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In 1693 King Charles XI of Sweden received a letter from Fort Christina, the first of three settlements established from 1638 on the western bank of the Delaware. New Sweden came under Dutch control in 1655, but life went on for the Swedes pretty much as before.1 Charles XI enjoined the assistance of the Rev. Jesper Svedberg of the Swedish consistory, father of Emanuel Swedenborg and Professor of Theology, and later Bishop of Skara, who sent the ministers Jonas Auren, Andrew Rudman, and Eric Bjork. Until his death in 1735 Bishop Svedberg remained "the special guardian of the Swedish church on the Delaware."2 This fascinating if elliptical connexion with Swedenborg shows the smallness of the Early Modern world and reminds one of the reflexive influence of mundane affairs like colonization and wars in the diffusion of Swedenborg's teachings between Europe and America. In 1664 the area passed to English control, forming part of the grant to William Penn who established Pennsylvania, with its capital Philadelphia lying where Fort Christina had once existed. By 1775 King Gustavus III had greatly reduced expenses and gradually the settlement ceased to exist, absorbed in the great melting pot of the new Republic.
Some years ago I had the opportunity to attend an extended seminar on the relationship between science and religion, funded by the Templeton Foundation. While most of the talks were quite interesting and informative, I felt somewhat out of place and initially did not realize the source of this sense of displacement. Then toward the end the week, during a discussion period, a Jewish theologian rose to make a statement. Like me, he had also found the talks very interesting but pointed out that most were given from the perspective of American Protestantism and, as a consequence, some of the issues discussed were irrelevant to him whereas other issues that were important for him were not discussed at all.
Following a request, I tried to find the name of the printer of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg in Amsterdam. So can we find out who the printer was?
In the New Jerusalem Journal, 1792, page 401, is an article signed "Omicron" in which the writer advises New Church people to study the science and philosophy of Swedenborg as a preparation of their minds to understand more fully the teachings of the Writings, even as the investigation and study of natural truth prepared the mind of Swedenborg to receive and give the Revelation to the world; and he proposed that the Economy of the Animal Kingdom and The Animal Kingdom be translated for the English reader. But he received no response or encouragement; yet, between then and 1828, three of the smaller philosophical works—The Infinite, the Hieroglyphic Key, and the Worship and Love of God, Parts I and II—were translated and published. In 1828, Dr. Atlee translated The Principia, but his effort to have it published failed. Between the years 1827 and 1837, favorable comments on some of the physiological works appeared in the public prints.
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English Title: Waiting for Daybreak
Turkish Title: Not available yet
Author: Amanda McNeil
Pages: 172
My Rating: 3/5
When I was reading this book...: ... hubby was sleeping and he didn't wake up (99% of time he wakes up when I start reading in bed).
I would never know about this book if I haven't been contacted by the author herself. So, I'd like to thank Amanda for contacting me. I generally blog in Turkish and I generally read non-Turkish books. Until now not a single Turkish author contacted me via my blog but Amanda did so I'll never forget it. It's been really special for me. When she asked me to read and review her book, I, o course, agreed to do it.
It's the story of Frieda whose life changes in an unimaginable way on a regular day she decided not to go work after a bad date.Suffering from a mental disability, Frieda has always hard time dealing with unpleasant things. She suddenly becomes violent, furious and at times she blacks out. However, her disorder is the very reason she survives after an apocalypse. Together with her cat, Snuggles, Frieda has to find her own ways of survival in this new cruel, dangerous (an almost hopeless) world. What is more challenging for Frieda is choosing a new path to follow when she meets another survivor of the apocalypse, namely, Mike.
I was a bit nervous before I started reading this book as I promised the author herself to review it. I was thinking what I would do if I cannot keep reading after the first few pages and honeslt, this made me postpone start reading it for a week or two.
I'll start with the story itself. I'm a sci-fi fan in all aspects: I read sci-fi books, I watch sci-fi movies and TV series so the only thing that caught my attention in the core of the story is the disorder of Frieda, nothing else. When one is exposed to too much apocalyptic stuff, s/he always tries to find something untold before. I believe this is an understandable but easy wish from a reader's/watcher's perspective. It also puts a lot of pressure on the creater's side. The story was not a new one but the main character was.
I liked unstable, unpredictable, complicated character of Frieda. Sometimes I managed to understand her. Sometimes I just couldn't relate with her and I think this shows the author's success in creating the character and adding bits of mental disorder.
I liked the pace of events. I almost always like stories where the action hero is female like this one. I also liked how the book ended, which is very tricky in apocaplyptic novels. Sometimes the auhtor ruins everything with a bad ending. Amanda McNeil did not do that and I managed to read Waiting for Daybreak in a single day (although it was in English).
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By Jim Remington – -
I lived for over a decade just outside of the small southern New England town of Narragansett. The town was named after the Algonquian Native American tribe that had inhabited that area when the colonists first settled there. The town is at the mouth of Narragansett Bay with a beautiful setting on the ocean and smooth white sand beaches. A great place to surf and generally frolic in the ocean. Across the bay is the more famous Newport, Rhode Island. But in the 1920s and 30s, Narragansett rivaled Newport as the mansion capital and home to the rich and famous. Many spectacular mansions dotted the shoreline north and south of Narragansett. It was the heyday of the "Gatsby" era and life was lived large and rich. Sadly, most of those mansions have disappeared. Hurricanes, fires, age and demolition have taken their toll. But the legacy exists up to the present and the few great mansions that are left keep those distant memories alive. And those memories are also kept alive in the minds of those who lived that life and the connections that continue to the present. And this is where my story really begins.
I was traveling in the west of Ireland in the Connemara Gaeltacht area of County Galway. I had settled into a B&B set just back from the ocean on a small country road with stone walls bordering each side and blooming fuchsia hanging profusely over the tops. It was a beautiful area and reminded me a bit of my home in southern New England. After dinner, I decided to take a walk down the lane and do a little exploring. Maybe find a pub with some music or just wander and soak it all up. There was still plenty of daylight so time wasn't a factor. As I poked along I passed several dairy farms and was greeted warmly by the few locals I passed. Mostly farmers finishing up with chores. As I passed the gate leading to one farm a Border collie came out to give me an obligatory bark. I own Border collies so I recognized the "hello" nature of the bark. Just then a soft, tiny voice said "Don't worry, he won't bite". There stood, just behind the low fence, a women well into her 90s with the sweetest smile and flood of totally white hair a bit out of kilter. The dog was immediately by her side and calm. I liked this woman at once and knew I wanted to talk with her. I greeted her with a "hello" and mentioned that I had a couple of Border collies back home. We formed the "Border collie bond" and talked the pros (too smart) and cons (too smart) of the wonderful breed. The conversation opened up from there and she asked me where I was from. I told her the states, with no more particulars. I noticed a somewhat sad, distant look come over her face. She then explained that she had lived in the states for several years but had to return to Ireland because of a sudden death in the family. She said that her time in the states was the most enjoyable time of her life and she wished she could have returned but it never happened. Continuing the conversation I asked where she had lived in America and what she had done. "Narragansett, Rhode Island" was her immediate reply. Yes, you could have knocked me over with a feather. "I live in Narragansett!" I replied. Tears welled in her eyes. It was like she was seeing a ghost and I suppose in her mind I was. I didn't have to wait for her story. She had left Ireland in her late teens with a great excitement of living in America and escaping the poverty of rural Ireland in the 1920s. An aunt living in America had arranged a job as a maid in one of the Narragansett mansions. She loved the job and the people she worked with. The ocean reminded her of the best part of the Ireland she had left behind. She had met a young man (also from Ireland) and they had hoped to get married. Meanwhile, I felt like I was talking to the woman in the "Titanic movie" who created and communicated a vision of the past from her memory. She escorted me into a time and life I knew a little bit about but not the personal details. And what a wonderful "movie" she narrated. She told me about the splendid mansions and the incredibly extravagant parties, the amazing food and spirits, the music and the flapper dancing of the 20s. She told me of walks on the beach at Narragansett Pier with her beau and their dreams of a life in America. Tears trickled from her eyes as she talked. I believe the tears were part pleasure to remember the past and part sadness at the loss of her dreams. I was there to listen. I now would know and think of Narragansett in a very different way.
Eventually her story slowly came to an end and I knew it was time for me to head back to my B&B. Over an hour had passed and I had been transported to another time and another life. How wonderful was that. She opened the gate to hug and say goodbye and of course I gave the Border collie some well – deserved attention. What a wonderful and tender evening it had been. And another magical serendipitous moment in Ireland.
Jim Remington is a teacher and director at the Lakewood School of Music in Lakewood, CO. and lives with his wife, 2 horses and 2 dogs in the Wet Mountain Valley near Westcliffe, CO. Jim can be reached at: [email protected]


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What Does Being A "Centrist" Mean To You, And Why Did You Get Involved?
Being a centrist means being a realist; having the right priorities for government policies based on the best way to run a government using the experience and knowledge of people that have studied government and economics for many years. Priorities include making sure we fight corruption and pork barreling at every turn, having solid trade deals with as much of the world as possible, taking care of the casualties of globalization with work education and training, and improving our education so that we can realize the American dream again for our middle class. That way, we can cut through the 2-party quagmire and elect sensible people to do sensible things, despite the political cost.
What Is A Policy Issue You Are Passionate About And Why?
Education, for the reason outlined above. It is absolutely critical to get our workforce educated and in front of the current and future world economy.
How Do You Think We Can Unite Our Country And Fix Politics?
By keeping a consistent and simple message. By reassuring voters that we have the best long-term interest in mind for the country. By repeating the Centrist message over and over, and working with other like-minded groups and possibly merging with them to join forces. Too many splintered moderate groups will not push the movement forward.
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Yesterday, I ran my first 1/2 marathon, the Seattle Rock 'n' Roll marathon and 1/2. I really decided to do this because the gym was offering a half marathon training class, so why not?
My official time was 2:13:18. My personal goal was 2 hours, even though I knew that 2:10 was a more reasonable goal. Through 10 miles, I was actually on pace to finish in 2:06. That's sort have been my problem, I run the first few miles way too fast (7:30 – 7:45 pace). I'm sure that sustained speed will be achievable with more training.
How did I get here? Quickly.
Starting April 1st of this year, I hadn't run longer than a mile since 2004. That's right, I hadn't done anything other than short runs in 9 years. And even in my previous attempts at amateur athletics, my distance topped out at 10K.
I can't be anything but happy about bringing my run stance from 1 mile to 13.1 miles in under three months. I have a few things to credit for this. First, 5 years of yoga practice, that's left me in decent shape to start with. Then a year of crossfit. And, the leaning challenge (that I wrote about before), dropping 20 pounds during my training is really what made this possible. I feel so much lighter when I'm running. Working with a running coach is also really valuable. The speed training and distance program was great. 8 weeks ago, my all out miles was 7:45 (I was surprised it was that fast), at the end of the program, I logged 6:32. That's a number I'm really happy with. Stringing together fast miles, just needs more time.
In summary, I went from not running to finishing a half marathon with a respectable time in under 3 months.
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From an abstract bird's eye view to fantasy castle and a imaginary Guatemalan village to an abandoned truck, my landscapes tell their own stories.
Click on any image to see gallery slideshow of all the pieces with their narratives.
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Insurance is necessary
It is your duty to check out whether your roofing contractor has liability insurance and workers compensation. You must check all certificates and be aware as there are roofing contractors who has fake certificates. For verifying that the certificate shown to you by the roofer is valid or not you can call insurance and get your doubt cleared. You should not choose a roofing contractor who has fake certificates.
Communication is essential
While choosing a roofing contractor, you can get a roofer who might not return your call. It can also happen that they are not serving you with the documents you asked for. When this kind of situation arises you must make communication and tell your concerns to your roofer. It still they are not paying proper heed then it is the sign to walk away from them. Just think if they are acting like this while they are trying to get your work what will happen when they actually get it. Thus this is a negative sign while choosing a roofing contractor.
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Make sure to choose a roofing contractor who is local. Here local does not means roofing contractor who is working in the same place but local in the sense that he has an established business at any place. Also check that the roofing contractor you choose has a good reputation and image in the community. You can even take reviews from people with whom that roofing contractor has worked. By doing so you can get a fair idea about the work of the roofing contractor and decide whether you can rely on him or not.


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NHL Lockout: Gary Bettman is supposedly prepared to cancel the NHL season within the week
Under the cover of anonymity, a "veteran member of the NHL's board of governors" made a surprising assertion: that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman could cancel the 2012-13 season as early as next Thursday, and that he would have the support of league owners.
The governor told Winnipeg-based reporter Gary Lawless (the same journalist who landed an exclusive interview with Bettman in mid-November) that NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr is not interested in negotiating with the league, and that if the players' association fails to conclude a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement by next Thursday Bettman will cancel the season. From Lawless:
They say Bettman is prepared for such an eventuality and will be supported should he elect to cancel the season on Thursday if no deal is done. Bettman will then take off what is currently on the table. Bettman will be willing to listen and talk with Fehr after he cancels the season but it will be on the basis of doing a deal for the 2013-14 season. Once the commissioner cancels this season, a 50-50 share will no longer be offered and the league will pursue a much revamped package because the owners will have no incentive to make the deal that was on the table.
The specific threat being made – a deal within the week, or else the season is done – is new. The rhetoric surrounding it, however, consists of the same offerings the league has made since the lockout began, just reheated for the occasion. Donald Fehr isn't interested in making a deal. Donald Fehr wants to "blow up the process." The league will pull its offer off the table. The league's next offer will be much, much worse.
The lines are tired, at this point. The league's been pointing darkly at Fehr for months, claiming he was misleading players or misrepresenting their offers. As for the threats, it was Bettman himself who publicly described the league's October proposal as the NHL's "very best offer" and then pulled it off the table, saying:
That offer, for better or for worse, was contingent on playing an 82-game season. So I think things actually in some respects may get more difficult.
Given that every leaked proposal the NHL has made since that date has been an improvement on their "very best offer," it seems clear that they cannot be taken at their word when they threaten that things are going to get worse. That point was reinforced in December, when Bettman angrily declared that the owners' offer of $300 million in "make whole" funding was off the table and deputy commissioner Bill Daly proclaimed that five-year contract term limits was "the hill we will die on." Not only did that $300 million re-enter discussions, but by the end of December the league was offering six-year term limits for players changing teams and seven-year contracts for players being re-signed by their current club.
Not only have the league's threats thus far proven empty, but there is another problem with this NHL governor's threat: it simply does not make sense. From a financial perspective, the NHL would be flushing huge amounts of revenue down the toilet – potentially a 50-game season plus playoffs, more than half of the league's annual revenue. Would the commissioner voluntarily relinquish that kind of money? More than that, could he really expect a majority of NHL governors to go along with such a move before it was absolutely necessary?
As a secondary issue, how would the fans react? If Gary Bettman were to cancel the season on January 10, and the next day Donald Fehr were to emerge and say, 'it's really not too late to save the season, particularly given the small gap between our respective proposals,' which would play better with fans? It's difficult to imagine the league making such an obvious, unforced, error.
Taking the anonymous governor at his word requires ignoring the league's established track record of empty threats, believing NHL teams are willing to sacrifice the majority of their annual revenue before being forced to do so, and disregarding the fact that such a move would be a massive public relations coup for the union. That's a long list of objections, particularly since the league has a vested interest in putting pressure on the players through the press.
The only sensible way to take this threat is as more meaningless posturing in a labour battle already resplendent with meaningless posturing.
Related at the Cult of Hockey
Will the league's latest offer lead to a breakthrough or the NHLPA walking away?
Reported offer moves the league closer to the NHLPA
Does the NHLPA really mean to cease acting as the players' union?
NHL's class action complaint almost identical to NBA's, but the differences are illuminating
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: GSoC projects: Relocatable plugins or buflib in core
RE: GSoC projects: Relocatable plugins or buflib in core
From: Mike Giacomelli <giac2000_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:52:48 -0700
> > But I'm also wondering if I should even apply for Rockbox as I can imagine
Not everyone can afford to spend 40 hours a week coding for free all summer, and even if they can it may not be the best move for their future career. I don't think its fair to characterize being in GSOC as doing it for the money. For some people the choice is likely to be between working another job or internship and spending free time coding, or working full time on coding. Not to mention in terms of a resume, spending the summer on a google internship looks worlds better then spending the summer at home, even if you do the same work in either case. I'd hate to have someone forced to decide between working on what they want to with us, and working on what will likely get them a job when they graduate.
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Nikon Announces New Super-Telephoto 800mm Fixed Focal Length Lens
Nikon Announces New Super-Telephoto 800mm Fixed Focal Length Lens
Nikon is set to add the super-telephoto 800-mm, fixed local length lens to its lineup of NIKKOR lenses.
Fully compatible with Nikon FX-format cameras, it offers a fixed focal length of 800mm together with a maximum aperture of f/5.6. Developed to strengthen the NIKKOR lineup of super-telephoto lenses, it will boast the longest focal length of any NIKKOR autofocus lens and will be best suited to capture of a wide variety of decisive outdoor scenes, from sporting events to wildlife. In addition to its superior optical performance, the lens will offer dust and water resistance.
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As a renter, you don't want anything that brings harm to you or your possessions. However, sometimes, things happen that are beyond your control. For example, a fire might break out and destroy your property. Even if you took steps to reduce fire risks, they clearly didn't completely eliminate the risk of one occurring.
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Eliot and I attended the Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association Car Show today, and it was wonderful, as always. The speaker was superb: Jack Smith, former Plymouth Product Planning Manager, and the man who brought to birth the 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner.
Smash hits like the Roadrunner (it sold something like 20 times as well as predicted) seem to accumulate, in retrospect,. an aura of inevitability. But, back in 1967, this vehicle had many near-misses, many moments in which it might easily have miscarried or been stillborn.
The kind of heroics that men like Jack Smith have achieved to bring such a project to birth should not be forgotten.
Here is me ... with a 1968 Dodge Charger. Get it ... muscle car?
Video to follow ... when I get a chance to edit it.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
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She'd come home so happy. His name was Sean. He was cute, with brown hair and blue eyes and a smile which made her heart flip. He was shy, and asked if he could walk home with her every day. She watched him with amused affection as he built up his courage to ask her out.
He'd found out. She didn't think she had to keep it secret. When he found out about it, he'd beaten her, calling her slut and whore and bitch and then he'd fucked her brutally and left her to cry herself out afterwards. The next day, at breakfast, he'd been quite ordinary, almost more loving and friendly than usual.
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Historians may quibble, but spend any time with the jokers and memory thieves who while away their days eating and talking about Chinese food in New York City, and you'll hear someone say it was Shorty Tang who cooked the best cold sesame noodles Manhattan ever tasted.
Tang was a tiny chef of the oldest school, who worked for the great David Keh at Szechuan on upper Broadway and then had a joint down in east Chinatown back when subways cost two dimes to ride. His sesame noodles were soft and luxurious, bathed in an emulsified mixture of sesame paste and peanut butter, rendered vivid and fiery by chili oil and sweetened by sugar, cut by vinegar, made fantastic by technique.
You could find them all over New York City in the 1970s and '80s, or ones like them: at Hwa Yuan on East Broadway, at the Empire Szechuan chain uptown, at Tang Tang's near Gramercy Park. Bright with flavor, slippery against the plastic chopsticks, they represented one of the great steps forward for Chinese food in the United States in the post-chop-suey era: away from bland monotony and toward real complexity of flavor.
It is Tang's recipe, legend has it, that so many of us remember when we order cold sesame noodles today, and why — the recipe being lost to time — we're so often disappointed when we do.
Here's the flickering-newsreel version: The Communists took over China in 1949. Tang and other great chefs began to slip and slide toward the United States soon after, riding to Taiwan with banquet crews loyal to Chiang Kai-shek — and from there to Hong Kong, India, Brazil, East Broadway and the Upper West Side.
They arrived in New York in the years following the 1965 changes in American immigration law and set up restaurants that over time began to offer a new kind of Chinese food, one remodeled first to fit and then to mold American tastes. "Szechuan food," they called this new style of cooking, and it became as much a part of 1970s Manhattan as cocaine and disco. (The spelling would later shift to "Sichuan.")
And as New York went, so went the nation: a cold and fiery dish meant to combat the lazy, brutal humidity of a Chinese summer became a staple of takeout menus across the United States.
Now, of course, those cooks are dead and buried, their recipes butchered, their admonishments forgotten. Patterns of immigration have changed. Much takeout Chinese food in New York these days comes out of kitchens run by immigrants untrained in banquet arts.
A plate of cold sesame noodles today? It's often just pasta with peanut butter, fridge-flavored nostalgia not worth ordering, though many do.
Eddie Schoenfeld, the affable yarn-spinner and Chinese restaurateur who helped open Chinatown Brasserie in NoHo last year, can take you back to those glory days, though, in word and occasionally in deed. Schoenfeld worked for David Keh for years, as the maitre d'hotel at Uncle Tai's on the Upper East Side, before going on to open restaurants of his own. He is among the top brains on Chinese food in New York City and a phenomenal cook, prone to serving guests dumplings and sticky ribs the way some grandmothers dispense cake and tea.
Schoenfeld is large and friendly and sometimes loud. He wears slightly cartoonish eyeglass frames, and when he's surprised, he raises his eyebrows under them, and the glasses amplify the effect: he looks very surprised. Occasionally, he wears suspenders. In better thesauruses, you'll find him listed as an antonym for "Chinese guy."
But if you need a road map back to a certain era of Chinese cooking in New York, he is your man. A few lunches with Schoenfeld, followed by a fair amount of reading and a number of afternoons of kitchen adventures, lead us to the recipe that follows, which plays at least to my recollection of the original like a faithful cover of a favorite song: the Clash's "Police and Thieves," say, in place of the Junior Murvin original.
It combines sense memory (East Broadway, 1984!) with some of the plainspoken wisdom of the great New York Times cooking reporter Marian Burros, who declared flatly in these pages in 1995 that home cooks could prepare cold sesame noodles as easily as any restaurant chef, and the cheery hucksterism of the underrated television cook Martin Yan, who did much the same in his 2002 book "Chinatown Cooking."
But Burros adds broccoli to her recipe, thus rendering it weird and too healthful besides, and Yan puts shredded chicken on top of his finished dish, making it into something you'd take to a church dinner. Their sauces aren't quite New-York-centric enough. They don't taste like takeout.
Schoenfeld's version is fiery but uses too much sugar for my taste — he adds so much, in fact, that he needs a measure of black tea in which to dissolve it. This is a common maneuver, but unnecessary. There's plenty of sugar in most commercial peanut butters, and making the tea is too complicated for such a simple dish. (If you're using a natural peanut butter, you're already complicating matters. As Schoenfeld says, "It's all about the Skippy, baby.")
My own take is almost comically easy to prepare. Simply whisk together the ingredients and taste them. "The art is in the balance," Schoenfeld says, correctly, "between the salt and sweet, the sweet and the fire, and the fire and the acidity."
Takeout-Style Sesame Noodles
1 pound Chinese egg noodles (1/8,-inch-thick), frozen or (preferably) fresh, available in Asian markets
2 tablespoons sesame oil, plus a splash
3½ tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons Chinese rice vinegar
2 tablespoons Chinese sesame paste
1 tablespoon smooth peanut butter
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 teaspoons chili-garlic paste, or to taste
Half a cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1/8,-by- 1/8,-by-2-inch sticks
¼ cup chopped roasted peanuts.
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add noodles and cook until barely tender, about 5 minutes; they should retain a hint of chewiness. Drain, rinse with cold water, drain again and toss with a splash of sesame oil.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining 2 tablespoons sesame oil, the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame paste, peanut butter, sugar, ginger, garlic and chili-garlic paste.
3. Pour the sauce over the noodles and toss. Transfer to a serving bowl, and garnish with cucumber and peanuts. Serves 4. Adapted from Martin Yan, Marian Burros, and memory.
1. The "Chinese sesame paste," above, is made of toasted sesame seeds; it is not the same as tahini, the Middle Eastern paste made of plain, untoasted sesame. But you could use tahini in a pinch. You need only add a little toasted sesame oil to compensate for flavor, and perhaps some peanut butter to keep the sauce emulsified.
2. On which subject, the whole point of cold sesame noodles is what's called in the food trade its "mouth feel," the velvety smooth feeling of perfectly combined ingredients. That's why you find so much peanut butter in preparations of cold sesame noodles. Peanut butter emulsifies better than sesame paste.
3. Hey, where are the Sichuan peppercorns? Sichuan food depends on their tingly numbing power! Perhaps, but the little fruits were banned from the United States from 1968 until 2005 by the Food and Drug Administration because they were feared to carry citrus canker, a bacterial disease. And while you could always find them in Chinatowns somewhere (sitting, dry and baleful, in a pile), there are few in the true cult of sesame noodles who use them in their recipes. By all means, add some if you like: toast a tablespoon's worth in a dry pan, crush lightly and whisk the resulting mess into your sauce.


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Veronica Grace believes that some compliments are not kind, even if the person seems to want them.
We've been talking about looking at women respectfully around The Good Men Project. Our top post right now is about a dad who is thinking about how he will explain to his son that, "It is a woman's responsibility to dress herself in the morning. It is your responsibility to look at her like a human being regardless of what she is wearing." Then in a really great discussion today among a few of the writers, one man explained that he's confused by what he is supposed to do when confronted with a woman who is dressed in beautiful or sexy attire. My understanding of what he said was that he feels like women work to get attention for being attractive—but he is not supposed to look too much or compliment them on that attractiveness. This is a man with a Ph.D. in psychology from one of those really impressive schools and decades of working with gender roles. If he's confused, I'm betting almost everyone is.
I think the problem is that we confuse the system with the individual. We confuse the unhealthy wants with the healthy needs. Our culture teaches and enforces that a woman's value is in her ability and willingness to be attractive. It's so universal, that when you meet a little girl you compliment her on how pretty she is, or how cute her dress is. I caught myself doing this not long ago and I know better. It's an easy default when you don't know someone. It's the easy opener, it seems nice and it doesn't ask them to talk to you except to thank you as if you've just done something for them.
I want to challenge you to think of complimenting women you are not in a relationship with as you would think of force-feeding candy to a diabetic. Yes, they may want the candy badly sometimes, even if they know it's making them sick. You are not being kind or noble to give it to them. I know it feels good, as if you've done something positive. You think "I made her day." It's comfortable to say something "nice" about something so shallow, so accepted. Most women will find cheap pleasure in the complement or pretend to. So either way you don't have to be mindful of what you are saying, you can just roll out the 'old compliment them on their looks' thing and move on. If a woman has any reaction but gratitude you get to say she's being a bitch and feel superior because you were only being "nice."
The problem with that is, you are not being kind. Everyone has an innate need to be valued and so often women are told the only value they have a chance of achieving is with their ability to attract male attention. People need to feel seen. Women and girls are often trained to believe that the only way to be seen is to be attractive to the eye. Men, you can related to this, right? Men and boys are often told they only have value in how well they provide, in how invulnerable they are, in how successful they are.
Some people are probably saying "But some women like it! Why shouldn't I give it to them if it makes us both feel good?" If you only care for your own "good feeling" then I hope you'll spend some time thinking about why you would feel good doing something even if it feeds into someone's unhealthy attention-seeking.
Other people may say, "But it does make her feel good." This is where the analogy to candy comes back. You can get pleasure from being complemented. You can get pleasure from eating candy. You can get pleasure from using hard-core drugs. Pleasure is not an indication of health.
For some women, compliments on her looks are like having a candy bar. Not good for her but not that harmful, if she's not having too much. For some women compliments on her looks can be like a candy bar every day for a diabetic, slowly and maybe silently damaging and undermining their health. For some women, compliments on looks are like crack. They hold a serious high at first, but eventually they are brought down to doing anything to get the next compliment, the next bit of attention. They need them just to try to feel somewhere near OK for just a moment.
I look around at the women around me and I feel like the one in a war zone who managed to not get hit by anything too serious.
Now I bet quite a few of you are going "WTF? Over dramatic much?!?" That's OK with me because I'm not one of the women for whom compliments are an addiction or a disease. I got lucky, I was never abused as a child and I was always in the middle. I was never the pretty one, never told I was worthy because of how pretty I was. Nor was I ever the girl who was told she was ugly, sold the illusion that if she was pretty she would be worth something. I look around at the women around me and I feel like the one in a war zone who managed to not get hit by anything too serious. This isn't personal to me, I get to be the reporter on the inside without being one of the badly wounded.
Since I'm not one of the badly wounded, I don't have a personal story to share with you about seeking compliments while hating myself for doing so. But I sure see and hear enough of those stories. There are the stories from my girlfriends, most of whom have many times starved themselves in unhealthy ways, sacrificing their bodies in attempts to be attractive. There are the stories told by the bodies of the women I see around me who have taken their complement seeking to the extreme of plastic surgery. Sometimes to the extreme of living a life with not one part of them OK as it is. I see these women and they have covered themselves in makeup and fake tans, covered their smell with perfume, covered their eyes with contacts, covered their hair in dye and products, covered their body in things to change their very shape. Not one part of them is allowed to just be, not one part of them is OK as it is.
Do you want to play into that?
I am sure there are some of you who are saying "Well, if they say they like it, why should I believe you?" You are absolutely right. If you know someone well enough to have talked to them about this and they have said that they find compliments to their looks healthy or no big deal, respect that. But if you don't know someone, I'm asking you to consider that even if they seem to be seeking attention and compliments, it may not be as simple as you think.
I'm not sure how many of you know this, but there are women who dress attractively not to be noticed by men but to avoid being harassed. Women who do not conform to society's idea of attractive are, in different ways and amounts, treated badly. Sometimes it's just a matter of "more attractive/gender conforming = more privilege" but there are times when not being what society says women should be gets you abused or harassed. Sometimes it has to do with how much you weigh, sometimes it has to do with not wearing makeup or not shaving your legs, sometimes it's the clothes you wear. On rare occasion not conforming to the expectation that you will do your best to be attractive puts women in danger of being assaulted.
Often it involves people telling you what you should be doing with your body. "Hey! Smile for me, it'll make you beautiful!" or "Women should always wear jeans, they look sloppy in track pants" Sometimes it involves things like, "Let's punch a fat person to see if they have feelings!" These are real examples BTW. If women don't want that kind of attention they may not wear casual clothes to run to the store again, and the next man may say, "if she didn't want attention why did she dress up to go to the store?" It's a lose-lose situation for women.
It's a lose-lose situation for men, too. Chances are that if you compliment a woman you don't know on her looks you are very likely either irritating her or playing into dysfunctional dynamics she has going on. So what is the solution? How about if you just make it a point to never compliment a woman on her looks unless you know her well enough to know she is OK with it coming from you? You may even find that once you take that option off the table, you find much more interesting ways to engage a woman in discussion. If you have no interest in engaging her in discussion…don't talk to her.
Once you take complements off the table, you may just find many more interesting ways to engage a woman in discussion.
I know this is complicated, any time you have someone who seems to want something and then says they don't it's confusing. It's often confusing for the women who are doing it too. But I don't think they are alone. I think that some men have a similar issue. Only for men it is not wanting to be desired for money. They truly do not want to be wanted because they have money. Yet the car they drive, the clothes they wear and the things they do are often an advertisement for the fact that they have money (even when they don't). Does that mean that it's healthy or acceptable for women to be with them for their money? I don't think so. I don't buy "she was asking for it" and I don't buy "he was asking for it" either. In any situation. We all have the responsibility for our own actions.
How you treat people is about who you are. It is NOT about who they are or what you think they want or deserve.
I'm interested to know if you can think of other areas men do this? Leave a comment on something you do or that you've seen other men do that advertises themselves for something they do not want to be valued for. I'm looking forward to a thoughtful insightful discussion.
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Traveling by train to France is fun, fast and affordable. But up to now you've had to change trains and/or stations to get to the south of France. Now a direct train runs from London St. Pancras International, stopping only at Lyon and Avignon before ending at Marseille. You don't change either trains of stations, and it takes a mere 6 hours 27 minutes. So a short break to the south of France is now a reality. And with Marseille's new reputation as a tourist destination, it makes an exciting, and affordable, mini vacation.
The service which started on May 1st, is currently set to the following times:
May-June, Sept-Oct Mon, Fri, Sat
July, Aug Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun
November Saturday
Departures at 07.19am, arriving in Marseille at 2.46pm (French time which is 1 hour ahead of UK time). Journey time is 6 hours 27 minutes.
Return journeys are on the same day with the train being prepared and ready to go by 3.22pm local time. It takes longer on the return journey (arriving in London at 10.12pm local time), a journey of 7 hours 12 minutes. As there are no customs or UK border controls in Marseille, you have to get off the train at Lille with your luggage, go through security, then get back on the same train to finish your journey to London.
But if it proves very popular, the Eurostar will put on more frequent services.
From London St. Pancras International to Marseille.
Travel in Style
There are 3 classes on Eurostar: Choose from Standard, Standard Premier and Business Premier. If you take Business Premier you can use the excellent private lounge at London St. Pancras. Standard Premier is almost as good on board, with a meal served to your seat (not quite as elaborate as in Business Premiere), but you cannot use the lounge at St. Pancras where there are newspapers and magazines, tea, coffee and Champagne and very good pastries and snacks to set you up for the journey.
Check-in time is 30 minute before departure but with the increasing popularity of the train service, the station and check in gets very busy, so allow 45 minutes.
The journey from London to Marseille
It's a good journey, with the first stop at Ashford International to pick up passengers from south east England. The train takes about 20 minutes through the Channel Tunnel, then you're into totally different countryside. You glimpse Calais in the distance before speeding through the flatlands of north France.
You skirt Paris, going past Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and heading south east through Burgundy. Warm-colored stone houses with tiled roofs; big farms and vineyards flash by.
You see the distant moutains of the Massif Central and the Puy-de-Dome way in the distance, one of France's least well known regions.
Lyon is the first stop, arriving at Lyon Part-Dieu station at 1pm French time, taking 4 hours 41 minutes.
Now you're in the Rhone Valley, its massive white limestone cliffs rearing up on one side. Your next stop is Avignon TGV station, in the countryside outside Avignon, at 2.08pm, the whole journey taking 5 hours 49 minutes. You see the towers of the famous Palace of the Popes but little else.
You get tantalizing glimpses – of Mont St Victoire near Aix-en-Provence, painted so many times by Paul Cézanne, native of this gorgeous south of France city.
Then you arrive in Marseille at Marseille Saint Charles in the early afternoon at 2.46pm
Advantages of traveling by train rather than by air
There's no doubt that taking the train is the most relaxing way to travel to the south of France. I came back by plane, and door to door it was actually 20 minutes faster by train. Apart from the new speedy method of travel, on the train you can take as much luggage as you can manage; you can take liquids and cosmetics with no restriction; you can work if you want to and move round the train easily. There are two refreshment carriages on the train, but the choice is fairly limited, so many people take their own picnics, just topping up with drinks on the train.
It's also very affordable. Prices start from £99 return and as it's city center to city center you don't have to take an underground or train to the terminal.
Travel with Great Rail Journeys
I travelled with Great Rail Journeys , a company which is flexible, helpful and efficient. This UK company organizes very good, escorted group rail holidays. Check out some of their ideas on their website. Typical escorted group holidays include 6 days in the Dordogne and the Lot from £645 per person; and Languedoc and Carcassone (7 days from £795 per person).
They will also tailor-make you a holiday, combining river trips, city breaks and whatever else you want to see. Check out 4 days on the Cote d'Azur in Nice and Monaco at a cost from £320 per person which includes rail travel, 3 nights in a 3-star Nice hotel and a rail excursion to Monaco. Other destinations include Paris and Reims (from £ £470 per person); Paris and Avignon (5 days from £515 per person).
Contact Great Rail Journeys by telephone on 0800 140 4444 (from the UK) or check their website.
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|wrong Nicasio gig, but I love this poster
Good gravy, this place was tiny! According to jgbp, the Rancho Nicasio was a resturant/bar that held all of 150 people, in a tiny, idyllic Marin County enclave. Their site has some nice pictures (funny coincidence, but Peter Rowan and the Rowan Bros are playing there tonight. Anyone got an extra (plane) ticket?). I assume the place was far enough off the beaten path that most Bay Area heads wouldn't have bothered (I get that sense from posts like this about west coast deadheads' willingness to travel in the late 70's). But thankfully taper Phil Jaret did, and his recording is the only one that we've got at the moment (the newer transfer is pitch-corrected). It's a pretty good, upfront recording that sounds fine on headphones. Not pristine, but it hits all the right spots and is plenty satisfying, and the music makes it well worth it.
The main reason to sing its praises is another (heretofore unknown to me) version of the mighty Sama Layuca, mislabeled in both filesets as Welcome to the Basement. It's not quite as wild as the nutso 3/30/79 performance (ahem), mainly because only Ed Neumeister and Garcia take solos (Ron Stallings, Merl, and John Kahn also all get a turn in the 3/30 version). But holy moley, they throw down hard here. Garcia's chomping at the bit, but Neumeister goes first. The band grooves hard underneath him, slowly loosens their grip, lets it get wild and hairy, then locks it back down, then loosens up again, and so on. I don't know if Stallings was having a problem with his horn, but there's a bit of float-time after Neumeister's solo until Garcia steps up to bat and just nails it. After the same wild back-and-forth, it spills into some loud noisy space — listen close to how seamlessly Gaylord Birch snaps back into the groove of the song as the return for the ending. He's such a fantastic drummer: over a very fast tempo (like 175 bpm), he easily shifts from tight control to unhinged freer playing with nary a stumble. Impressive! I associate him mainly with funk and R&B, but he more than holds his own in a freer context like this.
The rest of the show is pretty hot, too. Less than a week before the Dead debuted with Brent Mydland [edit: there's a long rehearsal tape that circulates dated 4/16/79], Garcia sounds like he's pushing harder than usual. He's particularly on fire during a breathtaking tear through Another Star — very fast, but precise, and totally synched up with the horns' accompaniment that frames the solo. He comes to a great (and perfectly timed) climax, then basically starts over immediately for a second go-round! He also seems pretty fired up for a long Soul Roach, not a song that usually registers for me, but he's really belting here. Linda Chicana, Mohican and the Great Spirit, Long Train Running; all the instrumentals sound great, and they dig in pretty hard on the vocal rave-ups Lovely Night for Dancing and Make It Better. After the a cappella ending to Lovely Night, Merl says something like, "yeah, we in church today!" Amen to that, Merl.
postscript: if you're inclined, take a close listen to Ron Stallings' sax solo in the show-closing Long Train Running. That sounds like a soprano sax after his tenor solo, but the transition sounds way too quick for it to be Stallings switching horns (he does play soprano in Sama Layuca, though). Could it be a guest musician? Jaret's aud tape is tightly edited between most songs, so if something was said, we don't have it. It's no big thing, but it's worth noting.


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For the first wave of transformable Star Wars toys, Hasbro selected three of the biggest characters in Lucas' universe and the most popular villain from the prequels. Offered this first time around are Luke Skywalker (X-Wing), Darth Vader (Tie Fighter Advanced), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Starfighter) and General Grievous (Wheel Bike).
These toys make absolutely no sense in the context of either the Star Wars or Transformers universe. These are Star Wars vehicles that transform into robots that are piloted by Star Wars characters. Sure thing, we can play along for some cool toys anytime. At least, that was the thinking when purchasing Vader, Grievous and Obi-Wan for 15 bucks a pop. Thing is, once out of the box and the cheap design of Kenobi and Vader were apparent, the toys lost a lot of their geek appeal.
Vader and Kenobi offer simplistic transformations and some pretty horrendous articulation. Vader is particularly stiff, which one could argue keeps in line with the films. But let's get real, these are toys and when you are limited to making Vader look like Al Gore in black leather, it's a bit of a lost cause. While I like the look of the Jedi Starfighter, it doesn't make for a compelling robot. In fact, it kind of looks like a dopey uncle who thinks he's cool.
To Hasbro's credit, Grievous is awesome. As a Wheel Bike the toy is accurate and the gunner seat for mini-Grievous makes this the only Star Wars Transformer that offers a visible pilot. Grievous is posable, relatively accurate in robot form and has a pretty bitchin' transformation.
Any true Star Wars fan will pick these up no matter what. Just be warned that you won't receive a well-thought or high-quality product. Those with some self-control will do their wallets justice by only picking up Grievous, who really works well as a Transformer. Don't believe us? Check the bevy of pics below.
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Unestablished writers get signed all the time. Some make it and some don't. Here's one example that quickly comes to mind. I represent Kelley Lovelace. I represented him when he signed his FIRST writer deal with a major about 5 years ago. To the best of my knowledge he had had no cuts--certainly no hits. Being a songwriter was not his primary source of income at that time. So he was one of those unproven writers--not "established". Some of the hits he has written since then are "Didn't Have To Be" (Brad Paisley), "Girls Lie Too" (Terri Clark); "The Impossible" (Joe Nichols), "Two People Fell In Love" (Brad Paisley). There are more. Kelley was an unknown when he signed his first deal. But he had spent time learning his craft and networking. There are many, many more who get in the door and don't get signed because they don't have the talent--and/or the honed skills. Creativity and talent is not enough. Learning and perfecting the craft is critical. And by the way--Kelley is not an artist--neither are most of the writers I represent. One of these days I will see a post where a writer says something like "I can't get a hit because I'm not good enough yet!" instead of blaming the industry, or the color of the sky, or whatever.
That's my rant and rave for today!
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April 24, 1964
Theater: 'Blues for Mister Charlie'
By HOWARD TAUBMAN
ames Baldwin has written a play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes and a roar of protest in its throat.
"Blues for Mister Charlie," which stormed into the ANTA Theater last night, is not a tidy play. Its structure is loose, and it makes valid points as if they were clichÈs. But it throbs with fierce energy and passion. It is like a thunderous battle cry.
On a larger scale it resembles "Waiting for Lefty" of three decades ago, when Clifford Odets rallied labor to its rights. "Blues for Mister Charlie" is a summons to arms in this generation's burning cause--the establishment in this country of the Negro's full manhood, with all the perquisites of that simple and lofty station
You need only to open the program to discover what is on Mr. Baldwin's mind. For there he tells you that his play is "dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, and his widow and his children, and to the memory of the dead children of Birmingham."
The title also informs you of Mr. Baldwin's viewpoint. "Mister Charlie" is the phrase the Negro uses for the white man. His play sings the blues for the white man's moral crisis as much as for the Negro's frustration and agony.
There is a moment midway in the play when this point is made with cutting sharpness. The reserved, dignified Rev. Meridian Henry, pastor of the Negro church in a small Southern town, dares to ask the hard question of Parnell, the one decent white man: Have they been friends because Parnell thinks of Meridian as his favorite Uncle Tom? And then the minister warns that truth must be faced--for the white man's sake, not the Negro's.
Using a free form, which weaves in and out the present and the past, Mr. Baldwin is telling the story of Richard Henry, the pastor's son, and of his shooting by a poor, dull- witted redneck. Although Mr. Baldwin has a courtroom for much of his last act, he does not worry about the niceties of legal procedure. Similarly throughout the play he does not bother with routine devices of realism and suspense.
The fundamental forces that lead to such a crime are what concern him. Even more he seeks to express the outraged thoughts and emotions that blazed within seemingly placid Negroes for so many deceptive years. He reaches his most searing moment of preachment at the end of the second act when the Reverend Henry speaks a eulogy over his son's coffin.
Percy Rodriguez reads this speech with consuming intensity. For it is not a lamentation but the wrath of the prophet. "What shall we tell our children?," he cries in a voice of doom. "Learn to walk again like men," he shouts, like a trumpet call. "Like men! Amen!"
In a crucial scene between Richard and Lyle, the redneck, Mr. Baldwin remembers his duty as a dramatist not to take the easy course. Al Freeman Jr. is a Richard who has come back from a stay in the North seething with rebellion. He enters Lyle's store, and challenges Rip Torn's proud, stupid Lyle with an insolence that would infuriate a better white man or even a dark-skinned one. Both men play their roles admirably, and they charge this scene with electricity.
Mr. Baldwin knows how the Negroes think and feel, but his inflexible, Negro-hating Southerners are stereotypes. Southerners may talk and behave as he suggests, but in the theater they are caricatures.
On the other hand, Parnell, played with touching decency and humility by Pat Hingle, has a tender and harrowing recollection of his love for a Negro girl of 17 when he was 18 and of the terrible moment when her mother, a servant in his house, discovered them. This is Mr. Baldwin at the top of his form.
There are memorable dramatic fragments scattered through "Blues for Mister Charlie." Among the best are the vignettes in which key characters speak their thoughts aloud before they testify.
Diana Sands as the girl Richard loved has an impassioned incantation to the fulfillment he has brought her, and she reads it with shattering emotion. Ann Wedgeworth as Lyle's frightened wife, Rosetta Le Noire as Richard's wise, unforgetting grandmother and John McCurry as a Negro who runs a bar perform with touching credibility.
Burgess Meredith's staging of this novelistic script with its constantly shifting episodes and times has admirable fluidity. The changes have the smoothness of a dance. Moods are counterpoint impressively, the white folks meet in Lyle' parlor on a Sunday morning and spew out their sweet poison while in the rear the Negroes surround the coffin and chant somberly "God's walkin' on the water."
Feder's simple open stage is perfectly suited to this treatment, and his lighting is a powerful dramatic agent.
The Actors Studio Theater, which has been stumbling in darkness all season, finally has arrived at something worth doing. Although Mr. Baldwin has not yet mastered all the problems and challenges of the theater, "Blues for Mister Charlie" brings eloquence and conviction to one of the momentous themes of our era.
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Fasting By Barcode
We came across this post by PanMobil - a woman by the name of Sophia Reiz came up with the idea that you could use bar codes to identify foods to abstain from while fasting.
Keeping away from everything that carries a barcode
Sophia Reiz introduced this idea in her Blog in 2014 and meanwhile a couple of grocery stores are interested in this idea. The whole idea is to keep away from merchandize and especially groceries that are pre-cooked and prepacked and carry a barcode. In her Blog she explains: "Apart from fruits and vegetables, which is weight at the cashier via scanner, all other groceries carry a barcode to be scanned at the cashier. Therefore abstaining from barcodes keeps you away from being comfortable and buying all the groceries from one store."
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