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Anonymous, it is not a coincidence that Russia has implicated Georgia in riots, or that Russia hosted a massive military drill around cruise missiles and nuclear strikes..
Russia looks to be preparing for war. More precisely it appears Russia is prepared for an attack. Not to launch one, but to be attacked.
Found this interesting:
Chechen ex-militant: Georgia trained anti-Russian terrorists, then killed them in false flag op
NATO rebel tactics in Syria
Laying seige to soldiers and towns ensuring mass casualties
They had surrounded the government soldiers on the hilltop, a cluster of white tents just visible behind the trees, and were biding their time.
"There are 150 soldiers in there. We've cut off their food and weapons supply for four days now. When we feel they are weak enough, we can go in and storm it and take them prisoner," said Abdullah's commander, Anas al-Zeir, who heads the Youssef al-Azma Brigade.
Take them prisoner? Doubtful. More likely, once the Syrian troops are nearly dead the NATO mercs will slaughter them. Using this method of terror and slaughter has been very successful for NATO freedom fighters
'The rebels' changed approach has brought some successes. Several towns and checkpoints have fallen into insurgent hands after being besieged for about a week.'
The rebels brought in help too. "At least one Chechen and several Arabs from abroad were among the fighters".
At least on Chechen, maybe more. How many is several Arabs?
The fate of besieged soldiers was also not clear.
Up the road, at the seized checkpoint, fighters buried bloated bodies in the red dirt. They said the soldiers were killed by their own forces before they stormed the area but the claim was impossible to verify.
The rebels who have laid siege to Syrian soldiers make the unverifiable claim that the Syrian soldiers were "killed by their own", but they (mercs) are burying the evidence of such atrocities?? That makes sense only in the context of covering up ones own crimes
Turkey talks peace while continuing to supply the rebels-
It was long past midnight, but the rebel commander couldn't sleep until his fighters returned from the Turkish border with the latest shipment of gear meant to help them battle the Syrian army.
In the morning, his team arrived with their prize: a single suitcase of night-vision goggles. For the first time, his brigade's snipers would be able to strike back at night against regime snipers who already have night-vision capabilities in the street-by-street fights for territory in the battleground city of Aleppo.
The NATO mercs can shoot at ordinary Aleppo citizens with the help of those night vision goggles too. All the better to terrorize the population..
Turkey and Egypt gettin' it together:
I like the NYT's spin in the article
A wider-ranging partnership is expected to be announced in the coming weeks when the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose party shares an Islamist pedigree with Egypt's leadership, goes to Cairo.
"Apparently now Egypt is Turkey's closest partner in the Middle East,"
The partnership is also rooted in the Islamist politics of the leaders of the two countries and their respective movements: Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi. This connection offers chances for a new Sunni Islamic bloc
Divide to conquer come to mind?
The scene at the annual convention of Mr. Erdogan's party in Ankara, the capital, a few weeks ago offered a portrait of a realigned Middle East with Turkey at the helm. Mr. Morsi said at the gathering, "We offer our gratefulness for the support that the Turkish people and its administration has extended and will extend to us in the future." To a standing ovation, Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, declared of Mr. Erdogan: "You are not only a Turkish leader. You are, now, also a leader of the world of Islam."
Really, Mr Hamas in Palestine? Turkey, champion of the Palestinians? Not on your life!
Keeping in mind who created Hamas in Palestine??? (Israel) Hamas in Palestine likes Erdogan? Must have been Erdogan's "brave stance" when it came to the Mavi Marmara and the starvation blockade of Gaza that won him over?
Lavrov speaks:
Syrian Conflict Part of Mideast 'Geopolitical Game' Stating the obvious, unless one is willfully blind? Or willfully ignorant?
"It appears that every time the hope for progress in the Syrian situation arises, somebody attempts to prevent it from calming down and deliberately fuels the continuation of the bloodshed" in Syria, Lavrov said.
According to Lavrov, the Syrian conflict is "part of geopolitical remapping of the Middle East, where various players attempt to safeguard their interests."
Assad, who is widely viewed as a close ally of Iran, has been unfairly made "a scapegoat" in this "big geopolitical game," Lavrov said.
He defended Assad by calling him "a guarantor of the security of national minorities, among them Christians, who have been living in Syria for centuries."
Speaking of remaking the Middle East, which is so obvious
The Turkish people understand this!
"What's happening in Syria is all part of America's great project to reshape the borders of the Middle East. America and its allies don't care about bringing democracy to the Syrian people. Look at what happened to Iraq!" he fumes. "The imperialist countries are only after oil and mineral resources."
Nineteen months into Syria's conflict, resentment of Ankara and anti-US sentiment simmer in Antakya, which lies just over the border with Syria.
The beliefs stem in part from a bold Bush administration political proposal that has faded into obscurity in the West, but remains lodged in the minds of many here. Known as the Greater Middle East Initiative, it was formally introduced by then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2006 at a conference in Tel Aviv. Her references to "the birth pangs of a New Middle East" and the unveiling there of a new map of the region featuring a "Free Kurdistan" are still remembered with resentment.
Of course Gilbert Achcar quoted below speaks in the typical spin fashion. He even used the "conspiracy" word in his diatribe. Non credible. Conspiracy is the trigger word used to shut your thought processes down.
Refik Eryilmaz, a Turkish parliamentarian from Antakya with the opposition Republican People's Party, says that Western superpowers are trying to incite a sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites so that countries in the region fragment along ethno-religious lines, becoming weaker in the process.
Has it been abandoned Gilbert? It sure as hell doesn't look that way! Does Gilbert think people are that gullible? That a simple 'appeal to authority' is going to be taken as anything but a means of covering the obvious agenda?
Gilbert Achcar, a professor of international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, says that the Greater Middle East Initiative has long since been abandoned, and all that remains is the deep skepticism of US motives that it spurred....


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Great Plains Studies announces Distinguished Book Prize finalists
Released on 03/26/2014, at 2:00 AM
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska has announced the finalists for this year's Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.
The three books selected by a panel of judges are: "Architecture of Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930-2011," with text by Bernard Flaman (Canadian Plains Research Center Press); "Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930," by Karen V. Hansen (Oxford University Press); and "The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West," by Andrew R. Graybill (Liveright/Norton Publishing).
In "Architecture of Saskatchewan," Flaman takes readers through a visual chronicle of building styles in the Canadian prairie province. The book picks up chronologically where a previous book, "Historic Architecture of Saskatchewan" (1986), left off and explores the art deco, streamline moderne and modernist styles of the 1930s to present day styles using vibrant photography and text. Flaman is a conservation architect for Canada's Public Works and Government Services. He also co-curated the 2004 exhibition, "Character and Controversy at the Mendel Art Gallery," which examined modernist architecture in Saskatchewan.
In "The Red and the White," Graybill reveals a complex history of native-white intermarriage in the 19th- and early 20th-century American West, as seen through the experiences of a single family. He pays particular attention to the mixed-blood children of such unions, who were contemptuously dismissed in their own time and often since as "half-breeds." Graybill is also the author of "Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910." He is associate professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In "Encounter on the Great Plains," Hansen draws upon 15 years of archival research and 130 oral histories to explore issues of co-existence between settlers and Indians through details about people's lives and community events. The book investigates how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and fought attacks on their individual cultures. Hansen is also the editor of a recent anthology, "At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild." She is a professor of sociology and women's and gender studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
"The Distinguished Book Prize celebrates the most outstanding scholarship about the Great Plains during the past year. Choosing just one winner is always difficult for the judges, because, as all three finalists demonstrate, there is a lot of terrific work being done," said Rick Edwards, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies.
The winner of the $5,000 cash prize will be announced April 26. The author will be invited to travel to UNL to present a lecture on the topic of the book. Only first-edition, full-length, nonfiction books published and copyrighted in 2013 were evaluated for the award. Nominations were made by publishers or authors.
The Center for Great Plains Studies is an intercollegiate regional research and teaching program. Its mission is to promote a greater understanding of the people, culture, history and environment of the Great Plains through a variety of research, teaching and outreach programs. Visit http://www.unl.edu/plains for more information.
Writer: Katie Nieland
News Release Contacts:
- Katie Nieland, Publications Specialist, Great Plains Studies
phone: 402-472-3965

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I thought my last blog post was uncharacteristically wordy so I wanted to publish some more illustration.
So here it is: a third little illustration for my mini series of telephones. This time I opted for an old fashioned edwardian-ish phone complete with eau de nile colour and gold coloured finishings. Fancy.


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Hello Woodworkers,
This lil ditty is a commissioned box that I made for a guy who goes to my church. He collects money clips and wanted to know if I could make him a box that had multiple lift-out trays so he could stow them away for none to see. I obliged and this is what I came up with: this concoction of box awesomeness! Instead of making a simple box with lift-out trays, I decided to go the multiple-box-glued-together-with-sliding-drawer-trays route. I like this better. Woods used are: walnut, white pine, maple, cherry, alder, red oak, poplar, blue pine (beetle-kill), mahogany, teak and I guess that's about it. I used found hardware for the knobs. Yeah, I actually found them on the side of the road connected to a lost drawer. All materials are recycled/reused. Ok, the shellac was not recycled nor was the glue. This was my first time using shellac on a project and I think I am still on the fence about it. Hmmmm.
I have also made a pie box for said man's wife. That project is soon to find it's way onto lumberjocks via photorealistic representation.
I thank you for gazing at my box.
Me (Josh)
-- Tree, wood, and box lover from Pennsylvania
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#1 posted 01-03-2014 02:53 PM
Very nicely done. I like the assortment of woods.
#2 posted 01-03-2014 02:58 PM
Great boxes Josh! Nice use of a multiplicity of woods. That bottom box looks like bamboo. As for shellac, as I noted to you in a different post, I've been reacquainted with it and find it is easy to work with. It is easily sanded It can be diluted with denatured alcohol to allow a good build up with multiple coats. I use the Bull's Eye brand, clear, right out of the can unless I want a thicker finish, then I dilute and use multiple coats. I have had good results buffing it with steel wool, then finishing with past wax. Nice finish. Don't give up on it. Good work my well read friend.
-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16
#3 posted 01-03-2014 03:22 PM
Nice job. Great wood choice.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
#4 posted 01-03-2014 04:00 PM
Beautiful Josh!! Lovely selection of woods too. Ya … I wouldn't want to use recycled shellac or glue either :)
-- Elaine in Duncan
#5 posted 01-03-2014 07:11 PM
Great job and love the trays design.
-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!
#6 posted 01-03-2014 08:48 PM
A 3-stack look in one box. I like it!
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#7 posted 01-04-2014 05:50 AM
Thanks everyone for your comments! Rick, what I don't like about the shellac is that while applying the second coat, it doesn't spread evenly. Well, I still have 85% of the can left over, so I have to use it up for something.
-- Tree, wood, and box lover from Pennsylvania
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Tony Iommi Updates Fans On The NEW SABBATH Record & Reflects On 2012!
To say that BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi has had a tough year is an understatement. Opening the year, it was announced that Iommi was diagnosed with Lymphoma (a rare form of cancer). This resulted in the recording sessions for the NEW SABBATH album to be halted temporarily (the band is back at it now) and for the band to cancel their extensive European tour. Thankfully, Iommi's health has been progressing very smoothly.
Yesterday (December 21), Iommi posted the following end of the year message via his Facebook page:
"What a year! Certainly not the one I was expecting," says Tony.
"Thanks to you all for your massive help and support; it was very encouraging.
"I'm still working on the [new Black Sabbath] album and managed to play three shows. Not bad given the news a year ago.
"I'm looking forward to next year, seeing what you think of the record and touring as much as we're able.
"My best wishes to you all. I hope you have a great Christmas and New Year, most of all, stay positive."
- Tony Iommi
We want to wish Tony the best wishes during this holiday season and for 2013. Keep on keeping on, brother!
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OK, so yesterday I asked if anybody wanted a scan of an old Spy Magazine article about Jay McInerney and Rielle Hunter (Lisa Druck at the time). I found the magazine and I'm terribly sorry to report that the article is actually about Jay McInerney and his wife, Merry, and that Lisa Druck/Rielle Hunter is only briefly mentioned.
That certainly explains, duh, why nobody's mined it for material.
Whoopsies! Sorry about that.


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Please find below the Call for Papers for the upcoming 3rd MoFiR workshop on banking, organized by the Money and Finance Research group (MoFiR) and sponsored by the Review of Finance.
The conference will take place in Ancona on June 25-27, 2014.
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2014
Keynote speaker: Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School and Tilburg University)
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https://sites. google.com/ site/mofirunivpm /home/events/ workshop2014


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The Jewish colonialists who began to invade Palestine at the end the 19th century perpetrated a deliberate ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian indigenous peasantry who had been living on their land for centuries; the policy was deliberately designed to cleanse the area of the Jewish State of its Arab population, and in the course of the War of Independence they carried out the planned deportation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.Ultimately, how we view the conflict depends, at least in part, on the degree to which we agree with the above. It's taken from a piece by Erez Tadmor and Erel Segal called Nakba Nonsense. I am not familiar with either of these writers, nor have I read more than a few pages of the piece, itself, but the above quote strikes me as a very good example of what we typically call the "Palestinian Narrative."
It is certainly the case that large numbers of progressives, and progressive Jews, (pretending to be liberals) believe the above. But it is either true or it is not true. Or it is largely true or largely false. If you are a Jewish supporter of Israel and you think that the above is largely true then you have a serious dilemma on your hands. It means that the country that you support was born out of sin and that the anti-Zionists are essentially correct. If Israel was born from the deliberate and pre-conceived ethnic cleansing of the local Arabs (they did not yet self-identify as "Palestinians") then Israel is pretty much everything that its worst critics say that it is.
If, on the other hand, the above is largely false (which it is) then it is incumbent upon supporters of the Jewish state of Israel to make it clear that it is false. We need to stand up and remind people, particularly progressive-left detractors of the Jewish state of Israel, that the Arabs launched a genocidal war against the Jews in November of 1947 directly after the Holocaust. If some Palestinians were kicked out of Israel at the time it was because the Israelis, unlike their dhimmitudenous Jewish counterparts elsewhere, believed in self-defense and were hell-bent on parrying Arab rapiers.
Our friend Daniel Bielak likes to say that we just need to tell the truth and while I recognize that "truth" is not so easily conveyed or understood, he is essentially correct. We do need to tell the truth. Let the historical record serve as a parry to Arab and progressive anti-Israel propaganda. If the progressive-left actually stands for social justice, as they claim, then they need to stand with the Jews of the Middle East who remain under perpetual assault. If, however, the progressive-left stands with the Arab Palestinians, which is more and more the case, this can only mean that they do not stand for social justice because it is the Palestinian national movement, itself, that absolutely refuses to accept a state in peace next to the Jewish one.
Almost entirely ignoring the history of the Jewish people under the boot of Muslim imperialism, progressives (under the influence of Arab and Soviet propaganda) are convincing themselves that Israel is a racist state that is oppressing the "indigenous" Arab population. In this way they, much like the Nazis before them, paint the Jewish people as aggressors who must be stopped for the good of all humanity.
The progressive movement is, thus, playing an exceedingly dangerous game with the lives of Jewish people in the Middle East. The Jews are a tiny minority in this world and we have seen very well what can happen when enough people convince themselves that we are the source of the world's problems. Every time some progressives says that "Zionists" control the American media or government they are, in essence, repeating exactly the same kind of slander that the Nazis pointed at the Jews prior to the Final Solution. Every time some progressive tells the world that the "Zionists" are oppressing the poor, "indigenous" Palestinians they are laying a stone of hatred toward the Jewish people, a stone that paves a trail to anti-Jewish slaughter.
If sometime in the future we get something that resembles another Holocaust it will be the Jews of the Middle East who will pay the biggest price. Any future scenario involving large numbers of Jewish dead will be the result of Arab or Persian violence. And if that day comes do not look to progressives for sympathy.
They will be the first to tell us that the violence against us is the richly deserved outcome of Jewish crimes. If they tell one another that we are guilty as sin now, would you expect them to change their tune after the slaughter? Paul Berman has noted that it was during the Second Terror War (intifada), in which over 1,000 Israelis were slaughtered and in which Israeli society endured the death-toll equivalent of a 9/11 every two weeks for several years, that progressive accusations against the Jews of the Middle East reached its highest pitch of hysteria.
Don't expect anything different the next time the Arabs or the Palestinians go on an anti-Jewish killing spree.
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1964 Wasn't that long ago. That is the year normal dimes, and quarters and up stopped being 90% silver. Maybe there are some places left that were flooded or something that might still have this silver right where people left it. I have heard of apartments, and houses that people never visit.
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I don't often post worship songs! This is partly because the "Oh-dear-that's-not-Anglican" part of me can find them a bit happy clappy :) and also because they can all sound the same after you've heard a few. However, I am posting the two rather different songs below for Good Friday.
The first was sent to me by a friend recently and they told me it meant a great deal to the as it helped them make sense of suffering and difficulties in their life. I hesitated to post it because I am very wary of saying trite things about human suffering (such as, "God lets us suffer because it draws us closer to him") but at the same time some of us do find redemption as much because of pain, difficulty and failure as much as despite it. Those who really turn to and rely on God sometimes have a greater sense of the tenderness of his love.
Meanwhile, Peter Carrell at Anglican Down Under has been posting a series of Easter Hymns and has posted the one below for Good Friday. I am sure he won't mind me posting it too:


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Junior Orchestra and Youth Symphony Auditions
Audition Dates
Audition Location
Audition Requirements
Auditionees for Santa Barbara Junior Orchestra
- Download and fill out the application form (available in English and Spanish)
- String musicians: For new students, please prepare one octave A, D, G, and C major scale and arpeggio, tonic major, are required. 2 octave G and C major scales and arpeggios, tonic major and minor if possible and a solo piece of choice. Advanced and returning students should prepare 2 octave scales for C, F, G, Bb, D, Eb, A and a one octave chromatic scale starting from the lowest note and a solo piece of choice. Sight reading for all musicians will also be included.
- Woodwind and Brass musicians: Please prepare F, Bb, and Eb scales in one or two octaves, a 2 octave chromatic scale (if possible), and a solo piece of your choice. Sight reading for all musicians will also be included.
- Percussionists: Please prepare a piece on snare drum.
Auditionees for Santa Barbara Youth Symphony
- Read message from Music Director Andy Radford
- Download and fill out the application form (available in English and Spanish)
- Download your audition repertoire
- Please prepare a single piece of your choosing. (An accompanist is not needed.)
- Sight-reading will also be included in the audition.
- Violinists, violists, and cellists who are auditioning for the first time please also prepare one 3 octave scale of your choosing.
Note: Your Youth Symphony audition also serves as your audition for the Chamber Orchestra, which is an invite-only ensemble. The most prepared students will be asked to participate after their Youth Symphony audition, and you will be asked to commit to the rehearsal schedule. Participation is not mandatory if you prefer to only play in Youth Symphony.
Rehearsals are Sundays starting September 10th.
Junior Orchestra rehearses at Vieja Valley School (Camerata:1-2:30pm; Philharmonia/Junior Winds: 3-5pm)
Youth Symphony rehearses at Notre Dame School, 6-8:30pm
Tuition fees cover the cost for the entire school year. Scholarships are available and information regarding these can be found on the application form.
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the latest brilliant idea from the cunning rats who run our state is to make farmers pay for water used from farm dams.
it's already impossible to make a living from a small-holding such as ours [470 acres] without working off the farm, unless of course you don't mind working 24/7 doing every single task yourself so as not to have to pay someone else.
at 52 that kind of back-breaking labour is getting well beyond me. which is one of the reasons why i wander about the whirled telling anyone who will listen how to get pretty colours out of leaves.
but back to the story.
farmers [and other landholders] already pay water tax. it's called "rates" and these rates are based on the value of the land. this may seem a mere coincidence, but observation shows [quite consistently] that the more rain falls on your property [in South Australia] the more highly it is valued and [consequently] the higher the council rates paid.
installing meters [at farmers' expense] on dams to make us pay for water used [bearing in mind we've already paid for the construction of the dam and all the infrastructure, unlike our city cousins who have it provided for them] is outrageous.
if i'm fortunate enough to inherit the family farm [and this is not a "given", my parents have every right to sell up and go live in luxury on the Queen Mary if they wish] then frankly "farming" is not going to be high on the agenda. i'm thoroughly sick of having to tag each animal with an electronically readable plastic tag. i'm tired of hearing farmers being accused of pillaging the land and emitting excessive rates of carbon [what about all the other industry emissions? the tricky chemicals the politicians can't spell?]
we've just been advised that as stock-owners we'll are required to pay an annual "epidemic tax" [in case some blight descends upon the herd/flock] and i'm not looking forward to the day when we are made to individually weigh our stock and pay methane emissions tax based on their possible gas output [and probably calculated on the basis of feed-lotting as opposed to paddock grazing]. we also had a letter from the MLA telling us that we've been chosen at random to have our "books inspected" to make sure we're not feeding meat products to our stock. what the? if i were stupid enough to feed meat products to ruminants [and unlike the idiots who fed scrapie-infected sheep carcasses to cattle and kicked of the BSE plague i don't], do they really think i'd be writing it all down in a book?
so i'm extremely unhappy about having to pay a water tax on top of maintaining pipes and pumps and associated paraphernalia.
after a cup of tea and a bit of thought, here's the development plan for 'Hope Springs', assuming i have anything to say in the matter.
* discontinue meat production [let the old cows retire in peace for the rest of their days] and only keep a flock of pet sheep [none of whose children will be sent to market]. plant lots more trees and let most of the place become a wild forest, keeping a bit of clear space around the houses so there's a chance of eluding the inevitable fires. [there are plenty of kangaroos to graze under the trees.]
* grow enough fruit and vegetables to feed the family and trade with the neighbours. carrying the water in buckets from the dam should keep us all quite fit, no need to go to the gym so there's another saving [not that i go anyway, he he]
* compose a lovely "nyah nyah i told you so" song to sing when the government starts bleating about food shortages because nobody wants to be a farmer any more
oh and while i'm having a food and farm rant - the next semi-vegetarian who tells me they don't eat meat on principle but DO eat kangaroo because it's a soft-footed native animal that doesn't damage the country might like to have a little think about how that soft-footed animal is "harvested". these gentle creatures are chased at night by men in 4WD vehicles with spotlights and guns. they die in agony [very rare to knock an animal out with a clean shot to the head] and in terror.
don't tell me that's sustainable meat production.
sorry about the rant folks, but had to get it off my chest. time for a coffee and then back to the sewing room...
one more thing, as my friend from Soewnearth has kindly reminded me [see comments]....the other item on the grand plan is to consider the installation of meters on our rainwater tanks and charge us for usage as well... i may spontaneously combust at some point.


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
66 Diner ---on Route 66
We ate at the Route 66 Diner...What a neat little place .... There were so many memories in that little place ---of my life growing up in the 50's. Today I'll just share some of what we enjoyed that evening --besides the delicious food....
Above is the outside of the little diner.... I remember those windows well ---since the old bus station in my home town in Virginia had windows just like that... Do you remember those kinds of windows????
We were lucky to have gotten to the 66 Diner as late as we did --since the crowds (and there were lots of people) had thinned out --just in time for us to take some pictures.
There was so much memorabilia around that it was hard to take time to eat.... So many memories....
Looks like this Plymouth had a "popeye"-----or maybe some say "perdiddle".... Know what that means??????
As you can tell, we had a great time in the 66 DINER in Albuquerque, New Mexico... AND--the food was delicious... Their dessert special was Rhubarb Cobbler with ice cream. WELL---I just "HAD" to have some of that since I haven't had rhubarb in many years... My mother used to make rhubarb often and I've always loved it. The cobbler was FAN-TABULOUS!!!!!
Hope you enjoyed the 66 DINER.... There are so many neat places along old Route 66. Hope you can check them out yourself sometime.
58 comments:
- Ann said...
rhubarb has become very popular with cooking shores. I have not acquire the taste.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Darla said...
What a neat place, I would love to have some of those things! We would say perdiddle if we saw one headlight out and that would mean you were owed a kiss. I also remember green stamps!
- July 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM
- retriever said...
A funny nice place, greeting from Belgium
- July 26, 2011 at 5:14 AM
- Mr. Bill said...
What a joyful experience!! Thanks for sharing.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:29 AM
I love this post and these photos! I do remember S&H stamps! Hope you have a nice day, Betsy.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:56 AM
- Big Dude said...
What a great find and walk back in history. I love old time diners especially when the food is really good - we'll be sure to visit if we're in the area.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:23 AM
- June said...
Oh . . . green stamps. And triple S blue stamps!
My first vacuum cleaner was purchased with 26 books of S & H green stamps donated by my mother.
I remember being very young and separating EACH stamp from the sheet before I pasted them carefully into the little squares in the book. I think my tongue got sore.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:24 AM
- Jo said...
Hi Betsy, what nostalgia on Route 66. We had juke boxes but no soda fountains as those in your photos. We had / have Coke and icecream cones, though! I was thinking of Betsy Boop just a few days back! I remember so many of the things you posted from comic books, American ones! HA! One of the two articles that will be published by an adventure mag later this year, is about Route 62 in the Cape, South Africa. I think I did a post on it a couple of weeks ago: called GS Adventure. Route 62 was built for touring exactly like you did along Route 66 on your holiday. Thanks for the memories.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- Sandra said...
my kind of eating place for sure. all of this stirs my memories to. after i put the stamps in the booklets, mother would take me to the green stamp store and we would have to make hard decisions, like a mini walmart store, and all free. we used to go up on Alpine Hill to a little place like this to play the juke box. lots of memory lighters here.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Ruth's Photo Blog said...
A true step back in time.When I was growing up are lived on a farm away from places like this and also were so poor that there was no money to go to such a place.I do love rhubarb and make at least some rhubarb desserts every spring.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- Lisa @ Two Bears Farm said...
I love diner food! What a cute place :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 6:52 AM
- Fred Alton said...
Yes, the juke box, Betty Boop, the soda fountain, ice-cream soda, the old '50 model studebaker which i first started driving in, even the thick glass squares in the corner of the building - ALL are in my memory bank! Except the "perdiddle"! I feel cheated now that I see I was supposed to get a kiss every time I saw a "pop-eye"!!! ☻☻☻☻☻
- July 26, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- Out on the prairie said...
As I sit with empty stomach this place sounds real good.I will have a cherry phosphate, sliders and a burger.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- Catherine said...
What a fun place to stop and visit! And the food being good was a bonus! :)
Hope you are having a lovely week Betsy!
xo Catherine
- July 26, 2011 at 7:16 AM
- TexWisGirl said...
i would have been all over that cobbler as my mom used to bake with rhubarb too. simpler times...
- July 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM
- diane b said...
What a fantastic find for dinner. It sure brought back loads of memories for you. A neat place. I remember some of that stuff too but I don't know what a perdiddle is.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM
- linda m said...
Wow, does this post bring back the memories! Thanks for sharing.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:34 AM
- Daisy said...
What a fun place to stop to eat, Betsy. Yes, lots to look at there and lots of memories too!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- Janice K said...
What a neat place.....And yes, my dad had a "49 Plymouth....And I remember what a perdiddle means.
Fun memories!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:45 AM
- Judy said...
I love driving on Route 66...What a neat diner find.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- Mamma has spoken said...
Oh I remember green stamps! I would sit and glue them into the books for my mother. To this day I still have the folding table and chairs that she bought with her green stamps.Wonderful thing about the table is it is soild wood which makes it sturdy. I've seen other friends have folding tables that were nothing more than metal and cardboard. They wobble every time you touch them. Not mine.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:08 AM
- Linda said...
What fun. I remember most of those things. I had a friend whose father owned a gas station, and she and I used to work there on weekends, giving out the "bonus" gifts to those who got a fill-up. That was when the gas station attendant automatically filled your tank, washed your windshield, and checked your oil. And gas cost about 25 cents a gallon. :)
- July 26, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Busy Bee Suz said...
I could spend hours looking at all the goodies in this place. I do remember S&H green stamps and Betty boop. ;)
I still can't spell aberqureque.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Leontien said...
Hi Betsy,
It looks like a lovely little place just like in the movies!
Thanks for sharing and caring about our ladies!
- July 26, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- Cheryl @ The Farmer's Daughter said...
Hi Betsy,
Wow, this place looks so very much like the 63 Diner in Columbia that is my favorite place to eat! It plays all the oldies music from those days and the memorabilia all around is so neat to look at. Even the women's bathroom walls are fun to read while "sitting"...ha! Looks like a fun place to visit, glad you found it! I'll be back...I have a lot of catching up to do. Have a great day!
- July 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- Pedaling said...
I love diners!
The rubarb dessert sounds so yummy!
I remember a few of those things.
How fun to come across such a place and reminiscence.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- Rose said...
I would have loved this place...and yes it brought back memories for me.
I love ice cream, too....always have and always will I suppose.
I can remember buying big glass bottles of pop for a dime...those were the days!
- July 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Ginny said...
LOVE this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as I saw the diner picture, I was shocked, but know this post was going to be GOOD!! It is so much prettier inside than you would guess!! Love the checkered soda fountain with those teal stools. And did you notice there is a parking meter right beside the Plymouth? I collected and pasted Green Stamps. I got good quality binoculars with them, which I still have! But now I use my super zoom camera for binoculars! Having it in my purse is as good as binoculars. I also see that tiny glass fronted fridge where they keep the pie slices! This is my favorite post you have ever done.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Beth said...
I remember all of this stuff!!!
Some highlights:
Cheffy's Drugs had a 'soda fountain' where you could get all kinds of ice cream related stuff.
Mom also collected S&H green stamps and I remember putting them in the booklets. I don't remember anything we got though.
Fun post, Betsy! :>)
- July 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- Tootie said...
NICE post Betsy! I remember every bit of it. :) Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Happyone : ) said...
A fun look back in time which brought back a few memories of my own.
The soda fountain in my home town was called the Sweet Shop. I remember getting sodas there in those cone shaped paper cups for 15 cents.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- Ms. A said...
Oh, wow, I would have had a very hard time focusing on the food with all the memorabilia! Fantastic shots! (I got some pretty nice things with S&H and Big Bonus stamps)
- July 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Chatty Crone said...
So many of those things I remember - thanks for the memories - you ha such a wonderful trip.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Glenda said...
Love diners like this one! What most caught my attention was the green stamp sign. Filling stamp books was always a treat for us; Mama got some really great things, too. Sometimes she'd let us pick out something that we wanted. It was kinda' like Christmas!
- July 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- imac said...
Those were the days Betsy, good fun, good times, now, well,,,,, ah, grand post Betsy, I remember those days.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Lady Di Tn said...
Neat place and I bet it did stir up a few memories. I think it would be fun to drive the entire route 66. Peace
- July 26, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Retired English Teacher said...
Fun times. I'm glad you happened on to the place. It looks very authentic, clean, and like it was a lot of fun.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM
- Diane said...
What a fun place Betsy. I'm sure you had a blast from the past there. Diane
- July 26, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- nanny said...
I want to go there!!! How neat!!!
My husband brought me a jacket with route 66 on it last year when he went through there on hunting trip.
Do I ever remember green stamps. Mom and I would get the catalog out and count the books to see what we could get. It was fun. She would let me pick out things too. Then after green stamps, there was Gold Bond Stamps. Daddy worked for Safeway and they gave gold bond.....such memories.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Arkansas Patti said...
Wow, that really was a trip back in time. The good old days for sure.
We used to play the one eyed car game also. That was a win/win for the guys. They got kissed regardless of who saw it first.
- July 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Ann said...
what a fun diner. That looks like something right of the past. I so remember the s & h green stamps. we would stick them in the books for my mom and then pour over the catalog wishing for things
- July 26, 2011 at 6:00 PM
- The Incredible Woody said...
What a great place! Love places like that - so much fun!!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Shug said...
This is just as neat as can be...I love places like this, and can actually remember seeing some of those things when I was younger...
thanks Besty for taking us back a few years...love it!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- A Brit in Tennessee said...
I didn't grow up with these diners, but it didn't take me very long before I fell in love with the one in our town in Colorado Springs.
Those handmade shakes were the best I have ever tasted, the decor was very similar, with all the fifties memorabilia, when we stopped at the Cumberland Mountain General Store in your neck of the woods, they also had an old fashioned diner.....wonderful food !
- July 26, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- Deb from WhatsInMyAttic said...
Betty Boop and S&H Green Stamps...the stuff of my childhood! What a hoot this post was...really enjoyed it!
- July 26, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Corker2 said...
You hit a big one this time! Yes, Betsy, I do remember most all of that stuff from my teenage years. Betty Boob, PaDiddle, the old cars, soda fountains, and old Juke Boxes are still part of my many memories from back then. Getting 6 plays for a quarter on the juke box, a cherry soda for a dime, ice cream sundies for 15 cents, and just hanging out at the local soda fountain. These are all fond memories of the past. I'm so very sorry to see that these day's have gone and never to return.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Lola said...
Thanks for the memories. That was the good ole days. I learned to drive in a 1950 2 door, stick shift black Chevy.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:00 PM
- Dorothy said...
What a neat place! We ate at a similar place somewhere out there on our honeymoon trip. Love to read about your trip!
- July 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- carolina nana said...
Oh what wonderful memories those pictures bring back. I remember seeing many of those things while growing up.
What a unique place , thanks for the memories.
- July 26, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Andrea said...
I am happy you were joyous in reminiscing the past, and i'm amazed there is still this kind in your part of the world. I've been able to see the jukebox here too, long time ago also, now it's the videoke/karaoke thing. I am happy for you and George.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:37 PM
- SquirrelQueen said...
Oh my goodness, I had forgotten all about the S&H Green stamps. My mom used to collect those too.
This looks like a fun place to look around and reminisce. I love the soda fountain. Thanks for sharing the memories Betsy.
- July 27, 2011 at 1:09 AM
- Kirigalpoththa said...
A nice place! Lovely!!
- July 27, 2011 at 1:41 AM
- eileeninmd said...
Great post, Betsy! The diners can have the best food. My favorite is the soda fountain. It is a cool and fun place to eat.
- July 27, 2011 at 3:17 AM
- Small City Scenes said...
Hi, Betsy, what a cool place. And all the stories of Route 66-----and I remember all this stuff too. I used to love Lemon milkshakes--YUM!!
PS. Sometime today I am doing another waterfall---just for you too---and yes I think I found someone wonderful---MB
- July 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Loren said...
How wonderful! Wow there really is sooooo much memorabilia! I DO remember s&h green stamps! I too, filled in those books for my mom but I think they had to fade out as I got to be a bit older.
It was so neat to come off of your family post to this one. I shared about my great grandparents ~ they had sooo much of this stuff in their home! They had a pool billiard room and it was connected to their living area but could shut it off as well. Anyways, they had a pin ball machine, pool table, pokeno table, awesome signs every where, a glass pop bottle machine, a bar set up with some of the coolest little stuff you have ever seen. I was sooo sad that when they died I wasn't allowed the chance to go through ANYTHING of theirs. Still makes me soooo sad but thanks for sharing this and allowing me to go back and think about all the wonderful times we had there!
- July 30, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Lynn said...
Betsy, Here I am catching up on your recent trip. I love this post! My dad had "company" plymouth station waggons until I was in high school and he bought my mom her first car that was just "ours". He drove the "company car". To this day, I love a jukebox, especially ones filled with the music of the 50's and 60's. A juke box with the song, "A summer place" takes me way back....lol Lake George, NY was a big summer draw for families but also older kids, 18-25 ish. It was Viet Nam and my girl friends and I rented a motel, I drove my Chevy Malibu up and I can still see the guys uniform walking the streets. Love all the Route 66 items. In Az, the most I really had were street signs from Route 66, we were on but nothing like your restaurant. Such memories. Thank you for sharing these delightful pictures.
- July 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Janie said...
What a cool place. I remember those green stamps. I can even remember what the glue tasted like!
- July 31, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Cicero Sings said...
Looks like a fun, nostalgic place. Good food to boot ... such a bonus.
- August 2, 2011 at 9:51 PM


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The boy. He talks and chatters and parrots and reads and explains and asks. It is mind-blowing to us; one day you were doing this awful, frustrated squeal "EHHHHHHH!!!" at everything and the next, full-on talking.
At 20 months you know the words to nearly everything around you. Examples for posterity....you can tell me what you want to do "Go in the bath", "Open it up", "Come here" etc. You told me your tummy hurt today. And that you wanted to "play train tracks" with "Thomas the Tank Engine". You understand EVERYTHING, all the most detailed instructions, and you take great delight in following through instructions - "Go to the table please Louie", "Wash your hands", "Pick up your books and take them to your room please". I dread the day you realise it's not a game and that you are able to refuse and/or tantrum. Good lord I know it's coming.
Today we lay together on our bed and you picked up a book of Poppa's. I asked you to read it to me and you turned the pages and read to me for a long while. It was apparently about "little ones" and "big ones" for the most part.
I've started pausing mid-way through sentences in books and you finish them off for me;
Me: "Little Rabbit Foo-Foo riding through the...."
Louie: "FORRRESSSSST!"
Me: "Picking up the field mice and....
Louie: "BOPPPING ON DA HEAD!!"
But even ones we've only read a handful of times:
Me: " "Not I" said the cheetah lazing in the...
Louie: "SPOTTED SHADE!!!"
But probably the most interesting part of you being able to verbally communicate is you telling me about things I haven't seen you experience. When we sat around having dinner after your day at daycare I asked you "what songs did you sing at school Louie?". You looked at me for a long while, obviously thinking really hard and then replied "Babies wahwah" and did a little rocking motion with your hands. I didn't know what you meant. Then you said "Wheeeeels!" and I started singing "The Wheels on the bus". Your eyes gleamed happily and then you said "Babies!!" Oh...."The babies on the bus go 'wahwahwah'". Your eyes popped out of your head, your mum knew your daycare song! Then you said "Rainbow" and we figured out which Rainbow song you meant by you mumbling "Redandlellowand....". Amazing.
I know this is the minutiae of you growing up but these are the moments I don't want to forget. This metamorphosis from baby to boy is unreal, these sudden leaps and bounds hurtling you out, up, further away from me. And yet I feel closer to you than ever. We can talk.
I told you the other day as you looked at me worriedly, trying something new "Don't worry baby, Mama's here". You repeated it, as you do everything "Mama's 'ere, mama's 'ere". And I watched it sink in. Mama is here. It's ok. Ever since then you say "Mama here?" and reach for me when you're feeling worried. Mama's here Lou Blue, always xxx
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Saturday, 14 May 2016
David Ruccio: Unilateral Pluralism in Economics.
David Ruccio (Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame and a well-known Marxist) denounces that Alberto Paloni, senior lecturer of macroeconomics at the University of Glasgow and "expert in post-Keynesian theory, has been stopped from teaching a core degree module on macroeconomics".
Discontents with the current practice in university economics departments (i.e. "mainstream economists do all they can -- within their departments and in the wider discipline -- to make sure other approaches (often referred to as heterodox economics and, often, noneconomics) are displaced to (and, in many cases, beyond) the margins") have been demanding pluralism in economics education: that other schools of economic thought be given a fair go.
Ruccio is voicing that demand. I cannot but praise him for that and for coming to the defence of a post Keynesian colleague.
However, by the same token, I cannot but ask the reader: have you ever heard of a post Keynesian economist taking similar stance in defence of a Marxist colleague or of Marxism, in general?
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- Anonymous14 May 2016 at 18:04
Glad to see you back, Mpie.ReplyDelete
"have you ever heard of a post Keynesian economist taking similar instance in defence of a Marxist colleague or of Marxism, in general?"
Thats a pretty good question. Id really love to see how many examples people come up with.Replies
Thanks for the comment, Anonymous, but I never said I was out of business, only that I was -- and still am -- going through some difficult times.Delete
Thats a pretty good question. Id really love to see how many examples people come up with.
This might be an unfair guess, but I suspect the count shall be low. Like, really, really, really, low.
PoKers demand pluralism in economics teaching for themselves exclusively. There is no reciprocity implied, no tit-for-tat. They reserve the right to deny others' demands for pluralism in economics teaching. It's their God-given prerogative.
If you think about it, it's exactly the same thing with the bourgeois liberals and their liberal democracy: once their class interests are threatened, liberal democracy becomes a nicety they are ready to do without.
It's not for nothing that, broadly speaking and with a few exceptions, PoKeism is vulgar.


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Sometimes, questions just arise which need investigating. The BBC programme Top Gear, a show about cars, tends to ask routine questions such as 'will this supercar win a race against this method of public transport from point A to point B', and invariably the supercar wins.
However, one of the recent episodes has taken this question to new and exciting extremes. Highlighting the seepage of steam and dieslpunk into the mainstream, had the best race ever. To wit:
"James grabs himself a gorgeous old Jaguar XK120 sports car while Richard chooses to torture himself on the brutal but rather fantastically named Vincent Black Shadow motorbike. Meanwhile, in an almost unprecedented move, Jeremy decides to take the train. But not just any old train; he's on the footplate of the Tornado, a brand new steam train built to the original blueprints used to create some of Britain's finest locomotives back in the heyday of the railways."
In the spirit of the 19th Century "Races to the North", BBC television's "Top Gear" programme threw down the gauntlet for the builders of brand new Peppercorn A1 Class Tornado and challenged them to a race from London to Edinburgh. On April 25th under the cover of some secrecy, in a thrilling contest that harked back to the great days of the 'fifties, the Cathedrals Express blasted away from Kings Cross at 7.30am on the 25th of April with Jeremy Clarkson on board. Meanwhile Richard Hammond, astride a classic Vincent motorbike, and James May, driving a Jaguar XK120, set off in hot pursuit on the A1 (road).
So, a race from London to Edinburgh featuring a classic motorbike, sports car, and steam train! The power of Steam versus the infernal combustion engine. Could you get more steamy than this!
There are various places where the honourable reader may view the race, and see who wins! Links include the Top Gear site itself (here); youtube (here) and, for those within the UK, the BBC iPlayer (here).
I look forward to the time where the race involves a steamliner, steamtrain, and dirrigible!


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I purchased a GSG-5 Rifle when they were really hot. The gun cost me a pretty penny, $469 to be exact. I thought to myself that this gun better be damn good considering the price. I thought that for that kind of money I would be getting a quality product. I was mistaken.
I have a few problems with the GSG-5. The gun has a ton of parts. It is built more like an airsoft gun or a BB gun rather than a real firearm. The number of parts in this gun has got to be over a hundred. Many die cast parts are held together with nuts and bolts. It would have been slightly more expensive to have parts threaded to accomodate a fastneer, but they decided to use nuts and bolts instead. The design utilizes multiple recoil springs that ride on metal studs. These studs became worn down in a short amount of time on my gun. Also, the front sight fell out while shooting. The front sight blade is tiny and so is the screw that holds it in place. I was shooting at an outdoor range, standing in a gravel area while shooting. I never did find the missing parts.
I never would have purchased a GSG-5 if I'd done some research. If i had seen an exploded diagram of the firearm, i would have never purchased it. There are just too many parts, which means there are a lot of possible points of failure. Not only failure, but also a ton of fastenrs to get loose over time. The gun feels very plasticky and the buttstock is not only hollow, but also composed of a very thin plastic that does not fit well. The buttstock has way too much wobble to shoot the gun accurately at long distances. The stock fittment has gotten worse over time.
The gun looks amazing, but it feels cheap and isn't reliable. I will be sending this gun to Rochester New York for warranty repair sometime soon. It has been sitting in my collection, broken, for a couple of years now, so I think it is finally time to get it fixed. If the technicians at the repair center can't get the thing working reliably, I'm going to sell it.
There are a couple of morals to my story: Don't buy something right hwne it comes out. You are likeley to have a problem that didn't get ironed out in pre-roduction. Don't anticipate quality just because of the product's price. Also, don't buy a gun until you've seen an exploded parts diagram.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
German Sport Guns GSG-5 Rifle
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This is good advice, buying an Air Soft Gun can be a demanded process.ReplyDelete
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I've often wondered how we recovered. I suppose we never recovered fully, for as my friend and batch-mate, Werawellalage Premasiri pointed out recently the roots of today's human resource crisis are tagged 'Bheeshanaya (Terror) 1987-89'. Still, life went on and we came to a place where we could say in one voice, 'terrorism is a thing of the past'. Death and loss are lamented collectively as well as personally. We moved on as a collective but there's no way to say that a forgetting or dealt-and-done-with skin has grown over the scars of that tragedy. I tell myself that a couple of millennia worth of engagement with the Buddhist notion of equanimity and a corresponding understanding of the doctrine of impermanence might have helped. Here's a story that might explain in a more tangible kind of manner.
It is set in the late eighties and was recounted by a person attached to the Ambalanthota office of the Irrigation Department. His superior at the time was one Mr. Paranamanne, now no more. They both enjoyed reading, especially about ancient irrigation works. R.L. Brohier's book on the subject fascinated them. They were wont to go trekking deep into the jungles of the area in search of abandoned irrigation works mentioned in the book. This was a time when NORAD had helped developed a cascade of village tanks in the Mala-ela river basin ('mala' meaning dead and 'ela' canal). They were not getting filled during the rainy season due to insufficient runoff, he explains.
Anyway, the two explorers had in one of their excursions come across the now famous Mau Ara Dam, then known as Gal Amuna.
Let him take over the narrative: 'The Mau Ara was untapped even for the Uda walawe Scheme as it fed the Walawe River in the form of seasonal flash floods; (it was therefore) an unreliable water source. Initial investigations showed that damming this and feeding the Malal Ara was a possibility. This new dam was proposed as a water source for the wildlife in the Udawalawe Park and a trans-basin canal would take the water to Malala basin. As usual the Irrigation Department was not (in favour of) the project (given the) many stakeholders to deal with.'
The two, who were not just adventurers but dedicated public servants who took their jobs very seriously, had then approached the then Director of the Agrarian Research and Training Institute ('ARTI' but now HARTI after adding Hector Kobbekaduwa's name). The director had visited the area along with the brilliant but eccentric engineer M.S.M. Silva. They had been convinced of the project's viability.
The Director had organized a two day awareness seminar at the ARTI on the Walawe Basin and its irrigation projects attended by the most eminent people on the subjects of Agriculture, Wildlife, Hydrology and Irrigation in order to get the project to the then political administration.
This was twenty years ago. Today, our narrator tells us, Chamal Rajapaksa (now Speaker) took up the proposal and we have a truly Sri Lankan project executed with local funding and expertise. My friend Uditha Wijesena, our narrator here, tells me that Chamal in a recent television interview had mentioned his co-adventurer, Mr. Paranamanne as the engineer who deserves the credit for achieving the engineering feat.
Uditha also credits the Director, ARTI.
'[He] too played his part by getting the then political administration to take note of a worthy cause.' Uditha describes him thus: 'Seeing his stature and the looks my first feeling was that it would be difficult working with this guy. But, I tell you Malinda, he was such a gentle guy to work with. He wanted things his way but I don't think that was being stubborn. '
I remember that Director from twenty years ago. This was at the height of the bheeshanaya. He was living at his official residence off Wijerama Mawatha. There were three undergraduates living in that house, two from Bingiriya and one from Galgamuwa, all hiding from the death squads that roamed our villages and turned roadsides into cemeteries and rivers into dead-carrying waterways; all for the crime of being university students and for having been born in the sixties. I remember him telling me that nothing we do should compromise his work at the ARTI (he knew we were all politically inclined, anti-JVP as well as absolutely opposed to the UNP regime).
We saw death and brutality. We plotted revolution. He helped keep life alive. Just by doing his job. He always worked. His enthusiasm to serve, to do justice to the salary he got, never flagged even though every single government he served under harassed him for having held leftist views when he was an undergraduate (i.e. before he joined the Civil Service), usually by shunting him to some obscure department or tossing him into 'The Pool'. Lalith Athulathmudali had to bypass President Premadasa to appoint him as Director, ARTI.
I remember him telling me somewhere in the year 1994, 'I saved millions for this country and after thirty years of service I have only ten thousand rupees in my account, I just finished paying the housing loan and don't even have a car'. He didn't have a car when he retired. He still doesn't have one. He struggles to pay his medical bills, telephone bill, water and electricity bills and meet his other expenses.
Uditha related the above story because memory was sparked by a photograph of a man twenty years older than when he had last met him.
We recovered from those terrible times. We pulled ourselves out of a rut and we will do so again and again. And that's because we are a different kind of society, I like to think. It is also because of people like Uditha Wijesena and his boss, the late Mr. Paranamanne. And of course that former Director of the ARTI. His name: Gamini Seneviratne. To me, 'Appachchi'.
[First published in the Daily News, July 2011, reproduced here as tribute to my father, who is not exactly in the pink of health right now, and with so much love to my sister Ruvani and her family, who are taking care of him]


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ok, so first, the packaging. i personally don't love MAC packaging for powdered products, but I think they are spot on with their lipsticks. the smooth balck bullet shape is very tactile, and it has a nice wieght to it so it doesn't feel at all cheap.
the colour range is obviously enormous, which is great if you're a bit of a fanatic like me, but even I find it intimidating and overwhelming sometimes, which is probably why i don't have more of these. the formula is lovely, creamy, non-drying and smooth. the colour lasts a long time and fades evenly.
that brings me onto the scent. Most of you don't know this about me, but i work as a carer for a boy with cerebral palsy called Jack. Jack can't speak or eat, and he gets food via a tube that feeds directly into his stomach. the food is a powder that gets mixed with water to make a milkshake like substance. this stuff, complete feed, smells exactly like MAC lipsticks, and i really stuggle to get past it. obviously, this is only a problem for me personally, if you've never been anywhere near complete feed then you wont associate it with that, but to me, thats what it smells like!!
overall, i think they are nice, a great little luxury, but i dont know if i would buy many more, purely because of the smell. i LOVE this colour, but i have the almost exact same colour in the sleek pout paint in port, which is half the price, and is virtually unscented. they are a bit pricey at £13.50, but they don't break the bank.
the final word? nice, but overrated.
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Less than a year after Ed and Adelina Yglesias bought a leather chair, they noticed a small crack in the upholstery. Soon the crack grew bigger, and then came another crack and another and yet another.
"It started growing and growing," Adelina said.
"I can feel it on my head, some pieces can be sharp you know," Ed said.
The couple figured it would no problem. They had purchased a lifetime leather protection plan along with the chair at Jennifer Convertibles in Colma. So they contacted the store and asked to have the chair repaired or replaced under that lifetime guarantee.
"'We're not going to fix it anything,' that's what they told me," Ed said.
They were stunned when Jennifer Convertibles said the lifetime guarantee does not cover their type of damage. The retailer pointed to the list of exclusions in the warranty, saying it doesn't cover "fading, cracking and peeling."
"Why not? I mean that's what your salesman told us that, 'anything you don't need to worry for that amount of money, you don't need to worry,' he even mentioned cracking and peeling," Adelina said.
Ed and Adelina claim the sales person promised the warranty would cover all damage, regardless of the exclusions.
"That's why we decided to buy the warranty," Adelina said.
The couple said they wouldn't have paid $179 for the protection plan if they had known the cracking could happen and the warranty wouldn't help. They filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, and they contacted 7 On Your Side.
7 On Your Side found more than a dozen similar complaints online from other Jennifer Convertibles customers who were also upset their leather cracked, and the plan wouldn't kick in.
So 7 On Your Side contacted Jennifer Convertibles.
Jennifer Convertibles said Ed and Adelina should have known about the terms, saying "The problem they complain of...is clearly listed as an exclusion on the copy of the plan they were provided with in writing at the time of sale."
The plan actually covers only "accidental customer caused damage" such as "nicks, punctures, rips, scratches and cigarette burns." However, Jennifer Convertibles said because the couple was not satisfied with those terms, the company agreed to refund the $179 they paid for the plan "as a courtesy."
That sits just fine with Ed and Adelina.
"Channel 7 has a lot to do with this; yes, I'm really very happy," Adelina said.
The lesson here is to read all the terms of a protection plan before you buy it and if it says "lifetime guarantee" on the top, find out exactly what is guaranteed because it may not be the coverage you really need.


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Little turbo leak..........Overhaul the engine?
Finished oil changes heat exchanger cleaning, and was on for the last item of maintenance "a small turbo leak" that is causing smoke in the engine room when run hard (the oil burn on the outside of the riser) because the gravity is guiding the dripping oil underneath the riser´s blanket on this 8V71ti with 3100 hours. (it leaks only after it cools down not during run)
So pulled the turbo for rebuild, and as you can see from the pictures there is damage to the exhaust side and the turbo guys at metro diesel in Miami said it cannot be balanced, I called my mechanic and he said STOP, do not get a rebuild one as the new one will be damaged too. Lets look in the engine air box hatches to see whats wrong.
Now this engine smokes very tiny white smoke on startup but disappears after 5 min run. Otherwise it sounds fine and had no other issues. A high crank case pressure was detected on both engines actually up to 3.5" at the time of the engine survey on this boat.
I asked around and everyone told me as long as the engine starts right up and does not smoke and as long as it runs hard fine then don´t worry about that.
Knowing some about the engines mechanics, I had a discussion with my mechanic (who seems little pessimistic) that if we found anything wrong with further investigation then it will be a major overhaul, and he confirmed.
Now the question is: other than this small leak and the fact that we found dinged exhaust turbo blades as you see from the pictures, do I really wanna pursue this problem to the source and potentially perform a major overhaul? Would you do that too?
The mechanic says you put a newer turbo it will be damaged again, and maybe you end up with broken block. My logic tells me a piece had passed by that turbo ( I had no good history on this boat), I am not sure if this damage had been there for years or happened in the last 100 hours that I have used this boat for so far. Could another piece pass by? yes anything is possible. Could another damage happen anytime? and my answer is yes this is an engine from 1972 I am not going to make new again.
Please advice on what you would do?
I have had a few Detroit's over the years.
Myself i would replace the turbo.
I don't follow the logic of how the block could get broke by adding a new turbo.How is the supercharger? That should show you if there are more bits floating around.Mine had a screen before the supercharger to catch bits before they went through it.
The 71 series of Detroit's are one tough engine.If the airbox's are clean go with a new turbo and let her rip.
I was told by a senior trucker before driving a Detroit you need to slam the door on your hand so you are pissed off and drive the crap out of the truck.
I had one in my fuel truck that leaked oil out of the air box's when it was started.It would leave a 6" puddle each time it was started.Another old-timer told me to stop using multygrade oils in it.So i switched from 15W40 to straight 30W the puddles disappeared to a few drips at startup.
The scariest thing that i was witness to was when my mechanic changed injectors.He didn't get the rack set right and the 671 ran away.Tanker was about 1/2 full and all i could vision was a huge explosion in my shop.He was trying to smother it with a piece of plywood over the intake.I managed to spin off the fuel filter and got it shut down before it exploded.
90 Chev 3500 c/c 4x4,6.2na,400 auto,4:10 gears.DSG Timing gears,main girdle, isspro tach, pyro,boost,oil and trany temp.Dual Tstats, High volume peninsular pump,on shelf, Custom turbo and intercooler 85%complete. Change of plans for the dually, it's going to get a Cummins. Both trucks are Blue 90 4x4 crews
The broken turbine is on the exhaust side. The supercharger should not be damaged unless a foreign object was sucked into the engine and then through the Supercharger, and then the cylinders and then the exhaust then the turbo.
My mechanic actually was mentioning that since the foreign object should have generated from the piston area through the exhaust, that there is a potential of additional material getting discharged and potentially could damage the block itself (because of a cylinder that may get stuck or for other reasons).
I appreciate your response, I think at this point we're going to open the hatch covers and take a look inside. I believe the big question would be what to do if I find that one of the rings is broken, given that the engine doesn't have any other symptoms.
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Daimler Double Six 38,600 miles
Sale price: £10,775.00 make an offer
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|Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS), Rear seat belts, Safety Belt Pretensioners
|Alloy Wheels, Catalytic Converter
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|Air Conditioning, Climate Control, Cruise Control, Leather Seats, Power-assisted Steering (PAS), Power Locks, Power Seats, Power Windows
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Daimler Double Six 38,600 miles for sale
My Daimler Double Six is one of those rare cars that actually is better than it looks in the photos. The condition/history/maintenance are as good as you will ever find a Series 3 XJ in. It drives absolutely superbly. The underside. wheel arches. sills. doors. boot lid etc are all spotless and no paintwork has ever been done to the car since it was made.
It is one of the last proper XJ's to be built. and the colour of Brooklands Green is stunning. Seats are in Doeskin autolux leather.
Originally supplied to a private owner in the South of Japan. the car was kept garaged at a wealthy executive's summer home. The car has never been exposed to rain or road salt. I cannot stress enough how remarkable the underside of the car is and totally free of any corrosion or damage whatsoever. The exhaust for example. looks as if it is only weeks old and not 22 years. The Kent alloys are also perfect. The car is one of the last series 3 V12's and therefore has ABS brakes. Speedometer is calibrated in Km and not miles but otherwise all is as per a UK spec car (without the rust). The speedometer can be changed easily for a UK one but I have not even considered it as I like the originality.
There is a total service history
as follows: 2. 43m (4091km) . 3. 95m (5784km). 4. 80m (7678km). 6. 28m (9858km). 9. 55m (14887km). 16. 53m (25. 83km). 16. 51m (26945km). 18. 16m (30. 27km). 19. 94m (31840km). 22. 18m (35739km). 24. 08m (40. 65km). 27. 32m (44. 46km). 0. 43m(49450km). 34. 79m (55. 38km). 37. 10m (59. 92). nbsp; 37. 02m (60. 02km).
38. 27m (61. 10km).
All the above has been carried out at a Jaguar main dealer. A full service has been carried out in May 2013 at Premier Jaguar in Swindon and the oil is Classic XL 20/50.
It drives silently and smoothly like a magic carpet.
The car has the original and complete tool kit and the spare wheel is unused and as new. All tyres are Pirellis a and have plenty of tread on them. CD auto changer
is fitted. The car's interior is in beautiful. unmarked condition and has Wilton carpets and the original lambs wool over rugs in matching green.
The one fault was a slightly droopy headlining. so this has been professionally changed and is now fitted with a new one from Myrtle trimmers in exactly the correct material and to the original colour scheme.
Given the condition / asking price. I think it would be very hard to find another like it anywhere else. Please call me on 07788 148504 for further information.
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I shared on my "Betty's Ramblings" blog last week that I bought myself a new toy, a mini sewing machine made by Janome. A blogger friend of mine has one and uses it on most of her cards. I like the way her cards look when she adds stitching to them and wanted to do the same on my cards.
Unfortunately, the machine had a problem with the tension. Regardless of where I set the tension, the stitching was not correct. So yesterday, after spending a good part of the day and watching a couple of tutorials, I asked Gerry to box the machine up for me. This morning we returned it to Hancock Fabrics where I had purchased it. I took a sample of the stitching with me so they could see what the machine was doing.
This is the card I wanted to put stitching on. I was going to straight stitch around the two pieces of designer scrapbook paper and then use a zigzag stitch around the image. I finished up the card last night and thought it came out okay. I used my Copics to color and then the flowers were part of my first prize that I won at our card swap in February. I put a pearl sticker in the middle of the flowers. Here is another card I just finished. The stamp is one that I have had for a while. I think it was among the first stamps I purchased when I first started making cards. I used Copics to color it and tried to use the same color scheme that is on the picture on the stamp itself. I think I should have used a lighter gray on the wheelbarrow or another color for it. I daubed VersaMagic Gingerbread chalk ink all around the image to cover the white cardstock. It doesn't really show up very well. Not real happy with the end result. I finished it off with some sheer black edged ribbon from A Muse.
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I had a clear and unambiguous dream last night. Ninety nine percent of my dreams vanish into thin air, or are troubled nightmares, or are about looking for something or walking down an unknown road. But this dream was one of those rare dreams that was so crystal clear I could remember every detail when I woke up.
What I dreamed is that I was giving a presentation to a large group of people about the importance of photography in genealogy. My first camera was a baby brownie at the age of 13 or so and for some mysterious reason I have bought dozens of updated cameras over the years. I graduated from black and white box cameras to 35 mm cameras and Kodachrome and ultimately to digital cameras. When I was young I took photos of my four sisters, brother, parents, the farm where we lived, the river near by and other scenes. As it turned out, those photos are the only photos my siblings have of our growing up years. Unfortunately, I or no one else ever thought about making sure I was in some of the photos since I was the one who took almost all of them. Today those photos are treasures of great price. Many of the most priceless memories I and my siblings have of our childhood are locked into those wonderful images of our youth. In turn, those photos become an additional treasure to our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, and so on down the line. Of course, one of the difficulties in those days was the fact that I had to take my little rolls of film to town to the drug store and pay to have prints made. Since I had no money, every roll of film developed was a precious and valued gift. Then, with 35 mm., we had to have the film developed and converted to slides. And that was expensive in the days when $1 may have meant an hour and a half of work.
Today we live in an age of photographic miracles. Anyone with a smartphone can take thousands of good photos if they will take a few minutes to learn how to use the wonderful camera in the phone. Digital cameras by the dozens are available at all price ranges. We can take an infinite number of photos for free, basically, and delete generously the duplicates and bad photos without paying to have them developed.
One problem today is that so many people don't take photography seriously. A few quick clicks and a fast post to Facebook and photography is over. While instant gratification on Instagram, Facebook, and other media outlets can be a valuable means of communication and can provide enjoyment to many people, the popularity of instant and transient photography is not going to be much help for family records and genealogy. Unless some effort is made to preserve these photos and make them available to family and others, all of the instant photography is going to vanish into thin air.
Digital photography offers a multitude of ways to preserve and distribute photos. The two most important ways, to me at least, of saving and distributing photos are these:
- Storing on CDs and DVDs and distributing these discs to family members and others. Even these methods may be outdated by continuing technology shifts so we have to stay up-to-date on the latest methods of saving and storing photos so our descendants don't end up with a pile of unusable discs.
- Print photo books. Printing photo books offers the most permanent and attractive way of saving photos, although the number of photos saved in photo books is likely to be significantly smaller than the vast numbers of photos you can save on CDs and DVDs. Dozens of photo book printing outlets exist. I like My Publisher and Artifact Uprising. Many people use Shutterfly. Shop around on the internet but check the ratings before you settle on a printer. By printing some of your best photos from Facebook and your phone memory every few months, you can be sure that you can save your images for another day. It's important to let others know how they can order copies of the books you publish if you don't just give copies to them to begin with.
So far we've talked about new photos that we are just taking now. The biggest treasure trove of photos, however, is likely to be held in shoe boxes, old albums, hard drives, on CDs and DVDs, dresser drawers, old trunks, and wherever else people saved the gems of their lifetime. Now is the time to resurrect these photos to their rightful place in family lore, history, and genealogy. Most people don't have any idea what to do with them. The best thing to do is to find some one who will scan these photos into a form you can use to print photos and photo books. Some libraries have scanners, and some photography companies will scan your shoe boxes full of photos. I have about 40 old photo albums that my wife put together over many years. If I die before doing something with these photos, none of my children or descendants will ever have an opportunity to see them. So I splurged and bought the Kodak flatbed scanner which many commercial scanners use. The miracle of this scanner is that it will scan a page in a photo album and then separate the photos on that page into separate photos just as if you had scanned the photos individually.
By taking a little time now to manage and distribute current photos and to find a method to preserve old photos, you can bestow a priceless gift to your children and to future generations. You can find much information on line about printing, scanning, and storing photos. Delaying too long can mean the loss of a valuable heritage. Doing something about your photos can provide an incredible boost to anyone doing family history or genealogy.
And that is what my dream was all about. Maybe there was a purpose to my dreaming this dream. I like to think that maybe there was a purpose.


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|Laoag City is the gateway to Ilocos Norte.
Anyway, here is the 3-day itinerary (including some notes) I prepared for my travel buddies during our Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte trip last year. As it was their first trip to both provinces, I called them "Ilocos Virgins". To ensure that we get to explore a lot of places, we rented a van (arranged through the hotel). It turned out to be great idea as commuting was difficult due to the scorching summer sun. In fact, at 5:30 a.m., the sun was already as high as the 9:00 a.m. sun in Manila!
Day 1: Ilocos Norte Center
12:15 to 12:30 p.m. Arrival at Laoag International Airport
12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Travel from Airport to hotel
(Gertes Hotel and Resort)
Late lunch
2:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Explore Laoag, Batac and Paoay:
Provincial Capitol
Museo Ilocos Norte
St. Williams Cathedral Bell Tower
Malacañang Ti Amianan
(Malacanang of the North)
Batac Riverside Empanadahan
(Eat at Glory's Empanada)
Marcos Mansion and Museum
Paoay Sand Dunes
Paoay Church
Fort Ilocandia (Catch the sunset)
6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Return to hotel
7:00 p.m. onwards Dinner at Saramsam Cafe
Free time/Rest
Notice that our first day was packed? That's because the Ilocos Virgins wanted to see a lot of things on their first visit. The attractions listed above can be explored quickly or at a leisurely pace. In our case we explored some of the places quickly (e.g. Provincial Capitol, Bell Tower and Paoay Sand Dunes) so that we can visit other attractions before they close for the day. The Museo Ilocos Norte and Marcos Museum were initially not part of our itinerary but the hotel's management recommended it.
|The Bagnet or deep fried pork belly with blistered skin is a must-try Ilocano dish.
Day 2: Outside Ilocos Norte's Capital
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Breakfast at the hotel
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Road trip to La Paz, Pasuquin and Burgos
La Paz Sand Dunes
Bacarra Tower
Pasuquin Salt Harvesting
Cape Bojeador Lighthouse
Bangui Bay (to see the windmills up-close)
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch at a roadside eatery
1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Pagudpod
5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Return trip to Laoag
Brief stop at the Bangui Windmill View Deck
7:30 p.m. onwards Dinner at Fort Ilocandia
Free time/Rest
We planned to do sand-boarding and four-wheel driving at La Paz but the rental facility was closed that day (to our dismay). As for our dinner, we returned to Fort Ilocandia as most dining establishments in Ilocos Norte close early.
|Vigan, the capital of Ilocos Sur, is renowned for its old world charm.
Day 3: Ilocos Sur
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m Breakfast at the hotel
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Road trip to Vigan, Ilocos Sur
11:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m. Singson's Baluarte
Lunch at Cafe Uno
Crisologo Museum
(no entrance fee, just make a donation)
St. Paul's Metropolitan Cathedral
(Vigan Cathedral)
Museo San Pablo
(no entrance fee, just make a donation)
Burgos Museum
Syquia Mansion (with entrance fee)
Mestizo District/Calle Crisologo
Vigan Empanadaaan
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Return trip to Laoag
8:00 p.m. Dinner at hotel
Initially, we wanted to see the Currimao Rock Formation on our third day. However, we decided to slow down a bit so we could enjoy the sights and sounds of Vigan. We also needed time to shop for souvenirs and popular food items as our return flight was scheduled the following morning.
For this trip, our initial budget was at PhP 5,000 or almost $120 per head (excluding personal shopping expenses and air fare) for 5 travelers. However, one of our travel buddies didn't make it so we had to shoulder the additional cost and ended up adding PhP 1,000 each. A large part of our budget went to transportation, hotel and our pricey dinner at Fort Ilocandia (We ordered too much and didn't realize that the dishes were more expensive). Our biggest savings was our trip to Pagudpod as we didn't rent a cottage or stayed at a resort. Our driver suggested that we could just park our van near the beach and just pay for the use of a shower room. (Note: The shower room isn't anything fancy. Similar to those in remote provinces, it's a small unpainted room without bathroom tiles and the shower is basically cold water coming from a hose. But for five pesos, who were we to complain?)
Now if you want more details of our Ilocos adventure, check these posts or see the photos on my Facebook page:
Vigan, Ilocos Sur
Paoay Church
Bangui Windmills