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What better place to share your love for pets than in our stores? With so many opportunities under one roof, you'll be sure to find a career path that inspires you. As the Department Manager for Merchandise and Inventory, you'll ensure that the store runs smoothly-from head to tail. From motivating associates to ensuring we have the right product on the floor, our Department Managers drive the success of our stores by ensuring our customers have an engaging, personalized shopping experience. ABOUT OUR TEAMS: In a store as big as ours, we need all hands (and paws, wings and fins!) on deck to ensure we are operating efficiently. So, as a PetSmart Department Manager, you'll help lead the team in the following areas:+ Merchandising & Inventory: Our Merchandising & Inventory Leader play an integral role in helping our pet parents find exactly what they need, right when they need it. Areas of accountability will include leading the execution plan-o-grams, organizing promotional and sale price changes, and overseeing fulfillment of our In-Store Pick Up Orders.
+ Associate Leadership: You'll lead a team of Stocking Associates to maintain a fully stocked and clean environment for our pets and pet parents. You'll also provide them with the guidance and development to grow their careers.
+ Overall Retail Initiatives: Creating an exceptional customer experience is a top priority for all our leaders. From ensuring our associates have extensive knowledge of pet solutions to building connections with pet parents, our leaders ensure a safe and fun environment in our stores.
ABOUT YOUR CAREER: Just like we're there for pets at every stage of their lives, we'll be with you at every stage of your career, too. With PetSmart, you will have opportunities to:+ Gain experience in a different business unit-from the store to the salon or the Phoenix Home Office
+ Develop your leadership skills as an Assistant Manager or Store Manager
+ Tackle the challenge of a new store opening
+ Transfer to any one of our 1600 stores nationwide
THE WARM AND FUZZIES: We've highlighted job responsibilities as best as we could above-but the best parts of working at PetSmart can't be fully described in the job description.+ It's the excitement you feel when you help a little one pick out his very first fish. And not just any goldfish, but that one, right there, no not that one, this one, yea!
+ It's the relief Rosie feels when you help her mom select the best food for her upset tummy and her delight when it turns out to be chicken flavored!!
+ It's the pride of the giving Mickey a makeover in our salons watching him strut his stuff on the way out. Paws off, ladies, he's taken!
+ It's the joy of reuniting Frankie with her family after a fun stay in our Pets Hotel.
+ It's the celebration of Bella's birthday, Gizmo's graduation from puppy classes or Ace's adoption.
+ It's the little things we do that add up to really big things that pets need.
Working at PetSmart is not a job, it's a community of those who work together for the love of pets. Apply now to experience a career that loves you back. We look forward to seeing your application to join our Department Management team! This job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work associates/leaders assigned to this job perform. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. You will be provided a copy of a job description for the actual position you are hired in to. PetSmart is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local law. Applicants must be the age of 18 or over, unless located in Montana or where otherwise required by local or state law For applicants in our Waterloo, San Francisco, or Los Angeles locations: Pursuant to the Waterloo and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the lawThis job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work associates/leaders assigned to this job perform. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. You will be provided a copy of a job description for the actual position you are hired in to.
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Applicants must be over the age of 18.
The employer will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.


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The strategic use of INTERPOL's global tools and services was the focus of the 2nd Regional Consultation on Fisheries Crime, targeting Southern and Eastern Africa.
Organized under the auspices of INTERPOL's Project Scale and in close collaboration with the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), representatives from 11 countries, eight INTERPOL National Central Bureaus, two INTERPOL Regional Bureaus, and 20 inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations attended the two-day (10 and 11 July) meeting.
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"INTERPOL Project Scale has shown significant success in the short time since its inception", said Gunnar Stølsvik, Chair of the INTERPOL Fisheries Crime Working Group. "There is a clear need for INTERPOL Project Scale to assist law enforcement agencies, including ours in Norway , to help transcend borders and ensure communication and collaboration between law enforcement agencies worldwide."
The 2nd meeting of the Fisheries Crime Working Group will take place in Nairobi , Kenya , from 4 to 7 November, alongside the INTERPOL–UNEP International Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference on 6 November.
INTERPOL's Project Scale is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime, the rape and gruesome murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi on December 16th was treated as an exceptional incident. The story of the alleged rape of an unconscious teenager by members of the Steubenville High School football team was still unfolding, and gang rapes aren't that unusual here either. Take your pick: some of the 20 men who gang-raped an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas, were sentenced in November, while the instigator of the gang rape of a 16-year-old in Richmond, California, was sentenced in October, and four men who gang-raped a 15-year-old near New Orleans were sentenced in April, though the six men who gang-raped a 14-year-old in Chicago last fall are still at large. Not that I actually went out looking for incidents: they're everywhere in the news, though no one adds them up and indicates that there might actually be a pattern.
There is, however, a pattern of violence against women that's broad and deep and horrific and incessantly overlooked. Occasionally, a case involving a celebrity or lurid details in a particular case get a lot of attention in the media, but such cases are treated as anomalies, while the abundance of incidental news items about violence against women in this country, in other countries, on every continent including Antarctica, constitute a kind of background wallpaper for the news.
If you'd rather talk about bus rapes than gang rapes, there's the rape of a developmentally disabled woman on a Los Angeles bus in November and the kidnapping of an autistic 16-year-old on the regional transit train system in Oakland, California — she was raped repeatedly by her abductor over two days this winter — and there was a gang rape of multiple women on a bus in Mexico City recently, too. While I was writing this, I read that another female bus-rider was kidnapped in India and gang-raped all night by the bus driver and five of his friends who must have thought what happened in New Delhi was awesome.
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
Here I want to say one thing: though virtually all the perpetrators of such crimes are men, that doesn't mean all men are violent. Most are not. In addition, men obviously also suffer violence, largely at the hands of other men, and every violent death, every assault is terrible. But the subject here is the pandemic of violence by men against women, both intimate violence and stranger violence.
What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Gender
There's so much of it. We could talk about the assault and rape of a 73-year-old in Manhattan's Central Park last September, or the recent rape of a four-year-old and an 83-year-old in Louisiana, or the New York City policeman who was arrested in October for what appeared to be serious plans to kidnap, rape, cook, and eat a woman, any woman, because the hate wasn't personal (though maybe it was for the San Diego man who actually killed and cooked his wife in November and the man from New Orleans who killed, dismembered, and cooked his girlfriend in 2005).
Those are all exceptional crimes, but we could also talk about quotidian assaults, because though a rape is reported only every 6.2 minutes in this country, the estimated total is perhaps five times as high. Which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the U.S. It all adds up to tens of millions of rape victims.
We could talk about high-school– and college-athlete rapes, or campus rapes, to which university authorities have been appallingly uninterested in responding in many cases, including that high school in Steubenville, Notre Dame University, Amherst College, and many others. We could talk about the escalating pandemic of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in the U.S. military, where Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta estimated that there were 19,000 sexual assaults on fellow soldiers in 2010 alone and that the great majority of assailants got away with it, though four-star general Jeffrey Sinclair was indicted in September for "a slew of sex crimes against women."
Never mind workplace violence, let's go home. So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over 1,000 homicides of that kind a year — meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11's casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular terror. (Another way to put it: the more than 11,766 corpses from domestic-violence homicides since 9/11 exceed the number of deaths of victims on that day and all American soldiers killed in the "war on terror.") If we talked about crimes like these and why they are so common, we'd have to talk about what kinds of profound change this society, or this nation, or nearly every nation needs. If we talked about it, we'd be talking about masculinity, or male roles, or maybe patriarchy, and we don't talk much about that.
Instead, we hear that American men commit murder-suicides — at the rate of about 12 a week — because the economy is bad, though they also do it when the economy is good; or that those men in India murdered the bus-rider because the poor resent the rich, while other rapes in India are explained by how the rich exploit the poor; and then there are those ever-popular explanations: mental problems and intoxicants — and for jocks, head injuries. The latest spin is that lead exposure was responsible for a lot of our violence, except that both genders are exposed and one commits most of the violence. The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.
Someone wrote a piece about how white men seem to be the ones who commit mass murders in the U.S. and the (mostly hostile) commenters only seemed to notice the white part. It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible: "Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behavior in several studies, as have exposure to tobacco smoke before birth, having antisocial parents, and belonging to a poor family."
Still, the pattern is plain as day. We could talk about this as a global problem, looking at the epidemic of assault, harassment, and rape of women in Cairo's Tahrir Square that has taken away the freedom they celebrated during the Arab Spring — and led some men there to form defense teams to help counter it — or the persecution of women in public and private in India from "Eve-teasing" to bride-burning, or "honor killings" in South Asia and the Middle East, or the way that South Africa has become a global rape capital, with an estimated 600,000 rapes last year, or how rape has been used as a tactic and "weapon" of war in Mali, Sudan, and the Congo, as it was in the former Yugoslavia, or the pervasiveness of rape and harassment in Mexico and the femicide in Juarez, or the denial of basic rights for women in Saudi Arabia and the myriad sexual assaults on immigrant domestic workers there, or the way that the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in the United States revealed what impunity he and others had in France, and it's only for lack of space I'm leaving out Britain and Canada and Italy (with its ex-prime minister known for his orgies with the underaged), Argentina and Australia and so many other countries.
Who Has the Right to Kill You?
But maybe you're tired of statistics, so let's just talk about a single incident that happened in my city a couple of weeks ago, one of many local incidents in which men assaulted women that made the local papers this month:
"A woman was stabbed after she rebuffed a man's sexual advances while she walked in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood late Monday night, a police spokesman said today. The 33-year-old victim was walking down the street when a stranger approached her and propositioned her, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said. When she rejected him, the man became very upset and slashed the victim in the face and stabbed her in the arm, Esparza said."
The man, in other words, framed the situation as one in which his chosen victim had no rights and liberties, while he had the right to control and punish her. This should remind us that violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with this premise: I have the right to control you.
Murder is the extreme version of that authoritarianism, where the murderer asserts he has the right to decide whether you live or die, the ultimate means of controlling someone. This may be true even if you are "obedient," because the desire to control comes out of a rage that obedience can't assuage. Whatever fears, whatever sense of vulnerability may underlie such behavior, it also comes out of entitlement, the entitlement to inflict suffering and even death on other people. It breeds misery in the perpetrator and the victims.
As for that incident in my city, similar things happen all the time. Many versions of it happened to me when I was younger, sometimes involving death threats and often involving torrents of obscenities: a man approaches a woman with both desire and the furious expectation that the desire will likely be rebuffed. The fury and desire come in a package, all twisted together into something that always threatens to turn eros into thanatos, love into death, sometimes literally.
It's a system of control. It's why so many intimate-partner murders are of women who dared to break up with those partners. As a result, it imprisons a lot of women, and though you could say that the attacker on January 7th, or a brutal would-be-rapist near my own neighborhood on January 5th, or another rapist here on January 12th, or the San Franciscan who on January 6th set his girlfriend on fire for refusing to do his laundry, or the guy who was just sentenced to 370 years for some particularly violent rapes in San Francisco in late 2011, were marginal characters, rich, famous, and privileged guys do it, too.
The Japanese vice-consul in San Francisco was charged with 12 felony counts of spousal abuse and assault with a deadly weapon last September, the same month that, in the same town, the ex-girlfriend of Mason Mayer (brother of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer) testified in court: "He ripped out my earrings, tore my eyelashes off, while spitting in my face and telling me how unlovable I am… I was on the ground in the fetal position, and when I tried to move, he squeezed both knees tighter into my sides to restrain me and slapped me." According to the newspaper, she also testified that "Mayer slammed her head onto the floor repeatedly and pulled out clumps of her hair, telling her that the only way she was leaving the apartment alive was if he drove her to the Golden Gate Bridge 'where you can jump off or I will push you off.'" Mason Mayer got probation.
This summer, an estranged husband violated his wife's restraining order against him, shooting her — and six other women — at her spa job in suburban Milwaukee, but since there were only four corpses the crime was largely overlooked in the media in a year with so many more spectacular mass murders in this country (and we still haven't really talked about the fact that, of 62 mass shootings in the U.S. in three decades, only one was by a woman, because when you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns but not about men — and by the way, nearly two thirds of all women killed by guns are killed by their partner or ex-partner).
What's love got to do with it, asked Tina Turner, whose ex-husband Ike once said, "Yeah I hit her, but I didn't hit her more than the average guy beats his wife." A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It's the number-one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalizations, according to the Center for Disease Control, and you don't want to know about the dentistry needed afterwards. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S.
"Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined," writes Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the few prominent figures to address the issue regularly.
The Chasm Between Our Worlds
Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence, constitute the barrage some men lay down as they attempt to control some women, and fear of that violence limits most women in ways they've gotten so used to they hardly notice — and we hardly address. There are exceptions: last summer someone wrote to me to describe a college class in which the students were asked what they do to stay safe from rape. The young women described the intricate ways they stayed alert, limited their access to the world, took precautions, and essentially thought about rape all the time (while the young men in the class, he added, gaped in astonishment). The chasm between their worlds had briefly and suddenly become visible.
Mostly, however, we don't talk about it — though a graphic has been circulating on the Internet called Ten Top Tips to End Rape, the kind of thing young women get often enough, but this one had a subversive twist. It offered advice like this: "Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone 'by accident' you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can call for help." While funny, the piece points out something terrible: the usual guidelines in such situations put the full burden of prevention on potential victims, treating the violence as a given. You explain to me why colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.
Threats of sexual assault now seem to take place online regularly. In late 2011, British columnist Laurie Penny wrote, "An opinion, it seems, is the short skirt of the Internet. Having one and flaunting it is somehow asking an amorphous mass of almost-entirely male keyboard-bashers to tell you how they'd like to rape, kill, and urinate on you. This week, after a particularly ugly slew of threats, I decided to make just a few of those messages public on Twitter, and the response I received was overwhelming. Many could not believe the hate I received, and many more began to share their own stories of harassment, intimidation, and abuse."
Women in the online gaming community have been harassed, threatened, and driven out. Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist media critic who documented such incidents, received support for her work, but also, in the words of a journalist, "another wave of really aggressive, you know, violent personal threats, her accounts attempted to be hacked. And one man in Ontario took the step of making an online video game where you could punch Anita's image on the screen. And if you punched it multiple times, bruises and cuts would appear on her image." The difference between these online gamers and the Taliban men who, last October, tried to murder 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for speaking out about the right of Pakistani women to education is one of degree. Both are trying to silence and punish women for claiming voice, power, and the right to participate. Welcome to Manistan.
The Party for the Protection of the Rights of Rapists
It's not just public, or private, or online either. It's also embedded in our political system, and our legal system, which before feminists fought for us didn't recognize most domestic violence, or sexual harassment and stalking, or date rape, or acquaintance rape, or marital rape, and in cases of rape still often tries the victim rather than the rapist, as though only perfect maidens could be assaulted — or believed.
As we learned in the 2012 election campaign, it's also embedded in the minds and mouths of our politicians. Remember that spate of crazy pro-rape things Republican men said last summer and fall, starting with Todd Akin's notorious claim that a woman has ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of rape, a statement he made in order to deny women control over their own bodies. After that, of course, Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that rape pregnancies were "a gift from God," and just this month, another Republican politician piped up to defend Akin's comment.
Happily the five publicly pro-rape Republicans in the 2012 campaign all lost their election bids. (Stephen Colbert tried to warn them that women had gotten the vote in 1920.) But it's not just a matter of the garbage they say (and the price they now pay). Earlier this month, congressional Republicans refused to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, because they objected to the protection it gave immigrants, transgendered women, and Native American women. (Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88% of those rapes are by non-Native men who know tribal governments can't prosecute them.)
And they're out to gut reproductive rights — birth control as well as abortion, as they've pretty effectively done in many states over the last dozen years. What's meant by "reproductive rights," of course, is the right of women to control their own bodies. Didn't I mention earlier that violence against women is a control issue?
And though rapes are often investigated lackadaisically — there is a backlog of about 400,000 untested rape kits in this country– rapists who impregnate their victims have parental rights in 31 states. Oh, and former vice-presidential candidate and current congressman Paul Ryan (R-Manistan) is reintroducing a bill that would give states the right to ban abortions and might even conceivably allow a rapist to sue his victim for having one.
All the Things That Aren't to Blame
Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence. Unlike the last (male) head of the International Monetary Fund, the current (female) head is not going to assault an employee at a luxury hotel; top-ranking female officers in the U.S. military, unlike their male counterparts, are not accused of any sexual assaults; and young female athletes, unlike those male football players in Steubenville, aren't likely to urinate on unconscious boys, let alone violate them and boast about it in YouTube videos and Twitter feeds.
No female bus riders in India have ganged up to sexually assault a man so badly he dies of his injuries, nor are marauding packs of women terrorizing men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and there's just no maternal equivalent to the 11% of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers. Of the people in prison in the U.S., 93.5% are not women, and though quite a lot of them should not be there in the first place, maybe some of them should because of violence, until we think of a better way to deal with it, and them.
No major female pop star has blown the head off a young man she took home with her, as did Phil Spector. (He is now part of that 93.5% for the shotgun slaying of Lana Clarkson, apparently for refusing his advances.) No female action-movie star has been charged with domestic violence, because Angelina Jolie just isn't doing what Mel Gibson and Steve McQueen did, and there aren't any celebrated female movie directors who gave a 13-year-old drugs before sexually assaulting that child, while she kept saying "no," as did Roman Polanski.
In Memory of Jyoti Singh Pandey
What's the matter with manhood? There's something about how masculinity is imagined, about what's praised and encouraged, about the way violence is passed on to boys that needs to be addressed. There are lovely and wonderful men out there, and one of the things that's encouraging in this round of the war against women is how many men I've seen who get it, who think it's their issue too, who stand up for us and with us in everyday life, online and in the marches from New Delhi to San Francisco this winter.
Increasingly men are becoming good allies — and there always have been some. Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. Domestic violence statistics are down significantly from earlier decades (even though they're still shockingly high), and a lot of men are at work crafting new ideas and ideals about masculinity and power.
Gay men have been good allies of mine for almost four decades. (Apparently same-sex marriage horrifies conservatives because it's marriage between equals with no inevitable roles.) Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful. But we are free together or slaves together.
There are other things I'd rather write about, but this affects everything else. The lives of half of humanity are still dogged by, drained by, and sometimes ended by this pervasive variety of violence. Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving. Look at it this way: one of the best journalists I know is afraid to walk home at night in our neighborhood. Should she stop working late? How many women have had to stop doing their work, or been stopped from doing it, for similar reasons?
One of the most exciting new political movements on Earth is the Native Canadian indigenous rights movement, with feminist and environmental overtones, called Idle No More. On December 27th, shortly after the movement took off, a Native woman was kidnapped, raped, beaten, and left for dead in Thunder Bay, Ontario, by men whose remarks framed the crime as retaliation against Idle No More. Afterward, she walked four hours through the bitter cold and survived to tell her tale. Her assailants, who have threatened to do it again, are still at large.
The New Delhi rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the 23-year-old who was studying physiotherapy so that she could better herself while helping others, and the assault on her male companion (who survived) seem to have triggered the reaction that we have needed for 100, or 1,000, or 5,000 years. May she be to women — and men — worldwide what Emmett Till, murdered by white supremacists in 1955, was to African-Americans and the then-nascent U.S. civil rights movement.
We have far more than 87,000 rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident. We have dots so close they're splatters melting into a stain, but hardly anyone connects them, or names that stain. In India they did. They said that this is a civil rights issue, it's a human rights issue, it's everyone's problem, it's not isolated, and it's never going to be acceptable again. It has to change. It's your job to change it, and mine, and ours.
Rebecca Solnit has written a version of this essay three times so far, once in the 1980s for the punk magazine Maximum Rock'n'Roll, once as the chapter on women and walking in her 2000 book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and here. She would love the topic to become out of date and irrelevant and never to have write it again.


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Like a finely sculpted figure or an architectural wonder, Suzanna receives and refracts the light around her, sending back exquisite angle and shapes to be consumed by the camera.
There is something sylph-like, almost supernatural, about her shifting, sexy form, as if she were delicately balanced on the strings of an all-powerful, and all-enchanted, puppeteer. But at the heart of it all, she is immaculate flesh, posing with her pillow, emulating sensuous acts for our ocular delight.
O sweet Suzanna!
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For most of this year I've been noticing a change in the relation between my life, my training, and my racing. It's been a very slow change that's been hard for me to understand but I think I'm finally starting to process it and put it together into real, concrete thoughts. Having the race I did at Wasatch (i.e. a performance which shocked and confused me with how fast I ran) has helped a lot with forcing me to look for some of these things which I've been able to feel for awhile now, but have been unable, until now, to put a finger on. Basically my performance at Wastach, and to a lesser degree at Crow Pass in July has forced me to confront the question, why am I running so much faster now than I was just 6 months or a year ago?
It's easy to attribute it to the fact that I'm quite new to racing ultras and that I'm just learning the ropes and still on the steep section of the bell curve. I think there is some truth to that, but I really don't think that's all of it.
Things changed for me a lot after my Miwok disaster in May. I was planning to run either Western States or Hardrock this summer. With my DNF at Miwok I no longer had the option of running Western States, but for some reason my focus didn't ever concentrate itself on Hardrock. After Miwok I took some time off from running altogether and when my mind drifted back around I found that I didn't have any desire to "train" for my next "big race." Instead I just wanted to run. I wanted to run when I felt like it, where I felt like it, with almost no specificity toward preparing myself for my next race. I decided to flow with this mentality for awhile and kind of assumed that shortly I'd come back around to my usual pattern of training to prepare myself for my next race.
We had one of the most perfect summer's imaginable in Juneau this year (weather wise), and instead of my mind coming back toward more specific training, it just kept wandering more and more.
This was June. I decided I didn't really have the focus to do Hardrock so when my spot on the waitlist came up I quietly declined, and to some extent wondered whether I would ever seriously race again. And yet day after day, week after week, I was having more fun running than I ever had. I stopped planning runs more than a few hours in advance, unless I was trying to coordinate something with others. I would get out of work and decide where I wanted to run based on the weather at the time and how I felt at the time. I stopped running on roads altogether. I started climbing up to mountain ridges almost everyday. And I began to run almost everyday with other people that I had previously only run with once in awhile. By mid summer I began to notice this trend of finishing runs, sometimes as often as 4 or 5 days a week in which I felt like I had just done one of my favorite training runs ever.
The time came to race Crow Pass and I had all kinds of doubts about whether my body was anywhere near being physically ready to run as fast as I knew I'd need to win that race. I hadn't afterall done any kind of speed work since April! And then I ran Crow Pass, still convinced that it might be my last serious race ever, and shattered the course record in a race that has been around for almost 30 years. What the hell? That was a bit confusing, but I figured it was an exception, that I just happened to have a really good day, and was aided hugely by having another runner work with me and push me to such a fast time.
After recovering from Crow Pass I decided I was definitely going to run Wasatch and I began to convince myself that maybe I could stay with this approach of having my running be about my training, not about my racing. Instead of training for a specific race and tailoring my training for that race, I realized that for a few months I had been training for me, for love, for happiness, to share my experiences in the mountains with friends, and because it had become my favorite thing to do. No longer was the racing the focal point of my running, but rather the racing was becoming just an expression of me and who I am.
Instead of 5 or 6 of my weekly runs feeling like dutiful training, with one or two really fun runs a week, the scales had turned completely. Suddenly almost every run I did left me thinking, "wow, that was one of my favorite runs ever." I think 90% or more of "my favorite runs ever" occurred in June, July, August, and September of this year!
Going into Wasatch I still had some serious doubts as to whether this kind of general, passionate, heartfelt, but completely unscientific style of training could really get the job done on race day. Obviously my performance in Wasatch did away with these doubts and I've spent most of the past week trying to figure out why this has worked so well.
In a post earlier this year (Ironically, less than one week after Miwok) titled "Why I Run," I talked about being so into running because it was something that was 100% me, and what I got out of running (from a performance standpoint) was entirely up to what I put into. It's shocking to me how far off base this seems to me now, only 4 months later.
As I came to really love my training runs more and more this summer I found myself wanting to share these runs with others. For my entire running career I have been a solo runner. Until this year well over 95% of the running I did was by myself and that was the way I liked it. I always equated running with others with making it impossible for me to do exactly the run, at exactly the pace that I wanted to do. Even when I wanted people to run with me in the past, I was unwilling to deviate much from my training schedule so I ended up running solo because no one wanted to go to the track with me and run 30 quarter mile repeats, or spend their entire Saturday afternoon plugging along on the slushy shoulder of the road for 30+ miles. Now though I am willing to be entirely flexible in my training and this makes it really easy to find people to run with because I can work around their interests.
And so, for the first time in my life, I really began to share my running with others. The snowball effect that occurred was subtle at first, but eventually it became too obvious to ignore. The love I had found for training; for being in the mountains; and for life in general became contagious and almost everyone that I was running with was enjoying their running as much or more than ever:
My roommate had hardly ever run in his life until this year and after a summer of running up in the mountains a few days a week he ended up coming down to Utah and crewing/pacing almost 30 miles of the Wasatch race.
My most reliable training partner this year has been a guy who has lived in Juneau for 50 years. At age 70 I'm pretty sure he spent more time up on mountain ridges above town this summer than he ever has in his life.
My friend who I ran with a bit in the spring, before she moved away from Juneau, is now running more than she ever has in her life, and when I talk to her about her running she has more excitement about it and dedication to it than I would have ever imagined her having.
Another friend of mine who I only ran with a few times before she moved away from Juneau last month has such an obvious mindset to be good at ultras. The first run we ever did together I told her we might be out for as long as 3 hours. When we ended up being out for 7 (the last 3 of which were after dark with no lights and blazing our own trail through thick underbrush) I figured I'd never hear from her again. Instead she calls me regularly to chat about the crazy runs she's been doing since she left Juneau. I know she has put in at least three 30+ mile days in the past month and before that she had never run further than a marathon.
My friend who I ran with once or twice a week in preparation for Crow Pass got himself into the best shape of his life leading up to that race and took 20 minutes off his time from last year, more than twice as much time as I took off from my Crow Pass previous best time.
My ex-girlfriend has never been a runner. Dating me for 8 years probably made her even less likely to run since I made running seem so specific, laborious, and anything but fun. After we split up this spring though she ended up spending the second half of her summer doing several mountain runs around Juneau. I don't claim any credit for influencing her to do this but I do hope that we get to run together in the mountains sometime in the future, something that neither one of us would have ever wanted to do together until now (and maybe she still wouldn't want to) that we actually have an interest in running for some of the same reasons.
I ran a few times this summer with some of Juneau's high school runners. When I was in high school 70 minutes was a "long" run. These kids however would go up into the mountains with me on 3-5 hour runs and love every minute of it. I would have died from doing that when I was that age.
Then there's my friend who refuses to go running with me (I'm still holding out hope that she'll come around eventually), and I don't really think that I've influenced her running in any significant way, but she became so interested in and so supportive of my running as being an extension of who I am that almost continually throughout Wasatch I could feel her running with me. And when it got late and I was really tired I actually had halucinations a few times that she was sitting on the side of the trail.
Anyway, so I know some people who run, and I ran with some of them this summer, and we had fun doing it. Big deal. That's how I would have seen it even just a month ago. I realize now though that this is a big deal. As I ran with these people more and more it forced me to deviate almost entirely from any kind of specific training. And all the while I've become significantly faster than ever before. The only way that I can explain this is that I'm not alone in my running anymore, and that simply having a pure and genuine love for the running that I do on a day to day basis has made me faster than any track workouts or tempo runs ever have. I have influenced people around me with my running more this year than ever before, and their love for their running, their love for themselves, and thier love for me has come back to me ten fold, and made me even that much stronger, happier, and ultimately faster. For the first time in my life I have opened myself up to the idea of letting others influence my running and the result has been an undeniable positive effect.
At the end of the day I very much still ackowledge that it takes a serious amount of "training" to run Wasatch in 18.5 hours or Crow Pass in under 3 hours, but it's been a shocking, and very comforting revelation to realize that, with being more willing to accept the help of others that this "training" can be so much more fun than I ever imagined. And that by having fun doing it, and coming to love the process of it more than ever, and coming to love myself and the people around me more than ever, that I am now faster than ever. I also think it's worth noting that my shockingly fast times in Crow Pass and Wasatch both included other runners (Eric Strabel and Karl Meltzer respectively) pushing me with record shattering performances of their own. In the same way that I have learned to open up my "training" to being influenced by other people in my life, I think it's only fitting that it was with the "aid" of other racers that I was able to run as fast as I did in these races.
I also ackowledge that this idea applies less and less as you talk about racing shorter and shorter distances, but for something as long as 50 or 100 miles I'm convinced that the most important thing to have in your arsenal is a genuine love for your running and a willingness to share this love with others and to let them share their love with you. If you have this everything else you need can fall into place naturally.
I know this might sound like a lot of emotional, sappy, hippy bull shit but I would challenge anyone to give it a try and see what you find out. Throw away your training schedule, find a mountain and run up it. The next day find another mountain and run up it. Once you fall in love with doing that share this love with others. It can be that simple. At least it has been for me.


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The winter months are upon us, bringing cold temperatures and adverse weather conditions. You may already be prepared for winter, and purchased a new pair of rain boots or a heavy coat, but have you thought about preparing your home?
The rain, snow, and ice that are synonymous with winter can cause serious damage to your home, resulting in costly repairs. The unnecessary costs and stress can be avoided by preparing your home in advance to make sure you don't fall victim to damage to your home and the need to pay for costly repairs.
Planning Ahead For Winter
There are a few simple actions to take to protect your home during the winter, which will result in more efficient heating and prevent any unnecessary homeowners' insurance claims. The following are some of the tasks that will protect your assets (and your wallet) this winter:
- Get rid of drafts! Drafty windows and doors can cause you to waste up to 30% of the energy used to warm your house. Purchase or make a draft snake (draft-stopper) to block chilly air from seeping in under your doors, and remove window air conditioning units so your windows can be completely sealed. Check around your home for any gaps where air may be escaping and seal with caulking or weather-stripping. This usually occurs where any two materials meet, including around the foundation, around windows, or near your chimney.
- Mind your energy usage. Turn down the heat when you leave your home so heated air isn't wasted on an empty house. Have your heating system checked to ensure it is running properly and adjusted to accommodate the workout it is going to get during the cold season.
- Insulate, insulate, insulate! Are your walls and ceilings properly insulated? Pay special attention to your basement ceiling and attic floor. Your pipes and air ducts should also be insulated, as the majority of your heater's hot air could escape as it moves through the ducts to the vents. Insulating your pipes means that you will not only pay less for your hot water, but you'll also help to prevent pipes from freezing.
- Take care of any dead tree limbs. Unhealthy tree limbs can fall under the weight of snow or heavy rain, damaging your home or vehicles. Clear dead limbs away before winter sets in so you can avoid damage to your home from a falling branch.
- Ensure there is some airflow. It's important to eliminate any drafts and seal up leaks throughout your home, but you don't want the home to be completely airtight because the indoor air quality may become unhealthy. When cooking on a gas stove, be sure to run the range fan or crack a window to let gasses escape. Turn on the bathroom fan while showering to let the moist air out, as too much moisture can lead to mold, a health risk for babies and those with allergies and asthma.
Make Sure You're Protected
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You'll also know that out of the Top 100, twenty-six of those spots belong to indie authors. Seven of those are occupied by wunderkind Amanda Hocking.
But six of them, including the coveted #1 spot, are from a writer named John Locke.
So who is John Locke?
I caught up with John while we were both in the Swiss Alps, at a secret bestselling author chalet where we heat our jacuzzis by burning stacks of hundred dollar bills.
Naturally, I had questions. In between throwing greenbacks on the fire, he graciously answered.
Joe: You seem to have come out of nowhere. What's the story?
John: My background is niche marketing, where I built a successful business selling specialty insurance, and then another one, investing in specialty real estate. So the first time I saw the business model for selling eBooks on Kindle, my eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas. Why? Because Kindle doesn't just level the playing field for self-published authors, it actually slants it in our favor.
Specifically, I saw that a self-published book could be offered on Kindle for 99 cents, and still turn a 35 cent profit. I was stunned! I walked around in a daze for, well, days, trying to explain to people what that meant. No one seemed impressed. To me it was like receiving the keys to the kingdom, and I immediately set a goal to become the world's greatest 99-cent author.
Joe: Which, at this moment, you are. This fascinates me, because when Amazon began offering 70% to ebooks priced $2.99 and up, a lot of people considered staying at 99 cents to be slumming.
Which was naive. Coming from a legacy publishing background, I knew that 35% royalties were much better than anything the Big 6 offered. Even so, when I first got into this, I thought that cheap ebooks would be a loss lead, that would get people to read my more expensive books.
And yet, when I lowered the price of The List from $2.99 to 99 cents, I started selling 20x as many copies--about 800 a day. My loss lead became my biggest earner.
I guess there's something about 99 cents...
John: In February, 1963, I was twelve years old, living in Shreveport, Louisiana. One Saturday I walked a couple of blocks, caught a bus and took it downtown, walked another block to 728 Texas Street, and entered Stan's Record Shop to buy a recording of "Walk Like A Man," by the Four Seasons. It was two minutes and seventeen seconds long, cost a dollar, and I still had to catch a bus ride home.
Now, 48 years later, you can buy one of my books for only 99 cents! You don't have to walk a step, catch a bus, drive a car, fight the traffic, find a parking space, wait in line, or cut down a single tree. You press a button, and within a couple of effortless seconds, you get four or five hours of entertainment.
Joe: For years, I've been trying to tell other authors that ebooks are a game changer. Some are listening...
John: For the first time in history, there's an advantage to being an independent author!
It wasn't so long ago that an aspiring author would complete his or her manuscript, only to don a pair of knee pads and assume a supplicating posture in order to beg agents to beg publishers to read their work. And from way on high, the publishers would bestow favor upon this one or that, and those who failed to get the nod were out of the game.
No more.
These days the buying public looks at a $9.95 eBook and pauses. It's not an automatic sale. And the reason it's not is because the buyer knows when an eBook is priced ten times higher than it has to be. And so the buyer pauses. And it is in this pause—this golden, sweet-scented pause—that we independent authors gain the advantage, because we offer incredible value.
Joe: You're getting great reviews, so people are obviously enjoying your work. Plus, you're outselling every other book on Amazon, including some name brand authors.
John: I'm new to the writing game. But if I'd started self-publishing even three years ago, I would have spent all my time trying to prove to the public I'm just as good as the top authors in America. These days, the burden of proof is on them. Now the best authors in America have to prove they're ten times better than me. And in a game like that, I like my chances.
Joe: Do you have any traditional publishing experience? An agent?
John: I've never had an agent or publisher, and have never sent a manuscript or query letter to anyone. I always intended to self-publish my work, without representation, and figured my time would be better spent writing books than query letters.
Joe: So, you're the first indie writer to hit #1 on the Amazon Top 100. You also currently hold the #4 spot, and #10 spot. Three in the Top 10. How does it feel?
John: I've thought all day how to express the way it feels to have all 6 books in the top 40, including #1 and #2, but I couldn't come up with the proper adjectives! Today I was contacted about selling the movie rights to my Donovan Creed novels. I was also contacted by a literary agent for representation. On the other hand, I feel weird because I'm the same guy no one paid any attention to last year. The books they want to represent were written a year ago, and when I sent out press releases, no one cared. Now that these same books are selling, I'm what, suddenly good? Doesn't make sense. But yeah, it feels great, of course.
Joe: Congrats on your success. And you really should consider an agent. Even though I'm keeping my print and erights, my agent has been great in selling audio, foreign, and film rights.
Who does your cover art? How much does it cost to self-publish?
John: Claudia Jackson, of Telemachus Press, does all my cover design. She charges $995 to publish an eBook, including cover creation, and distribution to multiple ebook formats. Any art work she purchases for the projects are extra, but reasonable. It's nice to be able to write the book, send it to her, and not have to fool with the process. And Telemachus puts the Ebook accounts in the author's name, so I get all the profits. To me, it's a no-brainer.
Joe: Readers of my blog love numbers, so here's the big question. How many books have you sold so far?
John: As I answer this question, it is March 8th. I have sold just over 350,000 downloads on Kindle since January 1st of this year.
Joe: That's incredible.
John: Kindle is great because you get the sales numbers in real time. I don't have current sales figures for the other eBook formats.
Joe: What advice can you give your fellow authors?
John: I always give authors the same advice: don't take yourself too seriously. Write the types of books you like to read. I offer my readers a fun, breezy read. If I can give them some chuckles and hold their interest for a few hours, I feel I've earned my 99 cents. I know I'm on the right track if I laugh out loud when I'm writing a scene. And if I don't laugh out loud several times while writing a book, I don't publish it.
Joe sez: One thing that strikes me, and strikes me hard, is how outside-the-box Locke's approach has been. He didn't even bother with the query-go-round. He marched boldly into self-publishing, recognizing it for the potential goldmine it could be, and wound up hitting it big.
I'm thrilled for his success, and I invited John to hang out on my blog for a bit to answer any questions that my readers might have.


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The Growing Child: Newborn
How much will my baby grow?
In the first month of life, babies usually catch up and surpass their birthweight, then steadily continue to gain weight. A weight loss up to about 10 percent of birthweight is normal in the first two to three days after birth. However, the baby should have gained this back and be at his or her birthweight by about two weeks. While all babies may grow at a different rate, the following indicates the average for boys and girls up to 1 month of age:
Weight: after the first two weeks, should gain about 1 ounce each day
Average length at birth:
20 inches for boys
19 3/4 inches for girls
Average length at one month:
21 1/2 inches for boys
21 inches for girls
Head size: increases to slightly less than 1 inch more than birth measurement by the end of the first month
What can my baby do at this age?
Although a newborn spends about 16 hours a day sleeping, the time a baby is awake can be busy. Much of a newborn's movements and activity are reflexes or involuntary--the baby does not purposefully make these movements. As the nervous system begins to mature, these reflexes give way to purposeful behaviors.
Reflexes in newborns include the following:
Root reflex. This reflex occurs when the corner of the baby's mouth is stroked or touched. The baby will turn his or her head and opens his or her mouth to follow and "root" in the direction of the stroking. The root reflex helps the baby find the breast or bottle.
Suck reflex. When the roof of the baby's mouth is touched with the breast or bottle nipple, the baby will begin to suck. This reflex does not begin until about the 32nd week of pregnancy and is not fully developed until about 36 weeks. Premature babies may have a weak or immature sucking ability, because they are born prior to the development of this reflex. Babies also have a hand-to-mouth reflex that accompanies rooting and sucking and may suck on their fingers or hands.
Moro reflex. The Moro reflex is often called a startle reflex because it usually occurs when a baby is startled by a loud sound or movement. In response to the sound, the baby throws back his or her head, throws out his or her arms and legs, cries, then pulls his or her arms and legs back in. Sometimes, a baby's own cries can startle him or her, initiating this reflex. The Moro reflex lasts until the baby is about 5 to 6 months old.
Tonic neck reflex. When a baby's head is turned to one side, the arm on that side stretches out and the opposite arm bends up at the elbow. This is often called the "fencing" position. The tonic neck reflex lasts until the baby is about 6 to 7 months old.
Grasp reflex. With the grasp reflex, stroking the palm of a baby's hand causes the baby to close his or her fingers in a grasp. The grasp reflex lasts only a couple of months and is stronger in premature babies.
Babinski reflex. With the Babinski reflex, when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked, the big toe bends back toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out. This is a normal reflex until the child is about 2 years old.
Step reflex. This reflex is also called the walking or dance reflex because a baby appears to take steps or dance when held upright with his or her feet touching a solid surface.
Newborn babies not only have unique reflexes, but also have a number of physical characteristics and behaviors that include the following:
Head sags when lifted up, needs to be supported
Turns head from side to side when lying on his or her stomach
Eyes are sometimes uncoordinated, may look cross-eyed
Initially fixes eyes on a face or light then begins to follow a moving object
Beginning to lift head when lying on stomach
Jerky, erratic movements
Moves hands to mouth
What can my baby say?
At this early age, crying is a baby's only form of communication. At first, all of a baby's cries sound similar, but parents soon recognize different types of cries for hunger, discomfort, frustration, fatigue, and even loneliness. Sometimes, a baby's cries can easily be answered with a feeding, or a diaper change. Other times, the cause of the crying can be a mystery and crying stops as quickly as it begins. Regardless of the cause, responding to your baby's cries with a comforting touch and words are essential in helping your baby learn to trust you and rely on you for love and security. You may also use warmth and rocking movements to comfort your baby.
What does my baby understand?
You may find that your baby responds in many ways, including the following:
Startles at loud noises
Looks at faces and pictures with contrasting black and white images
Gives attention to voices, may turn to a sound
Hints of a smile, especially during sleep
How to help increase your baby's development and emotional security
Young babies need the security of a parent's arms, and they understand the reassurance and comfort of your voice, tone, and emotions. Consider the following as ways to foster the emotional security of your newborn:
Hold your baby face to face.
Talk in a soothing tone and let your baby hear your affectionate and friendly voice.
Sing to your baby.
Walk with your baby in a sling, carrier, or a stroller.
Swaddle your baby in a soft blanket to help him or her feel secure and prevent startling by the baby's own movements.
Rock your baby in a rhythmic, gentle motion.
Respond quickly to your baby's cries.


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Friday, January 21, 2011
Spaghettini with Garlic and Lemon
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I love the spare simplicity of Shaker and Bauhaus design, and, on very busy days, I appreciate that same simplicity in my food. Today was a day made busy by a wonderful break in the weather. The almost balmy day kept me outside for far too long and made dinner preparation a rushed affair. On nights like this, I grill a steak or chicken and pair them with a simple, nearly naked, pasta that I like to sauce with lemon and garlic and very little else. It makes for an easy meal that can be on the table in minutes and the leftover pasta is good for a lunch or two as well. The recipe on which my lemon pasta is based originally appeared in Gourmet magazine. Giada De Laurentiis has a similar recipe that is enormously popular with her fans and readers. If you like simply sauced pastas, you'll quickly make this dish your own and not bother with recipes at all. Before you do that, however, there are a few things you'll have to keep in mind. Your first consideration should be the garlic. It burns quickly and should be cooked only until it colors. If it burns, you'll have to toss the oil in which it cooked and that's a waste of time and money. Another concern, especially for those of you who still have young children at the table, is how hot you want the dish to be. The heat here is provided by red pepper flakes and a range of measure is given for their use. Only you know your family's tolerance for heat. Most folks, at least initially, will be more comfortable at the lower end of that range. You also can control the amount of lemon and garlic you use in the recipe. I offer my choices only as suggestions, but, I hasten to add, they are suggestions that work, and they are sound choices for your first execution of the recipe. It's also important to remember that pasta never waits for sauce, the sauce should be waiting for the pasta. I think you'll like this dish. It's inexpensive, easy to make and really tasty. It is also a great entree for Meatless Mondays. Here's my version of the recipe.
Spaghettini with Garlic and Lemon...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite adapted from Gourmet Magazine
1 lb spaghettini or capellini
6 large garlic cloves, minced
1/4 to 3/4 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Finely grated zest of 1 large lemon
Juice of 1 large lemon
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
1/2 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1) Cook pasta in a 6-quart pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Reserve 1 cup cooking water and drain pasta in a colander.
2) While pasta is boiling, cook garlic and red pepper flakes (to taste) in oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until garlic is golden, about 5 minutes. Stir in zest, then juice, salt, pepper, and 1/2 cup reserved cooking water and bring to a simmer.
3) Add pasta and toss with sauce and parsley. Add more water if sauce seems too dry. Yield: 4 main course servings.
You might also enjoy these recipes:
Spaghetti Sauce (Rule of One) - Moogie and Pap
Bolognese Sauce - Radishes and Rhubarb
Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce - Adventures in the Pioneer Valley
Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Sauce - Simply Recipes
Fresh Tomato and Zucchini Pasta Sauce - Coconut and Lime
Pork Bolognese - A Dash of Sass
62 comments :
- Banana Wonder said...
Love this classic combination! What a delicious bite. You are on a lemon kick, for sure. Sure beats the winter blues.
- January 21, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Wonderful combination of flavors! I have also been on a lemon kick, so this recipe is perfect for me.
- January 21, 2011 at 1:49 AM
- fitty's pinky rose cottage said...
this is one of our fave meal at home! my kids love it! classic, easy and yet delicious! sometimes we make shrimp scampi with lots of lemon too! comfort food indeed!
- January 21, 2011 at 2:49 AM
- Elin Chia said...
Mary, great combination and I am sure this will taste great and looking at it makes me drool and salivating and at the same time HUNGRY ! :p Love the beautiful colors of this pasta dish :) Thanks for sharing such a classic pasta dish :)
Have a great weekend with your family,
Elin - January 21, 2011 at 3:15 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Yummy,thats a great combination, makes me hungry..
- January 21, 2011 at 3:35 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I should know better than to be reading your blog at midnight Mary..I now need to head to the kitchen...we can have pasta for breakfast can't we:D
- January 21, 2011 at 3:36 AM
- MelindaRD said...
I love that flavor combo. Lemon always adds something to a dish, particularly when it's meant to be on the lighter side. I think lemon and garlic both do a good job of lightening up a pasta meal. I usually avoid cream sauces because they are too heavy. I like them, but after a few bites, I just can't eat any more.
- January 21, 2011 at 3:51 AM
- Katerina said...
My grandmother used to make spaghetti with yogurt and garlic and I loved it. I would love to try this one as well.
- January 21, 2011 at 4:10 AM
- MaryMoh said...
I would eat a big plate. I am a garlic and lemon lover :D Hope you have a wonderful day :D
- January 21, 2011 at 4:35 AM
- Jayanthy Kumaran said...
Hy Mary,
Thanks for your motivating feedback..
This is another must try dish for me..! fabulous..
Tasty appetite - January 21, 2011 at 5:04 AM
- Lizaboo said...
Yummy, so quick and simple and i just love pasta. So thankful for your blog as otherwise meals would be very dull in my house :o)
- January 21, 2011 at 5:25 AM
- Blog is the New Black said...
What a classic combo!
- January 21, 2011 at 5:50 AM
- Chiara said...
Great recipe Mary, I love it!have a good weekend ....
- January 21, 2011 at 5:53 AM
- Carol at Serendipity said...
Sometimes less is more. This sounds just elegant. I sometimes get tired of tomato sauce so this will be a nice easy change.
Carol - January 21, 2011 at 5:56 AM
- Lynn said...
This really caught my attention Mary! LOVE pasta (and garlic, and lemon:@)
- January 21, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- Katrina V. said...
I love really simple pasta dishes like this -- especially with the lemon!
- January 21, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Martha said...
This is a favorite of ours at Linderhof. My husband prefers this to any other pasta and will even order it out!!! But we usually have ours sans grilled meat on the side -- just a salad to go with. In his eyes, this pasta is the star of the dinner!
And if there are any leftovers, they do make a great lunch! - January 21, 2011 at 7:25 AM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
This is a go-to recipe in our kitchen.
You've captured it beautifully in your photo Mary and made it look like the star it is.
Sam - January 21, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
I will remember this good advice . . . pasta never waits for the sauce.
Glenda - January 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Unknown said...
I have a similar recipe that I've been making for years... I love the simplicity of it too! Just a fantastic dish with a lot of zing!
- January 21, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- aipi said...
The pasta looks so very refreshing and delicious! I like it:)
US Masala - January 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- PeggyR said...
That looks very good and it's so attractive!
- January 21, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- The Country Cook said...
Mary - thank you so much for your lovely comments on my blog. I'm your newest follower. I am loving the recipes you have featured. I have my eye on that Lemon Pound Cake. I adore anything lemon so that is right up my alley! So nice to meet you!
- January 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- Unknown said...
Mary, I love the simplicity of this pasta dish. I would and I could happily eat this anytime.
- January 21, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Claudia said...
I'm hugely jealous of your balmy day. But the dish is a welcome respite from winter. I welcome all things simple and have made variations of this and this was a gentle reminder that it is time to do it again.
- January 21, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Allie said...
Love this combination 2 of my favorite flavors! Hope you have a fantastic weekend!!
- January 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
OMG This look really delicious, I love Giada de Laurentis and my next post is a recipe from her!! I love her recipes!
I love this Mary!! gloria
Have a lovely week end! x gloria - January 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
This dish to me...defines simple, rustic, beautiful cooking. I want it now... :) Thanks Mary.
- January 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- teresa said...
gorgeous pasta, so fresh and light, excellent!
- January 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Oh yes, this is a dish I know very well. Delicious!!
Have a wonderful weekend,
ButterYum - January 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- lena said...
it would be delighting to have this on the dinner table, a surprise pasta with the zest of the lemon
- January 21, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Unknown said...
This is something I would love for a pasta lunch.
- January 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Terri Steffes said...
I am glad you found me!
I am your newest follower. I appreciated your sweet comment! - January 21, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Luciana said...
Che bel piatto di pasta invitante e che abbinamenti particolari!!! complimenti e buon week end :)
- January 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- Lindsay said...
Yum! Simple and delicious. How can you go wrong? thanks for sharing, Mary.
- January 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Receitas para a Felicidade said...
Mary this pasta looks gorgeous and delicious, kisses.
- January 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- HGourmet Foodie said...
I love the combination of Garlic and Lemmon on Spaghetti... Beautiful photo!!
- January 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Tasha said...
I just adore a simple pasta like this! I love what a little lemon adds.
- January 21, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Joanne said...
I'm all for simple pasta dishes, especially if they involve lemon! And spice! Delicious.
- January 21, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Clint said...
Mary---what a wonderful culinary masterpiece of a blog! This is my first visit and I am very impressed. I am now a follower.
Also, thank you so much for your kind words about my blog. You are invited to follow it. God bless. - January 21, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Emily Malloy said...
I adore this recipe!
- January 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Southerncook said...
Oh Mary, this looks so very good. Light but yet fills that need for pasta and I would eat pasta any time. Have made my copy and I must say that I always enjoy your blog but don't often post a comment. You are truly an inspiration.
Carolyn/A Southerners Notebook - January 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Federica Simoni said...
mmmmmmmmmm...che invitante!complimenti!!!ciao!
- January 21, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Jenn @ Peas and Crayons said...
your gorgeous food/recipes are taking over my bookmark folder!
yummmm I want this in my belly! =)
Jenn @ Peas & Crayons - January 21, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Terri Steffes said...
Yum. A go to recipe for anyone! My kind of food!
- January 21, 2011 at 3:19 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
This looks just great. Yes, Giada's is very similar to yours, except for the cheese and basil. I have made a couple versions of this, now it will be fun to try these two!
- January 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- Yaya' s Home said...
I'm not sure how I'd feel about the lemon, but you sure make it look tasty. Thanks.
~ Yaya - January 21, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Alessandra said...
This is perfect for me, I really would like some now, a sincere plate of pasta....
Mary, maybe you or your readers would give it a go at winning my book :-)
Alessandra - January 21, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Angela said...
You had me at Shaker and Bauhaus (two of my favorites - very good documentary on Bauhaus the other night, but don't remember the channel)!
- January 21, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Oh, Mary, another wonderful recipe for me! This looks and sounds so delicious! I'll certainly try this one too! I'm hooked.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;) - January 21, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Kankana said...
This looks amazing .. tangy lemony .. and pasta is of my fav .. will try it soon :)
- January 21, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Ana Powell said...
Great combination of flavours.
I love the lemon kick too.
Wishing you a lovely weekend ♥ - January 21, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Miriam said...
I love this sauce, simple and delicious. I can't get enough pasta myself. Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
- January 21, 2011 at 11:21 PM
- FOODESSA said...
I make a very similar recipe with linguini and without the chili pepper (tummy no like)...well maybe a touch of cayenne is ok.
This has become a classic go-to pasta dish at our house...especially when lemons are at there best ;o)
Flavourful wishes,
Claudia - January 22, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- Jan said...
Hi Mary - thank you for your kind comment on my blog. I'm loving this recipe (and loads more) on your site. It's all my kind of food!
- January 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Looks lovely. I love simple lemon and garlic pasta--although I always seem to have to add a few capers too. ;-)
- January 22, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- MegSmith @ Cooking.In.College said...
There really is nothing like simplicity in cooking and this certainly seems like the best of it. Garlic is just so wonderful on its own but the lemon really makes this dish superb I am sure.
- January 22, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
So simple and delicious! Hubby and I are eating more meatless meals these days and I know he'd welcome this pasta! :)
- January 22, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- Vickie said...
I have never added lemon zest to this dish - DUH! What a delicious addition that sounds fabulous. It will be in there from now on!
- January 23, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Priyanka said...
Yummy...!!!! and the picture has made it even more tempting... :)
- January 24, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- Joshua said...
Nice and simple, I've often had a similar pasta with milk (and a thicker pasta form) - usually any play on the old aglio olio e pepperoncino is up my alley. Of course it has to be al dente!
(real Italian food is simple). - January 24, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Khalil Alsalman said...
Perfect classic combination of
Spaghetti flavors! I am sure it tastes great, I can eat it anytime.Have a nice day. - January 24, 2013 at 12:51 AM


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This year marks the 100th anniversary of statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, but why did it take until 1912 for them to become states? Amidst all the hoopla of centennial celebrations the actual history of statehood deserves a closer look.
What it reveals is a pattern of racism and discrimination against Native Americans, Hispanics and Catholics. Eastern politicians were not sure they wanted to dilute the body politic.
For New Mexico the long road to statehood included, according to New Mexico State Historian Rick Hendricks, "four constitutions and four referenda, some 15 congressional proposals, two enabling acts, six delegations to Washington and 62 years" from territorial designation to New Mexico's 47th star on the nation's flag. The New York Times and Harper's Weekly railed against New Mexico joining the union. Explorers in the 19th century set the rhetorical pattern.
Americans sought the Southwest's mineral wealth of gold, silver, coal and copper, but they weren't sure they wanted the outlawry of Billy the Kid and the infamous Lincoln County War. Santa Fe was an exotic destination, and the rails of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad brought tourists west to see Indian villages such as the pueblos of Laguna, San Ildefonso and Acoma and then on to the Grand Canyon of Arizona. But statehood?
Traveling in New Mexico after the Mexican War of 1846-48, the British writer George Frederick Ruxton complained about "the hostility of Indians and the scarcity of water." He described Socorro as "a small, wretched place" where "the faces of the women were all stained with the fiery red juice of a plant called alegrita, from the forehead to the chin. This is for the purpose of protecting the skin from the effects of the sun, and preserving them in untanned beauty to be exposed in the fandangos" or evening dances.
Military men had a different perspective. E.H. Bergmann, colonel of the New Mexico Volunteers, wrote in 1867 that northern New Mexico "is beyond a doubt the best portion ... and needs only an industrious white population to use the advantageous nature so generously afforded here." What he meant was the development of minerals, forests and grasslands.
David Grey, writing in the newspaper Chicago Inter-Ocean on July 4, 1875, after visiting northern New Mexico, described men as "insolent and lazy." He added that "the Catholic priests wield an unbounded influence over these ignorant and half-civilized people," though he believed everything would change when "the railroad, the school-house, (and) the steepled church reach the plazas of Conejos, Ojo Caliente, Rito and Tierra Amarilla." Writing in 1890, the itinerant Methodist minister John L. Dyer described New Mexico as "the outside or fag-ends of an old Latinized nation, that had been ridden over by Romish priests," yet he added "the Mexicans are a kind, sympathetic people (who) will divide anything with even a stranger, especially in the rural parts."
California joined the Union in 1850. Nevada joined a decade later with Colorado coming into the fold in 1876 and Utah in 1890 after disclaiming Mormon polygamy. But it was well into the 20th century before Congress conferred statehood upon Arizona and New Mexico. The path was not easy, and it contained twists and turns that could have eliminated the Four Corners.
Arizona had been part of New Mexico until 1863. Seven years later an attempt was made to combine them into one state to be named Lincoln, which would have included a part of southwestern Colorado. In 1902 there was a proposal to combine both territories and admit them as a single state named Montezuma. That failed. Racism continued. The Chicago Tribune wrote that New Mexico's population was "not American, but 'Greasers,' persons ignorant of our laws, manners, customs, language and institutions."
My hero Teddy Roosevelt visited Albuquerque in 1903 and in a pageant in front of the Alavarado Hotel next to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, 46 girls represented each state in the Union. The girl representing New Mexico was not even on the platform. She stood on the steps "pleading tearfully for admission."
In 1906 Congress passed a joint resolution combining Arizona and New Mexico into one state to be named Arizona with its capital in Santa Fe. Historian Charles Bennett explains, "New Mexico voters approved this plan, knowing that Arizona voters would kill it anyway, which they did." Finally in 1910 President William Howard Taft signed an "enabling act" for people of the territory to draft a state constitution. Here it gets interesting. One-third of the delegates to the New Mexico constitutional convention were Hispanic. They had specific goals and achieved those ends in the state constitution.
The 20,000-word constitution of 1910 had 130 sections and 22 articles. After decades of racism and pejorative comments about Hispanic heritage, the Hispanic delegates from northern New Mexico insisted on Article VII. Historian Francis Levine explains the importance of the state's constitution because, "Among its unique features was Article VII, Section 3, guaranteeing that the right of any citizen to vote, hold office, or sit on a jury would never be restricted or abridged on account of religion, race, language, or color, or the ability to speak, read, or write in English or Spanish. ... These important safeguards have kept New Mexico unique and culturally rich." For the first 20 years of statehood all laws were required to be published in Spanish and English. Spanish is an official language of the state, equal to English.
Those provisions might seem far-reaching and inclusive, but it was still a man's world. The New Mexico constitution denied women the right to vote, excluded citizen initiatives, and maintained the old-fashioned election of U.S. senators by the state legislature, not by popular vote. This was the Progressive Era, but some reforms had yet to come to New Mexico.
The past also shaped the future. By 1912 the Southwest's rich archaeological legacy of Native American ruins and sites like Chaco, Bandelier and the Gila cliff dwellings in New Mexico; and Wupatki, Casa Grande and Montezuma's Castle in Arizona inspired tourism and provided the United States with an indigenous heritage unequaled in Europe. Their prehistoric past helped propel Arizona and New Mexico into the Union.
So happy centennial birthday! It was a long slog to statehood, but thanks for being the 47th and 48th stars on our American flag.
Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and environmental studies at Fort Lewis College. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.