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In A Girl and Her Pig, April Bloomfield takes home cooks on an intimate tour of the food that has made her a star. Thoughtful, voice-driven recipes go behind the scenes of Bloomfield's lauded restaurants—The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and The John Dory—and into her own home kitchen, where her attention to detail and reverence for honest ingredients result in unforgettable dishes that reflect her love for the tactile pleasures of cooking and eating. Bloomfield's innovative yet refreshingly straightforward recipes, which pair her English roots with a deeply Italian influence, offer an unfailingly modern and fresh sensibility and showcase her bold flavors, sensitive handling of seasonal produce, and nose-to-tail ethos. A cookbook as delightful and lacking in pretention as Bloomfield herself, A Girl and Her Pig combines exquisite food with charming narratives on Bloomfield's journey from working-class England to the apex of the culinary world, along with loving portraits of the people who have guided her along the way.
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Even the cookbook itself, which is weighty and dense, feels like a novel or memoir (in our copy, many of the pages are so tightly packed, they had already loosened from the spine). And you really could settle into a lounge chair and read the recipe headers and essays front to back: The "Nibbles" chapter to start, then "Meat Without Feet" (and "Birds" and "Cow" and "A Little Lamb" and "Fine Swine"), and of course, "The Not-So-Nasty Bits."Read Full Review of A Girl and her Pig
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I am honored to have Thom Ryan, writer of the splendid Film of the Year blog, inaugurate the Frankensteinia Guest Blogger series. It was easy getting Thom to come aboard: He offered to contribute before I got around to ask. And here I was, ready to beg.
Thom looks back at The Invaders, issue no. 31 (1978), in which Marvel's World War Two Superheroes meet The Nazi Frankenstein!
In the late 1970s, some thirty-odd years after the end of World War II, Marvel Comics Group published untold wartime exploits of their earliest characters Captain America, The Submariner and The Human Torch in a comic book titled The Invaders, the brainchild of long time Marvel scribe and editor Roy Thomas with artwork by Frank Robbins.
As a youth I devoured these stories, suffering the seemingly interminable month-long period between issues with extreme anticipation. Re-discovering my back issues in the attic the other day I spotted Frankenstein's Monster lashing out from the cover of issue thirty-one and wondered if the comic had ever been featured on Frankensteinia.
Most of the forty-one issues in the series see our heroes tackling Axis villains and rescuing people like Winston Churchill, King George VI and Stalin with World War II forming a thrilling backdrop. However, the August 1978 issue is the most unusual in the series--and one of my personal favorites--because guest writer Don Glut and guest artist Chic Stone bring our heroes face to face with a Nazified version of Doctor Frankenstein and his wretched monster in a story titled "Heil Frankenstein!"
Though set in 1941, the story is uncomplicated by the major events of the war. Within a restored Castle Frankenstein, Nazi scientist Basil Frankenstein, a descendent of Victor Frankenstein, and Dr. Kitagowa "Japan's finest surgeon" plan to use Basil's family secrets to create an army of undead soldiers with replaceable parts for the Axis war effort.
Investigating rumors of Nazi activity, grave robbing, and murder in the Swiss Alps, The Invaders come face to face with Frankenstein's first hideous creation dressed in some sort of Gestapo uniform. In typical comic book fashion the heroes engage the monster in battle, are defeated, captured, and face becoming material for Frankenstein's next experiment. Luckily, torch-bearing local villagers, fed up with the strange doings in the castle, attack en masse, and the Invaders manage to break free. In the ensuing melee, the Monster's "brain control implant" short circuits and he carries Frankenstein and Dr. Kitagowa off the steep walls of the castle to their doom, sacrificing himself in the process. The issue isn't notable for dramatic storytelling or realistic artwork; it's just straightforward comic book entertainment with a clever twist on the Frankenstein mythos.
I remember reading this issue as a kid and being particularly startled by Chic Stone's rendering of Frankenstein's monsters as uniformed, undead stormtroopers throwing grenades. Looks pretty tame by current comic standards, but this panel (see image below) draws a ghastly parallel with the true horror of the actual Nazi blitzkrieg.
Since Basil Frankenstein and his monster perished in issue thirty-one they weren't seen in the pages of The Invaders again, but a whole legion of Frankensteins have appeared in Marvel comics over the years. I also recall that the Monster starred in his own comic for a time appropriately titled, Monster of Frankenstein. Still, the Nazified version of the Monster seen in the pages of The Invaders has to be one of the more unusual iterations of our favorite tragic figure.
I urge you to visit Thom's blog, Film of the Year, a fascinating chronological journey through film history. Read Thom's appreciation of James Whale's Frankenstein here.
Thom Ryan is a former systems administrator, database developer and video editor who now devotes himself to writing his blog, studying history, playing guitar, writing songs, hiking, camping and, of course, viewing films. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and a puppy.
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It's worth going back and playing the original Wii Sports before you play Wii Sports Resort, in order to give the new game some context. Wii Sports came packed with the hardware in the United States, and did more to sell the system than any commercial ever could. It felt like Nintendo was bringing in a new era of gaming, complete with a brand-new way to interact with our games; the possibilities seemed nearly limitless, and we waited for the flood of games that would take advantage of the Wiimote technology.
The competition-crushing sales numbers sure came, but the games didn't. I can name a dozen great Wii games with no effort, but if you asked me to name six games that showed off what the system could do as well as Wii Sports,�I would have to stop and think. I'm not sure if there are six. Nintendo sits on a hollow throne: the company may have won this generation, but the revolution never came. Not in the way we had hoped.
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The problem is that in too many cases a left to right or up and down swipe was simply a replacement for a button press. The term "waggle" rose to prominence to describe the lazy games where shaking the Wiimote replaced a standard button-press. Many of the best games worked better with a classic controller than the Wiimote/Nunchuk combination. Rail shooters were given a boost on the system, but what else did the Wii actually deliver on, other than lowered graphical expectations and a love of bright colors?
At E3 in 2008, and again in 2009, Nintendo wanted us to know that the Wii would be changed with the $20 MotionPlus, a peripheral that would turn the Nintendo Wii into the system we thought we were buying at launch. To usher in this update to the hardware we have... well, we actually had the rather excellent Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, but now Nintendo has finally stepped up to the plate with the sequel to the game that arguably made the system what it is today. Is this another empty promise from Nintendo? Is this an answer to the disappointment many of the early believers now feel when they look at the Wii's game library?
We've been playing the game for hours and hours each day, and here is our verdict: this is the work of a lazy god. It's also worth your money, although you'll have to be ready for a rising sense of frustration the longer you play. Welcome to the re-launch of motion controls. Now let's play.
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Wii Sports Resort begins with your Mii skydiving into Wuhu Island, the background that houses the game's events. This gives you a brief glimpse into how precise the MotionPlus-enabled Wiimote has become, and also makes you want a new Pilotwings title right the hell NOW. This intro is fun and attractive, and feels like something of a challenge: dive in, and get ready for an adventure.
Also be aware that you need to have a finely developed sense of play to really appreciate Wii Sports Resort. The events don't link together in any way, and the only thing to keep you playing is beating your own score and the fun of participation. This doesn't feel like a cohesive product as much as a series of tech demos, although the inclusion of the island itself as a framing device allows Nintendo to hide this fact somewhat better than it did in the first Wii Sports. The good news is that the events are, by and large, fun. They're also incredibly uneven.
In Archery, you'll be holding the Wiimote in your left hand and pulling back with the nunchuk in your right hand to simulate a real bow and arrow. It sounds goofy on paper, but it works very well, and it's one of the most immediately impressive uses of the hardware in the game. You can play against your friends, and the different difficulty levels cause the target to be farther away, or with added movement, but the basic mechanic stays the same throughout each level. The doors opened for archery sections in games are exciting—imagine this sort of thing in a Zelda title!
My personal conspiracy theory is that even though Wii Sports Resort will likely be a success, the point of the game isn't to amaze us gamers. Each of these events seems like Nintendo giving pointers to third-party developers. There are so many times during the course of gameplay where you'll wish an event or challenge were stretched into an entire game with a story, characters, or even online play. As it stands, you'll play something, be amazed at the clever controls, be disappointed that the overall experience is so thin, and then come back and continue playing to show your friends or fight for a higher score.
Let's take a look at what works... and what doesn't, in Wii Sports Resort.
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This is the mode you'll use to show of the technology, because your virtual sword moves perfectly in sync with your actual hand motions. The problem is that in Duel and Showdown modes you're still dealing with cleverly hidden waggle: a sword held vertically will block a side strike, and a horizontal sword will block a vertical slash. This is pretty obvious in Duel, but Showdown—where you face off, classic-Ninja-movie-style, against a horde of Miis—is incredibly fun. Long, broad strokes can take down multiple enemies at once, while body-armor-clad "bosses" turn into mini-duels.
We have decided that the only way to play Showdown is with the sound muted and The Crystal Method's "The Name of the Game" playing instead. We will also accept "Battle without Honor or Humanity" for your Mii-slaying sessions.
The third game is perhaps the most interesting of the bunch: Speed Slice. The referee drops different objects in front of you and your opponent, and you have to slice them from different sides or angles. Slice a diamond in two from the upper left-hand corner. Cut a cupcake in two from left to right. It's a test of your arm movement's reaction time, and if you play with another person this is simply a blast.
Duel may be the mode that was hyped the most in Swordplay, but Speed Slice and Showdown are the stronger entries here.
Power Cruising...
...Or as we like to call it "Let's go ahead and make another Wave Race." You hold both parts of the controller out in front of you like the controls of a jet ski, and lean into turns as you cruise through the gates, going as fast as you can. Twisting your right hand like a throttle will get you a speed boost.
The trick is to make gentle, sweeping turns and not overcorrect, and I'll be damned if you don't feel like you're on a jet ski. The number one enemy in the game—if you're not playing multiplayer—is the wave-physics. You'll have to constantly be aware of where the waves are coming from and correct for them.
Golf and Bowling
These two sports make a comeback from the first game, and both of them are improved by the addition of the MotionPlus hardware. If you haven't played Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, you'll be amazed at how natural your golf swing now feels, and how tricky it can be to hit that perfect, straight drive. Putting is also a joy with the peripheral.
Bowling has been updated to take advantage of the MotionPlus, but it's more of an evolution; it's easy now to add spin to the ball, and in fact there is an entire game mode dedicated to getting you to add spin in order to avoid obstacles in the alley. Both of these games remain fun, and once you get used to the controls of Sports Resort it's hard to go back to the originals.
This section will divide fans. I enjoyed Island Flyover, where you control your plane by holding the Wiimote like a paper airplane, exploring the islands and collecting points of interest. It's relaxing, fun, and a good way to explore the island and see all the locations from the other sports. Some may find this pointless, but I found it worth spending some time with; it felt like play, although very unstructured play.
SkyDiving works well, and again makes you long for Pilotwings, but there isn't much to it. You fly around, grab onto other Miis, and try to face the camera before your picture is taken. Dogfight takes the planes from Island Flyover, adds balloons to them, and has you shooting at each other.
While these events are fun for a little while, the real draw is imagining what these concepts would be like in the hands of a talented developer creating an entire suite of flying experiences.


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Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton declared a need to "bridge the digital divide" separating those with broadband high speed Internet service from those, predominantly in rural areas, with either no access or slow dial-up connections.
Today, unfortunately, "The divide remains," says Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary for communications and information for the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
At a hearing by a House agriculture subcommittee, he cited a Pew Internet and American Life Project study showing that only 38 percent of rural American households subscribe to broadband service at home. That compares to 57 percent for cities and 60 percent for suburbs.
But those figures are by no means definitive, Strickling notes, because "at this moment no federal agency has collected comprehensive and reliable data" on the current state of broadband in rural America.
Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he said, plans call for mapping grants to every state and territory that will result in a national broadband map by February 2011. Congress also provided funds to accelerate deployment of broadband services to rural communities.
Depending on the source, U.S. broadband is a shabby, overpriced also-ran compared to other nations, or is actually pretty good in terms of service and value. Again, no definitive data.
Regardless, deployment of broadband is critical to the growth of rural communities, according to a report by USDA's Economic Research Service, which concluded that high speed Internet access can boost the economic base, increase employment and off-farm earnings, broaden educational opportunities, and offer greater access to medical knowledge and providers.
"It is often the key factor that can level the economic playing field, provide rural businesses access to national and international markets, and allow new, small, and home-based businesses to thrive," Jonathan Adelstein, administrator for USDA's Rural Utilities Service, said at the House subcommittee hearing.
"We are now applying our technical skills, historical knowledge, and financial expertise gained over the past 75 years to meet the new challenge of deploying next-generation broadband capability in rural communities." The Recovery Act includes $2.5 billion for rural broadband deployment.
Earlier this year, the Congressional Rural Caucus urged the Federal Communications Commission to address the needs of rural America as it develops a national broadband plan.
"In recent years, rural states have seen a brain drain, causing us to lose our most vital economic assets to more populated areas," Co-Chair Adrian Smith of Nebraska said at a recent meeting of the caucus with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. "Broadband is one of the tools we have to counter this brain drain."
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Basketball took a backseat on Sunday.
The Huskies spoke about the Newtown tragedy after practice in Storrs.
"It's a horrific crime," coach Kevin Ollie said. "It's unspeakable what happened down there. Our hearts go out to them."
Check out the attached video of Ollie's post-practice comments.
There will be a moment of silence prior to Monday night's game against Maryland Eastern Shore at the XL Center in Hartford. UConn is asking fans to be in their seats by 6:50 p.m.
Each game jersey will have a special patch featuring a rectangle with a green background, a black outline and the letter "SH" in white. Sandy Hook Elementary School colors are green and white.
Other bench personnel will wear green and white ribbons.
"We're going to show our respect to the community," junior Tyler Olander said Sunday. "I think we're going to wear a patch in honor of Newtown, the boys and girls, women, and all the families that are impacted by this. We're going to show our support any way possible."
The Huskies attended a candlelight vigil on Sunday night in Mansfield.
Some other reaction and news from practice on Sunday:
-- Junior Shabazz Napier grew up in the Boston area. He remembers children dying because of gun violence.
"My hopes and prayers go out to the family…," Napier said. "I just want people to understand life is too short. Sadly, that's an example for it. I still feel like I'm dreaming. I really don't believe it's true. It's just a shock."
-- Focusing on basketball will be tough to do, according to Napier and Olander.
"It is difficult," Olander said. "Basketball is just a game.
"There's so much more in life. I have little cousins, family members, and a nephew. Just the thought at such a young age they could be taken away at any moment, it's just great than basketball. So you really have to take time to think about all what's going on.
"But, at the same time, we do have to play a game."
-- In basketball news, Ollie talked the deteriorating Big East and Saturday's announcement that the seven catholic schools –Providence, DePaul, Seton Hall, Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's and Marquette – are leaving the conference.
"We've got a great president and we've got a great AD and I know they're working feverishly to get us in the right situation for our program to be the best….," Ollie said. "We're going forward and trying to do what's best for our university.
"You can't blame them. We will miss them. But we have to figure out what we're going to do and I think we're going to do that soon.
Ollie said this is not the time to hold a pity party. UConn has to be prepared for the next step.
When asked what he tells recruits, he said: "You tell recruits that we're a great university. Our brand is still strong. We're going to keep going forward. We've got a great president. We've got a great AD and we've got some great players. And we've got a terrific coaching staff."
Then Ollie laughed about the coaching staff remark.
"Scratch that," he added.
Ollie, who has a seven month contract, also is telling recruit that he plans to be at UConn "for a lifetime."
"That's the only thing I can say because that's what I believe. … It's not all up to me. But it is up to me to have these guys ready to play and have our recruits believe that."
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A while ago I blogged on BPX/SDN about the metaphor of a Jazz ensemble for collaborative behavior in our community. The title: Successful Collaboration is Like Jazz and the blog content was inspired by the meeting I had with Social Media expert Kevin De Kock.
Today I stumbled upon another collaborative metaphor which really resonated well. This time I found it by visiting a video posted on Elliot Masie's Learning Town wiki, which is a learning collaborative platform growing exponentially these past 3 months. The idea featured in the video of rowing (crew) being an almost perfect collaborative analogy, shouldn't have taken me by surprise as I've spent the last year supporting, admiring and yes, even dabbling in this sport which my youngest daughter, Carmel, excels in. The video blends a great visual with texts that typify an ideal collaborative environment.
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Last week, I was served with a 30-day Notice to Quit, the first stage in eviction proceedings. I'm not happy about this, but such is life. This is my reality. So what am I going to do?
Not surprisingly, I'm really anxious. I have a houseful of stuff – books, art, furniture, dishes, appliances, writing projects, not to mention a cat. The idea of moving in less than a month is hugely stressful. Friends have reassured me that, practically speaking, I likely have far more time than the legal paper suggests, given our state's landlord-tenant laws and the nature of judicial proceedings. But things are already unpleasant enough. At this point, I just want out.
Still, getting out takes time and effort. Much as I might wish it otherwise, I can't magically snap my fingers and be somewhere else. The question: How to make the best of this particular bad situation? How to go about reducing its impact on the rest of my life?
A comment from my friend Allegra was helpful here, pointing out how the specter of eviction likely evokes past threats and rejections. "I've never known a notice to quit not to hurt," she observed, speaking metaphorically. Separating the past from the present strikes me as eminently useful. How much of my reaction is about now? How much is about then – about newly retriggered pain surging from the past. ("Now is not then," Havi says, over and over and over.)
That said, I'm definitely confronting a very real present-day challenge, one that goes to the core of how I live and work. Even if I don't want to fight eviction, I already feel embattled. It's affecting the quality of my days and my ability to get things done. I have a hard time sleeping. I awake awash in cortisol, already on overdrive.
Years ago, I took a class in Early Freud at a psychoanalytic institute in Manhattan. ("Early Freud, that's great. Stuff even Freud doesn't believe anymore," a friend dryly remarked.) Most of what I learned there is long forgotten but one principle stayed with me. "Never deal with a neurosis by attempting to uproot it. Always work to build up other aspects of the personality," our teacher said (or something pretty close to that; it's been a long time).
I see an analogy here. On the one hand, I could focus on the bad thing happening. Or I could train my sights on the life and home I'm hoping to create. What are the qualities I want them to have? Where – and how — am I most likely to find them?
And here's where the idea of nests comes in (another thing inspired by Havi). What are the qualities of a nest? (It holds EGGs. It's a place where small creatures grow from helplessness to self-sufficiency. It's a product of instinctual needs. That's a start.) What am I looking for in my nest? (Safety. Support. Ease. Contentment.) How can I create it? (That's what I'm sitting with now.) The nest metaphor feels especially apt given the sustenance I've gained in recent months from both breadcrumbs and basket weaving.
So that's it: Life Experiment # 7 will be all about nesting, watching how the metaphor works and (I'm hoping) starts to shift things.
Update on Life Experiment #6: Present Me is delighted that Past Me got rid of some of these pesky nagging tasks, especially given the pressures Present Me now faces. I sewed on the button! And did some 20 other things besides – got my bike tuned up, hemmed a pair of linen pants, got a long-overdue haircut. I didn't make it through all 30 things, but I definitely made progress. And as I've learned through these Life Experiments, that itself is cause for celebration.


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This policy applies to all members of the faculty and staff of The City University of New York (CUNY).
CUNY recognizes the concerns of its faculty and staff to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of his/her family. To address these interests, the CUNY FMLA Leave policy adopts the provisions of The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) and extends those provisions to cover domestic partner relationships.
The CUNY FMLA policy provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying reasons during the designated leave year i.e., September 1st through August 31st. In order to be eligible, an employee must have been employed by the University for at least 12 months cumulatively, and must have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period preceding the requested commencement of the leave. The employee's FMLA 12 week leave period entitlement will commence anew from the subsequent period of September 1st through August 31st, provided that the eligibility requirements are fulfilled.
Any employee with a 35 hour basic workweek, as well as full-time faculty, will have met the 1250 hour threshold by being continuously on the payroll without an unpaid break in service, for 36 weeks of the 52 weeks preceding the requested leave. For employees with a 40 hour basic workweek, that minimum is 31.5 weeks.
The FMLA also provides for 26 weeks leave during a single 12 month period for a spouse, son, daughter or parent or next of kin to care for a member of the Armed Forces (including the National Guard or Reserves) who has a serious injury or illness.
Qualifying reasons for FMLA leave include the following:
- Childbirth and/or care for a newborn (within the first 12 months of birth)*;
- Childcare needs resulting from an adoption or foster care placement (within the first 12 months of the adoption or placement);
- Care for employee's spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent with a serious health condition;
- Employee's own serious health condition;
- Circumstances relating to the fact that an employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on, or has been called to, active duty in the National Guard or Reserve branches of the Armed Forces or is in a regular component of the Armed Forces deployed to a foreign country;
- Employee who is caring for a spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin who is a seriously injured or ill service member, or a veteran service member if the veteran had been an active member of the Armed Forces (including the National Guard or Reserves) at any time during a five-year period prior to medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy.**
* Spouses or domestic partners who are employed at the same CUNY College are limited to a combined total of 12 weeks within the FMLA leave year, when taking leave for these reasons.
**"Serious injury or illness" includes injury or illness of a member of the Armed Forces or veteran existing prior to the service member or veteran's active duty and was aggravated by service.
Leave taken for a newborn, adopted or foster child as described herein must be taken all at once. If the employee takes leave to care for a family member or for his/her own illness, he/she may take the time on an intermittent or reduced-time basis, but only if the medical condition necessitates this type of schedule.
For the purpose of this policy, a serious health condition is an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves incapacity or treatment connected with:
- inpatient care in a hospital, hospice or residential medical facility;
- pregnancy or prenatal care; or
- continuing treatment by a health care provider.
Under the CUNY FMLA policy, an employee's leave of absence may be either paid or unpaid. However, before unpaid FMLA leave may be authorized, the employee will be required to exhaust any appropriate accrued paid leave.
Leave for illness granted under the University's temporary disability leave policy which extends beyond five (5) workdays is presumed to be leave for a serious health condition, unless the employee proves otherwise, and will be counted as part of the annual FMLA entitlement, starting from the first day of leave. In addition, the first 12 weeks of any authorized leave taken pursuant to University policies or collective bargaining agreements that qualify as FMLA leave will be counted against the FMLA entitlement for that leave year.
For the serious health condition of an employee, which may include a pregnancy-related condition, paid sick leave accruals must be used first, followed by all other available time and leave accruals.
For the birth and care of a newborn, placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care, or for care necessitated by the serious health condition of a family member, all available paid time and leave accruals other than sick leave accruals must be charged before unpaid leave may be granted.
While on paid/unpaid leave, CUNY will maintain group health benefits in the same manner as prior to leave. Pension contributions will continue, however, only during the paid portion of the leave.
Upon return from FMLA leave, the employee will be restored to the position held prior to the leave or to an equivalent position with equivalent benefits. If the employee fails to return to work upon expiration of the FMLA leave and has not received authorization for his/her continued absence, he/she may be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with University policies and applicable collective bargaining agreements.
It is the employee's responsibility to notify the Human Resources Department on the first day the employee returns to work so that payroll and benefits can be reinstated. A doctor's note clearing the employee to return to work may also be required before the employee's return date is finalized.
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Days 6-7 (Saturday, 2/20, and Sunday, 2/21) were spent in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, hanging out with Lauren's grandparents, Pat and Lynn Kinney, and also her mom, who happened to be here visiting at the same time. It was a great two days of family time, for which we are extremely grateful.
One highlight of these days has been hearing stories; for example, Lauren's granddad worked in the Hoover Dam (then "Boulder Dam") when he was just 16 (in the early 1930s) and later worked on a Zeppelin during WWII that patrolled the east coast, keeping an eye on two particular German submarines that lingered off the coast there.
Day 8 (Monday, 2/22) was spent driving from Lake Havasu, AZ, to Camarillo, CA. Along the way we made a brief detour to spend the afternoon at Fuller Seminary with our good friend Michael Wright. Michael gave us a great tour around Fuller and Pasadena, and we had the good pleasure to meet a few of his friends. We enjoyed great conversations about music, art, inspiration, and visions for the future.
We arrived in Camarillo at Lauren's Uncle Kerry's and Aunt Sharon's house just in time for an incredible homemade dinner and a great evening of visiting and catching up.
The next day — Day 9 (Tuesday, 2/23) — was spent mostly with Sharon, who gave us a great tour of the area, particular the beautiful downtown Ventura. A highlight was definitely the olive oil tasting shop. Once Kerry got home from work we enjoyed going out again to an incredible meal down on the ocean. We hadn't seen the Kinney's since our wedding, and we really enjoyed this time of reconnecting. It was really a treat to have that time together.
Day 10 (Wednesday, 2/24) we drove from Camarillo, CA, to Bakersfield, CA. To make this trip we decided to take the long but scenic route up the coast. Our first major stop up this route was around the town of Los Almos, a ripe green land filled with vineyards, wineries, and art galleries. After having spent most of the previous 9 days driving through desert, this change of scenery was a welcomed variation.
Our next significant stop was a somewhat remote beach down some back roads. This was another one of my google research finds, and it delivered even more than hoped for. Not only were we the only people at the beach, but also we turned around a corner and came upon 7 or 8 sea lions climbing onto rocks in effort to get out of the rising tides. Maybe sea lion sightings are not uncommon for Californians, but for us it was the last thing we expected to stumble upon at our new beach spot. At this same beach we also found a tunnel carved through the hillside by the wind.
We arrived in Bakersfield, after a beautiful drive through what must have been Ireland, just in time to join our cousin Evan and some of his friends in a game of ultimate frisbee. Our skills were a bit rusty but this was a fun group of people to help us sharpen them. Afterward we returned to the Bacon home for a fun time and an incredible home-cooked dinner with Evan and his parents: Uncle Terry and Aunt Jamie.
Day 11 (Thursday, 2/25) was a great day with the Bacons. Aunt Jamie and Evan treated us to a great tour of Bakersfield.
For supper we all had a great Mexican dinner and returned to the house to hang out and watch Baron Munchausen, a fascinating movie that explores everything from dualism to whether a human can travel across the sky by hitching rides on cannonballs.
Day 12 (Friday, 2/26) was another great day with the Bacons. It began with a tour of Sun World, where Terry works in Research and Development. It was an incredible place to see, and we learned some new and very interesting things about fruit breeding and production.
In the afternoon, Terry and Evan took me (Travis) on an incredible mountain biking adventure out at Hart Park. This place is a mountain biker's playground, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was definitely my favorite portion of the course, though there were many other similarly exhilarating spots.
For dinner we had the pleasure of being invited over by Evan's girlfriend Laura. We were also joined by one of Laura's roommates, Liz. For dinner Laura made a spectacular pasta; she also served artichokes, salad, and some toasted kale that shattered everything I thought I knew about kale. It was so good that I was eating it like popcorn. Dinner was, of course, followed by a highly competitive game of Balderdash, during which we learned that Ted Toddey (sp?) took 3 years to ride a bull named (insert absurd name here) from St Louis to New York City… or something like that.
After our great time with Laura and Liz we then enjoyed some more time visiting with Aunt Jamie and Uncle Terry back at the house.
NOTE: Despite being a good day all around, there was one – to put it mildly – tragic incident in which our camera…. died. Well, actually, it's just that the shutter quit working correctly. Its timing it now off, leaving most of the screen black. Oh well, we were in need of a new camera at some point soon anyway. For now though, Aunt Jamie graciously offered let us take her small digital with us for the next week until we see her again in Austin, TX, around March 9. So, we are very happy to announce that we will still be able to photographically document this trip.
Day 13 (Saturday, 2/27), after breakfast with the Bacons and saying our goodbyes, we headed off toward San Francisco. Again, in typical style, we opted for the longer, more scenic route. We took 46 West all the way to the 1, which we then took all the way up the coast to San Francisco. The whole ride was beautiful as the road winded up, down, and around rocky cliffs overlooking the crystal clear waters of the Pacific. The scenery was made even more interesting on account of the ocean's extreme choppiness and massive waves, possibly a result of the earthquake in Chile, which was strong enough to put the whole of the West Coast on Tsunami alert to the extent that local law enforcement officials were closing down beaches and asking people to head to higher ground. Though we never saw an all-out Tsunami, we saw towering waves and extremely rough seas.
We also must have seen at least 200 (no exaggeration) seals and elephant seals, which totally blew our minds. They were everywhere. Huge elephant seals, longer than our car and nearly as tall, were lying just feet from the road. Smaller seals were piled high in stacks rolling about and screaming, recalling to our minds scenes from the new Where the Wild Things Are movie. Pile!!
The weather this day could have been described as sporadic, or perhaps fickle. From sunlight to rainstorm to sunlight again, all within only minutes. In Big Sur we even came upon a tree that had only moments earlier fallen across the road; it would have totally blocked our way and forced us to turn and backtrack for several hours except that it still hung at one shoulder of the road by the power line it had fallen across. We quickly squeezed under and through, spinning a bit in the mud of the shoulder, and shot off further north before any more downed trees could try to keep us from making it to San Francisco.
Only moments after sunset we crossed the Golden Gate bridge to the north side of the city. Here we cut of into a forest at the edge of the Muir Woods, where we found the cheapest legal camping area we had been able to find anywhere near San Francisco, and we settled down for an nice night under the full moon and the soft shadows of this night forest.