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Trying to green or sustain any building component these days is like trying to watch a moving target, and roofs are a prime example. In this column, I'll take a look at where we are (at least at this particular moment) on the path toward more environmentally friendly alternatives to design and roofing materials. The first design consideration that relates to the greening of roofs is water runoff. We want to keep as much water on the site as possible to improve water levels in the aquifer, but we also need to keep water on site in such a way as to prevent damage to the residential structure itself. I have troubleshot many roofs whose design permitted several hundred ft2 of roof to carry rainwater or snow melt to only 2–4 ft of gutter.This often creates serious ice backup problems in cold climates and rain backup and/or spillage in most climates when 1 or more inches of rain come down in just a brief time. Some architects and builders have designed homes with no gutter system, but with an effective drainage system around the foundation, ...
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I'm kind of curious about the person in the background of this photo. I believe it to be a guy, but it looks like he's wearing a long robe. I believe we'll see more photos of the infant the woman is holding in future photos.
This is a funny photo — what a weird backdrop. Wouldn't you think they would want to stand in front of the stag instead of behind it? It kind of reminds me of the plastic animals in front of a couple all-you-can-eat buffets in New England.
I despaired that the top of the monument isn't visible in this photo. She's sitting on a canon pointed at the camera, so I figured this is a Civil War monument. Knowing that at least some of the photos in the album were taken in Pennsylvania, I searched for "Pennsylvania war monument pillar" on Google Images and met with success! Our album's star is seated in front of the Penn Common Civil War Memorial in York! In this image, you can see some of the writing that is barely visible over her right shoulder above.
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Nation Books and The New School present Nation Books author and Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow Jeremy Scahill in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security reporter and blogger for Wired magazine.
In Scahill's newest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation Books, April 2013), he takes us inside America's new covert wars.
The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries.
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to work to reduce nuclear arms and maintain security in the Middle East in a March 2 letter about Iran from Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines. Bishop Pates chairs the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB).
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Bishop Pates acknowledged "the difficult situation involving our nation, the international community and Iran" including Iran's refusal to acknowledge its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to open its facilities for inspection.
"Their refusal exacerbates suspicions that Iran is developing its nuclear capability to produce weapons rather than energy," he said. Bishop Pates noted that the Conference of Bishops has always expressed "strong objection to Iran's acquiring nuclear weapons."
He voiced concern over what he called "an alarming escalation in rhetoric and tensions," including Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and speculation on the possible use of force against Iran, including an Israeli pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
"The Bishops' Conference urges the U.S. Government to continue to explore all available options to resolve the conflict with Iran through diplomatic, rather than military, means," Bishop Pates said.
"Before military options are considered, all alternatives, including effective and targeted sanctions and incentives for Iran to engage in diplomacy and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), need to be exhausted," he added.
"In Catholic teaching, the use of force must always be a last resort. Iran's bellicose statements, its failure to be transparent about its nuclear program and its possible acquisition of nuclear weapons are serious matters, but in themselves they do not justify military action," Bishop Pates said.
"Discussing or promoting military options at this time is unwise and may be counterproductive. Actual or threatened military strikes are likely to strengthen the regime in power in Iran and would further marginalize those in Iran who want to abide by international norms. And, as the experience in Iraq teaches, the use of force can have many unintended consequences," he said.
"Iran is an example of the significant threat posed to global security by a proliferation of nuclear weapons. The specific situation of Iran should be viewed within the wider search for a just and peaceful world built on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. A morally responsible nonproliferation strategy must be tied to a clear strategy for reducing and ultimately ending the reliance on nuclear weapons by any country. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty itself ties nonproliferation to eventual nuclear disarmament."
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The trial of the former Albuquerque police officer accused of murdering his wife has been moved to Sandoval County.
Levi Chavez faces first-degree murder charges in connection the 2007 death of his wife, Tera Chavez. Prosecutors said she was shot with his duty weapon, and he made it look like a suicide.
The trial was originally set to be held in Valencia County, but Judge George Eichwald ruled Wednesday that the court wouldn't be able to find an unbiased jury there.
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Chavez's attorney, David Serna, said residents in Valencia County are already tainted by negative publicity.
"Inaccurate, distorted, misleading, inadmissible information," Serna said.
The state pointed out that the high-profile nature of the case means that many New Mexicans outside of Valencia County are familiar with it as well.
Tera'a parents said they expected the change of venue and are still confident that she will get justice.
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SUNDAY, Dec. 25, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Being hospitalized during the holidays can be emotionally difficult, but there are ways to help patients keep their spirits up, experts say.
"While the psychological impact may be short-lived, the bottom line is people would rather be well and home than sick and away," Joshua Klapow, a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), explained in a university news release.
"The holidays are about social interactions, the sharing of emotions and connecting as humans, and there is nothing written that says this cannot occur in a hospital setting. Bring the holidays to the hospital," Klapow said.
Many hospitals take steps to boost the spirits of their patients over the holidays, such as providing music therapy and collecting toys for children. There are also a number of things that friends and family members can do to help their loved ones deal with their situation, added Jordan DeMoss, assistant vice president of the UAB Hospital.
The best thing people can do is to spend time with someone while they are in the hospital, DeMoss suggested. Visitors should let patients know they are happy to be there, he added.
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If being there in person is not possible, take advantage of hospital Wi-Fi and try to connect with someone in the hospital online or through Skype, he suggested.
DeMoss recommended several other ways to celebrate the holidays with those who are hospitalized, including:
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- Bring a favorite holiday food the patient is allowed to eat, or make a special request in the hospital cafeteria.
- Schedule a doctor-approved massage for the patient by a licensed therapist who makes "house calls."
- Ask about music therapy or bring a music player to fill the room with holiday tunes.
- Bring familiar activities from home into the hospital to pass the time, such as knitting or games.
Even strangers can lift the spirits of people who are hospitalized over the holidays, added Terri Middlebrooks, nurse manager in the Acute Care for Elders unit at UAB Highlands Hospital.
"Last year I told my daughter about a patient on our floor who had no family or friends to visit him. She brought a Christmas tree to his room," Middlebrooks said in the news release. "Soon enough, the whole staff was participating and bringing him presents and other goodies."
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As a child and parent, Gregory Maguire has found in fairy tales "the deepest truths'' about confronting and surviving evil in an uncertain world.
For more than 30 years, the Concord author has reignited the dark lessons of fables and folklore, from Aesop and the Brothers Grimm to L. Frank Baum, turning them into fun and funky morality tales for young and adult readers.
In his newest novel, "Egg & Spoon,'' due to be released Sept. 9, young Elena Rudina leaves her impoverished village in Czarist Russia on a magical adventure that includes switching identities with a rich brat, meeting a prince traveling in disguise and receiving life lessons from a smart aleck witch, Baba Yaga, who inhabits a moving house set atop chicken legs.
Maguire continues to mash together fairy tales and grimmer historical realities to serve his own flavor of magical realism with whimsical touches and a moralistic edge. For example, there's a Faberge egg with Baba Yaga's hut on one side, soldiers springing from dragon teeth and environmental forebodings about global warming.
Describing it, he said, " 'Egg & Spoon' is 'The Prince and the Pauper' - except with girls - meets 'Frozen,' except the world is melting instead of freezing."
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Maguire said raising three adopted children – now teenagers – reminds him of fairy tales' enduring power as vehicles of moral truth and cathartic entertainment.
"I think the one thing I've become even more aware of is that basically every moment in the life of a child is a moment of moral understanding,'' he said recently.
The author of 30 novels including "Wicked'' and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,'' Maguire said recently, "I have tried in writing fantasy to honor the fact children can handle serious stuff but they also need breaks for humor.''
"Because children are children, I can't be boring,'' he said. "My subconscious requires my stories to be gripping, immediate, funny but important.''
On a deeply personal level, Maguire understands the power of fairy tales to touch young readers of all times and cultures.
In 1954, Maguire's mother died from complications she experienced giving birth to him. His grief-stricken father sent his children to live with relatives. Maguire lived several months with an aunt who sent him to a Catholic orphanage where he remained until he was 2 and was reunited with his father and stepmother.
"Consider the tales the Grimm brothers collected of children left in distress,'' he said. "They're not tales of long ago and far away. They're family tales for today.''
He observed the three children he adopted with his husband, painter Andy Newman, came from Cambodia and Guatemala. "They're not with the biological parents. Life was rough for them,'' said Maguire. "They had to develop strategies to survive. Teenagers are living proof that fairy tales aren't dead.''
His immensely popular "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'' was turned into a smash Broadway musical.
Adding to Maguire's genre-bending reputation, Universal Pictures announced, prior to publication, it has optioned the rights to "Egg & Spoon'' and plans to make it into an animated movie.
Maguire has been praised as an innovative writer who fuses the universal conflicts of folklore and fairy tales with real historical dangers. His characters, like Elena in "Egg & Spoon'' or Elphaba in "Wicked,' inhabit make-believe worlds yet must cope with contemporary issues that make his tales both timeless and familiar.
Maguire said he "gets a little tired'' of reviewers who write he revises, revisits or reinvents fairy tales and fantasies like Baum's "Wizard of Oz'' to craft his updated tales like "Wicked.''
He said, "I like to think of it as reigniting something so it bursts into flames as never heard before.''
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by Amanda L. Kondolojy
SoulCalibur is one of those franchises that you either love or hate. The combo-heavy fighter has never shied away from creating an over-the-top atmosphere, complete with ridiculous power-ups, characters that look like they just walked out of a fantasy novel, and a battle system that encourages memorization of ridiculously long chain combos. If this sounds like your kind of game, then you will absolutely love SoulCalibur V. And that's probably something you already know.
SoulCalibur V is going to feature several of the character we've grown to know and love, including series mainstays Siegfried, Nightmare, and the other "Soul" characters. However, in order to continue the battle for Soul Edge, SoulCalibur V will be introducing a whole new cast of "next generation" characters to carry on the fight. Much like SoulCalibur III, the fifth installment will be very narrative-focused and will have a rewarding single-player mode, complete with cutscenes animated by CyberConnect2 (which is probably most famous for developing the Naruto Ultimate Ninja series). If you are a big fan of the lore of the SoulCalibur universe, V will definitely get you back on track, and this time without all the silly Star Wars references.
However, SoulCaluibur V will still have a cameo character, and this time it's Assassin's Creed hero Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The Italian Assassin will be decked out in his pre-Revelations gear and will have access to a whole host of weaponry, including throwing knives, a crossbow, and even a pistol. Of course, you can't just whip one of these tools out and start gunning down Cervantes or anything like that, but these weapons will come in to play when doing special moves, counters, and long combo chains. Ezio is going to be in both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version of the game.
But enough about characters; let's talk about the battle system. SoulCalibur V has two new components designed to make battles both deeper and more strategic: Brave Edge and Critical Edge. In order to unleash these moves, players will need to fill a brand-new four-part meter placed underneath the stamina bar. Brave Edge attacks are the less powerful of these attacks and consume a quarter of the bar. These attacks are fast, but do more damage than a standard special attack. Critical Edge attacks, on the other hand, consume half the meter in a more devastating cinematic attack.
In addition to the new offensive components, SoulCalibur V has some new defensive features as well. Among these is a guard impact move that can parry a move with an explosive counter. The game also features an active armor system that can wear down over time. Though previous SoulCalibur games have had this feature, breaking armor in V will involve wearing down an opponent to a certain point and then using a high-powered attack to finally break through and cripple them. Players on the receiving end of attacks will get a warning that their guard is about to be broken, which will give them time to either block or counter the attack before their armor self-destructs.
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April 22, 2013 (Singapore) - FZD School of Design, established in 2009 by renowned concept designer Feng Zhu, is delighted to announce the addition of four new members to its creative team.
Joining FZD team are Thomas Brissot, Ben Mauro, Eduardo Peña and Long Ouyang.
Arriving from Paris, Brissot excels at story-driven illustrations and graphic novels. Prior to joining FZD, he has been working on completing an illustrated book called Mnemos Editions, which will be published in the fall of 2013.
Mauro, Peña and Ouyang were all conceptual designers from the multi-award winning studio, Weta Workshop, based in New Zealand. The three of them have contributed to a multitude of blockbuster films and games, including: The Hobbit trilogy, Man of Steel, The Amazing Spider-Man, Hercules: the Thracian Wars as well as the upcoming science fiction movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and directed by Neill Blomkamp.
Together with Feng, this team will contribute to the fast growing entertainment industry by training talents through FZD's Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs. Their combined experience and expertise will bring a wealth of innovative techniques, skills and knowledge to the School.
In addition, this creative team will undertake the development of new intellectual properties for feature films and next-generation games.
"I've always stressed the importance of foundation studies and high quality outputs. With the addition of these amazing talents, I look forward to FZD's future as we continue to solidify our position and bring forth new and exciting IPs to our audience," states Feng Zhu, founder and director of FZD School of Design.
For more information, please visit FZD's official website.
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An Ode to Dube's Fried ShrimpPosted: October 29th, 2010 | Author: KN | Filed under: Dube's Seafood, Salem, Seafood | Tags: Dube's, Fish Stew, fried clams, Fried Shrimp, Onion Rings | No Comments »
Every summer, the local media publish their annual stories on the best ice cream, beaches, and fried clams in New England. Pilgrimages are made to Ipswich and Essex, and the merits of their clam shacks hotly debated.
While I eat and enjoy clams, you'll notice my artery-threatening seafood of choice is shrimp. And the best fried shrimp on the North Shore is found at Dube's Seafood in Salem, hands down.
The Pelletier family has run Dube's (pronounced Doobies) since 1961, when they bought what at one time was a take-out stand from the original Dube. The interior décor likely hasn't changed much in the past half-century. We're talking old school here; red vinyl banquettes, laminate tables, wood-paneled walls, and a long low bar. It's tiny and dive-y but quite comfortable, and the staff is terrifically friendly.
Clichéd as it sounds, for me, Dube's isn't just a restaurant; it's a family tradition. My dad inevitably sees someone he knows there. Whenever one of my siblings comes back to the area to visit, a dinner there is imperative. Whenever a new seafood place opens, Dube's is the standard to which they are compared.
When we stopped in for dinner last weekend, I realized that I've been eating there for something like 30 years. And I have to admit, I always order the same thing—the fried shrimp. Dube's menu offers weekly specials in addition to a wide variety of baked, grilled, and fried fish, but somehow when the waitress appears with her pen poised, it's gotta be the shrimp.
We ordered cocktails, which are incredibly well priced. They run the gamut from old standards like my dirty martini ($5.25) to newer, seasonal creations like the pumpkin martini on offer that night ($6).
The obligatory starter is always the famed onion rings ($6 for small, $8 for large), which are medium cut and not too heavily breaded. Then the hot, succulent, golden entree plate arrives stacked high. I counted 17 shrimp piled on the mound of fries ($14.95). The coating is light and crisp, and the seafood moist and incredibly fresh tasting.
Not having grown up with a fried shrimp obsession, my partner in crime debates his choice of entrée each visit. This time, he decided on a fish stew special. It was an impressive bowl, full of shrimp, scallops, haddock, and clams in a rich, satisfying broth, served with rice and fresh-cut veggies on the side ($10.95).
Far enough from the center of town in a mostly residential neighborhood, our waitress tells us that Dube's doesn't get the huge influx of tourists around Halloween that most of Salem does. "Unless they ask a local where to go for seafood, then they come here." And that about sums it up. Locals in the know will tell you Dube's is the place to go for the best fried seafood around.
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An image or picture is an artifact that depicts or records visual perception, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject – usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.
- Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author
A - F[edit]
- Narrated 'Aisha: I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13)
- Aisha, Sahih Bukhari 8:73:151 Sahih Bukhari
- Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.
- Akiba ben Joseph, Pirkei Avot, 3:18.
- His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling & Other Tales, Interactive Media, 15 October 2012, p. 14.
- I believe that robotic thinking helps precision of psychological thought, and will continue to help it until psychophysiology is so far advanced that an image is nothing other than a neural event, and object constancy is obviously just something that happens in the brain.
- Edwin Boring (1946). Mind and Mechanism; Cited in: Melford E. Spiro (1992) Anthropological Other Or Burmese Brother?: Studies in Cultural Analysis. p. 68.
- A picture is a poem without words.
- Cornificius, Anet. ad Her., 4. 28. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
- Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
- Dan Chaon, in Jilanne Hoffmann The Uncanny, Hope, and the Short Story, 15 October 2013.
- While the film Life of Christ was rolling past before my eyes I was mentally visualizing the gods, Shri Krishna, Shri Ramachandra their Gokul and Ayodhya.. I was gripped by a strange spell. I bought another ticket and saw the film again. This time I felt my imagination taking shape in the screen.Could this really happen? Could we the sons of India, ever be able to see Indian images on the screen. The whole night passed in this mental agony.
- Dadasaheb Phalke After watching the film The Life of Christ in 1910 quoted in *Ganti, Tejaswini (5 March 2013). Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema. Routledge. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-136-84929-9.
- No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
- Albert Einstein (1929) Viereck interview'
- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (Hebrew פסל) or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
- Exodus 20:4
- The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants.
- Federico Fellini, in I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (2003), "Younger Generation"
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- Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis (1:26-27), in Anne Graham Lotz God's Story, Thomas Nelson Inc, 02-Sep-1997, p. 19.
- Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 6:9.
- To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language. See my mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that. And language just sort of, you know, gives an opinion. Like, oh, that's a good idea or oh, I just figured out how to design that.
- Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Dave Hendricksen 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2011, p. 3.
- It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging.
- Nina de Gramont, in Every Little Thing in the World, Simon and Schuster, 23 March 2010, p. 196.
- One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marble Faun, Book II, Chapter XII. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
- Like the ancient snake that bites its own tail, seeing a circle in a dream can suggest the things in your life that are sacred and remain unchanged, even while you travel through metamorphosis. As an image of returning to the beginning, it can suggest that a cycle is completing so that a new one will soon emerge.
- Kari Hohne, in The Mind's Mirror: Dream Dictionary and Translation Guide, Way of Tao Books, 2009, p. 89.
- Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
- Siri Hustvedt, he Sorrows of an American, Hachette UK, 2 February 2012, p. 68
- Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?
- Thomas Henry Huxley, The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings, Macmillan, 1967, p. 134.
- Images are books for the illiterate and silent heralds of the honor of the saints, teaching those who see with a soundless voice and sanctifying the sight.
- John of Damascus "Defense against those who attack the holy images," as translated by Andrew Louth, Three Treatises on the Divine Images, (Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2003) p. 46
- Images are much more available now than they were in the 1970s. It's very hard to convey that. Now, people can see what they like on their mobile phone. The sculptures are trapped in their time but hopefully people are robust enough to see them as playful, regard them as another way you can look at humanity. But they are intended to be sexy objects and that is one way of grabbing one's attention. The great thing about sex is that everybody has an opinion about it and you can't say "Oh you're not an expert." I fondly think that in 50 years' time, when a historian is trying to convey the climate of the '60s, when there was a dismantling of the rigid notions of the roles of the sexes, those sculptures might well be used to illustrate that awareness in a positive way.
- Allen Jones in "Allen Jones interview: 'They are intended to be sexy objects'" Freire Barnes, Time Out, Nov 5, 2014.
- An empty canvas is a living wonder -- far lovelier than certain pictures.
- Wassily Kandinsky , quoted in: Myfanwy Evans (1937) The Painter's Object. p. 53.
- Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these stuffed dummies—carved or painted images—when our deeds convict us? God hates and despises images, as I shall show. He considers them an abomination and says that all human beings are in his eyes as the things they love. Images are an abomination; it follows therefore that we too shall become abominable, if we love them.
- Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p.103
- It cannot therefore be true that images are the textbooks of laypersons. For they are unable to learn their salvation from them. ... How can you save lay persons when you ascribe to images the power which God gave to his word alone?
- Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p. 107
- If you were to really hate and dislike a picture with all your heart, so that you could not bear to see or hear of it, how would you like it if someone insisted on getting to know and honor you through such a hated, horrible book? ... And God says that he does not like any image which we make, and ... that he hates and despises all who love images.
- Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p. 109
- God desires to indwell in my whole and total heart and cannot in any way tolerate my having an image in my mind's eye.
- Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p. 117
- It was a beautiful embodied thought,
A dream of the fine painter, one of those
That pass by moonlight o'er the soul, and flit
'Mid the dim shades of twilight, when the eye
Grows tearful with its ecstasy.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The London Literary Gazette (1st June 1822), Poetic Sketches. Second series - Sketch the Fifth - Mr. Martin's Picture of Clytie
- When the crucified Jesus is called the 'image of the invisible God', the meaning is that this is God, and God is like this.
- David Lauber, Barth on the Descent Into Hell: God, Atonement and the Christian Life, Ashgate, 2004, p. 114.
- The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
Is the best picture.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part II. 4. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
M - R[edit]
- Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. If you're trying to conjure a character, then maybe you should treat that with the respect that you would if you were trying to conjure a demon. Because if an image of a god is a god, then in some sense the image of a demon is a demon. I'm thinking of people like Malcolm Lowry, the exquisite author of Under the Volcano. There are kabbalistic demons that are lurking all the way through Under the Volcano, and I assume they were probably similar forces to the ones that eventually overwhelmed Lowry's life, such as the drinking and the madness. When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.
- Alan Moore as quoted in ""HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP." Differences between magic and art: None", by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
- Um Habiba and Um Salama mentioned about a church they had seen in Ethiopia in which there were pictures. They told the Prophet about it, on which he said, "If any religious man dies amongst those people they would build a place of worship at his grave and make these pictures in it. They will be the worst creature in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection.
- Muhammad Narrated 'Aisha (the wife of the Prophet) Sahih Bukhari 1:8:419
- Man makes god in his own image.
- Frederick Nietzsche, in Ann Finnin The Forge of Tubal Cain, Pendraig Publishing, 2008, p. 128.
- My goal was to be different, strong; to sculpt my own body to reinvent the self. It's all about being different and creating a clash with society because of that. I tried to use surgery not to better myself or become a younger version of myself, but to work on the concept of image and surgery the other way around. I was the first artist to do it.
- I am not sure I can change such a thing, but I can produce images that are different from those we find in comics, video games, magazines and TV shows. There are other ways to think about one's body and one's beauty. If you were to describe me without anyone being able to see me, they would think I am a monster, that I am not fuckable. But if they see me, that could perhaps change.
- Orlan on beauty, "Orlan's art of sex and surgery", Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 1 Jul 2009.
- In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture — then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
- Pablo Picasso (1935); Republished in: Herschel Browning Chip (1968) Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. (1968), p. 267.
- I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.
- Robert Rauschenberg, quoted in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970) The dream of Icarus, p. 53.
- We are frequently faced with the necessity of looking for the picture required for the visualization of an object, not in the perception of this particular object, but in a different perceptual image. ...we can assert the discrepancy between the perceived picture and the objective state. This discrepancy... proves absolutely nothing against the fact that all visualizations are merely sense qualities of the perceptual space. ...If the parallelism is ...to be visualized, we must supplement our assertion by the description of certain qualities with which we are familiar from perceptual space.
- Hans Reichenbach (1928) The Philosophy of Space and Time.
- Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images (εἰκόνος) resembling mortal man.
- Romans 1:22-23
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- Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. ...It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
- George Sarton A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959). Preface.
- When you wish to see whether the general effect of your picture corresponds with that of the object represented after nature, take a mirror and set it so that it reflects the actual thing, and then compare the reflection with your picture, and consider carefully whether the subject of the two images is in conformity with both, studying especially the mirror. The mirror ought to be taken as a guide... you see the picture made upon one plane showing things which appear in relief, and the mirror upon one plane does the same. The picture is on one single surface, and the mirror is the same. ...if you but know well how to compose your picture it will also seem a natural thing seen in a great mirror.
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci XXIX Precepts of the Painter, Tr. Edward MacCurdy (1938).
- Imagery played a central role in theories of the mind for centuries. For example, the British Associationists conceptualizes thought itself as sequences of images. And, Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of scientific psychology, emphasized the analysis of images. However, the central role of imagery in theories of mental activity was undermined when Kulpe, in 1904, pointed out that some thoughts are not accompanied by imagery (e.g., one is not aware of the processes that allow one to decide which of two objects is heavier).
- Robert Andrew Wilson, Frank C. Keil (2001), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. p. 387
- 2.1 We picture facts to ourselves.
2.11 A picture presents a situation in logical space, the existence and non-existence of states of affairs.
2.12 A picture is a model of reality.
2.13 In a picture objects have the elements of the picture corresponding to them.
2.131 In a picture the elements of the picture are the representatives of objects.
2.14 What constitutes a picture is that its elements are related to one another in a determinate way.
2.141 A picture is a fact.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
- Billy Wilder As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
- The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.
- Xenophanes, in Karl Raimund Popper The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, Psychology Press, 1996, p. 39.
- Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
- William Paul Young, Cross Roads: What if you could go back and put things right?, Hachette UK, 22 November 2012, p. 56.


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Zsa Zsa Voom!
When Sid Krofft – let's stop and take a breath right here - Sid Krofft! of H.R. Pufinstuf and Land of the Lost and wayyyy more fame – when Sid called me two months ago and made me put Sunday, June 30, 2012 in my calendar he told me that it was a nonnegotiable-under-penalty-of-death-do-not-cancel-under-any-circumstance type of event. I trust this man enough to know that that means I should write it in my calendar in cement. Then he told me where we were going: to ZSA ZSA GABOR'S house for her husband, Prince Frederic's birthday party!! Had I actually been writing in cement there'd be a big fat Allee Willis face print in it right now because THAT'S HOW FAST my head bobbed to my chest in ecstasy and disbelief upon hearing WHERE we were going. Besides that, Sid is one of those people who I clicked with the second we met and we always have the greatest and most comfortable time together.
Sid lives very close to another good friend of mine, Beverly D'Angelo. The plan was we would meet at her house exactly 45 minutes after she arrived home from a Lego extravaganza in Minneapolis. Beverly and I go back to the 1980s together. She's hysterical, a great friend, great actress, and dresses with flair, a quality I can relate to. She looked especially great on Zsa Zsa D-day, which was amazing as her plane was late and she got this together in 15 minutes:
So me and Beverly in my car…
… follow Sid and Donnie and Teri Moll, who live smack dab in between Sid and Beverly, winding around Mulholland Drive into the immaculate bowels of Bel Air to Zsa Zsa's house. The first person we met was the Prince himself. You see this guy on the news and they always portray him as a nut but I have to tell you, nut or not, he's an excellent party host. And trust me, I know a lot about being an excellent party host.
The kind of party host who takes care of every detail:
Price Frederic also hand-carried out out every morsel of food and set the table himself.
It was deli-gone-insane. Every kind of sliced meat on the planet…
… including these impressive linoleum looking slabs:
A big topic of discussion was what the white stuff was in the middle of this pork chop. Was it a Porturkey?
Zsa Zsa and the Prince's house is THE Hollywood house that anyone who loves Hollywood, old Hollywood, dreams about. Built by Liberace (and where the HBO biopic was shot), Lee sold it to Elvis, who then sold it to Zsa Zsa – three of the most extreme personalities in show business history, all of whom floated their nuttiness around in Liberace's famous piano-shaped pool!
Everyone at the party, regardless if they had been there 100 times before, was snapping photos so fast it was like their index fingers were on automatic pilot. But it's SO not my place to plaster Zsa Zsa's kitsch-on-the-elegant-tip domicile all over the Internet. So I shall have to leave it at this one shot of Beverly waiting for her drink next to the Oscar replica/ gold champagne bar as an example of the supreme 70′sness of this most hollowed mansion.
And though Zsa Zsa was ensconced in her bedroom there was lots of Zsa Zsa around.
Here's Sid with Zsa Zsa:
This wall was not only gold but whatever the finish is had little chunks of raised goldness in it:
BTW, though the dog resting so comfortably on the pillow wasn't real, many people pet him.
It took all my strength not to straighten this copper relief of Zsa Zsa:
As I'm posting these photos I realize… How completely crazy am I that I didn't go to the bathroom there?! OMG, if textured gold walls are in the house what must the bathrooms look like?! How could the undisputed Queen of Kitsch miss an opportunity like that??!! Especially as this is the decoration on the outside of the bathroom door:
I know the obvious question is, "But did you meet Zsa Zsa?". The answer is no because at 96 she was too frail to attend. But there was a live video feed going into her bedroom so she didn't miss a thing. The camera followed Prince Frederick everywhere, including when he danced with Madame.
Wayland Flowers may be long gone but Madame is still very much alive!
As is Pee Wee Herman:
All in all, it was a Zsa Zsa Voom Sunday! As we alighted down the red astro-turf carpet to get our cars…
… we all agreed it was one of the best looking Sundays we'd had in years.
Va Va Zsa Zsa Voom!
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Mapo is a Korean country style kitchen at Sixth and Normandie. The meal starts with a full dozen panchan, including at least three kimchi variations. This is one of those cases of so much panchan, you barely need to order anything, but you should.
I immediately honed in on the braised cod, which reminded me of the similar mackerel dish at Seongbukdong, and it is like a less funky version of that dish. The cod is braised to a point of tenderness that you don't see that much in Western cooking, soft oily pieces spill out, but be careful, it's full of pesky little bones. Large slices of daikon soak up the spicy, salty sauce which is actually quite mild compared to the rich, pungent version at Seongbukdong. It's a milder, but just as wonderful dish.
The hand made noodles are the thing here and the soup with pulled dough morsels is filled with a handmade spaetzle or chicken 'n dumplings type noodle. These were very tasty, but I bet if you had leftovers (we didn't) they would soak up the soup and become plump and even more wonderful.
The various grilled mackerel dishes also looked very good; we'll check those out on the next visit.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Korean Country Cod 'n Dumplings: Mapo
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Phillies might stay away from free agent Madson
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies watched Ryan Madson throw late last week in Arizona, and Ruben Amaro Jr. made an interesting comment Wednesday when asked about it.
"Our reports were good when we saw him, so he's going to sign somewhere," the general manager said.
Interesting because Amaro said Madson is going to sign somewhere, not necessarily with the Phillies. If the Phils were in the thick of negotiations or seriously interested, Amaro typically would have much less to say.
There could be a reason for that. Sources said Madson has been telling teams he is looking for a guaranteed Major League contract. That might be too much for the Phillies to handle, considering they just signed A.J. Burnett, but most importantly because Madson has not pitched in a big league game since 2011 because of right elbow surgery.


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Here's a study we wish they'd have done a long time ago. As you may know, blueberries are one of the most, if not THE most antioxidant-rich fruits in the human diet due to their high polyphenol content. They also taste great and are available year-round in both fresh and frozen forms. So blueberries make the perfect addition to a protein shake. Or don't they?
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Okay, let me preface this by saying that Nemo, even though very high drive, is very mellow in that he has some natural manners. Sure, he jumps on people and what not...but he's not destructive, he doesn't just pick things up in the yard and starts chewing on them, etc. He's an all around easy-going dog.
Well, he was out with another dog this morning, and I was on the couch. I got up to let him in, and I was facing the sliding glass door that goes to the yard...well, there he was...ON TOP of Greg's most prized possession (his grill)!
Apparently, he was hungry and figured he'd cook something up real fast!


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As if his wispy curled mustache and comfortable south-central Kansas twang wasn't interesting enough, ex-circus roustabout and Mullinville native Jack Carson has an expansive collection of collapsible cups he'd like to show you.
As if his wispy curled mustache and comfortable south-central Kansas twang wasn't interesting enough, ex-circus roustabout and Mullinville native Jack Carson has an expansive collection of collapsible cups he'd like to show you.
"I don't really know how I got interested in it, it's been so long," said Carson. "I would say 20 years ago." Lona, his wife of 18 years, thinks he started to collect long before they were married.
"He tells me 'I've just got to have that cup,'" she adds. "I'll say 'how much?' He'll say 'a couple of dollars,' then I'll say 'get it.'"
Not long before Carson began collecting the small portable cups, he was an employee of the Jungle Wonders circus, a traveling outfit from Alabama owned by John "Gopher" Davenport that was in operation in the late 1970s.
While in jail for passing $190 in bad checks in Garden City, Carson had a visitor.
"The circus man bailed me out and before we left, and we were standing in the lot, he said 'Now you're bailed out and you can do whatever you want.' I figured I owed him so I stayed with him for two years," laughed Carson.
A 1978 circus review magazine, transcribed by a user at circusanonymous.blogspot.com, talked about the route of the circus that year, including a trip to Alaska, which Carson fondly recalled.
"The show opened in January in the Phoenix, Ariz., area and while playing nearby a few days later had snow on the lot but despite bad weather did good business. Ken Benson was ringmaster and announcer and Mel Silverlake started the season as road manager. [Davenport's] show had four elephants and featured a strong menagerie. Although in past seasons Davenport had operated several units it appears he had only a single circus on the road in 1978. Returning eastward from Arizona the show played in New Mexico and Texas and encountered some unusually cold weather during the early weeks. When spring arrived the show headed west again and picked up stands in Nevada, Utah, and on to Oregon and Washington. In June the show went into Canada and had a blowdown of its big top at Strathmore, Alberta, on June 15. The route carried the show northward to Alaska where it was at Dela Junction on July 4 and at Fairbanks, July 5-8. After the show returned to the States a visitor caught it at Post Falls, Idaho, and reported the three pole big top showed a lot of wear and tear following the Alaskan tour. It was still carrying a large contingent of animals, including several elephants, llamas, Sicilian donkeys, goats, monkey, lioness, hippo, leopard, and bears. The show gradually moved south to Texas where it closed in December in the Houston area."
A collection of collapsible cups seems fitting for a man once employed by 'the big top.'
The odd item has a history spanning world wars, generations of recreational campers and thirsty bicyclers.
"Years ago all of the towns had a well in the middle of town and they had a dipper," said Carson, who had his own story on the origins of the collapsible cup. "You could dip the water. Then Typhoid Fever came and they thought it was from the dipper. Someone decided everyone needed his or her own cup, and someone invented one. You can put them in your pocket and take them wherever you go. It small and handy and light."
It doesn't take long to realize the practical benefits of the space saving devices.
They are round and small, some in cases and some with covers. Each has its own unique color, size and design. Older cups are made of metals like aluminum or copper. Newer ones, especially the ones manufactured in the 1960's and 1970's are made of different types of plastics.
Some have intricate decorations and leather pouches, while some advertise a political candidate or product.
They all share a common form factor. A number of inter-linking rings create a locking seal when they expand. The concept is similar to an old fashioned handheld telescope.
As the need for the collapsible cup dwindled in the later part of the 1900s, they became a niche product targeted at consumers who needed to take pills while away from the house. Carson has a number of cups embellished with insurance or medical advertising, and a small interior capsule for storing pills.
"If you don't have a whole handful of pills they work great, cause you can just pop it and take a sip," he said.
They might be one of the first "on-the-go" products designed to take up little space and perfect size for a pocket or purse.
The "cyclist" cup, as it was then known, was patented on February 23, 1887, by inventor John Lines of the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Conn.
The popularity of bicycles is thought to have inspired Lines, whose neighbor Columbia Bikes began manufacturing bicycles in nearby Hartford in 1878.
Lines however, may not have invented the first collapsible cup, as a number of Civil War era cups have surfaced in private collections and online auctions.
The true inventor of the cup still remains a mystery.
Variations on the collapsible cup in the early 1900s are a result of the success of the portable drinking device that had been patented by Lines.
L.R. Smith patented a "waterproof fabric" collapsible cup in the summer of 1912.
Earlier that year Adams, Mass., native J.L. Follett patented a "hands free" collapsible cup that used a spring to pop the cup out "without spoiling the inside of the cup with dirt or soil from the hands."
The U.S. Patent office has recorded more than 300 different patents for collapsible drinking cups.
In the age of the bottled beverage, it seems that the collapsible cup, and the cup in general has taken a backseat to the plastic bottle. What does that mean to a collapsible cup collector?
"It means they are probably harder to find," he said. "Who uses a collapsible cup anymore? Unless they think about it and need it when they are going on a vacation or something and not everyone collects them."
There is no national collapsible cup groups or organizations. There has never been an official price guide or trade convention. While other collecting markets like glass, toys and books have far reaching members, the collapsible cup does not.
"I haven't met any other cup collectors," Carson said.
A December 31, 2005, article in the Arizona Republic Newspaper profiled Gerald Burnett, a Phoenix-area resident with a collapsible cup collection of more than 300 items.
As with any collector, the conversation turned towards questions of value and cost. Carson was asked about the reaction of people when he tells them about his unique collection. "First thing they say is 'I didn't know that there was such a thing.' And then they ask where I find them, and how much do you have to pay for them?"
Carson says his 100-plus collapsible cup collection hasn't been a very expensive one to acquire.
"The cheapest one I've ever bought was a dime at the old Care N' Share thrift store in Greensburg," said Carson. "The most expensive one I bought was $30. I won it at an auction and it was against a lady I knew. I guess I shouldn't do this but, I was bidding against her. I wanted it."
Carson also waxed poetic about his thoughts on why he's collected the cups, along with other things like knives and Vaseline glass.
"I was raised [in Mullinville] and we weren't hand-to-mouth but we were between the red and the black. If we had something, we kept a hold of it. I don't have my first pocketknife but I remember it. It was a valuable thing because you didn't have the money to just go out and buy another one."
The collection is on permanent display in the center of Carson's living room, within arms reach of his favorite armchair, though he had considered moving it to the other side of the room. "I like it where it is," said Mrs. Carson.
When they can, the Carson's take trips to antique shops and thrift stores across Kansas, looking for new additions to their collections, with Mrs. Carson being an avid doll and nativity scene collector.
"Every time I go into an antique store in Wichita the woman that works there says 'I know what you're after' and she finds it for me," said Mr. Carson. "I've found one every time I've gone there. I don't know if I am the only one looking for them, but if they are still there when I get there, well, they are sold."


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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Sunday's Obituary - Jule Dart
The obituary did a pretty good job at naming his siblings and children, but since it only mentioned their married surnames, I'll correct that here (such a pet peeve of mine, but it was a sign of the times).
The children of Eugene and Josephine were: Louisa, Charles, Jean Baptiste, Odele (as spelled Odile) Vandenhouten (spelled differently in our tree than below), Adolphe, Jule, Desirea Vandenhouten, Mary Laurent (my husband's great grandmother), August, William, Eli, and Wilbert.
Discovery - I didn't have a husband for Louisa in my tree, but apparently I need to look into Louis Mathy!
Jule and Odile had five known children: Louis, Anna Le Mense, Melvin, Julius, and Lillian Claflin/Killen
Discovery - Lillian's husband's name is listed in the obituary of her brother, Melvin, as Joseph Claflin. I imagine that she married a second time, and that her first husband was Ed Killen, but I need to verify this.
"Jule Dart Dies in Hospital at Age 67
Jule Dart, 67, 1256 Day street, died Sunday afternoon in a local hospital. He had been ill for a year, and had been a patient at the hospital for one day.
Born in Tonet, he was married to the former Odile Motquin 45 years ago. He was formerly employed in Brussels, and worked as a farmer until five years ago when he and Mrs. Dart moved to Green Bay.
Survivors are his wife; three sons, Melvin, Sturgeon Bay; Julius, Little Sturgeon, and Louis, Green Bay; two daughters, Mrs. Ed Killen, Sturgeon Bay, and Mrs. William Lemense, Green Bay; 12 grandchildren; five brothers, John, August and William of Tonet, Eli of Luxemburg, and Wilbert, Walhain; and four sisters, Mrs. Louis Mathy, La Crosse, Mrs. Eugene Van Den Houten and Mrs. Victor Laurent of Green Bay, and Mrs. Louis Van Den Houten of Tonet.
The body is at the Dupont-Malcore Funeral home where the rosary will be said at 8 o'clock each evening, with the Rev. Peter Skell in charge Wednesday evening.
Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Thursday morning in SS. Peter and Paul church. Father Skell will officiate and burial will be in St. Martin cemetery in Tonet."
[Hand dated December 25, 1949. There is no publication information but the clipping was most likely from the Green Bay Press Gazette and the date most likely refers to the date of death rather than publication]
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About (Late) Last Night: Bryan Cranston talks crystal meth [Video]
It's the question that Bryan Cranston, who plays a mild-mannered chemistry-teacher-turned-ruthless-meth-manufacturer on AMC's "Breaking Bad," has probably fielded a few hundred times: Has he ever tried the dangerously addictive drug?
"Strictly for research," Cranston joked to Craig Ferguson on Thursday's "Late, Late Show." "I never enjoyed it."
"I don't think anyone enjoys crystal meth," Ferguson said. "Just look at them. They don't look like they're having a good time at all. They're trying to achieve the look that crones got by sitting next to the guillotine during the French Revolution, that kind of no-teeth crazy 'gaaaaah!' "
"You get what's called 'meth mouth' and your teeth just start dropping out," Cranston explained.
"You start looking like a thin British dude. Kate Moss is coming around your house, 'You're very attractive,' " Ferguson quipped. (Speaking of looks, it's remarkable how much better looking Cranston is when he's not in character, isn't it?)
Cranston hasn't sampled crystal meth, but he does know how it's made. "We had DEA chemists who are consultants on the show and they taught us step by step how to make crystal meth," he said. It's a commitment to authenticity that Walter White, the detail-oriented character that Cranston plays on the series, would appreciate.
"If the acting thing falls through..." suggested Ferguson, but as anyone who's watched "Breaking Bad" can tell you, cooking meth is not exactly a foolproof backup plan.
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- Work is ze crazies. Looking at a departmental reorganization which could mean any number of things for me and my coworkers, and there are too many ifs and maybes to be able to do anything but guess at what will come. I buried myself in my shaman this past weekend specifically to get my mind off the uncertainty. Fun times.
- I built an elaborate cabinet thing this past week. It was one of those follow-instructions-with-labeled-parts constructions, with (mostly) pre-drilled holes, but it was fun. There's just something about building a physical creation with your own two hands that I think we sometimes miss when we spending so much time on computers. I'm now eyeing the space around my computer and plotting building storage space around it. It doesn't help that I've started following the Ikea Hacker blog. I want room to store (in a more organized fashion) all of the CDs, books, toys, and trinkets that otherwise clutter my (old dining table) desk.
- Speaking of the Ikea Hacker blog, this amazing hamster home is making me want to get another small furry rodent of my own. I used to keep rats while in college, and hamsters/gerbils while a teenager: I enjoyed building custom cages for them, though I still owe my Mom a wool coat from when my gerbils escaped one of my early attempts. The short life-spans were devastating to me, however, especially for the rats as they are so social (I miss my little girls), and my husband has forbidden that I get any more pets with a 2-3 yr or less life expectancy. He has enthusiastically agreed that we will get a dog (Malamute or mix) when we move out of our current no-dogs-allowed rental house, though!
- If you liked Spaceballs and play D&D, you need to see this movie: The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. It is freaking hilarious. I have also played with each of those gamer stereotypes. I completely lost it when the sorceress raised their dinner from the dead... and it killed the bard. A must-watch movie.
- Speaking of roleplay games, here be a raccoon. With tupperware. She's a pen-and-paper roleplay character of mine ;) My GM is awesome and has let me play some very unusual characters, including a drow-werewolf ranger, wolf monk, and an axe-wielding earth mage of a geology grad student (she had a Jeep, too).
- "Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a 'tectonic weapon' to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week." Wait, what? Okay, this is reminding me of a witch hunt: some group isn't either as affluent or well-off as another group/individual (or deserving of attention), and thus decides they must be either pacted with the devil (which has also been accused in the case of this earthquake) or otherwise they're involved in some horrible evil ulterior motive plot. The world is just plain weird. Nevermind thinking that an atmospheric research project dealing with the ionosphere (far upper atmosphere) would result in deliberate tectonic reactions. That's like blaming a resto druid for pulling aggro with a Berserked Mangle.
- I plan to begin work on some large, false "stained glass" windows this weekend, using tissue paper and contact paper. Trying to decide what to do for the joints between the "panes," maybe use black paint since it'd be thicker than the ink from a sharpie. They'll ultimately be used as atmosphere for a summer camp I'm co-directing (thus they need to be easily portable and removable, hence the materials). I'll be dog-sitting for a friend at the same time; this'll be interesting!
- I'm halfway through a 3lb. box of Russell Stover Bloopers. Thank goodness for a high metabolism.
- http://icanhascheezburger.com and http://ihasahotdog.com bring me many giggles.
That is all. For now. ;)


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Winter squashes come in all sizes and shapes.
A cold winter evening is just the right kind of weather to fire up the oven and bake the fruits of fall and winter, savory winter squash (and that includes pumpkins). The aroma that drifts through the house will make even the pickiest eater hungry. Best of all, because they store so well, you can usually purchase all types through the winter months.
Most winter squash is Cucurbita moschata; pumpkin is sometimes C. mixta, and sometimes C. pepo or C. maxima.
Winter squash is a long-season plant, and should not be sown outdoors until the soil is quite warm. It needs full sun, plenty of moisture as it ripens the fruits, and fertile soil. It's important to watch for squash vine borer throughout the season, but otherwise squashes are fairly easy to grow. Just give them plenty of room. If you don't want to grow your own, shop farmers markets for winter squashes.
Begin harvest in late summer-fall
Winter squash begins ripening in August and continues into October. Although most winter squash can be harvested when young and used like zucchini, the point to growing winter squash is usually to keep them over the winter. Winter squash is ready for harvest when the rind is hard enough so that you cannot make a dent in it with your fingernail. This means it has cured enough to store well. By the time the first frost arrives, the squash should all be ready to harvest.
To control fungal problems in storage, wash squashes well with soap and water. For extra protection, you can dip them in a mixture of one part bleach to six parts water, making sure to get the stem end. Then, they are best stored on wire racks or someplace with good circulation and cool conditions, such as the basement. Squashes should ideally be stored at 50-55° F, and if your basement is warmer than that, be sure to check them periodically for rotting.
New varieties for small spaces
Some newer varieties that are becoming quite popular are dwarf and semi-dwarf forms of the traditional squashes. These produce shorter vines and smaller fruit, making them easier to handle in tight spaces, and easier to cook for two people. Pumpkin is the king of winter squash. We usually connect them with Halloween because of the jack-o-lantern, but they are also really tasty to eat.
Pumpkins, especially small pie pumpkins, make a delicious winter meal.
Pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin is unlike anything you've ever tasted, and pumpkin is also very good when baked and mashed like potatoes.
For years, the most popular winter squash was acorn squash, mostly because it was commonly available year-round. This baseball-sized green ribbed squash has bright orange flesh. But there are so many others available now that there's no need to limit yourself. Delicata squash, which is oblong, cream to yellow with dark green stripes, and Sweet Dumplin' are some of the sweetest squash you'll ever eat. They have rich orange flesh like a butternut, but are infinitely sweeter. There are hundreds of types of winter squash out there, from buttercup and blue Hubbard to spaghetti and butternut squash.
How to prepare
All it takes to bake most winter squash is to cut them in half and invert them on a rimmed cookie sheet. Remove the seeds before baking, especially if you want to toast them, or you can bake with the seeds intact and remove them after baking. They will come out easier this way.
Bake for an hour or so, depending on the size of the squash, at 350° F and serve with butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, or stuffed with whatever sounds luscious. Flesh should be soft when pierced with a fork. All winter squashes are cooked the same way, and can be interchanged in almost any recipe.
The cooked flesh freezes well, and if you measure it in one-cup batches and place it into freezer bags, it's ready to pull out for use whenever the mood hits to make muffins or squash bread.
Spaghetti squash is a little different, in that when it is cooked, you can separate the flesh into strands, which really do resemble spaghetti. The "spaghetti" is delicious with a little butter and Parmesan or even spaghetti sauce. And it doesn't have the high calories of pasta.
A version of this article appeared in a January February 2017 print edition of State-by-State Gardening.
Photography courtesy of MSPhotographic/iStockphoto and Kate Jerome.


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