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Alameda Flea Market: Kitchen Loot and Food Report
It seems as if half the Bay Area was at the Alameda Flea Market last Sunday - I've never seen such lines or had to park so far back from the entrance! Our group got a little fretful as we waited in line to pay our $5 entrance fee. What if all the good stuff is already taken? Which, of course, is silly.
The endless aisles and piles (some more "flea", others more antique) are never exhausted and we were delighted to pick up plenty of good loot for the kitchen.
Our strict $25 limit scored us two French antique linen towels, two wooden bowls, six vintage linen napkins, two cup and saucer sets with matching bowls, a sliver fork, a camel cookie cutter and a wee porcelain doe!
While it's not the main event for most people, I found myself equally enthralled with the food. For $9, I got a delicious lunch from the India Gourmet of Watsonville. The handmade naan, cooked tandoori style and fresh out of the oven, was wrapped around a well-spiced and tender lamb curry and the mango lassi, a lovely shade of creamy orange, was sweet and cooling. The folks at the Feel Good Bakery do a nice scone and those little bread puddings looked tempting, too. But we just couldn't bear the incredibly long lines at the grilled sausage tent or the kettle corn shack. Maybe if we arrive earlier next month…
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as a child, that camel cookie cutter cut much play-doh.
I finally attended (I've ONLY been living in Alameda for a year and a half...) and I was wondering if it was always that busy. I wonder if it's because the SFChron had an article about the Antiques Fair a few days before.
Glad to hear the food is good, it sure smelled delightful! Now to get my mom and sister up here for the next one...
I had one of those camel cookie cutters too - I'm sure it's still in my mom's cupboards somewhere.
We made Christmas ornaments with it one year - still comes out of the box.
I think I have a set of those type cookie cutters including the camel from when I was first married. Hmmm - does that make me an antique too? Just asking ...


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Even though the Multnomah County attorney is already investigating the affair, the commissioners also wanted an outside investigation to take place.
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The investigation will include Cogen's business trip to Atlanta in April. Cogen was there on official county business attending a convention. Travel records show he canceled his hotel reservation where all of his other co-workers were staying and switched to a different hotel a few blocks away. Manhas' schedule shows she took vacation days during that period and she told the Willamette Week newspaper that she spent that time in Atlanta with Cogen.
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Peter Lorre
|Peter Lorre
|László Löwenstein
26 June 1904
Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
|23 March 1964
(aged 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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|Years active
|Celia Lovsky
Kaaren Verne
Anne Marie Brenning
(1953–64) 1 child
|Catharine Lorre (1953-1985)
Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an American actor of Austro-Hungarian Jewish descent.[1]
Lorre caused an international sensation with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M (1931). Soon in enforced exile, his first English language film was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) made in Great Britain. Settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films. The Maltese Falcon (1941), his first film with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, was followed by Casablanca (1942). Lorre and Greenstreet appeared in a further seven films together. Lorre's other films include Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).
Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic. Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale (1954). Some of his last roles were in several horror films directed by Roger Corman.
Early life[edit]
Lorre was born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904, as the first child of Jewish couple Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger, in the Austro-Hungarian town of Ružomberok in present-day Slovakia, then known by its Hungarian name Rózsahegy. His parents had recently moved there, following his father's appointment as chief bookkeeper at a local textile mill. Besides working as a bookkeeper, Alajos Löwenstein also served as a lieutenant in the Austrian army reserve, which meant that he was often away on military maneuvers.[2] When Lorre was four years old, his mother died, probably of food poisoning, leaving Alajos with three very young sons, the youngest only a couple of months old. He soon remarried, to his wife's best friend, Melanie Klein, with whom he had two more children. However, Lorre and his stepmother never got along, and this colored his childhood memories.[2]
At the outbreak of the Second Balkan War in 1913, Alajos moved the family to Vienna, anticipating that this would lead to a larger conflict and that he would be called up. He was, at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and served on the Eastern front during the winter of 1914-1915, before being put in charge of a prison camp due to heart trouble.[3]
Acting career[edit]
In Europe (1922–1935)[edit]
Lorre began acting on stage in Vienna at the age of 17, where he worked with the Viennese Art Nouveau artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner. He then moved to the then German town of Breslau, and later to Zürich in Switzerland.
In the late 1920s, the young and short (165 cm (5 ft 5 in)) actor moved to Berlin, where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brecht's Mann ist Mann and as Dr Nakamura in the musical Happy End (music by composer Kurt Weill), alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and co-stars Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron.
The actor became much better known after director Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in the film M (1931). In 1932 he appeared alongside Hans Albers in the science fiction film F.P.1 antwortet nicht about an artificial island in the mid-Atlantic.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), who reminded the film's director Alfred Hitchcock about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English at the time,[4] which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically. He also was featured in Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936).
The Nazi propaganda film The Eternal Jew (1940) uses an excerpt from the climactic scene in M in which child-murderer Lorre is trapped by vengeful citizens. His passionate plea that his compulsion is uncontrollable, says the voice-over, makes him sympathetic and is an example of attempts by Jewish artists to corrupt public morals.
First years in Hollywood (1935–1940)[edit]
Lorre soon settled in Hollywood, where he specialized in playing sinister foreigners, beginning with Mad Love (1935), directed by Karl Freund. He starred in a series of Mr. Moto movies, a parallel to the better known Charlie Chan series, in which he played John P. Marquand's character, a Japanese detective and spy. Initially positive about the films, he soon grew frustrated with them. "The role is childish," he once asserted, and eventually tended to angrily dismiss the films entirely.[5] He twisted his shoulder during a stunt in Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939),[5] the penultimate entry of the series. In 1939, he attended a lunch at the request of some visiting Japanese officials; Lorre wore a badge which said "Boycott Japanese goods".[6]
Late in 1938, Universal wanted to borrow Lorre from Fox for the role ultimately performed by Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein (1939). Lorre declined the role because he thought his menacing roles were now behind him, although he was ill at this time.[7] He had tested successfully in 1937 for the role of Quasimodo in an aborted MGM version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1937, according to a Fox publicist one of two roles Lorre much wanted to play (the other was Napoleon).[8] By now, frustrated by broken promises from Fox, Lorre had managed to end his contract, and went freelance for the next four years.[7] In 1940, Lorre appeared as the anonymous lead in the B-picture Stranger on the Third Floor, reputedly the first ever film noir.[9] The same year he co-starred with horror actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in the Kay Kyser movie You'll Find Out.
The War years (1941–1945)[edit]
Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca (1942). While Ugarte is a small part, it is he who provides Rick with the 'Letters of Transit', a key plot device. Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger (1943, with George Raft); Passage to Marseille (1944, reuniting them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing); The Conspirators (1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Three Strangers (1946), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict (1946), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.
Lorre also branched out into comedy with the role of Dr. Einstein in Frank Capra's version of Arsenic and Old Lace (released in 1944), and starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey. In 1941, Peter Lorre became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Writing in 1944, film critic Manny Farber described what he called Lorre's "double-take job," a characteristic dramatic flourish "where the actor's face changes rapidly from laughter, love or a security that he doesn't really feel to a face more sincerely menacing, fearful or deadpan."[10]
Post war (1945–1964)[edit]
After World War II, Lorre's acting career in Hollywood experienced a downturn, whereupon he concentrated on radio and stage work. In 1949 he filed for bankruptcy.[11] In Germany he co-wrote, directed and starred in Der Verlorene (The Lost One, 1951), an art film in the film noir idiom. He then returned to the United States where he appeared as a character actor in television and feature films, often parodying his 'creepy' image.
In 1954, he was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he portrayed Le Chiffre in a television adaptation of Casino Royale, opposite Barry Nelson as an American James Bond. (In the spoof-film version of Casino Royale, British comedian Ronnie Corbett comments that SMERSH includes among its agents not only Le Chiffre, but also "Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi".) Lorre starred alongside Kirk Douglas and James Mason in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954) around this time.
Lorre appeared in NBC's espionage drama Five Fingers (1959), starring David Hedison, in the episode "Thin Ice", and the following year in Rawhide as Victor Laurier in "The Incident of the Slavemaster" (1960). He appeared in a supporting role in the film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and, in the same year, he was interviewed on the NBC program Here's Hollywood. In this period he worked with Roger Corman on several low-budget films, including two of the director's Edgar Allan Poe cycle (Tales of Terror, 1962 and The Raven, 1963).
Marriages and family[edit]
He was married three times: Celia Lovsky (1934 – 13 March 1945, divorced); Kaaren Verne (25 May 1945 – 1950, divorced) and Anne Marie Brenning (21 July 1953 – 23 March 1964 (his death)). In 1953, Brenning bore his only child, Catharine. In later life, Catharine made headlines after serial killer Kenneth Bianchi confessed to police investigators after his arrest that he and his cousin and fellow "Hillside Strangler" Angelo Buono, disguised as police officers, had stopped her in 1977 with the intent of abducting and murdering her, but let her go upon learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre. It was only after Bianchi was arrested that Catharine realized whom she had met.[12] Catharine died in 1985 of complications arising from diabetes.[13]
Health and death[edit]
Lorre had suffered for years from chronic gallbladder troubles, for which doctors had prescribed morphine. Lorre became trapped between the constant pain and addiction to morphine to ease the problem. It was during the period of the Mr. Moto films that Lorre struggled with and overcame his addiction.[14]
Having quickly gained 100 lbs (45 kg) and not fully recovering from his addiction to morphine, Lorre suffered personal and career disappointments in his later life. He died in 1964 of a stroke. Lorre's body was cremated and his ashes were interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. Vincent Price read the eulogy at his funeral.[15]
Legacy and mimicry[edit]
Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard.
Lorre's accent and large-eyed face became a favorite target of comedians and cartoonists. In particular, several Warner Bros. cartoons used a caricature of Lorre's face with an impression by Mel Blanc, including Birth of a Notion, Hair-Raising Hare and Racketeer Rabbit.
In 1963, actor Eugene Weingand, who was unrelated to Lorre, attempted to trade on his slight resemblance to the actor by changing his name to "Peter Lorie", but his petition was rejected by the courts. After Lorre's death, however, he referred to himself as Lorre's son.[16] The incident was dramatized in Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre, a 45-minute radio play broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 10 May 2010 and again on 11 January 2013.
See also[edit]
- Notes
- ^ In his biography of Lorre, Friedemann Beyer states that Lorre's family were outsiders in Rózsahegy as they, who had only arrived there very recently, were German-speaking Jews in a majority Slovak town. Friedemann Beyer: Peter Lorre. Seine Filme - sein Leben, München 1988, p.8 ("Sie waren Juden, und sie sprachen deutsch in einer Gegend, in der überwiegend Slowaken lebten.")
- ^ a b Stephen D. Youngkin: The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), (pages 5 and 6)
- ^ Stephen D. Youngkin: The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), (pages 7 and 8)
- ^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)". Tcm.com. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
- ^ a b Younkin The Lost One, p.156-57
- ^ Leonard Lyons. "The New Yorker". The Washington Post (1923-1954) [Washington, D.C] 01 July 1939: 6.
- ^ a b Youngkin, p.164
- ^ Youngkin, p.163
- ^ Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, New York & WoodstocK: Overlook Press, 1992, p.269
- ^ Farber, Manny, The New Republic, July 10, 1944
- ^ Stephen D. Youngkin The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005, p.309
- ^ Schwarz, Ted. The Hillside Strangler, p. 212. Quill Driver Books. 2004. ISBN 1-884956-37-8
- ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=6456994&PIpi=20314347
- ^ "Peter Lorre" on Classic Images past issues, 1998
- ^ Youngkin, Stephen D. (2005). The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. p. 448. ISBN 0-8131-2360-7.
- ^ Youngkin, Stephen D. (2005). The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. p. 443. ISBN 0-8131-2360-7. "After the actor's death, however, he brazenly began passing himself off as Lorre's son, repeatedly contradicting his earlier testimony."
- Further reading
- Peter Lorre. Midnight Marquee Press. 1999. ISBN 1-887664-30-0.
- Youngkin, Stephen D., James Bigwood, and Raymond Cabana (1982). The Films of Peter Lorre. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0789-6.
- Youngkin, Stephen D. (2005). The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2360-7.
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- The Lorre Library of Sound
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- Photographs of Peter Lorre
- The Lodger on Mystery in the Air, 1947, starring Peter Lorre and Agnes Moorehead
- Listen to Jack Benny Show 1941-03-09 (402) Guest Peter Lorre - Murder at the Racquet Club
- Listen to Jack Benny Podcast 1946-03-24 (579) Guest Peter Lorre - I Stand Condemned
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Terraced Fields, Annapurna Region, Nepal.
There was a moment right before I stepped off the mountain that all I could think was, "What in the hell am I doing? I didn't even want to go paragliding in the first place!"
But it was too late to turn back, so I swallowed my fear and I took that crucial step off the ground. The next thing I knew, a wind current picked up my parachute and I was flying.
After Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest, he reportedly said he did it, "because the mountain was there." I decided to study abroad in Nepal for the same reason; the country was there for me to explore. Why not experience a culture radically different than my own?
My time abroad has been anything but what most would consider a normal experience.
I'm not enrolled at a university and taking classes, instead I have an internship and am working on research for my senior thesis.
I've gone trekking and saw the Annapurna Himalaya range at sunrise. About once a week, I have dinner with a former Tibetan monk who was imprisoned by the Chinese government at age 14.
I have watched cremations at Pashupati, the holiest temple in Hinduism and when I got the flu, I went to an acupuncturist to get better.
I'm writing this to say that spending a semester or a year in Europe studying can't be amazing.
Some of my best friends had the time of their lives in Ireland, Spain, France and Italy. But for me, going to Europe wasn't enough.
Like Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, I wanted "adventure in the great wide somewhere." I wanted to push myself completely out of my comfort zone and being in Nepal has done just that.
Nothing about living in Kathmandu is easy or familiar. To get to work I ride a school bus packed with about one hundred people. I take cold showers, live without air conditioning and use a squat toilet. Yep, that's right — a porcelain hole in the ground.
There are moments when I wish I was at home, being a nanny. Or in Europe somewhere, drinking strong, delicious coffee.
Instead, I go without power for about 10 hours a day and spent a memorable evening in Pokhara killing roaches with a bug spray can.
Going to Nepal has made me realize how important travel and new experiences can be.
I've learned to trust my instincts and that I am much stronger than I ever imagined. I've learned that bravery doesn't always roar; sometimes it is as simple as taking a bite of a new food.
I've also relinquished some of my type-A control freak tendencies.
So, I urge you to go and experience something new. Get dirty. Live in a culture with no semblance of your own.
Play rice paddy soccer in Nepal. Learn Zulu in South Africa. Spend time with indigenous people in the Andes Mountains. Just do something different.
Think outside the European semester abroad. Europe is fantastic and somewhere I want to desperately return to one day. But there are other places around the world calling your name. Go, be brave and experience them.
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a snapshot of the district but leaving one of the more
pressing questions unanswered.
"We just don't know yet where we will build a new Birch Bay elementary school," Spanjer said, "but one is certainly needed."
He began by showing how both enrollment and the district's budget are growing at a rate that's been consistent for the last 10 years and is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
Despite the squeeze this puts on facilities, student achievement remains strong, he said. Blaine's current high school sophomores (taken as a group) currently meet or exceed the basic Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) criteria in math, reading and writing.
Next year's seniors will be required to individually meet the standards in order to graduate, and this year's freshmen (class of 2010) will also have to qualify in science.
Spanjer cited the impressive amount of advanced placement courses (12) and students (131) at Blaine high school, much more than any other district in the county and something that has made Blaine a model for other districts throughout the state, especially small ones.
"These courses keep our academic leaders on campus," Spanjer said, "and when finished a student can take a qualifying exam that if passed grants credit from virtually any college in north America."
Enrollment increased by about 300 students since 2000 and is projected to go up another 400 by 2013. The general fund budget has gone up from just over $14 million in 2003 - 2004 to $19 million this school year.
Enrollment in kindergarten through the fifth grade has increased 7 percent in the last nine years and is expected to continue, reaching a projected 1,169 students by 2015. The high school, Spanjer said, has grown 53.4 percent in the same period.
"We are projecting that we will reach [an enrollment of] 900 students at the grade 9-12 level by 2015," he said, adding that the existing high school was built to accommodate only 500 students.
Continued strong population growth will require more than just a new school in Birch Bay, Spanjer said. The long-range facility committee, made up of both district staff and community members, has also identified projects at the main campus and at the Pipeline fields that, taken together with the new Birch Bay elementary school, would total a little over $60 million.
The facility committee has requested that the superintendent review this information with multiple community groups over the next two months.
The committee plans to reconvene in early May, review the feedback collected and forward a recommendation on to the board for consideration.
The board hopes to raise the needed funds with a capital projects bond that could go before voters in the spring of 2008.
The new K-6 elementary school in Birch Bay, projected to be up and running in five years, will cost an estimated $22 million, and as yet no site has been chosen.
School board member Pebble Griffin, who lives in Birch Bay Village, said that it's "proving to be a little more difficult than we expected," but could not go into detail as the district's negotiations for property acquisition are not made public.
A $30 million bond the school board is looking to put on the next ballot would fund renovation and expansion at the high school would include space for the music program, a high school cafeteria and more classrooms.
An additional $4.6 million would fund growth related capital project issues that include playground projects at the primary and elementary school, one of which would convert the primary school's covered play area into classroom space, expanded cafeteria space, more space for buses at the bus barn, increased parking and office space at the district office and upgrades to floor surfaces and special education space at the middle school.
Finally, the committee recommended $3.9 million in improvements to the Pipeline Fields complex and the Blaine stadium.
"Forty-six percent of Blaine high school students and 54 percent of Blaine middle school students participate in organized athletics," Spanjer said, adding that the community itself makes heavy use of the same facilities as well.


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This post is one of two on itinerancy transitions - the other is from the congregant's point of view [1].
I am moving this year, after serving at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church [2] for seven years. Cedar Grove was my first appointment, so this is my first move. I initiated the move, after long and careful discernment. I did not want this move to be my idea, but rather, God's desire. I needed to know that I was not merely leaving, but rather, that God was calling me to a new place of ministry.
I am having a very hard time writing words that describe what it feels like to be leaving a congregation that God has called me to serve for the past seven years. The words do not come easy, because the feelings are so conflicted.
I am leaving, but I am not really going. I know that as a connectional church, and through the Holy Spirit, we are still One Body.
I am going to a new place of ministry, but the God I will proclaim is the same God I have proclaimed here for seven years.
I am leaving a group of people who desire to follow Jesus, but I am being sent to people who have also been baptized into Christ.
I have been leading people to go beyond the walls of the building and into the world, and that will not change, regardless of where I serve, because that's what God is like.
While I am in the midst of transition, I cling to the steadfastness of the God who has called me to the itinerant ministry. I know that my real home, any real stability I can cling to, is the very heart of God, and yet, for seven years that heart has been made real through a diverse group of folks I have come to love here in Cedar Grove.
I told the good folks of Cedar Grove that I was leaving in January, but I have not yet gone. I have already been given a new appointment, but I am not yet there. Already, but not yet. We pray for the grace to live in these "between times." We should know how to do it, but we don't.
There are goodbyes to be said, there are hurt feelings to be mended. Some folks are glad I am leaving, many others feel that their world has fallen apart, and still others accept the move as "the Methodist way." Emotions run high – there are tears mingled with laughter, trying to grasp every possible good minute we have remaining as pastor and congregation. But there is also the expected emotional distancing. While some folks are eager to spend as much time together as we can before the move, others have stayed away. It is easier that way.
Both my office and the parsonage are full of boxes. The Parsonage Committee is trying to figure out how to paint the interior and renovate the kitchen while we are still living there. Needs run high – people continue to die, crisis care has not ended, and for many, the pastor is needed more than ever. And I still have bulletins to prepare and sermons to write.
In the words of The Book of Worship,
We have shared with each other good times and bad,
we have shared each other's joys and sorrows,
we have lightened each other's heavy loads.
Together we have laughed and cried,
Together we have worshiped and praised God,
Together we have lived. (UMC BOW, 590)
I might add that we have also argued, upset each other, said things we shouldn't have said, and left each other hanging in confusion and anger. But we have not left each other hanging for very long. We have asked for forgiveness, we have felt the joy and peace that comes from hearing the words, "In the name of Jesus Christ, I forgive you."
When my daughter was in the second grade, she was the county winner of the Young Author's writing contest. The title of her self-illustrated book was Am I Leaving or Am I Coming? A Child's View of Moving. We had just moved into a new neighborhood, a new house, and Sarah's book began by citing the many reasons she was sad about the move. After moaning about all the steps in the new house, the smaller yard, and the lack of a flower garden, Sarah quickly moved to the assets of the new house and neighborhood: the 13 steps to her new room would provide her some privacy; there wasn't much yard, but acres of woods to explore; we could start over with the garden, planting our favorite things, and trying some new plants. Sarah's attitude belied her barely eight years of life on this planet; her conclusion was simple but profound: "I was never quite sure if I was leaving or coming. But I finally decided I was doing both…As for you, if you ever move, you can say you are both leaving and coming."
I hope I can embrace this change with at least the maturity of a precocious eight year old. Challenges will provide opportunities for redemption; whatever the physical layout of the new community, there will be territory waiting to be explored. And always, there will be opportunity for new gardens and seeds of faith to be planted.
The community of Cedar Grove will continue to thrive, because that is God's desire. Already, a new person in love with God is preparing to come. There will continue to be mountaintop experiences and dark valleys; there will continue to be Kingdom moments as well as opportunities to be raised from the darkness into the Light. Maybe, some of the seeds that have been planted during my last seven years will take root. New seeds will be planted. Church will happen.
Guest blogger: The Rev. Grace Hackney, NC Annual Conference
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Ann Cummins - Red Ant House
Recorded Monday, July 14, 2003; Aired on KUSP 88.9 FM Santa Cruz August 15, 2003
By Kathryn Petrucelli
Ann Cummins has been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney's and The Best American Short Stories 2002 . Red Ant House is made up of stories that portray slices of life from poor families from which parents are often missing. Many center around the inner thoughts of young people who seem to be mulling over what they've divined about how the world works and trying to apply it to real life circumstances that often turn odd or scary.
Dave Eggers says of reading Ann Cummins' writing, among other things, "I'd been savoring … every screamingly original description, every taut and unsentimental but velvet-smooth swatch of life."
KP: Your new short story collection, Red Ant House , has many common themes; there's a cohesion to the book. I see the characters in your book on the cusp of decisions that they may or may not be ready to handle, or the consequences of which they may or may not be ready to handle. Does that make sense?
AC: I think I'm old-fashioned in my sense of the story, of the short story. I really like to find the center of my stories at the edge character's conflict, inner conflict. And most of them revolve around the moment of change or the point at which a character may have the opportunity to change and choose not to. So, you know, I like O'Henry stories—the surprise in the O'Henry stories, that keeps the reader turning the page; the "what's gonna happen next," that kind of thing. But I'm very much of a character-based writer. My models are writers like Flannery O'Connor, for example, who just gets right into the heart of the character's soul right from the very beginning. I like to develop my tension and plot together really springing from the psyche of the character.
KP: Certainly we are in that inner landscape with your characters from the very beginning, as you say. I think that's definitely the case, and you've achieved that for sure. Would you say it's a fair characterization to they're coming of age stories?
AC: Many of them are. I had several stories that were left out of this collection. My editor and I were going through and looking for the ones that we felt we could thread together to sort of …You know, I like the idea of the isolated short story but a short story that will build, the themes that will build, or the tensions that will build throughout an entire collection can be a qualitative experience for the reader. So, we rejected a lot of the stories that didn't fall into the coming of age category. It's funny because after I put the collection together with my editor's help – and she really was very much in there with me selecting the stories —I got very worried that readers would read this and say "Oh my gosh, poor girl" (laughs) "She has had such a tumultuous, sad childhood." (laughs) But in fact it's just that we really tailored the stories to moments of characters' pivotal decisions.
Now not all of the characters are children and not all of them are adolescents, but even the adult point-of-view characters are frequently coming from a place of innocence, and, um, where they're discovering something about themselves and approaching almost a point of danger in themselves. In that way it is a coming of age for characters of all ages, maybe.
KP: How many would you say were left out?
AC: Probably, five. And, you know, some of them were favorite stories of mine but stories that were just a little wacky…
KP: It's hard to leave out what you love.
AC: But it's all right. I like the idea of really having a cohesive book. And my editor—I really respect her so much, Susan Canavan– I think that she and I were— our minds were married on that, on the stories that fit together.
KP: I think of the "Headhunter" where it is an adult character, but there are still parent issues there. And of the stories where it is a young person, many have ill and/or missing parents. Would you say that these characters are in a state of grieving?
AC: It's funny you should bring up "Headhunter." That's actually my favorite story in the collection for two reasons. One is that I was still teaching myself about how to weave plot into the story and I really learned a lot. There's a point at which my point-of-view character …she's playing a kind of cat and mouse game with this man as they're driving down a mountain. He's chasing her. And at one point she actually pushes him over the cliff. And, metaphorically, it was very important for me because I pushed myself over the cliff of making things happen rather than staying receded in the story; do you know what I mean? I want to be able to incorporate the action, kind of in the way Hitchcock might have designed his movies, and yet still not to lose sight of the character driving the story. It was important to me just in terms of learning craft in the story.
But as a matter of fact my father was ill for a long time; he had a degenerative lung disease, and my mother nursed him for nine years. It took me about two years to write "Headhunter," and he was still alive while I was writing. I believe that I was going through a process of grieving for him as I was writing it because it was clear he was going to die, and we lived with that the whole time; the whole family lived with that. The funeral was a sad occasion for me, but there were pivotal moments in that story that were sadder for me.
KP: Yeah, it took me a while to come to that idea. That "Oh, yeah, there's grief." And there's dealing with grief and not dealing with grief. And certainly, I know as a young person I lost a parent and it becomes apparent, but to me it came late when it started to sink in.
Just to stay on that story since we're talking about "Headhunter," I was struck by something the LA Times said about it. In something—and I don't know if you want to reveal this or not—but in something that the character does, the Times says "you never see [it] coming and…you can't quite recover from [it]." I had to jump on that and agree. I was really impressed with the story's power in that way.
AC: I appreciate the Times saying that. I had a student read that story. I teach creative writing at Northern Arizona University, and I had a student read that story while it was in progress. And he got back to me and he said, "Professor Cummins, you are so weird!" (laughs) Because she, she does something that really takes the story into a moment of horror—and I won't reveal it either—but, I thought I was risking a lot at that moment because it either is too much, or it is actually the kind of thing that is memorable and will stay with the reader, and I was hoping that would happen.
KP: A well-taken risk. Is it fair to say that many of these characters crave attention?
AC: I think my characters tend to be lonely souls. And I do think they are looking for moments of connection with the different people who fascinate them. They also are attracted to fascinating people. They're pulled into dramas by people who would not normally be good friends to them. Frequently I'll find my plot in those kinds of tensions: characters who are very different and the attractions are centered on the differences.
KP: While you were writing were you sort of hyper-aware in your own world of things that were happening around you? Or were you sort of eavesdropping, so to speak, on lives around you to try to pull from?
AC: I think unconsciously. I don't think that I was aware. My writing process has been very, very messy. And frequently I don't know what a story is about until I've finished it, and finishing it means going through lots and lots of drafts for me. So there's a lot of trial and error. And I don't necessarily start out knowing that my characters are antagonists or anything like that. They shape and they grow as I go through different drafts with the story.
KP: I know that tension of drama or emotion certainly jumped out to me in the language that you use in the story "Bluefly." Interestingly, this is a story set in early 1900s, and I think it's the only story that has that kind of time frame put on it – any time frame put on it. We have a brother and sister living with an older brother and a very discontented northern wife. Parents are gone. And the language you use in that story, you kind of show "blendable" emotions, where things we would see as opposites really don't have to be. For example, you mention someone is listening to someone who is "laughing or sobbing" and trying to decide if someone is "sleeping or sobbing." And someone might "laugh—or cry." These are all together in one description.
AC: In that story, it really draws very much on my family's homesteading experience up in southern Colorado. My great uncle, bless his heart, wrote a 50-page "this is my life" story and just amazing memories about what it was like to be living in a mud hut up in southern Colorado. And I tried to evoke that emotional strangeness of characters who really have to work very hard because life in that circumstance is very hard. But also, they're very poor and they fight each other as much as love each other, I believe.
KP: I'm going to ask you to read a passage if you would from "Trapeze" which is the second story in the collection. And just to set it up briefly… there's a wispy, shy girl, a white girl, attending school on the Navajo reservation and she's dealing with a bully.
AC (reading from Red Any House, "Trapeze"):
They called her Purple because of the purple sweater she always wore. I'd made her acquaintance three years earlier, our first year on the reservation. I was walking home from school, taking the short cut behind the band building. Then, the sweater swam around her hips. It still did because she tugged it down, but now there were holes where the yarn had pulled loose at the shoulders and collar. That day behind the band building she taught me something: Indian girls will hit you. This amazed me. She said, "What would you do if I socked you in the stomach?" And then did.
Right away I thought, Tell Mom . Mama was gathering evidence that first year to justify marching us off the reservation. She wanted us back in civilization, which meant Catholic schools. There were Catholic boarding schools for Indian kids, but none for us. "You're a smart man," she told my dad every night. "You can get other jobs."
Then again, telling Mom things didn't always work out so well. That was also the year Ronnie had decided to get holy. Until then he'd always been a go-along Catholic. He'd go with us to mass if he didn't get a better offer. But this one day, out of the blue, he announced that his new mission in life was to light a fire under the Catholic Youth Organization. My mom's eyes went all soft when he said this, like he had read her mind and said the one thing she'd been praying hardest for. Ronnie was in ninth grade then. He spent hours in front of the mirror, smearing his hair with VO-5 and then parting it this way and that. He told me that Catholic girls are sex-starved and the reason so many joined CYO is because they got to do the hug of peace in Jesus' name. He told me he planned to be there for all those sex-starved nymphos, to let them rub up against him just as long as they wanted, and that I'd better plan to take over all the chores because he had a lot of CYO business to take care of. Sure enough, he started skipping out right after dinner—I don't think he did a dish all year, and he was never around for Saturday chores. I tried to tell Mom exactly why he was so interested in CYO.—Sex. He told me so!"—and she looked sour. "If, indeed your brother told you this, I'm sure he didn't intend you to tell me. You don't want to grow up to be a snitch, do you, Karen?" You never knew how something would hit her. So I didn't tell her about Purple. That night, I played it over and over in my head. Purple'd been standing in the shade with her cousin, Lily. I said, "Hi." She said the thing about socking me in the stomach. I kept walking, but I watched her face. First there was the idea, then, an instant later, the decision. I'm gasping and she's squinting at me, her fists clenched. Then she crossed her arms like some kind of prizefighter, and there was this gleam in her eye, and I knew what she was thinking. She was thinking, Yes, I do dare punch a hole through this scared little white girl in her corduroy overalls saddles shoes and pin-curled hair. Yes, I'd be pleased to roll this little puff of kitten fur in the dirt.
I believe she was the first Navajo to really notice me, and I guess the only one to go really deep—from the rim of my belly button to the mole on my spine. I waited to see what would happen next, but then Purple went away. I heard they sent her to boarding school in Kansas. But that was three years ago.KP: I'm charmed by that character. There's so much that happens in that story. I know in a couple pages she's talking about why she's doing some of the things she's doing and what was on her "to do" list for that year—among them, to say hi in the hallways and to speak once a day in class. She thinks she's succeeded pretty well in the last part. (laughs) Asking the teacher to repeat the homework.
AC: Yeah, she set low goals for herself. (laughs)
KP: It's quite amazing that you give voice to these characters because they are these sort of self-proclaimed misfits. In one part of that story Karen, the protagonist, is wishing herself invisible repeating to herself "Karen is invisible. Karen is invisible."
AC: Thank you. Yeah. I really liked that character and finding the thing that would be the defining personality for that character.
KP: With short fiction, how do you go about building that relationship with that character? Is there an imbalance between the amount of energy you must have to put in to make these people real and then the ultimate number of pages the story becomes. And how do you build that and how do you survive that emotionally as a writer?
AC: That's a really good question. I don't know…If writers are blessed with a few good things, like the ability to hear character. It really is an aural thing, where you hear the way a character speaks, the idioms a character might use. But not just the manner of speech, but also you hear the way a character would think, for people who write character-driven stories. So, finding character was never the difficult thing for me. The difficult thing was learning how to harness it and shape the story. A short story does only one or two things, it doesn't do a whole lot.
It took me a lot of reading of short story masters and also reading what great short story writers have to say about the short story. Chekov had a great influence on me as a short story writer—how to craft the short story. Chekov says the short story writer does two things or a short story has two things: he and she. Meaning, not necessarily a man and a woman, but two opposites. And that's it. And he says it takes on a short period of time. I really let those sorts of guiding words be voices in my ear as I'm writing stories, although I do like short story writers who will break off from the classic models of the short story and surprise. And I think a writer like Alice Munro, very much does that, where she will go trickling off and you think, "Well, this story is never going to
end!" and then it ends so beautifully.
KP: And so what for the next project? Do you feel that you have this down or you have it in a place where you like it? Or would you like to stretch yourself in terms of how you approach a short story or what genres you approach? What can we expect from you?
AC: Well, I'm in the middle of a novel. Actually I signed a two-book contact at the time that I sent Red Ant House off. So hopefully the next thing will be the novel. And it's very much a realist-based novel. But, I am interested in exploring the boundaries of genre. And I think that genre tends to be arbitrary and we may have categorized them…in a way that it's inhibited imaginations for American writers. I like the idea of horror leaking into literary fiction, and even a little bit of well, Latin magical realism and science fiction leaking in.


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Major: Pre-med Bio
Favorite Types of Music: Rock
Favorite Movies: Love Actually, X-Men, and Avengers
Favorite Books: A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini
Favorite Dessert: Cupcakes
Hobbies: Reading and tumbling
Biggest Pet Peeve: Whining
People of Influence (why?): My mom because she raised me alone and provides for me.
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Unabashed and stunningly unaware, TV Azteca reporter Ines Gomez Mont proposed to Brady in front of 4,000 so-called media members Tuesday at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The Super Bowl made more sense when player guarantees were sought for the outcome, not the altar.
"Tom, I'm in love with you! Will you marry me please?" Gomez Mont shouted. Later, she pulled the same stunt on Eli Manning.
At next year's Super Bowl, can they please rename Media Day out of respect for the reporters who don't wear white satin, black capes, hand puppets, itty-bitty tank tops or a wig for the occasion?
"What's your name first? Ines? Wow, beautiful name, Ines," Brady said, only egging the woman on.
"I'm the real Ms. Brady," she answered.
But, alas, a smiling Brady broke the news to add another broken heart to his long list.
"I'm a one-woman man," he said.
That one woman, model Giselle Bundchen, could have shown up to confront the woman trying to steal her man and body-slammed her to the turf hard enough to get grass stains on her dress and the antics would have fit right in at this zany annual event that has absolutely nothing to do with football.
That just keeps getting zanier.
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Randy Moss sounded frustrated when responding to a question about Brady's sprained ankle that has been the source of mystery and intrigue.
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If handing Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi a "Barry Manilow Award" for his ability to play a saxophone wasn't embarrassing enough for "Entertainment Tonight" anchor Kevin Frazier, Bruschi exacerbated it. The TV show had misspelled his name "B-R-U-S-H-C-I" on the trophy.
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Why silverstripe 3 i so very,very slow, just like road roller?
There is no comparison with eg. 2.4.7 . We have some large projects on 2.4.x and works fine.
But SilverStripe 3.0 work like diesel engine.
I am disappointed with the new generation Silver - everythings looks preety but that's not all.
I suggest create new forum "Performance".
Today we build small ecommerce solution - nothing special but I prefer not to think about how it will work on larger projects.
Are you also experiencing this?
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11 November 2012 at 4:28pm
SS3 has a rather unfortunate bug with the new config system. A patch for this is coming in 3.1.
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Hi Will
Will there be a patch in the mean time? Lots of server memory being used!!!
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18 January 2013 at 8:51pm
Since we use SS3 in production (already 5 websites), 3 out of 5 clients complain about pages loading very slow.
I also tested the latest 3.1 from githum, but hardly any performance improvement. Memory Limit on the hosting is 128MB, APC installed, gzip active AND using apc caching instead of file system....
Loading times from SS2.4 were a lot better... i really hope there's improvement on the way...
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24 January 2013 at 7:48pm
Same issue here. I'm glad I ran across this post as I thought I had something configured wrong. I finally took the dive into SS3 and used it on a recent site for a client. If anything, I expected the performance to be even better, but the site is much slower than a more complicated site running on the same server with SS 2.4.7 :0(
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27 January 2013 at 2:48pm
This CMS looked interesting, but I guess I gotta look somewhere else.
I see the latest version is 3.0.3. And this bug is supposed to be resolved in 3.1.
How can a bug causing slowness be treated as low priority?
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3.1 is currently in beta and will be released as stable as soon as all the serious bugs have been ironed out. Give the beta a go and help report any issues.
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Done some more profiling, results have been inconsistent so I think it's likely something on my site. Will profile both versions on a blank install in more detail when I get time.
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Drinking at Work on the Rise in Silicon Valley
Doesn't having a beer in the afternoon when you're at work sound pretty cool? Sure it does — but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Wealthier Teens More Likely to Drink Alcohol, U.K. Study Finds
Researchers in the U.K have found that teens from more affluent families are more likely to drink than teens in poverty, although having a mother
Study Suggests Minorities Smoke Less, But Find Quitting Harder
New research suggests that smoking is less prevalent in communities of color, and, among those who smoke, racial and ethnic "minorities" are more likely to
More States Favoring Treatment Over Lock-up for Drug Offenses
For several decades, states have taken a ""nail 'em-and-jail 'em"" approach to drug offenders — but several states are now rolling back their punitive drug laws and investing in treatment.
DEA Ban on 'Synthetic Marijuana' Takes Effect
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has temporarily banned five chemicals whose effects mimic marijuana, following through on an announcement it made last November, NPR reported
Gov. Scott Rejects Drug Czar's Plea for Fla. 'Pill Mill' Database
Gil Kerlikowske, the White House 'drug czar,' urged Fla. governor Rick Scott to reinstate a prescription drug-monitoring database he axed in this year's state budget,
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Whether you are a consumer or a provider, SAMHSA's Partners for Recovery Initiative can help you grasp the ins and outs of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the recently released Interim Final Rule.
Addiction Professionals Say Health Reform May Not Increase Access to Treatment
A 2010 survey of substance abuse treatment providers showed a field that expects continued barriers to patient access despite health care reform, especially as funding
SAMHSA: Behavioral Health an Ever-Smaller Percentage of Total Health Spending
Although national spending on mental health and substance abuse grew between 1986-2005, it accounts for a shrinking part of the part of the pie, according
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A new mine risk education project
Handicap International reopened a project in Chad, a country severely affected by a series of conflicts. The presence of numerous mines and unexploded devices has made it necessary to perform demining operations in affected areas and to raise the awareness of the population.
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Christie has termed his plumpness "fair game" for comedians. And during his first appearance with Letterman on Monday, the outspoken Republican read two of Letterman's jokes that he said were "some of my personal favorites."
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How are you feeling my dear Michelle??? I hope everything is better now!!! I won't send you hugs because they might hurt you. but you know i love you :*
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I don't know if you would like them but the purple tulips are my favorite!!!!
I more than just thank you Michelle!!!
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I had a wonderful mother's day. it's been years since I can't spend this day with my mom because she lives in other country but I was able to go there and stay with her this year!!!
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Happy Mother's day Michelle!!!!! may God bless you and the ones you care for, may he give all that your heart wants and deserves!!!
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How you dare to say that Michelle?! the book will be awesome!!! and if you have a few mistakes, that's why editors exist. I have told you before, and I'll never tire to tell you how much I love what you have done with the story, I could never do it so perfect. I'm ashamed because I haven't keep up with my part, but I promise as soon as I have my computer back, I'm back on it.
but I'm sad, because the story is coming to an end :( are you planning on writing more??
you are a wonderful writer Michelle never doubt that. how knows maybe one day you could be as famous as Stephenie Meyer!!!
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I can never thank you enough for how awesome the story is developing, I loved the last chapters I've read.
You surprised me with Grace at Peter's grave, I thought it was Edward!!!
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Pierre-Louis and his Strength Through Unity team of volunteers. David's return to Haiti immediately after the
earthquake was covered by Katie Couric, The Guardian and KING-5 among others. He has raised thousands of dollars
through charity events at his U-District club, Lucid. As David returns to Haiti
on Tuesday, he will be followed by CBS News and a documentary film crew as he
delivers much needed supplies including the treatment systems. Pierre-Louis
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Combined, both Stryder and Duke have 16 years experience, and have apprehended an estimated 1,100 criminals.
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Once you make your work, whether you are a painter or a sculptor, the next step is to get your work out there and share it with the world. This presentation will provide an introduction to creating your own portfolio website.
We will start with the thinking behind why you need a site. And the importance of getting your work out there. How you can use it to find jobs or freelance work.
Then we will discuss the best online tools and platforms to build your website on. Which one is better for certain things, and what is different about each of them. We will also discuss how to design your site a bit to make it unique.
And we'll finish up talking about what to do once you have your website. How do you promote yourself and get the word out.
The goal by the end of the course is for you to be able to go home and have everything you need to start making your own portfolio website!
Ethan Bodnar is a designer in Connecticut and a senior at the Hartford Art School who believes in making a positive impact through design. He is the author of Creative Grab Bag, published by HOW Books in 2009. He has been making websites for over 7 years.
Ethan has interned at co:lab, a design studio in Hartford. He was a designer at Be Playful, a co-developer of Prototype, and a founding advisor of Reimagine:Ed, all of which are focused on the future of K-12 learning. His clients have included 826 National, TEDxBloomington, and the Do Lectures. Ethan has been interviewed on Speak Up, featured on GOOD Magazine's website and Felt and Wire, and his work featured on Swissmiss, Fast Co.Design, and Pictory.
Ethan has served on the AIGA Connecticut board for three (3) years as the Student Groups Director. He co-spoke at the AIGA National Design Conference on the main-stage about design education. Ethan was part of the AIGA BoNE [Best of New England] Show in 2011 and was a curator for AIGA's Design Envy blog.


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Don't try to drive over these bridges.
These rocky natural spans were formed over millennia by the flowing waters of a stream or other water source, which slowly eroded away the rock to create the shape of a bridge.
But are they arches or bridges?
The Natural Arch and Bridge Society, whose Indiana Jones-like members go hunting for these rock formations around the world, makes this distinction: A natural arch is made of rock, with a hole formed by natural forces, they say. A natural bridge is a type of arch, where water is the natural force making the hole.
Erosion created these magnificent structures, and erosion will eventually take them down. One such wonder was Aruba's Natural Bridge, which was first formed by pounding surf eroding its coral limestone. The 100-foot-span gave way and collapsed in 2005. (The smaller Baby Bridge is still standing nearby.)
Here are 15 spectacular natural bridges around the world.
Green Bridge of Wales, United Kingdom
One of the most famous spots in Wales, the Green Bridge of Wales and the rocky Pembrokeshire coastline, are part of a national park. Nearby you can also spot the Stack Rocks, known as the Elegug Stacks in Welsh.
Eventually it's expected that the ocean will wear away the Green Bridge and the middle will collapse, turning it into stacks. Visitors who continue along the coast to see Pen-y-Holt Stack should note that it's in a British Army range and must be visited through walks organized by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.
Ayres Natural Bridge, Wyoming
Not all the glory of Wyoming is found at its two internationally famous Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in the northwestern part of the state.
Less well-known but worth the visit is the majestic Ayres Natural Bridge in eastern Wyoming, about 40 miles east of Casper. The 50-foot tall, 100-foot-long natural bridge over LaPrele Creek is the star of this 22-acre park.
Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah
As streams cut into the canyon walls and flash floods further weakened them, the three mighty bridges at Natural Bridges National Monument in the southeastern corner of Utah were carved over millions of years.
The area was declared a national monument in 1908, and the three bridges were given the Hopi names "Owachomo," "Kachina" and "Sipapu" in 1909. Further erosion has made the once thick and mighty Owachomo Bridge more delicate. While still massive and strong, Kachina Bridge did lose 4,000 tons of rock in 1992.
Pont d'Arc, France
A natural bridge formed by the Ardeche River in the south of France, the Pont d'Arc has a world-famous neighbor: the Chauvet cave paintings, the world's oldest known such works, which date back 36,000 years.
Discovered in 1994, the site was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site this year. But the region's natural beauty is also a national treasure. Classified as a French national heritage site in 1982, the 54-meter-long (177-foot-long) natural arch is the only French example of a natural bridge spanning a still-flowing river. It's also a gateway to the river canyon.
Natural Bridges State Beach, California
A famous natural bridge anchors this Santa Cruz beach, which is best known for its tide pools -- go exploring at low tide -- and seasonal monarch butterfly residents. Up to 100,000 monarchs typically move into the state beach's Monarch Grove in mid-October, and they depart the following January or February. There's a party in October to welcome them, and seasonal tours are available.
London Bridge, Australia
Australia's Port Campbell National Park is best known for the Twelve Apostles, towering limestone rock stacks carved by the Southern Ocean. The ocean is still working on the rock, with seven of eight formations still standing.
But there's another gem in this park about 275 kilometers west of Melbourne: London Bridge, a natural offshore rock span that partially collapsed in 1990 and became a bridge without a connection. (People standing on the rocks were stranded when the middle collapsed and had to be rescued via helicopter.) It's a good idea to stay on the accessible walking paths and scenic drives along the coast.
Fairy Bridge, China
China has quite a collection of natural bridges, including one that experts say has the longest span of any natural bridge in the world. The Fairy Bridge (Xianren Qiao), in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region near the border with Vietnam, has a 400-foot span.


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