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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lori Foster returns with the second installment in her explosive new series featuring sexy bodyguards who'll do anything to protect the ones they love.
Justice was a fantastic body guard and Fallon was so down to earth. Fallon had a history that left her with scars, but Justice was the man to get past them. This book had suspense and love, as well as a lovable cast of characters. We got to touch base with some old favorites and there were two possibilities for the next book. It really was a great story and I recommend it.
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It took Fallon a few seconds more to get her feet moving, then she darted to the closet with new excitement. Shoot, even having a bodyguard would be an adventure when the bodyguard looked like him.
She stepped into her flat-heeled shoes, found a cardigan to pull on over her top and chose a scarf to drape around her neck. She didn't particularly like the outfit, but no way would she make him wait while she went through her wardrobe.
After one last fluff of her brown hair and a quick swipe of gloss over her lips, Fallon squared her shoulders, filled her lungs with a fortifying breath for courage and ventured forth.
The second she stepped out, she heard his deep voice and paused to listen.
"No need to worry. I'll cover her."
Her father choked, turned it into a cough, and said with authority, "She is not to be alone. Not for a single second."
"Promise I'll stick real close."
Alarmed, her father corrected, "But not too close."
"Just close enough, then."
"No one is to get too cozy with her either."
"She's naive and doesn't understand that thugs—" here her father paused for effect, his narrowed gaze on the man "—might try to use her to get to her wealth."
"Yeah? That's happened before?""Well…no." Her father harrumphed in that familiar way that showed his annoyance. "But it's a very real concern."
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Sheltered from the world after a family tragedy, Fallon longs to experience life—going to bars, dancing, talking to strangers. Not easy with a huge, lethal-looking bodyguard shadowing her every move. Justice seems like her polar opposite, but pretending to be a couple stirs undeniable heat. And when danger strikes again, it's not just her safety in jeopardy, but a passion that's real, raw and absolutely against the rules…
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Monday, January 15, 2007
let it snow
i'm not a snow lover. but, this winter, i did start to miss our typical michigan weather. (mainly because this year was the year i decided to accept the fact i live in a snow state and go snow boarding only to have an untypically WARM winter...all because i wanted to partake in outdoor activities for once!) ....not bitter...no...not at all......anyway, i was very pleased to wake up this morning to this (yes, it's our first snow of the season! and it's january 15th!!):
the road in front of our house (above)....that's our 5th wheel on the left and the drive on the right belongs to the people across the street... the pond in our back yard (above)...makes you want to curl up next to the fire, pop in a good movie, sip some hot cocoa, and knit, doesn't it? on a totally unrelated topic....i just recieved a letter from wondra in the mail. the package contained a bag of dried lavender (did she do it herself? one can only guess...it's absolutely lovely..i have the bag next to my bed on my nightstand so i can smell it when i go to sleep..) two hand made christmas ornaments, three charms, and a piece of unpolished amethyst (below).. my progress on the pi vest from knit 1 mag (below)...i'm hoping to get it done before i leave to visit wondra in wales...my version will be all grey with maroon stripes on the ribbing...like in harry potter.... and a christmas gift from my cousin (below)....a hank of yarn, size 1 double pointed needles, a pattern for gloves, and an obsenly large gift card to an awsome yarn store (not pictured...)
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- Wondra said...
I love those pictures! Is it still snowing there?
I'm so glad you got my package all in one piece. I was worried. :)
Oooh. I can't wait to see your vest. Did you get your etsy up?
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:51:00 AM
- Wondra said...
Sorry I had to go so quickly last night! Jay was being pissy with me in the background. :(
- Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:57:00 AM
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Hardin County Ohio Civil War 150 Event, Kenton, Ohio
Max Terman speaking to group at Kenton, Ohio.
Hardin County Historical Museums will be holding the local Ohio Civil War 150 event, Hardin County Civil War 150, on May 14 at the Farm Museum on Fairgrounds Road in Kenton. This free event will be from Noon to 5, with educational talks at the bottom of each hour. Hardin County has a rich Civil War history with its citizens' participating in many of the war's major battles, earning two Medals of Honor, and serving as officers at every level. Come to this Civil War 150 kick-off event and learn more about the Civil War. Our speakers will cover a variety of topics, share their expert knowledge and be available for questions. One of our speakers and guests will be Max Terman, author of Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War.
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What the Queen Doesn't Want You to Know
South Africa Has a Friend in Texas
By Ramasimong Tsokolibane, leader of the South African LaRouche Movement
A necessary political revolution is brewing in the United States, but we don't hear about it in our mainstream media sewers, polluted as they are by the imperial servants of Queen Elizabeth. You see, the American people hate the British agent and ass-kisser of the Queen who squats in the White House, Barack Obama. This man is destroying the United States, imposing Hitler-like police-state policies, urinating on its Constitution, and dictating murderous austerity policies. Most importantly, this clown Obama, carrying out his orders from London, is driving the U.S. headlong into a thermonuclear confrontation with Russia, the outcome of which would likely be the early extinction of all mankind on this planet.
Although Americans have acted stupidly in some eras, they also have a history of responding to the call to battle against the British Empire and its forces and agents embedded in their institutions. Unlike our people, Americans have never accepted the queer notion that the Queen and her coterie, including her born-again Nazi consort, His Royal Virus, Prince Phillip, have a right to lord it over anyone. The British have therefore made a tradition out of killing U.S. political leaders who might sound that trumpet call to battle against their Empire and its minions, including its financial colony, more commonly known as Wall Street. That's what they did to Lincoln, the Kennedy brothers and others who have provided such leadership.
So, it is not surprising that there are few people on the American political scene today who have the courage to speak the truth, especially now, when there is a global war drive underway and a would-be dictator in the White House. Lyndon LaRouche has consistently had such courage. It was LaRouche who properly put the Hitler mustache on Obama's lip, and the image found its way to South Africa, following Obama on his recent tour here. The British have tried to silence LaRouche, but they haven't succeeded. Now LaRouche is demanding that the American people rise up and throw the British agent out of the White House and crush British financial power, by shutting down Wall Street, restoring the Glass-Steagall Act to bankrupt the financial predators. This is the only way, he warns, to stop the insane British drive for war that we see in Obama's reckless policy against Russia, and his support for British plans for global genocide, including here in Africa.
The news that you need to know is that, while the Queen and her minions tell you to stay in line and die quietly, the message of LaRouche has some traction among the American people. South Africa has another important friend and ally in its fight for survival in the person of Kesha Rogers, a black woman and LaRouche Democrat, who leads all the other candidates in her campaign for the Democratic nomination from Texans for the U.S. Senate. Rogers's message has been simple and direct: Throw the British agent Obama out of office through impeachment and shut down British financial power by imposing Glass-Steagall on Wall Street. Rogers has also denounced the Greenie anti-nuclear and other policies as British-sponsored frauds intended to promote genocide. She is in the lead because she is telling the truth. See Kesha Rogers on youtube.com. Search the site for Kesha + Tarrant County, or just go to:www.larouchepac.com
And the truth is what is at issue here in South Africa. South Africa has the potential to be the British Empire's worst enemy and nightmare on the African continent. It has the potential to lead Africa away from a British sponsored holocaust of enforced backwardness, to a future based first on safe nuclear energy and then on thermonuclear fusion energy — to power great leaps in development. If South Africa makes such a fight, it will have allies in the United States such as Lyndon LaRouche and Kesha Rogers. There is a new world coming into being, perhaps in time to save us from the worst effects of the attempt to save the collapsing, decadent trans-Atlantic world of the British Empire. So we ask, who among us here in South Africa has the guts to speak up like this young black lady in Texas?
And that is the good news from a beckoning future, the news that the fools and agents of the British Empire don't want you to think about, or even hear of.


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6 Ways to Help Your Immune System Fend Off Colds, Coughs and Flu Symptoms
By: Blaise T. Ryan, R.TCMP, R.Ac
Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist
Colds, coughs and the flu virus can affect us at any time of year. Some of us are more prone to catching them than others. Sometimes minor colds or stubborn coughs can linger for weeks, or escalate into a full-blown infection and knock us out of commission. Sometimes they come with fever, chills, sore throats, mucus, congestion, body aches and fatigue. The fall and winter and winter are the most common times to catch them. Here are some traditional Chinese medicine tips to protect yourself from colds and coughs this year:
1) Avoid getting chilled.
It's often during the seasonal shifts where people get sick because their bodies don't adjust the drastic changes in temperature. According to Chinese medicine, when you catch a chill, this is called an "invasion of wind-cold". This is why even in English we call it "catching a cold". The wind-cold goes into your skin and your immune system goes into hyper-drive to deal with it, causing mucus, fever, aches, etc.
If you get chilled, the best thing you can do is to sweat. Take a hot bath or a sauna. Or drink a warm-ginger tea and lie under some blankets to sweat it out. When you sweat, the "wind-cold" is released through your pores, and you will avoid getting more sick. If the wind-cold isn't expelled, then it will go deeper into your body, possibly causing a cough or a full-blown cold. The key is catching it at the beginning stages and sweating it out.
Try it, you'll see how well it works.
2) Get Acupuncture
Acupuncture helps keep your immune system strong and in balance. When someone's immune system is weak, they tend to get colds and coughs easily. When their immune system is out of balance, they tend to have allergic reactions to certain environmental influences or foods.
Acupuncture helps stabilize and reinforce your immune system, so it does it's job properly and efficiently to defend your body against outside threats and maintain a balanced relationship between all your internal systems (organ system, nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, lymphatic system, etc.)
There are many factors that can weaken your immune system, like stress, adrenal fatigue, digestive problems, insomnia or internal inflammation. Getting regular acupuncture solves these issues and strengthens your body in the core, by affecting the internal organs through the acu-points.
3) Eat pears and drink ginger tea in the fall.
The fall is the season of the lungs. Pears moisten and nourish the lungs, which are one of the four main organs involved in your immune system, according to Chinese medicine.
The three other organ systems are the Kidneys, the Spleen and the Large Intestine. Choose organic pears and eat them with the skin for the best effects. Pears are great when you have a dry cough. Ginger empowers your spleen and lungs, and defends against "wind-cold" attacks.
The best way to make ginger tea is to boil fresh ginger for 5-10 minutes. Sweetening it with some honey is also good because honey strengthens the Spleen organ system and balances the drying and hot nature of ginger. Make sure you use real honey, not the cheap stuff made with corn syrup.
Ginger also has anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and has even been shown to reduce ovarian cancer cells. Ginger is a powerful super-food and healing herb. I always have ginger in my fridge and so should you.
4) Avoid refined sugar.
Excessive refined sugar weakens the immune system and causes an internal inflammatory response, due to the spike in insulin levels triggered by the sugar intake. If you want to test this theory, the next time you start to feel like you might be coming down with something (you have scratchy throat, body aches, sniffles, fatigue, etc), then eat a bunch of doughnuts or sugar. You will likely get sicker very fast.
So if you want to avoid catching colds and coughs. The next time you notice people around you getting sick, or you are feeling like your immune system is low, stay away from refined sugars. Instead eat more fibrous foods, drink more pure water and get some rest.
5) Keep your bowels moving.
Regular and complete bowel movements are the cornerstone to good health. If your large intestine isn't excreting waste and toxins regularly, then you are likely re-absorbing toxins into your system. Instead of having a strong immune system standing by ready to defend against an external pathogen, your immune system will be too busy trying to cope with excess of toxins in your body.
If you do not have 1-2 regular and complete bowel movements per day, your immune system may be compromised.
To help your bowels move more regularly; drink more pure water, consume more fibre, get acupuncture, eliminate foods that are causing constipation, do an intestinal cleanse, change your posture on the toilet, or seek a Chinese herbal prescription to help your bowels move.
If you are unsure about the cause of your constipation, consult your registered practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine for their help.
6) Take some Chinese herbs.


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|Keene Springs Hotel - Keene, Ky.
Wrote Bennett H. Young in his 1898 History of Jessamine County, Kentucky: "during the prevalence of cholera, in Lexington, about this time, a large number of people came to Keene and lived during the panic, occasioned by this disease in Lexington and surrounding towns." They stayed in "a very nice hotel."
|Keene Springs, ca. 1868 (Source: KDL)
William Cleveland sold the resort hotel in 1841 to Mason Singleton, the grandson of the pioneer who first settled the community of Keene. Singleton retain Capt. G. L. Postlethwait to manage the facility which he greatly expanded with a ballroom and banquet hall. By 1857, however, Singleton was forced to sell the hotel. Alfred McTyre purchased the Keene Springs Hotel and operated it for a decade before he sold the hotel to Fielding S. Wilson. By this time, the resort's popularity had waned. Though Wilson had a few occupants from time to time, operation was largely confined to a general store and, until liquor prohibited by local vote, a saloon. A general store continued to operate until the 1960s and the Wilson continues to own the building. Today, slow restorations are underway by a tenant operating a restaurant three days a week in this history locale.
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Sometimes it's fun to be a kid again and get a little messy, and there is a no better suppertime meal like Sloppy Joes that let's you get down and dirty.
I don't love grocery shopping, but I do love getting the ingredients I need for a great Sunday dinner, especially one that can be done in the slow cooker. Relaxing on a Sunday afternoon, as dinner simmers and fills the house with wonderful smells is the best way to end the weekend (and distract me from what some of us like to call depression Sundays).
This Sausage Sloppy Joe recipe from Canadian Living required browning the meat before mixing all the ingredients in the slow cooker and turning it on, not always ideal if you want to make this meal before leaving for work, but on this day I had the time. I usually find this to be a turn-off, I don't want to cook before I put everything into the slow cooker, doesn't that defeat the purpose? Anyways, besides the 20 minutes of prep, including chopping onions, mushrooms and red pepper, this recipe is actually pretty easy.
The recipe calls for four to six hours in the slow cooker on low or until the sauce is thick enough to mound on a spoon. After close to six hours (and warning Greg many times not to open the lid), it looked like we were good to pile this sausage and beef mixture on our buns. We opted for the PC Blue Menu Thins – Whole Grain Round White Buns as we're not fans of too much bread, we'd rather taste the Sloppy Joe, paired with a side salad and it was a little bit of kid mixed with a little bit of adult.
We've done Sloppy Joes (sometimes referred to as Sloppy Kelly's) before and cheated with a can of Manwich. However this version was hearty and chunky with all the veggies included (although we couldn't really taste the sausage), yet it was still messy and napkin worthy, making the Sloppy Joe of our past seem amateur. ~kM
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I survived!
I won't bore you with tons of pictures of people you don't know, so I only posted a few.
Was a great party....may have been the best one yet! We had over 60 ghosts, goblins, zombies, red hat ladies, Queens and Kings, a Nun, Uncle Fester, and Pop-eye came too! I could go on and on with this list! The weather was just right! Was worried because in the morning it was raining! I had to go out and talk to Mother Nature! Lot's of food, loads of fun. And the fun lasted well into the night. Parties are great, and the things that really make a party great are wonderful people who come together to celebrate and share their life with you!
Oh Great Pumpkin! Hail the Flaming Pumpkin Head!
This year was the best flaming pumpkin head ever!
Scary Monsters roam the swamp! Watch Out he bites!
Entrance to the swamp path....who knows what lurks beyond the gates.....
Dave the hunter grabbing my hubby Tom.... there were alot of Red Hat Ladies here that night!
S-I-L Zombie Mike and Me! The Swamp Queen!
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Who's Your Local Author?
Bookworms Carnival, coming up!
I take it for granted, this vibrant community of artistic and literary folks I live in. Everyone here seems to know someone who's writing a book, or who has a stall at Saturday Market, or who works for the library or one of the locally-owned bookstores (or all of the above). Just the other day my friend Elizabeth mentioned that she plays cello regularly with Virginia Euwer Wolff. I could never keep up with the dozens of successful authors that call Oregon home.
But I know I'm not the only one with local author stories to tell, so for the next Bookworms Carnival, I'm offering you the chance to showcase your local lit scene. Could be an author interview, a book review, a story about an author or local book event. Could be an ode to your local bookstore or library. Maybe you're an author yourself with something to say about the town you live in.
To participate, submit a link to your post (or email your article to me if you don't have a blog), to Worducopia-at-gmail-dot-com. The deadline is June 26, 2009.
And in the meantime, check out the most recent Bookworms Carnival--Paranormal Fiction.
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Hi Ali,ReplyDelete
I really hadn't intended to participate in this, but I wrote this post a couple weeks ago, and it kind of seems to fit, so I thought I'd go ahead and submit it. This guy isn't from my same town, but he lives within 20 miles...I figure that's close enough, right?
Absolutely, Dreamybee! I love the post and am delighted to include it. What shall I put for the location--Hawaii? Which island?ReplyDelete
Twenty miles away is definitely local, in my book. It's really up to each person to decide, but I consider any author from Oregon or southwest Washington to be local to me, actually.
- AnonymousJune 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM
wow - I just bought a book from a local author that is set in my home area! but I don't think I'll get it read by June 26th... Should I just highlight it as a book-to-read-someday-soon?ReplyDelete
Care, Sounds good to me! And, if you want, you can add some background info about the setting or the author & any other books they've written.ReplyDelete
Wow, I just this minute posted this to my blog: http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/06/daughters-of-abraham-meeting-with.htmlReplyDelete
Scott Pomfret is a Boston-based author who wrote about the Boston Catholic scene and visited my Boston-area book club a couple of weeks ago.


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The cosmic rays in question are called muons—elementary particles so powerful that not even the fusion reaction at the heart of a star nor the explosion of a nuclear bomb can create them.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) will now be deployed to industry and academia under a new inter-institutional agreement for intellectual property.
"This agreement streamlines access to the reactor simulation research tools," said Kathleen McDonald, software business development executive for the Laboratory, "and with a single contact through UT-Battelle, we have a more transparent release process, the culmination of a lengthy effort on the part of all the code authors," she said.
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The gateway will track outbreaks of ebola, measles, and other diseases, beginning with patient zero. It is the latest development in the field of biosurvelliance, the study of how the emergence and spread of diseases can be plotted, understood, and stopped.
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Artist's concept of the moon-forming collision. NASA image.
Experiments indicate that the velocity of the iron rain droplets will have been greater than the escape velocity on the moon, but below that of Earth. Earth would therefore have captured the metal cores of colliding asteroids, while the moon will have failed to. William Anderson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, said: "The moon may have received, but not retained, a significant portion of the late veneer."
in New Mexico
The Española-based LANL Foundation has an Educational Outreach Small Grants program that closely ties the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to communities in northern New Mexico.
The LANL Foundation announced $48,000 in new education grant awards for 2014, which might not sound like a lot, but it's sure impacting a lot of different local nonprofits.
Native American Venture Acceleration Fund grants
Phoebe Suina of High Water Mark,
Cochiti Pueblo. LANL photo.
Six Northern New Mexico Native American-owned and operated businesses received a total of $60,000 in grants through a Native American Venture Acceleration Fund created by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) and the Regional Development Corporation.
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EVENT: For Food's Sake presents Big Night
WHAT? For Food's Sake Presents: A Special Screening of 'Big Night'
WHEN? Thursday 7th July, 7pm–11pm
WHERE? The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin 2
WHY? If you've seen Big Night before, you'll know why we wanna screen it. If you haven't, you should check out the trailer or – even better – a couple of clips of the hilarious dialogue and sumptuous action. Read the rest of this entry
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text: 2 Sep 2018 Hello World I think we all get to the point in life where we wonder what it is we're going to do next. Some people go full-on midlife-crisis-mode and others just find something else to do with their time -- idle hands and all. I haven't had an English grammar … Read More


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Linzy Westman
Worship Leader, Recording Artist, Songwriter
Music in Worship (Voice and Piano), B.S. '11
Biola provided me with the strong musical and biblical foundation I needed to pursue my career as a Christian artist and worship leader. The passion and talent that exists among the students is unmatched and helps inspire a close-knit community of creatives excited about impacting the world for God's glory. In addition to the education and experiences I received, the connections I made with other students and faculty at Biola have helped me advance in my ministry career since graduation.
- B.S. Music in Worship (Keyboard and Voice), Biola University
Recording Artist
- Solo worship EP "Here in the Waiting" - Released July 2015
- Single "I Surrender all to Thee" featured in Worship Leader Magazine's Song Discovery section, Jan/Feb 2015 edition
- Former Keyboardist/Accordionist/Vocalist for My Double, My Brother (FMA "The Fragrance")
Worship Leader
- Christ Church, Lake Forest, IL, August 2011 - Present
- Biola University, La Mirada, CA, September 2007-May 2011
- Worship Leader, North Maine Community Church
- Worship Director for various short-term international mission trips
- Winter Camp Worship Leader, Thousand Pines Christian Camp & Conference Center
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In 1973 the Mitsubishi vehicles were introduced in Curaçao.
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In 1979 Caribbean Motors Company B.V. changed ownership and was acquired by Torres Auto Supplies N.V., managed by majority shareholder Rudy Torres.
As Mitsubishi dealer the company has acquired a large market share and over more then forty years has earned a solid reputation.
In 1998 a new full service dealership was built.
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- To offer the best service to our Customers above all else.
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Caribbean Motors Company is a dynamic company being regarded as a regional benchmark where customer satisfaction is of the highest priority.


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Tonight I've had cause to reflect that some of us are simply too nice. A horrid little word this 'nice'. I hate being nice. Let me be arrogant, deceitful, ambitious and only in business for the quick profit. I despise my own affability, my easy going nature, my reluctance to do harm. Let me make money and damn the consequences. I normally try to see only the best in others. From now on, I want to see lies. I believe everything that people tell me. Let me begin to doubt them. I also believe in the old myths about hard work being rewarded in the long run. I see that it's all folly.
It's not easy to write this evening. The tenses all feel wrong. The first person is far too remote.
You see, this all begins with my friend, another generally affable sort who also writes a blog, putting the finishing touches to a novel. A publisher asks to see his manuscript. Compliments are exchanged. An offer to publish the book is made. A contract arrives. It's far from a generous contract. People who know about these things advise him to send his manuscript elsewhere. I advise him to look for a better publisher. I tell him that the contract is not right right for him. But the writer is an affable sort. He wouldn't do that to the only people who have shown any faith in him. He's loyal, you see. He lives by certain old fashioned principals. I keep telling him are going to ruin him. Yet he's never been adept at putting a price on his own skills. He accepts whatever terms other people offer him. He often works for nothing. So he signs this contract despite the fact that he won't see any money for at least a year. Even then it might not be very much.
All this happens some months ago.
My affable friend finishes writing the book and spends weeks working on the final proofs which he duly sends to the publisher. All this time, he's struggling on very little money, falling deeper into debt. Then it all goes quiet. He hears the occasional bit of news about the book. He learns that an illustrator has been paid to produce a picture for the front cover. The artist earns money from the book. My friend, the writer, doesn't. But he's affable so he doesn't complain.
It all goes quiet again but this affable guy notices that his book is listed on Amazon and that makes him very happy. He rings me. 'It's going to happen,' he tells me. 'Soon.'
Today, my affable friend had a long and not particularly enjoyable day at work. He explained to me that the job is tough because it's mundane. It's slowly destroying the guy's spirit. I share his pain. I know what it's like. As you know, I am in a similar position. Yet he also tells me that he wants so desperately to escape the trap of debt. He's only working to keep up the repayments on the debts he's amassed after a long time studying and writing, neither of which have made him rich. Quite the reverse. He should just take a job, five days a week, and earn £20,000 a year. He's a bright guy. He has good qualifications. Probably better than 99% of the people in the country. But he just wants to write. He wants to make people smile because he truly believes that it is a moral way of living.
But it's still a struggle. He's only getting through the days because he knows that he's got a book coming out. He's not in the 8 to 5 rut because he thinks that he is really a writer. He believes in his own talent. He refuses to become the suit they force him to wear.
Only, tonight, he arrived home to be informed that his book is now not being published. 'It's complicated,' he tells me.
I reply that I should hope that it bloody-well is complicated.
But now he's angry. He's also in tears. Yet he's still affable. He says that he can't hold any of this against the publisher. He argues they were in a difficult position. I agree. I tell him that their business didn't have a sensible business model. I say that I didn't believe in the books they published. He admits that he too had doubts: that if they could publish 'those' books, was his own any better? That's as much conversation as he can take. I come off the phone having shared his agony and having felt his pain. I too shed a few tears before I sit down to write.
Now I am left wondering what he really feels. Disappointment. Anger. Frustration. Despair. Perhaps even relief? I suspect that he is beginning to think what he's always feared: that his book wasn't that good, that he's not that talented a writer, and that he's fooled himself for so many years. I should imagine that he feels embarrassed given that he has told people that he was having a book published.
If I were him, I'd try to stay calm and to use his anger to spur him on. He should write to the publisher and explain how he feels like he's been used. He should tell them that they took his dreams and did the worst thing possible: they made them 'almost' come true.
Tonight I've only managed to write because my friend has fallen silent. How I wish it were so very different.
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
My Friend The Blogger
Tonight I've had cause to reflect that some of us are simply too nice. A horrid little word this 'nice'. I hate being nice. Let me be arrogant, deceitful, ambitious and only in business for the quick profit. I despise my own affability, my easy going nature, my reluctance to do harm. Let me make money and damn the consequences. I normally try to see only the best in others. From now on, I want to see lies. I believe everything that people tell me. Let me begin to doubt them. I also believe in the old myths about hard work being rewarded in the long run. I see that it's all folly.
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Your friend should take heart that he has as amusing and devilish a friend as Richard Madeley to take his side.
i wouldn't waste words writing to the publishers. They're most likely vacuous Bridget Jones blondes who wouldn't get it anyway.
i'd take what wants to be said and refine it, make it hard and chiselled and ruthless, hold it in your mind as you would hold a sip of very good whiskey in the mouth...and then write with the old verve and a new ruthlessness.
- 1 April 2008 at 21:34
...and there was I thinking your malady might have been the effect of a dodgy donner. Take Elberry's good advice Dick....chisseled and ruthless is the way to go...not forgetting the old verve and whiskey along the way..
- 1 April 2008 at 22:19
....and a good book..... and a cup of tea.....
- 1 April 2008 at 22:28
- Richard Madeley said...
Elberry, I'm sure my friend is heartened. Unfortunately, he's not answering the phone or the door bell and I've been forced to ask Bill Oddie to come around and help me climb up to a back window to see if everything is okay with him.
Twitch, it's always good to know you're around. I'm going to go the chiseled and ruthless route and so is my friend. Judy is happy to go chiseled but not so happy with the ruthless. Oddie is happy with neither but he does have owls to keep him happy.
- 2 April 2008 at 00:02
I would be writing that chipper letter to a lawyer. At the very least they need to release his book so he can find another publisher.
- 2 April 2008 at 00:58
- Bryan Appleyard said...
Your friend is a victim of a publshing industry which is run by Waterstone's and is, therefore, a craven and terrified producer of all that is safe and dull and seldom funny. Tell him to stick with it. It is a moral way to live.
- 2 April 2008 at 08:12
I do understand this all - I would like to make a living writing as well. But I have never been brought to the brink like you describe only knocked back at the first hurdle.... which is depressing enough, but I cannot imagine how much this one must have hurt. Have you thought of lulu.com?
- 2 April 2008 at 16:49
- Selena Dreamy said...
I say that I didn't believe in the books they published. He admits that he too had doubts: that if they could publish 'those' books, was his own any better?
A longing to be supreme cannot be a failing.
Writers are the conscience of humanity. That has often been said. They produce an image of life that is mesmerizing, often beautiful, sometimes surprising, and occasionally profound or even enigmatic. Everything in their art is a matter of inspiration. Be it substance or appearances, intellectual posturing, semantic tinsel, vanity or romantic intrigue, and everything, finally, is arbitrated by artistic ingenuity.
Writers are the seed of future man!
So much for the idealism! But the sordid truth of the matter is quite different, when the ethical life of an entire community has at length been resolved into a parody of itself by the increasing monopoly of commercial mediocrities in positions of absolute power...
Hence, writers must be survivors!
- 2 April 2008 at 18:21
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A ranch style house means different things to different people. But no matter if you love the old-school vibe of 1950s-era style or the updated contemporaries of the 21st century, there are curb-boosting ideas that can help your home look its best. There are some decorating ideas for a ranch style house. Here are some of them. Bring in character. Ranch style homes often feel featureless or plain, due to the style's bare bone's approach to design. Create a focal point in each room. Paint one wall a dramatic color, or hang floor-to-ceiling drapes. Add simple, rustic moldings. Add height. Tear out low, drop ceilings or replace them with more modern ceiling tiles. Replace your fluorescent lighting with updated fixtures to heighten the ceiling and cast a softer light. Make an entryway. Ranch style homes usually open into the living room. Add a rug or different type of flooring inside the door to create the feeling of an entryway. Place a bench where you can take off your shoes to further delineate the space.
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Meningococcal disease (MD) is a serious and often fatal infection. In Brazil, approximately 3,200 new cases of sporadic and outbreak-associated MD are reported each year, making this disease an important public health concern. Our laboratory at Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL) uses a multiplex real-time-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay developed and performed at IAL (Sacchi et al. 2011). The assay is composed of three sets of primers and three probes targeting the ctrA gene of Neisseria meningitidis (Mothershed et al. 2004), the lytA gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae (Carvalho et al. 2007) and the bexA gene of Haemophilus influenzae (Corless et al. 2001). ctrA is a frequently targeted gene used to detect N. meningitidis using RT-PCR (Corless et al. 2001, Mothershed et al. 2004). However, the capsule locus, including ctrA, is subject to rearrangement (Swartley et al. 1997, Clauds et al. 2002, Dolan-Livengood et al. 2003, Sadler et al. 2003) and 16% or more of carried meningococci have been shown to lack ctrA altogether (Clauds et al. 2002, Dolan-Livengood et al. 2003).
It has been suggested that invasive meningococci can undergo similar rearrangements of the capsule region. For these reasons, a new target based on the sodC gene in meningitidis RT-PCR has been proposed as an alternative for clinical specimens, such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum (Thomas et al. 2011, WHO 2011).
The possibility of false-negative results due to the use of the ctrA target gene alone led us to investigate the sensitivity of sodC-based RT-PCR by including it in our routine diagnosis of bacterial meningitis for eight months. We analysed 1,538 clinical samples [957 (62%) CSF and 581 (38%) sera] that were submitted for diagnostic testing for bacterial meningitis between January-August 2011. The research protocol was approved by the IAL Institutional Ethical Committee.
CSF and blood culture is the "gold standard method" for diagnosing bacterial meningitis. In Brazil, culture is performed at each hospital and the isolates are sent to IAL for confirmation. For several reasons, including previous antibiotic treatment, most of the cases are not culture confirmed and, for many samples, culture is not performed. Because it is difficult to evaluate a diagnostic test without comparing it to a "gold standard", we tested all ctrA-positive samples for the presence of a second meningococcal gene target (genogrouping).
We used a ctrA-based multiplex RT-PCR (Sacchi et al. 2011) and a sodC-based monoplex RT-PCR (Thomas et al. 2011, WHO 2011) to detect N. meningitidis and a capsule gene-based RT-PCR for meningococcal genogrouping (Mothershed et al. 2004). DNA was extracted using a MagNA Pure LC and the DNA Isolation Kit III according to the manufacturer's instructions (Roche Diagnostic GmbH, Mannheim, Germany). All extracted DNA was stored at -20ºC. The assays were performed in a 25 µL reaction volume using TaqMan Universal Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) with 5 µL of extracted DNA. Forward primer, reverse primer and the probe for each gene target were used at previously described concentrations.
All reactions were run in duplicate using an Applied Biosystems 7500 Real-Time PCR System (Applied Biosystems Foster City, CA, USA) with the following cycling parameters: 50ºC for 2 min, 95ºC for 10 min and 45 cycles of 95ºC for 15 s and 60ºC for 1 min. Extension at 55ºC for 1 min was used for RT-PCR genogrouping for serogroups B, W135 and Y. Positive and negative controls were included in each run.
A review of the literature showed that no standards exist for determining what criteria indicate a positive result. Some researchers established a "cut-off" cycle threshold (Ct) value for a particular assay, while others considered any amplification signal, regardless of the Ct value, indicative of a positive result. However, the rationale for determining such parameters was not always clear. In this study, a positive result was defined as a Ct ≤ 38 and a negative result as a Ct value of zero or ≥ 39. All inconclusive results and inconsistent replicates were repeated. The lower limit of detection (LLD) for sodC and ctrA RT-PCR assays at a Ct of 38 was 200 fg. The efficiency of both reactions was similar: 92.15% for ctrA and 90.42% for sodC.
The results were classified into four groups: Group A, positive for both ctrA and sodC, Group B, positive for ctrA and negative for sodC, Group C, negative for ctrA and positive for sodC, and Group D, negative for both ctrA and sodC (Table). All samples that were positive for sodC were also positive for ctrA (Group A), but 24 samples that were positive for ctrA were negative for sodC (Group B). The Ct values of ctrA and sodC for each sample in Group A were mostly similar, varying from 23-38. To compare our results with the original paper that described the use of sodC for detecting N. meningitidis (Thomas et al. 2011), we also used a second Ct value of ≤ 35 to define a positive result. We were only able to obtain culture results for 75 samples (51 from Group A and 24 from Group B).
Group A - Among the 295 Group A samples, 87.1% (257/295) had a Ct ≤ 35 for both sodC and ctrA, 7.8% (23/295) had a ctrA Ct ≤ 35 and a sodC Ct ≥ 36 (10 that were culture-confirmed) and 5.1% (15/295) had a Ct ≥ 36 (8 that were culture-confirmed) for both sodC and ctrA. Therefore, 38 Group A samples (18 culture-confirmed) were considered negative using a sodC Ct ≤ 35 to define a positive result.
Group B - Among the 24 Group B samples, seven had ctrA Ct values ≤ 35: Ct = 29, 31, 32 and 33 (1 of each) and Ct = 35 (n = 3). Additionally, 42% (10/24) were isolated from the CSF and 58% (14/24) were isolated from the serum. No samples had less than the ideal volume. Three of 24 samples that were culture confirmed had ctrA Ct values of 35, 36 and 37 and the whole-cell suspensions made from the three isolates were positive for ctrA and sodC.
We were able to determine the genogroup of all 319 ctrA-positive samples (Groups A and B): 17.2% were genogroup B (n = 55), 76.5% were genogroup C (n = 244), 3.8% were genogroup W (n = 12) and 2.5% were genogroup Y (n = 8).
A sodC-based RT-PCR assay has an advantage over ctrA in detecting nongroupable N. meningitidis isolates, which are common in asymptomatic pharyngeal carriage. However, in our study, sodC-based RT-PCR was 7.5% less sensitive than ctrA in normally sterile body fluids. Our data are discordant from those previously reported by Thomas et al. in 2011. According to our data, there was no suggestion that these differences may be due to sample type or volume or differences in the LLD. Unfortunately, we could not determine the reasons for these differences. However, we analysed a much larger and more diverse collection representing 220 health care units distributed throughout the state of São Paulo.
Given the public health impact of possible false-negative results due to the use of the sodC target gene alone, using sodC-based RT-PCR to detect N. meningitidis should be performed with caution.


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David Gatten, Lecturing Fellow and Artist in Residence, Arts of the Moving Image
Over the last 15 years, David Gatten (b. 1971, Ann Arbor, Michigan) has explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image. The resulting body of work illuminates a wide array of historical, conceptual and material concerns, while cataloging the variety of ways in which texts function in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often times blurring the boundary between these categories. Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) the films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures. Exploring the archive in unexpected ways and making connections across categories of knowledge and fields of meaning, Gatten's films construct new compositions and generate novel conclusions from 19th c. scientific treatises, "out-dated" 20th c. instructional texts, and rare books from 17th and 18th c. personal libraries. Among the leading figures in a diverse movement dedicated to mining the fullness of 16mm film's expressive possibilities in the digital era, David Gatten – in the words of film scholar Scott MacDonald – "continues to find new creative possibilities in the continued premonitions of film's demise." A recent Film Comment critics' poll of avant-garde cinema in the 2000's saw Gatten place within the top ten filmmakers, and included two of his films in a list of the fifty best individual works of the decade. In May of 2012 an international critics poll conducted by Cinemascope named Gatten one of the "Fifty Best Filmmakers Under Fifty" alongside Academy Award nominated directors Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Steven Soderberg, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as internationally renowned filmmakers Jia Zhangke, Lucrecia Martel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas and American independent directors and film artists of Gatten's generation including Kelly Reichardt, Jennifer Reeves, Sharon Lockhart and Paul Thomas Anderson. "Texts of Light: A Mid-Career Retrospective of Fourteen Films by David Gatten," curated by Chris Stults, opened this past November at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The three program retrospective screened in Winter and Spring of 2012 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the ATA Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and moves on to a variety of venues (RedCat, Film Forum and The Panorama) in Los Angeles, CA in the Fall of 2012. Gatten's films premiere annually at Lincoln Center in the New York Film Festival and his films have been included twice in the Whitney Biennial. Since 1996 they have appeared in over 50 solo exhibitions, at well over 1000 group screenings at film festivals, museums, galleries and universities around the world, including those in Toronto, London, Paris, Rotterdam, Berlin, Vienna, Lisbon, Madrid, Helsinki, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, Leeds, Brighton, Montreal, Kiel, Ghent, Torino, Naples, Edinburgh, Reykjavik, Singapore, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Yokohama, Barcelona, Liverpool, Windsor, Victoria, Linz and in over 150 cities in the United States. His work resides in the permanent collections of the British Film Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in numerous public and private collections. Gatten's films are included on over two dozen film history syllabi at universities and colleges in the US, Canada and Europe. In 2005 Gatten was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his film series investigating the library of William Byrd, which Artforum called "one of the most erudite and ambitious undertakings in recent cinema." Gatten's newest works will premiere in the Fall of 2012. The longer of the two new pieces, fourteen years in the making, is a 175 minute work of high definition digital cinema titled THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS, and will premiere at Lincoln Center in the New York Film Festival on October 5th. A new version of a hybrid 16mm/HD piece, BY PAIN AND RHYME AND ARABESQUES OF FORAGING will premiere at the British Film Institute in the London Film Festival at the end of October. A former Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Cinema & Photography at Ithaca College, Gatten has also taught the history, theory and practice of filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art in New York City. He is the recipient of four separate awards for Excellence in Teaching. Gatten is married to the filmmaker, writer and editor Erin Espelie. They live and work in old gold mining cabin, formerly the headquarters of the Charity Mining Co., in Four Mile Canyon, Colorado, on a patch of 13 acres known in the mining days as "Shedtown" that sits just north of the historic mining camp of Salina (current pop. 47), 40 minutes northwest of Boulder. Gatten is the co-founder and lead programmer for the Four Mile Film Society, a screening and discussion series dedicated to the exploration of the ethics of film making & film viewing that takes place twice a month at the historic miner's chapel The Little Church in the Pines. Since 2009, Gatten and Espelie have co-curated a salon series of poetry & film events at their cabin, known as LAMPS PICTURES GIFTS, bringing together visiting filmmakers and poets with the communities of Four Mile Canyon, Gold Hill, Boulder and Denver. Gatten and Espelie split their time between the Colorado cabin and Durham, North Carolina, where each Spring, and sometimes in the Fall, Gatten is Lecturing Fellow & Artist in Residence in the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University.
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- Education:
MFA in Art School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1998 BA in Media Studies and Art History University of North Carolina Greensboro 1995
- Research Interests: Filmmaking and Film Curating
- Areas of Interest:
- History of the North American Avant Garde, Underground and Experimental Cinemas
Poetics of Cinema
Text-as-Image in Art and Cinema
Representations of Time and Memory in Post-War International Cinema
Contemporary Experimental Cinema Practice
Integration of Contemporary Poetry and Experimental Cinema Communities


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|Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday said that the problems of the Peoples Democratic Party were beyond the resignation of Dr. Bamanga Tukur, as the party's national chairman.
The media aide to the former President, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, said Obasanjo had nothing personal against Tukur.
But he said Obasanjo would not comment on Tukur's resignation, arguing that the issues earlier raised by the former President had not been addressed with Tukur's exit.
"Baba (Obasanjo) has no comment on the resignation of Tukur. He has nothing personal against Tukur. His last letter to Tukur was very clear. The issues raised are beyond Tukur's resignation and they are yet to be addressed," Oladunjoye said.
Obasanjo had, in his letter to Tukur, a copy of which was sent to President Goodluck Jonathan as the national leader of the party, accused the PDP of negating the principles of morality, decency and discipline in its decisions, especially as they affected the South- West.
Jonathan formally announced Tukur's resignation at the PDP National Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Thursday.
When contacted to comment on Obasanjo's view that Tukur's resignation had not resolved the issues raised in his letter, the PDP National Publicity, Chief Olisa Metuh, said Obasanjo should have written directly to the party if he wanted the issues he raised to be addressed.
Metuh said, "The former President was a Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our party and he knows very well that we do not administer the party on the pages of newspapers. If he has written a letter to the party, it shall be addressed through the proper channel not on the pages of newspapers."
Meanwhile, many have continued to react to Tukur's resignation with many of them describing it as a welcome development.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr. Bukola Saraki, said in a statement on Thursday, that Tukur's resignation had vindicated him and others who had opposed Tukur before defecting to the All Progressives Congress.
"I received the news that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has officially resigned as chairman after damaging PDP beyond repair. This has vindicated me and other progressives that had to leave the party at a point when some of the issues we clamoured for are now coming to light," he said.
The Publicity Secretary of PDP in the Osun State, Mr. Bola Ajao, in a statement that the sacrifice would help to sustain the transformation agenda.
"This is vintage democracy, "The PDP will continue to wax stronger and stronger in its transformation agenda for Nigeria and democratic prosperity of her people," he said.
Governorship aspirant in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, told the News Agency of Nigeria that Tukur's exit was a sacrifice to ensure the transformation of the party.
"If Tukur's resignation as National Chairman of the PDP would be a remedy to the crisis in the party, then we congratulate him for taking such a bold step,'' he said.
Source: Punch
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"Of all the stains besmirching the Trump presidency - the ethical lacunae, the spasmodic "policy" fits, the Golf Digest aesthetic - none looms so large as the absence of a White House pet. Breathes there a man with a soul so dead that he doesn`t want a loyal dog or faithful feline trotting beside him when he mounts that lonely staircase to the venerable Master Bedroom?
Apparently, yes.
It seems emblematic of President Trump`s blaring tone-deafness for the office that he doesn`t even feign interest in recruiting a furry, fowlish or finny friend. Pets reap vast, humanizing rewards for presidents, as almost every one of his predecessors has discovered."
New York Times
Even Hitler had a pet, Blondi, a German Shepherd that was given to him as gift when it was a puppy. Hitler and his pooch were inseparable, Blondi stayed with her master to the bitter end, she was there with him when he finally died in his bunker.
I`m not comparing Trump to Hitler, the first rule of politics and political commentary is never compare anyone to Hitler. But Trump desperately needs a pet to soften his image.
What pet would be ideal for Trump?
Trump`s wispy hair would make an ideal nest for any bird.
Maybe not, we all know how Trump loves to grab pussy. Trump might grope a pussy cat to death.
Perfect choice! A snake is a universal symbol of evil, I can picture the evil bastard snuggling to sleep with a serpent.
Maybe not, it would be almost impossible to tell the rat apart from Trump`s aides.
It`s hard not to trust a person who loves dogs, if Trump can convince us that he loves his pooch, we might learn to tolerate him.
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As the dark thundering clouds
Quench the thirst of the
Soft brown earth
The lotus pond blooms
Seducing the bees
Intoxicating them
With their luscious golden nectar
As the dark thundering clouds
Quench the thirst of the
Soft brown earth
The lotus pond blooms
Seducing the bees
Intoxicating them
With their luscious golden nectar
Emerald and turquoise waters
Golden sun dancing upon its waves
All of eternity is felt
In one fleeting ephemeral moment
A backdrop of ancient history
Its trajectory carved in stone
Is the entwined journey of a dancer Feet, breath, emotions
Drumming to a universal rhythm
Dance ur dance through me O warrior
One as we are, in flesh and stone
Dance is self reflection…
As a mirror to my innermost being, it makes me aware and conscious of who i really am.
Being an artist is a risk….
It is the risk of the unknown, to learn something new, we need to unlearn old patterns which limit us
To dance is to share…
To share the deepest part of me is to have an authentic connection with my audience
To dance is pure joy…
To be in the present moment, not withholding oneself back, dance there's no tomorrow….
As i was aligning my treasured collection of books this morning, i stumbled upon this charming vintage picture of my Aji. Graceful, refined, sublime are mere adjectives, which i feel do not do justice to her timeless appeal. The memory my mind immediately conjures up is that of her shapely hand gripping mine and gradually tracing each alphabet, like a calligraphy artist. She taught me the art of letter writing and we spent many summers writing long letters to family and friends. She bought beauty and grace even to the most mundane daily tasks. Raised by the royal family of Jamkhandi, who lived in Kolhapur, she lived a privileged life, which in a way prepared her for her future as an army officers wife. She blended in that life like a heady mix of cocktail, intoxicated by its endless soirees, mahjong afternoons and a game of tennis in the evenings..
Coming from a progressive family, she was the first woman graduate in the mid 30's, spoke three languages and wrote passionately. Having blessed with an eye and a love for the arts, she passed on this passion of hers to me and ensured i was trained in dance and music. Some of the cherished remnants of her beautiful life were passed on to me. Her silver filigree comb and hairbrush takes me back to the past..through the sands of time, to a land of grandeur and splendor.
As a child i enjoyed listening to her endless stories and admiring her vast collection of B&W photographs and strutting in front of the mirror in her high gold heels. While delicate chiffons with splashes of hot pink and sunset oranges bathed her body, the milky white pearls accentuated her porcelain complexion, making her look every inch the princess i thought she was. It was she who taught me to value discipline and integrity above all and to always nurture my creative spirit. Though paralysed, she lived to a ripe age of 90 and showed exceptional will power to keep learning and to pursue a mentally active life. Every performance of mine dear Aji is dedicated to you and i know you will always continue to inspire me and keep my inner lamp burning bright..


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You ever have those mornings when you get a certain song stuck in your head and though you probably don't know all the words you know enough to keep it on repeat in your brain.
For me this morning it was Proud Mary, but the phrase that keeps playing over and over is Big Wheels Keep On Turning. While I'm sure that CCR or Ike & Tina were not talking about the road to Cookeville, Tenn., that is what I'm thinking about as football makes the trip this weekend.
Actually the song refers to rolling down the Mississippi River and while that major body of water will be near the EIU teams on the road this weekend, none of them will actually cross it.
Football as we said is on its way to Tennessee Tech which is nestled in the Cumberland Mountains which are quite pretty this time of year. Hopefully this peaceful setting will the be the backdrop for a Panthers breakout for EIU's first win of the season.
Women's soccer will be right behind the football team as they head down to Cookeville for a Sunday match with the Golden Eagles. It is the only match for EIU women's soccer this weekend as they look to add points in the OVC championship race.
Volleyball hit the road last night for a win at UT Martin and will play the back end of that trip at Murray State on Saturday afternoon.
Cross country competed on Friday with an impressive showing by the women's team at the Bradley Classic. Peoria will be the site of the NCAA Regional in a few weeks so a test run on that course was good practice for the Panthers.
Women's rugby will head north to Milwaukee for a Saturday match.
Men's soccer is the lone EIU fall team in action at home this weekend as they host SIU Edwardsville at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Lakeside Field. Come on out and support the Panthers.
And remember Big Wheels Keep on Turning, Proud Mary Keep on Burning... Rollin', Rollin', Rollin' down the River.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Big Wheels Keep On Turning...
Posted by EIU Panther Athletics at 6:04 AM
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Yes .... her head is missing. That just makes it easier to picture yourself as the bareback rider .....
ready for adventure. Enjoy the weekend dear ones!
4 comments:
It makes her mysterious, and it makes the viewer look at it -- which is the purpose of art.ReplyDelete
Miss you.
When I see her body, I picture my mother's face ~ that generation, that time of freedom for her........ReplyDelete
But I'm afraid of horses )ReplyDelete
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