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"An old fashion Italian zucchini fritter!" - by JuJuJenn
Adjust Servings
Original recipe yields 25 fritters
- Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl with a wire whisk until smooth. Stir in the shredded and diced zucchini, then season with salt, pepper, Parmesan cheese, and basil. Add the flour a little at a time, stirring between additions until no dry lumps remain.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Drop the batter into the hot oil by the spoonful a few at a time making sure not to overcrowd the oil. Cook until the fritters are golden brown on each side, about 4 minutes. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate before serving.
Amount Per Serving (25 total)
- Calories
- 66 cal
- 3%
- Fat
- 3.2 g
- 5%
- Carbs
- 6.5 g
- 2%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23rd, 6pm- 9pm
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Gallery hours: Thursday 3 – 9pm, Friday - Sunday 12-6pm.
During the 2006 College Art Association conference in Boston, Art Interactive will be hosting a unique collaborative venture in new media art. New Media Caucus (NMC), Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), and Art/Technology (AT) Boston have joined forces to present New Media/New Work on view from February 22 – 26, 2006. New Media/New Work collects a multitude of voices from the new media landscape in this brief and rare occasion.
Gathering a cross-section of cutting-edge video and new media work, the exhibition is built around four individual projection screens representing each of the participating organizations. LEF's Technologized Bodies/Embodied Technologies is co-curated by Legier Biederman and Dave Burns and consists of work by a group of international artists that explores the intersections among visuality, embodiment, and the technological. AT Boston presents Art and Technology Boston, a video reel compiled by Phaedra Shanbaum and drawn from work created by consortium members demonstrating each local organizations involvement in New Media in the greater Boston area. Slurp!, curated by NMC member Lisa Dorin, brings together short videos that ooze, gurgle, flicker, burn, float, whirl, lick, lather and generally let it all hang out in the name of art. The fourth screen, compiled and mastered by the NMC member Gail Rubini, highlights diverse technical and thematic approaches to the medium including experimental abstractions and formal and narrative explorations.
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The SU Lacrosse Team has had a few days to soak in the fact that they missed the Final Four for the second straight season. Sunday's 6-5 overtime loss to Maryland in the NCAA Quarter-final ended the 2011 season for the Orange, and a college career for the most successful class of seniors in SU Lacrosse history. Head Coach John Desko says he is very proud of his team, and is still not very impressed with Maryland's plan of pulling out all the stops to limit SU's ball possession.
"It's hard for me to talk about the state of the game after losing to a team that played like they did," explains Desko, "but really something has got to be done for the sports of lacrosse because I'd much rather win a game like that than not reward a team that played like that and won the game. It probably sounds like sour grapes from me, but all and all I don't like the way teams are playing the game of lacrosse. It's not great for the spectator and it's certainly not good for the game of lacrosse in general."
Some say a shot clock might take care of some of the issues Desko is referring too, but the coach sees positives and negatives to that plan.
"There's gonna be some negatives that come with a shot clock, as far as the defensive end of the field, people talk about the clock winding down being a few seconds and the offense just throwing the ball in the corner and running back, so that could be a negative. But it's got to be a heck of a lot better than a 4-5 or 5-4 lacrosse game"
Despite losing a painful game in overtime, Coach Desko isn't second guessing his team's game plan.
"I don't think we could have done anything differently. I think we played very well defensively, I think John Galloway played very well in the goal. I think offensively it was low scoring but when you consider the amount of opportunities we had (22 shots) we scored 5 goals, so we're right in that 25 percent margin. You know, you like to shot a little bit better than that but their goalie played very well, their defense was solid. We just didn't have the opportunities, we had about as many opportunities as the scoreboard shows."
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Ask Mike - I want to be able to nurse my daughter
Dear Mike,
I have a 28 year old daughter with epilepsy and learning disablities.
She has had a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for 8 years that has been caring for her. I just found out that I can care for her instead of the nurse who is not the best choice for our daughter. I went through the requirements asked of me and the Nursing brokerage had me signed on to start. I have been denied from the Ohio home care program. My daughter has been nearly seizure free and I have been the person to train the nurses anyway. We want to take her care level down from nurse-to-home health aide. The reason quoted on my denial papers read: Personal care aide services are not medically necessary, consumer needs can be met with Skilled Nursing Services.
The nurse we have now is overweight and has already had 2 nervous breakdowns and is heading towards the 3rd. I do not want to go through having a stranger back in my home. I want to care for her and do the things that since her recovery, have made her more aware and alert and able to do more active things rather than sitting in front of the TV after I leave for work.
Help. What should I do for this hearing?
Thank you,
Caring parent
Dear I can nurse,
I am sorry I cannot always respond, nor guarantee a response, quickly enough to help in certain situations such as your hearing. Have you already had the hearing? I will share some ideas, that if not useful for your hearing, may be helpful in understanding the situation.
From your message, it appears that your daughter's disabilities are not physical in nature, but rather are cognitive/intellectual disabilities and health related disabilities. If this is so, then the problem could be a question of the purposes of the various programs.
It appears that the purpose of the LPN services you have been getting is to monitor the health status and safety of your daughter as it relates to her seizure disorder. Also, even though the person providing the direct assistance is an LPN, I strongly suspect the she is supervised by an RN. This is why it is called skilled nursing. There is an RN supervising the service.
Personal Care Aide type services are often services designed to assist with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). ADLs are usually defined as assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and transferring. Other ADLs can include such things as, assistance with mobility or getting around, and assistance with incontinence. Typically these ADLs are further defined in terms of functional limitations with physically performing these tasks. Some more progressive states are including needing assistance with supervision or cuing of these activities, but many programs are only for physical assistance. In other words, unless your daughter has physical disabilities, she would not be eligible for the PCA program. From the reason quoted on the denial letter that you shared, I suspect that this is the case.
If this doesn't help with the hearing, I hope it helps you with understanding the situation a bit more.
Yours very truly,
Mike Oxford


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Very handsome knife, beautifully made!
I have admired your work for about 5 knives now and I think it is time to buy one.I will take it.
Nice score ice-pic. That's a fantastic knife.
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I am happy now
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http://fau.livingroomtheaters.com There's something that feels foreign about the lobby/restaurant at the Living Room Theaters. The sparse tables and chairs look straight from Ikea, and the minimalist touches feel like the designer used to work at Volvo. And it all works -- this is South Florida's home for indie and foreign flicks after all. The system for ordering at Florida Atlantic University's theater is also completely foreign, and here, unfortunately, it possesses no Swedish ingenuity. Next to the one-man box office window is a restaurant cash register, where you may wait in line to learn that it's just for ordering food in the theater. If you decide instead to sit in the restaurant, you'll be at the mercy of a couple servers rarely patrolling the place. But if you go for eating in the theaters instead -- and why wouldn't you? -- you'll be given a number on a stick that you bring with you to your seat. The menu largely consists of tapas, and if you've ordered a few items, you'll be juggling Leggo-like boxes. The wine and beer menu includes a fine selection of the cheap and the moderately priced. The mezza plate includes a well-spiced hummus, a too-salty baba ganouch, and a fresh tabouli. Eat the pita bread quick before it hardens. The Spanish tortilla comes sliced tartine-style, with exposed layers of egg, potato, and ham. If the caprese is an indication, the paninis may be the best bet here. The ciabatta comes well toasted, the mozarella melting into the red peppers and basil. More >>
http://www.moviesofdelray.com/location.aspx?house_id=3272 The sister theater to Movies of Lake Worth, this cozy local cinema offers a selection of wide release, indie, foreign, and classic films, as well as live screenings of operas and ballets. More >>
http://www.moviesofdelray.com/location.aspx?house_id=3271 The sister theater to Movies of Delray Beach, this cozy local cinema offers a selection of wide release, indie, foreign, and classic films, as well as live screenings of operas and ballets. More >>
http://www.muvico.com/Broward-18 This 18 screen mega theater offers digital sound, 3-D movies, and even D-BOX MFX seating in one of the theaters - in other words the seats move to give the audience the sensation of pitching and rolling with the action on screen. All theaters are stadium seating and an extensive concession stand is available. More >>


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Dining options at Hilton Alexandria Old Town include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is open for drinks. Room service is available. Recreational amenities include a health club. This 4-star property has a business center and offers a meeting/conference room, limo/town car service, and audiovisual equipment. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas. The property has event space consisting of a ballroom and exhibit space. Business services and wedding services are available. Guest parking is limited, and available on a limited first-come, first-served basis (surcharge). Additional property amenities include a concierge desk, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. This is a smoke-free property.
- Audiovisual equipment
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246 air-conditioned guestrooms at Hilton Alexandria Old Town feature laptop-compatible safes and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. In addition to complimentary newspapers and safes, guestrooms offer multi-line phones with voice mail. Televisions have cable channels and pay movies. Also included are blackout drapes/curtains and electronic check-out. Guests may request a turndown service, hypo-allergenic bedding, and wake-up calls. Housekeeping is available daily.
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As those long, hot days of summer approach, lots of families start thinking about trips to the beach. Even if you're staying home though, you can bring some of the surf to your kindergartener's life with this artistic craft project. The results are colorful and the process is fun, but this activity is also educationally beneficial. The next time you find yourself with a few hours to fill, try making these "Paper Plate Jellyfish." Your child will get to use her creativity, as well as practice her fine motor skills by painting, taping, and stapling. On top of all that, she'll learn about the creatures of the sea. This is a great way to spend an afternoon, and makes for some great decorations, too!
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- Children's scissors
- Plain white paper dinner plates—look for the lightweight ones with scalloped edges
- Tempera glitter paint (available at art and craft stores) and brushes
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- Stapler and scotch tape
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On Tuesday March 30th, 11 Teague High students traveled to Franklin to compete in various journalism events for district UIL. The events in which the students competed in were: Ready Writing, News Writing, Feature Writing, Editorial Writing, and Headline Writing. Overall, the students did well considering that for some of them, this was the first time in ever competing in these events. The students and the events they placed in are as follows:
Ready Writing
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News Writing
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Alejo Diaz
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The French Laboratory Industry
Founded in 1960, CIFL is a professional association that brings together suppliers of laboratory products, services and instruments for research, monitoring and testing. With a focus on the French laboratory industry, CIFL defends the interests of its members and the laboratory profession as a whole. CIFL in figures 170 member companies, all of which are suppliers in the fields of testing or biotechnology 8,000 employees 85% of the French laboratory market is represented by the CIFL €1.3 bn: annual turnover of the French laboratory market (excluding medical labs) 172,000 researchers served by CIFL laboratory suppliers
CIFL membership is open to all laboratory suppliers and represents all sectors of business and all techniques across the laboratory industry. (Source: CIFL)
The laboratory industry is still extremely fragmented. However, the three main business segments – Public Scientific and Technical Establishments, Pharmaceutical and Chemical – account for more than 50 percent of all laboratory business. Certain segments of the industry are seeing sharp medium-term growth, such as the biotech sector, private monitoring labs and the environmental sector. Nevertheless, the main levers for growth in the laboratory industry are public research and the agri-food sector.
In France, the laboratory market counts more than 172,000 public- and private-sector researchers. Their expectations are high, especially in terms of services, automation and the certification of instruments and products as part of best practices and product traceability programmes. Researchers also turn to our members for advice and innovative solutions, primarily in the fields of mass spectrometry and couplings, protein chips and sequencing.
Position in Europe: As opposed to the broader EU market, the French market benefits from the key role played by the public sector (Public Scientific and technical Establishments, Industrial and Commercial Institutions) and less prevalent but nevertheless dynamic segments like the agri-food, cosmetics and monitoring-laboratory sectors. France still lags behind its neighbours in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. France has carved out a leading position in terms of investment in research and development due notably to the significant contribution of public-sector research. However, private research spending and venture capital investments are still far behind what is seen in Germany or the United Kingdom, for instance.
The position of the French laboratory market in Europe Source Alcimed - CIFL
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By Joe Wiesenfelder
Cars.com National December 5, 2006Note: This December 2006 review refers to hesitation in the Outlook's acceleration that I deemed a deal-breaker — a sentiment later reinforced by several Cars.com visitors who had test-driven the model. Saturn has addressed this, and I recently drove the GMC Acadia, the Outlook's sister model that Saturn says has the same exact drivetrain with the new calibration. I'm pleased to issue a clean bill of health. Accelerator lag is no longer an issue, which makes both of these models truly impressive new options for the crossover SUV shopper. —Joe Wiesenfelder, March 21, 2007
The eight-seat Saturn Outlook SUV, along with its sister vehicles from Buick and GMC, could prove to be the best thing to happen to GM in years. The Outlook combines the good looks of the new Aura sedan with interior quality worthy of Chevy's new full-size SUVs. Very much the type of family-mover that people want today, the Outlook is designed to compete with the Honda Pilot and Toyota Highlander. Its success will depend on two things: its initial quality and buyers' reaction to its tentative acceleration.
The Outlook explains why General Motors gave its minivans only a slight restyling a few years ago when its competitors rededicated themselves to building the best new vans they could. While they retain significant market appeal, minivans have a chronic image problem. Vehicles that combine the best aspects of minivans and SUVs — call them crossover vehicles, but only if you must — are the most appealing choice for families. Just days after the Outlook started arriving at dealerships, GM announced it will not be developing new minivans and will drop the segment entirely sometime after 2007. Outlook production is ramping up and should reach full capacity by the beginning of 2007.
Unlike the truck-based — or body-on-frame — construction of the Chevy TrailBlazer and Tahoe, the Outlook uses a new car-based — or unibody — platform (the SUV is larger than a car, but the structure is a design that's been used in most cars for decades). Car-based vehicles are lighter and more space-efficient, meaning better gas mileage and better interior room given their exterior size. The Outlook and its ilk have the traditional SUV features that many Americans don't want to give up — namely the body style, space, higher seat height and four-wheel drive.
Look Out
The sole engine is a 3.6-liter V-6 that generates 270 horsepower in the XE trim level (it makes 275 hp in the XR because of dual instead of single exhaust). Because it's mated to a six-speed automatic transmission, the Outlook has both decent acceleration overall and efficient cruising. I stress overall because the drivetrain has what I consider a significant deficiency: accelerator lag. As I mentioned, once the car gets going it has decent power, but there's often a delay after you step on the pedal before the Outlook responds. This happens consistently before kickdown, and it also seems to hesitate at least a bit when you give it some gas any other time.
This is by no means a rare problem in today's cars, and it's one I rail against at every instance. (I'll explain at the end of this review why it happens, and spare most of you the glossed-over eyes.) There are different kinds of lag, and it's worth explaining why I find the Outlook's particularly onerous.
Sometimes transmissions hesitate before downshifting into a passing gear, but they don't always lose momentum before doing so. This is acceptable, especially if the delay is brief — or at least if it's consistent and predictable enough that you can adapt to it. When you nail the pedal in the Outlook, on the other hand, it feels as though the transmission releases the current gear and takes too long to engage the passing gear. While this indecision and hunting goes on, the car bogs down a bit; you hear the engine rev, and then it lurches forward. For what seems like a second or more, there's a lot of windup but not enough pitch.
The good news for GM is that this might be reparable. The transmission is brand new, a joint venture with Ford for use in both companies' front- and all-wheel-drive vehicles. Drivetrains are now completely computer-controlled, and sometimes it's an issue of the programming. In terms of lag, GM Powertrain has been better than most, so I'm hoping the flaw can be cured. (It's probably a good sign that the Ford Edge SUV, which shares this transmission, responds much more quickly.) I'm more sensitive than most to accelerator lag, but I think this instance will be a problem for many. I'd love to hear your impressions if you've driven the Outlook or a sister model.
2007 Car-Based-SUV Fuel Economy | ||||||||||||||
FWD gas mileage (city/hwy, mpg) | AWD gas mileage (city/hwy, mpg) | |||||||||||||
Saturn Outlook | 18/26 | 17/24 | ||||||||||||
Honda Pilot | 18/24 | 17/22 | ||||||||||||
Hyundai Santa Fe | 21/26 | 19/25 | ||||||||||||
Toyota Highlander 4-cyl | 22/28 | 20/25 | ||||||||||||
Toyota Highlander V-6 | 19/25 | 18/24 | ||||||||||||
Source: EPA |
Looking In
Another good move on Saturn's part was to make a third-row seat standard equipment, as in the Honda Pilot. The Toyota Highlander's is optional. The Outlook seats three apiece in the second and third rows, but buyers of the higher, XR trim level can option second-row captain's chairs, bringing the total down to seven seats.
My test Outlook had these chairs. Competitive in this class, they adjust fore and aft, and they scoot out of the way to ease third-row access. The way they do this is novel. When you pull its lever, the backrest stays vertical and the bottom cushion pivots upward, allowing the whole seat to slide forward. It's certainly as effective as the more common fold-and-tumble design, and possibly more so. Sometimes the trickiest seats come with a comfort tradeoff (Dodge Stow N' Go and Nissan Quest, I'm looking in your direction...), but I found these chairs comfortable. Their complexity makes me a little nervous, but we'll have to see how they hold up to use and time.
The third row is accommodating for smaller people. Legroom is the limiting factor, so adults can make it work if the second-row passengers slide their seats forward some.
A standard seat height adjustment — manual in the XE and powered in the XR — caters to drivers of all sizes. There's also a tilt/telescoping steering wheel that, Saturn says, made adjustable pedals unnecessary.
Looking Out of the Outlook
My 6-foot height notwithstanding, I found it difficult to judge where the Outlook's front bumper was when gazing over the high hood. Rear visibility is fair, especially if the third row's head restraints are folded forward, which they do automatically when you lower the backrests into the floor to increase cargo space. The captain's chairs' head restraints nest into the backrests, so they don't stick up too high either, unless a passenger has raised them. The D-pillar is a bit wide. My Outlook's sonar rear parking assist helped a lot, but it's disappointing that the feature is optional only on the XR, bundled with other features in a Convenience Package for more than $1,000. Sonar also pales in comparison to a rearview camera, which some competitors offer.
Quality Found
After a few years of talking a good game and following up with some half-steps, GM seems finally to have committed to improving its interiors' "perceived quality" — which refers to look and feel and not necessarily cost or underlying craftsmanship. Here it's akin to the redesigned 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, whose interiors are often cited among their best attributes. The Outlook's surfaces aren't all soft to the touch, but they are low gloss and look more expensive. There are still some rough seams on the molded plastic parts, which is a long-standing problem for GM that never seems to get addressed.
The Outlook's Outlook
I hate to buy into what's becoming a cliché, but the Outlook's formula makes it the right vehicle at the right time. Its styling garners enthusiastic responses, and it's never confused for anything but an SUV. The confusion comes when people learn it's a Saturn, but that seems to be good confusion.
Debuts and redesigns are a car manufacturer's best opportunity to leapfrog the competition, and leap GM must. The Chevy Cobalt compact car hit the market just barely competitive — with a four-speed automatic when other models already had five-speeds, and with uninspired designs, inside and out. The redesigned Honda Civic came along a year later and, naturally, knocked the Cobalt on its nondescript rear. Conversely, in some areas the Outlook bests its competitors, and its six-speed (though troubled) transmission and modern features should keep it toe-to-toe with its competitors' next generation.
The base, unadorned Outlook is reasonably well-equipped, with features like remote keyless entry, a CD player, automatic headlights, a rear window wiper, floor mats and a solid complement of safety features. Airbags include side curtains and, for the front occupants, seat-mounted side-impact airbags. Four-wheel disc brakes with ABS and an electronic stability system all come standard.
Loaded with every possible option, an all-wheel-drive XR tops out at $43,384 including the $735 destination charge. This includes remote starting, heated windshield washer fluid, power liftgate, rear parking assist, 110-volt electric outlet, leather front seats with power adjustment and driver memory settings, heated side mirrors, stainless-steel dual exhaust, second-row captain's chairs, GPS-based navigation system, White Diamond paint, backseat video system, front moonroof, xenon headlights, advanced stereo system with separate backseat zone, dual-zone climate control and XM Satellite Radio.
If you believe J.D. Power and Associates' Initial Quality ratings, lately GM has been performing well overall. Regardless, perception is what matters to consumers, and they must believe that new Outlooks won't have any unwelcome surprises. As important, the Outlook must prove to be reliable, especially because the class leaders are from Honda and Toyota, whose reliability records are unmatched. (Frequently mistaken for a reliability rating, initial quality covers about the first 90 days, not long-term dependability or cost of ownership. Of the three Saturn models that are old enough to judge for proven reliability, the Ion compact car and Vue compact SUV are rated Good by Consumer Reports. The Relay minivan has a Poor rating.)
If I were considering buying an Outlook, the fear of the unknown might weigh on me, but more important is the known: The accelerator lag would definitely give me, uh, pause.
Digging Deeper: Acceleration
Accelerator lag, a problem once associated with low-quality automatic transmissions, has become widespread with the popularization of electronic throttle and automatic transmission control. Throw in a turbocharger and there's even more opportunity for a rubber-band effect between the accelerator pedal and your car's reaction.
In my experience, by-wire throttles are a common source of accelerator lag — specifically throttle lag. (The throttle, which controls the engine's fuel supply and thus its speed, is only one potential source of lag, so I often use the general term accelerator lag.) This widespread phenomenon is grossly underreported and, in my opinion, inexcusable. It's perhaps the hardest to stomach because it's related to a supposed technological advancement.
There are many upsides to this newer breed of throttles that use an electric signal from the accelerator pedal instead of a mechanical cable, but the problem is that they often cause a delay in the engine response when you step on the pedal. While it's improved somewhat with time, early anomalies appeared on cars as driver-oriented as the BMW 540i. The same problem still plagues the Mini Cooper. While you may experience this anytime you step on the pedal, it's most noticeable — and maddening — when blipping the throttle to goose the engine speed while downshifting with a manual transmission.
Doing this smoothly requires the engine to react promptly, and I contemplated whether or not I was imagining it when I first noticed the behavior. It was only when I drove two older-style cable-throttle cars I had on hand that I confirmed my suspicion. The conventional throttle makes the tachometer needle jump like a startled cat. So despite the background advantages, many by-wire throttles are a step backward in terms of the driving experience.
I've also been shocked at how the addition of gears (five-, six- and seven-speeds) to automatic transmissions — supposed improvements — overall have come with increased hunting, indecision and lag in downshifts. It just doesn't make sense. The same is true of by-wire, for which there is no conceivable technical reason for lag. Ironically, it was a GM Powertrain engineer who suggested to me that other automakers' throttle lag (GM's at that point were better than most) came from elaborate failsafe provisions designed to prevent accidental acceleration. Electrical interference can't be allowed to trick the system into opening the throttle on its own. Such safety features, he said, can introduce delays.
Whatever the case, having long been better than most, both in throttle response and kickdown lag, GM may be able to remedy the Outlook's failings. Let's hope so.
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These boots are great! Lightweight, which was important to this carry-on only traveler. I wear a ladies' size 5.5, ordered the kids' size 4 and they fit perfectly. I'm taking them into the Amazon jungle and expect they will perform as needed. They are shorter in shaft length that adult boots, coming up to mid-calf, but that is to be expected. Great, inexpensive rain boot!
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The Legendary
...dean of America's sci-fi writers
He was a wistful, poetic,
child who never grew upBy RON MILLER
of TheColumnists.comRay Bradbury, who died last week at age 91, was the dean of American science-fiction writers, but, to his credit, he never behaved like a dean of anything.
What he was like, in my opinion, was a kid in the world's largest candy store.What can you say about a man who speculated all through his life about the advent of new technology, but constantly suggested it wasn't always a good thing? Bradbury distrusted robots and spaceships and just about anything new-fangled. He never learned to drive a car, even though he lived in the Los Angeles area, where all the world's freeways seem to converge, and he refused to even get on an airplane, let alone a rocketship.
He was the antithesis of a techie. And even though his fertile imagination pictured worlds filled with machines that did the work of men, he seemed to exist in order to warn us all to not rely on any of that mechanical stuff.
I grew up on Bradbury's stories, which I first read in pulp magazines and paperback collections or in comic book versions or listened to radio adaptations of the best of them. I still vividly remember how moved I was by listening to the radio version of his story "There Will Come Soft Rains" (from "The Martian Chronicles")--a poetic, but grim tale of an automated house of the future that keeps on preparing meals for a family and keeping the house spotlessly clean, even though there has been a nuclear war and all the people who used to live there are long gone.
I recognized early that Bradbury was completely different from most of his colleagues in the sci-fi world. His stories, even the darker ones, tended to be whimsical in nature. He didn't ever set out to frighten you or titilate you. He preferred to stimulate your imagination with the amazing imagery of his writing.
I met Bradbury on several different occasions--once when he was doing some press in conjunction with NBC's 1980 miniseries telecast of his "The Martian Chronicles"; another time when he was hosting the 1983 celebration of Lon Chaney Sr.'s centennial at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences; still another time when he was a resource for a TV news documentary special on space exploration and yet another time when he was involved with hosting "The Ray Bradbury Theatre" on HBO and the USA network.
A scene from the 1953 film
"The Beast From 20,000
Fathoms," based on a Ray
Bradbury short story about
a lovesick dinosaur.On all those occasions, Bradbury impressed me with his disdain for the usual trappings of fame and the delight he took in being a little capricious, even when he was talking about serious topics. He gave the impression that he didn't take himself all that seriously and kind of enjoyed being an iconoclastic character.
For instance, I distinctly remember how sure he was that we were going to find life on Mars. But if you pressed him for details of his prediction it turned out that he meant we earthlings wuuld be the life on Mars. (In "The Martian Chronicles," for instance, he depicts our colonization of Mars as something that destroys the native life forms on the red planet. He suggests we'll wind up moving there after we wreck our own planet for good.)
And yet I consider Bradbury to have been the ultimate romantic, not a pessimist despite his negative notions about modern technology. A prime example is his Saturday Evening Post short story "The Fog Horn," which depicts a lonely dinosaur, revived from an icy tomb in the 20th century, ruining a modern lighthouse because it mistakes the lighthouse fog horn for the love call of a female dinosaur. What a flight of the imagination: A lonely dinosaur out of its own time, searching for a mate in a hostile world, and finding a lighthouse fog horn instead!
That story, by the way, became a single sequence in the 1953 movie "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," which extrapolated quite a bit from the original Bradbury tale. It gave stop-frame animation effects genius Ray Harryhausen an opportunity to create a diinosaur for the movies.
When I asked Bradbury once where he came up with such an imaginative notion, he quickly explained that he and his wife had been walking along the beach near Ocean Park Pier in Venice, CA, about 30 years earlier and had come upon the roller coaster, which he thought resembled a dinosaur lying on the sand. He went home and wrote a story to go with his vision. The 1953 movie ends with the dinorsaur being destroyed by fire as it nestles near a roller coaster.
Long before obituary notices and tributes were written about Bradbury, he had secured a place in the history of American literature as the writer who almost single-handedly moved science fiction from the pages of trashy pulp magazines to the mainstream magazines. Though his tales often speculated about the future, he will not be remembered as a prognosticator but rather as a singular visionary in terms of his treatment of the human spirit.
wrote the
original story for this famous
3-D movie
of 1953.Bradbury was influenced by a number of writers, including Poe and H.G. Wells, but I personally think his writings often reminded me of Sherwood Anderson in his short stories of the "Winesburg, Ohio" volume. If you read Bradbury's imaginative, but non-science fiction collection called "Dandelion Wine," you will immediately see why I make that connection with Anderson. Bradbury was especially adept at capturing elements of the human heart, even in stories where the setting is unearthly.
At the Lon Chaney tribute in 1983, Bradbury talked in detail about his childhood and how he reacted to seeing Chaney in such early silent films as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Phantom of the Opera."
"I walked most peculiarly for the next several weeks," Bradbury said after waching Chaney play the deformed Quasimodo on the screen. The writer also recalled cutting an opera cape into bat-wings and wearing it to drop out of trees to scare passersby after seeing Chaney as The Phantom.
Bradbury credited Chaney's movies with influencing many of the visual images of his famous short stories, including "The Veldt," in which children are menaced by the too real African lions in their virtual reality wallpaper. Bradbury credited Chaney's film "He Who Gets Slapped" with those lion images. (A circus lion serves as an instrument of vengeance in that movie.)
Though Bradbury wrote novels, most of them were composites of shorter stories, such as "The Martian Chronicles." He wrote hundreds of short stories and published many collections of them. In the 1950s, he was most prolific and was at the top of his game, in much demand in mainstream magazines and in movies.
Gregory Peck
fights "Moby Dick"
in John Huston's
1956 film with
a screenplay by
Ray Bradbury.Bradbury wrote the storyline for the classic 3-D science fiction film "It Came From Outer Space," but not the screenplay. Later, director John Huston hired Bradbury to adapt Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" to the screen for his 1956 film starring Gregory Peck as Capt. Ahab. The screenplay is renowned for its poetic language and Breadbury considered it his most successful work in movies. He also adapted his stories for Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone."
as Bradbury's
Man."Of the many movies made from Bradbury's work, including "The Illustrated Man" with Rod Steiger and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" with Jason Robards, which Bradbury adapted for the screen, probably the most enduring has been "Fahrenheit 451," directed by Francois Truffaut with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. The 1966 film ;is based on Bradbury's novel about a future society in which all printed books are banned and firemen are dispatched to burn books whenever they are found somewhere.\
Posters for two films made from Bradbury stories, at left "Fahrenheit 451," and, at right, "Something Wicked This Way Comes." Oskar Wener's name was misspelled in the poster on the left.
Bradbury was not very enthusiatic about "The Martian Chronicles," which was not a ratings success for NBC and, though adapted for the screen by Bradbury's friend, sci-fi writer Richard Matheson, made some unpleasant changes in Bradbury's stories, including the building up of an astronaut role for actor Rock Hudson to play in order to give the six-hour, three-night miniseries a character who continued through the action.
In the TV minseries version of "The Martian Chronicles," the roles
played by Bernie Casey (left) and Rock Hudson (right) were not faithful
to Bradbury's version."It's jsut rather boring," Bradbury said of the epic TV program.
Bradbury was a prolific writer, who continued to write well into his old age, even after suffering a debilitaitng stroke. In his later years, he wrote mystery stories and poetry as well as his stock-in-trade imaginaative fiction. In the introduction to his 2003 collection of 100 tales called "Bradbury Stories," the author summed up his career this way: "Writing, for me, is akin to breathing. It's not something I plan on schedule; it's something I just do."
For those of us who find endless pleasure in reading and re-reading Ray Bradbury, one can only be eternally grateful that he maintained that attitude for so long and left so much marvelous fiction behind.
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This is a sort of test post from China. I'm not 100% sure this will post. I should have this set up to also post to Facebook, but since I cannot open FB, I can't really check to see if it works.
If it does and any of you come to check out the post, could you please leave a comment, here on this blog, so that I will know if it is posting? Thanks!
Will write more soon…
I have the iPhone app for Post Secret. Per the website, "In two months more secrets have been shared on the PostSecret App than have been mailed to me in seven years!". Granted I have to wade through a bunch of stupid ones, because I don't have the benefit of Frank doing it for me, but I still find some amazing ones. Here are some ones I wanted to share.
"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 6
So, I stopped by the cemetery the other day, in reference to my post the other day Just Curious. I stopped mid morning, because even though I would love to talk to the family of this person, I don't want to intrude on their grief.
I was right, this person was a Pacific Islander, based on the name and the picture on the headstone. I actually took a picture of the headstone, but won't post it, out of respect for the family. I'm sure they don't want some random person posting pics of it on her silly little blog.
He died on March 13, 2011 and was just 25 years old. I did a search for an obit, to see if I could find out more info, but could not find one. Twenty five is so incredibly young. He was obviously well loved, considering the fact that he has a group of visitors at his grave site almost every single night. I wish I could stop and hug each one of them, get them to tell me stories about him and maybe cry with them for a bit.
See, this is what I do when I have a month off from school with nothing else to do.
A deep conversation I had with Aeris Soltice recently.
(If the video does not show up, click this link to see it. Conversations with Aeris)
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Just about every day I drive by the Murray City Cemetery on my way to take my kid to school, go to my mom's house, to the store or the gym. Almost every single evening I see the same family with their car parked on the side of the road and set up at a grave site a few feet from the curb. This has been going on for several months now.
Many times as I drive by the cemetery I see employees setting up for funerals, families gathered for a funeral, backhoes digging the graves and families visiting graves sites. When holidays occur, the cemetery gets packed with flowers, balloons and other decorations, especially on Memorial Day or Veterans Day. You can tell when it must have been someones birthday or who loved Christmas or Halloween, depending on how a grave site is decorated.
There is something different about his family though. Like I said, they are there every evening. It doesn't matter if it is good weather, or if it is raining or if there is a foot of snow on the ground. I don't recall seeing a recent burial in that area, so I'm not sure if this was a recent loss or not, but I would assume it is.
The family is obviously from Pacific Island heritage. This is the only clue I have to why they are there every single day. There are usually three to six people there and they often set up lawn chairs. I want to stop and talk to them. I want to know who this person was and why they are there every day. Is it a cultural thing of some sort? Was it a loss so great they feel compelled to return daily to keep the connection?
I've tried a couple of times to snap a picture of them, sorry they are kind of crappy pics.
One of these days I will stop to look at the headstone to see if I can get any more information. I like to walk through cemeteries any way, although I don't personally understand the need to visit the grave sites of my relatives or place flowers or other decorations at a grave. This subject can fill another entire post, so I will save it for another time.
I have no never again, I have no always.
In the sand victory abandoned its footprints.
I am a poor man willing to love his fellow man.
I don't know who you are. I love you.
I don't give away thorns and I don't sell them.
Perhaps someone will know that I didn't weave bloody crowns, that I fought against mockery, and that with truth I filled the high tide of my soul.
I repaid vileness with doves.
I have no never because I was, I am, I will be different.
And in the name of my ever-changing love I proclaim purity.
Death is only the stone of oblivion.
I love you, on your lips I kiss happiness itself.
Let's gather firewood. We'll light a fire on the moutaintop.
Every time I gazed upon your beautiful face
Or felt your tender touch
I felt the butterflies
Softly flitting inside me
I still feel them each time
I long to feel them
But I don't get the chance much any more
So I have started to catch the exquisite creatures
One by one
I press them flat
Pushing a pin into their back
I feel each death as if it were my own
Each one pressed between glass
Framed in shining gold
Placed in the room I'm my heart
Your room
The room I can visit from time to time
To visit your butterflies
And remember when these beautiful creaters used to
And flit
And tumble
Deep inside me
Hopefully once finals are done next week I can manage to post on the correct days and quite combining, but until then…
Dec 8
Beautifully Different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different – you'll find they're what make you beautiful.
Ugh. Really? I hate these kinds of questions. I feel like I'm in a job interview. I actually had to ask my daughter to help, because I am much to critical of myself to come with something. She said that the best thing about me is that I have seen it all. From living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to having tons of money and doing pretty much whatever I wanted to. Not being afraid to move to new places and have new adventures. Being blissfully happy at times, then making it through some really dark times, back to being happy again. I guess you could say I'm resilient. If I do get smacked down by life, it doesn't take me too long to jump back up. I always have a positive outlook and I'm forward to even more new adventures in 2011.
Dec 9
Party Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans.
Several great parties this year!
The going away party for Melinda was epic. So many friends made it. But, it was sad to see her go, even though I was so excited for her to move to London.
The Halloween Party. Once again…the people made the party.
My birthday party, hosted by the lovely Jessica and Marci. I made four different kinds of Asian dumplings. Yum! And was great to have my good friends celebrate the big 40 with me.
Chris and Ruby's party this summer when Heidi came home. Shauna's 4th of July Party. Melissa's holiday party, when Jen was in town. These were all great get togethers with long time school friends. So much fun to re-connect and catch up.
To sum them up…great people, good music, fabulous food, lots of drinks, clothing was optional and many shenanigans were had. I have no doubt there will be many more over the next year.
I was in a funk for a little while. So many things to deal with. To handle. To absorb. To work through. All of those things still swirl around me on a daily basis. Some days are better than others, but lately, most days have been positive, tranquil, hopeful…fabulous.
It would be so terribly easy to slip again into that place of darkness and despair. And it would be so easy to stay there. To let everything come crashing down upon my head and bury me in misery. To let the ugliness of certain truths from past lives slip their little fingers around my wrist and drag me down.
But, that is not what I am made of. That is not how I was built or wired.
I see the light in the darkest of nights.
Do you know why? Because life is beautiful.
From the quiet at 2:30 in the morning when soft little snow flakes float to the ground. To the text message from someone saying they miss you. To the feeling you get when you know your children are safe at home. To that first sip of coffee in the morning. To the friend that smiles when they see you. To the stranger that holds the door for you. To the knowledge of knowing you are going somewhere, even if you don't know exactly where.
To that look. To that touch. To that sound. To that scent. To that everything.
Life is beautiful.
Despite all the heartache, pain and troubles, I still see immense beauty.
Tonight I will be attending an online event with my oldest. It's called College Week Live, where 300 or so colleges will have information available to high school juniors and seniors. And why would I have to do this? Because, Tal is almost 17! WTF!?! I'm not old enough to have a 17 year old that needs to start thinking about college. I'm in college myself and during my last year of college, my daughter will be a freshman…maybe even at the same school.
Obviously, I didn't take the normal or correct path in my education. Right out of high school, I attended one semester at the community college and decided it wasn't for me. It's not that I didn't want an education or have dreams or hopes for my future. I did! In fact, just like my daughter, I started off looking into college as a junior in high school.
I wanted to do something artistic and creative, so I applied to FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising), one of the top design schools in the country. In the submission package I included an project I had just finished for my interior design class. I was accepted! Based solely on my project and become the youngest person ever accepted at the school at that time! I would be studying in NYC for three years and one year in Paris.
I ended up not going to FIDM. Why? Because it was so damned expensive I couldn't get enough financial aid to cover the tuition, etc and my parents could not afford it either. That was my dream. That is why I had no interest in the community college or any other college for that matter. Because I was young and stupid and couldn't figure out how to make my dream happen, even with road blocks in the way. I could have done it, but I didn't. That is one of my two biggest regrets (the other was marrying my ex).
So, how do I make sure my daughter does not follow the same path? She is a smart kid with her own definitive dream. I have no doubt she can reach any goals she sets for herself. I could care less what career path she sets, except that it has to be something she has a passion for and will be happy doing for a very long time. It doesn't have to make her a ton of money, it just has to make her happy. I spent many years doing something I was very good at, but hated. That is why I am now a 40 year old, single mom, in college. I, like my parents, can not afford to send her to a top college and I am praying she can get scholarships and financial aid. But, most of all I hope and pray she follows her dreams and doesn't let the road blocks get in her way.


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The Baku World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, held between 29 May and 1 June, addressed challenges of intercultural dialogue in its various aspects regarding conceptual frameworks, governance, policy, and practice. The speakers on hand tackled the barriers to dialogue and explored how dialogue may best be pursued in diverse contexts. The Forum provided an excellent opportunity for sharing good practices and for launching new initiatives within this intercultural platform. 500 representatives from 102 countries across the planet, representing international organizations, NGOs, media channels, together with scholars, experts, etc. participated in the Forum, organized under the motto "United through Common Values, Enriched by Cultural Diversity."
The UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser participated in the 2nd World Forum as a speaker at the official opening ceremony. On May 29th, Mr. Al-Nasser inaugurated, together with UNESCO and ISESCO, The National Tolerance Center. The Center aims to serve as a hub for promoting inter-religious tolerance and mutual respect, another aspect of the intercultural dialogue promoted by the forum.
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The Refugee Women and Youth Centre was founded on 6 June 2003 within the UNHCR and HAYAT NGO project. The Centre serves to bring together all refugees from foreign countries in Azerbaijan, providing them with moral support and a second home to congregate and hold shared events and activities. With the help of staff members and women activists, the Centre has become very popular especially among refugees from Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
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"Today we learned that education is not just about having excellent grades or knowing some subject by heart. We learned the importance of mutual respect and harmony for inclusive and peaceful societies," said Moustafa Farani, an Afghan refugee who thanked DPI for the session.
*** The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by resolution 36/67 of the United Nations General Assembly to coincide with its opening session, which was held annually on the third Tuesday of September. The first Peace Day was observed in September 1982. The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.
As the world community prepares for the development agenda set to succeed the MDG framework beyond 2015, the Office of the Resident Coordinator and the UNO Baku - Department of Public Information (UN DPI) teamed up with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) to conduct a consultation in Tartar on 24 May.
Taking into consideration the tense geographical position and current social situation of the town, the new migration trends and the issue of human trafficking were at the forefront of the consultation. More than fifty representatives were brought together from regional executive authorities, as well as from offices dealing with security, legal matters, education, youth, and sports.
Ms. Irada Ahmedova, a representative of the UN Resident Coordinator's Office, informed the participants about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which have provided an important motivational force and measuring rod for progress in poverty reduction and increased access to basic health, a competitive education, clean water, and other essential services by the target date of 2015. "The consultation process will be aligned with the Azerbaijan: Vision 2020 national strategy. The ideas and recommendations generated through the consultations, suggesting a post-2015 development framework, with both local and global dimensions, will feed into the UN report due by the end of June," said Ms. Ahmedova.
Mr. Sarhan Aktoprak, Acting Head of the IOM, also affirmed the importance of migration as part of the ongoing discussions on the post-2015 development agenda. "What we have observed throughout our work," explained Mr. Aktoprak, "is that migration can make a very important contribution to social and economic development if governed fairly."
Expressing his eagerness to partner with UN agencies in the process of consultations, the IEPF Chairman, Umud Rahimoglu, stated that, "The outcome today has shown that the Azerbaijani government is open to dialogues and that local authorities are willing to join in the process of developing better national policies. I hope the IEPF, with its partners, can continue to facilitate meetings of this kind."
Many countries, including Azerbaijan, are on track to achieve a significant number of the goals which have been transforming the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people. The UN is working with governments, civil society, and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs, and to move forward with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. Azerbaijan is one of the 87 countries in the world which launched post-2015 national consultations.


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