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Barleyfields Equestrian Centre Tel: Fiona Smith, 01283 734798
Website: www.barleyfields.com
Brief Geographical location: Ash Lane is off the A516 (signed to Sutton on the Hill) 1 wile from the A5O towards Derby or 3 miles from the A38 towards Uttoxeter
Full Livery
Indoor School.
Refreshment Area.
Half Livery.
Working Livery
Outside School
Lessons Available
Bedding and feed available from on site shop for part livery. Bedding (straw) provided fo full livery.
Brief description of yard or other details:
BHS approved purpose built Riding School and Livery Yard with 48 boxes, In door School – 60m x 25m, floodlit outdoor school – 55m x 25m, cross country courses, show jumping and working hunter schooling areas, lovely hacking. Qualified tuition to all levels from 8.OOam to 10.OOpm Tuesday – Saturday incl. Competition every Sunday throughout the year. Lovely variety of horses and ponies for lessons from beginners to advanced. Summer Camps during August. Training for BHS exams & NVQ, students taken all year round.
Tinytots – £6.50
Children – 1 hour – £11.00.
Adults – 1 hour – £13.00
Hacking – £15 per hour
Private – 1 1/2 hour – £13
Private – 1 hour – £22
Semi Private – 1/2hour – £11 each
Semi Private (2 people) – 1 hr – £17 each
Barton Stables Tel: Kate James 07768 974131
Captains Lane, Barton-Under-Needwood
Full Livery
Turn out through out the year
Two feeds per day
Adlib Hay or Haylage
Use of outdoor Ménage and Poly jumps
Superb hacking
Yard Manager is BHS Groom registered
Botany Bay Equestrian Tel: Karina 01283 653630 or 07542915897
Website: www.botanybayequestrian.co.uk
Livery and Training Centre
Grangewood, Nr. Rosliston
We are situated in a lovely quiet village next to The National Forest. Not only do we offer excellent care packages(tailored to suit individual needs) and facilities, good hacking is also on the menu.
5 Star Full Livery Service – £95 per week
Straw as standard (other bedding optional at additional cost)
Hard feed twice a day
Use of the walker
Use of the menage
Plus – 7 days per week
Full muck out
All turn out/bring in (specified times if required)
Feet picked out/legs washed
Holding horse for vets and farrier visits
Additional livery services:
Holidays/short term stay (including or excluding training)
Competition preparation
Tack cleaning
Castle View Stud Livery Tel: Di Fairclough 07830 117703
Website: www.castleviewstud.com
Castle View Stud is set in over 200 acres of grassland. We produce our own quality haylage and straw and on site tuition and schooling is available.
Full Livery
Large airy boxes
Choice of Shaving/Straw bedding
BHS qualified staff who are friendly and helpful.
24 hour supervision.
Year round turnout on the centre.
Use of 25 x 45m floodlit outdoor school
Full set of show jumps
Secure Tack room.
Turn out & bring in (weather dependant)
Individual turnout with electric fencing
Car park, toilets and tea facilities.
Regular routine visits from the vet, farrier, dentist and chiropractor
Solarium and wash box with hot water
Lorry and Trailer Parking
All weather surface turnout area available
Farm ride around fields with miles of off road riding
Farrier, vet, chiropractor on call
Electro-magnetic and Cylcodic massage rug available
Outings organised (HOYS etc)
Ring Di Fairclough for an appointment to view facilities
Packages available tailored to your needs.
Eland Lodge
Tel: 01283 575856
Website: www.elandlodge.com
Eland Lodge equestrian centre is situated in beautiful Staffordshire parkland, and has been refurbished to offer something for all country-lovers, with an outstanding array of facilities for horse and rider. Our livery yard at Eland Lodge is very friendly, we have horses varying from those participating in affiliated competition to riding club horses and happy hackers. We have facilities and packages to suit everyone.
Our equestrian facilities include:
50x80m all weather arena
British Eventing Cross Country Course (70cm – 110cm)
Full set of BS show jumps
Arena eventing jumps including steps, water, ditch
Regular events and clinics
Onsite saddlery and coffe shop with livery discount scheme
Wash area with temperature controlled hot water
Secure tack room
200 acres of off road riding
summer riding padock with jumps
Our standard livery includes the following:
Stable and grazing (all year round turnout)
Shavings bedding (not limited – whatever your horse needs)
Hay/haylage (ad-lib)
All mucking out/turnout/bring in
All rug changes
Feet picked out/legs washed
Hard feed (supplements supplied by yourself)
Late night hay and check
Attendance for vet/farrier/physio/dentist etc
Parking for a horsebox/trailer
Use of all facilities listed above
Secure tack room and storage space
24 hour supervision by qualified staff
This service is offered 365 days a year
We also have packages that include grooming and exercise of your horse, prices are dependent on the amount of exercise your horse requires.
Grangewood Livery Yard
Tel: Jane Kirkland 01283 760063
Website: www.grangewood-farm-livery.co.uk
Brief Geographical location: 4 miles from junction 11 M42, situated in the heart of the National Forest.
BHS approved Livery Yard
Competition/Full/Part livery
A large indoor arena with Turffloat surface and mirrors
Floodlit Menage
Jumping Paddock
Cross Country Course
Extensive off road ride
Full set of coloured Show Jumps
Full set of 'Jump 4joy' simulated cross country jumps
Horse Walker
Kylix Solarium
Equissage Machine
Lessons available by BHSII
Grangewood Farm Livery is a family run business based in the beautiful countryside of South Derbyshire in the heart of the National Forest.
The Livery yard was established in 1980 and we pride ourselves on being a first class service offering full and competition livery with excellent facilities.
We hold local dressage competitions through the summer months and there are acres of scenic off road riding including a course of cross country jumps. We have a very friendly team of staff who are always on hand for help and advice. We encourage all our staff members to progress through their BHS Stage exams and there is also an opportunity for clients and others to increase their knowledge and understanding at our evening classes training for all BHS Stages.
We also spend a lot of time and effort into producing a number of competition horses for sale.
Greysich Farm Tel: Linda Redmond,
07973 453417
Brief geographical location: Between Ashby de Ia Zouch and Burton on Trent two miles from Repton
Outside school
Bedding and feed available: Customers supply own.
Brief description of yard or other details:
Floodlit Menage. Hot and cold water. Alarmed tack room. Automatic gates. Mainly post & rail fencing. Jump paddock. Beautiful riding country.
Fees: £23.00 per week
Horsepower Equestrian
Brief geographical location: A38 from Burton, take Lichfield slip road, and on left of slip road is Cork Farms, Streethay.
Half Livery
Full Livery
Indoor School
Refreshment Area
Outside School
Lessons Available
Bedding and feed are available. Shavings and feed included in all liveries.
Brief description of yard or other details:
The Livery Yard has 25 internal stables, indoor tack room, and an indoor school approx. 20m I 35m. We have 23 acres of excellent grazing and a few showjumps and an excellent floodlit outdoor menage.
Approx. 30m I 60m. There is plenty of quiet hacking. The yard atmosphere is very friendly and the horsecare if of upmost importance.
DW – £45 Part – £55 Full – £65 All fees include feed and bedding.
Jump For It Training and Livery
Tel: Beverly Ryan 07758 310595
Website: www.jumpforittraining.co.uk
Near UTTOXETER
we are based at Abbotsholme Stud, Marston bank, Uttoxeter, ST14 5BP
The geographical location is from the A50 at Uttoxeter pass through Rocester and towards Marston Montgomery. Turn right at the sign for Abbotsholme School, pass through the school and continue past the tennis courts and up the drive to the yard
Floodlit Olympic sized waxed sand surface ménage
Waxed sand lunge pen
Secure heated tack room
Rubber matted hot and cold wash box with heat lamps
Claydon horse walker
Rubber matted American barn stables with automatic drinkers and window
Individual turnout with automatic water troughs
Rug laundry
Rider Training centre with mirrored Pilates studio and gym
High quality shower and changing area
24 hour supervision with staff living on site
Full set of show jumps
Introductory cross country schooling field including a range of collapsible fences.
Also running a range of regular clinics, more details can be found on the website.
Contact: Jo or Jenny Stoyell: 01889 500405/07719 173962 firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.kingstoneec.co.uk
Location: Three miles outside of Uttoxeter in the Village of Kingstone.
Flexible livery packages available from Basic to Full, plus Schooling
60m x 30m floodlit all weather manege
Lunge pen
Good sized stables in two light airy barns
All year individual turn-out
Coffee room overlooking arena
We offer excellent facilities in a professional but friendly atmosphere.
There is good hacking with Kingstone Woods a short distance offering quiet and scenic off-road riding.
Liveries range from pleasure riders to serious competitive riders. On-site dressage trainer who has competed to PSG, and regular Clinics with Malcolm Brown – BHSI and List 1 Dressage Judge.
All levels catered for.
Well situated for many competition venues in area being 5mins from A518.
Owners live on site.
New Inns Livery
Telephone: 07956 405275
Manager:- Rose Gibbs
Website: www.newinnslivery.co.uk
Brief geographical location: Situated between Barton under Needwood and Burton on Trent at 5 Lanes End. Close by is Eland Lodge and Fieldhouse equestrian Centre
We are a small friendly yard where the care of the horse has top priority.
DIY (assisted if required).
Part 5 or 7 day.
All weather Ménage.
Lunge area.
Light & airy boxes 12 x 12 with rubber matting.
Daily Turnout.
Electric fenced paddocks.
Laminitics catered for.
2 Horses per paddock.
Secure tack room.
Haylage and Cushionbed (NO Straw allowed)
Tuition available.
Car Park, toilet and Tea facilities
Equine Services
Seal Brook Livery, Grangewood Derbyshire, DE12 8BH.
Contact: Jane Kirkland.
Tel 07703 451260 or 01827 373236
Full and Part Livery.
Facilities include:-
20 x 40 Rubber and sand surface floodlit ménage,
20 x 60 Carpet fbre, rubber and sand ménage, floodlit with 3 mirrors individual grazing.
All day and every day turnout (adjusted to what the client requires).
monarch 5 Horse Walker,
Off road riding,
Friendly atmosphere,
10 indoor bespoke monarch Stables (Full Livery only).
10 outdoor wooden Stables (Full and Part Livery).
Secure Tack Room.
Worming programme.
also there is a DIY yard at Bald Hills Farm Lullington, DE12 8EF, also contact Jane Kirkland as above.
Facilities include:-
20 x 40 Rubber and sand floodlit ménage with mirror.
Excellent grazing,
All day and every day turnout,
24 hour turnout (summer only),
12 indoor stables,
2 outdoor,
Turnout and bring in available,
Holiday cover available,
Individual storage space,
Straw Shavings Haylage and Hay available for purchase on site if required.
Friendly atmosphere,
Secure Tack Room,
240 acres of off road riding,
Worming programme.


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Reading about the farm workers' struggles and seeing video footage of the abuses strikers faced during the grape boycott was an intense emotional experience. Actually arriving in Delano and seeing the grape fields was just as powerful—the winding wooden vines were dried up and bare for the winter. The entire field is thick with the legacy of the farm workers who for generations have worked and struggled for better conditions. For my classmates and I, La Paz and the National César Chávez Center in Keene, CA is a worthy landmark and tribute to the strong legacy of a man who lived fighting for justice. In the 1960s when the United Farm Workers was just beginning, this place was not even a dream, with former farm laborers working as business administrators and a piece of land for themselves and for people to fight for better conditions in the fields.
Chávez's leadership continues to affect and motivate La Paz residents and UFW members. The way he saw strengths in people who could not yet see those qualities in themselves was one of the ways he was striving for social change, not just a union or a contract (Morton p. 22). He motivated people to see beyond their immediate goals and aspirations to greater possibilities for the future. Even though none of us ever got to meet him, we were inspired through others' stories of him, seeing people doing things they had never imagined, and knowing that as youth we hold the possibilities of the future in our hands. It is now our responsibility to learn from our history and find strength in these figures, these ideas, and the movement to not only see beyond our wildest dreams but also inspire others to do what they never thought possible.
Part of our program was to engage in a service project to help maintain La Paz as the beautiful institution it is, and one morning we worked on gardening outside of the museum. Taking care of the land is part of indigenous traditions that are often drawn on by Mexican and Mexican-American people. Working with the land is a sacred duty and privilege that we were honored to participate in for the benefit of the center. Our guide encouraged us to try the posture used in farm stoop labor and really experience the backbreaking labor many workers must do every day.
Afterward, our guide led us on a tour of the old hospital where many organizing materials were being stored. They let us take posters and books about organizing, feeding our curiosities and imagining what work we will all go on to do, carrying the legacy of the farm workers with us. Education has always been fundamental to the farm workers' social movement and union organizing—educating themselves and each other about their shared histories, educating the masses about the injustices in the fields, and educating youth about how they are part of the movement. The UFW has long "provided a far more rigorous education than found on most campuses," (Shaw p. 39) and continues to provide strong educational services. One UFW employee told us about the law apprenticeship program where people are trained to become lawyers without ever attending formal law school. We participated in continuing this tradition by spending time in this place and learning from these inspirational people. Their history is our history and lays the foundation for our futures.
The history of La Paz could be felt throughout the landscape, especially when we went on César's morning hike. As a group, we walked and remembered the histories we have read, heard, and seen. Near the top by the reservoir, José the professor, José the jornalero, Pablo, and I stood together on a large rock overlooking the valley and read quotes César could have written from the very same spot. The spirituality of the place and the connections we developed with each other, the land, and all the people we met there were almost tangible. We did get the chance to meet UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta, and see for ourselves how the issues she has been fighting for decades are still present to different degrees and in different forms. For our protest of the use of methyl iodide, a harmful pesticide, we used posters found in the aforementioned hospital, with the tagline "STOP THE POISONING." Using the same posters used for the original grape strike was powerful, but it is a tragedy that after years of resistance, farm workers are still being poisoned by the chemicals doused on crops in commercial agribusiness.
Other organizations started by the UFW are still thriving, such as radio campesina in Bakersfield. Culture has always been an important part of movement building, and sharing music, stories, and information has helped people organize, animate, educate, and motivate the masses to action. Our class got to record a show talking about our activism and experiences learning about César Chávez and the UFW. Together, we sang "De Colores," a symbol of our solidarity with the movement and our love of people, the Earth, and hope for the future.


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With the promise of Hollywood success around the corner, 30-year-old Gregor Collins agrees to do a favor for a friend and accept a temporary job as a caregiver for Maria Altmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust refugee from Austria. Reluctant at first, Gregor is eventually forced to face life, love and death in a way he would never have imagined.
In this edited staged reading of a full-length play that premiered in January at the Robert Moss Theater, Rochelle Slovin (Maria) and Christian Scheider (Gregor) will read from a script written by Gregor Collins based on his acclaimed memoir.
There will be a Q&A with the author after the show.
Gregor Collins (AUTHOR) is a writer, actor and producer living in New York. After graduating from Florida State in 2000 he moved to Los Angeles and entered reality television, producing shows such as Blind Date, Ripley's Believe it or Not, and Celebrity Mole. In 2004 he set aside reality for acting, producing and performing in theater and film, touring as the lead in Ronnie Larson's award-winning play Making Porn, and the lead in the critically acclaimed feature Goodbye Promise. His writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Cinema Editor Magazine. His acclaimed memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann debuted as a stageplay at the Robert Moss Theater in New York City in January 2015.
Rochelle Slovin (MARIA ALTMANN) is the founder of Museum of the Moving Image, which she led for thirty years. Her stage career began at the age of eight at the Henry Street Playhouse, under the direction of the revered dance and theater artist Alwin Nikolais. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in many plays at La MaMa and other Off-Off-Broadway theaters. Recent Film/TV/New Media: Redrum (Investigative Discovery), Morgan Spurlock's (Showtime), The Hyperglot Great American (Michael Urie, dir.), (NY Shakespeare Exchange), and music videos for Autre Ne Veut and Mutual Benefit. Recent Theater: Mme. Voinitsky in Uncle Vanya (Aleksey Burago, dir.), Anfisa in Three Sisters (Gowanus Art & Production), and premiers of the new plays John Wayne's America, Debutante, and Do The Blind Dream.
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Delhi ropes in monkeys for Commonwealth Games security
Delhi authorities have deployed a contingent of large black-faced langur monkeys at the Commonwealth Games venues to scare away smaller simians.
At least 10 langurs have been on duty outside some of the venues in the Indian capital, reports say.
Delhi civic authorities have 28 langurs and 10 more have been brought in from the neighbouring Rajasthan state.
Thousands of monkeys roam Delhi, mostly around government offices and are considered a public nuisance.
Langurs are an aggressive type of monkey with long tails and dark faces. They are controlled on leads by specially trained handlers, who release them once other monkeys are seen.
The boxing and hockey stadiums are seen as particularly vulnerable to the monkey menace, the AFP news agency quoted a civic official as saying.
Four langurs each will patrol the two stadiums, he said. Two more would be on standby, he added.
"They are there for the monkey problem. They will be moving outside the stadiums," AFP quoted New Delhi Municipal Committee official Devender Prasad as saying.
For years the animals have caused havoc, riding on the city's metro trains and even roaming through parliament.
They have invaded the prime minister's office and the defence ministry.
They cannot be killed because many Indians see them as sacred.
After one of the strongest monsoon seasons in years, Delhi is also struggling with a major dengue fever outbreak caused by mosquitoes that breed in standing water.
Fish that eat mosquito larvae have reportedly been put in the pond in the Games Village to protect athletes from dengue, a viral infection transmitted to humans by the female Aedes mosquito.


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
My first trip there, I bought a celebratory "just moved here" ring by jeweler Jessica Lord, who doesn't seem to have any online presence that I can find. Unfortunately, it broke very quickly as I tried to shape it to my finger, and I don't even have a photo to show you, though it was quite nice, with a circle of what looked like tourmaline beads on gold wire. I opted for a merchandise credit and got to talking with one of the owners, who felt so bad about the ring that she put something in a box and gave it to me for free. I opened it hurriedly outside to find a ring that I love so much I've been wearing it every day (it's also by Jessica Lord, who uses this wreath style on several other of her pieces available at the store):
I went back with my mom this weekend to use up the credit that had been burning a hole in my wallet and came home with something I had been eyeing. Unfortunately, I don't know the designer [UPDATED: the designer found me! jo.Espinell made the gorgeous necklace below], though they had several other necklaces with different color ribbon:
So, yay, Astoria for coming through with the cute jewelry!
Two more things:
1. I got a haircut and I think I may need advice, as I hate it. That's tomorrow.
2. I tried Yoga and liked it, but my body is sad from all the pain.
12 comments:
- enc said...
- April 29, 2008 at 8:35 PM
- enc said...
Reminder: you won the kitteh-naming contest, get in touch to claim your prizes!
- April 29, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- LML said...
very cool ring - i like alot!!!
- April 29, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- WendyB said...
Cute stuff.
- April 30, 2008 at 12:08 AM
- Sharon said...
the ring is especially divine. i just wrote an article about the psychological relationship b/w hair stylists and clients (i know, i know, but it pays the bills) and interviewed several "field experts," as they call themselves, so i'm curious and perhaps i can help!
- April 30, 2008 at 9:29 AM
- atelier said...
I love the ring! it looks very cool, it's different and I love that. Next year I'll take yoga classes too, it must be so interesting (despite your pain;)
- April 30, 2008 at 10:41 AM
- ambika said...
Love the ring and the necklace. Fabric/textiles in jewelry makes me happy.
- April 30, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- jo espinell said...
Thanks for the comment on the necklace! I'm the designer (jo.Espinell).
I love to see that people enjoy my stuff!!
- April 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- pistols at dawn said...
Thank you for trying yoga and finding it painful, so now I can steal your life experience and use it to keep justifying my lack of exercise.
- April 30, 2008 at 7:30 PM
- The Clothes Horse said...
That necklace is lovely. I need to do yoga again...I haven't worked out in months. ugh.
- April 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- Fabulously Broke said...
I really love that ring...
- May 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Sarah B. said...
I LOVE your new ring! And the haircut looks cute, from what I can see.
- May 1, 2008 at 7:39 PM


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Pepper unclipped her badge from her belt and opened it for Steve to see. "I'm Investigator Black from the county sheriff's office. I'd like to ask you a few questions about Margie Webster."
Steve dropped the lures back in the box and sat down on the stool behind the register. "Damn bad business that. Margie was a nice gal. Quiet, except when it came to fishing or anything about this lake here. She knew her stuff. Customers liked her."
Pepper took out her pen and note pad and flipped to a clean page. "So I hear she took the day off on Friday. Did she do that often?"
"Oh no, no. Margie was always here when she was scheduled to work, always on time. Asked for the day off when she came in on Thursday."
"Did she say what her plans were for that Friday?"
"Some trip with her book club," Steve said. "I can't recall off the top of my head where."
"I take it Thursday was the last time you saw her then?"
"No, as a matter of fact she came in Friday morning. Rushed in looking for a book under the counter here. Couldn't find it at the time though. Seemed quite upset about it too." Steve reached under and pulled out a worn paperback. "Found it a while after, she left in the break room."
Steve extended the book to Pepper. Complete Poems, Ernest Hemingway. She opened the ragged cover and turned to the copyright page. The 1983 date justified the wear. She riffled the pages with her thumb until she arrived at a page with the corner turned over. There were markings in the margins. She read to herself the short verse called, Chapter Heading.
For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
Oh Margie, why didn't you talk to someone? Whatever had been going on in her life she must have begun to realize she wasn't herself—it was just a little too late.
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Cholesterol in Shrimp vs Beef vs Chicken – Shrimp Is Good for Your Heart!
When it comes to foods to pass on if your lipid levels are high, it is likely that shrimp is at the top of the list. Of all meat products, the shrimp cholesterol connection is one of the most well known, with just four ounces touting over 200 milligrams, cementing its place among notorious blood fat boosters. But, do we know everything there is to know about the shrimp cholesterol relationship? And, is it possible that there is much more than meets the eye when it comes to the cholesterol in shrimp? Recent studies are suggesting that might just be the case, and that shrimp may actually be a better friend to the heart than previously thought.
Starting with the newest information, recent studies are indicating that an antioxidant that is found in shrimp may contribute to heart health. This particular antioxidant, according to The World's Healthiest Foods, is known as astaxathin. It is used typically as a food additive and is found in supplements when produced synthetically but occurs naturally in krill and some types of shrimp. Wikipedia explains that research points to astaxathin's potential benefits to cardiovascular diseases due to its powerful antioxidant properties. However, the potential benefit to heart health does not necessarily negate the high levels of cholesterol in shrimp. But, there are some fascinating new truths with regards that too.
Yes, there is a lot of cholesterol in seafood in general, and shrimp is one of the biggest and worst culprits. Never mind the fact that a measly four ounce serving can supersede the recommended daily allowance for cholesterol in one day according to guidelines established by The American Heart Association. But, what about the types of cholesterol in shrimp? And, is it all bad? Perhaps not. Cholesterol is simply one type of sterol, and it is not the only one found in the tiny ocean dwellers. The World's Healthiest Foods points out that, in fact, shrimp also contains beta-sitosterol, brassicasterol and campesterol, which have all actually been shown to lower LDL cholesterol.
There is yet another piece to the puzzle in terms of shrimp's benefits to heart health. Like the cholesterol in fish debate, shrimp has one other thing going for it, and that is a heaping healthy dose of Omega-3 fatty acids, primarily EPA and DHA which are known to contribute to cardiovascular health. But, the odd relationship between the cholesterol in shrimp and heart health goes even deeper when it comes to Omega-3s, which have been attributed to an increase in good cholesterol (HDL). Good cholesterol can act like police officers within the bloodstream, seeking out bad cholesterol and sending it away for disposal.
But, how does shrimp stack up to other notorious high cholesterol foods like chicken and beef? Well, pretty poorly if you look at the cholesterol content alone. Beef boasts around 80 milligrams in each 3.5 ounce serving, and chicken a few points less. Shrimp blows them away at almost three times their content in terms of cholesterol. However, DrGourmet.com points out why these numbers alone are a rather poor comparison of the three popular protein sources, noting that shrimp is in fact a leader among high cholesterol foods, but that the saturated fat levels of popular meats is actually more important to maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. When compared side by side with facts about saturated fat and calorie content added in, the cholesterol in shrimp becomes less relevant, boasting a mere 0.4 grams per four ounces compared to ten times that in the same size serving of beef. It is also worth noting that in terms of calories, shrimp is a big winner too, coming in well under the other two in terms of calorie content. Why is this important? Because excess weight can contribute to higher cholesterol numbers, and thus leaner meats that are lower in calories can contribute to a smaller waistline and therefore, lower levels of bad cholesterol.
It may be hard for shrimp to shrug off its long worn label and finally be considered one of many good cholesterol foods. The sheer amount of cholesterol in shrimp is what makes it difficult to understand that it may actually be healthy for the heart. Rather than eliminate it entirely from cholesterol diet, consider incorporating it in moderate amounts instead while at the same time lowering saturated fats and increasing whole, fresh food intake. Recent studies have shown that saturated fats more profoundly contribute to cholesterol levels than that which is found in food sources anyways, and shrimp are an incredible source of many nutrients that can benefit the heart and the whole body too.


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Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH) subsidiaries Freeport Container Port (FCP), Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and Grand Bahama Airport Company (GBAC) donated to the Junior Achievement (JA) Grand Bahama programme and Eight Mile Rock High School on October 23.
JA Chairman Donald Glass and Programme Manager Ron Dames collected the cheque. Commenting on the donation, Glass said, "We are very appreciative of the support that FCP, FHC & GBAC has been giving us over the years. This donation will go a long way in assisting with the development of the business acumen of our young people and instilling in them the discipline for them to become productive and effective leaders in our young nation."
For the period 2015/2016, a total of eleven companies and 300 participants took part in the Junior Achievement programme, which aims to educate students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through hands-on programmes.
Accepting on behalf of Eight Mile Rock High School was Principal Ivan Butler who said, "We are very grateful to FCP, FHC & GBAC as they continue to support the vision of the Administration staff and students of the Eight Mile Rock High School." He added that the donation could not have come at a better time as the school is in the process of making much-needed changes. "The donation was in response to a request for assistance with the formation of a remedial lab which will be specifically for students with deficiencies in numeracy and literacy. I also express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Godfrey Smith for his continued support over the years and look forward to the same in the future." The money will be used to purchase furniture and computers.
These donations are part of an ongoing programme by FCP, FHC and GBAC to positively impact the people and community in which they operate.
Photo #1 Pictured from left: Chanan Frith-Jones, Airport Director – GBAC, Capt. Orlando Forbes, Port Director – FHC, Ivan Butler, Principal – EMRHS, Sherry Brookes, PA/ Corp. & Govt. Affairs Director – FCP/FHC/GBAC, Lucian Laing, Container Port Director – FCP
Photo #2 Pictured from left: Lucian Laing, Container Port Director – FCP, Capt. Orlando Forbes, Port Director – FHC, Chanan Frith-Jones, Airport Director – GBAC, Donald Glass, Chairman – JA, Ron Dames, Programme Manager- JA, Sherry Brookes, PA/ Corp. & Govt. Affairs Director – FCP/FHC/GBAC, Terrance Donald, Assistant Engineer – FCP and JA member


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His careful interplay of words and images are often first-rate; and the stories DO have points, although sometimes as a reader you must hunt for them. They all jump right into a narrative, usually fully underway, leaving you feeling as though you just barely jumped onto the trailing car of a fast train, pulling out of a dark station without a clear destination in mind.
And some of the stories take place seemingly at the cellular level, where you must hack your way through jungles of microbes and nanobots to find the story's true meaning.
But I am convinced the author isn't much interested in whether the reader can fully comprehend each piece. Rather, again, like a good — and possibly great — artist, he has penned his stories with guile and a liberal smattering of arcane and truly unusual words and phrases as though he would be delighted to know his readers were having to re-read entire long passages to uncover the hidden meaning embedded therein.
I rather liked "The Road to Nowhere," which chronicles the efforts of an unnamed people trying to figure out where a road goes. In the end, however, they stop exploring, afraid to see what lies beyond the seemingly endless horizon.
One phrase from that story, at the very end, is worth noting: "It kept them from wandering, from encountering the dark, unknown parts of themselves."
In "Cop Aesthetic," we seem to see two sides of a police officer, who begins the story by taking his daughter to a zoo, but ends by sitting across the table from a shackled, dangerous felon. The imagery evoked, regarding predatory animals, is chilling.
In "Still Ill," a man who has been posing as a silver-painted mechanical man, apparently in a large city, has developed a reaction — possibly fatal — to his silver body paint. Best line from that one: "My mind focused in on emptying itself, devoted to harnessing the body to its strict oversight. And yet behind my paralyzed husk, my mind is free to roam."
In "Type O Negative" the main — and only — character has been irradiated, subjecting her to bizarre speech patterns. At the end, she cries for help. But you can tell it's too late.
Wikipedia defines flash fiction as fiction of extreme brevity. Works can range from three hundred words to a thousand. The genre has a notable past, stretching apparently into prehistory, and practiced by no less than Walt Whitman. No wonder these stories sometimes seem closer to long poetry than prose.
As I said, this sort of fiction is new to me and, while I'm not sure everyone will appreciate what Marc Nash has written down for posterity, I am convinced that he puts a lot of thought into his craft, and I applaud him for his artistry.
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On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:22 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > The problem I am interested in solving is: > > > It is currently difficult for people not involved in Debian > > > development (upstream, other distros, users) to know which patches we > > > applied, the reason for the patch, and whether they should be > > > interested in that patch or not. > > > > In that case, the fault lies in Debian for not using Forwarded properly. > > IMHO we should be going out of our way to communicate with upstream > > using the systems preferred BY upstream, not trying to devise a new one. > > > > I know it's a PITA using bugzilla and a gazillion different logins but > > that is part of the workload. > > I think that upstreams would like two different things: > - that distros forward patches to their BTS > - that distros provide an automated, simple way to see what they patched ok - so two problems, not one. > That sounds logical to have both: > - they know that distro devs are not perfect and sometimes don't forward > simple patches > - they want to know which patches are actually used (and widely tested), > because that make them better candidates for integration upstream > But maybe I'm just misunderstanding upstreams' needs? There's no accounting for the variety in upstream teams - I don't know many that want the second option but I can see that some will probably want it that way, if only because of an MIA DD. > > > I thought that the problem of tracking changes for Debian developers was > > > already solved by using a VCS and advertising it thought Vcs-*? > > > > No, it isn't because Debian developers still need to track where Debian > > patches have diverged from upstream due to delays in upstream > > development. Vcs does nothing for that, nothing whatsoever (and I > > consider it a nonsense to include the entire upstream codebase in our > > RCS). > > If we have a Formarded-upstream: field in patches.d.o (pointing to the > upstream bug for a patch), it would be easy to modify bts-link and > automatically monitor those upstream bugs. I still like the two-stage closure option because sometimes we just need to upload a fix before an upstream release can be made and the bug submitter should know that the bug has been fixed using a divergence whilst still waiting for upstream. > Yes. One problem with this discussion is that we are discussing: > What can/can't we do by using, abusing and modifying our current > infrastructure (i.e the BTS)? > Instead of discussing: > What is the real problem that we are trying to solve? What needs > to be done to fix that problem? (what features/requirements are > needed in a candidate solution?) > The discussion is polluted by technical details about BTS things, and > this hides the real issues. OK, so problem 1: Q: How to improve Debian forwarding patches to upstream using upstream bug trackers? A: Leave the burden on the DD to handle multiple logins to multiple bug trackers but make life easier in the BTS so that everyone can read the patch without needing a login. This, IMHO, is met by the Fixed|Closed two stage closure idea. Problem 2: Q: How to help upstream find out from Debian which patches are actually in use. A: provide browsable patch files organised by source package (the upstream source package name if it differs) - this sounds like the patches.d.o idea. I'll stick to Problem 1. :-) I think you're right that there are two distinct problems - although I'm still not convinced that Problem 2 is sufficiently common to require a whole new bug/patch tracker. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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Poor I was, and sought for riches, Something that would satisfy, But the dust I gathered round me Only mocked my soul's sad cry. Hallelujah! I have found Him Whom my soul so long has craved! Jesus satisfies all my longings, Through His blood I now am saved. (Clara T Williams)
Sunday, June 20, 2010
What motivates you?
1. Of the fifty-two Sundays a year, how many of them do you spend at your home church?
2. How many weekend trips or vacations are planned without regard to being in attendance at your home church (i.e., leave after church, make sure you're back Saturday to be at church on Sunday)?
3. What priorities take precedent to your attendance of Sunday worship of your home church?
Given it's already 11:26 and I have church in the morning, I know I'm not going to get into this as far as I want to, but I want you to think about this (as I have over the past few weeks): What is your commitment level to your church? Is it more of what programs are available for me and my kids? Or is your church a second home where you seek to serve more than be served? Or is it more of a combination of the two?
My fear is that we don't invest into our church, and I don't mean tithing. We don't seek ways we can serve, but wait until we are asked. We don't build into the lives of each other (and I don't mean getting together to play softball) When was the last time you spoke the gospel into someone at church? To your spouse? To yourself? Is the church you belong to your primary circle of friends? If not, why? The last thing I want is to guilt anyone into some legalistic action, but I want you to genuinely search yourself and find out on which foundation you've built your life on.
Ideally this is best done before the waves reveal it for you. I ran across a verse yesterday that keeps coming to mind. I could look it up on the internet and look all smart, but to be honest I cannot remember the whole thing or where it's from, but it speaks of "joy inexpressible."
If you were to face some challenge, some major storm, would your joy remain? What is the source of your joy?
Paul Tripp does this illustration where he shakes a water bottle and splashes water everywhere. He then asks, why did water come out? Most answer, because the bottle was shaken. But he says, no. Water comes out because that is what is inside the bottle.
When you're shaken, what comes out? When some other person on the road does something foolish, I shout, Idiot! When the boys continue to be zoned onto the tv or computer when asked to set the table for dinner, I quickly become irritated. I would like for it to be some righteous anger, but to be honest yet again, it's not. It's selfishness and sin on my part, despite their action, or inaction as the case may be. Kinda says something about my heart, doesn't it? What motivates that response? What motivates me?
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USDA is committing $100 million for a new First Responder Initiative to help rural emergency agencies better react to potential terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
"The Bush administration is committed to assisting rural communities prepare for emergencies and the delivery of lifesaving services," Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman said during a visit to the University of Minnesota's new Center of Excellence for Agro Security in Minneapolis.
"The funds are a major investment in the lives and security of our citizens and are part of USDA's ongoing investment in the future of rural communities and their ability to better prepare for emergency situations."
Veneman and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge took part in a visit to center funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
Veneman said that as part of USDA's First Responder Initiative, a minimum of one of every five dollars of fiscal 2004 community facility funding available will be dedicated to first responder type requests.
USDA's Rural Development agency provides financing of a variety of community facilities, such as libraries, courthouses, fire and rescue facilities and equipment, police and emergency vehicles and services and other community-focused facilities and services. The initiative will set priorities for at least $100 million to specifically strengthen the ability of rural communities to respond to local emergencies.
The following types of projects are emphasized through this initiative:
Fire protection equipment; police stations; fire stations; police cars; fire trucks; Civil Defense buildings; rescue and ambulance services; emergency response training; hospitals; physicians' clinics; outpatient care; early storm warning systems; county health department offices; migrant health centers; food preparation distribution center; communications centers; animal shelters; mobile communications centers; and education facilities for emergency responders.
Veneman said that so far $81 million has been obligated to fund 20 fire stations, 24 fire trucks, eight police cars and other fire and rescue equipment, including $36,500 for a fire truck and ambulance for Minnesota.
In addition, funding will support over 20 health care-related efforts such as hospitals and medical centers, as well as nine ambulances. In total, over 100 first responder applications have been approved for funding. Funding of selected applicants will be contingent upon meeting the conditions of the loan and/or grant agreement. A list of the individual awards can be found at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov.
USDA Rural Development has invested more than $1.5 billion in addressing community needs that assist with public safety, education, health care, cultural, transportation, and other public needs, including: the purchase of 508 fire trucks, 103 police cars, and 156 ambulances and construction or renovation of 79 hospitals, 71 public or charter schools, and 155 child care centers.
The Agriculture Department has also invested $29 million in grant funds in 93 telemedicine grant projects to develop technologies needed to enhance medical care involving 846 health care institutions.
Veneman and Ridge were in Minneapolis to highlight a new Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence for Agro Security.
In April, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that Texas A&M University and the University of Minnesota were chosen to lead two new centers. DHS anticipates providing Texas A&M University, the University of Minnesota and their partners with a total of $33 million over the course of the next three years to address security in two key agricultural sectors — foreign animal diseases and food security.
The work that will be done at these institutions "is a vital component of our efforts to engage partners at all levels, including governments, academia and the private sector, to help protect food and agriculture," said Veneman.
"The stakes are very high, not only in terms of human health and our agriculture system, but also in terms of our economy," she said. "The food and fiber produced in our nation account for $1.24 trillion of our gross domestic product."
For more information about USDA's effort in homeland security, visit www.usda.gov/.


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I've railed on and on about this in conversation, but apparently the only place I've mentioned it on MO was in this comment on the post about Fulton County awarding water conservation with a rate increase.
Motorists' habits spur call for tax increases
WASHINGTON – Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline, which means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs.
A federal commission created by Congress to find a way to make up the growing revenue shortfall in the program that funds highway repairs and construction is talking about increasing federal gas and diesel taxes.
A roughly 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by the commission until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads.
The commission will also recommend that states raise their own gasoline taxes and increase the use of toll roads.
But since the future seems to be filled with ever-increasing fuel efficiency, the long term plan apparently involves equipping all vehicles with GPS devices so that the government can charge you for how man miles you drive.
UPDATE: While posting at GunPundit, I realized that the GPS thing might be the diversion to keep us from looking at the tax increase.


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San Diego Reader classifieds ads, May 23, 2019
3 p.m., May 22
Palm trees, (palm trees are big when you are from Detroit) 95% annual sunshine, and Hollywood only 30 minutes away, (even if you never go there—just knowing you are that close to something big deal, well…) life in P.B. is good.
Except when it wasn't. In 1993, I wrote in my journals, "I feel like I am living in the war zone."
You have to understand that I am from the Midwest upper middle class. Yet, ever since my move to San Diego, I have lived in the "war zone."
In Ocean Beach, we had our place burglarized. Another night, I woke up at 3a.m. to a pervert mumbling outside my window. I freaked out and hid in the bathroom for two hours, until Bob came home.
Then we moved to Sapphire Street in Pacific Beach. It is like ancient history now, Bob moving out, me I throwing his T.V. through the Mr. Ed* door after him and all that drama.
Sullaways bought the property and lowered my rent $100 to keep me. How the two of us lived in that studio house is beyond me. It got so that when Bob was home I would leave. I tolerated it. I tolerated the possums on the fence, the revving engines in the parking lot adjacent and the general squalor. I swear the place was rotting around me. One night this couple threw a bed out of the top floor balcony and stole it at the weirdo transient motel over the fence. I witnessed a 5a.m, screaming O.D., paramedics and all. But the band playing in the parking lot was the best. Not only did the loud speakers set to 800 decibels literally vibrate the walls of my little house and the elbow to elbow crowd threaten to knock the fence over, but the police showed up in force. Steve, Neva and I peeped through the holes in the fence as two police helicopters circled, searchlights criss-crossed the property and megaphones boomed, I kid you not, "DISPERSE! " Kahuna's Bar behind me was craziness. One night this drunk drove his car through the front door of Kahuna's. Through, as in, through. Wasted revelers climbed over my back fence. Steve was the neighborhood vigilante for a while as he ran petitions with the other homeowners to get Kahuna's closed down. Next to that and directly behind me the carwash was a source of daily angst, as the machines sometimes roared well into the night, nearly against my back wall. Oops, forgot to turn them off. I counted the hours until his 6p.m. machine shutdown. Sure, I was in the backhouse and they the big front house, but that was nothing compared to the infestation in Sullaway's attic. It was like living in a horror movie Neva said after they poisoned the things, which then ran under the house into the crawl space to die. Rats. The upstairs apartment in the duplex next door burned down one night. What woke me was the firemen banging on my door and yelling, "GET OUT!" I stopped to put on eyebrows and mascara and grabbed my art portfolio. The place was in flames just over my fence. Steve stood watering his garage roof with a garden hose. The gossip on the sidewalk that night was that the place was a crack house and the cops had been watching it, and it was arson by the renters to destroy the evidence.
But, if you want to know about creepy, sit tight. The night of the Northville Earthquake, when we got the aftershocks in San Diego, a rat crawled up my Mr. Ed half door (Neva thinks my cottage was at one time a two horse stable behind the big house.) and in through the hole in the screen. I guess, the tremor woke me, as I heard the thing crawling up the screen and actually saw it plop down onto the floor. At first, I thought it was one of the cats, which lived on my roof—my house was the cat's playground. It ran under my old oven until we dragged that outside the next day. Besides, my zoo-animal-yoga-for-kids proposal I sent to the SD Zoo, which went a great big nowhere, the Sea World tour guide job fell through. I wrote in my journals: I got another rejection letter from Sea World today so, I am doing Feng Shui in my house to un-trap the Chi and bring the big money in. Today, I moved the bed so I do not have my back to the front door and hung a beveled glass wind catcher. It's not a wind chime but it's the closest I can come. I can't change the way my house faces or the entrances or windows east/west. We freakin' renters are doomed. Actually, this is the third rejection letter from Sea World. All right already. I get it. It was a June night, when—wait a minute, did people just run across my roof? The house shook with trampling sounds. Not only did it wake me, but I laid there shaking. Then, it was 3 a.m., when a police searchlight shot through my window and someone yelled with this miked-in-reverb, "SAN DIEGO POLICE!!." Like, as if, I did not hear the megaphone the first time, he had to repeat it, "SAN DIEGO POLICE!!" Then he went on, at 3 a.m., kind of a blabby guy for the graveyard shift, "Excuse me, Ma'am, do you live here?" Let us be clear on this next point—I am in bed. I told him I would check. These are too many decisions to be making at 3 a.m. Then he went on, as I tried to focus, while the spotlight hit me in the eyes. "Did you happen to notice an armed, drug-crazed Hispanic man running past your house?" he asked. Point number two—there was no access to my yard so that meant the guy had to have scaled a ten-foot fence. I was all, "Gee, no officer, just a naked, armed, drug-crazed, Hispanic man running around my living room. Does that count?" I actually did not say that, but boy did I think it—(the next day, that is, after I wrote this joke four times and a friend gave me the punchline.) What I did say was, "You can't miss him officer. He went that a-way. He's the one chasing people with my fence post, barking like a (okay, more Sea World angst) seal." You're right, I didn't say that either, but I should have. 3 a.m., I mean. I got home late one night from hanging out at the Comedy Store and trying out that joke, which bombed because it was too obscure, the other comics told me. I went to unlock my gate, but and my gate was unlocked, meaning someone jimmied the combination lock. A coat and six cold beer cans lay strewn in the walkway. The next am this guy climbed over the fence for his stuff. I was like living in Grand Central Station. (Okay, it wasn't exactly like Grand Central Station, but still.) The year of El Nino my tiny hovel flooded repeatedly Steve tried to dig trenches, patched the stucco — nothing worked. The poor guy, there he was out back in the dumping rain shoring up some sandbag dike or whatnot, until they figured out some sail-type rigging to divert the waters that flowed down into our back yard from Mount Soledad. My tiny patio yard was a lake a few times. Even regular winters took their toll on my tiny dollhouse. My bathroom was T.J. : peeling paint in the shower, a concrete shower floor, cracked tile. Steve said that to fix the plumbing they would have to tear the building down and I would have to move. I held him off as long as I could. Finally, they gave me the word that the place was beyond hope. Bob moved out years before that, but I stayed. The war zone. I felt like the piano player—war going on all around me, but I was playing tunes because it was the best thing to do. Still, the place had character. I drew and painted on my garden patio under the spreading pepper tree. My muses came to me there and I wrote fiction. I told my self it was a vortex as I listened to the waves breaking at night. I dreamed big dreams. Heck, I only paid $350.00 per month for seven years—two blocks up from Tourmaline Surfing Park. And I walked around the block for $1.00 bean burritos a few times a week. You can't beat that.


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THE DOUBLE By José Saramago. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 324 pp. Harcourt. $25.
THE title of this new novel by Portugal's Nobel Prize winner will very likely draw a sigh of despondency from many a reader. The conceit of the double has become something of a literary cliché, used repeatedly as a handy plot device from Plautus' "Amphitryon" through Dumas and "The Man in the Iron Mask" to Dostoyevsky and Nabokov. Yet José Saramago has flogged new life into what might have seemed a dead horse. His take on the theme is clever, alarming and blackly funny, although he spins out to more than 300 pages a tale that Borges would have elegantly dispatched in three.
Saramago is not known for his lightness of touch. "Blindness," surely his masterpiece so far, is a truly frightening account of what happens to so-called civilized values when a mysterious affliction strikes everyone in the world blind, except for a single person. In even his bleakest works, however, there is a note of dark laughter -- the same note that sounds through Kafka, Céline and Beckett, who are Saramago's direct literary ancestors. He has Kafka's petrified detachment, Céline's merry ferocity and the headlong, unstoppable style of the Beckett of "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable." All this may make his new book sound daunting. Although it is elegantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, "The Double" isn't the easiest read, yet it is engrossing and even, in its way, a page turner.
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is the novel's protagonist. A character burdened with such a risible name (which, we are told in the opening line, has "a classical flavor that time has staled") is bound to be made the butt of misfortune, and so it will prove. Tertuliano is a history teacher in a secondary school in a large, unnamed city. When we first meet him, he is suffering from a "temporary weakness of spirit ordinarily known as depression" -- Saramago has an arch way with the received notions of our modern society -- and, in an attempt to cheer him up, a colleague recommends a diverting movie. But when Tertuliano rents the video, he spots among the bit players an actor who looks exactly as he does -- or at least as he did five years previously. Since the film is five years old, it seems a safe assumption that the resemblance will have held.
Having rented all the available videos of movies made by the same production company, Tertuliano eventually, by a process of elimination from the cast lists, succeeds in identifying his man, António Claro, who uses the screen name Daniel Santa-Clara. The lengths to which Tertuliano goes to conceal the existence of his double from those closest to him, principally his girlfriend and his mother, make one suspect he is suffering from something more serious than a "temporary weakness of spirit." The fact that there is someone in the city who is not only his mirror image but, as it turns out, his exact double terrifies and obsesses him. Nevertheless, after much vacillation, Tertuliano decides to make contact.
Claro and his wife, who first answers the phone, are initially skeptical of this stranger's fantastic claim. However, they are both fascinated by it -- the wife cannot stop toying with the bizarre erotic possibilities -- and the two men decide to meet at Claro's house in the country. Not only is the actor on home ground, he is also armed with a revolver (although it isn't loaded). As Chekhov long ago observed, if a firearm appears in the first act, it must go off in the third. And, as we expect, "The Double" ends violently, but in a wholly unexpected manner.
One of the pleasures of the book is the way Saramago faithfully follows the relentless logic of the situation he has devised. When the two men meet, it is at once apparent that they are indeed doubles -- that is, they not only look alike, but are identical, down to the moles on their forearms and the date of their birth. Immediately, existential questions are raised. Which of them, Tertuliano worriedly wonders, is the original and which the duplicate? When it turns out that Claro was born a half-hour before Tertuliano, it somehow becomes inevitable that one of them will have to be destroyed. Having been born on the same day, they both want to know, of course, if they are destined also to die on the same day.Continue reading the main story
Claro is not only the firstborn, he is also the more malign of the two. Feeling obscurely but deeply insulted by Tertuliano's existence, he plans a cruel revenge involving Tertuliano's girlfriend, who is kept in ignorance of his rival to the very end. Tertuliano is also avenged, but in a suitably ironical fashion. The tale concludes with a sort of snap, like the Q.E.D. that follows the working out of a complicated equation.
This mathematical quality is the book's chief weakness. The trouble with self-consciously existential novels such as "The Double" is that the characters tend to be ciphers, as determined and robotic as the exemplars in one of those math questions from our school days -- if a man walks ten miles at five miles an hour and another man walks five miles at ten miles an hour . . . -- so that we care for them not much more than we did for those imaginary figures trudging their undeviating way across the pages of our textbooks.
Tertuliano, absurdly named after a Carthaginian theologian, and António Claro, with his false beard and his empty revolver, are about as engaging as two peas in a pod. If Saramago believes what he has his omniscient narrator declare -- that "every ordinary person is unique, truly unique" -- he might have devoted some writerly energy to making his characters more lifelike. Even doubles will be different in their hearts.Continue reading the main story


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NEWPORT -- A flap over a riprap project south of Newport has sparked a question bound to stir Oregonians' passions: Is it time to revisit the rules and regulations governing our beaches?
At least one elected official thinks so, and a growing number of people are lining up behind him.
"There needs to be a policy-level discussion," said Lincoln County Commissioner Bill Hall. "The people of Oregon consider the beaches to be their beaches, and rightly so. We have a unique heritage in Oregon. People consider the beaches to be a key element of Oregon's identity and if we need to take more steps to protect all of them and not lose them by piece, by degree, I think we need to look at that."
The project fueling the fury involves the repair and extension of existing riprap at a property that was developed in 1948. It covers about 3,040 square feet of beach, according to the permit.
The project meets all the criteria required by state law for construction of riprap, said Tony Stein, Oregon State Parks & Recreation ocean shores coordinator. Primarily that means it was developed prior to 1977, is threatened by erosion and there are no other viable alternatives to protect it. There was an opportunity for the public to comment on the permit, but no one did.
But Matt Love, a school teacher and author who occasionally writes opinion pieces and feature stories for The Oregonian, says the project is nothing short of a "land grab of public beach."
"This is totally unacceptable to me and a lot of other beach advocates," Love said. "I don't have a problem with preexisting riprap where they replace what is crumbling. This one advances out to where people recreate. It is mystifying to me that he (Tony Stein) would allow the private landowner to take public land ... with no compensation to the public?"
Oregon's beaches were first declared public highway in 1913 after the legislature approved a bill by Gov. Oswald West. In 1967, legislation known as the Oregon Beach Bill granted the public "free and uninterrupted" use of the beaches, and required property owners to seek state permits for building and other uses. In 1973, the Legislature passed land use Goal 18 which established the regulations for construction of riprap and other protective structure for properties developed before 1977.
While state law does protect the public's use of beaches, it did not make the state the owner of all beaches, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the Oregon Parks & Recreation.
"Many people don't realize that in many, many cases, private property lines go down the sand to the high tide line. The beach bill was a way of making sure people had access to the beach and the right to walk on that dry sand without having to own it," he said. "The reality is the law didn't take the beach and make the state the owner. It said let's find a way to compromise between property rights and the public desire and right to be on the beach. ."
But people like Hall fear that with global warming and the accompanying rising sea levels, the need for riprap is going to increase rapidly. And more riprap ultimately leads to less beach, said Phillip Johnson, spokesman with Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition.
Higher sea levels mean higher tides, which eat up the beach, Johnson said. In natural areas where there are sand stone cliffs, the waves beat at the cliffs and to some extent compensate for the sand lost to high tides. But in an areas with riprap, the waves can't reach the cliffs. The problem is compounded by the waves scouring the sand away from the riprap.
"So you lose both ways," Johnson said. "Do we really want to lose the natural beach everywhere in Oregon, or are we going to change our minds about whether we're going allow riprap everywhere in order to save the front tier properties?"
If the answer is change, how does that happen?
Hall says it's starts with the people, but it won't be easy.
"People are going to have to lead the push," said Hall. "They are going to have to let the legislature know. Personally, in the current political climate, I think it's a long shot. Anything perceived as taking of private property is going to generate strong opposition. But you never know if you don't try. We're talking about our beaches and if there is one thing that is sacred to Oregonians, it's our beaches."


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When we arrived at Country days, we headed for the concessions. There was one that sold all sorts of foods. My son bought a North Carolina barbecue pork sandwich with cole slaw for himself and a hot dog for my grandson. He kept urging me to take a bite, saying it was the best barbecue there was, but I declined. The concession just didn't look like my kind of place. Now the home-made ice cream looked like my kind of place so I bought peach and my son bought cookies and cream. It was heavenly and reminded me of the ice cream parties we used to have when I was a kid, except the concession ice cream was much thicker. The home-made ice cream we made was always runny. There was also a concession stand with funnel cake; something I've never had. My husband told me they were like fried doughnuts.
The most exciting event at Country Days was the corn maze. By the time we got there, the night was black. We rented our flashlights and were given 10 trivia questions on a sheet of paper. Because my grandson is 4, he got his own "cheat" sheet of questions geared toward someone his age. We entered the maze and the first question was: "How many countries border the gulf of Mexico?" I had no idea. My husband thought he knew but we looked on my grandson's cheat sheet to be sure because if we made a wrong turn in the maze, we would get lost. The question on the cheat sheet was: "What was the Grinch's dog's name?" None of us had any idea so we headed off, left or right, I don't remember. I do remember getting lost. We wandered around for 10 minutes or so and eventually found the first pole. We ran into some teenage girls who were excited by the fact that they'd gone round in a circle five times and didn't want us to go that way.
1 down, 9 poles to go. We continued on, reading and trying to answer questions as we went, looking at the cheat sheet every time, to no avail, and stumbled upon poles 2-5. Once we got to pole 5, there were two men standing on a bridge type apparatus waiting to help people to either go on to the next pole or out of the maze altogether. We had been in the maze for about 45 minutes. My son took this opportunity to tell us that last year, he'd gotten lost in the maze for 2-1/2 hours. My knees have been replaced so my legs were starting to hurt from pounding the hard, uneven ground in the maze. I kind of panicked at the thought of being lost among the corn stalks for hours on end. I started to have feelings of dread. My grandson had had it and said to his Father: "Dad, I think this wasn't a very good idea." Of course, we all laughed but the truth was, I was feeling the same way. The corn stalks were looming large and there seemed to be no end in sight.
We continued on, finding one more pole after another, wandering around in the dark maze, turning left only to find out we really needed to go right. We made it to the eighth pole and I started to feel some relief. We could hear the people partying at Country Days and I knew that our exit was just around the next row. Finally, we came to the end and it felt good to be out of the maze. It was fun, but I was glad it was over. While my husband and son had a blast, me and my grandson had a similar experience. Maybe because we're both Virgos. We were glad to see anything other than corn stalks.
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Ohio needs the Save to Win program, which makes savings fun and financially rewarding for credit union customers, the editorial board writes. In this 2002 file photo, then-fourth-graders Deanna Lipford, 10, and Kennysha Hill, 10, prepare to drop new Ohio quarters into their piggy banks at Willow Elementary School in Cleveland.
(Joshua Gunter, The Plain Dealer, File, 2002)
Ohio should borrow a successful idea that has spread from Michigan to other states to spur more people to sock away money in their savings accounts.
The incentives are prize-linked savings accounts at credit unions that give customers who purchase interest-bearing certificates of deposits -- usually set at $25 -- a chance to enter a lottery with every deposit. Winners are then eligible for cash prizes ranging from $25 up that the credit unions finance by pooling their money. For instance, Michigan credit unions use an annual drawing to give away $10,000 to six people.
And unlike the traditional state lottery, which is winner-take-all, losers still keep the money they have stashed away in the credit union. (Banks are not involved because they can not participate in lotteries, according to federal regulations.)
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Started by Doorways to Dream, a nonprofit based in Massachusetts, the program called Save to Win opened in Michigan five years ago and has spread to Nebraska, Washington state and North Carolina. Ohio should be on that list.
And it's been popular in Great Britain and other countries for years, said David Rothstein, the director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland, which houses the Cleveland Saves program to encourage Clevelanders to open savings accounts.
Save to Win participants can withdraw money for emergencies – a necessary safeguard – but credit union officials say they have found that many people work hard to build up their accounts after an emergency so they can be entered for cash prizes.
Patrick Harris, a spokesperson for the Ohio Credit Union League, praised the Save to Win program, saying "any program that is supportive of saving is a good thing," but said no Ohio credit union has called his office yet about the program. One of Ohio's 336 credit unions should get the ball rolling.
The marriage of savings accounts and the savings lottery has gained bipartisan approval in Congress, which is a rare feat. Democrats and Republicans are jointly sponsoring several bills that would change federal banking laws and expand the number of financial institutions that can offer the program.
It's a great way to bring the excitement of saving to far more institutions -- and the security of having some money socked away for an emergency to far more deserving people.
This editorial has been changed to correct the name of an organization. It's the Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland.


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Prince Henry, Richard III, or even Cordelia? ... David Cameron. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
When shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was asked on Front Row which Shakespeare character David Cameron most resembled, he hesitated - and then came up with a rather unsatisfactory answer. "Well, if he was a character in King Lear, it would definitely be Cordelia." It seemed to me that the obvious answer to have given - were one a Tory underling, I mean - would have been Richmond in Richard III. Having been mysteriously anointed for great things in Henry VI, he turns up at the end of Richard III to deliver the nation from tyranny and become the fount of a great ruling dynasty - and all without getting enough stage time to risk being plunged into too much Shakespearean ambiguity.
Hunt, it seems, also felt his Cordelia answer was unsatisfactory, and at yesterday's shadow cabinet meeting he asked Cameron what he thought the answer was. The response: Prince Hal. (Hunt's blog on the topic is here - I can only assume that Boris Johnson is Falstaff.)
Fascinating. And a bit weird. All right, Prince Hal ascends to greatness and, in Henry V, provides the only example in the history plays of a really strong, fair, successful monarch who manages to live up to, and outdo, his father's expectations and example. But there are terrible problems with Hal/Henry as a character. For a start, he has two Henry IV plays' worth of messing around with his mates, disappointing his father, failing to get down to anything serious, hanging around getting drunk in taverns and playing idiotic pranks on people (such as staging a half-witted robbery). This is part of a bizarre strategy to appear to be feckless while in fact concealing his true virtue and seriousness - which is not a particularly honest or valorous way of behaving. Since his relationship with his own father is terminally damaged, Falstaff becomes Hal's proxy parent - and yet he heartlessly abandons the aged Sir John, along with all his other old chums, when he becomes king. Most damagingly, in Henry V, he gives the order for his men to execute their prisoners. A war crime!
So, the question is, which Shakespeare character does Cameron really most resemble? Hunt was inspired by our own Jonathan Freedland, incidentally, who wrote here that Brown combines the jealousy of Othello, the ambition of Macbeth and the indecision of Hamlet. Did Freedland get it right - if Brown were a Shakespeare character, who would it be?


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Megan tagged me! :D Go follow her blog, she's fooled me into thinking she's cool for way too long for it to be a lie.
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1.What's your favorite song?
No. I can't possibly answer this. I'm a singer, and I prefer songs that I can sing to. BUT a few of my favourites are: Strange face of love by Tito and Tarantula, Stuck in the middle with you, by Stealer's wheel, and I also love Superbad by James Brown.
2.How many times did you fail your driver's license test?
Never. I haven't taken it. I only got my learner's a couple years ago. I never needed it! :D
3.Who's your celebrity crush?
Hmm. I have a few. Esthero, Angelina Jolie, Timothy Olyphant, Mila Kunis.
4.What is the most disgusting word you can think of?
Smear. It immediately brings to mind, 'Feces.' Ew.
5.Don't you think Tombstone is the best movie of all time?
No. But I don't have a solid fave, I have a few. Time Bandits, The Labyrinth, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride. Monty Python's the meaning of life.
6.If you had to eat one food every day for a year, what would it be?
My mum's homemade Ham and Cheese Turnovers.
7.What are your top 3 favorite books?
Fuck. Okay, favourite is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Then it falls to shit. Cold comfort farm by Stella Gibbons. Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass - the version with Tenniel's original illustrations. Stupid and contagious by Caprice Crane is awesome. The stupidest angel by Christopher Moore.
I'm a book slut. Let's just say that there will always be a new favourite added to the list. It's about the right book finding me at the right time, and taking me away.
8.Have you ever met anyone in real life that you originally met on Twitter?
Nope, but my husband and I met in a guitar player's group on Myspace. 3 years and international immigration later, we're still here.
9.What was your first job?
Holding the flashlight for my dad. :D
10.Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich- do you put pb on one slice of bread, jelly on the other, and then marry the two? Or do you put pb on one slice of bread, spread jelly on top of the pb, and put another slice of bread on top? (My grandfather has a VERY SOLID opinion on this subject.)
No. butter both sides. PB on one piece, Jam on the other. You have to eat the PB on the bottom. It tastes different, and helps the jam from sogging into the bread. But it should be toasted.
11.Name one thing that majorly creeps you out.
Ants. Or parrots. No, really.
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Ok, Labyrinth is a fantastic movie. I never thought of "smear" as gross but NOW I WILL. I have a crush in Mila Kunis too!ReplyDelete
These questions are great! I have parrot-sat for a neighbor before, but I didn't have to live in their house. I just went over twice a day to hang with the birds for a while, feed them, and tidy up a bit. Their cockatoo, Elvis, was quite a charmer. He likes to tell everyone he loves them.ReplyDelete
Funniest commentary: Every time I'd sweep the floor under their cages (parrots are disgusting little pigs who fling their seeds and bedding far and wide)Elvis would start chanting "Time to Mop!" on a loop.
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It's no wonder a boozy visit to your local pub these days hits you hard in the pocket as a pint of beer is now 20 times more expensive than it was in the 1970s.
According to research by Lloyds Bank Private Banking, the average price of a pint has gone up by a staggering 1,948% since 1973.
The study also revealed that a pint cost a mere 14p in 1973, meaning the characters in popular TV series Life on Mars get a lot more bang for their buck than punters today.
"There is no doubt that the value of money has fallen dramatically since 1973," said Ashish Misra, director research and advisory services at Lloyds Private Banking.
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The study also discovered that in four decades a person will need £3m to enjoy the same lifestyle as a millionaire today.
The average cost of pint today is £2.87, increasing the cost of living for hard pressed Britons.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently revealed that total pay is rising at an annual rate of 1.1%, against CPI inflation of 1.9%.