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I have a huge resistance towards any garden that claims to be based on the Fibonacci sequence. Or the Golden mean. Perhaps because I don't understand them. Keats's dictum that "if poetry come not as naturally as leaves to the trees, it had better not come at all" is probably the mission statement for those of us in the non-arithmetical camp. At its worst, this touchy feely approach can start the slide to nostalgia. At best, it guarantees the kick in the solar plexus that all great art delivers.
Last week, I went to the opening of Kim Wilkie's new landform work, Orpheus, for the Duke of Buccleuch at Boughton House, near Kettering. With the press handout came a sheet on the Fibonacci sequence. It was raining hard. The story of Orpheus is sad. He was the musician who went down to the underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back from the dead, but lost her when he looked back. It was an unpropitious start. However, Boughton is an amazing place in any weather, with one of the few remaining formal landscapes in England.
Wilkie is well known for understanding history, which he prefers to call "memory" and has a reputation for using the heritage of a place to make something of our own time. The most successful example of his genius for intervention in a historic landscape is at Heveningham, where he added nine curving grass terraces to replace a Victorian parterre. I suspect he is about to become even better known for his work at Boughton.
At the start of the commission, the present Duke took Wilkie to the top of the restored mount (imagine a pyramid with a flat top) to look back along the half-mile vista below. What should be done, he asked. "It would be interesting to go down rather than up," was the answer.
Two years later the dimensions of the pyramid mount were duplicated in an inverted chasm where the top became the bottom – a mirror of water to reflect the sky. But as the walker approaches, only the mount is visible.
Mildly downcast by talk of Fibonacci and non-stop rain, I walked towards the restored mount. The first thing you see is a spiralling stone rill with an upright steel cube at its centre. So far, so Fibonacci, I thought glumly.
But then, but then… You stop in your tracks and this extraordinary deep pit 50 metres square at the top opens out, with sloping terraces that lead down to a square, black pool at its base. There are times when you know you are in the presence of a great work and this was one of them. Is it partly the scale, partly the inversion of Olympus and Hades, the balance of heaven and hell, the contemplation of life and death? I cannot define what it is that trips the sensory triggers and made me stop chatting to friends, minding the rain, sneering at Fibonacci. It was bigger than everything, not just physically, but spiritually.
Talking to Wilkie about it later, I suggested that some people do find all the mathematical complexities associated with mystical proportions off-putting. That you cannot approach or create any work of art via a formula.
"Before anything else, it has to work on an emotional and sensual level. You should be able to walk into it without knowing anything about Eurydice or the Golden mean and be moved by it," was his answer. I asked him too about the Orpheus legend. He had a moving explanation for that. That the dead are with us always, if we only believe they are. That Orpheus questioned the presence of Eurydice by looking back and that the looking back myth is present in many legends and many lands. So when we gaze at the mirror-image of life in the Orpheus pool, we are also looking at death and the deaths of those we love. Explanations are as bad as mathematical theories and can never do justice to what is there. I hope by describing it from the perspective of a prejudiced onlooker, who was totally won over, that others will go to see it.
- Boughton House opens August 1-Sept 1 daily, 2-5pm, last entry 4pm. Landscape Tours (park and garden only), Weds 12-1pm, £5.


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Hi there,
I use a small program that creates a system tray icon that you can click on and switch the default audio device. This program uses; switcher.exe, and EndPointController.dll to run. I have put these two files in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. When my computer starts and I log in I get a .dll error as follows: Title:Caution, "You are attempting to open a file of type 'Application extension' (.dll)" as if I want to open it.
I simply want to disable this message. I had this working previously and didn't document the resolution. Due to a system reformat it has reappeared.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I believe my previous solution was disabling Windows from displaying the message, but through Google'in I haven't easily been able to resolve.
I have attached the two program files as well as a screen shot of the generic .dll error for your pleasure.
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Instead of putting the exe and dll in the startup folder, try to put shortcuts to those files in the startup folder instead.
Create a folder somewhere with the two files in it (C:\, Program Files, etc)> Start> All Programs> Right click the Startup folder> Open
Open the folder you created with the two files> Right click each file then click Create Shortcut> Drag the two shortcuts into the Startup folder
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"Borne on the wings of two Coca leaves, I flew about in the spaces of 77,438 worlds, one more splendid than another. I prefer a life of ten years with Coca to one of 100,000 without it. It seemed to me that I was separated from the whole world, and I beheld the strangest images, most beautiful in color and in form that can be imagined."
— Paolo Mantegazza, 1859
Preferring a life of ten years with his drug to one of a 100,000 without it: That seems a bit much. Even the most devoted pothead never uses such language about cannabis. But cocaine is a drug that can replace the world. Many a poor sucker has found it impossible to understand the person he was the night before, that wired jumping-jack who couldn't find any reason, though he racked his brain, for not spending every penny he had on more nose candy. The other things of life paled beside it.
A laboratory test conducted this year suggested that cocaine is the most pleasurable of all drugs. Rats were given samples of every kind of drug and taught that they could get more by pressing a lever. For caffeine, a rat would press the lever as many as 250 times. For heroin, he'd press it 4,000 times. For cocaine, 10,000. With an attraction like that, cocaine doesn't need to be addictive in the sense that heroin is. You can get strung out on it on some ragged semblance of your own freewill.
For whatever reason, there were more cokers in the US at the beginning of this century than in any country outside South America. Cocaine could be obtained by prescription at any free-enterprise pharmacy, and over the counter in any of numerous patent medicines and even soft drinks. The original worldwide explosion of cocaine use in the 1880s stemmed from the enthusiasm of American doctors. So perhaps it's no surprise that as all drugs come to bask in a glow of underground legitimacy, because of the absurd laws about harmless drugs, that the Star Spangled Powder is making its current comeback, and we're starting to see more and more collapsed noses and teeth-gritting coke paranoids.
The Rest of the World is Crazy
In its homeland in the Andes Mountains, the coca shrub had been cultivated from time immemorial. There are numerous Inca drawings of human faces with their cheeks stuffed full of coca leaves. Coca was an integral part of the state religion, a gift of Manco Capac, Royal Son of the Sun God, to humanity. On ascending the throne the Inca king received tribute in the form of coca and women, the two great forms of wealth.
Far from dying out after the Spanish conquest, coca cultivation increased. Partly the Indians turned to coca chewing to escape from the spiritual chaos of the empire's collapse, and partly to still their hunger pangs in the resultant food shortage. But the decisive reason was the institution of forced labor under the Spanish. When an Indian chewed coca, then as today, he could work long hours on short rations without complaining. His lifespan might be short, but he would have put out.
There are still tribes in the jungles of Colombia who chew coca for the physical effects, like the Peruvians in their forbidding mountain environment. Primitive hunting tribes take coca on their hunting expeditions, which may take them into the jungle for days at a time, to sharpen their senses and endure hunger and exhaustion. But at least one tribe, the Kogi, chew coca purely in a kind of crackpot religious way. They are said to be descended from the artisan class of the empire the Spanish conquered, and a kind of coca madness has allowed them to preserve their culture intact through four and a half centuries of Spanish contact.
There are coca priests, called Mamas, and women are rigidly excluded from the coca cult. Every grown man carries a poporo, a gourd in which he mixes coca leaves with lime leached out of ashes in order to speed the absorption of the cocaine in the stomach. He is taught to focus all his frustrations in the gourd. The principles of Kogi religion have been summarized by an anthropologist: "To eat nothing but coca; to abstain totally from sexuality; never to sleep; to speak all his life of the ancestors; to sing to them; to dance and recite; to live a good life and return to the realm of the Great Mother." The Kogi men are reported to have a kind of obsessive mentality and to regard everyone else in the world as crazy.
Freud's Nose
Coca leaves were first brought to Spain in 1580 by Nicolas Monardes, but Europeans ignored the plant. It wasn't until 1859 that cocaine was first isolated, by a Viennese chemist named Niemann. He recognized the numbing effect cocaine had on the tongue, but strangely it wasn't thought of as an anaesthetic. There was debate about whether coca leaves had any medical effect at all, in fact, perhaps because the leaves shipped to Europe were of variable quality. Still some medical use was made. By 1865 a preparation of wine and coca leaves called Vin Mariani was on the market.
In the US, meanwhile, where the coca was perhaps fresher and stronger, there was a growing medical enthusiasm for the drug in the 1870s. Articles praising coca in cases of "melancholia" and other vague complaints of the time were appearing in respectable publications like the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. It was one of these articles, written for the Therapeutic Gazette of Detroit in 1880 by a doctor from Rockford, Illinois, that triggered the great Cocaine Explosion.
It happened that the article was read by a young Viennese physician named Sigmund Freud. He was a long way from developing the principles of psychoanalysis that would make him famous — he wasn't even into his hypnotism therapy phase yet. But he wanted to make his mark, and he also wanted to help an esteemed elder colleague of his who had become a morphine addict.
Freud was willing to give the Rockford doctor's morphine cure a try. He had Merck & Co. make up the first European batch of medicinal cocaine and made what looked at first like a successful treatment. In a burst of enthusiasm he published an article titled "Ueber Coca," in June, 1884, which he described to his fiancee as "a song of praise to this magical substance." He was pretty carried away: The effect of cocaine, as he described it, was "exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which does not differ in any way from the normal euphoria of a healthy person." And how did he know? "I have tested it some dozen times myself." He recommended it for melancholy, nervous breakdown, digestive disorders, asthma, mercury poisoning, typhoid fever and syphilis, among other complaints.
The article brought him an early prominence. Angelo Mariani, proprietor of the Vin Mariani coca wine company, mentions him in one of his self-laudatory publications: "In cases of morphinomania, Dr. Dujardin-Beaumetz has pointed out the advantage to be obtained with the Vin Mariani, and following him, Dr. Palmer, of Louisville, and Dr. Sigmaux Treaux [sic] of Vienna, have obtained excellent results with this therapeutic agent." The America chemical firm of Parke-Davis paid Freud $24 to compare their cocaine with Merck's; yes, he said, theirs was just as good, though it tasted a little different.
By 1887 Freud was beginning to retract his claims for coca. His morphine addict colleague had plainly developed a new addiction, this time to coca. Meanwhile, Freud's research partner, Carl Koller, had stolen his thunder. After publishing "Ueber Coca" Freud had a chance to visit his fiancee, whom he had not seen for three years. While he was gone, Koller made the decisive experiment which proved that cocaine was what doctors had been praying for for ages: an effective local anaesthetic. One month after the publication of "Ueber Coca" Koller sent a sample of cocaine and a three-page paper to be read at an ophthalmologists' conference. The response was electric. Until that time, every eye operation in history had been performed with no better anaesthetic than ether or brandy. Indeed, how to wrestle with a screaming, kicking patient while operating on his eye had been one of the subjects eye surgeons had been obliged to study.
The word got around fast. Hundreds of painless operations were performed within the year, and statues were erected to Koller in several countries. Parke-Davis in 1885 recognized both Freud's cure-all view and Koller's anaesthetic discovery in a monograph about the new "wonder drug": Cocaine, they said, "can supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, free the victims of alcohol and opium habit from their bondage, and, as an anaesthetic, render the sufferer insensitive to pain."
Cocaine became a fad overnight: Fashionable young men about town sniffed it openly at theater parties. But it was soon discovered that it had, shall we say, drawbacks. For one thing, if it was sniffed too often the blood vessels in the nose remained constricted and in the absence of blood the partition between the nostrils degenerated — the famous "perforated septum" complaint. For another, some people became slaves to the habit. William Steward Halsted invented the basic principle of anaesthesia the year after Koller's discovery. The year after that he invented nothing. He was by that time using almost two grams of cocaine a day, which is 200 times the size of a single hit.
Finally, cocaine was abandoned even for eye surgery. It was too hard to control the effects, and it was also somewhat poisonous to tissues, notably the cornea.
Sherlock Holmes & Mr. Hyde
The cocaine user entered literature quickly. In one of Sherlock Holmes' earliest adventures, "A Scandal in Bohemia" (ascribed to 1886), Holmes is described by Dr. Watson as "alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition." Holmes justified his habit in "The Sign of the Four" in these terms: "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence." Only when he was working on a case could he do without cocaine.
There have been those who doubted whether Holmes' creator, A. Conan Doyle, drew the picture of a cocaine addict from real observation — whether on himself or others. Surely Holmes wasn't such a heavy coker. Watson speaks of watching Holmes shoot up three times a day, which is no record. And critics such as Edmund Wilson have suggested that a cocaine habit, like Holmes' hobby of playing the violin, was no more than a literary touch intended by Doyle to give the unsociable, intellectualistic sleuth a human side, a failing. ("Other than cocaine," says Dr. Watson, "he has no vices.") But other have seen signs of advanced coke paranoia in "The Final Problem" (1890), where Holmes started wearing disguises everywhere, convinced that the evil Dr. Moriarity was following him everywhere. Homes dropped from sight around that time and "reappeared" two years later cured of his only vice.
Another literary figure of the same time has been suspected of being into coke. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his first draft of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days in 1885, and it has been suggested — even in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association — that the book owes something to Stevenson's being treated with cocaine for his case of tuberculosis. The speed of writing the book might suggest cocaine's stimulant effects, though it should be noted that Stevenson had been worrying for weeks about money and had been scouting about for a plot for a commercial potboiler of a novel, even to the point of cultivating his nightmares.
But the suggestion that the potion changes the respectable Dr. Jekyll into the debased Mr. Hyde has something to do with cocaine is a lot less probable. If Stevenson were ever treated with cocaine, it must have been for a very short time. Both the novelist and his doctor, Thomas Scott Bradley, wrote about Stevenson's case but neither ever mentioned cocaine, though Bradley made no secret of having tried morphine on him. Stevenson couldn't have been in a position to experience the degenerative effects of heavy cocaine use. And besides, in the original draft of the novel, the potion Dr. Jekyll takes doesn't change his personality, much less his metabolism: It only changes his appearance, so that the respectable doctor, thus disguised, can go out and do the terrible things he consciously realizes he wants to do. Some traces of this idea remain in the rewrite. For years, Dr. Jekyll says, "I concealed my pleasures … I already stood committed to a profound duplicity of life." But at his wife's suggestion Stevenson rewrote the thriller as an allegory, with the potion revealing a dark side of Jekyll's nature.
Still and all, the second draft was also written in three days…
Whether they actually ever sampled cocaine or not, neither Doyle nor Stevenson was a "dope fiend" according to the Victorian stereotype (a stereotype which, with its erratic behavior and violence, fits cocaine better than morphine, which has usually been supposed to be the drug). They were both honorable, public-spirited men. Stevenson, a Scotsman with a heavy Calvinist background, wrote frequently of double personalities and the dark side of human nature, doubtless because of the sense of guilt and stern conscience in his tradition; the same conscience that prompted his socialist sympathies. And Doyle was a man of many causes — some of them silly, such as attending seances with phony mediums, and some of them courageous, such as his opposition to racism (he caused a scandal by defending a Persian named Edalji, who was being railroaded through the courts, by using Holmesian detective work) and imperialism (he wrote a crusading volume called The Crime in the Congo).
The Cocaine-Colas
While the straight doctors and fictional supersleuths were experimenting with cocaine, so were the patent medicine men and soft drink manufacturers. In fact, the latter two were originally the same. Soda water started being sold around 1808 as medicinal mineral waters, in bottled form at drug stores. It wasn't long before druggists started mixing it with tonic elixirs and the like, and fruit flavorings, and so began the curious American institution of going to a drug store to have a soft drink.
In 1888 a pharmaceutical supply wholesaler named Asa G. Chandler took a momentous step in the history of soda fountains: He bought up the rights to an almost completely unknown proprietary elixir called Coca-Cola, which had been invented by a Dr. J.S. Pemberton of Columbus, Georgia. The combination of Coca-Cola Syrup and Extract with soda water was an instant hit: "The new and popular fountain drink," as Chandler's stationery of the day described it, "containing the tonic properties of the wonderful coca plant and the famous cola nut." Chandler's biographer describes the original Coca-Cola as "intended as a tonic for elderly people who were easily tired." The actual ingredients have always been kept secret —never even written down, in fact — but among the sources for those ingredients was Mallinckrodt Chemicals of St. Louis, which is today the primary legal source of medicinal cocaine.
The soda fountain popularity of sparkling Coca-Cola far outreached the medical appeal of the syrup, and around the turn of the century Coca-Cola stopped making medicinal claims altogether. The company was probably worried about its corporate image, since in many parts of the country the slang term for Coca-Cola was "dope." By the time of the Pure Food and Drug Law in 1906 the cocaine was being left out of Coke. But by that time there was a raft of imitators on the market who saw no reason to do the same. Among the cocaine-containing proprietary medicines for sale as late as 1912 were Koca-Nola, Cafe-Coca Compound, Kos-Cola, Kola-Ade, Celery Cola, Rococola, Dr. Don's Kola (which contained cocaine but no cola at all), Coca Calisaya, Vani-Kola and Wiseola.
It was the Golden Age of patent medicines, and many quack compounds were angling for the sufferer's buck. There was, of course, the venerable Vin Mariani (which has not entirely disappeared from the world; in 1970 a London wine auction house sold a half-bottle of Vin Mariani 1880 for £4). And the rest of the Mariani line: Elixir Mariani (more alcoholic and three times as strong as coca), Pate Mariani (lozenges of coca held together with gum and sugar), Pastilles Mariani (lozenges of coca laced with cocaine), and The Mariani (coca extract in tea-like dry form). In 1892 Mr. Mariani was able to print this testimonial about his tea:
"Dr. Fordyce Barker, Dr. J.H. Douglas, Dr. Henry B. Sands and Dr. Geo. F. Shrady have authorized us to make known that it was due to The Mariani, added to milk (in the proportion of a teaspoonful of the The to a cup of milk), that they were able to nourish Gen. Grant, the ex-President, when he was unable to support any other food."
In addition to the competing brands of coca wines and coca soft drinks, there were two other main lines of cocaine compounds. There were the celery tonics, led by the very popular Paine's Celery Compound, and there were the catarrh remedies. Catarrh was one of the all-purpose, name-your-symptom diseases beloved of quacks, the 19th century equivalent of our own Sanpaku, Mucus or Tired Blood. The symptom was a runny nose … or, contrariwise, a suspiciously un-runny nose. In any case it was supposed to lead to consumption (tuberculosis).
The cure on the other hand, was likely to give you a perforated septum. Among the brands of catarrh powder on the market was Dr. N. Tucker's Specific for Asthma, Hay Fever and Catarrh, which had a couple of authenticated deaths by poisoning to its credit; Agnew's Powder; Anglo-American Catarrh Powder; and Ryno's Hay Fever and Catarrh Remedy, which was 99.95 percent pure cocaine. Cocaine also figured in a smaller mixed bag of nostrums for various illnesses, including Nyal's Compound Extract of Damiana, Curry's Cancer Cure and Cocainized Pepsin Cinchona Bitters.
With the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914, the cocaine market suddenly closed down. For medical use, except local anaesthesia in certain ear, nose and throat operations, cocaine was replaced by procaine (novocaine), which is less toxic and happens not to be so stimulating.
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But cocaine had struck fairly deep roots in American culture. There was a whole genre of cocaine blues, which folkies in the Sixties liked to sing because they sounded so quaint and outcast.
There were hillbilly songs too. One was about a man who shot his woman down while wired, to which the chorus went: "Lay off that liquor and let that cocaine be." And the coke slang that is recorded from that period shows what a broad slice of America was into coke. There was a term for a coke OD that is much more in the mainstream of American expression than "freakout," not to mention "OD," in its forcefulness and Yankee perception: that state of paranoia and restlessness was called having "the leaps."
Cocaine became a quaint, archaic vice. Number five of the Provincetown Plays, the drama series that in 1917 started a new movement in American theater with writers like Eugene O'Neill, was called Cocaine — a tearjerker about a fallen heavyweight boxer and his Older Woman who contemplate suicide because their coke has run out. Cole Porter wittily listed cocaine as one of the things that he couldn't get a kick out of in the lyrics to "I Get a Kick Out of You."
So cocaine went underground — so far underground that use practically ceased in this country, except among a few wealthy connoisseurs in Hollywood and New York, and an occasional circle in the urban ghettoes. But it was inevitable that it would be rediscovered by the tides of young drug experimenters in the Sixties, and its revival was signaled by the smuggling sequence in Easy Rider. Within a year it became the hottest fad in rock & roll star/heavy dealer circles, and looked like it was going to take over the world, or at least the generation.
But it just might be another of those fads that don't take over the world in the end.
One of the people most associated with cocaine in the public mind is Paul Kantner. But Paul says it's all in the past: "I stopped using coke a year and a half ago, when it was obvious it had become more dangerous than useful to me. Cocaine is a really great drug, it's a great way to feel good, and you can function and work relatively clearly on it, like for 12 or 15 hours straight, without losing your perspective the way you do on uppers or speed.
"But it's not controllable. It's not that you have an increasing need or tolerance, it's that it's so pleasant you can't control your use of it. And when you're heavily into it, it makes you cold toward people, in the sense that you're thinking of so many things that you can't possibly accomplish them all, and you're thinking of how to do all the things and you don't think about the people you're around.
"Also it can get you physically fucked up. Not necessarily to the point that your nose rots away, but you just need nasal spray because your nose is runny. A lot of people use this prescription spray called Aphrin. I quit when I found that I was more hooked on the spray than on coke. That stuff's more habit-forming than coke, because you need it or your nostrils close up and you can't breathe."


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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Although not as prevalent as it is in the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas remains an important tradition for the Cariocas (Rio natives) and, despite a few differing customs, food and festivity are what lies at the heart and soul of this special day.
According to Brazilian tradition, celebrations officially begin on Christmas Eve with families very often gathering together to start the holiday. One fun option recommended in Rio on the day before Christmas is a visit to the giant Christmas tree on the Lagoa which is scheduled to be lit up by an especially magical firework display.
As far as Christmas Day is concerned, traditions in Rio are similar to much of those elsewhere; family and friends get together, eat, drink and exchange presents. Depending on how religious families are, attending a church service is sometimes an important activity before returning home for a special meal.
Brazilian Christmas dinner usually includes bacalhau (cod fish) and shredded chicken or a large ham served with rice and salad followed by fruit and ice cream for dessert. Perhaps the most unique, and coveted Christmas delight on the dinner table, is the rabanaba, a type of bread soaked, fried, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, similar to french toast.
As for drinks, the usual selection of red and white wine is supplied and many Brazilians will have a glass of champagne as a toast to Jesus' birth.
After an early meal, it is customary for many households to distribute presents and then settle in front of the television to watch a Christmas message delivered by the Pope.
Carioca resident, Marco Aurelio especially enjoys the Christmas holidays proclaiming, "My favorite thing about Christmas is being together with my family, giving and receiving gifts. I look forward to eating bacalhau and then relaxing for the rest of the day."
For the expatriates and travelers who may be at a loose end, there are various events taking place in Rio over the Christmas period which will allow them to honor their own special traditions.
The Christ Church in Botafogo, the only English speaking Anglican Church in Rio, will be holding two special services starting with a 'Christingle' service on Christmas Eve. A popular custom in the Church of England, worshipers will receive a Christingle, made from an orange holding a lit candle and pierced with cocktail sticks covered with dried fruit, on entering the Church.
On Christmas Day, Christ Church will have a 10:30AM Communion Service, led by retired Bishop Edmund Sherrill, a long-term resident of Rio de Janeiro. The service will feature traditional Christmas carols and hymns.
For a truly indulgent Christmas feast that involves no preparation or cleaning up, head to legendary Brazilian restaurant Porcão at 8PM on Christmas Eve. There are three located in the City at Barra, Ipanema and Flamengo, all serving a huge selection of cooked meats, accompaniments and wine.
Another option for those who don't want to cook this Christmas, a traditional meal of roast turkey with all the trimmings will be served at the Gringo Cafe on Christmas Day. The American-owned restaurant will start serving at 5PM and, if last year's popularity is anything to go on, it would be wise to make reservations soon.


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Zambia's finance minister has asked parliament to almost double the country's external borrowing limit to 60 billion kwacha ($8 billion)in 2015 to finance development projects as a financing gap has emerged.
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Chikwanda said total 2015 revenues were expected to decline by 2.1 billion kwacha below the budget projections and expenditure was projected to increase by 13.3 billion kwacha above the budgeted level.
"I will be requesting the house to increase the ceiling for external borrowing from the current 35 billion kwacha to 60 billion kwacha," finance minister Alexander Chikwanda told parliament on Tuesday.
The budget deficit had increased to 20 billion kwacha from the earlier projected 18.5 billion kwacha in the 2015 budget, he said.
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"Our debt is still very much within sustainable levels, even with the new intended borrowing. This may entail borrowing at commercial rates," Chikwanda said.
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- 1⁄2 cup chopped onion
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, smashed and minced
- 1 teaspoon recaito (optional)
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 teaspoon ground dried ancho chile powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin, to taste
- 8 -12 taco-size corn tortillas or 1 package hard taco shell
- butter (if using corn tortillas)
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- chopped tomato
- chopped or shredded lettuce
- sour cream
- guacamole or chopped avocado
- salsa or hot sauce or catsup
- Saute the onion in the olive oil over medium-high heat until just soft, then add the garlic and recaito and stir well.
- Add the ground beef, then the ancho and cumin, and cook until meat is well-browned, using a spatula to break up the cooked meat into smaller pieces (some folks call this "hamburger gravel"), about 10 minutes.
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When I was a kid I had this really cool T-shirt.…It's one of my favorite shirts.…It was a Spiderman shirt, and I liked it so much I hardly wore it.…As a matter of fact, I barely ever wore it, but one day I finally decided, this…was the day, this was the day where I was going to wear my Spiderman shirt and I…went to put it on and it was too small. And even as a little guy I remember…thinking about this concept that you know some things are just meant to be worn.…and the same thing is true with a camera,. It's meant to be used. It's so easy to…think about our camera gear this way:…well, it's expensive. You know, this cost me a lot of money.…
I may as well put it up on a shelf, put it in a glass case.…I don't want it to get dinged up or dirty.…We have to let go of that thinking, especially if you want to create great photographs.…I love bringing my camera with me wherever I go ,whether it's by water, out in…dirty locations, rain, snow, whatever. Because the camera is a tool, a tool…that's meant to be used.…
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Mistress Sandra caught her boyfriend flirting with another girl and she was mad. She had to put a stop on it or her boyfriend would cheat on her. She swung into action and made her slave lie down on the floor when he came home that evening. Then she used her high heel boots to trample his face and make him endure a lot of pain and humiliation. It worked because he stopped flirting with other women.
Lady Alshari likes to humiliate and punish her slaves using her high heel boots. They are so effective because they are lethal. They make it hard for anyone to pretend that they do not feel anything. It is easy to endure sneakers but it almost impossible to endure the pain that comes from boots and especially from high heel boots. That is why this mistress likes them so much when punishing slaves.
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Kira sits on the chair and smokes a cigarette. She asks Alex to lick her dirty street boots with his tongue. Alex licks and swallows all the dirt from Kira's black boots. Sometimes she asks the slave to open his mouth and swallow her cigarette ash. Kira also puts boot nose into slaves mouth to clean it properly. She also presses her boot heel deep into Alex's mouth and asks slave to clean it, too.
Morgan likes to dominate and take advantage of this loser slave all the time so this day was just the perfect timing to do it after working all day long with her feet inside her boots! She wants to show what hard work is so she makes him bow down on his knees, and makes him take her boots off to completely cover his face with her sweaty, smelly socks! Smelly my sweaty socks now! She makes him take some deep breaths in her socks just to make sure he remembers that smell! She really wants to give him a hard time so she also spits on her socks and makes him lick her spit from her sweaty socks!


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Upon hearing that Dirty Birds had the best wings in San Diego, the fine folks at Food Smackdown knew they had to try them and were not disappointed, writing, "The wings we tried were some of the best wings in San Diego we've had! The wings were all meaty, cooked to perfection (light crisp on outside) and had excellent flavor (made with Dirty Birds' own house-made sauces). The house-made ranch and blue cheese to dip the wings in were delicious!"
In the interesting story of how Pluckers came to be, the founders were told by one of their fathers, a restaurateur, "If we were smart, we would never get into the restaurant business." Pluckers, which originally opened in Austin in 1995, now has a dozen locations across Texas and Louisiana, and recently saw its Dallas location honored as having the best wings in Dallas Fort-Worth by the Pegasus News.
In the Carolina Wing Festival, a regional lead-up to the aforementioned National Buffalo Wing Festival, East Coast Grill took home the honors of best traditional hot wing. Founded in 1995 in Winston-Salem, East Coast Grill now boasts 75 flavors and 675 combinations of Buffalo wings at its 19 North Carolina locations.
In naming Buffalo Joe's as the best wings in its metro area, CBS Chicago writes, "Their suicide wings will leave your mouth burning for days, but in a good way. They make all of the sauces in-house and make sure the wings come dripping. The BBQ sauce for the wings is also sweet and tangy if heat isn't your style." Time Out's Michael Nagrant adds that these wings are "super-crispy and huge, like chickens on steroids."
This past September, an estimated 85,000 people attended the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, N.Y., where 550,000 wings (or 37 tons) were served as Legend Larry's, an establishment with multiple locations in Wisconsin, took home the award for best traditional hot wing.
When the original Gritty's opened in Portland in 1988 (there are now two other locations in Maine), it became the first brew pub to open in Maine since Prohibition. For a $75 annual fee, you can join the Gritty's mug club. Named amongst the best wings in New England by the Boston Globe, Gritty's wings can be ordered in three styles: Buffalo, BBQ, and extra hot.
In a day-long quest to find the best wings for Super Bowl Sunday, Esquire's Scott Raab found bliss with Bon Chon's Korean chicken wings: "It isn't merely today's best chicken; it's perfect, the best fried chicken I've ever had." Raab continued, "On one level, this is delicate stuff, with a paper-thin skin that delivers a soul-satisfying crunch and a clean, subtle taste unmarred by anything beyond good fresh chicken and maybe a dash of salt and pepper. One batch is barely brushed with a sweetish soy-garlic mix, the other with a 'hot and spicy' blend whose snap builds nice and slow to a friendly scorch. Both are superb."
Located in Union Square, City Bakery is a destination for tourists and locals seeking excellent coffee and cuisine. In distinguishing City Bakery as having the best wings in New York City, New York Magazine notes that the wings, of the salt-pepper-sugar or Old Bay Seasoning variety, are "insanely delicious."
It's only fair to give the honor of the best wings in America to the establishment that invented the wing. Anchor Bar's web site describes just how this American delicacy came to be:
"On a Friday night in 1964, Dominic Bellissimo was tending bar at the now famous Anchor Bar Restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y. Late that evening, a group of Dominic's friends arrived at the bar with ravenous appetites. Dominic asked his mother, Teressa, to prepare something for his friends to eat. They looked like chicken wings, a part of the chicken that usually went into the stock pot for soup. Teressa had deep-fried the wings and flavored them with a secret sauce.The wings were an instant hit and it didn't take long for people to flock to the bar to experience this new taste sensation. From that evening on, Buffalo Wings became a regular part of the menu at the Anchor Bar."
After many visits to the Green Mills location in Duluth, Minn., The Unvegans Zack Colman concluded that its best wings were its boneless Dixie Wings: "These are wings with a Buffalo-like sauce that stings the mouth, but always leaves me wanting more. The Mill is also one of the few places where I opt for boneless wings versus the much manlier wings with bones. For some reason, the Dixie Wing sauce just seems to work so much better with boneless wings."
This particular Duluth location has a daily happy hour, with $5 appetizers from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. that will leave your stomach full without a hole in your wallet.


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Some years ago, I had two CDs available - 'Deep Healing' and 'Deep Relaxation' - and both became unavailable. However, this CD, with a running time of about an hour, contains the meditational tracks from both of the old CDs, together with two previously unreleased tracks that I recorded with my wife, Sarah.Track Listing;1) Deep Relaxation2) The Gift3) Joy and Love4) Deep Healing5) And What of Life?
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The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe.
Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality and the famous 'will to power', the book was controversially presented as Nietzsche's all-but-completed magnum opus containing his philosophical system. Including some of his most interesting metaphysical and epistemological thoughts, as well as some of his most disturbing ethical and political comments, the book would prove to have a significant influence on Nietzsche's contentious reception in the twentieth century.
Why I Am so Clever
'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'
Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'
This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Nietzsche's works available in Penguin Classics are A Nietzsche Reader, Beyond Good and Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, The Portable Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ.
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.
Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and signalling a return to the essay form. In these three essays, Nietzsche considers the development of ideas of 'good' and 'evil'; explores notions of guilt and bad consience; and discusses ascetic ideals and the purpose of the philosopher. Together, they form a coherent and complex discussion of morality in a work that is more accessible than some of Nietzsche's previous writings.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844. When he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University. From 1880, however, he divorced himself from everyday life and lived mainly abroad. Works published in the 1880s include The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. In January 1889, Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized, spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his death in 1900 include Will to Power, based on his notebooks, and Ecce Homo, his autobiography.
Michael A. Scarpitti is an independent scholar of philosophy whose principal interests include English and German thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as exegesis and translation theory.
Robert C. Holub is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of German at the Ohio State University. Among his published works are monographs on Heinrich Heine, German realism, Friedrich Nietzsche, literary and aesthetic theory, and Jürgen Habermas.
Man Alone with Himself
Why I am So Wise
A Nietzsche Reader
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
The Birth of Tragedy
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.
This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.
Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.
If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.
'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker'
Michael Tanner
Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche (and others)
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later.
Known for saying that 'god is dead,' Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.


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Taiyaki for BREAKFAST
(if that makes no sense click here...or for a sillier version try this one)Hehe, one of treats I miss most from Japan is definitely taiyaki. Tai, also known as snapper, is a kind of fish and is considered good luck in Japan. Taiyaki though is not grilled fish but a yummy fish shaped waffle filled most often with sweetened red bean goodness. These delicious treats can be found at festivals or sometimes random little stalls around town. When I was living in Kakegawa I used to pass a super cute little Taiyaki stall every day while walking to work. It never failed to bring a little smile to face.
Unfortunately I have yet to find a place in LA to buy freshly made taiyaki (if you know of one, oshiete kudasai!). So I figured the best way to satisfy my craving would be to make them myself. Due to the wonders of the internet, I was able to find a simple taiyaki maker online. For some reason, it was from Korea (is taiyaki popular in Korea?) and all the instructions were in Korean. This wasn't much of a problem since the taiyaki maker was just a simple old school waffle iron with snapper-shaped molds. Just heat, fill, close and flip (repeat if desired).For a good recipe and write up check out Anime Blog. I, however, am a little bit lazy (while I love to cook, I hate to clean) and after reading about Batter Blasters on a few blogs thought that might be the perfect easy solution for making quick and easy taiyaki. I was a little nervous at first but it turned out great. Since I love anko (sweetened red bean paste) my initial attempt was the traditional style with the sweetened bean paste filling. It took me a couple tries to get the temperature and the timing just right but soon I was turning out yummy taiyaki in no time.The morning after my super successful Taiyaki night, Dave had the idea to make a version of "pigs in blanket" or as I like to say "soy in a snapper." Using the batter blasters and frozen vegan sausages these were simple to make and fun to eat. What a wonderful way to start off the day!!What would you want in your Taiyaki??