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Yes, you can. But I don't know how long it takes (I've not done it before). I'd start with 2 minutes, give it a stir, then go for another 2 minutes. Keep doing that until all the pink is gone.
I have a pound of frozen ground turkey and want to thaw and brown it in the microwave. Can I do this in the micro-cooker, and if so, for how long?
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Yes, you can. But I don't know how long it takes (I've not done it before). I'd start with 2 minutes, give it a stir, then go for another 2 minutes. Keep doing that until all the pink is gone.
I do mine in the classic batter bowl. Just put it in the bowl with lid on and then microwave for 4 minutes. Take out and stir and put it an additional 4 minutes. Stir and then I normally put it back in for 2-3 minutes and it is done.
I just tried hamburger in the micro-cooker the other day. It was partially thawed and only took about 5 min. I drained and rinsed it and it was wonderful!
This is one of my selling points for the micro-cookers. I always guests they can put the ground beef/turkey in the micro-cooker and microwave on high for 1 min.-stir-1 min.-stir etc. Since the lid has holes in it just turn the cooker over to drain.
You girls rock! I did it! I used the micro-cooker and drained all the fat that way. Yahoo, I am NEVER going to brown meat on the stove again! It always grossed me out, lol. I am making the taco ring for the first time tonight. The med scoop worked perfectly! It looks so cute that I'm almost sad it's just me and the 4 kids tonight to enjoy it, lol. My 5 and under crowd aren't terribly appreciative, kwim? But my 5 yo is quickly becoming my best salesperson! She talks about Pampered Chef all the time - in public at the grocery store with strangers, lol. I know one day it will turn into a sale! SHe is most impressed with the prep bowls where she makes the 1 min omlets and we do the brownie desserts.
Wow I really digressed there, sorry!
That's awesome! Get them indoctrinated into the world of quality kitchen tools while they're young!
Haha, absolutely! She likes to call her cousins and grandparents on Sat nights, and she was telling them how she used the "Easy Ants Decorator" for her sour cream, lol. She's getting there! Seriously, every night when we sit down to eat she asks me if it's a "Pampered Chef Dinner" and what I used to make it. She gives me good practice! I've only been doing this less than 2 months.Quote by chefann
I brown hamburger in the micro-cooker for my shows as well. I know I can brown it in a skillet, but it splatters all over their stove, and honestly, most people don't know you can brown meat in a micro-cooker till you show them.
You can also make scrambled eggs in them. I don't cook eggs in the batter bowls, they are hard to clean up, but in the micro-cooker, they come right out.
But I do cook pasta in the batter bowl all the time. Classic batter bowl (10 minutes to heat water, 10 minutes with pasta in it). Small batter bowl for Ramen noodle soup (5 minutes to heat water, 5 minutes with pasta in it). Works great.
You can put the covers from the batter bowls in the microwave? They won't melt? I should probably know this bit of info after almost 2 years.
LOVE the idea of doing this for shows - I bet I"d sell a few of these at every show! And pasta in there, too? A whole box? OMG that's really cool! Going to try that tomorrow. Thanks!Quote by genburk
I do sell micro-cookers when I cook hamburger in it for the taco ring.
You can cook a whole pound of spaghetti in the classic batter bowl.
Micro-cookers are on my top 20 bestsellers list, and I've never even brought mine to a show.......I'd rather sell a one or two pieces of cookware than 6 micro-cookers, because that is a gateway to bigger and better sales of more cookware! The micro-cookers seem to pretty much sell themselves.
I agree 100%, but after browning hamburger on my first host's (just happened to be my Mother-in-law as well) stove and splattering grease, then trying to pour it off, having a hot skillet to deal with, and a few spots for her to remove off of her flat top stove (It was like the burnt grease or food stain, that has to be scrubbed with the special cleaner to get it off - but not even sure it was from me), I decided that the micro-cookers were better for me to cook with, when it comes to browning hamburger.
I would much rather promote the cookware, and I tell my story about it, than make more mess in their kitchen while waiting for it to brown. I do clean up, but what if I miss a little?
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Is there an advantage to browning the meat in the cookware vs the micro-cooker?
I tell the host to brown it in advance, or I bring it myself already browned.
Cookware - $38-$125 item to demo(and an opportunity to sell more of the collection)......microcooker - $6.50 - $9.00 item to demo($20 if you include the rice cooker), and that's the whole collection!Quote by 4kids4me
Well, I too would rather sell the cookware than the micro-cookers, but the chances of everyone at a show buying a piece of cookware is slim, where as if I can get 10 people to spend $15.50 each for the two pieces, then I definately push it.
I do up to 3 lbs. frozen hamburger in the large micro cooker for 8-12 minutes without checking on it and draining it at all in between. I LOVE it, and use it mostly every day. Also, my second favorite thing in the micro cookers is skinless boneless chicken. Fill to top of chicken with water and same time as the burger. It is so moist and tender, people just cannot believe it!


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Yes they had the "extra lockouts" but that didnt enable them to aquire extra loot. This is because they accessed the content later. You can visit there amories for kill numbers and compare them to other top guilds such as Paragon, Blood Legion etc.
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Their boat, "The Seafarer" left from Hyde County Friday and disappeared off the coast of Maryland Wednesday.
Daphne Peterson can't remember a time her father, Captain Walter Tate, wasn't either hunting or on the water. As a young girl, she would see him off for every fishing trip.
"We would go down to the dock and as the boats pulled away we would wave bye to them. And then when we would get a call they were on their way in... We would get all dressed up and go to the docks and be standing there waiting for them when they came in," she said.
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Walter frequently sailed with his nephew, Steven Tate, who also had a reputation for being quite the poet.
Friday, the Tates set sail with a third fisherman, Patrick Small. But their boat never made it back.
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The Coast Guard found a 30 foot section of the boat in the water.
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Not too far away, rescuers found three floating life vests but no sign of the Tates.
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Given the company's reputation for innovation, the new device could allow us to see tablets in an entirely new way.
By Eric Jackson, TheStreet
Next Wednesday's new-product announcement is Apple's (AAPL) worst-kept secret.
We all know that Apple will announce its new tablet computer, the iSlate. Apple knows how to leak just enough information to create a frenzy among tech reporters and gizmo enthusiasts.
Many of us have become immune to yet another product announcement from Apple. But the iSlate will be different.
While many blogs are focusing on the possible specs for the new device, mainstream analysts and investors are taking a more measured approach. The potential for a surprise gain in holiday sales has garnered more excitement than the iSlate announcement. This is an oversight.
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Let's step back and look at Apple and how much it has grown in the past three years. Revenue is up 52% to $36.5 billion. Operating income is up 77% to $7.7 billion.
During that time, the iPod hit market saturation, while iMac sales continue to grow even amid the economic slowdown. The iPhone has also taken market share in the handset market at a blistering pace from zero units three years ago.
When the iPod came out, in October 2001 -- just weeks after 9/11 -- there was little media coverage. At the time, the device had a 5-gigabyte hard drive and cost $400. Today, you can buy a used 1-gigabyte iPod Shuffle on eBay (EBAY) for less than $40.
Apple's stock was trading at $9.33 when the iPod came out. There was no boost to the stock as a result of this game-changing device, because nobody knew yet that it was a game-changing device.
Apple's shares rose to $12 by the beginning of 2002, but this was tied to the general rise in the Nasdaq, not the iPod. In fact, Apple's stock began to sink as 2002 progressed -- again, as the market declined -- and eventually bottomed out to a 10-year low of $6.56 in April 2003.
By November 2005, the first marketing research report was published claiming that the iPod was losing its "cool factor" because it had grown so much in popularity. Pity the uncool Apple shareholders. The stock had increased only 10 times in 2.5 years to $69.34 by that time.
The success of the iPod had transformed the entire image of the company to visionary, especially its leader, Steve Jobs. Apple has done a masterful job of keeping this mantle of futuristic innovator since then.
When the iPhone was launched, in January 2007, the media were hungry to know what was next. However, the media and consumers didn't know how much they would want the iPhone until they saw it. On the day of the product launch, Apple's stock jumped 7%, while the shares of Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm (PALM) dropped 6%. People knew this product was going to be a hit, and it has been.
Today, Apple's stock is higher than it was in fall 2007 -- seemingly expensive and "priced for perfection." Everyone knows that the iPod line is exhausted and close to being put out to pasture. The global economic environment isn't conducive to relatively expensive products when cheaper options exist.
Amid this backdrop, we have the iSlate's announcement next week. The media are curious, but a tablet lacks the sizzle of an iPhone. We've seen Microsoft (MSFT) bumble around with tablet PCs for years. Just a couple of weeks ago, at the big Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced yet another new tablet, this time in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
I suspect the iSlate will be something completely new, something that will cause us to see tablets in an entirely new way, a way that will seem obvious after we see it.
I expect it will be a device we suddenly realize that we must have, in addition to our iPhones and iMacs. It will allow us to watch videos more comfortably on the go. It will allow us to read books, blogs and news in a much richer way (at least for the next 18 months) than we would on Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle. It will allow us to get work done. And it will probably let us do at least one more thing we never imagined was possible with a tablet.
While the stock will not jump 6% next Wednesday, I suspect there will be an immediate boost to Apple shares from what investors see as the potential for the iSlate.
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Hyper-V is a very cool technology. It's also a very complex technology, with a lot going on under the covers. When I deliver sessions on Hyper-V, and I talk about the architecture, it's a difficult concept to discuss quickly, hence, hopefully, this post will go some of the way to trying to explain the Hyper-V architecture in an easy to remember, and digest, way!
So, let's start with the Microkernalised approach to virtualisation. The diagram on the left shows the Hyper-V hypervisor. What is the hypervisor? Well, its a layer of code that runs natively on the hardware - it's the lowest thing on your system, and it's responsible for owning the hardware, and doing hardware and resource partitioning. The main difference between this and a monolithic hypervisor such as VMware's ESX, is the location of the drivers and location of some core operating system components. As you can see, in Hyper-V, the drivers exist in the actual partitions themselves, rather than actually in the hypervisor. This means that we can massively reduce the size of the hypervisor. In fact, Hyper-V's hypervisor is around 600kb in size. That is a small bit of code. Interestingly enough, this is a small bit of Microsoft code.
That's right. It's 100% Microsoft - there's no 3rd Party code gone into this platform. There are no operating systems components in the hypervisor. It's just a thin slither of reliable, and secure code. Now, certain people in the industry have questioned Microsoft's driver model, based on previous experiences with Windows drivers, and the fact that anyone could pretty much knock up a driver and it would be 'accepted' by Windows. I'd have to disagree with x64 drivers and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft have worked incredibly hard to provide mechanisms and structured programs for device manufacturers to produce top quality drivers, and sure, some will slip through the net, but as the mechanism evolves, this will be reduced and reduced. When it comes to x64 drivers, they all have to be signed, which means they have to go through even more testing to ensure they are of a good quality, and we've made loads of guidelines available for driver-writers (if that's what they are called!) here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/64bitguide.mspx so it's not like they have to find their own way around the topic. Anyway, I digress.
You may or may not have had the chance to read a whitepaper about 'Blue Pill' which is a hypervisor rootkit security whitepaper. It's naming is in reference to the Matrix, where in the movie, if you take the blue pill, you exist in the computerised world, and continue to be controlled by the computer and you have no idea you are being controlled...The concept here is, if someone was to take control of your hypervisor, with it being the lowest element on your system, the elements above the hypervisor would not know they were being controlled, and would find it very difficult to detect. With this in mind, keeping core operating systems bits out of the hypervisor, and keeping it trim, clean and secure, also brings a strong level of reliability.
So, that's enough about the hypervisor as such, but lets look at the rest of the architecture:
So, when it comes to the hardware, it needs to be hardware with Intel-VT or AMD-V hardware assisted virtualisation technology, it needs to be x64 (not Itanium), you also need to enable the 'No Execute Bit' in the BIOS too. This is used to create a more secure environment. The diagram above is an installation before enabling Hyper-V. What you see on the left hand side of the diagram could be a full GUI version of Windows Server 2008, or it could be a Server Core installation. Advantages of Server Core include smaller footprint, lower attack surface, and reduced patching to name but a few. When we enable Hyper-V:
The hypervisor now slides under the OS, and this now becomes the lowest part of your system. Remember, it's a very thin, secure hypervisor. It's like a thin layer of veneer on the hardware. Enabling Hyper-V also brings the bits in the purple boxes:
The VM Worker Processes are individual processes spawned for each virtual machine, and are designed to handle things like emulation...
As you can see, I've added 2 virtual machines (child partitions) here to explain VM Worker Processes a little further. You can see that the 2nd VM is a non-hypervisor aware OS, which means that the hardware it sees, needs to be emulated. This is the old IO model, used in Virtual Server and Virtual PC. Why is emulation good? It's good because it emulates known hardware. Known hardware such as 440BX Chipset Motherboard, a DEC Ethernet Controller card, and more. These examples are pieces of hardware that are very standard in the industry, and nearly every operating system under the sun understands. Microsoft or otherwise! Downfall of emulation is the cost in terms of an IO perspective. If there is an app running in the emulated VM, say, Excel, and it's wanted to save a 100kb file down to the hard drive. What happens is, is that Excel tries to write down into Kernal mode - it's not aware that's its running on a hypervisor and thinks it has direct access to the hardware. So, what we have to do, is do a trap to grab that request, bring it over to the Parent partition, into Kernel Mode, up into User Mode, into the VM Worker Processes, and that's where the emulation happens. Now, to give a crude estimate, but for a 100kb write, it takes about 80 traverses from the User Mode on the Child Partition, down into Kernel Mode, up into Kernel Mode on the Parent, and up into User Mode and the VM Worker Processes, and back again to make that 100kb write. So, inevitably, there's a performance hit with this type of virtualisation, but, on the flip side, you have a broad range of operating system support, such as below:
If you now look at the other Child Partition, (in this case, with Windows Server 2003 / 2008 listed as the OS), this VM is not using emulation. It's using the VSP, VSC and VMBus architecture. This is the Virtual Service Provider, Virtual Service Clients, and they communicate over the high speed 'In Memory Bus'; VMBus, that we've created. It's 100% in memory, and not physically tangible in any way. It's been designed for IO traffic. So, effectively, the VM is writing directly to a driver (which is a VSC), and this information transfers directly to the VSP over VMBus (jumps back and forth a few times), and then onto the hardware below.
So, to expand on the VSP/VSC relationship, as you can see, we have the Parent partition on the left, and the hypervisor aware Child Partition on the right, split into User (top) and Kernel (bottom) modes. The Orange/Yellowy colour you can see, are all Hyper-V related bits. So, on the right hand side, the application tries to do a write, via the Windows File System, Volume, Partition and on to the Disk. If you're using emulation, you'd keep going down, across and up to the VM Worker Processes (not using VMBus) and it would go back and forth, back and forth, before it makes it's way to the StorPort MiniPort driver, and down to the hardware.
Now, with VSP/VSC, you work your way down, and it hits the VSC, goes across the VMBus to the VSP, still in Kernel mode here - there has been no need to go into User mode to handle this. Every time you go between User/Kernel mode, you take a performance hit, and because you are going back and forth, quite a few times in emulation, you take quite a few performance hits. This doesn't happen in the VSP/VSC world. Once the data is over at the VSP, it writes directly to disk, and then down to the hardware. Very fast and very performant. So, you get a very performant guest operating system, providing it knows it's running on the hypervisor. This reduces down the number of operating system choices by quite a way - right now, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 (with SP2), XP SP3 and Vista SP1 too.
What we're also hearing from customers is that you'd like a single platform to virtualise not only Microsoft OS's, but also Linux OS's, and that's where the partnerships with companies like Citrix, and Novell come in.
So, as you can see, we have 3rd type of Child Partition, namely, the Xen-Enabled Linux VM. This could be Novell SUSE SLES 10 SP1 as an example. So, this VM is running the Linux Kernel, and we've worked closely with the relevant organisations' to write the relevant VSC's and Hypercall Adaptors, that ensure that calls for hardware made by Xen-Enabled Linux VMs are handled in the most optimal way, rather than pushing them down the emulation route, as described earlier. This means certain Xen-Enabled Linux VMs really will be first class citizens on the Hyper-V platform. I'm sure, as time goes by, you'll find even more OS's come along with the ability to take advantage of the VSP/VSC architecture, as it really is the way to go :-)
That's about it - hopefully that's helped you understand the architecture, I know it's helped me by getting it off my chest!
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Matt, 600Kb hypervisor is great....But aren't all of the VM's reliant upon VM1 being available? E.g. if the kernel on VM1 TRAPS then VM1 crashes along with all of the other VMs on the machine?
Hi Sam,
You're dead right - VM1, being the parent, is a single point of failure, so it's a good job that the team have built a Server OS, i.e. the parent, to be as stable as possible.
The recommendations will be to run Hyper-V as a role on it's own, so don't have the server doing a load of other roles, such as being a web server, and a domain controller and so on. The other recommendation, and this is what we see as the main recommendation, will be to use the Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008, and enable Hyper-V in this environment. This way, you have a very small footprint, low attack surface, reduced overhead, and reduced patching. We then envisage people managing the system remotely, from another machine or a centralised management platform like Virtual Machine Manager.
So, in summary, the parent partition is the single point of failure (at least for now), but the Windows team have created a very stable OS, already on SP1 code, and using the Server Core install will ensure that the parent partition is doing the exact job you want it to do, in a secure, reliable and scalable way.
Hope that helps,
It has been a busy time over the last couple months. Microsoft are in the last quarter of their financial
600K for server core + hypervisor? That would be amazing. Please tell me its true..
Unfortunately not - it's 600k for just the Hypervisor. The Parent Partition will vary in size depending on whether you choose to deploy Server Core or Full Windows Server 2008. Server Core will ensure a minimal footprint, and you can even strip out the other roles that you aren't using on the Server Core box to reduce size still further.
Your blog is very explanatory. Appreciate your time.
In VSC/VSP world, VSP writes in to the hardware directly. What is the hypervisor role in that scenario?
Awesome job.....now thing are much clear
Hi Hari,
My understanding of the VSP/VSC Hypervisor relationship in the scenario you describe is that the VSC (Virtual Service Consumer) communicated with the VSP (Virtual Service Provider) in the Parent Partition over VMbus, and i believe that VMbus does not provide a mechanism for partitions to directly communicate with the hypervisor but it does rely on the hypervisor to establish the communication channels between partitions. Once communication has been established, I believe that the VSP communicates directly with hardware, rather than with the Hypervisor itself.
You may find this video very useful: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-how-it-works-Interview-with-PMs-Part-1/?tapm=A89S35A08 - look at about 4mins on the video.
Interesting Article.
Can an IHV provide both VSP/VSC components to optimize performance? Can IHVs take advantage of this knowledge when desiging the hardware?
Hi Atul,
That's a great question, and in all honesty, I'm not 100% sure. For definate, the closest we come around an IHV tuning components for Virtualisation is Intel-VT, or AMD-V, where they are building specific hypervisor awareness and capability into the chipsets. This is now moving forward into memory, with Extended and Nested Page Tables.
I'm sure this is something that vendors are onboard with now, and going forward into the future, where I'm sure we'll see even more native performance for a VM.
Excellent explanation of the whole process.Thanks Matt.


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It was 6pm and it was dark. I was cold and hungry. I decided to walk by Eddie's apartment to see if she was downstairs. I stopped right in front of the front gate but no one was around. I checked my phone to see if she texted me. She didn't.
"Gerard is that you?"
I heard a voice behind me. It was Edith's mother.
"oh hello Ms. Lynn, yeah it's me"
"what are you doing here?"
"oh, I was just...I just wanted to visit Edith but Jade told me she was asleep. I'll just head home."
"ok well, do you want to leave a message?" she walked over to me to open the front door. She stepped inside.
"no thank you, I'll just see her in school"
"okay then, I'll tell her you came by"
"no it's okay, you don't have to say anything.."
She had a confused look in her face and she nodded.
"..because..I think Jade will say something"
I narrowed my eyes and her face seemed to light up.
"oh alright, I'll see you another time Gerard."
I began to walk away when she called out my name.
"yes?" I replied.
"I just wanted to thank you for...for loving my daughter so much. She's happier then she has ever been..and she doesn't rebel anymore, well as much as she use to. I just think she's really happy with you and please don't ever leave her. Thank you again Gerard."
I held back tears and took a deep breath.
"your welcome, and I'll love her till the end. Thank you for bringing such a beautiful girl into this world."
She began to shed a tear and whispered "your welcome" silently. She smiled as she headed back to her house.
I cried the whole way home. This might be the end of me and Eddie. I screwed up. I love Eddie but she's hurt and will she be able to forgive me?
Jade's POV
God I need to use the restroom.
"Edith? Are you okay?" I knocked on the bathroom door. Edith has been in there for about and hour now.
"yes, you can come in" she called back out.
I opened the door and found her lying in the tub with steaming water. She does this when she's mad.
"what happened to you?" I said whipping the mirror that was foggy. "I'm gonna pee alright?" I added
"its fine. I'm just so pissed off at Gerard."
"wow never thought This day would come. What did he do to make you so angry?" I was done with my business and got up and sat Down next to the tub.
"well remember Carlos?"
"the hottie?"
"yeah whatever, well he's my dance partner and my cool friend. So, as friends, he asked me to go for a cup of coffee with him and so I did and Gerard was supposedly fine with it. I even told him he didn't have to let me go if he didn't want to but he insisted! So I went and next thing you know, Emma, Bob, Frank, and Gerard are there spying on me! Ugh! It gets me so pissed!"
She sunk down and screamed under water.
"wow, does he know you're mad?"
"can you repeat that?" she said coming up whipping her eyes and catching her breath.
"I said if he knows that you're mad."
"I dont know actually. Do you want to find out for me?"
"sure. What are you gonna do though? Are you gonna tell him?"
"I dont know, I need to calm down first."
She sunk down once more and screamed again.
"Edith! Jade! What's going on in there?!" mom called from outside the bathroom.
"you know the usual when she's
mad." I said opening the door and walking out.
My mom just shrugged it off. Her and I are kinda use to it already. She closed the door and headed back to kitchen.
I walked in my room and texted Mikey.
"hey beautiful" he replied.
"by any chance, do you know how's Gerard?" I replied as I was eating a cookie.
"Not good :O"
"why do you say so?"
"well, he came back home with red puffy eyes and went straight to the roof to smoke. He does that every time he's feeling depressed"
"do you know what happened?"
"can I call you better? It's kind of a long story.."
"sure :)"
"kk :)"
Moments later I got a call from Mikey.
"hello?" I answered.
"hey Jade's Addiction, okay so Gerard explained to me that Edith is mad at him. Do you know anything about it?"
"yeah she told me.."
"I can't believe Gerard did that!!"
"I know right?! Edith loves him. Does he not trust her?"
"yeah but, you know Gerard.."
"yeah I guess...oh hey! I have a plan.."
Mikey's POV
"aha,aha, oh yeah ok cool. I'll be right over. See you in a while my love. Bye" I clicked and repeated the plan in my head. We were going to lock Gerard and Edith in the same room. Im going to take Gee blind folded all the way to Edith's house and she's going to be blind folded as well. Yeah, this idea might be a little out of hand but I want to see what happens!
"hey Gerard come down!" I said from the window. I stepped In front of my drawer and took out my bandana.
he sighed, "what is it Mikey"
"put this on"
I handed him the bandana and he raised an eyebrow.
"Michael James Way, how old do you think I am? I don't feel like playing Find the Chicken."
"oh c'mon it'll be fun. And this time, it's not a chicken." I smiled evilly. He seemed confused.
"oh just put it on."
He sighed and put it on. I grabbed him by his shoulder and lead him outside the door into the car.
"Mikey, where are you taking me?"
"just shut up"
"you better not throw me down a cliff."
"no promises..."
Jade's POV
I told mom about the plan and she agreed to it instantly. Of course, I had to tell her what was going on. She loves Gerard and my sister so she doesn't want to see them this way.
"Edith Edith!!!"
She was changing into her pj's
"put this on, I have a surprise for you.."
"Jade, I don't trust you...MOM!!"
"just put it on honey, it'll be fine.." Mom said from the door.
"okay..." she put it on and I spun her around 5 times.
"okay, just sit here and wait. Don't talk or take them off until I knock on the door three times okay?"
"okay.. Please don't throw a bug on me unless you want me to die.."
"I won't. Just wait."
I stepped out of my room and into the living room.
Mikey and Gerard were here already and it was super quite.
Mickey's POV
"okay Gerard, you're going to have to be quiet okay? And you'll have take the bandana off and be able to talk when I knock on the door 3 times okay?" Mikey whispered.
"okay" Gerard whispered back.
Mikey lead Gerard into my room and sat him down on my bed. Trying to be real quite.
We closed the door and waited five minutes. Then.. I knocked on the door three times, slowly..


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Using optically dense, ultracold clouds of rubidium atoms, three key elements needed for quantum information systems have been advanced including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be transmitted long distances on optical fiber telecom networks.
The developments move quantum information networks — which securely encode information by entangling photons and atoms — closer to a possible prototype system.
Fig1: Associate professor Alex Kuzmich with equipment used to study quantum information systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Photos: Gary Meek)
"This is the first system in which such a long memory time has been integrated with the ability to transmit at telecom wavelengths," said Brian Kennedy, a co-author of the Nature Physics paper and a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. "We now have the crucial aspects needed for a quantum repeater."
Fig2: Experimental equipment used to study quantum information systems at Georgia Tech.
"One photon of infrared light going in becomes one photon of telecom light going out," said Alex Kuzmich, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics and another of the paper's co-authors. "To preserve the quantum entanglement, our conversion is done at very high efficiency and with low noise."
Fig3: Researchers Alex Radnaev and Jacob Blumoff (standing) and Yaroslav Dudin collect data for a study of quantum information systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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The Nanny. Great detailing in this one- make sure you click through for the big version!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1821.
One of the best uses of flowers to ever grace the pages of this blog!
The Workers of Paris, Bouquetiere (flowergirl), 1824.
Isn't she a beauty? I love the bright color of her gown hidden behind a plain, white apron (with a pocket!), her lavish chemisette ruffle, and those cute little shoes!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1823.
This has everything I love about the early 1820s- the bold color, the dropped waist, the magnificent silhouette- so flattering!- and the masterful use of self-trim! Perfection.
Costumes Parisiens: les Ouevrieres de Paris, 1824. "Blanchisseuse de Dentelle"
Translation: The Workers of Paris- "the lace laundress"
This is the first plate from a new publication I'll be putting up- The Workers of Paris (and no, this isn't THAT Costumes Parisien!) published in 1824. It's a series of about 40 engravings of fashionable working women in occupations that are often impossibly quaint and evocative of their era. Here we have the first of the lot- the lace laundress, perhaps delivering a box of freshly laundered lace? I love all the subtle lace she has peeking out- at the wrists and hem of her gown- as well as the not-so-subtle lacy cap and chemisette. I couldn't resist the close-up crops. It's such a charming outfit!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1829.
One of my readers, Guacira (all the way from Brazil!), just sent this fashion plate and a few others to me. Isn't it beautiful! It's a big image, too, so open it in a new tab to see all the detail.
Thank you so much to everyone who reads this blog! You guys are so generous and supportive and you make running this tumblr a delight! And thank you especially, Guacira, for sending this along.
La Belle Assemblee, Evening and Ball Dresses, March 1828.
Wow, the print on that blue gown is lovely! One of my favorite things about the 1820s and 1830s is that they started embracing bold prints for evening wear which you don't see a lot of in the 1800s and 1810s. I'm always a fan of stripes!
Lady's Magazine, Evening Dress, June 1825.
Oooh! I love this dress! The skirt time is JUUUSSSST on the edge of being comically large but it makes for such a bold addition. Plus, I love spray of flowers along the front. Bonus points for an amazingly cool turban!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1826.
I am LOVING those awesome van dyked ruffles on the hems!
Petit Courrier des Dames, 1825.
This is dated at 1825-1828 in the Louisana State Museum collections, but based on the plate number compared to other plates I've posted from the publication, I certainly don't think it is later than 1825.
Don't you just love the ribbon trim on the bottom, and that sweet little bow on the back?
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1821.
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Tackled Together: The Kitchen Cabinets
We're back to share how we fared when it came to our big cabinet clean-out which we announced late last week and tackled this weekend (hopefully along with a bunch of you guys at home). Remember our pathetic starting point? Of course you do. Those two chaotic double cabinets (where we store every single edible item in our kitchen, except for the stuff in the fridge) were pretty hard to forget:
But now we'll reveal what they look like after a few hours of weekend weeding out and reworking:
First we followed the 100% empty rule and cleared out both cabinets and placed everything on the counter so we could evaluate what we had, pair like with like, toss anything that was past its prime, and see what we were dealing with.
Once we looked at it all en masse it was easy to see that we had just a few popular categories that kept popping up again and again. So if we could keep things grouped by these reoccurring descriptions we would always know where to put specific things (which practically makes our organization efforts automatic). For the first double cabinet, those categories were: cereal, pasta, sides, snacks, crackers, and cans & soups.
So we decided to hit up Michael's for some cheap-o metal labels (found in the scrapbooking aisle by the way) that we could hang on each shelf to delineate each area. We especially love that unlike self adhering stickers (like those from a label maker), these metal frames look more polished, and they hold pieces of paper that can easily be switched out if we ever want to recategorize anything at a later date. And at a mere $2.19 for four labels, we came home with more than we needed for just six dollars and some change.
Oh and when it came to hanging them, first we measured to ensure they were all lined up, then we pre-drilled tiny little holes using the metal frame as a template for where the nails would go, and then we gently hammered those nails into the small pre-drilled holes we made. Worked like a charm. Note: for a less permanent hanging job, double stick tape or even velcro could have done the trick. We just knew we'd like having them around for the long haul.
In the photo above you can see that when it came to our "sides" category we had a bunch of slippery envelopes that we used to attempt to stack (yeah, not possible) but eventually we just ended up shoving them between two heavier objects to try to keep them somewhat together. Now thanks to a clear plastic caddy that I already had laying around, they're much more controlled and easy to store.
And grouping our pasta with our sauce seems like a no brainer, but that idea never occurred to us before since we just mindlessly jammed everything into the cabinets and called it a day. Now we feel oh so elegant for having a little section for that stuff, and of course we love that we were able to swank things up even more with two lidded glass containers (just $5.29 a pop at Target) for our always-purchased-in-bulk snacks (almond biscotti and Wasa crackers). Hey, whatever floats your boat right? Plus they stay a lot fresher since they both come in not-very-easily-resealed packaging. Double bonus.
Oh and if you look on the bottom shelf you'll see another added organizational item that we introduced: a little wire shelf (that we already had on hand). It really helps us gain more usable vertical space for smaller items that get all jumbled up and lost without some semblance of order. And I even had two green stationery boxes (leftover from a slew of Thank You notes that I sent off after my baby shower) which were perfectly sized for housing some random packets of oatmeal and a bunch of granola bars (sometimes finding a way to lose all that bulky packaging frees up way more space, plus it makes it even easier to grab something on the go).
We even paused to sort through our DIY in-cabinet cork boards full of recipes and nutritional articles to pare things down and eliminate the unnecessary visual clutter (see the original post about those cork boards and how we hung them here).
They cleaned up nice, right?
Now we'll move over to the other cabinet, which used to house everything from spaghetti and sauce to baking goods, oils, and spices. We immediately realized that it made more sense to dedicate one cabinet to snacks, sides, pasta, crackers, soup, etc- while the other cabinet was devoted to spices, cooking oil, sauces, and baking ingredients. Again, this should have been more intuitive to us, but we've lived with our new kitchen for years without reaching this obvious realization. So we looked at all the items that would be going back into this cabinet and arrived at a few more overarching categories that we could use to create a spot for everything. We landed on: powdered mixes, baking ingredients, sauces, baking accessories, spices and cooking oils.
Again we loved how the labels instantly created a system to keep like items together (and that the categories could easily be changed if we wanted to move things around in the future).
But when it came to storing some greasier bottomed items (like cooking spray, canola oil, etc) we had another challenge inside this cabinet. Namely, gross rings left behind.
But it was nothing a few $1.99 placemats from Target couldn't fix.
We were able to cut one in half and create two different 100% wipeable (and even dishwasher safe) protective mats for under the sticky sauces and the cooking oils that can now be stored without fear that they'll nastify our shelves.
And you might be wondering what sort of "baking accessories" are stored in that box. Well, we already had it laying around, and it totally works for keeping all of our sprinkles, icing nozzles, cookie cutters and cupcake liners together. And it's super convenient to just whip out the entire box when it comes time to bake something (instead of losing nozzles and cupcake liners in the back of the cabinets, it's now much easier to see what we have and get to the business of decorating).
And not to be overachievers, but there was one more kitchen cabinet that was a bit, er, lackluster. We store many of our skillets and pans in the drawer under the stove, but we have a few pots and lids that spill over into the base cabinet on the right.
And it's not that it looked cluttered or messy per se, it just didn't feel organized. And if you looked closely you could see that the lids and the bases of the pots were leaving tiny marks on the shelves as they were slid in and out.
Luckily those marks were easily removed with a sponge, and then all we needed to do was pick up a lid rack ($9.39 at Target) and two more of those $1.99 placemats (which we taped together to create one large wipeable protective surface under the pots on the bottom shelf). No more scrape marks- and it looks a lot more organized too.
So that's how it all went down this weekend when we finally decided to tackle our dreaded kitchen cabinets. And we're pleased to report that the whole project ran us less than $30 for all of our storage-friendly additions (from those metal label holders and the placemats to the pot lid organizer and the glass jars for keeping snacks fresh).
But enough about us- how'd you guys do? Did any of you tackle your kitchen cabinets and live to tell the tale? Any tips or tricks you implemented to keep things under control? Did anyone attempt an organizational task outside of the kitchen (in the garden, the garage or the basement for example)? Do tell.
Psst- Wondering how we stash and store nearly everything else in our house? Click here for all the dirty deets.
Something Free + Five Lifesavers
If you're anything like us, patience is easier said than done, so we'll get straight to the something free. After many (many) requests, we're happy to announce that we've finally created a downloadable PDF or Word Doc (click here for print-ready PDF, here for editable Microsoft Word) of our "DIY Baby Book" that we revealed in our getting-ready-for-baby post a few weeks back. Just to jog your memory, here's how we whipped it up:
The idea was actually John's brain child (I'm telling you, he's the sweet sentimental one and I'm the neurotic fool who worried about ruining our sofa if my water broke). He suggested that we get a fabric covered album and create our own little baby book of sorts, with fun patterned paper and printed prompts that you see in typical baby books like "The First Week Was…." and "My First Word…" I loved the idea of adding in keepsakes like Clara's inked footprints from the hospital along with a ton of photos, so we headed over to Michael's (with a 40% off coupon in hand) and snagged a sweet 8.5 x 8.5″ album covered in super fun Amy Butler fabric for just $9 after my coupon.
We also picked up a pad full of 8 x 8″ patterned paper to use as a backdrop in our keepsake album (to the tune of $6). So our entire DIY baby book project ran us $15 total. And after adding all the decorative paper and leaving room for notes about momentous occasions- along with photos and other memorabilia- we were left with a pretty sweet way to document many of Clara's firsts (a few of which we've already written in!):
And since we made it ourselves we had fun sprinkling in a few quirky things, like this page of "Future Predictions" where John and I guessed everything from Clara's hair and eye color to her first word, her favorite subject in school, and even her future profession – before her arrival of course. It should be fun for the beanette to look back at all of our goofy (and most likely completely wrong) guesses someday.
Plus the fact that it looks so cute in the nursery is the icing on the cake…
So now you can download the print-ready PDF or the editable (and then print-ready) Word Doc by following the links in the first paragraph. Then you just have to grab some pretty paper and an album and you're ready to print out our little PDF/Doc, cut each caption out, and arrange them in your new homemade memory book.
And now on to those five lifesavers that we mentioned in the title. Much like the frequent requests for a version of our DIY baby book, we received a lot of questions about what household items have come in handy since Clara came along. And although this isn't exactly home improvement related, it definitely falls under the "what makes your house more efficient" category so we figured we'd dedicate one post to this much asked question. Although at first we wondered if we'd even have any favorite items at just three weeks into parenting, but we're happy to say that we most definitely have a small collection of items that we ABSOLUTELY LOVE. As in probably couldn't have lived without. So although every baby is different and every parent has varying opinions, here's what we're so glad that we had on hand to help us adjust to life with Clara-Clara-Bo-Bara:
1. These Aden and Anias swaddle blankets are amazing. They're made of thin stretchy (and breathable!) muslin and they're giant (44″ x 44″)- which makes them perfect for giving Clara that back-in-the-womb feeling. Ever since we noticed how happy she was when she was swaddled by the all-knowing nurses at the hospital, we vowed to carry on that tradition at home. Have we mentioned that we actually have to set an alarm and wake her up to feed her at night when we swaddle her before putting her to bed? Note: be sure to securely swaddle your wee one before putting him or her to sleep since loose blankets can pose a suffocation hazard- just google "how to swaddle" for some great step by step tutorials.
2. This little clutch from Skip Hop can be slipped into any large purse to make it an instant diaper bag- which appeals to a deal hunter like me. See, I've noticed that bags billed as "diaper bags" can be over $150 for something that looks polished, while non-diaper bags of the same quality/size can be found for a lot less. In fact I grabbed a chic oversized black bag from The Gap for $25 (on clearance!) and just slipped the Skip Hop clutch right inside. Now I always have diapers, wipes, and an extra outfit on hand – I even have a clean mat to change her on while we're on the go. Plus I can easily drop it the clutch into other purses and bags if I feel like changing up my look without buying another official diaper bag. Oh the versatility. We actually plan to pick up another one because the changing mat part (which can be detached) is great for dropping over our changing pad in the nursery. Clara LOVES to pee when she's being changed- seriously the girl does it 8 out of 10 times. Thankfully, the slippery waterproof material makes those little impromptu pee-fests so much easier to clean up!
3. Our next must-have Clara item is actually a super handy iPhone app that we downloaded on the day that we returned home from the hospital. We were obsessed with trying to keep track of how many diapers she was wetting and dirtying (since the docs & nurses stressed that as a great way to monitor her health and the quality of my feedings). I also kept blanking out about which side I needed to start nursing her from every few hours. Enter Baby Brain stage right. It's just $4.99 and it keeps track of all my feedings (it even has a ticker at the top to track how long it's been since the last one) and it also tracks wet & dirty diapers. We love that we can push a button and see everything there is to know about Clara's day (and even compare that day to others) . Especially since products like the ItzBeen Timer are sold for around $25 and this app does pretty much the same thing for $4.99. Plus we didn't have to acquire yet another baby gadget. Score.
4. This mouthwatering lasagna photo represents all the amazing frozen meals that were dropped off by friends & family members after returning home with our little bundle of baby. John and I joke that we've never eaten better. Seriously, the kindness of our loved ones has been amazing, and if you're not sure how many relatives and friends will show up with meals as you adjust to having a wee one around we would definitely recommend making (and freezing) a few meals before delivery day, just so you have them on hand. Anything that makes things like feeding yourself a no-brainer is pretty much guaranteed to be a hit when you're so focused on providing for your babe that you forget to eat!
5. This last gadget is totally a personal preference thing. We know some moms who scoff at the idea, but personally it's been the reason that we sleep at least 8 hours a night (interrupted by just one feeding!) so we're eternally grateful. Basically, it's a monitor that detects movement in your baby as he/she sleeps- even just their chest rising and falling as they breathe. And if there aren't any movements/breathing in 20 seconds it sets off an alarm. John and I can't tell you how much peace of mind this gives us. Plus it allows us to sleep more soundly and not do that hover-over-her-crib-to-make-sure-she's-breathing thing. Seriously, I haven't done that once. It has also helped us to get her into her crib from day one (as opposed to a moses basket in our room) which has done wonders for her sleep schedule since she isn't disturbed by us moving or the dog bounding around the bed at night. Remember, we have to actually wake her up to feed her or she'd sleep right through the night! Oh it's also a sound monitor so we get to hear her cooing… and if she were to wake up and cry someday, we'd hear that too.
So those are the five things that have been indispensable these first few weeks. And in case it's not obvious without this little disclaimer, none of the makers of the items mentioned above have paid us or perked us in any way to call them out here, they're just honestly the five things that have helped us out immensely so we thought we'd share 'em (especially since we get so many emails from new parents or parents-to-be who want our opinion). We're honestly kind of shocked that anyone cares about what we like, but there you go!
And now, since that's an awful lot of words up above, let's break things up with a few photos:
We've decided, like many other fellow bloggers, that we'll be documenting Clara's growth with a series of weekly photos. And we came up with the idea of using a white onesie (along with some Photoshop magic to add the week) and a colorful swatch of fabric for the background. We already had some great textiles laying around, but we also look forward to hunting down some cheap remnants to keep the project going (and using baby blankets and even our bedroom duvet if we ever get desperate). In fact the last photo was taken with Clara laying on the fun pillowcases I got for the hospital (mentioned in this post). By Clara's first birthday we'll have 52 weekly photos showing how much she's changed on a slew of punchy graphic backgrounds to compile in a photo book (you know, one of those Snapfish or Kodak Gallery ones?). Should be fun. Oh and we'll be adding all of our weekly beanette photos to this album in Flickr, just in case you'd like to follow along…
But back to the subject of those five favorite lifesavers, we'd love to hear your top five can't-live-without-'em baby picks. And if you're not packing the parental card in your wallet just yet, we're definitely interested in hearing the five must-have items that make your life easier. What's frying your bacon these days?
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Anna Vyrubova
|Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova.
16 July 1884
Oranienbaum, Russian Empire
|20 July 1964
(aged 80)
Helsinki, Finland
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva (Russian: А́нна Алекса́ндровна Вы́рубова (Тане́ева)) (16 July 1884 – 20 July 1964), was a lady-in-waiting, the best friend and confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna. Vyrubova was the longest surviving "actor" in the story around Rasputin and the Imperial couple.
Early life[edit]
Vyrubova was born in Moscow, the daughter of Aleksandr Taneyev, Chief Steward to His Majesty's Chancellery and a noted composer. Her mother, Nadezhda née Tolstoy, was descended from Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov. Due to these connections she was attached to the imperial court at an early age. She had two younger siblings, Sergei, and Alexandra.
She was a childhood playmate of Felix Yussupov, the man who spearheaded the murder of Grigori Rasputin. The gay Yussupov found her unattractive:
|Anna the eldest Taneev girl, was tall and stout with a puffy, shiny face, and no charm whatsoever. Although she was not at all intelligent, she was extremely crafty and rather sly. It was quite a problem to find partners for her. No one could have foreseen that this unattractive girl would one day become the intimate friend and evil genius of the Tsarina. It was largely due to her that Rasputin owed his amazing rise to favour.[1]
Life at court[edit]
The Tsarina valued Anna's devotion to her and befriended her, ignoring women of more distinction at the court. Alexandra refused to give her a position at court.[2] Anna married Alexander Vasilievich Vyrubov, a naval officer. A few days before she was warned by Rasputin that the marriage would be an unhappy one.[3] The couple divorced within a few months. It is told her husband was upset after he found out she had contacted Rasputin.[citation needed] Lili Dehn has another view.[4] Her mother reportedly told interrogators following the February Revolution that her husband "proved to be completely impotent, with an extremely perverse sexual psychology that manifested itself in various sadistic episodes in which he inflicted moral suffering on her and evoked a feeling of utter disgust."[5] Vyrubova became one of his adherents and on order of the Tsarina she went on a trip to his home village Pokrovskoye to investigate the rumours on Rasputin.[6] She visited some monasteries in the area.[4] Vyrubova importance grew at the court, as the friendship with Milica of Montenegro and her sister Stana deteriorated.[7]
In 1909 she received to hieromonk Iliodor in her house for a meeting with the Tsar.[8]
Around Easter 1912 Vyrubova stashed Rasputin on a train to Yalta, so he could visit the Imperial family in the Livadia Palace on the Crimea.[9]
In early October 1912, during a particularly grave crisis in Spała, in Russian Poland, the Tsarevich Alexei received the last sacrament. The desperate Tsarina turned to Vyrubova[10] to secure the help of the peasant healer, who at that time was out of favor. (The basis for the denunciation of Rasputin as a Khlyst was mixed bathing, a perfectly usual custom among the peasants of many parts of Siberia.)[11][12]
For a long time she served as a go-between for the Tsarina and Rasputin. In the Summer of 1914 Vyrubova received a cable from Rasputin, recovering from the attack by Khioniya Guseva in a Tyumen hospital. She had to show it directly to the Tsar Nicholas II. Rasputin feared the consequences of the Great War. Nicholas had been furious, but Anna arranged a reunion.[13]
While seldom meeting with Alexandra personally after the debate in the Imperial Duma, Rasputin had become her personal adviser after the Tsar took supreme command of the Russian armies on 23 August 1915 (O.S.), hoping this would lift morale. All the contact went through her; every morning at ten she phoned Rasputin and he came to visit her lemon-yellow house in Tsarskoye Selo to meet Alexandra. The Tsar's biggest concern Alexandra might share information with others.[14]
During World War I she trained as a Red Cross nurse and nursed soldiers along with the Tsarina and the Tsarina's two older daughters, The Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana. Vyrubova was severely injured in a train accident between the capital and Tsarskoye Selo in January 1915; the convalescent Vyrubova found herself a paraplegic, but credited Rasputin with saving her life with his prayers.[15]
Vyrubova had planned to build a church dedicated to Seraphim of Sarov on her property. (Rasputin would be buried on the spot.[16]) On Friday evening 16 December 1916 Rasputin told Vyrubova, who presented him a small icon, signed and dated at the back by the Tsarina and her daughters,[17] of a proposed midnight visit to Prince Yusupov in his Moika Palace to meet his wife.[18] The next morning Rasputin's disappearance was reported by his daughter to Vyrubova.[19] When Vyrubova spoke of it to the Empress, Alexandra pointed out that Irina Aleksandrovna Romanova was absent from Petrograd. An investigation followed and Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri were placed under house arrest in the Sergei Palace. The Tsarina had refused to meet the two, but told by Anna they could explain what had happened in a letter.[20] Two days later Rasputin's body was found near Bolshoy Petrovsky Bridge. His body was taken to the Chesme Almshouse for autopsy. In the middle of the night Vyrubova and the Tsarina brought some clothes to the almshouse.[21] On 21 December Rasputin's body was taken in a zinc coffin from the Chesme Church[22] to be buried on a secret location in a corner on the property of Vyrubova adjacent to the palace.[23] The burial was attended by the Imperial couple with their daughters, Vyrubova, her maid, and a few of Rasputin's friends, as Lili Dehn.
After the Russian revolution[edit]
Following the Russian Revolution, Anna Vyrubova underwent five months of prison in the Peter and Paul Fortress, that included a medical examination to prove her virginity. She feigned a childish innocence.[24] The investigator concluded that she was too naive and unintelligent to have had any influence over the Tsarina.[25]
In Anna's own memoirs, she describes her perils in prison and her narrow escape from execution when, miraculously, she met several old friends of her father on a St. Petersburg street who helped her escape. She endured much hardship avoiding the Bolsheviks, and was only able to escape to Finland in December 1920.[26] Before leaving the Soviet Union, she became friends with the revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky who urged her to write her memoirs and she followed his advice. She met with Zinaida Gippius, Alexander Blok and Valery Bryusov.[24] Her memories of life at court provided rare descriptions of the home life of the Tsar and his family. No one understood Rasputin and Alexandra better than Anna.[27] She tells a good story, but does not seem to tell the truth.[28]
Vyrubova spent the rest of her life first in Viipuri and later in Helsinki. She took vows as a Russian Orthodox nun, but was permitted to live in a private home due to her physical disabilities. She died, aged 80, in Helsinki, where her grave is located in the Orthodox section of Hietaniemi cemetery.
- ^ Maylunas, Andrei, and Mironenko, Sergei, eds.; Galy, Darya, translator, A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story, Doubleday, 1997 ISBN 0-385-48673-1, p. 418
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 47.
- ^ Radzinsky, Edvard, The Rasputin File, Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 0-385-48909-9, p. 81
- ^ a b http://www.alexanderpalace.org/realtsaritsa/1chap5.html
- ^ Radzinsky, p. 91
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 60.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 61.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 69.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann (2013), p. 95.
- ^ A. Vyrubova (1923), Memories of the Russian Court, p. 94; R.C. Moe, p. 156; J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 101.
- ^ M. Rasputin (1934), p. 117.
- ^ A. Vyrubova (1923), Memories of the Russian Court, p. 388.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 132.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 151.
- ^ Vyrubova, Anna. "Memories of the Russian Court". alexanderpalace.org. Retrieved February 11, 2007.
- ^ The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky
- ^ M. Nelipa (2010), p. 99, 399.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 208.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 215.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 216.
- ^ Samuel Hoare, p. 155-156. [1]
- ^ Alexanderpalace
- ^ Places connected with the murder
- ^ a b J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 237.
- ^ Radzinsky, Edvard, The Rasputin File, Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 0-385-48909-9, p. 88
- ^ Vyrubova, Anna, Memories of the Russian Court
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 48.
- ^ J.T. Fuhrmann, p. 150.
- Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (2013). Rasputin, the untold story (illustrated ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-118-17276-6.
- Maylunas, Andrei, and Mironenko, Sergei, eds.; Galy, Darya, translator, A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story, Doubleday, 1997 ISBN 0-385-48673-1
- Margarita Nelipa (2010) The Murder of Grigorii Rasputin. A Conspiracy That Brought Down the Russian Empire, Gilbert's Books. ISBN 978-0-9865310-1-9.
- Radzinsky, Edvard, The Rasputin File, Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 0-385-48909-9
- Memories of the Russian Court by Anna Vyrubova
- Virubova, Anna Taneleff & Irmeli Viherjuuri, Anna Virubova: Keisarinnan Hovineiti. Otava, 1987. ISBN 951-1-09357-6.
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- Anna's Grave in Helsinki


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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul sidestepped questions Wednesday about revamping the federal tax code, a day after the tea party favorite took a stand to replace the income tax with a national sales tax.
Paul, a limited-government advocate, said he supports a "simpler tax code" but wouldn't offer specifics about his written comments to an anti-tax group supporting repeal of the 16th Amendment that created the federal income tax.
"I haven't really been saying anything like that," Paul told reporters following a speech in Henderson as part of his Kentucky bus tour. "I think it's probably better to go … with what I'm saying on the campaign trail."
Paul, who is running against Democrat Jack Conway in a closely watched race, didn't mention the tax issue in his speech to about 100 supporters in this western Kentucky city. Instead, Paul kept to some of his main themes: criticizing President Barack Obama's health care and environmental policies that he characterizes as anti-business.
An anti-tax group on Tuesday released to The Associated Press a written statement from Paul saying he would support changing the federal tax code to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service, and he would vote to repeal the 16th Amendment. Paul's statement called the federal tax code "a disaster" and said he supports making taxes "flatter and simpler."
"I would vote for the FairTax to get rid of the Sixteenth Amendment, the IRS and a lot of the control the federal government exerts over us," Paul wrote in a statement verified by his campaign.
The FairTax proposal has been championed by the Texas-based group Americans for Fair Taxation and a newly formed affiliate, FairTax America Support Team. Paul's former campaign manager, David Adams, is a member of the affiliate's governing board.
Conway's campaign has said the FairTax proposal calls for a tax of nearly a quarter on every dollar.
"Working people are having a tough enough time making ends meet," Conway campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley said. "They can't afford Rand's plan to put a 23 percent sales tax on everything they buy — from groceries to gas to medicine."
When asked by a reporter about his written comments about taxes, Paul turned his focus on government spending.
"Right now the primary problem we have in our country is a spending problem," he said. "I am for a simpler tax code, and there are various ways you can get to it, but I think the first thing we have to address is … spending."
He declined to answer further questions on the topic.
Conway spoke on Wednesday to about 50 people on the front lawn of the Old State Capitol in Frankfort and accused Paul of considering a litany of long-standing government initiatives unconstitutional, including Social Security and Medicare.
Conway also accused Paul of opposing laws to protect minorities and the disabled, as well as those setting standards for consumer protection, workplace safety and a federal minimum wage.
"Rand Paul on Monday night challenged me to step up and be a man," Conway said. "I'm going to step up and protect the Constitution of the United States."
Paul countered that Conway supported Obama's unconstitutional federal takeover of the health care system.
"Jack needs to read the Constitution," Paul said. "He needs to understand that … there is no enumerated power for the current health care (law) to force people to buy insurance. He has a completely backwards understanding of this."
Conway, the state's attorney general, refused to join in a lawsuit by a number of other states challenging the law on constitutional grounds. Conway supports the health care overhaul but says it could be improved. Paul says he wants to repeal the landmark law and have Congress start over.
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"Conway's campaign has said the FairTax proposal calls for a tax of nearly a quarter on every dollar." … which is true.
However, the 23-cent sales tax on all new goods proposed by the FairTax advocates would replace the Income tax, FICA and Medicare taxes (for both employees and employers), which now eat up much more than 23% of personal incomes, on average. In addition, the Fair Tax would give each taxpayer a monthly probate (not rebate) for necessities, equal to the monthly cost of living at the official poverty level. Thus, there would be no tax on mere subsistence, only on goods above and beyond that.
I personally find it difficult to believe that a 23% sales tax would be enough, but the Fair Tax has been studied (extensively) more than any other alternative to our current tax system and that is the published amount. It is also purported as being one of the biggest potential boons to economic prosperity that we could ever put in place… short of eliminating all taxes. That alone should make it attractive.
Rand Paul should not fear admitting that he would vote to end the current income-based tax system in favor of the Fair Tax system, except that someone like Conway would demagogue such an idea as unworkable… "How we gonna feed the govt?"
Why do such alternatives never get a public airing by our politicians?
Because we really don't want change, now do we? The mere rhetorical illusion will suffice. Again and again. See:Obama.
While I too am in general favor of a national sales tax to replace the income tax, there are some things which need comment or airing.
First off, there is no such thing as a fair tax. Never has been, never will be. Unless, of course, it's where I don't pay any taxes and you pay my share, but that's not happening.
I went to fairtax.org to see what this stuff about probate was, and finally figured out that it was not probate but prebate. There was this document:
cited on the website which I scanned rather hurriedly, I will admit, because I wanted to see the bare bones of how the prebate would work. Buried down around page 27 I found the following, which details some of the administrative costs of paying the prebate:
The final item to be estimated is the cost the federal government would have in processing the checks for the prebate. For this estimation, we used the costs of processing and posting W-2 forms in paper and electronic format, as well as the share of the forms in each format reported by the Office of Management and Budget for 2004.42 The costs were $0.002 per electronic form and $0.297 per paper form, and the shares were 60 percent for electronic forms and 40 percent for paper forms.43 This implies a weighted average cost of $0.12 per form. We multiplied thisaverage by the number of households receiving the prebate in 2005, 113.04 million, and by 12 months, since the government would issue one check a month per household, to obtain the cost estimate on line 7 of $0.16 billion. At this point, we are ready to calculate the net federal savings caused by the FairTax, which we do on line 8 by adding lines 2, 4, 6, and 7. The results are savings of $9.38 billion, which means that the FairTax causes savings of $0.40 per $100 of revenue at the federal level.
I have no reason to question the figures SO FAR AS THEY GO. I suppose I could print 1.35 billion checks a year for that price. But could I deliver them? Nope. IF you were to print that many checks and send them out at 44 cents apiece you would have a further expenditure of about $600 million, which dwarfs the "savings of $9.38 billion", doncha know.
This sounds as though I am quibbling, but in my experience, when people have presented things like this without full disclosure or with errors that are apparent on even cursory examination, there are usually other things they have not disclosed. And cynic that I am, I have never found such an error which detracts from the message, it is always in favor of the proponent. Coincidenc,e I know.
Yes, I know that a lot of people will opt for electronic fund transfer, but how many people are there who literally cannot afford a bank account? Or who will find themselves forced out of banking by increased costs. I just got a notice the other day that my checking account will incur a $15 a month "statement fee" if my daily balance goes below $5,000. That's $180 a year! That's f***ing outrageous since almost every transaction I make is electronic and I go into the bank once in a blue moon!
There are other points:
First off, the gap between the rich and the poor is going to get wider, because the rich may be spending more but they are not living paycheck to paycheck. Savings aren't taxed, so those at the top end are going to have even more money. And they can spend that money to consolidate their control of business and industry.
Unless, of course, you are going to impose a 23 percent sales tax on the sellers of stocks and bonds. Ponder the political feasibility of that for more than a second and you are wasting your time.
What about rentals? Are you going to impose a 23 percent tax on rental of cars (think leasing here), televisions, home appliances? If not, what you are going to see is a massive market opened up by manufacturers to lease their products rather than selling them. "Whoa, government," says the manufacturer, "I am not collecting 23 percent on that. I didn't sell it, I only built it." If there is a way around the tax, people are going to find it, whether it is legal or not.
What about real estate? Are you going to impose a sales tax on real property transfers? Good luck with that one.
Then there is the extremely vital area of access to political types. We all know that money buys access and some sort of favor. Is the poor schmo living paycheck to paycheck going to have disposable income to make contributions like this? A little more than he or she has now, certainly, since there will be more pretax income. But at the other end of the scale you will find the millionaires and billionaires with even more pretax earnings to buy access with. Are you going to impose a tax on donations to political parties and candidates? I don't believe that would happen even if Hell did freeze over.
I do recognize that there could be very significant savings by doing away with the IRS code and all the IRS people, and by doing away with corporate income taxes, but before we institute such a revolutionary change people have to see all sides of the complex issues, and these are just a few I came up with off the top of my head.
Yeah, prebate (proactive funding) is a better term… got lost in the moment.
Plenty of questions, for sure, but also plenty of opportunity for improvement.
Taxing consumption instead of – not in addition to – industriousness is a clear step forward.
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Wow, and I feel guilty about having only 25,000 on my daily driver 2010. I do enjoy the hell out of it every day though. Barrett Jackson will not have this one 30 years from now. It'll be used up by my 80+ year old arthritic right and left feet.
But what about the synthetic oils? Do these follow the same 6 month change interval, regardless of mileage?
once a year...and it kills me to do it that often. 2500 a year on average, I should use the oil in something else...just kills me...
For the amount you would pay for a test, you might as well change it.
Actually I bought my car 9 months ago and I only put on 2400 miles so far. But I plan to change it at 3k miles. Just because its the first oil change. But then again you can only put synthetic in the 392. I plan on changing it every 3k. That's once a year. Just to be on the safe side.
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