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So here I am, once more back in Starbucks with my mint hot chocolate (non-alcoholic version!) and there's Christmas music playing this time 🙂
..back to Rovaniemi memories…
Leaving Santa Village, we headed into town for some lunch. Being the business capital of Lapland, the 'big city' I was interested to see what it would be like. Only a few buildings were left standing when Germans attacked during World War II so there is not the historic architecture that I'm used to seeing in England; it's actually quite concrete looking in the centre with the impression that it's in need of a facelift. I think it's only natural to relate anywhere new to 'home' not to compare which is 'better' or 'preferable' but because everything is relative so there has to be a base point. I love Oulanka and the Ruka area so I like seeing more of what Finland has to offer to see whether it is those regions in particular or whether it's the whole country. It also feels so much like home and I have the 'could i live here' thought going through my head alot so that may be more the reason I go a bit deep with my thinking…
Anyway, I've digressed..again 🙂
As we arrived in town and headed towards a car park, we passed a McDonalds and i had to laugh – they get everywhere don't they and it's like a game when travelling; how long until you see the golden arches :D. It is also a very good benchmark when comparing the cost of living in a country..as is the Starbucks test! The answer on the later is not as much different to the UK as you'd think. Interestingly there was no Starbucks in Rovaniemi; not only because they also get everywhere but the Finns seem to love their coffee. Maybe there's a considered effort not to open one…I shall google later. By way of other recognisable names, there was a Subway, H&M, Body Shop, Intersport (still going over there, where did they go in the UK?) and a Clas Olsen. I mention Clas Olsen because I've noticed (since I've been back) that a few stores of sprung up over here – it was like going into the part of Ikea (can I get away with mentioning that or are all Finns reading this now frowning..) where the useful smaller items are and also coming out with something you didn't know you needed.
A few small arcades of shops including a couple of department stores, we wandered in and out – for once i didn't buy any clothes (spent enough in Clas Olsen 😉 ). It occurred to me how indoctrinated you get without realising it; in the UK I can list the quality shops and the cheaper shops (all IMHO of course) but without those names on the high street or recognisable brands on sale, I can't gauge 'fashions' or the quality of clothing. I'd be left going on price, layout of the store, appearance of the staff – all reliable instincts but ones overlooked, or maybe subconsciously noted, when in familiar territory. I found it fascinating just to wander and look around. I concluded if I lived there I'd save alot of money on clothes but would have plenty of useful gadgets and storage boxes.
Last stop was for food and drink for that evening and breakfast. This was when I was introduced to the traditional Karelian Pies – I didn't take a photo so here is a screen shot from good old Wikipedia –
they look like a pasty with the crinkled edge and that 'base' is made from dark rye flour which is then filled with a rice pudding mixture. They are warmed up and spread with a mix of butter and boiled egg. You could put anything on them, ham or cheese, it's different to anything we have here but very nice and I now have all the ingredients to try making some myself…which'll be interesting! Maybe I'll try it and do a blog on my attempts at Finnish cooking..
The next day we headed off for a bit of walking at the top of the hills overlooking the town. The ski jumps and chair lifts are all still there on Ounasvaara, to the west of the city, and provide extra height to some great vantage points and views across Rovaniemi.
I was pleased to discover that geocaching is popular in Finland so we looked at the geocaching app on my phone to see if there were any nearby..and then spent a good hour or so geocaching whilst looking at the views and heading making our way back to the car. A couple of the caches were easy to find but i had to log a couple as not found – as you'll see from the photo below, there are plenty in the area.
There are also a surprising number to be found in the area around Basecamp Oulanka..although I struggled to find a few of them in the time allowed by a combination of myself and my phone's battery life.
For anyone who is yet to try geocaching, it is like a treasure hunt but using GPS and is a great way of exploring an area especially if you have children with you or want to provide different interest to an otherwise familiar area. Many cache's have been set as part of a series which offer a pre-planned walking route with guidance on time and distance detailed. For more information or to get started, visit http://www.geocaching.com.
This is my travel bug which I had taken with me to Finland so that I could drop it into a cache somewhere close to Basecamp Oulanka. The aim of my bug is to travel as much as possible and find its way around the world eventually. Everytime it's logged I receive an email to let me know and I can look up where it is – my bug has passed through a few hands since I left it and is currently in a cache in the south of Finland 🙂
The last part of our trip to Rovaniemi was a visit to Artikum, located on the edge of the Ounasjoki river. Museum's aren't top of my list of places to visit but this is said to be one of the best museums and science centres in Finland and I was interested to learn more about life in Lapland through the ages. I wasn't disappointed, actually I was pleasantly surprised. For €12 there is alot to see – lots of displays, a number of them interactive, and all different in how they present the information. There's even one where you can recline in darkness and watch an animation about the aurora borealis, that was almost too comfortable 🙂 I thoroughly recommend a visit if you're in the area as it has plenty to keep adults and children engaged. http://www.artikum.fi/EN should take you to the english translation of the site for more information.
Next up on the blog is my experience of the Finnish smoke sauna 🙂


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The basket case that is the Philippines is one of a kind. Satirist and comedians have popularized a phrase for the pathological condition the country is in at this time: "onli in da Philippines."
The phrase is instructive. It suggests the guts of the Filipinos to face head-on the odds; it suggests as well their gumption to search for a way to get out of the rut the whole nation is mired in.
On second thought, though, the onli-in-da-Philippines linguistic claim to extraordinariness is some kind of a misrepresentation.
In that phrase is the gall that many politicians possess, a conditio sine qua non to their being politicians in the first place. You have the gall to lie and cheat and deprive people of their dignity and self-respect, you become a politician.
This is the reason why those who have the integrity and self-worth choose to stay away from anything that has something to do with defending the presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the other social institutions that have become a laughingstock to the world that values what democracy is all about. Take the military and the Comelec anytime as prime examples.
The gall of politicians and play-acting leaders is to claim leadership roles that do not exist because their roles have never been part of their political agenda for greatness.
The charade that is democracy, Philippine-style is, in reality, its being a democracy of the same beneficiaries of the unjust arrangement of the basic social institutions.
It is a democracy of misappropriation with the elite class owning the fruits of labor of those who cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars in order to authenticate the "Hello Garci tape."
It is, at best, a misnomer, as it is a democracy of the elite class qua political and economic class.
We do a quick accounting of the politician's genealogy of power—not to mention morals—and we see clearly that the gall to become a politician is definitely part of faux art that is not different from that abominable "art" of con persons, whether in the Philippines or abroad. They lie to our faces and they call that care and concern.
The politicians have the gall to highjack the Filipino people of their fundamental rights to jobs and justice, food and freedom, land and liberty. Deny these rights to people and they find the way out of hell. Curtail the right of the people to a decent home and a full meal and they go find these even in the ends of the earth.
In the news, for instance, is that terrible fact that for the last three years beginning 2002, about half a million of the country's brightest and most skilled professionals have left the country for greener pastures in foreign shores.
To think that these professionals are the greatest human and intellectual resource of the country makes the situation tragic—and ironical.
It is tragic because the resource is scarce and yet the country does not have access to it even if, in fact, it owns it.
It is ironical because other economies get to have access to this resource and this access boosts their productive capability.
We allude to a brain drain in the 70s when the only way out of the hell that resulted from the kleptocracy of the regime at that time was to seek work abroad.
Now this brain drain comes visiting us again as if in a cycle, as if part of a reassuring rhythm that when kleptocracy has replaced democray, the price of redemption will always be the exodus of those who have the means to go away—and to go away quickly.
But this is not easy—but a life's text filled with difficulty. To go away from the familiar place is to accept the wages of disorientation and dislocation and depression. It takes guts and gumption to take this alternative of figuring a way out. In many ways, this could be the way of cowards. But all told, this can be justified. The first of the moral principles is to survive.
We do not see an end to this exodus. Unless we see a promise of redemption in more meaningful and concrete terms, we will continue to see the Filipino diaspora in alarming numbers.
With the gall of politicians to deprive us of what is guaranteed by the Constitution such as the right to live fully, many of the most brilliant of Filipinos will always find a way out.
Well, we can only hope they will not.
Published in the Weekly Inquirer, Aug 19/05


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Etsy Store of the Day.... Honeysuckle's Habiliments
Todays store is owned and operated by a young woman from Floriday who has only been selling on etsy since August. A wonderful store and wonderful bio to go with it, the story of this driven 18 year old deserves a look for sure.
Honeysuckle's Habiliments is the first jewelry store to make my store of the day. It features hemp and ceramic jewelry of all colors and shapes along with an assortment of handmade ceramic beads.
Among my favorites from this growing store are the Mixture Marble Tower Earrings, unique and bright.. a great mix of colors to wear formal or casual.
She also creates beatifully done hemp bracellts with wonderful knot work, and some of them are reversable so your getting and two-for-one deal at a great price.
Check in on Honeysuckle's Habiliments, giver her some hearts, read her bio and perhaps purchase something nice for yourself or that special someone... Christmas is coming you know!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Etsy Store of the Day..... Knittopotamus
Weather it's for your home, your baby, your neck, or to stay warm and cozy you can find all kinds of super cute stuff at today's featured store.... Knittopotamus. Among the treasures in store for you adorable crocheted stuffed animals and toys, warm and cozy hats and scarves, 100% cotton dishcloths, ECO friendly dish towel and matching wash cloth, Knitting Needle and Crochet hook holders, stylish decorated knitting needles, and so much more.....
Among my favorites in this one stop shop definitely the camo scarf... I am a bit partial to camo! With that autumn chill in the air who can resist its coziness. And who can turn away Happy Hippo, such a cutie, great for little ones and hippo lovers of all ages and with such an excellent price its a great buy to give someone that "just because" or "brighten your day" gift.
Stop buy, check it out, throw a few hearts her way and stick an item or two in your shopping cart!! You can find this cute little store at www.knittopotamus.etsy.com
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Etsy Store of the Day...... Makbeauty Creations
Brand new to etsy as of September 17th is a darling little shop called Makebeauty Creations based out of Salt Lake City Utah. This store has a little of everything ranging from magnets, cards, notebooks, binder clips, hair bows, flower clips and more. A wide variety of precious handmade items to choose from, as well as great prices.
Among my favorite picks from this adorable little store are these little pink and black flower hair clips... so versatile and great for any little girl. And along with the flower clips make sure you check out the clip holder.... a fun little monkey to store all your clips and bows... a must have for any house with a little girl who loves pretties as much as mine do... and at only $5 it still leaves room in your checkbook to stock up on clips to fill this little cutie.
So if you are looking for stocking stuffers for that little one in your life, great handmade cards and more check out Makebeauty Creations at makebeautycreations.etsy.com, show her some love, some hearts and maybe a sale or two...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Etsy Store of the Day...... mommy2amiracle
A wonderfully determined woman has made todays etsy store of the day pick, mommy2amiracle. Mommy2amiracle has an adorable little girl, born 12 weeks early and weighing under 2 pounds and through her bio on her store you can tell she is a person that does not take the little things in life for granted.
Along with a very touching bio she also has a great store with outstanding quality work and prices. My favorite item, the fingerless gloves, look wonderful... and are looking better and better each day as the weather gets that crisp autumn chill to it! They would also make great Christmas gifts for anyone who is always chilly or has carpal tunnel (they are great for that, I know!)
She also has some very cute hats and very neat friendship bracelets.
So stop by, check out her inventory and her bio, give her some hearts and maybe a sale or two. www.mommy2amiracle.etsy.com
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Etsy Store of the Day...... Torik2009
I finally decided I needed a banner and avatar for my etsy store and went on the hunt to find a great graphic artist for the job at a great price. I found Torik2009, and a wonderful job she did! I gave her the basic theme I wanted and told her what I would like my banner to read and in no time she had created a beautiful, perfect banner and avatar set for me. She has some super cute premade Halloween banners in her store, perfect for any shop wanting to kick off the Halloween holiday season, along with some very cool earrings and my favorite... this sand dollar pendant, just beautiful! Torik2009 is relatively new to etsy, opening her store August 9, 2009 and in my opinion definately deserves a look and a heart!! You can find her at www.Torik2009.etsy.com.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Cutest Baby Shoes Ever!!
So I stumbled across the most adorable hand made baby shoes I have ever seen while browsing etsy.com. These cuties are made by sewingsparklz (www.sewingsparklz.etsy.com) and I am forcing myself to not buy a dozen pair for each kid!! If only she made them in my size!!
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Egypt Warily Observing Muslim Brotherhood Exploits in Jordan
"True, the Brotherhood is politically over in Egypt but there is belief that the group is still present and waiting for a suitable moment to come back to the political stage."
Egypt's El-Sisi Meets with US Jewish Leaders, Netanyahu
It appears that the path to influencing Israel's foreign policy goes through the US Jewish community's leadership forum.
Egyptian Army Destroyed 6 Gaza Tunnels
In 2015, the Egyptian army began flooding the tunnel network with seawater in an attempt to destroy it.
Egypt's Tunnel Destroying Officer Assassinated
Ragaai oversaw a massive operation to dig a canal parallel to the Rafah border, flooding the frontier with sea water which seeps into the tunnels
Egyptian Court Denies Appeal, Sending Morsi to 20 Years in Prison
On December 5, 2012, clashes broke out outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace between Muslim Brothers and protesters that left 11 Egyptians dead.
Cairo Court Postpones Morsi Appeal Hearing
Morsi was also sentenced to death in April 2015, over a 2011 jailbreak. In June 2016 he was given a life sentence for passing state secrets to Qatar.
Egypt Designates Hamas a Terrorist Organization
Egypt bans and names Hamas as terrorist organization, Hamas says Egypt no longer broker between it and Israel
Egypt Strips 100s of Citizenship, Including Hamas Leader
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has allegedly had his Egyptian citizenship revoked.
Egyptians Choose a President (Again)
Egyptians are headed to the polls today and tomorrow to choose a president for the second time since 2011.
Motorcyclists Open Fire on Coptic Wedding Party in Cairo
Long-running hostility and violence towards Egyptian Copts by Muslims continued when gun-wielding motorcyclists attacked a church wedding party on Sunday in northern Cairo
Islamist Showdown
They didn't just "flag" our talk: these brutes and thugs are attempting to destroy freedom of speech and impose the blasphemy laws under Islamic law.
Egypt Closes Gaza Border Crossing – No Flotillas on the Horizon
Egypt closes Rafah border crossing, but no outrage from the defenders of Gaza. On the other hand, Hamas and Fatah are busy insulting each other.
Radical, Democratic Changes to Egypt's Constitution, MBs Out
Muslim Brothers are out for good, but Sharia law stays.
Muslim Brotherhood Tweet on Jews Aimed at Jon Stewart (Video)
The link was from Al Jazeera featuring former CNN host Rick Sanchez on Jews and Stewart.
Morsi on Satirist's Arrest: I Didn't Do It
Youssef is out on bail and facing charges of insulting Morsi and Islam, as well as a new investigation for "threatening public security."
Morsi Empowers Army to Arrest Protesters but Thousands on Both Sides March
Chants of "Down with the Muslim Brotherhood" echoed at the scene.
The Spring of Islamic Fundamentalism
Wouldn't it be logical to expect that before issuing an invitation to Morsi to visit him at the White House, President Obama would ask his future guest how, if he believes that the country must be subjected to Islamic Law, he intends to defend the secular constitution of Egypt?
Deputy US Secretary of State holds talks with head of Muslim Brotherhood
Number two US diplomat William Burns meets with Mohamed Morsi, head of Freedom and Justice Party.


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What We've Lost - As Eaters
Did you know that 93 percent of North American food product diversity has been lost since 1900?
Linda Colwell recently spoke at a lecture in the Ag Sciences building in Corvallis Oregon. She's a chef, writer and consultant in food, farms, and school-garden education. She founded the Garden of Wonders school-garden project and the scratch kitchen at Abernethy Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. Check out an article she wrote in Culinate about garden education programs with public schools.
Notes from her lecture:
#1. "We've lost our ability to walk into our yards or into a market and harvest things from a source that we know.... food that has integrity."
Linda says that we're trained culturally to cook with our noses in a cookbook rather than following our instincts, which she thinks is a shame. "We have a whole industry around cookbooks," She says, adding that people need to trust their instincts, get in touch with their senses and just rethink the meal. "Opening a CSA box (full of veggies and fruit) is no different than opening a cookbook."
#2. "We've lost our skill at being adventurous around flavors and being willing to let something unexpected happen on the table."
"A perfectly cooked egg is truly amazing especially if it's 36 hours fresh from the hen."
Linda Colwell and OSU professor James Cassidy.
#3. Linda said it's not that we've lost our ability to cook, but our ability to taste. "We don't know how to taste anymore"
She says that most of us have become deficient in a seasonal way and in a nutritional way.
#4."We've lost our ability to understand the nuances of fruits or vegetables through the seasons."
#5 We've lost the biodiversity of our food products.
Linda talked about something called the Ark of Taste, foods, that the Slow Food movement has identified are at risk of dying out including traditional sea salt from Hawaii, a marbled chinook salmon
and a fruit called a pawpaw that is the "largest edible fruit native to the US."
All photos taken of Deep Run Pawpaw Orchard, owned & managed by Jim Davis of Westminster, MD.
And according to the Slow Food USA site:
The fruit is indigenous to 26 states from northern Florida to Maine and west to Nebraska. Fossil records indicate that the papaw's forebears established themselves in North America millions of years before the arrival of humans. American Indians extensively used the pawpaw and introduced it to European explorers. As a much loved fruit, European settlers named towns, creeks, and islands after the pawpaw. Today, pawpaws are primarily eaten in very rural areas, and most Americans only know of the fruit from the traditional folk song, "'Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch."
Slow Food's Ark of Taste aims to rediscover and catalogue forgotten flavors, documenting excellent food products that are in danger of disappearing. Since the international initiative began in 1996, more than 750 products from dozens of countries worldwide have been added to the international Ark of Taste. The Ark of Taste is a resource for those interested in learning about and reviving rare regional foods–from Buckeye chickens to Ivis White Cream sweet potatoes, Alaskan Birch syrup to Greanthread tea.-Slow Food USA Website
#6 We've lost our integration with the land and our relationships to the food systems developed and practiced when we lived close to the land as indigenous people.
She spoke about foods that are still raised and harvested by cultures that still know how to live integrated with the earth like the Ozette potato that's still harvested today and has been for 300 years by the McCaw Indians.
This month, why not try to procure some of these food and cook a meal with them, or procure the seeds and plant them.
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STEVEN MONGER, PLAINTIFF,v.D.K. SISTO, WARDEN, DEFENDANT.
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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local General Order No. 262.
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Tonight we get back the hour they stole from my sleep regimen last spring. I hate Daylight Savings Time.
I recorded the death throes of "Search for the Next Elvira," which we ended up watching after "There's Something About Miriam" (she's transgendered, with a boob job--on hormones but still has her male stuff. I hope she doesn't get a hard-on while trying to lure the unsuspecting [?] macho males onto a date). (This is a British show--pretty up-front about sexuality. We need more of that here.)
Back to Elvira, I think April deserved it (though we didn't vote in the finals). Did you know that Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) was born in 1949 in Manhattan, Kansas? Check out her bio on Wikipedia. I figured she had to be a bit up there in years, since I watched her horror movie show way back when, and she was fully developed then. By the way, she is a fan of Stephanie Miller and got Stephanie an appointment with her doctor to help out with Stephanie's sleeping problems, which seem to be abating (on their own, thank God).
Tonight was kind of tricky writing in the Nielsen Ratings journal vis-a-vis the time change. We had to record in a separate section the extra hour of TV viewing, which consisted of both real-time viewing and recorded viewing (another tricky aspect). I'll be glad when the week is over and we mail back our journals.
Well, the Sunday New York Times headlines just came through on email. I'll check them out now.


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Domino's Pays Mooving Tribute to Cows with Special Week-Long Offer
For National Cow Week, customers can get 50% off their pizza—on one condition.
We're not sure National Cow Week is really a thing, but Domino's is giving Bossy her due.
Horses get all the cool points, but where would we be as a nation without cows? These four-bellied bovines may spend most of their time chewing their cud and staring blankly at passing cars, but they also provide milk for our cheese and beef for our steaks and burgers.
This week Domino's will be giving Bossy her due, celebrating National Cow Week (although we're not sure that's really a thing) with a half-off special running through Sunday, July 16. We're just guessing here, but the promotion may be a sneaky way to beef up their online ordering sales, too.
Learn how Phoenix-based Venezia's New York Style Pizza boosts its check average with online ordering at PMQ.com.
"Domino's love of cheese runs deep—it takes thousands of cows and dairy farmers to offer the variety of cheeses that Domino's does," the company said in a statement. With that in mind, the chain is offering 50% off menu-priced pizzas, but only when customers place their orders online.
"At Domino's, we're big fans of cows and dairy farmers," said Domino's spokesperson Jenny Fouracre. "Without them, we wouldn't be able to offer all of the cheeses—from mozzarella to Parmesan, feta to provolone, American to Asiago—that we lovingly put on our pizzas day in and day out. It just seems right to celebrate our appreciation of all things dairy by giving customers half off pizza when they use Domino's digital ordering channels."


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From the Memoirs of Darius the God Slayer
The furious fighting was over. I checked the fallen form of Danyo. By the grace of the gods, he yet lived. The silence of the room was broken. Looking up from my friend, I turned to Ninotchka. "He lives! By the gods, lend me some help with him!" She nodded and gestured to several of her girls to assist him. They bandaged him as well as they could and we carried him up the stairs, installing him in Tamara's room. Returning downstairs, I picked up an abandoned flagon of wine and drained it. Now that the fighting was over, I felt weary. With a weary sigh, I saw to the dead. They had many goods they no longer needed, and to the victors must go the spoils. Finishing that, I cleared the room of dead, dragging the bodies into the street. One saving grace of the Desert was that the dead were hardly noticed among the beggars and the filth.
Weariness had taken hold of me. I awoke sometime later upstairs in Vilena's bed. I cannot rightly say that I remembered how I had gotten there, such was my weariness. I rose from the bed, careful not to disturb the sleeping form of Vilena. Pulling on a clean tunic, I went silently into the hallway. Before I had reached the stairs, I was met by Ninotchka. With worried eyes, she told me that Harasym's gang had returned. She feared that they would find us, and another fight would ensue. I assured her that we would leave as soon as Danyo was able to travel. In my heart, though, I knew that we did not have that much time.
Returning to Vilena's room, I donned my leather jerkin and armed myself. I would have to make the time we needed to survive. Danyo needed a few more days before he could be moved. I intended to buy that time. Friendship was becoming a liability. Properly equipped, I again left the room and moved downstairs. I proceeded slowly. I must admit, I had formed no plan at this time. Taking the time to listen carefully, I heard the chatter of the gang end with the arrival of another group. It sounded as if a group of soldiers had arrived. One voice sounded very familiar. I had heard that voice the night before, in the hidden temple of Kara Prama. It seemed that Captain Diodor had somehow survived the collapse! From the sound of things, the captain wanted to speak to the surviving gang members and they withdrew to one of the private rooms downstairs. The danger which Danyo and I faced had just doubled. I could still here the soldiers downstairs. None of them had seen me before, so I decided to take a fool's risk and end the danger once and for all. I had no idea how I would handle the captain, his soldiers, and the gang. I headed down the stairs anyway. I began to suspect that I was beginning to do heroic acts with far too much regularity. Heroism is a very bad habit for a thief.
I walked downstairs, passing the soldiers as I went. They did nott notice me, so focused were they on drink and women. Moving quietly towards the private rooms in the back, I entered the room that held my foes, silently closing the door behind me. Diodor was speaking, making his own play for control of what remained of the gang. This would not do. My stiletto hit home, striking as swift and silent as a serpent. Diodor was cut off mid-sentence, blood frothing from his lips as I withdrew the blade and let his body fall to the floor. Hands flew to the hilts of blades. For a moment, I worried that I may have made the wrong move. There was nothing for it but to brazen it out. Bloodied blade in hand, I glared around the room. "I run the Street of the Whore's Blood now. Does anyone have a problem with that?" I growled at the assembly. Silently, blades were slid back into their sheathes and hands removed from weapons. "No problems boss. We'll take care of his men." I nodded in response. Quietly, in ones and twos, the gang filed out of the room. Moments later a girl screamed, dying men made brief cries, and the detachment of the Royal Guard was dealt with. My gambit had worked. I only wondered how much time it had bought us.
No man has yet accused me of being a fool. I was certainly not fool enough to think that I could survive being a crime lord. What I needed was time for Danyo to heal and for us to make our escape. I had just bought us a day…perhaps two. The gang feared me now because they had feared Harasym and I had killed him. That fear would dissipate. With Harasym and Fadey gone, more than one of them would seek to realize their own ambitions, and I stood in their way. Even more dangerous, when competing gangs learned that Harasym was dead, they would make their move to destroy the gang. If Diodor knew, then surely it would not be long for word to spread further. I mulled this over while I looked in on Danyo and then sat alone downstairs with a beaker of wine. I had to buy us some more time, and this would call for another risky throw of the dice.
I called the gang together and grilled them about their (I suppose it is "our" now) enemies. The strongest of them seemed to be a gang of Darfari. These savage Darfari were led by a fearsome giant of a man called Liyongo. Under Liyongo's rule, these Darfari had more than doubled their territory by savagely destroying their competition. It was rumoured that the Darfari had eaten the gangs they had defeated. "It is time," I told the gang, "that we make our mark. When we crush the Darfari, no one will dare challenge us!" They were swayed by the forcefulness of it. I did not want to let this go to waste, so I announced that we would move on the Darfari that very night.
Liyongo ran his gang out of a gambling establishment in the Desert. The rumour was that the rich and decadent of the city came to this establishment to dine…Darfari style. And since we all know that the Darfari, who sharpen their teeth into fine points, are cannibals…we need not discuss the finer points of Darfari cuisine any further. We made our way through the darkened alleys and streets of the Desert, finally standing outside the Darfari gambling den. My men, and I had no illusions about their true loyalty, silently killed the door guards as we entered. The darkened room was large, with the gambling taking place beneath the watchful eyes of Liyongo from a dais. Liyongo rested his bulk on cushions, surrounding himself with naked slaves who fanned, fed, flattered and caressed this grotesque figure. A large ebon war club, carved with frighteningly grotesque figures, rested by Liyongo's side. He looked up from his pleasures as we rushed into the room. "How dare you," he began to roar in fury as he attempted to raise his enormous bulk from the dais. His statement was cut short as I calmly raised my arbalest and fired a bolt into him. With that signal, the slaughter commenced. My men fell upon every Darfari in the place. Gamblers ran for cover as steel was bared and blood began flying. I dropped my arbalest, drew my blades and ran towards the dais. Liyongo, though sorely wounded, was still very much alive. I intended to change that. With a great leap, I launched myself from a table onto the dais. The slaves scattered as my blades bit into Liyongo's bulk. He bellowed in pain as he grabbed his fearsome war club. He swung it over his head in a downward motion. I sidestepped it easily as it shattered the floor of the dais and slashed wickedly at him with my blades. With another great roar, he swung the club in a great arc, and would surely have shattered me had it made contact. I dropped to one knee, letting the club pass over my head as I stabbed upward with both blades. Gutted, Liyongo fell backwards…dead.
Looking up, I saw that the slaughter of the other Darfari had finished. The men were flushed with victory. Searching the establishment, I found Liyongo's store of ill-gotten gains. Apparently, he had found Shadizar very profitable. I would be a rich man if I could find a way to extract Danyo and myself out of this trap alive. Combined with the stash Harasym had been keeping, I now had access to wealth beyond anything I had dreamed since that fateful day when my family was slaughtered. The trick would be to get out with it alive. Is that not how it always seems to be?
I was disturbed from my reveries by one of the gang. "Boss…it looks like they had one of those fancy dinners scheduled for tonight. Lots of fancy folk ready to pay through the nose for it too." I thought a moment, then held back a laugh. "Tell them Liyongo is on the menu tonight…and double the price." With a smile and a nod he set off to do as I had bidden him. I had bought us a few more days.
As with anything in life, there was inevitably a problem. Later in the evening, following the destruction of the Darfari, that problem would rear its ugly head. Perhaps a better choice of words would have been "perfumed head." As we celebrated at Ninotchka's, an uninvited guest arrived. I could smell him before he even entered! "A perfumed errand boy," I thought. I had heard that Harasym had been a deserter and was wanted for stealing from a noble in some city north of Shadizar. He had only remained free, it had been whispered, by paying the crown the staggering sum of one hundred thousand silver coins a year as a bribe. The perfumed errand boy entered Ninotchka's holding a silk kerchief to his face as if everything except him smelled bad! Approaching our table, he dusted a chair off before settling himself, uninvited, with a self-satisfied and superior air. "I am from the King," he began. I wonder if he thought we would fall to our knees and grovel for the privilege of hearing these words. If that was the case, he was to be sorely disappointed. "The King has heard of you and wishes to congratulate you for your accomplishments. He is sure that are aware of the arrangement that existed with your…predecessor…and that you will be grateful for the opportunity to continue the arrangement under the same terms." Gods but he was pleased with himself!
"My understanding was that Harasym had a price on his head for theft from a noble as well as deserting from the army. I do not have these problems. I shall render thirty per cent unto your master." My words seem to take some of the air out of the man. He choked and sputtered. Finally, with some resignation, he said, "That will be acceptable." Smiling, I offered him a cup. "You are welcome to join us in celebration, there are women and wine in abundance. Oh…I'm sorry…you aren't a eunuch, are you?" I could not resist the last part. He sputtered that his duties to the king would not permit him to join, and took himself off in haste. Thirty thousand silver coins! Gods! The amount was staggering! Of course, I had no intention of ever paying the sum. It was my intention that Danyo and I would be far from Shadizar with all of the coin we could lay hands on before the king ever thought about the payment. In time, we would be forgotten and would be able to return home to this, the most civilized city in the world!


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My Mondays are always rather odd and non-Mondayish, since I work late and so don't have to be in work until 10.45. That sounds lovely, but in practice it's not quite enough of a late start to get anything done properly, but it's too much time to just lie in. Well, for me anyway! It then always seems to take me the rest of Monday morning to get myself sorted out, sifting through emails and last week's lists to see what needs doing and generally catching up with everything. So in practice, my week starts after lunch on Monday, which is nice, but weird.
What is also rather weird at the moment is that I'm sitting here with my quilt over my knees and my All Shawl around my shoulders. My work chair is over an air-conditioning vent, and there's nothing I can do to cover it over. In the summer, this is fabulous. On a day like today, when I can't really see across the street for the rain, it's less fun and rather chilly! But my quilt is doing its job, and that's the important thing.
Thank you for all your lovely comments on Friday. As regular commenters know, I like to reply by email, so I'm still working my way through them, but I do try to reply to everyone who comments. It's good to talk, right?
So what have we got to talk about this morning? Well, after spending most of Saturday at my mother's helping her with some DIY-type stuff, I didn't think I was going to have much to report today. But after a surge of effort and slightly bruised fingers yesterday, we achieved a table and chairs!
ta da! Lovely, aren't they? Just don't ask about how they went together. What should have been a pretty simple, straightforward, "insert and tighten" job turned into an hour long battle with an Allen key and a badly drilled hole. But I think they were worth the effort. They are also giving me the chance to demonstrate why a fabric stash is a Good Thing.
Until we can get some new placemats, we don't want to risk damaging the table, and this linen mix piece is exactly the right size. Spooky!
But it hasn't been all DIY around here. Last night, I decided that I absolutely HAD to start a mini-quilt. No, I don't know why either, but I went ahead and did it anyway.
It's a gift for a friend, so there might not be more pictures for a while, but I'm loving how it's coming together.
In gloomy, grey weather like this, it's great to have something so colourful to work on.
I've also picked up my Dahlia shawl again, and after a few mishaps with row counting, it's going pretty quickly. If you're a confident beginner looking for your first 'complicated' lace project (Eva is fab for less confident beginners, but gets a little dull by about Row 10), I'd really, really recommend this. A couple of stitch markers, something to keep track of your rows (do as I say, not as I do!), and a nice laceweight yarn, and you'll be well away. I'm finding it's also quite forgiving – in such a lacy pattern a few slightly fudged areas aren't really going to show up. I hope. The stitch pattern of the main body is easy, and although the edging looks a bit harder, it's charted as well as written out which I much prefer.
It looks rather dense at the moment, and it's really hard to see the stitch pattern, so I can't wait to block it and show it off properly!
To see what others have been making this week, head over to Natalie's blog here for the full list.
Did everyone have a good weekend? Anyone snowed in?
Oxford is very pretty in the snow, but I can't say I'm entirely sorry to see it raining out there and hopefully washing the slippery, frozen lumps away!


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I've been meaning to do this post since last summer – but better late than never! This is an insight into one of the magistrates I studied for my PhD, which includes a look round his house…
Sir Richard Colt Hoare was a Wiltshire magistrate, a member of the banking family. Born in 1758, he inherited the family estate of Stourhead, near Mere, on the Wiltshire/Somerset border.
Hoare was, as was typical for a rural justice, a member of the landed gentry. He professed sympathy for the rural poor, yet was, by his own status, somewhat distanced from them.
His attitude expressed a dichotomy amongst the magistrate; he commissioned portraits of the poor, showing them as both innocent and vulnerable and thus displaying publicly his empathy towards them.
However, he also kept man-traps in his house and made out lists of poachers who had been caught taking game from his lands.
Hoare's ambivalence and contradictions perhaps reflected his own background. Although gentry, his status reflected the changing nature of the magistracy over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The increasing workload of the rural magistrate was leading to the JP being drawn from a wider social group than previously – for example, a growing number of magistrates were now from a clerical background.
Hoare's money was new(ish) money; he was descended from the founder of the bank, C. Hoare and Co. Unlike many gentry magistrates, Hoare was not educated at Oxford or Cambridge, and did not get admitted to one of the Inns of Court, a popular form of education for young gentlemen.
Instead, in his mid-20s, he inherited Stourhead, and indulged his passions for archaeology and travelling. But he was also a magistrate for decades – his notebooks covering the period between 1785 and 1834 – and High Sheriff for Wiltshire in 1805.
How accessible he was as a magistrate is debatable. He spent a lot of time travelling both in Britain and across Europe, and translated classical works.
He was certainly not always present at Stourhead, and in his absence, local people had to either travel further to another magistrate, or resolve their issues within their community rather than seeking the mediation and arbitration of a justice.
Hoare was also concerned with appearances. He set his grand library up as his justicing room, where he would received those members of the local community who wanted him to resolve their disputes, or to report offences such as thefts and assaults.
This library must have appeared intimidating to callers. It was lined floor to ceiling with books – both antiquarian works and legal manuals, bound copies of statute law and books on local history.
But the most fundamental issue was access to the justicing room itself. Hoare constructed an exterior staircase entering into the room, so that callers would have to queue outside – regardless of the weather – rather than traipse through the interior of Stourhead to reach the room.
This does not suggest that Hoare saw himself as champion of the poor, or friend of the poor. Instead, it suggests that he was at a distance from those who came before him, and was keen to preserve that distance.
Those of equal status to himself may have been allowed to set foot in other rooms, but those who came before him charged with poaching, or other forms of theft, and who were drawn largely from the humblest ranks of rural society, knew their place as soon as they lined up on that staircase.
That is why visiting Stourhead is so valuable; the gap between the image the magistrate wanted to present, and the complex reality is clearly visible in the contrast between grand library and the small flight of stairs outside it.
For more information about the Hoare family, see the National Trust's page here.


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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Police in Southern California say that NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
Santa Monica police Sgt. Thomas McLaughlin says Michaels was taken into custody Friday night. McLaughlin could provide no additional details.
Greg Hughes, a spokesman for NBC Sports, says the company "is aware of the situation" and has been in contact with Michaels. Hughes had no further comment.
A call today by The Associated Press to Michaels' agent was not immediately returned.
An Emmy Award winner and broadcaster on "Sunday Night Football," the 68-year-old Michaels spent nearly three decades at ABC Sports before moving to NBC in the 2007.
Michaels worked NFL games and other sports for ABC, and called "Monday Night Football" for nearly 20 years. He also is known for his call of the U.S.-Soviet Union "Miracle on Ice" game at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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From behind my own tiny desk I present to you people doing much more amazing things from behind a tiny desk. This NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert features Raphael Saadiq performing three tracks off of his 2008 album "The Way I See It"
For his Tiny Desk Concert, Saadiq brought a remarkable accompanist in guitarist Rob Bacon. The two had just gotten off a plane, but in their impeccably tailored suits and their grand smiles, they looked fresh and played an inspired acoustic performance. As you watch, keep an eye on Saadiq's guitar work: You'll see how his years as a bassist influences many of his licks on his Taylor acoustic.
I guess there isn't enough room back behind the desk to do "It Feels Good", a personal favorite of mine.
Check out NPR Music's channel on Youtube for the latest performance.