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This is the time of year when many organizations are collecting school supplies for those in need. Our church is one of the many. We read through our church bulletin together and I explained the need to J. He's so excited about going to school with his backpack in hand and wanted other kids to have a backpack too. The bulletin announcement had a list of sugggested supplies. J and I used that list to create our own picture list on ppt. I read the item, typed it into clipart and J chose which picture to use. This made even list-making an activity he could participate in.
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For a mountain guide, no event is as tragic as losing one of their guests in some kind of mishap. Swiss guide Reudi Beglinger's career in the mountains is the focus of A Life Ascending, a recent documentary that won numerous awards on the mountain festival circuit, was available for sale last winter, and has just been released on the iTunes store.
Beglinger was at the leading edge of what another guide called "performance ski guiding" – pushing his clients hard, skiing plenty of steep and deep snow in 'big mountain terrain', while creating a lodge ambience and guest experience on a par with a heli-skiing operation. As one observer said: "Ruedi has a reputation as a guide's guide...he is kind of a hero to some of us."
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"My father is a Holocaust survivor who lost much of his family in Worl War II. That legacy was passed silently down to me and as a result, loss is in almost everything I write and create. A Life Ascending is no exception. The exploration of how a family comes to terms with heartbreaking loss was captivating and cathartic for me. That process was also profoundly elevating, as I was able to witness the power and grace of the human spirit as it transcends hardship and grief."
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By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs.
Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders' stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they'd been before. The findings could inspire research into human tissue regeneration.
"The cells don't have to step as far back as we thought they had to, in order to regenerate a complicated thing like a limb," said study co-author Elly Tanaka, a Max Planck Institute cell biologist. "There's a higher chance that human or mammalian cells can be induced into doing the same thing."
Thinkers from Aristotle to Voltaire and Charles Darwin have been fascinated by salamander regeneration, though they barely understood it. (Aristotle even confused salamanders with snakes, attributing to the latter the power of growing new eyes.) But only in the last few decades have scientists been able to study the phenomenon at high resolution.
They found that salamander regeneration begins when a clump of cells called a blastema forms at the tip of a lost limb. From the blastema come skin, muscle, bone, blood vessels and neurons, ultimately growing into a limb virtually identical to the old one.
Researchers, many of whom hoped their findings could someday be used to heal people, hypothesized that as cells joined blastemas, they "de-differentiated" and became pluripotent — able to become any type of tissue. Embryonic stem cells are also pluripotent, as are cells that have been genetically reprogrammed through a process called induced pluripotency.
Such cells have raised hopes of replacing lost or diseased tissue. They're also difficult to control and prone to turning cancerous. These problems may well be the inevitable growing pains of early-stage research, but could also represent more fundamental limits in cellular plasticity.
If Tanaka's right that blastema cells don't become pluripotent, then the findings raise another possibility — not just for salamanders, but for people. Rather than pushing cellular limits, perhaps researchers could work within nature's parameters.
"People working on stem cells are trying to de-differentiate cells in an artifical fashion," said Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute stem cell biologist who was not involved in the study. "It will be very important for the regenerative-medicine community to take stock of what's going on in the salamander, because they've been doing it for 360 million years, and found a natural way to de-differentiate their tissues."
Having first added a gene that makes a fluorescent protein into the genomes of axolotl salamanders, Tanaka's team removed from their eggs the cells that would eventually become legs. They fused the cells into new eggs; when these matured into adult salamanders, cells in their legs glowed under a microscope.
After the researchers amputated their salamanders' legs, the legs regrew. Cells in the new legs also contained the fluorescent protein and glowed under a microscope, so the scientists could watch blastemas form and legs regrow in cell-by-cell detail.
Contrary to expectation, skin cells that joined the blastema later divided into skin cells. Muscle became muscle. Cartilage became cartilage. Only cells from just beneath the skin could become more than one cell type.
"People didn't know if the salamanders were special because they forced adult tissues to become pluripotent, and whether we should look for factors that did that — or if, as we find now, we actually shouldn't try to force cells back to a pluripotent state," said Tanaka.
Whether this striking absence of pluripotency is universal is still unknown. The experiment needs to be replicated independently in other salamander species.
Experiments underlying the pluripotency hypothesis "have been reproduced by multiple labs," said Sánchez Alvarado. "There's clearly something to them. But the results from Elly's lab seem solid. There's clearly a paradox here."
According to Sánchez Alvarado, those earlier experiments labeled cells with dyes that may have bled into other cells, creating the illusion of pluripotency. It's also possible that the axolotl's mechanisms are different from other salamanders.
If Tanaka's findings hold, they suggest a relatively new avenue for stem cell research. Bodies might find it easier to accept cells that have been only partially reprogrammed, like those in the axolotl's blastema, than embryonic or fully reprogrammed cells.
"The salamanders are dialing the timeline back a few steps," he said. "They don't go all the way back and ask a cell to catch up," said Sánchez Alvarado.
This approach has shown promise in the lab of Harvard Stem Cell Institute co-director Douglas Melton, who last year used partial reprogramming on pancreas cells that subsequently formed other pancreas cell types.
"This represents a parallel approach for how to make cells in regenerative medicine," said Melton at the time. "If you've got extra cells of one type and need another, why go all the way back to a stem cell?"
Tanaka next hopes to decipher the genetic instructions governing blastema formation. But however the pluripotency–versus–partial-reprogramming debate turns out, her team's development of a genetically modified axolotl as a model organism for regenerative research is significant.
"We've known about this since Aristotelian times, and it's only now, this week, that a paper gets published telling us what the cellular dynamics are," said Sánchez Alvarado. "It's the really early days. This is the first of many discoveries."
See Also:
- Going From One Cell Type to Another Without Using Stem Cells ...
- Skin Cells Reprogrammed As Heart Cells Beat in a Dish
- Turning Skin Cells to Stem Cells, Without Cancer
- Scientists Search Starfish For Key to Human Regeneration
Citations: "Cells keep a memory of their tissue origin during axolotl limb regeneration." By Martin Kragl, Dunja Knapp, Eugen Nacu, Shahryar Khattak, Malcolm Maden, Hans Henning Epperlein & Elly M. Tanaka. Nature, Vol. 460 No. 7251, July 1, 2009.
"A cellular view of regeneration ." By Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado. Nature, Vol. 460 No. 7250, June 25, 2009.
Image: D.Knapp/E.Tanaka. Green nerve cells cluster around a growing nerve in this cross-section of a regenerating limb.
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Aduki beans are henna red in colour, in some parts of the world they are fondly called "red dragon" or "red wonder" beans. I really like that and would have called this 'Red Dragon rice salad, had I not added the mung bean. The mung bean is green, perhaps I could have called it 'green dragon'. Imagine that 'Red and Green Dragon' Rice Salad'! If nothing else, I know this name would have have turned peoples heads, who like me would have been curious to its contents'. Who knows marketed this way, this humble rice and bean salad could be a trendy offering like those you see at hip and upcoming deli's.
In addition to the rice and beans, there is spring onions and celery. I think celery gets overlooked as an ingredient in itself and seen only as a base of a soup or stew, even as a crudites. Over the past few years, I have come to appreciate the celery as a vegetable, in this salad it adds freshness and crunch. Although I've made the dressing here, I have to admit there have been times when I have cheated and used a ready made one, a good one is maple or honey-mustard dressing.
This is my entry for this month's No Croutons Required (NCR). NCR is a monthly vegetarian food blogging event, where readers are challenged to create either a soup or salad incorporating a specified ingredient. NCR is alternately hosted between the Jacqueline of Tinned Tomatoes and Lisa of Lisa's Kitchen, who is this months host. The ingredients for March are whole aduki or mung beans.
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55g dried aduki beans, soaked overnight in 1 pints of cold water
55g dried mung beans, soaked overnight in 1 pint of cold water
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Trim all visible fat from pork schnitzels. Add to fry pan and brown on each side for 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat to very low, add the juice of 1 orange plus the brandy. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes while basting periodically.
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"We are getting bombed on Twitter," announced Stephanie Cutter, a deputy campaign manager, while tracking the early postings by political analysts and journalists whom the Obama campaign viewed as critical in setting debate perceptions.
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As it drew to a close, Gail Gitcho, Romney's communications director in Boston, warned surrogates heading out to television studios: "No chest thumping."
The Oct. 3 debate exposed Obama's vulnerabilities and forced the president and his advisers to work to reclaim the campaign over a grueling 30 days, ending with his triumph Tuesday. After a summer of growing confidence, Obama suddenly confronted the possibility of a loss that would diminish his legacy and threaten his signature achievement, the health care law. He emerged newly combative, newly contrite and newly willing to recognize how his disdain for Romney had blinded him to his opponent's strengths and ability to inflict damage.
After watching a videotape of his debate performance, Obama began calling panicked donors and supporters to reassure them he would do better.
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Obama, who had dismissed warnings about being caught off guard in the debate, told his advisers that he would now accept and deploy the prewritten attack lines that he had sniffed at earlier.
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But as concerned as the White House was during the last 30 days of the campaign, its polls never showed Obama slipping behind Romney, aides said. The president was helped in no small part by the tremendous amount of money the campaign built up, which had permitted him to pound his Republican rival before he ever had a chance to fully introduce himself to the nation.
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As Ann Romney cried softly, he headed down to deliver his speech, ending his second, and presumably last, bid for the White House.
Difficult September
As the summer came to a close, Romney's campaign was stuck in a tense debate over how to rescue a struggling candidacy. On some nights, it did not even bother with the daily tracking poll. Why waste money on more bad news? Obama's attack on Romney's role at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, was in full swing, the Democratic convention had been an unequivocal boost for the president, and a videotape had surfaced that caught Romney at a private fundraiser saying that 47 percent of the nation did not pay taxes, a line that reinforced Democrats' efforts to portray him as an out-of-touch elitist.
"We had struggled pretty dramatically in September," said Neil Newhouse, Romney's pollster. "The 47 percent remark came out, and that was on top of the bounce that Obama got from his convention, so needless to say, September was not our best month. It showed in our data. It was grim."
There was, advisers decided, one last opportunity on the horizon: the presidential debate in Denver.
Stevens argued that Obama's dislike of Romney would lead the president to underestimate him.
"They think there's something intellectually inferior there," he said later. In August, Romney began testing one-liners on friends flying with him on his campaign plane. On issue after issue, Romney led discussions on how to frame his answers, to move away from the conservative tone of his primary contests in front of the largest audience he would have as a candidate.
Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio was recruited to play Obama, and he embraced the role, even anticipating how the president would open his first debate, which fell on his wedding anniversary.
"I've got to tell you, tonight's a really special night," said Portman, playing Obama. "I see my sweetie out there, boy, 20 years ago."
Romney's advisers broke out in laughter when the real Obama opened with a similar line and nodded approvingly when a very prepared Romney countered with a gracious response that even Democrats said put Obama off balance.
Nothing had been left to chance: Romney put on full makeup and did his final practice in a room set up to replicate, down to the lighting and temperature, the hall where he would meet Obama.
On the Sunday before the debate, a group of top advisers and elected Republican officials from across the country, calling themselves the War Council, gathered in Boston to reassure Romney after his rough month — essentially saying "this is a place in the race, but it isn't a destiny" as Beth Myers, a senior adviser, put it — and to boost his confidence.
George W. Bush phoned Romney, too. Pointing to his own history, he predicted that Obama would fumble, according to aides.
Democrats advising Obama saw the same peril for the president in the first debate that Romney's aides did.
Ronald Klain, a Democratic strategist who has overseen debate preparation for presidential candidates for almost 20 years, warned Obama at his very first debate session, a PowerPoint presentation in the Roosevelt Room on a sweltering day in mid-July, that incumbent presidents almost invariably lose their first debate.
"It's easier for a candidate to schedule the time to prepare; it's easy for the challenger to get away; the president has competing needs," Klain told Obama, according to aides who witnessed the exchange.
Debate warning
Ken Mehlman, who had managed Bush's re-election campaign in 2004, ran into one of Obama's advisers at a party and warned him that presidents are not used to being challenged, and, unlike candidates, are out of practice at verbal jousting.
Romney had gone through 20 debates during the past year.
Obama showed no interest in watching the Republican debates. But his aides studied them closely and concluded that Romney was a powerful debater, hard to intimidate and fast to throw out assertions that would later prove wrong or exaggerated. At the White House, Obama's communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, took note of that moment, intending to mention it to Obama. He would later fault himself for failing to fully understand "the magnitude of the challenge" Romney's debate style presented.
Obama displayed little concern. When he went to a resort outside Las Vegas for several days of debate preparation in September, his impatience with the exercise was evident when he escaped for an excursion to the Hoover Dam.
Klain and David Axelrod, a senior strategist, told Obama that he seemed distracted, but he shrugged them off.
"I'll be there on game day," he said. "I'm a game day player."
Shortly after the debate began, Obama's aides realized they had made their own mistakes in advising Obama to avoid combative exchanges that might sacrifice the good will many Americans felt toward him. In Obama's mock debates with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Kerry drew Obama into a series of intense exchanges, and Axelrod decided that they were damaging to the president.
In 90 minutes, Obama crystallized what had been gnawing concerns among many Americans about the president. He came across, as Obama's advisers told him during the next few days, as professorial, arrogant, entitled and detached from the turmoil tearing the nation. He allowed Romney to explode the characterization of him as a wealthy, job-destroying venture capitalist that the Obama campaign had spent months creating.
What was arguably the most dismal night of Obama's political career could hardly have come at a worse time: Early voting was under way in some states. Absentee ballots were on voters' coffee tables that very night.
After the debate, Obama called Axelrod on his way back to the hotel room. He had read the early reviews on his iPad.
"I guess the consensus is that we didn't have a very good night," Obama told Axelrod.
"That is the consensus," Axelrod said.
For the next 30 days, Romney and his advisers tried to capitalize on Obama's mistakes. And Romney continued his drift toward the center, softening his language on abortion and immigration from the positions that had defined him during the Republican primary. It was something that the White House had expected he would do in the summer. Perhaps most important, the debate gave him a swagger, confidence and presidential bearing that had been absent.
Romney soon recognized the scope of his accomplishment. He flew from Denver to Virginia for a rally the next day, and as the motorcade headed toward the event, there was so much traffic that Romney and his top advisers thought there must have been an accident. In fact, the roads were jammed with people on their way to see him.
A storm's effect
It was clear that Hurricane Sandy was going to upend Obama's final week of campaigning, but aides in Chicago were determined to squeeze in one more visit to Florida. It almost became a calamity.
To get ahead of the storm, the president flew to Orlando on Oct. 28, the evening before a morning event. But overnight, the storm intensified and accelerated. Well before dawn, the Air Force One crew told the president's advisers that if he was going to beat the storm back to Washington, he had to leave at once. The White House announced the change of plans at 6:45 a.m. The president returned to the White House at 11:07 a.m. and went directly into the Situation Room, canceling his political events.
Once the storm struck, it was more of a problem for Romney. It put him in the position of struggling to explain the skepticism he had expressed during the Republican primary about a federal role in disaster relief. Even worse, the hurricane pushed him off the stage at a crucial time.
In Boston, Romney's aides broke out in a chorus of groans as they watched on television as Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey offered effusive praise of the president's handling of the storm. They viewed it as a self-serving act of disloyalty from a man whom they had expected to deploy that very weekend on Romney's behalf. The praise of Obama from a Republican governor came at the same time Romney had been portraying Obama as partisan and polarizing.
The same week, the president's campaign released an advertisement in which another Republican, Colin Powell, a former secretary of state, endorsed Obama. The ad, Obama's aides said, produced a spike of support from independent voters.
Romney was finding Ohio, a state central to his victory, a stubborn target, as Obama benefited from the auto industry rescue he championed and that Romney had opposed. The Romney campaign sought to undermine Obama with an advertisement misleadingly implying that Jeep was moving jobs from Ohio to China. By every measure, the ad backfired, drawing attacks by leaders of auto companies that employed many of the blue-collar voters that Romney was trying to reach.
The futility of that effort was apparent outside the Jeep assembly plant in Toledo, which had just had a $500 million renovation for production of a new line of vehicles, requiring 1,100 new workers.
"Everyone here knows someone who works at Jeep," said Jim Wessel, a supply representative making a sales visit. He said no one would believe the ad. Speaking of Obama's efforts to rescue the auto industry, he said, "I can just tell you I'm glad he did it."
Romney was running out of states. He made an impulsive run on Pennsylvania, chasing what his aides said were tightening polls there. Romney had spent little time or money there before roaring in during the campaign's final hours.
On the last weekend of the race, Romney scheduled a rally in Bucks County. Supporters began arriving at 2 p.m. But Romney's plane was delayed, and as the hours rolled on — and the temperatures dropped — dozens of people were blocked by the Secret Service as they sought to leave. Romney arrived to a scene of angry, cold supporters.
That Tuesday, Romney lost the state by 5 percentage points and watched Obama hold a 50,000-vote lead in Florida — a state that he had once been confident of winning.


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Hi, my name is Chris Thomas, I have been working on website, Mapedia, that combines a Wiki Map with History, Culture and Science as its focus. The idea is to build a Wiki map, that focusses on the culture and history of locations, rather than on where you can get your car repaired, buy a latte or whatnot. We have recently launched, and we now have two maps online. One of which is on Prehistory. Other History centric maps are planned, such as on the Roman period, Anglo Saxon, and so on. Mapedia's URL is...
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Hi, we have been working hard on the site since our last post. Here is the URL to our new World War two map. You can share maps, and Searches like this, in the same way, just copy the URL when you have something you want to share and send it to a friend.
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Due to this posting's placement in the Pre Roman section, are you looking for sites dated from 2,000 BCE to 55 BCE or can other sites be mentioned?
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Four Naps And Two White Russians
Things just don't always go as planned. See, I've been on vacation - and I thought that I'd write a post every few days or so - sure - why not? Well - I just don't have the time. Why not? Well that's because, apparently, I need to maintain and SCHEDULE FOUR NAPS a day, at present. I've gone pre-natal during this vacation. What the ___, you ask? Well, believe me, I'm asking the same thing. If my wretched soul is truly THIS tired - how the motherload am I even OPERATING on a day-to-day basis, right? I know, right!? For the love of godesses, I'm realizing it's a miracle I'm not a crack addict with my apparent lack of consciousness. And, what a riot I must be to take a vacation with "Oh, could you just hold this riveting conversation for a few 30-odd minutes or so, because I need to indulge my narcolepsy for just a smidge. See y'all in a bit!" Face plant.
On top of this sudden narcoleptic business (which is rather suspicious on the heels of that 5-month bout with insomnia - I wasn't born yesterday, sleeplessness!), I had a nasty run in with some Russians. You see, I hardly drink anymore at all - my body doesn't deal with it well. Well, the other night - I had a White Russian and damn if that thing didn't slither down my throat like the sweetest ambrosia ever. And then I overserved myself. I had another - I made it myself, pouring with glee and abandonment and without measurement. By midnight, I was in bed giggling to the point of not being able to breathe, I was writing in my journal - none of which is now legible - and I was tapping my forefinger on my head, giggling and saying to Tony "Ahmahgawd, I so wish you could be inside here, in my head right now, because there is such a party goin' on!" He was so proud of it all. It was a Mensa moment. Two drinks people, two. Pansy. The pain the next day? Beyond description here.
So, when I thought about posting a recipe or something this week - I fearfully visualized something like: Fill a medium saucepan with 2-3 inches of water and bring to a simmer. Fully submerge both hands in water and wait until the alkd aioguopel ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............
Yeah, don't think instructionals would be good right now. So, I'll reimerge into civilization on Monday - hopefully intact and all napped out. I wonder though...is this what vacation is for - your brain just kind of goes mushy, your "I'm Not Tired" button finally blows a fuse, and 2 drinks can blow your hair back?
I will say though: I'm sleepin' in, I sit all day by a lake, it's 80 degrees, it's green and lush and humid, I go for a walk or a run, I nap (duh), go for boat rides, eat, read, and am surrounded by people and doggies whom I love...DIVINE. Except for the Russians.
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- Ty'sMommy said...
Oh. My. God. I cannot contain my amusement. Thank you. I, myself, am just back at work after a 10 day absense that some people refer to as a vacation. Personally, I have dubbed that lost chunk of my life "Potty Training Hell". Yes, that's right, I was at home for 10 straight days, 24/7, with my 3 year old son, trying to convince him that he no longer needs diapers....All I can really say is - I'm jealous of your Russians. I could use a couple of good drinks right now, but in ther meantime, I am just happy to be back in the sanctuary I call "work". Enjoy the vacation while it lasts!
- July 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM
I would have loved to have a vacation similar to yours, but there are two reasons why I wasn't able to:
1.) I have two children, and said children have a need (or at least they think it's a need) to be constantly entertained. Therefore, no relaxing vacation. We had stuff to do!
2.) My wife actually suffers from true blue narcolepsy (I'm hiding my anger for you and your careless mentioning of this affliction) and therefore, when I'm actually home, it is my responsibility to keep her awake.
Have a good vacation, jerk.
Oh, and be expecting another random pointless email...
- July 8, 2008 at 2:46 PM
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
I've missed you Ann! Stupid Russians that keep you away from us! We allways say here we need vacation to recover from vacation!
Enjoy your last napping days, maybe you should consider moving to Spain, where they have siesta everyday. Everything is closed during the afternoon so I you have no choice but sleep... hard life!...
- July 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM
you are the queen, you lightweight! Hilarious. Well, given, I suppose your white russian (the second dose) was pretty lethal...
hangovers rule.
- July 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Geez, this sounds like me on a daily basis (the napping part, not the drunk part). If I have the time, I'll nap. I love naps. My husband hates it because I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime. And I used to be an insomniac as well. I suppose I'm just catching up.
And I don't drink very much either, but if I go for that second drink, watch out! I get stupid drunk.
- July 8, 2008 at 6:40 PM
- NV said...
I'm living vicariously through you, girl! My vacation has been filled with bricks, mortar, bricks, shrubs, bricks, more mortar, fencing, and well, bricks. I DID catch a nap the other day and it was DIVINE - till the trash truck clambered down the alley and woke me up!
- July 8, 2008 at 7:56 PM
- Sugar Jones said...
I want what you're having! Naps and Russians and Parties in Noggin' sound really really good right now.
And by the way, your brain is totally hilarious on vacation!
- July 8, 2008 at 10:07 PM
- Jennifer S said...
80 degrees? I'm going to pretend I remember what that feels like.
Have a great time, and take all the naps you need!
- July 9, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Dang that Boris and Natasha!!
(Wow, you really are a cheap date, huh?) ;)
Hey, I'm right with you on those naps lately. I actually took a pregnancy test this morning--I've been so tired. (Negatory, btw.)
Hopefully you'll just catch up on all of your sleep now, and be back to normal when you come back to civilization Monday. Just enjoy it while it lasts! (And be thankful it *isn't* prenatal.)
- July 9, 2008 at 4:00 AM
Friday. That's when we leave for our .... zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Huh what? Where am I?
- July 9, 2008 at 5:53 AM
I have been extremely tired/fatigued.. and do not have the luxury of 4 naps - for some reason my boss doesn't accomodate my needs in that way. Stupid boss! LOL!
But thank you for your post. I can relate so well!
Mine is thyroid related - so my doctor says - and I'm told the end is in sight, as I am now on a higher dose of meds.
I hope you get rested. I know how awful that tiredness can be!
- July 9, 2008 at 6:20 AM
I do sit by a lake, go for boat rides (fishen), eat, & read surrounded by people & a cat I love but it's 90 & I don't run - should have come join me.......
- July 9, 2008 at 8:09 AM
- grace said...
sounds like one heck of an ideal vacation to me, all the way down to the white russians. i'm a featherweight when it comes to booze too--one would probably send me to la-la land. :)
- July 9, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Face plant, yep, that's me on vacation as well. I think the body just finally knows it can finally relax and it just gives up for a while. The eyelids suddenly weigh ten pounds each, it's crazy.
- July 9, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Oh, white russians. Been there, felt it the next morning. So much fun, so much pain. Thanks for the giggles.
- July 9, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Ty'sMommy said...
Oh! I almost forgot! Next time you're in the mood for White Russians, remind me to send you my recipe for homemade Kahlua....it makes all the difference. It has become a staple in my house. LOVE it.
- July 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Drinking on vacation? Who does that? I can't even remember my last trip to Freeport (Bahamas). They tell me that I had a GREAT time. I wouldn't know.
But I'd like to try again and see how little I can remember the second go 'round!
- July 9, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Lisa said...
Hey Ann - LOL-
- what a great post!
I have been surviving on alcohol, caffiene and 5 hours of sleep each night - Yipes!! Enjoy the down time! L
- July 9, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- hungryandfrozen said...
Ann, you're back! :) Glad to hear about the napping, sorry to hear about the hangover...for future reference, a chocolate bar tucked into a white bread roll and eaten is a surprisingly effective cure. Sitting all day by a lake sounds so good right now. Enjoy!
- July 10, 2008 at 2:27 AM
Ann, sounds reeeaal relaxing up at the lake. Ha! You crack me up, girlfriend. I, too, am a light-weight when it comes to drinking. I love the "romance" of drinking, but the reality usually kicks my butt, so I don't do it often and then just a little. I did learn how to drink vodka like a true Russian a few nights ago, though. You need a shot of vodka (we had Grey Goose), a piece of rye bread, and a dill pickle. Drink the vodka, smell the bread, take a bite of pickle. Repeat until the bottle is gone. Hopefully, you'll be drinking with 20 other people, otherwise downing that bottle will be quite a feat. We all only had one or two shots and we didn't follow the prescription to down the entire bottle--it was book club night, after all. But we were reading Anna Karenina, and you know how it ends, so we had to drink to her.
- July 11, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Gigi said...
I loved your vacation! If you insert trashy mystery novels you would be describing my vacation! Ann you always make me laugh!
- July 11, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I want to go on vacation with you: naps, white russians, dogs, lakes, giggles, hangovers, books, eating. Yep, this is my kind of deal. Thanks for the entertainment and have a lovely vacation!
- July 12, 2008 at 9:16 AM
I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only lightweight or face-planter. :)
- July 12, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- Sugar Jones said...
Are you back yet? Need a Velvet Lava fix!
- July 13, 2008 at 2:55 PM


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I am sitting at the Reference Desk when a nice older woman asks if she might be able to use the catalog. I lead her over to our catalog computer, as I am wont to do, and all is well. Minutes later the woman is back. She mentions that she is an author and she wants to see if her book is in our system. We've a fair amount of people who walk in saying that they are authors each week, and I have found that the older the person is the more I am inclined to believe them. I am inclined to believe this woman particularly.
I ask what the books were.
She says that she stopped by the bookstore one floor up before she came upon us and they hadn't heard of it.
I reply that the bookstore does not specialize in children's literature necessarily. What's the book?
My brain stops functioning for 0.75 seconds. I recover only to find that I am spluttering, "You're… you're.. Ruth…"
"I'm Ruth Stiles Gannett," she agrees.
This would have been an opportune time to have said that I read these books growing up, but in point of fact I did not. Just the same, I am more than aware of them. They are huge. Huge here in America. Particularly huge in Japan (where they were turned into what looks like a rather lovely movie). This time last year I filled in as a roving librarian at a nearby elementary school. The school's librarian had suddenly passed away and they were bringing in public librarians to read to different classes of third graders. It was HIGHLY recommended to me that I bring in a copy of My Father's Dragon, as the librarian before me had started it with the kids and they were wrapped up in the story. I did and you never saw such enthralled children. I filed that information away in my brain for whenever I have to read aloud to kids around that age again.
The book (books, actually, since My Father's Dragon was followed up with Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland) came out in 1948 and it won a Newbery Honor that year. 1948. Do you understand why I was flabbergasted to find Ms. Stiles merrily walking about my library, mere minutes before meeting her daughter out front?
Blabbing like a madwoman I assured her that her books were read by children all the time and we had many circulating copies, including the recent 50-year anniversary edition of all three compiled. Then I pulled out this book we keep under the desk so that authors and illustrators will sign it when they're around, and asked her to put something down. She mentioned that she had been in my library in 1948 to present to the children, and told me the tale of telling them a story about a treehouse. As she signed she also mentioned a little background on the publication of My Father's Dragon. Apparently she was too shy to drop off the manuscript at Random House, so her stepmother's maid dropped it off instead (apparently it was conveniently on her way). In fact, her stepmother (Mrs. Ruth Chrisman Stiles) was the illustrator of all three books. If you would like to see the original art, Ms. Stiles says that it is currently housed in the Kerlan Collection in Minnesota. I showed Ms. Stiles the art from the upcoming Archie and the Pirates by Marc Rosenthal, since I think it has a distinctive My Father's Dragon vibe about it. She agreed but noted that the art in her books (with the exception of the covers and endpapers) is entirely black and white.
It's not every day a Newbery Honor winner of some 50 years past waltzes in the door, and I was delighted when she agreed to sign some copies of her books. Knowing that if I had her sign our circulating materials they might well waltz out the door never to return again, I decided to have her sign our original reference editions. However, original reference editions are now housed underneath Bryant Park, and it takes a lot of dodging, spinning, inning, and outing for me to retrieve them. But retrieve them I did! Grabbed 'em, ran 'em back, and she signed every last one to the children of New York City.
I wanted proof of this, so I had one of my clerks take our picture with their camera phone. It's a little blurry, but enough so that I won't forget about meeting this fantastic author by chance. A good day. A wonderful woman.