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I wonder how many people can remember St. Sushi occupying a spot in Eldon Square? This was long before Grey's Quarter, when the highlight of dining in there was a Pizza Hut. I never actually ate in that location, preferring their restaurant opposite Tilley's for ambience. Now their permanent home is the dimly-lit former Salsa Cafe on Westgate Road, a mere stone's throw away from the Academy.
We've eaten here a few times of late with friends, liking its informal approach to dining. The menu isn't great at alluding to what the ingredients are in each dish, so any information we had was gleaned from the staff. With the huge array to chose from it is a Japanese food lovers' paradise, although it can be a bit bamboozling for those who too aren't familiar with the cuisine. While – as the moniker suggests – sushi is the star of the show, curries and gyoza also make up just some of the options at St. Sushi. Bento boxes are a way to sample a range of their dishes in one sitting, as well as being attractively presented.
On this particularly busy Friday night we were dining in a group with a mix of dietary requirements. It was also a large party, which meant ensuring we all got what we wanted and were sure the veganism and allergies were fully understood was a big ask for a flustered waitress.
There was a long delay on the food, and some of our party had finished before others had even received their plates of food.
Mr. Canny and I decided to share a few dishes rather than get individual portions, meaning we could sample more of what St. Sushi had to offer non-meat eaters like ourselves.
Dining out with a dietary requirement can be a risky business, especially when there isn't a vegan or gluten-free menu offered in a restaurant. We have been spoilt of late with many dining establishments providing allergen lists – as much as Mr. Canny hates them being referred to in this manner – and I feel it is the bare minimum eateries can do in this day and age with such an emphasis on ensuring dining out is safe for those who have issues like these. There was a lot less confusion in Nudo, for example, because a special menu was provided. I can't begin to imagine how daunting it must be to dine out if you or one your family carries an Epipen.
We sampled Tofu Katsu Curry, Vegetable Gyoza, Aubergine in Garlic, Seaweed and a side of rice. The rest of the table tucked into all manner of fish dishes. The food itself was good, although most were tepid by the time it arrived at the table. The aubergine in particular would have been more enjoyable hotter as the sauce became greasy.
We felt the prices were reasonable for what we ate, but can't help feeling disappointed each visit is like Russian Roulette without a clearer menu. We rely on the staff understanding what veganism is, which in itself isn't fair. Based on our own experiences of dining out, not everyone front or back of house comprehends how much this impacts on food and drink consumption. While there is a vegetarian section on the menu, clearer labelling on each dish would allay the fears of those who avoid egg and dairy. We continue to visit as many of our friends think the standard of dishes – especially the fish – are of an exceptional standard. I hope they address these concerns in the near future as I can't help but feel they are deterring many with dietary requirements from visiting.
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Good gods, who'd be a celebrity? Look at what you're up against these days:
For four months, 19,637 people followed Ewan McGregor's every move via the microblogging service. Or at least they thought they did. But come on people –Moulin Rouge 2?
While there are many fake celebrity accounts on Twitter, including those purporting to be Tina Fey and Hank Paulson, most are obviously bogus.
Ewan McGregor's tweets, by contrast, seemed realistic, although there were signs that made some suspicious, including a post expressing a desire to make a Moulin Rouge sequel – something no real actor would contemplate.
The authenticity of the fake Ewan McGregor started to bug the real actor, who yesterday told The Guardian his people had requested that Twitter take down the posts.
Twitter said it would investigate but did not immediately relent.
Here's the story: Twitter takes down fake Ewan McGregor account
I mean, jeepers creepers, you can be Ewan McGregor -- THE Ewan, superstar and all-around great guy, and some BOOBY can do this to you, and Twitter in its infinite wisdom responds to your agent bvy saying they'll investigate.
Say what?!! Can we say, "Get that gibberish off your internet page before you get sued for your shirt?!"
Same sort of twaddle happened to David Tennant, too (oddly enough, I was just talking about this yesterday).
It's actually come to the point where any Tom, Dick or Mary could open a Twitter account, go out there and pretend to be -- oh, HM Queen, President Obama, the Pope, and Twitter would somewhat reluctantly INVESTIGATE when they're TOLD to remove the bogus twaddle!!
Is it just me, or is this getting past a joke? Like I said, who'd be a celebrity? Sheesh.


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OP2839. AIDA, Live Performance, 3 July, 1951, w.de Fabritiis Cond. Teatro Palacio de Bellas Artes Ensemble, Mexico City; Maria Callas, Oralia Dominguez, Mario Del Monaco, Giuseppe Taddei, etc. (Germany) 2-Archipel 0020. Long out-of-print, final copies! - 7640104000204
"Callas is in brighter voice in 1951, and while the flame of her singing burns no less intensely, it has taken on a further glow and steadiness, and she now includes the blue centre of the flame as well as its red edge. She is helped immeasurably by de Fabritiis, whose view of the score provides an expansive sound and approach in sympathy with Callas' musical ideas. She again includes the top E-flat at the conclusion of the Triumphal Scene - and if anything it is more rousing and epic than the year before."
- John Ardoin, THE CALLAS LEGACY, p.31
"It was always a given that del Monaco possessed a remarkably powerful, steady voice with unsurpassed brilliance and power. He was, however, often criticized for singing with little finesse, for using his power unrelentingly. That was never true (his many live broadcast recordings give even stronger evidence of his ability to sing with light and shade). I found myself thrilling to the sheer sound of the voice and to the commitment and passion with which he sang. What will surprise many is the variety of dynamics and color that the tenor did bring to his singing. It is easy for critics to comment on the method of a singer and to forget the most important element - the sound of the voice....His diction was a model of clarity and crispness, his intonation was almost always centered, and his rhythmic pulse was extremely strong. In many cases one listens to this kind of singing and longs for the days gone by when there were singers like this....old-timers...reminisce over one of the great operatic tenor voices to be heard in the 1950s and 60s, and younger listeners discover what a great 'tenore di forza' sounds like. We have nothing like him today."
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"Mario del Monaco was one of the most widely recorded singers of the 1950's and 60's and divided his busy operatic career between Europe and America during those years. Sir Rudolf Bing, then manager of the Metropolitan Opera, heard Mr. del Monaco's debut as Radames in Verdi's AIDA at the San Francisco Opera in 1950 and asked the tenor to stop in New York for a guest appearance at the Met in Puccini's MANON LESCAUT on his way back to Europe. Mr. del Monaco's singing made a distinct impression and won him a long and prosperous relationship with the Met beginning the next year. At the New York company from 1951 to 1959, he sang 102 times, in 16 roles. He appeared on the Met's tour 38 times. His last performance at the Met was as Canio in Leoncavallo's PAGLIACCI in 1959. But he returned three years later to Carnegie Hall in a concert of arias and duets with Gabriella Tucci.
Indeed, when Mr. del Monaco was loved, it was for the brilliant, stentorian quality of his voice rather than for his subtlety of phrase or ability to act. And in a profession often peopled by overweight tenors, Mr. Del Monaco offered a classic profile and dark good looks that made him an attractive presence on stage.
Mario del Monaco was born in Florence in 1915 and grew up in nearby Pesaro where his father was employed in city government. His parents were both musically inclined and encouraged his singing. Although he had some lessons, he was largely self-taught. Mr. del Monaco made his professional debut in Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY in Milan in 1941. He spent the war years in the Italian Army. After the war, Mr. del Monaco's career blossomed and spread to Milan's La Scala and London's Covent Garden as well as opera houses in Rome, Naples, Barcelona, Lisbon and Stockholm. In 1946, he sang in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, moved northward to Mexico City and then on to San Francisco for his American debut. Mr. del Monaco's relationship with the Metropolitan Opera ended in 1959, reportedly by mutual consent, but he was recording until the end of the 1960's. In 1973, he joined a gathering of prominent tenors in Naples to honor Caruso's centenary and pres reports spoke of his 'personal glamour and still thrilling dynamism'.
Mr. del Monaco retired to his villa near Venice later in 1973 and turned to teaching. Mr. del Monaco and his wife, Rina Fedora, a former singer, had two sons. One of them, Giancarlo, is now a stage director in Europe's opera world."
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"Oralia Dominguez is a Mexican mezzo-soprano who was active in the mid-20th century. She was born in Northwest Mexico in the town of San Luis Potosi and studied at the National Conservatory of Mexico where she made the acquaintance of the composer Carlos Chavez who championed her career. In 1951 she sang the role of Amneris in A�DA for the first time at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with Maria Callas, Mario del Monaco and Giuseppe Taddei under the direction of Italian conductor Oliviero De Fabritiis. A recording of this performance has circulated since that time and is still regarded as one of the most exciting performances of this very popular opera on record. She made her European debut in 1953 at London's Wigmore Hall. That same year she appeared with the La Scala company performing Verdi's MANZONI REQUIEM at the Lucerne Festival. She recorded it the following year under the direction of Victor de Sabata. The following year she appeared throughout Europe with such conductors as Tullio Serafin, Igor Markevitch, Paul Kletzki and Herbert von Karajan. In 1955, she made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing in the world premiere of Michael Tippett's A MIDSUMMER'S MARRIAGE."
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�There used to be a saying in Italy: �We gave the rest of the world Tito Gobbi, but we kept Giuseppe Taddei for ourselves�. Whatever the respective merits of these two baritones who dominated the scene in the early postwar period, Taddei was undoubtedly a superb artist and, in fact, possessed the superior voice. It was voluminous, richly mellifluous and admirably flexible. He handled it with immense intelligence and he kept his vocal faculties intact over a career spanning 50 years. Taddei�s repertory was vast � more than 100 r�les. Having made his r�le d�but as Falstaff in the late 1940s, he was still singing the r�le under Karajan in Salzburg more than three decades later and at his belated Metropolitan Opera d�but in 1985. His warm, rounded tone and subtle underlining of notes and text made him an ideal Falstaff, a portrayal that, fortunately, has been preserved on records and video. Few Italian baritones have exhibited the exceptional versatility that was Taddei�s hallmark. Apart from the accomplishments of his singing, he was a stage being through and through, able with a gesture or facial expression to create character and mood. The longevity of his career is evidence enough of the solidity of his technique. Taddei died at his home in Rome, 2 June, 2010.�
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Nautical Christmas Cards
Well, my friends, it's that time of year. WHAT? No, no it's still summer! I mean it's August, it's not even close to the holiday season.
Sure it's not. But you and I know, it will creep and creep and be here before we even know it! Remember when you were a kid and it seemed like summer lasted forever, then it took another forever for Halloween then Christmas. And now that we're adults, the time just seems to fly by! I blink and there goes a day, another blink and there goes a week! ( Unless it's a week I have a dentist appt! yikes, that dread moves slowly!)
I have always been a proactive person and love to look at ideas year round for all holidays. But it does seem like the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years holiday runs too quickly. There is just so much to do, memories to make and times to enjoy.
I am currently loving beach and shore items, especially any Nautical Christmas decor items.
I was searching around Pinterest, ok, totally wasting time, but I found some great ideas for Christmas and beach decor. While I was looking, I saw a great driftwood style sign that said, Seas and Greetings. I loved it, and it totally inspired me to pull out some stamps to create a couple beach themed holiday cards.
I went with soft pastel colors, and several types of stamps. I was looking for some ideas for paint splatters and didn't want to use my bright alcohol inks, so I decided that since I had my water colors out anyway, I would just use them to create some light paint splatters on the card bases too.
I have stamps from Inkadinkado, American Crafts and Imaginesce.
I first stamped my shells and such on some plain white cardstock. I used a permanent ink because I knew I'd be using watercolors.
I got out my watercolors, and just had fun adding color to the stamped images.
I wanted to play with the card bases, which I cut into 4×12 strips. One two I splattered colors, and the third I inked with sunset colors, just adding colors beside each other and blending.
Allow those colors to dry. Then I used my Martha scoring board to create my folds.
I didn't neatly color the stamped items in. Just some swishes of color, since I was cutting them out of the paper.
The kids would love to help do this!
After they were completely dry, I cut out the images. This is a great idea to do while watching tv in the evening!
While I did stamp out my images, I printed out my greeting, using several fonts. These cards can inspire you to create a series, or use the idea of just one for your holiday cards. Then you can create all the pieces, and put them together in an assembly line, and you can be done and ready for this coming holiday mailing season.
I also used foam tape to pop up some of the elements on the cards for dimension.


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Students gather around the television Wednesday to see and hear from the new leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Georgia Tech senior George Hagler said he felt a rush of excitement and exhilaration when he got the text Wednesday afternoon saying that white smoke was pouring out from the Sistine Chapel chimney.
"We all ran to the TV to see," said Hagler, referring to his fellow students at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center. "It was surprising because we didn't think it would be for a few days at least. We were like, 'What?!"'
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Located on Sire Beach, Hotel Tugu Lombok offers spacious rooms with private balconies. Overlooking the ocean and Mount Rinjani, it features a fitness centre, 2 pools and free Wi-Fi.Hotel Tugu Lombok is situated next to an 18-hole golf course, green fields and palm plantations.Rooms at Tugu Lombok are furnished with a flat-screen TV, DVD player and minibar. The spacious bathroom features a bathtub and rain shower.Guests can relax at the spa or take a swim in the freshwater swimming pool. Activities such as diving, village tours and golfing can be arranged.Tugu Lombok offers a unique dining concept for guests. Guests are offered a variety of dining themes to choose from. Guests can dine anywhere - in the gardens, at a private hut or even on the beach.
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The Chicago Bears shocked its fans after releasing veteran kicker Robbie Gould. Rumors are swirling that the Bears wanted to sign a cheaper kicker in Connor Barth to replace Gould for the coming season.
Bizarre things have happened with days leading up to the season opening and the Bears joined the fray after cutting ties with Gould. The 34-year old is the last remaining member of the Bears' roster that saw action at Super Bowl 41 against the Indianapolis Colts.
Thank you to the Bears organization, teammates, coaches, and fans. Once a Bear, always a Bear. #beardown pic.twitter.com/t8Nd81F8U1
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Prior to that, Gould's 49-yard field goal in 2007 led the Bears to capture their first divisional playoff win since 1988 over the Seattle Seahawks. They would go on to capture the NFC championship title, beating the New Orleans Saint 39-14.
ESPN first reported Sunday that the Bears released Gould after signing Connor Barth, who released by the Los Angeles Rams. Gould signed a $9 million contract extension with the Bears back in 2013. He was about to make $2.9 million this season before the Bears decided to sign Barth to a cheaper contract.
Last season, Gould made 33 of 39 field goals, with a long of 55 yards, and 28 of 29 extra points. He managed touchbacks on 60.7 percent of his kickoffs. He is the most accurate kicker in the Bears' history, making 85.4 percent of his field goals and is ninth all-time in NFL history.
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Gould lost favor with the Bears' organization after missing out two extra points on a field goal attempt against the Browns, Thursday in a pre-season match. Prior to that Gould made three field goals in the game that they dominated via 21-7. Gould thanked the Bears organization and its fans for the 11-seasons that he has played with the team since signing with them in 2005.
"Thank you to the Bears organization, teammates, coaches, and fans. Once a Bear, always a Bear," Gould, posted on his Twitter account.
Thanks for 11 years @RobbieGould09! You are a @ChicagoBears all-time great! Appreciate all the game winners and all 1200 of your points ✊🏾
— ANTHONY ADAMS (@spiceadams) September 5, 2016
Now a free agent, Gould prepares to journey as he awaits calls from teams around the league who would want his service. In the meantime, Gould continues to work on finding his rhythm if a team would negotiate on bringing him into their roster.
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Wednesday Wish List!
Having a wish list is a trick I learned form my sister-in-law; a list of all the things that inspire me, goals I want to achieve, and things I dream about. Or lets be honest, things I want to run out and buy! Making lists are my number one go to for keeping on top of life. So here is this weeks 'Wednesday Wish List', a little bit of inspiration straight to your in box!
We are still in September and I am already in the throws of making Halloween costumes. Last year I promised myself that I would not be up to 3am the night before Halloween with blurry eyes putting the final touches on a Queen Elizabeth I costume, ever again!
I join in on Halloween and dress up when the kids are 'trick or treating', but like to keep it simple. I am totally in love the these antler flower crowns, and had to share them with you!
I fancy giving this DIY a go and will share it over the next few weeks. I'd love to hear about your Halloween costume and party plans! Write a comment below!
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Marx Reading Group
A group of some of our PhD students recently initiated a Marx reading group. This group consists of about 10 students and alumni who are reading Karl Marx's Das Kapital. They meet in the GLS Reading Room on the first Wednesday of each month and engage in a close reading of the text. They also discuss contemporary issues in the context of his theories.
For more information, please contact Duane.


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No gluten in these goodies
Gluten - a protein found in wheat, barley and rye - can be bad for people with coeliac disease. Their bodies cannot absorb the nutrients, and they might vomit or develop stomach pains. The bad news is gluten is in pasta, breakfast cereals, bread, flour, cakes, biscuits and pizza. Some processed foods also have it - such as sauces, ready meals, soups and processed meats.
The good news is you can bake without gluten - although it requires a little effort. Gluten gives dough the elasticity that helps keep breads, biscuits and cakes in shape. To mimic the stretchability of gluten, xanthan or guar gum are often added to give baked goods the 'right' texture. Extra protein is usually added in the form of egg whites, gelatin or dry milk powder.
To replace cereals that contain gluten, try using grains such as amaranth, buckwheat, corn/maize, millet, quinoa, oats, rice, sorghum and chickpea. Gluten-free flour mixes combine those grains, and are available in many supermarkets. You could also experiment with your own mix. The basic proportion is 70 per cent wholegrain flours (any mix of amaranth, brown rice, buckwheat, corn, millet, oat, quinoa, sorghum or chickpea) and 30 per cent starches (any mix of cornstarch, potato starch, tapioca flour, white rice flour or arrowroot).
Gluten-free baked foods won't be very chewy and tend to be crumblier and drier. They also do not keep as long as foods made with gluten-containing flour.
Oatmeal and cranberry biscuits
Once you've baked a batch of these, preserve their freshness by freezing whatever you can't eat. Defrost and then warm them in the oven or microwave.
Ingredients (makes 18-20)
100g unsalted butter, softened
75g light muscovado sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
150g gluten-free rolled oats
100g gluten-free flour mix
1/4 tsp xanthan gum
75g dried cranberries
1 Preheat oven to 190C (170C for fan oven).
2 Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
3 In a large bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
4 Add the rest of the ingredients, and mix until thoroughly combined.
5 Using damp hands, roll heaped teaspoonfuls of dough and place on the baking tray. Flatten the top with the back of a fork or your hands.
6 Bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly brown. Cool for five minutes before removing from the tray. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely before eating.
Potato bread
The dough will rise a bit, but don't expect it to rise as much as dough made with wheat flour. Nevertheless, the end product is reasonably fluffy.
If you want your loaf crispier, try turning up the oven temperature a little bit towards the end of the cooking time.
400g gluten-free flour mix
100g cold mashed potatoes
1 packet (7g) dried yeast
2 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp gelatin
1 tsp sea salt
100ml water
60ml milk
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp vinegar
1 egg
2 tsp dried rosemary
1 Mix the water, milk, oil, honey, vinegar and egg in a large mixing bowl until combined.
2 Add the gluten-free flour, mashed potatoes, yeast, xanthan gum, gelatin and salt.
3 Beat together until a wet and sticky dough forms.
4 Scrape dough into a greased non-stick baking tin (28 x 18cm). Cover with cling film and allow to rise in a warm place for 45-50 minutes.
5 Meanwhile preheat oven to 200C (180C fan).
6 Sprinkle rosemary over dough. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Bread is cooked if it sounds hollow when you tap it. Best served warm.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 198072
double free or corruption messages from multiple programs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:36 EST
Description of problem:
I think the x86_64 glibc and/or gcc has some sort of generic problem
that leads to spurious double free or corruption aborts (either that
or several programs have been busted forever).
When I boot (see Bug 196419) /sbin/kpartx crashes with this error.
Just a little while ago I was using find, xargs, and grep to search
all the files in /usr/share and grep got the same kind of crash.
Maybe you should revert to the gcc/glibc FC5 uses :-).
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Not sure since I don't have the system booted at the moment, but it
is FC6t1 with all the latest updates applied as of the date on this
How reproducible:
The /sbin/kpartx crash happens on every boot, didn't try to reproduce
the grep crash.
Another probable glibc problem: If I run Gnu Cash and click on "Help",
the "yelp" program comes up, draws the initial screen, then immediately
crashes. Haven't confirmed this is another glibc corruption bug, but
it wouldn't surprise me.
If glibc report a double free corruption, it is a bug in the program in which
it happens. You need to report it against the program in which it happens.


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David H. Hackworth
May 7,1996
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Stockholm is composed of 14 islands surrounded by the Baltic Sea and Lake Malar. This enchanting city, encircled by sparkling. pristine water-ways and linked by a bracelet of bridges, is justifiably renowned for its beauty.
In the old heart of this fairy tale city, I watched fishermen haul in large catches of healthy fish, and there was nary a robber or dope dealer in sight. There were also no beggars, no street people, no litter, no sirens - only pleasant people who made me feel safe and welcome.
Our globe-trotting lawmakers should whip over here on one of their taxpayer-sponsored junkets and find out how their Swedish counterparts run this admirable country a lot more successfully than they run ours.
The Swedish army invited me to participate in discussions at its War College and with its elite Coastal Rangers on combat leadership and how wars of the future will be fought. The Swedish War College, as opposed to ours, still teaches about weapons and tactics and how to win wars. And its Rangers, as hard-core as ours, are chips off the old Viking block - a rare group of professional fighting men.
During one far-ranging seminar, we theorized that future wars will wear two masks: one, high intensity conflict (HIC), and the other, low intensity conflict (LIC).
HIC will be faster, more destructive, more lethal, with continual mind-blowing technical breakthroughs dramatically changing current doctrine, forces, weapons and budgets. HIC will be a microchip-computer-satellite-controlled electronic chess game in which combatants will vaporize one another long distance.
Because all this exotic stuff will gobble up defense dollars big time, future HIC forces will be radically smaller. By the middle of the 21st century, 10 spaceships carrying 100 Star War troopers will be able to mass anywhere in the world within a few hours, with more firepower than a World War II tank division.
Stuff right out of Buck Rogers! The 21st century gear will make Desert Storm weapons as obsolete as Viking swords and longboats.
But HICs won't happen with the frequency of 20th century wars. The HIC bang would be too destructive. No modern state would survive to walk away as a winner.
Instead, conflict between opponents will be played out much like the Cold War nuclear stalemate between Moscow and Washington, with a doctrine similar to mutual assured destruction to keep the missiles in the silos. Hopefully, this Mexican standoff will last forever or, worst-case scenario, until some fruitcake like Saddam Hussein sits behind a high-tech command console with his finger on the button.
Paradoxically, while we ready for HIC high noons, there will be hundreds of LICs, fought mainly in the world's big cities. In these man-to-man shoot-outs, HIC high-tech goodies would be as useless as a Star War missile in a street fight in the back alleys of Mogadishu.
LICs will be fueled mainly by tribalism, religious fundamentalism, nationalism and ethnic showdowns. They'll be controlled by the ayatollahs, war lords, gang and drug bosses, Mafia-like crime syndicates and rent-an-army mercenary generals like former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Carl Vuono, who recently did his thug thing in Croatia and is now making a buck in Bosnia.
At last count, there were about 60 LICs going on around the globe, and they'll become even more frequent as the New World disorder expands
By around the year 2000, LICs, spearheaded by terrorism, will burn like summer forest fires around the globe. These attacks will include Sarajevo-like razing of cities, frequent terrorist bombings like the ones in New York City and Oklahoma City, chemical attacks such as the sarin gas released last year in the Japanese subways, biological attacks and even nuclear attacks from portable, suitcase-size atomic weapons.
Obviously, a large soldier-intensive force will be needed to fight LICs, but under present Pentagon priorities there won't be enough defense dollars to go around. Most are already earmarked to prepare for HICs.
But defense planners must prep for both LIC and HIC, not just the big-bang war, which, while great for all the defense contractors' bottom lines, is bad news for the city dwellers.


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Prime Number
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On the third day, they move Harry, my husband, to a private room. We return from his smoking break to find we have a different view. The grid of gray glass rectangles of the hospital wall across the courtyard has been replaced by the steep black shingles atop red brick walls, dormers of the roof of the American School of Correspondence, and beyond it, the concrete rectangle of another University of Chicago building.
My eyes will come to appreciate the roof's variety of shapes, the tar shingles that sparkle in the late summer sun, the green of the oxidized copper dormers, the red brick chimney, the blue sky beyond. For inside the hospital, all is square and all colors are muted. Mauve and mint, beige and gray. All those pastels lull me.
I smooth out our children's paintings that the nurse brought over from Harry's former room. Our five-year-old's poster-size picture features a landscape in thick brushstrokes: a sun rimmed in red with orange rays, purple dots flying through the air, a tree with an orange trunk. Our middle son is not into drawing pictures, but he relinquished his favorite teddy bear to keep Daddy company. Our daughter, the fourth-grader, sends one picture a day: a heart with "I miss you, Daddy," a rainbow with "I love you, Daddy," and a pattern of interlaced curvy forms, colored red, purple, green, and yellow with the superscript "Get well, Daddy." I arrange them on the bulletin board facing the bed.
It is an ordered society here, in the inpatient part of the hospital. Wide cotton gowns, their pattern of small gray diamonds filled with beige circles pale from many washings, signify the patients. White coats with names stitched in cursive blue letters on the left breast pocket are for doctors and registered nurses. Wildly patterned lavender and mint pantsuits are for regular nurses, navy pant suits for transportation or environmental services personnel. Anyone in regular casual clothes, like me, is a "family member." Anyone in business clothes is part of hospital administration and rarely seen on the upper floors.
Stomach pains had plagued Harry for a week. When they worsened and he ran a fever, he had gone to Urgent Care.
Intestinal inflammation
, said the doctor.
Take some antibiotics
. For good measure, they had done a CT scan. The next day, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, a call from our doctor: "The attending radiologist reviewed your CT scan. There is a foreign object in your stomach. It looks something like a needle. You must come to the Emergency Room at once."
We had been sitting outside on the porch, reminiscing with Harry's mom about the trip to Hawaii we all had returned from a week earlier. Her bags were packed; she was scheduled to fly home that afternoon. A foreign object in Harry's stomach was hard to fathom, especially since he had no recollection of choking or biting on anything hard, but I could almost see our doctor's serious look through the phone. She was not kidding.
Harry's mom sprang into mother mode: "I will stay, no problem. I'll take care of the kids. You go with Harry." We canceled her flight, outfitted her with one of our cell phones, and vanished into the hospital world.
Something was in Harry's stomach that was visible on only one frame of a CT scan. One frame out of a hundred. The ER attending physician clicked through frame after frame to show us the one. It looked like a needle.
We were told this thing had to be extracted because it seemed to have perforated the stomach wall and was poking into the pancreas. Two blood tests showed that not only was Harry's white blood cell count up (signaling an infection), but his amylase and lipase, the enzymes produced by the pancreas, were elevated at 204 and 423. I learned that the normal range for amalyse is 28-100; for lipase 11-65. The pancreas, so I now understand, is a delicate organ that produces insulin and other enzymes needed for digestion. Harry didn't have pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) yet, but that was a danger.
Our doctor came to the ER that evening, in her workout clothes, to check on us. The surgery night team was ready to admit, if not to operate.
"Is this really necessary?" Harry asked our doctor.
"You'd be taking your life in your hands if you left," was her reply.
Two months from now, I will attend a writer's conference where a panelist will relate the story of Martha Frick, daughter of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. As a writer-in-residence of the Frick Foundation, the panelist had noticed the prevalence of children's images in the artwork displayed in Frick's mansion, and had become interested in the soft side of this man who had run the Carnegie Steel Company.
I will listen to this panelist's account, an old fear spreading in my stomach. I will jot "Martha Frick" in my notebook, but I won't be able to forget her story. I will research her, and I will find the following account:
In the winter of 1889, the nurse who had been changing Martha noticed a small spot on the child's right side that had split open and was oozing pus. Startled, the nurse wiped the pus away and was horrified to find a black pin exiting the wound. In thinking back over the onset of Martha's illness two years before, and her constant suffering since that time, all realized that Martha must have somehow swallowed the pin in Paris during the summer of 1887--and that for almost two years, as the pressure of the abscess grew, the pin had been pushing through her body.
[…] Limited to the science of his day, Dr. McClelland made a half-inch incision, cleaned the wound, and considered the operation a success. But Martha cried day and night after the operation. The doctors could not tell what the trouble was, for the pin was out and the incision had healed over. Unknown to them, however, a peritoneal abscess had formed in the trail left by the pin, and infection was filling Martha's abdominal cavity. Unwittingly, the doctors exacerbated the situation because their knowledge of bacteriology was so limited and the practice of aseptic surgery unknown. Instruments were not sterilized; nor had the surgeons scrubbed or worn sterile protective clothing.
Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait
by Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Martha died two years later, at age six, after her wound had reopened and pus poured out again.
A needle is such a small object, such a small detail. One person not minding a detail, like a pin lying about, can cause another's misery, severe illness, even death. The if's pile up in my mind: If Harry hadn't gone to the doctor on time, if they hadn't done the CT scan, if the radiologist hadn't paid attention to that one frame, if we didn't live in the time of CT scans. The if's--fate's icy breath--are in the small things.
It is not like the doctors know it all nowadays. We follow them on an exploration, and they are simply one step ahead of us, interpreting the facts as they present themselves. Harry and I have to rely on their expert knowledge to make decisions about his body. Expert knowledge of people we have just met. How do we know that the facts could not be interpreted some other way?
That is where community comes in. Community works in circles, not up and down like the hospital hierarchy. From the ER, I call a friend who has other people's phone numbers. People who attend religious services with us, people we chat with at congregational events, people who are doctors at this hospital.
"Do you know Dr. F?" I ask one of these people. "Is Dr. F a good surgeon? He's Harry's attending." I have picked up hospital speak: you don't say "attending doctor," you say "attending." The attending is the master of your fate. It turns out that our acquaintance knows Dr. F's boss, a pancreatic specialist.
The next morning, a Sunday, the doctor we know is on call and stops by Harry's room and talks. He likes to talk. I figure the more expert talking from someone you know, the better. Calms the nerves. Yes, Dr. F's boss is reliable, and he will call him, will tell him that a friend of his is under Dr. F's care and ask him to keep an eye out. There should be nothing to worry about, we are told. Dr. F gets the highest marks in the medical literature and seems to be a fine doctor.
Later that morning, Dr. F, the attending, makes his Sunday rounds in civilian clothes, no white coat, with his two sons in tow. The boys must be four and five, and they do not make a peep, but sway around their daddy's legs. Dr. F makes a good impression on us. I could picture him behind a deli counter, asking in his raspy Italian accent whether we want the sirloin or the shoulder cut. He has that competency in his craft about him. Even if the craft is unpleasant, it's necessary. He takes the time to answer our questions, to explain his approach: "We're not going in right away, we're taking the conservative approach, do an endoscopy first as we don't know what's in there. Maybe we can see it from the inside of the stomach, chances are not high that we will, but it is worth a try."
Problem is, this is Labor Day weekend and no specialists are in the hospital to perform this procedure, and this is not a life-threatening emergency that warrants disturbing someone's holiday weekend. Dr. F does not say that, but we know. He says if he can find Dr. D, if Dr. D is on call, then maybe they can do it over the weekend. Dr. D is whom he calls to fish razor blades out of peoples' stomachs. Harry and I must look puzzled.
"Yes," he says, "there are people who swallow razor blades. Voluntarily."
Does Harry have to stay on IV? No food, no drink until Tuesday? Why can't he go home and come in for blood tests once a day?
"Too risky, that would not be advisable," says Dr. F. "We don't know for sure if the stomach is perforated, or how badly it is perforated. It could be leaking. The pancreas could flip out at any time. It's too risky."
So we stay in the hospital over Labor Day weekend. Harry with the hospital gown over his pants, pushing his IV pole along. Gone is the man who prefers polo shirts to T-shirts. Gone is the man who likes to wonder about his next meal, his jolly belly is now hidden under a pastel-colored gown.
We hang out where the smokers gather in the concrete-tiled courtyard off the hospital's main entrance. Cigarette butts litter the gravel around a few scruffy bushes. I sit on one of the benches lined up along the wall; the grid of its seating surface imprints a pattern of squares on my palm as I press my hand into it.
Harry prefers to stand. He sneaks a few cigarettes. The only pleasure allowed. An elderly lady in a wheel chair holds up a light for him. As he bends down and his dark head hovers over her hand, she asks: "Were you in the ER Saturday night?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"You're the man from the ER! I remember you! I don't forget nobody who was good to me. You gave up the restroom because I was havin' a bladder accident."
She surveys all of us smokers and smoker-companions and nods toward Harry: "And that man was already in the bathroom. And he came out for me."
She zeroes in on me: "He your husband?"
I nod.
"You got yourself a good man. A good man."
I feel myself swell, just a little bit, with pride.
On Tuesday, they call us for the endoscopy at noon. We trek through the tunnel from the inpatient to the outpatient building where the procedure is to be performed. Harry's bed is rolled into a cubicle, and I am assigned the guest chair that is squeezed next to it. The cubicle has about two feet of space on either side of the bed, and a wall of cabinets with a sink behind it. Artificial light, no window in sight. I have my tote bag with a lunch packed, so creature comforts for the "family member" are taken care of. Harry does not need creature comforts. Just his IV pole and the occasional trip to the toilet.
We leave the curtain open and look out at eight cubicles on either side of this white linoleum corridor. Eight cubicles where patients wait for their procedures, mainly colonoscopies. We are lined up like caged hens, waiting to produce an egg.
We watch patients being rolled in and out of cubicle number five opposite us. One patient with tightly cropped gray hair makes sure his nurse knows he is a gynecologist. Desperate to show that he is not an ordinary patient, that he is, under other circumstances, part of the white coat caste, he engages the doctor who is going to do his colonoscopy in a chat about rising insurance rates. When he is wheeled out, I only see his proper short hair and his socks, beige and dressy. After him, a girl is in the cubicle, tucked tight into her bed. She is crying, whimpering. Hearing her weep softens my reserve. I turn away and ask Harry if the blanket keeps him warm enough. It is the only time during all of this that I feel tears well up.
Other people come in and out of cubicle five, but after a while they blend together. Waiting changes your sense of time, makes things blend together. At any other appointment, in ordinary life, we would have flung down our magazines and left in a rage after an hour. But here we arrived knowing Harry was an "add-on" to the schedule, happy that this specialist would tend to him. And so the clock ticks on and we sit and stretch and talk and call Harry's mom to see how she is getting on with the kids. We do not fidget, we do not sigh. We just sit in our cube like dutiful hens. Once in a while I glance at my watch, report the time to Harry. One thirty, almost two, three o'clock. Harry keeps saying this is an academic exercise. After all, this is a teaching hospital. They know they won't be able to extract the thing. And I keep saying there is always the off chance, trying to keep his spirits up.
In the end, the anesthesiologist appears at 3:30, and later Dr. D, the one who fishes razor blades from stomachs.
I emerge from the double doors behind which I left Harry to Dr. D. If he is unable to extract the foreign object from Harry's stomach, Harry faces surgery the next day.
I figure I'm in for at least two hours of waiting since Harry is under general anesthesia. Time for a cup of coffee. Since I'm in the outpatient building, the Au Bon Pain cafeteria in the inpatient building with its lattes and croissants is far away. I make my way to the food court four floors down, but find only brown- and orange-rimmed glass coffee machine pots, their contents thickened to a syrupy brown. I need some good coffee. I wander farther, out into the sunshine and over to the university bookstore café where Starbucks is brewed. It is warm outside and blindingly bright. I breathe in the fresh air. When you spend your days in cubicles behind pastel-patterned curtains, walking two blocks along a city street lined by young, promising trees is more than a luxury. It is freedom.
At the coffee shop, I marvel at life going on in its mundane way. People are chatting, buying books, ordering sandwiches, while just a block away, under fluorescent lights, a doctor is poking around inside my husband.
It is 4:30 by the time I return to 6A – Gastroenterology, and the lights are off, the lobby empty, the secretary's desk abandoned. A puddle of fear pools in my stomach. I drag one of the chairs over to a skylight; sit down, cross my feet. I study my toes sticking out of my sandals. I'm in bad need of a pedicure. But there's been no time for that. There's just time for waiting, for being on call. I pull a magazine from my bag.
A voice pipes up in the emptiness: "Are patients waiting in the dark now?" I look up to see a small man in the twilight waiting area, wielding a stainless steel coffee cup.
I smile. "No kidding," I answer. "I looked for a light switch but couldn't find one. So I pulled the chair over here, closer to the skylight."
He surveys the scene, including my disarrangement of the seats. "The light's probably centrally controlled," he says and plops down two seats from me.
"I don't know about you," he continues, tugging his long thin ponytail, "but I intend to be out of here in twenty minutes."
Twenty minutes? The last four days have pounded any expectation out of me to have anything done in less than an hour. Now and then the double doors slam and someone in civilian clothes emerges from Gastroenterology, obviously on the way home. Every time, I expect they are coming for me. I have to be there when they summon me, so I tell my waiting compatriot when I have to go to the restroom. I leave my tote bag stuffed with Harry's slippers and my magazines propped on my seat, evidence of my presence.
After the restroom break, I settle back into sipping my mocha and leafing through
Half an hour later they come for the man with the ponytail. He was right; he didn't wait much more than twenty minutes. I do not wait that long either, one and a half hours maybe, including my jaunt for coffee, to be called back into the gastroenterology cubicle where Harry lies under several cotton blankets. His bed is elevated so its railing reaches my chest. His forehead glistens; his voice is thick as he says: "Hi."
We know it did not work when, within what seems like no time at all, Harry's surgeon Dr. F appears with another doctor in tow. He introduces Dr. H, a specialist in laparoscopic surgery.
Surgery will be tomorrow morning. Show up at 7:30, they advise me. They will try to do it laparoscopically, meaning remote control surgery, meaning a few small incisions and a shorter recovery, hence Dr. H with his interested and benevolent smile. If that does not work, they will have to open Harry up completely. They've never seen anything like this. People ingest stuff they shouldn't often enough, but it usually passes through the system, and if it doesn't, it would cause trouble in the narrower passage of the stomach. Not up where the stomach is wide and next to the pancreas.
Harry makes Dr. F hold his hand, makes him promise he will perform the surgery himself, not a resident or fellow with only a few years of experience. They clasp hands while Dr. F walks us through the likely procedure, through the if's and the risks. I look on, knowing that I should feel more anxious than I am. After all, Harry is the rock of my life. But my natural stoicism has taken over, has been augmented even by all the waiting and the if's and the but's and the lulling atmosphere of the hospital.
If anything, I feel slightly embarrassed by the drama. Later we will find that soliciting the promise was not necessary. Dr. H's surgery report will state that "it was necessary for two attendings to adequately and safely perform this operation."
"Sure puts things in perspective, doesn't it?" a friend writes in an e-mail. I wonder. I have found that existential events have me obsessed with details. Maybe I focus on the little things because the big things are out of my control.
Twenty years ago, when my dad died suddenly, I asked a friend to go to the city's fanciest glove boutique and buy me a pair of lacy black half gloves that leave your fingers exposed. I had to have those to attend the memorial service. They had the right unusual glamour for an unusual occasion. They evoked the requisite pathos for me who, up until then, had only seen funerals in movies.
When our children were born, the first thing I'd do as the contractions came on hot and heavy, was jump in the shower and shave my legs, while Harry stood in the bathroom doorway, holding a towel and urging me to hurry for the hospital and the midwife. But no, the legs had to be shaved, and lotion applied, even if I had to sit on the bathtub rim while contractions doubled me over. I had to be prepared; the legs had to look nice. They would be exposed, after all. But most of the time you don't know when you'll be exposed. There aren't always contractions to warn you of your impending vulnerability.
Now, after we've made the trek back from the outpatient building to Harry's hospital room, I wait by Harry's bedside and obsess about my toenails. I really need to tend to them. What if I were in the hospital bed, not Harry? I would be stuck with toenails that are too long, polish outgrown. I'm not prepared, not in the best shape possible at all times. And I should know that fate can strike and any time, and that one needs to be prepared.
At midnight, after returning from the hospital, after the late night talk with Harry's mom and packing tomorrow's bag with Harry's special requests, I'm rubbing off nail polish. Harry hates it if my toenails aren't painted red. I figure if I go in tomorrow without it, wearing sandals because it is still warm outside, I will be able to tell how much he is himself by whether or not he notices.
The next morning, I am composed while I trot alongside Harry's bed as they wheel him to the operating room. I smile when he jokes with the pre-op nurse, while he talks with the anesthesiologist. A final hug and squeeze of Harry's hand, and then the doors close.
I have never felt so alone. For a few hours now, Harry's consciousness is extinguished. The world already feels vast and empty. My anchor is gone. And if, just if, he were not to come back, then it would remain that way. I'd have to stay in the world because of the kids. I would be their anchor, but for me, there'd be unending nothingness without him. I would be utterly alone, like I am now. Everything would rest on me. No one to discuss everything with, no one who'd know where I was every given hour of the day, what I was aspiring to, or worried about. No one to care about my toenails. I'd just be going through the motions of being alive.
Numbness settles over me. I walk back along the corridors; follow the red line someone taped to the ceiling to guide family members toward the Surgery Family Waiting Lounge. I learn that I have to check in and out and that I can't eat and drink in the lounge. But I need my creature comforts. So I check in and I check out. I study the hospital floor plan to make sure I can trace my way back and head for the lobby where the Au Bon Pain cafeteria offers coffee, cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants, mozzarella and pesto sandwiches, pumpkin soup. I get a latte, a croissant, and a corner table. I can be okay sipping my coffee, scrolling through the e-mails on my BlackBerry. I find a message from my sister.
All the best
, she writes,
we are sending good thoughts your way
. I could call her, but if I heard her voice, I would break into tears. I must, however, call Harry's mom. If I don't, she'll show up and then I'll have to deal with her nerves. I call her: "He's gone in. I'll call you when I hear next."
I start to keep track of time and then I don't. What does it matter? Do I know if waiting two hours versus four means there are complications? It probably does but I don't want to think about that. Better to wait until I get the facts. I finish the croissant, the latte. I check back into the lounge. There are stains on the speckled carpet, rips in the maroon vinyl cover of some seats. Why can't they create a pleasant surrounding for those who are waiting? I don't want to be here. Everybody here is waiting for a verdict.
A couple sits by the window, the woman's head on her husband's lap. Must be parents, must be a child in surgery. I head toward the bathroom, and am about to push open the door when the receptionist chirps: "Mrs. Gendler, call for you."
"Can I just go to the bathroom?" Let me just get this over with, I think, let me feel ready for whatever I need to face.
"There's a call for you," she says sternly.
You have to face this now
I let go of the bathroom door.
It's the post-op nurse: "Dr. F wanted you to know he's out. It went well. They will come down shortly to talk to you."
My heart starts pounding. I go to the bathroom. Then I settle back into my seat and flip through a magazine. I want to look composed when they show up. When Dr. F and Dr. H do saunter in, I fumble with my tote bag, trying to shove in my magazine. I stumble over the bag while they are waving me toward the private consultation room. Dr. H holds the door open for me.
Why do I tremble now? I know Harry is okay, and I must remember to ask the right questions. Harry is lying flat on his back in a room somewhere, eyes closed, monitors flashing. I have to be in charge.
"It was a small thin metallic black wire. About one and a half inches long. Anyone could have swallowed it. Concealed in a piece of food, you wouldn't notice chewing on it," Dr. F says.
Thankfully, they were able to do the small operation. Five incisions. If all goes well, he should be out in three days. The pancreas is okay. There was an abscess between the stomach and the pancreas but they scraped it out.
They put blue dye into the stomach to see if it leaked but it didn't. Nevertheless, no food, no drink until Friday when he will have to take some contrast liquid and they'll do an X-ray scan to confirm the stomach is not perforated. After that the nose tube will come out and he'll be able to eat regular food.
I ask: "When can I see him? Where should I wait?"
"Best to wait in his room. It will be another two hours or so before he comes out of recovery."
I wander back to his room; pick up lunch at Au Bon Pain on the way. I think about how somewhere, somehow, someone dropped a wire into tomatoes being canned, or a batch of sausage meat, or mixed it into a tossed salad, not on purpose, of course, but just hadn't noticed when a clipping or a shaving fell in. Just like someone, somewhere, left that pin lying about that little Martha Frick picked up and swallowed. But I don't think of that incident yet because I don't know of it yet; the Martha Frick story will be for a later haunting, a reminder of the havoc a small carelessness can create.
I sit by the window in Harry's hospital room. I study the copper green gables outside and I surrender, once again, to the waiting.
Four hours after surgery, Harry wants to get up. The nurse unplugs the suction tube that elongates his nose like an elephant's trunk, hangs the catheter's urine sack on the IV pole, pins the drainage bag from the tube emerging from the right side of his stomach to his gown, puts the IV machine on battery. Off he goes.
"Wait," I say, I stumbling after him, "let me tie the back of your gown."
"I don't care if people see my behind," he says while I fumble with the strings on his back.
"Well, you can't go about flashing old ladies," I say.
We make our way down the hallway with its Monet prints. Each patient's heartbeats are zigzagging across the monitors installed outside the rooms.
We reach the end of the corridor where a large window looks out on the upper deck of the parking garage. In another 30 minutes he'll stand here again and wave to me as I back out the minivan. But for now, we wait to watch the ball of the sun turn crimson before it dips beyond the horizon.
As we wait, he clings to his IV pole, and for a second looks down, and jerks his head in a double-take. He looks at me accusingly.
"Your feet," he says, "look terrible."
Annette Gendler
's essays and memoirs have appeared in many literary journals, most recently
Natural Bridge
. She's currently finishing a memoir about an impossible love that succeeded (hers and her husband's) even though it was the previous generation's ultimate nightmare: the forbidden love between a German and a Jew. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, teaches memoir at StoryStudioChicago, English composition at Kaplan University, and does communications work for her children's school. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Q: How is Harry today? Any further complications?
A: Harry is fine except for a painful pancreatitis attack when we were traveling in Israel a year and a half after the surgery. The doctors in Tel Aviv didn't believe the wire story until our doctor faxed over the documentation.
Q: What surprised you most while writing this piece?
A: Readers always want more emotion from the narrator. I'm by nature rather stoic, and even more so in a crisis situation, so I found it hard to capture the narrator's emotions.
Q: You teach creative nonfiction writing--what models do you like to share with your students?
A: In my introductory Memoir Workshop we usually read excerpts from Russell Banks, Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Lauren Slater, Jill Ker Conway, and Vivian Gornick. It's always amazing to see how differently students respond to texts I've read many, many times. There's something new to discover each time.
Q: Tell us a little about your writing process. After all, you're a wife, a busy mother of three, and a teacher. How do you make time to write?
A: I get up at five in the morning and write before the craziness of the day breaks loose. I have a former teacher to thank for that, see my recent
blog entry
. Since I don't work in the corporate world anymore and my teaching has settled into a routine, I've lately also been able to dedicate half a day on Mondays and Tuesdays to write, and I've been blessed with two residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. All that made it possible for me to finish the book manuscript. You really have to live with a book and that's almost impossible to do in tidbits of time.
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Thank you for considering the Orlando Museum of Art for your upcoming private or corporate special event. We offer both beautiful and functional spaces for everything from cocktail receptions to galas, as well as small board meetings to large conferences. Our friendly and professional staff look forward to working with you to make your event one to remember. The following spaces are available within our venue.
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Gallery space with incredible natural light, marble floors and walls adorned with the Museum's artwork. The natural light flows from a domed skylight, perfectly situated over Dale Chihuly's signature glass sculpture, Citron & Cobalt tower. This central gallery opens up on every side to the Museum's other galleries and our Rotunda, making it an ideal cocktail reception location. For smaller groups you can host your main event here and provide up to 100 seated guests with a night truly inside the museum.
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Established in 2002 with a mission to protect and promote child rights in one of the most deprived areas of Ghana, their work includes investing in the skills and employment of young women to help lift their communities out of poverty and provide opportunities for the next generation that don't rely on aid.
The funding they're receiving will help them to provide training loans and mentoring support for 20 young women in teaching and nursing in Ghana. The loan repayments then support more women into the programme, creating a sustainable funding model.
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Growing up, my parents knew I was a sensitive kid. I was shielded from childhood terror movies such as "Bambi" and "Dumbo" that depicted horrible things happening to the parents of the young and innocent. I begged to see "Bambi," but was never allowed. Alas, I have never seen it to this day, nor do I plan to.
Darkness permeates the cautionary tales of kids' entertainment. Don't we all marvel at the macabre plots and lessons of children's movies and stories throughout the ages?
They've been tamed, perhaps, Grimm's tales softened in later retellings. But who can forget the outlandish consequences for character flaws in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
For me, the story that struck terror in me — determines my actions to this day, in fact — was the Monkey's Paw. Do you remember it? It's a story in which whoever possessed a charmed monkey's paw would get three wishes. In the vein of the adage, "Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it," the wishes would come horribly, horribly true. A woman came into possession of the paw, then wished for money. Soon after, her son was killed in a gruesome factory accident. Her wished-for sum arrived in the form of an apologetic payment from the factory. She then wished her son to be alive — and he was brought back to life in the same mangled state as he'd been in when killed. So she wished for him to be dead again and lost him forever.
Perhaps strengthening the story's impact was an event my grandma liked to tell me about. One night as she lay in bed, a dog was barking, keeping her awake.
"Bert, go do something," she told my grandpa, who obediently got up and headed outside to "do something." Just as he left, she thought to herself, "I wish that dog was dead." She heard a car, then a yelp — then silence. Soon after, my grandpa returned.
"What did you do?" my grandma asked, horrified. Neither she nor my grandpa were the dog-murdering type.
"Nothing," he said. "Just as I went out the front door, it got hit by a car. It's dead."
The story's moral, which she shared with tender-hearted, animal-loving little me, was to never wish death on a person — or barking dog — or anything else we didn't actually want dead, which I think is pretty reasonable advice. She said she always felt guilty for uttering her wish — merely an expression — spoken in desperation. She didn't really want it dead.
It's funny how these ideas we learn as youngsters can twist around us, worming their way into our view of the world. I never believed in evil monkey's paws or genies or any other manners of wish-granting. What I do believe in, however, is a God who listens to our thoughts and prayers — and has the power to respond. I believe the answers He provides often look nothing like how we envisioned them.
To this day, I think of the monkey's paw when there's something I want. I preface prayers of request to God with the caveat that if He's planning to answer monkey's paw style, I'll handle it on my own.
What I've found, though, is that sometimes just thinking through the monkey's paw tragic answer — the one I don't want — is enough to help me find a solution on my own. If I ask for patience with my family, I think of being without a family to test my patience. If I wish for more finances — more success — more anything, I can think of a flip-side that helps me appreciate the life I have.
I do not believe God operates like the monkey's paw. Our prayers are not wishes, and we can safely utter our pleas from our knees with no fear of God "sticking it to us."
As for my grandma's wish? Well, that must have just been a coincidence.
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Godsmack paid tribute to both Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell during their their show in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Wednesday night. Toward the end of their set, Sully Erna and company performed an acoustic rendition of Linkin Park's "Crawling," immediately followed by a cover of Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike."
You can watch fan-recorded footage of the performance now via YouTube.
Bennington and Cornell were close friends, and they died within two months of each other. Cornell died by suicide May 18, and Bennington sang "Hallelujah" during his funeral. Bennington then died, also by suicide, on July 20, which would've been Cornell's 53rd birthday.
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Gas companies weigh a heavy influence over Australia's political leadership. As the horror show over high gas prices unfolds, Big Gas Con whistleblower and analyst, Simone Marsh, reports on National Party donations, the gas lobby, the "revolving doors" between industry and politics, and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and his land parcel at Narrabri where Santos is planning to drill. This is the first of a two-part series.
THE COALITION'S complicity over gas exports was on display last week as the Prime Minister twirled the control trigger on his finger, then turned topoint at us http://www.afr.com/news/politics/malcolm-turnbull-takes-finger-off-the-trigger-as-gas-giants-stump-up-20170925-gyopbh.
Turnbull's government threatens to triangulate the people by withholding GST from States that ban unconventional gas exploitation...
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