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This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. A team of astronomers using a network of radio dishes to peer to the edge of a massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy that is 15 million light years away, for the first time, they have measured the invisible boundary around the black hole - it's called an event horizon - where nothing, not even light, can escape its strong gravitational pull. So what secrets did the astronomers uncover at the black hole's edge? Shep Doeleman is the lead author of the study, which was published last week in the journal Science. He's assistant director at the MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. Welcome to the program.
SHEP DOELEMAN: Hi, Ira. Really good to be here.
FLATOW: Thank you. What is - exactly is an event horizon?
DOELEMAN: Well, let's back up a second and ask what a black hole is because it's a great question. That's where matter has collapsed in on itself gravitationally so that it becomes a singularity or a point of basically infinite density. And when that happens, even light cannot escape the intense gravitational pull. And around that singularity is something we call the event horizon, right? That's the exact point in space where light cannot escape, right?
FLATOW: Right.
DOELEMAN: And - but we see black holes, which is kind of a paradox because you would think, well, if light can't escape, then how do we see it? And we see it because black holes are really messy eaters. They're trying to attract all the gas and dust around them into a very, very small volume. And the compression heats up that gas to billions of degrees, and that's really what we wind up seeing. It's a bit like trying to drag an elephant through a keyhole, right? It's a lot of stuff is trying to get to a small spot. You wind up seeing the mess.
FLATOW: And so you've measured that boundary around the black hole.
DOELEMAN: Well, we didn't exactly measure that. We measured - we looked at a very interesting source called M87, which is a giant elliptical galaxy. And at the heart of it is over a six billion solar mass black hole.
FLATOW: Six billion times the size of our sun.
DOELEMAN: The mass of our sun.
FLATOW: The mass of our sun.
DOELEMAN: Right. So imagine six billion suns inside something the size of our solar system. It just kind of phenomenal to think about.
FLATOW: Mindboggling, yeah.
DOELEMAN: And the gravitational pull is so intense it's drawing all these matter to it, which is in-spiraling like water down the bathtub drain, so you wind up getting a pancake of material orbiting this super massive black hole. And what specifically we were looking for is the fact that there's a jet, a relativistic jet of high-speed particles just screaming away from this black hole and its disc. And we ended at the very base of that jet, which we think is anchored in the innermost part of that pancake of in-swirling matter. So we didn't exactly measure the accretion disc. We measured this innermost orbit, which is a very interesting point in space.
FLATOW: Well, why do you want to know that?
DOELEMAN: Well, it's a great question. We know that about 10 percent of super massive black holes in the hearts of these galaxies issue these amazing jets. And these jets really are some of the most powerful phenomenon in the universe. They can go for thousands, hundreds of thousands of light years. And it's been thought that the combination of a spinning black hole and this pancake of in-spiraling matter power that jet. And it does so by dragging magnetic field lines with it to the very edge of these orbits, and the magnetic field lines accelerate particles much like a bead on a wire would be flung out by, you know, if you had a wire and you were flinging it above your heard, a bead on that wire would zip off to the north and south poles. And that's what happens with these jets. But we haven't had any data on size scales close to the black hole that can constrain the theories. They've really been relegated to super computers and simulations.
FLATOW: So how do you narrow down a theory?
DOELEMAN: Well, so we found something very interesting. When you get so close to a black hole, Einstein really tells you what you have to see. It's completely outside the scope of our everyday existence. So, for example, satellites in theory could orbit as close to the Earth as they want. But near to a black hole, all bets are off. And there's an innermost stable orbit, inside of which anything just falls in. So there's a limit to how close you can orbit to a black hole, and that's where that pancake of matter gets hottest, densest and most threaded with magnetic fields so that you can wind up getting one of these jets. And that size is determined by the spin of the black hole. That's the first thing.
And the second thing that makes this possible is that the black hole is so massive and the gravity is so strong that light gets bent like taffy this is sort of magnifies the appearance size of that innermost orbit. So we think we know pretty clearly the size we should see if the black hole isn't spinning. And we saw something that was much smaller than that expected size, which is a very good evidence that the black hole has to be spinning.
FLATOW: The spinning would make the size smaller?
DOELEMAN: Exactly. A spinning black hole frame drags, or drags space time around with it, and that allows matter to orbit closer to the black hole than if the black hole were not spinning.
FLATOW: So like in our logical mind, when we see things spinning, they sort of expand out, right?
DOELEMAN: Exactly.
FLATOW: We think it's a typical force forcing an out. But you're saying because it's dragging time and space with it, it's closing smaller, getting closer to the center.
DOELEMAN: Exactly. It's an energetic argument, so...
FLATOW: Something...
DOELEMAN: ...so, well, basically, when you are orbiting a black hole without spin, the energy profile, if you will, of the orbits sets the point at which the innermost orbit can be. But when you rotate the black hole, you can drag matter around with it and allow that matter an energy orbit that can bring it very close to the event horizon itself.
FLATOW: And you used that whole series of ground-based radio dishes for this? You sort of created a giant dish out of many?
DOELEMAN: Yeah. So we used a very instinct technique called very-long-baseline interferometry, where we take radio dishes around the world, and we record data at them simultaneously pointing at this galaxy, M87. And then we bring it together to a central supercomputer that acts as lens. So we effectively get a telescope as big as the Earth. And we absolutely need that because, you know, we need a magnification power that's about 2,000 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope to this work.
FLATOW: Wow.
DOELEMAN: So the - as an analogy, you know, if we're in New York and we're looking at a mail truck in Los Angeles, the Hubble can kind of make out that there's a mail truck there maybe. But if you want to read the letters inside that mail truck, then you need this array that we built called the Event Horizon Telescope.
FLATOW: You know, and scientists are never happy with what they have.
FLATOW: Right?
DOELEMAN: Really - it's really true, as in science, as in everywhere.
FLATOW: And you want more, don't you?
DOELEMAN: Yeah. Well, we - so we have enough now to make this interesting size argument. We've seen the base of this relativistic jet, and we've determined that the black hole is probably is spinning and as the accretion disk is orbiting in the same sense as the black hole spins, which is a very important part of it. But we want to increase the resolution, so we want to put telescopes all around the world now. So we have plans to put one in the South Pole, in Greenland, Mexico and Chile. And we're going to incorporate some telescopes in Europe to really make an Earth-size virtual array. And that will give us the coverage and the resolution we need to actually start to make images and pictures of the glowing gas right around the event horizon.
FLATOW: If you could put one in outer space or in the backside of the moon, would that help you?
DOELEMAN: Very, very interesting point. Probably, we would start over-resolving the black hole. There's a limit to the size of the structures we expect to see there, and it could be there'd be nothing left to see. Because if you put a telescope on the moon, you'd have such high resolution, such high magnifying power that there might not be anything left to see, right? You'd be looking kind of the side of the barn with a magnifying glass. You wouldn't really see any contrast there, if that makes sense.
FLATOW: Mm-hmm. Let me get a - I got a quick question here before we have to go. Let's go to Chino(ph) in Fredericksburg. Hi.
CHINO: Hi. This is Chino, calling from here in Washington. I have a question. I understood black holes as - well, I mean, they're in three-dimensional space. And often, they're described with this hole shape or flat shape, I assumed, as a way to just get people to visualize it, like a manhole cover, you know, things fall in. And what I'm hearing is a continuation of that explanation, but I'm having trouble reconciling that with my understanding that it's in all directions. That - I mean, isn't it in all directions? There isn't like a hole in space and everything is falling in. It's in every plane, in every direction from - that you would approach it. Am I right?
DOELEMAN: Right. Yeah, you're exactly right. The analogy of like a rubber screen with a balling ball in it that bends the rubber screen down, that's really for visualization. In space, you're looking at a three-dimensional object. So the event horizon is this very dangerous and spooky boundary around the black hole, through which, once you go in any dimension, you're never coming back. It's kind of a knot we can tie in the universe and never untie. So it's the only place in the universe that you can leave and never come back. But it is a three-dimensional object. And as I was saying before, the energetics around the black hole make it a point in the universe that is really beyond our everyday conception of the way things work.
FLATOW: What do you need to know about a black hole that you don't know already?
DOELEMAN: Well, that's a great question. Well, it turns out that if we can make images of the glowing emission around a black hole, we can begin to ask some questions that we haven't been able to ask before. One of which is, is Einstein right? So we have this beautiful, general relativity theory from Einstein, but it hasn't been tested fully in the one place that might break down the universe right at the edge of a black hole because that's where gravity is a dominant force.
So one of the very interesting things we're looking for is what we called a silhouette or the shadow of a black hole. And that's when light dims from behind the black hole, actually get bent around to our line of sight, creating a ring of emission with a relatively dim interior. And as we get the shadow feature and the shape - the exact shape and size of that shadow is prescribed by Einstein.
It's kind of interesting when you think about it. We make this Earth-sized virtual telescope, we observed this galaxy, and we might be able to see a shadow. And to understand that shadow, we have to go back to the equations that were written 100 years ago by Einstein and Karl Schwarzschild.
FLATOW: Isn't that kind of the same experiment of the starlight, going around the sun in 1919 eclipse?
DOELEMAN: Precisely. And then that's what really put Einstein, you know, made him a household name. And now, we're in a stage we can say, well - and that's when Einstein said, well, Newton's wrong. And now, we're bizarrely at a point where we an ask, well, was Einstein right? And to do that, we need these very advance techniques, the (unintelligible) technique. But the bending of starlight, that wonderful experiment during an eclipse showed us that Einstein was right in the low gravity regime around the sun. And the sun is just the sun. But around a black hole, the gravitational field is so much stronger that even small perturbations to Einstein's theory should show up.
FLATOW: Wow. That's exciting. Well, good luck on that. We'll be - we'll stay tuned.
DOELEMAN: Yeah. Well, it's an international effort. A lot of people working on it. And we hope to have more to report soon.
FLATOW: Well, thank you very much, Shep.
DOELEMAN: All right. Take care.
FLATOW: Shep Doeleman is assistant director at the MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts. I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Aaron Harang (10-10, 3.68) vs. Matt Cain (16-5, 2.77).
The Dodgers have a ghost of a chance at making the playoffs, and Harang will have to have the game of his life against the Giants' ace for the Dodgers to live another day...or eat power pellets in another maze, or however the adage goes. The Cards-Reds tilt started a few hours ago, so the Cards are probably already down a dozen runs or so. Do you believe? PLAYOFFS!

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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Posted on November 7, 2012
The most charitable way of explaining the election
results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo –
for the incumbent President and for a divided
Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence,
economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer
people voted. As I write, with almost all the votes counted,
President Obama has won fewer votes than John McCain won in 2008,
and more than ten million off his own 2008 total.
But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to
eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will
prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because
of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area,
nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he
lose because the Republicans could have chosen better
candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a
slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.
Romney lost because he didn't get enough votes to
That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons.
Romney lost because the
conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of
liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and
aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a
majority of the electorate. The notion of the "Reagan
Democrat" is one cliché that should be permanently
Ronald Reagan himself could not win an election in
today's America.
The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to
compete against free stuff. Every businessman knows this;
that is why the "loss leader" or the giveaway is such a powerful
marketing tool. Obama's America is one in which free stuff is given
away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps
clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by
the tens of millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive
two full years of unemployment
benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for
work and also motivates people to work off the books while
collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote; so too
those who anticipate "free" health care, who
expect the government to pay their mortgages, who look
for the government to give them jobs. The lure of free
stuff is irresistible.
Imagine two restaurants side by side. One sells its
customers fine cuisine at a reasonable price, and the other offers a
free buffet, all-you-can-eat as long as supplies last. Few –
including me – could resist the attraction of the free food. Now
imagine that the second restaurant stays in business because the
first restaurant is forced to provide it with the food for the free
buffet, and we have the current economy, until, at least, the first
restaurant decides to go out of business. (Then, the government
takes over the provision of free food to its patrons.)
The defining moment of the whole campaign was the
revelation (by the amoral Obama team) of the secretly-recorded
video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an
election in which "47% of the people" start off against him because
they pay no taxes and just receive money – "free stuff" – from the
government. Almost half of the
population has no skin in the game – they don't care about high
taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that
the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children
and from the Chinese. They just want the free stuff that
comes their way at someone else's expense. In the end, that 47%
leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not
bode well for the future.
It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate
winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their
pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not
raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free
stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.
That engenders the second reason why Romney lost:
the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is dumb –
ignorant, and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an
informed voter, because most other voters – the clear majority – are
unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is
the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their
hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to
produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term
record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious
capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not
just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor
and cutting taxes for the rich. Obama could get away with saying
that "Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules" –
without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying
that the "rich should pay their fair share" – without ever defining
what a "fair share" is; with saying that Romney wants the poor,
elderly and sick to "fend for themselves" – without even
acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt,
their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.
Obama could get away with it because he knew he was talking to
dunces waving signs and squealing at any sight of him.
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out
to Adlai Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking
person!" Stevenson called back: "That's not enough, madam, we need a
majority!" Truer words were never spoken.
Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks
that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim
to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away.
He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all
arrested and shipped to Mexico (even if they came from Cuba or
Honduras), and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the
current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance
of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions – in
which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for
which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in
exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions
provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone. He could do
and say all these things because he knew his voters were
One might reasonably object that not every Obama
supporter could be unintelligent. But they must then rationally
explain how the Obama agenda can be paid for, aside from racking up
multi-trillion dollar deficits. "Taxing the rich" does not yield
even 10% of what is required – so what is the answer, i.e., an
intelligent answer?
Obama also knows that the electorate has changed – that
whites will soon be a minority in America (they're already a
minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are
primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional
American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and
20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different
America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and
knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.
Obama also proved again that negative advertising works,
invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney
never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as
a person; his "negative ads" were simple facts, never personal abuse
– facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of
American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a
politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the
devil's bargain of making unsustainable promises, and by talking as
the adult and not the adolescent. Obama has spent the last six years
campaigning; even his governance has been focused on payoffs to his
favored interest groups. The permanent campaign also won again, to
the detriment of American life.
It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and
Ryan – people of substance, depth and ideas – to compete with the
shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class
warfare – never reaching out to Americans as such but to
individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from
these minority groups. Conservative ideas failed to take root and
states that seemed winnable, and amenable to traditional American
values, have simply disappeared from the map. If an Obama could not
be defeated – with his record and his vision of America, in which
free stuff seduces voters – it is hard to envision any change in the
future. The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a
European-socialist economy – those very economies that are
collapsing today in Europe – is paved.
A second cliché that should be retired is that America is
a center-right country. It clearly is not. It
is a divided country with peculiar voting patterns, and
an appetite for free stuff. Studies will invariably show that
Republicans in Congress received more total votes than Democrats in
Congress, but that means little. The House of Representatives is not
truly representative of the country. That people would vote for a
Republican Congressmen or Senator and then Obama for President would
tend to reinforce point two above: the empty-headedness of the
electorate. Americans revile Congress but love their individual
Congressmen. Go figure.
The mass media's complicity in Obama's re-election cannot
be denied. One example suffices. In 2004, CBS News forged a letter in
order to imply that President Bush did not fulfill his Air National
Guard service during the Vietnam War, all to impugn Bush and impair
his re-election prospects. In 2012, President Obama insisted –
famously – during the second debate that he had stated all along
that the Arab attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi was "terror" (a
lie that Romney fumbled and failed to exploit). Yet, CBS News sat on
a tape of an interview with Obama in which Obama specifically
avoided and rejected the claim of terrorism – on the day after the
attack – clinging to the canard about the video. (This snippet of a "60 Minutes" interview was not
revealed - until two days ago!) In effect, CBS News fabricated evidence in order to
harm a Republican president, and suppressed evidence in order to
help a Democratic president. Simply shameful, as was the media's
disregard of any scandal or story that could have jeopardized the
Obama re-election.
One of the more irritating aspects of this campaign was
its limited focus, odd in light of the billions of dollars spent.
Only a few states were contested, a strategy that Romney adopted,
and that clearly failed. The Democrat begins any race with a
substantial advantage. The liberal states – like the bankrupt
California and Illinois – and other states with large concentrations
of minority voters as well as an extensive welfare apparatus, like
New York, New Jersey and others – give any Democratic candidate an
almost insurmountable edge in electoral votes. In New Jersey,
for example, it literally does not pay for a conservative to vote.
It is not worth the fuel expended driving to the polls. As
some economists have pointed generally, and it resonates here even
more, the odds are greater that a voter will be killed in a traffic
accident on his way to the polls than that his vote will make a
difference in the election. It is an irrational act. That most
states are uncompetitive means that people are not amenable to new
ideas, or new thinking, or even having an open mind. If that does
not change, and it is hard to see how it can change, then the die is
cast. America is not what it was, and will never be
For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch
Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their
Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by
Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They
voted to secure Obama's future at America's expense and at Israel's
expense – in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.
A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is
inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against
Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. That Obama's top aide Valerie Jarrett
(i.e., Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett) spent last week in
Teheran is not a good sign. The US will preach the
importance of negotiations up until the production of the first
Iranian nuclear weapon – and then state that the world must learn to
live with this new reality. As
Obama has committed himself to abolishing America's nuclear arsenal,
it is more likely that that unfortunate circumstance will occur than
that he will succeed in obstructing Iran's plans.
Obama's victory could weaken Netanyahu's re-election
prospects, because Israelis live with an unreasonable – and somewhat
pathetic – fear of American opinion and realize that Obama despises
Netanyahu. A Likud defeat – or a diminution of its margin of victory
– is more probable now than yesterday. That would not be the worst
thing. Netanyahu, in fact, has never distinguished himself by having
a strong political or moral backbone, and would be the first to cave
to the American pressure to surrender more territory to the enemy
and acquiesce to a second (or third, if you count Jordan)
Palestinian state. A new US Secretary of State named John Kerry, for
example would not augur well. Netanyahu remains the best of
markedly poor alternatives. Thus, the likeliest outcome of the
upcoming Israeli elections is a center-left government that will
force itself to make more concessions and weaken Israel – an Oslo
. The most powerful empires in history all crumbled –
from the Greeks and the Romans to the British and the Soviets. None
of the collapses were easily foreseen, and yet they were predictable
in retrospect.
The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the
deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five
years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed,
envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its
moral foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and
that will only increase in years to come. Across the world, America
under Bush was feared but not respected. Under Obama, America
is neither feared nor respected. Radical Islam has had a
banner four years under Obama, and its prospects for future growth
look excellent. The "Occupy" riots across this country in the
last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead –
years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the
unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the
successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of


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Josh Fernandez: Debra Jarvis and Finding Meaning
- 10/02/12
Rev. Debra Jarvis, Mdiv, says cancer is about finding meaning, trusting your gut, learning to take risks, developing your curiosity and staying awake. To highlight these points, Jarvis utilized a handful of stories throughout her closing speech at the Living Beyond Breast Cancer's Annual Fall Conference on Saturday, Sept. 29. Here on the Blog, LBBC's Web Content Coordinator, Josh Fernandez, shares his experience hearing Debra speak at his first ever national LBBC conference.
Her first anecdote directly related to the title of her 2007 book, It's Not About the Hair. After learning she had breast cancer in 2005, Debra and her husband called family and friends to give them the news. The oft response Debra heard was, "Oh my God, are you going to lose your hair?"
"After about the third phone call, I slammed down the phone and said to my husband, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to write a book and I'm going to call it 'It's Not About the Hair,''" Debra told the conference audience.
She later learned from friends that what they really wanted to ask was, "Are you going to lose your life?" For her friends and family, the hair question was a way to measure how bad the cancer was.
After explaining the book's origins, Debra transitioned into her response to the question presented in the book: "If cancer is not about the hair, then what is it about?"
"I think any kind of really challenging experience is about finding meaning," Debra said in her speech. "The real challenge is that nobody can tell us what our experience means."
She said it's up to the individual to discover this meaning, and that meanings are dynamic and change over time. Debra then discussed the importance of developing an attitude of curiosity rather than dread.
"We've all seen people facing challenges, and it takes a lot of energy…what if instead of contracting, we expand, move forward with our hands out and our palms up and have an attitude of curiosity, saying, "I wonder what this experience is going to be like?" she said. "When we approach any challenge with curiosity instead of dread, it suddenly becomes interesting and way less intimidating."
Debra said this attitude helps individuals stay awake to possibilities and experience growth and change. She said being awake means "knowing that being alive is a gift, and that this gift is finite; it will end…To me, being awake is our task to love and leave the planet a better place in any way we can."
Debra also said that it's crucial not to "go back to sleep". She cited an anecdote about a woman she met five years ago while working at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance where she also received treatment. The woman was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and told Debra that she wanted to see her grandchild grow, start a garden, stop being judgmental and appreciate life in general.
Two years after the initial conversation, Debra ran into the woman in front of a chase case of a supermarket. Debra asked the woman about her grandchild, her garden and life in general, and the woman's responses – among them being that her grandchild was a "nightmare" and that she didn't garden because she didn't want to ruin her manicure – indicated she hadn't followed through on the promises she made to herself when she was receiving treatment. She was the same person she was before her cancer diagnosis; she had "gone back to sleep."
When she finished telling the story, Debra said staying awake was important for continued growth.
"We don't need to have breast cancer for spiritual and personal growth…but if we are touched by cancer, let's use it. Let's find meaning, let's take risks and trust our gut, and be curious and open and not go back to sleep," she concluded.
Go to Amazon.com to purchase her book, It's Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life & Cancer.


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The last time Morning Edition spoke with K'naan, he had just gone back to his native Somalia for the first time in 20 years to highlight the effects of the famine there.
The Somali-Canadian rapper was introduced to the world as The Dusty Foot Philosopher with his first album in 2005; then he returned with Troubadour in 2009. Just last month, he came out with an EP, More Beautiful Than Silence. A new full-length album, Country, God, or the Girl, comes out in May.
K'naan has said the stories in his songs have actually happened, including a tale he tells in "Coming to America" about how he accidentally blew up his school with a hand grenade in eighth grade.
"My mom took me in her arms and cried at the possibility that I could've been killed," K'naan tells Morning Edition's Renee Montagne. "Then she started going on a tangent: 'What kind of person would leave a grenade in the playground of a school?' "
Somalia has a long history of oral poetry, and K'naan's grandfather is a major proponent of this history: According to one story, he once stopped a war with his words.
K'naan says he isn't sure whether rap could ever reach those heights of influence.
"The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image," he says. "Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that. The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful."
K'naan describes the title track of his new EP as "a self-criticism, a moment in which I'm also recognizing those things. I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have. Because I don't accept the title of the all-great kid who came out of Mogadishu completely unfazed, unscathed, and has written music of just hope and joy. It can be partly true, but it isn't all true."
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Never mess with a classic dish! But I can't help myself sometimes. It's difficult not to allow imagination and creativity to have a say. Let's take the classic pasta and meatballs. I love it, Soeren loves it and Tom loves it too. We are probably amongst several thousands who enjoy this simple yet delicious classic dish. There are as many different recipes for a pasta and meatballs dish as there probably are cooks that make this.
I have made several variations too, sticking to some great traditional recipes. One thing however, was common with all the recipes - they were time consuming. If I wanted to cook up a good, mouthwatering meatballs and pasta meal I had to often plan ahead. The tomato sauce needs to reduce for and hour, the ground meat needs to be spiced, shaped and cooked - all in all it was not really a meal that you just whipped up on the spur of the moment.
The fact that we really enjoy our pasta and meatballs and wanted it more often made me play around a little. The motivation behind it was an attempt to create a similar type of dish but something that was easily prepared - even for a quick weeknight dinner.
It's not easy to please my men - when they have a taken a liking to a particular flavor or have a notion of how a dish is supposed to taste they are not easily convinced. I always get the look of skepticism when I announce that I am experimenting on a beloved recipe. Not all experiments work. But this one - this one was genius.
This meatballs and pasta recipe gives the classic dish a new dimension, it's a modern makeover for the working or stay at home busy mums. It's quick to make saving on time but not on flavor. By using good quality and flavorful ingredients this is a delicious way to serve the all new meatballs and pasta.
Recipe: Fettuccine with Spicy Lamb Sausage Meatballs
Printable version of recipe here.6-8 spicy lamb sausages
2 large yellow onions, finely chopped
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
500g packet chunky tomatoes
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 red chili, finely chopped
125g buffalo mozzarella, cut in cubes
150g peas, fresh or frozen
1 tablespoon dried Italian herbs
Small bunch of thyme
200g strong vegetable broth
500g fresh Fettuccine pasta
2 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
- In a large skillet heat up 1 tablespoon oil.
- Remove the skin from the sausages and break off small pieces. Using your fingers form small balls and stir-fry in the oil.
- Reduce to heat to medium and allow the sausages to brown evenly, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
- In the remaining fat sauté the chili, onions and garlic until transparent and fragrant.
- Add the tomato paste, cook for a few minutes, then add the chunky tomatoes and the vegetable broth. Sprinkle with the dried herbs, cover and allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes.
- A few minutes before the cooking time in up add the peas and stir well. The sauce should have thickened nicely. Season to taste and then add the lamb meatballs. Heat through. Add the thyme, reserving a few for decoration.
- Cook the fresh pasta in a large pot with a lot of salted water. This should take just a couple of minutes.
- Drain the pasta and then transfer to the pan with the meatballs and sauce. Toss well.
- Serve pasta and meatballs in warmed deep plates, sprinkled generously with the buffalo mozzarella. Decorate with a few thyme sprigs.
Serving tips:
- Serve with a large mixed green salad for a perfect dinner.
- You can use any flavorful, spicy sausage for this. I preferred the lamb sausage as my organic store makes them with a lot of aromatic herbs and they are so full of flavor. It's also a lot leaner than the regular bratwurst. A great alternative would also be the Italian Salsiccia.
Have I re-invented the wheel here? I do know, one thing I can tell you though, I had the jury licking their plates clean! It's a basic recipe I agree, but what makes this dish really kick is that the products are of a good quality, the lamb sausages were full of flavor and the sauce - simple but full of aromatic herbs with a hint of heat. Most of all it's a quick, easy and down-right good home-cooking.
As I've featured a lot of Italian herbs and my favorite thyme in this recipe I'd like to send it over to The Daily Tiffin, for this week's session of Weekend Herb Blogging. My team mate Dee is hosting this spectacular event over at the DT.
You might like these pasta dishes from WFLH:
Ricotta Pesto & Mushroom Lasagne | Spaghetti Alla Bolognese | Spaghetti Zucchini e Limone |
From around the blogs:
- Broccoli rabe, Squash + Tofu pasta - Bella Eats
- Spaghetti in Thai Roasted Chili Paste - Avec Gourmandise
- Creamy Cajun Chicken and Mushroom Pasta - The Review Lady
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By deciding to stop advertising during the TLC network's All-American Muslim reality TV show after hearing that some conservatives object to the program, Lowe's Home Improvement is now hearing complaints from others who accuse it of religious bigotry.
California State Sen. Ted Lieu (D), The Associated Press says, may call for a boycott of the home improvement chain.
On its Facebook page, the company explains its action this way:
"It appears that we managed to step into a hotly contested debate with strong views from virtually every angle and perspective — social, political and otherwise — and we've managed to make some people very unhappy. We are sincerely sorry. We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, across our workforce and our customers, and we're proud of that longstanding commitment.
"Lowe's has received a significant amount of communication on this program, from every perspective possible. Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lighting rod for many of those views. As a result we did pull our advertising on this program. We believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues of importance.
"We strongly support and respect the right of our customers, the community at large, and our employees to have different views. If we have made anyone question that commitment, we apologize."
TLC says the show "follows the daily lives of five American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, one of the most established and largest concentrations of American Muslims in the country and home to the largest mosque in the United States."
There are, TLC writes:
-- The Zabans — Dad is a high school football coach, mom is a part-time secretary and they have four children.
-- The Jaafars — Mike is "deputy chief at the sheriff's office." Angela is "an automotive marketing coordinator." They have four children.
-- The Bazzy-Aliahmads — Nina, the mom, is "an ambitious businesswoman."
-- The Aoudes — "Newlyweds expecting their first baby."
-- The Amens — "Pillars in Dearborn."
But the conservative Florida Family Association, which organized an email campaign aimed at Lowe's to urge it to drop the adds, says the show is "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."
This all raises a question:
(Note: that's not a scientific survey. It's a question meant to spark discussion. We'll keep it open until the end of the day on Tuesday.)
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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This week Starbucks began selling a cup of coffee for $7. This may seem ridiculous, but it's the logical next step of the chain's long-term marketing strategy: To convince consumers that a product that used to sell for less than a buck is in fact worth much more.
In almost 50 locations throughout the Northwest, coffee drinkers can find a curious item next to peppermint mochas and gingerbread lattes: Costa Rica Finca Palmilera, a hard-to-grow bean also called "Geisha" that sells for $7 for a "grande" and $40 for a half-pound bag.
(MORE: The Other Side of Warren Buffett's Common Sense Tax Argument)
In a way, the release of Starbucks' highest-end (and most expensive) coffee to-date is similar to what the fast food industry has been doing – offering premium items in order to compete with so-called "fast-casual" restaurants like Panera Bread and premium burger joints like Five Guys.
Starbucks is starting to see smaller, high-end roasters like Stumptown Coffee Roasters out of Portland, Ore., Blue Bottle Bottle Coffee Company in Oakland, Calif., and Intelligentsia from Chicago start to grow in size and popularity. The funny thing is that Starbucks' success helped spawn this new generation of roasters by showing that consumers are willing to upgrade their $1 cup of joe to $2, $3, even $4.
Now, high-end roasters are expanding in cities throughout the Northwest and along the East Coast. And eventually, they could begin chipping away at Starbucks' dominance.
(MORE: How to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff)
Starbucks' new offering is designed to capture that super-premium customer who may be looking elsewhere and has money to spend, says Edward Jones analyst Jack Russo, who studies the industry. "It's clearly not going to be a big part of their overall business," he says. "But if you look at a lot of companies out there — restaurants for example — they've moved people up in their menu, offering more premium items. Beauty companies have been doing the same thing, offering premium-type products. What Starbucks is doing isn't different from anyone else."
Russo says that with the economy showing signs of recovery, the company may have seen this as a good time to unveil a coffee that you'd think most consumers would sneer at. At first glance, $7 seems ridiculous. But that's the thing about Starbucks' entire strategy: They've successfully convinced Americans that a few bucks more for a cup of coffee isn't that big of a deal.
The whole thing is probably best summed up by Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live." In addition to rigging a Starbucks taste test showing unassuming participants trying to determine the difference between high-end and regular joe — both cups of coffee were the same, yet most thought one was the $7 cup of Starbucks — Kimmel said this: "Although while it's ridiculous to spend $7 on a cup of coffee, it's not that much more ridiculous than spending $4 on a cup of coffee."


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Public phone: 0800 169 0310 (Existing Benefit Claims) / 0800 055 6688 (New Benefit Claims)
Website URL: http://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus
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Service offered: Combined jobsearch and benefits service for people of working age. Personal advisers assist with jobsearch activities and benefits claims. Access to Jobpoint terminals for information on job vacancies. Part of the Department for Work and Pensions' Jobcentre Plus network.
Target group: People of working age who are looking for work or claiming benefits.
Area served: Wakefield.
How to contact: Phone/Website.
Monday: 9am - 5pm
Tuesday: 9am - 5pm
Wednesday: 9am - 5pm
Thursday: 9am - 5pm
Friday: 9am - 5pm
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Wheelchair access: Yes - full
Accessible toilets: Yes
Access notes: Level entrance. Loop system and BSL signers available.
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Languages other than English: Gujarati, Pashto, Punjabi, access to interpreters and BSL.
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I have not been here a week yet and my heart is already replenished and my eyes filled with beautiful memories. I keep catching myself throughout the day thinking "I can't believe I am here". It's good to go home and see all my cousins for a joyous occasion for once. I've been enjoying my mom's wonderful cooking, let my nose take me to the cheese box and renewed my love affair with the most fragrant cantaloupes, Saturn peaches, and tiny mirabelles. I'm in complete bliss.
On Saturday my grandfather gathered the family for a celebration of his 100th birthday. As he said, never in his life did he imagine that the family that he and my grandmother started at 2 would grow to an intimate (!) group of 50 – children, grandchildren, great grandchildren (and their spouses). That's us. We as a whole function as a giant tribe composed of many smaller clans. It's joyous. It's loud. It's everywhere and all at once. It's tensed and climatic. It's pretty darn awesome when I get to be there (and so grateful my uncle took this photo!).
When you think that there are exactly 100 years between my grandfather and his last great granddaughter, well you are slightly inclined to smell the roses and open up the bubbly! And celebrate we did! My cheeks hurt so much from laughing and smiling as I looked over my shoulders to see my cousins now all grown up and parents of their own.
As I said, my heart is full. Even fuller now that I got to spend quality time with my brother's children for a few days. Because of their age difference we were able to take full advantage of both their rhythms and while Camille was napping, Lea and I spent time baking and chatting about life and other "very serious things" (her words!).
We did have a little baking spree last Thursday afternoon and kept the oven quite busy while filling my parents' home with the most captivating scents of cardamom, mirabelles, honey, almonds,… A perfectly golden Tarte Aux Mirabelles was the reward of an afternoon of rolling, mixing and whipping.
Perfect sun gold tiny mirabelles from a neighbor's garden with soft as silk pulp and just enough juice to keep you busy licking your fingers clean. Time to pit the mirabelles literally flew by as we talked and laughed. While I was taking care of the fruit, Lea rolled the remainder of a pate sable my mom had made a few days prior and I started on the almond filling. I noticed that my love for stone fruits and frangipane is a family thing. Lea was all about it too. Of course! She's my niece…ehehe!
We are leaving the cool weather of Paris tomorrow for the sunny terrain of the Hautes Alpes and Provence and where I grew up and finally taking a little detour to go to Toulouse in the South West to be with my brother on his turf for a couple of days. It's going to be a few packed days of driving and visiting!
I want to walk up and down my old street once more. I want to stare at the mountain Sainte Victoire again, sit under the tree where I used to watch the old guys play "la petanque", drink a menthe a l'eau in the shade and bite into a pompe a l'huile one more time.
Can't wait to show you more of the gorgeous scenery and foods of the South of France.
Tarte Frangipane Mirabelles – Almond and Mirabelles Tart
Serves 8-10
Note: you can substitute mirabelles with any stone fruit that you favor. If you are not baking gluten free, replace the rice, millet, sorghum flours and cornstarch with 1.5 cups of all purpose flour and omit the xanthan gum.
For the crust:
5 tablespoons (70gr) unsalted butter, at room temperature
3 egg yolks
pinch salt
1/2 cup (80gr) superfine sweet white rice flour
1/2 cup (60gr) millet flour
1/4 cup (30gr) sorghum flour
1/4 cup (40gr) corn starch
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup cold water (optional if the dough seems too dry)
For the filling:
1 stick (115 gr) butter, softened
1/3 cup (115gr) honey
1 cup (100 gr) ground almonds (blanched, slivered, whole, your call)
2 eggs
1/4 cup (60gr) heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
1-2 cups pitted mirabelles plums (or your preferred stone fruit)
Prepare the crust:
In a mixer, whip the butter on medium speed until light and airy. Add the egg yolks, one at a time and beating well after each addition. Mix until incorporated. Add the salt, and all the different flours, and the xantham gum and mix briefly. Add some water, one tablespoon at a time if the dough feels too dry. Dump the whole mixture onto a lightly floured (use more rice flour) board and gather the dough into a smooth ball. Flatten the dough into a disk, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Preheat oven to 350F and position a rack in the center.
When the dough is nice and cold, roll it out on a lightly floured board or in between two sheets of plastic to fit your prefered pie pan. If the dough tears while you roll or/and transfer into the pan, just patch it with your fingertips. Line the dough with a piece of parchment paper, fill with pie weights or dy beans and par bake for 10-15 minutes until almost completely baked. Remove the weights and parchment paper. At this point you can refrigerate the baked crust for up to 3 days before using.
Prepare the almond filling and mirabelles topping:
Place the butter, honey, ground almonds, and the eggs in a large bowl and whisk until smooth (can also be done in a food processor). Add the cream and cardamom but stir in it instead of whisking not to emulsify it or it will rise while baking.
Arrange the mirabelles halves at the bottom of the pie crust and pour the cream over them. Bake 25-30 minutes at 350F. Drizzle with a bit of extra honey if desired when still warm.


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David Petraeus has resigned as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair.
According to his letter of resignation, Petraeus asked President Barack Obama on Thursday to allow him to resign and on Friday the president accepted.
Petraeus said in a statement that he had shown "extremely poor judgment" in having the affair.
Petraeus has been married for 37 years to Holly Petraeus, whom he met when he was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The retired four-star general led the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, then took the helm of the CIA in September 2011.
The CIA had no immediate comment.


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LOVE PEACE and enJOY!
x - September 7, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- Jennifer said...
Congratulations, what exciting news. I can see why you are thrilled, how much fun. Can't wait till it comes out.
- September 7, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Elaine from L.A. said...
I've been reading your blog for a few months and kind of had a feeling as to the nature of your "big peachy news" :~)
{A Lady of a Certain Age, not to mention an Anglophile in Portland}
P.S. I am so impressed that you actually performed at the Royal Albert Hall :~) - September 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- elizabeth & harriet said...
dearest tif, congrat's of the largest kind ... this is a book long overdue and i shall look forward to a summer of reading about the life of dottie angel ...
- September 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Unknown said...
That is absolutely fabulous news!!! you and your pasty pins should be very proud! congratulations and thank you so much for sharing so much inspiration...:)
peace! - September 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Sharon Stanley said...
oh my goodness!!!!! this is the most exciting news i have heard ALL day...not that there has been much exciting news so far.....jubel got in with the cows...semi-exciting....10 of 11 chickens laid eggs today...again, semi-exciting.....and the first day of the last year of school for my youngest went well....pretty exciting...but this....this...is over the top exciting...a jump up and down exciting and i am so very very pleased to hear this most grandly exciting news...many many congratulations to you!!!!! can't wait to see this....can't wait!
- September 7, 2010 at 1:04 PM
HUGE. delurking to say kudos.
-kim - September 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Valula said...
Oooh, how very totally and utterly exciting!!
Best wishes to you Dottie Angel and to your smooth pasty pins :-)
Valula - September 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Arthur Ransome said...
Ooooooooh, Tif! That's just wonderful news. Well done. You must be so excited. It's just like Swallows and Amazons all over again. Love from Arthur.
- September 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Congrats Tif! That is such exciting news. I am so thrilled for you. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.
- September 7, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Ana said...
Very exciting news indeed! Congratulations. No one more deserving for a little published glory than you and the pasty pins.
- September 7, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Rachaeldaisy said...
Oh my god!! What wonderfully wonderful big news!!! I want that book!!!
- September 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Amy said...
Cogratulations! I can't wait to see it!
- September 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Dogwood said...
That is so so so terribly exciting! I love your writing style and think you are the greatest and now this! What can I say. You are wonderful and I am so happy for you. Can't wait to get my hands on it once it is published...
- September 7, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Heather at Mad Rose Creations said...
oh congrats miss dottie angel. what a wonderous big news sort of day. how truly stupendous! i'm going to be so proud to be able to say i read her when she was just simple ole' dottie angel living in her mossy shed with her used dog and her precious, if albeit, tubby, olive. brava m'dear! (clap, clap, clap)
- September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Michelle said...
Oh Tif...
Congratulations...and a huge hug...
I have always thought your dottie life was book worthy...I still believe it is tv series worthy too, and I will not hear otherwise...
I can't wait to have a copy in my hand...
I will be cherishing it forever...
and show many a passerby and family member within sight...
my dearest Tif has A BOOK!!! - September 7, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- greenrabbitdesigns said...
Congratulations Tif, that is indeed BIG news!!
Vivienne x - September 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM
The HAPPIEST of congratulations to you - you sooooooo deserve it!!!!
Vickie in Seattle - September 7, 2010 at 3:32 PM
- Dana said...
Wow!! congratulations miss dottie! miss tiff!! o what a great news!! I want it!
- September 7, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Yowzers Tif, how extraordinarily exciting for you.
Must've been tricky trying to keep that little secret under wraps.
A book full of Dottie Angel goodness to have and to hold, move over English Country Living.
Congrats. - September 7, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Ashlee said...
How very thrilling!!!
I'm so happy for you - you deserve it XXX - September 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM
ahhhh a big huge congratulations, miss!
i follow your blog and am always in awe of you and your work. not to mention your lovely writing. so i am so happy for you <3
oh i do have one question. i was looking at your photos of your lovely family, and did notice that your daughters wear lovely clothes and i was smitten with their boots. i have been searching ! the world wide web ! and shops abound, for boots like your #1's, with the shoelaces, are they doc martens ?
thank you kindly :)
-lian - September 7, 2010 at 4:02 PM
This is the first time I am replying with a comment, after many months of reading and being continuously inspired by your creativity and your writing style. Congratulations on your big news! It will be an exciting venture for you and also for those of us who tag along on your adventures!
- September 7, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- Kerri said...
Congratulations! You must be thrilled! How exciting to be published, I can't wait to see it. P.S If it's any consolation my pasty pins are pastier than yours!
- September 7, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Leah said...
A big congratulations to you!
- September 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Leah said...
Amazing news indeed! Congrats and have fun creating for your book, I look forward to reading it.!
- September 7, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Carol said...
Congratulations Tif, no wonder you shaved those pasty pins (something I share - not 'your' pins obviously!)in celebration.
I look forward to owning an extraordinary book.
Well done!
Carol xx - September 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Clare said...
I had my legs waxed today but I cannot say it was to commemorate anything in the realm of this amazing news. Congratualtions!!!
I can't wait to own a copy. - September 7, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- willywagtail said...
Congratulations. Dottie. I am sure many , many will be happy to just hold your beloved book in their shaved mitts. It will be a real treat.
- September 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- jen said...
Congratulations!!!!!! This is news of the most wonderful kind and I will have to investigate re international shipping to the lovely land of Aus. Being a woman of a certain age with a perchant for crafting your words and thoughts are most inspiring. So pleased that you enjoyed your time in ole blighty, it was a quite a dull winter here with you away and my neighbour and good friend also returning for a summer holiday in 'the old country' apparently it was not all that summery though.
Well congratulations again an accolade well deserved ! - September 7, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Unknown said...
Congratulations that is fantastic news !
- September 7, 2010 at 5:33 PM
yea, great news! i love UPPERCASE as well as your blog, so it will very much be something to look forward to next year - congrats! :)
- September 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM
I believe I've just been stunned out of lurking! How perfectly lovely! Congratulations, Felicitations, etc., etc., This is thrilling news indeed!!!
- September 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM
- Violette Crumble said...
Exciting! I am so looking forward to seeing the book. Your work is a constant source of inspiration to me.
Hugs to you and your non-hippie-PNW legs :) - September 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Claire White said...
congratulations! I'm utterly thrilled for you! can't wait to see/hear more!!
kitty - September 7, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Kyra said...
Oh my, congrats!!!!
- September 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- dottie angel said...
thank you all so very kindly for the lovely words of congratulations! you have me beaming with your kindness...
and yes indeed, the boots upon Our #1's feet are Dr Martens... a chip off the old block she is :)
i have just finished skyping with her in england, she is now in her new college digs and settling in nicely. she is known as 'the american'!!
thank you again my dearies for sharing my 'big news' day and making it a truly special one, i feel most fortunate indeed :) - September 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Tonia said...
Hooray! Many congratulations: I am off to tell my scruffy mutt and high-falutin' cat so that they may also run round in circles or sniff according to temperment and taste.
- September 7, 2010 at 9:27 PM
- blue corduroy said...
that is WAY COOL!! of course, i would love to have a book full of YOU! those editors must be genius's. congratulations!!
- September 7, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Mette said...
Congratulations! I can't wait to see your book, Tif.
- September 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Anne said...
Yaaaaay! That is incredibly exciting for you and for us who will be reading it for sure! WELL DONE, you deserve it!
- September 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- louise35flower said...
woohoo! congratulations, it shall be added to my Christmas list immediately :)
- September 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM
- Selfsewn said...
ooh sign me up!!
Will it be sold in Blighty??
ps. I have no idea what a pasty pin is?? - September 8, 2010 at 2:37 AM
- jen storer said...
That is truly the awesomest news for the angel and the tif and i am so thrilled for them. i will be awaiting the publication of said Beautiful Book with all the breathless anticipation of a nineteenth century herione! Bundles of best wishes! jenx
- September 8, 2010 at 3:38 AM
- Jessie said...
oh Tif, how exciting! I will personally give you a congratulatory hug in exactly 16 days!
- September 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Regina said...
Congratulations and that is some amazingly peachy news. I can't wait to get my hands on it. So happy for you!
- September 8, 2010 at 6:16 AM
- Gilli said...
Yay! Can you hear the thunderous applause from my little woods in Wisconsin? Love your blog, and will love your book.
- September 8, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- dottie angel said...
gosh you really know how to make a woman of an uncertain age living in surburbia 'smile and smile' :)
as for 'pasty pins', they would be my little spindley legs that appear briefly below my frock hemline! always a relief when it gets to 'woolly tights' weather and i can tuck them away for another 9 months!
thank you again for being so wonderfully receptive to my book news! makes it all even more exciting to start work on, knowing you are alongside of me, dearest readers :) - September 8, 2010 at 7:28 AM
- paperbird said...
This is good news to all of us who admire the pretties that you create. Congratulations to you cute Tiff.
- September 8, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Kristen said...
I am so excited to hear this news! I can't wait to buy my copy. :)
- September 8, 2010 at 8:16 AM
- Renee said...
Congratulations to you up north. I have been wondering when this goodness would happen (being published, I mean). You so deserve it!
- September 8, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- sjeanne said...
Congratulations of the upmost kind! I have been reading your blog for several months, and feel that this couldn't happen to a nicer, more creative person. I love what you do with vintage items! You inspire me. Looking forward to the book...
- September 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- britt said...
that is wonderful news.! congrats!
- September 8, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Francesca said...
well...how very, very la-di-da. i'm chuffed beyond words for you my peachy friend. i'm back from hols and got a lot of catching up to do i see. i'm raising my imaginary champagne flute to you. x
- September 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Jill said...
A whomping Congrats to you!! How very, very, wonderful!
- September 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- kristena marie said...
Best news ever! I can't wait.
- September 8, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- kristena marie said...
Best news ever! I can't wait.
- September 8, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- Kate said...
Congratulations Tif!
- September 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Chloe said...
Congrats, Tif. It is an honor well-deserved!
- September 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- Michelle Clement said...
Eeek! Amazing!! :) I can't wait - it's going to be the loveliest book ever! Uppercase rocks! :) So excited for you!
- September 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- gypsysticks said...
my sincere congratulations to you!
- September 8, 2010 at 12:38 PM
- Greedy Nan said...
I was so-o-o super-excited I nearly didn't check, then something said to me, go Greedy and see how much this is really going to be because $70 US seems a very high figure EVEN for Dottie Angel's book [plus postage]. It IS an EXTREMELY HIGH figure [over £40 in Sterling terms]. I'm afraid I will just have to love and covet it from afar [or save very hard] of I want to have a copy. Big bottoms!
- September 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Ada and Lilly said...
Sending you very warm congratulations from England. Please tell me that the book will be available in the UK....!!
- September 8, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Ann said...
Fabulous! Congratulations to you! But I want to see it NOW!! Hope we'll see some sneek peeks!
- September 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- dottie angel said...
thank you my dearies!!!
just to be clear, the book on it's own, not in the 'book bundle' is $35 which i believe is around 20 pounds sterling. it is available to pre-order from UPPERCASE and when published, i believe other independent sellers around the globe, including myself :)
i am not altogether sure of the cost of shipping and all the details at this precise moment...
when i am, i will be sure to clarify things.
and yes indeedy! let us hope for sneak peeks, i will be sure to let you know :) - September 8, 2010 at 6:18 PM
- marian said...
yay-oh-yay i'm bursting with EXCITEMENT for you, Tif!
i can't wait to get my hands on a copy..eeeeeek! x - September 9, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Greedy Nan said...
I am returned with my imaginary cap in my hand. As soon as I'd clicked the 'send' button I thought I shouldn't perhaps have typed the comment as it may have sounded like sour grapes and not sweet peaches and this was totally unmeant. I STILL think though, with postage, the entire package is EXPENSIVE and at the moment, a super-tad beyond my means. I am however, extremely happy for you because you just so-o-o deserve to be recognised more than you currently are.
- September 9, 2010 at 12:56 AM
- Gorgeous Things said...
Congratulations! Very well deserved - I look forward to reading THE BOOK. You have a unique talent.I hope you'll still have time for blogging, though.
- September 9, 2010 at 4:01 AM
- Emma Burgess said...
Congratulations again! It is such good news and I can't wait to read and enjoy...Emma. xx
- September 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM
- Luna Levy said...
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY - I read this yesterday in the Uppercase newsletter and I felt SO SO excited for you! I wish I could bake you cookies and give you a hug! So here's a virtual hug and I'm sending you a cookie right now - your favorite kind :)
Congratulations Tif! I've been telling you that you are brilliant for quite a while now, so hopefully this will make you believe it!
xoxo - September 9, 2010 at 5:19 AM
- Claudia said...
COngratulations, Tif!!! You deserve this so much!!! I understand the excitment, as I had a rather smaller thrilling news myself, but a book is a book!!! What an amazing thing!!! Congratulations again!!!! Hugs, Twiggs
- September 9, 2010 at 5:21 AM
- dottie angel said...
greedy nan sweetie, do not fret nor worry... i totally understood what you were saying, the only thing i can say is the book comes with lots of extras and the pages within are not your ordinary pages, the feel, the texture, the pictures and the journey.
the amazing creativity Janine puts into producing her books is like nothing i have seen before...
i have waited patiently for a publisher who can translate what i see inside of my head on to paper, i am without doubt that Janine is the perfect fit for a dottie angel book and for that reason alone i am so terribly excited for the coming months and the final product.
i have high hopes there will be some available in england and thus, postage will be much better for you my dear :)
and yes indeed! my blog will still be loved and cared for!!! some days may be a little tricky, but we can get through 'a little tricky' i am quite sure :)
thank you again, i feel most humbled and at the same time, gleeful with your lovely responses to a dottie angel book! - September 9, 2010 at 7:46 AM
CONGRATULATIONS! This is so wonderful!
- September 9, 2010 at 8:16 AM
OH MY GAWWWDDD - I go on holiday for a week and miss the big news - many congrats :) Also YAYYYY!!!!!!
p.s. Mr Shark looks sooo slick - I have one of those steam station ironing things - and with all the puffing and wheezing and hissing - I fear I can only think of the name Uncle Nasty .... - September 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- Christine Clemmensen said...
I have and hold Camillas book, and I think it's safe to say I shall have and hold your book too.
Congratulations!! This is wonderful for you. And for us buyers :o) - September 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Chantal said...
bravo :-) !
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8 ounces medium pasta shells
1 jar (16 ounces) giardiniera
1/2 pound fresh broccoli florets
1/4 pound cubed part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/4 pound hard salami, cubed
1/4 pound deli ham, cubed
1 package (3-1/2 ounces) sliced pepperoni, halved
1 large green pepper, cut into chunks
1 can(6 ounces) pitted ripe olives, drained
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1) Cook pasta according to package directions.
2) Meanwhile, drain giardiniera, reserving 1/3 cup liquid. Combine giardiniera, broccoli, mozzarella, salami, ham, pepperoni, green pepper and olives in a large bowl.
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