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Hair Care 101 ~ Basic Brushing
Felicity is having a bad hair day. She's at the spa for a basic hair brushing. Felicity is owned by my daughter and she does not play with her heavily, but even a few clothing changes or make-believe sessions will result in her hair looking a bit wild. But any little girl will tell you, playing with hair is one of the best parts of owning a doll. Here are the step-by-step instructions to maintaining your doll's hair by careful brushing.
Before you Begin
Does your doll have curly hair? One note, before you begin, is that some dolls with lots of curls, like Stardust Classics Kat and Laurel, should not be brushed using these methods if you want to preserve the curls. The care instructions for these dolls even recommended not doing so. The new dark, curly-haired American Girl of Today/Just Like You doll is another one whose hair may be ruined if you brush it through with a wig brush. If you are very careful, you can brush one ringlet at a time and then re-twist the curl into shape around your finger but you are usually better off "finger styling" their hair.
Is your doll's hair really, really tangled? If it is, you may want to wash and "Downy dunk" it before brushing it out. Spray-in detanglers might not be enough.
Step 1 ~ Gather Your Materials
Obviously, you need a brush and not just any brush will do! The best choice for brushing dolls' hair is a wig brush with metal teeth set into a rubber base. Like this one:
The brush sold by American Girl is fine, except it is small and overpriced. (Sally's Beauty sells wig brushes for a few dollars.)
The only other things you need are a misting bottle and some hair clips. Optionally, you may want some spray detangler. Some people swear by Son of a Gun as a detangler/conditioner; yes, the car vinyl protector from STP. You can buy this inexpensively from department stores (like Target). Other's use people spray detangler or a mixture of fabric softener and water. For hair that is really tangled, you might also want to invest in a metal tined comb like the one on the right below. You can find these in the dog grooming section of a pet store. A metal hair pick is better for curly or highly textured hair, but see the note above about treating the curls gently. You can get a tiny one from American Girl or buy a people-sized one at Sally's.
A few notes on what NOT to use:
Step 2 ~ Section the Hair
When I want to do a really good job on my doll's hair, I like to do it on my kitchen counter since it's a good height. I put the doll in a doll stand with a extra large base so that I can use both hands.
Separate a section of hair and pin or tie up the rest.
Step 3 ~ Mist and Brush Each Section
Mist the hair with plain water and spray a little detangler on too if you'd like. I like to lift the hair and spray a bit on the underside to get more of the hair damp. The hair dressers at American Girl Place insist that misting the hair when you brush and using the right kind of brush are the most important things to do to keep your doll's hair looking nice.
Start at the ends of the hair and brush the tangles out of the bottom 2" or so. Work your way up the section until you can draw the brush down the hair without resistance. Brush carefully, holding the top of the hair with one hand. I had to splice together two pictures below so that one could hold the camera, but it gives the idea. Holding the head keeps hair from being pulled out and also protects the neck from becoming loosened. Brush gently so you do not pull out much hair -- pretend you are brushing a real girl's hair ("Sorry, Felicity, didn't mean to pull.") After you finish one section, pin it up and take out the next. Work your way around, section by section.
Step 4 ~ Condition if Needed
If your doll's hair is still dull, pour a nickel-sized spot of baby oil onto your hand, rub your hands together and then massage into her hair. Son of a Gun is also another choice for a conditioner. Remember, we're just brushing and detangling here. See the end of the article if your doll's hair needs deep conditioning.
Step 5 ~ Style
Now you can put your doll's hair in whatever style you like. The hair styling book from American Girl is fun and has some good ideas! Another trick learned from the doll hair stylists at American Girl Place is using a toothbrush to smooth the hair around the face when you're putting it in tails or braids. It really helps to get those fly-away hairs to lie down nicely.
Keeping a doll's hair in braids or a ponytail is the best defense against damage, especially around little girls with brushes and around hair-eating Velcro. The best bands to use are more plastic than rubber and are available at just about anywhere that (human) hair care products are sold. (Blax is one good brand.)
Here is Felicity after her beauty treatment showing you her improved hair and demonstrating that these bands can also be used to hold props in the dolls' hands. This hairdryer is the only type that is appropriate for dolls' hair: a pretend one.
The final tip for basic hair care is to do it often. Don't let your doll's hair get really tangled and you won't have to damage it getting it untangled. Have fun.
Is your doll's hair soft and manageable now?
Copyright © 2004 Maria Greene All Rights Reserved
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Sharon Osbourne says she had double mastectomy after learning of cancer risk
Sharon Osbourne before the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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Last Updated Monday, November 5, 2012 2:54PM EST
LONDON -- Sharon Osbourne says she had a double mastectomy after learning she carries a gene that increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
Osbourne told Hello! magazine that "I didn't want to live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me."
The 60-year-old "America's Got Talent" judge, who had colon cancer a decade ago, said that without the surgery, "the odds are not in my favor."
She added: "It's not 'pity me,' it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around."
The magazine went on sale Monday.
Osbourne, husband Ozzy and children Jack and Kelly became rock's most famous clan thanks to reality show "The Osbournes" a decade ago.
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Mitch Williams' wild first pitch highlights '90s night in Philadelphia
They didn't call Mitch Williams "Wild Thing" for nothing. It's a nickname he earned during his 11-year career, six of which were spent as a closer for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. It's also a nickname he still seems to hold dearly all these years later.
Now a studio analyst for MLB Network, Williams took a break from his desk job on Friday night to return to Philadelphia for '90s night at Citizens Bank Park. Of course Williams had the lowest moment of his career while donning the Phillies uniform when he served up Joe Carter's walkoff home run during Game 6 of the 1993 World Series, but the Phillies faithful have forgiven him despite never forgetting.
So there he was on Friday night, all decked out in his No. 28 Phillies jersey and customary head wear, walking to the mound to throw out the game's ceremonial first pitch. It was a vintage Mitch Williams look, as expected. The crowd response was positive, which again was expected. And the pitch itself was, well, as expected.
Winding up from the left side, the now 48-year-old Williams let loose with his best current fastball. Not surprisingly, despite his frequent breakdowns of pitching mechanics in Studio 42, Williams' command hasn't improved — at all. The pitch ended up sailing juuuuust a bit outside — or in the ear flap of a right-hander hitter — and it sent everyone in the vicinity of home plate scurrying after the Phillie Phanatic failed to make the catch.
The Phanatic's reaction was pretty funny too as he stiffs Williams on the handshake and motions to the bullpen for another lefty.
And this was only the beginning of a fun and wild '90s night in Philadelphia. Here are a few more of the highlights courtesy of MLB.com.
As for the game itself, the Phillies and Diamondbacks both looked good in their teams respective '90s uniforms. I may be in the minority, but I did kind of dig those old D-Backs jerseys.
And in a finish that may give Mitch Williams nightmares, the Phillies won it 4-3 as Chase Utley drew a bases loaded walk in the ninth inning. The dreaded (and celebrated) walk-off walk.
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To any one I was checking the charging system on my 74 260z and I did noticed that it was very low on the charge at only 12.2v with all the loads and 13.7 with no loads, I decided to adjust the voltage regulator and got it to a steady 14.7. Al fine and cool but also I decided to install a rear defroster kit that I got from Jcwitney and used the original switch to complete the installation, I tested it and in the process did smell something like burning and noticed that my amp gage was not charging any more. Connected my fluk to find that the alt is not charging at all now. Tested all the fuses, fusible links, swapped some relays around but still no charge, was wandering what is the relation between the charging and the rear defroster, is there a component in common, One thing that I also do was to upgrade the charging system with a built in regulator alt did all the connections but still no charge, help!
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By Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
Not long after William Shakspere of Stratford-on-Avon came to be celebrated as the immortal poet-dramatist, in the mid-l8th century, his credentials as such began to be doubted. Beginning in the middle of the next century, outspoken disbelief in his having been the author of Shakespeare's works became a groundswell of such proportions that every biography of him must address the problem.
Why has there been this skepticism about the reputed author on the part of probably hundreds of thousands of readers? Those who share it would explain it as follows:
Shakspere the Stratfordian, according to such information as we have of him, was in his background, character, education, opportunities, reputation while alive and in the world he would have known, very nearly the antithesis of the kind of man we judge Shakespeare to have been on the testimony of his works. There is no evidence that he ever had a day's schooling or wrote anything but six signatures of unpracticed penmanship. His parents, siblings, wife, and children were illiterate except that one of his daughters could, like her father, sign her name. He never, so far as is known, daimed to have written any of the works later attributed to him, had no part in their publication, and, dying when twenty of the plays remained unpublished, made no mention of them in his will and showed no interest in their survival. He is not known ever to have owned a book. His obscurity was such that at the height of his supposed fame not even the London tax-collectors could discover where he lived. Had he been the author, he would have been unique in history among poets of any stature in having written no poem salvageable before the age of twenty-six. Until years after his death, no one we know of ever suggested that he was the dramatist or a writer of any kind.
As for his connection with the stage, he was never while alive listed in the cast of any play yet discovered, while the records of the reign of Elizabeth yield but one reference–and it dubious–to an actor called Shakespeare; the records of 70 municipalities in which actors performed contain no mention of his or any similar name. When he died, nothing was made over this event, supposedly so momentous to literature. His identification as the towering genius, William Shakespeare, rests on evidently studied ambiguities in the First Folio edition of the plays of 1623 and on the monument to "Shakspeare in the church at Stratford-surely the work of outsiders- of which we first hear in the Folio. No fellow townsmen of Stratford of whom we have heard, to the fourth or fifth generation after he lived, spoke of him in any way to attribute to him a special distinction. Finally, his name was clearly not "Shakespeare, with a long "a."
Biographers of Stratford's now famous son, numbering in the hundreds, have been able to tell us almost nothing about him of any relevance to the masterpieces that have accounted for their interest in him. Accordingly, and in the light of the above, I am emboldened to suggest that we set aside what we have read about him and see how far we may extrapolate from Shakespeare's works the kind of man it would have taken to write them. Possibly it would put us on the trail of what is important about the dramatist that has escaped the orthodox biographers; as we have Anatole France to remind us, "The artist either communicates his own life to his creations or else merely whittles out puppets and dresses up dolls. Carried beyond the compass of a short article, our pursuit might afford us rich new insights into the masterpieces he left us and into the workings of an incomparable creative imagination.
Of the thirty-seven plays of the Shakespeare canon, thirty-six are laid in royal courts and the world of the nobility or otherwise in the highest circles of society. The one exception, The Merry Wives of Windsor, is of them all surely the most forced and unsatisfactory. The principal characters are for the rest almost all aristocratic, even the young man who wins the beautiful girl in Merry Wives. Shylock, standing quite outside the social order, is an exception. Falstaff would seem to be another, but he is a familiar of the peerage and the chosen companion of a prince; yet even he is spurned by the new king and humiliated at the end. No other dramatist before or since has drawn his casts so predominantly from the nobility or been such a literary habitué of successive English courts.
From all we can tell, moreover, Shakespeare fully shared the aristocratic outlook of his chief characters. The populace he seems to have regarded as unfit for any share in government.
Even the rabble-rousing Jack Cade, the rebel leader, is exasperated by the light-headedness of his following. He is the only man of the people I recall in Shakespeare as being allowed to voice the grievances of his class, but the political theory imputed to him is that of a power-hungry demagogue, and he is cut down with no visible regret on the dramatist's part.
Lower-class characters are almost all introduced by Shakespeare for comic effect and are given scant development as such. Their names bespeak their inferior status in his eyes: Snug, Bottom, Stout, Starveling, Dogberry, Simple, Mouldy, Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf, Mistress Quickly, and Doll Tearsheet. Walt Whitman, to whom the historical plays were "conceived out of the fullest heat and pulse of feudalism by "one of the wolfish earls.. .or a born descendant and knower, lamented their author's undemocratic views, which he held not for Americans. What many readers have found striking in Shakespeare is a compassionate understanding of the burdens of kingship combined with a romantic envy of the supposedly carefree lot of a peasant, who, free of the "peril of the "envious court, "sweetly.. .enjoys his thin cold drink and his "sleep under a fresh tree's shade with "no enemy but winter and rough weather. This would not be surprising in a writer were he more familiar with privilege than with privation.
The dramatist's favorite sports, it would appear, were those of the nobility: hunting to hounds, bowls, falconry, and riding; one would judge him to have been a master horseman, while falconry repeatedly supplied him with images.
On the testimony of his works, Shakespeare was one of the best educated men of his century. His frame of reference was immense. In Shakespeare's England, a two-volume study to which 30 specialists in various departments of life and society under Elizabeth contribute chapters, over 2,780 passages from Shakespeare by my estimate are quoted for their illustrative value. No other writer of the time, we may be sure, had such a range. In language skills, Shakespeare stands alone. Where the average well-educated person is said by Max Muller to use about 4,000 words, Shakespeare is credited by Alfred Hart with a vocabulary of 17,677, twice the size of Milton's. The number of words, mostly of Latin origin, that he introduced into English is estimated by the Oxford English Dictionary at 3,000. In a 400-page study, Sister Miriam Joseph shows "how Shakespeare used the whole body of logical-rhetorical knowledge of his time. We are dealing, in short, with a master of the language and peerless enhancer of it, one whose contribution to our phraseology, according to another noted philologist, Ernest Weekley, is ten times greater than that of any other writer to any language. Persons whose opinions I trust tell us that he could and did read Greek and Roman classics in the original and that he was at home in French and Italian, and perhaps in Spanish.
The fascination the Continent had for him is evident. Of all his plays taking place in his own time, only one, the ill-favored Merry Wives again, is laid in England. All the others have Europe as their scene. Persons qualified to say tell us that he had a first-hand acquaintance with the cities of northern Italy, and there can be no gainsaying the spell they cast on him, especially Venice, whose spirit infuses The Merchant.
For two hundred years lawyers have been reporting Shakespeare's proficiency in their recondite field, even of the more abstruse legal byways of his day; the law seems ever ready at his elbow to suggest metaphors. In his book The Medical Mind of Shakespeare, Aubrey C. Kail is only the latest physician to testify to the dramatist's knowledge of the healing arts, ahead of his time. And here the point should be made that Shakespeare does not display his familiarity with a subject when writing about that subject. He has not boned up on it to parade his knowledge, as Ben Jonson has. His learning comes out almost of itself, supplying images unrelated to the subject of conversation. Othello draws on falconry to make vivid his suspicion of Desdemona, Juliet her attachment to Romeo. To make poignant the king's insomnia, Shakespeare calls up "the wet sea-boy falling asleep at the masthead. It is to characterize her fun-loving Anthony that Cleopatra recalls the disporting dolphin.
As one who has practiced observation of nature since boyhood, I am struck by Shakespeare's acuteness in it. We find him noticing that the lapwing runs in a crouch and that the cuckoo's favorite victim is the hedge-sparrow. Combine this observation with the love and knowledge of flowers wild and domestic that is so conspicuous in Shakespeare and we have, for my money, a privileged gentleman with a country seat. We have such a leisured gentleman, too, I believe, in his equally conspicuous love and knowledge of music; he uses a hundred musical terms.
The phrase "more fell than anguish, hunger or the sea, in which Iago is cursed upon Othello's death, epitomized for Joseph Conrad the element so well known to him. Images of the chill sea-bottom recur to Shakespeare as they might to anyone who has known the perils of the deep. And I should be surprised if the originator of Othello's lines and Henry V's had not known the battlefield.
The wounded Ernest Hemingway would remember as "a permanent protecting talisman against "the shock of combat the lines spoken by Feeble, the young recruit, in Henry IV Part 2 (111.2).
What else? Shakespeare wrote of the circulation of the blood before Harvey announced its discovery. He located the drawing power of the earth at "its very center a century before Newton had enunciated his principal of gravity. He had mountains being leveled and the continent melting into the sea two centuries before James Hutton postulated that in the absence of countervailing forces, this is indeed how they would end. Three centuries before the term was invented, his Friar Laurence enunciated the basic principle of ecology in declaring in part, "For nought so vile that on the earth doth live/But to the earth some special good doth give." Some scholars cite anachronisms in the plays as evidence of Shakespeare's lack of education, but chronological consistency was not a matter of concern in those days.
Let us now see if a further inquiry into the evidence will lead us to a specific nobleman of whom those things we have deduced to be true of Shakespeare will also be true, and uniquely true. We might think of ourselves as Elizabethan detectives seeking to identify the perpetrator of a crime of whom they know nothing except that he wrote the works of William Shakespeare. As such we should of course recognize that a nobleman writing for the common theatre would have been required by the mores of his class to adopt a pseudonym and that the requirement would have borne with particular stringency upon one who, as we read of "Shake-speare in a poem of 1610, "would have been a companion for a king? –had he "not played some kingly parts in sport.
Venus and Adonis was the first poem to which the name Shakespeare was appended. But it had to have been preceded by less skillful, less sophisticated verse. So we should look for a nobleman who wrote youthful verse under his own name, and verse bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's. A nobleman, a potential companion for the monarch, well known to others around the throne yet living a life apart as the greatest poet and dramatist of his nation, beset by the incitements that goad creative genius, he might have been found contradictory, a behavioral extremist by his fellows. He must have been an insider of the theatre (even sneaking clandestinely onto the stage!) and have been drawn to other writers and playwrights, some of whom would presumably have known him for who he was; and, having the greatest of their art in their midst, they must have given some witness of it. We must look for a nobleman of controversial reputation, highly, if elliptically, praised by his fellow writers.
Then consider the historical plays– works in some respects greater than anything else in recorded history, as Walt Whitman called them. Surely this great body of drama could have been composed with such passionate intensity and conviction, such sure instinct, such immense evocative power, only if the past it brought to seething life made somehow an irresistible claim upon the author.
Another clue: Shakespeare's affection for friars has often been remarked, and Catholics find overtones of an inclination toward the Church of Rome in some of the plays, notably Hamlet, in which the doctrine of purgatory seems to be accepted, despite the risks of doing so openly in the reign of Elizabeth.
Having deduced so much about the transgressor who had written Shakespeare's works, would our Elizabethan detectives be prepared to make an arrest? Yes, undoubtedly. They would have descended without hesitation upon the poet pronounced "most excellent of those of the Court by a critic in 1586, whom the playwright Anthony Munday (at one time our suspect's secretary) would someday warmly recall as a man "of matchless virtues, of whom Robert Greene had written that he stood in respect of other writers as Atalanta to hunters and Sappho to poets- in other words, as the best of them all. And the reasoning we have had the detectives follow, I may add, is similar to that which in 1920 an English schoolmaster, J. Thomas Looney (who impatiently refused to change his name at a publisher's behest) set forth in his enthralling book " Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
Who was this Edward de Vere?
The de Veres came in with William the Conqueror. As later Earls of Oxford, they were involved with all the monarchs who tread the boards in Shakespeare's historical plays. The Second Earl stood by King John, the Third was among the barons who curbed his powers. The Sixth fought under the three successive Edwards, the Seventh beside "that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales -as the French King calls him in Henry the Fifth at Crécy. The Ninth was an intimate of Richard II's with–thanks to shared faults of character–consequences fatal to both, we are told. The Eleventh Earl held an important command at Agincourt. The Thirteenth Earl — brave Oxford, wondrous well-belov'd, as he is in Shakespeare–was a mainstay of the Lancastrian side, so clearly favored by the dramatist, in the Wars of the Roses; on the battlefield at Bosworth he helped bring down that super-villain (as Shakespeare portrays him), Richard III.
Edward de Vere was born on April 22 (new style), 1550, at the family's 400-year-old seat in Essex, Castle Hedingham (of which the eighty foot keep still stands). Two of his uncles had been poets, Baron Sheffield and the well-known Earl of Surrey; Surrey introduced blank verse and, with Sir Thomas Wyatt, the form of sonnet later known as Shakespearean. At nine years old, Edward matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, receiving a degree at fourteen. At sixteen he received another as Master of Arts from Oxford.
Two years earlier, Edward's father had died. His mother is reported to have remarried almost as hastily as Hamlet's. Edward had become a Royal Ward in the household of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, for forty years Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor. At Cecil House, dose to the nexus of political power, he could have conceived "the relish and verve with which Shakespeare's characters speak the language of ambition, intrigue and policy, to quote the veteran member of the House of Commons Enoch Powell, who adds that "this authentic knowledge of how men think and act at the summit of political power.. .could only have been drawn from experience of the political struggle. Here, too, while coming to know well the leading horticulturalist of the age, whom Cecil employed, Edward would have grown up in an atmosphere of rigorous intellectuality. He had the best tutors, including his maternal uncle, Arthur Golding, a noted scholar, at the time when the latter was translating Ovid's Metamorphoses, which so strongly influenced Shakespeare. The boy proved himself a dedicated and brilliant student and went on to acquire a legal education at Gray's Inn.
Edward had barely turned fourteen when Golding dedicated a work to him with a significant reference to the "desire your honor hath naturally grafted in you to read, peruse, and communicate with others as well the histories of ancient times, and things done long ago, as also the present estate of things in our days. A writer later dedicating a book to him declared that his "infancy from the beginning was ever sacred to the Muses."
With his twentieth birthday just behind him, Edward took part in the campaign against the Scots under the high-minded Earl of Sussex, whose siege of Hume Castle may have stood the youth in later literary service, as in describing Harfleur in Henry V.
At twenty-one he won first prize in a tournament against the best jousters of the day, to the general astonishment; it was the first of three tournaments we know of his entering, in all of which he copped first prize. In the same year he wrote an introduction in Latin to a translation of Castiglione's Courtier, an extraordinarily finished piece of work for one who would be a college junior today. So was his later introduction to a translation of Cardanus' Comfort– and in both it would be easy to see a future Shakespeare. Macaulay would write of him that "he shone at the Court of Elizabeth and won for himself an honorable place among the early masters of English poetry. The great Elizabethan scholar Sir E. K. Chambers, commenting on the dearth of distinguished poets in the generation following Wyatt and Surrey, declares that "the most hopeful of them was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, a real courtier, but an ill-conditioned youth, who also became mute in later life." Mute only as Edward de Vere, the evidence suggests. What was young Edward's poetry like? Some years ago Professor Louis P. Benezet of Dartmouth interlarded about 35 lines each of Oxford's and Shakespeare's verse and tried the amalgam on Elizabethan specialists. I know of no one who has been able to say which passages are whose without looking them up.
Whatever Chambers may have thought he meant by "ill-conditioned," an observer of the Court wrote when Oxford was twenty-two that "the Queen delighteth more in his personage and his dancing and his valiantness than any other." They may well have become lovers. The preceding year the young Earl had married Cecil's daughter Anne when she was just past Juliet's age; Cecil had earlier in the year been made Lord Burghley, facilitating a match between a commoner's daughter and the premier earl of the land. The marriage, which would prove the single greatest misfortune in the lives of all three, joined in lasting close relationship two utterly unlike men, one aristocratic, mercurial, poetical, and contemptuous of money, the other a self-made member of the new middle class, materialistic, crafty, hard-working, a devoted public servant- two men who outshone all their contemporaries in their respective fields, if we may trust the trail that led us to the Earl of Oxford.
We might say that the principals of Hamlet had now taken their places on stage. That the Prince was the dramatist depicting himself seems to me unmistakable, and that Polonius was a caricature of Burghley has long been recognized; even E. K. Chambers asks if " Polonius' [can] have resembled some nickname of Burghley (which it did: Polus) and says that "Laertes is less like Robert Cecil than Burghley's elder son Thomas. And I am by no means the first to see Elizabeth and Leicester in Gertrude and Claudius. Leicester, a "lecherous villain" in more eyes than Oxford's, was the nearest to a husband Elizabeth ever had, and if he did not murder an earlier mate of hers to win his position, he was widely believed to have murdered his own to do so; scandal also made him the poisoner of the noble Earl of Sussex, who seems to have stood somewhat in loco parentis to de Vere after the Scottish campaign. Significantly, Leicester won custody of the boy Edward's inheritance, the Oxford estates.
If de Vere saw himself as Hamlet in the retrospect of later years, he may probably be pictured in youth, when he stood high in Elizabeth's favor, as the male protagonists in the early comedies: Berowne, "the merry, madcap lord, Bertram (with his glaring faults), and Benedick, and as Faulconbridge in King John – high-spirited gallants all, with a taste for soldiering. The penchant for "lewd companions of which Burghley accused his son-in-law, probably referring to actors and writers, comes out in another of these gay young blades, Prince Hal, whose participation in the hold-up staged by his cronies at Gad's Hill on the highway between Rochester and Gravesend is simply a replay of the one staged by Oxford and his followers at the same place on the same highway when he was twenty-three.
At twenty-four, Oxford obtained from the Queen the permission he had long sought to visit the Continent. Most of his fifteen months' stay was spent in the Italian cities later to be the scenes of those happy Shakespearean comedies. Evidently he was captivated by the country. He was drawn, too, to the Church of Rome, though apparently not greatly interested in religion. We know that, like Bertram in All':c Well, he came back with Italianate ways, for he was chided for these by Gabriel Harvey, to the point of scandal. But Harvey also avowed of him:
For gallants a brave mirror, a primrose of honor,
……a fellow peerless in England.
Not the like discourser for Tongue and Head to be found out…
All gallant virtues, all qualities of body and soul.
On his trip back from Europe (during which his ship, like Hamlet's, was captured by pirates), Oxford had received tidings that bowled him over. He had rejoiced while in Italy at the delayed news that his wife had borne him a daughter. Now he evidently learned that the child had been born twelve months after he had last slept with her mother. The conveyor of this intelligence seems to have been a hanger-on of Oxford's, a fellow of treacherous instincts named Yorke (Y-orke=Iago?). In turmoil of mind Oxford alienated himself from his wife and estranged himself from her father. The separation was to last for five years. In the interval he had an affair with a brunette minx newly arrived at Court, Anne Vavasor, in whom we may see both Rosaline of Love's Labour's Lost and the dark wanton of the Sonnets. By her he had a son, with the immediate consequence that he and Anne were clapped into the Tower. (Those who served Elizabeth served a jealous monarch.) Another consequence was a sword-fight between Oxford and Anne's kinsman, Thomas Knyvet. "This was the signal for war between the two houses, Albert Feurillerat wrote in 1910. "As at another time in Verona, the streets of London were filled [surely an exaggeration] with the quarreling clamors of these new Montagues and Capulets.
Though the Countess of Oxford presented her husband with three other daughters, all of indubitable legitimacy, she lived only seven years after their reconciliation, such as it was, dying at thirty-one. If we may accept the testimony of the plays, Oxford castigated himself for his treatment of her. Othello, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Postumus in Cymbeline, and Claudio in Much Ado all are persuaded by a cynical third party, on the flimsiest and most unconvincing grounds, of the infidelity of the young women to whom they are married or affianced, and they angrily reject them. Angelo in Measure for Measure rejects Mariana with as little ceremony and reason. Of the others, three entertain thoughts of murdering their erstwhile loves; Othello actually does, and Leontes thinks he has. All are overwhelmed by remorse. Hamlet rejects Ophelia somewhat less brutally, on grounds of general moral repugnance, but the consequences are as fatal for her as for Desdemona.
Obviously the theme gnawed at the dramatist. One could understand why, if Oxford had believed Anne to have been as chaste and noble as Desdemona, Hermione, Imogen, Hero, and Mariana. But the opposite was evidently the case; long before Oxford's suspicions were aroused, Anne and her father themselves were worried to death that he would not accept the child. So why this pitiless remorse? Did he discover that poor Anne was more sinned against than sinning?
Or perhaps.. .Both Bertram in All's Well and Angelo in Measure were brought to consummate their marriages by being led to sleep with their respective partners under the misapprehension, fostered by darkness, that the assignation was with a female more enticing to them. Singularly enough, there are two independent reports that the same was true of Oxford. As one of them had it, "the father of Lady Anne by stratagem contrived that her husband should unknowingly sleep with her, believing her to be another woman, with the result that a child was born to the couple.
During the 1580′s, the menace from Spain was growing. In 1584 Elizabeth finally sent an expeditionary force to the aid of the Protestants in the Low Countries. Oxford was named commander of the horse but soon returned for unknown reasons (perhaps repining with Othello, "Farewell the plumed troop…" ). For the second time, his ship was captured en route to England by pirates. It must have come as a relief when on his next venture upon the Channel, in 1588, the month after his wife's death, he was the attacker, going into combat with his own vessel against the Spanish Armada.
Eight years earlier, when he was thirty, Gabriel Harvey had addressed Oxford before the Queen in Latin hexameters with the words:
"Thy splendid fame demands even more than in the case of others [Elizabeth, Burghley and Leicester, whom he also had addressed] the services of a poet possessing lofty eloquence. Terming Oxford's introduction to The Courtier "even more polished than the writings of Castiglione himself, he called upon it to "witness how greatly thou dost excel in letters. Many Latin verses of thine [all lost] have I seen, yea even more English verses. Probably at the instigation of Oxford himself who yearned for military exploit, he exhorted him to "throw away the pen, throw away bloodless books…Now is the time to sharpen the spear and to handle great engines of war; and he wound up declaring, "Thine eyes flash fire, thy countenance shakes spears."
One suspects that Oxford's zeal for military honor, which the example of his cousins, the "fighting Veres"-Francis and Horace- would have done nothing to cool, was thwarted by the Queen herself. Evidently she had other plans for him. In 1586, she made him a grant of the immense sum of £1,000, to be paid annually with no accounting to be required by the Exchequer, and this allowance, confirmed by King James, would continue for the remaining eighteen years of his life. This would have enabled him to support acting companies and, as Shakespeare, to finance his writing for the stage, beginning with the historical plays; these could be expected to rally the nation in the face of the menace from Spain and to harrow it with the dreadful consequences they portrayed of disunity and disputed succession.
Oxford could surely have used the funds. From the fourteen-year-old who after his father's funeral had ridden out of Essex into London "with seven score horses all in black — or so it was reported — he had been reduced to three servants. Like Jaques in As You Like It, he had sold his lands to see other men's, and like Timon of Athens he and those he favored had lived rather too well on his estate; "Let all my land be sold! Timon grandly dedares when none is left. Oxford was the most generous literary patron of the age. As the poet George Chapman wrote, he was "valiant, learn'd and liberal as the sun.
Both the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Earls of Oxford had maintained a troupe of actors, and the Seventeenth had at least one during most of his life. In addition he took a lease on Blackfriars Theatre and transferred it to his secretary, John Lyly, who used it to rehearse a boys' company for performances at Court. (Lyly's highly successful novel Euphues had, he said, been "sent to a nobleman to nurse, who with great love brought him up for a year, so that wheresoever he wander he hath his nurse's name in his forehead. That the sequel was dedicated to Oxford should leave no doubt as to whose stamp was on Euphues.) When we hear Hamlet addressing the actors on their craft, may we not hear Oxford addressing his own, and with an authority even those giants of the theatre, Burbage and Kempe, would have respected? I mention those two because they were stars of the Lord Chamberlain's company, which from the time of its formation in 1594 was the vehicle for the introduction of Shakespeare's plays; and there are grounds for believing that it was Oxford, as hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, rather than the holders of the title Lord Chamberlain, who managed the affairs of the company.
Not long after the celebration of the victory over the Armada, in which Oxford would have been one of the peers bearing the canopy over the Queen ("Were't aught to me I bore the canopy, we read in Sonnet 125), Oxford largely dropped from public view. This led the poet Edmund Spenser, if I am right, to lament in 1590 that
the man whom nature self had made
To mock herself, and truth to imitate,
..under mimic shade,
Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late.
Earlier in the year in one of the sonnets prefacing The Faerie Queene, Spenser had paid Oxford a remarkable tribute, speaking of "the love which thou dost bear I To the Heliconian Imps and they to thee, /They unto thee, and thou to them, most dear. (Mount Helicon was sacred to the Muses, and a meaning of "imp at the time was "scion [esp. of a noble house]. ) The next year he received the first of two dedications of books on music by the former organist and choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, who declared that "using this science as a recreation, your lordship have overgone most of them that make it a profession."
Were the plays we know as Shakespeare's written by a nobleman of the Court and known to have been written by him, they would have been scrutinized for the light they might throw on personages and events at the highest level; and this the Queen, Burghley, and others would not have tolerated. Those performed or printed (by pirates) before 1598 had no author's name associated with them. Then in that year Francis Meres named "Shakespeare as the best for both tragedy and comedy and listed twelve plays to his credit. (About that time William Shakspere of Stratford began to make his investments of huge sums of money.) In that same year, too, addressing one "whose silent name one letter bounds -surely Edward de Vere-the poet John Marston plainly took us to the nub of the matter in writing:
Far fly thy fame,
Most, most of me beloved…
Thy unvalued worth
Shall mount fair place
when Apes are turned forth.
In Sonnet 81 the poet recognizes that "I, once gone, to all the world must die. In 1603 (13 years before "V4Ti11. Shakspere gent would be buried), he was in fact facing the end, for in Sonnet 107, unmistakably referring to events of that year and surely written no later, he says that "death to me subscribes. Oxford died the next year. (In arguing, with no good evidence, that some of Shakespeare's greatest plays were written after 1604, orthodox scholars ignore Sonnet 107′s plain statement, as they do the circumstances of the Sonnets' publication in 1609, which made it doubly clear that the author was dead, for he had no hand in it and was unable to provide a dedication. That was left up to the printer, who referred to the poet in it as "ever-living, a characterization never applied to persons actually alive. Moreover, some of Shakespeare's plays, displaying the highest level of cultivation, had clearly been written by the late 1580′s, before Shakspere of Stratford can be imagined ever to have been in London or to have spoken an English intelligible there.)
Hamlet, with very nearly his dying breath, cries
Oh good Horatio, what a wounded name (Things standing thus unknown) shall live behind me!…In this harsh world draw thy breath in pain…To tell my story.
My guess is that it was Oxford's cousin, Horace Vere, indisputably the model for Horatio, who, in the year of Oxford's death, arranged to have Hamlet printed from the author's manuscript (a novelty in the case of a play of Shakespeare's) with the royal coat of arms of the Plantagenets on the first page, as befitted the passing of a prince. It was probably the best he could do, bound as he was by strictures of secrecy, to see that his cousin's story was told.
The rest is up to us.


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Back on June 21, the Abilene, Texas boy ran competitively for the first time in a two-mile race. Villa blew spectators away with his time of 11 minutes, 48 seconds. A time that beat the previous world record by almost a full second.
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Been there, done that. Just chill until the hurt goes away then move on. Do things for yourself. Take care of yourself and be patient. Someone will come along that will love you.
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People are selfish, they only think of what makes them happy and they lie,yep some people lie all day long ,even about love kinda evil huh?
well first you get up and get a nice hot shower and then have something to eat ..like tea and a muffin

after a while you go outside and take your best friend by the hand and tell her the the truth ...if he really loved you he would still be there by your side .....i know it hurts but the right someone will come along ....

and if you had stayed with him , you would have miss out .....so after your nice long chat ....go do something just for you .....maybe a movie or having your nails done ....anything that brings you happiness ..

look at this as a learning experience.......
You're on you own. You said it ... ' ... then he lift me." Clearly he doesn't love you and the sooner you move on the better it will be for you. You can spend a lot of time quizzing over what happened to have you where you find yourself, but in the end it will come down to the fact that he's gone. Move on; remember here that the only person suffering is yourself, but why should you be left to feel hurt? Don't give him the pleasure, move on ... end of!

Move on of course, don't waste your time and energy! Find someone who really cares about you sweet (:
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The 35-year-old victim, who told police he knew his attackers from the Dorothy Day Center, was sent to the hospital with a deep laceration on the back of his head and bruises.
The criminal complaints, filed Thursday, give the following account:
On Tuesday, shortly before 9 p.m., officers responded to Wells Fargo Place on Wabasha Street about an assault. A man "was bloodied and frantically using his hands to sign," the complaint said. Officers, who determined he is deaf, used a pen and paper to communicate with him. He said that he had been assaulted and that one of the attackers stole his phone.
Police watched surveillance video. They saw the victim, identified as TL, walk near a door that exits to Wabasha Street. Four people pushed him back into the building.
"One of the suspects punched TL and the group grabbed him and assaulted him … for several minutes," the complaint said. "The group went through TL's pockets and backpack" as he lay on the ground and the kicking and punching continued.
The assailants went outside. One of the women fell shortly before police arrived and officers found her; she was described in the complaint as "drunken."
The woman was identified as Tanisha Ann Wilson, 29, and with her was Brandon Lee Anderson, also known as Brandon Balterman-Werlich, 23.
Two others "sprinted back into the building and accessed the skyways when police arrived," the complaint said. An officer who saw the surveillance video named one as Michael Dewayne Bordeaux, 22. Police detained him and Rianot Nikky Nelson, 24, as they tried to board a bus at Fifth and Minnesota streets. The hometowns for all four suspects were unknown, according to the complaints.
The video showed that Nelson punched TL, and the three others joined her in the assault, police said. As TL lay on the ground, Bordeaux allegedly used a large liquor bottle to hit him several times. "Nelson disarmed Bordeaux — she grabbed the bottle from him and took a swig from it," the complaint said. "Rianot Nelson rifled through TL's pockets as he lay on the floor trying to defend himself. She later searched his backpack."
Officers saw a broken bottle in the building where the assault occurred.
Nelson told police "she was trying to help TL up off the ground," the complaint said. "When confronted, Nelson admitted she did strike TL and she admitted going through his pockets. Nelson said she and the two men debated who would throw the first punch, but she did it. Nelson said TL 'didn't have (expletive).' … She also admitted she knew TL was deaf and cannot speak."
Bordeaux told police that "he and TL were friends and they had conversed in the past by writing things back and forth," the complaint said. Bordeaux said he had swung a bottle at TL but didn't know where the man was struck. He said he had gone through TL's pockets looking for a cigarette.
Anderson and Wilson both told police they were drunk and didn't remember what happened. When a sergeant showed Wilson the video, she said she had been trying to break up the fight.
The Ramsey County attorney's office charged all four with aiding and abetting first-degree aggravated robbery and Bordeaux with second-degree assault.
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I ACTUALLY saw Dr. Boyco. I wonder if any of these reviewers actually did?? The BEST, nothing else to say.
Actually knows how to fix my problem that I want to continue to wear contacts and not have to wear reading glasses!
Terrible experience. Students doing the exam but still charge the same price. He's not a good listener. And referring to disgruntled staff in the reviews. Well what does that say about the way you're running the place when you have ex staff writing bad reviews on the Internet. The place is a hot mess. Poor customer service. The front receptionist doesn't give eye contact. Glasses are cheaply made. Save yourself the trip
Great, just in town today but know that I had to see the one and only Dr. Boyco before my game - he doesn't see the general public, but I called in a few favours. He's the best.
Wow. I really liked my experience here. Way more involved testing than my last doctor. Looking at the reviews below. I'm just gonna copy and past what the reviewer said on Oct 19, 2011. 'excellent down to earth guy - very helpful and knows his business Too bad his disgruntled exstaff (I refer to below) have access to a site that's supposed to help us make informed desicions." These bad reviews all sound like they are from the same person. Get a life!!
This guy is a loser. He knows nothing about eyes and hockey, the big fake! He screwed up my prescription and acted like it was his employees fault. Go to another optometrist. Eye care in BC has gone to H E double hockey stick
Was there today to confirm my Cataract surgery. Saw Dr. Boyco in the back area, and asked the girl at the desk if I could speak to him. Two seconds later, there he was, answered all my questions. In fact, he took me over to the dr room and made sure that all my questions were answered with the eye chart and the thing that goes in front of your eyes (the thing where they ask 'which is better this one or that one" then shone all the bright light and stuff in my eyes. After all of this, he put my mind at ease and told me that this procedure was the most common one in the world next to dental procedures. I felt so much better after he told me this (and a lot of other things) I just want to say - best Doctor ever!
His staff were excellent, but seeing how the staff are treated sickens me. I will not be coming here again for an eye exam.
Dr Boyco is simply the very best! He is so easy to talk to and knows eyes, and knows exactly what I'm trying to describe before I even finish my sentence. He's the there is or ever was!
The last time I saw Dr. Boyco was ten years ago. I've been coming back every year since then but the staff always tell me he rarely comes in, or he's retired or on sabbatical or something. Man is he hard to actually nail down, but I came in for my routine check the day before yesterday and there he was! Said he was filling in for one of his Drs that was away. They just don't make doctors like this anymore! If you ever make a point to book with him, you will agree! So clever & insightful. Misses nothing!!
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How to Use an Italian Washing Machine
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Italian Washer Example 1 | Judith's Tips for Temperatures and Soap | Laundry Detergent and Softeners | Italian Washer Example 2 | Resources
Italian Washer Example 1 - Candy
This section shows a "Candy" washing machine from a vacation rental in Tuscany. We have another example machine shown after this.
Chris from CA took these photos of a washing machine in Italy, spring 2002. Thanks to people on the message board for providing some of these translations!
The typical Italian washing machine is a front loader and is smaller than an American machine, but a good one holds just as much laundry. Push your laundry into the machine without leaving extra space.
These machines run a long wash cycle - well over an hour to do a load of wash (more like 90 minutes) - but they wash your clothes well and use less water. This style of machine is becoming popular in the US now. (We have one and love it.)
The Control Panel
Above you can see the entire control panel. Soap drawer at the left, buttons to control the wash cycle beside that, temperature knob and cycle settings knob.
Laundry Soap
The soap goes in the drawer that you pull out on the left. On this model the soap goes in the middle container. Prewash soap in the left most one, wash soap in the middle, fabric softener in the right one. Do not use as much soap as with a top loading machine - use about 1/4 cup. Pour in the soap, close the little drawer. See below for more details about laundry soap.
Buttons for wash settings
This model has three buttons. Push the button in to set the mode listed for the button.
First button: Spenta accesa - on/off button - push in to turn on machine
Second button: Esclusione centrifuga - no strong spin cycle
Third button: Mezzo carico - half load
Water Temperature
The smaller knob controls the water temperature. Temperatures are in celcius: 30 is cold, 50 is warm, 70 is hot. I wash whites at 60, colors at 40, sheets at 70.
Wash Cycles
This machine offers two types of cycles - for cottons and for delicates. Turn the knob clockwise to the cycle that you want. Usually normal - sporco normale - is what you want. These are the cycles available.
Cotone e Resistenti - cottons and non-delicate clothes
1. Molta sporco - very dirty
Pick one of the above settings to start your cycle. The settings below just show you where you are in the cycle.
6. Candeggio - bleach cycle
Misti e delicati - delicate
10. Molta sporco - very dirty
Pick one of the above settings to start your cycle. The settings below just show you where you are in the cycle.
14. Risciacqui delicati - delicate rinse cycle
There are extra cycles:
A. Prelavaggio - prewash
The washing machine may not open until the cycles have completed or until you move the knob to an off position. There is a special symbol that says: Stop con acqua in vasca - stop when water in machine. Turn to this if you need to stop the wash cycle.
Judith's Tips for Temperatures and Soap
I wash everything at 30, but sheets and towels at 60. I also use anti-calcare, 6 Tbsp each load, and therefore only about a fat Tbsp of washing powder. My version of softener is white wine vinegar because I don't like those scents in commercial softeners. (Judith lives in Italy and uses an Italian washing machine regularly!)
Laundry Detergent and Softeners
Check at your vacation rental first to see if someone has left any detergent by the machine - you may not need to buy any. Purchase laundry detergent at the village shop or a larger supermarket. Laundry detergent comes in liquid or powder. You can buy the powder in smaller boxes or in large bags. Bottles, boxes and bags of laundry detergent are labeled "Lavatrice" - for the washing machine.
Laundry detergent aisle in a supermarket. Photo by Alice Twain, 2005.
Photo of laundry detergent aisle above, from left to right: wool and delicate stuff detergents (all of the pink bottles) and washing machine detergents (bottled and in powder, which are now commonly sold in bags); the pink tubes you can spot between the yellow bottles and the boxes in the second from the bottom shelf are concentrated gel detergents.
Translation of Laundry Detergent Box
Unscented Laundry Detergent
If you need unscented laundry soap (as I do), bring it with you from home because it is hard to find in Italy (unless you find a natural foods store in a larger town). I travel with Ecover powder and I double ziplock bag it. Most laundry soap in Italy, as in North America, is heavily scented with chemicals. They also use a strongly scented fabric softener that helps when drying clothes on a line (to keep them soft). When I use my unscented soap and dry the clothes on a line, I have to iron our t-shirts etc. because they dry like cardboard. There will always be an ironing board and iron in your vacation rental.
Slow Travel Photos - Doing Laundry: Photos of supermarket laundry detergent aisle, laundry detergent boxes, washing machines.
Italian Washer Example 2
This example is a small washing machine we had in an apartment in Levanto, Liguria.
Small washing machine in bathroom of Levanto apartment.
Control Panel
On this washing machine, one knob controls water temperature (on the left); the other controls the cycles. The buttons to the left are for 1/2 loads and to turn off the spin cycle.
This is the list of possible cycles written on the machine, translated to English. To run the cycle, you would turn the knob the the letter indicated, then start the machine.
COTONE-LINO 90° - Cotton - Linen at 90 degrees
A bianchi con prelav - whites with prewash
COTONE-LINO 60° - Cotton - Linen at 60 degrees
A bianchi con prelav - whites with prewash
COTONE-LINO 40° - Cotton - Linen at 40 degrees
D colorati delicati - delicate colors
SINTETICI-MISTI 60° - mixed synthetics at 60 degrees
H resistenti con prelav - non-delicates with prewash
TESSUTI DELICATI 30° - 40° - delicate fabrics at 40 degrees
K sintetici - synthetics
TRATTAMENTI SPECIALI - special treatment
F risciacqui con - with rinse
Control panel of washing machine.
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I know there's not much to the assembly of this thing and I've checked some of the past threads that dealt with the MSUV but I haven't found what I'm looking for. I set up this thing last night and haven't had much of a chance to mess with it. When it is in the set up position I can push on the table and it moves down 2-3". Is this normal? Will this change once I have the saw mounted on it? I've looked underneath the table to see if there should be a place that the sliding rails should be catching but I didn't see anything.
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Re: MSUV Assembly
As you're setting it up there are basically three steps:
1) Drop the free swinging legs into position
2) Pull the handle bar on the other side and lift up
3) Once all the way at the top, release the handle and push down. It should click very definitely into position.
Once locked in place, I don't recall mine moving much, if at all up and down.
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Re: MSUV Assembly
The weight of the saw will prevent it from rising as much but you still must use the outrigger legs to steady it from moving.
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Re: MSUV Assembly
I have to kind of slam mine into place to get it to lock in the up position. Maybe slam isn't the right word, but a forceable upward motion.When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Re: MSUV Assembly
I also need to pull mine up in an upwards direction fully then back down. Any more I just lift the table all the way up and then reach under and pull the table supports all the way out towards me (if I am standing at the end of the MSUV) then let go of the table top. Falls right into position then and does not move.Still enjoying all 10 fingers!
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Rnt80,mine is the same as yours.It won't lock itself out either when I pull up on it.It to will bob up and down if I push down on it.Poor engineering in design if you ask me.If you look underneath the table,you will see that the release handle is longer on one side than it is on the other.This is acting as a locking pin preventing the stand from collapsing.It should be resting on top of a small metal bracket that is welded to the top of the frame on only one side.Your pin is locking underneath this bracket instead of above it.Just pull back on the handle and push down until the locking pin is above the bracket then release the handle again.This should lock it out for you.You shouldn't have to screw with it like that in my opinion to get it to work properly.Always make sure that the MS-UV is locked out properly by looking underneath the stand and verifying the pin/bracket position.It will still move a little bit but at least not 2-3 inches.Hope this helps you out some.
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Should have asked you which model of MS-UV you were referring to seeing as there are two versions of this stand.I was referring to the older model AC9940 in my above post in case you were wondering.The AC9944 hasn't showed up here in my neck of the woods yet unfortunately to be able to compare the two.


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Math Homework
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What if he hadn't done his math homework?
What if playing a video game like Grand Theft Auto had been more important?
Ieoh Ming Pei certainly did his homework. He completed architecture degrees at MIT and Harvard. Then he designed and completed buildings around the world. Architecture is an interesting mix of art, science, and math using both sides of the brain.
"One has to persist, and not give up principle. But there are many ways of persisting, many ways of trying to convince a client to do certain things. There's a polite way; there's an impolite way,…but that doesn't mean I'm less insistent, less demanding, …not at all.
I'm probably as demanding as any creative person. But you have to identify the important things, and then press for them, not give up." –I.M. Pei (http://www.barth.lib.in.us/IMPei.html)
My educational background is in the earth sciences. But for some reason I have been hanging around math people also. I think that is partly due to running friendships on the track at the local university, Humboldt State. Many of the math faculty are runners. But it is also due to working on scientific papers with a statistician at Humboldt, Dr. Yoon Kim. I have always been rather weak at math and the graduate courses in statistics gave me some understanding, but could not create the foundation that I avoided by not doing my math homework when I was younger. OK, really, I hated math when I was a kid.
Dr. Mark Rizzardi was patient with me and helped me struggle through a graduate class on generalized linear models. But as he filled chalk boards on three sides of the lecture room with formulas, I questioned what I was doing in a graduate math class. After making it through that course I have teamed up with Yoon on several papers and scientific posters for national and international conferences. I never thought I would enjoy math, but they have helped me to work with it effectively.
Yes IM Pei somehow stimulated that math confession. I don't know why. And that all grew from the beautiful Louvre pyramids that IM Pei designed. There is a connection there somewhere. Really.
One connection is the crazy geometric combinations that IM Pei brought together to make an exquisite and artistic entrance to the Louvre. Math creating art.
The escalators and stairs under the main pyramid in this photograph lead you below the immense Louvre courtyard and into the museum itself. (You can see the location of the pyramids in the courtyard by looking at the photo in yesterday's posting.)
I enjoy the contrasts in this photo. The contrast between the people underground and the outside courtyard; the contrast between the 1989 pyramid and the centuries old palace visible through the glass; and the contrasts between the spiral staircase and the escalators and the rigid geometry of the pyramid itself. And I've always been fascinated by the two workers standing at the upper railing watching the people below. Photo: 1/125 s at f/3.4. For other Paris photos please visit the Photo Gallery at my website: www.earthmapphoto.com
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to point you all over to the NC throwdown thread. I've posted a chunk of the videos, and we have karate, boxing, kung fu, chun, BJJ and more all going at it with each other. It's fun times for all, and I figure you would all enjoy.
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Hi darlings. How was your Friday? Mine was really fun. I ate well, had a great workout and ended the evening with some friends. What more can you ask for? I'll jump straight into yesterday's eats and explain the title of my post as I go.
Breakfast was really simple: 1 piece of organic sprouted grain toast with peanut butter and blueberries + side of fresh blueberries and cantaloupe. I cut the bread into little pieces for fun, not because of the small bites tip the RD gave me (I think it will be necessary for my treats only).
Mmm, melty pb. Yum
Then I got to making lunch. Our fridge and freezer are starting to look bare so I couldn't even combine any leftovers into anything worth eating. The good news: I had all the ingredients for stir-fried tofu and bok choy in ginger sauce I've been meaning to make from The Best Light Recipe book. I got this book from my friend Katy for my birthday and I love it!! It talks about technique, compares different healthier alternatives to each other, provides recommendations for product brands, and lastly walks you through their thought process on how they made the full-fat version recipe lighter (what worked and what didn't). I especially appreciate this last part because I hope to start thinking like that on my own. One day
This is what my meal was supposed to look like. Pretty, no?
Here is what it actually looked like in a to-go container. Not as much of a looker (btw, I also made some quinoa on the side) but man, was it delicious!!!! I really LOVED this dish and cannot wait to make more meals from this book (next up on the list – blueberry muffins. Mmm)
Pre-workout snack (workout was 4.5 mile run on the treadmill + 0.5 mile walk + 16 minutes on ET. Sweaty and awesome!):
And here is the day's treat of the day. No I did not eat the whole tray 😉 These are cookie topped brownies from Another One Bites the Crust (recipe was found through Soap & Chocolate… thanks, Diana!!) and well, you can probably guess from these mouth-watering pictures that they are awesome!
I substituted nonfat yogurt for apple sauce, thus de-veganizing this recipe a bit, but otherwise followed it to the T. I tried cutting down on sugar a bit but after tasting the batter, added the rest of it as per the recipe. It didn't seem like a healthy treat while I was baking it, but now that I think about it, it's definitely much healthier than your typical brownie/cookie. It's made with ww pastry flour and there is no butter. Still quite a bit of sugar but it won't be a treat without that. I brought most of these guys to work and packed a little piece for me.
So here is where the title of this post comes from. Mid-afternoon I enjoyed this little guy with my tea. It was delicious! I ate it at my desk but tried not to do any work while eating and really concentrated on the flavor of this and the whole experience. Literally the second I finished it, my co-worker got a package from his mom with HUGE cookies from Tom's Mom's cookies. These cookies looked absolutely incredible but I just finished my treat and didn't need another cookie. Instead of being afraid that I'll feel deprived later if I didn't have any, I took a cookie, put it in a ziplock bag (keep them in my desk drawer for "emergencies" like this) and put it in my desk drawer to enjoy on Monday. Done and done. My co-worker tried to convince me to have some right away, but I said no and really meant it! I didn't want it right away. I'm sure this cookie will taste better on Monday when I can truly appreciate it
On my way out the door, the co-worker stuffed a cookie in my purse to "take home to Adam." It got a little beaten up so I gave the whole part to Adam and threw the cookie crumbs into a yogurt for a pre-dinner snack (I was starving and dinner was going to take 30+ minutes). Adam loved the cookie so I can't wait to have it on Monday 😀 My little snack was perfect for me.
Oh and do you see those Oreos in the background? Adam picked them up for our Rounders "party." If you've seen Rounders (and if you haven't – go rent/buy it right away – it's an AWESOME movie) you'll know why. I didn't have any! HFCS, no thanks. I wasn't even tempted. I sent the rest of the box home with friends. No need to have them in the house.
Ok, onto dinner. The star ingredient was okra, which I picked up at the farmers market last week. These guys are pretty funky.
When I saw okra, I immediately thought of cornmeal crusted oven baked okra. Not sure why. Maybe this meal Kath had really stuck in my mind, although I actually don't remember reading about it. I did a bit of searching for the recipe and of course stumbled upon Kath's version of it. I decided to copy her side dish too (substituting lean ham for bacon and omitting the dates that we didn't have) Here is my whole dinner:
Closeup of the "fried okra":
Collard greens, organic kidney beans, lean ham:
I was really excited for this meal but the okra was kind of bland tasting. I added a bunch of hot sauce to the egg/milk mixture but I guess it wasn't enough. I think you need to season the cornmeal because it's kind of tasteless. Overall this meal was fun though
For accountability reasons I should also mention that while watching the movie with our friends I also had a glass of red wine, a 100 calorie pack of almonds, some reduced fat smoked gouda and roasted cashews. This was consumed over the course of the night and I was truly hungry so I feel fine with eating what seems like a lot. Looking back at my meals it's possible that I actually didn't eat enough during the day (although I felt satisfied throughout the day) so I think it all evens out at the end.
How was your Friday night? Have you seen Rounders? Do you like oreos?
I'm off to do a quicky 2 mile run and then get ready for a pool party. Let's see if I get the guts to wear a bathing suit today. Hmm.


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"Jeff Fulcher has spent $70,000 on legal fees and expert witnesses trying to get Drake Petroleum to clean up pollution that has crept from the Xtra Mart gas station in Westbrook to the business that Fulcher runs with his wife.
So forgive Fulcher if he takes a narrow, David vs. Goliath view of his dispute with Drake, which has employed three law firms to fight Fulcher in court. But the issue in Westbrook is actually part of a larger, statewide problem that is slowing or complicating cleanups of hundreds of contaminated sites in Connecticut.
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Young Jeezy and Rick Ross
Atlanta police say officers broke up an altercation between two groups at the seventh annual BET Hip-Hop Awards, but that no arrests were made.
Police spokesman Carlos Campos said officers responded to the scuffle at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the backstage area of the awards show, held at a downtown civic center. Campos says there were no injuries or shots fired.
Police have not released the identities of those involved in the scuffle.
The New York Daily News reported rappers Young Jeezy and Rick Ross fought backstage, triggering the brawl in the parking lot.
The altercation took place around the same time as a tribute performance to hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty, who committed suicide last month.
BET officials told The Associated Press that the awards show was not interrupted.
Kanye West, who received the most nominations with 17, didn't attend the event. The show will air on BET on Oct. 9.


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In every aspect of our lives we see stigmas. They have been created by fear, misconception and misinformation.
stig·ma noun \ˈstig-mə\ a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something
Now just think about that for a moment. Think about the stigmas that people have that can be deadly to some of the animals that find themselves in a shelter.
One such stigma, in this very modern world of ours, is that black cats are considered bad luck. They are the last to be adopted and the first to be euthanized when they find themselves in a shelter [1]. It's suprising where this myth began, and interesting how it's been perpetuated through the centuries of time [2]. Even more suprising, our difficulty in overcoming the myth.
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Our focus here is to dispel the stigma that FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) is a deadly and highly contagious disease. Like black cats, FIV cats are often left behind. In some cases, a diagnosis of FIV is an automatic death sentence to a shelter cat. In this very modern world of ours we have the ability to call to us so much information. Indeed, it's right at our fingertips. So why are FIV+ cats still ostracized and killed? Because the 'stigma' of disease holds sway. How do we stop it? We educate ourselves and others. We can begin with three simple truths. These truths need to be made known. [3]
TRUTH: FIV is not a serious threat to other cats, pets, or even humans.
TRUTH: FIV+ cats can live long, happy, fulfilling and healthy lives.
TRUTH: FIV+ cats can live safely with NON FIV cats.
In a post on the Imagine Home page [4] we had several comments from people that are owned by FIV+ cats that live happily alongside their NON FIV housemates. Two such posts:
::Rita S Benlolo "I have 4 of them and they live among my other non fiv kitties. They are all fixed and get along peacefully."
::Patty Shabrou "I only have one FIV+ kitty, but just try telling all four of mine that they shouldn't be living together. They play together, wrestle, romp, chase moths, eat and sleep together. Where one goes, they all go."
Let us together help spread the word and save the lives of FIV+ cats. Please click on the links below. You will find them very informative.
[1] http://blog.petsforpatriots.org/stigma-plagues-black-pets/
[2] http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/pets/black-cats-dark-myths-bad-luck-and-truth-behind-it-all
[3] http://www.fivcatrescue.org/fiv-myths.html
[4] https://www.facebook.com/imaginehomeorg/posts/799645170080022