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Jennifer Savage -- July 2002 -- Disneyland
July 22-25, 2002
The Cast:
This trip started as a business trip for Jeff, a trade show in Long Beach. Sweet thing that he is, he invited us all to go along. As a southern CA native, I can't resist the beach, so I started investigating hotels and activities.
I found a good deal at the West Coast Long Beach for two adjoining rooms, one of which would be paid for by Jeff's company. The other I used the Entertainment discount part of my Disney Club card to get 50% off the rack rate. We ended up paying $102/night for our room, and $118/night for the company-paid room.
I knew that Jeff would be pretty tied up Sunday-Wednesday afternoon with his trade show, so I decided to do the new Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach on Monday, then hit the beach on Tuesday, and just hang out at the hotel pool until Jeff was finished on Wednesday.
Then the kids started asking about Disneyland. Now, I love Disneyland more than most people, but I have a thing about theme parks in the summer. I hate the heat, and I hate the crowds. So I told the kids, no Disneyland this trip, but we're taking a trip in the fall. As a compromise, I made dinner reservations for Goofy's Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel for Wednesday night.
Then I found out that we had to be at a family thing on the Saturday after the trade show up in northern California. We had just spent about 10 days there earlier in the summer, so we decided to not drive up until Friday, leaving Thursday open.
What to do, what to do....
Disneyland, of course.
I warned everyone that it would be REALLY hot and REALLY crowded, and we'd probably only get in a few rides, and we were DEFINITELY going to take a break in the middle of the day, and they still wanted to go, so I priced one-day tickets, added it to the budget, and made lunch reservations for the Blue Bayou for 11:30 on Thursday. It's a tradition for us. I also booked us a room at the Park Inn, right across the street from Disneyland (walking distance), for Wednesday and Thursday nights. It had 2 rooms, 3 queen beds, a sleeper sofa, a mini-kitchen, one bathroom, 2 TVs, continental breakfast and a pool from which you could see the Matterhorn and the fireworks, for $139/night on Travelocity
Saturday, July 20
We got on the road only 30 minutes after we had planned, which is pretty good for us. Traveling from Spanish Fork, Utah to Long Beach is about a 10 hour drive. We stopped for lunch in Las Vegas, and were in Long Beach by 7pm. We stayed the first night at the Westin, right across from the convention center, because the West Coast had no rooms available for that night. It turns out there was a biker convention that week end, thousands of leather-clad people on Harleys. Not mentioned on the Long Beach tourist website at all, which I thought was sneaky. But except for Sunday afternoon for a few hours, it didn't affect us at all.
The Westin was nice, and if Jeff and I ever go back to LB on our own, we'll definitely stay there. We got a convention rate (Jeff's conference, not the biker one) of $139/night. The beds were really comfortable, with white down comforters, thick white towels, robes, and a gorgeous marble bathroom with a dual shower head in the tub. Very luxurious. But not a great place for kids, unless yours are extremely tidy and quiet. Mine are pretty good, but with a two year old and a four year old, the white décor made me a little nervous. And it was obviously a business-minded hotel, so children seemed not exactly unwelcome, but at least unexpected.
Sunday, July 21
After dropping Jeff off to set up for his trade show, the kids and I hunted down a Denny's for breakfast. Then we headed over to the West Coast to check in and make sure that they were honoring our request for adjoining rooms. We were told that they would have the two rooms together available by 1 or 2, so we picked up Jeff, ran a couple of errands, had lunch, then checked in.
A few notes about the West Coast Long Beach. First, it's right down the street (or path) from the Queen Mary, and it's right on the bay. That's good. But it's also right by the shipping yards, which can be a little noisy, and there's a lot of truck traffic through there. It's also difficult to find, the roads through there are a little confusing, and if you make a mistake, it takes you a while to correct it because there's no place to turn around.
Second, it's a great family hotel, and our rooms were spacious, with balconies overlooking the bay. The pool is nice, and room service is reasonable and quick, which is good, because you can't find a pizza place that will deliver out there.
But the hotel is showing its age. It's not exactly run-down, but you get the feeling that this hotel has seen better days. It could do with a little remodeling.
Still, it was clean, comfortable, and at least I didn't have to worry about the kids staining the white bedding like at the Westin.
Monday, July 22
I dropped Jeff at the Convention Center this morning, and we did cereal, milk and juice in the hotel. Each room has a fridge, which made it easy. Then, after getting everyone cleaned up, we went on our excursion to the aquarium.
On the website, it said that tickets for the aquarium were for a certain time. So I called ahead to find out what time was currently available for the day, and to buy them over the phone for as early as I could get them. It turned out that they weren't expecting big crowds that day, so they weren't using the time tickets. I still bought them over the phone, so I could pick them up at will-call.
Public transportation in Long Beach is free, using the Passport busses. We waited about 5 minutes for the one that stopped at our hotel. It took us downtown to Pine Street, where we got off and waited for the Shoreline Link bus to take us to the aquarium. It was easy, the drivers were helpful, and I didn't have to pay for parking. Or get lost finding the hotel again. The bus route back was the same, but in reverse. We used my little Combi stroller, which folds up nice and small, is light and maneuverable, but sturdier than an umbrella stroller. We took off the front bar so that Nick could get in and out easily.
We paid $18.95 each for me, Erica and Scott, and $9.95 for Jacob. Nicholas was free, being only 2. The aquarium was nice, but we lived in San Jose for 3 years and were members of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which kind of spoiled us. I think the LB aquarium will be better in a few years when it fills out a little with a few more exhibits, but it had some great hands-on displays (Jacob touched sharks) and the sea lions were cool. It also had sea horses, which were only a temporary exhibit at Monterey.
We had lunch at the Scuba Café while we were there, they offer sack lunches for the little ones that have a sandwich (turkey, ham or PBJ), chips, jello, and mini binoculars for $3.75, not bad. They also offer deli sandwiches, salads, and grill items, along with a wide variety of beverages, chips, fruit, etc. We got a couple of cups of fresh pineapple chunks to share, and they were GOOD. We ate at a table overlooking the bay, and watched the boats go by. The entire excursion, including bus travel took us about 3 1/2 hours, which was just about right. I put the little guys down for a nap, and let the big kids go to the pool.
Jeff got back around 4, and napped for a little bit. Then we all got organized, hopped in the car, and went to Disneyland.
I know, I know, it wasn't in the plan, but I'll explain. After pricing one-day tickets, and knowing that we would be getting 4-day park hoppers when we came back in the fall, it was actually less expensive for us to get Deluxe Annual passes, which would also allow us to surprise the kids with an evening at the park on Monday, sneak in for a little after dinner on Wednesday, and maybe even spend a little time there on Friday morning before heading up to see our families. And lest you think that I somehow put one over on Jeff, it was actually his idea, because he is the most wonderful man on the planet.
We arrived at the park around 7:30 and learned three valuable lessons that night. First, stay away from the Rivers of America area after 8:30, because the Fantasmic! crowd control people will make you go the long way around to get to everything. Second, if you want something to eat after 9:30pm, you have to go to Main Street or New Orleans Square, both of which are really crowded. Third, there are two halves to the Mickey and Friends parking structure.
Getting our annual passes processed was quick and easy, though nobody particularly likes their photos. Having accomplished that, we headed to Adventureland, where we rode the Jungle Cruise, then to New Orleans Square for Pirates and Haunted Mansion. The older kids wanted to do Splash or Thunder Mountans, but the FastPasses were gone for both, and the stand-by lines were pretty long. So we headed over to Fantasyland where we did Casey Jr., which was a must for my two train-lovin' little boys. While we were on the train, the fireworks started. They were beautiful, a truly amazing show. Complete with Tinkerbell flying at the end. Magical.
One really great thing I saw was that one of the Storybook Canal Boats CMs had stopped his boat at the beginning of the fireworks and stayed parked in one spot for the entire show, giving the guests on that particular boat a spectacular venue from which to experience the fireworks. Kudos to that CM for providing a little extra Pixie Dust.
By now everyone was starving and tired, so we looked for something to eat. We were moments too late to get into the Plaza Inn, but we were told that Club Buzz was still serving food, so we went over there. They had just closed, which seemed silly to us because they had a band playing, and lots of people around. So we headed out to Main Street, where we came to Coke Corner and got hotdogs for everyone. It was crowded, so it took a while, but the CMs were friendly if somewhat harried. There was one rude woman in the line next to me who, when she reached the counter, berated every CM in sight for being "incredibly slow" and proceeded to tell them that they had had about 20 people just leave because of the "embarrassingly bad service for a Disney park." So I smiled at the girl serving me, and said, "Kristen, you've been really great. Have a wonderful rest of the night." It made her happy, and the rude woman glared at me, so my work there was done and I went off to eat my hotdog. A piano player showed up after a few minutes to entertain the crowd, and it was great, it brought back such happy childhood memories.
We left the park, found our car eventually, and headed back to LB, happy owners of annual passes.
Tuesday, July 23
This is the day we went to the beach. I won't bore you with the details. We had a great time, nobody got sunburned, we lost one of Nick's water shoes, found a few cool shells, and learned that you have to cover every bit of food to keep it away from the seagulls, even your soft drinks.
Wednesday, July 24
On the way home from the beach, the brakes on my minivan started making a grinding noise, so after dropping Jeff off at the convention center, I took the car in to be fixed. I was driven back to the hotel by a nice retired gentleman, named Paul, who works a few days a week for the owner of 3 car-repair places shuttling people whose cars are being fixed. After he dropped me off, the kids and I ordered breakfast from room service, and while they ate in my room I cleaned and packed up theirs. Then while they watched TV in theirs, I cleaned and packed up mine. By the time this was all done, the car was finished, so Paul took me back to pick up the car. Then I picked up Jeff, we packed up the car, checked out of the WCLB, and went for lunch. Which all sounds so simple, but it was easier said than done. We had lunch around 3:30.
From there we drove to the Park Inn. We hit a little traffic, but not too bad. We checked in around 5. When we went to our room, it only had 2 queen beds, not the 3 like the room type I had booked. I called down to the front desk, and they said no problem, send someone down to exchange keys, and we'll give you the right room. Five minutes later, everything was taken care of. We dropped our luggage, put the little guys down for a quick nap, let the older two hit the pool, and collapsed for some much-deserved rest.
One note about the pool at this hotel. It is on the fourth floor, on a kind of bridge that connects two buildings of the hotel and goes over the parking lot. Which is a great concept, except the pool is only 3 1/2 feet deep. Great for little ones, there's no deep end to worry about. Not as great for kids who are over 5 feet tall, but mine still managed to have a good time. And it does have a hot tub. But it closes at 10, so you can't sit in it after a day in the park unless you come back early.
Around 7, we all headed out the door to walk over to the Disneyland Hotel for our 7:15 dinner reservations. We should have allowed more time, because we were late. And the signs should have directed hotel traffic to walk through Downtown Disney. We ended up getting there, but we took a "scenic route."
When we arrived, we were seated within about 5 minutes. The décor of the restaurant is pretty great, and the food service is a buffet, with a children's bar, salad bar, hot entrees, chef carved prime rib and ham, some good side dishes, and a pretty extensive dessert bar. A server brings soft drinks. Ours was really efficient, making sure we had ample refills after our long trek in the hot July sun. The characters that night were Chip and Dale, Snow White, Mulan, Genie, Pluto, and, of course, Goofy. Mulan and Genie never made it over to our table, and Chip was stationed by the entrance, so we got a picture of the boys with him there. Dale came over first, and this totally amazed Nicholas. He loved the characters. Except for Snow White.
Snow White was actually the best Snow White we had ever seen, including at Cinderella's for breakfast at WDW. I mean, she WAS Snow White, face, voice and character. But I think that having her be a real person instead of an overgrown stuffed animal made Nick a little nervous, so when we put him down to go see her, he took off running the other way. I would have caught him much sooner, but he had a 6-year-old from another table block for him, and he almost made it out of the restaurant before I managed to catch up.
Goofy and Pluto were great, too, and at one point all the characters and servers, and I think the chefs too, came out and did a dance. Very entertaining.
I think, though, that it's pretty pricey for dinner, so if we go back, we'll try breakfast.
Jeff and I took the little guys over to ride the Fantasyland rides, and Erica and Scott went over to DCA for the evening. They rode the Grizzly River Rapids twice and the California Screamin' coaster once before the park closed. We managed to do Pinocchio, Mr. Toad, Peter Pan, and the Autopia cars. Then we hit the train back to Main Street and walked back to our hotel.
Erica and Scott are (so far) the only ones who have visited DCA in our family. After studying the Birnbaum guide, I discovered that there are only 5 attractions that my family can enjoy together. Two of these are movies. One of the movies is It's Tough to Be a Bug, which is probably too intense for the little guys. Jacob, though usually fearless, is afraid of insects, and was freaked out a little by the effects in Honey I Shrunk the Audience at WDW. One of the other attractions everyone could do was a carousel, kind of a bore for the older two. So we gave it a miss on this trip. We might spend some time there in the fall. But, honestly, there's nothing in that park except for the Screamin' coaster that I feel is a must-do, and even then, I did some pretty wild coasters at Six Flags Marine World earlier this summer. So if Disney wants me in that park, they're going to have to make it a little more attractive to families. One good thing, though, I bet there aren't many strollers or tired children there for those who try to avoid that sort of thing.
We will, however, explore Downtown Disney further on future trips. It looks like it has a great variety of restaurants and shops, and there were two groups playing live music the night we were there. Definitely a great place for Mom and Dad's night out on the next trip.
Thursday, July 25
We hit the hotel's continental breakfast bar (pastries and juice or coffee or hot chocolate are free, you pay for anything else) and were through the gates at 8:40. We stopped and picked up two strollers, as this was our big day in the park. While I was in line for the strollers, Jeff sent Scott running for Indiana Jones FPs. We got them for 9:25. We hit Fantasyland for Dumbo and Snow White, then we headed over to Adventureland. By the time we got there, our FP window had opened, so Jeff went over to Splash Mountain to get FPs, and we met him back at the Tiki Room, where he made it just in time for the show about to start.
Nicholas had heard the Tiki Room song hundreds of times, because it's on a tape of Disney songs that one of Jeff's uncles made for the kids once, and I keep it in the car because it calms the little guys down on long car rides. But watching Nick experience the actual Tiki Room was priceless. As soon as the music started, his little jaw dropped, and he started dancing and grinning, and staring all around him in wonder. Definitely a Magic Moment. I hope they don't ruin this Tiki Room like they ruined the one at WDW. We saw that one in December of 2000, and it was TERRIBLE. We won't bother again.
After the Tiki Room, Jeff and I took Jacob on Indy while E&S took Nick on Jungle Cruise. Jacob loved Indy. Did I mention he has NO FEAR? Then we swapped, and E&S headed over to Indy while we took Nick back on the Jungle Cruise. Would you believe I heard TWO new jokes? Amazing.
Our Splash FP's weren't until 12:35, so after Indy, we headed over to the Blue Bayou for our 11:30 reservation. We were seated immediately, our server, Melissa, was excellent, and the food was great as always.
Before Splash, we sent Scott over to Space Mountain to get FPs, then met him there, where E,S&J rode while Jeff and I got in line with Nick to see Eeyore, Tigger, and Pooh. When the kids got back, we switched, left the kids in line while Jeff and I rode. We got back just in time to see Nick and Jake get to hug Pooh. Erica took pictures. Then it was time for our Space FPs so we sent Scott to get FPs for Thunder Mt, and he met us at Space Mt. This time Jeff, Scott and Jake rode, Nick slept, and then Erica and I rode. Then we headed to Thunder Mt. while Scott ran for FPs for Autopia. We rode Thunder, then when our Autopia FPs came up, Scott got FPs for Roger Rabbit. We rode Autopia, then Roger Rabbit, and headed for the train to Main Street, and walked back to our hotel for a break. It was 4pm, and we had managed to do quite a bit.
After naps for Jeff and the little guys, and a swim for the big kids (I read and soaked my poor tired feet in the hot tub), we headed back to Disneyland for an evening of fun and frolic. First, we stopped at the McDonalds right next door for a quick dinner, then went back to the park and re-rented our two strollers. The CM here was really cute. She asked for our last name for the stroller cards, and I said it's Savage, like Savage Garden. I've found that it's the easiest way for the 16-25 year old set to write our name correctly without me having to spell it for them. Anyway, she thought that was funny, so she wrote Savage Garden on both the stroller cards, and asked me to tell her if anyone was waiting by the strollers when we got back from a ride waiting to see Savage Garden. (For those who don't know, Savage Garden is a popular band.)
We had arrived back at the park around 7:30, and headed straight for Mr. Lincoln, another tradition. We did Pirates twice as a walk-on, then headed to Fantasyland to do a few of the rides we'd missed. The Erica and Scott wanted to ride the Matterhorn, but it was a long wait. We did a few rides, then stopped in the candy store on Main Street on our way out of the park. We bought a 3-pack of medium-sized twirly lollypops, and when we opened one of them, it was broken, so we exchanged them with no problem. And the CM who rang up my purchase told me that I didn't look old enough to have a 14-year-old daughter. After a long day in a theme park, I took that as a REAL compliment!
Friday, July 26
We had planned on going to Disneyland first thing this morning to hit a few rides before heading out, but Nick was impossible to wake up, and Jeff's not much of a morning person anyway, so Erica, Scott, and Jacob headed out alone. They really wanted to ride the Matterhorn. They left at 8, and I told them to leave the park by 9:30, which I thought would give them time to do the Matterhorn, plus maybe one other ride.
They actually managed to do the Matterhorn, Star Tours twice, the Rocket Ships, Dumbo, and a few of the other Fantasyland rides in about an hour, and arrived back at the hotel by 9:30. While they were gone, I managed to take a luxuriously long shower, and pack up everything. So when they got back, we loaded the car and went, stopping at McDonalds for breakfast.
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See you in the fall!
Jennifer Savage
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Here is the Reds Hot Stove League show report for 11-22-06. Marty was the host tonight. He talked about the cruise he was on then they went to commercial.
After commercial, the executive director of the Reds Community fund Charlie Frank joined Marty and they talked about RedsFest next Friday and Saturday. Marty asked him about the highlights of RedsFest and said that if you have been to RedsFest before, be prepared for something entirely different. Charlie agreed and said the focus in past years was on the autographs, photos and the memorabilia. He said that will still be a smaller part of the event but the entire floor of the convention center will be wall to wall with baseball activities. The sports bar there will have 2 70 ft (sic) flat screen TVs (Those are some big ass TVs), pool tables and video games. There will be a concert on Friday night. Marty went down the list of current and former players who were attending. All the broadcasters will be there (so you can say Hi and Hello to George.) Chuck (I'm going to call him Chuck from now on cause this is my report and I will say what I darn well please ) Chuck said they are going to be putting up all the signs for who is signing autographs about 2 hours before hand so there is some mystery to it and there will be a central location where you can get that info. Marty asked Chuck and the celebrity poker tournament. Chuck said it is one of the best engines they have for raising money for the fund. This will be at 7 p.m. up on the 3rd floor. Info is available on Reds.com. Chuck said it's also a great way to meet players and you can just mingle for $30. Marty asked about the concert on Friday. Chuck said Bronson will be playing along with Screaming Mimes and Peter Frampton (I wonder if he'll play his big hit "Do You Freel Like I Do"? )
After commercial the first caller talked to Marty about the cruise and said Brandon Phillips and Todd Coffey were really great on the cruise and Marty agreed. They then talked about Tom Browning no-showing the cruise.
The next caller said that the LaRue trade was a good move and asked who were the Reds going to get in return. Marty said he didn't know and often times the player the Reds get back depends on the performance of the player who was traded.
After commercials, Wayne Krivsky called in. Marty asked if this is a better team with the additions of Gonzalez and Stanton. Wayne said he thinks so. He thinks Gonzo solidifies the SS position and his defense is among the top 5 or 6 in baseball at SS and Stanton gives the Reds a quality, durable arm for the bullpen and he did close some last year even though he's been a setup guy for most of his career. Marty asked if the Gonzo addition makes the pitching better. Wayne said that he thinks so and anytime you have that quality defense up the middle and with Phillips at 2nd you have an exciting and young double play combination. It's athletic and has range and he's had a few people tell him that this combination reminds them of the Gonzo/Castillo combination in FLA a few years ago. Marty said Gonzo only hit 9 HRs last year but you have to think it will go up in the Reds ballpark but he struck out over 100 times last year and that's adding another 100K strikeout guy to a lineup that already strikes out a lot. Wayne said that's a negative and
although he hit only 9 HRs that was in 111 games last year. He had a couple of minor injuries last year and Terry Francona chose to play Alex Cora over him at times against certain RH pitching. He's comfortable with the total package and maybe if he works with Jacoby he can cut down on the Ks. Marty asked of he was shopping Dunn. Wayne said Marty asks him that all the time. Marty said he asks Wayne about Homer all the time. Wayne said him and Narron. Wayne said he won't talk about any of the players in that regard. Marty asked if the Gonzo signing spells the end of Rich Aurilia's tenure here. Wayne said that have till Dec 1 to offer him arbitration in order for them to get compensation. He's had conversations with his agent and they are going to have to see how it plays out. Marty asked if he was shopping for a closer. Wayne said that position is weak in the free agent market. The Cubs are going to give Kerry Wood a shot at closing along with Dempster and there are a few guys coming off injuries and they have had conversations with Guardado's agent and he's trying to get all the quality arms he can get and let Jerry sort it out. Marty asked if this is the time to make deals or is it the time to lay the groundwork for future deals. Wayne said the GM meetings were more for seeing who you could match up with but things change all the time. A free agent signing with someone could eliminate a potential trade. He has touched base with about every GM who they may have a match with (Including JimBo? )
After commercial Marty gave props to our own Matt700WLW for producing the show. The next caller asked if the Reds would get on more national TV games next year because of the way they played last year. Marty said he isn't sure and Fox is going to show games from the beginning of the year till the end of the season. The caller asked if Thom was going to miss some Friday and Saturday games because of that. Marty said that Fox is not having Thom and Joe Buck announce all the games but when he does games he will miss the Friday and Saturday games.
The next caller said he was glad the Reds got someone at SS who had some World Series experience since it's always helpful going down the stretch and the guy has a great fielding percentage. (If we're relying on Gonzo to carry this club during September, we're in trouble.) The caller also asked if there were any pitchers coming to the Reds. Marty said that Wayne isn't done yet and he thinks he'll address the rotation but it comes down to which club you have a fit with. Marty said that the Reds have Homer and Johnny Cueto in the minors. The caller asked about Homer's breaking pitches. Marty said they want Homer to work on that very thing and once he refines his breaking pitches, he'll be an outstanding big league pitcher. The caller asked abut Dunn and said he likes him but he can't hit in the clutch except for the grand slam against CLE and would rather him hit HRs with guys on than with no one base. Marty agreed and said he was abysmal with RISP and he doesn't know if that can be corrected. He'd love to see it corrected and make more contact and it would be absolutely scary to see what he could do if he made more contact but he hasn't improved since he came up and that is a concern.
After commercial the next caller asked of Jeff Brantley was going to be one of the announcers. (I think he's calling from the moon) Marty said that's news from a month ago and he will do radio and TV. The caller asked Marty if he could get Brantley to stop being as critical of the Reds as he was on ESPN. Marty rushed to his boyfriend's defense and said he was a national broadcaster. The caller asked about Bubba Crosby. Marty said a .217 hitter is a .217 hitter and says he has a split contract. The caller asked if Freel wold come out with the same explosion he came out with last year. Marty said he always does. The caller asked if Marty was surprised Bronson only got 1 vote for Cy Young. Marty said he was even more surprised Harang didn't get any with all the categories he led the league in.
The next caller asked Marty why Castro couldn't do for less money what Gonzo is supposed to do for the Reds. Marty said he doesn't know if Castro is strong enough too play every day and he hasn't shown that. He thinks that he's the best utility player he's seen as an infielder.
The next caller asked if there was any talk about bringing Barry Larkin back to the organization in the front office. Marty sad not to his knowledge but if they were seriously considering it they would have to go to Barry nd see how active a role he would want to play. He thinks it will happen one day.
This endeth the Reds Hot Stove League show report for 11-22-06. So let it be written. So let it be done.


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10 Signs You've Gone Full-On Bridezilla
Your bridesmaids are probably planning an intervention right now.
1. When your fiance suggests cutting the wedding budget to save for a new car, you're like:
2. Your bridesmaids don't complain about the mandatory stilettos anymore. You put the kabosh on that.
3. When people ask your wedding planner how they can help, she says:
4. Meanwhile, you're just like:
5. When your family walks in the room and you're in wedding planning mode, they know what to do.
6. There's just not enough time to catch up with your non-engaged friends anymore.
7. Everything becomes a competition with your other engaged friends. And you always win.
8. Your future mother-in-law starts looking at you like this. But you don't really care.
9. When friends tell you to be happier and stop stressing about your wedding, you're like:
10. Generally, this.
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Writer/director Samuel Benchetrit takes the helm for this laid-back crime comedy that weaves together four stories which all eventually convene at a roadside diner. Franck (Edouard Baer) is a petty criminal who is currently pondering the prospect of holding up a remote diner. When observant waitress Suzie (Anna Mouglalis) eventually realizes that Franck has more than a meal on his mind, she reveals that she too had considered robbing the place until getting disheartening peak at the anemic cash register. In the second story, desperate criminals Leon (Bouli Lanners) and Paul (Serge Lariviere) kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman in hopes of earning a tidy ransom, but soon find themselves forced to act as surrogate parents when the young girl is revealed to be suicidal. Later, after two aging rock stars (Alain Bashung and Arno) discuss their careers over a meal at the diner, four former gangsters smuggle an old friend out of the hospital for a nostalgic trip to their former hideout, only to discover that the familiar log cabin has long since been razed and replaced with a modest diner that provides no means for lying low. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi


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I nearly jumped out of my seat when Fitch escaped and pulled out that armbar. Awesome fight. Wonder how much Silva has left in the tank?
Fitch is actually in an exciting fight color me surprised
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I think this is what Fitch meant by saying he's looking for FOTN bonus. Awesome fight.
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'Astonishing' Heat Wave Melts 97 Percent of Greenland Ice Sheet
By Jason Koebler (US News & World Report) - July 25, 2012
It's not just the east coast that's been sweating this summer—a recent heat wave in Greenland between July 8 and July 12 melted an estimated 97 percent of the country's surface ice sheet, a development NASA scientists call "astonishing."
A high-pressure system, similar to ones that cause heat waves in the United States, hung over Greenland for several days, pushing temperatures just above the freezing point.
"It's something worth standing up and taking note of," Waleed Abdalati, NASA's chief scientist, says. Although melting in Greenland over the summer is an annual occurrence, the extent and speed of the recent melt is concerning, he says. "What we've seen this year is seriously unusual, it makes you wonder what's going on."
The melt is something NASA satellites haven't captured in the 30 years they've been monitoring Greenland's ice sheets, and may represent a larger climate change trend, but it doesn't mean the sea level is going to instantly rise or that Greenland's surface ice sheet won't recover.
Abdalati says it'll take months to determine what the final effects of the melt are, and will largely depend on the weather for the rest of the summer. Most of the melted ice is expected to eventually refreeze.
"I wouldn't anticipate that this in and of itself would have a direct correlation with sea level rise, but there are ripple effects that could contribute in the future. This one event makes the ice sheet more susceptible to subsequent melts," he says.
Given the United States' drought, the East Coast's recent storms, and all-around wacky weather over the past couple years, Abdalati says there might be more to come.
"It's kind of like—you can have a heat wave that puts temperatures in the central U.S. at 100 degrees for a week, and then you can have a heat wave that puts temperatures at 110 degrees for a week," he says. "This is more the latter. It just doesn't happen that often."


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Family and friends will confirm that laundry is not my favorite thing to do. I'd rather wash dishes or weed the garden or mop the floor. What I'd really like to do is read a book. For a lot of years my strategy was to fold clothes for a certain amount of time or fold one basket and then read a chapter. Yes, I bribe myself. I also reward myself with chocolate.
Here are a couple of other things I do on Laundry Day.
- Make a commitment to the laundry. Act as if you are one with the washer and dryer. Think about it a minute: Do you want to wash your family's laundry in a creek? Or stir a big pot of washing over a fire? Nah, the washer and dryer are really good friends to be with for a day. Commit the day to being with your "friends".
- Start early! As soon as you open your eyes and realize that it's Monday Laundry Day jump up and start a load. Sometimes I start the night before. I put a load in the washer that I'm not afraid will grow stinky overnight.
- Use the timer on your machines. If the machines are too far from your other work areas and don't allow you to hear the buzzer then carry a kitchen timer with you. Change the loads as soon as you hear the signal.
- Make a goal for the day—x amount of loads.
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The European Union explains the deadline is not being extended. Negotiators simply are continuing to negotiate. Huh?
The "AvocadoFact" Twitter account launched a just-for-fun poll, and the fruit is trouncing "the Donald."
The IDF says Gaza reconstruction is moving ahead with new Hamas terror tunnels being built.
The ISIS terrorists died after breaking their fast at their Iftar meal with poisoned food…
Europe's low-fare airline will fly three routes to the Ovda Airport, northwest of Eilat.
Iran's Expediency Council head says Israel, an "alien presence" will be "wiped off the map" some day.
Palestinian Authority police arrested 170 Hamas terrorists in a sting across Judea and Samaria.
Hollywood producer Branko Lustig says he will gift his Oscar for 'Schindler's List' to Yad Vashem after his death.
Israeli researchers invent a cutting edge technique for stitch-free bonding in cornea transplant surgery.
The Temple Mount is closed to Jews and others for the next 10 days for Islamic observances.
Iran expert predicts there will be no signed deal because Iran already feels it can get all it wants without one.
Russian FM Lavrov met in Vienna with Iran's Zarif in an unsuccessful bid to break a deadlock in nuclear talks.
When it comes down to it, it's really about the milk. Minister Ariel just cut the price by nearly 5 percent.
The IDF plans to form a new elite commando unit.
Israeli leaders and families of fallen IDF soldiers gather to mark one year since Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.
Tel Aviv has closed a deal to build its Light Rail with a Chinese firm that is doing business with Iran.
The ISIS terrorists died after breaking their fast at their Iftar meal with poisoned food…
Europe's low-fare airline will fly three routes to the Ovda Airport, northwest of Eilat.
In his first public comments following the tenure extension crisis, Rabbi Riskin delivered up some harsh criticism of the Chief Rabbinate.
The Palestinian Authority Jawwal mobile phone company is back in business in Gaza after Hamas allowed it to resume operations following last week's forced shutdown. Hamas claimed that Jawwal, part of the Paltel conglomerate run b one of Mahmoud Abbas' closest confidantes, owed taxes. The terrorist organization did not explain why it was allowing Jawaal […]
Police closed in on a ring of Israeli and Palestinian Authority Arabs who smuggled eggs and sold to supermarkets in urban centers in Israel. The gang raked in more than $2.5 million a year in the operation that stamped the eggs with forged approval. Police investigator Shai Kovnator noted, "The phenomenon of smuggling eggs from […]
Samsung is establishing a new startup accelerator in its development center in the Yakum industrial park between Netanya and Herzliya. The company is looking for 6-10 startups in mobile communications, information security, wearable computers, big data, cloud computing, mHealth, biometric identification, wireless charging, and autonomous vehicles. Start-ups that join the accelerator will receive a $50,000 […]
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Mercedes announces electric SLS
And it's faster than the 6.2-litre V8
Posted: 27 Sep 2012
"The world's most powerful series production electric car." That's how Mercedes-Benz is describing its fancy new SLS Electric Drive. Blimey. So how on earth has it managed that? Cleverness. And being a bit German...
Underneath the familial bodywork, the 'leccy SLS has a special driveline of four synchronous electric motors driving each individual wheel, giving it permanent four-wheel drive. The four motors, which weigh 45kg apiece, whisk up a total of 740bhp and 738lb ft of torque. That's 177bhp and 259lb ft (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE!) more than the 6.2-litre fossil burner.
To put the power down MB's given the ED two separate gearboxes that power each axle directly. Alongside it, there's a fancy AMG Torque Dynamics system that selects which wheels need the most drive depending on traction. Along with the monstrous motors, this means it'll squirm from 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds (0.1 seconds slower than the V8).
Funding the motors is a liquid-cooled 60kWh lithium-ion battery pack (MB's British arm, High Performance Engines helped develop it with AMG, as it goes). It weighs 548kg and it's stuffed in the transmission tunnel down the centre of the cabin, and behind the seats where you'd ordinarily find the fuel tank
You'll have to wait 20 hours per charge, mind. That said, there is an optional wall box, which provides a 22kW quick charge function, filling the stores in three hours. The battery also gets a top-up when you're braking and coasting, and in the SLS you can choose how much is recuperated.
So, those batteries. Heavy, aren't they? To make up for the mass, MB's made the car out of aluminium and carbonfibre and fitted a set of 402mm/360mm carbon ceramic brakes. We haven't got any word on whether the car's lighter or heavier than standard, though.
The front suspension's also been redesigned to account for the newly driven wheels - there's a pushrod system with horizontally mounted dampers and springs. The old steering's also been binned and replaced by a speed-sensitive electro-hydraulic system.
How much does it cost, then? €416,500 (£330,972) when it goes on sale next year. That's £162,547 more than standard...But what of the noise? That glorious funny-firing-order V8 jackhammer? Well, there's a "Power" button that activates a sound designed for "each driving situation" that's played through 11 speakers tucked around the cabin.
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Final Score: Toronto 45, Hamilton 31
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Chad Kackert rushed for 172 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Toronto Argonauts to a 45-31 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in an East Division battle at Rogers Centre.
"Statically it was a good performance," said Kackert. "The offensive line played well. I did not have to do a lot of the work thanks to them. I just tried to stay calm. As things opened I just tried to make something happen."
Ricky Ray was efficient for Toronto (6-4) under center, completing 26-of-32 passes for 331 yards with an interception. Kackert, who had previously not rushed for 100 yards in a game this season, also led the Argonauts with 67 receiving yards on six catches. Evan McCoullough recorded a team-best five tackles and forced a fumble.
Henry Burris completed 16-of-30 attempts for 272 yards and three touchdowns for Hamilton (3-7), which has lost five games in a row.
"We did not play a good football game," said Tiger-Cats head coach George Cortez. "We had too many dropped passes. They did a good job holding us to field goals. We're considering pretty much anything for the next game."
Avon Cobourne rushed for 119 yards on 13 carries while Chris Williams caught five passes for 71 yards. The loss put Hamilton four points behind its opponent in the East Division standings.
Toronto wasted no time scoring its first points, as Kackert produced a season long 43-yard touchdown run on the team's third play from scrimmage to take an early lead. Eric Wilbur converted the extra point attempt for his first point in a Toronto uniform of the season after coming in to replace the injured Swayze Waters.
Luca Congi put the Tiger-Cats on the board with a 48-yard field goal at the 7:11 mark of the first quarter.
Owens returned the ensuing kickoff 66 yards to give the Argonauts great field position. A timely sack of Ray by Jermaine McElveen forced Toronto to settle for a 16-yard field goal by Wilbur at the 7:11 mark of the opening period.
Hamilton showed a spark on its following drive, as Cobourne broke a pair of 20- plus yard runs to help the offense push down the field. The drive stalled inside the 10-yard line, leading to a 10-yard field goal by Congi which made it 10-6, in favor of Toronto.
The Argonauts opened up the scoring in the second frame with a 25-yard field goal by Wilbur that made their lead, 13-6, with just over 11 minutes remaining in the opening half.
The Tiger-Cats' offense was stopped once again, but not before it put Congi in position to add three points to the board with a 45-yard field goal at the 8:27 mark of the second quarter.
Burris made a costly mistake the next time Hamilton gained possession. The veteran quarterback was picked off by Patrick Watkins, who returned it 27 yards for a major that gave Toronto a 20-9 lead at halftime.
The Argonauts were in position to add their lead on their first drive after the intermission, but Dee Webb intercepted Ray to shift the momentum back in Hamilton's favor.
Burris led the Tiger-Cats down the field by completing a 50-yard pass play to Dave Stala before delivering a touchdown pass to Samuel Giguere later on the drive. Hamilton pulled within a field goal, 20-17, after a successful two-point conversion.
Toronto took back control as Jarious Jackson dove into the end zone to finish off a six-play, 63-yard drive, which gave the Argonauts a 10-point lead once again.
Kackert added onto the Toronto advantage in the fourth period as he just barely managed to cross the goal line after an 11-yard run for his second touchdown of the game. On the Argonauts' next possession, Kackert ran into the end zone for the third time, on a 39-yard run to give Toronto a commanding, 42-17, lead with just over six minutes left in regulation.
Hamilton narrowed the margin as Burris completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to Onrea Jones before connecting with Andy Fantuz for a four-yard pass into the end zone.
Toronto added three more points with a 28-yard field goal to finalize the score ahead, 45-31.
Game Notes
Toronto improved to 5-0 when leading at the half...The Argos now hold a 2-1 lead in the season series...Watkins now has a team-best four interceptions for the season...Burris has completed a touchdown pass in nine-straight contests...Wilbur had two illegal kickoffs in his debut with the team...These teams meet again Nov. 1 in Toronto.


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This simple NXT Steering Rover vehicle steers by pivoting its front wheels like a real car, and is controlled by a wired remote control. The remote control has a steering wheel to control the steering, and buttons to make the rover go forward, backward, slower, and faster.
Two ways are shown to handle the steering. In the first method, the steering wheel on the remote control is used as an electrical generator to produce and send electrical power directly to the steering motor on the vehicle through a wire, without the NXT even being involved. In this mode, the steering even works when the NXT is off! In the second method, the steering wheel acts as a rotation sensor for the NXT, and the NXT then controls the vehicle's steering motor by program control through a different wire.
In the program-controlled steering method, the steering motor on the vehicle is acting like a "servo" motor, which seeks out the desired position as determined by the other motor (the steering wheel), which is acting like a rotation sensor. Doing this is surprisingly tricky, given that the end effect is so simple. The program measures the degree difference between the two motors and then continuously modifies the direction and power level of the servo motor to try to zero in on the desired position without any noticeable overshooting or oscillation (see the program provided).
Given the very simple construction of the rover (solid rear drive axle and parallel arm steering), turning very sharply doesn't work very well, so the model can also serve as a demonstration for why real cars need a differential and perhaps Ackermann steering. Some links are provided for users who want to try to investigate these topics.
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"Photography is a love affair with life." Burk Uzzle
"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling." Don McCullin
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." Dorothea Lange
"I think that emotional content is an image's most important element regardless of camera technique." Anne Geddes
"The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years." Anne Geddes
"A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second." Salman Rushdie
"A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away." Eudora Welty


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Madonna's arms officially scarier than Mickey Rourke's face
Madonna has gotten herself some super-scary guns!
Recent photos of the Material Girl's veiny arms and hands in a British tabloid have alarmed fans and friends.
And even Twitter is going crazy over what on Earth she could be pumping and/or eating (or not eating) to get those veins to pop like a bodybuilder on steroids.
Hey, you don't think she snagged some of Alex Rodriguez's stash?
What do you think of Madge's biceps? And what is she doing to get these sinewy orangutan arms?
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Mitt Romney will bring his Republican presidential campaign back to Iowa for another visit.
Campaign officials say the former Massachusetts governor will begin Monday with an appearance in Wisconsin, then head to Iowa for stops in Dubuque and Davenport.
It will be his third visit in the past few weeks to Iowa, widely seen as a swing state in Romney's contest against President Barack Obama in November.
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Size and speed were the story on Monday as Madison Ridgeland Academy picked up a 2-0 victory over Starkville Academy.
"They were really moving the ball well," Volunteers coach Cole Andrews said. "We were doing well to keep the attack away from our net, but the two times they did put them in, we were too loose and allowed just enough time for them to settle the ball and take a shot."
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Cape Town — Sustainable mining is the only future for South Africa, Gold Fields chairwoman Mamphela Ramphele said on Wednesday.
"We have to accept that the traditional way of mining in SA, with its reliance on cheap and low-skilled labour, is over. You better get used to it. It is not sustainable," she told Mining Indaba 2013 delegates in Cape Town.
"The tragic events of Marikana and protests by agriculture sector workers... are a wake-up call, alerting SA to the many time-bombs waiting to go off."
Ramphele was referring to a strike at Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana, North West last August.
Thirty-four mineworkers were shot dead and 78 were wounded when police opened fire while trying to disperse a group of protesters gathered on a hill near the mine.
In the preceding week, 10 people, including two policemen and two security guards, were killed.
She was also referring to violent protests by striking farmworkers in the Western Cape demanding a R150 a day minimum wage.
Ramphele said these incidents were the "legacy of the past" coming home to haunt the country.
Mining revenues were not being shared equitably.
"For the most, mining tax revenues vanish in the black hole that is the central fiscus and end up becoming large rural estates for presidents," she said.
There were also increasing signs of the "Dutch Disease", a term used to describe the increase in exploitation of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector.
"Unfortunately, SA has sustained an extractive system that started with mining and energy companies but now includes monopolies in many other sectors... managed by large and powerful, and not very necessary, not very effective, and not efficient parastatals."
Turnaround was possible, if industry leaders engaged in what Ramphele called difficult conversations.
"We often avoid difficult conversations because we believe the business of business, as one CEO told me, is to make money regardless of the socio-political environment."
The mining industry had to change its business model.
"[This can be done by] evolving mining from a core business focused on the extraction of resources and export thereof, to a clustering of mining, agriculture, and manufacturing, using all available resources of the mine."
Ramphele said unions should be at the forefront of promoting innovation and productivity, taking a long-term view beyond annual wage increases.
Union leaders had to close the gap between themselves and workers to avoid being seen as part of the elite.


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American Cassandra, by Peter Kurth
The German playwright Carl Zuckmayer's word for Dorothy Thompson was "double-portion," and it seems right. Everything that was important about her was characterized by an uncommon magnitude, from her multifaceted career as a foreign correspondent, syndicated newspaper columnist, radio broadcaster, and lecturer to her big-bodied, snow-goddess sexiness, her highly emotional argumentative style, her agonizing inner conflicts, and her astonishing energy, which she augmented with Dexedrine and a variety of "uppers."
It was, then, entirely in keeping with her life that at the time of her death in 1961 she should have willed to her alma mater, Syracuse University, an archive of correspondence, family scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries, notes, and miscellaneous papers that fills 150 research boxes and measures 70 linear feet. Her biographer, Peter Kurth, has indeed been fortunate in the materials he has had to work with. That he has largely been equal to their challenge is fortunate for us. American Cassandra brings an extraordinary woman to life.
In the summer of 1900, just before her seventh birthday, a little girl stood in her parents' house in Tonawanda, New York, and watched the approach of a killer cyclone. "Are we going to die?" she cried, and her father, a Methodist minister, replied as he always replied in crises, "We are in the hands of God." Through all the vicissitudes of a cyclonic century, Dorothy Thompson was sustained by her father's faith and uplifted by his example. As she declared in 1957, her political philosophy was grounded "in the Evangelium"—in "those precepts of respect for truth, mercy, forgiveness, humility, and charity, taught and admonished by Him whom I do not hesitate to call the Lord and Savior of my soul"—while her work as an opinion-maker was a secular form of preaching. "There is only one effective revolution," she told the graduating class at Syracuse in 1937, "and that is the revolution represented by the evangelical idea of conversion: that men see where they have been wrong; that a light dawns upon them; and that they change their ways."
After finishing college in 1914, Dorothy Thompson was involved in suffragist agitation and social-welfare reform for six years, then set sail for Europe, primarily with the intention of doing some free-lance reporting from Moscow. For a revolutionary force was still unfolding there which she likened to "the elemental force of nature itself, sweeping away the old and outworn, and creating in blood a whole great new order of things." Her crossing of the Atlantic, however, was made in the company of a group of Zionists: rabbis, writers, and lawyers en route to London for a conference on the future of Palestine. She talked with them, she flirted with them, and with her pink-and-white complexion and everything that went with it, she wowed them. By the time she reached London, she not only had a newspaper story in her head but, as Kurth vividly notes, "the beginnings of a legend on her hands—the legend of a fresh-faced girl from the American heartland, 'an amiable blue-eyed tornado,' who roared through Europe stirring up trouble and making news happen wherever she went."
Having acquired a set of credentials as a special correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she established herself in Vienna. Guided by the Manchester Guardian's bureau chief, Marcel Fodor, who wanted to marry her but settled for being her tutor, she began to supplement her familiarity with the classic works of English and American civilization, a fair number of which she knew more or less by heart (e.g., all the sonnets of Shakespeare, whole chapters of the Bible, lengthy sections of Leaves of Grass, dozens of the Psalms, and the Constitution of the United States in its sonorous entirety), with ambitious readings in the politics and culture of Central Europe. Over the next several years, she further widened her horizons through the interviews she obtained with a range of political figures extending from Trotsky to Ataturk to Thomas Masaryk and with such cultural giants as Freud, Richard Strauss, and Romain Rolland.
By 1924, her combination of sophistication and audacity made Dorothy Thompson the acknowledged equal of the American newsmen known as "the high-flying young falcons," who had revolutionized foreign reporting in the years since the Armistice, transforming its traditional emphasis on diplomatic events into a search for scoops about anything that might earn a headline back home. "Most of us traveled steadily, met constantly, exchanged information, caroused, took in each other's washing, and even when most fiercely competitive, were devoted friends," John Gunther recalled, and the compatriots he was thinking of were the glamorous Floyd Gibbons, with his trademark white eyepatch, William Stoneman, Vincent Sheean, Frazier "Spike" Hunt, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, H.R. Knickerbocker, William L. Shirer—and Dorothy Thompson.
Nevertheless, she was never satisfied. "This isn't enough for me," she told the British novelist Phyllis Bottome, one of her closest friends in Vienna. "It's not what I really want. I'm nothing in my own country. I want to be something there—something no other woman has been yet." At the same time, she had no plans for returning to the States. Nor could she say what it was she wanted to become.
Confusion also marked her love life. In 1923, she had the bad judgment to marry Joseph Bard, who "looked like an Egyptian prince," but was actually a half-Jewish, half-Croatian native of Budapest. While he managed to support himself with part-time work for Reuter's and the Associated Press, Bard had pretensions as a philosopher and made a great show of being in the throes of writing—in three languages, simultaneously—a vast treatise on the mind of Europe. The young Dorothy Thompson exaltedly regarded him as a genius and took forever to realize that his main interests in life were fleshly. "Have you ever met a man who has slept with 126 women?" she eventually asked John Gunther.
Her friendship with Carl Zuckmayer dated from 1925, the year in which she and Bard, much against Bard's wishes, moved to Berlin, so that she could be where the action was. For as she later observed in the introduction she supplied to one of Zuckmayer's books, "These were the brilliant, feverish years when Berlin was, in a cultural sense, the capital of the world. These were the days when the German mind was open to every stream of thought from every point of the earth. Every current beat upon Berlin." The luminaries among whom she now moved at embassy parties included Klaus and Erika Mann, Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler, Lotte Lenya and Bertolt Brecht, Rebecca West and her latest lover, Lord Beaverbrook, and Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West.
Never had she been so stimulated. Phyllis Bottome remembered her from this period as "radiantly pretty," and Zuckmayer affirmed that "her face always looked as if she had just been running in a stiff sea or mountain breeze, and her bright clear eyes flashed and gleamed with eagerness and enthusiasm." Yet he also noted "a hidden nervousness," which she expressed through her "incessant, hasty, uncontrollable cigarette smoking." Certainly she was nervous about her marriage, especially after Bard left her for an extended stay in London. At last she learned that he had conveniently fallen in love with a rich young Englishwoman. Flings undertaken in reprisal with Floyd Gibbons and H.R. Knicker-bocker were forerunners of the adulterous affairs that would become common practice for Dorothy in her second marriage. She also made some experiments with lesbian love, although none of them had the significance of her intense relationship in the early 1930's with the German writer Christa Winsloe, whose fictionalization of a Prussian girls' school became the basis for the famous lesbian film, Mädchen in Uniform.
In January 1927, she filed for divorce. "I have been driven into a state of hysteria," she reproachfully reported to Bard. For a time she was in treatment with the psychiatrist Theodor Reik, and as spring arrived she apparently thought of killing herself. Then on July 8, at a tea party at the German Foreign Ministry, she was introduced to Sinclair Lewis. His wit—and his fame as a novelist—inspired her to invite him to her thirty-fourth birthday party the following evening. Not only did he show up, but he stayed and stayed, long after Dorothy's other guests had departed. Around three in the morning, he asked her to marry him. A day or so later, she described him to her ex-husband. "He is a very curious and demonic person, hard-drinking, blasphemous, possessed, I often think, of a devil. . . . he is getting a divorce and wants to marry me, but I am very doubtful." Their wedding took place in London the following April.
"Why did she marry him?" Mark Schorer asks in Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, a book which is as soft on Dorothy as it is hard on Lewis. Her reason, Schorer says, is that "she loved him." Pieces of evidence in American Cassandra serve to expose the shallow romanticism of this reply. Dorothy's intimates in Berlin were aware that she continued to be assailed by doubts about the wisdom of marrying a man whose drunken, hate-filled rages had spared neither her nor her friends. Furthermore, the Chicago Tribune's Berlin correspondent, Sigrid Schultz, remembered the day that Dorothy came to her and said that she was in a quandary because there were two men who wanted to marry her. (The other was H.R. Knicker-bocker.) Yet Dorothy's Berlin diary reveals that she was sometimes moved by a tender passion for Lewis. The resulting emotional contest left her feeling utterly helpless. "I am afraid of my own 'striving, energetic, ascending' mind," she cried out in another of the letters she was still writing to Joseph Bard by the dozens. "I feel the conflict between myself as a mentality and a personality and myself as a woman and a lover. I am divided. Broken."
Upon her return to America, Dorothy denounced her native land as "fundamentally hostile to women." Yet as Dorothy Thompson and as Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, she herself had no difficulty in arranging public appearances or landing assignments from magazine editors. With the rise of the Nazis, she researched and wrote the first of more than a dozen pieces on Germany for the Saturday Evening Post. By 1934, she was widely recognized as, in John Gunther's words, "the best journalist this generation has produced in any country." Two years later, the New York Herald-Tribune offered her a three-times-a-week column, to be positioned, on alternating days, in the space opposite Walter Lippmann's. At the pinnacle of the column's twenty-two-year run, "On the Record" was syndicated in 150 newspapers with a combined circulation of seven and a half million. Through radio commentaries for NBC, incessant lecture tours, and more articles for the Saturday Evening Post (not to mention the Ladies' Home Journal and other publications), she reached an even huger audience. Time's cover story about her in 1939 called her the most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt.
By placating Hitler, many people in the 30's thought, peace in Europe could be maintained; but the nub of the Thompson message, enunciated as early as 1934 in a speech to the Foreign Policy Association and elaborated upon for the next five years, was that "Germany has gone to war already and the rest of the world does not believe it." Cassandra was also right about Japanese aggression, stating a full week before Pearl Harbor that the United States would be attacked, since the breakdown of the Washington negotiations with Japanese diplomats indicated war, and the predictable Axis tactic was undeclared assault.
Kurth argues—and I agree—that, having begun World War II as America's undisputed primary agitator against the Nazis (her record on this score included expulsion from the Reich in 1934), Dorothy Thompson ended it as America's strongest voice in defense of a sane, rational, reasonable peace for a nation that Hitler had left in rubble. Although "neither pro- nor anti-Germany, as a nation and people," she nevertheless stuck to a "dogged conviction that someday, somehow, Germany will lead herself and help Europe to a new humanism. . . ."
After the war, too, she was fervently anti-Soviet, yet this did not prevent her from arraigning America for its shortcomings. The "downward adjustment of standards" in the schools bothered her particularly, as did the concomitant triumph of relativism, the emphasis on "self-expression," and the erection of anti-discrimination into a shibboleth of our times. "For the first time as far as I know in any society," she wrote,
mediocrity has been clothed in the raiment of morality. It is "anti-American" to be discriminating on any level—socially, racially, religiously, culturally. Everything and everyone is as good as anything and anyone, and whoever does not think so is an enemy of democracy. But if everything and everyone is as good as anything and anyone, then the measure of value has to be set at the lowest social and intellectual level. . . . And this simply means the disappearance of culture.
Concerning the domestic political scene, she wrote in the 30's about FDR's New Deal that his was
the most literate administration that this country has ever had since the early days when politics was believed to be a gentleman's profession, and it is certainly the most talkative. It is also probably one of the most truly representative of administrations, for it shares practically all the illusions of the typical American intellectual. It believes that any action is better than none, that the scientific attitude is synonymous with being willing to try anything once; that economic reform can be interpreted in terms of social uplift; and that the lion and the lamb can be brought to lie down together by persuasion.
At the end of her life, she contemplated without enthusiasm the Nixon-Kennedy race for the presidency. She had never had any use for Nixon, but the "obvious movie-star qualities" of Kennedy bothered her, too. "There is something about him," she wrote, that is "spoiled and slightly neurotic. I have seen too many of these charismatic personalities in public not to feel queasy about them."
Among her errors of judgment—and there were many of them—perhaps the most arrogant was her attack on the Social Security bill, and by all odds the most preposterous was her 1939 plea for an unbelligerent response by the British cabinet to Hitler's imminent invasion of Poland. In a ten-page cablegram to Harold Nicolson, she declared that
The british cabinet must. . . delay its answer while it engages in meditation and prayer trusting in god to reveal to england's leaders the way to a true and just peace for all peoples everywhere poles and germans and italians and frenchmen and englishmen calling on all christians throughout the world to hold fast to the faith which they profess. . . .
Then there was her change of mind about Zionism. For years, she had been widely regarded as one of the movement's most effective non-Jewish spokesmen. After her first trip to Palestine in 1945, however, she announced that Zionism was not a righteous crusade, because the Zionist leaders envisaged "not a small state of Jews who chose to live in Israel," but an aggressive, chauvinistic powerhouse. While she privately described the Arabs as a "super-sensitive" bunch who had been victimized by "a psychological trauma involving 'status' and inferiority," she publicly avoided the question of the survival chances of a powerless Jewish state in a pathologically anti-Jewish part of the world, instead referring scornfully to Israel as "the 49th state" of the Union, and "the only nation in history to have been canonized at birth."
Terrible guilt feelings about Michael Lewis, the troubled, violence-prone child of a nightmarish marriage and the victim of neglect by both his parents, prompted America's second-most influential woman to affirm on the one hand that children would "understand it" if their mothers stayed away from home for long periods of time in connection with their engagement in "useful and necessary" work, and on the other hand to assert disingenuously that she had "an ever-increasing respect for women who stick to their knitting." Even more nauseating was the assurance she offered to homemakers that "It is never futile to grow sweet peas, or arrange roses in a bowl."
While the fame she had attained was thrilling, maintaining it was nerve-wracking. She drank too much in consequence, she could not operate without her pep pills, and in the summer of 1940 she came close to a nervous breakdown. In 1937, the bitter, drunken Lewis, reeling in defeat from the loss of his novelistic gift, deserted Dorothy and Twin Farms, their lovely acreage in Barnard, Vermont, but their divorce did not take place until January 1942.
The following summer, Dorothy met a refugee artist and sculptor, Maxim Kopf, fifty years old to her forty-nine, who had been born in Vienna and raised in Prague. A year later, for the third time in her life, she took a husband whose sensibility she regarded as more creative than hers. Kopf was different, however, from his predecessors. Six feet one and hugely muscled from the year of hard labor he had spent in a Vichy-France concentration camp, he was a "hunk" and a "stallion" (in the recollection of his Barnard friends), and his powerful sexuality was totally focused upon his bride, her history of sexual ambivalence notwithstanding.
Dorothy's affair with Christa Winsloe had ended in 1934, when Christa attended the Salzburg Festival and fell in love with the Italian basso, Ezio Pinza. It was reminiscent of Dorothy's breakup with Joseph Bard that she sent Christa valedictory letters. "I had a strange dream last night," she said in one of them. "I dreamed I was putting out into a very rough sea in a frail ship, and the crew were all women. I was afraid, and woke up, sweating . . . Christa!"
Did she continue to have such dreams for the rest of her life? American Cassandra offers us no warrant for thinking so. What we do know is that she achieved a profound sexual satisfaction with Kopf. While crossing the Atlantic in the late 1940's, she whispered to the publisher Cass Canfield that "When I make love the house shakes."
On April 5, 1942, the Nazi propaganda chief, Josef Goebbels, devoted a passage in his diary to Dorothy Thompson. How had it ever come to pass, he wondered, that "such dumb broads [so dumme Frauen-zimmer], whose heads can be filled only with straw," had been permitted to criticize "a historic figure of the greatness of the Fuehrer"? Clearly, through all the years of its evil successes, the Nazi leadership had continued to be bugged by the eloquence, the intelligence, the wit, and, above all, the moral passion of this American journalist. American Cassandra very usefully reminds us of those qualities and of the woman who embodied them.


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| October 14, 2013 | Updated: October 14, 2013 11:46am
Photo By JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty ImagesAIR TRAVEL: Federal air traffic controllers remain on the job and airport screeners continue to funnel passengers through security checkpoints. Furloughs of safety inspectors had put inspections of planes, pilots and aircraft repair stations on hold, Federal Aviation Administration says it is asking 800 employees — including some safety inspectors — to return to work this week. More than 2,900 inspectors had been furloughed.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/ChronicleINTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: The State Department continues processing foreign applications for visas and U.S. applications for passports, since fees are collected to finance those services. Embassies and consulates overseas remain open and are providing services for U.S. citizens abroad. According to numbers supplied to Congress, out of roughly 70,000 State Department employees, 343 have been furloughed, with more than half of the furloughed employees coming from the Office of Inspector General. The department has curtailed travel, participation in public events and its presence on social media is diminished.
Photo By APRECREATION: All national parks are closed. Grand National Canyon National Park was shut down for only the second time since it was created in 1919. The Grand Canyon averages 18,000 tourists per day in October, which has left hotels, concessionaires and tour operators losing money by the hour. In Washington, monuments along the National Mall have been closed, as have the Smithsonian museums, including the National Zoo. Among the visitor centers that have closed: the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York, Independence Hall in Philadelphia and Alcatraz Island near San Francisco. National Wildlife Refuges have been closed off to hunters and fishermen just as hunting season was getting underway in many states. Normally, hunting would be allowed on 329 wildlife refuges and fishing allowed on 271.
Photo By HOEPFOOD SAFETY: The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they could handle recalls and high-risk foodborne outbreaks, but they are less likely to discover them because most of the people who investigate outbreaks have been furloughed. Routine food safety inspections conducted by FDA are suspended, so most food manufacturers won't have to worry about periodic visits from government inspectors to make sure their facilities are clean. U.S. food inspections abroad have also been halted. USDA's federal meat inspections are proceeding as usual, however. USDA inspectors are on the lines every day in meatpacking plants and are required to be there by law for the plants to stay open.
EDUCATION: The Education Department has said that a shutdown beyond a week would "severely" curtail the cash flow to school districts, colleges and universities and vocational rehabilitation agencies that depend on department funds. For example, colleges rely on department funds to pay ongoing expenses for staff in programs for disadvantaged students. The department would not make additional details available on Friday about the number of districts, colleges and universities and vocational rehabilitation agencies that could more immediately feel the impact of a shutdown.
Photo By John Carl D'AnnibaleFOOD ASSISTANCE: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, has enough money to operate through the end of October, according to USDA. The department distributed almost $400 million in federal unexpended and contingency dollars this week to states to cover any shortfalls. The program provides supplemental food, health care referrals and nutrition education for pregnant women, mothers and their children. School lunches and breakfasts should have enough funding to be served, USDA says, and food stamps will continue to be distributed through October. But both programs could face shortfalls if the shutdown continues into November.
Photo By Susan Walsh/Associated PressTAXES: Americans would still have to pay their taxes and file federal tax returns, but the Internal Revenue Service suspended all audits. The IRS also will not be processing any tax refunds during the shutdown. Got questions? Sorry, IRS call centers will not be staffed, though automated lines are still running.
Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSHOMELAND SECURITY: The majority of the Department of Homeland Security's employees have stayed on the job, including uniformed agents and officers at the country's borders and ports of entry, members of the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration officers, Secret Service personnel and other law enforcement agents and officers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees continue to process green card applications. However, the four Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, run by DHS, have shuttered training operations for federal agents. The closure of those services could delay when newer employees with the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection and Capitol Police can go on the job.
Photo By ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/STFMILITARY: The military's 1.4 million active duty personnel remain on duty. About half of the Defense Department's civilian employees were furloughed, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered nearly all 350,000 back on the job. The shutdown created a ripple effect with some defense contractors. Lockheed Martin said Monday that it was furloughing about 2,400 workers. Top defense officials noted that critical programs and benefits that remain halted. For example, the department does not currently have the authority to pay death gratuities for the survivors of service members killed in action - typically a cash payment of $100,000 paid within three days of the death of a service member.
Photo By Chris Mclean/ASSOCIATED PRESSPRISONS: All 116 federal prisons remain open and criminal litigation proceeds.
Photo By JAY JANNER/McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceVETERANS AFFAIRS: Most services offered through the Department of Veterans Affairs continue because lawmakers approved money one year in advance for the VA's health programs. Veterans are still visiting hospitals for inpatient care and getting mental health counseling at vet centers at outpatient clinics. Operators are also staffing the crisis hotline, but regional offices are not taking calls. The VA continues to process payments providing veterans compensation for disabilities and pensions. However, claims processors are no longer being required to work 20 hours of overtime per month, which VA officials say is stalling progress in reducing the disability claims backlog, which stood at 418,500 at the end of September. It has since risen by about 200. The VA said that nearly 10,000 workers within the Veterans Benefits Administration and within the VA's Office of Information Technology were being furloughed on Monday and Tuesday. Access to all regional offices will be suspended as a result. If the shutdown continues into late October, the VA warns that compensation and pension payments to veterans will be halted.
Photo By Contributed PhotoTRANSPORTATION ACCIDENTS: The National Transportation Safety Board is passing up investigations into most transportation accidents unless officials believe lives or property are in danger. The board collected some preliminary evidence, but didn't dispatch investigators to an air crash that killed four people in Paulden, Ariz. The board also decided not to investigate a church bus accident in Tennessee that killed eight people, the death of a Washington-area subway worker or a missing plane in the Mariana Islands. But investigators stayed on the job to probe a train collision in Chicago. The FAA also says it's not sending investigators to small plane crashes, although information may be gathered from state and local officials.
Photo By Mayra Beltran/Houston ChronicleWORK SAFETY: Federal occupational safety and health inspectors have stopped workplace inspections except in cases of imminent danger.
BERLIN (AP) — The United States government shutdown could have the unintended effect of making Germans go to bed earlier.
Fans hoping for fresh episodes of a cult late-night German TV show featuring footage of Earth seen from space accompanied by ambient music have been told its relaunch will be delayed by at least two weeks because of the U.S. budget battle.
Public television station Bayerisches Fernsehen said Monday that new high-definition video it hopes to use for its "Space Night" program won't be able available Nov. 1 as planned because archivists at NASA, a key source of footage, are among U.S. federal employees currently furloughed.
"Space Night" was launched in 1994 and is a favorite among rave goers and insomniacs.
On the Web: www.spacenight.de