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Invariably when one speaks or hears of "The Valley," the valley in question is the San Fernando (despite the fact that there are at least six major and loads of minor valleys in Los Angeles County). For the same reasons that I'm mildly annoyed when people refer to "THE City" or "THE Bay," the notion of "THE Valley" smacks of ignorance at best and unpleasant small-mindedness at worst. This blog entry is an introduction to the San Gabriel Valley, that great and amazing expanse of suburbs, boomburbs, exurbs and enthoburbs (any "suburb" portmanteaus I've missed?) with surprisingly significant history and variety of cultures beneath the seemingly uniform surface of bandage-colored strip malls and homes. That being said, at the time of writing, the San Fernando Valley page on Facebook has 25,519 fans whereas the San Gabriel Valley page has a mere ten.
Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of the San Gabriel Valley


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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Well prepared
I'm not talking about Hurricane Irene, though we were, indeed, prepared for that, too - the lawn furniture in, the kitchen stocked with bottled water, the counters covered with flashlights and batteries, the cell phones charged, the bathtub filled to the top in case the pump house flooded. Luckily, though, we survived Irene unscathed.
The real preparation that has had our attention over the past days, weeks, and months, is the preparation for middle school, which was due to start tomorrow, but (thanks, Irene) will instead start on Tuesday. The middle school prep really started in early spring, when Bud's wise and wonderful teacher, Ms. Parker, arranged for her daughter Gretchen - a student at the middle school - to Skype with Bud. And so, Bud became introduced to the middle school from the comfort of his known-and-familiar elementary school, through a medium that gives him great comfort - the computer. Through several introductory meetings, Gretchen talked to Bud, then picked up her laptop and gave him tours of the building, introducing him to people she met along the way. Those introductions were so successful, in fact, that when I arrived for my first tour of the facility in late spring and was introduced to teachers, staff, and administrators, person after person said to me, "Oh, Bud? I know Bud! I Skyped with him!"
As the school year wound up, energy focused on helping the entire fifth grade start making the transition to middle school. Visit days were scheduled - and for Bud, pre-visit days were scheduled to help make those larger-group events even more successful. His team developed an Extended School Year plan for the summer that focused on both continuity and transition, with time spent at both the elementary school campus and the new middle school. By the time his summer program ended, Bud was not only comfortable at the middle school, but he was also starting to feel at home there.
The final week before the start of school was not included in his Extended School Year program, of course, because it's a time when staff and teachers are focused on professional development and on their own preparations for the first weeks of school. I knew, though, that a week of down time would put Bud at risk of losing momentum, of sliding back from the progress he'd made, and of falling prey to the anxiety of the unknown. So, when the team met last spring, I pitched them my idea for that final week of summer: Operation Continuity.
The plan was simple: Bud and I would arrive at the middle school at the regular opening time with a task list in hand: give mom a tour of the building, set up your locker, bring supplies to your classroom. We'd stay less than a half hour, but it would 1) help us hammer out a morning routine that requires us to leave the house 45 minutes earlier; 2) keep him in the get-up-and-go-to-school-each-day routine; and 3) allow him to see the building transform from the empty hallways in which he'd spent his summer to the bustling center of activity it would become on opening day. All I needed, I promised the team, was their blessing. No one had to develop the activities or be on hand to meet us or anything else. I just need to know that no one would stop us at the door or tell us we had to leave. They gave us the green light without hesitation.
So last week, Bud and I took the middle school by storm. He toured me through the building and I got to see how comfortable he is there - how well he knows the building and how at ease he is with the people. We decorated his locker with pictures of Dierks Bentley and he practiced opening and closing the padlock we'd purchased to avoid the frustration that a combination lock would likely bring. We watched as the O.T. room came together. We reviewed his picture schedule, already posted on the wall.
And then, toward the end of the week, through pure serendipity, the stars aligned.
His fourth grade teacher, the incredible Ms. Walker, e-mailed me on Wednesday night. She said she'd be at the middle school for a workshop in the morning and she wondered if she could come by to have Bud show her his locker. I was delighted at the idea of having one more transition point - one more person to help usher him into this new environment.
Ms. Walker met us near his home room in the morning and they had a happy reunion. She was appropriately enthusiastic about everything he showed her, and he was happy to play tour guide. Ms. Walker asked Bud if he would help her find the room for her workshop and he led her up the stairs to the cafeteria, which was already buzzing with the sounds of teachers catching up with each other after a summer away.
Then, suddenly, as if by magic, the middle school hallway filled with familiar elementary school faces – faces of people who had been his lifelines for the past six years - his former teachers, his paraprofessional aides, his speech-language pathologist, his occupational therapist, his school nurse - all greeting him with hellos and hugs and high fives.
It was like somebody set off a love bomb. The air was infused with positivity. A circle formed around Bud - a circle full of people genuinely delighted to see him - people enthusiastic about his new school - people bursting with pride and warmth and excitement. Bud was so high he nearly left the ground.
He talked about that moment for the rest of the day. He called his dad to report on it: "There were twenty teachers! There were HUNDREDS of them!" And at bedtime, as we snuggled together and reflected on the day - a day that was good in lots of other ways - time spent with a favorite babysitter, a chance to swim at the college pool, computer time at mom's office - I asked him what the best thing was that day.
"The best thing..." he said, pausing with a far-away look. "The best thing..." He fell silent and I waited, reminding myself that if I really wanted an answer I'd need to stay silent for at least 45 seconds. "The best thing..."
"The best thing was the teachers," he said.
His take-away message was clear: he finally knew for certain that his long-held fear would not be realized. He is leaving the elementary school, yes. But he is not losing the people who have become so important to him. They are still there; they are still connected. As he moves on to the middle school, he is simply adding to his village.
We're prepared. Bud starts middle school on Tuesday. And he's going to rock it like a hurricane.
17 comments:
- Natalie said...
This made me cry, and I don't even know you guys! I'm so glad Bud (and you!) have such a great, supportive village of people!
- August 28, 2011 9:45 PM
Yep. Made me cry too. Godspeed, Bud. Here's to a wonderful year.
- August 28, 2011 9:53 PM
- Stimey said...
You and Bud have such a great community there. I'm so happy for you guys. Good luck to Bud on Tuesday!!!!
- August 28, 2011 10:04 PM
- Robin said...
it made me cry as well.
you and Bud are SO fortunate to have such wonderful support from your schools
Tell Bud we wish him a great first day of 6th grade and an even better first year of middle school
- August 28, 2011 11:31 PM
- Ami said...
It brought tears to my eyes, too.
I had to say goodbye to 'Gabe' this year, as he is moving on to middle school as well. Part of my heart goes with him, he is the most amazing kid. And part of my heart is worried for him and wants to stand by him and protect him from anything that might happen to hurt him.
I'm so very happy that Bud has the support of everyone around him. It's amazing, and shows what advocating for your child can really do when you're persistent AND the people you're dealing with actually care.
Please update us when you can.
Part of my heart is with Bud, too.
- August 28, 2011 11:56 PM
- Royal Ranch said...
I agree with Ami, you do have great support, but if it weren't for your advocacy, this great group of people would not have pulled themselves together so tightly for your beloved boy. You are truly a miracle worker...and have shown that group what they can do for future kids as well. Way to go!
- August 29, 2011 6:33 AM
- KAL said...
Wow. What a village. Love your community! Wishing Bud an amazing first day tomorrow :)
- August 29, 2011 6:22 PM
- Alysia said...
I'm crying along with everyone else. The love in that room must have been incredible. Good luck tomorrow!
- August 29, 2011 9:53 PM
- Liz Ditz said...
I read your blog a lot, but rarely comment.
I had the stinging eyes thing too.
Moving on to the next step does not mean abandoning the previous....how lovely that Bud knows that.
- August 30, 2011 11:09 PM
- Kelly said...
Wow! So glad Bud has such a circle of support! I hope it's a wonderful, wonderful year for him.
- August 31, 2011 12:35 PM
- jazzygal said...
I've just come across your blog and love the name, great play on words! My son, 11, has PDD NOS! Great prep work for Middle school, sounds like your son is off to a good start.
Glad you survived Hurrican Irene.. the joke here in ireland, where we've had the most abysmal summer, is that 'Hurricane irene has been downgraded to.... an Irish summer'!!
xx Jazzy
- September 01, 2011 2:28 PM
- Niksmom said...
*swoon* Glad Irene was a bust for you and Bud. You have bigger fish to fry!
- September 01, 2011 4:32 PM
- Tara said...
This is awesome! What a wonderful team of professionals and what a wonderful MOM! This is what makes me love being an OT and working with people like you and your son!!
- September 01, 2011 4:40 PM
- jess said...
this brought me to tears. you are one of the best moms i know. truly. bud's community is exactly what all of our kids deserve.
- September 02, 2011 9:02 AM
- MI Dawn said...
Oh, my gosh. I was teary, but can't believe Bud's going to middle school! Where has the time gone that I've been reading this blog? How could Bud have grown up so fast? How wonderful that the transition seems to be going smoothly.
Good luck for a wonderful school year to you both!
- September 04, 2011 6:12 PM
- Laurel said...
Lump in my throat now - such a wonderful post, I'm very happy to see his community of teachers rally around him. What an impact, he'll remember that for the rest of his life!
I just found your blog via Diary of a Mom's FB link. My son, who has Aspergers, is a year older than Bud, and is transitioning into 7th grade this year. So many changes. I hope my guy and Bud both have great years.
- September 09, 2011 7:27 PM
- Club 166 said...
I'm not sure that anyone, anywhere, is truly prepared for middle school. But it is good to see that you've gone above and beyond to try to make this transition as smooth as possible.
Hope all is well!
- September 11, 2011 6:23 PM

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3 Stocks Near 52-Week Lows Worth Buying
Do these fallen angels deserve a second chance? You be the judge!
Just as we examine companies each week that may be rising past their fair value, we can also find companies potentially trading at bargain prices. While many investors would rather have nothing to do with companies tipping the scales at 52-week lows, I think it makes a lot of sense to determine whether the market has overreacted to the downside, just as we often do when the market reacts to the upside.
Here's a look at three fallen angels trading near their 52-week lows that could be worth buying.
Steel of a deal?
Every once in a while I like to throw a highly speculative play into the mix, and make no mistake about it, AK Steel (NYSE:AKS) has all the makings of a high-risk, high-reward kind of play. From a financial perspective, AK Steel is a mess. My Foolish colleague Taylor Muckerman recently voiced his opinion that AK Steel's net debt of $1.18 billion was a serious concern, especially given how oversupplied the U.S. steel market has been and given AK Steel's consistent annual cash outflow.
To some extent, I agree wholeheartedly with Taylor. U.S. supply is still constrained, as is evidenced by AK Steel's first-quarter forecast of reduced sales to the spot market. However, the negatives surrounding both supply and pricing are beginning to abate.
AK Steel guided analysts to a substantially smaller first-quarter loss than in the sequential fourth quarter as it aims to reduce costs and boost average selling prices because of a better product mix. Also, don't overlook a ruling by the World Trade Organization last year that claimed China had no right to place high duties on U.S. high-tech steel. Those duties had basically shut AK Steel out of China during one of its highest-growth phases. With China once again looking for ways to boost its GDP through large infrastructure projects, AK Steel may find favorable and unmet demand overseas.
If AK Steel can survive this downturn, it could easily be worth more than double its current levels by 2015. The key word there is "if."
Hardly fizzling out
It's a bit hard to believe that a company with Coca-Cola in its name could be struggling, but that's precisely the case with Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (NASDAQ:COKE), which reported a year-over-year decline in profits three weeks ago.
The overall drop in sales and profits was quite nominal -- $29.6 million in net income in 2012 as compared to $33.3 million in 2011 -- but the simple fact that sales rose as income dropped is a bit disconcerting. In addition, Coca-Cola Bottling primarily bottles for Coca-Cola, but also is responsible for bottling and distributing products from Monster Beverage. That's concerning because of the ongoing FDA probe into the safety of Monster's products with regard to caffeine content and their effect on the body.
Yet, in spite of these concerns, I'm a gung-ho bull on Coca-Cola Bottling. For one thing, the majority of its workload comes from Coca-Cola, which is the most recognizable brand in the world and also offers one of the largest marketing budgets. The logo and marketing, which now includes a big push toward mobile advertising, practically allow the brand to sell itself. Also, the portion of sales made up by Monster is actually pretty minimal, with other smaller accounts, like Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and in-house products making up its remaining revenue stream. Coca-Cola Bottling isn't going to amaze Wall Street with exceptional growth, but it does have the brand-name backing and cost-cutting ability to continue to pay out modest dividends and deliver substantial annual profits.
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The mortgage-REIT sector has been incredibly turbulent over the past year. My initial impression of mREITs was that the Federal Reserve's stance on keeping target lending rates between 0% and 0.25% through 2015 should have sent them significantly higher. However, we quickly learned that an absence of available mortgage-backed securities on the market due to increased competition among other mREITs, and because the Fed was purchasing $85 billion worth of Treasuries and MBS's each month, was making MBS's difficult to come by at a favorable price.
But the above hasn't dissuaded me from taking a bullish stance on CYS Investments (NYSE:CYS). CYS invests solely in agency-backed loans (those covered in full faith by the U.S. government in case of default), which means it usually deals with low-interest spreads -- in this case an adjusted 1.5% interest-rate spread net of hedge for 2012 -- but it can often lever itself to the brim without too much risk. Of particular interest is the sweet spot for mREITs -- which is the period between when the Fed winds down its MBS purchases and when it finally raises its target lending rate -- that I suspect is right around the corner. I figure that mREITs like CYS have a good three years of double-digit yields still to come before they pare back to a 6% to 8% range.
With CYS trading well below its net asset value of $13.31 per share, I'd say this appears to be a safe double-digit dividend and a company that could return in the neighborhood of 50% to 60% (cumulatively) to shareholders by 2016.
Foolish roundup
This week was all about digging deep for bigger trends. Whether it's finding the sweet spot for mREITs, expecting steel demand to rise due to exports to China, or relying on Coca-Cola's brand value to save the day, all three companies look primed for a rebound.
I'm so confident that these three names will bounce off their lows that I'm going to make a CAPScall of outperform on each one.


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Decision : 36 COM 8B.30
Cultural Properties - Margravial Opera House Bayreuth (Germany)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, Germany, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The 18th century Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is a masterwork of Baroque theatre architecture, commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine of Brandenburg as a venue for opera seria over which the princely couple ceremonially presided. The bell-shaped auditorium of tiered loges built of wood and lined with decoratively painted canvas was designed by the then leading European theatre architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena.
The sandstone façade designed by court architect Joseph Saint Pierre provides a focal point within the urban public space that was particularly planned for the building. As an independent court opera house rather than part of a palace complex, it marks a key point in opera house design, foreshadowing the large public theatres of the 19th century. Today it survives as the only entirely preserved example of court opera house architecture where Baroque court opera culture and acoustics can be authentically experienced. The attributes carrying Outstanding Universal Value are its location in the original 18th century public urban space; the 18th century Baroque façade; the original 18th century roof structure spanning 25 metres; the internal layout and design of the ceremonial foyer, tiered loge theatre and stage area including all existing original materials and decoration.
Criterion (i): The Margravial Opera House is a masterwork of Baroque court theatre architecture by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena in terms of its tiered loge form and acoustic, decorative and iconological properties.
Criterion (iv): The Margravial Opera House is an outstanding example of a Baroque court theatre. It marks a specific point in the development of opera houses, being a court opera house located not within a palace but as an urban element in the public space, foreshadowing the great public opera houses of the 19th century.
The elements necessary to express outstanding universal value are included within the property as one sole building and are intact and in good condition. No adverse effects are expected to occur and an overall conservation and restoration plan has been approved by the State Party.
Most of the building and the decorative programme of the loge theatre remain unchanged. Adaptations were due to regulations for fire safety in public buildings and requirements in line with the contemporary use of theatres. The highly unified Baroque work can still be appreciated. The survival of the interior materials of wood and canvas enable the opera house's original acoustic quality to still be appreciated, and testifies to the authenticity of the property as an 18th century opera house.
Protection and management requirements
The property is protected at State level by the Bavarian Law for the Protection and Preservation of Monuments (1973, 2007). It is also protected by inclusion on the List of Monuments of Bayreuth under the Bayreuth City Civic Statutes and Ordinances. The buffer zone has been agreed and established with local authorities and its historic buildings are included in the Bayreuth Monuments List.
The Management authority is the Bavarian Palaces Department. Implementation of the Management Plan is guaranteed by a steering group including the Bavarian Palaces Department; the City of Bayreuth; the Upper Franconia regional government; the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Arts; the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings, and ICOMOS Germany. As a result of research, experience and consultations the impact of visitors and events has been regulated by the Bavarian Department of Palaces. Effective measures have been established to control the number of visitors and frequency of events which will be exclusively limited to the summer period after the restoration program is concluded.
4. Recommends that the State Party give consideration to the following:
a) Ensuring that all interventions planned are done according to the abundant documentation and research in the hands of Bavarian authorities and valid conservation principles, under strict supervision by the correspondent technical bodies,
b) Including a Risk Preparedness Plan and a Visitor Management Plan as such within the existing Management Plan,
c) Explicitly establishing the direct relation of key indicators to attributes and potential threats and clarify the periodicity of monitoring reporting to the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Bavarian State.
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May 2002
Can strawberry crops be genetically engineered to survive frost? Photo by Ken Hammond.
- Rice with built-in Vitamin A that can help prevent blindness in 100 million children suffering from Vitamin A deficiency;
- A tomato that softens more slowly, allowing it to develop longer on the vine and keep longer on the shelf;
- Potatoes that absorb less fat when fried, changing the ever-popular french fries from junk food into a more nutritional food;
- Strawberry crops that can survive frost;
- An apple with a vaccine against a virus that causes childhood pneumonia.
These are some of the benefits promised by biotechnology. The debate over its benefits and safety, however, continues. Do we really need to fear mutant weeds, killer tomatoes, and giant corn and will the benefits be delivered?
Conventional Breeding versus Genetically Modified (GM) Crops
For thousands of years farmers have used a process of selection and cross breeding to continually improve the quality of crops. Even in nature, plants and animals selectively breed, thus ensuring the optimum gene pool for future generations. Traditional breeding methods are slow, requiring intensive labor: while trying to get a desirable trait in a bred species, undesirable traits will appear and breeders must continue the process over and over again until all the undesirables are bred out.
In contrast, organisms acquire one specific gene or a few genes together through genetic modification, without other traits included and within a single generation. However, this technology too is inherently unpredictable and some scientists believe it can produce potentially dangerous results unless better testing methods are developed.
"The Fallacy of Equating Gene-Splicing With Traditional Breeding: Traditional breeding is based on sexual reproduction between like organisms. The transferred genes are similar to genes in the cell they join. They are conveyed in complete groups and in a fixed sequence that harmonizes with the sequence of genes in the partner cell. In contrast, bioengineers isolate a gene from one type of organism and splice it haphazardly into the DNA of a dissimilar species, disrupting its natural sequence. Further, because the transplanted gene is foreign to its new surroundings, it cannot adequately function without a big artificial boost.
Biotechnicians achieve this unnatural boosting by taking the section of DNA that promotes gene expression in a pathogenic virus and fusing it to the gene prior to insertion. The viral booster (called a "promoter") radically alters the behavior of the transplanted gene and causes it to function in important respects like an invading virus — deeply different from the way it behaves within its native organism and from the way the engineered organism's own genes behave. …
Consequently, not only does the foreign gene produce a substance that has never been in that species, it produces it in an essentially unregulated manner that is uncoordinated with the needs and natural functions of the organism."11
One of the main differences between conventional and genetically modified crops is that the former involves crosses either within species or between very closely related species. GM crops can have genes either from closely related species or from distant species, even bacteria and viruses. A typical example of a GM crop in the market in Australia is cotton known as Ingard.6 This cotton has a gene from a naturally occurring soil bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The Bt gene renders the cotton resistant to the heliothis caterpillar, a major threat to the cotton industry. In this example, an appropriate and selected gene (in a construct containing a promoter, transcription terminator, selection marker, etc. genes) was inserted into the cotton, unlike in conventional breeding where not only the appropriate gene was inherited in breeding but other genes as well.10
When combining two crops using standard agricultural techniques, genes are allowed to mix at random. A typical example is Triticale, a synthetic hybrid between wheat and rye grown in Europe, which is the result of combining 50,000 largely untested genes, 25,000 from each species.10 GM crops, in contrast, have specific genes inserted to produce the same desired effect.
Biotech plants are now grown on about 130 million acres in 13 countries, including Argentina, Canada, and Germany. In 2001, 3.6 million acres were used for GM crops in the U.S. More than 60% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain ingredients from GM soybeans, corn, or canola.1
Benefits: one side of the debate
GM supporters tell farmers that they stand to reap enormous profits from growing GM crops. Initially, the cost is expensive but money is saved on pesticides. To produce the GM crops, modern biotechnology is used which requires highly skilled people and sophisticated and expensive equipment.7 Large companies need considerable investments in laboratories, equipment and human resources, hence the reason why GM crops are more expensive for farmers than traditional crops. GM crops, farmers are told, are a far better option. It takes a shorter time to produce the desired product, it is precise and there are no unwanted genes.
Herbicide-resistant crops
So what other advantages do GM crops hold for farmers? GM crops can be produced to be herbicide resistant. This means that farmers could spray these crops with herbicide and kill the weeds, without affecting the crop. In effect, the amount of herbicide used in one season would be reduced, with a subsequent reduction in costs for farmers and consumers. For Ingard cotton, pest resistance was built into the cotton, hence reducing and even removing the use of pesticides, which are not only expensive but, more importantly, harmful to the environment.
Biotechnology companies are even experimenting with crops that can be genetically modified to be drought and salt-tolerant, or less reliant on fertilizer, opening up new areas to be farmed and leading to increased productivity. However, the claims of less herbicide usage with GM crops have till now not been independently supported by facts.
Better quality foods
Even animals can be genetically modified to be leaner, grow faster, and need less food. They could be modified to have special characteristics, such as greater milk production in cows. These modifications again lead to improved productivity for farmers and ultimately lower costs for the consumer. Modified crops could perhaps prevent outbreaks such as foot and mouth disease, which has devastated many farmers and local economies.
No such products have been released to date; however, some are under consideration for release. For example, GM salmon, capable of growing almost 30 times faster than natural salmon, may soon be approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the U.S. for release into open waters without a single study on the impact on human health or the environment.5
The following are some examples of food plants that are undergoing field trials:10
- apples that resist insect attack
- bananas free of viruses and worm parasites
- coffee with a lower caffeine content
- cabbage that resists caterpillar attacks
- melons that have a longer shelf life
- sunflowers that produce oil with lower saturated fat
Risks: the other side of the debate
The major concerns of those who oppose GM foods center on the:
- potential danger to the environment
- possible health risks to humans
Environmental damage
The problem with GM crops is that there is little known about what effect they will have in, say, 20 years time. The genetic structure of any living organism is complex and GM crop tests focus on short-term effects. Not all the effects of introducing a foreign gene into the intricate genetic structure of an organism are tested. Will the pests that a crop was created to resist eventually become resistant to this crop?
Then there is always the possibility that we may not be able to destroy GM crops once they spread into the environment. In Europe, for example, a strain of sugar beet that was genetically modified to be resistant to a particular herbicide has inadvertently acquired the genes to resist another.7 This was discovered when farmers attempted to destroy the crop in Britain, France and the Netherlands, where it was being tested, and 0.5% of the crop survived.7 More noxious herbicides had to be used to remove the remainder of the plantation. What if this herbicide resistance passed on to weeds?
Risk to food web
A further complication is that the pesticide produced in the crop may unintentionally harm creatures. In Britain, a native farm bird, the Skylark, was indirectly affected by the introduction of GM sugar beets designed to resist herbicides. In planting this crop, the weeds were reduced substantially. However, since the birds rely on the seeds of this weed in autumn and winter, researchers expect that up to 80% of the Skylark population would have to find other means of finding food.4
GM crops may also pose a health risk to native animals that eat them. The animals may be poisoned by the built-in pesticides. Tests in the U.S. showed that 44% of caterpillars of the monarch butterfly died when fed large amounts of pollen from GM corn.8
Cross-pollination is a concern for both GM crops and conventional breeding, especially with the more serious weeds that are closely related to the crops. With careful management this may be avoided. For example, there is a type of maize that will not breed with other strains and scientists are hoping that it could help to prevent cross-pollination.3 Genetic modification to herbicide resistant crops could insert the gene that prevents the problem. The number of herbicide-tolerant weeds has increased over the years from a single report in 1978 to the 188 herbicide-tolerant weed types in 42 countries reported in 1997.6 They are an ever-increasing problem and genetic engineering promises to stop it. But will genes from GM plants spread to other plants, creating superweeds and superbugs we won't be able to control?
GM mix-ups
Humans can inadvertently eat foods that contain GM products meant as animal feed, i.e., crops modified for increased productivity in animals. This happened in the U.S., where traces of a StarLink GM crop, restricted for use only in feed, were found in taco shells.2 Apparently no one became ill but other such occurrences may lead to health problems.
Another concern is disease. Since some crops are modified using the DNA from viruses and bacteria, will we see new diseases emerge? What about the GM crops that have antibiotic-resistant marker genes? Marker genes are used by scientists to determine whether their genetic modification of a plant was successful. Will these antibiotic-resistant genes be transferred to microorganisms that cause disease? We already have a problem with ineffective antibiotics. How can we develop new drugs to fight these new bugs?
Proponents of GM crops claim that advantages may be many, such as:
- improved storage and nutritional quality
- pest and disease resistance
- selective herbicide tolerance
- tolerance of water, temperature and saline extremes
- improved animal welfare
- higher yields and quality
However, until further studies can show that GM foods and crops do not pose serious threats to human health or the world's ecosystems, the debate over their release will continue. Living organisms are complex and tampering with their genes may have unintended effects. It is in our common interest to support concerned scientists and organizations, such as Friends of the Earth who demand "mandatory labeling of these food products, independent testing for safety and environmental impacts, and liability for harm to be assumed by biotech companies."5
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text: Below, Yreka High head cross country coach Pam Borg gives an overview on how the team fared at a NAL Center Meet at Central Valley High on Wednesday. "The Yreka Miners stay undefeated in NAL competition with another four division wins at the 3rd NAL Center meet hosted by Central Valley. The varsity course was 3 miles of trail turns, creek crossing, and undulating hills. To keep the varsity boys sharp and focused we split the team into faux teams and had them compete against each other. It worked as the boys ran tough securing nine of the top 15 spots. Matt Jochim was the winner over fellow teammate, Clayton Bunn. David Neill, Cody Griffth, Jacob Hill, and Storm Oliver went 5th, 6th , 7th, and 9th to round the top 10 spots. Miners placed 1st with 21 points. Corning was 2nd- with 55pts, and third was Central Valley with 67 pts. Corina Lange earned her first NAL win with a time of 22:00. She was in 4th going through the first mile and began to work her way closer to the front. With a 1/4 left to go, she made her move down the 200m hill and charged up the other side pulled away from central Valley's Abby Murch to secure her win. The Yreka girls place 6 in the top 10 places; Arianna Brooks , Meri Krier, Mallory Ward, Cassie Day, and Lacey Jackson. Team scores; Yreka 15, Corning 49, CV- inc Kamryn Jackson and Nico Lupacchino were the JV divisional winners."


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The Generic Security Service API (GSSAPI) over SASL allows you to use a third-party security system such as Kerberos V5 to authenticate clients. The GSSAPI library is available only for the Solaris operating system. You should install the Kerberos V5 implementation on the Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism 1.0.1 server.
The server uses the GSSAPI to validate the identity of the user. Then, the SASL mechanism applies the GSSAPI mapping rules to obtain a DN that is the bind DN for all operations during this connection.
Configure the Kerberos software according to the manufacturer's instructions. If you are using the Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism 1.0.1 server, use this procedure.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Configure the files in /etc/krb5.
Create the Kerberos database for storing users and services.
In the database, create the Principal for the LDAP service.
$ ldap/server-FQDN@realm
where server-FQDN is the fully qualified domain name of your Directory Server.
Start the Kerberos daemon processes.
The DNS must be configured on the host machine.
Refer to your software documentation for detailed instructions for each of these steps. Also, see Example Configuration of Kerberos Authentication Using GSSAPI With SASL.
The following procedure explains how to configure Directory Server to use GSSAPI on the Solaris OS:
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Create the default identity mapping for GSSAPI and any custom mappings as described in GSSAPI Identity Mappings.
Create a keytab to store the service keys.
Your LDAP service key is stored in the keytab.
If you modified the SASL configuration entry or one of the GSSAPI identity mapping entries, restart Directory Server.
Note that the DNS must be configured on the host machine.
Identity mappings for SASL mechanisms try to match credentials of the SASL identity with a user entry in the directory. Authentication fails if the mapping cannot find a DN that corresponds to the SASL identity.
The SASL identity is a string called the Principal that represents a user in a format specific to each mechanism. In Kerberos using GSSAPI, the Principal is an identity with the format uid [/instance][@ realm]. The uid can contain an optional instance identifier followed by an optional realm that is often a domain name. For example, the following strings are all valid user Principals:
bjensen bjensen/Sales email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
Initially, no GSSAPI mappings are defined in the directory. Define a default mapping and any custom mappings that you need according to how your clients define the Principal that your clients use.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Create new mapping entries under cn=GSSAPI,cn=identity mapping, cn=config.
See Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition for the definition of the attributes in an identity mapping entry. Examples of GSSAPI mappings are located in instance-path/ldif/identityMapping_Examples.ldif.
The default GSSAPI mapping in this file assumes that the Principal contains only a user ID. This mapping determines a user in a fixed branch of the directory:
dn: cn=default,cn=GSSAPI,cn=identity mapping,cn=config objectclass: dsIdentityMapping objectclass: nsContainer objectclass: top cn: default dsMappedDN: uid=\${Principal},ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
Another example in this file shows how to determine the user ID when the user ID is contained in a Principal that includes a known realm.
dn: cn=same_realm,cn=GSSAPI,cn=identity mapping,cn=config objectclass: dsIdentityMapping objectclass: dsPatternMatching objectclass: nsContainer objectclass: top cn: same_realm dsMatching-pattern: \${Principal} dsMatching-regexp: (.*)@EXAMPLE.COM dsMappedDN: uid=\$1,ou=people,dc=EXAMPLE,dc=COM
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- Eligibility. Must be at least 18 years old to participate. Employees, officers, or directors of Sponsor, its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and their children, parents, spouse, and members of their household are ineligible to participate. No purchase necessary for free product promotion redemption. Promotion is open only to legal residents of the United States. Limited to one recipient per household for the duration of the Promotional Period. Valid ID must be presented at time of Promotion redemption.
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- Delivery. It is at Lovesac's sole discretion based on factors not limited solely to inventory levels and redemption rate, to elect to require free product (i.e. Lovesac Merchandise) be shipped direct to the customer in lieu of being taken with them at the time of the event. Timing and mode of shipping via FedEx Ground or other common carrier at the sole discretion of Lovesac. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Lovesac is not responsible for and shall not be liable for late, lost, misdirected, or unsuccessful efforts to deliver goods to recipients.
- Rights. Recipients must agree to the use of their names, voices, and/or likeness for the purpose of advertising, trade, or promotion without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.
- Indemnification. You agree to release and hold Lovesac, its employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives, parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors, harmless from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind in connection with the Promotion, including without limitation, personal injury, death and property damage, and claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy.
- Choice of law. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of you and Lovesac in connection with the Promotion, will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of Connecticut.
- Promotional Prizes Available via Mystery Envelope:
- (20) 1+1 free Standard Seat/Standard Side (ARV $600)
- (20) Eskimo Phur Footsac Blanket (ARV $150)
- (20) Pillowsac Insert (no cover included) (ARV $450)
- (250) 25% off entire purchase* (*single transaction discount applicable to merchandise only, excludes sales tax and any related delivery/service fees charged)
- (250) Grand Opening Pricing for Sacs and Standard Sactionals ($250 Standard Seat, $125 Standard Side, 50% off Sac inserts – Single transaction only, card surrendered at time of purchase)
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In 2005, Eaton earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from LeTourneau University, before attending Focus Leadership Institute, a school that encourages the development of faith-based knowledge and principles in practical ministry. Seeking to apply this knowledge, Eaton served as director of Summit East for Summit Ministries, an organization that teaches college students how to logically examine and reinforce Christian tenets.
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SIMCon is a program that securely images all files on a GSM SIM card with a standard smart card reader. After imaging, the forensic investigator can then analyze the contents of the card. Specific information regarding stored numbers, call history, and text messages are available.
SIMCon's features:
- Acquire all available files on a SIM card and store in an archive file
- Analyze and interpret content of files
- Recover deleted text messages stored on the card
- Manage PIN and PUK codes
- Compatible with SIM and USIM cards
- Print reports of evidence
- Secure file archive using hashing
- Export items to popular spreadsheet programs
- Supports international charsets
In the area of small scale digital devices, there are many applications available to forensically acquire the device to produce the evidence needed in the court of law. All GSM phones today have a subscriber identity module (SIM) to identify the phone onto the network. SimCon is an application to acquire all of the information from the SIM card. This paper will provide information about SIM cards, SimCon, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of the application.
The SIM provides secure storing of the key identifying a mobile phone service subscriber, but it also stores subscription information, preferences and text messages. Network state information, such as the current location area identity (LAI), is also stored on the card. When a handset is turned off and then back on, it will search for the LAI that it was in, rather than having to search all frequencies that the phone operates in. This saves time when trying to log on to the network. (Subscriber, 2006, para. 1)
In an investigation, information such as the LAI, phone numbers, recent calls, text messages, and pictures can all aid in incriminating the owner of the phone. Obtaining the evidence on the phone may make or break the case, creating an obvious need to acquire these devices.
By using SimCon and a smart card reader, all of the above information and more can be pulled off of the card without knowing the PIN or the PUK of the card. The PIN and the PUK are ways to keep the information on the card secure. They also can be used as a security feature on the phone, not allowing anyone to use a phone to access the SIM without knowing the codes.
SimCon is an application developed by Inside Out Forensics in Norway. It is designed for use by the law enforcement community, and it can be obtained free of charge by emailing SimCon and identifying the officers and unit. However, for anyone outside the law enforcement community, it is not free.
SimCon Developers at Inside Out Forensics state that some of SimCon's key features are: its ability to read all available files on a SIM card and store in an archive file, the ability to analyze and interpret the content of files including text messages and stored numbers, to recover deleted text messages that are stored on the card but not readable on phones, to manage PIN and PUK codes, its compatibility with SIM and USIM cards, printing of reports that can be used as evidence based on user selection of items, secure file archive using hashing, the exportation of items to files that can be imported in popular spreadsheet programs, and the support of international char sets (Inside Out Forensics, 2006).
After discussing what a Sim card is, what the program SimCon is and does, an analysis of the programs' capabilities is called for. SimCon makes the acquisition of data very easy, simply inserting the Sim card to the appropriate Sim card reader, and clicking acquire is all that is needed to start analyzing evidence. After the acquisition of the data is complete SimCon will show the user a screen with two halves.
On the left panel is the different data sectors of the Sim card that can either be checked on or off depending on what is needed. After choosing what data sectors are needed, the right panel will be populated with the selected data. Some of the most useful pieces of information that are shown are: the International Mobile Subscriber Identity number, every contacts name and number, and all SMS messages sent and received both stored and deleted.
SimCon also comes with two more handy features that are key to an investigation and in a court of law. The first is SimCons' feature that allows the printing of a report. SimCon will format and populate a report with the contents of the users' choosing. This can list all the key pieces to an investigation and is an excellent piece of evidence to be used in a court of law. The second feature is the exportation of the acquired data. SimCon allows the exportation of all SMS messages and also of all contacts. When these exported files are opened in a program such as Microsoft Excel the data can be read, sorted, and analyzed in a format of the users design.
When SMS messages are exported SimCon automatically adds the following information about every message: file, item, status, service center, message type, number, time stamp, and text. When the contacts are exported SimCon automatically adds the following information about every contact: file, item, identifier, and number. For reference a report of an acquired Sim card is enclosed as well as a document that tells what information is added into an exported file at the end of this document.
In conclusion SimCon is a great digital forensics device because of its read-only features. SimCon in now way will ever write data to a Sim card, it was developed for one specific purpose and that is to read Sim cards. Due to that fact many law enforcement agencies use SimCon to their great benefit.
Subscriber Identity Module. (2006, March 23). Retrieved March 28, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module
InsideOut Forensics. (2006, March 28). Retrieved March 28, 2006, from http://www.simcon.no/


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Theo's tallest tower! It was even taller than me.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
* Birdseed Cakes
The girls and I spent Christmas Eve making
our feathered backyard friends some bird seed cakes!
We have seen these all over Pinterest and I remember
seeing them in Family Fun Magazine.
I liked and used the directions from this blog.
We mixed together 1 pouch of Knox Gelatin with 1/2 cup of boiling water
(we heated the water in the microwave)
Stir the gelatin until it dissolves.
Then, let the gelatin cool for a minute.
The girls did not like the smell, can you tell?
Then, they stirred the gelatin into 4 cups of birdseed in a big mixing bowl.
We also tossed in 3/4 cup of flour
3 TBSP of corn syrup
a handful of dry multigrain cheerios
a handful of mixed raisins
"C" scooped the mixture into a silicone muffin pan
and into a regular metal cupcake pan.
"E" cut up some plastic drinking straws and poked one through each
bird seed "cake"
We put them in the garage fridge to set up overnight.
Then, we pulled them out three days later (when we remembered them again)
and threaded colored yarn through them like ornaments.
We hung them in our backyard and frontyard trees.
The squirrels ate all of the birdseed cakes out back in one day.
The cakes out front lasted a week before the birds ate them all.
We even gave three to Grandpa for his birthday because he likes to feed his birdies too.
Looks like we'll need to make some more!
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
In honor of our 16th anniversary, to the husband who was so gracious he served as my chauffeur and valet as I performed an out-of-town wedding on our anniversary...
Brides are crazy. This is a fact, not a judgment.
I know this, because I've been a bride.
I was crazy. How do I know? I made my own wedding cake.
You know all those "Baking with Julia" shows on PBS that have famous patissiers tossing off goodies with the venerable queen of the kitchen? Baking a wedding cake isn't like that, although I did use Martha Stewart's recipe from that series for the cake (not the filling or frosting or décor – that was Rose Levy Beranbaum all the way).
Here's what happens.
A week before your wedding, when you are most insane, you buy a lot of sugar, and a very lot of cake flour, and a very, very lot of unsalted butter (it must be UNsalted, not regular butter), plus some other ingredients that require you to go to the extremely special cake and candy supply store way the other side of the universe.
You sharpen wooden dowels in a pencil sharpener to provide the support for the layers, which will weigh as much as Martha Stewart (her pre-menopausal weight, not her pre-jail weight, thank heavens), and then wash them for fear of giving your guests graphite poisoning.
You measure the quantities of ingredients. This is called mise en place but might well be called planning the D-Day invasion. Alternatively, one might call it the Bay of Pigs, at least in my kitchen.
You realize that your Kitchen-Aid mixer, although the ne plus ultra of mixers when you got it several years ago, cannot accommodate the very large quantities of ingredients you are going to have to mix.
You portion the ingredients into manageable amounts for the now-inferior Kitchen Aid mixer, organizing by layer size, since you're making this cake in tiered layers.
You mix the ingredients, carefully following the directions.
You realize that you haven't turned on the oven to preheat it, so you turn it on and have to wait.
You realize that you haven't prepared your baking pan, so you spray it with a little Pam (should have used softened butter, but you forgot to get enough to meet that need), put in the parchment paper, which you didn't cut as neatly as you wished you had, then spray it with Baker's Joy . Will anyone know you aren't using the butter and flour? Will this spell doom for the marriage?
You pour the batter into the pan and are on the verge of putting it in the oven when you realize you've forgotten to add the vanilla.
You pour the batter back in the mixing bowl, add the vanilla, re-prepare the pan, pour the batter back in and put it in the oven, praying that the leavening power of the baking powder hasn't been compromised. (Do soldiers fear the power of their missiles is affected if there is too long a wait before they are fired? I think not. Baking is harder and more unforgiving than war.)
You hover over the oven. The rule about watched pots doesn't apply to baking, where the art of the hover is finely tuned. You debate whether to open the oven when the timer rings, wondering once again about that faithless thermostat which is usually wrong, and how it might affect the cooking time. You test the cake with a cake tester, which took you ten minutes to find in your cooking tool drawer because it is so small, but it is better than a toothpick because it is EQUIPMENT.
You take the cake out to cool and wonder if perhaps you left it in too long because the cake has already shrunk from the sides of the pan and Rose and Martha told you not to let that happen. Will anyone taste the dryness of the overbaked cake? Will we be divorced by our first anniversary?
You repeat the process for the remaining layers. Timing must be adjusted for each because of the different sizes. But the change in timing is not a linear thing, and besides you're miserable at math, so all you can do is hover and pray.
The cake layers cool. You drink a cup of coffee. You wish for a stiff shot of scotch, but fear the effect that might have on the cake.
Each layer must be torted, or split into two equal layers, so there is a place for the mousse filling to go. Getting the split even, so that the final assemblage doesn't look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, requires a few technical tricks (or trucs, as the French patissiers might say). Your powers of concentration are waning, your mother and Julia never taught you the trucs, and one of the layers does not look quite perfectly even. You contemplate making a replacement layer. You burst into tears and jettison that idea.
The cake layers must be frozen, since it is four days before the wedding, and nobody's recipe will last that long. There are too many other steps that must be completed.
You go to bed.
You rise to face the challenge of the mousse. In a descent into a deeper trough of madness, you decide to make two different kinds of mousse to fill the cake, one chocolate, one not. You are modifying someone's mousse filling recipe, which is tricky even when sane. You don't know if the mousse will freeze, which it will need to do to hold the cakes for the buttercream phase.
You make the raspberry base for that mousse. Making the base takes longer than you expect. You think this project will never get done.
You wait for the raspberry base to cool. You do not think of melting the chocolate for the chocolate mousse, even thought this will require a cooling period as well, because you are insane. Rational thought has left the building.
You finish the raspberry mousse, and take out the frozen torted layers to fill, rewrap, and put back in the freezer. You thank the gods of baking and your landlord, who had a big freezer in the basement of the house you are renting. The gods are smiling.
You start the chocolate mousse, melting the chocolate, doing all the whipping cooking tasting adjusting things that one does for the chocolate mousse. It is 7 p.m. and the child wants dinner. How dare she interrupt this process with something so mundane?
You stop and cook dinner for the child. It is 9 p.m.
You take out the layer that will have the chocolate mousse. You fill it, but realize that proportionally there isn't enough mousse to make that layer the same height as the other layers. It will be ½ inch shorter. You burst into tears.
You dry your eyes, rewrap that slightly shorter layer, and put it into the freezer.
You go to bed.
Waking is not pleasant. Today is the day of the buttercream. This is not your mother's buttercream, made with confectioner's sugar, butter, and a little vanilla and maybe warm cream. No, this is a classic buttercream, made with an Italian meringue base per Rose's Cake Bible ( the chemistry text for those who bake – Rose is the Marie Curie of the field).
This is not only classic buttercream, it is VAST QUANTITIES of classic buttercream. Rose takes pity on you and gives you the proportions of ingredients for a cake the size of the one you are making, but once again the iniquitous Kitchen Aid is unequal to the task. You must break the ingredients into smaller portions (mise en place times two) and pray that the two different batches are the same in appearance, so the finished cake doesn't look like the Washington Monument, with a demarcation line where work stopped when they ran out of money.
Buttercream completed, you bring up the layers to be frosted. You unwrap each one, dust off any crumbs, and apply what is called a crumb coat of frosting to, logically enough, keep any crumbs from marring the final finish coat. Invariably a few stray crumbs manage to sneak by, but you are on a roll. The cakes, being frozen, take the icing quite well. You finish off each layer by running a hairdryer over it to slightly warm the frosting so you can smooth it. You think that you have truly descended into madness, using a hairdryer on a cake.
You put the layers, unwrapped, into the freezer for a brief time to harden the icing before you rewrap them. You put the leftover buttercream into a plastic tub and put it into the refrigerator. You think little of that act at the moment, but it will be your salvation later on.
After an appropriate time, you once again take the layers out for the assembly. Each layer is on a thick cardboard pedestal. Just layering them without supports will cause them, once the cake defrosts completely, to sink like the lava dome at Mount St. Helens. You hammer in the wooden dowels with a rubber mallet as you construct the layers. This is just as Martha and Rose have taught you. Baking as construction project. The assembly is now almost three feet tall and weighs as much as a six-year-old child. You put it back in the freezer.
You think about what ordering a cake from the supermarket might have been like.
You sigh.
You go to bed.
The prospect of making flowers from an odd substance called gum paste sounds crazy. That's alright, because we have already established that you are crazy. Gum paste, an amalgam of gum Arabic, sugar, glucose and other household chemicals, gives you a material that you can use to create the most delicate of flowers. You have decided that you are going to make gum paste flowers because Rose talks about them, and you've seen them in wedding cake books, and you know you can make the most beautiful things that are just like the flowers in your bouquet. Somewhere, the notion of just getting more of your flowers to decorate the cake, rather than creating an imitation of them, has slipped away, perhaps with your sanity.
You make the alchemical mixture. You start to form it into flowers, many flowers, many different kinds of flowers, each tinted slightly differently. You make gum paste roses, gum paste jasmine, gum paste ivy. You dust them with bits of edible gold dust, a silly thing to worry about since these flowers, though made in large part with sugar, taste awful, and no sane person will eat them.. You use the same sculpting techniques Rose has taught you when you make roses from chocolate modeling clay; at least that tastes like a grown-up Tootsie Roll. This tastes like you might expect from something called gum paste.
At midnight, you are still crafting gum paste flowers and assembling little sprays of them for the cake.
You fear you have developed diabetes from all the sugar products you've used over the course of the cake-making. You've read somewhere that a chef said he thought all chefs were fat because they absorbed fats through their skin. Perhaps this has happened to you.
You wonder if you will still be able to fit into the wedding dress you made for yourself – another foray into madness.
You put the assembled flower sprays into flat plastic shoeboxes (clean, of course) with tissue paper to protect them and keep them dry.
You go to bed.
You rise the next day, knowing that various relatives are coming to town today. You start the day by making the frightening trip to church with the cake. It will wait there, slowly defrosting for a day, in the huge refrigerator where it will share space with the half and half for coffee hour and the apple juice and baby carrots for the children in Sunday School.
You pray no one will touch it. You leave a sign on the door saying (in a very Christian way, of course) "Don't touch this cake or you will die a painful, horrible death."
You go home, take a shower, and dress for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Your back hurts from carrying the cake.
Your directions to the rehearsal dinner are fatally flawed: one of the key road signs has been stolen. The out-of-town guests drive miles out of their way before finally making it back to the gathering. You are mortified. The children are bored.
You go to bed wishing you had just gone down to Town Hall, gotten a damned marriage license, and went to Bermuda.
You wake up the morning of your wedding, and realize that the sky is blue and you are happy. For some reason this shocks you, perhaps because you are insane.
You dress in casual clothes to go to the church and finish the assembly and decorating of your cake. You do not have any coffee, because you want your hands to be steady.
It is Sunday, and you arrive during the normal Sunday service. The giant refrigerator is in the kitchen where the coffee is prepared for the post-service Coffee Hour. Edgar, the 92 year old man who has made the coffee since the Johnson Administration, is there. His moods swing between charm and curmudgeonliness. He is reasonably sane, though.
You are insane.
The cake awaits you in the refrigerator.
You will take it out and put it on one of the rolling carts, for final decoration and moving into the chapel, where your reception will take place. You reach in to take it out of the refrigerator. Edgar says, "Let me help you, dear."
"No," you say." I've got it."
He helps anyway, tipping the cake into your chest. Fortunately, this is as far as it tips, and you manage to get it onto the cart with no further problem…except for the two roundish dents in one side of it.
You contemplate killing Edgar, but realize this will not solve the cake problem and will distress your guests, not to mention your fiancé, who is opposed to murder on principle.
You realize that there may be enough extra buttercream to address the dents. You smooth it on, put the golden ribbon decoration around each layer, add some additional buttercream edging in swirls and flourishes, gently place the gum paste flowers, glistening with the gold petal dust, on the cake, and carefully move it into the chapel. You manage to safely transfer it to the top of the piano, where it will be displayed during the reception. You say a prayer to Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Saint Honore, patron saints of bakers, to keep it safe while you go home to prepare for the evening wedding ceremony.
You go to the hairdresser, where Lucien has made a special trip to fix your hair. He makes it excessively poufy a la Priscilla Presley (the early, Elvis years), but you still feel lovely, particularly after the drink of brandy he gives you to calm your nerves. He makes the child look like a little princess, which she is anyway. You go home to dress and put on the makeup.
By now the boys are in their tuxes. They have relented after making cash offers to be spared the indignity, offers which you have refused. You complete your preparations. You are on some other planet now, watching yourself move through the various preparatory steps to making a marriage.
You think this is what hope is, doing this again, loving again after a disaster.
You go to the church, you see your beloved, you know that this is more than hope, it is belief in the essential rightness of this love.
You have the ceremony. The music is lovely, the flowers are lovely, the words spoken are lovely, you remember nothing of it but the quality of the light in the evening.
You are still floating during the reception. The toasts happen, kind words are spoken, people seem genuinely happy for you. People bring you food. You eat, but do not taste.
The time comes for the cutting of the cake. There it sits, in all its glory. The work of a week, of a lifetime, waiting to be sacrificed on the altar of love. You wonder, for a moment, if it will taste good. You cut, with the cake server your mother used at her wedding. You each take a bite.
It tastes sweet. It is sweet. All is good.
Happy 16th, my love. It only gets sweeter as the years march on.
Posted by mibi52/ The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe at 10:59 PM
2 comments:
- Doug Thorpe said...
Without a doubt, the best cake I've ever eaten in my life, and my piece was served to me by the best friend I've ever had in my life. The only insane thing you did that week was marry me, and I'm grateful.
- mibi52/ The Rev. Mary Brennan Thorpe said...
Okay, now you made me cry...love you!
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