once had a dream as a young girl where the same situation unfolded. This places the pressure on the victim, makes the predator seem as innocent as the prey, and gives a rather romantic and adventurous token of a shared dream between the girls to make it seem as though they were destined to meet. This is just brilliant writing. A vampire whose key attribute is her intelligence is a rare thing these days. And while I'm on the subject, the only thing more terrifying then being visited in the night as a child by a girl who vanished when the room was breached would be encountering that exact same girl -completely unchanged- as an adult. Creepy. Another fascinating little twist is that vampires in this story are only able to give their true name or else an anagrammatical pseudonym. Thus Carmilla is known by different names to different people, but all are derived from the same letters. Mircalla was her birth (and death) name, and Marcilla another alias. This is another aspect of the story that has influenced vampire lore to this day. You may be surprised at how many vampire names you read and hear are anagrams once you are aware of this.
To my knowledge, Le Fanu's masterpiece has yet to be fully captured in another medium, but the character has become a standard of vampire mythology regardless. My favorite of the many adaptations is Hammer Studio's The Vampire Lovers, where the story was highly sexualized and the character was transformed into a more intimidating and aggressive figure. It's a loose adaptation, but it's also the best. Two inferior sequels followed. An even looser adaption was Spanish grindhouse classic The Blood Spattered Bride which transformed the story into an exploitative battle of the sexes with mixed results. Carmilla has also been featured in comic books video games and anime, referenced on television, and has inspired unofficial literary and film sequels to her story. Not too shabby for a character only classic horror buffs recognize. But as with all great literary works, nothing ever fully captures the mood and grace of the story in it's purest form.
"Carmilla" is a rare tale of a vampire capable of making anybody love her, but a slave to her own obsessions. Such pleasure she takes from befriending her victims and becoming part of their lives
that she doesn't even seem to care that such habits repeated over multiple households in the same vicinity will inevitably lead to her demise. Perhaps she is just bored and starved for attention and human interaction. Her true motives for her unusual habits are never revealed; simply left to the reader to decide for themself. And while it may have been overshadowed by higher-profile contributions to the genre that were themselves inspired by this work, "Carmilla" stands tall as one of the giants among the many works of vampire fiction well over 130 years after it was published. It is available both as a stand-alone novella and as part of many short story collections including The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories, which no vampire fanatic can live without. However you get it, if you claim to be a follower of the undead you must possess this story.
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
Description: A novel that will delight fans of both Stephen King and Mark Twain . . . darkly romantic, chilling and rousing by turns . . . a thundering success.Roger Zelazny An adventure into the heart of darkness that transcends even the most inventive vampire novels . . . Fevre Dream runs red with original, high adventure. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Stands alongside Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire as a revolutionary work. Rocky Mountain News Engaging and meaningful. The Washington Post Book World From the Paperback edition. When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects somethings amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesnt care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marshs dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he wont earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marshs concernno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down Yorks offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolvecoupled with the terrible force of Yorks mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankinds most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampires quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous rivermans dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. From the Trade Paperback edition. (from Amazon.com)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: BBeB/LRF Books / IMP Books / Mobi / ePub (ePub is in Complete Works version)
issybird's description: One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have been able to do a complete feeling of dread and uncertainty.
Patricia's description: First published in 1898. A governess has sole responsibility for two children. Strange things happen and an atmosphere of menace builds up. Either this is a ghost story or the governess is mad. Decide for yourself.
The Complete Complete Ghost Stories by M.R. James
The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Mobi
fantasyfan's description: He was a great--perhaps the greatest--master of the macabre. His stories have been described in a review from The New Yorker as follows:
"If M. R. James is remembered now, and honored beyond the bounds of his university, it is not because of his scholarly deeds but precisely because of his talent for applying the very highest calibre of jolt. All of his stories have now been freshly gathered in Collected Ghost Stories (Oxford), edited by Darryl Jones. We also get a compendium of Jamess reflections on the art that he practiced. Our response to ghost stories, Virginia Woolf argued, is a refined and spiritualized essence of fear. Most of Jamess heroes are like James. Dons, obsessive bibliophiles, and bachelors. James summons unholy terror from the very texts and objects that concern him. Not for him the mad gothic landscape. The stories were written, so to speak, in front of a mirror, by a man hoping to drown the tiny, shivering thrills of the chronic bookworm with the low snarl of a more universal emotion, that of dread. Despite the titles of Jamess books, only rarely does he deal in the mere emanation. What he fears most is surface contact. What truly provoked him, and what filtered into his stories, was not so much misogyny as a more basic, mortal panic at gazing into the face of the unknown. . . . A.E. Housman used poetry to touch on loves that he had lost or never dared to enact; M. R. James used ghost stories to explore fears of which he could not otherwise speak."
I would agree with that assessment but would add that I am reminded very much of the inner psychological horror of Sheridan Le Fanu--but without the Gothic context of the Irish writer.
Carrie by Stephen King
Description: Why read Carrie ? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel as if we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well, if not better, on the page as it does on the screen. Carrie White, bullied by cruel teenagers at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine. News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th." Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake "Eerie and haunting sheer terror!" -- Publishers Weekly "Gory and horrifying ...you can't put it down." -- Chicago Tribune "Guaranteed to chill you." -- The New York Times (from Amazon.com)
Grave Robbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) by Jeff Strand
Description: If you're desperate for money, searching for a little adventure, and aren't the most responsible person in the world, you can end up doing some outrageous things. Which is how Andrew Mayhem, an extremely married father of two, ends up accepting $20,000 to find a key...a key buried with a body in a shallow grave. When the body turns out to not only be still alive, but armed and dangerous, he realizes that he should have held out for more money. His simple evening of morally questionable manual labor becomes a bizarre game of wits and courage played with an unseen killer with a twisted sense of humor. It's a game that will bring him to a group of filmmakers known as Ghoulish Delights, who are hiding a secret that will test every last bit of Andrew's nerve to discover. And it's impossible to find a babysitter. (from CyberRead)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Kobo / Amazon UK (This title is not available for customers from: United States)
Book Description:
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. (from Amazon)
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Description: A brilliantly original thriller, a love story, a witty treatise on male (and female) urges, even an existential musing on what it is to be human. Get one for yourself and one for the Twilight fan in your life. James Medd, The Word (UK) Space should be cleared for this violent, sexy thriller . . . The answer to Twilight that adults have been waiting for. Courtney Jones, Booklist Yes, there are vampires here . . . But dont give this book to Twilight groupies; the frank tone, dark wit, and elegant, sophisticated language will likely do them in. . . . smart, original, and completely absorbing. Highly recommended. *Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (Starred review) The best books are blurb defying; they're far too potent for a flimsy net of adjectives ever to capture them. I could say that The Last Werewolf is smart, thrilling, funny, moving, beautifully written, and a joy to read, and this would all be true. But it would also be a woeful understatement of what Glen Duncan has accomplished with his extraordinary novel. The only useful thing I can offer you is a simple admonishment. Stop reading my words, and start reading his. Trust me: youll be happy you did. Scott Smith, author of The Ruins A magnificent novel. A brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own. Nick Cave From the Hardcover edition. Then she opened her mouth to screamand recognised me. It was what Id been waiting for. She froze. She looked into my eyes. She said, Its you. Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but youd never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for youand a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely. Jakes depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicideeven if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive. Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legendmesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first centurya man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human. One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years. From the Hardcover edition. (from [/B]Amazon.com[B])
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Description: This masterfully crafted horror classic, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons, will bring you to the edge of your seat, hair standing on end and blood freezing in your veins It's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys' days are marked by all of the secrets and silences of an idyllic middle-childhood. But amid the sundrenched cornfields their loyalty will be pitilessly tested. When a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the townsfolk know it marks the end of their carefree days. From the depths of the Old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisible evil is rising. Strange and horrifying events begin to overtake everyday life, spreading terror through the once idyllic town. Determined to exorcize this ancient plague, Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a war of blood against an arcane abomination who owns the night... (from Kobo)
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I would have voted for Fevre Dream if I hadn't already ready it. A great read. I haven't even voted for my own nomination, either, as it won't stand a chance given that the ebook only seems to be available in the UK. There are quite a few of the others I am interested in, so let the chips fall where they may...
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I don't mind reading pbooks and Wasp Factory was on my list of possibles, but if everyone's abandoning ship, I'll eliminate it. That leaves the three public domain options (Le Fanu, Henry James and M.R. James) and Shirley Jackson; I'd be delighted with any of them. So if there's a consensus out there, please clue me in!
As an aside, having read the five Ice and Fire books, I'll never read a word by GRRM again. The last two books were dreadful, but momentum carried me through. As for Carrie, time would be better spent watching the excellent movie. The book isn't very good.
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This month's choices all appear to be winners. It's Fall,I am back at home; time for me to get back on track with the MR Book Club. I am most interested in Fevre Dream and the Last Werewolf, but most of the other choices look good as well.
I cant't wait to see what the final choice will be.
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Grave robbers wanted is the only one that sparks my interest.
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Grave Robbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) is hilarious and disturbing all at the same time. It's one of those books that instantly turns you into a fan of the author and makes you go out in search of his other works.
Sadly, the blurb does not do the book justice, but even if it doesn't win I highly recommend that you folks check it out.
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So many... It's hard to pick one, but I think I'll go with Carmilla.
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This is really tough. Format C beat me to nominating LeFanu's Carmilla which is brilliant and I find James equally powerful in his conception of horror. Perhaps Carmilla would be better for discussion purposes than a series of short stories--fine though they may be.
So I'll go for Carmilla.
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Although I nominated The Last Werewolf, I voted for Carmilla because until this vote I'd never heard of it (shame on me).
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Carmilla it is, then, although I regret not being able to vote for Jackson, too.
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I voted for Carmilla too. I like the reviews that describe it as creepy. I like being creeped out.
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The run-off poll is now up. Your choice is between Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu or Grave Robbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) by Jeff Strand.
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Thanks. This one caught my eye and I wondered if it was good. It sounds like it could go either way--bit morbid and maybe even too scary for me. But ... interesting. I don't know if it's temporarily on sale or what, but when I checked Amz, it was only 2.99, which makes it even MORE enticing for me.
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I'm reading it now and enjoying it very much, though I plan to read Carmilla as well.
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Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russian: Нижегоро́дская о́бласть nee-zhyh-gah-ROHT-skuh-yuh OH-bluhst') is a region in the Upper Volga, bordering Ryazan Oblast to the southwest, Vladimir Oblast to the west, Ivanovo Oblast to the northwest, Kostroma Oblast to the north, Kirov Oblast to the northeast, Mari El to the east, Chuvashia to the southeast, and Mordovia to the south.
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Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is one of the most populous and economically important regions of the Volga Region, centered on its capital Nizhny Novgorod. Aside from the capital itself, the region is perhaps best known outside of Russia for its tradition of making painted, wooden matryoshka dolls. Less known, perhaps, are Khokhloma[1] handicraft.
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The city of Nizhny Novgorod is one of the first major stops from Moscow on one of the main routes of the Trans-Siberian Railway (8 hour trip). Several trains form Moscow terminate in Nizhny Novgorod (two overnight trains and one or two faster day trains). Many others continue beyond, to Kirov, Perm, Yekaterinburg, and points east, up to Vladivostok and Beijing. Some of these trains also stop at a number of other stations as they cross the oblast, e.g. Dzerzhinsk before reaching the Nizhny, or Semenov beyond it. These trains usually leave from Moscow's Kursk Station or Yaroslavl Station.
There is also a direct daily train to Nizhny Novgorod from Saint Petersburg, and, at least during the summer seasons, from a number of destinations on the Black Sea shore, such as Adler (for Sochi). Trains from Nizhny Novgorod also travel south, to/from Saransk (Mordovia) and Kazan (via the Kanash junction in Chuvashia.
Some cities in southern part of the oblast (Navashino, Arzamas, Sergach) are easily reachable by trains running on another route (Moscow-Kazan) of the Trans-Siberian system. They leave from Moscow's Kazan Station.
Nizhny Novgorod's small and idiosyncratic airport has expensive direct flights to/from Frankfort on Lufthansa, as well as far cheaper domestic flights from major Russian cities—the flight from Moscow is as cheap as $35. Kaliningrad based KD Avia offers flights to Kaliningrad and then on to a number of Russian and international destinations.
Nizhny Novgorod is frequently included as a stop on summer boat cruises on the Volga River.
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The main train station in Nizhny Novgorod is the Moscow Station (Московский Вокзал), located in the Lower City (Zarechnaya Chast, i.e. across the Oka River from the old city center). Besides serving all of the long-distance trains, it is also sends commuter trains in 6 directions throughout much of the oblast:
Naturally, if you are going to a more remote city in the oblast (e.g. Arzamas or Lukoyanov in the south-east) can also buy a ticket for a long-distance train that passes through it.
There is also a little known terminal station of Myza, near Gagarin Avenue in the Upper City of Nizhny Novgorod (i.e., east of the Oka). Inconveniently located several miles south of the city center, it only sends a few trains a day to the Metallist branch and to the Zeletsino branch (south-east), for Kstovo.
There is no rail line due east of Nizhny Novgorod. Instead, one can take a bus along the M7 highway (the Kazan highway). Commuter buses for Kstovo and other destinations nearby go from the Sennaya bus station a few blocks east of Sennaya Square; to go further east, take a bus from the Main Bus Station (Avtovokzal) near Lyadov Square.
One can also take a bus from the Main Bus Station to various points throughout the southern half of the oblast, e.g. Arzamas.
In the summer, hydrofoil boats (colloquially known as Raketa, after the first model of them) run from Nizhny Novgorod's River Terminal (Rechnoy Vokzal) down the Volga, to Rabotki, Makaryevo, and beyond.
Ferryboats from downtown Nizhny Novgorod run to Bor across the river.
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Yes, sometimes things echo. It happens with politics. It happens with sports. It happens with holidays. It happens when there is a vast collecting point for the consciousness of hundreds, thousands or millions.
And often it�s the singularly horrifying things that echo the very most.
It happened Friday morning in Connecticut at a quiet elementary school by the quaint name of Sandy Hook in a place called Newtown. It�s where someone unbalanced beyond any comprehension at all massacred 26 people, including 20 children who were the very definition of innocent. In all, 28 people were killed, including the gunman and his mother.
By nightfall the echoes of a wounded nation created an impromptu chorus on social media, cable TV and internet chat rooms. It�s what we do in America today: Comment in the moment. Thousands mourned and offered prayers. Equal numbers expressed grief in other ways. Many turned it into a poorly timed political debate. But it soon became obvious to me where the national wound needed the most healing, if that�s even possible.
I struggled with what to say in response, again, because it�s what we do in America today. I harnessed my thoughts then posted this Friday night on social media.
�I�m not a parent and I never pretend to be one. I have no idea what it�s like to see a 10-year-old son clocked on a football field or what it�s like to send a daughter to a sleepover at the house of someone I hardly know. I have no clue what�s the right thing or the wrong thing for kids to eat or how to make physical or emotional hurt go away when those things inevitably arrive. No, I have no idea what it�s like to be a parent in the world as it is today � or any other time in recorded history. But I do know this, I don�t envy parents tonight as they consider the events of the last 12 hours. Peace be with you my friends.�
The responses I received in return were compelling. I�m going to let them speak now.
�You expressed my feelings exactly. I�m not a parent either, but I watched my fianc�e, who is a parent, sit down in the bathroom and just cry deeply, for a long time, when I told her the news today. She knew and felt something I simply don�t have experience with. I feel anger and sadness; she seemed to be experiencing a deeply profound hurt, an empathy and fear that I can only imagine.�
�As a father of two kids who will start entering kindergarten in three years, this scares the hell out of me. It angers me. And when I heard the news, the tears just started rolling. The idea of anyone killing, or even seriously wounding, my kids fills me with too many emotions to describe. They�re so trusting and happy and funny and unscarred by life. I�ll bet the parents in Newtown felt much the same way about their kids. Those folks are living my worst nightmare, and I feel terrible for them.�
�My son is 20. My daughter is 18. I sent them texts today to tell them I loved them. That�s part of being a parent. They can be 2 or they can be 22. The love never leaves. I can only hope those families in Newtown get all the help they need. I cannot imagine the depth of their grief.�
�I can tell you about one hard-nosed editor who went home after school today to hug his little girls. I still ache and want to cry.�
�I told my 2 daughters tonight how very much I love them, and that they are safe, that 99 percent of people are good. Horrible things happen and, unfortunately, we have to cope. I ache and have cried for the parents today ... just not sure if any good can come out of this ...�
�I too thought a lot about my two boys, one a freshmen in college and the other a senior in high school. All I could think about was their young faces when they were so innocent and young at the age these poor children were today. I had a deep pit in my stomach as I tried to figure out why someone would even consider doing something like this to those so innocent. It�s unfathomable. One doesn�t have to be a parent to feel deep sorrow in a time like this. It does hit home for those of us who are even more so.�
�I'm not going to tell you it doesn't make a difference after becoming a parent but I am going through some feelings I've never felt before � as much as you want to be in control you are so helpless in so many aspects of your children's lives � as a law enforcement officer for 30 years now I have seen such unbelievable acts against others but this has hit me as hard as anything I've heard of � thank you for thoughts for all parents but all need prayers and love to heal from this terrible event � I have chosen to love and appreciate my family as much as possible to stand against such acts of violence may peace go with us all.�
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Salve via GatheringA Cenarion beacon allows a seasoned herbalist to spot insidious fel creep - a malfeasant product of Felwood's corruption. My work here has taught me the knowledge of purifying fel creep into a cleansing reagent... used in what we now refer to as Cenarion plant salve.
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I was going to do a whole, portentous This Was The Year That number. I was going to talk of losing my dog and gaining my mare, of the unexpected love for Mr Stanley, of missing my dad; all boilerplate end of year emotional manipulation, in other words.
But bugger that for a game of soldiers. I've just got back from reeling practice and I've got to wrangle my hair and put my eyeshadow on. We are actually having a party. We never have parties, and certainly never reeling parties. But tonight we shall be doing the 51st, Aberdonian style. (Look it up; it has the most moving genesis of any Scottish dance.)
I shall not, you will be glad to hear, be wearing a big pouffy dress and a tartan sash. I'm going for a draped, faintly 1942-ish black and white number, and a lot of fire engine red lipstick. And possibly kinky boots.
I hope that, wherever you are, you have a properly happy New Year's Eve. I hope you drink too much and make rash statements and grandiose gestures and bad jokes. I hope you are merry and blithe. You are a bloody wonderful bunch of Dear Readers, and I could not be without you.
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