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Author Notes: My Great Gram had encouraged my mother and grandmother to make these for years, according to lore. I finally dusted off the recipe card this year to see why. I've made some minor adjustments, but these have been a huge hit inside and out of our family gatherings.
The double rise makes these rolls pretty fool proof. I make little rolls that seem to make these pretty irresistible in mixed company, but you can make larger rolls or bake it as a loaf if you'd like. —motease
Makes: 64 small rolls
cup buttermilk (I prefer Kate's)
tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
tablespoon sugar
2 1/4
teaspoons active dry yeast
teaspoon baking soda
teaspoons Diamond kosher salt
2 1/2
cups all purpose flour, seperated
tablespoons unsalted butter, melted (more if needed)
pinches coarse salt for sprinkling
- Heat buttermilk either on stove top or microwave until warm (~110°F), whisk in sugar and yeast and let sit until frothy, about 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, whisk together salt, soda, 1 cup flour. Add buttermilk mixture and melted butter, whisk until smooth. Add remaining flour until dough comes together.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured board, knead dough until smooth, about 5 minutes. Pat dough into roughly a 8x6" rectangle. Using a bench knife, cut dough into 4 even pieces. Cut each square evenly into 16 squares, for 64 pieces total.
- Strech each piece into a square, dip in butter and tuck corners to make a roll. Place into 2 buttered 8" baking pans (I use an old 8x11" baking dish - be flexible!). Repeat until all pieces are dipped and rolled. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise about 90 minutes, until doubled.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Brush rolls again with melted butter and sprinkle lightly with salt. Bake 30 minutes, rotating pan once during cooking to ensure even browning.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Family Recipe, Part 2
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Two years ago, the name of an already successful Hollywood screenwriter was suddenly on everyone's lips as Tony Gilroy's corporate thriller Michael Clayton, starring a certain George Clooney, unexpectedly broke into the Oscar race with seven nominations.
Of course, Gilroy had already found a great deal of success with his writing on Universal's "Bourne" trilogy which solidified his status as one of Hollywood's most respected experts on the spy and espionage genre, but with his directorial debut getting so much acclaim, he was finally being taken seriously as a filmmaker.
Gilroy's second movie Duplicity is an even more ambitious film, this one being a romantic comedy (of sorts) set within the world of "competitive intelligence," which is essentially what the big corporations do to find out what their competition is doing and try to beat them to the punch. Caught up in the game between two warring cosmetic companies are Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval, former government intelligent agents who are trying to one-up each other in an expensive bit of espionage between the two high-powered companies.
It's the kind of thinking person's movie that's so rare these days, one that can be enjoyed for the playful relationship between the two lead actors, as much as for the clever non-linear way that Gilroy tells this intricate tale of espionage. (The movie also opens with one of the funniest on-screen fights maybe ever, as the heads of the two corporations, played by Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti, go at it on an airport tarmac as their respective entourages look on aghast.)
Gilroy hinted about but hesitated to elaborate about the project when ComingSoon.net spoke with him a few years ago at the Toronto Film Festival (here), so it was great to sit down with him once again to talk about it. Quite frankly, it's sometimes hard not to hate the guy for being so smart that he always makes us feel somewhat dumb.
ComingSoon.net: I'm really interested in this idea of "competitive intelligence" in that it's similar to "Clayton" where it's something that's going on but for some reason, unless you work in that world or look into it, we don't really know about it. I was curious how you first found out about it?
Tony Gilroy: Over the years, from the different spy movies–and a couple movies that weren't produced–and working on all kinds of things (like) "Enemy of the State," I met people for research. "Here's a guy I know in the intelligence community or here's a guy who does that" and I build up a little Rolodex of people to talk to and every single one of them was working privately. All the guys that we worked with on "Proof of Life," all the guys who'd worked in SAS, who'd gone through British Intelligence were pretty much all setting up shop privately. Also, on "Proof of Life" we came in contact with all the companies that did the kidnap and ransom insurance and then there's all the subsidiary companies inside that who run security and then you realize that there's a whole vast community that goes all the way up to the Dynecorps and the Blackhawks and all these different Blackwaters and all these different places. Somebody I knew went to work for an unnamed really large corporation and I said, "Well what are you doing there?" They said, "I'm mostly defense. There's a lot of stuff that goes on, a lot of product protection. It can be anything from a tampering case to something we're really interested in." I began to look into it and seriously, if you just google ("competitive intelligence") you'll be shocked.
There was an article that came out, Condé Nast Portfolio. As we started shooting, like the week we started shooting, there was an article in Portfolio, it's almost as if they read the script.
CS: It's amazing though that if you watch the news, you don't really see this stuff reported, because it's happening and lawsuits must be involved.
Gilroy: No, because they don't want to talk about it.
CS: So they really just deal with this stuff internally as much as possible?
Gilroy: Really the only case I can think of that came up to the surface, that it got legal, was this Unilever-Proctor & Gambel case, because there was some criminal aspect of it. I don't want to get caught up in the legal part of it, but that's the only thing I know of that really rose to the level of… most of it is really not talked about.
CS: It's interesting that you met these people who were consulting on other spy movies and found out they went onto do this. You see people who work for the CIA, FBI and other government agencies and you sometimes wonder what they do when their professional career is over.
Gilroy: Well, it's the same thing with pilots. Let's say you're a quote-unquote "spy"–that means so many different things–but let's say you're an operations person and you've gone out and you've gone to the farm and been posted someplace and you've worked and you've put your time in. Let's say your 15 years in and you've got great language skills, you know all kinds of operation things, up and down intelligence, how to run people, all the things you need to know and you're making, what? What are you making? All your percs, everything? You're making $175 thousand a year, okay? You can turn around tomorrow–and you're not even making $175 thousand a year–and someone's willing to pay you $400 thousand to run intelligence, and all of a sudden, you're not working 18 hours a day and it's not about life and death. It's about water bottles or newsprint or some new version of how to make brownies…
CS: Or frozen pizza.
Gilroy: Yeah, or frozen pizza!
CS: I wondered why you chose to have this particular story set in the world of cosmetics.
Gilroy: I wanted companies that are so huge that they're into everything. I wanted a broad and gigantic, make the companies as large as possible. It was really to have companies that are really… you say "home care products," you can be talking about these companies who are into everything and anything.
CS: Like Proctor and Gamble
Gilroy: Yeah, gigantic.
CS: You already knew people who were doing this, so how open were they to talk about it once you decided you wanted to write a script based in that world?
Gilroy: I didn't really have to go back that deep. A lot of the stuff I did, I'd say a certain percentage, was done either (at the) library or (on the) internet, and another percentage was done from everything I knew about… because part of this is a traditional spy movie between two countries. This could be a Cold War movie. You could absolutely take this story, put it in 1972, and have it be the United States vs. Russia, and they're trying to destroy each other and you can sort of make the parallels all the way through it. A lot of what I knew about espionage and trade crafts and storytelling went into that. It was more lighting the fuse, watching where all these people were going, rather than calling up and saying, "How did you steal the new paper clip design?" It wasn't like that.
CS: Did you always know you wanted to tell this story in a non-linear way and in pieces?
Gilroy: The romance part kind of fit in that light. It kind of came up pretty quick that way.
CS: I was especially curious about the boxes and split-screen motif you were using and why you wanted to use that.
Gilroy: That came up as we were shooting. We were trying a bunch of different things. We were trying to have the movie, in its own way, feel or smell like a game, a little bit heightened in that sense, in different ways that we could do that with how it looked. And then, we really needed to create a really strong grammar for the passage of time. We needed a really strong way to orient the audience to where you are in the story. My brother John, who's the editor, really started experimenting with all these various techniques to make sure some of them are subliminal, some of them are overt, some of them are very obvious about how to let the audience know exactly where they are at this given moment. Most things in movies, you're doing everything for the first time and last time. We learned how to do this while we were doing it. We were learning and testing and said "God, that's a better way of doing that." We learned a lot about how to do that by doing it, and we sort of over time, honed (it) and the split screens really helped us make the movie kind of META. It did a lot of really cool things for us.
CS: Did you plan that very early on? You had a lot of great shots of the locations as part of those split-screen montages.
Gilroy: It was about half-way through shooting. There were some things we shot already that lent themselves to it, and then there was other stuff we shot very consciously for it. Some of the good ones were done pre-consciously and then one or two of the really great ones – there's a shot of Clive getting out of the cab in London, that's one that was really well-designed for that.
CS: There's something about the movie that, despite you writing it years ago, feels very modern and current but then the split screens and the distinctive pace of the dialogue, gives it the feel of an old '40s movie like "The Maltese Falcon." Was that something very conscious while making the movie?
Gilroy: But a good thing though?
CS: Yeah, absolutely in a good way.
Gilroy: Then the answer is "yes."
CS: Clive and Julia were raving about you earlier. Did you feel that you brought a lot of good will to this from "Clayton" where you could go to them and get them to pay attention?
Gilroy: Yeah, George Clooney was my job reference.
CS: But it took you two years to get him to even read "Clayton."
Gilroy: Yeah, you know, but I had a bunch of job references and I hadn't done it before. He could call up and say, if nothing else, "Look, this guy will protect you." I think that's probably what people need to hear more than anything else, if nothing else. "He's not a screamer, and it will be run smooth, and he'll care more about the movie than you will and he'll kill himself to do it, and he'll protect you." I think that's what actors need to know more than anything else is that someone's going to protect them.
CS: It's great. At this point, you have George Clooney in your first movie, Julia Roberts in your second movie. Where do you go from there?
Gilroy: I don't know. It's over for me.
CS: Jack Nicholson?
Gilroy: There you go. I tried that before… but anyway.
CS: I appreciate you doing the junket here in New York because I find that so many filmmakers shoot movies here then go to L.A. and hide and do the junket out there.
Gilroy: But I live here!
CS: I know, but I'm so used to that happening. Was it just as easy this time to get the locations? You did a lot of location shooting the first movie but you had George there who helped.
Gilroy: The city really helped us out, and the tax thing really helped us out.
CS: Did you have the tax incentive the first time?
Gilroy: Yeah, both movies were made in New York. I mean, "Clayton" doesn't exist at all without the tax break. It would never have gotten financed. It's 30%. So when we came back for this, we not only were getting a lot more money back. It's huge! 30% of the below-the-line on this movie is a really big number, plus then we had… here's the benefits. You get the money, you get the fact that everyone's been shooting like crazy in the city so everybody's tuned up. That means everybody, not just the crews, but the police department, the mayor's office, the permits. Everybody's tuned up, and then we had good credibility off "Clayton." We did everything we said we would. We left everything clean, we picked up after ourselves. We didn't abuse anything. So they know who the good citizens are and we got treated (well). If we really needed something and said, "Sorry we got to go back there tomorrow. We didn't get it all, you gotta let us come back." They could have just as easily have said "no" but they said "yes."
CS: Is there a danger of a movie like this being too smart for the room? And I guess in this case, the "room" would be America. This one requires even more intelligence and attention in some ways.
Gilroy: Yeah, but it's also much more fun. God, we did the previews for "Clayton" and in the test screenings, we'd have people walking out in the first 45 minutes, but that never happened to us here. The hopeful thing you're trying to do is make people feel comfortable at the beginning of the movie so they really feel like these people know what they're doing. All of this is going to work itself out by the time I get to the end. If you go see a movie where you really feel the people are not in control of their own movie and you feel shaky about the moviemaking, that's when you get nervous. I don't know the answer to that question. Are we too smart for the room? I don't know. We'll find out.
CS: We talked earlier about directing other projects, so are there any particular genres you're looking to get into? You've been doing so much with spies at this point…
Gilroy: I don't think I'll be doing a spy picture.
CS: So are there any genres you'd want to explore that we might never imagine from the films you've done so far?
Gilroy: I wrote a horror movie last year or two years ago. If you look at the credits, I haven't done a Western. I'm trying to think what else I haven't done. I haven't done a straight-out sci-fi movie.
CS: But is that stuff you'd be interested in doing?
Gilroy: Yeah, sure. If I can find a way in character-wise or find something thematic that interests me, yeah. I have an idea for a science fiction movie.
Here's more with Tony Gilroy from a roundtable done earlier in the day:
CS: Where did this project originate?
Gilroy: The base line for this was meeting with Steven Soderbergh about eight years ago and Steven saying that my introduction to him was that he wanted to do a movie about spies and he said he'd done all these spy movies and all this spy stuff, "I want to do a movie about spies." I said, "Well, I'm getting kinda tired of that." But, corporate espionage is really fresh and no one's done that yet and a lot of people are leaving government service to go private. I thought, "This looked kinda cool." We started having conversations and so it sorta came outta that. Those were the very first conversations with him.
CS: Did you really have access to that much high tech equipment? Do they really develop new technologies just to spy on other corporations?
Gilroy: You're all online journalists, right? Just go Google, "Competitive intelligence," is what they call they like to call themselves. That's what the industry describes itself as, "Competitive intelligence." That's a euphemism. It is massive. It is so huge. Many multiples of billions of dollars all over the place. It's a huge, huge industry and for a logical reason. It's like what he says in the movie: if you can invest $60 million in making something and I can buy a lot of intelligence for $2 million, I mean, a lot of intelligence for $2 million. For $2 million, if I can have your $60 million investment, either steal it outright or know how to defend against it or come up with something that's just like it, this is happening all the time everywhere. There isn't anything in the movie that hasn't happened.
CS: To what extent is it illegal? Obviously, if you steal from an employer and give it to somebody, that's illegal, but if I steal from company X and give it to company Y…
Gilroy: That's called theft. The reason this goes so unreported is winners don't want to talk about it and losers don't want to talk about it. So nobody wants to talk about it.
CS: When you write a script like this and have to shop it around and get people involved, do you give them a preface by saying, "This is about corporate intelligence" or do you want them to uncover it for themselves?
Gilroy: It was only pitched once. We pitched it to Universal. We went in and it was a pretty elaborate pitch at that point. It was a pretty clearly elaborate pitch and it was a business that Universal wanted to be in. I mean, at that point Steven was gonna be in it. So it was a pretty easy pitch.
CS: What about when you're sending the script around to actors?
Gilroy: The actors involved I gave them the script. I'm just giving them the script. But this was written what, seven years ago, so it had a long life and when I wrote it I wasn't a director. About halfway through shooting "Clayton" I was like, "Wow I would really like to do this again and maybe they'll let me do it again and what would I do?" I knew that "Duplicity" was sitting there and it was kinda cold at the moment and I was really hoping that it was not gonna get picked up by anybody or that someone else was gonna do a corporate espionage film. That was my bigger fear.
CS: Would that be ironic? If somebody took your idea and got it out before you did?
Gilroy: Exactly, if they had the right equipment.
CS: Was it important for Clive's character to not to be American?
Gilroy: No, the part was originally written American, but that was a big bump. That was a big upside when Clive came in with a picture. I think it's better. I think it was a big improvement to have him do that and to have him play himself. I changed a lot of characters over the years for things like that and sometimes you're like, "Oh, okay, I'll hold my nose and I'll do it."
CS: So you did tailor the script towards Clive and Julia when they came on board?
Gilroy: A little bit, yeah, a little bit. More for his side than hers, but we tweak all the way up, I mean, that's the luxury I have. I can do anything I need to do on the day, the night before, the week before if I see how things are going. It's the one big advantage. I don't have to ask anybody or get anybody else. It just means I have to stay awake longer.
CS: Do you ever throw out lines while you're shooting?
Gilroy: Sure, oh yeah, definitely. I'm always looking for… if someone has a better way to go. You want everything to fit in everybody's mouth and come out. I mean, sometimes you come up with something and it reads very well and you can say it in your room, but it just doesn't hit for somebody else.
Duplicity opens nationwide on Friday, March 20. You can read our interviews with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen here.


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If you got attacked in bed by a Bengal tiger, you may not survive to tell the tale.
But if it's a Bengal kitten who's pouncing on you while you're sleeping, then that's a different matter entirely.
In this adorable video, which was originally posted in 2008 but has been making a resurgence on the Interwebs this week, watch as a feisty little Bengal kitten hops around a bed, carrying out what Buzzfeed calls the "cutest mauling" you will ever see.
This is not the first time this year that a Bengal kitten has stolen our hearts with its cuteness. In April, a delightful trio of Bengal kittens captivated us with their adorable antics.
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If there were a drug for the highs and lows attached to fundraising, there is no doubt that at this point, an intervention would have been in order and I would have been hauled to a treatment facility. Too many times during this journey, I have asked myself, what on earth possessed me to take this on. The attention that 1k4Cancer has gathered has been staggering, however, the results seem a bit slower than expected. So far, the experience has also become a sort of exercise in cultural anthropology as well as an examination in the psychology of giving. However, any backing down or pessimism on my part would be a disappointment to the donors, and supporters of this project thus far.
This Saturday, my friend Chizoba Imoka invited me to speak to a group of teenagers in a mentoring session at her 2nd annual Unveiling Africa Foundation Conference. I was briefed to speak on the use of social interaction and social media as tools to influence social change. After weeks of pondering on what to write and how to engage teenagers, 1k4Cancer became the fodder for my lecture and I thought to share it on here with you all.
The Role of Social Media: The Snowball Effect
Sometime in August this year, my friend Dr Lola Salako invited me to a cancer workshop for media professionals. The purpose of the workshop was to educate people like me in the media on the severity of breast cancer and how reporting more on the issue could help to raise awareness and consequently save lives. During the workshop, amongst the list of speakers were oncologists, nurses, medical directors and survivors.
One particular woman spoke, her name was veronica. Whist she spoke, her face was reeling with sadness. She explained that after her mastectomy (removal of the breast), she has been prescribed a drug that would cost her there abouts of 5million Naira. She explained that she came from a poor home and couldn't even afford two meals a day, so in the end, she was better off dead. Veronica is in her twenties, like myself.
Through the course of the workshop, I heard of these stories of people with cancer committing suicide because they could not afford their treatment and their families had spent everything they had trying to support them but still it wasn't enough.
So I decided, I had to do something, however little, I still had to do something. I came up with an idea, called 1k4Cancer. I didn't know wealthy people who would willingly donate hundreds of thousands or millions. But I knew average earners like myself who would easily part with a thousand naira and I realised that if one thousand people donated a thousand Naira, that would be a million naira. If ten thousand people donated a thousand Naira, that would be ten million naira and if one million people donated a thousand naira that would be a billion Naira. These funds could then be used to assist people like Veronica with their treatment hopefully keeping them alive to contribute to their community, country and the world.
I initially thought I would have the advantage of promoting my fundraising on the radio since I work on the radio but my superiors made me understand that if they gave everyone with a social cause to promote, free airtime the company wouldn't make any money and we would be out of a business and consequently, I out of a job.
So I called my friend Nwando in Abuja, who called her cousin in Olu to help us design a flyer. Nwando also wrote a press release to accompany the flyer which we posted on social media blogs and websites like BellaNaija, Linda Ikeji, Myne Whitman and many others. My friend Nkechi called her friends who worked at Silverbird Gallaria to give me a space in the atrium to appeal for funds and hand out flyers to passing customers.
Then we started campaigning on twitter, on Facebook and using our BlackBerry phones to send broadcasts which was then re-broadcast to even more people. I gave daily updates of the funds being raised on twitter and my followers would retweet the messages, and the information just kept reaching more and more people even outside of Lagos and Outside of Nigeria.
I also spoke with my friend Glory, who spoke with her pastor at church, who then invited me to raise funds at their church. Whilst raising funds, I was also able to hand out flyers and essentially inform more people. I am two weeks into the 1k4Cancer project and I have raised 390 thousand naira. (Now in week 3 and have raised slightly over 453k) which means that we are on our way to being able to afford Veronica's first course of Herceptin which costs 446 thousand Naira. Though we are no where near what we hope to raise, we know that we have started something.
You would notice that I stopped using the term "I" after the idea was conceived. This is because it became bigger and involved more people. Everyone, who told someone, who re-tweeted, who changed their Facebook display picture, who donated, who posted the flyer and press release, who collected funds from their families and colleagues, who rebroadcast the message and sent out their own broadcasts, make up this massive snowball. I on the other hand was just a flake of snow and social interaction and social media became the engines to mould these flakes into a rolling snowball.
If Veronica and the other women who we are raising funds for get healthy, they can work to educate and look after their children. Their children could become business owners, who in turn provide employment for other people to work and care for their own children. They could be doctors or researchers who could find a faster and inexpensive cure to cancer. They could be journalist, or writers who would give a voice to social issues consequently catapulting a new era of social change. They could be innovators altering the course of history and changing the future of our world.
We also saw the role that social media played in seeking justice for the lady who was gang raped in Abia State University. As everyone started talking about it on the internet, different groups of people were mobilised to march, to write, to complain, to criticise. Imagine if there was still no investigations, the perpetrators of such heinous crimes would walk our streets, gang raping every young girl at will.
Though it may have started with a simple or mundane idea or a blog post, or a tweet, or a status update, or a flyer, or a picture, the snowball rolls beyond our generation and affects beyond the world that we know.
For more enquires on the Campaign and on how to donate Call 08090088922 | Follow MissWanaWana on Twitter | E-mail – [email protected] | Log on to www.sebecclycancercare.org
To you can also donate into the SCC account Guaranty Trust Bank Account, Account Name: Sebeccly Cancer Care And Support Centre | Account Number 0010849209.


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December 09, 2015 03:30 AM
By John M. Hotchner
What would be nicer for a stamp collector than a Christmas greeting in the form of a philatelic souvenir?
Linn's reader Kurt Laubinger of Macedonia, Ohio, found a nice example from J.L. Portwood, a stamp dealer in the 1930s.
The souvenir, probably sent by Portwood to his customers, is an imperforate block of nine 1¢ yellow-green Chicago Century of Progress stamps from the American Philatelic Society issue souvenir sheet (Scott 730) mounted on red paper.
It is not dated, but presumably it is contemporaneous with the 1933 stamps.
I wonder how many were sent and how many have been preserved?
Linn's readers with similar items are encouraged to report them to me, so I can share the information in a future column. Send the information to me, John Hotchner, by email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by regular mail to Box 1125, Falls Church, VA 22041-0125.


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Will The Originals kill off a major character in the midseason finale?
The Originals' executive producer Michael Narducci has us extremely nervous for the midseason finale this Thursday.
More: 20 Questions with The Originals' new hottie, Jason Dohring
Narducci explained leading up to the episode that the "landscape will shift further in the next few episodes, and that goes to the last episode of our regular run leading up to the holiday where everything just kind of explodes, and some tragic things happen because of the shifting alliances. I can't say too much. I'd rather just let it play out."
But when his use of the word "tragic" was pointed out, Narducci further teased, "Yeah, I know. I meant to."
And what could be more tragic than a death in the show? It has to be that. This whole season has been all about taking out the original family. So either they all get staked and packed away so that the other vampires can protect themselves with the help of the medallion, or someone is going down for good.
My theory is that Jackson is going to die.
I've been saying this for a while now, since Narducci also hinted that things between Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) are far from over. But she would never, never let her feelings betray her pack and her daughter. And that means staying with Jackson 'til death do them part.
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Don't get me wrong, I love Jackson. And the Hayley and Jackson relationship has really grown on me. I just don't see how Hayley and Elijah can get to all their unfinished business with him still in the picture. I would definitely call his death tragic. And it will, no doubt, take Hayley a long while to get over his death. But at the end of the day, it would pave the way for her to perfectly stay in the picture with the Mikaelsons and, thus, rekindle her relationship with Elijah.
Of course, when we last saw Jackson and Hayley, things weren't so good between the two. And the shifting alliances Narducci hinted at could very well be Jackson's decision to choose his pack over Hayley, leading to a break in the pack magic. If I remember right, it wasn't specified just how loyal the two would have to be to one another throughout their lives. If he leaves her, asks for a divorce, what then? And while I'm confident Hayley wouldn't choose to forsake her pack for Elijah, I'm not sure if Jackson would choose her and forsake his happiness.
It could also be that I am completely wrong and this tragedy has nothing to do with Hayley and Elijah.
After all, when we last left Camille, her chances didn't look so great either. If we never got to see her and Klaus resolve that unfinished business, it would definitely be tragic. But something tells me that watching her and Aurora interact has way too much fun potential to last only a few episodes.
It could also have to do with Davina. Since she's been kicked out of the coven, her depression might be too much for her to handle. Again, this one seems unlikely. Mostly because I just really want to see Kol return at some point.
More: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham spills on Bamon's future in Season 7
It's also entirely possible that no one will die at all and Narducci's tragedy is more of an emotional one (though I think that's unlikely). Perhaps Aurora and her brother are both killed, meaning the secret of Rebekah's whereabouts will seemingly forever remain a mystery. Or maybe the Strix will plan something particularly nasty for Marcel.
My vote is still for the theory that something worse than a breakup is about to go down for Jackson and Hayley.
The Originals Season 3 midseason finale airs next Thursday on The CW.


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Pay Attention to Negative Space
What is Negative Space?
First of all, let's clarify the definition of negative space. This refers to the area around your subject. For example, in the photograph below, the gecko is the subject and the area around the gecko is the negative space.
As photographers, we are trained to pay the utmost attention to our subject. But we sometimes forget to take into account the negative space when we're shooting.
To further complicate things, sometimes our subject is a moving target… like this gecko. Because the subject is moving, the negative space also changes every so often. This makes it especially difficult to pay attention to the negative space AND correctly frame the subject.
Background Distractions
The first photo below is my initial attempt. This first attempt is plagued with a cluttered background of leaves and stems. With a photograph like this, you may be able to crop and dodge or crop and clone to get rid of the distractions in the negative space (such as in the second photo); but even with these techniques, distracting elements sometimes remain.
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The best thing to do? Take multiple shots… such as the next two shots. First, the gecko started moving and ended up on the tip of the leaf. The texture and the colors of the leaf were so intense that they competed with the colors and textures of the gecko and the subject lost its appeal.
Although the tree in the following photo has a uniform background, the gecko wasn't positioned correctly. When I tried to move the camera to make the tree more of a straight background, the gecko would move… they're very skittish that way.
Finally I ended up finding the right gecko/subject and the right negative space. The following are some tips on how to pay attention and minimize distractions caused by negative space:
Use a narrow depth of field.
In the photo below, the negative space is completely blurred out. This allows the gecko to truly stand out as the subject.
Use a uniform background
In this final photo, the background isn't blurred at all. You can clearly see its details. But, even with the same color and texture, the gecko stands out. The size of the gecko is different than the size of the leaf's texture which allows the gecko to not get lost in its background.
Both of these techniques help to minimize the distractions caused by negative space. What other techniques do you use to control your negative space? Please feel free to leave comments below.


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Hi there,
This year is finishing and we have to think about our lifes and new goals.But before that i want to give you a gift: A new tutorial!
some weeks ago i started to explore G'MIC and i decided to mimic "colored pencils" technique using filters to achieve a more "human made" look. this is the result. Maybe i will put this in html format but for the moment there you have the PDF in English and Spanish.
I hope you liked it. If you want to improve it or share your results with me i will be pleassed to see them. Thanks for your comments and sugestions.
bye and see you next time... well year? ;)
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Nonetheless, it is sneaking back into the kitchen and onto the table. Or so I hope. I scent a comeback. Stew has returned.
A stew by any other name would smell just as savory and, it seems, often sell better. Of the hundred of words for stew and its variants (daube, ragout, burgoo, braise, bog, hotpot, potpie, gumbo, pilau, fricassee, cholent, goulash ... ) I'd guess that only two or three are a good idea on a restaurant menu. And "bog" ain't one of them. One chef writes: "We have a dish on the current menu that we were calling 'Liberty Farms Duck Stew on Fettucine.' Saleswise it went over like a lead balloon. We changed the name to 'Fettuccine with Braised Liberty Farms Duck, Winter Vegetables and a Rich Brown Sauce.' Seems to have improved the sales."
Certainly restaurant menus have seen little of the stew in recent years. Lots of grilling, lots of sauté, lots of roast. Little wet cooking. Stews are not elegant; the ingredients aren't usually rarefied or exotic. "Stew meat" doesn't nestle in the ear quite as cosily as "foie gras." Once the tablecloths are white, you're not getting your money's worth if there's lowly stew on the menu. Stews are muddy heaps on the plate and messy in the eating. Verticality is a real challenge with stews, unless you leave the bones in. And upscale restaurants have been avoiding bones on the plate for decades now, except for osso buco, short ribs and lamb shanks. Three stews with vertical possibilities and which probably account for 95 percent of all upscale restaurant stews and 100 percent of the evidence for the much-heralded comfort food trend.
Enough of restaurants and restaurant criticism. Do you stew? In the privacy of your own home, you are freed from considerations of elegance and accusations of penny-pinching. Small quantities of liquid are allowed to fall back onto the plate, even from your chin. And the turnips and carrots don't have to be babies to qualify for consumption.
But, alas, people stew less these days; I mean, even after correcting for people not cooking much at all. Or so it seems from my statistically insignificant and demographically skewed sample. (1/3 of respondents made a stew this month, 1/3 hadn't and my sister didn't answer the phone.)
Actually, when I have asked people, a goodly number say no and then correct themselves and admit to a bit of pseudonymous stewing. Would I, they ask, count curries, African ground nut stews, or fish stews? Yes, yes, and yes. Why have people been stewing less? A mix of reasons, I think. As with restaurants, there is fashion. And ease. Come home, pull out an expensive slab of protein, throw it on the grill, steam some veggies, boil some pasta--and you're done.
Stews, though not hard, take planning, and some rudimentary kitchen skills--both rarer today than 30 years ago. The disappearance of the butcher is a factor, too. We don't have butcher shops, we have meat counters. Just try to get some of the cuts of meat or tough old birds that traditional stews call for. But why should you make stews? Because. They're almost the whole meal by themselves, they're economical, they make great leftovers. They aren't really hard to make, once you know how. But the real reason is that they taste really, really good. A great stew is like no other kind of food, with that unctuous meld of deep brown flavors, the marriage of the vegetative to the meaty. If you don't eat stews you're missing out on a palette of tastes that belongs to stews alone. These tastes, the product of long hours of gentle subsimmering, are our ancestral food flavors, regionally refined and transmuted.
How do you make a great stew? The cookbooks will tell you, despite the noticeable hiatus of the last 30 years of the 20th century. But now, even trendy chef cookbooks are going braisey on us. Here's what I found looking into three recent, arbitrarily chosen, samples: Kunz & Kaminsky's The Elements of Taste, Vongerichten & Bittman's Simple to Spectacular and Batali's The Babbo Cookbook.
Among the three I found six(!) recipes for braised beef short ribs: Braised Short Ribs with Horseradish Gremolata, Short Ribs braised in Red Wine, Short Ribs braised with mushrooms, pearl onions, and bacon, Short Ribs braised with Chinese flavors, Stewed Short Ribs with marrow butter, and Braised Short Ribs with aromatic barbecue sauce. But, happily, there were other stews, a more varied lot, mostly under one alias or another. The ranged from Ham Hocks and Spareribs in Cherry Beer and Braised Oxtail with wine sauce reduction to (the misnamed) Confit of Veal Breast with Bulby Vegetables.
But you'll have to vault that 30-year lull to get to the epitomes of stew-making pedagogy. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is loaded with stew recipes, and, despite the ready-made excuse of French terminology, Julia, in text and index, is happy to say "stew." And fine instructive recipes they are, too. Richard Olney's account of stews, in Simple French Food, remains the best. In addition to the manifest recipes, he has a long edifying disquisition on the nature of stews and how various particular stews derive from varying this ingredient or that technique. So, you may as well count that as a thousand recipes.
Leaving the old country behind, we find James Villas' chunky ode to American regional cooking, Stews, Bogs and Burgoos, which has dozens of recipes. It is a reminder that no matter what we call them, stews speak their many names, loud and proud.
Shanks with Garlic
This recipe, adapted from Richard Olney's Simple French Food, is a somewhat atypical stew: only a tiny amount of liquid is used. It is very simple and very wonderful.
2-3 lbs. lamb shanks, outside fat removed
3 tbs. olive oil
20 cloves of unpeeled garlic
1/2 tsp. mix dried herbs
(e.g. herbes de Provence) or your own fresh version
1/2 cup dry white wine
You need a heavy pan with a tight-fitting lid, just large enough to hold the shanks. Salt the shanks and brown them lightly in the oil on all sides. Toss in the garlic. Cover, cook on the lowest possible flame (you may need a "flame-tamer") for about 2 hours. The shanks will be gently stewing in their own juices. Turn the shanks occasionally. About an hour into the cooking the liquid will have disappeared and they'll begin to sizzle in fat; at this point start adding a spoonful of water from time to time, so that there's always a liquid film in the bottom of the pan. Also after an hour add the herbs.
As the shanks get almost tender enough, stop moistening. When the meat begins again to sizzle in pure fat, remove it to a warm plate, pour off the fat, deglaze the pan with the white wine, scraping and stirring with a wooden spoon. Press the juice and garlic through a sieve to puree the garlic and get rid of the hulls. Return sauce to the pan, simmer a minute.
Return shanks to the pan, turn in the sauce. Pepper. Serve.
Cookbooks consulted for this article:
Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1 (Knopf, 1971)
James Villas, Stews, Bogs and Burgoos (Morrow, 1997)
Richard Olney, Simple French Food (Atheneum, 1974, 1983)
Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook (Random House, 1982)
Gary Kunz & Peter Kaminsky, The Elements of Taste (Little Brown, 2001)
Jean-Georges Vongerichten & Mark Bittman, Simple to Spectacular (Broadway, 2000)
Mario Batali, The Babbo Cookbook (Potter, 2002)


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There are a lot of disadvantages to reaching that point in life known as senior citizenhood. There seems no pressing need to outline those disadvantages.
But there are, however, some advantages, such as 10 percent discounts at a whole bunch of places, not to mention the Golden Arches club membership (free drinks at McDonald`s). That sort of thing.
Recently I checked out another advantage. It was the North East Focal Point Center in Deerfield Beach, where you have to be at least 60 years old to participate. I qualified.
For the past 20 years or so I had edited stories coming across the desk about these Focal Point centers. I had gotten the vague impression that the centers were depressing places for desperately poor people who went there because they didn`t have anyplace else to go before shaking hands with the Grim Reaper.
That impression turned out to be about as wrong as it could be.
I spent several hours at the Deerfield center talking to the nice folks who run the place and visiting with a number of the seniors who take advantage of what the center has to offer. I also ate one of their lunches.
The fundamental purpose of these centers, I learned, is to combat loneliness, a malady that afflicts so many of us as we age, particularly in this area.
So often a couple will move to this area with dreams of spending their Golden Years in the promised land of sun and surf. And then one of them will die and the survivor will be alone, with family and friends far removed back north.
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Everyone sees a few tiny floaters. These become more obvious when staring at a uniform white surface. If one looks up at the ski you might see these spots moving around. You are seeing the blood flow through the tiny blood vessels. These are of no concern.
However, a sudden onset of floaters particularly associated with flashes of light warrants an immediate eye exam. Most of the time our examination reveals that these spots, cob-webs, and lines are vitreous particles that have separated from the retina and are forming a shadow on the retina. Unfortunately, in small percentage of people who experience flashes and floaters, there is a vitreous detachment with an associated tear in the retina. If the vitreous collapses but does not separate completely from the retina, the vitreous via traction can tear the retina. If the vitreous separates from the retina, it will snap back and probably seal itself. However, if it doesn't separate from the retina it can continue to pull the retina from the back of the eye. This is known as a retinal detachment and is very serious.
Unfortunately, we can not differentiate the more benign vitreous detachment or degeneration without retinal involvement from the vitreous detachment with retinal detachment without performing a comprehensive dilated examination of the retina. Thus, if you have these symptoms you must be examined immediately and the retina needs to be re-attached immediately. The longer the retina is separated from the eye the less the chance of restoring vision upon re-attachment.
Flashes are produced by the traction of the vitreous on the retina, need to be differentiated from the flashes that occur with migraines. Migraine flashes are present in both eyes and tend to move through the visual fields. Flashes from vitreous traction are found only in one eye and do not move very much. Flashes are not nearly as much of a concern as the floaters.
If there is no retinal hole, tear or detachment associated with the vitreous detachment one should be careful for the next six weeks. No heavy lifting or picking should be allowed. Any increase in spots should result in a repeat retinal evaluation. In any case a repeat examination should be performed in twelve weeks.
Myopic patients particularly in the mid-range (4-8D) are the most prone to retinal detachments. Dilated examination of the peripheral retina is important on a routine basis to determine if there are any weak areas of the retina. Remember, LASIK re-sculptures the cornea it does not effect the back of the eye. Thus, patients who are no longer nearsighted due to LASIK are just as prone to retinal problems as their fellow non-LASIK friends.


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Walking around at night in Bangkok
Walking around at night in Bangkok
Wondering if someone could give me some advice as to how safe Bangkok is at night for woman to walk around by themselves. I was planning on staying near or around Koh San Road but have discovered a great place which is located in Sukhumvit which looks like a 10min walk to Koh San Road from the map I was looking at. The other option I was thinking would be tuk tuk's?
Look forward to any feedback.
#1 Loretta has been a member since 24/5/2009. Posts: 5
Sukhumvit is way NOT close enough to walk from KoSan Road. Way across the town.
KSR is in the "old city" near the river on the west side. http://www.guidetothailand.com/maps-thailand/bangkok-rattanakosin.htm
Sukhumvit is out on the east end of the skytrain. See the BTS skytrain map and notice how it does go to the river. So you take the BTS to the river and then a boat up to the old city. see the skytrain map: http://www.guidetothailand.com/maps-thailand/map-bangkok-subway-skytrain.htm
The river, old city, Banglamphu etc is where most of the sightseeing is. There is nothing of interest out on Sukhumvit and you will have a long comute back and forth. Suk is more convenient to the airport to get away and for the Eastern bus station at Ekamai (BTS). Out on the airport side is a suburb or small town of Samut Prakan which has some interesting sights: the 3 Headed Elephant Temple, The ancient city. You can search the lonely planet thorn tree forum for more on this.
Tuk tuks are a bad mode of transport. Take one for fun with a few friends but don't go anywhere the driver suggests. They are mostly out to get a kick back when you to spend money at a local business that they will talk you into visiting. Also they are hot, dirty and dangerous. There are river and canal boats and cheap meter taxis. Also busses if you want to take the time to deal with that.
You can walk around freely in the touristed areas and most others but the same common sense applies everywhere, eg know where you are, not in the middle of the night, sober etc...
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thanks for that advice. Think I may need to study my map a little more!
#3 Loretta has been a member since 24/5/2009. Posts: 5
Walking about alone at night is very safe...except if you get very drunk and Khao San Road is probably the least safe place in the whole of BKK to be drunk.
Tuk tuks are a far worse option than taxis .. they are more likely to take you where you don't want to go (eg gem shop after gem shop) especially if they give you a "very cheap price".
If you insist on being taken directly to where you want to go, tuk tuks always charge more than a comfortable metered A/C taxi. Tuk tuks are noisy and often beltch black smoke. You are forced to breath in traffic fumes. Your clothes and skin will get covered in grime and your hairdo will probably be totally wrecked.
If you need the thrill of traveling "authentically like the Thais do" then motorbike taxis are the way to go. They are also the quickest form of transport for distances that take 10 minutes to walk.
Instructions for ladies: How to use a motorbike taxi.
Approach a Thai bloke wearing an orange jacket with the word "taxi" on it. They can usually be found hanging out on street corners near some parked motorbikes. Explain where you want to go (if you can, most don't speak much English)
When you've explained where you want to go, the motorbike driver will hand you a battered helmet and invite you to get on the motorbike behind him.
To be polite, lady passengers should balance side-saddle on one buttock and try not to touch the driver. (Try and do this in an elegant manner like Thai ladies do please) Hang onto the helmet with one hand as there's usually no strap to stop it flying off once you get going. Use the other hand to call someone on your cellphone in order to display the right degree of nonchalant sophistication and blend in properly.
The motorbike taxi will zip in and out of traffic at breakneck speed to get you to your destination as fast as possible, so remember to keep your legs well tucked in if you value your kneecaps at all.
On arrival get off the bike (elegantly), hand back the helmet, briefly rearrange hairdo, and pay the driver. Price is 10B up, depending on whether you have managed to convince him that you do this sort of thing all the time.
#4 SBE has been a member since 14/4/2008. Location: Global Village. Posts: 2,054
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At night, very late at night, and late at night and drunk on your own are all seperate things. As a general rule I would "at night" your o.k, very late I would be dubious about (all big cities are like this tho) and late at night drunk is somewhat asking for trouble.
Certain parts of bangkok are terrible for muggings, I've had friends have stuff snatched (usually when drunk in fairness) but on the whole I've personally never felt in danger but I'm a man and so perhaps am less likely to attract the attention a single woman would.
As for some other advice, unless your in a group don't bother with tuktuk's they're no fun unless there's three or four of you, in which case you can scream "party lights!" everytime he puts the breaks on and the random coloured lights come on in the back of the cab. As a general rule if a taxi or tuktuk quotes you a fixed price for a journey it's never going to be in your favour, on your own take a metered taxi. Plus be aware that parked taxi's most of the time will try the fixed price route, taxi's cruising for customers usually will on a meter. Usualy routine is to tell the driver your destination and then say "meter?" if he nods away you go, if he tries a fixed price move to the next taxi, remember no matter how well you bargain your never getting a better price than you would with a meter!
#5 dageshi has been a member since 1/3/2008. Posts: 56
Thailand is definitely one of the safest places to travel for single female's BUT....
Be very careful all the same. Don't wear sexy clothing or go down dark alleys away from public view alone, that is just asking for trouble.
Also don't go meeting strangers without telling someone where you are going and having a way to contact others should you need help.
There are many stories of abducted women and drugged women and missing women in Thailand, it is certainly something that happens but it does not happen on the scale that it does in the West.
Be sensible and carry a handbag with some mace spray if you are getting a taxi late at night.
#6 Maryanne has been a member since 19/6/2013. Posts: 17
Some great posts. SBE you had me in stitches.
I've just see a woman driving a honda with an 8 or 9 month old baby on the back. She had one hand extended around the back of the baby to keep it firm against her back.If that wasn't bad enough she had her phone held in the fold of her neck.
If this is the way they regard the lives of those close to them it would seem to be wiser to stick to the safest means of transport. In Bangkok that means taxis.
Got to agree too that getting drunk in KSR is a bad idea.The two together push up your chances of an unwelcome outcome exponentially.
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Sukhumvit has better food. Up around Ekamai Road there's some good restaurants and bars. KSR is rather ordinary. Sukhumvit also has the skytrain which links you with the shopping centres at Siam like MBK, Siam Paragon etc.
As for walking alone you will see single Thai women at bus stops alone but don't wear any expensive jewellry, stick to busy roads and try to call it a night before midnight.
"Price is 10B up, depending on whether you have managed to convince him that you do this sort of thing all the time. "
You can't do that if you don't speak Thai.
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And I thought SBE didn't have a sense of humor!!! That was hillarious.
I remmember one time I had to get to the US embassy quickly to get some paperwork for my about to expire visa and took a motorcycle taxi. The guy was psycho. We were driving at breakneck speed between rows of cars stuck at lights in traffic. One open door and we were toast. We were barely missing mirrors. I thought to myself, this will make a great headstone obit. "Here lies MAD MAC. Survivor of countless deployments with the US Army. Killed by a motorcycle taxi driver while getting paperwork for his visa."
I used them sometimes, but then I'm not a safety first kind of guy. They aren't safe, but they are quick.
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We were driving at breakneck speed between rows of cars stuck at lights in traffic.
I'm somewhat addicted to this form of transport (hopefully not to my future detriment). I find there's something incredibly satisfying about maneuvering through a traffic jam until you get all the way to the front. I wouldn't want to do it myself - I'll motorbike almost anywhere else in Thailand - but not Bangkok. But there's something so great yet seemingly sneaky about it. You could never cut through the middle of traffic like that in the States, so I suppose that's part of it, but also I think it must satisfy that little kid inside me who got yelled at for cutting in the lunch line at elementary school. Anyway, if it's traffic hours in Bangkok I'll usually walk when there are no motorbike taxis around - it's faster.
And yes SBE's "motorbike lessons for ladies in Thailand" is spot on. Funniest thing I've read in a while. :)
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"I wouldn't want to do it myself - I'll motorbike almost anywhere else in Thailand - but not Bangkok."
I've done it on my CBR. Drove all the way from Mukdahan to Sukhimvite. It's a long ride. Got into Bangkok right at the height of traffic. BUT, being able to move to the front of the traffic line is always a plus! It's easier than it looks. Thai car drivers expect motorbikes to do this, and drive accordingly.
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Thanks SBE. LOL!
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OK, true story. I was walking from La Rueda on Soi 18 to my room on Soi 22. I had been dancing. I was drunk. It was a little after one in the A.M. Head down, moving forward - baaaam - I'm on my ass. I was staring into the face of en elephant that I just walked into. At least it had the good sense not to just walk over me. That was probably the worst that has happened to me being out and drinking in Thailand. Well, I did lose it on my motorcycle once...
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MADMAC meets mahout?
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The "Mahout" was laughing at me. It was pretty bizarre.
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That's gotta be a good luck sign!
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Yes it's as safe as anywhere else. If staying at a hotel. Ask for card with phone number. Phone up guest house or hotel and get them to speak to taxi driver for directions. So you don't get ripped off
Safe travels
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I have found BK to be very safe. I would walk Bangkok street at night before Melbourne or Sydney streets. Obviously you wouldn't be silly and attract unwelcome attention by your dress style and behaviour, if you do not go"looking for trouble" it will probably not find you.
As for KSR to Sukhumvit it may only be 1 inch on the map but it is a dang long way LOL. Make it a day trip. If you travel in heavy traffic time (most hours) it can take a LONG time to move even 1klm in a vehicle.
The Skytrain is a great way to move around fast, Forget Tuk Tuks other than for the one time experience, taxis are good and cheap. Motor bike taxis are ok if you have a good sense of "I am not scared of anything" :-)
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You should not worry about safety in Bangkok city. Its very beautiful even in nights. But the option of your traveling on tuk tuk is not good option. You can hire a taxi instead of tuk tuk. In the west of the Bangkok may be you find many cases of kidnapping of the drug women. But east area is totally safe. And also from map the distance from Kho San road looks less But it is not the walking distance. Especially if you are with women or a girl then you must travel through buses or taxis.
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You should not worry about safety in Bangkok city. Its very beautiful even in nights. But the option of your traveling on tuk tuk is not good option. You can hire a taxi instead of tuk tuk. In the west of the Bangkok may be you find many cases of kidnapping of the drug women. But east area is totally safe. And also from map the distance from Kho San road looks less But it is not the walking distance. Especially if you are with women or a girl then you must travel through buses or taxis.
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Happy Christmas – from an atheist!
I love Christmas – but not its mass of crassness.
Christmas and religion have long since doffed their hats at each other and gone their separate ways. The idea that the festive season is something of a religious festival is as fanciful as the concept of a jolly fat man riding around the night sky on a magical sleigh delivering presents to the world's children.
Some atheists refuse to celebrate Christmas, believing that they are submitting to Christian practices and beliefs, but the celebration has precious little to do with either. It's primarily a secular festival with a sprinkling of Christian adaptations of pagan customs.
I have no conflicting emotions about whether or not to celebrate Christmas. Everything that I truly love, value and cherish about this time of year – enjoying great times with friends and family and the giving and receiving of gifts – is built on the solid secular humanist principles of peace, love and harmony. Life is too short, occasionally difficult and sometimes depressing, so we should make the most of any excuse for some happiness, merriment and charitable feelings towards others.
That being said, it's jingle hell all the way as Christmas has long been taken over by nauseating over-indulgence and greedy consumerism, with people buying gifts they can't afford, for friends they don't like, and who don't need them anyway.
These sentiments are also shared by Christians who take issue with the holiday season's over-commercialisation. Their answer is to put the "Christ" back into Christmas, but you don't need a mythical religious entity to stop the juggernaut of excess. All it requires is some healthy dissent against the following stomach-churning features that threaten to send us into bottomless pits of anger and despair.
Christmas Commercialisation
The obscene amounts of money spent on presents, and crass commercialisation is truly sickening. Christmas is just one extended shopping fest as shelf after shelf is lined with identical and overpriced bath sets, chocolate confections and gadgets that no one ever uses. Most of the time shoppers buy just for the sake of buying. The hideous vulgarity of it all is too soft a target, but perhaps with the recession people will start to think twice about digging deep into their pockets and spending whatever credit they have left on their cards.
Enforced Jollity
Yes, I know Christmas is a time for us all to feel warm and fuzzy inside, but forgive me if I'm not dancing in the streets every day. Some days I'm happy, other days less so. The pressure to be eternally ecstatic at this time of year drives me to utter distraction. And any smile is definitely wiped off my face when I see the enforced jolliness of tinsel wearing shop assistants with their fake smiles and seasonal "Santa's little helper" name badges. Grrrr.
Office Christmas Parties
Fortunately, now that I am a freelance writer I no longer have to endure the dreaded round of office Christmas parties. I used to loathe the fake camaraderie of colleagues who have no scruples about treading all over you to climb the corporate ladder, yet fuelled by free booze want to be your best friend at the office party. Why does anyone want to spend time socialising with people they have nothing in common with other than work? The excessive alcohol consumption by Santa-hat-wearing adults waving sprigs of mistletoe in the air is a ghost of Christmas past that I'm still unable to exorcise from my memory banks.
Early Start
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it when Christmas is celebrated somewhere around the 25th December and not the orgy of gluttony and greed that kicks off in early November.
Christmas Spirit
Really? Where? You go shopping in any town or city during December and you're pushed, pulled, scratched, kicked, bitten and trampled underfoot as the zombie-like masses battle to empty the shelves and get to the tills. Peace and goodwill to all men, but you just know there are parents out there who'll kill to get the latest toy their little Johnnie or Jemima wants.
Christmas Television
A few notable exceptions aside, television is pretty lousy all year round, but it plumbs new depths of awfulness at Christmas. The schedules are stuffed with anodyne and brain cell-zapping quiz shows and TV "specials" full of half forgotten actors trying to re-heat their careers with performances no one wants to remember. And that's in addition to all the repeats that were even considered stale and hackneyed ten years ago. Every year the nation gathers round the television set only to be let down by unimaginative fare. It's groundhog TV year after year.
And then there are the adverts. If they're not from self-satisfied stores promoting their shops as magical Christmas wonderlands, it's grade D celebrities flogging their own perfumes (honestly, why would anyone want to smell like Peter Andre or Britney Spears?), or some flavour-of-the-month toy that the kids think will make their life complete, but will be old hat come Boxing Day.
The Christmas Rush
Why, it's a mystery that would even outfox Sherlock Holmes. Christmas hardly sneaks up on us, so there is ample time to prepare and purchase whatever we need to ensure that our festivities go off without a hitch. So why the Franklin D Roosevelt is there a blood pressure-raising frenzy on the high streets? And why are the shops still full of punters on Christmas Eve? Avoid the herds, pour yourself a glass of wine and shop online instead.
Festive Music
Look, Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody is still a rollicking good party tune, and the beautiful melody of Silent Night can occasionally move me to tears, but other than that most Christmas songs and carols are utterly banal. For the last few years we've also had to suffer the merciless slaying of a ballad by whichever wannabe warbler wins the X Factor before drifting back to the obscurity from which they came. And there is no punishment strong enough for the supermarket manager who first thought it was a good idea to transmit panpipe versions of Christmas "classics" over the loudspeakers while you shop.
Christmas Lights
The global economy is still at the bottom of the abyss and the planet is heating up. But hey, who cares about any of that, it's Christmas. So let's send the electricity bill soaring and slap down a giant carbon footprint by lighting up our houses like an explosion at a fireworks factory.
Christmas Waste
The excessively garish packaging and wrapping is snowballing out of control. You need a chainsaw to get at what's inside and even small items are covered in the kinds of wrappings and bindings that are used to send rare archaeological artefacts around the world.
Christmas Cards
I used to work in an open-plan office of 50 or so people and we saw each other nearly every single day. So really, what was the point of exchanging Christmas cards? An appalling waste of time and paper. And nothing says "I don't really like you" than a card that comes out of a box of 50 identical cards showing the same twee nativity scene.
Deep breath Paul, deep breath.
Christmas is a time to Celebrate
So let's dial down the frippery and excess and focus more on what's really important about Christmas – peace, love and goodwill to all. Christians don't have the monopoly on these sentiments – in fact there's plenty of evidence to suggest that they are not particularly good at any of them.
Those of a religious persuasion don't own this holiday, they never have done. The Christmas that we celebrate today is a hodgepodge of traditions, religious and pagan. I am not particularly bothered that its central myth is about the birth of a nice Jewish boy in a stable some 2,000 years ago. Whether it happened or not is of no importance to me and is not a reason not to celebrate along with everybody else, and to look forward to the future with hope and joy.
Of course we could do this at any point in the year, but it just so happens that traditionally the time for it falls on the 25th of December. Yes, the early church may well have subsumed a pagan festival but I think it's churlish to strike a preference for celebrating the solstice, the New Year, or simply the holiday period. Or worse, ignore it all together.
To get into the spirit of the season you don't have to be a Bible-bashing god-botherer. As an atheist there isn't a glaring contradiction in my decking the halls with boughs of holly. And what's not to love about many of the peripheral joys around Christmas, such as the smell of the tree and the pulling of crackers. If Christmas was to rest solely on its religious underpinnings it would just be another boring, blink-and-you-miss-it feast day.
I also have no problem with the name of the festival; it sends a cold shiver down my spine when I hear the words "warm winter greetings" or other such euphemisms when atheists refuse to say "Christmas" because it contains the name of a religious figure. Obviously people are free to say what they want, but really there are a zillion more things to get het up about than what a particular festival is called.
I will happily wish everyone a "Very Merry Christmas" and then go home to watch my chestnuts roasting on an open fire as I reach over to pore myself another generous measure of eggnog.
• Paul Arnold is a former BBC TV and radio producer now turned freelance writer. From his home in Spain he writes about numerous topics including business, social media, and open innovation.
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Brilliant. You pressed all the right buttons with me, Paul. I don't think you missed a trick.
And a very Merry Christmas to you.
Excellent! You have covered most all of my Christmas bitches. My one exception would be the lights. I love the dazzling lights! But I have switched to all LED lights (10% energy used compared to incandescent) to reduce my carbon footprint in deference to the environment.
Merry Christmas Paul!
Paul, but I love yelling Happy Winter Solstice after some god virus fool has said merry what ever that saying is and watch them go, HU!!! then I ask them what good they did for some one or the world this last year and they usually go Smart Ass, gives me a warm feeling. oh!! a warm feeling this time of the year. pour me glass of TEXAS wine. good night and what is that saying oh Happy Winter Solstice.
I agree I enjoy Christmas day and I have spent the week in Cornwall with my daughter having an early Christmas as I live 300 miles away in Kettering and as I work for a morrissons it is difficult to get any holidays near the great booze up. If you work in a supermarket then by mid December you are on the way to committing mass murder on some of the customers ask ever more and more stupid questions or arrive on christmass eve half an hour before closing and cant understand why we have no more turkeys or sprouts left it takes self control to deal with that situation.Oh as to the music if any one is in morrisons in Kettering and sees some one ripping the speakers out of the cealing it will be me on an overload of frosty the snow man we have had to endure that since November. A happy Christmas/ solstice/ saturnalia or whatever you are celebrating have fun
Yes, lots of concise and refreshing observations there, truly a wake up to the senses on a chill, pre-Xmas Eve morning! Happy greetings at this, for some, holiday season!
Agree with all your bugbears, but unlike you, I find there's nothing left worth celebrating. This period just brings out the misanthrope in me, and I find little reason for goodwill.
Over my lifetime, the only plus is that its religious significance has declined. But for the few family remaining, I'd buy provisions the weekend before, then lock myself away without TV or Radio, spending the time reading, listening to music and cooking perhaps going out for the odd walk.
I had an awesome Christmas with my family 😀
Christmas has always been more about family getting together rather than anything religious because my granny's side of the family are catholic and my granda's side are protestant so as far as religion is concerned we were left to make up our own minds and never burdened with it and Christmas was about family gathering and reflecting on the past year and of course presents and food 😀
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