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Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. Today in the United States, there are two towns listed: Weatherby, Missouri; and Weatherby Lake, Missouri Witterby Early OriginsThe surname Witterby was first found in West Yorkshire where one of the first records was of Ivo de Werreby in 1214; and Richard de Wetherby in 1302. Conjecturally the Wetherby family are descended from Ralph of Intwood, who held the lands and village of Intwood from Eudo, Steward to William the Conqueror. Intwood consisted of a church, a mill, nine horses, and thirty sheep, as recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. Wetherby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wedrebi, thought to derive from wether- or ram-farm or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river". Local folklore has it that when heavy snow storms hit the county, Wetherby does not get as much because the "Weather Goes By." Witterby Spelling VariationsWitterby Spelling VariationsThe English language only became standardized in the last few centuries. For that reason, spelling variations are common among many Anglo-Norman names. The shape of the English language was frequently changed with the introduction of elements of Norman French, Latin, and other European languages; even the spelling of literate people's names were subsequently modified. Witterby has been recorded under many different variations, including Wetherby, Weatherby, Wetherbie, Wetherbee, Witherby and many more. Witterby Early HistoryWitterby Early HistoryThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Witterby research. Another 171 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 146 and 1461 are included under the topic Early Witterby History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Witterby Early Notables (pre 1700)Witterby Early Notables (pre 1700)More information is included under the topic Early Witterby Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. The Great MigrationThe Great MigrationTo escape the uncertainty of the political and religious uncertainty found in England, many English families boarded ships at great expense to sail for the colonies held by Britain. The passages were expensive, though, and the boats were unsafe, overcrowded, and ridden with disease. Those who were hardy and lucky enough to make the passage intact were rewarded with land, opportunity, and social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families went on to be important contributors to the young nations of Canada and the United States where they settled. Witterbys were some of the first of the immigrants to arrive in North America: John Witherby (or Wetherby) who settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1630; John Wetherbee settled in New York in 1820; Bartholomew Wethersbie settled in Virginia in 1616. Witterby Family Crest ProductsWitterby Family Crest ProductsSee AlsoSee AlsoCitationsCitations
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February 5 2005 Art Appreciation Newsletter To the British artist Damien Hirst, art, God, and love are connected. He has stated, "I'm having difficulties believing in art without believing in God." Hirst is best known for his installation art showing animals in formaldehyde. Is this really art? Hirst's lamb in formaldehyde is seen by the artist as a symbol of the sacrificed Christ. Is the "Lamb of God" theme taken too far?
I did in fact see Hirst's "Lamb" at the MFA in Boston. I was at first swept up in the excitement of seeing controversial art. Then I began to understand the artist's religious connection.
I also enjoyed "The Collector," which showed life as opposed to death. It was an enclosed structure that exhibited live butterflies as well as an animatronic man. I found this to be a very exciting exhibit.
My faith in artists was again restored. We trust that they will take us to a safe place where our minds and souls will be refreshed. I felt enlightened by Hirst's depiction of death and then life. Minimally, what is art if it is not controversial?
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These days, the phrase going green has become the calling card for many institutional and commercial facilities seeking to improve the environmental responsibility of their operations. But the move toward green operations has become more than just a passing fad. Going green also is a key component in effective maintenance and engineering management.
One critical factor on the path to sustainability is maximizing the many benefits of a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). When fully utilized, a CMMS can help guide departments toward the path to greater energy efficiency and sustainability.
In many maintenance and engineering departments, energy is the highest single expenditure after personnel costs. As with employees, it is critical for maintenance and engineering managers to track and manage energy use effectively to remain efficient and operate cost effectively. CMMS plays an important role in these efforts.
Without proper maintenance, even the most efficiently designed buildings will not achieve desired energy goals. As mechanical systems heat and cool a building, problems inevitably occur. Sensors and meters drift out of calibration, for example, and system performance degrades. If maintenance technicians do not monitor and maintain these systems properly, they begin to use more energy, resulting in an unnecessary increase in utility costs.
Tracking proper equipment maintenance with a CMMS helps departments optimize energy performance, which, in turn, provides data on that performance. Managers need this type of data to make smart decisions on maintenance and engineering priorities and activities. The link is evident: maintenance and energy efficiency, as well as sustainable operations, go hand in hand.
Consider HVAC systems, which typically account for 40-60 percent of a building's energy use. Improperly maintained HVAC equipment will operate less efficiently, increasing the energy output and costs required to operate those pieces of equipment. Managers can use the CMMS to maximize workflow efficiency by organizing and scheduling needed inspections, preventive maintenance (PM), and work orders related to HVAC components. They also can use the maintenance history for a specific piece of equipment to identify problems and take corrective actions.
By using a CMMS to improve energy efficiency and achieve sustainability goals, managers can move beyond some traditional methods designed to curtail energy use. For example, a building's energy-performance measurements typically have been limited to reviewing data on utility bills.
But using energy bills for decision-making is a reactive process. The bills provide one historical energy-consumption data point for an entire building or multiple buildings. Because of this limitation, it is difficult for managers to determine sources of energy waste. In the case of a facility with inefficient operations, the utility bill essentially provides a summary of those inefficiencies. By using a CMMS, managers and technicians can proactively halt energy waste before seeing the negative impact reflected on a bill.
A building-automation system (BAS) is the heart of a building's mechanical system, and it can complement the strengths of a CMMS. A BAS can turn systems and components on and off automatically, help cycle equipment at different speeds, manage operations and performance data, and deliver comfortable conditions within buildings. The BAS also can collect and report energy-performance data and trends.


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fMRI: A Result That Could Make Neuroscientists "Gasp" In Surprise
Many fMRI studies of brain activity could be confounded by the pattern of the participants breathing.
In a new paper published in Human Brain Mapping, Dutch neuroscientists Willem Huijbers and colleagues show that peoples breathing cycle tends to get synchronized (phase-locked) with the appearance of stimuli during cognitive tasks. Because the respiratory cycle is known to affect the fMRI signal, this is a worrying result, as it suggests that some 'brain' activations and deactivations recorded in fMRI studies may in fact reflect breathing.
Huijbers et al used a memory task in which participants are shown words, during the fMRI scan, and later have to try to remember them. It's well known that brain activity differs between words that are later recalled (R) and those that are forgotten (F). The difference, reflecting memory encoding, is seen in two main brain areas.
In the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), activity is higher for remembered words but in the posterior default mode network (DMN), it's lower in response to words that get recalled. The current study replicated these findings.
However, Huijbers et al's results show that it might be breathing, not brain function, that accounts for most of the DMN's contribution to memory. They show that participants breaths tend to phase-lock to the appearance of words, and crucially, that breathing is more tightly locked to subsequently remembered words: this graph shows that on average participants take a breath 2-4 seconds after a word appears, especially for remembered words. If there were no phase-locking, the line would be flat.
We know that the respiratory cycle affects the fMRI signal, and that the DMN is especially prone to respiratory effects (for anatomical reasons).
A second aspect of the study provides more evidence for this. At certain points during the experiment, Huijbers asked participants to hold their breath for several seconds. During this time, the stimuli words kept appearing on the screen. Clearly, if you're holding your breath, your breathing cycle is not phase-locked to anything.
So it's remarkable that, while memory-related activity in the VLPFC (orange) was unaffected by breath-holding, the magnitude of the posterior DMN remembered-vs-forgotten effect (blue) was much smaller (65% lower) during the breath hold:
Altogether this is pretty strong evidence that breath cycle effects could be responsible for much of the task-related DMN deactivation. Huijbers et al did find some memory-related deactivation in that region, even during breath holding, so there does seem to be a real neural effect there as well. But the majority of the signal was respiratory in origin.
Nothing here should come as a huge surprise to neuroscientists, as the impact of breathing on fMRI has been known for a long time. But many people assume that in the course of an experiment, breathing effects will cancel out, especially when the experiment uses an event-related design with different stimuli appearing every few seconds.
Surely, neuroscientists have told ourselves, breathing won't phase-lock over such a short time-scale? After reading this paper, it's hard to feel so confident. (Although I wonder if the presence of breath-hold periods might have encouraged subsequent phase-locking by disrupting the 'natural' breathing cycle?)
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These findings clearly show that it is critical to incorporate respiratory measures in fMRI analyses to account for respiratory/vascular effects, even when using fast event-related fMRI designs.
Luckily, measuring breathing is pretty easy – you just need a detector belt placed around the chest. Most MRI scanners already have the ability to do this, in fact I believe that the belt comes free with the scanner in many cases. So there's no excuse for not using them.
As to why we tend to unconsciously phase-lock our breathing to stimuli, this remains unclear. But we've all experienced it: we've all gasped in surprise, or felt a moment take our breath away. It seems that those are only the most extreme examples of a general phenomenon.
Huijbers W, Pennartz CM, Beldzik E, Domagalik A, Vinck M, Hofman WF, Cabeza R, & Daselaar SM (2014). Respiration phase-locks to fast stimulus presentations: Implications for the interpretation of posterior midline "deactivations" Human Brain Mapping PMID: 24737724
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Caraviello: Coulter won't soon forget overlooked run at KS
June 08, 2011, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com
After the best race of his young national-series career in NASCAR, Joey Coulter spoke to reporters in the Kansas Speedway media center and then headed back to his team's transporter with what he called a "goofy-looking smile" on his face. That was when he heard that his fifth-place run in the Camping World Truck Series event, and the bump he received from Kyle Busch afterward on the cool-down lap, had sparked a firestorm that included a physical confrontation between Busch and Coulter's truck owner, Richard Childress. "I was so excited," Coulter said. "When I got back to the hauler and kind of heard about everything that happened, I was like -- wow. OK. I wasn't quite expecting that. But we had a great, strong weekend." "I was extremely surprised. I looked in the mirror and saw him coming back up, and didn't think much about it. And when he got next to me, I was really, to be honest with you, kind of expecting a thumbs-up. " --JOEY COULTER The aftermath of that Kansas race, which on Tuesday resulted in Childress receiving a $150,000 fine from NASCAR and the team owner being placed on probation through the end of the year, has consumed the sport in the days since. The sensational nature of an altercation between the 65-year-old Childress and the 26-year-old Busch has proven irresistible, to the point where it even overshadowed race winners from the same weekend. Coulter's fifth-place finish this past Saturday has become something of a footnote as the flashpoint that set everything else in motion. Which is unfortunate, given that it was also a breakthrough performance by a driver who comes from a part of the country not known for producing a wealth of stock-car talent, and someone who is pursuing a racing career and a college education at the same time. The South Florida native and Truck Series rookie passed Busch on the final lap at Kansas to record his first top-five finish, an accomplishment he'll hold dear regardless of all the shenanigans that surrounded it. "A run like that, for me, I'm not going to forget it. I know exactly what happened," said Coulter, who turns 21 Wednesday. "I'm still on cloud nine, so to speak. So are my family and friends. I loved it. It was one of the best mile-and-a-half races that I've ever had. So it was great." It wasn't entirely unexpected, given that Coulter had scored top-10 finishes in each of his two ARCA starts at Kansas, and had a wealth of experience to lean on in Richard Childress Racing teammate Austin Dillon, who had finished sixth in Kansas City the previous season and was the pole winner for last Saturday's event. Coulter went in with some confidence, which he needed in a protracted battle with Busch that went on for lap after lap toward the end of the race. It took Coulter that long to set up and eventually get past the Sprint Cup star, an accomplishment that for the young RCR driver was almost as important as the finish. "I've always said, regardless of what people think of Kyle, he's one of the best drivers out there right now," Coulter said. "He gets in all different kinds of race cars every week and wins all the time. For me, personally, to be able to race him as hard as I did and to get around him, that was a high accomplishment in my book. To do it clean, I felt like it was a really clean pass. It was great. It was awesome. I learned so much behind him. If I had caught him with two laps to go, I wouldn't have been able to get around him. It took me all of those 10, 15 laps to put together a corner I needed to where I could get the pass done." So when Busch pulled alongside the No. 22 truck on the cool-down lap, Coulter was hoping for some sign of congratulations. Instead a clearly agitated Busch banged into him door-to-door, sending Coulter swerving down onto the apron. Obviously, given what ensued later in the garage area, that action infuriated Childress. It left Coulter a little stunned. "I was extremely surprised. I looked in the mirror and saw him coming back up, and didn't think much about it," he said. "And when he got next to me, I was really, to be honest with you, kind of expecting a thumbs-up. Because I felt like we both raced really good. I enjoyed it. I was thrilled to be able to race him like that. And then when he ran into me, I was like, OK, that's not what I was expecting. I'm not one that gets out and gets mad. I was like, OK, obviously he didn't like it. So maybe at Texas I'll go find him and say, OK man, what didn't you like? Let's talk about it a little bit and go from there." Given that Brian Ickler is driving the No. 18 truck in Busch's stead this Friday at Texas -- Busch will be at Pocono with the Sprint Cup circuit -- any attempts at détente may have to wait until early July at Kentucky Speedway, where the Truck and Cup tours next intersect. Coulter heads to Fort Worth hoping to build on his Kansas performance, regardless of the larger issue that's overshadowed him. But then again, this is a driver who became somewhat used to being overlooked growing up outside Miami, a city that produced NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison but not much else in the way of elite stock-car drivers. And Allison only succeeded because he left the region for Alabama, where there were more tracks and better competition. Ultimately, Coulter had to do the same thing. He grew up in Miami Lakes, a neighborhood where, if the wind was blowing in the right direction, you could hear the noise from the cars over at Hialeah Speedway, the track where Allison got his start at 17. Eventually the land around the speedway became too valuable, and in 2005 Hialeah was shut down and turned into a commercial development. For Coulter, the closest track was in Punta Gorda, Fla., a three-hour drive away. "That made it tough," he said. "You couldn't just pack up and go. You really had to plan out your season and plan out the traveling and everything." Finding races often meant long treks up into central Florida and places like New Smyrna Speedway -- which holds a big event that coincides with NASCAR Speedweeks, luring a lot of top drivers in town for the races at Daytona -- and USA International in Lakeland, the latter of which has since closed as well. "Places like that are where I would go to try show off a little bit and try to get my name out there some," Coulter said. "But really, it was tough. I got a lot of negative feedback from people down there, [saying] oh, you're never going to make it out of Florida. To make it happen, to get to Charlotte, and to put together what we've put together is really awesome." Coulter finally moved to stock-car country when he was accepted to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he continues to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. His family found an available race shop and by the end of that year Coulter was competing on the ARCA tour in a car owned by his father, Joe. Coulter competed for two seasons in ARCA -- the same circuit in which Childress discovered Clint Bowyer, and where his grandson Ty Dillon now competes -- piling up 14 top-10 finishes, winning a race at Berlin Raceway in Michigan, and catching the eye of RCR management in the process. He was named driver of RCR's second Truck entry in November of last year. It all led up to last Saturday at Kansas, and the biggest moment of a season that's also included top-10 finishes at Dover and Phoenix. Given what transpired immediately afterward in the garage area, Coulter's turn in the spotlight was brief. Within hours, his career-best run at the national level had been reduced to an afterthought. No matter -- he knows what that afternoon meant, and to him nothing else matters. "It was big. I think it showed a lot of people, including guys on my team, that we could do it," Coulter said. "We are really in position to run up front now. I've learned a ton over the past few races. At the beginning of the year, there's some stuff I was missing. Experience, mostly. That's where my teammate [Dillon] and his crew chief really stepped up to the plate and helped me figure it out, and we were able to put it together at Kansas." The opinions expressed are solely those of the writer.Kansas
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I'm excited about the upcoming FX app which is supposed to have on demand access to FX, fox, FXM and I believe live programming from the fox sports channels (although that may be a separate app). Supposed to be similar to HBOgo. Anyone think there's a chance that apple will let FXNow be a stand alone app on Apple TV like WatchEspn and HBOgo? TNT and tbs are also supposedly coming out with live streaming apps this fall.
I suppose there is a decent chance for this given that Apple recently permitted a slew of similar apps. However, I think this fall we will finally see them do something more substantial. I really hope this means more than just another handful of random apps. I hope it means a real live TV service (likely a partnership with TWC), an SDK (they might as well if they're gonna keep releasing random apps), or both.


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There's nothing I find more annoying than the attitude of a pompous, know-it-all music critic. You know, the kind that seems to completely bully one of your favorite bands without rhyme or reason? In order to avoid that perception you may have of me after reading this review, I'm going to be honest with you up front. This is a fresh ears review, meaning this is the first Promise Ring record I've listened to with any amount of focus or attention. So if you are a long-time fan of The Promise Ring, and find my review totally off-base, please take my words with the appropriate amount of salt. You've been warned.
I've been hearing about The Promise Ring for some time now. And it's only been good things. Indie cred is something they got, I hear. Fortunately, it's something I respect.
But all the indie cred in the world can't excuse a mediocre song. From what I've heard on Electric Pink, mediocre is what you get.
Electric Pink is upbeat, simplistic, punk rock laden with forgettable lyrics and ordinary hooks. Unfortunately, The Promise Ring ends up sounding like a less-bratty, less-whiny Blink 182. At least they have their indie integrity, but who knows where that came from.
The lyrics don't save them much either. The last of the four songs pleads "Make me a mix tape/ Don't leave out Husker Du/ Put something on that The Cars did in 1982 / Put on Duran Duran Duran Duran—U2." Hmm…interesting. But then again, maybe I'm not being fair. Most all of the other lyrics are better than that example. Hey, at least that's something.
Electric Pink isn't bad, but it's nothing profound. It makes me wonder how a recommendation worked it's way into my ears, when all I hear is typical hooks and lyrics. If you are looking for a light (i.e. simplistic, not too thought provoking) listen, this could satisfy your need, but don't expect anything else.
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"Philip Glass, the artistic director of the Tibet House benefits, celebrated his 80th birthday at this year's annual benefit with performances from Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Brittany Howard, Sufjan Stevens and more.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Hey everyone can you believe that we have less than a week until Christmas? My kids are getting so excited! I am pretty close to ready, how about you?
Next week there will be no link party so we can all just enjoy are Christmas break, however I will keep this weeks party up an extra week.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Christmas Music Banner
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Melting Snowman Cookies
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
So Creative Party Time 16
Does it seem like December is just flying by? Oh wow! It sure is for me. I still have so many projects to finish and not enough time. I may just have to cut down on some of the handmade gifts I was wanting to make. So what have you been working on?
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Friday, December 9, 2011
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
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Well sorry I have been missing the last few days. We had a crazy winter storm and we had no power for half of one day and no internet another day, so I didn't get around to doing as many posts as I had planned. We had some really fun things linked up last week though so make sure to go check back though them.The top viewed was...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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by Helen Brown"We're just going to look." Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her sons, Sam and Rob, to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, with her overlarge ears and dainty chin.
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Chapter One
ChoiceA cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.
"We're not getting a kitten," I said, negotiating our station wagon around a bend the shape of a pretzel. "We're just going to look at them."
The road to Lena's house was complicated by its undulations, not to mention the steepness. It snaked over what would qualify as mountains in most parts of the world. There wasn't much beyond Lena's house except a few sheep farms and a stony beach.
"You said we could get a kitten," Sam whined from the backseat before turning to his younger brother for support. "Didn't she?"
The backseat was usually the boys' battleground. Between two brothers aged nearly nine and six the dynamic was predictable. Sam would set Rob up with a surreptitious jab that would be rewarded with a kick, demanding retaliation with a thump, escalating into recriminations and tears-"He punched me!" "That's 'cos he pinched me first." But this time they were on the same side, and my usual role of judge and relationship counselor had been supplanted by a simpler one-the Enemy.
"Yeah, it's not fair," Rob chimed in. "You said."
"What I said was we might get a kitten one day. One big dog is enough for any family. What would Rata do? She'd hate having a cat in the house."
"No, she wouldn't. Golden retrievers like cats," Sam replied. "I read it in my pet book."
There was no point recalling the number of times we'd seen Rata disappear into undergrowth in pursuit of an unfortunate member of the feline species. Since Sam had given up trying to become a superhero and thrown his Batman mask to the back of his wardrobe, he'd morphed into an obsessive reader brimming with facts to destroy any argument I could dredge up.
I didn't want a cat. I probably wasn't even a cat person. My husband, Steve, certainly wasn't. If only Lena hadn't smiled so brightly that day at our neighborhood playgroup when she'd asked: "Would you like a kitten?" If only she hadn't said it so loudly-and in front of the kids.
"Wow! We're getting a kitten!" Sam had yelled before I had a chance to answer.
"Wow! Wow!" Rob had echoed, jumping up and down in his sneakers with the holes I'd been trying to ignore.
Even before we'd met Lena I'd been in awe of her. A willowy beauty with an eclectic fashion style, she'd migrated from Holland in her late teens to become a highly regarded painter. Her portraits invariably contained political comment about race, sex or religion. An artist in the deepest sense, she also chose to live independently from men with her three children. Personally, I wouldn't have been surprised if Lena had summoned her offspring from some parallel universe only she and Pablo Picasso had access codes to. I wasn't about to make a fuss about a kitten in front of her.
* * *
Raising a pair of boys was proving to be more demanding than I'd imagined back when I was a schoolgirl watching baby-shampoo ads on television. If there'd been an Olympic medal for teenage-mother naivety, I'd have won gold. Married and pregnant at nineteen, I'd smiled at the notion of babies waking up at night. Those were other people's babies. Reality struck with Sam's birth. I'd tried to grow up fast. Midnight phone calls to Mum three hundred kilometers away hadn't always been helpful ("He must be teething, dear"). Fortunately, older, more experienced mothers had taken pity on me. With kindness and great patience they'd guided me through Motherhood 101. I'd eventually learned to accept that sleep is a luxury and a mother is only ever as happy as her saddest child. So in those closing days of 1982 I was doing okay. They were gorgeous boys, and put it this way: I hadn't been to the supermarket wearing a nightgown under my coat for several months.
We were living in Wellington, a city famous for two things-bad weather and earthquakes. We'd just managed to purchase a house with the potential to expose us to both: a bungalow halfway down a zigzag on a cliff directly above a major fault line.
Minor earthquakes were so common we hardly noticed when walls trembled and plates rattled. But people said Wellington was overdue for a massive quake like the one of 1855, when great tracts of land disappeared into the sea and were flung up in other places.
It certainly seemed like our bungalow clung to the hill as if it was prepared for something terrible to happen. There was a faded fairytale appeal to its pitched roof, dark-beamed cladding and shutters. Mock Tudor meets Arts and Crafts, it wasn't shabby chic; it was just plain shabby. My efforts to create a cottage garden had resulted in an apology of forget-me-nots along the front path.
Quaint as it was, clearly the house had been built with a family of alpine goats in mind. There was no garage, not even a street frontage. The only way to reach it was to park the car up at road level, high above our roofline, and bundle groceries and children's gear into our arms. Gravity would take care of the rest, sucking us down several zigs and zags to our gate.
We were young, so it was no problem on sunny days when the harbor was blue and as flat as a dinner plate. Whenever a southerly gale roared up from Antarctica, however, tearing at our coat buttons and flinging rain in our faces, we wished we'd bought a more sensible house.
But we loved living a twenty-minute walk from town. Equipped with ropes and rock-climbing shoes we could have made it in five. When we headed into the city, an invisible force would send us plummeting down the lower end of the zigzag. Hurtling through scrub and flax bushes, we'd pause for a glimpse. A circle of amethyst hills, stark and steep, rose above us. I was amazed we could be part of such beauty.
The path then pulled us across an old wooden footbridge spanning the main road. From there we could either take steps down to the bus stop or continue our perpendicular journey to the Houses of Parliament and central railway station. The slog home from the city was another matter. It took twice as long and demanded the lungs of a mountaineer.
The zigzag had a sharply divided social structure. There was a Right Side, on which substantial two-story houses nestled in gardens with aspirations to Tuscany. And the Wrong Side, where bungalows sprinkled themselves like afterthoughts along the edge of the cliff. Wrong Side people tended to have weed collections rather than gardens.
The prestige of jobs declined in direct correlation to the zigzag's slope. On the top right-hand side Mr. Butler's house sat like a castle. Grey and two-story, it oozed superiority not only over the neighborhood but the city in general.
Below Mr. Butler's, a two-story house opened out over the harbor, looking as if it would hardly be bothered by mere social comparisons. With eaves graceful as seagull's wings, it seemed ready to take off in the next decent gale to a far more glamorous world. Rick Desilva ran a record company. People said that before they were married, his wife, Ginny, had been a fashion model, New Zealand's answer to Jean Shrimpton. Shielded behind a thicket of vegetation that no doubt could be dried and smoked, they had a reputation for parties.
There was a ridiculous rumor that Elton John had been seen staggering out of their house drunk as a dog, though in reality it was just someone who looked like him. Their son, Jason, was at the same school as our boys. They were perched on the lip of a gully about half a mile farther up the hill, but we kept our distance. The Desilvas had a sports car. Steve said they were too racy. I had no energy to argue.
Our side of the zigzag specialized in recluses and people who were renting for a while before moving somewhere less exposed, with better access and not so close to the fault line. Mrs. Sommerville, a retired high school teacher, was one of the few longtime residents of the Wrong Side. She inhabited a tidy weatherboard house one down from us. A lifetime with adolescents had done nothing for her looks. She wore a permanent expression of someone who'd just received an insult.
Mrs. Sommerville had already appeared on our doorstep with complaints about our dog terrorizing her cat, Tomkin, a large tabby cat with a matching sour face. Even though I tried to avoid her, I bumped into her most days, giving her the opportunity to point out skid marks where boys had been zooming down the zigzag illegally on skateboards, or the latest graffiti on her letterbox. Mrs. Sommerville's pathological dislike of boys included our sons, who were suspects of every crime. Steve said I was imagining things. While she loathed boys, Mrs. Sommerville knew how to turn the charm on for men.
* * *
I worked at home, writing a weekly column for Wellington's morning newspaper, The Dominion. Steve worked one week home, one week away, as radio officer on one of the ferries that plowed between the North and South Islands. We'd met at a ship's party when I was fifteen. A grand old man of twenty, he was the most exotic creature I'd ever encountered. Compared to the farmers who steered us around country dance halls near New Plymouth where I grew up, he was from another world.
His face was peachy white and he had baby-soft hands. I'd been mesmerized by his blue eyes, which glowed under their long lashes. Unlike the farmers, he hadn't been frightened of conversation. I'd assumed that being English, he was probably related to one of the Beatles, if not the Rolling Stones.
I'd loved the way his tawny hair draped across his collar, just like Paul McCartney's. He'd smelled of diesel oil and salt, the perfume of the wider world that was impatient for me to join it.
We'd written to each other for three years. I'd sprinted through school and a journalism course (straight Cs), then flown to England. Steve was literally the man of my dreams-I'd met him in person for only two weeks during the three years we'd been letter writing-and reality had no hope of matching up. His parents were probably unimpressed with his big-boned girlfriend from the colonies.
We'd married in the Guildford registry office a month after my eighteenth birthday. Only five people had been brave enough to turn up for the ceremony. The officiant was so bored he forgot to mention the ring. My new husband slipped it on my finger afterwards outside in the porch. It was raining. Distraught back in New Zealand, my parents investigated the possibilities of annulment, but they were powerless.
About two weeks after the wedding I'd stared at the toilet seat in our rented flat and thought it needed polishing. That was when I knew getting married had been a mistake. Yet we'd upset so many people by insisting on it I couldn't back out. Short of running away and causing more pain, the only solution I could think of was to create a family. Steve reluctantly obliged. Honest from the start, he'd made it clear that babies weren't really his thing.
We returned to New Zealand, where I'd labored through a December night too frightened to ask the nurse to turn the light on in case it was breaking hospital rules. Somewhere through a drug-induced haze I'd heard the doctor singing "Morning Has Broken." Minutes later she'd lifted baby Sam from my body.
Before he'd even taken his first breath he turned his head and stared into my face with his huge blue eyes. I thought I'd explode with love. My body ached to hold this brand-new human with his downy hair glowing under the delivery room lights. Sam was wrapped in a blanket-blue in case I forgot what sex he was-and lowered into my arms. Kissing his forehead, I was overcome by the sensation that I'd never be safely inside my own skin again. I uncurled his tiny fist. His lifeline was strong and incredibly long.
Even though it was supposed to be our first meeting, Sam and I recognized each other immediately. It felt like a reunion of ancient souls who'd never spent long apart.
Becoming parents hadn't brought Steve and me closer together. In fact, it had the opposite effect. Two and a half years after Sam's birth Rob slid into the world.
Lack of sleep and jangled nerves had made our differences more apparent. Steve sprouted a beard, a look that was becoming fashionable, and retreated behind it. Returning from a week at sea, he was tired and irritable.
He became annoyed with what he perceived as my extravagance over the boys' clothes and upkeep. I bought a secondhand sewing machine that emitted electric shocks and I taught myself to cut their hair. I grew louder, larger and more untidy.
The times we weren't sure how much longer we could stay together were interspersed with phases of holding on and hoping things might improve for the sake of the boys. Even though we were drifting apart like icebergs on opposing ocean currents, there was absolutely no doubt we both loved them.
* * *
"Now, boys," I said, pulling up outside Lena's house and heaving the handbrake high as it would go. "Don't get your hopes up. We're just going to look."
They scrambled out of the car and were halfway down the path to Lena's house before I'd closed the driver's door. Watching their blond hair catch the sunlight, I sighed and wondered if there'd ever be a time I wouldn't be struggling to catch up with them.
Lena had opened the door by the time I got there, and the boys were already inside. I apologized for their bad manners. Lena smiled and welcomed me into the enviable tranquillity of her home, which overlooked the playing field where I often took the boys to run off excess energy.
"We've just come to look at the ..." I said as she escorted me into her living room. "Oh, kittens! Aren't they adorable?"
In a corner, under some bookshelves, a sleek bronze cat lay on her side. She gazed at me through amber eyes that belonged not to a cat but a member of the aristocracy. Nestled into her abdomen were four appendages. Two were coated with a thin layer of bronze hair. Two were darker. Perhaps once their fur had grown they'd turn out to be black. I'd seen recently born kittens before, but never ones as tiny as these. One of the darker kittens was painfully small.
The boys were on their knees in awe of this nativity scene. They seemed to know to keep a respectful distance.
"They've only just opened their eyes," Lena said, scooping one of the bronze kittens from the comfort of its twenty-four-hour diner. The creature barely fitted inside her hand. "They'll be ready to go to new homes in a couple of months."
The kitten squirmed and emitted a noise that sounded more like a yip than a meow. Its mother glanced up anxiously. Lena returned the infant to the fur-lined warmth of its family to be assiduously licked. The mother used her tongue like a giant mop, swiping parallel lines across her baby's body, then over its head for good measure.
"Can we get one, please, PLEASE?" Sam begged, looking up at me with that expression parents struggle to resist.
"Please?" his brother echoed. "We won't throw mud on Mrs. Sommerville's roof anymore."
"You've been throwing mud on Mrs. Sommerville's roof?!"
"Idiot!" Sam said, rolling his eyes and jabbing Rob with his elbow.
But the kittens ... and there was something about the mother. She was so self-assured and elegant. I'd never seen a cat like her. She was smaller than an average cat, but her ears were unusually large. They rose like a pair of matching pyramids from her triangular face. Darker stripes on her forehead whispered of a jungle heritage. Short hair, too. My mother always said short-haired cats were clean.
"She's a wonderful mother, pure Abyssinian," Lena explained. "I tried to keep an eye on her, but she escaped into the bamboos for a couple of nights a while back. We don't know who the father is. A wild tom, I guess."
Abyssinian. I hadn't heard of that breed. Not that my knowledge of pedigreed cats was encyclopedic. I'd once known a Siamese called Lap Chow, the pampered familiar of my ancient piano teacher, Mrs. McDonald. Our three-way relationship was doomed from the start. The only thing that hurt more than Mrs. McDonald's ruler whacking my fingers as they fumbled over the keys was Lap Chow's hypodermic-needle claws sinking into my ankles. Between the two of them they did a good job creating a lifelong prejudice against music lessons and pedigreed cats.
"Some people say Abyssinians are descended from the cats the ancient Egyptians worshipped," Lena continued.
It certainly wasn't difficult to imagine this feline priestess presiding over a temple. The combination of alley cat and royalty had allure. If the kittens manifested the best attributes of both parents (classy yet hardy), they could turn out to be something special. If, on the other hand, less desirable elements of royalty and rough trade (fussy and feral) came to the fore in the offspring, we could be in for a roller-coaster ride.
"There's only one kitten left," Lena added. "The smaller black one."
Of course people had gone for the larger, healthier-looking kittens first. The bronze ones probably had more appeal, as they had a better chance of turning out looking purebred like their mother. I'd already decided I preferred the black ones, though not necessarily the runt with its bulging eyes and patchy tufts of fur.
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Helen Brown was born and brought up in New Zealand, where she first worked as a journalist, TV presenter, and scriptwriter. A multi‑award‑winning columnist, Helen now lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her family and feline, the internationally beloved Jonah. Her memoir Cleo rose to the top of the bestseller lists in its first weeks in the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, and Australia, and has been translated into more than sixteen languages. Cats & Daughters further increased her audience with publications in six countries.Tumbledown Manor, her first novel, again shows her storytelling talents. You can visit Helen Brown at www.helenbrown.com and follow her on Facebook.
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This book is a wonderful, moving memoir about a cat who helps heal a family after a horrific tragedy strikes them. We get a glimpse into Helen's life after she loses her son, Sam. The family had arranged to adopt Cleo as a birthday present for Sam. When Cleo is delivered to the family, the last thing they were thinking about was giving a kitten a home. They were grieving after losing Sam. As soon as Helen's son, Rob holds Cleo, he smiles for the first time in a very long time. Cleo was indeed home and on her way to becoming a part of the family. I enjoyed reading about Cleo's crazy cat antics. Cleo certainly made her presence known right from the start. Anyone who is owned by a cat knows how insane life can become with a small kitten running the show. You also know how loving a cat can be especially in our times of need. Cleo was no exception. It was as though she knew she had an important job to do and that was to help her family through a terribly trying time. I loved reading about Cleo's adventures with her family. The story is both touching and amusing. The book is not just about Cleo but about a family moving forward after a tragic time in their lives. By the end of the book I felt as though I knew Helen, Cleo and the whole family and had taken the journey along side them. I have always thought that animals possess a healing quality and Cleo has shown me that to be true. I loved this book and highly recommend it, even if you are not a cat lover! Be sure to have Kleenex close by. This book will have you in tears at times, some happy tears, some sad tears and some from laughing so hard at Cleo's shenanigans. I enjoyed Helen's sense of humor. Pets and laughter can be the best medicine of all! This book will stay with me for a long time to come.
I don't ordinarily read this kind of book, but I have to confess, I was drawn to it because I myself have a black cat named Cleo whom I got as a kitten, so seeing the cover was startling and I knew I had to read the book.
I have to admit that despite my trying to resist, the story of this little black cat and the family who adopted her drew me right in. Unlike many stories of this kind, Brown writes in a no-nonsense voice, pleasantly devoid of excessive sentimentality, and the story never turns maudlin, even when sad events happen. I'll admit to being a little teary-eyed at the end, surprised at how moved I was.
I'm a "cat person" - I've lived with cats all my life - and I have to say, Ms. Brown perhaps anthopomorphizes Cleo just a bit too much - but no matter. I still couldn't put the book down and finished it in a day and a half over the weekend.
One thing that did NOT please me, though, is how the publisher chose to Americanize the spelling and usage for the American edition, as though American readers would not recognize "harbour," "centre," or degees of temperature in Celsius (check the first few pages of the book on Amazon's U.K. site if you want to verify this). Translate from another language, certainly, but we DON'T need a translation from New Zealand English!
Nonetheless, a charming, heartwarming story, if nothing groundbreaking, with particular appeal to animal lovers. Grab a box of tissues and enjoy.
If you enjoy books about family trials and how pets bring happiness to family members through the bonds they share, then this book is for you.
A must-read for cat lovers. Helen Brown has a wonderful writing style, will make you laugh one minute and cry the next. You will definitely see some of your cat's antics in Cleo. I couldn't wait to read more, but didn't want the book to end.
I bought this book at my local BJS and loved it. Helen never had a thought about adopting a kitten until her sons convinced her to get Cleo, an irrestable black runt. Soon after,Sam, her oldest skn, is tragically hit by a car and killed. Cleo arrives a couple months later, and Helen is about to give her back until she sees Rob, her youngest son, do something she hasn't seen in a long time- his smile. Cleo mends the family through every moment, both good and bad. This story was probably the best I've read since Warriors. 20 stars. I am looking for the sequel, Cats and Daughters, aka After Cleo Comes Jonah.
People take life for grantide. So after a huge tragedy you end up blaming yourself. Helen was not expecting a tiny little kitten after the death of someone close (I don't want to give it away). This story is about how something so small could mend a families heart. It is a perfect story that will leave you touched at the end. It is a must read! I do have to say it got boring for a while but the ending was very well written! I would recomend this to anyone, it is a very nice book. :D
Cleo is one of the most touching stories i have ever read. It is a very cute sad and happiest stories ever. You should read this book i will get you thinking how lucky you really are.
this is an awesome book i love it


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In theory, the "fit and proper" test set by the City watchdog is a tough examination of the attributes of candidates whom banks put forward for the most sensitive of roles. But figures out yesterday reveal that nearly everyone passes. The regulator stopped just 30 applications from 227,000 – a rejection rate of only 0.013 per cent – in the last six years.
The UK's "fitness and probity" process encompasses senior management and directors, and staff working in compliance, risk and internal audit across all firms authorised by the regulator. The13 criteria include "whether the person has been convicted of any criminal offence" with "particular consideration … given to offences of dishonesty, fraud, financial crime or an offence whether or not in the United Kingdom or other offences under legislation relating ... money laundering".
A spokesman for the Financial Services Authority, just replaced by the incoming Financial Conduct Authority, said: "In addition to 30 applications for approval being formally refused, over 7,000 applications were withdrawn after submission – many of which were after close scrutiny
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Shattered - with Jennie Marsland
I sent Jennie a few interview questions so you can get to know her better:
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Been out running errands this morning. Donna, thanks again for having me here today! And Sara, thanks for dropping by!
Donna, I'm anxious to get Carl's story finished, too. Yesterday I did some research and found out a little more about what he went through overseas. No wonder he's troubled. I hope readers enjoy seeing him come around.
I'm revising today and will drop in periodically. See you later!Wonderful interview, Jennie. Thanks, Donna! I love those doggies and because my Canadian history is so slim, I totally enjoyed learning about the Halifax explosion. How dreadful. And the mysterious vanishing man. Yowza. Way cool. Good job today.
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt. Beautiful dogs. I came across the Halifax Explosion story last year while researching (I can't remember what led me to it). A tragic event that I, a Nevadan with Canadian connections, never heard of. I'm real interested to read Shattered.


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Q: What are the former cast members doing now? JOSHJosh "J. Elvis" Weinstein left the show after the end of the first season on
national TV. In the first episode of the second season, Frank held up a milk carton with his picture on it and said, "He's missing." JOELJoel left the series in 1993, in the middle of the show's fifth season on national TV. His final episode as host was episode 512- Mitchell. In the episode, Gypsy, mistakenly believing The Mads planned to kill Joel, discovered that the SOL had an escape pod. Determined to save him, she threw him into and and sent it to Earth. Q: Why did Joel leave? Q: What is Joel doing now? FRANKFrank's departure
took place in episode 624-
Samson vs. The Vampire
Women, the
final episode
of season six. His character was assumed
into "second banana" heaven, a "beautiful place where
lackeys, toadies and whipping boys are forever safe and free
from their oppressors." TRACETrace left the series at the end of the seventh season on national TV. His last episode was 706- Laserblast. See the Comedy Central section for details on that episode. He moved to the L.A. area. Trace had a small part in a 1998 movie called With or Without You, appeared in five episodes of the NBC series Freaks and Geeks and made an extremely brief cameo in an episode of "The West Wing." He also hosted and was a writer for "People Traps," a pilot for the Animal Planet cable channel, but the pilot did not go series. Most recently he worked as a staff writer for the ABC series America's Funniest Home Videos, but he has now left the series.Trace wrote the script for a one-time-only special comic book for Event Comics called Here Come the Big People. If you'd like signed copies (it was released with two different covers), send a check for $9.00 (made out to "Trace Beaulieu") to him at: P.O. Box 311, Marine On St. Croix, MN 55047. He'll ship you out the two books, signed within 2-3 weeks. Trace also filmed scenes for the Darkstar video game project. For more information, read our interview with him, In 2007, he joined Joel's movie riffing venture Cinematic Titanic. MIKEMike Nelson has written three books: a novel called "Mike Nelson's Death Rat," and two collectons of essays, "Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters" and "Mike Nelson's Movie MegaCheese." He also did a lot of freelance writing, including an occasional column for TV Guide called "The Watch Dog." He his own website, michaeljnelson.com. He was also part of the Web site venture timmybighands.com along with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.In 2005 Mike began working with a San Diego company called Legend Films. He provided commentary tracks for several of their DVDs and roped Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett into another one. The relationship eventually blossomed into his latest project: Rifftrax.com. He blogs regularly here. In additon, he, Kevin and Bill produced four DVDs under the name The Film Crew. Originally produced for Rhino Home Video, they were later released by ShoutFactory. KEVINIn 2002, Kevin Murphy's published "A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey" for Harper Collins. He has his own website, ayearatthemovies.com. He was also part of the Web site venture timmybighands.com along with Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett.For a while he was the semi-official movie commentator for NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." He had a recurring column entitled "The Bottom Shelf" running in Total Movie & Entertainment magazine, but it has been discontinued. Kevin has done a number of Rifftrax commentaries with Mike and Bill. He blogs regularly here. In additon, he, Mike and Bill produced four DVDs under the name The Film Crew. MARY JOMary Jo Pehl did a great deal of traveling after MST3K ended. She finally settled in New York City, where she got a job as a magazine editor and did a lot of freelance writing. Her work has appeared in the Minnesota Women's Press, and Funny Times. She has been a commentator on National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and on KTCA-TV's Almanac. She also has been as a consultant for the PBS show "Mental Engineering."She's done some work on several independent film projects, as well as appearing in the Darkstar video game project. Her book "I Lived With My Parents," was published by Plan Nine Publishing. Most recently, she appeared in "Master Pancake Theater," a comedy troup that performs live riffings of movies at the Alamo Drafthouse. In October, 2007, Mary Jo married Ronald DeGroot. Vist her blog here. In 2007, she joined Joel's movie riffing venture Cinematic Titanic. PAULWhen MST3K closed down, Paul Chaplin became a prolific freelance writer. Paul dropped out of sight in 2004 to care for his wife Paula, who suffers from Hodgkin's disease.In October 2007, Paul rejoined the relaunched Best Brains Inc. BILLBill Corbett's solo comedy stage play, "Heckler," has been performed in several cities. Two of his other plays "Hate Mail" and "The Big Slam," have been performed by several theatre companies around the country. He was also part of the Web site venture timmybighands.com along with Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson.Bill did some teaching at the University of Minnesota and at Minneapolis Guthrie Theater and Kenyon College in Ohio. He has done a number of Rifftrax commentaries with Mike and Kevin. He blogs regularly here. In additon, he, Mike and Kevin produced four DVDs under the name The Film Crew. He wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Eddie Murphy movie "Starship Dave." JIMJim Mallon is now the sole owner of the rights to MST3K. When the show left the air in 1999, Jim and the few remaining staffers at Best Brains continued to sell MST3K merchandise. Jim began a new business and seemed to have dropped out of show business.But in 2007, he launched a new Web site at MST3K.com which includes web animation, a new merchandise store and more. ABOUT THIS FAQ | THE BASICS | LYRICS | COMEDY CENTRAL | THE SCI-FI CHANNEL | CANCELLATION | SYNDICATION | BEHIND THE SCENES | OTHER MEDIA | MST3K - THE MOVIE | MSTIE CYBERSPACE | CONVENTIONS | MSTIES | JOEL VS. MIKE DISCUSSIONS | LEGALITIES | PARTS: THE BOT BUILDING HORROR | SUBTLETIES | WHERE ARE THEY NOW? | AWARD NOMINATIONS | BRIEF EPISODE GUIDE | GUEST STARRING ROLES |


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Friday breakfast smoothie: spinach, Vega Vanilla Chai powder, frozen banana, cranberries.
Friday lunch from Paradis: mixed greens, roasted eggplant, tomato and walnuts in a tahini-dill dressing. And inexplicably three pieces of what I think were cheese on top?!? I picked it off and made sure there was no more hiding in there. That was weird because they're usually good about listing all the ingredients in the salad. Eh.
That night, I met up with a friend after work, we got a couple drinks and headed to see MEN !!! It was so much fun. They are a queer, dancey, electro band headed by JD Samson of Le Tigre (another favorite band.) I danced and drank more and yelled stuff and JD even responded to me once! Ah, I geeked out. What a blast.
Here is a photo from the night that my friend Tara took on her phone (she's also a really talented photographer IRL):
After the show ended (like, super early! like, 10:19!) we walked around and hit up one more place, Lillie's, an Irish/Victorian bar! It was filled with eerily trendy people doing the real Friday-night thing, but it was beautiful inside with stained glass and porcelain stuff and hardwood floors and wallpaper, so we got one drink and skedaddled. I'd love to return on an off-night.
Saturday lunch: Falafel sandwich (with onions, hummus and hot sauce) from Rainbow Falafel near Union Square. Falafelites are divided about the best in the city, this is one name that comes up pretty frequently. Not bad; I wish there were more salad in it.
After work I biked to see a friend's band (Enemy Owl) play at Acheron, a metal bar in East Williamsburg. Then I biked a lot more all over this place.
Sunday I got up, not too incredibly hungover and took the train out to Queens to catch a Mets game with a co-worker and some of his friends.
For Ingrid, here are some shots of CitiField, where they play:
Train stop. It used to say "Shea Stadium-Willets Point" Shea was their old ballpark until it got torn down a couple years ago to build the new CitiField, in the Shea parking lot area. The design of Citi is based on Ebbet's Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers used to play.
Nosebleed seats. I kinda get vertigo up there.
One of my favorite (former) players, the one and only Keith "Mex" Hernandez. Swankkk.
The Mets lost to the Cubs (the worst team in baseball) but it was a good day out, despite the sweltering heat, holy crap. I got a weird sunburn and sweated at least a beer and a half straight out. After the game we went to the Astoria Beer Garden and...yeah.
So! Finally, today, I went out to my parent's house armed with a camera to take a milli photos of these two little kittens she just adopted!!! They are brothers!!! How freaking cute!!
A former co-worker posted on facebook that she rescued these two little ones that were about to cross the street!! She has three cats of her own and knows how to take amazing care of kittens, but she just couldn't keep them. I don't remember if I told you all or not but my mom's cat passed away in March, and she didn't want to rush into getting another cat but some time has passed and she visited these little dudes and fell in love immediately. It's easy to see why.
My mom had to work all day today so I went over to visit the kittens and play with them and socialize them a little. They are only about three weeks old so they are suuuper tiny, but really frisky and sweet.
They wouldn't stop moving long enough for a good shot! I took a video but it has my "talking to kitties baby talk" voice, so, uh, maybe some other time. Phew!
Post-kittens, burritos:
Nopalitos burrito with refried beans, potatoes, salad, radishes, and salsa verde from Taco Chulo. That is my entire weekend. It was a good one! Do you guys prefer busy weekends, or slow, chill ones? I usually stay pretty low-key but sometimes mania kicks in and I need to get out of the house. Plus, the more I do on weekends, it kind of feels like the weekend was longer. So, yeah! Here's to next weekend. You know, everybody is workin' for the weekend.


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Friday 4th November, 2011
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The web platform is growing, and JavaScript is growing along with it. ES6, the next edition of the JavaScript standard, is gearing up to be a huge step forward for web programming. I will talk about the exciting new features being worked on for ES6.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Pick of the Week: Feminine Blazer
Strong shoulders are considered more masculine, and I love a sharp shoulder line. But sometime I want to throw off that convention. I want to feminize what is masculine and remain strong in my girliness. This greenish grey puff shoulder blazer is just the thing. The soft shoulder would look equally fantastic with a business suit or flirty spring dress. It hangs open and loose, so it won't cover the rest of your outfit. It's $79 from Victoria's Secret.
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Perpetua: A Bride, A Martyr, A Passion
In Carthage of the 3rd century AD, Perpetua, the young daughter of a Roman nobleman and scholar, finds Jesus and enters a community of believers, promptly rejecting her father's pagan gods. She has little experience: "I'd studied for so long," she says, "Friendship, pain, joy, death, heroism, pathos. I'd never seen it in real life." At a time when Christians are persecuted, her new beliefs are dangerous. Certain that her faith will soon be tested, Perpetua struggles with her own nature, with her sensuality and her desire for honor and pleasure.
Unfortunately, the reader knows what's coming. Over and over again, Ms. Peterson tells us that Perpetua is going to be martyred. Lack of suspense, however, is not this book's only problem. Perpetua is plagued with flagrant historical errors (i.e., stirrups did not come to the Mediterranean world until the 8th century, tea was brought west in the 16th). There is a whole dictionary of anachronistic concepts: university, feminism, brainwashing, projection of ideas… and a wearisome tendency to exhibit research by including unnecessary Latin words. The characters are predictable (all Christians angelic, all pagans bloodthirsty), the twists in the plot poorly constructed. Its one saving grace is Perpetua's growing relationship with Jesus, but the obsessive quality of her yearning for martyrdom gives the novel an oppressive atmosphere. "The critics could not understand," Ms. Peterson writes, "many whole congregations are at a loss to identify the good in a passion that pushes us to throw away life…" The author is right; many did not understand then, and they still don't. It is a timely topic, particularly relevant since Perpetua is a historical character. But by presenting her argument in a one-sided fashion, by dismissing the views of other early Christian writers who condemned this "mania for self destruction," Ms. Peterson succeeds only in validating fanaticism. Troublesome, considering the times in which we're living.
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A highly rated City analyst who quit her £105,000-a-year post alleging sexual discrimination earned £45,000 less than a male colleague who only worked for two days a week, an employment tribunal was told yesterday.
Louise Barton, 52, a media analyst with Investec Henderson Crosthwaite Securities, also received half as much in bonuses as her less experienced colleague, despite having worked in the City for 23 years and being rated best in her field by financial experts.
Mathew Horsman, a former journalist with The Independent, was hired by her company as an investment analyst in 1997. Two years later, he was given a 50 per cent pay increase to £150,000 because his bosses were concerned that he might be headhunted.
The pay rise came after Mr Horsman negotiated to work for only two days a week. The company's chairman, Perry Crosthwaite, had given him permission to go part time so that he could continue developing television programmes and writing a book.
Ms Barton, from Fulham, west London, left her job as a fund manager and is claiming sexual discrimination and unequal pay.
She was finally given a pay rise two years later than Mr Horsman after finding out about his pay deal and complaining to her superiors.
Mr Crosthwaite told the tribunal yesterday: "We raised Mathew Horsman's salary because we were aware he was being headhunted. With one exception Mathew's was the highest salary being paid including the director."
He said the firm had agreed to Mr Horsman's request to work part time because it feared the company might lose business if he left. "We agreed he would only work two days a week as he wanted to work on TV programmes and write an updated version of his book on BSkyB," Mr Crosthwaite said.
"If he had not been there two days a week there would have been companies who would not have stayed with us," he told the employment tribunal. "We decided he should work two days a week rather than give him a sabbatical to pursue his other interests."
Mr Horsman was given the pay rise in July 1999 and worked part time for three months that year before returning to work full time when his television ventures did not materialise. Ms Barton did not receive her salary increase until April 2001.
In four years, Mr Horsman was paid salary and bonuses of £2.2m – twice that of Ms Barton in the same period. The tribunal was told that bonuses were a closely guarded secret and members of staff were not aware of their colleagues' pay.
Investec Henderson Cros-thwaite denies the sexual discrimination allegation. The hearing continues.


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PROSITE documentation PDOC00815 |
Pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate oxidase (EC 220.127.116.11) is a FMN flavoprotein involved in the de novo synthesis of pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and pyridoxal phosphate. It oxidizes pyridoxamine-5-P (PMP) and pyridoxine-5-P (PNP) to pyridoxal-5-P. The sequences of the enzyme from bacterial (genes pdxH or fprA) [1] and fungal (gene PDX3) [2] sources show that this protein has been highly conserved throughout evolution.
PdxH is evolutionary related [3] to one of the enzymes in the phenazine biosynthesis protein pathway, phzD (also known as phzG).
As a signature pattern, we selected a highly conserved region located in the C-terminal part of these enzymes.
Last update:April 2006 / Pattern revised.
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Title | Characterization of the complex pdxH-tyrS operon of Escherichia coli K-12 and pleiotropic phenotypes caused by pdxH insertion mutations. | |
Source | J. Bacteriol. 174:6033-6045(1992). | |
PubMed ID | 1356963 |
2 | Authors | Loubbardi A., Marcireau C., Karst F., Guilloton M. |
Title | Sterol uptake induced by an impairment of pyridoxal phosphate synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: cloning and sequencing of the PDX3 gene encoding pyridoxine (pyridoxamine) phosphate oxidase. | |
Source | J. Bacteriol. 177:1817-1823(1995). | |
PubMed ID | 7896706 |
3 | Authors | Pierson L.S. III, Gaffney T., Lam S., Gong F. |
Title | Molecular analysis of genes encoding phenazine biosynthesis in the biological control bacterium. Pseudomonas aureofaciens 30-84. | |
Source | FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 134:299-307(1995). | |
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Coty Gonzales Gives You 10 Great Tips (0)
Published on December 6th, 2008. By The Taddict
, under T-Shirt News .This was too good of a t-shirt post for me to not refer you to it. Coty Gonzales
put together some really strong tips that he gathered from his regular Indie Tee Spotlights. Pretty interesting stuff and certainly worth a looksee: