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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I had a book review blog. And then I started this blog and it was just too much. Though I was still reading just as much as ever, I couldn't keep up with Ultimate Bridesmaid and work a full-time job and have a life and blog about books. So my book blog fell by the wayside, but I certainly didn't stop reading and I definitely didn't stop having opinions about what I read. I even tried to write a really long recap post of every book I read last year, but it was exhausting. So finally I just decided to share a selection of my favorite reads from last year with you.
If you're looking for something totally different, try The Bees by Laline Paull.
Tired of reading about how messed up we humans are? Take a break from the cares of the human world with this book told from the perspective of a lowly worker bee. You immediately get sucked into the captivating but alien world of the hive as Flora 717 struggles to find her place. Born a sanitation worker, she stifles an unnatural urge to have a baby, the sole duty of the hive's Queen. I ended up learning a lot about bees while also being totally engrossed in the Handmaid's Tale-like struggle of one bee to rise above her birth.
If you already miss Downton Abbey, read Below Stairs by Margaret Powell.
This kitchen maid's memoir inspired both Downton Abbey and the older television show Upstairs, Downstairs. Margaret Powell went into service at a young age and eventually rose through the ranks to become a cook. Her exploits include trying to find a nice young man to marry at any cost and her work in several houses across England gives a broad picture of the different circumstances servants endured. Her voice is so witty and fresh and she does a marvelous job of having a laugh at the goings on both upstairs and down. I sped through this book. Reminded me a lot of Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, another really chatty and fun little memoir.
If you're looking for a vacation read with substance, try The Vacationers by Emma Straub.
Sometimes you're in a space where you need a certain book and The Vactioners just fit the time in my life when I read it. It's a little bit like The Corrections lite, but with better scenery. It may have officially renewed my desire to go to Spain, but it's by no means a fluffy beach read. Behind the stunning portrait of Mallorca is a family in crisis: Franny and Jim are dealing with the fallout from his workplace affair with a much-younger woman, their daughter Sylvia is hell-bent on losing her virginity before she heads to college in the fall and their son Bobby is trying to find a way to ask his father to bail him out of debt from a pyramid scheme he's sunk his savings into.
If you love dystopian novels, try Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel.
I might have said I was getting a little worn out by the dystopian genre, but then I read Station Eleven and realized I was just tired of poor renditions on that theme. Station Eleven manages to take well-trodden territory and make it fresh. Part of its appeal is the unique premise: a group of minstrels moving through the post-apocalyptic wilderness trying to maintain their humanity by performing for survivors.
If you want a fun, light beach or plane read, try Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.
I don't know about you, but I can't read all award-winning serious literature. Sometimes I just needs something easy breezy and fun. Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians fits the bill, opening a window on a world I knew nothing about: the lives of the super-rich Asian JetSet elite of Singapore. Kwan grew up in this world, so his stories are by no means exaggerations (in fact, he claims he toned it down a little bit).
If you love historical fiction, read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Wolf Hall manages to add something to the conversation about a period of history that's been absolutely papered with fiction. I've read a lot of books about the reign of King Henry VIII, but this is the first to be told from a perspective outside the royal family (Thomas Cromwell is the novel's focus). It's also the first fictionalization of this time period I've read that isn't dominated by the romance, seduction and gender politics of the court. Though that's certainly still an element of the story, both the religious revolution and feudal struggles for power are given equal weight, which forms a more interesting (and probably more realistic) picture of what was going on in Henry's court.
If you're looking for a tragic romance, try Euphoria by Lily King.
A really lovely book with a captivating, unique premise. Euphoria is set in the thirties at the very dawn of anthropology as a science. Established anthropologist Andrew Bankson has made a name for himself studying the Kiona tribe in New Guinea, but feels utterly alone in the field. He meets a young couple, Nell and Fen, who are just starting out in their research and immediately latches on to them in hopes of companionship and maybe more. Bankson helps Nell and Fen find a nearby tribe to study, but it become clear to him over time that Fen feels threatened by his wife's natural affinity for working with native peoples. Fen's professional jealousy combined with Bankson's growing attachment to Nell leads the threesome down a dark road.


text: Hi everyone, This is actually a recap of last week in the engineering department. I was away at SCALE and am busy catching up. We received our first batch of 10 fully assembled GTA02 A5 boards. There are still some issues with the manufacturing test software that needs to be fixed before we start manufacturing. John got some Processing apps to run on the phone. Performance could be improved with a good Java JIT and better glamo OpenGL support. Wolfgang started the wiki page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Prototypes to track hardware issues with any non-release hardware we are using internally or sending to people. You can track some progress here. Allen found a GSM power leak in suspend mode. Matt and Allen are working to get this resolved. Graeme got Qtopia to build via OE, and was able to make phone calls on a GTA01 using Qtopia. The bottom line for A5 is that while we have not found a proven A5 hardware bug yet, we ran into a number of uncertainties. Our highest priorities now are to 1. prove that suspend/resume and charging works 2. prove that we can fix hardware quality issues (broken bluetooth, GPS, receiver) 3. improve production testing software (microSD, suspend/resume) We have added a full-time wiki editor. She has been publishing technical books for many years, and we look forward to improved organizing and appearance of all the great content on the wiki. That's all for now. Regards, Michael

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It's great to have a home that smells clean and fresh. We go to extreme lengths to ensure that there are no odors inside our homes, unless they are pleasant. However, the garbage disposal unit can be a source of smells at times. Though the garbage disposal unit is located in the kitchen, it does not take much time for the odor to spread throughout the house.
Whenever you attempt to clean your garbage disposal unit, make sure that it has been turned off, or unplugged. Too many accidents occur because people have been too careless to verify that the unit has been turned off.
1.No Red Tape
Most households in America have a garbage disposal unit to help eliminate the leftovers through the drain after first chopping them into miniscule pieces. Hence, the probability of the unit developing a problem which leads to odors being produced is high. A permit may be necessary before you install a garbage disposal unit in your home. But there are no specific regulations that apply to repairs of existing units.
There are some simple solutions which can help you do away with the foul odors from your garbage disposal. Taking precautions in advance can help you prevent this problem from recurring in future.
2.Causes of Garbage Disposal Odors
Odors from a garbage disposal unit can be due to various factors. At times, the unit becomes jammed due to food getting stuck in it. The food can decompose and result in foul odors. In this instance, removal of the jammed food can help solve the problem of such odors. Failure to clean the unit regularly and properly can also lead to bacteria formation or food rotting that causes bad smells to emanate which can be embarrassing if guests come over and can certainly undermine your quality of life.
3.Preventing Garbage Disposal Odors
By implementing some preventive measures, you can keep your kitchen smelling clean always. After using the garbage disposal unit, keep running hot water through it for a few minutes to ensure that any oil and food residue is washed out of the sink and make sure you turn the unit on if you have to, to insure all the food scraps are sent down the piping system. Once a week, put some dishwashing liquid into the unit and then run the hot water for a while after switching off the unit.
4.Gravity and Weight
Yet another option is to put two cups of ice cubes and a cup of rock salt into the garbage disposal and then run cold water over it for a few seconds. This will help remove any sludge that might have been embedded in the grinding parts of the unit and loosen it so it flows away with the water. Keeping the drain line clean is also essential in eliminating odors from the unit. This can be done by plugging the drain and then filling it with water. Then the drain plug should be removed and the garbage disposal turned on to enable the water to gush by clearing all the food particles.
Once a month, you can put vinegar, baking soda, or chopped lemon peels through the garbage disposal to freshen it. If you use the disposal unit more frequently, then you can repeat this process more often. Another part of the disposal unit that is prone to house bacteria which cause odors is the rubber trap covering it. The function of the rubber trap is to prevent the food pieces from making their way back upwards. Cleaning it once in two weeks should be sufficient to keep odors at bay.
5.Some Tips
Always put only small portions of food down the disposal. Throwing larger quantities of food down the drain will cause the unit to clog or get jammed more frequently. This is because larger pieces of food are likely to get stuck and may not be washed away by flowing water as easily as the smaller pieces are. Bones, eggshells, and other such material should never be introduced into garbage disposal units. Food with high contents of starch such as rice and pasta can also stick to the blades and should be handled with care.
Whenever you attempt to clean your garbage disposal unit, make sure that it has been turned off, or unplugged. Too many accidents occur because people have been too careless to verify that the unit has been turned off before putting their hand down the drain. By doing this and implementing the cleaning techniques, you will be able to ensure that your garbage disposal stays clean and well-maintained for many, many years.


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Ok, before I actually start this thread I want to say a little about myself.
I am actually a pretty old member of this site, who left all this a year ago. In fact, if you look up the name Darkked and Blackmoon343, those accounts are mine, if they are still in the Database. The reason I am using this account is because Blackmoon343 was hacked and i was thought to have placed a lot of racist comments on the forums, and Darkked, i simply forgot the password. Right Now, I do not practice magick at all, I gave that up a while ago and am a catholic now who is falling back into agnostic. I am 18 years old.
if you wish for more information about me or my past, simply look up and read the info of my past accounts or ask me.
Anyway, I have come back because i wish to bring about a topic that has probably been spoken about numerous times on this forum, and you all obviously know what it is. Utopia
Recently, I am writing a paper on the subject and would like to hear your ideas and debates on this matter in order to further this paper.
So feel free to speak on this topic freely, debates are welcome, so are ideas, inspiration, etc.


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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Plural form of somnambulist.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Very soon, the angry response of police, military and other security staff, also denied their salaries, might jolt our somnambulists, that is sleep walkers, in Aso Rock, out of their sleep.
The world of claw and fang and fist and club has passed away — so say the somnambulists.
Thus stand the somnambulists convicted by their own creed — only they are not real men, alive and awake, and they proceed to mutter magic phrases that dispel all doubt as to their undiminished and eternal gloriousness.
Then there are the good, kind somnambulists who don't prize-fight, who don't play the commercial game, who don't teach and preach somnambulism, who don't do anything except live off of the dividends that are coined out of the wan, white fluid that runs in the veins of little children, out of mothers 'tears, the blood of strong men, and the groans and sighs of the old.
It is a blow of the fist between the eyes of the somnambulists, teetering up and down, muttering magic phrases, and thanking God that they are not as other animals.
They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists.
Yet in the world of the somnambulists, where soar the sublimated spirits, there are no classes, and foul blows are continually struck and never disallowed.
Chronic somnambulists that they are, they took their monopolist way thither in their sleep.
It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep.
Thus lived these somnambulists who are called lovers.


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Thanks Helga....I would be gutted to lose it. I will give it a go today
Hi. My Red Robin of approx 15 years has matured into more of a tree than a bush now and is taking over my not so big garden.
I have prunned it over the years but not being a knowledgable gardener I obviously haven't done it enough. If I give it a good prune it will be left with no leaves.....will this kill it. I prunned my orange blossom once and killed that so don't want to do it again.


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NASCAR drivers spend some quality time with President Obama
And here we have it at last, after all the political posturing and speculation, the meeting between President Barack Obama and eight of NASCAR's finest drivers.
Jeff Burton, Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer gathered with the president as a way of honoring both the sport and its reigning five-time champion.
Here's a transcript of his comments, via the White House. Alas, he didn't address Bowyer's contract situation, Kyle's problems with Kevin Harvick or Kenseth's snappy Twitter feed, but hey, you can't have everything:
It's great to welcome NASCAR back to Washington. It's great to have No. 48 parked outside. I was just telling these guys that I'm not allowed to drive much these days. Basically just my golf cart at Camp David, which is called Golf Cart One. That's true.
But I will say it's pretty tough to look at No. 48 and not want to jump in it and take a few laps, although Jimmie would not be happy with me if I did that.
Last time many of these drivers were here, Jimmie was celebrating his third straight championship. He's got a couple more titles under his belt now, but there's another big change in the Johnson house: He and Chandra are now parents of Genevieve Marie, who was born last July, so congratulations on that.
I told Jimmie you cannot beat (having) daughters, and I know Jimmie is pretty excited to be a daddy. He whipped out the iPhone with pictures on it the minute I asked him about it. I hear he is in charge of taking Genevieve Marie to music class and because of his unique work schedule, Jimmie is usually the only man in it. But that's a good sign of being a good dad. So Jimmie's got a lot to be proud of. And that's especially true when you think of what it means to win five championships in a row.
NASCAR is a sport where anything that can go wrong will go wrong at some point during the season — similar to being President. That's true even for the best drivers. And with so much extraordinary talent going bumper-to-bumper in every race, just making the Chase is hard enough — let alone winning the whole thing.
And that's why Jimmie is not just one of the best drivers of all time, he's up there with some of the great sports dynasties. If you think about it, only the Boston Celtics, the Yankees and the Canadiens have ever won more than four titles in a row. And now, Jimmie is breathing down the necks of Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for the most NASCAR titles ever, which is not bad for the son of a machine operator and a school bus driver who still has plenty of seasons ahead of him.
Jimmie has made a very difficult and demanding sport look easy. But this year, the No. 48 team also showed its toughness. They entered the last race of the Chase trailing and ended up pulling off an extraordinary comeback. And if you ask Jimmie, he'll give credit to that team, led by owner Rick Hendrick and crew chief Chad Knaus — who couldn't be here today.
We also need to give credit, though, to the other Chase drivers up here who want Jimmie to know that the second he makes a mistake, they're going to be ready to knock him out of Victory Lane.
I did observe that lately there's been some trash-talking in NASCAR. I thought I was watching WWF! But that's good. You know, you've got to have a little feistiness, and these guys are extraordinary competitors. And that's what makes this sport so exciting to watch. Everything can come down to just one race, one pit stop, one split-second decision.
What also makes NASCAR special is the difference it makes in the lives of so many people, especially our troops and their families. I personally thank all these guys for what they've been doing on behalf of military families who are obviously huge fans of NASCAR.
Last month, drivers and staff toured Walter Reed Hospital and served dinner to 400 wounded warriors and their loved ones. NASCAR has been a huge supporter of the Joining Forces program that Michelle and Dr. Jill Biden have set up to support military families. This morning, Jimmie made a special visit to the Pentagon to honor folks over there. And later this week, NASCAR will be honoring our military and first responders again at Richmond the night before the anniversary of 9/11.
So I want to congratulate Jimmie, I want to congratulate all the drivers who are on the stage for their extraordinary success and for the success of NASCAR and everything they do for our country. Good luck getting into this year's Chase, everybody. We will all be watching. Thank you very much.
The ceremony concluded with Johnson presenting the president with a pair of race-used gloves, which Obama pledged to use while driving a golf cart. Congrats to Johnson and to all of NASCAR. A presidential audience is a high honor indeed.


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If the indications I get from those around the Oklahoma football program are valid, then quarterback Sam Bradford will return for at least another season.I've said that before and feel more confident about it this week. But if you want to read between the lines of something coach Bob Stoops said Monday, you get the same impression I do, depending on whether you're an optimist or a Scrooge. Stoops said he did not believe Bradford would wait until the deadline of Jan.15 to make his intention known, that he would do it at "a point sometime after the (BCS Championship) game." Now Bob didn't say whether that would be shortly thereafter, or a matter of days. But you get the drift that Bradford has already made up his mind. And it didn't look like Stoops was unhappy in his speculation, though I could be dead wrong about that. But better NFL thinkers than I believe Bradford should come back, including longtime talent guru and former Dallas Cowboys vice president of player personnel (1960-88) Gil Brandt. "It's not a hard decision at all," Brandt said the other day over the phone. "The only decision (Sam) needs to make is to be sure he's back there (behind center) when they play their first game next year."
I've known Gil a long time. He never says anything without reason, usually good ones. And he cited several in this case--among them pointing out that recent successful NFL quarterbacks like the Manning brothers and most recently Matt Ryan (Falcons) and Joe Flacco (Ravens) all have something in common--they were fourth or fifth-year players before they made the jump.You think that was an accident? Brandt does not. "The key thing for successful quarterbacks (in the NFL) is if they can get 40 starts in college," Brandt said. "It's like getting a master's degree at MIT. "The thing people don't realize is that playing the position in the NFL is really hard. What you see in college defensively is a fraction of what you see in the NFL. If you don't have a guy who is really experienced. . ." Brandt scoffed at the idea that Bradford would be throwing away millions of dollars because of a looming rookie salary cap.
"I've been hearing that since 1965," he snorted."You go back to 1985. The entire (draft) class got $18 million worth of signing bonus money. When (Eli) Manning came out four years ago, he got $18 million by himself. You don't regress salary-wise (by staying) and you reach your point of getting all your incentives a lot quicker. "Matt Ryan is going to get every incentive he has in his contract. So instead of netting $45 million over the length of his contract, it might be closer to $60 million. So the longer Sam Bradford stays at Oklahoma, the better player he is going to become--and it will happen a lot sooner."
"Bradford is good," Brandt said. "He's a great person, an unbelievable athlete. But more than anything he is a really composed individual who is very dedicated to being an outstanding quarterback."
And if you'll recall, Bradford posted a 3.95 grade-point average his last semester as a finance major. What do you think he's thinking? My educated guess is it ain't take the money and run.


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LeBron James is re-joining his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers after four years in Miami.
King James broke the news in an essay with Sports Illustrated just two days after meeting with Heat president Pat Riley in Las Vegas.
But for how much is LeBron playing for?
Here's what you need to know about King James' contract:
1. The Cavs Can Offer LeBron the Maximum Salary
His deal with the Cavs is for two-years and $42.2 million. LeBron has insisted he will finish his career in Cleveland, with a source telling USA Today that the two-year decision is a business decision. It will free him up to renegotiate at the end of next season or opt out. There was an option of a $88 million four-year deal but that wouldn't give LBJ the freedom he'd like.
That's thanks to trades that the Cavs made with the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets in the days leading up to LeBron's announcement, Cleveland has the space to offer LeBron maximum money of $20.7 milion.
2. His Previous Contract in Cleveland Was Worth $60 Million
In 2006, James took less than maximum money, $60 million, to stay in Cleveland. By doing so he allowed himself the option to leave in 2010, which he did. His agent at the time, Leon Rose, said at the time:
LeBron looked at this very deeply and understood the complexity of what the situation was. In the end, this works out very well for him and puts him in a position to accomplish all of his goals, both on the court and off.
3. Kyrie Irving Just Signed a $90 Million Deal With the Cavs on July 9
In Cleveland, LeBron will join up with Kyrie Irving to create one of the most exciting partnerships in NBA history. Irving just inked his $90 million deal two days before LeBron announced. His deal doesn't expire until 2020. Adding Andrew Wiggins into the mix too, these are exciting times for Cleveland fans.
4. LeBron's Miami Contract Was Worth $110 Million
When James signed with the Heat, James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade all signed six-year-deals, with James' $110 million-deal the most lucrative of the three. All three had opt-out options after four years.
5. Ray Allen Will Be Taking a Pay Cut if he Joins LeBron
While he was in Miami with LBJ, Ray Allen took in $3.3 million per year, and the likelihood is that he'd have to go down again to play with LeBron again in Cleveland.
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April 17, 2009
Mayor Signs Executive Order 128 Formalizing the Annual Celebration
Mayor Announces City Agencies Have Met Goals of 2008 Language Access Executive Order
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Legal Affairs Carol Robles-Román and Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Guillermo Linares today kicked off Immigrant Heritage Week, a citywide celebration honoring the experiences and contributions of the millions of immigrants who have shaped our City for generations. The week features exciting and diverse multi-cultural events throughout the five boroughs. Now in its 6th year, the Mayor kicked-off the week by signing Executive Order 128, formalizing the annual celebration of Immigrant Heritage, coordinated by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. This year, the weeklong celebration runs from April 17- 23, will feature over 180 multi-cultural events hosted by museums, community organizations, public libraries and educational institutions throughout the five boroughs. The Mayor also announced that all City agencies have met the goals and requirements of Executive Order 120, the Language Access Executive Order signed by Mayor Bloomberg in 2008, which called on City agencies to develop a implementation plan and policy for increased language access.
"Immigrant Heritage Week started with a handful of community events and now with 180 events citywide, its success is a testament to the incredible strength of our diverse immigrant population," said Mayor Bloomberg. "We are going to make sure that we continue to serve all immigrant communities in our city. Our Language Access Executive Order is just one more way to make New York even more accessible to the communities that contribute to our wonderful diversity."
"Immigrant Heritage Week celebrates our shared immigrant histories, diverse cultures and religions, and the role these play in enriching our City," said Deputy Mayor for Legal Affairs Robles-Román. "Today the City of New York formally establishes Immigrant Heritage Week as an annual commemoration to raise awareness of immigrant history and heritage."
"It is my great honor to be a part of the 6th Annual Immigrant Heritage Week celebration," said Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Linares. "I am grateful for the numerous event partners from across New York City whose contributions make this community-building celebration possible. Working with our numerous City agencies on Executive Order 120, we are making it easier for all immigrant communities to receive City services."
In July 2008, Mayor Bloomberg signed Executive Order 120 creating a centralized language access policy for New York City. Executive Order 120 mandates that all City agencies that provide direct public services create a language access implementation plan to provide language assistance to limited-English proficient New Yorkers. Each agency has now designated a Language Access Coordinator who has developed a Language Access policy and implementation plan, which are now posted on www.nyc.gov. Plans include strategies and implementation timelines for interpretation, translation and multi-lingual signage, as well as training of front-line staff and quality assurance measurements.
Beginning this summer, the Mayor's Office of Operations will, for the first time, begin measuring language related services provided by the City by including language access related metrics on the online Citywide Performance Reporting tool. By the end of 2009, the City will launch a multi-language web portal, which will give limited English proficient readers access to translated documents from a number of City agencies. These efforts are focused on serving the needs of all those who live, work and visit our linguistically diverse City.
Immigrant Heritage Week explores that diversity though a rich collection of community events and cultural activities created to highlight the immigrant experience in New York. Established by Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 as a citywide celebration, Immigrant Heritage Week is celebrated around April 17th, the day in 1907 when more immigrants entered through Ellis Island than any other date in the City's history. The weeklong celebration will feature over 180 free or low cost events hosted by a number of community organizations in 19 languages in all five boroughs. The events include family programs, cultural celebrations, film, theater, exhibitions, and multi-day workshops.
Among the events scheduled for this year's Immigrant Heritage Week celebration are:
The New York Times Community Affairs Department will sponsor the Immigrant Heritage Week celebration at Gracie Mansion. Immigrant Heritage Week partners include: Alliance for the Arts, Con Edison, El Diario/la Prensa, El Especial/El Especialito, Fresh Concentrate, Goya, New York Community Media Alliance, Telemundo, Time Out New York, Titan Worldwide, Univision, Western Union, WNBC, and WNYC New York Public Radio. For more information on "Immigrant Heritage Week", please visit www.nyc.gov or call 311.
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Dear Martha, Chers Révolutionnaires,
I have entered French Revolution Food in Martha Stewart's blog contest, and this post is intended as a warm bienvenue for Martha.
At French Revolution, I create 2-3 recipes a week, all based around a central French theme, be it a broken oven in New York (that was "tartare" week), or a disastrous picnic date in England ("Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe"). The story is followed by the recipes, and some insights into the creation of the dishes. All the food is meant to be authentically French, but reinvented in a modern, chic, fresh, and easy way. For example, macarons are delicious, but they are more easily bought than made; instead, I take inspiration from them to create my Strawberry Rose Macaron Cupcakes. A Kir Royale is a perfect classic, but why not use the old as the foundation for the new, by creating a Kir Royale Glacé with cassis sorbet, Kurant vodka, and Champagne? As I mentioned in my comment on your blog, I believe (very Frenchly) that the occasion is as important as the food itself, for food follows life, and what a perfect pair they make. I try to create the story with as much chic and finesse as the recipes.
But I have forgotten my manners! Let me first introduce myself. My name is Kerry Lynn Saretsky, and I was born in Manhattan twenty-five years ago, the daughter of a mother from Paris and a father from New York City. My culinary career began with a burnt piece of London broil in 1985, and I have been training ever since, taking classes in New York and Paris, teaching myself, learning from the best, like you, and developing my own personal taste (style, as any Parisian or New York woman will tell you, comes from within). I am first and foremost a writer, having graduated from Princeton University with my degree in English, and a master's in the same field from Oxford, in England, where I started my blog—a blog that I hope you will love as much as I do, and I invite you to visit France, my France, as often as you like. Merci bien, Martha, and encore, welcome!
Bisous, Kerry
p.s. Please enjoy some of my favorite posts…or just wander through like a flaneuse on the streets of Paris! And do feel free to weigh in on this month's poll, to the right…
Cold Child in the City (tartare)
All That Glitters (macarons)
Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe (picnic)
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Daniel Pink's book tour: To Sell is Human
Looking forward to attending Daniel Pink's lecture @ the Free Library of Philadelphia on Tuesday, 1/22 @7:30pm: brave the cold and join me!
While I'm loathe to think of myself as a "groupie," I have really been inspired by the perspective Pink has taken to the way we can understand our place in the economic world (A Whole New Mind); also, how we can understand what motivates us (Drive).
This book promises to offer some interesting perspective on a belief I've held for a long time: we are all selling something. A good friend, a pharmacist by profession, talked about this years ago as our children were beginning to find their places in the world of work. Teachers are selling knowledge and thinking; mechanics are selling parts and fixes; mathematicians are selling equations and solutions… There is no shame in being a great seller; indeed, selling one's value proposition is what career acceleration is all about.
While I like to think of myself as a service provider, I am clearly selling an approach to life and work. If you can't join me tomorrow, I hope you'll read and comment on what I share on this site and on my new FB page: <http://www.facebook.com/CareerAccelerationNetwork> I hope to be relevant and not redundant: your active participation will help me meet my challenge!
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Which is what compelled me to start a life long love affair with me so that I could stop settling in love by learning to love ME first. After I got that straight in my head, love from another literally showed up on my doorstep when I wasn't expecting it in the form of a 6 foot 3 inch bald guy named Noah.
What did I 'do' to make that happen? What can you do to make sure you don't settle in love?
People always ask me this question, and while there are many layers to this, it all starts with two ME-Vows you have to make to you.
Vow #1. I promise not to settle for less than my heart and soul - not my pocketbook, fear, ego, or parents -- really desire. I honor and respect myself so deeply that I only have relationships that do the same.
Vow #2. I promise to be honest with myself, always. Uncompromising, unwavering honesty, about my motivations, my actions and my reality. When I can't be honest, I will seek out people who can help me find Truth, and listen.
Not settling is a promise and a practice. It's something that you have to commit to and choose whenever the option to waver comes up. Here's what I tell myself whenever it seems hard or confusing... Remember that you were given a great gift, your life. Do you want to live it fully and be so happy that joy is streaming out of your ears, or do you want to struggle and suffer because you were too afraid to go after what your heart and soul craved and desired? Choose to live. It's not that life is too short - it's that life is too magical, fabulous and precious! If you want that great love and partnership, be willing to be that love and partner yourself first, and then accept nothing less from another.


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It will be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to take the office of the President of the United States next January. I don't know who Donald will pick as a running mate, but if Hillary makes the strategic choice, she'll ask Bernie to run with her. And then after the convention formalities, they will turn on each other.
Both sides will say that the opponent is an egomanical power hungry narcissist. Both sides will point to the opponent as proof of the demise of reason in American politics. Both sides think the other candidate is a criminal. Both sides have already invoked Godwin's Law.
Both sides are right.
What both sides are wrong about is the idea that the outcome of the election matters.
20 Trillion dollars in debt, unable to win a war in 70 years, a decaying infrastructure, a collapsed manufacturing base, and threatened by multiple enemies abroad, no candidates talk about the issues. There are no serious discussion about the debt, social spending, defense, and the expense of running the federal government.
I'm going to vote for Gary Johnson.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
2 comments:
- Glen Filthie said...
Trump will win. By a landslide. Unless he does something really, really stupid.
Hillary is already making gaffes.
- May 5, 2016 at 7:25 PM
- R.K. Brumbelow said...
Trump could be smart and pick an early out as a running mate. I would not object to a Trump Walker ticket or a Trump Santorum or even Trump Perry Ticket. Any of the 3 of them would help his establishment and conservative credentials. Might even be interesting to have a Trump Cain ticket, though as much as I like Cain, other than race and conservative bonefides I don't know what else he brings to the electoral college table since Trump won Georgia.
- May 6, 2016 at 6:42 AM
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Grace Young's Stir-Fried Iceberg Lettuce
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Author Notes: A near-instant springy green vegetable before the springy greens. (And, yes, you can cook lettuce -- here's why you should.) Note: You can use this technique on many other vegetables in season, including romaine lettuce, spinach, watercress, baby bok choy, asparagus (fat spears sliced 1/4-inch thick on the bias; pencil spears in 2-inch lengths), snow peas and snap peas. Adapted slightly from The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen (Simon & Schuster, 1999) and Saveur Magazine —Genius Recipes
Serves 4
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon rice wine or dry sherry
- 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground white or black pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil or other neutral oil
- 4 scallions, cut on the diagonal into 1-inch pieces
- 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced or smashed
- 1/2 medium head iceberg lettuce, cored, outermost leaves discarded, inner leaves torn into 4-inch wide pieces (or substitute 12 ounces of other greens -- see headnote)
- Kosher salt, to taste
- In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine or sherry, sugar, and pepper; set sauce aside.
- Heat a wok or 12-inch skillet over high heat. Add peanut oil, half of the scallions (including all of the white and light green pieces), and garlic and cook until garlic is golden, about 5 seconds. Add lettuce and stir-fry until lettuce softens slightly, about 1 minute. Drizzle in sauce and cook until lettuce is just coated with the sauce, about 1 minute. Season with salt, divide between 4 bowls while lettuce is just tender and still bright green, and garnish with remaining scallions.
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somebody went on an adventure!
Usually, I am a lazy slug. While I enjoy all sorts of outdoor activities, I'm usually too lame to actually plan, organize, and put into motion any of these activities. Have I mentioned I'm also poor? You know, relatively speaking. I'm middle class American poor, ie: I own a car and rent a sweet apartment but can't afford fancy toys.
Anyway, I recently started going to breakfast with a bunch of random lesbians from Craigslist. I think I mentioned that in my Pride post. Well, I met this one chick at breakfast who invited me to go night-kayaking in honor of the super-ginormous full moon last night.
Night kayaking?
At first I was skeptical, for so many reasons. Number one: I'd never kayaked before and I worried that my spaghetti arms wouldn't be able to handle it. Number two: I wasn't excited about committing to such a big event that would be so totally out of my control. I can always hop in my car (or onto a bus) and go home if I'm hanging out in town and get sick of it. Not so when you've been driven out to some town in Southwest Washington by some chick you hardly know.
But then I realized I was being ridiculous and I called her back and said "count me in!" (or something to that effect...) She called ahead and reserved a kayak for me at the rental place and away we went. IT WAS SO FUN! I love being on the water anyway and I especially loved the feeling of moving the boat along so fast with the simplest strokes of the oar. I also loved the workout! I'll never have to lift weights again if I start kayaking. And of course there was the gorgeous outdoors! We started out in a tributary then ended up in the Columbia River. It was so cool.
There were actually three groups of people involved, a group of lesbians who kayak together, a group of gay men called "Out Kayaking" and a group (of hapless heteros) arranged by the rental place. The plan was to kayak way far down to a sandbar, then to get out and chill for awhile till the sun went down, then to get in and paddle back with the big, fat moon on the horizon. It all worked out except the timing with the moon. The rental people even brought sandwiches and grapes for us to eat! So sweet, those rental people.
Paddling in the daylight was pretty cool, but paddling in the dark was AWESOME. I can't even really explain what was so cool about it, it just was. Cool. Really, really cool. The moon made a dim appearance just as we were rounding the bend back to the dock, but it was still gorgous and really superfluous to the experience which was incredible even w/o the moon.
After we were all back on shore and loaded up, we headed up the street to this loud dive bar in the bustling little rural metropolis of Richland, Washington. I have never seen so many super-butch men dancing with so many ugly women in my life. It was sweet! And there was an ancient garage band playing classic rock (people in the crowd yelled "Free Bird" I swear, but, to the band's credit, the didn't play it). We drank our beers in plastic cups and made the chit chat and then we dispersed. I loved every minute of it and if I had a place to put it, I'd take money out of savings and go buy a kayak TODAY. That's how fun it was.


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Map all locationsAll Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurants
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Sabrina's Café & Spencer's Too
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The Italian Market darling for brunch boasts an outpost in the Fairmount neighborhood, where hungry diners fill up on oversized portions of comfort food during brunch, lunch and dinner. Hint: The brunch line is worth the wait.View More
Satellite Cafe
Vegan delight
Satellite Cafe provides an eclectic respite for bike messengers and local punk rockers. Vegan kale smoothies, spicy black bean wraps and strong double espressos round out the experience.View More
Hearty Venezuelan dishes for all appetites
Venezuelan cuisine comes alive at this homey bring-your-own-bottle (BYO) spot.View More
Sitar India Restaurant
All-you-can-eat Indian cuisine
Sitar has something for every palate on its all-you-can-eat buffet, filled with plenty of healthy and vegetarian options.View More
Soup Kitchen Cafe
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If it warms you up and you eat it with a spoon, chances are there's a killer version of it being served at Soup Kitchen Cafe.View More
Soy Café
Vegan-friendly supporter of local arts
It's in the name, so patrons know that fresh soymilk is always available at this bistro, which also whips up smoothies, light sandwiches and vegan-friendly cinnamon buns.View More
Talula's Daily
High quality on-the-go grub on Washington Square
Talula's Daily is both a market and a cafe featuring coffee, sandwiches, salads and cheeses.View More
Bento boxes and rice bowls in West Philly
Tampopo's second location brings West Philadelphia diners a range of Japanese and Korean cuisine, including sushi, bento boxes, soups and noodle and rice dishes, all at reasonable prices.View More
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The Lola Bean exemplifies the friendly neighborhood cafe, from the uber-friendly staff to the collection of books patrons can thumb through.View More
On-the-go, quality Indian cuisine
Many Philadelphians swear by the food at Tiffin's six BYOB locations in and around the city, and the Northern Liberties spot is no exception. Run by a Wharton MBA, Tiffin prides itself on carefully curated dishes, such as the Malai Kofta and vegetarian meatballs in a cashew sauce.View More
Savory, spicy chicken and no frills dining
This no-frills Pakistani eatery serves what might be the best chicken dish in all of West Philly, a spicy, savory, scored-breast fried whole bird called Lahori Chargha. To order it without fresh-baked naan is a crime.View More
The critical favorite brings Israeli cuisine to Society Hill
A modern Israeli restaurant, Zahav — which means gold in Hebrew — offers authentic Middle Eastern fare in a family-style dining setting typical of the region.View More


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Addressing 6,000 journalists of colour at the Unity Convention in Chicago on Sunday afternoon, Obama spoke of the need for the US government to engage with the Pakistan government in a bigger way, so that the sanctuaries for Al Qaeda [Images] and Taliban in Pakistan can be dealt with effectively.
Obama, who put the situation in Afghanistan ahead of the Iranian nuclear programme and the situation in Iraq, felt that as long as those "safe havens" existed in Pakistan, there was little chance for progress in Afganistan.
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East Boston Health Center doctor named Community Clinician of the Year
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A doctor from the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center has been named the 2013 Community Clinician of the Year by the Suffolk District Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society announced Tuesday.
Dr. Yhu-Hsiung (Henry) Lee, a Needham resident, is an emergency room physician and chairman of infection control at the health center, where he has worked for more than four decades.
Lee was nominated by colleagues, who wrote that he is a "skilled diagnostician and clinician, sought after as a teacher and consultant by other physicians, nurse practitioners, and nursing staffs.
"Few people have cared for as many patients from East Boston and the surrounding communities, or assisted and trained as many health center physicians and nurses, or triggered as rapid and effective responses to community outbreaks of infectious diseases as Dr. Lee," his colleagues wrote.
Lee was previously named 2008 Physician of the Year by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and was the 1972-1974 recipient of the US Public Health Special Fellowship Award.
He studied at the Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan and completed his residency training in otolaryngology — diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the ear, nose, and throat — in Taiwan before an internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
He was later a resident in pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and an affiliated resident in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital.
Lee trained in infectious disease at the Harvard Medical Unit of Boston City Hospital and taught pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He served as an emergency room doctor at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and is a staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
The Massachusetts Medical Society established the Community Clinician of the Year Award in 1998 to recognize leading advocate and caregiver from each of its 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to patients and the community.
The Suffolk District includes nearly 4,000 doctors in Boston and adjacent communities.
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L'Auberge des Moules
Let's head towards the Zeelandic Flanders to the southwest of the country, to the small village of Philippine, near the port of Terneuzen on the Belgian border. Shellfish a-go-go arrive in their dozens in the summer season, and this top-notch establishment provides an ideal opportunity to sample the local fare. L'Auberge des Moules has graced the locality for some 42 years. With its friendly, sophisticated decor, from the wooden beams to the model ships and old photographs, a strong theme presides for seafood aficionados, with oysters, fish, prawn salad with lemon and ginger and a 100% lobster-themed menu, just some of the delights on offer.
And if that doesn't tantalise your taste-buds, the restaurant most certainly comes with a proven pedigree, having been awarded a "Bib Gourmand" from the prestigious Michelin guide, for its high quality produce at great value for money. Guests are greeted with a warm smile from hosts Joris and Manon, which lasts right through to dessert, with a magnificent choice comprising white chocolate mousse, blood orange ice-cream and nougat parfait, in a palette of flavours comprising pistachio, cherry crunch and yuzu strawberry ... all married to perfection with a bottle of Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte. Party time!
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More Guest Posts and Interviews
I realized I wrote some Ghost Train content for the Orbit blog and didn't link it here. Oops. And here's some other neat things:
- The Vampire's Guide to Doing Mardi Gras Right at the Orbit Blog
- Interview with the All Things Geek podcast
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My girlfriend and I are going over to australia on a 12 month working holiday visa in october but are still undecided where to head to first. Im a qualified civil engineer and my girlfriend a qualified nail technician. We were hopeing to find something in similar fields but are quite open minded as to what and where.
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Should I Paint Antique Josef Kohn Chairs?
Q: I purchased these darling chairs a few weeks back and I was sure I was going to reinvigorate them by painting them a glossy zesty yellow or a chartreuse green. I'm new to furniture painting and fear that if I do the revamp I could lose the pattern on the seat and back of chair that is already a little worn from use. What do you think? Will I be brave and begin the process or leave well enough alone?
Also these chairs have a label reading "Josef Kohn" an Austrian furniture designer from the 19th century so I'm a little nervous about ruining such old-timers!
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The Pittsburgh Penguins dropped game one of their series against the New York Rangers in terrible fashion on Friday night. There were multiple instances of horrible turnovers and poor positioning that inevitably led to a Rangers victory.
The Rangers Benoit Pouliot was the most visible player on the ice for a majority of the game. He played physical and smart, leading his team with a goal and an assist. His line mate, Derick Brassard, scored the overtime winner after a horrible Rob Scuderi turnover below the net.
Matts Zuccarello failed to register a point in the game, but certainly had himself a strong afternoon. His mix of speed and tenacity helped keep the Penguins top line ...
The series came to end after a dominant performance by the Penguins and a third period they kind of showed up for.
This is not entirely fair to say. The Jackets did come back in game three in an epic way. Scoring three goals in the final ten minutes to scare Pittsburgh was a great ending for all. It gives hope to the fans for next season and reminds Pittsburgh to stay humble.
Although, in all fairness Pittsburgh had to play short Joe Vitale and Brandon Sutter for the final frame. With both leaving via injury, the Penguins only had three lines available. They got caught flat footed, tired, and instantly fell into penalty trouble. The Jackets then threw everything they had...
How does a team bounce back from a game in which they surrendered four unanswered goals? They put 51 shots on net while having an even strength possession time above sixty percent.
That is how strong the Pittsburgh Penguins were on Saturday night.
Crosby and Malkin played a total of eleven minutes together in even strength situations. It was a desperate move for Dan Bylsma, but certainly paid off. Malkin and Crosby dominated the puck all night long, proving that their goal drought is nothing but bad puck luck. Crosby, Malkin, and Kunitz had 15 combined shots as a line.
Brandon Sutter hasn't just played well; Brandon Sutter has become a cataly...
Too many questions and not enough answers.
It is becoming an all too familiar storyline in the Steel City. Once thought to have a dynasty in the making, led by two of the leagues brightest and most dominant young stars, the Penguins are now perrinial playoff disappointments.
Wednesday night was no different. The Pittsburgh Penguins came out of the gate and absolutely dominated. They scored three goals in five minutes. The asserted their will and looked poised to take home a three to one advantage in the series.
Instead, the Penguins once again proved that disappointment is truly their greatest talent.
Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin have yet to score a single goal ...
When teams have a two goal lead, the announcers like to bring up the old adage that this is the hardest lead in hockey to hang on to.
They might have a point.
In three games between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Columbus Blue Jackets, the team with the two goal lead in the game has gone on to lose said game by a score of 4-3. Pittsburgh was victorious in games one and three, Columbus won game two.
For the first time in this series the special teams were not special. There was not a single power play or shorthanded goal scored in this game despite ten combined power play chances.
Here are a few observations so far from this series.
Standouts (average ice tim...
I have said on multiple occasions that this Pittsburgh team is not deep enough to beat a legitimate contender in the Eastern Conference Finals or in the Stanley Cup finals.
Now, as is the usual case, I might be wrong.
The Pittsburgh Penguins turned the tide in game one by using the following combinations.
Kunitz – Crosby – Gibbons
Bennett – Sutter – Stempniak
Jokinen – Malkin – Neal
Glass – Vitale – Adams
The result was three lines that could not only skate well, but that could pressure enough to score goals.
The game started out as a physical battle that heavily leaned toward the Columbus Blue...
Breakdown: Team Analysis
Penguins – The Penguins are the more talented team in this match up and it isn't all that close. Pittsburgh is a very lucky team in terms of talent.
They will have a healthy Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, something questioned last season with Crosby coming off a broken jaw. Pittsburgh has a legitimate top six on the back end this season. It currently looks like the only player that will miss significant time in the playoffs is Marcel Goc and his return can be as early as next week.
(Disclaimer, this is not including Pascal Dupuis who is out from ACL surgery in February, there is no possible way he can return this season)
The q...
In a brief and sudden press conference on Wednesday morning, Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero announced that defenseman Kris Letang will be returning to the lineup.
Letang, 26, suffered a stroke in January while the Penguins were on a road trip out west. It is important to note that once Letang had successfully underwent treatment, including blood thinners; he would be medically cleared to play.
"He's at no further risk to suffer a stroke playing hockey than going to grocery store." Said Ray Shero at the press conference
He is correct in saying so. Letang has a heart condition that doesn't change with elevated heart rates, unlike the heart condition...
There was so much discussion over the potential trade for Ryan Kesler that many in Pittsburgh became blinded to what this organization truly needed. Thank goodness for the fans, Ray Shero was not "all in" for Kesler as some beat writers seemed to be reporting.
While Ryan Kesler would have been a good addition, it was a move that was seemingly a luxury. With Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, there is no need to have another top two line center in the fold when your depth is as poor as Pittsburgh's was this season. To counter that, Ray Shero went and acquired Marcel Goc and Lee Stempniak.
Goc and Stempniak were acquired from the Florida Panthers and Calgary Flam...
When the rumor came out of the woodwork just a few days back, I was taken by surprise. I figured the Penguins were more interested in acquiring winger depth than trying to reestablish the dominant three center model that won them a Stanley Cup.
But what do I know about building a competitive hockey team.
Pittsburgh is reported by just about every major outlet to be heavily interested in acquiring Kesler's services. He would be an instant upgrade at the third line center position and has the ability to play wing when needed; however, there is a big problem with this.
For one, Kesler would join the Penguins at a time of depletion. With Pascal Dupuis and Beau Bennett ...


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Pablo Picasso ~ Biography 1881 - 1973
Header Painting: Pablo Picasso, The Tragedy, 1903, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Best Book on Early Years: Picasso--The Early Years, 1892-1906
Known as: Most famous 20th-century painter
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Birthname: Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Height: 5' 4"
Died: 8 April 1973, Mougins, Alpes Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, the son of an art teacher. The boy showed exceptional talent at an early age, and the artistic current flowing into Barcelona (where the family had settled) from France and Northern Europe stimulated him into trying out the personal languages of Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, and other northerners.
In 1900 he visited Paris for a short time, and he returned in 1901 to join the cohort of young Bohemians attracted to the capital by the stumulating and exciting atmospher then prevailing in the arts. Lautec, Gauguin, van Gogh, Steinlen, late Impressionism flit across his canvasses in a bewildering medley and leave behind a passion for blue, which became the dominant colour for his portrayal of the squalid tragedy of the Paris streets - the beggar, the harlot, the sick child, the hungry.
Through this welter of contemporary influences the steady current of the things he had grown up with: the elongated forms of Catalan Gothic sculpture and Italian Mannerism, the simplified colour and straightforward approach of Velazquez, Zurbaran and Goya. These also inform his pictures of actors, mountebanks and harlequins, where tender fawns and pinks replace the earlier drab and sad colours.
Until then nothing unusual had transpired: even his interest in Iberian sculpture in 1906, and the radical simplification of form and colour it led to, gave little hint of the position when the Fauve outbreak was at its height. Picasso took no part in this. He was questioning the whole basis of painting and was therefore unable to follow still further the road from Impressionism to the dissolution of form and its translation into colour and imaginative feeling. Picasso's reply to Matisse's 'Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painter's disposal for the expression of his feelings' was to turn to Cezanne, whose petite sensation never had any truck with pure decoration and whose composition was based on the rigorous discipline of the relations of form and space on a two-dimensional surface.
Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (New York, M of MA) of 1907 was begun in the vein of his harlequin series, but ended as a semi-abstract composition, in which the forms of the nudes and their accessories are broken up into planes compressed into a shallow space. The influence of Negro sculptures, which first appears in the Demoiselles, also fitted in with his quest for the expression of form and helped, by the bizarre nature of their forms, to release him from the tyranny of the representional tradition in art.
Pablo Picasso
Self Portrait with Cloak (1901)
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In 1907 he met Braque, who had drifted into the Fauve circle and out of it again, and by 1909 they found that they faced the same problems and were striving to solve them in the same way. Both rejected decorative arabesques and bright, sensuous colour and were striving to devise a pictorial language which would define volumes and their relationships without destroying the flat surface of the picture, and without descending to the imitation of accidental and supeficial appearances. Together they evolved what is now alled Analytical Cubism. By 1912, colour had begun to creep back among the greys, olive greens and drab browns, and actual objects - a piece of cane seating, a newspaper heading - were imported so as to stress by their complaisant acquiescence in becoming an element in a design the modest role of Nature in the Ideal, and also to serve as an example of the way in which nature may be re-created. Collage was a natural extension of this. Objects could be literally reconstituted with bits of wood, wire, paper and string, their forms distorted by the artist into a flat composition whose inherent third dimension is alluded to at the same time as it is suppressed - although Picasso, having started this hare, did not course it, any more that he did that of Surrealism, born from the juxtaposition of recognizable objects and reconstituted forms.
At the moment when the war broke out in 1914, Braque and Picasso were seperated by a quarrel (the breach was never healed) and both had consistently held aloof from the host of minor artists who had by now realized that Cubism was the coming thing and had climbed aboard the bandwagon - Gleizes, Metzinger, Delaunay, Marcoussis, Duchamp-Villon, Picabia, La Fresnaye and Derain. From 1915 he had shown his interest in Ingres's drawings by precise and restrainedly stylized pencil drawings, and his connection with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet in Rome in 1917 led to works showing a return to traditional vision, with parallel works in a glitteringly sophisticated Cubist idiom. Finally, contact with the Antique and with Roman classicism ushers in a series of paintings and drawings of monumental female nudes, at first almost motionless and then, by 1923, galvanized into terrifying movement which distorts them into frightening caricatures before dissolving them, via calligraphic curves and lines, into the convulsive and repellant distortions of the Three Dancers of 1925 (London, Tate). For the next ten years Picasso developed these distorted and disquieting figures through what is generally called the Metamorphic phase, in which he was perhaps somewhat influenced by Miro and Tanguy.
Pablo Picasso
Three Dancers (1925)
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By the early 1930s he was rather taking the wind out Matisse's sails with a series of nudes - odalisques almost - which combine brilliance of colour with flat pattern of a violent intensity; soon afterwards, he began the series of bull-fighting subjects which culminated in the imagery present in Guernica (1937: Madrid, Prado). This huge composition, inspired by the Spanish Civil War, expresses in complicated iconography and personal symbolical language, comprehensible after careful study, the artist's abhorrence of the violence and beastliness of war. This dark mood persisted in the dislocated forms and frightening imagery of his work during World War II. He remained in Paris during the occupation and gradually acquired by his aloofness the stature of a symbol of resistance, but from 1946 to his death he lived mainly in the South of France. During these years he experimented with ceramics and also painted a large mural for UNESCO in Paris.
No man has changed more radically the nature of art. Like Giotto, Michelangelo and Bernini he stands at the beginning of a new epoch. Most museums of modern art throughout the world have examples of his paintings, prints, sculpture or ceramics. His own large private collecton, of his own work and that of his friends, has been given to the French State as the Musee Picasso in Paris (Hotel Sale). The collection documents his protean changes of style throughout his life, and his very varied use of materials, ranging from the traditional oil-paint on canvas, graphic work, sculptures, collages, constructions, to his amusing pieces of 'sculpture' made from bits of bicycles and children's toys, or assemblages of metal oddments, some of which have been deprived of all spontaneity by being magniloquently cast in bronze. One quality which this lifetime hoard displays is the tendency to horror vacui, and also, in the very late work, a self-indulgent repetitiveness as well as a less than attractive surface.
Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
Further Reading: Biography I
Further Reading: Life of Picasso
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By Nancy Pearl, Guest Blogger
Library users are not going to be thrilled when they discover that many' actually most, probably' of the titles on the summer reading lists recommended in seemingly every magazine (online or in print) are unavailable when they check the online catalog or look on their library shelves. What can we do for those readers? You certainly don't want them to leave the library empty-handed or exit the library's website in frustration. That's why I think the roundup produced by the ALA RUSA-CODES Reading List Council is so good. For every new book cited, the committee offers an older title as well.
I would love to see every library compile a similar summer reading list and make it available both as a print bookmark and on the library's website, if possible. I think that current blockbusters already get enough publicity, so I would actually include only titles that are no longer on the New Books shelf. Offer your patrons summer reading titles that are likely to be on the shelves (at least at first) or don't already have a long holds queue. When you hand the list to a library patron, you might even say something like, While you're waiting for Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Ridley Pearson's The Risk Agent"' or whatever they're asking for that's currently unavailable' try these oldies but goodies that you may have missed along the way.
Here's a beginning:
- Jeffrey Deaver's The Blue Nowhere (Pocket, 2002) comb ines a br eakneck-paced plot with lots of fascinating information about computer hackers as an old-school policeman and a mega-talented computer hacker join forces to search fo r a sadistic killer. Not for the faint of heart. I'd give this to Chelsea Cain fans.
- David Anthony Durham's richly detailed fantasy Acacia (Anchor, 2004, reprinted 2012) is an excellent choice to suggest to fans of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. (Not the least of the reasons for doing so is that all three books in this trilogy are published and available, the first two in paperback editions.) When Acacia, their homeland, is invaded by their longtime enemy, the Mein, the four children of the royal family of the Akaran dynasty are forced to run for their lives.
- Fans of Susan Isaacs's novels will also enjoy Peter Lefcourt's Abbreviating Ernie (Villard, 1997; o.p.), which is one of the funniest novels I've ever read. After her cross-dressing urologist husband has a fatal heart attack while they're having sex, Audrey, who is handcuffed to the stove in the kitchen, can think of only one way to escape Ernie's dead weight: by making good use of an electric carving knife.
- Of all of Elinor Lipman's wonderful novels, my favorite remains The Way Men Act (Washington Square Pr., 1993). Because Lipman adores her characters, it's impossible for readers not to love them, too. After she returns to the New England college town where she grew up, Melinda LeBlanc works in her cousin's flower shop, takes up old friendships, and falls in love with a man apparently uninterested in her, all the while trying to get along with her mother and live down a high school reputation as a bad girl.
- In Carol Shields's The Republic of Love (Viking, 1992; o.p.), forty-something Tom Avery, a three-times-married, late-night-radio talk show host, and never-married Fay McLeod, 35, who researches mermaids, alternate telling the story of the complications that ensue after they fall in love at first sight.


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David Timson talks about Charles Dickens, much loved for his great contribution to classic English Literature. Listen to Bleak House narrated by Sean Barrett and Teresa Gallagher.
A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century.
Listen to Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
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"A short introduction to a Very Long Book"
I don't think I would listen to it again - Bleak House is one of my favourite Victorian novels, and Timson's introduction made me want to go and read it again. I enjoyed Timson's overview of the novel, but I'm more likely to reread the novel than relisten to the introduction. The introduction is probably aimed at people who want a general idea of what the book is about and who the characters are - there wasn't really anything new in there for me.
It was interesting to hear a brief overview of Bleak House - the introductions at the beginning of classic novels tend to be academic essays rather than actual introductions, so this audiobook did a much better job of introducing the novel.
He knows the book, he talks about the book, he doesn't go off on a thirty-page tangent about some obscure literary theory and doesn't reference sixty other novels that I haven't read...
No, but that really isn't what I was expecting from this one, so it's no criticism.
I do intend to listen to some more of Timson's introductions to the works of Dickens at some point, but perhaps not to the novels that I've already read.
"only barely an intro"
I decided to listen to these before listening to the actual novels. David Timson does offer up a succinct intro to each work, touching on its place in Dickens' oeuvre, what motivated the author, influences, themes, and period reception. Thankfully, he's careful not to spoil the plot. The narration is excellent, especially the ones Neville Jason does. My only issue was that all these intros run to about 30 minutes but actually the David Timson introduction is only about the first five minutes. The rest is the first few pages of the book being read. Still, they're worthwhile to listen to (at least the first five minutes) before listening to one of the novels. They offer good context if you're not very familiar with Dickens' life and work.
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I had a cooking/baking jag here yesterday. I also made my once-a-decade pilgrimage to the DMV (passed the eye exam–take that old age!) so it was a pretty special day in my world.
Since I probably already told you more than you wanna know about the DMV, I'll bore you with my culinary exploits.
I started off with a fine Butternut Squash soup. The hardest part of this one was chiseling the skin off the squash. I nearly lopped a knuckle off doing that.
Next came an old standby: Roasted Sweet Potato/Tomato Soup
Then things got a little crazy. I decided to have a little 'throwdown' action. I love me some holiday baking but I don't do nearly as much as I used to. I've never found a really, really good sugar cookie recipe. So I tried three different ones, all claiming to be 'the best' and find out for myself. Not one, not two but three batches of sugar-cookie dough were mixed yesterday. Bake-off and judging to come. First I NEED to go run! Stay tuned.
Do you have a favorite holiday cookie recipe?


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We will await the issuance of an official statement from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) before further addressing the matter.
The B.A.A. expresses our profound sadness at Mayor Menino's passing, together with our deep gratitude for the magnificent support to the Marathon, the B.A.A. and the hundreds of thousands of athletes who have run in Boston under his watchful eye.
Seventeen schools from the City of Boston competed at today's Boston Middle School Cross Country Championships, hosted by the Boston Athletic Association with adidas at Franklin Park, and in conjunction with Boston Public Schools, Boston Centers for Youth & Families, and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department . Under clear skies and with conditions ideal for racing, Boys Championship and Girls Championship races covering 1200 meters were held, as well as a co-ed relay.
Exciting races played out at the 24th Mayor's Cup, presented by the B.A.A. and adidas, at Franklin Park on Sunday, with athletes competing in races at the youth, open, and masters levels. The Boston Athletic Association claimed Men's and Women's Championship team titles, while also taking home top honors in the Franklin Park 5-K.
On Monday, the Boston Athletic Association shined at the USATF National Women's Club Team 10K Championships in Boston, taking home the national title. Racing together for a majority of the race, the B.A.A.'s Katie Matthews, Jen Rhines, and Juliet Bottorff all finished in the top 13.
On a picture perfect day for racing, Ethiopians Mamitu Daska and Lelisa Desisa were crowned champions at the 14th B.A.A. Half Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Daska established a new event record of 1:08:20, while Desisa earned his second consecutive B.A.A. Half Marathon victory in 1:01:38, covering the rolling, spectacular course through Boston's Emerald Necklace park system in style.
Abbott and the World Marathon Majors announced a new partnership with Abbott becoming the race series' first-ever title sponsor. The series – comprising six of the largest and most renowned marathons in the world: Tokyo, Boston, Virgin Money London, BMW BERLIN, Bank of America Chicago and TCS New York City Marathon – will be renamed the Abbott World Marathon Majors starting in 2015.
A year ago, 2013 Boston Marathon champion Lelisa Desisa (ETH) returned to Boston seeking another victory, this time in the B.A.A. Half Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. In a brilliant display of courage and determination, Desisa fended off hard challenges from both Daniel Salel (KEN) and Stephen Sambu (KEN), claiming the B.A.A. Half Marathon title in a course record of 1:00:34.
On Sunday, October 12, 2014, the Boston Athletic Association will host the 14th B.A.A. Half Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. As we prepare for this year's race along the Emerald Necklace park system in Boston and Brookline, we would like to share some important details with you, including information on the course and race-related road closures.
For athletes with disabilities, registration into the 2015 Boston Marathon will occur on a "rolling admission" schedule similar to the registration process for Qualifiers, beginning with the fastest from among those who meet the requirements.
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