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724th Railway Operating Battalion
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718th Railway Operating Battalion compass
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753rd Railway Shop Battalion trench art
753rd Railway Shop Battalion art by Nancy on Scribd
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741st Railway Operating Battalion - Stout
741st ROB Stout by Nancy on Scribd
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724th TROB misc docs
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706th Railway Grand Division 25 October 1943 - 9 May 1945 unit member signatures
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Locomotives: We don't forget old US iron Soldiers!
More from Ludovic ....I have now to write about old ROB soldiers which are preserved in our country : in this case, the steam locomotives type 060 same as the one shown with Mr Julian PETERS in Dreux station in 44. FRANCE bought 77 locomotives of this type in 1946 and they were called "030 TU" in the French specifications.
There are two survivors of this time : the N° USA TC WD 4383, built in 1943 by DAVENPORT, is now in a railway museum in Longueville, near Paris, restored in its military livery and running, by the association named "AJECTA". The other one (USA TC WD 6102) built by HK PORTER from PITTSBURGH, in 1943, is always in Normandy ; I took photos of it in CAEN city, in 1988 and since 1996, it is preserved by an association "ACF", located in PONT-ERAMBOURG, in their railway museum. But it is not yet restored nor running : the association has not enough money to do this work and is awaiting for a sponsoring to help ! (photos joined)- We don't forget old US iron Soldiers !
More on the 030 TU https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/030_TU
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743rd Railway Operating Battalion camp 1945 France
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740th Railway Operating Battalion reunoin roster 1976
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712th Timetable Korea 1954
712th Timetable Korea 1954 by Nancy on Scribd
735th Railway Operating Battalion History
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735th ROB History by Nancy on Scribd
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723rd Railway Operating Battalion in France: Ludovic and his truck
My name is Ludovic; I am a Frenchman and live in Normandy, 15 miles West from DREUX city. I was always interested in military history and, because my grandfather Maurice was a rail worker from 1922 to 1960 in the area Dreux-Verneuil sur Avre, I discovered, years ago, that it was the 723 rd ROB who was in charge of our railway line.
Many times, I've read the saga of this unit in your blog, and ten years ago, my son Geoffrey and I, bought a 1944 GMC tipper truck with the intention to restore it and give it markings of the 723 rd, to maintain its memory here. The nicknames of our truck is "Alamo" and "Georges"(an uncle of mine which was soldier during and
after WW2). So, our truck is running since this year. I've read that it was the "A" company of the 723 rd who used some trucks as it, but how may, I don't know...?
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There is so much to do with limited time to do it all. I am on my fourth tutorial of the day and believe it or not I have so many more to go. Since I submitted two animated characters from Pokémon, I figured I should do two tutorials on some really cool gaming characters. Now I recently showed you how to draw Tails from Sonic, so for my next tutorial I will show you how to draw Baby Bowser from Super Mario Bros. Now I don't know how many of you are familiar with Baby Bowser because he didn't make his first video game debut until the release of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Originally Baby Bowser made his initial appearance with the television animated cartoon series The Super Mario Bros. Super Show with the episode called "Two Plumbers and a Baby". His father is said to be Bowser but I think that he is the baby form of Bowser. I personally didn't watch the cartoon to much but what I did watch was pretty entertaining. After the first debut in the Super Mario Bros game, he began showing up more and more with the Yoshi series of games. Baby Bowser was later in Yoshi's Story, Yoshi's Island DS, and the more recent Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. I personally didn't play this game but I did have the pleasure of playing the other two. I decided to draw Baby Bowser because he is one of the characters that I remembered trying to beat. This tutorial will show you how to draw Baby Bowser from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island step by step. I will be back in a while with more drawing fun so stay tuned kiddies there is more on the way.
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I've no end of projects on at present, and have none of them even nearly finished, so the last thing I need to do is start another one. So that's just what I did . This one shouldn't take too long, however the layout it will eventually run on (C Rapper & Sons) is well and truly on the back burner. I've justified it as "proof of concept" for future builds .
I like to kitbash things into other things, and this is no exception. In 1:24 scale, 9mm gauge scales up to 8 1/2" gauge, and anything built will borrow a lot from 7 1/4" gauge tried and tested locomotives and rolling stock. I've taken a "Pugbash Permitter" from Rushbys Resins (the usual no connection etc), a Kato 103, an Airfix / Dapol Drewry shunter, some styrene, and so far made this:
2017-09-03 20.52.25 by lesmond2009, on Flickr
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2017-09-03 20.53.58 by lesmond2009, on Flickr
The last picture shows Pete the fitter standing beside it.
I've wondered for long enough if it would be possible to successfully shorten the Airfix shunter engine cover; it turns out that you can. The newer kits (the Dapol ones made from recycled plastic) are quite soft and easy to cut and file with an emery board. For their age, they are still quite detailed mouldings, and when painted and with tools / odds and ends added hopefully will look ok.
I used the cab front as is, mainly because it was an easy solution, and (I think) looks ok despite the cab windows. The footplate is a styrene rectangle with styrene "girder" glued underneath to clear the top of the Kato chassis in the Pugbash Permitter.
Next is to add the seat, basic controls - brakes, throttle, clutch pedal and gear lever - as well as a cab side (one side only) and a low back. I'll knock these up out of odds and ends from the scrap box.


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"The Catcher in the Rye" was turned down by The New Yorker. The magazine had published six of J. D. Salinger's short stories, including two of the most popular, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," in 1948, and "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor," in 1950. But when the editors were shown the novel they declined to run an excerpt. They told Salinger that the precocity of the four Caulfield children was not believable, and that the writing was showoffy—that it seemed designed to display the author's cleverness rather than to present the story. "The Catcher in the Rye" had already been turned down by the publishing house that solicited it, Harcourt Brace, when an executive there named Eugene Reynal achieved immortality the bad way by complaining that he couldn't figure out whether or not Holden Caulfield was supposed to be crazy. Salinger's agent took the book to Little, Brown, where the editor, John Woodburn, was evidently prudent enough not to ask such questions. It was published in July, 1951, and has so far sold more than sixty million copies.
The world is sad, Oscar Wilde said, because a puppet was once melancholy. He was referring to Hamlet, a character he thought had taught the world a new kind of unhappiness—the unhappiness of eternal disappointment in life as it is, Weltschmerz. Whether Shakespeare invented it or not, it has proved to be one of the most addictive of literary emotions. Readers consume volumes of it, and then ask to meet the author. It has also proved to be one of the most enduring of literary emotions, since life manages to come up short pretty reliably. Each generation feels disappointed in its own way, though, and seems to require its own literature of disaffection. For many Americans who grew up in the nineteen-fifties, "The Catcher in the Rye" is the purest extract of that mood. Holden Caulfield is their sorrow king. Americans who grew up in later decades still read Salinger's novel, but they have their own versions of his story, with different flavors of Weltschmerz—"Catcher in the Rye" rewrites, a literary genre all its own.
In art, as in life, the rich get richer. People generally read "The Catcher in the Rye" when they are around fourteen years old, usually because the book was given or assigned to them by people—parents or teachers—who read it when they were fourteen years old, because somebody gave or assigned it to them. The book keeps acquiring readers, in other words, not because kids keep discovering it but because grownups who read it when they were kids keep getting kids to read it. This seems crucial to making sense of its popularity. "The Catcher in the Rye" is a sympathetic portrait of a boy who refuses to be socialized which has become (among certain readers, anyway, for it is still occasionally banned in conservative school districts) a standard instrument of socialization. I was introduced to the book by my parents, people who, if they had ever imagined that I might, after finishing the thing, run away from school, smoke like a chimney, lie about my age in bars, solicit a prostitute, or use the word "goddam" in every third sentence, would (in the words of the story) have had about two hemorrhages apiece. Somehow, they knew this wouldn't be the effect.
Supposedly, kids respond to "The Catcher in the Rye" because they recognize themselves in the character of Holden Caulfield. Salinger is imagined to have given voice to what every adolescent, or, at least, every sensitive, intelligent, middle-class adolescent, thinks but is too inhibited to say, which is that success is a sham, and that successful people are mostly phonies. Reading Holden's story is supposed to be the literary equivalent of looking in a mirror for the first time. This seems to underestimate the originality of the book. Fourteen-year-olds, even sensitive, intelligent, middle-class fourteen-year-olds, generally do not think that success is a sham, and if they sometimes feel unhappy, or angry, or out of it, it's not because they think most other people are phonies. The whole emotional burden of adolescence is that you don't know why you feel unhappy, or angry, or out of it. The appeal of "The Catcher in the Rye," what makes it addictive, is that it provides you with a reason. It gives a content to chemistry.
Holden talks like a teen-ager, and this makes it natural to assume that he thinks like a teen-ager as well. But like all the wise boys and girls in Salinger's fiction—like Esmé and Teddy and the many brilliant Glasses—Holden thinks like an adult. No teen-ager (and very few grownups, for that matter) sees through other human beings as quickly, as clearly, or as unforgivingly as he does. Holden is a demon of verbal incision. He sums people up like a novelist:
He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themselves, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.
She was blocking up the whole goddam traffic in the aisle. You could tell she liked to block up a lot of traffic. This waiter was waiting for her to move out of the way, but she didn't even notice him. It was funny. You could tell the waiter didn't like her much, you could tell even the Navy guy didn't like her much, even though he was dating her. And I didn't like her much. Nobody did. You had to feel sort of sorry for her, in a way.
His name was George or something—I don't even remember—and he went to Andover. Big, big deal. You should've seen him when old Sally asked him how he liked the play. He was the kind of a phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question. He stepped back, and stepped right on the lady's foot behind him. He probably broke every toe in her body. He said the play itself was no masterpiece, but that the Lunts, of course, were absolute angels. Angels. For Chrissake. Angels. That killed me.
"You had to feel sort of sorry for her, in a way." The secret to Holden's authority as a narrator is that he never lets anything stand by itself. He always tells you what to think. He has everyone pegged. That's why he's so funny. But The New Yorker's editors were right: Holden isn't an ordinary teen-ager—he's a prodigy. He seems (and this is why his character can be so addictive) to have something that few people ever consistently attain: an attitude toward life.
The moral of the book can seem to be that Holden will outgrow his attitude, and this is probably the lesson that most of the ninth-grade teachers who assign "The Catcher in the Rye" hope to impart to their students—that alienation is just a phase. But people don't outgrow Holden's attitude, or not completely, and they don't want to outgrow it, either, because it's a fairly useful attitude to have. One goal of education is to teach people to want the rewards life has to offer, but another goal is to teach them a modest degree of contempt for those rewards, too. In American life, where—especially if you are a sensitive and intelligent member of the middle class—the rewards are constantly being advertised as yours for the taking, the feeling of disappointment is a lot more common than the feeling of success, and if we didn't learn how not to care our failures would destroy us. Giving "The Catcher in the Rye" to your children is like giving them a layer of psychic insulation.
That it might end up on the syllabus for ninth-grade English was probably close to the last thing Salinger had in mind when he wrote the book. He wasn't trying to expose the spiritual poverty of a conformist culture; he was writing a story about a boy whose little brother has died. Holden, after all, isn't unhappy because he sees that people are phonies; he sees that people are phonies because he is unhappy. What makes his view of other people so cutting and his disappointment so unappeasable is the same thing that makes Hamlet's feelings so cutting and unappeasable: his grief. Holden is meant, it's true, to be a kind of intuitive moral genius. (So, presumably, is Hamlet.) But his sense that everything is worthless is just the normal feeling people have when someone they love dies. Life starts to seem a pathetically transparent attempt to trick them into forgetting about death; they lose their taste for it.
What drew Salinger to this plot? Holden Caulfield first shows up in Salinger's work in 1941, in a story entitled "Slight Rebellion off Madison," which features a character called Holden (he is not the narrator) and his girlfriend, Sally Hayes. (The story was bought by The New Yorker but not published until 1946.) And there are characters named Holden Caulfield in other stories that Salinger produced in the mid-forties. But most of "The Catcher in the Rye" was written after the war, and although it seems odd to call Salinger a war writer, both his biographers, Ian Hamilton and Paul Alexander, think that the war was what made Salinger Salinger, the experience that darkened his satire and put the sadness into his humor.
Salinger spent most of the war with the 4th Infantry Division, where he was in a counter-intelligence unit. He landed at Utah Beach in the fifth hour of the D Day invasion, and ended up in the middle of some of the bloodiest fighting of the liberation—in Hürtgen Forest and then in the Battle of the Bulge, in the winter of 1944. The 4th Division suffered terrible casualties in those engagements, and Salinger, by his own account, in letters he wrote at the time, was traumatized. He fought for eleven months during the advance on Berlin, and by the summer of 1945, after the German surrender, he seems to have had a nervous breakdown. He checked himself into an Army hospital in Nuremberg. Shortly after he was released, and while he was still in Europe, he wrote the first story narrated by Holden Caulfield himself, the real beginning of "The Catcher in the Rye." It was called "I'm Crazy." (It was published in Collier's in December, 1945.)
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish," published a little more than two years later, is, of course, the story that both introduced Seymour Glass, the oldest and most improbably gifted of the improbably gifted Glass children, and finished him off, since Salinger has Seymour kill himself on the last page. If we know Seymour only from the later stories in the Glass saga, in which he appears as a kind of saint—"Franny" and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" (both published in The New Yorker in 1955), "Zooey" (1957), "Seymour: An Introduction" (1959), and "Hapworth 16, 1924" (1965), Salinger's last published work—we are likely to assume that he killed himself because the world's stupidity had made him crazy. But in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" it is clear that Seymour kills himself because the war has made him crazy. He has just been discharged from an Army hospital, and his behavior in the story isn't saintly or visionary or engagingly eccentric; it's nutty and, in the end, psychotic. Seymour is a war casualty. So, much more obviously, is the unnamed protagonist of "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor," an American soldier who is befriended by a thirteen-year-old English girl just before he goes off to take part in the D Day invasion. "The Catcher in the Rye" was a best-seller when it came out, in 1951, but its reception as some sort of important cultural statement didn't happen until the mid-fifties, when people started talking about "alienation" and "conformity" and "the youth culture"—the time of "Howl" and "Rebel Without a Cause" and Elvis Presley's first records. It is as a hero of that culture that Holden Caulfield has survived. But "The Catcher in the Rye" is not a novel of the nineteen-fifties; it's a novel of the nineteen-forties. And it is not a celebration of youth. It is a book about loss and a world gone wrong.
By the mid-nineteen-fifties, Salinger had disappeared down his New Hampshire rabbit hole. The New Yorker's rejection of "The Catcher in the Rye" plainly had no effect on him as a writer. Criticized for creating a family with four precocious children and for writing in a style that drew attention to itself, he proceeded to create a family with seven precocious children, and to produce, in "Zooey" and "Seymour," works of supreme literary exhibitionism.
"Zooey" and "Seymour" are exhibitionistic because the emotional current driving the characters has become unmoored from anything that has actually happened to them. They are not thrown into a state of higher intensity by trauma or by grief. They are just in a state of higher intensity. In "Franny," Franny Glass's spiritual crisis is a kind of screen shielding the rather mundane circumstance that she has been made pregnant by a man who she realizes will remain, all his life, a pompous English major. But in "Zooey," published two years later, Franny's spiritual crisis is genuine, because, apparently, having spiritual crises is the price one pays for being a Glass in this lousy world. There is no suggestion of pregnancy. We get Seymour's Fat Lady instead. After 1955, Salinger stopped writing stories, in the conventional sense. He seemed to lose interest in fiction as an art form—perhaps he thought there was something manipulative or inauthentic about literary device and authorial control. His presence began to dissolve into the world of his creation. He let the puppets take over the theatre.
T_he New Yorker_ had no trouble publishing "Zooey" (which remains the longest piece of fiction it has ever run) and "Seymour." The magazine seems to have got over its anxiety about credibility and transparency. Salinger changed The New Yorker's aesthetic, at a time when The New Yorker's aesthetic was the gold standard for short fiction, and that is one testament to the impact he has had on American writing. There are many more. Philip Roth's early stories, collected in "Goodbye, Columbus," have something of Salinger's voice and comic timing, and it is hard to read Roth's later funny, kvetchy, mournful monologuists without imagining Holden Caulfield and Zooey Glass as ancestral presences.
Still, Roth was not trying to rewrite "The Catcher in the Rye"; Salinger's complete lack of irony could hardly have appealed to him. But other writers have tried, at least one in every decade since it appeared. Sylvia Plath made a version of it for girls, in "The Bell Jar" (1963); Hunter Thompson produced one for people who couldn't believe that Nixon was President and Jim Morrison was dead, in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971). Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" (1984) was the downtown edition; Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (2000) is the MTV one. Many books featuring interestingly unhappy young people have been published since "The Catcher in the Rye," of course, and some of them were written by people who no doubt regarded Salinger as a model and an influence. But that doesn't make those books "Catcher in the Rye" rewrites. The bar is set a good deal higher than that, and the reason has to do with the Salinger mystique.
Why Salinger chose to drop out of sight and then out of print is his own business, and it probably ought to have nothing to do with the way people read the work that he did publish. But it does. Readers can't help it. Salinger's withdrawal is one of the things behind, for example, Holden Caulfield's transformation from a fictional character into a culture hero: it helped to confirm the belief that Holden's unhappiness was less personal than it appears—that it was really some sort of protest against modern life. It also helped to confirm the sense, encouraged by Salinger's own later manner, that there was no distinction between Salinger and his characters—that if you ran into Salinger at the Cornish, New Hampshire, post office (which is where his stalkers generally seem to have run into him) it would be exactly like running into Holden Caulfield or Seymour Glass. By dropping out, Salinger glamorized his misfits, for to be a misfit who can also write like J. D. Salinger—a Holden Caulfield who publishes in The New Yorker—must be very glamorous indeed.
This is why the narrator in a "Catcher in the Rye" rewrite is always a magazine writer. So, of course, is the author of the "Catcher in the Rye" rewrite, and the author and the narrator are separated by barely a hair. The model for the narrator is no longer Holden Caulfield. And it is not J. D. Salinger imagined as Holden Caulfield. It is the author imagined as J. D. Salinger imagined as Holden Caulfield. You can't, in other words, rewrite "The Catcher in the Rye" simply by telling the story of an unhappy teen-ager and updating the cultural references, or transposing the events to a different city, or changing the sex of the protagonist. You have to reproduce the Salinger mystique, because the mystique has become part of what "The Catcher in the Rye" is. The end product of the ideal Salinger rewrite isn't a Salinger story. It's Salinger. To rewrite the story of Holden Caulfield you have to become a melancholy genius, too. You have to be your own sorrow king.
The book that seems, in some ways, closest to Salinger's is Plath's. Plath belonged to the first generation of "Catcher in the Rye" readers. She read it sometime before 1953, when she spent part of a summer in New York City as a twenty-year-old intern at Mademoiselle. (When she arrived at the magazine, she asked to be assigned to interview Salinger, whose "Nine Stories" had just been published. She got Elizabeth Bowen instead.) That internship and her subsequent breakdown and hospitalization became the basis, ten years later, for "The Bell Jar."
Reviewers noticed the similarity to "The Catcher in the Rye" immediately, and there are echoes of Holden's voice and story in the voice and story of Plath's heroine, Esther Greenwood. But Plath was not merely borrowing. She must have felt that an aspiring magazine writer in New York City in 1953, when Salinger was in his prime, would naturally see life in a Salingeresque way. When Esther says, for example, "I'm stupid about executions" (1953 is the year the Rosenbergs were executed), she is adopting a Caulfield attitude. Esther's vague loathing of sex is a loathing learned partly from "The Catcher in the Rye"; her obsession with madness and suicide is partly the obsession of an admirer of "Teddy" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." In other ways, though, "The Bell Jar" and "The Catcher in the Rye" are very different books, and the difference can be summed up by saying that no reader has ever wanted to be Esther Greenwood. Holden (despite the confusion of the Harcourt Brace executive) is not crazy; he tells his story from a sanatorium (where he has gone because of a fear that he has t.b.), not a mental hospital. The brutality of the world makes him sick. It makes Esther insane.
"The Bell Jar," too, has become a staple of ninth-grade English, an officially approved text for adolescents, a book about the culture of youth. The later "Catcher in the Rye" rewrites—Thompson's and McInerney's and Eggers'—are not yet canonical in this way. People don't read them because their parents recommended them. They read them for the same reason they listen to alternative rock or go to see "Pulp Fiction" six times—because these are things that teach them an attitude. They are sensibility manuals; they show what sort of unhappiness is in style this decade.
"Catcher in the Rye" rewrites are all constructed on roughly the same pattern: a trauma triggered by a death (in Thompson's book, it's the death of the sixties), followed by an episode of emotional regression and a kind of shadow war, mostly in the head, with the rest of the world. They share with "The Catcher in the Rye" and "The Bell Jar" a fuzzy Christian thematics about salvation, redemption, and rebirth, and they draw heavily on the Salinger and Plath catalogue: mummies, fetuses, comas, sensational headlines, perversions, botched sex, suicide attempts, suicides, death fantasies, deaths. The narrators have a mordant contempt for everyone and everything, including themselves. The books are funny, but they are about loss and frustration and defeat. And each one seemed to hit a generational nerve, as though no one had ever told that story, or sounded those notes, before. What makes their melancholy so irresistible?
We think of nostalgia as an emotion that grows with age, but, like most emotions, it is keenest when we are young. Is there any nostalgia more powerful than the feelings of a third grader revisiting his or her kindergarten classroom? Those tiny chairs, the old paste jars, the cubbies where we stuffed our extra sweaters—we want to climb back into that world, but we're third graders now, much too large. We've fallen off the carrousel. Although "youth" is supposed to mean an enthusiasm for change, young people don't want change any more than anyone else does, and possibly less. What they secretly want is what Holden wants: they want the world to be like the Museum of Natural History, with everything frozen exactly the way it was the first day they encountered it.
A great deal of "youth culture"—that is, the stuff that younger people actually consume, as opposed to the stuff that older people consume (like "Lord of the Flies") in order to learn about "youth"—plays to this feeling of loss. You go to a dance where a new pop song is playing, and for the rest of your life hearing that song triggers the same emotion. It comes on the radio, and you think, That's when things were truly fine. You want to hear it again and again. You have become addicted.Youth culture acquires its poignancy through time, and so thoroughly that you can barely see what it is in itself. It's just, permanently, "your song," your story. When people who grew up in the nineteen-fifties give "The Catcher in the Rye" to their kids, it's like showing them an old photo album: That's me.
It isn't, of course. Maybe, in fact, the nostalgia of youth culture is completely spurious. Maybe it invites you to indulge in bittersweet memories of a childhood you never had, an idyll of Beach Boys songs and cheeseburgers and convertibles and teen-age crushes which has been constructed by pop songs and television shows and movies, and bears very little relation to any experience of your own. But, whether or not the emotion is spurious, people have it. It is the romantic certainty, which all these books seduce you with, that somehow, somewhere, something was taken away from you, and you cannot get it back. Once, you did ride a carrousel. It seemed as though it would last forever. ♦


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Update: Eddie Cibrian has responded to ex-wife Brandi Glanville's Twitter allegations that he asked her for child support for their two sons, Mason 10, and Jake, 6. "There is no truth to the claims that Eddie has requested child support from Brandi now, nor will he ever request child support from his ex-wife," Cibrian's rep told Us Weekly in a statement. "The notion is preposterous. This is yet another ploy for self-promotion."
As previously reported, Glanville took to Twitter on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with a complaint about her ex allegedly asking her to pay child support more than three years after the terms of their divorce were finalized. See their rocky history here.
"2 all these young unmarried bloggers writing about getting over divorce & not seeing ur children grow up 1/2 the time, walk a mile in my shoes," the Drinking & Dating author tweeted. "I'm not taking cheap shots at my ex in my new book cuz it's all true & now mr fancy new cars & house man is asking ME for child support! U know nada."
She added: "Everytime I take 1 step frwd [sic] I get a lawyers letter that takes me 3 steps back so when people say move on, I say 2 my ex LET ME! Just STOP. Going to stay positive and focus on my new book & let my lawyer handle the rest."
Cibrian and Glanville have been divorced since 2010; he's now married to singer LeAnn Rimes. Last August, the couple signed on to star in a new reality show about their marriage on VH1. He's also a working actor, and recently appeared in the movie The Best Man Holiday.
Money had long been a challenge for the former couple. In a recent interview with the U.K.'s Times magazine, Glanville admitted she and Cibrian weren't very strategic with their finances. "Eddie and I were never truly rich," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star explained. "We were ghetto rich. We had the nice cars, the nice house, and the nice jewels, but we probably had a second and a third mortgage. We were living paycheck to paycheck, with no savings."
No longer — at least for Glanville. "I don't live beyond my means," the Bravo star said. "I go to the 99 Cent Store. I'm not trying to keep up with the Kardashians."
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SQL Server 2016 Encryption
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"Encryption is the process of obfuscating data by the use of a key or password. This can make the data useless without the corresponding decryption key or password. Encryption does not solve access control problems. However, it enhances security by limiting data loss even if access controls are bypassed. For example, if the database host computer is misconfigured and a hacker obtains sensitive data, that stolen information might be useless if it is encrypted.
You can use encryption in SQL Server for connections, data, and stored procedures. The following table contains more information about encryption in SQL Server.
Although encryption is a valuable tool to help ensure security, it should not be considered for all data or connections. When you are deciding whether to implement encryption, consider how users will access data. If users access data over a public network, data encryption might be required to increase security. However, if all access involves a secure intranet configuration, encryption might not be required. Any use of encryption should also include a maintenance strategy for passwords, keys, and certificates."
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Many experienced genealogists know that the internet is a great source of family history information, but for a beginner it can seem daunting and frustrating. This article is an introduction to the resources that are available on the internet as well as some sites that will help you get started.
First steps
Your family history search should begin with information that you already know or can easily access from your records. Start by recording information (date and place of birth, marital information, etc.) about yourself and your immediate family members. There are some resources on the internet that can make even these initial steps easier. Downloadable forms can help you keep your information neat and orderly. If you have more information to store and organize, there are also various genealogy software programs, some of which are available as shareware or as free demos to try out before you buy the complete package. In addition, many of the larger directories have sections for beginners that include a variety of useful tips, articles, reference books, and links to other internet resources.
What's next?
Once you have recorded and organized all of your readily available information, the next step is to fill in the gaps. The internet offers a variety of ways to gather additional family history information. Using general search engines to search for your family surname (last name) often produces an overwhelming list of results, many of which will not be useful to you. However, there are some better places to start that are more likely to produce valuable information. Genealogy experts often suggest starting with census records and vital records (birth, marriage, and death certificates). Although not every census record is available on the internet, many have been entered into internet-accessible databases and several projects are working towards making all census records available in this format. In general, only older vital records (prior to 1900) are available on the internet. However, there are sites that offer forms, instructions, and contact information for obtaining newer records.
Additional internet sources of family history information
In addition to census and vital records, there are numerous genealogy-specific databases, directories, and search engines. The directories provide indexed lists of other internet sites with genealogical information. Specialized databases contain diverse sources of additional family history information including cemetery transcriptions, church records, military records, land records, and lists of ship's passengers. Genealogy-specific search engines allow you to search only genealogical sites. This can help you narrow your search and avoid sorting through the hundreds of irrelevant sites that can be produced by using general search engines.
The internet also offers opportunities to expand your search by exchanging information with other individuals who are doing genealogical research. Mailing lists and message boards allow individuals to post questions or queries to a wide audience. On these message boards, you can get answers to general genealogy research questions or even get answers to specific questions about your family history from other individuals researching the same surname.
Finally, if you are still unable to find answers to your family history questions, you can expand your search by using general search engines. To make this experience less frustrating and more fruitful, visit some of the genealogy websites that give tips for more effective use of general search engines for genealogical research.


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I hate leveling only a bit less than fishing.
Working on Phoradendron, I realize again how much I hate leveling any character. Ah, well, it gives me more posts…
My first few times through leveling, I enjoyed the stories being told. I intentionally ignored some fast points to chase a story I'd gotten hold of. And I ran across the good stories that die – the 'next quest' isn't there, and so the conclusion (or that part of it) remains untold. Still, it took me a LONG time to level my first few characters even given the few hours I could spend and the pleasures of being a solo priest on a PVP server.
(That last, by the way, is the reason I now play on PVE. I am paying to have fun, not to spend ten hours of playtime getting my level 20-something freekill, I mean Priest, from one zone to the adjacent one. I suspect this is why there are fewer priests on PVP servers, too, but can't prove it. However, I digress – again.)
All that said, after a while the stories are OLD. And very, very few of them are as good in the retelling (a few exceptions, but…) At that point all I want to do is get to the desired level – be it x9 for twinked BGs or 70 for endgame / arenas, or… the journey isn't any of the fun, it's just the destination.
Now Blizzard is going to be helping this in 2.3, but that's the future. What I want to do is discuss what you can do NOW.
First, I've played with several guides. If you don't have a plan of your own, I don't hesitate to recommend Jame's guides (alliance and horde) at http://www.wow-pro.com . They require you to get to level 30 or 20 (respectively) but after that it attempts to route you through quests and grinds in such fashion as to get the most XP per hour of play. Is it the best? Since I've not used all of them out there, I can't say – but I like and use it as my baseline regardless of race. Oh – they're free. There are some pay-guides that have outstanding reputations, but I've not used them.
Second, here is the ugly truth. Playing solo, it will take you a minimum of 60 hour of play – and more likely closer to 80 or 90 – to get to level 60. Not 70, 60.
If you insist on grinding, same level mobs, with absolutely zero quests, and you kill mobs at an average one every 16 seconds, then according to the theorycraft numbers you will need approximately 76 hours of play to get from 1 to 60. (source wowwiki, elitistjerks). News Flash – as a priest, even a shadowpriest, you will not kill one mob every 16 seconds – even if you exclude travel time.
I highly recommend grabbing quests in an intelligent fashion both to alleviate the boredom AND to get extra points. Intelligent fashion takes research so you complete several 'on the way'. That's actually what a lot of these guides are telling you – where to go to get the most kills in the shortest fashion, and what quests you can grab that give you the most points for the least time.
The other action I do recommend is running with someone – whether paired for the grind, or repetitive instances. Yes, you still have to kill as many mobs per person as before. But… first, it's just more fun to play with others. And second, as a group you can effectively kill mobs that are of higher level more quickly than you can solo mobs of your level. On the other hand there's the small difficulty of getting parties together for repetitive runs of anything — and then paying for repairs and all of that.
I would like to give you magnificent specific advice – go here, do that – that results in making leveling your character swift, painless, and… fun. I can only offer philosophy: If you're tired of the journey and only interested in the destination, the journey will take longer in your mind. So remember where I said the stories are getting old and tired?
sigh. Long journey.
My trick – there are areas I have not explored, and NPCs and Quests I have not encountered. While doing research, I take the time to note them and intentionally pursue them, despite the fact they're less efficient – that I will take longer to level. Because quite frankly, the time goes by FASTER when I do this. But it's my trick and it may not work for you – I present it in case it does.
Remember, folks, this is a game. It's supposed to be fun. I know that when my alts get to certain points they're going to be fun (again) so I'm willing to pay the price. But if it's not fun for you, and you see no hope of it being fun for you – take a break. There's more to life than WoW.
Rule one: Have fun, or do something else.
2 Responses to "I hate leveling only a bit less than fishing."
Funny you should say this but I hit 375 fishing on my main last night! The only way to do it without clawing out your eyes is in small bites. 10 minutes here. 10 minutes there. Only one toon will have max fishing though. I couldnt do it again even though it would have been better for my farmer Hunter to be the fisher.
As to leveling alts, I too used a guide (James for a long time) but the guide was not the master. Having fun was/is. A rewarding quest line that is just painful is abandoned or not even picked up. Whereas some quest lines that are fun but with ho-hum rewards are often pursued. It is a balancing act. Sometimes it is necessary to do "un-fun" things in order to do the "fun" things but I try and keep that to a minimum.
And now I have two 70 priests on the same server. One (my main) is Shadow and is pimped out in mostly epics. The other is a 23/38/0 Holy Priest newly minted 70 but already with unbuffed +heal at over 1300 (I forget the number exactly but I think it is aroudn 1371 unbuffed).
One of the things that helps motivate me to level my alts is their professions. I have a poor lvl 37 shadow priest alt that I saddled with jewelcrafting. Of course, one doesn't want jewelcrafting on a toon unless said toon is going to make the journey to the higher levels. Aaaahhhhh, motivation.
Another tactic that I use is to make the most of rest xp. While I still have trouble making sure my alt doesn't hit the rest xp cap, I try not to let them sit around for weeks on end. A little here, a little there. Breaking up the leveling helps with the grind.


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The Carolina Panthers play in Bank of America Stadium, which was built in 1996 and is all of 14 years old. If BoA Stadium was a teenager, it wouldn't be able to drive. And it would have awful taste in music. But that hasn't stopped Panthers president Danny Morrison from publicly talking about the need to update and possibly replace that stadium sometime within the next decade or two.
That's what he said to Steve Harrison of the Charlotte Observer.
"You would have to think we're in the middle of a normal NFL stadium cycle," said team President Danny Morrison, who was hired last September. "The two options you would have somewhere down the line, in 10 or 15 years, would be a major renovation or something new."
I love that Morrison can throw out 30 years as a "normal NFL stadium cycle," as if a stadium will instantly turn to dust once those 30 years are over. It's as if a new stadium is all but an accepted fate to him. Of course the Panthers will need a new stadium then. Who wants to play games in a stadium that's thirty years old?! No civil servant or voter could possibly argue against it. Right?
This is insane. The idea that an NFL stadium, which is made of concrete and steel and other assorted parts that last a great deal longer than 30 years, would need to be replaced or require a lavish renovation after just 30 years is enough to make you want to put your fist through a wall (which Panthers wideout Steve Smith might graciously do on your behalf).
Harrison points that BoA stadium isn't out of date in terms of looks, structure, or even revenue. It makes the Panthers plenty of money as is. Ah, but it doesn't make the Panthers an OBSCENE amount of money, the way the new stadiums in Dallas and New York do.
…teams are looking at the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium, which opened last year, and the new stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets, which opened this year.
Those stadiums -- which each cost more than $1 billion to build -- will give their host teams more ways to make money apart from club seats and luxury boxes.
One of those ways? Parking. Three years ago, Harrison says then-team President Mark Richardson lamented the lack of parking at BoA stadium. Teams like the Cowboys charge their fans up to $75 for parking on gameday. So essentially, what the Panthers would like is more money to renovate the stadium so they can charge you more to park to get in it. Fun!
A year ago, before JerryWorld opened, I wrote that stadium envy for deluxe places like Cowboys Stadium could end up ripping the league apart. What Morrison is talking about here is just the opening salvo.
He's testing the waters. The idea isn't going to go away. He's going to keep pushing and pushing, and other teams will follow suit. And all of them will have the same refrain: We're not making enough money, so we can't spend enough money on players. So if you don't pony up, the team will stink.
That's the con. It's what got the Bengals their new stadium. It's what got the Twins theirs. It's the subtle threat of sucking to get more money from cities and fans. You'd best get used to it, because it appears 30 years is the normal NFL stadium extortion cycle.


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Report Finds Corruption in China Getting Worse
China's President Xi Jinping has made stamping out corruption a high priority for his government. Political risk analyst Robert Broadfoot tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan why Xi's government may find that corruption is getting worse.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Coveting Cam's Shoes
Cannot wait to see what Cam will wear tonight at the Costume Institute Gala. And if the shoes she wore for a junket this weekend in New York are any indication… Cam is going to bring it.
Cam is going as a guest tonight of Vogue. Yes. Vogue. As in Anna Wintour. As in NOT Emmy Rossum.
Anna apparently also ordered her staffers to dress only in pale shades tonight – whites and silvers.
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are sitting with DVF, Gisele and Tom are attending with Donatella Versace, Stella McCartney is bringing Kate Moss, Kate Bosworth has starved herself a spot with Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel, Francisco Costa will be flanked by Rachel Bilson, Eva Mendes, and Fergie, and La Lopez will be dressed by Alberta Ferretti.
Seriously…the list goes on and on and on. As I've mentioned too many times to count, the tip sheet last year was pages and pages long. This year promises to be even better! Will be pulling an allnighter to bring you all the carpet details tomorrow.
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Hawthorne Wellness Center
Hawthorne Wellness Center offers a broad spectrum of integrated, evidence-based healthcare disciplines, as well as movement classes, to help the community get well, stay well, and be well.
Hawthorne Wellness Center currently offers acupuncture, chiropractic care, family medicine, massage therapy, and naturopathic care. A studio behind the clinic houses movement instructors in Pilates, yoga, and tai chi. Free off-street parking for both cars and bicycles is also available.
The healthcare providers and movement instructors at the Hawthorne Wellness Center are deeply concerned about the environment. They are committed to operating the facilities in ways that are sensitive to how they use and reuse resources.
- Stormwater management: The dry creek bed in the back garden acts as a bioswale. Most of the downspouts from the clinic and from the neighboring business have been disconnected, allowing the water to run into their parking lot. The runoff is then diverted into the creek bed during the rainy months and winds up in the catch-basin/pond area. The water runoff from both buildings and parking lots is absorbed in the garden and kept out of the sewer system.
- Electricity: Green Source, PGE's renewable energy program provides electricity that is 50 percent wind, 25 percent geothermal, and 25 percent low-impact hydroelectric from existing resources.
- Gas: Member of the Northwest Natural Smart Energy Circle which supports projects that prevent greenhouse gas emissions.
- Lighting: Most of the lights in the clinic are compact fluorescents. All outside lights automatically turn on when it gets dark and turn off when it gets light.
- Heating and cooling: Two old oil burners were replaced with brand new, high-efficiency natural gas furnaces. Both air conditioning units are high efficiency. In the studio, the heat pump is brand new and highly efficient. All heating and air conditioning units have new high-tech electrostatic air filters and thermostats.
- Appliances: Both the washer and drier are energy efficient and the front-loading washer is water efficient.
- Paper goods: Paper goods have 30% or greater post-consumer recycled content. A transition to Electronic Medical Records will result in a paperless office.
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- Transportation Discounts: Instructors offer discounts to students who walk, bike, or bus to class.
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Crusts have always seemed to me one of the most elusive and difficult type of baking to attempt. Trying to balance textures to create the perfect crust just seems a lot more intimidating than mixing up a batch of brownies. So, when I found out that this week's recipe was a strawberry tart, chosen by Marie of A Year at Oak Cottage, I will freely admit that I thought of sitting it out. It's been a crazy week at work, and I also had promised that I would make desserts for my brother's 30th birthday party. But then, this package arrived in the mail:
That's right! A shiny new food processor, a wedding gift from my two aunts and cousins. It was the perfect opportunity to give it a try, so there was no way I could pass it up. It worked like a dream!
No baking process photos this time, it was pretty late at night so I just took a few strawberry photos for inspiration :) As Dorie said in her comment on the TWD blog, this is supposed to be a "rustic" dessert, so I just cut pieces of the crust, slapped on some Sarabeth's mixed berry and popped on some strawberries.
A. and I both thought it had a great flavor, but we did miss the pastry cream of a berry tart (I actually thought of making that, but it is the recipe on the next page of the book, so I thought I'd wait till that one got picked!) I thought the crust tasted a lot like shortbread. Actually, I liked it too much and just started eating it by itself :( I had to throw it out before more of it ended in my stomach. I hate throwing things out, but I had a wedding dress fitting to prepare for!
You can get Dorie's recipe on Serious Eats, or buy the book! And don't forget to check out the rest of the TWD blogs for their writeups!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Tuesdays with Dorie: La Palette's Strawberry Tart
33 comments:
- Di said...
Ooh, what a fabulous gift! How nice that you had a chance to break it in so quickly. =) Your tart looks delicious.
- June 10, 2008 at 12:13 AM
- CB said...
I absolutely adore the strawberries in a blue bowl picture. You have such a great eye. Mind if I ask what camera you use? Great job!
Clara @ I♥food4thought
- June 10, 2008 at 12:24 AM
- steph- whisk/spoon said...
that tart is a knock-out! and a food processor is a great present...it's so useful!
- June 10, 2008 at 12:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Man! You make those strawberries look good. Damn.
- June 10, 2008 at 12:31 AM
- The Food Librarian said...
lovely tart and lovely gift!! great photos!
- June 10, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- Engineer Baker said...
*jealous* I so want that shiny food processor.
- June 10, 2008 at 8:21 AM
- Prudy said...
I loved the tart pictures-but my favorite was the strawberries in the blue bowl. I love light blue and red together. Gorgeous!
- June 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM
- VeggieGirl said...
I have that same food processor - you'll NEVER get tired of it!! It's amazing. And that tart?? Absolutely amazing as well :0)
- June 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM
- Gretchen Noelle said...
Great job with this! It turned out to be a dangerous tart, didn't it?
- June 10, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- SiHaN said...
i would kill to get that gift! ;) wonderful job on your tart. the tart crust looks amazing!
- June 10, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- Lynnylu said...
Your tart looks great and so do the photographs.
- June 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- Marie said...
Great pictures as always!!! You are a true artiste!!! Your stuff always looks so delicious and lucky you, what a fab new food processor!
- June 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM
- Anne said...
Wow, what a great thing to come in the mail! I miss wedding presents, lol. Your photos are amazing. Great job!
- June 10, 2008 at 6:09 PM
- Christine said...
What a wonderful gift! Gotta love the KA! Have to say little jealous I have a really small white old KA food processor I want a shiny new one! Great job on the tart and I love the pics!
- June 10, 2008 at 7:49 PM
- Jayne said...
Oooh, what a beautiful photo! Of that food processor - it's gorgeous!! :) And so, of course, are all your food photos. I think strawberries enjoy being photographed. Just an observation.
- June 10, 2008 at 8:28 PM
- Susie Homemaker said...
(sobbing) I want that food processor...it's gorgeous! And so are your photos! I get so fat on your blog!
- June 10, 2008 at 8:58 PM
- karen said...
your pictures are absolutely gorgeous. the tart looks amazing. and what a great gift to get in the mail!
- June 10, 2008 at 9:55 PM
- Heather said...
Great job! I love your pictures!
- June 10, 2008 at 9:57 PM
- PheMom said...
Great job! Your pictures are fantastic!!
- June 10, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- ostwestwind said...
I like your food processor, I don't have any.
Your strawberry pictures look scrumptious!
Ulrike from Küchenlatein
- June 11, 2008 at 12:42 AM
- Mevrouw Cupcake said...
Oh you lucky girl! A KA food processor?! I need to get morried (again)...LOL! Your tart looks good and I hear what you're saying about that the tart dough...it was way too tasty!
- June 11, 2008 at 8:53 AM
- Lynnylu said...
Congrats on your DMBLGIT award.
- June 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- StickyGooeyCreamyChewy said...
Your tart looks gorgeous! And, your photography certainly is scrumptious! Great job!
P.S. I am sooo jealous of that food processor. Mine is ready for social security! ;)
- June 11, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- kim said...
thanks everyone! i know, i am so lucky to have such generous relatives!! :)
the blue bowl pic is definitely my favorite too, i am a sucker for bright colors :)
@cb, i wrote in a comment on your blog but my camera is the canon 30d... but i think more important are the lenses, i use the 100mm f2.8 macro and the 24-105 f4 lenses. and always a tripod... such a pain sometimes, but worth it! :)
@lynnylu, thank you!!! :) i actually had no idea till i saw your comment!
- June 11, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Shari said...
Your photos are gorgeous. Your tart looks delicious. I like how the berries are tumbling out.
Shari@Whisk: a food blog
- June 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- Bumblebutton said...
What a lovely way to break in your new baby! Nice -- even if you had to toss some. I remember I only ate brothy soup for six months before I tied the knot!
- June 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- Jacque said...
I totally agree with you about crust, lol. Love your pictures! they could be in a magazine.
I used pastry cream, not realizing it was basically the next recipe. Oops! But I'm glad I did, I really think it made the tart.
- June 11, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
The crust is my favorite part too! Your pictures are fabulous!
- June 11, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Linda said...
GORGEOUS photos!!!! enjoy your new food processor...i'm getting kitchen appliance envy! :)
- June 11, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- Jules Someone said...
Gorgeous! And what a great gift!
- June 13, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- Dizzee Cake. said...
Beautiful photography!! You could publish your tart, it's that perfect.
- June 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Jaime said...
beautiful tart! i love the strawberries in the bowl too
- June 23, 2008 at 7:47 PM
- Liliana said...
YOur Strawberry Tart looks so delicious. What great photos you take!
By the way, we have the same Kitchen Aid food processor. After 25 years, my Cuisinart food processor was retired.
- June 25, 2008 at 11:11 AM


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About Ashley Walkup & her Blog
Ashley is a winner of Top 25 Home Management Moms - 2013
What's your favorite store bought or homemade cleaning product?
What's the most important home management skill a mom can teach her child?
Ashley's Recipes
Amazing Queso Dip
This queso recipe is, as the title says, amazing! It's cheesy, just a little spicy, and oh so addicting. It's perfect for super bowl parties, movie ni ... More Details »
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Taste a classic Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe! This pie is bursting with fresh lemon taste and a sweet, creamy real meringue topping. It's been a favo ... More Details »
Ashley's Answers
Do you think the government should pay stay-at-home moms for their work of raising children and managing a household?
Ashley WalkupWhile I think stay-at-home moms are worth a big salary I don't think the government needs any more control. If they offered me money then they would get say in how I run my household and I don't need any more of their regulations in my life
What's the most common financial mistake families make?
Ashley WalkupThere are a dozen or so mistakes that I can think of off the top of my head but the most common would probably be going out to eat. Households across America easily spend $200+ a month on dining out and we're not talking about fancy restaurants. Quick stops at McDonalds add up to HUGE amounts of money wasted. Worst of all, it's being spent on something that doesn't last. That "value meal" really doesn't add much value to your life.
What's the best gear for playing outside? Please include a link to any product you recommend.
Ashley WalkupI love swimming pools! They burn off energy and keep kids entertained for hours. Just be sure to never leave kids alone in a pool of any size.
If you were giving a commencement speech, what's one piece of advice you'd give to young women who want to include motherhood in their futures?
Ashley WalkupDon't pile up a load of debt! Work hard through school and make sure you get a degree in something that can help you make money from home. No matter how much you love working, when you see your little baby in your arms you won't want to leave them with a stranger.
What are your best tips for nighttime potty training, and are there any products or tricks you'd recommend that minimize night-time bedding changes? Please include a photo or a link if you have one.
Ashley WalkupI'm still early in the process of potty training but I've recently fell in love with the disposable GoodNites bet mats. This saves countless sheet changes!
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French fashion is effortless, polished, metropolitan, chic. The French did invent the word "chic," so it makes perfect sense that "chic" is the best way to describe Parisian style. Get the look right here at home. Here are some of our favorite brands, borrowed from the French:
Surface to Air is a French label that landed in Soho just last year. The look is classic Parisian meets edgy minimalism. It-girl Leigh Lezark and member of DJ trio the Misshapes and rapper Kid Cudi have even collaborated with the brand to create some coveted one-of-kind items the fashion set raves about. S2A is available at its flagship store and also available at Barneys.
27 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012 / 212-256-0340
Forget Me Not is a French accessories brand of exquisitely designed handcrafted silk scarves that are actually handmade in Italy. Designed by a French artist and illustrator who goes by Coco, each scarf represents Coco's artistic vision and can be worn by you. Just recently, Forget Me Not launched its new line of silk turbans. What can be more fashionable and French than that? Forget Me Not is available at Barneys.
575 5th Avenue, New York, NY / 888-222-7639
Maje is a clothing line founded by Moroccan-born designer Judith Milgram that perfectly exudes the quintessential French look. The style of Maje is classic, but also right on trend. Get the timeless Parisienne style at Maje's first U.S. store in Soho or Bloomingdales.
145 Spring St., New York, NY / 212-775-8330
Isabel Marant's eponymous line is a favorite among trendsetters and the fashion crowd around the world. Known for her gorgeous accessories, the French designer also provides a ready-to-wear line that makes fashion comfortable and chic. Visit the New York store or shop online at Net-a-Porter.
469 Broome St., New York, NY / 212-219-2284
Celine bags are some of the most coveted bags in the world. The French luxury brand is led by creative director Phoebe Philo, who has taken the French line to new heights with a ready-to-wear line along with the exquisite leather goods.
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Double world champ Carl Frampton is this weekend taking on one of football punditry's heavyweights.
The Jackal is pitting his wits against BBC pundit Mark Lawrenson in the weekly score predicting challenge that sees the former Liverpool defender go up against a different challenger each week.
Frampton, who told the BBC his favourite footballer is "someone you probably won't have heard of - a guy called Kirk Hunter who played for my local Irish league team, Crusaders", has backed West Ham to beat Manchester United, and Everton to draw with Chelsea this weekend
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"People get ready, there's a train a-comin' …"
Those words and the tune to Curtis Mayfield's gospel-tinged civil rights anthem have been running through my head ever since my brother forwarded me a link to "The Train Ride," a thought-provoking slide show comparing life's journey to a train ride.
Created by a grandmother of an autistic child, "The Train Ride" points out that passengers come and go, there are stops, delays and surprises along the way and we all get off the train with more baggage than we had when we got on.
"The Train Ride" metaphor rings true to me, perhaps because I come from a railroad family or maybe because I've heard and enjoyed so many Johnny Cash songs. It got me to thinking about the different kind of trains I've experienced in my lifetime. Of those three, I've decided I'm more like "B" below:
A. Streamliner. Zipping through life, in a hurry to get to your destination with as few stops as possible. Focused on the destination more than what's outside the window.
B. Mail train. Frequent stops, picking up a little something new while discarding something old at each one, taking time to absorb the uniqueness of each stop.
C. Freight train. Full throttle on the open road, pausing every now and then to rebuild. Takes on an entirely new identity at each stop.
Which kind of train best describes your life journey so far?
Larry Lehmer is a personal historian who helps people preserve their family histories. To learn more, visit his web site or send him an e-mail.
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Three times in the past two months, researchers from St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan headed across town to the Animal Medical Center to look at dogs.
Doctors at the hospital's Vascular Birthmark Institute were enticed by the chance to study anomalies of the arteries and veins that are rare in humans but common in dogs. And the traffic between human and animal hospitals flows in the other direction, too: Late last month, veterinarians from the Animal Medical Center began meeting with their counterparts at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to set up trials of a noninvasive device for removing tumors of the urinary tract with electrical impulses.
Exchanges of this sort are becoming increasingly common. Once a narrow trail traveled by a few hardy pioneers, the road connecting veterinary colleges and human medical institutions has become a busy thoroughfare over the past five years or so, with a steady flow of researchers representing a wide variety of medical disciplines on both sides.
One reason is frustration with the inefficiency of using the rodent model in lab research, which often fails to translate to human subjects. So researchers are turning their attention to the naturally occurring diseases in dogs, horses, sheep and pigs, whose physiology and anatomy more closely resemble those of humans.
"The drugs cure the mice and keep failing when we try them on humans," said Dr. John Ohlfest, an immunotherapist at the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, who began working with the university's veterinary school in 2005 to study canine brain cancers. "The whole system is broken."
Dr. Laurence J.N. Cooper, who develops immune-based therapies at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and recently started making canine T cells for lymphoma research at Texas A&M's veterinary school, said: "There's got to be a better way.
Canine biologies look like ours, and the treatments look like ours."
The growing realization that vets and medical doctors may have very good reasons to talk to one another has led to a host of collaborative research projects aimed at speeding the journey from lab to human clinical trials and, in the end, producing a result that can be applied to human and animal patients alike.
These projects often emanate from partnerships like the National Cancer Center's comparative oncology program, created in 2006 to coordinate canine cancer trials among 20 oncology centers across the United States, or the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research at North Carolina State University's veterinary college, which recently signed a partnership agreement with the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to do research on regenerating organs in humans and pets.
"In the past I might have gone over to the medical school with a specific problem and ask advice," said Dr. Larry D. Galuppo, an equine surgeon at the University of California, Davis, who has been experimenting with the latest stem-cell therapies to repair tendon injuries in horses. "But it wasn't programmatic the way it is now."
It is not unusual, these days, for veterinary surgeons to call in their human-medicine counterparts for consultations or even to take part in tricky operations. Vets go on rounds at hospitals for people, and vice versa. Both sides attend each other's conferences.
In part, the proliferation of partnerships reflects a philosophical movement known as "one health," or "one medicine," the recognition that about 60 percent of all diseases move across species and that environmental pollution, animal diseases and human diseases constitute a single interlocking problem. This was the subject of a joint declaration by the American Medical Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association in 2006 aimed at encouraging information sharing and joint projects among the far-flung branches of veterinary and human medicine.
More concretely, the completion of the canine genome map, in 2005, set off an explosion in basic research. Although less celebrated than the Human Genome Project, the canine map gave researchers a blueprint with clear potential for human use, since the gene codes for canines could be matched, one for one, with their human counterparts.
Cooperation can take the form of advanced research into new forms of diagnostic imaging, or gene manipulation. Or it can be as humble as fitting a dog with a shoe. Dr. Robert Hardie, a surgeon at the University of Wisconsin's school of veterinary medicine, turned to the orthotics lab at the university's medical school in 2005 when he could not heal a post-surgery foot wound in Sam, a 200-pound Irish wolfhound.
As many other large dogs with footpad injuries do, Sam kept putting weight on the wound, caused when a toe had to be amputated. The orthotics team took a cast of Sam's foot and made a foam-lined plastic boot with Velcro straps. Hardie later worked with the team to develop specialized braces for tendon injuries.
Often, partnerships embrace multiple institutions and, within institutions, fields as diverse as biomechanics and textiles.
Dr. Jonathan M. Levine, a veterinary neurologist at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, joined forces with the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, to test a promising new drug that blocks a particular enzyme that inflicts secondary damage, like the aftershock to an earthquake, on injured spinal nerves.
Working with dachshunds and other dwarf canine breeds, which often suffer from spinal cord injuries because of their propensity to develop herniated discs, he recently won a grant from the Department of Defense, which is interested in the application of his research to battlefield injuries.
At the same time, one of Levine's colleagues, Dr. Jay Griffin, has collaborated with specialists at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston to develop a new technique, called diffusion tensor imaging, whose sensitivity allows them to see precisely how spinal cord cells die.
The bet is that veterinary science and human medical science can combine to achieve efficiencies that translate across species.
Trying to help human patients and animals too
Three times in the past two months, researchers from St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan headed across town to the Animal Medical Center to look at dogs.


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Obama's sequester strategy: Shame
President Barack Obama's sequester strategy is all about one word: shame.
With the parties at an impasse on stopping across-the-board budget cuts set to hit March 1, the White House is prepping another multimedia, cross-country drive to stoke public outrage against congressional Republicans.
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Certain that the political winds are in their favor, they're forgoing serious negotiations for a high-risk public offensive, banking almost entirely on the president's ability to persuade. They believe that the GOP will be scared of taking the blame from an angry public — and the White House says this is just the kind of thing that gave them the victory they claimed in the fiscal cliff fight and the most recent standoff over the debt limit.
The aim is to force Republicans to submit to new revenue as part of a deal to avert the $1.2 trillion in potential cuts — and the only way to get there, senior administration officials said, is by making the GOP position indefensible.
( Also on POLITICO: Lawmakers go NIMBY on sequester)
Obama will hold events at the White House with constituencies facing the brunt of the cuts, and travel to places where the deepest cuts loom. His aides hinted Tuesday at releasing data in the next few days that break down the damage state by state.
"That's the choice," Obama said Tuesday while surrounded by first responders, a constituency that neither party wants to be seen as hurting. "Are you willing to see a bunch of first responders lose their job because you want to protect some special interest tax loophole? Are you willing to have teachers laid off, or kids not have access to Head Start, or deeper cuts in student loan programs just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of Americans don't benefit from? That's the choice. That's the question."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama decries sequester)
Senior administration officials projected confidence Tuesday during a background briefing with reporters. One official said Republicans are in a worse position than during the fiscal cliff fight, arguing that the only thing more popular than raising tax rates on the wealthy is closing loopholes that benefit them.
But if Republicans hold to their cuts-only approach — as they insist they will — and the sequester kicks in, Obama could face a fiscal crisis that threatens to tank the economy and sideline his top legislative priorities such as immigration reform and gun control.
The early signs aren't encouraging for the president.
In the face of the planned escalation in pressure from the White House, House Republicans feel no compulsion to do anything — at all.
( Also on POLITICO: OP slams Obama sequester speech)
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) think they've done their job by passing a bill last Congress to replace the sequester cuts, and they're content with blaming the president, since Bob Woodward reported that the White House staff devised the idea of sequester before House and Senate leadership pushed it through the Capitol.
"The president is going to try and pretend that his enemy on this is us," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner. "His enemy is reality. The president created the sequester and insisted on it, House Republicans have acted twice to replace it. If there's going to be a solution here, he's going to have to work with his own political party in the Senate."


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Live every illustrator's dream
At SCAD, we focus on providing a learning experience for our students that extends beyond the classroom and into every aspect of life. From myriad sources of inspiration to real-world professional experience, our illustration students thrive in the SCAD culture of success.
A model environment
SCAD locations around the world are brimming with inspiration. Our facilities provide the opportunity to experiment with traditional and digital media techniques, as our classrooms and labs are equipped with the latest equipment and technology. Your artwork will reach new heights as you enjoy full access to the best tools available.
Premium resources always at your fingertips:
- Cintiq displays with Mac computers and drafting tables
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- Large studio classrooms that can accommodate projects of any size
- Printmaking and silk screening studio
- Large-format scanners and laser printers
- Lightboxes and artographs
- Expansive live model drawing room
- Computer labs with Mac minis
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As a SCAD student, you will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with visiting professionals and alumni who have made their names as expert illustrators. Capitalize on their insights as you review your portfolio together, talk about foreseeable changes in the industry, and discuss the critical skills needed to find success in your career.
Creative collaborations
SCAD emphasizes collaboration between departments and even with international brands, like Newell Rubbermaid, that seek to benefit from our students' diverse creativity. These opportunities offer you the chance to broaden your artistic perspective and gain valuable experience working on real-world projects.
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Find your own in-crowd
SCAD's events calendar is bursting year-round with social events, campus visits from industry leaders, master classes, panel discussions, and countless other enrichment opportunities. At SCAD, there's no limit to where you can go.
Sidewalk Arts Festival
An annual tradition nearly as old as the university itself, the Sidewalk Arts Festival offers students, alumni and others an opportunity to create temporary chalk masterpieces on the famed walkways of Savannah's iconic Forsyth Park.
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Make your SCAD experience even more unforgettable
Spend a quarter abroad at one of our international locations to gain cultural perspective, add a worldly dimension to your résumé, and draw inspiration from the sights, sounds, and characters of an entirely new setting.
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A Premier Phoenix, Arizona RV Park
Welcome to Phoenix Metro RV Park, an age 55+ RV Park in Phoenix, Arizona. We invite you to explore our Website to learn more about our unique park, designed to meet the needs of today's 55+ Rver looking for a full service "home away from home."
A Prime Phoenix Location
Escape to our gorgeous, desert/mountainous northwest Phoenix setting and enjoy spectacular Phoenix sunrises and sunsets; palm, citrus and shade trees; our convenient location along the North Black Canyon Highway (I-17), with ample shopping and dining just 5 minutes from the park and our moderate Phoenix Weather.
Our park has 310 ample sites with full hookups, swimming pool and spa, indoor and outdoor recreation, a spacious clubhouse with planned events and much more.
Enjoy a variety of Activities at our Phoenix RV Park including:
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Time and Attendance Solution a Category Leader for 11th Consecutive Year
HARTFORD, Wisc.— Dec. 19, 2012—API Healthcare, the leader in healthcare-specific workforce management technology, today announced both its Time and Attendance solution and Staffing and Scheduling solution have been named "Category Leaders" in the 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report.
KLAS is an Orem, UT-based research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. Working together with more than 20,000 executives from 5,000 hospitals and nearly 3,000 ambulatory organizations annually, KLAS gathers direct client feedback on vendor performance. A "Category Leader" designation identifies top-rated vendor products in the Best in KLAS Awards report for each market segment.
"API Healthcare is honored to be recognized in two Category Leader awards this year," said J.P. Fingado, president and CEO of API Healthcare. "API Healthcare remains committed to delivering the highest level of service and quality solutions in all aspects of our client relationships. Our unwavering healthcare focus is demonstrated by our unique approach to our workforce management solutions and we are pleased that our clients have recognized this in the 2012 KLAS scores."
By integrating Staffing and Scheduling with Time and Attendance, clients are able to elevate quality and performance throughout their organization. API Healthcare's Time and Attendance solution has been a category leader continually since 2002, making this its 11th year of recognition.
"Speaking from my personal experience, API Healthcare is the gold standard," said Valerie Alidina, Human Resource Information System manager for Methodist Health System in Dallas, TX. "Great partnership, smart, invested people and intuitive software are for me what truly sets them apart from the rest."
About API Healthcare
API Healthcare (www.apihealthcare.com) is the largest healthcare-specific vendor focused on workforce management solutions for the healthcare industry. Driven by the mission to elevate quality and performance across the healthcare community through innovative workforce solutions and services, API Healthcare has been dedicated to the healthcare industry for 30 years. The company's staffing and scheduling, patient classification, human resources, talent management, payroll, time and attendance, business analytics, and staffing agency solutions are used by more than 1,600 hospitals and staffing agencies. Founded in 1982, API Healthcare has been rated by KLAS in the Best in KLAS Awards Report (www.KLASresearch.com) as the top time and attendance provider system for the last 11 years (2002-2012) and the top staffing and scheduling solution in 2012.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting on the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS' mission is to improve delivery by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of our healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors. Working together with executives from more than 4,500 hospitals and more than 2,500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics that provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, medical equipment, and infrastructure vendors. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email email@example.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.
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Dorchester Pottery was founded by George Henderson in 1895 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At first, the firm made utilitarian stoneware, but collectors are most interested in the line of decorated blue and white pottery that Dorchester made from 1940 until it went out of business in 1979. Even in the 1970s, automated machines were not used; pieces were hand-formed and hand-dipped, and handles were applied individually.
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