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Here at From Ship to Shore, we're starting a new series in which we try to find the best coffee shop in DC, New York, and wherever else our travels take us along the East Coast. First stop? Everyman Espresso in New York City's East Village, which currently reigns as the #1 coffee shop in the country according to The Daily Meal and held the 2012 title of the Village Voice's best espresso bar in New York. But does it live up to expectations? I stopped by to find out.
The coffee
I ordered a skim latte, which came out beautifully. The foam was one of the thickest I've ever had and felt luxurious to drink. The espresso itself was smooth and had a very light flavor. This would be a good option for someone who likes the idea of lattes, but can't stand the strong taste of espresso. Despite lacking a strong taste, this espresso will give you a serious caffeine rush. It was even served at the perfect temperature: hot, but just cool enough to sip right away.
This place is pricy, though: I paid $5 for my 12 oz. latte. While I enjoyed every sip, this is the kind of place to save for a splurge rather than your daily cup of joe.
A quick note: if you're planning to sip your drink at one of their tables, make sure to specify that you want the coffee to stay–they serve it in lovely glass mugs, which I only discovered after ordering!
The food
Is it bad to say that I enjoyed the donut more than the latte? The latte was very good, don't get me wrong, but this coffee cake donut blew my mind. It was rather small and fluffy, which made me feel a bit better about indulging in this pick-me-up. It wasn't greasy like other donuts can be, nor was it too sweet or sticky. The traditional crumble on top as well as some chopped walnuts added the perfect crunch to this otherwise cloud-like pastry coated in a delicious, cinnamon-y glaze. It was quite honestly the perfect donut-coffee cake hybrid. And at $3, the price tag isn't too bad either.
The space
It's an interesting space, that's for sure. Upon first walking in, I wondered why seating was relatively sparse despite a large empty area near the back of the room. After my friend and I had sat down and gotten to work, we soon discovered why: Everyman Espresso shares a building with a small theatre company, CSC. And that door you see open in the back of the photo below? That's the entrance to the backstage area. So, all of the newest equipment and sets had to be brought through the coffee shop and into the theatre. I found it interesting to watch racks of professional lights and set pieces wheel by, but I can understand if someone expecting a quiet reading space might be bothered by it. Of course, I'm sure this doesn't happen every day, nor would this happen at their SoHo location, but you've been warned!
Otherwise, the coffee shop is modern and clean. The long benches along the white brick walls provide an interesting seating option, perfect for if you want to just pop in, chat with a friend for a few minutes, then leave. There were also several countertop stools against the window, providing a prime view for people watching.
The location
The location was great. Everyman Espresso is on a relatively quiet street–13th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues–just a five minutes' walk away from Union Square. So, it's very easy to access via the red or yellow lines, but you still feel like you've gotten away from the craziness of the city. It's quite close to NYU as well, but there was a good mix of people in the coffee shop, making it feel welcome to both students and non-students.
The staff
The staff was incredibly knowledgable about their coffee, explaining in detail the several different kinds of drip coffee they offer. They even go ahead and ask if you'd like sugar in your drink, saving you an extra step and making sure that everything is made to your liking. I knew my latte was in good hands!
The verdict
I can't say definitively that they're the best coffee shop in the country, but Everyman Espresso is certainly a part of the coffee shop elite. Visit Everyman Espresso yourself at 136 East 13th St. or head to their SoHo location at 301 West Broadway.


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2011 Bentley Continental GT -- Paris Auto Show (part two)
Due to make its public debut at the Paris Show later this month, the 2011 Bentley Continental GT got an official online reveal today following its earlier teaser release. Seen in its full, undisguised glory, this striking grand tourer carries on the premium-motoring tradition of its highly regarded predecessor, but boasts significant gains in style, comfort, performance and efficiency.
Recasting the body beautiful
While clearly retaining the visual flair and proportions of its predecessor, this latest Continental GT is wrapped in all-new bodywork which uses a super-forming process that yields even more precise panel fits. The car's cleaner crisper lines are highlighted by a more upright grille, bolder, LED-accented front and rear lighting elements plus a decklid and exhaust treatment inspired by Bentley's Mulsanne line. Extensive aerodynamic tweaking -- including new underbody fairings and a more aggressive rear diffuser -- helped cut the 2011 Continental GT's drag coefficient to 0.33 and reduces high-speed lift on both the front and rear axles, all critical concerns on a vehicle capable of nearly 200 mph.
The same kind of major makeover can be found inside the new 2011 Bentley Continental, which retains all of the classic hand-crafted luxury cues but gains a new level of contemporary style and functionality. Complementing the fine wood and hand-sewn leather that appears throughout the cabin is a new dash whose design echoes the twin wings of the Bentley logo. While white-on-black analog main gauges remain, a new 8.0-inch center touchscreen display serves as the Continental's main control center for its state-of-the-art navigation, climate-control and audio systems. The latter, an 11-speaker infotainment wonder with industry-first "Dirac Dimensions" digital processing, was created especially for the car by British audio specialists Naim. Another key upgrade in the passenger compartment of this stunning 2+2 coupe are its "Cobra" design bucket seats. Beyond providing even better comfort and support for those seated up front, their new thin-shell contoured backs result in 1.8-inches of much-needed additional legroom for those in the still-modest aft quarters.
Taking a responsible approach to power
The launch of the 2011 Bentley Continental GT also heralds a new era of enlightened performance for the venerable prestige marque. In addition to shedding some 143 pounds of curb weight, output of the car's standard 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12 engine has been raised from 552 to 567 horsepower and peak torque popped from 479 to 516 lb-ft courtesy of new low-inertia turbo units, additional friction-reduction measures and improved computer management programming. The paddle-shifted ZF six-speed automatic transmission has been fitted with "Quickshift" circuitry that can reduce change-interval times by 50 percent, which in turn, helps trim the Continental GT's 0-60 mph time to 4.4 seconds.
The biggest news on the underhood front won't come until late next year, when Bentley will begin offering its new supercoupe with a super-efficient 4.0-liter V8 that's being developed as part of its promise to improve fuel efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across the entire lineup. Although the automaker provided no mechanical details on the engine, it did confirm that this high-tech V8 will offer class-leading CO2-emission to power ratio and, like the 6.0-liter W12, be fully E85 capable.
In keeping with its performance pedigree, the new 2011 Bentley Continental GT also benefits from a series of focused chassis upgrades. Although its basic architecture carries over, the engineering team expanded the front/rear track dimensions, revamped the Continuous Damping Control adjustable suspension and revised the stability system. It also bolstered the all-wheel drive package by fitting the same Torsen center differential introduced on the firm's ultra-spec Continental Supersport model that uses a 40/60 rear torque bias to help overall handling capabilities and reduce understeer when powering out of corners.
The 2011 Bentley Continental GT goes on sale in January in Europe and will arrive in showrooms here sometime in the spring. Pricing is scheduled to be released at the Paris show.


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Crayons aren't just for kids anymore!Sculptors use them whole, bundling thousands of crayons to create environmental and installation-size sculptures. Carvers pierce and reshape crayons with scalpels, turning them into mini totems, helixes, and portrait busts. Landscape and still-life artists layer crayon shades in works on paper that rival paintings in their subtlety and depth. What will you do?!
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30 March, 2017
Brazil top the South American world cup qualifying table with 33 off 14 games.
Brazil continue their stellar World Cup qualifying campaign with a 3-0 win over Paraguay.
While Brazil can already start packing for Russia, Paraguay's qualifying chances appear slim as they flounder five points adrift of the automatic qualifying places with four games remaining. Coutinho also understands the level of joy victory gives to both sets of fans and will be keen to ensure that the points stay on the red side of Merseyside, where UEFA Champions League football is expected for next season.
Do nosso jeito, com um futebol que tem a cara da #Seleção, chegamos lá!
Neymar also missed a penalty but it mattered little as the team managed by Tite, who are just four points away from progressing as section winners, continued their record of featuring at every World Cup since the inaugural tournament in 1930.
Colombia, Chile and Uruguay are all now with Brazil in the automatic qualifying positions.
Colombia's James Rodriguez celebrates after his team beat Ecuador 2-0 during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match at the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, March 28, 2017.
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Truecaller also announced that a strategic agreement to integrate Google Duo, a video calling service, within the Truecaller app. Today, version 8.0 of the app was unveiled from the venue of the company's first annual " Stay Ahead " event in India.
After 'Bizarre' Moves, What's Next For Fractured House Intel Committee?
He held his press conference on Wednesday to make the vague announcements, which he was later forced to walk back . A House Intelligence Committee hearing on Monday heard two bombshells dropped in testimony.
France's right wing populist candidate is losing but not yet beaten
A Russia-friendly approach to geopolitics runs in the Le Pen family. "I expect more anti-Macron campaigns will be coming". Le Pen raised eyebrows in January when she visited Trump Tower , although she did not visit Trump himself at the time.
Brazil no longer depends entirely on Neymar, and it can play without its teenage target-man Gabriel Jesus and still score many goals.
The win coupled with Uruguay's loss sends the Selecao' to Russian Federation with four games to spare. Dunga's surprising appointment as head coach after Brazil lost its home World Cup distanced many fans.
In the second-half, Brazil moved up the gears, with Neymar winning a penalty, only to see his effort easily saved by Antony Silva after a bloody silly run up.
When World Cup qualifiers resumed in September a year ago, Tite's team was ready to dominate.
The Brazilian team applauding the crowd after their victory.
As Brazil cruised to a 3-0 victory against Paraguay, it still needed a Peruvian win against Uruguay to clinch its qualification for the 2018 World Cup.
Matters became more hard for the hosts when Luis Caicedo was sent off for a second yellow card just past the hour mark and, although they missed chances for a third, Colombia's victory always looked assured.


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Kanye West With His Baby Girl North West
Kanye West has major plans to spoil his little girl this Christmas.
Yeezy reportedly spent close to $60,000 on gifts for North West, MTV UK states. The Chicago native purchased a $50,147 tiara crafted in diamonds, and a $9,402 kiddie SUV car in a matte-black finish to match her dad's life-sized vehicle.
The "Power" rapper sure knows how to shower his girls with coveted and expensive items, specifically the $1.25 million engagement ring he got for Kim Kardashian in October 2013 and the reality star's Hermès Birkin bag which retailed close to $50,000.


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Thoughts have been rolling around in my head for awhile now, well over 2 years, for this new quilt to eventuate. I bought these great periwinkle star blocks last time I was in USA at one of the quaint vintage quilt stands they have at their shows. Oh how I wish we had that heritage here in Australia. I guess if we did, it wouldn't be such a buzz to explore over there though!
So this is the inspiration behind my next quilt (or what I hope will be my next quilt - fingers crossed it will eventuate and not end up at the bottom of my cupboard!!). I love the colours and of course the blocks themselves.
This time I have started with choosing a whole lot of colours, just throwing them down to see which ones I like together...
So a-drawing I go, this quilt is based on tea-parties and gardens. Here is the first block underway...
...as you can see, a little brighter than my usual colour-palette, but not too bright!
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Right then Ladies and Gents – time for this week's #MasterofCocktails. We're going to be making a drink I first tried a year or so ago at the Savoy, and is a drink created by the one and only @tomwalker86 for a Bacardi bartending competition, so it of course prominently features the classic rum at its core – yes, we're making a 'Maid In Cuba' recipe this week.
We were supposed to make it last week, so thanks for waiting patiently. Definitely well worth the wait, though. It's a good 'un.


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It's about time that we, men, start to form groups of our own to determine our own destiny.
After much delay, I have decided that there is no perfect time to start a movement. I have decided that the time is now.
If you have read my articles and my book, and understand the core principles of Primalism, then you are qualified to join us.
We are currently small, but we will continue to grow and we will grow exponentially. It is inevitable.
I have other projects that are coming up that will surely expand the movement greatly.
If you are ready, go to the contact page and send me an email with a basic of information of who you are and what motivates you to join us. Just remember that we are only looking for serious members who are ready to inflict change in this world. You will be expected to dedicate yourself to the group. If you cannot make that commitment, then this is not for you.
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Sabrina took pictures of the cousins with Sayge and Shaylee for our annual Christmas pajamas picture. We grew a lot in one year, adding three babies to the mix!
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The University has mandated all faculty and staff members to report sexual violence and harassment to Title IX Coordinator Linda Shinomoto, according to Prof. Bernadette Brooten (NEJS) in an email to the Justice. Previously, faculty members were not considered "mandated reporters" under University policy.
According to Brooten's report to the Faculty Senate on Nov. 1, 2013, the University Advisory Council Subcommittee on Sexual Violence was looking to address questions as to whether or not faculty members should be required to report instances of sexual violence.
"I am very pleased to be working with the senior administration on implementing our proposals, which have now been discussed in a number of venues and continue to be discussed," Brooten wrote in an email to the Justice. "Provost Lisa Lynch and other senior administrators have been very receptive to our proposals."
The UAC Subcommittee on Sexual Violence was created in February 2013 "to examine Brandeis's policies concerning sexual violence and their implementation" and delivered its report to former Provost Steve Goldstein '78 and the Faculty Senate in June, according to Brooten in an email to the Justice. The University has not yet released the report, although the UAC and the Faculty Senate will consider its recommendations, Brooten wrote.
The April 2011 Dear Colleague Letter from the Department of Education, which clarified universities' responsibilities under Title IX, states that schools "need to ensure that their employees are trained so that they know to report harassment to appropriate school officials, and so that employees with the authority to address harassment know how to respond properly." Training, the letter states, should include "practical information about how to identify and report sexual harassment and violence."
The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights recommends in the letter that this training be provided to "any employees likely to witness or receive reports of sexual harassment and violence, including teachers, school law enforcement unit employees, school administrators, school counselors, general counsels, health personnel, and resident advisors." It also recommends that schools develop "specific sexual violence materials that include the schools' policies, rules, and resources for students, faculty, coaches, and administrators."
Although which individuals should be deemed "responsible employees," or mandated reporters are not directly specified, the April 2011 Department of Education document titled "Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence" states that a responsible employee is any employee "who has the authority to take action to redress sexual violence; who has been given the duty of reporting incidents of sexual violence or any other misconduct by students to the Title IX coordinator or other appropriate school designee; or whom a student could reasonably believe has this authority or duty." If a responsible employee is aware of a student-on-student case of sexual harassment or assault, the OCR concedes that the university "reasonably" should have known about the situation, and thus investigated and taken action.
The development follows the launch of a mandatory online sexual harassment training. The training, which is meant "to bring [faculty and staff] up to date with current policy on sexual misconduct at Brandeis and their responsibilities with respect to this policy," must be completed by Nov. 14, according to Lynch in an email to the Justice. Lynch added that faculty and staff must complete the online training even if they participated in any recent in-person training. Shinomoto is tracking completion.
Shinomoto and her staff have also organized in-person trainings, Lynch wrote. Although the fall sessions are full, more trainings will take place in the spring semester.
Shinomoto did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
Editor's Note: The article initially stated incorrectly that the Department of Education document titled "Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence" was published in April 2014. It was, in fact, published in April 2011.


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2 Weeks Left; La. Budget Woes Still Unsolved
With only two weeks left in the legislative session, lawmakers are not close to agreeing on a budget for next fiscal year and addressing the loss of over a billion dollars in temporary taxes that are set to expire in July 2018. That's according to Jeremy Alford of LaPolitics.com.
"Two weeks to go, there's no compromise on the budget yet. Next year's $1.3 billion fiscal cliff isn't likely to be addressed in full."
Alford says the majority in the House despise creating new taxes to solve a looming budget deficit, while the majority in the Senate and the governor believe that is the solution. He says there is no clear path for where this session will end.
"It's a wait and see process, a lot of what's going on is a political game of chase. The House is staring at the Senate, the Senate is staring at the House, the legislature is staring at the governor and I would bet the governor is wondering the same thing as us, exactly what's going to happen."
Alford says while action on the budget is stagnant, the legislature is moving ahead with criminal justice reform. He says the package that lawmakers will agree on is not as ambitious as what the governor originally proposed.
"But I think the governor, at the end of the day, will be able to say he brokered some compromises and put some notable policies on the books."


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text: Benefit shows. If you've been a musician for more than about 30 minutes, chances are you've been asked to play at least one. If you've been gigging regularly for over 35 years, like me, you've probably given up trying to count the number of requests you've received. Now, let me point out right up front that I'm not against benefit shows. I really don't mind donating my time and resources for a few deserving and well-managed charities each year. It feels good to give back, and I rarely pass up a chance to play music, when given the chance. But lately, it seems like every week someone is holding a benefit of some sort and expecting musicians to give up their personal time and talents for free, while being treated like third world refugees. A recent bad experience at a benefit show prompted some rumination, and subsequently, this post. (more…)


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Welcome to a new Battle Report!
Today we're starting a 'slow grow' campaign of Grey Knights against a force of Emperor's Children (or Slaanesh cult), both from Warhammer 40,000. If you want the story behind the campaign, the picture and text version has that in more detail.
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This mission, and any other with Slaanesh units, have bare breasted and exposed buttock female miniatures. Although I take them as part of the story of the game, if you are not into this kind of thing (nudity/partial nudity), you might prefer to browse our other batreps or otherwise not view this batrep.
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College parties are always sure to have those huge garbage cans filled with red wine that has chunks and pieces of citrusy fruits floating in it, with just a little hint of brandy in every mouthful taken. That, my dear friends, is sangria. The normal and most common sangria recipe with red wine is so easy to prepare that even a young child could do it. All that is needed is some cheap variety of red wine, a cheaper variety of brandy and some fruits. Mix up everything, chill it as much as possible and your sangria is ready. Well, after all, the main motive behind the invention of sangria was getting drunk and being high at the least possible expenditure.
Sangria originated in Spain sometime around the 300 BC. The earliest sangria recipe with red wine mentioned the usage of any quality of red wine. There existed no rigid rules to the fruits that could be used and it generally depended on the type of fruits available in the region concerned. Moreover in some regions, spices were also used in the place of fruits to add a distinctive taste to the sangria. Somewhere down the line, brandy got added to the concoction and further down, soda also became a popular ingredient of sangria.
The most important component of a sangria recipe with red wine is of course the wine itself. Personally I feel that cheap quality wine should be used for making sangria. This is because the wine anyway is going to be mixed with a lot of stuff. And there is no point in ruining an excellent wine. So it is prudent to be economical when choosing the wine base. The fruits to be added can be whatever the chef prefers or anything that is seasonal. However the citrus ones are known to give sangria a special tangy taste. Throwing in some herbs and spices like dried orange peel, ginger, cinnamon, etc can give it a sweet yet spicy flavor.
There is no definite answer as to which wine is the best option for a sangria recipe with red wine. Fruits are generally put in to tackle the bitterness and it is dry red wine that is normally bitter. So using a dry red wine is a good idea. It is the maker's personal preferences and tastes that decide on the wine that is best for the recipe. After all, what matters most is the appreciation of people who are going to drink it. Another practical tip to make a sangria recipe with red wine more authentic is to go as cheap as possible as far as the red wine is concerned. Studies have revealed that it is the cheaper varieties of wine that produce a more tasty result and is favored by most people.
Since the name of sangria is influenced by its blood red color, it is traditionally prepared with red wine. However, the recent times have witnessed the use of white alternatives on an experimental basis on many occasions.
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Starring: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Eric Millegan, Jonathan Adams, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor
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Factual error: Booth is supposed to be a (former) Army sniper. Military personnel chosen to be snipers are expert shooters. At the young mans grave, Booth places a sharpshooter badge on the boys casket. Being a sniper, Booth should be an expert and, as such, should have placed an expert badge instead of a sharpshooter. (Rifle and Pistol sharpshooter badges in rank lowest to highest: marksman, sharpshooter, then expert.)Shannon Jackson
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Visible crew/equipment: At the very start the landing skid of the filming helicopter is in shot for several seconds. (00:00:10)Ssiscool
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Continuity mistake: When Bones is shading on the piece of paper at the start, it goes from wide light shading to narrow and dark. (00:06:30)Ssiscool
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Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Lucy first looks at the comic book, the page across from the "thank you" page is different than when it is shown a few shots later.
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**********PLEASE NOTE THAT ECMTuning HAS TEMPORARILY STOPPED ALL PRODUCTION ON THE ECMLink CHIPS. THEIR ETA FOR THE NEW PRODUCTION IS JANUARY*********
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ECMLink is the result of nearly 3 years of work. We took an already perfectly good package and made it better. A LOT better. Everything was redesigned, rebuilt, and recoded to roll in everything we've learned from our first 6 years of business. V3 isn't really an upgrade as much as it is a completely new product! The full feature list just isn't practical in this small space.
You can read more on the details on our V3 Summary Page. You can also get a quick idea of the basic screens on our V3 Screenshots Page.
Ordering process: If you need help with the basic ordering process, please read through our Ordering Process page.
After ordering: Once you have subm
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If you're really anxious for that reply and have an ECU you need to ship out, then you basically just ship it to the address below along with a printed copy of your order.
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System Requirements: A listing of the basic system requirements can be found on our System Requirements page.
Turn around time: If you are placing an order that includes socket service, then you will need to send us your ECU to be socketed. As long as we receive your ECU by UPS, we can almost always get it back out the same day we receive it. Other carriers may add a day's delay. If you are placing an order without socket service and do so before noon eastern time, we can usually get it out same day.
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Hi my lovely ladies! I thought I'd update you on Project Dressing Area as it's been too long! I managed to pick up a LOVELY antique/vintage looking mirror from none other than Home Sense again! For those of you that don't know, Home Sense is a part of TK Maxx but it's a whole store dedicated to, yep you guessed it, your home. From kitchens to bathrooms! It's become one of my favourite shops. The mirror looks a little something like this…
This was literally the day I got it. Sorry for the awful picture quality as it was taken on my phone. It's pretty heavy but I managed to move this into my room all by myself This gorgeous mirror cost me £60! It was originally about £150 odd so, to me, that's a BIG FAT BARGAIN – I had to get it… & plus, it goes perfectly with my dressing table
A few weeks ago my uncle hung it up on my wall for me All together it looks a little something like this…
Here's a little close up for you dolls!
It's not completely gold like, or as gold as my dresser, but it gives such a nice old antique look to it The down side to Home Sense/TK Maxx is that many items like these are one offs. But I HIGHLY recommend you guys to check it out… You might find yourself a great buy! Speaking of Home Sense, today a poor lady fainted in the store! It was so SCARY – but she was al right in the end
The lighting is VERY poor in my room so need to sort that out ASAP! Where's the best place to get a nice, bright, some-what compact stand-up light?
P.S – Do check out Helen & Sheenie's blog JUST NICE THINGS – My 20 questions post is up today


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For the next 9 miles I hiked through several interesting areas such as Licklog Gap and Burningtown Gap. The elevation changed a lot as usual but typically stayed between 4,000 and 5,000 ft.
One of my most favorite natural features on the trail is when the Rhododendron and mountain brush form a natural tunnel shape that seems to swallow the trail as you hike through it. I took several pictures of this throughout the hike.
I also came across some more shelters including another one that was under repair. The AT has special Trail Clubs in every state that are dedicated to keeping the trail and the shelters safe and enjoyable. It takes a special person to hike deep into the woods (typically with heavy equipment) and spend time taking care of the trail that they love. This is obvious to anyone that spends time out here.


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Color Index:
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Lost Lip-Sync
Runner Ups
Original Lineup:
Serena ChaCha VS Penny Traition
Monica Beverly Hillz VS Serena ChaCha
Coco Montrese VS Monica Beverly Hillz
Honey Mahogany VS Vivienne Pinay (Double Elimination)
Detox VS Lineysha Sparkx
Coco Montrese VS Jade Jolie
Alyssa Edwards VS Roxxxy Andrews (Non-Elimination)
Alyssa Edwards VS Ivy Winters
Coco Montrese VS Alyssa Edwards
Detox VS Coco Montrese
Jinkx Monsoon VS Detox
Original Top 3 – Jinkx Monsoon, Alaska, Roxxxy Andrews
Original Winner – Jinkx Monsoon
New Lineup:
Penny Traition VS Serena ChaCha
Penny Traition VS Monica Beverly Hillz
Penny Traition VS Coco Montrese
Honey Mahogany VS Vivienne Pinay (Double Elimination)
Lineysha Sparx VS Detox
Jade Jolie VS Penny Traition
Alyssa Edwards VS Roxxxy Andrews (Non-Elimination)
Ivy Winters VS Alyssa Edwards
Ivy Winters VS Jade Jolie
Ivy Winters VS Lineysha Sparkx
Ivy Winters VS Jinkx Monsoon
New Top 3 – Alaska, Roxxxy Andrews, Ivy Winters
New Winner – Alaska
The Rules:
- If the Winner of the season does not lip-sync, and reaches the top 3, the original winner will not win.
- The Original Sent-Home Queen will take the place of the one who Stayed.
- If a future lip-syncing queen was already sent home, the winner of the queens previous lip-sync takes the place of the new Sent-Home queen an d so forth.
- In the place of a tie/non-elimination, no queens will be sent home.
- In the event of a double-elimination, both of the queens will still be sent home.
- In the event of a returning queen, they will take the place f the person who home in their place from the original lip-sync that sent them home.
- In the event that someone made top 3, and get eliminated before the final lip-sync, they take the place of the 1st Runner Up.
- The Rule of 3 – No Queen can lip-sync more than 3 times.
- If a queen makes top 3, and have lip-synced more than 3 times, they will NOT take the place of the first alternate.
- For future seasons (Seasons 4-8), the top 4 placements will be based on how many times the queens have lip-synced.


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How can you use your imagination? Let me count the ways ...
While you're off counting your own ways to use your imagination I'd like to share something with you. Don't worry, it'll still be here when you've finished.
You see, I've been blessed with information that I am honour (love) bound to share with you all. It's about using your imagination for spiritual progress. I attended a seminar about just that topic. It was a reminder of what we have inside of us and how we can best use it to assist our spiritual journey. It was a wonderful few hours in tranquil surroundings.
As I said, I cannot keep this information to myself, so here it is for you to take with you on your own spiritual journey. I am sharing the gift I received with you – I know, I'm generous. You can thank me later ...
Because imagination is the central force of change, I think we should all invest more time into using it. Here are a few nuggets to get your own imaginative juices flowing as you take steps on your way today. Have fun.
I "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
Imagination is a private place, no one else can be in my imagination
– not even by invitation: it is mine, alone.
M Meditation
When you take time to listen to yourself and God you can increase your creativity.
When we give ourselves up to creativity, we open ourselves up to G.O.D.
Good Orderly Direction
A Active Imagination and Active Listening
To be an active listener we need to "switch off the self".
Listen with your ears, eyes, heart and imagination. Listen to the whole person.
G Gratitude
Inspect your baggage and see what you've already got.
Make a gratitude list.
Start with 20 and see how many you get. More than you thought? Be grateful.
I Images that inspire
Find and use images that inspire you.
Go for a walk, go to a museum, look at photographs.
N Nature is a great opportunity for exercising the imagination
Select anything you find and look at it, really look at it and think about it.
A Award yourself a blessing
This may seem difficult at first but it's not.
Think of a quality, any one and make yourself a blessing from it
T Ticket to Ride
Your imagination is your ticket to ... anywhere. You can go where you like.
Make time to ... be at peace. Start with a minute. You have a minute, surely?
Change your thinking and change your life in just-a-minute
I Imagine a world ... as it could be, as it should be.
Change your world and you change the whole world. Imagine that.
Smile more, be cooperative, practice total acceptance, forgive and be truthful.
What a difference those few things make in the world.
O Open-minded
Be open-minded and think about what is in the way of your own spiritual progress.
Open yourself to help to surmount the obstacles.
Imagine what it would be like if your dreams came true.
N Now - right now!
Now is a good time to make the change and really start using your imagination.
"With imagination you can free yourself from the chains of your own solitary perceived reality."
Davina Lloyd
"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun."
George Scialabba


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Y'all remember my fabulous Floridian friend Jenn who gave me the great idea for a housewarming gift a while back? Well she has struck again…I got an email the other day that says "Your Conscious Box is on it's way!" Come to find out Jenn had signed me up for this super cool monthly service (THANKS JENN!)
I google it and start getting SO excited for what is headed my way! Have you heard of this? It looks amazing! This is what I learned from their website:
Conscious Box helps you discover healthier choices. Our personalized subscription service lets you sample the best natural, non-GMO products, every month. Find something you like? Pick up full-size favorites at deep discounts. It's that simple. Conscious Box makes living healthy easier than ever.


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(presumed 3CY) Black Kite
Åsen for some migrant catching at 3am. Craig made the decision that it would be worth catching up on our sleep, so Jalle and I woke up at 9.15 and headed into the garden to do a spot of raptor watching as the sun was very strong and there was a light wind. It wasn't too long before we caught sight of a silhouette of a distant bird that looked like a cross between a Marsh Harrier and Osprey in heavy moult. I got Jalle onto the bird and it was soon evident we were looking at a Black Kite. It was getting closer so I ran inside and shouted Craig to get him onto the bird. As the bird got closer, I could see it was going to go right over the field 'next door'. I ran to there and managed to get lots of photos as it flew low overhead.
We have come to the conclusion that the bird is probably a 3rd calender year bird based on the largely adult plumage with hint of pale flecking on some feathers of the upperwing, tatty tail, orangey-brown eye rather than dark-brown or yellow (not a proven feature yet) and apparent pointed round primary coverts (instead of very round in adults). Comments more than welcome...
In addition to this, I had fantastic views of a Honey Buzzard that briefly flew low over of house coming from behind trees and then 5 seconds later over some more trees. I didn't have chance to get a photo, but it appeared to be an adult female. Stunning bird with very strange appearance with the bright yellow eye.
Today was very hot indeed and insects were every! This Ruddy Darter was nice.


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Design stands for functionality, elegance and individuality for more than 20 years. Product development for BMW vehicles has the distinction of competent engeneering in all manufacturing levels. From the start of development Breyton Design uses new technologies like FEM calculation for structural analysis of used material and for assessment of strenghts to create new products.
Today Breyton Design GmbH as a tuning company today has the biggest assortment of wheel designs and dimensions of all BMW tuners. The key to success is based on the high quality requirements Breyton has for both itself and its suppliers. International success followed, new trading areas are added to the existing markets in the USA and Japan. Over 20 importers are now trading Breyton products around the world.
For the firm owner of Breyton Design GmbH, Edmund Breyton, autotechnic and autodesign are his dearest hobbies during his IT study. Two years after he had finished his IT study he founds the engineering office EBS in Stockach. Initially, the field of activity of this young company is development orders and design studies for several tuning companies and automobile manufacturers, especially AMG and BMW.
Due to the enormous increase of the branch Edmund Breyton had the possibility to establish a sales program on the market and in 1985 he released the first Breyton design line for aerodynamic parts.
In the beginning of 1987, the development and production of alloy wheels began. In a response to strong demand for engine tuning the development of tuning kits followed soon after.
Due to this fast development at the same time more space was required. The renamed company, Breyton Design GmbH, moved to a new 6000 sqm in Stockach.
Aerodynamic parts, alloy wheels and engine tuning were offered for all current BMW models.
57 % of a swiss engine foundery was taken over, today it is called Breyton Swiss. The result of this cooperation was a leading role in the development of engine tuning and supercharger technology. At this time Breyton realised the fastest 3 BMW of the world with 528 horspeower.
The enormous increase of demand for quality, high-class and exclusive alloy wheels resulted in an intense orientation on the development of BMW wheels.


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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Threadless brainbelt
Another stab at this Threadless tee-shirt malarkey, with one of the brainbelt illustrations vying to achieve tee-shirt form. It seems to be getting a bit of a thrashing, so vote and comment over at Threadless.
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At AirJaldi's rural wireless networks in the Himalayas, all routers have PoE or Power over Ethernet supplying their power needs. PoE technology uses the same regular ethernet cable you may use at home, and then sends POWER (electricity) over that cable along with the data. (more about PoE and an $8 implementation.)
This simplifies the wiring of your wireless mesh (no power cords necessary) and provides a way for custom wireless routers to supply power to peripheral devices with embedded PoE converters. In this way, wireless routers can become a power as well as information "hub". Simply applying Occam's Razor to the twin problems of rural electricity and communication, we immediately perceive that supplying them both simultaneously is the most simple solution.
The IEEE standard 802.3at for world-wide use of PoE also enables the creation of complex "smart grid" IP-enabled green electrical networks, which will be highly useful for scalable and "bottom-of-the-pyramid" approaches to Green Energy.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Power over ethernet (PoE) and a Rural Smart Grid
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No its not dejavu, but I did own an X100s temporarily about a month ago. I tried it out and enjoyed it, but I was hesitant about the lens focal length. As the lens is fixed I really have no option and that worried me at the time. But, now that I have my two "for work" cameras I feel really good about getting to know the X100s better and I know it will serve quite useful during wedding ceremonies as well as times where I need to be discrete.
Reasons why I know I'm going to really enjoy this camera:
- The built in lens is very small which adds to the discreteness when out shooting. It also keeps the camera very light.
- The silent shutter. From more than three feet away you can't hear it. No joke.
- At times I will need this wider field of view and this is a very sharp lens.
- The close up capability of this camera/lens combination is really good. To the point where I can do semi closeups of things without any problems.
- It has an optical and electronic viewfinder. Although I use the electronic viewfinder primarily I can see how street photographer and landscapes could benefit from the optical view.
- This will become my primary photo walk camera for street, landscape and city photography.
- A very easy pick up and go type camera. No fumbling around trying to decide what lens to use.
Please enjoy a few photos of my new black X100s. I highly recommend this camera as a companion camera to your current system, or a do-it-all travel camera, or the perfect street photography camera. If you have a chance rent or try one out. You will be very pleased!
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Your cameras are neato
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Thanks! I also think my cameras are neato!
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Hi everyone! So right now it is 3:20am on September 29th, 2009. That brings up quite a valid question: what strange motives convinced me to post a blog entry now of all times? And I don't have the answer to that question. Just kidding. There are actually several things that persuaded me to do this. First of all, it is 3:21 in the morning. How many bloggers post stuff this late? Early. Whatever. But I'm sure the number is quite small. So now I have bragging rights. When I encounter people at MIT who say things like, "I built an electric car," or "I published an academic paper at age 12," or "I'm hungry," I can counter with, "Yeah? Well I posted a blog entry at 3:20 in the morning." Rather than eliciting gasps of awe, I have an unfortunate feeling that I'll be given strange looks with a response along the lines of "What's wrong with you, dude? Do you have swine flu or something? SWINE FLU!!!! QUARANTINE!!!"
The second thing that convinced me to post an entry is the fact that the last one I posted was 20 days ago. No, wait… it's now the 29th. That means it was 21 days ago. So I felt like I should keep my wide circle of followers appraised of my activities. Here are some of the things that I have experienced over the last 3 weeks: I swam 100 yards, I treaded water for 10 minutes, I dressed up in aluminum foil, I got 100% on two problem sets in a row in 18.022 (Multivariable Calc with Theory… I think that violates some kind of MIT law of having your self-esteem crushed… oh, well, I know I didn't get 100% on the third :-P), I created my own fraternity/independent living group, I bought chocolate milk, drank chocolate milk, bought M&M's, ate M&M's, bought more M&M's, ate more M&M's, stayed up until 7am to finish a problem set due at 11:45am (I had a class from 11-12), campaigned for president of Class Council, ran for Senator of MacGregor House, found out I wasn't allowed to do both, was forced to drop my name from the presidential ballot but still had people write me in :), signed up for Intramural Soccer, found out that we suddenly didn't have an intramural soccer team, listened to fellow students argue about knots being discrete quantities rather than continuous, published an article in the Tech (MIT's newspaper) trashing the frats' Rush week (they spent $500,000!!!), published an article about the proposed budget cuts that suggested closing the Athena clusters (computer lab type things… unpopular idea apparently), published an article on why Israel shouldn't bomb Iran, officially became Opinion staff on the Tech, was introduced as such and greeted with, "Oh, you're Opinion, right? Yeah, you're the kid everyone hates!", discovered that this means I was doing my job right, I memorized the periodic table in one hour and nine minutes, I run several miles a week to each of my classes since I am perpetually running late, finally figured out how to get hot water in the shower (that was week 3 or 4), felt dumb as some of my friends talked about computer programming, washed several apples for my friend in exchange for his help on a homework problem, ate lots and lots of Subway, discovered that my screen comes out meaning I can get onto the roof if I really want to, discovered that to hold my screen in, the window must be perpetually open at about 45 degrees, which is nice for the breeze, discovered that when rain blows sideways and you can't close your window things get wet, learned that about 23-25 seconds is the optimal time to put M&M's in the microwave to melt the inside but not the outside, and left everything until the night before it's due. Although that's probably because it seems as though there's something due every day.
And now I've written probably the longest grammatically legal sentence ever. And I did it at 3:38am, which is also good for bragging rights. Oh, and I found out that one of the singers of Mayday Parade left and started his own band! What?! It's called Go Radio, it's alright. Wow that was off on a tangent. Speaking of tangents, I also learned some ridiculous math. I've decided that I may not double major in Courses 18 (math) and 8 (physics) because despite the amazing coolness of quantum mechanics and relativity, I despise 8.01 (physics- mechanics). Maybe 8.02 (electricity and magnetism) will be better and change my mind. And because if I was to major in math it would be like a soccer player majoring in soccer. Pure fun. I've also been thinking more about what I actually want to do with my life after college. Initially, I wanted to get a PhD in mathematics and be a college professor and do research. I would hopefully also be able to write novels on the side and, eventually, go into politics. Now that's shifted. I don't really want to be a college professor because it lacks the interaction that a high school teacher has. Also, my time writing with the Tech and finding out that pretty much everyone enjoys reading my articles has influenced me to consider becoming an opinion writer or columnist for a newspaper. And with my increasing involvement in the promotion of the Uxbridge school project, I have seen that I also really enjoy politics because I sincerely care about the results. I think it's sad that politics has seemed to lose the "public service" aspect over the years, which to me is the best part; the ability to give back and do something great for your community that will affect them positively for years to come.
Of course, before I can do any of this, I have to survive MIT. A popular saying among upperclassmen when my friends and I are optimistic, cheerful, happy, or just not miserable wrecks, is, "Oh… you guys must be freshmen. You haven't had your souls crushed yet." So that of course makes me very much look forward to drinking from the fire hose for another three years following this one :) I hope to be able to update this blog more often now that I'm getting into the swing of things here at MIT. By "getting into the swing of things," I mean "getting used to solving difficult math problems and doing philosophy on 3-6 hours of sleep." So I suppose that at this point I should stop avoiding my chemistry homework which I am being quizzed on tomorrow and actually do it. Oh, that was the third reason for me doing this. I just didn't really feel like chemistry. I always enjoyed chemistry in high school, but as my second year of high school chemistry is now being compressed into a single month, it's slightly less enjoyable. Math, however, continues to provide me with a limitless source of enjoyment, as does writing for the Tech, hopefully, serving on the Senate and the unique characters of my friends. So now it is 3:51am. I would say goodnight, but as it's morning, I feel as though that may not be proper. Yet good morning is usually a greeting… Oh well. I could just go with an indeterminate value: goodbye!!! Oh, it's now 3:52. Just thought I'd let you know.


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Benign sociopaths
I learned something about human personality this weekend.
This is a good thing for a novelist.
I've always worried about my character construction. People have been kind in their comments about the characters in my books, but I worry that I'm just doing variations on me. It's often been noted that certain authors (Oscar Wilde, for instance) basically have only one character, whom they dress up in frocks or fake mustaches as the requirements of the stories demand, but who are really the same person.
In a sense you can't get away from this. Nobody has any real material for character building other than his own personality. The writer asks himself, "What kind of person would I have to be to do the things this character does? What experiences would have turned me into such a person?"
But still I note that I'm very, very different from lots of people, and I wonder how well I'm doing at working out my characters' feelings and motivations.
So my epiphany over the weekend was welcome. It came, however (as many epiphanies do), through a rather unpleasant experience.
I have a friend I'll call… Chip. He's probably the most gregarious person I know. He's the kind of guy you describe by saying, "He never met a stranger." He is a diffidence-free zone. When he meets someone he immediately starts peppering them with questions, and soon he knows where they're from, what they do and who their friends are (chances are they have mutual friends, since Chip already knows most everybody. There are few places in the country where he can't go and look up a buddy).
So Chip calls me and tells me his brother-in-law has acquired a lot of yard tools in the course of buying a house, and do I need any? I sure do. He also asks me if I want his old entertainment center, which he's clearing out of his basement family room. I sure do, redux.
He picks me up on Saturday morning and we go and get the yard tools. We have to delay a while, of course, while he has a conversation with his brother-in-law. Then I go with him to pick up some things he needs at a hardware store. He runs into a friend and has to have a long conversation. I wait patiently.
We get back to his place around noon and start to clean out the entertainment center. His wife asks if I'd like to have pizza with them for lunch. I say yes, but I can't stay too long because I have things I want to do that afternoon. She then goes to pick up their son from some kind of lesson, about a fifteen minute trip.
Chip wants to wait for his son to get back before we move the entertainment center, so we can have his help. I'm OK with that.
Then the phone rings. Chip answers it. It's a friend from out of state. He starts talking.
And he keeps talking.
His wife comes back. She looks at me, sitting patiently on the floor (the only place available). She mouths to Chip silently, "Tell him you have to hang up and you'll call him back later."
Chip pays no attention. He keeps talking.
And he keeps talking.
After he's talked forty-five minutes, I tell Chip's wife I have to leave. I get his son to help me load the entertainment center in my Chevy Tracker. While this is going on, Chip finally ends his call. They follow me home so they can help me unload it, but I skip lunch because I don't feel I have time.
Chip can't understand why people are upset.
After they're gone I fume a bit and think about it. That's when I realize the difference between Chip and me.
Chip is a benign sociopath.
Sociopaths, as you probably know, are people who have no conception of the feelings of others. They do what they please and care nothing about the consequences for other people, so long as they themselves suffer no discomfort or inconvenience. Criminal sociopaths become serial killers. Chip isn't like that.
But he can't conceive that anything he does causes anyone else a problem. He's entirely innocent of that kind of empathy.
I, on the other hand, am obsessive about what other people think. I spend my whole life asking myself, "Am I allowed to do this? Will it cause a problem for someone? Will I get into trouble?"
This is why Chip is gregarious and I'm shy. He never agonizes over whether people will like him, because he doesn't give a rip. Therefore he meets people, talks to them, and they do like him most of the time.
I hang back from people, afraid I'll irritate, bore or repulse them. So I don't meet people, and often they think I'm a snob.
I probably won't make any improvements in my life because of this insight.
But it may help me construct better characters.
Authors: The mills for which everything is grist.
Lars Walker
The Closers by Michael Connelly
Three well-remembered TV actors have died in the past few days. If you're from my generation, or just watch a lot of old 50's and 60's television on Nickelodeon, you won't have trouble putting faces on the names.
Don Knotts will forever be Barney Fife, deputy of Mayberry. I never really liked The Andy Griffith Show. I never liked any television series about small town life – I hated Petticoat Junction and Green Acres too. Living on a farm, I could discern the writers' condescension in every scene. I never understood why my neighbors couldn't see what these
I also hold it against Knotts that he compounded the offense by playing a major part in Pleasantville, a recent movie with a vicious take on traditional American (and Christian) morality.
I won't miss Don Knotts.
Darren McGavin died too. I liked him. I can vaguely remember him in his stint as an early Mike Hammer, and I was very fond of his series Riverboat. The Night Stalker was pretty good too, although I thought they ran out of monsters pretty early in the game.
Did you know McGavin was the original Hogan in the pilot for Hogan's Heroes? I wish they hadn't replaced him with Bob Crane. I never liked the series much (not enough attractive women and – excuse me – jokes about bombing cities just aren't funny) and Crane's archness grated on me. McGavin would have made a more humane and grittier Hogan, and I think the show would have been better.
Dennis Weaver as
I remember being surprised, when I first saw Weaver on something other than Gunsmoke, to see that he was a tall man. He'd always looked pretty average next to James Arness, who is gigantic (Arness is from
Weaver's McCloud series was OK, but I mostly watched it to see Terri Garr in her supporting role. Sometime in the 70's Weaver declared himself a vegetarian. Vegetarian cowboys have always lacked credibility in my eyes (not as much as Brokeback cowboys, but there's a definite lack there).
A new Michael Connelly in paperback is always a big event in my year. I don't know what Connelly's politics are (probably left of mine) or what his religious beliefs are (assuming he has any). But he satisfies my primary requirement in a novelist – he treats his characters with understanding and compassion. An unforgettable example occurred in one of his earlier Harry Bosch novels, where a police lieutenant who had been a foil and a butt of jokes in other books was horribly murdered, and it was Harry's fault. That's the kind of moral wake-up call that keeps me coming back to Connelly.
His chief continuing character is Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, a
Connelly had another continuing character, Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI agent whom Clint Eastwood played in the disappointing movie adaptation of Bloodwork. But McCaleb died in the last Bosch book, The Narrows (I don't think that's a spoiler since the investigation of his death forms the body of the novel). That mystery's solution carried profound moral ambiguities, but in the end Harry, who had left the police force, accepted an offer to return.
It's almost a new Harry in The Closers. He's doing a job he cares about (investigating old unsolved cases -- he and the others on his squad are known as "Closers") and working for a boss he actually admires and wants to please. He believes the police corruption he's fought in the past has been cleaned up, and he wants to be part of writing a new chapter.
Harry and his partner Kiz Rider (a black lesbian. I suppose that means something) take as their first unsolved case the 1988 murder of a teenage girl. Someone hid in her home, abducted her, carried her up the hillside behind her house and shot her to death. Not unexpectedly, the event crippled her parents forever. Her mother lives in the same house and keeps her daughter's room exactly as it was that night. Her father lost his restaurant business, left his wife, and is now living on the streets. When Bosch chases him down he finds him cooking in a soup kitchen, on the wagon and professing faith in Christ.
The immediate suspect is an illiterate white supremacist whose path crossed the girl's (she was of mixed race). But there are no easy solutions, and things are far more complicated than they first appear.
Also sinister is the reappearance of Bosch's old boss, Irvin Irving, wily and corrupt. He has been Bosch's rescuer at times (when it suited him) and has undermined him at other times (when it suited him). He approaches Bosch early in the book and tells him he's a "retread" – a piece of old, used equipment that will blow out soon. And when Bosch explodes, he promises, he (Irving) will be there to use his failure as a weapon against the new police chief, thus to regain his power.
Grim and humane like all Connelly's books, full of mortality and regret, The Closers is also a book about hope and second chances. I liked it a lot.
Lars Walker
Michael Baigent said: "Whether our hypothesis is right or wrong is irrelevant. The fact is that this is work that we put together and spent years and years building up. . . . We are being lumped in with Dan Brown's work of fiction and that degrades the historical implication of our material. It makes our work far easier to dismiss as a farrago of nonsense."
First of all, don't overestimate how restrictive my government paymasters are -- or underestimate how restrictive my newspaper paymasters used to be. I have all the freedom I need at the NEA. Besides, the two jobs are fundamentally different. My imperative as a book critic was to find interesting books to write about in interesting ways. My marching orders at the NEA are to dragoon smart people into sitting in judgment on literary grant applications. That, and to get America reading again, so that America's few remaining book critics will still have a public to write for.
I could fulminate against the men of letters who have gone into ecstasies over "the Bible as literature," the Bible as "the noblest monument of English prose." Those who talk of the Bible as a "monument of English prose" are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. I must try to avoid the by-paths of my discourse: it is enough to suggest that just as the work of Clarendon, or Gibbon, or Buffon, or Bradley would be of inferior literary value if it were insignificant as history, science, and philosophy respectively, so the Bible has had a literary influence upon English literature not because it has been considered as literature, but because it has been considered as the report of the Word of God. And the fact that men of letters now discuss it as "literature" probably indicates the end of its "literary" influence.From "Religion and Literature" by T.S. Eliot, 1932, The Christian Imagination
I need protecting care to-day,—But if that is not the Lord's will for him:
My purse is light, my flesh is weak.
Let my temptation be a book,Oh, what trials we have in this life.
Which I shall purchase, hold, and keep,
Whereon when other men shall look,
They'll wail to know I got it cheap.
To strive, to surrender
Today I found the following quotation in a devotional book. It comes from a James Martineau (1805-1900) of whom I knew nothing (a web search reveals him to have been a Unitarian, blast it. But I still agree with this particular sentiment):
No felt evil or defect becomes divine until it is inevitable; and only when
resistance to it is exhausted and hope has fled, does surrender cease to be
premature. The hardness of our task lies here; that we have to strive
against the grievous things of life, while hope remains, as if they were
evil; and then, when the stroke has fallen, to accept them from the hand of
God, and doubt not they are good. But to the loving, trusting heart all
things are possible; and even this instant change, from overstrained will to
sorrowful repose, from fullest resistance to complete surrender, is realized
without convulsion.
This speaks to the drama of the Christian life, a subject that fascinates me. Christianity has sometimes been caricatured as a quiescent religion, like Buddhism. But there's a big difference. The Buddhist (as far as I understand him) is commanded to desire nothing; to find peace in a sort of cosmic apathy.
The Christian is expected to care very much. It's perfectly right for a Christian to desire success and love and personal satisfaction, within moral bounds. Yet he is warned to be prepared to be denied and frustrated, and to then lay down his desire and submit to God's greater will. That will isn't revealed in advance. Each Christian learns God's will for his life through trial and error, suffering personal frustration and the denial of his legitimate longings.
Even in love – no, especially in love – this is true. The Christian forgives his brother seventy times seven times, continually hoping where there seems to be no hope. He is the eternal optimist, yet he is eternally prepared to be disappointed. He overcomes pain not by abandoning desire, but by cultivating hope.
I've often wondered how Buddhists view stories. Every culture has its stock of stories, but the essential structure of a story (keep trying until you find something that works) seems to me antithetical to the Buddhist view of truth. Perhaps Buddhists have a different idea of happy endings.
Or perhaps they just don't consider stories important.
Lars Walker
I did some web searches on George Washington today, to try to confirm information I'd picked up over the years. The information seems to be correct.
He had red hair before it went gray (in the famous Stuart portrait he's wearing a white wig). He suffered from numerous illnesses during his lifetime, including smallpox (which left him with a seriously scarred face), malaria, quinsy (a dangerous infection of the tonsils) and tuberculosis. Since his wife had borne children by a previous marriage, it's likely one of his diseases left him sterile. He lost his first tooth in his twenties, and had the last one pulled while he was president. His false teeth were not made of wood but of walrus ivory and lead. They were extremely uncomfortable. When he sat for Stuart's famous portrait, his cheeks had been stuffed with cotton.
He was vain about his appearance. He usually ordered his suits from a
He cultivated his personal dignity. When a man he knew pretty well placed his hand on
All this sounds ridiculous to us. A man concerned about his appearance, who stands on his dignity, is for us a target for crude jokes. What fodder a president like
But we're wrong.
It's a sign of our own moral bankruptcy today that we don't understand this. Because image isn't everything we insist that it's nothing. We believe it's somehow more "authentic" to appear in a tee-shirt and baggy shorts than in a pressed suit. But if that were really true, showing up naked would be yet more authentic, and having your portrait taken sitting on a toilet would be the most authentic thing of all.
Can things get more ridiculous before the pendulum swings back?
I don't know. I've been waiting for that pendulum since 1968.
Lars Walker
"Filled me with the desire to reach for a red pen." would be my one-line review. In the back of the book (a few pages after the disappointing ending), there was a page that said, "Written by Susanna Clarke. This is her first novel," under which I wrote, "obviously." Not that it was all that bad. In fact, much of it was really good. I was able to get into the world she created and many story lines were compelling and interesting. But even the best story can be ruined by a poor ending. Her wrap-ups were not bad, but they just weren't enough after such a long book. If I hadn't been sick and had a solid couple of days to get into it, I don't know that I ever would have been interested enough to finish it. I don't recommend it if you read slowly or don't have much time.Tags: fantasy, Jonathan Strange, book, fiction
If elected I will not serve
And how did Lars Walker spend his President's Day? He finished his move. He did the final vacuuming and scrubbing and spackling to try to qualify for the return of the security fee on his old apartment. He locked the door behind him, probably for the last time, and wondered how leaving a dwelling he never even liked can be a melancholy experience.
He listened to the local talk radio station for almost eight straight hours. Dennis Prager objects to the whole concept of President's Day, because it's too generic. We ought to have a Washington's Birthday celebration and a
The Corner on National Review, however, noted this morning that according to Federal law the holiday, despite its assignment to a movable Monday, is still officially called Washington's Birthday.
Prager will probably continue to object to the Monday thing. Which is fine.
I admire
But I saw
I'll admit it. I hate work. Especially physical work. Especially cleaning, for reasons which I may tell you someday (but if you're lucky I won't).
Gotta learn to make this writing thing pay, I guess. That way I can hire people to clean for me.
But I won't run for president. Too much work.
Lars Walker
[Dennett] thinks that an inquiry into belief is made superfluous by an inquiry into the belief in belief. This is a very revealing mistake. You cannot disprove a belief unless you disprove its content. If you believe that you can disprove it any other way, by describing its origins or by describing its consequences, then you do not believe in reason. In this profound sense, Dennett does not believe in reason. He will be outraged to hear this, since he regards himself as a giant of rationalism. But the reason he imputes to the human creatures depicted in his book is merely a creaturely reason. Dennett's natural history does not deny reason, it animalizes reason. It portrays reason in service to natural selection, and as a product of natural selection. But if reason is a product of natural selection, then how much confidence can we have in a rational argument for natural selection? The power of reason is owed to the independence of reason, and to nothing else. (In this respect, rationalism is closer to mysticism than it is to materialism.) Evolutionary biology cannot invoke the power of reason even as it destroys it.Also, in light of the current fight over defending evolution from criticism, Wieseltier points out the fascinating fact that philosopher David Hume, with whom the atheist Dennett feels a kinship, said that no serious observer of nature can conclude that it stumbled into existence by chance. "The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author," Hume wrote in his introduction to The Natural History of Relgion. Even if Hume believed he could explain world religions in cultural terms, he could not deny the role of God in creation. - phil
"Cold enough for you?"
It's a litany in
And he smiles back and tries to think of a clever reply, and generally fails. So he answers that yes indeed, it is cold enough for him.
It was cold enough for me today. It was cold enough for Queen Jadis of Narnia. It was cold enough for Oetzi the Ice Man. It was cold enough for a PETA member to wear chinchilla underwear.
The high today was about zero Farenheit. That's cold by anybody's standards. I've seen weeks in other winters when temperatures like this would be a blessed relief, but that doesn't mean this isn't cold. You can say it's all relative, that an Eskimo around
I say hooey. I say that even for the Eskimo this would be just another flavor of cold. It wouldn't be warm. Warm is something different altogether.
I fully expect to see a news release something like this before long:
HOLLYWOOD– Actor/Director George Clooney announced today his plans to produce and star in a remake of the classic Charlton Heston vehicle, " ". Khartoum
The new version, to be titled "Cartoon", will be an updated version with Clooney taking on the role of Gen. Charles George "Chinese" Gordon, who in this version will be portrayed as an American officer in the
war, in charge of torturing children and small animals and desecrating the Koran. Iraq
Gradually, in the course of a tender gay relationship with a young Muslim named Hassan, Gordon comes to see the error of his ways and joins the insurgents. He travels to
Europewhere he dies cutting the head off a Danish cartoonist in expiation of his past crimes.
Hollywoodinsiders are already whispering the word, "Oscar".
Lars Walker
The purpose of an open mind, says Chesterton, is to shut it on something true. And that shutting the mind upon truth opens us up to possibilities, or to further truths, that we had not suspected before. It is in the quest for knowledge as it is in matters of love: just as no one can wholly love another who keeps an escape hatch open, who considers it possible that not-loving might be a better option, so the relativist or the indifferentist keeps all doors open by neglecting to enter any of them. He prides himself on a radical opennness which is really refusal and timidity. But to him who knocks, it shall be opened. Enter that first room of truth, enter it without the constant glance backwards that keeps your feet fixed close to the door, and you will find that this is a mansion that never ends.Tags: G.K. Chesterton, open mind
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After having their tonsils and adenoids out because of obstructed breathing during sleep, some children tend to become overweight. The reason may be a decrease in fidgeting and hyperactivity, according to a new report.
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.But even this belief whithered over the years. Still, if Darwin entertained the idea, why should it be banned from public schools as the stuff of fools?
Ironically it's the secularist who treat their concept of "freedom" as much like a religion as any other zealot, while the extremist Moslems ignore much of the religion they claim to follow while dragging its name through the mud. No one defames Islam more than extremist Moslems and no one is a greater threat to freedom of speech than profane secularists. Each have become the greatest enemy of the very things they claim they hold higher than anything else.Isn't there a 60's song about enemies being the same person and why, oh why, can't they just get along?
Authorities have ruled arson in five Baptist church fires Friday in rural Bibb County just south of Birmingham. Four more fires at Baptist churches on Tuesday in rural west Alabama had similar patterns — doors kicked in, fires set near the altar — as those in Bibb County. -- AP Reporter Jay ReevesPastor Bob Little of Galilee Baptist in Panola, AL, told Newsday, "Something like this always puts terror in a community. If you can't feel safe in a church, where can you feel safe? If someone won't respect the house of the Lord, how can they have respect for anything?"
"You see," a character named Nathaniel says, "if history has anything to teach us, it's that — despite all our efforts, despite our best (or worst) intentions, despite our touchingly indestructible faith in our own foresight — we poor humans cannot actually think ahead; there are just too many variables. And so, when it comes down to it, it always turns out that no one is in charge of the things that really matter." In fact, Nathaniel thinks, it's a miracle when nothing catastrophic happens at all.From a NY Times review of Deborah Eisenberg's story collection, Twilight of the Superheros. It could be an interesting book. I wonder if Nathaniel really thinks it's a miracle from God or just remarkable fortune. - phil
Great Dane
I am currently living a science-fictional life, operating in two parallel time-streams. The time stream of my days, when I'm at work, is slow. I look at the calendar and say, "Three more days till Moving Day. Seems like it'll never come."
In the evenings, when I'm trying to pack my junk (mostly books) for moving on Saturday, I'm in the fast stream – "Only three more days! That's not enough! I'll never get it done! Everybody'll know I've been loafing!"
By the way, I've never believed that "proof" of Relatively where the scientist explains that a minute sitting on a hot stove is much longer than a minute spent sitting with a beautiful blonde on your knee. I've always known that I experience time in a relative way. I fail to see how that proves that time itself is relative. I learned long ago that I can't rely on my feelings for objective data.
Full disclosure: I have a dog in the
My mother's father was the son of Danish immigrants. He was, frankly, an anti-Semite by contemporary standards (though I'm sure he didn't think of himself that way). "Jew" was a verb to him, and he used to inform us that the reason the Jews didn't eat pork was because Christ had driven evil spirits into swine.
But Mom told me a couple times that there was a family tradition that some of our Danish ancestors were originally Russian Jews. This is very easy to believe because any members of Mom's family could have walked into any synagogue in the world and passed for kosher as long as they kept their mouths shut. They were almost all dark-haired, and although generally blue-eyed they had dark smudges below their eyes that put one more in mind of Asia than
He was a simple man, my grandfather. He looked kind of like a cross between Abraham Lincoln and Groucho Marx. He had a dry sense of humor that often left people wondering whether to take him seriously (a trait I picked up). He worked most of his life as a line foreman on the
My favorite memory of Grandpa was when I was in my third year of college. Both I and my brother Moloch (who was in his first year) came home for Thanksgiving with mustaches. Rather poor, whispy mustaches I'll admit, but we were giving it the old college try. I've always been a believer in facial hair. If God had meant for men to have faces like women's, I figure, He wouldn't have given us whiskers (not that He was terribly generous with mine, but at least I have a beard now that passes in a dim light).
In any case several of the uncles and aunts gave Moloch and me a pretty hard time. They took the mustaches the same way relatives today respond to tattoos and multiple piercings in the young.
But that all ended when we came home for Christmas the same year.
Grandpa had grown a mustache.
End of discussion.
Lars Walker
Speaking of fiction, watch this Quicktime video of computer generated water with massive shark from Flowline. The video is completely CG and very realistic. WOW.
The scientists also took the first known photographs of Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise, a bird described by hunters in New Guinea in the 19th century and named for the wires that extend from its head in place of a crest.
The scientists said they watched in amazement as, just one day after arriving, a male bird performed a courtship dance for an attending female in their camp, shaking the long feathers on its head.
After reading John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning The Sea, a slim volume trumpeted as fiction, I was startled to discover, upon perusing my hefty atlas, that this supposedly fantastical place named Ireland was an actual island. While reading, I thought it sounded familiar, yet I let it slide, not wanting niggling particulars to ruin the experience. . . . But as a page-by-page analysis of The Sea turned up a plethora of verifiable facts, I believe a comprehensive investigation is in order. If the sanctioned percentage of fact (to be determined by James Frey) exceeds the appropriate percentage of fiction, I suggest that it would be prudent for the Booker committee to strip Banville of his award.Could it be the world has been reading the mostly factual masked as the completely fictitious for centuries without pause? When will the madness end?
50 Books ~ Winner
Mental Multivitamin ~Runner Up
Bookworm ~ Co-Third Place
Miss Snark ~ Co-Third PlaceCongratulations! May your readership double this year.
1. Flung to the heedless winds
Or on the waters cast,
The martyrs' ashes, watched,
Shall gathered be at last.
And from that scattered dust,
Around us and abroad,
Shall spring a plenteous seed
Of witnesses for God.
2. The Father hath received
Their latest living breath,
And vain is Satan's boast
Of victory in their death.
Still, still, though dead, they speak,
And, trumpet-tongued, proclaim
To many a wakening land
The one availing Name.
That diversity is one of the secondary things that will make heaven enjoyable, and no one makes it more fun than Randy Alcorn in Heaven (Tyndale, 2005). A book jacket for once accurately summarizes contents: "If you've always thought of Heaven as a realm of disembodied spirits, clouds, and eternal harp strumming, you're in for a wonderful surprise. This is a book about real people with real bodies enjoying close relationships with God and each other, eating, drinking, working, playing, traveling, worshiping, and discovering on a New Earth."Alcorn has a study guide for this book on his website and offers Heaven at 50% off. (The book called "Heaven"--that's what's discounted, not heaven itself. There are no discounts on the real thing, and if you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. On the other hand, I hear you buy hell cheap.)
The children gone to bed, my husband and I would look at each other and do the whole "Whadya wanna do?" thing. More often than not, the answer would be a light sigh and "Oh, let's watch something" and on would go our favorite DVD's. (I've listed them before, don't need to do it again) I could be sick, and tired, and feeling sorry for myself. Solution? Pull out a Jane Austen movie and be comforted. Time for a happy moment? We want to "have some fun"? Best answer… Rent a movie and get some junk food!We live with high media saturation, and some of us complain that life feels too hectic, that we can't calm down or get away from it all though we can't list what all we want to get away from. Part of the answer is to watch ourselves make the easy choices throughout the day, trying to escape from the most recent stress by turning up the volume or medicating it. It may not be what we would do if we felt up to making the best decision. It's just what we will do to get by for now.
I think I have developed a couple of plans to fix my life.
Plan A: Be ready when some Barbarian Princess (dressed mostly in jeweled
leather straps and gem encrusted bronze) sweeps down from the northlands,
slashes me free of my bonds with her gleaming sword, and carries me off to
her kingdom, where we'll spend our days breeding a race of heroes &
Plan B: Win the Lotto.
Plan C: Figure out a few more plans, just in case neither A nor B work out.
Feel free to borrow any of these plans and adapt them to your own
I realized that the great poet had become the sort of person who could only be saved by torment. Unlike the simple Florentine girl Beatrice who was able to go directly to Paradise, Dante was so lost that he had to go to hell to be saved. He had to received the extended dialog of the damned Virgil in order to have time to chance, turn to Christ, and so be transformed into a soul fit for Paradise.
A la recherche du maisons perdu
Just a short post about the experience of moving into one's own house for the first time. Specifically an old house. Specifically my old house,
I've always liked living in old houses. I remember my mother, years and years ago, lamenting my choices of apartments. She complained that I always preferred an old apartment building to a new one. This had a lot to do with the fact that the older buildings were usually cheaper, but it also involved where I felt comfortable. I like houses with histories, where there are odd holes and painted-over nailheads, and strange structural alterations made for purposes that suited someone generations ago, unintelligible now.
When I stop and sit in one of the rooms in my new house and look around me I get vague flashbacks to my grandfather. He lived in a large old house when I was little and a small old house when I was older. I don't remember that either house much resembled the one I've bought, but something evokes the memory.
Very likely it's the smell of stale tobacco smoke. The previous owner was a smoker, like Grandpa (who died of emphysema).
I have an ionic air filter running.
But it makes me feel good to think that my nieces and nephews will have a memory of a family house with some vague flavor of my own memories.
Lars Walker


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