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Debra winced hard as if her skin had been pierced by a deep dull needle…right through her heart. She had sworn over and over that she wouldn't do it. But here she was, again caught in a web of self-induced seduction driven by greed and fear. "Why is it so hard?" she thought as she looked at the mockery that just a few moments ago had represented her trade. She had input a limit order to buy 3 contracts of the NQ as the price action was about to hit a demand level on the 60 minute chart. She had meticulously determined from her daily and weekly charts that a significant support and demand zone was about to be retested. The lines had been drawn and her plan; as it usually did, outlined in precise terms her entry, rationale, targets and scale points. Actually, the plan was flawless as evidenced by the fact that the price action did exactly as she had foreseen. And, if she had not exited the trade prematurely the market would have proven the plan to be correct. But, alas, she became more and more frightened as the price action breathed till it became unbearable whereby she gave into the pressure and exited the trade for a miniscule profit only to watch it take off like a towering green roman candle rising from her exit. In this instance like so many times before she had let herself down; and, she felt stupid, depressed and desperate to know how to stop this madness.
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Did you know that not only can you make your own gluten-free playdough but that it is simple to do, and easy to dye with a couple of tea bags? The beautiful pink playdough in the picture above was made with a raspberry tea! As usual, a homemade and natural substitute to store-bought can easily be made at home.
I always liked playing with the stuff sold as Play-Doh as a child, but even then the smell was strange to me. I suppose it's the preservatives. So I especially liked it when my mom made homemade play dough for me, which smelled simply like salted dough, and was soft and easy to play with.
I continue that tradition and sometimes make homemade playdough for my girls too. My oldest is still young enough to enjoy it (she's almost 6), while my youngest (at almost 2) is just getting to the age of really being able to participate fully in playdough fun. All to say, my girls really enjoyed their afternoon of playdough.
Whether you are a homeschool mother, a childcare provider, nanny, or have young children at home with the bigger kids at school, it is nice to have an activity like playdough for the young ones.
As far as coloring goes, if you are looking for natural dyes, India Tree has an excellent, but expensive dye set. I used what I had on hand. I used a chlorophyll supplement for green and raspberry tea bags for pink — both a success. But I am thinking that you could use a wide variety of things to dye the dough, if you like: Turmeric for yellow, green tea for green, rooibos tea for brown, etc. I'd love to hear your ideas! The important thing when using tea to dye your playdough is making a strong and dark brew.
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How can a calculator save energy? The right kind of calculator can provide a rational basis for deciding which conservation measures are good investments for a particular building. Builders and consumers alike need a credible source of unbiased, reliable information, so Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a collection of Web-based energyefficiency calculators for buildings (www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls). Roof Radiation Control Calculator The Roof Radiation Control Calculator estimates the annual cost savings from installing radiation control on a low-slope roof.The calculator uses several variables. Solar reflectance determines how much solar energy the roof will reflect, and infrared emittance determines how much thermal energy is radiated away from a building. Infrared emittance is also important at night, because a roof with a greater infrared emittance will release more heat to the cold night sky, which is desirable in the summer but not in the winter. Another key factor in estimating radiation control is the amount of insulation beneath the roof surface.The more insulation there is, the hotter the roof surface will be during the day, which in turn ...
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NaanStop has already cultivated quite the following of folks who dig a quick and easy way to get their Indian fix without skimping on authenticity. They aim to give people a way to enjoy authentic Indian food without feeling overwhelmed by the unknown.We've heard tales of a land far, far away, where the food trucks roam freely, the street food flows like milk and honey, and the villagers are never without a tasty snack in sight. This land, known as Los Angeles, is where NaanStop got its start, puttering around town, filling Angelenos' bellies with its naan wraps, rice bowls and samosas. But the ATL is hard to leave behind. So, when Neal and his NaanStop crew got wistful for their hometown, they packed up the tandoor, hit the road and set up shop with a brick-and-mortar in the middle of Downtown, bringing their family recipes along with them.
Fast-forward to present day, and NaanStop has already cultivated quite the following of folks who dig a quick and easy way to get their Indian fix without skimping on authenticity. Case-point: their chai. This is not your run-of-the-mill made-from-mix concoction, y'all. The Chai Lattés are made from scratch daily, with a delicious custom blend of fresh indian spices, steeped and brewed with assam black tea in milk. In fact, everything here – from the chai to the naan to the paneer – is made from scratch, daily. In Neal's own words, he wanted to give people a way to enjoy authentic Indian food without feeling overwhelmed by dish after dish on an unfamiliar menu. Thus, NaanStop's menu keeps it simple: choose either a rice bowl, a Naanwich wrap or a salad, and fill 'er up with an entree like chicken tikka masala, braised lamb or chola (simmered garbanzo beans). For maximum flavor, try one of the chutneys, which range from sweet (apple tamarind) to hot (coconut mint cilantro) to really hot (chili-cilantro). But please, don't stop there: do yourself a favor and get your hands on one of those samosas. It's Mom's recipe, it's about the size of your fist, and it took home the bronze at the LA Street Food Festival. Try it chaat style (topped with chutney and chola), and you'll soon be a [naan]believer like us.
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My previous investigations into the numbers behind the history of the NHL shootout looked at the business end of the universally-popular tie-breaker - "clutch" attempts to either win it or keep it going.
This time around, my thoughts strayed to one of the strategic decisions made before stick touches puck: Shoot first or second?
By way of explanation, the home team has the option of shooting first or second - this has been the case every year of the NHL shootout except the first, 2005/06, when the road team always had to shoot first. I have seen arguments in favour of both strategies, for example:
- Shooting (and scoring) first puts all the pressure on the second shooter
- Shooting second means you are more likely to have the final shot to win
- Shooters are more likely to miss than score, so you should always shoot second, since missing the first shot puts you "behind"
Does scoring the first shot matter that much?
The none-too-surprising answer here is "yes". On average, if the very first shooter scores, his team wins 72% of the time, compared to only 40% of the time if he misses. The chart (of course there's a chart) below shows the record of each team when scoring or missing the very first shot of the shootout (through 8 February):
- As you'd expect, records across the board are much better when scoring the first shot, with only a few exceptions. Most notably, Florida, Tampa Bay and Toronto have better records when missing the first shot – suggesting it would be better for them to miss the first shot on purpose...
- Florida, in particular, have done remarkably well to lose all three of the shootouts where they have scored the very first shot
- LA and Boston, on the other hand, have yet to lose when scoring the first shot
Not so fast...time for a quick lesson in conditional probability (e.g. if I start start talking about probability theory, then there is a 99.9% chance that nobody will read past this point).
The probability of the team shooting first winning can be seen as the sum of the following:
- Probability of scoring x Probability of winning having scored
- Probability of missing x Probability of winning having missed
Probability of team shooting first winning = (0.32 x 0.72) + (0.68 x 0.4) = 0.50
So, this suggests (at a league-wide) level at least, that there is an equal chance of winning or losing if you shoot first. Meaning either everybody is wrong, everybody is right or it doesn't matter. The following chart shows the overall record of each team when shooting first and second (through 8 February):
- Rather freakishly, the overall league record is exactly even at 282-282 when shooting first as at today's date
- Naturally, there is quite a bit of variation around the 50% mark when looking at individual teams' records
- Teams that seem to do significantly better shooting first (with a decent sample size) include Atlanta, Calgary, Colorado and Ottawa (although they stink either way)
- The reverse is true for Anaheim, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Jose
- Phoenix are unbeaten (unbeatable?) when shooting first, but have only ever done so twice
Do teams have any tendencies?
Yes – whether due to any historical success, superstition or something else. The chart below shows teams' records when choosing to shoot either first or second (i.e. records of the home team since 2006/07 – through 8 February):
- Firstly, having the choice in itself does not seem to support either strategy – winning percentages are still very similar (and home teams' records are slightly below .500 since 2006/07)
- Most teams have a fairly clear policy to shoot first – indeed, seven teams have never opted to shoot second
- Conversely, only a handful of teams select to shoot second more often – New Jersey and Phoenix the only teams to do so every time (nothing in their overall records really supports this choice though)
Obviously, having a particularly good first shooter or good shootout goalie may justifiably lead to a tendency that the league-wide averages don't support. I'll leave any detailed player/team analysis for another decade, but FYI, the final two charts below list the best individual records when taking or facing the very first shot (minimum five attempts - through 8 February):


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11 Songs Inspired by Literature
Devo and Thomas Pynchon. Mick Jagger and Charles Baudelaire. Though they seem like rather unlikely pairings, many great rock songs have been the result of a lyricist finding inspiration in the pages of a book. These are just the tip of the iceberg - be sure to share your favorite literary-inspired lyrics in the comments.
1. The Song: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," Pink Floyd.
The Novel: Animal Farm, George Orwell.
Pink Floyd felt so strongly about Orwell's barnyard take on revolution that they made a mascot from the book's dictator pigs. The first incarnation of the famous Pink Floyd pigs popped up in 1976 for the photoshoot for 1977's Animals album, which is based loosely around Animal Farm themes. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is about people in society with wealth and power.
2. The Song: "My Antonia," Emmylou Harris.
The Novel: My Antonia, Willa Cather.
It's somehow not surprising that Emmylou Harris is a fan of Willa Cather. Written from the perspective of Jim, the man who loved Cather's title character in My Antonia, the song was actually composed several years prior to its release on the 2000 album Red Dirt Girl. Harris hung on to it for a while, not sure what she wanted to do with it since she had written it from a man's perspective.
"One day I got the idea to make it a conversation and the song just seemed to write itself. Well, then I had to pick a 'leading man.' I had just done a show with Dave Matthews and I loved the way we sounded together. And he did a simply beautiful job."
3. The Song: "Whip It," Devo
The Novel: Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon.
According to Devo singer/bassist/synthesizer player Jerry Casale:
"'Whip It,' like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. The lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in his book Gravity's Rainbow. He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and 'You're #1, there's nobody else like you' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. I thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I wrote down 'Whip It' one night."
4. The Song: "Wuthering Heights," Kate Bush.
The Novel: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte.
An 18-year-old Kate Bush was inspired to write her breakout song after seeing just 10 minutes of Wuthering Heights on TV in 1977.
"I am sure one of the reasons it stuck so heavily in my mind was because of the spirit of Cathy, and as a child I was called Cathy. It later changed to Kate. It was just a matter of exaggerating all my bad areas, because she's a really vile person, she's just so headstrong and passionate and... crazy, you know? And it was fun to do, and it took - a night and a half?"
5. The Song: "The Ghost of Tom Joad," Bruce Springsteen.
The Novel: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck.
Technically, Springsteen was inspired by John Ford's big-screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's Great Depression journey. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" is a 1990s version of The Grapes of Wrath, meant to serve as a reminder that modern times are just as difficult for some. Rage Against the Machine covered the song in 1997.
6. The Song: "Sympathy for the Devil," The Rolling Stones
The Novel: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov.
In 1968, Mick Jagger's then-girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, passed along a little book she thought he might enjoy. Jagger ended up writing "Sympathy for the Devil" after reading the novel, which starts when Satan, disguised as a professor, walks up and introduces himself to a pair of men discussing Jesus.
Mick later suggested that some of the lyrics may have been inspired by the works of Charles Baudelaire as well, which makes "Sympathy" the result of a pretty well-read rock star.
7. The Song: "Holden Caulfield," Guns N' Roses.
The Novel: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger.
The much-awaited 2008 album Chinese Democracy contained a song called "The Catcher in the Rye" after the J.D. Salinger classic, but it's surmised that the song is really about another culture-changing event that Holden Caulfield was involved in: the assassination of John Lennon in 1980. Lennon's murderer was carrying a copy of the book when he pulled the trigger.
8. The Song: "Tales of Brave Ulysses," Cream
The Novel: The Odyssey, Homer.
Even Eric Clapton can't resist the Sirens from The Odyssey; this classic Cream song references the mythological enticing beauties (Clapton sure knew his share of those). Though it's Clapton singing, the lyrics were written by Martin Sharp, who had just returned from vacation in Ibiza and was inspired by all of the exotic scenery - beaches and women alike, presumably.
9. The Song: "Breathe," U2
The Novel: Ulysses, James Joyce.
Speaking of The Odyssey, it's no surprise that The Edge and Bono would want to pay homage to their fellow Irishman James Joyce by setting "Breathe" on June 16. That's the day Leopold Bloom embarks upon throughout the pages of Joyce's Ulysses, and it's also the day that Joyce fans everywhere honor his work by celebrating Bloomsday.
10. The Song: "Ramble On," Led Zeppelin
The Novel: Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
If you've ever listened to the lyrics of "Ramble On," this is not going to come as a surprise to you. For example:
"'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her."
For years I'd only ever paid attention to the "Ramble On" chorus, so this was a shock.
11. The Song: "Scentless Apprentice," Nirvana
The Novel: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind.
Though this horror book never made it to the bestseller lists, it was a modest hit thanks in part to Kurt Cobain, who frequently mentioned that it was one of his favorite reads. He liked it so much, in fact, he wrote a song about it and put it on the 1993 In Utero album. The book is about a man who kills young women and captures their scents in order to make the perfect perfume. I won't spoil the ending for you - and neither does "Scentless Apprentice."


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GM hoping to lay groundwork at Meetings
Blue Jays looking at options to bolster rotation via trade, free agency
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A smile moved across Alex Anthopoulos' face as he absorbed the question. What are the Blue Jays looking for in the starting pitching department this offseason, you ask?
"More," the Toronto general manager said. "Guys that are good."
It may be a simplistic way of looking at the situation, but that doesn't make it inaccurate. The Blue Jays set up shop at the General Managers Meetings this week at the J.W. Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes knowing their starting rotation needs an upgrade.
That presents Anthopoulos with the challenge of securing at least one, and probably two, talented arms to slot into the mix for 2014, as only R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Brandon Morrow have guaranteed jobs heading into the spring.
It is early in the process, but Anthopoulos said that the Jays are already having dialogue on both the trade and free-agent fronts.
"We need to make the rotation better," he said. "I think that any way we can, we'll look to do that. It could be a trade where one starter is going and another is coming in. If that's one starter, two, three, four -- the likelihood of adding that many, I don't know, but we'll definitely look into it."
Anthopoulos told the Toronto Sun that he has been given the green light to spend more than the $119 million that the Jays used on payroll last season, which comes as welcome news.
The free-agent market presents some pitching options, such as Ubaldo Jimenez, Matt Garza and Scott Kazmir, but it's notable that Anthopoulos was able to use last year's GM Meetings as a springboard to a blockbuster trade with the Marlins. It's possible that the Jays could try to spin some of their bullpen depth into rotation help.
"Anytime you're talking about trading a player, you're doing it to make your club better," he said. "I think that goes without saying."
Toronto is also interested in possible upgrades that could displace catcher J.P. Arencibia or the second base tandem of Maicer Izturis and rookie Ryan Goins.
Anthopoulos was also a popular figure to a large contingent of Japanese media on Tuesday, given the chance of Toronto's interest in phenom right-hander Masahiro Tanaka, who went 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA last season for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
The Jays have dabbled in the Japanese market previously, having shown interest in right-hander Yu Darvish before he was acquired by the Rangers two offseasons ago, and there is speculation that Toronto might join a crowded bidding group for Tanaka that is also expected to include heavyweights like the Dodgers and Yankees.
"We never get into who we're going to be after, but I think I can say, just generally speaking, I think every team in baseball would like to have a guy like Tanaka," Anthopoulos said. "He's very talented."


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RICHIE SMALLWOOD is ready to fight for a place in Middlesbrough's first team next season after revealing the club have taken up the option of extending his contract to 2015.
Smallwood joined Rotherham United on loan in January and has been a prominent figure in the Millers' attempts to win promotion from League One.
The midfielder will remain at the New York Stadium until the end of the current campaign, but is already looking forward to returning to Teesside for the start of pre-season training in the summer.
Having been allowed to join Rotherham despite featuring in 13 matches for Middlesbrough in the first half of the season, it had looked like the 23-year-old would be allowed to leave when his original contract was due to expire in June.
However, the club have opted to retain him for another 12 months, and Smallwood is determined to make the most of his extended stay at the Riverside.
"It has been going great at Rotherham," said Smallwood, who hails from Dormanstown. "Everyone at the club - staff and fans alike - have been first class with me and I think that has shown in my performances on the pitch.
"Obviously Boro have extended my deal now, so it seems I might be going back for the summer, and if that is the case I will be doing everything I can to show what I feel, and that is that I am good enough to be playing in the Championship."
Luke Williams has established himself in Boro's first team after returning from a loan spell in the Football League, so there is hope for Smallwood as he attempts to force his way into Aitor Karanka's plans.
The Boro boss has always promised to keep a close eye on Boro's loan players, and the decision to offer Smallwood a new deal suggests that Karanka's backroom team have seen enough to suggest the combative midfielder could yet become a first-team regular at Championship level.
While Smallwood will not be involved with Boro in the final four matches of the Championship season, it is hoped striker Kei Kamara could return to the first-team squad before the end of the campaign.
The Sierra Leone international travelled to Germany last week for keyhole surgery to rectify a hernia problem, and his recovery is already sufficiently advanced for him to have returned to light training at Rockliffe Park.
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Actress, accredited playwright, columnist and founder of an online company, Tiffany Black is defying boundaries and relentless pursuing her passions.
You do a lot of things, which of your many hats do you enjoy wearing the most?
I love acting. I just want to act. Everything I do aside from acting is really to just serve that purpose. The stories I write have perfect roles for black women. The website I founded, www.plentypennies.com, is my ode to acting. It is honestly my childhood dream and despite my height, newcomer or A-lister, I will chase it until I'm dead.
How would you describe your approach to acting?
Honestly. I read an article about Sanaa Lathan. She said "Acting is not lying. It's telling the truth." I couldn't agree more. People can tell when someone is doing too much or not giving enough. I use the Ivana Chubbuck technique, some Stanislavski, and I love Meisner. There's no right or wrong technique. The only way to perform at a high level consistently is to tell the truth of the character.
Who are your acting heroes?
I've been taught and mentored by Tasha Smith. I studied in her class for a couple of years after completing my conservatory acting program. She's amazing. Actress Joy Bryant has also been one of my mentors. She's so reassuring. She thinks I'm great and that makes me think I'm great. It's childish on my part but it works! I live for Kerry Washington's work. I met her at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon this year and she just blows me away in Scandal. Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep, and Angela Bassett are incomparable. I also look up to Tatyana Ali and Reagan Gomez. They are two who really stand on their own two feet and create their own opportunities. That's groundwork. Indie work is like construction work, it's hard, it's sweaty, and lazy people don't do it.
As a newcomer, working with others can accelerate your career or derail it. What has been your strategy with choosing indie projects?
I do indie work with people I trust. Trust can be built through friendships, high recommendations, or an impressive body of work. That's kind of how I ended up joining my artist collective, Fearless Rock Projects. I met Aja (Director Kitty) through mutual friends. We had the same vision and dedication to creating projects. One project led to the next and within 3 months we completed four projects and built a solid team. I am always so proud to show off our work and let people into what we work so hard on producing. We usually have no budget, limited transportation, and tight scheduling, but we always make it work.
Tell us more about what inspires you to write your own projects.
I believe that writing, as well as acting, are all gifts from God. I want to treat them that way. I write projects that have meaning and give more than just entertainment to the audience. I don't particularly write gospel projects, but I never write trash or settle for a cheap laugh. When I was writing, acting, and directing my first play, an ensemble piece called, I'M AN ACTOR, THEY DON'T GET IT, my goal was to never give the audience a chance to look at their programs. I want to engage people and show them true life allowing them to see themselves and learn from the achievements and failures that make humanity. I challenged the music industry in my play turned short film, CALL FOR BACK-UP. I'm writing my first feature now that deals with the dichotomies within black sororities. I want to engage my audiences as a performer and a writer so they leave the theater talking about what they experienced for the next month.
What would you say is the biggest challenge as an actress?
Having morals and standards makes it difficult. As a woman, I've been challenged and compromised. Being pretty can help you and hurt you in this industry. I know who I am and what I'm willing to do to be successful. My integrity isn't up for grabs. Some things are just out of the question for me.
How can people stay in touch with you?
Twitter: @tiffanyblack
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TiffanyBlackActress


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April has ben such a phenomenal month for Oh, Sugar! We're really in a groove and hitting our stride. And our camping wedding dessert buffet has been getting lots of attention lately! *blush* The party divas at MG Party Impressions threw a little blog love our way with this lovely write up here. Check them out for great party ideas and resources. Thanks again!
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Pickles and Ice Cream
What started out as a simple order for a dozen cookies for a pink and brown themed baby shower resulted in close to three dozen cookies with pickles, ice cream and silver spoons thrown into the mix. Sometimes I get inspired (and a little carried away). Tons of fun details and baby related cookies in this set. Check them out and see if you don't feel a little quiver in your ovaries. Enjoy!
Pickles and ice cream - a classic combo.
Disco pickle!
These might be my fave of the set.
Silver spoon detail.
Onesies with ruffle details.
Label detail.
Z is for baby Zahina.
Silver snaps = LOVE.
T-strap baby shoes.
Bottle detail.
Welcome Baby Zahina!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Blog Love: Kara's Party Ideas
So flipping excited! We submitted our Camping Themed Wedding to Kara's Party Ideas yesterday and boom! The next morning we were greeted with a happy surprise as our party was featured on her site. Check out the kind words and Kara's fab site here for tons of party inspiration. Thanks again!
Travelling Taters!
Ack! My babies are flying the coop! Literally. I received my first out of state order for Mr. Potatohead cake pops from North Carolina of all places. So I whipped up a couple dozen, threw in a half dozen extras just in case we had any casualties in transit and a packet of candy melts to use as glue should a mustache or eyeball pop off along the way. I should be hearing from my client in a couple of days to see how these sweet potatoes fared. Wish me (and them) luck! To be continued....
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Spring Treats
Happy Easter! I had two orders for cupcakes and cookies to celebrate the Easter Bunny's arrival this weekend. That's a lot of jelly beans, folks! I baked up these fab and tasty carrot spice Easter basket cupcakes with cream cheese grass frosting putting a slight tweak on a Bakerella's adorable design. Love how these sweet things turned out.
And then there were the cookies. Two different collections: one bright and cheery nature inspired and the other done in pretty pinks, greens and yellows. Both turned out happy and spring-y with lots of fun details to look at. Check them out for yourself - Enjoy!
Bright and Cheery Collection.
In love with the cotton tail.
Carrot top detail.
This one goes out to my Peeps!
Ladybug detail.
Pretty Easter egg detail.
Soft Pink, Green and Yellow Collection.
Silvery bug eyes.
Marbled Easter eggs.
Happy Easter!
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Battle hymns of the madmen in Tehran
By Slater Bakhtavar
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution a little known clandestine Islamist group remerged from the ashes. Formed in 1953 with a radically anti-Bahai and anti-Sunni ideology the Hojjatiehs flourished during the Revolution that ousted the Shah. The fiery, respected Sheik Hamud Halabi urged the Hojjatiehs to vote in favor of the Velayat-e-Faqih form of government in the referendum mainly due to fear of a communist takeover.
Velayat-e-Faqih, the "guardianship of the jurisconsult" is the modern political doctrine set out by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In his book of jurist governmental rule he addressed the role of the clergy in the government. Under this doctrine he proclaimed himself and his successors as Supreme Leaders of a purist Islamic nation. In spite of propaganda purported by apologists and the naïve pouncing on Iran's presidential elections, virtually all authority lies with an absolute dictatorship under the Velayat-e-Faqih government: a concept dearly advocated and embraced by the founders of the Islamic Republic. Due to disagreement over the Velayat-e-Faqih system the Hojjatiehs were banned in 1983. Ayatollah Khomeini was adamantly opposed to the Hojjatieh's conviction that Shiites should advocate a more progressive arrival of the 12th Imam.
The Imam is a core concept in the teachings of Shiite Muslims. Born Muhammad Al-Mahdi, the Imam ventured into a cave in 941 AD hidden by the Gate of Occultation. Shiites believe that the Twelfth Imam will one day return to lead the religious battle between good and evil when the world has become consummately nefarious. They argue that it is only at that stage that a genuine Islamic Republic will emerge.
Since the arrival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the group has seen a mass resurgence in the government. Recently a former chief of staff of Khomeini claimed that the Revolutionary Guards and many of the cabinet positions had been filled by Hojjatiehs who control Ahmadinejad. Although it is disputed whether Ahmadinejad is himself a member of the society he has shown strong support for their Armaggedon message. He was quoted as saying that "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," and that "Today we should define our economic, cultural and political parties based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return we should avoid copying West's politics and systems," he was quoted as saying to newspapers and local agencies.
Ahmadinejad's clerical spiritual advisor Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi is also an ardent Hojjatiehi. He has taught at the Hojjatieh founded Haqqani Theological School in Qum. Qum is the central religious central of Iranian as well as many other international Shiites. During the last presidential elections he issued a fatwa urging all two million members of the hard-line volunteer basin Islamic Militia to support Ahmadinejad. Along with many other Hojjatiehs he advoces the hastening of the arrival of the 12th Imam leading to the battle between good and evil.
The arrival of Ahmadinejad was a domestically calculated power grab by the Hojjatieh adherents. Several signs point to the resurgence of the this clandestine group, such as recent call of Ahmadinejad for wiping Israel off the map, their harsh confrontational approach towards the West, their intermeddling in neighboring countries, increasing in the support of terror groups, the suppression of ethnic minorities at home, the lessening of the appearance of Khamenei and the increase in the oppression of the Bahais and Sunnis.
Perhaps wanting to circumvent the brash and naïve foreign policy agenda of Ahmadinejad on June 25th Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei created the Strategic Council for Foreign Relations. The prime objective of the council which include seasoned foreign relation veterans such as Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign minister and former Islamic Revolution Guards Corp admiral Ali Shamkhani is to facilitate the countries foreign policy objectives.
Intellectuals need to engage in debate about the possibility of the commingling of the two factions and whether this will lead to a deepening disagreement between the ideological beliefs of the Velayat-e-Faqih system originally endorsed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and followed by his successors such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the even more radical Hojjatiehs. Ultimately their preservation may be more important than squabbling between factions with too many similarities and not many differences.
Strategic political maneuvers within the Islamic Republic may lead some to conclude an imminent conflict between the two factions but it's more feasible to conclude that in the end the two ideological factions will cooperate to preserve the system. At a time when the regime is under immense domestic and international pressure the last thing the regime needs is resounding internal division.
The logical conclusion points in the direction of the combination of forces between the current Jurist run dictatorial system and the anti-Bahai, radically aggressive policies of the Hojjatiehs in order to preserve the Islamic system. Either way the regime will remain the world's leading sponsor of terrorism – the question is whether the Hojjatiehs concept of hastening the arrival of the 12th Imam by causing war and chaos across the world will take form. Most analysts rightfully contest our best weapon in Iran are the pro-American people who in recent years have consistently poured out into the streets in pro-Democracy demonstrations only to be arrested, tortured, and often times murdered. We should invest more aggressively in their liberation before chaos engulfs the entire region and leaves us with the option of dealing with the lessor of two evils armed with nuclear weapons and possibily the desire for Armageddon.
(c) 2006 Slater Bakhtavar
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According to the Vancouver Sun, there's a new way to torture yourself through dieting. Literally:
The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient's tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet.
You pay a nice man named Dr Nikolas Chugay to spend 10 minutes to stitch a torture device into your mouth, and you pay him $3,000 for the privilege, and then you eat 750 calories a day for a month. And you lose weight! And also you forgo all pleasure in life because you are combining constant pain with a sub-torture level of sustenance!
According to the article, "Since last September, Chugay says 35 people have opted for the surgery." That's 35 people who hate themselves so profoundly that they paid a doctor $3,000 to sew a pain patch into their mouths.
Can someone please wake me when we're in that post-feminist world full of jolly fat people that I keep hearing so much about? I'm going to go huddle in a closet with T-Rex till then.


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In Detroit: A Biography, journalist Scott Martelle finds the answers behind today's Motor City buried deep in its past.
That the price of a house in Detroit can cost less today than a new car seems one of the great ironies of 21st century America. But no major city has been harder hit by the recent recession, or by the decades of manufacturing attrition that preceded it, than the Motor City.
It's famously lost a quarter of its population in the last decade and 60 percent since 1950, and now sits on the brink of bankruptcy. "We are at a critical and pivotal time like none in Detroit's history," Mayor Dave Bing said in his state of the city speech Wednesday.
In his forthcoming book, Detroit: A Biography, journalist Scott Martelle details how the city – felled by one of the great innovations of the industrial era, a grave lack of official foresight and swirling poverty and prejudice – has come to redefine urban collapse.
Martelle starts his story at the beginning, with French naval officer Antoine Laumet de Cadillac beaching his canoe on the north bank of the Detroit River in July 1701 and establishing Fort Pontchartrain.
Economic boom-times arrived with the 1825 opening of the Erie Canal, a key shipping link to the East through which boatloads of iron ore, copper, coal, and lumber from the Lake Superior region passed.
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Detroit's population neared 300,000 at the turn of the century, just as Ransom Olds, David Buick, the Packard brothers and Henry Ford began their battle for automobile supremacy. By 1914, Detroit was making half the country's cars. By 1929 it was the fourth largest city in the country, with a thriving economy, a population of 1.6 million (nearly 160,000 working in the auto industry) and impressive new roads and skyscrapers.
Yet it was built on sand. Martelle points to Henry Ford's great innovation, the conveyor belt-driven assembly line. "It was the first critical step in the dehumanization of manufacturing work," he writes. "Skilled craftsmen lost out to unskilled laborers who performed a single task, day in and day out."
The line became standard across the industry and wages fell, leading to protests and ultimately the creation of the United Auto Workers union. Yet by providing decent-paying jobs to the least skilled, the assembly line dictated that future Detroit workers would rarely need more than a high school education or any skills that might help them find work beyond the most menial jobs.
"It drew to Detroit the relatively uneducated, made Detroit a magnet for the lower economic strata, from the South and other parts of Midwest," says Martelle. "Obviously you need laborers, but this skewed the balance."
And in a free market those jobs would constantly seek out the cheapest labor. General Motors sniffed the changing winds long before most, opening factories as far afield as Europe, South America and, in 1929, that godhead of outsourcing, India.
The Great Depression hit Detroit hard. Auto production fell by three-quarters in just three years, forcing tens of thousands of layoffs and countless foreclosures. Major banks faced insolvency.
By 1940 the industry had rebounded, converting plants to build tanks, planes and various other vehicles and spare parts for the war effort. Detroit's economy hummed again, and half a million people arrived looking for work, mostly African-Americans from the South.
After the war, the big automakers went back to their old ways. Cars sold in record numbers, driving a booming local and regional economy. Depression-era troubles had failed to convince Detroit officials to diversify.
"It was a lack of imagination," says Martelle. "The leaders saw people buying cars again, and thought, 'making cars, that's what this city does best.'" That decision, Martelle argues, played a major role in the city's eventual collapse.
"It's hard to imagine Detroit would be in its current condition if the post-war economy had diversified significantly beyond auto-making," he writes in the book.
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Later opportunities to point the city in a better direction came and went. Martelle chronicles the 1949 election of Mayor Albert Cobo, whose anti-integration, slum-clearing policies helped spur the exodus of whites to the suburbs, the devastation of the 1967 riots and the years of crime, drugs, and gang violence that followed.
Along the same timeline, the Big Three were busy decentralizing their operations. By the early 70s, one out of every three dollars invested in the major automakers was heading overseas.
The 1973 oil embargo, the subsequent race to increase fuel efficiency and the rise of Japanese automakers like Honda proved the straw that broke the city's back. Within two years, U.S. auto production had fallen nearly 30 percent, and Detroit was well on its way to becoming a byword for urban decay.
Martelle intersperses his narrative with a handful of telling resident bios. Michael Farrell buys the century-old, long-neglected Taylor House mansion in Brush Park for $65,000 in 1981. He hopes to revive the neighborhood and achieves modest success until the financial crisis steals his momentum. With no grocery store or retail of any sort, today the area is known mainly for its Victorian "ruins porn."
"When you lose the commerce, you lose the city," Farrell tells Martelle in the book. "Detroit has no commerce."
Yet encouraging signs have appeared. John Thompson grew up in rough-and-tumble Cass Corridor, where he opened Honest ? John's Bar and Grill in 2002. An independent bookstore, a creperie and an art movie house have since followed, along with a trickle of new residents, providing what Martelle calls "a little shoot of new urban intensity."
A modest uptick in the auto industry has meant new jobs, but mostly outside Detroit. Companies like Dan Gilbert's Quicken Loans and Blue Cross Blue Shield have begun reinvesting in Detroit's downtown, creating thousands of jobs and incentives to new residents. Nonprofits like Skillman Foundation and Kresge Foundation work to rebuild and preserve neighborhoods via education and engagement.
Still, these are tiny slices in a vast city of 140 square miles. With about $40 million left in the bank, Detroit is essentially bankrupt, and facing a deficit of $200 million. Since taking office in mid-2009, Mayor Dave Bing has cut nearly a quarter of his workforce and enacted a 10 percent pay cut for the rest, cut garbage pick-up and police patrols in large swathes of town and recently asked for a $150 million loan from the governor. As if that weren't enough, the Detroit public school system is considering closing half its schools.
Pittsburgh, another single-industry city that collapsed in the 70s and 80s, has in recent decades begun to rehabilitate itself. In 2010, more than one in five jobs in the region were in education and healthcare, nearly a 20 percent increase from 2000. The focus on these sectors as well as finance and technology has drawn a new wave of immigrants.
Martelle sees the legacy left by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in that city as crucial. Carnegie Mellon University is a top research and academic institution, while the Carnegie Institute operates four respectable museums. Together they establish strong educational and cultural roots.
Henry Ford, on the other hand, created the Ford Foundation, which has been based in New York for decades. "That's a lesson for other urban areas," says Martelle. "Try to draw corporations into creating institutions that could sustain the community in the future."
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You Pack A Dressing Gown For A Weekend Away
(And slippers, if it's going to be cold.)
I last went to Barcelona 10 years ago. And the last time before that was 10 years before that. Clearly, Barcelona and I are only destined to see each other every 10 years – like relatives who live on the other side of the world, or in my case, Bristol.
Ten years ago, I was in Barcelona to celebrate a friend's 30th birthday. It was a weekend fuelled by mojitos and as a result, my memory of it is a little hazy, although I do remember that a) it was a lot of fun and b) the Sagrada Familia still wasn't finished.
I'd first seen the Sagrada Familia when I was 20 years old. I made several trips to Barcelona around that time because my then-boyfriend had moved there to teach English as a foreign language, which I think was a legal requirement for all language graduates in the early 1990s. I remember the buzz of a city preparing to host the Olympics; the construction of tower block flats down by the sea; the dusty parks and the flower stalls on the Ramblas; the fact that the Sagrada Familia still wasn't finished.
This time, I'm taking my boyfriend on an Obligatory Couple's City Break – because while I've not been to Barcelona for 10 years, he's never been at all. I'm looking forward to discovering it with him – and it will, I'm sure, feel like discovering rather than rediscovering. Partly because of those mojitos, but mainly because a lot can change in a city in 10 years. Look at London, my hometown, for example. In the past 10 years, Oyster cards and Boris Bikes have arrived, the South Bank has become a wonderful place to hang out, and Jamie Oliver restaurants have popped up everywhere. Sadly, not everything is progress.
The other thing that's changed in the past 10 years is, of course, me. When I was 30, a suitcase packed for a late spring jaunt to Barcelona would have included Alka Seltzer, strappy sandals and not much else. But now?
Now, I pack a dressing gown.
(As well as Alka Seltzer and strappy sandals.)
This is partly because I'm staying in an apartment rather than a hotel – another change from 10 years ago, when apartment rental sites like AirBnB were few and far between, and a city break was synonymous with a hotel stay. Now, it's possible to live like a local by talking to that local online and staying in his or her place – and to do so for the fraction of the cost of staying in a hotel. A hotel where, yes, you might get a dressing gown – but it won't be your dressing gown, will it?
And that's the thing. A dressing gown is the adult equivalent of a comfort blanket. It gives you a sense of home – of self – wherever you are. If I don't take my dressing gown with me to Barcelona, I will simply be staying in some stranger's flat. If I do take it, it will suddenly be my place that I'm padding around in. It will feel as if I live in Barcelona. And yes, this fantasy might only last for four days (the required length of an Obligatory Couple's City Break). But for those four days, I'll be opening the balcony shutters, looking down on the narrow street below, drinking real coffee, flicking through the channels on Spanish TV… all in my dressing gown. I'm already picturing Frank and myself like David Hockney's friends Mr And Mrs Clark, only without Percy. Unless we managed to pick up a stray gato from the streets of Barcelona – and even then it's going to be tricky, because we'll have to find a white one.
Of course, it helps to have the right dressing gown. I'm sure that most dressing gowns, if you wear them regularly enough, will give you that sense of self and comfort wherever you are. But the very fact that my dressing gown is goddam blooming lovely is another reason I want to take it with me wherever I go.
I bought it five years ago at Singapore airport. I went there for 24 hours (Singapore, not the airport – the Tom Hanks film The Terminal may be based on a true story, but it's not mine) while I was working as a jazz singer in a hotel in Malaysia. It's a long, patterned Chinese-style silk dressing gown in midnight blue and I fell in love with it at first sight. I'd always had a soft spot for this type of robe – it's a classic, after all – but it was only now, while staying in South East Asia, that I suddenly felt I could justify owning one. As a result, I padded around my Malaysian hotel room in my classic Chinese-style dressing gown and classic Chinese-style free hotel slippers, feeling even more like… well, a jazz singer working abroad than I ever did. All I needed was to have a good cry while wearing too much mascara to truly turn into an ageing Judy Garland-esque diva. (Reader, it never happened.)
In short: my dressing gown makes me feel both comfortable and glamorous. It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer (it's almost like those Chinese people knew what they were doing when they designed it). And as result of all these things, it's now a must-have when I pack a suitcase: whether that's for an Obligatory Couple's City Break Somewhere On The Continent or a Week With Family Over Christmas In Various Parts Of Britain. And when it comes to the latter, I now also pack slippers. Which is no doubt another idea that my 20 or 30-something self would have been horrified by. To which I say to her: "Just you wait".
The Sagrada Familia. Estimated completion date: 2028.