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Preheat oven to 180°C fanbake. Cut pumpkin in half down the length and scoop out seeds and stringy bits. Melt a little of the butter, then brush it over cut sides of pumpkin and season with salt and pepper. Lay pumpkin buttered side down in a shallow ovenproof dish lined with baking paper. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until tender in the thickest part. Transfer pumpkin to a chopping board. As soon as it is cool enough to handle, scoop out the flesh and discard skin.
While pumpkin is cooking, peel and cube potatoes and cook gently in boiling water until just tender. Drain, reserving the water if using as stock.
Put onion and garlic in a medium saucepan with 1 Tbsp butter and 1 Tbsp water. Cover and cook gently for about 10 minutes without browning. Add potatoes, pumpkin and half the stock or potato water. Mash until thick and lumpy (or as smooth as you like), then mix in remaining stock or water. Season with 1 tsp salt, or to taste. Bring to a gentle boil, lower heat and simmer, partially covered, for 20 minutes.
For the topping, remove husks and silks from corn. Cook corn for about 10 minutes in a pot of bubbling water. Drain, cool, then slice off the kernels. If using frozen corn, put kernels in a sieve and rinse off ice crystals. Heat the rest of the butter in a medium frying pan over medium heat and add kernels (use a splatter screen if you have one as the corn tends to spit!). Cook until lightly golden, stirring often. Add chilli powder and ginger and sizzle for 1-2 minutes. Season with a pinch of sea salt.
Dish soup into bowls and top with spoonfuls of curried corn. Sprinkle with chopped mint and serve.
Cook's note
Pumpkin soup made with pumpkin alone can be thick, cloying and overly sweet. The trick is to add some cooked potato, which will thicken the soup without making it gloopy. The spicy corn topping on this soup is a winner.
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I don't know why I don't get this one out more. It is supposed to be a calming herbal and woody scent, to bring some balance to one's chaos. I think it smells like a sandalwood soda, if there were ever such a thing. Effervescent and woody, with something like a cherry apple compote and spices. There isn't any fruit listed in the notes though. It isn't foody, just very interesting and unusual. I like to spray this into a little body lotion for all-over light and soothing scent. I also love to spray it on my duvet.
Notes per fragrantica: sage, coriander, spices and exotic woods.
I remember wearing the body lotion and received a small bottle of fragrance, wow what a fragrance. I smelled so good, soft, cuddly and warm. Then we had a fire in the garage, which sent smoke through the house and my sil happened to receive all my fragrances including the large bottle that I did purchase. So half a bottle of body lotion and almost the entire bottle went. then it got discontinued. Wow what heartbreak for me. I did purchase the newer model which is so much stronger. How I wish the old chaos had just been rebottled and not tweaked, too strong for me now.
I was lucky enough to try a sample of the original version of this. Although I'm a perfume lover I'll admit I'm a complete novice at detecting notes etc. All I can say is its a gorgeous deep scent with sandalwood and many other spicy notes. I would buy this again but I found quite a similar sent in the Armani Prive line, I believe it was Cedre Olympe but I could be wrong :)
I bought this after a friend repeatedly urged me to do so because I like Black Cashmere: she claimed this was similar, but "much better." Perhaps the original version was different, but the one I tried (Chaos reissued) was vile. This reminds me of two things: the liniment I put on my horse's legs and a sharp, rancid, one-dimensional perversion of the scent of Bonne Bell lipsmackers in Cola flavour, which I had as a teenager. Revolting.
Since I wear earthy/grassy scents, a friend gave me alarge sample size of this fragrance to try. I had never heard of it before (I live perfumes, but have never tried one from Donna Karan). I could not figure out the notes in this, so i looked them up to find an interesting mix of lavender, sage, chamomile & coriander combined with spicy and warm notes such as exotic woods, amber and musk. That's fine, but the putting these together skillfully is the key and there is nothing complex about this to me. It is lovely smelling though and I will continue to wear it. Will I purchase it? No. I'd rather save my money and get a Jo Malone or an Andy Tauer. Sorry Donna, it's just not that memorable.
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I heard such good things about this and I bought a bottle without even trying it first. Big mistake. Started out nice enough, root beer, some cola smell. Then.....mens cologne and aftershave. I felt like I should wear a tie and a mans suit. OMG it was sooooooooo masculine! Gross! I don't know why so many women are attracted to wearing aftershave smells these days.
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I recently had a chance to try the original, and for those of you who lament missing out on it, let me assure you...this is "I want what I can't have" mentality run amuck! It is an utterly unremarkable fragrance. Everyone wants it because A) everyone else does, and B) it is very rare. If it were sold at every Target, no one would buy it because there are so many scents that are more interesting. All I'm saying is be aware of psychology when you're lemming for this. But it's not horrible at all, just very very very very very overrated.
It's not often that something is discontinued and then it comes back (thank you Donna Karan for reissuing this and Black Cashmere). This is one of the few fragrances that I am not ashamed to say I wore in the 90's. Chaos is comforting, complex, and still seems modern. It's warm, woody, and slightly fruity without being too heavy. The scent lasts for 8+ hours and I find it appealing on all but the hottest days. Whenever I wear this, I get compliments. Since it's so elusive and hard to find, it's almost a signature scent for me.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who detects a HUGE topnote of Coca-Cola in Chaos...complete with "fizz". It delightfully sweetens what would otherwise be a bone-dry incense/herbal scent. I am curious at the reviewers who call this a loud and wafting fragrance. On me it is very, very intimate and soft with hardly any sillage (deducting a lipstick for that and fow the below-average lasting power). I used to own a bottle of this before it became the most coveted DCd scent around, but now my bottle is the slick black cylinder that all re-released DK fragrances come in. Really nice and worth owning...not your average incense for sure!
I don't know if it's just me but this fragrance reminds me of Shiseido's Feminite du Bois.
Like Feminite du Bois it's a lovely woody floral, a bit soft with the sillage and hardly noticeable. I wear it to work.

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Beating the Mid-Year Slump
- Monday, January 23, 2012
I set a goal for myself last summer: to ride a 14-mile bike trail near our home by summer's end. Although generally active, thanks to my five children, I'm not usually the athletic type. On top of that, I was recovering from surgery and had been on restricted activity for a couple of weeks. I knew the ride would be a challenge for me both physically and mentally, but I really wanted to do it. After my first ride in June—just three miles—I was huffing and puffing, my thighs were burning, and, to say it politely, my seat was sore. The ride had been tougher than I expected, and I was tempted to give up.
On my next ride a few days later, my then 13-year old daughter agreed to bike with me. We made it five miles, and I was thrilled. Her encouragement helped me enjoy our journey and gave me the boost I needed to keep on pedaling. Yes, I was very sore again (even worse than the first time), but her companionship made me forget my exhaustion. I was a step closer to riding the entire bike path.
Homeschooling is a lot like that. Whether you are new to homeschooling or a veteran of many years, there are guaranteed to be peaks and valleys in the experience. When you hit a hard spot, you may be tempted to despair and perhaps give up.
No season is more likely to discourage a homeschooling mom than the dead of winter. Short days and long nights, gray skies and cold weather, days and sometimes weeks without leaving the house, canceled lessons and co-op meetings, the children's frequent illnesses, the bulk of the toughest academic work, more inside time than outdoor play, the daily routine turning stale—all of these factors and more can contribute to the mid-year slump. To a new homeschooler, a first encounter with seasonal discouragement can seem doubly intimidating.
I'd like to use this time to come alongside you and help you "keep on pedaling." The journey is long and sometimes tough, but if we ride together, we can come out of the blahs, flourishing with our children till the end of the year. Think of me as a fellow traveler who is helping you pedal just a little bit farther.
Struggles Will Come
In my 10 years of homeschooling, only two things have remained the same: regular struggles and God's grace. Satan would like nothing more than to use homeschooling to draw you away from the love of the Father. He will manipulate the doldrums of winter to discourage you and make you prone to get off the path. Just knowing that what you are feeling or experiencing is commonplace among other homeschoolers may be just the thing you need to hear. You are normal! Your struggles are typical! Be encouraged by the "cloud of witnesses" surrounding you during your winter slump.
Seasons Come and Seasons Go
It is important to remember that this is just a season in your life; literally—yes, it's winter—but figuratively as well. God created seasons from the beginning (Genesis 1) and established their rhythms. Apparently this season we call winter, a time of rest and cocooning, so to speak, is necessary for us—or else God in His goodness wouldn't have placed us in His four seasons. Use this season and its abundant time with your children wisely; it won't last forever. Busier, more scheduled and demanding days are just around the corner!
Don't Isolate Yourself
Winter brings colder days, and in some geographic regions, less than perfect driving conditions. This means you may find you and your children are homebound more than you are accustomed to. But that doesn't mean you need to be isolated or live without fellowship. Make a point of inviting another homeschooling family over for a meal, an experiment, a show-and-tell time, or just for a play date. Reach out to others with the love of Christ, getting your eyes off your own desires, and you'll find yourself blessed in return.
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Speaking of stories… today's was a doozy! Police were notified last night that a witness in a murder trial (that started this morning) had been attacked at home and threatened about testifying. A photographer and I were able to talk with the victim off- camera this morning, and then I was in court most of the afternoon listening to testimony.
I've sat in on a few trials now for work, but I've never been involved in any personally in any way. (And I hope I never will be!) I do, however, quite enjoy listening to what happens in the courtroom. Today things took a little unexpected twist when the brother of the defendant was found in contempt of court by the judge and ordered to be taken to jail. I didn't really see that one coming!
Anyway, after a day in court, and the last few minutes spent downing Cheez-its and Rolos from the gas station (classy, eh??), I'm going to hopefully burn off some of those mostly empty calories in a 100+ degree yoga room! Time to go sweat it out! Tomorrow's another day, which means another story (or two or three… )
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I've discovered that there are certain moments in my life where I will be stuck between two places- what I want or thought I wanted and what I need. Sometimes you don't get a choice because one of these things is the 'right thing to do' and so you're forced to look whatever you don't want/need in the the eye and get through it. Other times you will have many choices but can't find the right one. The answer you're looking for, to the question you haven't asked yourself yet. Time plays a part in this, if the time is right and you are able to, you can jump right into whatever your heart desires but often this is not the case. So you make a decision and later find out it was the wrong one.
At this point it is easy to tell yourself 'everything happens for a reason' but you won't believe it because deep down you feel like you've cheated yourself and subconsciously bully yourself irrationally because you know nothing can now be done to take back what has been done.
So you look forwards, for what's waiting on the other side of this disaster you've ended up in and hope what you see will help you find your way, because if it doesn't you'll stay stuck, in-between everything you thought you knew and what you now believe to be. Lost inside your own head, wondering if you'll ever find the piece of you that is missing, the answer to why you feel uncertain and incomplete.
use your voice. i think.
When I think I tell myself the truth about the world and who I am. I think about the bad things happening every second all over the world and how I don't do anything to stop them. I think about how selfish I am to care about tiny things about myself but not care enough about real things. Thinking it, doesn't make a difference and saying it, means nothing if nobody's listening. Can I ever affected someone's life for better? I want too, what use is living if we only exist for ourselves. Some people don't have the opportunity to have an opinion and say what they want to say. Whilst the rest of us don't speak out through fear or uselessness. Does having something to say matter to anyone anymore, because what use is a voice, if noone can hear it?
Time gone by.
If I look back at how much my life has changed from year to year I fill with such emotions. I think of those who I love and miss, those who are being taken away from me as each day passes and those who I loved but lost for better and for worse. My heart tugs for each person I gave my heart to in any shape or form who is no longer in my life but I know that life happens for a reason and everyone is better for it. My heart breaks for those whom my heart still belongs but are moving further and further out of my reach with distance and time and my heart smiles for those whom are still around through thick and thin and to the earth and back because nothing will ever take them from away me.
It's strange that some of the most special moments in my life are with people who I may never see again even though at the time a life with out one another was unimaginable. It scares me that the current people in my life could disappear any second and become only a memory.
Life changes so much even everyday. The decisions made both minuscule and huge could affect the rest of my life or maybe just the rest of the day. Change is good and important. All of us grow and adjust as we gain more knowledge and experience from the tears and the laughter and if we didn't, life would become boring, non-existent; but the people we meet, get to know, love, hate, take with us, leave behind have an impact that in that first 10 seconds of entering each others existence we could not have anticipated and that impact is why a tear rolls down my face tonight. Shed for love lost, the lost loves and the moments that will inevitably fade out. For the time gone by.
Tomorrow I will smile with the acceptance of yesterday, ready for the new adventures that are yet to come.
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Lure me into a false sense of security. Creep up on me when I least expect it. Want me to greet you like an old friend who I've been waiting to visit me because its been a while and why wouldn't I want to see you. I've been doing so well so you think its the right time to bring me down. Thankyou for that btw, you have great comic timing. I'm scared of you, what you being here means to me, my current future. I don't want you here, let me be. You can't, its your job and its mine to succumb to you. I play my part well. We've come to an agreement, you and me. I act normal and paint over the marks I don't want to see and you hide then jump out when you think its time to create new ones. You start by playing with me, teasing out the damage then driving me mad with it. Next you make me doubt everything around me and I willingly accept, creating a numbness becoming an existence. Soon you'll make me choose which road to take at junction but you will give me no clues and I'll begin not to care. And once you've pushed me that far, something in me will wake up and fight back and I'll push you out again. But you will return and I can only wait.


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Lowry Needs Protection. From Himself. Says Lowry.
"It's feeling a lot better. (So), to be honest, ya, very surprised and very shocked (that he needs more time), but you know it's day-by-day, we've got a great training staff, we've got guys, they want to protect me and make sure I get back to 100%, that's the reasoning for that," Lowry said on Friday.
(Does he need protecting from himself?) Ya, ya, definitely, I definitely can say that," he said.
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If security is a kind of death, as Tennessee Williams wrote, then Rilo Kiley are doing their damndest to elude mortality. They have spent their young career going all over the place - literally, metaphorically, thematically, and emotionally - in an almost obsessive fight against predictability and stagnation.
"More Adventurous" is the brand new Rilo Kiley album, and it is - from the very first minute - simultaneously bold and understated, bombastic and intimate, and tragic and triumphant - an 11 track tribute to instability as a virtue. It's an album full of uplifting songs of heartbreak, traditional pop from the future, country music from the city, and all other manner of oxymoronic perfection -- RK's stock in trade over the course of their bright lifetime as a band.
After the release of their last album, "The Execution of All Things" (which got raves from sources as diverse as the smallest cut 'n' paste 'zines, to the Village Voice, to the New York Times, who called it "impressive" and "self-assured"), the band crisscrossed the country on a series of several far-reaching headlining tours (including one where the band pulled double-duty as the backing band for Merge Records troubadour M Ward). When the tours ended, side projects kicked in: Jenny Lewis sang on the The Postal Service album and toured with them; Drummer Jason Boesel recorded with Bright Eyes; and guitarist/singer Blake Sennett recorded, released, and toured behind his solo album under the name The Elected (on Sub Pop). But where many bands would then stop to take a breather, or at least let the events of the last couple years soak in, RK instead decided to kick things UP a notch. They started to work on a new album, with one clear goal in mind: This disc would be their best album yet.
The songwriting began simply enough, from the hushed and lightly picked acoustic guitars on "The Absence of God," where Lewis offers some of her most insightfully fierce lyrics yet ("And I say there's trouble / when everything is fine / the need to destroy things / creeps up on me every time," she sings, giving in); to the punchy new wave sheen of "Portions for Foxes." The rhythm section of drummer Jason Boesel and bassist Pierre de Reeder anchored the songs with carefully assigned gravity for the new material's often expansive and soaring melodies.
They went back into the studio with an array of hot producers, including Saddle Creek mainstay Mike Mogis, Dntel/Postal Service genius Jimmy Tamborello, Beachwood Sparks/All-Nite Radio's Dave Sher, and Mark Trombino (who cut his teeth on legendary records by Drive Like Jehu and Rocket From the Crypt, and then oversaw Jimmy Eat World's massive breakthrough). String arrangements, by Bright Eyes' Nate Walcott, were incorporated. "This is definitely the album where we were finally able to truly understand how to use the studio," explains Blake. "There's a lot more going on in all the songs; moments where these little subtle details rise to the surface." It's these flourishes - Jenny making the "salt shaker" noise in "It's A Hit" to reference the deployment of troops into battle; or the cracked A.M.-radio production hiss of "Rip Chord" - that back up Blake's claim.
On the album's title track, Jenny Lewis sings "and it's only doubts that we're counting on fingers broken long ago / I read that with every broken heart we should become more adventurous," and it's clear that with this record, the band have continued to be driven by the fierce independence that has brought them on such a sweeping journey over the course of their career - from the self-released e.p. and album that was then picked up by Barsuk Records, to being welcomed into the Saddle Creek Records family for their last full-length, to deciding that it would be appropriate to do something new for this album. As another challenge, Rilo Kiley decided to release the new album themselves. They founded their own label and called it "Brute/Beaute Records" -- (fitting, considering RK's propensity for unlikely combinations) - and then secured major label distribution for the imprint. The band is set to tour all over the country in support of the record.
The great irony of Rilo Kiley is that as they begin to become better known - they are now one of the true constants in indie rock, dependable and confident, and selling out shows all over the country - it would seem that their songs are becoming more and more personal. Listeners can't help but believe that Rilo Kiley is singing just for them, but the fact is that the world at large could use these songs right now. In these unstable times of love and war, with countless miserable personal and political histories threatening to repeat themselves every day, we could all benefit from Rilo Kiley's charge to lead by example and live a life more adventurous.


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Freeman-Wilson and Gary Community School Corp. Superintendent Cheryl Pruitt were among dozens of city and school leaders from across the country who met in Washington, D.C., recently to discuss partnership opportunities between cities and the U.S. Department of Education to foster effective approaches to education reform.
Gary school and city officials have been talking about how they can work together to use the district's 12 shuttered school buildings. They have discussed the possibility of parenting programs, tutoring programs and other uses.
During the meeting, task force members highlighted the growing commitment by municipal officials across the country to promote educational achievement.
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|Aelia Eudocia
|Byzantine Empress
|Theodosius II
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|October 20, 460
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Aelia Eudocia Augusta (c. 401–460) was the wife of Theodosius II, and a prominent historical figure in understanding the rise of Christianity during the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. Eudocia lived in a world where Greek paganism and Christianity were existing side by side with both pagans and unorthodox Christians being persecuted.[1] Although Eudocia's work has been mostly ignored by modern scholars, her poetry and literary work are great examples of how her Christian faith and Greek upbringing were intertwined, exemplifying a legacy that the Byzantine Empire left behind on the Christian world.
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Aelia Eudocia was born around 400 A.D. in Athens to a philosopher named Leontius. Leontius taught Rhetoric at the Academy, where people from all over the Mediterranean came to either teach or learn. Eudocia's given name was Athenais, which her parents named her after the city's protector Pallas-Athena.[2] Her father was rich, and had a magnificent house in Acropolis, that had a massive courtyard that young Athenais played in a lot as a child.[2] She had a gift for memorization, and easily learned the poetry of Homer and Pindar, which her father would recite to her.
When she was 12 years old, her mother died and she became her father's comfort, taking on the responsibilities of household chores, raising her siblings and tending to her father. She had two brothers, Gessius and Valerius, who would later be rewarded in court by their sister and brother in law. In return, her father spent all of his past time devoted to teaching her rhetoric, poetry, and philosophy. He taught her "Socratic Virtue of Knowledge, of moderation", and predicted that she would have a great destiny.[3] His teachings and role as her father did greatly prepare her for her destiny. As her father, he was essentially Athenais' everything, and when he died in 420, she was devastated. Even more devastating was that in his will, he left all property to her brothers, and left her only a 100 coins, saying that "sufficient for her is her destiny which will be the greatest of any woman".[3] This bothered Athenais even more, and didn't think it was fair at all. She had been her father's confidante, and expected more than 100 coins. She begged for her brothers to be fair and give her an equal share of the property, but they refused. Athenais had nothing else in the world, other than 100 coins, and everything she knew and loved were gone.
Athenais then went to live with her aunt, shortly after her father's death at age 20. Her aunt told her to go to Constantinople to "ask for justice from the Emperor", that she would receive her fair share of her father's wealth.[4] Her father greatly impacted her, and influenced her literary work later on in life after she became Empress.
Life as an empress[edit]
Legend has it that when Theodosius II was 20 years old, he wanted to get married. He talked to his sister Pulcheria, who began to search for a maiden fit for her brother, that was either "patrician or imperial blood."[5] His long time childhood friend Paulinus also helped Theodosius in his search.[5] The Emperor's search had begun fortuitously at the same time that Athenais had arrived in Constantinople. Pulcheria had heard about this young girl, who had only 100 coins to her name, and when she met her she was "astonished at her beauty and at the intelligence and sophistication with which she presented her grievance."[5] Upon reporting back to her brother, she told him she had "found a young girl, a Greek maid, very beautiful, pure and dainty, eloquent as well, the daughter of a philosopher," and young Theodosius who was full of desire and lust fell in love instantly.[5]
Athenais had been raised pagan, and had to convert to Christianity in order to marry Theodosius II. The Emperor renamed her Eudocia and made her his wife. They were married on June 7, 421 and there were "reports that Theodosius celebrated his wedding with chariot races in the hippodrome."[6] Her brothers, who had rejected her after their father's death, were fearful of the punishment they thought they were going to receive since she became Empress, so they fled. However instead of punishing them, Eudocia called them back to Constantinople, and Theodosius rewarded them. He made Gessius praetorian prefect of Illycricum and made Valerius magister officiorum.[7] They were rewarded because Eudocia believed that their mean actions had come from jealousy of her destiny, not from a vengeful dark place. He also honored his best friend, Paulinus with magister officiorum, for he had helped find his wife.[7] However, this rags to riches story, though it claims to be authentic and is accepted among historians, leads one to believe that tale may have been twisted due to the detail of how the romance was portrayed. The earliest version of this story appeared more than a century after Eudocia's death in the "World Chronicle of John Malalas, an author who did not always distinguish between authentic history and a popular memory of events infused with folk-tale motifs."[7] The facts are that she was the daughter of Leonitius and she did originally have the name Athenais, according to the Greek historian Socrates of Constantinople, and a contemporary historian named Priscus of Panion; however they leave out any mention of Pulcheria's role in playing match-maker for her brother.[6] The historians Sozomen and Theodoret did not included Eudocia in their history because they were written after Eudocia had fallen into disgrace.[7]
Eudocia had three children with Theodosius II.[8] Licinia Eudoxia, born in 422, was the oldest. Licinia Eudoxia had been betrothed to her cousin, the western emperor Valentinian III since her birth, and did marry on October 29, 437.[9] The second child, Flaccilla, died in 431.[10] Arcadius was the only son and died in infancy. Only a year after she gave birth to her first child, Eudocia was proclaimed Augusta by her husband on January 2, 423.[11]
Upon being named Augusta, she succeeded her sister in law, Pulcheria who had been Augusta since 414. The relationship between the two women consisted of rivalry over power. Eudocia was jealous over the amount of power Pulcheria had within the court, while Pulcheria was jealous of the power Eudocia could claim from her. Their relationship created a "pious atmosphere" in the imperial court, and is probably an explanation as to why Eudocia traveled to the Holy Land in 438.[12] Eudocia went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 438, bringing back with her holy relics to prove her faith.[10] Her relationship with her husband had deteriorated, and with much plea from Melania, a wealthy widow from Palestine and good friend of Eudocia, Theosodius allowed her to go.[13] On her way to Jerusalem, she stopped in Antioch, where "she delivered an encomium of Antioch before the senate of the city, casting it in Homeric hexameters. In it she included the line 'Of your proud line and blood I claim to be.'"[14]
The historical study Theodosian Empresses. Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity (1982) by Kenneth Holum, further introduced the suggestion that Leontius was a native of Antioch rather than Athens, drawing from the "traditional link" between the two cities and their philosophers. The argument is considered doubtful as the building activity of Eudocia in the 420s focused on Athens rather than Antioch.[15] Holum suggests tha Eudocia may have been named after the great city of Athens, but she would have been born in Antioch. Citizens of Antioch received her message with positive attitude, and she influenced them to "erect two statues in her honor, a gold statue in curia and a bronze one in the museum."[16] She even convinced her husband to "extend the walls of Antioch to take in a large suburb."[17] Furthermore, she also influenced state policy towards pagans and Jews under her husband's reign, and used the powerful influence she had to protect them from persecution.[17] Eudocia also advocated for "reorganization and expansion" of education in Constantinople.[18] Eudocia had been raised and educated in traditional and classical sophist education from Athens, but her goal was to blend classical pagan education with Christianity. This was her way of using her power as Empress to honor teachers and education, something that was very important to her in her life.
Rumor has it that Eudocia was banished from the court towards the latter part of her life for adultery. Theodosius suspected that she was having an affair with his long-time childhood friend, and court advisor Paulinus[disambiguation needed].[10] According to Malalas' account of this story, Theodosius II had given Eudocia a very large Phrygian apple, as a gift. One day, Paulinus had shown the emperor the same apple, not knowing that the emperor had given it to Eudocia as a gift. He recognized the apple, and confronted Eudocia who had sworn she had eaten it. Eudocia's denials made the emperor believe that she had fallen in love with Paulinus and was having an affair, that she would give his best friend the same apple he had given her as a symbol of his love. Theodosius had Paulinus executed, and he dismissed Eudocia from the court in 443.[14] She lived the last part of her life in Jerusalem, where she focused on writing her own literature.
Eudocia died on October 20, 460 and was buried in Jerusalem in the Church of St. Stephens.[19] The empress never returned to the imperial court in Constantinople, but "she maintained her imperial dignity and engaged in substantial euergetistic programs."[20]
Literary work[edit]
While Eudocia could have written a lot of literature after leaving the Court, only some of her work survived. Eudocia "wrote in hexameters, which is the verse of epic poetry, on Christian themes."[10] She wrote a poem entitled The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian in two books, of which 800 lines survived, and an inscription of a poem on the baths at Hammat Gader.[10] Her most studied piece of literature is her Homeric cento, which has been analyzed recently by a few modern scholars, such as Mark Usher and Brian Sower. Eudocia is an understudied poet and has been neglected due to "lack of complete and authoritative text."[21]
Martyrdom of St. Cyprian[edit]
There are three books (or volumes) to this epic poem, which tells the story of how "Justa, the Christian virgin, defeated the magician Cyprian through her faith in God. Cyprian had been hired by Aglaidas to force Justa to love him. It ends with the conversion of Cyprian, his swift rise to the rank of Bishop, and Justa becoming a deaconess, with the new name, Justina."[22] This story is all fiction, although the parallels between Eudocia's character Justa and Eudocia herself are interesting, as both of them converted to Christianity and changed their names upon succeeding to power. Although some of the text has been lost, most of it has been paraphrased by Photius. The poem is very long despite not all of it surviving the centuries, and can be found in Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by I. M. Plant.
The Baths[edit]
The poem inscribed on the baths at Hammat Gader in Israel was very short, and can be included here, as evidence of her hexameter writing style. The poem was inscribed so visitors could read as they went into the pool.
- I have seen many wonders in my life, countless,
- But who, noble Clibanus, however many his mouths, could proclaim
- Your might, when born a worthless mortal? But rather
- It is right for you to be called a new fiery ocean,
- Paean and parent, provider of sweet streams.
- From you the thousandfold swell is born, one here, on there,
- On this side boiling-hot, on that side in turn icy-cold and tepid.
- Into fountains four-fold four you pour out your beauty.
- Indian and Matrona, Repentius, holy Elijah,
- Antoninus the Good, Dewy Galatia, and
- Hygieia herself, warm baths both large and small,
- Pearl, ancient Clibanus, Indian and other
- Matrona, Strong, Nun, and the Patriarch's.
- For those in pain your powerful might is always everlasting.
- But I will sing of a god, renowned for wisdom
- For the benefit of speaking mortals.[23]
Homeric Centos[edit]
The Homeric centos that Eudocia wrote is her most popular and most analyzed poem by modern scholars because Homer was a popular choice to write a centos on. Eudocia's particular centos is the longest Homeric cento, and consists of 2,344 lines.[22] This centos is a clear representation of who Eudocia was, and what she believed in. She wrote an epic poem combining her classical Athens educational background by doing a Homeric centos, but adding stories from the book of Genesis and the New Testament stories of the life of Jesus Christ.
Mark Usher analyzed this poem as a means to understand why Eudocia chose to use Homeric themes as a mean to express her biblical interpretations. According to Usher, Eudocia needed to convey human experience relating to the Bible. She used themes from the Iliad and Odyssey because "they contained all Eudocia needed to tell the Gospel story. Whenever and wherever Eudocia needed to express greatness, pain, truthfulness, deceit, beauty, suffering, mourning, recognition, understanding, fear, or astonishment, there was an apt Homeric line or passage ready in her memory to be recalled."[24] Eudocia's Homeric poetry is essential to understanding her as a Christian woman in early Byzantine Empire, and understanding her role as empress. Her classical educational background is clearly seen in her poetry, which captures her literary talent. She made a point to connect her background love for studying classical Greek literature, with her Christian beliefs.
Eudocia is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.[25][26]
- ^ See Gunter Wagner, Pauline Baptism and the Pagan Mysteries (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1967), 260ff.
- ^ a b Jeanne Tstastaos, Empress Athenais-Edocia: A Fifth Century Byzantine Humanist. (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1977), 10.
- ^ a b Tsatsos, 11
- ^ Tsatsos, 12.
- ^ a b c d Kenneth G. Holum, Theodosian Empresses, (University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982), pp. 112-113.
- ^ a b Holum, 115.
- ^ a b c d Holum, 114.
- ^ Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome (London: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), 198.
- ^ Holum, 183.
- ^ a b c d e Plant, p. 198
- ^ Holum, 123.
- ^ Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity (London: Routledge, 1993), 18.
- ^ Holum, 184.
- ^ a b Holum, 117.
- ^ Geoffrey Greatrex, "Aelia Eudocia (Wife of Theodosius II)"
- ^ Brian Sowers, "Eudocia: The Making of a Homeric Christian" (PhD diss., University of Cincinnati, 2008), 16.
- ^ a b Holum, 118.
- ^ Holum, 124.
- ^ Geoffrey Greatrex, "Aelia Eudocia (Wife of Theodosius II)," An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, University of Ottawa (2004), http://www.roman-emperors.org/eudocia.htm#N_17_ (accessed on May 2, 2011).
- ^ Sowers, 6.
- ^ M. D. Usher, "Prolegomenon to the Homeric Centos," American Journal of Philology 118, no. 2 (1997): 305.
- ^ a b Plant, 199.
- ^ Plant, 207-208.
- ^ Mark Usher, Homeric Stitchings, (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998), 145.
- ^ "Eudocia". Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Eudocia. Brooklyn Museum. 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ^ Chicago, 106.
- Cameron, Averil The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity London: Routledge, 1993.
- Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation. London: Merrell (2007). ISBN 1-85894-370-1
- Holum, Kenneth G, Theodosian Empresses, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
- Klein, Konstantin, "The patronage of Aelia Eudokia in Jerusalem," "Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte," 60/61 (2011/12): 85-95.
- Plant, I. M., Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, London: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
- Sowers, Brian, "Eudocia: The Making of a Homeric Christian," PhD diss., University of Cincinnati, 2008.
- Tsatsos, Jean, Empress Athenais- Eudocia: A Fifth Century Byzantine Empress, Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1977.
- Usher, Mark David "Prolegomenon to the Homeric Centos," American Journal of Philology, 118, no. 2 (1997): 305-321.
- Usher, Mark David, Homeric Stitchings, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998.
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aelia Eudocia.
- Cawley, Charles, Her profile along with her husband, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012
- This is a full dissertation analyzing all of poetry of Eudocia, and a line by line explanation of the poem insribed on the baths.
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This was a great way to use up a ton of grape tomatoes from our garden. I preferred to blanch the tomatoes first to remove the skins (they separate right in the pan and I just pull them out with a fork). Delicious, would be great appetizer for company.
Bruschetta with Warm Tomatoes
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kaxel1075 Posted: 08/01/11
very good, made for a party but used small pieces of french bread which i grilled also.
davidz Posted: 03/14/13
This recipe turned out pretty good for me. I served this as an appetizer. 10 minutes seemed like a long time to heat the tomato mixture and after 8 minutes my basil was not looking anything like the uncooked basil in photo. The flavor was perfect. The bread grilled in a little olive oil was also very good.
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The company uses underwriting information to predict what the likelihood is that you will file claims against the policy. Each company has its own underwriting standards, which means one company could reject your application but another may be willing to accept it.
The insurance company will get most of its underwriting information from these sources:
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- Modify the benefits, such as increase the deductible.
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- Try several other insurance companies or health maintenance organizations. Every company has its own underwriting guidelines. Some may view your situation differently.
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Scooby Doo Makes a Splash The Interactive Story Buddies are great! My 6 year old son loves them! However be aware that if you order an individual book it does not include the CD. My son loves to listen in the car and can't with the individual books. April 4, 2013
Scooby Doo makes a splash!! WHen I first picked up the book it fell apart but I could;t take my eyes off the covers and said : "Mommie look can I have have this book please". My eyes were as big as dimes when I saw the cover. I liked the fact that this was an interactive budy story, because it means I don't have to read it all alone. I don't like being all alone, I spend lots and lots of moments with my untie in Sudburry which makes me very happy.My auntie helps me to read these interactive buddie boooks. English was not my first language and my untie helps me to understand English in the buddy books. I think that this one was my favorite and my favorite caracter was Scooby. He was really funny when he made a splash in the water. February 14, 2013
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Learn how to make sushi rice step by step – on my other site, New Asian Cuisine. Photos and instructions from Hideo Dekura, Brigid Treloar, Ryuichi Yoshii, Authors of The Complete Book of Sushi
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Thanks for this info. I've been wanting to take a sushi making class to be able to prepare sushi at home for my husband.
Thanks for sharing. I've been making sushi for quite a while now and it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is! Have you tried using the powdered stuff? It's pretty awesome..
I saw a TV show that use lime juice instead of vinegar. My sister try once, turn out quite good.
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Sorting out my Peter Pan outfit. One problem so far is a serious bulge issue, or maybe the problem is a not so serious bulge issue?
Sorting out my Peter Pan outfit. One problem so far is a serious bulge issue, or maybe the problem is a not so serious bulge issue?
My girlfriend sent me a text questioning my sexuality. In my eyes, there is nothing wrong with wanting to go as Peter Pan for Halloween.
I thought i'd do a good deed for my housemates and clean up the hob, looks like it had never been done before. Burnt my hand and now regretting it. Listening to David Bowie and crying about my sore finger.
Sometimes people need to learn when to just shut the fuck up.
Customer comes up to till looking down, holding flowers.
Sales Assistant: oh dear, what have you done wrong then?
Customer: It's my dad's funeral.
yesterday i split a glass of coke on my laptop, the insides fizzed and popped and it didn't turn back on. apparently we can get another one, a better one, for free on our home insurance. i thought that was only if yr house got broken into. i should spill coke on more things.
i'm gonna spill coke on my little brother
ryan please tell me that wasn't my brothers cock!?
this is even worse than that picture of him and westie in the bath!
sorry, it's true
Laura filmed me snoring last night and showed me in the morning, because I failed to believe her I actually snore and that if I did it's not as bad as she makes out it is. It's bad, I had a bit of apologising to do after seeing the footage. Also, this morning it smelt like someone had put a fart in the fridge, not good times.
I've started coming up with ideas for my love story drama about shoegazing, if it comes out how I am imagining it, it's going to be amazing. Hopefully I will get round to starting on the script soon. I have to do a drama as part of my University course anyway, but i'm tempted to just make this one anyway because I'm so happy with some of the initial ideas. I should've probably done it today whilst my internet was down, but decided to be a massive geek and play Football Manager instead.
Last night I had my first cocktail party, it was pretty alright, but I can't understand why drama students talk so loud, what is that all about? I'm in the same room as them and everyone can hear me talking at a normal volume, why can't they follow suit? Anyway, my choice of cocktail was a Blueberry Sangria Lemonade, I thought it was a success, considering it was my first ever cocktail I've made. At the end of the party, my friend Amanda had gone to town and left her room unlocked, I took it as mine and Laura's duty to move her furniture around just to confuse her when she got back, we were tempted to turn her bed upside down, but thought that might've been crossing a line.
Blueberry Sangria Lemonade
1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
1 (12-ounce) can frozen concentrated pink lemonade
1 bottle (750ml) Chardonnay
3 cups lemon lime soda (recommended: Sprite)
1/2 cup Cognac
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erect nipple
Laura says:
errect nipple syndrome
ASMAN says:
you got it too?
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thats what bras are for
ASMAN says:
really? i didn't know why girls wore them
Laura says:
ASMAN says:
i thought they were to make boobs look bigger
Laura says:
nah they are to stop them moving around
i think
i actually don't know
thats bad
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you just accept you have to wear them
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My tumblr is just rubbish isn't it? I never have anything interesting to say on here, the only times I think of stuff interesting I could write on here is just as i'm about to sleep, which means I'm too lazy to get out of bed and actually write it. Maybe I should start adopting this technique, although it might end up in some tired, uninteresting rants and reviews on random things.
So today lazy blog updates end, unless i'm feeling really lazy. I've finally moved out of my parent's house and into a shared house with 9 other people, it's quite a shock to the routine, but i'm loving it so far. I've lost all my disposable income now though, which I would've normally used to spend on guitar pedals or awesome things like a new pc and tv.
I took my girlfriend to the McDonald's in Dorchester today, because that's what a great boyfriend I am. We drove past it the other day on the way to Hardy Monument, which it turns out, you can no longer climb up it anymore, rendering it one of the most pointless tourist attractions in the world, the view from below it is still impressive though, and I got licked by a Husky dog, man I love those things. Anyway, she didn't believe me this was a real McDonalds, it basically looks like someone has stuck a big yellow M on the side of their house. It is a real McDonalds though, and it was actually pleasant.
Since I've been working at Londis; I've developed an awful music taste and actually wanted to listen to chart music. We are forced to listen to Wessex FM.
Anyway, everybody should listen to Tubelord's new album. It's on spotify.


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Apple and EPEAT: What it means
Apple has pulled its products from the government-backed EPEAT registry of environmentally friendly electronic devices. Dan Moren's here to explain what it all means.
MacBook Pro with Retina Display: Putting the video to the test
We've seen couple of reports recently about the MacBook Pro with Retina Display's video, one about its ability to run at 2880 by 1800 resolution, the other about connecting external displays. We decided to test both.
Remains of the Day: Redefinition, please
It's a day of redefinitions. For one thing, "Kodak moment" apparently now refers to taking someone to court; the MacBook Pro with Retina display has redefined how thin you can make an LCD, and Apple may be loosely redefining the word "everything."
Remains of the Day: Super, man
Another iAd executive has been spotted leaving Apple, a tip shows you how to get the very most out of your Retina MacBook Pro, and iOS 6 could put podcasting front and center.
Remains of the Day: All in the game
The iPad trademark is still anybody's game in China, rumors say a 13-inch Retina display is afoot, and Google Maps and Apple's new maps go head to, well, foot.
Remains of the Day: Glaring errors
Apple may de-glare its iMac displays, the iPhone reigns supreme on Flickr, and the question of the day: Who can possibly portray the inimitable Steve Wozniak?
Remains of the Day: Take your best shot
A Retina display screenshot is worth approximately 4000 words, Kodak snaps a picture of Apple's frustrated face, and Microsoft shoots, but may not score, in a licensing imbroglio.
Remains of the Day: Threat assessment
One game maker makes an impromptu retreat from the field of battle, while Apple brings all its firepower to bear on content negotiations and the iPad is strategically deployed in bureaucratic trouble spots.
Samsung decides to spin off LCD business
Samsung Electronics has decided to spin off the company's LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturing unit.
Samsung to buy Sony's share of LCD panel joint company for $934 million
Sony said Monday it will sell off its entire stake in an LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture with Samsung Electronics for $934 million.
Apple releases Thunderbolt Display firmware update
Apple on Monday released a version 1.1 update for its Thunderbolt Display firmware.
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Macworld Lab tested different daisy-chain scenarios to find out if certain devices and device placement affects performance. The results are surprising.


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SJ Berwin private equity partner Ed Harris has quit for Hogan Lovells, a year after the two firms advised Duke Street on a cash injection into the Parabis Group.
According to an internal memo sent to Hogan Lovells staff this morning, Harris will work with the firm's global co-head of private equity Alan Greenough and corporate partner Tom Whelan.
Harris advised longstanding SJ Berwin client Duke Street on its stake in Parabis, while Hogan Lovells banking partner Stuart Brinkworth, who joined the firm from SJ Berwin in 2010, advised banks RBS, Lloyds, Santander and Ares (6 February 2012). Neither firm commented on whether his move came about from this deal.
Harris has been a partner at SJ Berwin since 2007, two years after he joined the firm from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. During this time he has worked for some of SJ Berwin's major clients, including Terra Firma and Pantheon.
He advised Terra Firma on the acquisition of residential property company Annington Homes in November (21 November 2012) and Pantheon on various issues, including its investment into Arle and the subsequent £64m purchase of 29 per cent of Candover Investments' managed assets (13 December 2010).
Earlier this year SJ Berwin partners voted to combine with King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), the first ever tie up between two major UK and Asian Pacific firms (31 July 2013). The tie-up is set to go live next month.
The firm is yet to agree a start date.
SJ Berwin did not comment at the time of writing.
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Forty minutes later, her face is finished, branded in a matrix of what Gross estimates to be "300,000 microdots." Pam applies Catrix, a healing ointment and protective barrier, to her singed skin. "I can really feel the burn setting in," Emily says. (The burning feeling lasts between 30 minutes and three hours.) Today is Thursday. Gross estimates she'll be back to work on Monday. By the time Emily leaves, her face has started swelling. Monday might be wishful thinking.
"Here I am today!" reads Emily's e-mail on Saturday. She's
attached a profile photograph, the sight of which gives me a guilty pang. Poor Em. "Still swollen," she continues. "Skin almost bubblygrid marks are cool-looking. Not in any pain thx to Vicodin, but look awesomely grotesque. I definitely couldn't go out in public today. Fingers crossed that I won't look as scary by Monday."
Tuesday, Emily writes: "Hi! Blotchy but healing! Finally crusted over last night. I think it will be good, tho. Downtime was a little longer than I thoughtdefinitely won't look normal till next week. Still have laser matrix marks in some spots, but very cool to see healing skin peek thru. One problem. I am addicted to Vicodin now. It is so wonderful!!! I only have three left, so somewhat short-lived addiction." Uh, oh: "I went on Travelwise.com and bought all these clothes that roll up to pack! Now I can roll up my entire wardrobe! This is the future!!!!" Em is in serious trouble. She's also developed an addiction to exclamation pointsand those she won't run out of!
That's it. I cannot in good conscience leave Em to go where I haven't gone before. I can't leave her out there on her own, stumbling through the MiXto recovery maze from which she could emerge screaming for Vicodin, looking like a checkerboard, wearing roll-ups, and doing this!!!!for the rest of her life. Thus, without further ado or the approval of the president, I pick up the Red Phone, call my friend Liesl, and enlist her to test the MiXto laser too. That way Emily won't have to survive it alone.
I arrive at Gross's office and find Liesl waiting for me, slathered in numbing cream, eyes wide with fear: "I thought you said I was getting a facial." Clearly we've had a miscommunication.
Gross enters the room, points out all the sun damage Liesl's accumulated from her outdoorsy, nature-loving lifestyle, and assuages her anxiety by saying, "By the time you're healed, you'll notice that a lot of that discoloration will be gone. And these large pores on your cheeks and nose will be greatly reduced in size." Liesl, 44, who has long lamented those large pores, gives him a skeptical look. "Pores run really deep; they're like canals," Gross explains. "So what the laser does is heat up the cells and stimulate them into producing more collagen fibers that shrink the pore tunnels. This also creates a notable amount of firmingthough that effect will take some time."
Ken comes in and flips the MiXto switch. Liesl puts the metal goggles on, muses about whether her vanity will result in permanent blindness, and, being a laser virgin, accepts the blue squeezy ball Gross offers, which when the going gets rough will keep her from grabbing one of his balls.