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Well now, let me see. How can you mess up a pork chop?
This was pretty good. Dh found this recipe to make for us tonight- Only gave it four stars because the cooking directions were sort of vague, and because dh and I thought it needed a bit more spice. Thanks so much for sharing!
I really enjoy Tony Chachere spice mix. I used boneless chops and coated them quite heavily with the spice mix rubbing it well into the chops. It seemed to seal in the juices so when I bbq'd them they remained moist.Seven minutes each side, gas BBq on high, closed lid for part of the time, turned them twice. Very easy tasty recipe - Thanks to the Hedlin Family
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As you probably read last week on the blog, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are perhaps the most prolific of celebrity entertainment tour participants the USO has out there right now. Their tireless support of Troops and families has manifest itself in 70 tours, and they show no sign of putting away their pom-poms any time soon! Today's anniversary photo features the cheerleaders in action during a Navy show in 1983. Check out that view!
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Anne Cosper always wanted to volunteer at the USO. So when her daughter, who currently serves in the U.S. Army, was reassigned to Fort Hood – only an hour drive from her Georgetown, Texas, home – she decided it was the perfect opportunity to get involved at the USO center on base.
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Bob Harris first began volunteering at the USO Northwest Seattle-Tacoma International Airport center in 2013. Shortly after he started, he was asked if he'd be interested in picking up donated bananas and bringing them to the airport center once a week. It wasn't long after his first delivery that Bob realized the donations runs had earned him a new nickname.


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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Police are investigating the shooting deaths of a couple in their Independence home.
A man and woman, both in their 20s, were discovered inside the house Wednesday after the shooting at about 3:45 p.m. An infant found at the scene was taken into custody of state child welfare workers.
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Best Art Galleries in Maine
Here are 12 of our picks for the best art galleries in Maine. They're sure to please any art enthusiast!
In 30 years of writing about art in Maine and New England (with an occasional foray into New York), I've naturally become attached to some of the art galleries I've visited repeatedly. Were I to conduct a guided tour of the best art galleries in Maine (which I have done on occasion), the following dozen would be on the itinerary. As it is an itinerary, the galleries are listed geographically, south to north along the coast.
1. Mast Cove Galleries. Every successful art gallery in Maine is essentially a reflection of the gallery owner, an extension of his or her personality and taste. For close to 30 years now, Jean Briggs has operated Mast Cove Gallery out of her home as something of a salon, with jazz and blues concerts augmenting the art. With more than 100 artists represented, there's usually something to appeal to everyone in this friendly resort-town gallery.
1 Mast Cove Lane, Kennebunkport, ME. 207-967-3453
2. June Fitzpatrick Gallery. June Fitzpatrick opened her townhouse gallery across High Street from the Portland Museum of Art in 1992, and in 2001 expanded to a second gallery on Congress Street in the Maine College of Art building. Fitzpatrick often features edgy contemporary art in shows that change monthly. The intimate High Street gallery tends to focus on works on paper, while the MECA gallery features paintings and other media.
112 High St., Portland ME, 207-772-1961
522 Congress St., Portland ME. 207-879-5742 x283
3. Aucocisco. (CLOSED) Andres Verzosa is an ambitious and energetic art entrepreneur who programs his little gallery, next door to the State Theater, with adventurous contemporary artwork by both established and emerging artists. Three of my favorite Maine artists — Dozier Bell, Katherine Bradford, and Celeste Roberge — have shown at Aucocisco recently. The name derives from the old Abenaki name for the Portland and Casco Bay area.
613 Congress St. Portland ME.
4. Whitney Art Works. Deb and Peter Whitney's gallery is the new kid on the Arts District block, a welcome 21st-century arrival on a Portland art scene that has seen galleries come and go over the years as the economy ebbs and flows. Whitney Art Works looks and feels more like a New York gallery than any of the other galleries in Maine, and the art it shows is less likely to have a Maine flavor. Not necessarily a bad thing.
492 Congress St., Portland ME. 207-774-7011
5. Greenhut Galleries. Peggy Golden started Greenhut Galleries in 1977 as Posters Plus, a little frame and poster shop in Portland's Old Port. Since Frost Gully Gallery moved out of the city, Greenhut Galleries has staked a claim to being Portland's oldest contemporary art gallery. Greenhut still does a brisk business in framing, but Golden also shows and sells some of Maine's most popular representational painters.
146 Middle St., Portland ME. 207-772-2693
6. Frost Gully Gallery. Realist painter Thomas Crotty opened his gallery in Freeport in 1966, did business in Portland for many years, and is now comfortably back at home. Frost Gully was the first year-round contemporary art gallery of the modern era and once represented a who's who of Maine artists. It's still the place to go for Maine masters such as Dahlov Ipcar, Laurence Sisson, Stephen Etnier, William Keinbusch, and Tom Crotty himself.
1191 U.S. Route 1, Freeport, ME. 207-865-4505
7. ICON Contemporary Art. Artist and furniture maker Duane Paluska maintains a serious little gallery attached to his woodworking shop — or rather his workshop is attached to the gallery. Icon is the premier venue in Maine for abstract art. The spring and summer season will feature work by Mark Wethli, Jeff Kellar, photographer Michael Kolster, and David Row, a New York artist who grew up in Maine and returns summers to Cushing Island.
19 Mason St., Brunswick ME; 207-725-8157
8. Gleason Fine Art. Dennis and Martha Gleason's downtown Boothbay Harbor gallery distinguishes itself by showing and selling both popular contemporary Maine art and art by 19th- and 20th-century painters such as James Fitzgerald, Robert Henri, Andrew Winter, and Jay Hall Connaway, artists associated with the Monhegan island art colony. At this writing, Gleason Fine Art was about to open a second location in Portland.
31 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ME, 207-633-6849
545 Congress St., Portland ME
9. Caldbeck Gallery. Cynthia Hyde and Jim Kinnealey have operated Caldbeck Gallery across Elm Street from the entrance to the Farnsworth Art Museum since 1982. From the beginning it has been the go-to place for the art of Midcoast Maine. Caldbeck also handles the estate of the much-revered Maine artist William Thon. There's no point in going to Rockland if you don't stop at Caldbeck.
12 Elm St., Rockland ME. 207-594-5935
10. 10 High Street. John and Sarah Ames are longtime veterans of the Maine art scene, John having previously operated a gallery in Belfast and Sarah having served as executive director of Maine Coast Artists (now Center for Maine Contemporary Art) and chief curator and associate director of the Farnsworth Art Museum. These days, John and Sarah Ames run a very personal art and antiques gallery out of a space where Sarah's grandmother started an antiques shop in 1947.
10 High St., Camden ME. 207-237-2770
11. Leighton Gallery (Closed – now home to Cynthia Winnings Gallery) Artist Judith Leighton is in her 28th year running her fine, eclectic barn gallery down a side street in the picturesque village of Blue Hill. Leighton usually features five artists a month during the summer season, but the gallery represents dozens and has a soulful little sculpture garden in the backyard. A very upbeat art selection.
24 Parker Pt. Road, Blue Hill, ME. 207-374-5001


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Dermatex Hair Featured on Fox News in San Diego with Latest in Hair Loss Solutions for Women and Men
Dermatex Hair in San Diego was recently on Fox News in the morning. Tuck Liskay explained the latest in hair loss solutions available to men and women. Tuck has been featured extensively in San Diego and is an expert in hair loss and hair replacement
Nov. 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Dermatex Hair of San Diego – one of the country's leading hair replacement centers – leads the industry once again, with another TV segment about their latest hair thinning and hair loss technology.
Tuck Liskay of Dermatex Hair - recently featured on Fox-5, says it's all about the newest and latest technology for men and women. "Taking a look around, it's an honor to be featured on TV news segments with regularity. To me, it's all about the technology and how it relates to the client. Making them look and feel their best."
Tuck is no stranger to the news media and feeds updates regularly – a rarity in his business. "Hair is just as important today as it's ever been, especially women, who can suffer female pattern baldness, and other types of alopecia just like men." "We've seen more women over the past few years than ever before. Women realize that with today's sophisticated technology, hair can be added back non-surgically and they can the look they have only dreamed of."
The FOX-TV/Dermatex segment featured a female client suffering from thinning hair. Having her hair back gave her all the confidence in the world. "Changing lives is a big part of what's done here," says Liskay. I love this part of the job. That the media cares, makes it ever-more exciting."
Tuck is one of the leading experts in hair loss, hair restoration and hair replacement in the country. As a client himself, he understands the emotional toll that hair loss can take on person. Dealing with hair loss in San Diego is a passion of his. "If I had never suffered hair loss myself...and decided to do something about it, I would never have found this rewarding career. I enjoy helping people and getting the word out that there is an answer for women who are losing their hair"
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Mustard Seed and Papaya Chutney
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
I *think* I got this recipe from a Yahoo group...regardless, it's yummy. I apologize that I can't credit the original chef, but thank you.
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- 1 1⁄2 cups white vinegar
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons mustard seeds
- 3 ripe papayas, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1⁄2 medium red onion, finely diced
- Combine vinegar, water, sugar and mustard in 1-quart pan.
- Place over medium heat and bring to boil. Cook until liquid becomes syrupy.
- Add papayas and curry powder. Cook 2 minutes more, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and mix in onion.
- Pack mixture into jar and refrigerate 1 week before using.
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Great Chutney! I didn't realize that this was to sit in the fridge for a week before I had made it. I used some of it after chilling for 6 hours and it was still great...i can't wait to see how it tastes in a week! I added some dates to it and that was the only change i made. Wonderful flavors!!


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When I look at my about page contents in the wordpress editor, I don't see any markup language in the HTML view and so I don't know how to left and right justify the paragraphs.
I'm at http://www.annmariedavis.com.
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I have a problem with connecting to database I have configured wp-config.php with the following detail.
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'minhaj');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'Rohail');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
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define('DB_COLLATE', '');
Now it is giving me the error message which is
Can't select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the minhaj database.
•Are you sure it exists?
•Does the user Rohail have permission to use the minhaj database?
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Some people get their holiday shopping done early, tied up in a neat, little bow.
Others are not so enterprising.
"This year, I just couldn't get into the Christmas spirit," said Cyndi McKay of Canyon. "It seems like we just did this."
McKay was at Westgate Mall on Friday shopping for her children.
"My kids have everything under the sun and they don't take care of what they have," she said.
Jimmy Boyd, 29, also made a trip to the mall, thinking that shopping during the day on Friday would be a way to avoid the crowds.
"I can't stand the crowds, so I thought coming between 12 and 3, I could avoid them, but I was wrong," he said. "I usually get it all done before summer."
Boyd was buying a gift certificate for his wife.
"I'm supposed to get a pea coat, but I don't know what that is, so I thought this was the best way to go," he said.
Linda Kuehnast was having a similar dilemma about her 15-year-old granddaughter. She decided to get her a gift certificate as well.
"I usually don't do that, but I decided to do that for a teen. I just waited and thought there wouldn't be anybody here," Kuehnast said.
Tommy and Monica Filpi were shopping for their parents.
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Jana Perkins went to Caryn's Hallmark & Gift Shop to find something for her mother-in-law.
"We always wait till the last minute," she said of her and her husband. "We're usually working I guess. The hardest people we always save till the last."
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The PirateBox is a device designed to facilitate sharing. There's one catch, it isn't connected to the Internet, so you need to be close enough to connect via Wi-Fi to this portable file server. This article outlines the project and shows how to build your own.
In days of yore (the early- to mid-1990s) those of us using the "Internet", as it was, delighted in our ability to communicate with others and share things: images, MIDI files, games and so on. These days, although file sharing still exists, that feeling of community has been leeched away from the same activities, and people are somewhat skeptical of sharing files on-line anymore for fear of a lawsuit or who's watching.
Enter David Darts, the Chair of the Art Department at NYU. Darts, aware of the Dead Drops (http://deaddrops.com) movement, was looking for a way for his students to be able to share files easily in the classroom. Finding nothing on the market, he designed the first iteration of the PirateBox.
"Protecting our privacy and our anonymity is closely related to the preservation of our freedoms."—David Darts
Dead Drops
Dead Drops is an off-line peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public. In other words, it is a system of USB Flash drives embedded in walls, curbs and buildings. Observant passersby will notice the drop and, hopefully, connect a device to it. They then are encouraged to drop or collect any files they want on this drive. For more information, comments and a map of all Dead Drops worldwide, go to http://deaddrops.com.
What Does David Darts Keep on His PirateBox?
A collection of stories by Cory Doctorow.
Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.
DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album.
Girl Talk's Feed the Animals.
A collection of songs by Jonathan Coulton.
Some animations by Nina Paley.
(All freely available and released under some sort of copyleft protection.)
The PirateBox is a self-contained file-sharing device that is designed to be simple to build and use. At the same time, Darts wanted something that would be private and anonymous.
The PirateBox doesn't connect to the Internet for this reason. It is simply a local file-sharing device, so the only thing you can do when connected to it is chat with other people connected to the box or share files. This creates an interesting social dynamic, because you are forced to interact (directly or indirectly) with the people connected to the PirateBox.
The PirateBox doesn't log any information. "The PirateBox has no tool to track or identify users. If ill-intentioned people—or the police—came here and seized my box, they will never know who used it", explains Darts. This means the only information stored about any users by the PirateBox is any actual files uploaded by them.
The prototype of the PirateBox was a plug computer, a wireless router and a battery fit snugly into a metal lunchbox. After releasing the design on the Internet, the current iteration of the PirateBox (and the one used by Darts himself) is built onto a Buffalo AirStation wireless router (although it's possible to install it on anything running OpenWRT), bringing the components down to only the router and a battery. One branch of the project is working on porting it to the Android OS, and another is working on building a PirateBox using only open-source components.
How to Build a PirateBox
There are several tutorials on the PirateBox Web site (http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY) on how to set up a PirateBox based on what platform you are planning on using. The simplest (and recommended) way of setting it up is on an OpenWRT router. For the purpose of this article, I assume this is the route you are taking. The site suggests using a TP-Link MR3020 or a TP-Link TL-WR703N, but it should work on any router with OpenWRT installed that also has a USB port. You also need a USB Flash drive and a USB battery (should you want to be fully mobile).
Adding USB Support to OpenWRT
USB support can be added by running the following commands:
opkg update
opkg install kmod-usb-uhci
insmod usbcore
insmod uhci
opkg install kmod-usb-ohci
insmod usb-ohci
Assuming you have gone through the initial OpenWRT installation (I don't go into this process in this article), you need to make some configuration changes to allow your router Internet access initially (the PirateBox software will ensure that this is locked down later).
Mobilya Modelleri
this kind of box. I wonder what's inside?
Fantastic concept but...
What's the point of being able to share your files, if there's no1 to share them with? How many people have ever heard of Pirate Box? This is certainly my first time and I'm a huge nerd. Let's say I go fully mobile and take it to a public location, what are the odds of me finding someone who is looking for a pirate box as well? Probably slim. And if they did know about it, why wouldn't they try to bring their own? Then everyone's sharing with each other, yet nobody is connected to one another. Neat concept, but far from practical use.
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One of the most fun aspects of a LAN party was exploring the shared files of all the other users on the network. There were people that would show up, solely for the file swapping. That is exactly what this project is about.PirateBox is a mobile p2p sharing and collaboration platform. Basically it is a wireless hotspot with a slick interface and a shared folder.
This will be useful for our
This will be useful for our last finals this coming Saturday. Well, that is, to set it up today so we can pass notes and the other files we have to one another via a centralized location. This way we won't have to format our own individual mess of files in a way that everyone in the group can understand.
I just got it to work in the
I just got it to work in the dorm. Instead of what we normally did before, now everyone can just grab what they want instead of interrupting studying just to ask for the USB again...walking back and forth,..getting frustrated...you know the deal. I must admit, we "kids today" are pretty spoiled in some ways with respect to how convenient some things are. I made a page (well took some notes) on how I was able to get it to work at school: (Actually my brother had to stand over my shoulder when doing it haha)
one question:
how do the dead-drop folks prevent their USB sticks from becoming malware vectors? For that matter, how does the Pirate Box prevent this?
is this essentially an ad
is this essentially an ad hock network that you setup?
The is incredible!
This is a totally awesome idea. I will have to make one my self now lol.
Source code
Any link of the piratebox_0.3-2_all.ipk source code?
I believe it's on Source
I believe it's on Source Forge somewhere but I have the documentation posted on my page: http://www.daplayersclubz.net/networksetups/linux.html
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Not the first song I would have remixed Techno-style, but pretty good nonetheless. 4/5 for going out on a limb
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Ear rape?
Well, it does seem to have the power of epileptic destruction. Oh well, it was still awesome, I've been listening to it for 20 minutes!
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Cool song
I thought it had a nice beat to it.
btw @ the people saying it's ear rape I think there should be some way for you to put the volume on your computer down seriously.
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This sounds pretty much like it is supposed to! It has that looooooped tune of the pokecentre in the actual games. Just might be a touch sped up, but that probably improved it. As for those that say it is 'ear rape' , go search up' two girls one cup' for eye rape as well.
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The Justice Department will notify a federal court Friday that it is joining one of his former racing teammates in suing him for using performance-enhancing drugs during the Tour de France, legal sources told NBC News.
The government is signing on to a lawsuit filed two years ago by Floyd Landis, one of Armstrong's former Tour de France teammates who has already admitted cheating. Among its claims: Landis saw Armstrong store and then re-inject his own blood to boost his performance, and Armstrong twice gave Landis banned hormones before races.
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It seems as though their contracts would have had to specify him staying free of PEDs while representing them.
I agree...where is the damage. Of course, if Holder assigns a battery of his crack prosecutors on this, they will have less time to look into voting fraud and treasonous sales of technology to China.
And yet John Corzine skates. No wonder they call it the Just-us department.
Let's ban sports. They get kids, whip them up into a frenzy, feed them drugs and etc. It's not healthy.
Will conders never wease!
How about a law suit against gun running to drug lords?
Kick 'em when their down.
How about collecting all the loans from the wind/solar companies the Energy Department made first? Id hazard a guess that the total dollar value outstanding is much more substantial than what Armstrong received.
It's bread-and-circuses for the political class.
It seems as though their contracts would have had to specify him staying free of PEDs while representing them.
My guess is that it did. I'd be surprised if they didn't have such a clause in the contract. Lance is on the way down. It's just a matter of how long it takes to get to the bottom. I suspect that he'll be penniless when this is all over unless he's got some placed in offshore accounts.
They will crucify Lance. And, honestly, he has it coming. If he is smart, he as a few million $$ stashed away in a Swiss bank account.
Why does Floyd get to sue Armstrong because he saw him do something.
Can I sue Floyd Landis because I watched the Tour De France and he ruined it for me by using drugs?
Because I think I have a better claim than he does. Is he suing because he wasn't as good at doing drugs as Armstrong? That's two things Floyd wasn't as good as Lance doing.
And yet John Corzine skates. No wonder they call it the Just-us department.
So true.
Lance hurt our spirit.....Corzine hurt people in their pockets...... and probably
in some cases their livelihood, and retirements
And yet John Corzine skates. No wonder they call it the Just-us department.
So true.
Lance hurt our spirit.....Corzine hurt people in their pockets...... and probably
in some cases their livelihood, and retirements
That said, the Obama administration's flaky who politically dropped the Armstrong investigation needs to be brought to justice.
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Pfft~ and they had the guts to call themselves "freepers" when in reality they were acting exactly like the kooks who think OJ didn`t do it and is still innocent.
I've always thought that one had to be found in posession of a drug in order to be charged. Guess the rules are changing........
That's why I say this is going to be interesting. The question of damages is answered [in court] by proving you've been injured. Everyone associated with Lance's astonishing career seems to have done quite well ...except Landis, maybe.
I would agree with you but only if every top ten racer and every stage winner that competed with him during all his races were given the same in depth scrutiny and testing as Armstrong endured.......
That's a fair request isn't it?
When allegations came up, the simple truth was that he had passed tests even though he was tested more than anyone. Sure, we can now say he had a good technique of masking. But in all matters of criminality people should be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
If the Tour is the greatest athletic competition in the world, which I am rather inclined to believe it is (can you name another?)there is one athlete who stands out as the greatest, Lance. And in order to go on about "he had it coming" you have to convince me that the likes of Merckx, Anquetil, Hineault, Indurain, and frankly even LeMond did not use drugs AND lie about it. The more I think about all this the more I am convinced Lance was SO good at this doping crap he took everyone's cross.
I am an athelete and have been one for years, I have taken all kinds of legal but banned in sports substances. I feel they make be better, some have made me permantly better. I dont understand public outrage, I dont usderstand the legal knee jerk reactions. Lyle Alzato's death was part of the anti-roids/dont do drugs kids stuff from the Nancy Regan era 30 years ago. The anti-aging, HGH stuff 100% of hollywood is on and has been on for the last 10 years. Look at the Governator, should the justice department sue him too cuz he also cheated on his wife and did enough pump to gag a donkey? Guys are big,bad,mean and fast before they take them...We do it because we want more, its the American way. We need to be honest with ourselves and if it was a stupid byclcist, it would have been somebody else.
Play hard and leave it all on the field.
We have forgot as Americans the George Washington story about the cherry tree....Nowaday you tell the truth and weasels and homosexual jump out of the wood work to take a peice of you, and in todays values NEVER show anger.
We have become weak and stupid as peoples.
In Obama's marxist society, if you raise your head higher than the egalitarian masses, they'll chop it off as soon as they can.
It didn't take long. The Justice Dept. campaign is one thing, of course, but the slobbering Lancebots will use it only as an excuse to worship their hero, the "greatest athlete ever!!!". Which reminds me of the posts I read when Gerry Marsden of the Gerry and the Pacemakers passed away stating that Gerry was the greatest singer ever and his music would live forever. Shore thing, Shirley!
Your theory makes sense until you understand that EPO, the drug which changed the sport and made Armstrong a unrelenting superstar, was only around in the late eighties or early nineties.
Roger that!
So if I go along with your notion that EPO is the only PED worth paying attention to - which I don't, and wouldn't - you still posit that my "theory" makes no sense because... There are no champions after - Pedro Delgado? Indurain? Love ya Vision but give me a break.
I read it and saw it as being written by a vindictive bike mechanic who was pissed off because Armstrong didn't buy him a bicycle shop.......
Terms like "protection racket", blackmail and extortion immediately come to mind.......
Irrational apotheosis, suspension of rational cognitive abilities, creating alternate realities, is simply not categorized as a minor human flaw making everyone inferior .
Berating cult of personality is honourable.
Don`t like it, the DU may be the perfect site for you.
Sylvester Stallone had to admit he uses HGH since he got caught trying to import huge quantities. Just by looking at him it obvious.
But, I really don`t care about personal narcissism. It`s when frauds to try pretend the won fair and square, make tens of millions in income, based on doping and cheating.
Cheat to win, F U Lance.
At some point maybe a competitive union of drug free performers will start up and the public can decide what they favor. But, judging from the success of pro wrestling I doubt straight will win out over enhancement.
In my opinion it all went to hell when the Olympic committee was afraid to stand up for amateurs and opened the door to anything goes with the pro athletes. As US hockey team coach Herb Brooks said after our boys beat the Russians and won gold at Lake Placid, "Now that we have dream teams, we have no more dreams"
BTW- Welcome to Free Republic. If you are interested in cycling (beyond this issue) let me know and I'll put you on our ping list. We have a joyous time during le Tour what with all the cyclists that join in and the people who tell us cycling is not a sport..
I understand the part about how I believed in Lance and that makes me a left-winger, but with the rest, you're too smart for me.
Cognative dissonance doesn`t discriminate based on individual philosophy so let me say it again:
Irrational apotheosis, suspension of rational cognitive abilities, creating alternate realities, is simply not categorized as a minor human flaw making everyone inferior .
Berating cult of personality is honourable.
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Much is written and advertised about the Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors' opposition to the Terrebonne Parish School Board increased millage proposal.
The Chamber Board of Directors, without fully polling or taking a random sampling of its membership, has made a decision to oppose the millage increase based on the myth that there is no plan and what has been presented is vague.
The Board of Directors has confused the call of the election and what will appear on the ballot (which is limited by statute to 250 words) and the written aggressive Terrebonne Parish School Board plan, as approved by board action, which clearly states that schools will be renovated, overpopulated schools will have additional classrooms, schools will be consolidated and new schools shall be built.
It is a plan for the future with immediate implementations.
The second part of the plan is to provide a competitive wage for employees.
The plan calls for universal pre-kindergarten, lower pupil-teacher ratios and innovative educational programs such as Success is Required.
The Chamber's Board of Directors claims that its interest is to protect businesses.
What better and greater attraction and protection for business than a properly educated work force and a school system that has a recognized delivery system?
At present, the Terrebonne Parish school system is the most underfunded school system in Louisiana.
Will businesses looking to relocate not notice this important fact?
Will their employees want their children to attend underfunded schools?
It is my understanding that a major corporation, that may employ hundreds of workers, is presently looking to relocate in Terrebonne Parish.
One of the first things they have already checked is the educational system.
The Board of Directors claims that it protects the interests of the 800 members and their 25,000 employees.
Don't the children of those employees deserve the benefit of a better funded school system?
Doesn't your child deserve the benefits of a fully funded school system?
The millage will provide an immediate economic engine to the community.
The 2,300 full-time and part-time employees and the 1,600 retired employees spend most of their money in Terrebonne Parish.
The brick-and-mortar plan will provide local businesses with an additional boost in revenues.
The Terrebonne Parish School Board has never reneged on its promises to the electorate.
Whatever the board has ever proposed to voters has been fulfilled.
The Freshman Center at H.L. Bourgeois High School is almost completed and will open next school year.
The Grand Caillou School is a work in progress.
In the mid-1980s, the Blueprint for Progress, a $21 million brick-and-mortar project, was passed and implemented.
At the end of the project, rather than continue to tax its citizens, the Terrebonne Parish School Board did not renew the issue.
This request for a millage increase has a 10-year sunset for voter approval or disapproval.
My decision to support the millage increase is based on the fact that the millage is needed to sustain a school system that provides on a daily basis for 19,000 public school students and great numbers of non-public students (transportation and special needs services).
I also base it on the fact that my three children have received an excellent free education in this system.
There is an old saying in educational circles that states, "There is no such thing as a free lunch."
Never has this saying been truer than now.
I encourage voters to vote their convictions but to remember "children first."
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It appears my garden has the Tomato/cucumber virus. It started on my cucumber mottled marks on leaves, that eventually dry out. The cucumber started fruiting early and I have 2 nice cucumbers but the new growth flowers and then the new fruit goes nowhere. I have lots of new growth, but the leaves dont last long. My tomatoes have been loaded with fruit. I have been enjoying beautiful cherry tomatoes for about 2 weeks. Last week I noticed a few spots on the leaves and then almost overnight the plants are covered. I am still getting ripening tomatoes but the leaves themselves are almost all brown. My peppers are at the other end of the garden and are starting to show some spots of yellow. The peppers are bountiful and starting to ripen.
I live in Central Florida and am gardening in Straw Bales. Because I garden in my backyard I have one long row of plants. Tomatoes, cucumbers, Green beans. peppers (with herbs in between), The only thing not showing leaf distress are the green beans. I have used Neem oil to control insects as well as ladybugs. The only insect I have found was the squash vine borer in my zucchini. All the infected plants were removed. I have not seen aphids.
After days of research, it seems like my garden is done for now. I will remove all the plants, straw bales, and ground cover. My question would be concerning the metal poles, tomato cages, wire trellis, drip lines and garden equipment. Can everything be disinfected with bleach water? I read one suggestion of covering everything with liquid milk. The garden area is between a wooden fence and the house, do I need to bleach these down too? Can I clean the area and work on a new garden in the fall or maybe even some summer crops or are my backyard garden days over?


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Reducing cancer risk weighs heavily upon those with a family history of the disease. Now a new study provides help in evaluating the effectiveness of preventative measures. CBS News Correspondent John Roberts reports.
It's called prophylactic mastectomy the removal of both breasts in women at high risk to prevent the occurrence of cancer.
With Wednesday's announcement from the Mayo clinic, women considering this controversial procedure for the first time know how much they can reduce that risk.
"We see that there has been a 90 percent or greater reduction in breast cancer in this group," says Dr. Lynn Hartmann, Mayo Clinic.
That's good news for women like Kerrine Ryan. She had both her breasts removed as a precaution four years ago after her mother and grandmother died from breast cancer.
"I had really lived with the reality that I knew I was getting breast cancer my whole life," said Ryan.
She didn't have the benefit of today's research, but believes she made the right decision.
"I was pleased after I had it done because they found a tumor that they never knew was there," said Ryan.
Surgeon Rache Simmons of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center says while this new study will help patients to make informed decisions prophylactic mastectomy will still not be a popular choice.
"Women typically don't want to undergo this procedure for obvious reasons. Most women would choose as an alternative to be followed very carefully by a breast surgeon, which would include regular examinations and also regular mammograms,"says Dr. Simmons.
And as radical as the procedure is, it is not 100 percent effective.
Even after mastectomy, there remains some breast tissue that can turn cancerous. But for some women, who believe developing breast cancer is inevitable, they now know they can dramatically reduce their risk.
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It is a great pleasure to invite you to the Frontiers of Retrovirology 2016 Meeting, which will be held from September 12–14, 2016 in Erlangen, Germany. With this meeting, we intend to continue the success of the previous three Frontiers of Retrovirology Meetings held in 2009, 2011, and 2013. As for the previous meeting, the Frontiers of Retrovirology 2016 Meeting will be generously supported by the journal Retrovirology and its Editors. In this tradition, we cordially invite you to contribute abstracts of your research work and attend the conference.
Since a major aim of the meeting is to provide a platform for young scientists to present their results and ideas, we particularly welcome junior retrovirologists joining us and would like to encourage all senior retrovirologists to promote their mentees´ attendance.
The meeting will be hosted by the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. Founded in 1815, the 42 departments and seven institutes of Universitätsklinikum Erlangen today comprehend every field of modern medicine. The university hospital buildings including the meeting´s venue are situated in the inner city, alongside the garden of the margrave's palace and in walking distance from the main station with trains connecting to the airports in Nuremberg, Munich, and Frankfurt. The inner city location with its traditional small restaurants and Franconian breweries and the modern lecture hall provides an excellent infrastructure for frank exchange of cutting edge research in a relaxing atmosphere.
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Local restaurateurs petition against onerous alcohol rule
The 70/30 ordinance restricts the amount of revenue restaurants can make from alcohol sales
Molly Broder, the owner of Broders' Pasta Bar, Cucina, and Terzo Vino Bar, is spearheading an attempt to rid the city charter of its 70/30 rule, which mandates that certain neighborhood restaurants earn no more than 30 percent of their overall revenue from alcohol sales. Restaurants currently affected by the rule include Chatterbox Pub, Pizza Luce, Corner Table, Birchwood Cafe, and Matt's Bar, among 65 others.
"I [knew] something needed to be done when we opened and I realized we weren't going to be able to make our numbers and then looked into it a little bit more," Broder said. "All of these little neighborhood places are tied to the city charter."
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Broder, along with Tilia's Steven Brown, the Lynn on Bryant's Peter Ireland, and Turtle Bread's Harvey McLain, recruited a lawyer to draft a petition against the rule. According to David Brauer of the Southwest Journal, they'll need a whopping 10,790 signatures to get on the 2014 ballot and a 55 percent vote from the City Council for the changes to be made.
The main aim of the petition is to get alcohol licensing out of the hands of the charter and within the regular purview of the City Council, Broder said.
"[The goal is] to be regulated by city ordinances in the city of Minneapolis, which then means that the City Council can decide by majority vote what the license is going to be," she added.
The initial thinking behind the 70/30 rule was that it kept restaurants from turning into full-fledged bars and attracting bar crowds to predominantly residential neighborhoods. The problem is that the rule makes it difficult for the 70 Minneapolis restaurants it falls on to serve nice wines and craft beers alongside similarly priced foods.
"This is a remnant of the end of prohibition," said Harvey McLain of Turtle Bread Company. "[The rule] really comes back to a time when there was a belief that wine and beer was evil."
Restaurants that fall under the 70/30 rule are also prohibited from serving drinks to customers before they order food. Restaurants that fail to comply risk losing their liquor licenses.
Broder will be hosting a meeting with concerned restaurateurs and a member of the charter commission to discuss the petition at Terzo today at 11 a.m.
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I knit tons of mittens for my adult kids and for charity. You'd need about 100 grams if you're doing it in wool. I used Cascade 100% Peruvian wool. Not sure of the yardage in those. I used one Cascade skein and two Knitpicks Wool of the Andes 100% Peruvian wool skeins. The two yarns are similar, but I think the WOA would be more like a light worsted. My son has a pair made with those that he loves. And the ones I did for him were convertible mittens that used more yarn. I used two WOA skeins. Keep in mind that the Cascade is 100 grams and the WOA is 50 grams. The Knitpicks seems like more of a bargain, but the skeins are smaller. However, even if you have to buy two, I find it's still cheaper to order from them with the shipping and save money over name brands and LYS prices. My LYS raised their prices 33% so I don't shop there anymore.
Edit: I should add that I knit my mittens and gloves with a #7 or #8 needle. Everybody's gauge is different. Mine runs about about 4 1/2 stitches per inch on the 7 and 4 stitches per inch on the 8, if that helps. Yes, I know. I'm sloppy when it comes to gauge but it works for me. Have done these mittens so many times I know the exact cast on number, measurements, and could do them in my sleep.
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Born in Peru, Rooted in Africa
'I'm telling old stories in new ways and new stories in old ways," says Susana Baca, over the phone from the Chorrillos neighborhood of Lima, Peru, where she was born.
When Ms. Baca sings in New York, twice this month—on Sunday at Queens Theater in the Park's Claire Shulman Playhouse and Wednesday in a free concert at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park—her songs will likely all trace, in some way, the story of African identity as transplanted, transformed and even repressed in her native country.
Soft but firm, wise yet playful, forthright in diction while suggestively leaning in pitch, Ms. Baca's voice moves to rhythms conjured with the simplest of instruments—the cajón, a rudimentary wooden box on which the drummer sits; the checo, an open-ended hollow gourd; and the quijada de burro, a jawbone with loosened teeth that vibrate when hit. Her songs intertwine African, Andean and Spanish elements, blending poetic cadences and dance rhythms, literary form and folklore, all expressive of a complicated 400-year history. Yet despite her obvious talent and tenacity, Ms. Baca's voice and mission would likely have gone unheard beyond Peru were it not for some fortuitous encounters.
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Ms. Baca's version of "Maria Lando," about a servant girl for whom "there is no dawn, there is no noon, there is only work for others," was the unforgettable opening salvo of the 1995 compilation "Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru" (Luaka Bop). David Byrne, the pop star who, along with Yale Evelev, founded Luaka Bop as a world-music label, came across Ms. Baca accidentally; a Spanish teacher showed him a clip of a diminutive black woman singing poetry. The subsequent search for Ms. Baca nearly came up dry, Mr. Evelev recalls; she had not recorded for any commercial Peruvian music labels. A lead from a photographer, who happened to be her neighbor, facilitated the connection—for producers and singer, and for a wider audience with a little-heard strand of Western culture.
Mr. Byrne's admiring gaze would likely never have been cast but for Ms. Baca's earlier encounter with Peruvian composer and singer Chabuca Granda, who shared her interest in Afro- Peruvian culture and became her mentor. Granda, who died in 1983, helped Ms. Baca overcome two obstacles. "Women in Peru weren't supposed to sing on stage," Ms. Baca says. "It was seen as lowly, like prostitution. And Afro-Peruvian music was considered the music of drunks, of illiterates, a remnant of the racism that endures to this day." Granda played a major role in disseminating, popularizing and modernizing this music. ("Maria Lando" is a Granda composition, as are half of the songs on Ms. Baca's latest recording, "Seis Poemas.")
"This is secret music," Mr. Byrne wrote in a blurb for his 1995 compilation, "a collection of beautiful songs and infectious grooves that's been hidden for years in the coastal towns and barrios of Peru."
Ms. Baca was born in one of those barrios—within Chorrillos, where descendants of slaves have lived since the days of the Spanish Empire. Her mother, a cook and washerwoman, taught her to dance. Her father, a chauffeur, played guitar. "We lived on a small street, really more of an alleyway where many servants lived," she says. "He was, in effect, the official musician of the alleyway." Ms. Baca soaked up these songs, but "there was nothing ever written about our music," she says. "So I went out in search of oral history."
All of Ms. Baca's recordings—including her stunning 2000 CD, "Eco de Sombras," a collaboration with jazz musicians—combine modern Spanish-language poetry and centuries-old folk tales to reflect a dedicated search for roots. "The amount of songs and music lost in Peru is incredible," she says. "An old musician dies and his tradition dies with him. . . . Young people can find the Andean and Spanish sources, but they can't locate the Afro."
As one corrective, in 1992, Ms. Baca and her husband, Bolivian-born sociologist Ricardo Pereira, founded the Instituto Negro Continuo (Black Continuum) in Lima, dedicated to preserving Afro-Peruvian culture—"a museum of memory" she calls it, though the organization also funds and develops new artistic work. Yet when she takes the stage, barefoot—"to feel completely free," she says—Ms. Baca bears little resemblance to an ethnomusicologist: She dances gracefully, even flirtatiously, and exudes the confidence of a star. Still, her research is never far from mind.
"Before, I was just singing because I felt it deeply," she says. "But my studies have changed the way I do it, because I know the historical roots of each song and the stories of all who have come before me."
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When Apple introduced the Passbook feature on its iPhone iOS 6, it gave consumers and retailers alike a lot of opportunities. Consumers could store a host of coupons and gift certificates on the app and easily redeem them while shopping in stores; stores could increase traffic and redemption rates by making it easier for customers to use their cards.
Early adoption was limited, but CashStar, a provider of digital gift card programs, is starting to see interest from a number of large retailers.
Gene Cornfield, CashStar vice president of marketing, says that 55 of the more than 300 retail brands that CashStar works with have enabled their gift cards for Passbook. The overall growth in sales via mobile phones is a key factor in retailers' interest, he says, noting that sales of phone-generated gift cards increased 800 percent from 2011 to 2012.
So many people buying the cards from phones is an indicator that a good number of recipients will want to store that value on the phone rather than on a PC or in their e-mail inbox, Cornfield says. Already about one-third of customers who purchase e-gift cards from a smartphone are opening that card on the phone. And two-thirds of those are using Apple's iOS 6 devices that contain Passbook. Furthermore, about 30 percent of iOS 6 users are adding mobile gift cards to their wallets.
The volume of digital gift cards stored in Passbook has doubled from 4 percent to 8 percent in recent months, Cornfield says. "This is an indication of the strong interest in adoption."
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With consumer interest in using smartphones to order gift cards growing, retailers are starting to promote the concept of storing digital gift cards on Passbook and redeeming them at the store. Cosmetics and skin care company Sephora puts codes on their plastic gift cards to allow customers to convert them to digital cards that can be added to mobile phone applications.
For retailers, there are a number of benefits to having gift cards stored in Passbook. "The customers already have their phone in their hand when they enter the store," Cornfield says. "That means the gift card is right there to be used, not sitting in a drawer at home as it is with plastic cards. And it is not stored in a computer e-mail file, way down in the in-box list so that consumers are likely to forget that they even have it."
Getting customers to redeem cards sooner helps retailers recognize gift card revenue quicker; they also find they may get a lift from purchases made beyond the card value when customers are redeeming the cards.
Digital cards themselves are benefits: With plastic cards, retailers typically do not know who has the cards since they are purchased by someone other than the redeemer. With digital cards, the value is e-mailed or texted to the recipient, so the retailer then has that person's e-mail address or phone number. Retailers can remind customers who have unredeemed value of their balances or make special offers if they redeem the cards. Location-based technologies also allow retailers to notify gift card holders when they are near a store.
CashStar has been working with Sephora on promotional strategies since December; a number of other retailers are set to come out with promotions related to digital gift cards and Passbook, Cornfield says.
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While CashStar is starting to see interest in storing digital coupons from its retailers, at least one analyst says the real potential is nowhere near met.
"This is very early yet and retailers have a lot on their agendas in terms of technologies they are looking at," says Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. "This is not top of list for many of them."
The biggest limitation is that there are still too many customers who do not have iPhones, particularly the iOS 6 model, Mulpuru says.
"There is a risk for retailers if they were to announce a program that promoted the use of Passbook to store digital coupons and then found half their customers didn't even have the necessary phone to allow them to participate," she says. And the Passport feature is based on a proprietary standard that would make it difficult to duplicate on Android and other phones in the near future.
Still, Mulpuru says the advantages Passbook offers make it an interesting concept. She hopes that in time, the obstacles can be overcome and more retailers can move forward. "There still is a lot of potential here, it's just too early yet," she says.
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The present cross-sectional study sought to examine the extent to which heart-focused anxiety is associated with the co-occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and a history of regular smoking in a sample of 148 postangiography patients from a cardiology unit. Individuals with CAD who regularly smoked demonstrated significantly greater heart-focused attention, but no greater degree of avoidance and fear of heart-focused sensations, than did nonsmoking persons with CAD and smokers without CAD. We also found evidence that heart-focused attention and fear incrementally predicted (above and beyond demographic variables and body mass index) intensity of average chest pain. Overall, this study provides some of the first empirical evidence that the co-occurrence of regular smoking and CAD is associated with specific dimensions of health anxiety. We discuss these findings in relation to models of panic pathology and anxious responding to bodily sensations.
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The Sea King's Daughter
By Barbara Michaels
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Chapter One
Don't call me ariadne. That's not my name anymore.
I changed it legally a few years ago. Not that anyone had ever used it, even Mother. She called me Sandy, like everyone else, even when she was mad at me.
I must have been about ten years old before it really hit me that Sandy wasn't my real name. That was the day the package arrived -- a fascinating package, big and battered and plastered all over with bright foreign stamps. The package itself looked foreign, with its thin shiny paper and unusual string. It was addressed to Miss Ariadne Frederick.
I was disappointed. I had hoped it was for me. I didn't know any Ariadne Frederick. My last name was Bishop.
I knew it wasn't really -- at least I knew Jim Bishop was my stepfather. Mother had left my other father when I was a baby, not because he didn't love us, but because he loved something else more. I couldn't get it into my juvenile brain precisely what it was he loved -- some strange, hard-to-pronounce word that was my father's job. That was incomprehensible to me. How could a person love his work more than he loved a person? Mother tried to explain; I remember her soft, anxious voice going on and on, while I fidgeted, picking at the scab on my knee and wishing she would stop talking so I could go back to the baseball game down the street.
It may seem strange that I had forgotten myown name. A psychiatrist wouldn't find it strange; he would say I wanted to forget it. Maybe so. But I think the explanation is simpler. Children have a culture of their own; they are no more interested in adult values than an Australian aborigine is interested in the rules of Emily Post. I wasn't interested in the name, or in the forgotten father who had given it to me.
I remember thinking it was a weird name, not one I'd have wanted to claim. People didn't have names like that, except in the boring stories we had to read for English. My friends had sensible names, like Debby and Jan and Penny.
Mother arrived while I was inspecting the package. She always tried to be there when I got home from school, but the lines at the grocery store had been longer than usual that day. I went to help her carry in the bags, and then I saw that she was standing quite still, staring down at the big battered parcel. She had the most peculiar look on her face. I know now that what I saw was a struggle, internal but intense, and when I said casually, "Hey, I guess the mailman made a mistake," the struggle showed in a facial contortion so extreme that I mistook it for physical pain. I asked her what was the matter.
It was several seconds before she answered.
"He didn't make a mistake. It's for you. Have you forgotten?"
If I felt chagrin at being reminded that the weird name was my own, it was quickly forgotten in delight. The package was for me, that was the important thing.
I dismembered it there in the garage, too excited to notice Mother's silence. She stood watching while I tore the wrappings off and removed the lid. The interior of the box was filled with scraps of newspaper. Even in my anxiety to reach the object buried within, I realized that the paper was unusual. The language wasn't English. Even the writing was funny, not like English print.
My groping hands found a hard surface among the shreds of paper. I pulled out the object and held it up. My first thought was that someone had played a mean trick on me. This wasn't a present. It was a joke, a piece of junk.
The object was a statue, about a foot high, made of white stone. The arms were missing and so was the nose. The stone was stained and chipped and worn. At first I couldn't even decide whether it was supposed to be a man or a woman. It wore a long robe, carved in stiff pleats; but I knew that men used to wear long robes, and this object had an air of extreme age. Yet as I continued to stare, disgusted and disappointed, some quality of the small, marred face got through to me, and I felt sure that the subject was female.
Not that I cared. I was about to set the thing down, with a decided thump, when Mother's hand caught mine.
"Be careful. It is probably valuable."
"Valuable! This dirty, beat-up, old -- "
"Very old. Over two thousand years old."
I sat back on my heels and looked at the statue again. I felt more respect for it; the difference between ten and two thousand has to command a certain awe. The more I looked, the more the thing got to me. Even the disfigurement of the nose could not destroy the haunting quality of the face. The mouth was curved in an odd, disquieting little smile, and the sunken eye sockets seemed to stare directly into my eyes.
Mother was on her knees, digging with both hands among the crumpled papers. She leaned back with a short, high-pitched laugh.
"Not even a note," she said, as if to herself. "How typical."
I paid no attention to the comment, which was obviously not addressed to me. I couldn't rid myself of the notion that this was some kind of practical joke. I turned the statue upside down, thinking there might be a note, or a rude remark, on the base. Sure enough, something was written there in black ink. It wasn't a word; the shapes looked more like code than letters of the alphabet.
I showed it to Mother. She gave another of those funny little laughs ...
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