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The Boston Bruins had their first tune-up for the regular season Tuesday night, squaring off against their AHL affiliate, the Providence Bruins, at TD Garden. Black and gold nation, craving NHL hockey after a dreaded CBA lockout, got their first glimpse of gameplay in this intersquad scrimmage.
Midway through the first period, Providence had the games first power-play, after Rich Peverley received a two-minute minor for hooking. Shortly after, Brad Marchand was whistled for a delay of game infraction, giving Providence the five-on-three advantage.
The Bruins killed off one of the penalties, but tired legs proved costly as Providence scored with just second's left on the special teams chance. Long time NHL vet Jay Pandolfo, playing to earn a spot on Boston's third line, scored the goal for Providence; Max Sauve and Craig Cunningham recorded the assists.
Nathan Horton had many scoring chances to begin the second period, an encouraging sign as the big winger returned to gameplay after suffering from post-concussion symptoms.
Chris Bourque, who had a great first period playing on Boston's third line, tied the game at one with a slapshot goal, blasting the puck through Providence goaltender Anton Khudobin; Dennis Seidenberg recorded the lone assist.
Two quick goals followed, one by Sauve for Providence, and then a beauty of a wrist-shot by Marchand to tie the score at two. Marchand had trouble controlling the puck at times throughout the game, but his shot looked as wicked as ever.
Providence quickly regained the lead just two minutes into the third period, as Sauve carried the puck through the offensive zone, and dangled around Boston netminder Tuukka Rask for the easy goal. The baby Bruins added another one right after, as a deflected shot from the point hit off Marchand and rolled past Rask.
Rask, who enters the season as Boston's number one net-minder, looked a little shaky in the scrimmage, but that's expected with extended time off.
The Bruins certainly looked like a team coming out of a lockout, with rust showing, but cant look too far into what was an intersquad scrimmage for the organization. Providence ended up winning the game, defeating their father club seven to five.
The first real test comes Saturday night, when the Bruins play the New York Rangers, a team who many experts pick to win the Stanley cup; should definitely be an exciting season opener at TD Garden this weekend.
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Sjogren syndrome
Sjogren syndrome is an autoimmune disorder in which the glands that produce tears and saliva are destroyed. The condition may affect many different parts of the body, including the kidneys and lungs.
Alternative Names
Xerostomia-Sjogren syndrome; Keratoconjunctivitis sicca-Sjogren's
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
The cause of Sjogren syndrome is unknown. The syndrome occurs most often in women ages 40 - 50. It is rare in children. Young patients usually have signs of another autoimmune disorder first.
The syndrome may be associated with:
Sjogren syndrome affects about 1 - 4 million people in the United States.
Dryness of the mouth and eyes are the most common symptoms of this syndrome.
Eye symptoms:
- Itching eyes
- Feeling that something is in the eye
Mouth and throat symptoms:
- Difficulty swallowing or eating
- Loss of sense of taste
- Difficulty speaking
- Thick or stringy saliva
- Mouth sores or pain
- Hoarseness
Other symptoms may include:
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Change in the color of hands or feet
- Joint pain or joint swelling
- Swollen glands
Signs and tests
A physical examination reveals dry eyes and mouth. There may be mouth sores because of the mouth dryness.
- Schirmer's test
- Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) test
- Salivary gland biopsy
- Rheumatoid factor (possible)
- Tear test
- Slit lamp examination with rose bengal dye
The goal is to relieve symptoms. Dry eyes may be treated with artificial tears, eye-lubricating ointments, or cyclosoporine liquid. Tiny plugs can be placed in the tear drainage ducts to help the tears stay on the surface of the eye.
Disease modifying drugs (DMARDs) similar to those used for rheumatoid arthritis may improve the symptoms of Sjogren syndrome. These include tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibiting drugs.
Sipping water throughout the day and chewing sugarless gum may help relieve mouth dryness. Avoid medicines that can cause mouth dryness such as antihistamines and decongestants. Avoid alcohol.
Talk with your dentist about:
- Solutions to replace minerals in your teeth
- Saliva substitutes
- Drugs that help your salivary glands make more saliva
Frequent brushing and flossing of the teeth, and regular dental visits may prevent severe dental cavities caused by dry mouth.
Arthritis symptoms are commonly treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and physical therapy.
Expectations (prognosis)
The disease is usually not life-threatening. The outcome depends on what other diseases you have.
There is an increased risk of lymphoma.
- Kidney failure (rare)
- Lymphoma
- Pulmonary infection
- Vasculitis (rare)
Calling your health care provider
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you develop symptoms of Sjogren syndrome.
Kruszka P, O'Brian RJ. Diagnosis and management of Sjogren syndrome. Am Fam Physician. 2009;79:465-470.
Taubert M, Davies MR, Black I. Dry Mouth. BMJ. 2007;334:534.
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22 U.S. Code § 254b - Privileges and immunities of mission of nonparty to Vienna Convention
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Should a dating relationship that is casual have the same sexual boundaries as a committed relationship? I ask because there was a debate between a couple of friends who had their unique ideas about boundaries in the bedroom.
If I summarized their beliefs by gender, women thought that casual flings don't get the full "bag of tricks" as boyfriends or husbands. They certainly don't entertain the idea of special requests, threesomes, or anything closely resembling extra work.
The men, however, thought that if there was some physical contact, why not make it as good as it can be. Many them argued, "When you relax your boundaries, isn't it win-win?"
Personally, I am a hopeless romantic, which means I want to actually be in love before I talk about boundaries and explore with someone. What do you think? Are your boundaries in the bedroom driven by the level of commitment you have or don't have?
Keep the conversation clean and classy!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
April 18th, 2012
7:12 am
Diva I'm with you, no casual sex here. That's a win-win for who? Certainly not women. Go for what you're worth. I can't wait to come back and read later all the responses!
Good day!
April 18th, 2012
7:53 am
Once you cross the "Intimate Arts" threshold, there are no boundries, except those that you make for yourself. The idea that sex is "better" or "more satisfying" when you are in a relationship has been debunked time and time again. In fact, many times it is oh so much better when it's 'casual" or "anonymous". The number 1 sexual fantasy for women (according to polls) is anonymous sex. They don't have to worry about being judged, they don't care what their partner thinks about them, they can just let themselves go and taste every single flavor on the menu. I'm married, but I can say that the most absolutely incredible sexual experience I've ever had was a one night stand and we never saw each other again. It was INSANE and to this day I still remember and fantasize about it.
April 18th, 2012
7:58 am
IMO, there is nothing off limits for me, except a third person. Other then that, it's open bar. If it turns you on, it turns me on. I want you at your depraved best. If you are just a missionary girl and only in the bed, you aren't for me. There are time for "making love" and there are times for sweaty, loud, ripping clothes and bouncing off every piece of furniture, in any location, fully clothed or naked, dirty talk. And most of those times, only one version will be what the doctor ordered.
April 18th, 2012
8:02 am
If you establish boundries, you are limiting the experience. I've had flings and I've had relationships and the sexual experience was totally reliant on what your partner brings to the table…or bed….or office. If you have an open mind and go in to it wanting the most intense pleasure for your self and your partner, it's all good. Sponteneity is the spice of life and imagination is the hot sauce. I want to leave myself and my partner totally satisfied and with the though "I can't wait for this to happen again!".
April 18th, 2012
8:08 am
Good morning,
Call me 'getting old' or whatever but that casual sex thing just isn't something that interests me. Sure when you're younger you're probably less likely to hope a relationship gives birth from some good ole nasty, heart pounding, clothes ripping, wake up anyone within a 5 mile radius type sexing…but in my experience, I was less inhibited when being with someone for a while in an established r'ship. I have to reach a certain level of comfort with a person first and who knows, maybe it stems from early childhood/teen violations so according to what Rick said above, i could be an exception to this rule/study.
April 18th, 2012
8:09 am
If you're going to go there, no boundaries. The boundary is… when do you go there
April 18th, 2012
8:13 am
And with regard to the whole boundaries issue, if you are sharing your life with someone, I think there is nothing wrong with a progression of boundary stretching. It's all about comfort & communication. I may not go for EVERY single idea you can fester but I am adult enough to let you know what I would be open to try. I think the art of really getting to know your mate is falling by the wayside. I'm sure Wille or Jake can speak to this but if a man really knows his women and has her between her ears as well as between her thighs, she'll probably be more apt to want to try those risque things with you. A woman who feels loved, safe, appreciated and desired by her man is like a blank canvas just waiting to be stroked lol
April 18th, 2012
8:21 am
Morning! Interesting topic………..
April 18th, 2012
8:25 am
Good Morning,
"The men, however, thought that if there was some physical contact, why not make it as good as it can be." Your setting yourself up to fail if the full "bag of tricks" is given too early. All guys will push the sexual limit to see how far your willing to go. I can't help it but I'm going to look at you differently. If you haven't earned the girlfriend title yet and your open to do anything, anytime, anyplace your quietly earning another title. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to run with whatever I can get if its allowed but the sex should progress as the relationship does.
Did I read the question right?
April 18th, 2012
8:26 am
Very interesting responses, eh? I think it shows once again that the subject and practices of sex are as widely varied as the possible fantasies, positions, and techniques that can be employed. But, casual (more like spontaneous) sex in today's world is not only risky but downright foolish. Easier and cleaner with less effort is to play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun. I really liked the response describing the 'heat and sweat, tearing of clothes' of the moment from the geezer. Sounds to me like, even though on in years, he's having a great time. To you I say "right on, dude!"
April 18th, 2012
8:30 am
No 2 ways about it……I just love tapping young tail. Doesn't matter if it's the smoking hot glorified 'sexetary', or the super hot biker magazine model. I just love tapping young tail and making an a** out of myself.
April 18th, 2012
8:31 am
Wise Diva wrote – "Should a dating relationship that is casual have the same sexual boundaries as a committed relationship?
- I don't understand your question. Dating relationships ARE committed relationships, they are one and the same in my book. So stop throwing the word "casual" into that mix. I have said it here before, I don't date casual flings. I truly believe people keep up their casual "whatevers" to satisfy their selfish agenda, both male and female, at the expense of their own personal growth & spiritual maturity.
Good Morning!
April 18th, 2012
8:34 am
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April 18th, 2012
8:43 am
Mike P good post!
April 18th, 2012
8:44 am
If you haven't earned the girlfriend title yet and your open to do anything, anytime, anyplace your quietly earning another title. <<<<Agreed Mr. U!
April 18th, 2012
9:00 am
I can see where this is going for the women. if a woman is as open, adventurous and in touch with herself as a man, she's considered a slut. But I take a different attitude:
Chick really digs "the act":
You: She's a slut
Me: She very sure of herself, confident and probably very good at "it".
Chick wears tight clothing and sexy attire:
You: She's a slut and trying to draw attention
Me: Again, very confident. She takes care of herself and enjoys feeling and looking sexy.
Chick likes to be adventurous when she does it:
You: She's a slut and will sleep around
Me: Wow, she's really a hand full. She's in touch with herself and knows what she likes. Confident, sexy and veyr good at "it".
Chick can banter and talk with the guys about sexual stuff:
You: She's a tramp and has a gutter mind/mouth
Me: She can hang with the guys and not be a prude or buzz kill. She enjoys male company and not afraid to go toe to toe. She's fun and can shock as well as any of my friends.
Chick has over 10 past lovers:
You: She's a slut and will jump up and down on anybody
Me: She is passionate, physical and has no qualms about expressing it in a physical way. She obviously likes the way it makes her feel and practice makes perfect.
It all depends on how you look at it.
April 18th, 2012
9:02 am
Oh, by the way, I'm a guy and I love a confident woman.
April 18th, 2012
9:03 am
Interesting perception and projection is a mofo……………………..@BigUn
April 18th, 2012
9:05 am
Keep the conversation clean and classy! ~ WD knows her audience.
If a relationship is casual I see no reason to pull out all tricks in one's arsenal. There are delights that should be reserved for that special treatmet. Everyone doesn't deserve the full monty. And the mere mention of the word "casual" has already set the boundary!
Morning. It's going to be a beautiful day (rain and all).
April 18th, 2012
9:07 am
'Win win for who? Certainly not women'
Lily,u are trying to perpetuate the age old women victim mentality when it comes to sex…
Why can't a woman have Cadual sex and consider herself a winner because she 'fixed' a fix and got satisfaction outa it?
To not enjoy it is to Allow men to frame the 'argument' as if only men enjoy Casual sex.
That's not fair!
(I am going Balls All In for women today!)
Good morning!
April 18th, 2012
9:08 am
Or is it All Balls In……hmmm
seems better!
April 18th, 2012
9:11 am
Good Morning, Greetings to you all!!!!
Great topic all things considered…. IMHO, I think the key in this type of situation, is to be honest and keep the lines of communication open. In some ways being in this type of relationship requires even more talking that being in a more traditional thing….. Don't allow for assumptions and a whole lotta fun can be had!!!
April 18th, 2012
9:20 am
luv mr. u's 8:25.
women thought that casual flings don't get the full "bag of tricks" as boyfriends or husbands
for the record, even "boyfriend" doesn't get you in like "husband" in my world. absolute boundaries.
Keep the conversation clean and classy!
morning all!
April 18th, 2012
9:26 am
I too am hopelessly romantic…That's why I didn't have sex with that woman…..Ms. Whatshername…..SO, Ms. Diva, wanna get together ?????
April 18th, 2012
9:26 am
czBrat that is the truth.
April 18th, 2012
9:35 am
'casual flings don't get the full bag of tricks like husbands'
Well,so why was Tiger getting the much coveted 'Execuitive shower' treatment from outside his so called legal union or was that a one off thing..
How about Elliot Spitzer then?
Or Lawrence Taylor?
should I go on….
I doubt wives are consistently tricking the way 'that hottie' would or is just greed with 'those' people!
Or let me ask you this single ladies,'do u All have a Third sexual gear that u have never engaged that u have Exclusively Reserved for when Mr Right puts a ring on it?! -:)
Lady? Answer that one for me.
You too Slim?
To think officer doesn't know a sexual side of u that U can't wait to Unleash on him when he kneels to propose! hmmmmmmm
April 18th, 2012
9:37 am
Morning lovelies,
For me, boundaries equates to standards. I'm sure by now all of us can get with it and I'm talking full fledge. Still and even so, just because you can and know how doesn't always means it's smart to give out causual rides on your merry go round.
Maybe I'm sort of jaded but from my view and just for me, our bodies are temples and should be sacred. And for me casual means casual, committed means committed, exclusive means exclusive….you get what comes with the package. In the casual package intimacy is not included.
April 18th, 2012
9:38 am
Nope, once you pass into the "husband" zone, then the only act or bag of tricks that you see is the whole "having sex" item vanishing into thin air and the following acts/tricks appear:
1) I'm tired
2) I have a headache
3) I'm stressed out
4) I have too much to do
5) I have too much on my mind
6) I feel a distubance in The Force
7) Oh good grief, go ahead. Let me know when you're done.
April 18th, 2012
9:40 am
Ex BigUn answered it for you just interesting I forgot about that list he listed and all the affairs these happy husbands have………………….but still being marry outweighs the flings IMHO…………….
April 18th, 2012
9:44 am
thanx, lady. it may seem trivial to most but dang, vows should come with certain privilege. and i'm not just talking bout the bedroom.
example: i reminded s/o repeatedly to get his crap together and get his taxes done on time. right up until 9:00 last night i was encouraging him to get that extension filed. why? because he's my s/o.
you best believe after we're married our paperwork will be in order and filed in a timely manner with or without his attention. cuz THAT'S what i do for my hubs.
April 18th, 2012
9:44 am
To each his/her own. Everyone has needs. Why does satisfying those needs have to be complicated?
April 18th, 2012
9:44 am
Hey C!!! I wouldn't expected you to say anything less sis lol!
April 18th, 2012
9:45 am
Ex I whenever I get to that place of marimony, let's just say I'll be ready to RELEASE THE KRACKIN'!!!!!
April 18th, 2012
9:46 am
Why does satisfying those needs have to be complicated?<<<<<<<<<<BC most times one party wants more substances and commitment and the goal is through that their needs will be satisfied?!? This is new is it good people?!? #shrugs
April 18th, 2012
9:48 am
Hey Lady(bug)! How are you today?
April 18th, 2012
9:48 am
meant this isn't new now is it good people?!? my thoughts are running this morning lol
April 18th, 2012
9:49 am
I am well C!!!!
April 18th, 2012
9:50 am
Satisfying needs aren't complicated. But don't be asking or hoping or seeking or wishing….after the fact…for anything more than
If casual sex is what you can do, I say have at it Just don't condemn others that seek, want, deserve and desire more. Ut oh, I said "deserve"
Oh, and what's up with men telling women what their most secret fantasies are? How do you know? I thought only a woman can tell what a woman SECRETLY desires???
April 18th, 2012
9:52 am
Exactly, Celisea. The body is sacred and shouldn't be given to just anyone because they want it. And, unfortunately, there are titles bestowed upon a relationship as indicated in your post and they all have unique privileges/perks.
April 18th, 2012
9:52 am
Slim..so it's fair to say he ain't getting the KRACKING right now..
Hmmmm. wonder what he thinks bout that!
Lady? I said U..not deferring to Mr U's list…he ain't a female.
So the current one is just nibbling abd getting the carrot withdrawn but no 5 course sexual meal?
April 18th, 2012
9:53 am
Meant matrimony…blackberry blogging
April 18th, 2012
9:54 am
@Alberta. It really shouldn't be complicated, it's just that certain people MAKE it complicated. All these stigmas, taboos, shouldn't do's, can't do's, etc. Infidelity is a serious blow, but there are pro/cons to being married as well as being single. I did the married thing once and the changes are mind altering. It's like everything bad that everyone says would happen once that ring is placed on the finger….happened. I can't even get close to a wedding ring now without getting a bad reaction. To me, staying single, albet dating just one person, is the only way to fly.
April 18th, 2012
9:54 am
Leggs –
April 18th, 2012
9:54 am
My response is ditto Ex. That is my answer.
April 18th, 2012
9:58 am
@Rick >>>>>>>>>>(Double standards exist and per James Brown "Its a Man's Word, it is what it is #life)>>>> All these stigmas, taboos, shouldn't do's, can't do's, etc. Infidelity is a serious blow, but there are pro/cons to being married as well as being single.
April 18th, 2012
9:58 am
@Celisia, The poll was taken by women and from women. Look it up! Don't assume that it's always men telling women what their secret fantasies are. The poll was a response from WOMEN.
April 18th, 2012
9:58 am
Ex – I don't think he thinks too much about it honestly. He isn't one of those guys ruled bor constantly preoccupied by the puddy. He's more low key than I am.
April 18th, 2012
10:03 am
To me, staying single, albet dating just one person, is the only way to fly.
we all go through that after a bad experience. and sometimes we choose to stay there. but sometimes we meet someone worth taking that plunge … again.
simply put, rick, if you're with a woman who reserves certain sexual experiences for marriage and you find that off-putting, she's not THE ONE. however, if you find it intriguing and exciting that you could be the man to take her to that place of wide-open gifting, then marriage will no longer be your taboo.
April 18th, 2012
10:05 am
Rick – I'd love to see the poll…can you post it here?
Really when you marry, you marry. For better or worse, the good bad and the ugly. Don't go complaining and laying a charge to all women because things went sour. All marriages don't turn sour so you can't blame "marriage" nor "all women." I'd say look at YOUR marriage and YOURSELF and YOUR partner. Own it. And it's really shallow to say or even be influenced by what "people said would happen." If you believe and expect it, then so shall it be. Wonder if someone would have said positive things would be the outcome, then you would expected the positive to happen??? Just wondering. Sounds like blaming to me. No one else is there in your marriage but the two of you. If the influences of others are given a front seat, well no wonder.
April 18th, 2012
10:05 am
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong


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As a guest, you can experience a variety of amazing marine activities outside your doorstep including: kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, guided Eco-Tours, snorkel/sandbar boat excursions and a private boat charter. For additional entertainment we offer a Monday Night Dinner, Wednesday Dinner Buffet with live Hawaiian music, a Friday evening Fire knife performance and Hula dance and a memorable Saturday Reef-Snorkel-Sandbar Cruise. Our friendly staff can arrange golf, horseback riding, hikes and eco-tours as well as cultural shows through our local partners at Polynesian Cultural Center, Kualoa Ranch, Macadamia Nut Farm and Ko'olau Golf Club.
The resort offers many on-site recreational activities, including:
- Pool and Hot Tub
- Floating Sun Lounge
- Kayaking
- Fishing
- Yoga & Meditation Class (complimentary)
- Instructional SUP and Kayak Class (complimentary)
- Standup Paddle Boarding (fee)
- Monday's Aloha Night Island Grill (fee)
- Wednesday's Dinner Buffet with Live Hawaiian Music (fee)
- Friday's Pau Hana Dinner with a Spectacular Fire Knife Performance (fee)
- Wednesday Boat Excursion - Manta Ray and Turtle Adventure (fee)
- Saturday Sandbar Boat Excursion & Reef Snorkel Adventure (fee)
- Private Boat Charter (fee)
- On Call Massage Services (fee)
Stay on the Windward Coast of Oahu and experience Hawaiian culture, tropical beauty, spectacular places, great activities and world renowned Hawaiian beaches. Windward Oahu has it all within a close proximity to Paradise Bay Resort.
Here is a list of our favorite land and water activities on the Windward Coast:
Great Hikes, Biking, Shopping, Luau, Golf, Horseback, ATV, Surf, Sportfishing, Windsurfing, Kayaking, Kiteboarding, Diving, Snorkeling, Sailing, Boat Excursions, Paragliding and more.
Oahu is called the "Heart of Hawaii" so it's the appropriate home to Hawaii's widest range of popular activities and famous sights from the big city Waikiki and the famous North Shore to the tropical Windward Coast. There are so many things to do that you'll never be able to do them all in just one visit: Golf, Shop, Luau, Surf, Windsurf, Kiteboard, Dive, Snorkel, Deep Sea Fishing, Skydive, Glider ride, Helicopter tours, Sailing, Boat Excursions, Parasailing, Shark Tours, Bike, Hike and more.
We've chosen our top things to do on the island of Oahu, Hawaii:
- Attend a Luau
- Learn to Catch a Wave off Waikiki Beach
- Drive to the North Shore – Surfing Capital of the World
- See Waikiki and Oahu from the Top of Diamond Head
- Honor America at Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial
- Shop in Waikiki and Ala Moana Shopping Center
- Get a Taste of Honolulu with Hawaii Food Tours
- See Oahu from the Air with a helicopter ride
- Listen to Some Live Hawaiian Music
- Find Places Where the TV Series and Movies such as LOST and Hawaii 5-O Were Filmed
Calendar of Events
Plan your trip during one of Oahu's many special events. Experience one-of-a-kind festivals, cultural performances, stage shows, musical events and sports competitions throughout the year on Oahu.
Refer to our events calendar for upcoming concerts, sports events and entertainment at the Paradise Bay Resort and on the island of Oahu. Our resort provides you with easy access to an array of entertainment venues so can take part in all the island happenings. For non-stop action during your vacation, refer to our calendar of events.
At the end of each day, return to the Paradise Bay Resort to enjoy the outdoor swimming pool and Jacuzzi, relax on our floating dock or on your lanai patio, as well as a peaceful night's sleep in our beautifully appointed accommodations.


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8-Minute Workout: Pilates for a Longer, Leaner Look
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- The Daily Routine
- Double-Leg Stretch
- Spine Stretch Forward
- Seated Spine Twist
- Leg Pull Front
- Leg Pull Back
The Daily Routine
Pilates does more than just tone and firm your core. By initiating all movements from your center, you'll improve your posture and look leaner in just a few workouts, says Howard Sichel, a chiropractor and president and co-owner of Power Pilates in New York City. To maximize results, keep your belly button drawn in and up, your neck and back long, and your shoulders relaxed. Do this routine daily to keep your body looking its best.
Targets: Back, Abdominals, Inner Thighs
- Lie facedown on the floor, legs together, palms on floor by shoulders, elbows at sides.
- Press hands into floor and inhale, lifting head, shoulders, and chest.
- Arch upper back slightly, keeping abs drawn in.
- Take 2 or 3 breaths.
- Slowly return head and chest to floor.
- Repeat.
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A few months ago I started reading Brilliant Yoga: The Complete Guide to Upgrading Your Body and Life by Sarah Sanders. It helped me discover the amazing benefits of yoga: increased flexibility, stress relief, toned muscles, improved sense of health and well being and so many more. It also helped me lose weight! You can find more info here: http://goodlifefitness.org/yoga5/9/2012 04:33:42 AM Report Abuse
I love Pilates. I am taking a Pilates class in Boulder and I love it. (http://www.pinnaclephysicaltherapyboulder.com)1/27/2012 05:23:24 PM Report Abuse
I feel the model is performing the exercise with hyperextension of lumbar spine NOT a true reflection of how a normal client should look performing this exercise....this will lead to the move being performed incorrectly and UNSAFE.I have never heard of swan being performed with legs together....far too much strain on lumbar1/17/2012 03:32:51 PM Report Abuse
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The Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation is responible for the continuing success of the OceanFest events. ODKF is a progressive, proactive organization whose board members are dedicated to serving Hawaii's water sports community. The mission of the foundation is to support the development of individuals and organizations which perpetuate the spirit and legacy of Duke Kahanamoku.
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The day planking died thanks to Hef
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Okay… I thought planking died when Richard Simmons did it, but I was wrong. When a man planks on his table and honestly looks dead, I think that's when it's over. Hello Hugh Hefner. I'm sorry you have no girls to be playing with right now, but planking is not something you should be doing.. […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2011
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Compact and easily explored, northern Dalmatia presents a greater concentration of the highlights of Adriatic travel than almost any other part of Croatia. Along the coast are beautifully preserved medieval towns poised above some of the clearest waters in Europe, while offshore are myriad islands adorned with ancient stone villages and enticing coves. The region increasingly serves both as a focus for the party crowd and as a get-away-from-it-all destination, with a burgeoning roster of festivals dovetailing neatly with stirring scenery and soothing beaches.
The main urban centre of northern Dalmatia is Zadar, an animated jumble of Roman, Venetian and modern styles that presents as good an introduction as any to Dalmatia's mixed-up history. It's within day-trip distance of the medieval Croatian centre of Nin, and is also the main ferry port for the unassuming northern Dalmatian islands of Silba, Olib and Dugi otok, where you'll find peaceful villages, laid-back beaches, and a level of tourism that has not yet become an industry.
The next major town south of Zadar is Šibenik, with a quiet historic centre and a spectacular fifteenth-century cathedral, and the most convenient base from which to visit the tumbling waterfalls of the Krka National Park. The main natural attraction in this part of Dalmatia is the Kornati archipelago, a collection of captivatingly bare and uninhabited islands accessed from the coastline-hugging, easy-going island of Murter. Joining Murter to the mainland is the swing-bridge at Tisno, a small town that's become the main venue for the summer-long cycle of festivals run by the Garden organization.
Dalmatia's long history of Roman, then Venetian cultural penetration (for a history of the region) has left its mark on a region where children still call adult males barba ("beard" – Italian slang for "uncle") and respected gents go under the name of šjor (the local version of signore), but modern Dalmatia's identity is difficult to pin down. People from northern Croatia will tell you that life is lived at a much slower pace in Dalmatia, whose inhabitants are joshingly referred to as tovari ("donkeys") by their compatriots, though the briefest of visits to bustling regional centres like Zadar will be enough to persuade you that these clichés are somewhat wide of the mark. The Dalmatians themselves will tell you that life is to be enjoyed and should not be hurried – which is why food, wine, music and café life are accorded so much quality time.Read More
Food and drink in Northern Dalmatia
Food and drink in Northern Dalmatia
As elsewhere in the Adriatic fresh seafood dominates the northern Dalmatian menu, although the broad maquis-covered plateaus just inland provide plenty in the way of lamb and game. The practice of roasting meats and bulky seafood dishes such as octopus ispod peke (slow-cooked under an ember-covered metal lid) is widespread – you should definitely try a peka-style at least once, though note that they require several hours of preparation and restaurants usually require advance notice. Lamb and suckling pig roasted on a spit is another regional favourite, and roadside restaurants will frequently have a carcass revolving slowly over an open fire in the front yard.
Nowhere is the blend of maritime and inland cuisine better developed than in Skradin, the small town that stands at the entrance to the Krka National Park. Here, the plenteous shellfish and oysters of the Krka estuary are consumed alongside the freshwater fish and eels of the river's upper reaches. Dishes found in Skradin and nowhere else include Skradinski rižot, a meat-based risotto that was (traditionally at least) slow-cooked for days prior to important feasts; and Skradinska torta, a cake composed of finely crushed nuts and syrup.
Vineyards run along the coast and new ones are being planted all the time. Best known of the local wines is Babić, a fruitily drinkable red; it is closely associated with Primošten (where arguably the best Babić is grown), although it's found all along the Šibenik coast.
A brief history of Dalmatia
A brief history of Dalmatia
As the part of Croatia most exposed to influences from elsewhere in the Mediterranean, Dalmatia has had a distinct role in the country's development, dating back to its colonization by Greeks and Romans. It was the Romans who first gave Dalmatia its name, probably inspired by the Illyrian word delmat, meaning a proud, brave man. Based in cities like Jadera (Zadar) and Salona (Solin, near Split), the Romans nurtured a Latinate urban culture which survived largely unaffected by the fall of the Roman Empire, and was soon reorganized into the Byzantine Province of Dalmatia. The Avar-Slav invasion of 614 destroyed Salona, although a new settlement founded by the fleeing Roman-Illyrian citizenry would eventually become Dalmatia's largest city, Split. The Byzantines retained control of the coastal strip but increasingly left the hinterland to the Croats, who arrived here soon after the Avars.
By the eleventh century Dalmatia had become part of the Hungaro-Croatian kingdom and an increasing number of Croats moved into Dalmatia's towns. In 1409 Hungaro-Croatian king Ladislas of Naples sold Dalmatia to Venice, opening up Dalmatia to Renaissance culture. However, the urban elite of fifteenth-century Dalmatia clearly saw themselves as Croats, and were keen to develop the local language as a medium fit for their patriotic aspirations. Prime movers were Marko Marulić of Split, whose Judita ("Judith") of 1521 was the first ever epic tale "composed in Croatian verse", as its own title page proclaimed; and Petar Zoranić of Zadar, whose novel Planine ("Mountains") of 1569 contains a scene in which the nymph Hrvatica (literally "Croatian girl") bemoans the lack of Dalmatians who show pride in their own language.
Venetian political control went largely unchallenged, however, because of the growing threat of the Ottoman Turks. Ottoman control of the Balkan interior had a serious impact on the make-up of the Dalmatian population, Slavs from Bosnia and beyond fleeing to the coast and its immediate hinterland. Many of those who settled the inland parts of Dalmatia belonged to the Orthodox faith, and were increasingly identified as Serbs when national consciousness became an issue.
The collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797 was followed by a brief Austrian interregnum until, in 1808, Napoleon incorporated Dalmatia into his Illyrian Provinces, an artificial amalgam of Adriatic territories with its capital at Ljubljana. The French played an important role in Dalmatia's development, building roads, promoting trade and opening up the region to modern ideas. There's little evidence that the French were popular, however: their decision to close the monasteries offended local Catholic feeling, and they also dragged Dalmatia into wars with the Austrians and the British, who occupied Vis in 1811.
After 1815, Dalmatia was incorporated into the Habsburg Empire and Italian was made the official language. After the fall of the Habsburgs in 1918, Dalmatia was claimed by both Italy and the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (subsequently Yugoslavia). Yugoslavia received the lion's share, but fear of Italian irredentism remained strong, especially after Mussolini came to power in 1922. The Italian occupation of Dalmatia between 1941 and 1943 only served to worsen relations between the two communities, and at the war's end most remaining Italians fled.
The advent of socialism in 1945 failed to staunch major emigration to the New World and Australasia. After World War II, the traditional olive-growing and fishing economy of the Adriatic islands and villages was neglected in favour of heavy industry, producing a degree of rural depopulation which has only partly been ameliorated by the growth of tourism. The arrival of package tourists in the 1960s brought prosperity to the locals, while urban-dwellers from inland cities like Zagreb and Belgrade increasingly aspired to vikendice ("weekend houses") on the coast, changing the profile of the village population and turning the Adriatic into a vast recreation area serving the whole of Yugoslavia.
During the break-up of Yugoslavia, Dalmatia suffered as much as anywhere else in Croatia. Serbian forces secured control of the hinterland areas around Knin and Benkovac but never quite reached the sea. Coastal hotels soon filled with refugees, however, and the tourist industry wound down owing to lack of custom. With the resumption of peace, tourists were quick to return to their former stomping grounds. Completion of the Zagreb–Split motorway (Autocesta Zagreb–Split) in 2004 placed the coast within easy driving distance of Central Europe, turning Dalmatia into one of the continent's most cosmopolitan summer playgrounds.


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Italian Template Recipe: Meat, Greens, and Cheese with Pasta
Another way to approach cooking instinctively is the idea of template recipes. These are recipes that can be easily deconstructed into just a few basic elements to be mixed and matched at will, like the Asian summer rolls that we showed you yesterday.
One of our very favorite template "recipes" is the Italian standby of pasta, meat, and greens.
Cooking pasta along with all the mix-ins and meat is a new thing for us; we are big fans of basic marinara sauce ladled over fresh, unadulterated pasta. But mixing everything together in one big pot is also delicious, and it helps coat every bite of pasta with a mix of rich and well-developed flavor.
Let's take our recent recipe for Anelletti Pasta with Sausage and Greens and break it down into its elements.
First off, choose your pasta, meat, greens and cheese. Take a look at our growing list of Italian ingredients and flavors:
• Italian Ingredients and Flavors
Pick out the freshest greens at the market: spinach, arugula, broccoli rabe, kale, turnip greens, watercress.
Choose some meat: Spicy Italian sausage, chorizo, bacon, salt pork, smoked sausage. A little will go a long way, since it flavors the whole dish. Use less than you would if you were eating it alone.
Cheese: Parmesan and pecorino are classic. But try Swiss too, and Gruyere. Delicious with arugula and fresh sausage!
Now, here are the basic steps of this template recipe.
1. Build flavor
Cook garlic and sometimes onions in a little olive oil. This will build flavor and strengthen the dish.
2. Brown the meat
Add some meat. Sausage, bacon, ground beef, shredded chicken. Cook in the oil until well-cooked and browned.
3. Cook and drain the pasta
Meanwhile cook the pasta just until al dente and drain.
4. Combine
Add the pasta in with the meat and toss over medium heat in a big pot.
5. Wilt the greens and melt the cheese
Add a few handfuls of fresh greens and cheese and cook quickly until all is just melted and wilted. Don't cook too long - you don't want to make the pasta chewy or too soft.
This may seem very basic and second nature to many of you, but it may be new to others. What would you cook in this template? What are your favorite pasta-meat-greens-cheese combinations?Ricotta Pasta with Fava Beans and Bacon • Pasta With Greens and Feta • Strozzapretti with Pecorino, Prosciutto and Something Green
Pasta with Vegetables
• Pasta with Pesto
• Heat Wave Eating: No-Cook Tomato Sauce
• Fettucini with Butternut Squash, Sage & Brown Butter
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Meat, greens and cheese. That's pretty much all the food groups!
Ooops, and pasta!
I love doing Rotini, Broccoli Rabe, and Tempeh with olive oil, red pepper flakes, and parmesan.
One of my favorite not-every-day ways to do pasta (I saw this on a cooking show) is to boil the pasta in the contents of a bottle of red wine rather than in water. If you have a plain colored pasta, it takes on the red color and a neat taste. I do it with broccoli rabe and some red pepper flakes, and I'm thinking a basic spicy Italian sausage would be excellent to throw in as well. It's fun and kitschy to serve at Christmas time!
Cavatappi, a mix of sweet and hot Italian sausage, onions 7 garlic, spinach, fresh ricotta.
my current favorite is orzo, peas, ham or bacon and goat cheese, with a little lemon zest. it comes together in 2 minutes and makes great leftovers. if i'm feeling frisky, i might put a poached egg on top.
you can see it here (sans egg): http://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2008/03/24/when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-orzo-with-goat-cheese-and-spring-veggies/
I make this way more than I should: kale (or broccoli), chickpeas, tomatoes, and chopped sun-dried tomatoes. (And garlic, of course!) I add vegetable broth and a little tomato paste to flavor it up and serve it over a short pasta, couscous, or rice.
I have been working off this template a lot this spring. So far, my favorites are:
*penne, ground turkey, spinach, and parmesan, with a little nutmeg for flavor
*orzo, peas, feta cheese, and chicken, with a little vinegar and olive oil for flavor
I think I might do a variation on mel.d's suggestion, and make orzo, broccoli, tomatoes, garlic, and a little mozzarella. Sounds yummy.
We're having pasta (haven't decided what kind) with arugula and parmesan tonight!
I'd like to share this as i did it last nite having some people over and really craving pasta.
Rigatoni (Ladini is my fav pasta brand it's kinda expensive but it's really the best, and it's made in Roma) with caramelized onions turkey bacon fresh tomatoes and ricotta.
what i did is "frying" the bacon in a nonstick pan, with no oil or butter, then i removed it and put 1 white onion in the pan, and cooked it slow with a bit of white wine, planty of water nut meg and 1 1/2 teaspoon of brown sugar. added then the bacon stirred.
in the meantime i mixed the ricotta with 1 tomato oil salt and pepper.
when the pasta is ready mix the onions and bacon, then add the ricotta mix, some peocrino or parmigiano and ..it's sooooooo good.
this is what i had in the refrigerator that's why i made it.
This is my favorite quick pasta dish. I call it Broccoli Pasta. Bring a big pot of water to a boil then add your favorite pasta (mine is farfalle or penne) and cook until al dente. During the last 6 minutes of cooking, add a head of broccoli, chopped up, to the boiling water and pasta. Meanwhile heat about half a cup of olive oil in a small pan over low heat. Add a lot of chopped garlic and a pinch of red peppers and simmer on low heat until pasta is done. Be careful not to let the garlic brown, heat should be very low. Drain the pasta and add it back to the big pot. Pour garlic and oil over the pasta, add about a cup of parmesan and mix everything up. Simple and delicious.
One of my meal templates is a grain, a bean and a green. Complete nutrition and plenty of room to embroider on flavors.
When I was a kid growing up in Southern Illinois, my grandmother would put together a dish starting with sauteing meat (whatever we had) adding onions, garlic and tomatoes and just enough liquid to cook the pasta that she added and we called it "Slum-gulion" - I don't think we thought of it as Italian but it was and still is - I still stir together these combinations and while I cook and stir I remember those days back in my grandmothers kitchen - cooking on a coal-fired stove with a real "Ice-box" and a big farm table where most of the preparation was done. She had 1 large hoosier cabinet in the kitchen and everything else was kept in the large walk-in pantry.
Childhood memories are the best & the best part is - my children will cook this dish for their children and tell the story of my grandmother's kitchen - this is what family is all about.
@nanamomsers-- OMG you are the only other person I've come across who knows the word "slumgullion"! And what a great dish it is. My great grandmother was from Missouri and her slumgullion recipe has been passed down throught the generations. My Mom and i made a batch a couple of days after Cristmas. I like adding fresh corn kernels or arugula but the "old fashioned" version is the best. I wonder what the origin of the word is? Will have to look it up. In the meantime, enjoy and cheers to you!


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REGINA -- Reggie Hunt is leaving the CFL the same way he came in -- as a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The veteran linebacker signed a one-day deal with the club Wednesday and will retire as a Roughrider.
Hunt spent six seasons with the Roughriders (2002-2007) before leaving to sign as a free agent with the Montreal Alouettes and Edmonton Eskimos.
"Reggie was very athletic, made big plays and was always all over the field," Riders' defensive co-ordinator Richie Hall said in a statement. "He was very quiet and caring off the field and had a great sense of humour."
Hunt appeared in 106 regular-season games with Saskatchewan, registering 497 total tackles (452 defensive, 45 special teams), 27 sacks, eight fumble returns, seven forced fumbles and five interceptions.
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-History. Croatia is blessed with historical landmarks from a range of eras. Dubrovnik for example is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with a beautiful medieval old-town home to gothic and Renaissance palaces and towers. Pula on the Istrian Peninsula has well-preserved Roman heritage, with a forum and large amphitheatre.
-Outdoor recreation. Croatia is home to eight national parks, with large expanses of beautiful upland scenery. Many visitors hire bikes to explore the picturesque rural landscapes around Istria. Hikers should head for pine-covered Dinaric Mountains, with peaks like Biokovo, Veliki Risnjak and Ucka, which can be climbed via walking paths.
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-Food and drink. The Istria and Dalmatia regions produce what is regarded by many as some of the best olive oil in the world. Meanwhile on the coast the seafood is fantastic, with octopus, calamri, shrimp and scampi all served fresh. Inland the cuisine is more rustic, with dishes like the spicy kulen sausage, and the cobanac meat stew.
Croatia has different climate zones due to the country's varied landscapes. If you visit the Adriatic coast in summer you'll encounter a Mediterranean climate, with warm and dry conditions from May through to October. Winters here tend to be mild, with a little more rainfall. Inland there's a continental climate, with warm summers, bringing higher temperatures than on the coast, and cool winters. Temperatures can drop well below freezing in upland areas like Gorski Kotar and Lika during the colder months.
If you're heading for a holiday home in Croatia from abroad then there are international airports at Dubrovnik (DBV), Rijeka (RJK), Split (SPU), Zadar (ZAD) and Zagreb (ZAG). You can reach these destinations via low-cost airlines from across Europe. There are a number of railway routes across the country, with international connections to Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and Serbia. By road, Croatian highways are noted for their high levels of upkeep and safety, with a recent addition linking Rijeka with Split. There's also an extensive inter-city bus network, with Osijek in the east serving as an international hub.


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Thomas MallonSentence for sentence, Carey's writing remains matchlessly robust.
—The New York Times
"This is an exuberant, entertaining, incisive novel, full of attitude and incident, about 'the great lava flow of democracy' . . . My favorite Peter Carey book has been Jack Maggs. Now, with his bracing and often hilarious new novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, my favorite has a rival."
—Dallas Morning News
"This masterful novel manages to be focused and intimate . . . The entertaining friction between his two alternating narrators that make this one of Carey's best."
—Time Out New York
"Peter Carey is a wily seducer, a mental acrobat who can bound across continents and centuries and make us believe in whatever world he has discovered and imagined. Parrot and Olivier transports us to the rough-and-tumble America of 1830, and it's possibly the most charming and engaging novel this demon of a story-teller has yet written. His prose has never been more buoyant, more vigorous, more musical. Open this book and listen to Peter Carey sing."
—Paul Auster
"Peter Carey's latest imaginative and commanding tale [is] a thrillingly fresh and incisive drama of extraordinary personalities set during a time of world-altering vision and action . . . His transfixing novels are at once sharply funny and profoundly resonant . . . Brilliant."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist, starred
"I have been reading with astonishment and envy Parrot and Olivier in America . . . Carey is a writer I prize not only for his remarkable Dickensian plots but also for the brilliance of his style . . . He is the most exuberant stylist at work in English today."
—Edmund White, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"One of those comic masterpieces that seems effortless while making you realize that Carey writes some of the best sentences in English."
—Tom Sleigh, New Yorker .com
Peter Carey's eleventh novel, an "improvisation" on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, offers no serious revelations about that nineteenth-century French aristocrat's views on democracy in America, and for that we should be grateful. What a crashing bore that would be. Instead of a novel of ideas, Parrot and Olivier in America is a big, trippy, often strangely beautiful novel of observations, with proper focus on the interplay between the two self-absorbed personalities doing the observing.
Carey is a two-time Booker Prize-winning Australian writer who's lived in America for twenty years, and while many of his novels feature characters torn between two countries -- most notably Jack Maggs and Oscar and Lucinda -- his latest book expands that displacement, ranging extravagantly over early nineteenth-century England, France, Australia, and America. Carey's two fugitives here are the 26-year-old nobleman Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Barfleur de Garmont (to be loosely confused with the real-life Comte Alexis-Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville) and his fiftyish English valet, John "Parrot" Larrit.
What yokes this most unwilling master and servant, each of whom instantly detests the other, is the authority of the Marquis de Tilbot, a formidable presence in both their lives. "Big and ruddy as a side of beef," and operating without the benefit of his left arm ("presumably sliced away by some horrid machine"), Tilbot is a dear friend of Olivier's mother, the staunchly royalist Comtesse de Garmont, who reveres Tilbot for his heroic leadership in a peasant uprising against the Revolution back in 1793. Semi-retired now in 1831 but still an enthusiastic meddler, the Marquis expresses concern for Olivier's safety during the precarious early days of the July Monarchy, and advises the Comtesse, who's still reeling from revolutionary post-traumatic stress, to send the young man to America.
Asthmatic, headachy, and prone to nosebleeds, Olivier is less than delighted about this voyage, during which he is ostensibly to make a study of American prisons. He's unhappier still with the forced loan of Tilbot's longtime servant Parrot -- a "common clown" with a gift for both mimicry and illustration whom Tilbot engages to serve as Olivier's secretary but also to report secretly on his whereabouts to Olivier's anxious maman.
For his part, Parrot is even crankier about his compulsory journey to America in the service of the effete little aristocrat whom he dubs Lord Migraine. His complex history with the Marquis, his "frightening benefactor," which spans decades and continents and unfolds gradually throughout the narrative, has caused in him an aversion to wandering. Coerced by Tilbot to abandon one household after another in England, Australia, and France, middle-aged Parrot now wants only to be settled, and to pursue his dreams of working as an artist alongside his current amour, a comely French painter called Mathilde.
This is only Carey's set-up, yet already he's developing his intention to blend the cinematic with the picaresque: it's a fish-out-of-water and a buddy story, with un poco Quixote, a dash of Jeeves and Wooster, and a soupçon, naturally, of Tocqueville, some of whose biographical dates and details here are faithful. (Parrot, though, is entirely Carey's invention.)
During the course of their American sojourn, these two will take turns being dazzled, appalled, bored, and moved beyond imagining by the rough-hewn, dizzyingly alien democratic panorama, which includes pig stampedes in New York's Hudson Square; nascent displays of housing foreclosures, insurance fraud, and art-market inflation; "the American autumn, in all its drunken wildness"; and the fidgety push of buyers and sellers on Broadway, who "banged against one another like marbles in a lottery barrel." The pair will bicker, separate, reunite, rescue each other, and, because everything is possible in the land of the free, they'll occasionally exchange roles as master and servant.
It's in this fluidity that Carey's novel reaches for something a bit deeper than mere entertainment. While Olivier and Parrot are both prisoners of their stations and their pasts, and agree about virtually nothing, they do manage to loosen into sympathy for each other. "A person like my servant was a foreign land," admits Olivier, "so although I might very sincerely wish to imagine him, how might I begin?" First, by acknowledging that both were traumatized children: Olivier grew up bedeviled by the specter of the Revolution, in which many of his relatives, and very nearly his parents, had their heads shorn by the guillotine; Parrot was torn away from his father, an itinerant Dartmoor printer with radical leanings, to be indentured to the sinister Marquis. And second, by their mutual recognition that "the great lava flow of democracy," with all its vulgarity and potential misuse, is civilization's best way forward. In the New World, Parrot might never quite attain liberty, and Olivier might always distrust equality, yet by believing in America's possibilities they lurch toward an unlikely fraternity.
But don't mistake this fuzzy sentimentality for an attempt at conventional novelistic tidiness. Although several reviewers have already called Carey's book Dickensian -- as so many long, vaguely antic novels are inevitably mislabeled -- its slyly off-kilter, hallucinatory sensibility places it more accurately in the picaresque postmodern tradition, hacked from the same big lumber as Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon or Stephen Wright's The Amalgamation Polka. And there is also, unmistakably, an inflection here of Australia, whose often-lethal landscapes and haunted colonial past have generated the extreme fiction, also frequently hallucinatory, of writers like Patrick White, Janette Turner Hospital, and David Malouf.
That an Australian novelist who now lives in New York might be drawn to Tocqueville is hardly a surprise. In fact, it would be tough to find an American with a generally sunny view of democracy who doesn't claim to love Tocqueville -- including those, like Carey, who have actually bothered to read him. What's more surprising is the fact that Parrot and Olivier in America manages to be a successful novel without truly being about Tocqueville, or America, at all. Vibrant and accessible, funny and often quite stirring, it only makes sense within the confines of its own loopy universe; yet the world it creates is gratifying. In creating characters that are both lifelike and original, Carey proves that, while a novel's jurisdiction is unlimited, its allegiance is only and always to itself.
--Donna Rifkind
1. Why does Carey choose to let Parrot and Olivier narrate their own stories? What makes their narrative voices so distinctive and engaging? What would be lost if the novel were told from a single perspective or by an omniscient narrator?
2. In what ways are Parrot and Olivier uniquely positioned to represent the huge social changes that were sweeping across Europe and America during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries?
3. As he arrives in America, Olivier remarks that "the coast of Connecticut was the most shocking monument to avarice one could have ever witnessed, its ancient forests gone, smashed down and carted off for profit" (p. 144). What other instances of American greed does he observe? What is the irony of a French aristocrat being appalled by the greed given free rein by American democracy?
4. Carey's prose style in Parrot and Olivier in America is vivid, richly metaphoric, and often extravagantly sensuous. When Parrot and Mathilde make up after a fight, for example, Parrot writes that her "hands were dragging at my clothes and her upturned face was filled with cooey dove and tiger rage. Her mouth was washed with tears. I ate her, drank her, boiled her, stroked her till she was like a lovely flapping fish and her hair was drenched and our eyes held and our skins slid off each other and we smelled like farm animals, seaweed, the tanneries upriver" (p. 148). What are the pleasures of such writing? Where else in the novel does the writing reach this pitch of overflowing metaphor?
5. What does Olivier find to be the most appealing characteristics of America's fledgling democracy? What does he find most baffling?
6. Olivier is loosely based on Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat and author of the classic Democracy in America. In what ways does Olivier resemble Tocqueville? In what ways does Carey depart from the historical figure to create his own character?
7. How do Parrot and Olivier initially regard each other? What are the major turning points that lead to their unlikely friendship? Why is their friendship possible only in America?
8. At the end of the novel, Olivier argues that America's young democracy "will not ripen well," that it will suffer the "tyranny of the majority" (p. 378), and that the American people prefer their leaders to be just as undereducated as they are. He goes on to tell Parrot: "You will follow fur traders and woodsmen as your presidents, and they will be as barbarians at the head of armies, ignorant of geography and science, the leaders of a mob daily educated by a perfidious press which will make them so confident and ignorant that the only books on their shelves will be instruction manuals…" (p. 380). Parrot attributes Olivier's harsh judgment to being heartbroken and having suffered as - a child of the awful guillotine' (p. 380). But to what extent have Olivier's predictions come true? In what ways can this passage be read as a sly commentary on recent presidents and the sorry state of the press in America?
9. How are Olivier and Parrot differently affected by the leveling of class distinctions in America? Does Parrot benefit from being in America?
10. Why does Amelia break off her engagement to Olivier? Does she make the right decision? Is Olivier better off without her?
11. Of the banker Peek's mortgage loan to Mathilde, Parrot says: "For Peek had played Shylock with her, himself lending her the capital and loading her to breaking point with every type of extra fee, compulsory insurance, brokerage, advance payments on taxes I am still sure that he invented" (p. 272). How surprising is it to see this version of today's housing boondoggles played out in in the 1830s? What is the significance of these schemes having such a long history?
12. After he discovers that Mathilde, Eckerd, and Watkins have burned down their house for insurance money, Parrot exclaims: "You are scoundrels, all of you." To which Mathilde replies: "We are artists. We have a right to live" (p. 314). Is Parrot right to call them scoundrels? Or is Mathilde's point of view the more sympathetic one?
13. What are some of the funniest moments in Parrot and Olivier in America? What makes Carey's writing so humorous?
14. What does the novel add to our knowledge of the early period of American democracy by seeing it through the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier? In what ways does the era described in the novel mirror our own?
Posted August 2, 2010
Don't read the book reviews..
A strange way to start a book review, yes? In regards to this title, however, and all the buzz that has surrounded it since its release, I think it's necessary to offset some of the descriptions of this book.
Many, if not all, of the reviews of Parrot & Olivier in America refer to Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, pretty much the standard for history in the early US. They connect the character of Olivier with that of de Tocqueville himself, and suddenly the idea of reading this book sounds like a snooze. It's not that way at all, and I think while the similarity exists and may be intentional by the author, it's not a very good way to introduce this book.
Parrot & Olivier is an insightful yet amusing narrative of the lives of two wildly different characters, as well as the time they lived in. First, Olivier.the son of French aristocrats who needs an escape plan that doesn't necessarily look like an escape. He needs to get out of France for his protection after the French Revolution, so after some thought it's decided to send him to America to research the penal system in the colonies. It's a useful out, as whatever he may learn is politically valuable in France, plus it gets him out of the country in a perilous time. Parrot is an older man, a survivor of many political battles and social conflicts, and his ability to survive in desperate conditions makes him the perfect chaperone for Olivier. Parrot, of course, hates the thought of babysitting the privileged son, and has to be coerced into leaving. It should be noted that before the departure ever takes place, Carey tells the story of both of these men separately, relating their character as well as significant details about the Revolution and how they had to use their wiles to survive.
Once they leave France, the story picks up even more, and the pace is fast as they both journey into both a new land and new situations. They end up bickering, fighting, separating, and finally bumping into each other again. The scene that finds them reunited is a street fight, where Parrot thinks he's saving Olivier, only to be unexpectedly saved by the well-armed boy. It's a funny moment, one of many, but it points to the difficulties of survival in this new place without some sort of backing.
For his part, Olivier has no interest in the study of the prisons, and yet his actions lead Parrot to have to experience them firsthand. The interaction between the two and the period details, especially in New York, make this a fun, lighthearted read. One thing that Alexis de Tocqueville said, however, in his book, does apply beautifully to the theme of Parrot & Olivier:
"The growth of nations presents something analogous to this; they all bear some marks of their origin. The circumstances that accompanied their birth and contributed to their development affected the whole term of their being."
Carey uses this novel to actually study how these two men developed from their vastly disparate births, with a conclusion that leaves you pondering the entire concept of class, friendship, and the sense of belonging.
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Posted February 10, 2010
In France, the aristocratic parents of Olivier-Jean-Baptist de Clarel de Barfleur are concerned with the safety of their son after his involvement with Louis XVIII, Napoleon III and Charles X. To keep him away from the guillotine, they ship him to the former colonies struggling with the concept of democracy.
Knowing how easily Oliver gets into trouble, his father hires John "Parrot" Larrit the impoverished printer's son is sent with him as his secretary. Neither like nor respect the other. Oliver's haughty mouth gets them in trouble in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and points in between while Parrot expedites them from one incident after another; having gotten his first hand training in the Australian penal colony.
Rotating perspective, this is a great fictionalized account of Alexis de Tocqueville's travels in America. Jocular yet poignant, readers will appreciate the same event as seen radically different by the son of the aristocrats vs. the son of a widower engraver. Parrot and Olivier in America will make the short lists for historical novel of the year.
Harriet Klausner
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Posted October 9, 2011
Using dual narrators, Peter Carey deftly portrays America, and to a lesser extent France and England, in the time frame following the French Revolution.
Our first narrator, is Olivier de Garmont, who by necessity engendered from his standing as a French aristocrat, must vacate France. To avoid political censure and create a face-saving reason for running away, it is decided that he will travel to America and write a book, supposedly for the French government, on the prison system in the New World. Olivier's character is loosely based on Alexis de Tocqueville and his writing of Democracy in America.
Through various machinations of plot our other narrator, John "Parrot" Larrit, a poor Englishman of humble beginnings, finds himself thrown into the position of servant to Olivier and on his way to America as well.
By turns humorous, enlightening, touching, and gripping, Mr. Carey's novel is an intricately complex page-turner of the very best sort. A portrait of the social culture of the America of the age is gently unfolded as the pampered, old world aristocrat and the down-trodden servant begin to equalize in matters of intellect, patriotism, cunning, respect, love and friendship.
The audio, put out by Blackstone and narrated by Humphrey Bower, will without a doubt be my number one audio for 2011. Given that this year I have listened to far more books than I have read in print, that is quite high praise. Mr. Bower so perfectly captures the accent and persona of both characters that I was surprised to realize that the book, which uses the format of alternating chapters being narrated from the viewpoint of each character in turn, did not use two different actors, one for each voice.
I absolutely loved this novel. It has everything a reader could wish for in a good work of historical fiction in terms of research smoothly intertwined within the plot, compelling characters (both from history and Mr. Carey's imagination), and vivid prose that drew me in whether the topic was of a personal or societal nature. Whether you choose to listen to Humphrey Bower's masterful performance or let Peter Carey's words speak for themselves, this is an absolute must read.
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Posted May 8, 2011
Ooh, Peter Carey is a hooligan, a rough lad, a clever boy. He takes the opportunity this novel provides to lampoon the national character of France and America, though he went rather easier on the British and Australians. But what a send-up it is! Glorious with imagined scenes of snobbery and pomp in royalist France, and rife with grim scenes of those money-making (literally: counterfeiting) British printers, he moves a youngish Olivier, French aristocrat and lawyer, and his secrétaire, the former counterfeiter John Larrit (nicknamed Parrot), to America, ostensibly to investigate the state of American prisons. In America, Olivier had heard, prison management was trying something completely unprecedented: rehabilitation as opposed to life-long penitance. Modelled on Alexis de Tocqueville's (short for Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville) chatty travelogue Democracy in America, Olivier de Garmont's (full name Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Garmont) book of the same name will surely be the greatest book on the habits of new country yet written. Narrated in amusing voice by Humphrey Bower, Parrot and Olivier in America illustrates with broad swathes of the pen-as-sword, the industrious and plebian democratists making a country they can live in. The young women of this new country are deliciously uninhibited, and the young men have a romantic notion they can aspire to greatness. The aristocrat and his secretary are both irrevocably changed by their term in America, become friends, and learn to live as equals. It is a journey both instructive and humorous, and we thank Peter Carey for turning his gimlet eye on our specificities.
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Posted April 11, 2011
M. Olivier can be a bit of a bore and an infuriating one at that... and yet, there's something engaging here. If you've a fondness for the period, you may find the book intriguing as there are numerous small adventures and insights into the lives of the main characters. The overarching plot felt weak and didn't really propel the story along. Maybe I should read de Tocqueville in the original instead?
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Posted April 9, 2011
a joy to read.
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Well, turns out that Anna probably has Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), not Croup. Uri and my mom took her into the pediatrician today to have her checked out because she got worse yesterday. She never coughed too much but last night she had a fever and also her nose was running. This morning she started getting a rash and she's just cranky. Poor thing - it's never fun to be sick, and I can't imagine how it feels when you are little and you don't know what's going on.
I had to come into work today so I skipped on the appointment. I was so busy this week and only being able to work partially while being home with her really set me back. But I feel like I have things under control and hopefully next week she'll be fine on Tuesday when it's time for her to go back to school.
I know she has it much worse than I do but I am so tired. Anna isn't the type of baby who likes to chill, not even when she's sick. She's always very active and when she's sick she's very active and cranky. I haven't been sleeping well because I'm worried about her and then she wakes up early - I just feel like I'm going to crash any second now. I used to remember on Fridays how I couldn't wait to have cocktails and go out for dinner - now I just can't wait until the day is over and I can sleep in my bed. My awesome, amazing bed.
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Richard Axel, M.D.University Professor, Co-director, Mind Brain Behavior Initiative
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Neurogenetics, Sensory Physiology
Defining the logic of olfactory perception; how individual sensory neurons express a specific receptor and how the brain distinguishes which receptors have been activated.
Mammals possess an olfactory system of inordinate discriminatory power. We are studying how the diversity and specificity of olfactory perception is accomplished. Our analysis of the patterns of expression of the odorant receptor genes, coupled with earlier electrophysiologic experiments have provided a logic for olfactory discrimination. Individual olfactory sensory neurons express only one of a thousand receptor genes. Neurons expressing a given receptor, although randomly distributed in domains in the epithelium, project their axons to a small number of topographically fixed loci or glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. These data support a model of olfactory coding in which discrimination of odor quality would result from the detection of specific spatial patterns of activity in the olfactory bulb.
2008 Fleischmann, A., B.M. Shykind, D.L. Sosulski, K.M. Franks, M>E. Glinka, D-F., Mei, Y. Sun, J. Kirkland, M., M. Mendelsohn, M.W. Albers, and R. Axel. Mice with a "Monoclonal: Nose: Perturbations in an Olfactory Map Impair Odor Discrimination. Neuron 60:1068-1081.
2008 Datta. S.R., M.L.Vasconcelos, V. Ruta, S. Luo, A. Wong, E. Demir, J. Flores, K. Balonze, B.J.Dickson, and R. Axel. The Drosophila pheromone cVA activates a sexually dimorphic neural circuit. Nature 452:473-477.
2008 Barnea, G., W. Strapps, G. Herrada, Y. Berman, J. Ong, B. Kloss, R. Axel, and K. J.Lee. The genetic design of signaling cascades to record receptor activation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA (December 28, 2007, Published Ahead of Print) 105(1) 64-69.
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Yo, you guys, this Tumblr is just gonna be about tanktops for a while. Longtime readers will note that my enthusiasm for tanktops is well-documented. Particularly informed readers might even note that at one point last summer, I very seriously tried to create a new genre of post-Dan-Deacon hyperculture partytime music which I dubbed "tanktop rock". Anyways, summer is back, which means that it is public tanktop season (indoor tanktop season lasts all year round), and I have once again taken up the noble tank as my sartorial mantle. It's not fancy, or anything close to high fashion, but let's get real folks: without tanktops, you can't really go to music festivals, and without music festivals, you aren't really having summer.
I found this site called Mantanks that is run by some seriously chill brosephs and for 24 bucks they will print whatever you want on a tanktop, which is awesome. I had them print me several. I am going to show you these tanktops, because IT IS SUMMER NOW DAMMIT TIME FOR TANKTOPS
This first one is p basic: I wanted a tanktop with the Games EP album art on it, so I made one. If you don't like Games/Ford & Lopatin, or flags, or synthpop, or cool WordArt, GET OUT
srsly why would you be here anyways if you didn't like any of that stuff
- bryanmckay said: tanktops are cool but i don't like other people's armpit hair so i have mixed feelings, but men's tanks look great on girls as short dresses w/ leggings
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