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Alzheimer's: Is It Diabetes of the Brain? – AARP
Could what we eat be killing our brains? Or, to put it another way, could Alzheimer's really be Type 3 diabetes?
The theory is that the factors in our diet and the environment that's causing the Type 2 diabetes epidemic is also playing a role in the increasing rate of Alzheimer's — resulting in a third form of diabetes, Type 3 brain diabetes.
It's an intriguing — some might say controversial — theory. In any case, it's certainly one more reason to put down that soda and cut back on the bacon cheeseburgers.
What exactly is diabetes? It's a disorder in which the body can't use insulin properly to take up sugar in the blood for energy. The result is a dangerous build-up of sugar, which can damage other organs.
Right now there are two recognized types of diabetes — Type 1, which you're born with, and Type 2, which develops later, mostly because of bad eating habits, particularly junk food and sugary beverages, and obesity. No surprise — the vast majority of diabetes in this country is Type 2.
The thinking behind Type 3 goes like this: The brain, like the rest of the body, needs insulin to help provide its cells with energy. But with Alzheimer's, the insulin apparently is blocked from helping the brain. The result is that brain cells literally starve to death.
Or, as Suzanne De La Monte, M.D., a neuropathologist at Brown University, first explained in 2005 after examining Alzheimer's patients' brains, "Insulin disappears early and dramatically in Alzheimer's disease. In the most advanced stage of Alzheimer's, insulin receptors were nearly 80 percent lower than in a normal brain."
Since then, other researchers have also studied this brain-insulin interaction, said food and health writer Mark Bittman in a recent New York Times column. Ditto for a cover story in New Scientist bluntly titled, "Food for Thought: What You Eat May Be Killing Your Brain."
Plus, studies have found that those with diabetes are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's, as Bittman pointed out. And while diabetes may not "cause" Alzheimer's, the two diseases "have the same root: an over-consumption of those foods that mess with insulin's many roles," he wrote.
Obviously, more research is needed. But for now, he added, "put down that soda!" A healthier diet will help you avoid the deadly complications of diabetes — no matter what type it's called.


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[I've been really busy this summer and didn't get the chance to put up the more in depth previews you may have come to love/hate in previous seasons, but I had to get something in digital ink before kick off this weekend. I hope you've all ready!]
When I watched the Connacht bus roll into Murrayfield, I gave the auld thumbs up to Pat and he replied with a resolute thumbs up back. Strange as it may seem, once I saw that I knew we wouldn't lose. However, it wasn't until I saw pictures of Muldoon wearing that gold patch that I really knew we were champions. Maybe its partly because I don't live in Ireland anymore and therefore couldn't participate in the homecoming but even though I felt elated it also seemed unreal, as if it couldn't really have happened.

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Welcome to the website of St John's JCR, Oxford! This site, run by the student body, is full of information for anyone, from those considering joining John's to those in their final week.
If you're looking for the College's official website, visit sjc.ox.ac.uk
If you're a current student, welcome back!
This is the place to find any resource the JCR has to offer. You can find the termcard, which details all the events for the upcoming term; all of the free schemes that the JCR runs, from bikes to condoms; and everything about how the JCR runs, including minutes from meetings.
Considering applying to John's? Welcome!
We encourage you to check out our Prospective Students section, where we do our best to tell you why to apply to John's (which in our opinion, isn't a tough sell). Start with our video here, where you'll find information about applying and life at John's.


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Reasons Why You Should Hire A Web Developer
The internet has become a great place to set up shop these days.You need to move with the times and these days you have to operate online to remain relevant. You need to have a good website online so as to make your client's work easier online. If you believe you have the necessary skills to develop a website, then you should, but if you do not, you should contact a professional web and app developer to do it for you. You stand to gain a lot by hiring a professional web and app developer.
A professional developer has a lot of expertise when it comes to web development. They know that there is more to web development than just creating a website. You can feel at ease leaving your web development to a professional because what they create is already tested therefore making sure that user experience is easy and convenient.
Another benefit you will have from hiring a professional web developer is that they can ensure that your website has a higher search engine ranking. While ensuring that your website is quality, there is also need to ensure that it ranks first when consumers search for products and professional web developers will ensure that this happens.This is a sure way to retain your clients as well as attract new ones since your website is what people will see first as they search for the products they need.
If your website is created by a professional web developer, there is a chance that you can make your website better in the future. Businesses are ever growing and with this, you will find that you may want to add new products to your website and ensuring that your website is quality from the start will enable you to make the necessary additions. You do not have to take the website down to make the necessary adjustments.
Having professional assistance gives your brand identity by making it look different from your competitors. Standing out will ensure that what you offer creates an impression on your target market.By having your identity, you are able to keep your clients interested after clicking on your website.
An experienced web developer is able to deduce what is important in developing your website and what is not.Web developers know what is really important in your web page from the information you give them.You need to understand that those who visit your site will not have the interest to deduce what you are trying to say from having so much content in your website and web developers are able to show only what is relevant.


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r/BadCGI is my new favorite subreddit, whose inhabitants share examples of grotesque, inept, or amusingly dated computer graphic animation. Embedded here for your enjoyment is the full movie of Joshua and the Promised Land.
P.S. Has anyone noticed that the cripplingly addictive game in Star Trek: The Next Generation is basically Pokemon Go, but with only one Pokemon? Right down to the quality of the graphics!
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A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in "Captain America: Civil War," begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in "Spider-Man: Homecoming."
Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.).
Directed by Jon Watts. Produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal. Screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Jon Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers, Screen Story by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley, Based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Helping You Fight Rising Healthcare Benefits CostsOctober 1, 2013 10:45 AM
In 2014, small group health insurance premiums in Ohio are expected to increase by 71%. As a business owner, you know that healthcare is already a significant expense, and increases like this are likely keeping you awake at night, wondering how you can keep employees insured AND pay the bills.
Fortunately, you can start sleeping better again, because Group Management Services has a completely unique and customizable solution that enables you to provide the coverage your group needs while limiting your expenses and business risks associated with healthcare coverage.
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Pirogue Island
Isolated and shaded by cottonwood trees, this Yellowstone River island offers visitors an excellent spot to view waterfowl, bald eagles, fox squirrels, whitetail and mule deer.
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Visitors find this isolated, cottonwood-covered Yellowstone River island an excellent spot to view wildlife. You can envision the Corps of Discovery's travel along the river, and hunt for moss agates.
The park is a haven for a wide variety of bird species including passerines, belted king fishers, shore birds, waterfowl, bald eagles, and wildlife such as whitetail and mule deer.
There are 2.8 miles of designated hiking trails. During hot weather, when the side channels aren't flowing, visitors can take a nice refreshing tree-shaded walk down the side channels punctuated with wading the remaining pools of water. Take care when crossing side channels. Crossing is not recommended if water is flowing.
Size: 269 acres. Elevation: 2,371 feet.
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(James Klausner in front of DLR Synlight solar simulator)
Workshop held in Juelich, Germany September 12-14, 2017
There is a major worldwide effort aimed at giving the energy consumer the choice to utilize clean energy. Because solar energy is a variable energy source, as is wind energy, it is necessary that solar energy collection be coupled with energy storage technologies in order to make a deep penetration into energy markets. Numerous storage solutions are being pursued, including thermal storage, electrochemical storage, and thermochemical storage of solar energy. All three potential storage solutions will require significant future investment, and ultimately several market viable technologies will emerge. Of the three energy storage solutions, thermochemical storage is an emerging area that has received a very small amount of total government and private research investment compared with thermal and battery storage. Thermochemical storage and synthetic fuel production are potentially a very attractive option because it enables the synthesis of high energy density fuel and high temperature (~1200°C) and high energy density (1200 MJ/m3) grid scale storage for high efficiency power conversion cycles, such as supercritical CO2. The solar thermochemical scientific community is presented with an exciting opportunity to convene a workshop with solar thermochemistry researchers from around the world to discuss the successes, challenges, opportunities, and potential research paths forward for achieving breakthrough science that enables commercially viable solar thermochemistry technologies. We are convening an international workshop on solar thermochemistry to identify the state-of-the-art in science and technology, identify new scientific endeavors that can leap over technological barriers, and provide a research roadmap to guide future investments in advanced science and technology research. The objectives of the workshop were:
- Assess the state-of-the-art in solar thermochemistry science and technology
- Identify solar reactor performance metrics essential for commercial investment
- Identify known technological barriers to achieving the solar reactor performance essential for commercial investment
- Conceive science breakthroughs needed to leapfrog known technology barriers
- Propose a coordinated science and technology research roadmap needed to make a transformative improvement in solar thermochemistry science and technology
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Non-tipsy Tips and Treats for Runners
We've all heard of the beer mile, and maybe even tried it ourselves. Our athletes Nick Symmonds and Katie Mackey tried this past month to win the beer mile championship and didn't take the title. Turns out it's incredibly difficult to run on the suds.
So, if you have a New Year's day run you don't want to miss out on, why not try a drink that's light and alcohol-free?
Sprinting Spritzer
Mix equal parts juice and club soda, add a dash of sugar, and top with fresh fruit or maraschino cherries.
Maple & Grapefruit Mocktail
Combine 3 ounces of grapefruit juice and 2/3 ounce of maple syrup. Stir or shake until syrup is dissolved. Pour into glass and add ginger ale or ginger beer, stirring gently to combine. Garnish and enjoy!


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Patients have been warned against cosmetic surgery "holidays" from unethical clinics abroad, after research showed the number of people suffering complications on their return home has increased in the past 18 months.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps), which represents one in three plastic surgeons, said a quarter of its members in a poll reported a rise in patients complaining of complications after surgery abroad. One surgeon said he had seen more than 16 cases – almost one a month – from cosmetic surgery tourism.
The research, published during the association's three-day annual conference in Cardiff, also reported "appalling and unethical" marketing tactics by websites offering packages overseas. It found that:
• 90% of those surveyed did not mention the risks or possible complications from surgery.
• More than half only offered online or telephone consultations prior to surgery.
• 39% did not include details of the procedures.
The top five countries from which surgeons reported seeing patients return with problems were South Africa, Poland, Belgium, Turkey and Thailand.
Other figures presented at the conference revealed Britain's growing enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery. The number of gynecomastia operations – often referred to as "man boob" reductions – have soared by 1,000% in the past five years, fuelled by middle-aged and elderly men wanting to bare their chests on holiday. Baaps said that from a very low level of 22 such operations among its members in 2003, the total had jumped to 323 in 2008.
One of the most common procedures for UK patients to have abroad is a "tummy tuck", it said, but it is also one of the operations with a high risk – one in five patients suffer post-operative problems such as wounds not healing. Another common operation is breast augmentation, which carries a 10% risk of problems, such as scarring or loss of sensation.
Nigel Mercer, a consultant plastic surgeon and president of Baaps, said: "There's no doubt we are seeing more problems because more people are having cosmetic surgery. The number of firms set up to organise packages is also increasing." Research into websites had shown there were many unethical practitioners who did not warn would-be patients about possible complications.
He said his main concern was patients receiving poor post-operative care. One patient who had a tummy tuck operation experienced fluid dripping from his abdomen on to the floor of the plane on his way home, Mercer said.
The other professional body governing plastic surgeons, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, has urged the NHS to treat patients suffering complications from surgery abroad only when they are in severe pain or have life-threatening conditions.
Douglas McGeorge, a past president of Baaps, said people had to be aware of the risks and costs of surgery abroad. He said: "There are some very good surgeons abroad. What we have in this country is a system that is much more regulated than in Europe. Patients have to be able to know what they are getting for their money, and the qualifications of their surgeon." The cost of revision surgery was often "significantly higher" than the original surgery, he said.
Mark Bury, chief executive officer of SurgiCare, one of the largest cosmetic surgery networks, said he had seen a surge in popularity for surgery abroad, but also a "huge increase in very unhappy people calling us, desperate to fix the mistakes cowboy surgeons abroad have made". He added: "You get what you pay for and although going abroad for surgery can sometimes appear cheaper, access to important after-care solutions will not be available to the patient once they are back in the UK, and if something does go wrong when they are home, the patient will have to pay again for any corrective procedures."
McGeorge said the growing trend for "man boob" reductions was mostly middle-aged and elderly men, but that teenage boys were also having the operation.
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MUMBAI: Proponents of the tradition prohibiting women access to the sanctum of Shani temple in Shingnapur appear divided on proposed mediation of spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to break the deadlock arising out of a protest by a women's outfit seeking end to the gender bias.
Opposing the mediation, 'Shaneshwar Devasthan Bachao Kruti Samiti' president Sambhajiraje Patil today said the Samiti and villagers of Shingnapur do not approve such offer as Ravishankar "is not aware of the religious practices and customs...it is a political ploy".
"Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar is not aware of the religious practices and customs. Attempts at mediation is an attempt to keep the local villagers in the dark," he said. However, 'Shri Shaneshwar Devsthan Trust', which manages the affairs of the temple situated in Ahmednagar district, said a decision on the issue of the deadlock will be taken after holding meeting with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on February 7, which is opposed by the 'Samiti'.
The Trust stated that no decision has been taken so far to end the impasse. Both the Trust and the Samiti are based in Shingnapur.
In a statement issued here, Patil instead requested seers in Ahmednagar district to take the lead and put an end to the controversy.
He claimed there was no discrimination between men and women at the shrine, which is the personification of Shani (planet saturn).
The temple has no roof and a self-emerged ('svayambhu') five-foot-high black stone stands on a 'chauthra' or platform.
Referring to the recent protest by 'Ranragini Bhumata Brigade' led by its president Trupti Desai, Patil said the Samiti won't tolerate any attempts to "trample upon" age-old practices.
"No house in the temple town (Shingnapur) has any doors and everyone is well aware of the legend that no theft is ever reported in the village," Patil said.
He said the women's body "needlessly" created the controversy on the issue. "Women have been allowed entry to the shrine and they have been making offerings at the Udasi Maharaj Math there. Entry of both men and women has been banned since ages and there is no discrimination in that respect," Patil added.
He referred to a resolution passed by the Shingnapur Gram Sabha condemning the women's outfit.
Over 400 women, mainly hailing from Pune, led by Desai, had launched a protest against the tradition of not allowing women at the inner platform of the temple last month.


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Alter Aeon May 2013 Updates
As always we're continually adding new content and features to the game. If you haven't played Alter Aeon before, take a few minutes to come check us out - it's free to play, and new players are always welcome!
New areas added since the last update:
- The Forest of Brigands is a new high level area south and west of Cornia. As its name suggests, the forest is rife with bandits and monsters which sometimes prey upon travelers using the Eastern Trade Road. This area was created by Shadowfax.
- The Blue Mound is a new high level area north of Ralnoth. Giant insects have been found near it destroying the forest. This area was created by Draak.
- The Lotus Monastery is now open on the island of Archais. This is a level 24 area, and it contains a number of quests and deeds to complete for mid-high level players. This area was created by Morpheus.
Areas that have been updated:
- Ralnoth has been updated, adding quests and conversational strings to a most of the mobs. There are several strong quest lines between the city and the dwarven marketplace in Khal-Uktar to the southeast.
- The oriental city, Daigaku Tatami, has been updated similarly to Ralnoth and now also has a number of linkage quests. Both cities were updated by Draak.
- A number of old, high level areas have been releveled to take advantage of the new fame and group experience code, including places like the underwater ruins and Arcadia/Darcadia.
- The Labyrinth outside Jo'Kerin has been completely reworked. It's now harder, more confusing, has switches which change its layout, and is a big hit with higher level players.
As a final announcement, Kurek's excellent Mush-Z soundpack for the blind and visually impaired has been updated! Run the updater to check out the changes and make sure you're on the latest version. This version fixes a lot of outstanding bugs and should help make the experience a lot smoother. (If your updater doesn't connect, it might be too old. You may need to download a new one from the web site at: http://www.mush-z.com)
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Nike Basketball is getting ready to roll out a USA themed Lebron 13 featuring a patriotic colorway of Red, White and Blue.
With 2016 barely getting started, the Nike Lebron 13 will be seeing it's first colorway of the year in a Midnight Navy/University Red-White-Bright Crimson iteration. The USA themed Lebron 13 features a daring display of metallic colors and an icy outsole. The pair is set to release at Nike Basketball retailers like Rock City Kicks on January 13th for $200.
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It is no secret that performance appraisals are generally disliked by both managers and employees. Appraisals are strongly criticized by professionals with some calling for drastic changes to the system and even the elimination of formal evaluations. Lost in the haze of negativity is the reality that performance appraisals are still necessary functions and nearly all organizations have some sort of performance evaluation system in place. Implemented effectively, performance appraisals can still enable managers to improve the performance and productivity of their employees, even within our agile and ever-changing work environments.
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(1909 — 1849)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective story. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he was orphaned at a young age when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester, but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army, and later failing as a cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans although adding their surname to his name. His publishing career began an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world. His work appears throughout popular culture in literature, music, radio, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
Jules Verne said he was influenced by the stories of Poe.
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When they are truly in love with somebody girls can become very possessive and do weird things for the person they feel sexual attracted to. Best example for this would be Minato. Since her Sensei did break up with her 5 years ago Minato still isn't over him, but will her attempts of winning him back work out or will she desperately fail.


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MWC 15 Special
Okay, sure the Windows Mobile Treo(s) are great devices, even if the Treo 700w is coming with a square 240x240 screen only and also the Vodafone Treo 750v isn't expected to be anything better.
Nevertheless, the real drawback so far was the absence of W-LAN for such a high-tech PDA. But this might change in future, as Palm's CEO Ed Colligan told the Washington Post now.
According to that article Palm will add Wi-Fi into future Treos but Colligan declined to talk about when the future starts or which device the first W-LAN enabled Treo could be:
"We do believe Wi-Fi is an important technology," Colligan said. " There's no question that we'll ultimately put in our products, but at the right time."
According to the Washington Post Article, Palm had declined to add Wi-Fi in the past because it drains battery life.
Well, this means we can keep our fingers crossed, that the recently leaked "Palm Lennon" might have indeed W-LAN onboard, as reported earlier and since it looks like the "Cingular Lennon" could be the same device as the recently announced Palm Treo 750v, maybe even Palm's first UMTS Pocket PC Phone Edition has W-LAN onboard already.
I'm sure most customers and users would appreciate it. At least Vodafone is maintaining their own W-LAN HotSports so it could makes sense for them to have a device with inbuilt Wi-Fi.
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- Clear voice and visual prompts providing guidance through every step of the rescue process
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- 5-year electrode pad life – the longest on the market
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- IP Rating of 55
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Proven to improve the delivery of CPR by 277%, Real CPR Help technology will monitor the rate and depth of chest compressions delivered, ensuring you're providing the most effective CPR possible. You'll receive positive feedback for "good compressions" and will be advised to "push harder" if needed.
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This manufacturer offers a 'heroes for life' program, whereby sudden cardiac arrest survivors are given the opportunity to donate an AED Plus device to a charity of their choice. With this scheme, ZOLL aims to get more accessible AEDs in the public domain, potentially saving more lives.
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An IP (Ingress Protection) rating classifies the degrees of protection of an electrical item against water and dust. Beginning with IP and followed by two numbers, the first digit is indicative of the item's resistance to dust and the second is of its resistance to water. Protection against dust is measured from */ 0 up to 6, whereas protection against water is measured from */ 0 up to 8. The protection against these elements increases as the number does, with * / 0 telling us that the item has NO protection against either dust or water.
Why is this important?
The IP rating of a defib will tell you (and us!) whether it is suitable for the environment where it's most likely to be used; for example, if there is a good chance your defib may be used in an outdoor environment, you will need a unit with a higher IP rating to ensure it can be used regardless the weather or terrain. If you are looking for a defibrillator more suitable for an indoors environment, you can afford to choose one with a lower IP rating, based on the other features that may be more suitable.
When a particular product is "approved" by the FDA, this marks the pass in the premarket approval (or PMA) application of a particular product which has been submitted to the FDA.
To receive approval of a device through a PMA application, the applicant in question must provide reasonable assurance of the device's safety and effectiveness which is then challenged by the FDA before being approved.
Whilst all AEDs can be used to increase chances of survival and even save a life in the event of a cardiac arrest, FDA approved devices provide that extra piece of mind that the specific unit being used has undergone vigorous and substantial testing to ensure that that particular piece of equipment operates just as it should and provides the most effective care possible.
Many manufacturers perform their own tests on products, but not all defibrillators will undergo the same premarket approval as FDA approved devices and there is no guarantee or stamp of certification if testing has taken place with non-FDA approved products.


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Cooky Jack Nicholson and his daughter, 1969, LIFE magazine
Father's Day is June 16th this year...right around the corner! Here are 6 great gifts that any dad would love to receive...
A monogrammed steak branding iron, $32, for manly grilling.
A pair of classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers, $130.
A clever card, $4. (I think funny ones are the best!)
Smoked BBQ pecans, $24.
A red golf shirt (for serious golf days), $60.
A day spent together, ironing his clothes, arm wrestling, and eating pancakes.
(World's Best Dad, via Laughing Squid)


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The positives from the Chavski match
October 5, 2010
Yup, you read it correctly, I am bored of reading all the monotonous crap knocking us, so I am going to focus on the glowing positives from the 90 minutes played out at ramshackle of a ground.
Jack is ready, more than ready, to give world-class performances on a weekly basis, he is no longer a work in progress, the boy is a man nowadays.
There is no better player of his age, in his position anywhere in the Premier League… maybe Europe.
Pair him with Cesc in the middle of the park and we have ourselves the best of the best at what they do…. I'd have them in my team over Xavi and Iniesta all day long.
Chavski did NOT bully us, we stood our ground, and with Vermalen fit, we would have been even stronger at the back.
Clichy has been exposed, and when Gibbs is back fully fit, we have ourselves a new and vastly better left-back.
Diaby once again proved what a total beast he is when sharp, fit and hungry for it…. let him off the West Brom game as he was just not right, mentally or physically that afternoon.
Bottom line, we did not take our bloody clear chances, tough titty… that's life, we move on, we fight on… we continue to support.
We have a team ladies and gentlemen… trust me we do, but just don't expect them to win every game they play.
Especially away to the champions and one of the strongest team in world football right now.
We can and will only improve as the season progresses, but to go away and smash them off the park without our spine in TV5, Cesc, and RvP, tells me we have a pretty decent squad this term.
Just wait till we have our first eleven on the pitch.
Mourinho says Chavski will slaughter Arsenal on Sunday
October 1, 2010
The self-styled Special One has been mouthing off on Spanish TV, ahead of Sunday's all important London Derby between the Chavs of Pikesville and the Regal Reds of London N5.
He just cannot help himself can he?
Bitterness is a hard pill to swallow, so they say, and ever since Maureeno was booted out of London by the KGB back in September 2007, he has had it in for Wenger.
He loved the Premiership, London, and all the other trappings of managing over here, but unfortunately he fucked it up, and the Russian gangster exiled him.
I reckon he was given 7 days to pack his stuff and flee the country before all hell was unleashed on him and his family.
Now then gooners, how much sweeter would a victory or even a hard fought draw go down on Sunday afternoon?
More news, previews, and forthright opinions to come ahead of this crucial weekend.
We cannot, and must not lost this game…. I don't care if it's a bore draw, the title is a straight out duel between us this season, and that makes this game a six pointer!
Accept the defeat Gooners…then move on!
September 26, 2010
Dissect the West Brom game as much as you want, but it won't make any difference to the result.
I sat through the whole game in the Clock End Upper (love saying that as opposed to the South Stand), right smack behind the goal, so had a wonderful vantage point over the course of the miserable afternoon.
It was just a one-off, the whole team bar Nasri, just had a bizarre off day… relax, and start worrying if this festers on for the next month.
The game away to Partizan Belgrade on Tuesday evening now becomes massive, simply huge, ahead of the encounter with the chavs next weekend.
We simply must win out there, and that is no easy task for any team in world football.
Belgrade is hell on earth for away travelling football fans, they are not called "Partizan" for no reason I hasten to add!
To get back on the rails, to really, truly belive this team have turned the corner from previous seasons, the Belgrade game will answer us.
Over the past few seasons, one bad result has turned into a succession of 4 or 5 bad results before we sort the mental problem out, I want to know what this team has by the way of mental strength.
Can the likes of Squillaci, Koscienly and Chamakh bring about a change in attitude following a defeat?
This is the key question over the next 48-72 hours gooners… a key period in our season.
A defeat away would be devastating to take, and leave us with a gaping wide wound ready to be stretched and further explored by the ruthless chavski.
I am not going to bother attacking and singular players from yesterday, as the majority were shockingly poor, second to every tackle, WBA won the fight… very easily.
If it was a boxing match, they smashed us over the first 10 rounds, then tired and held on to win a unanimous decision following a late onslaught over the last 2 rounds by us.
There were no excuses, they clearly were the better side, we got taught a harsh lesson.
In Belgrade, this coming Tuesday evening, we shall get a clearer picture of just how much this Arsenal team has developed.
Massive, massive game.
Gallas was hated at Arsenal
September 16, 2010
Have you noticed the difference in the team morale this season?
I certainly have, they all celebrate together, no big sulksters mooching around playing for themselves.
No bawling at your left-back and killing his confidence.
Gallas was a liabilty, he might have been a handy defender, but was he not at the heart of the defence that leaked all those goals?
So how good was he exactly?
He was detested at the club, ever since Brum 08, he has not been liked by the main men… i.e Cesc, RvP and Toure at the time.
Wenger was right to flog Kolo, his game looked dead, and nothing he has done at City disproves this fact, but do not for one minute think Wenger chose Gallas over Toure in the personality stakes.
Gallas was a totally disruptive Chavski melon, end of story.
I was delighted he left the club this Summer, and hope to dear god he has an awful season with the pikeys down the poor end of town.
In Kos and Squil, we have a pair of hungry, determined, and team friendly players who will help to unify the spirit at the club, and certainly help to increase communication at the back.
The reason there was no communication in the past is simple… nobody wanted to talk to Gallas, in any shape or form.
Good bleeding riddance, and a warm welcom to the fabulous new pair of defenders at the club.
So who do Arsenal draw in Champions League today?
August 26, 2010
I love the live draw for the Champions League, more so the knockout rounds, yet the group stage still heralds an air of magic about it.
There is no doubting the glamour and mysticism of this great competition, the annual world cup for club teams.
London get 3 representatives this season, and with the final at Wembley next May…. hmmm !!
Ok this is how it works, Arsenal are at the big boys table, all has to do with coefficients etc, bottom line, we are rated due to our constant appearance in the tournie every year, and reaching finals and semis on a consistent basis helps too.
Along with us, Manure, Chavski, Barcstards, Inter, Bayern, Milan and Lyon will sit in Pot 1.
So basically, eight groups of 4 teams will be headed by each of the above listed teams.
Then we go to Pot 2, which includes decent teams with some pedigree… Real Madrid and Jose find themselves in this pot, and that means, they can be drawn against Arsenal.
Pot 2: Bremen, Real M, Roma, Shaktar, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille, Panathanikos.
Teams from the same country are not allowed to be drawn against each other in either the group stages or the first knockout stage, therefore, Barcstards could not draw Real in the groups, nor Valencia. Inter or AC could not draw Roma in the groups etc.
Next we move down to the shite teams, the wastrels of the Champions League, the vermin, the cheeky gits who scrap in by the skin of their teeth, the teams that are not much cop, will probably never find themselves in the tournie again, kind of like those pony teams that make the 3rd round of the FA Cup from non-league footy… they aint gonna win jack, it's all about a day out for them.
Spuds are in said pot, enough said.
Pot 3: Spuds, Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, Basel, Braga, Copenhagen, Spartak.
Pot 4: Hapoel, Twente, Rubin K, Auxerre, Cluj, P Belgrade, Zilina, Buraspor.
Basically pot 3&4 give you cannon fodder to play, home and away… but you would not really want to be travelling to Turkey to play Buraspor, before a weekend game against Chavski… even, Mourinho back at Inter.
So what's the best case scenario for Arsenal?
I would say, you want a glamour tie, you want to pull the best team from Pot 2, to set up 2 mouth-watering ties… as the top 2 go through, it matters not what the results are as the other 2 teams from the shit pots should be smashed up anyway.
Also, you don't want the long distance travelling.
Putting all those variants into the play, gives us 2 types of prospective groups for Arsenal, Best case and Worst case.
Best Case:
Arsenal, Real Madrid, Basel, Twente
Worst Case:
Arsenal, Panathanikos, Spartak, Buraspor
Then you always get the stories, the headlines, the reunions of the Champs League, Mourinho back at Chavski? or Ronaldo back at Old Trafford?
Pretty obvious, that the main attraction of this first group stage draw is who Real/Jose will get paired up with from Pot 1, and because of the way the whole system works with teams from same countries not playing each other, and there being plenty of Italian & Spanish teams in both top pots, the mathematicians amongst you will have worked out the very high probability of The Special One coming to a ground near you this Autumn.
Draw is live, on plenty of TV stations in Europe, widely available to you guys worldwide with free streams and will kick-off at 5pm London time today.
Piles Farmer you Clown
August 16, 2010
It was the feeble and not fit Arshavin that misused The Arsenal, not the other way around you fucking chavski cunt.
He played in midweek for the Russians and was appalling, appalling enough for the national press to ask for his Captaincy to be stripped off him.
Bet you didn't know that did you? Wanker.
In Arshavin's own words, prior to the Liverpool game, and following his dismal showing last Wednesday for Russia, he said the following…
"I am so worried about an injury I picked before the beginning of the season.
They haven't even started to kick me yet – but my leg is already in pain. Working with the ball is painful.
I would not like a repetition of last season when one injury after another did not allow me to play to my full ability
As to what form I am in, let's see against Liverpool. But judging by the match against Bulgaria, it is very bad."
Now then, you fucking waste of space, how much of a dipstick do you feel?
My guess is that you being the degenerate gambler that you are ( the grocer is a fine deflection ), that you in fact placed a wager on the Reds of Liverpool, to take 3 points off the Reds from North London, and that fine upstanding gentleman Pepe Reina cost you money and gave you a right kick in the testicles.
You then decided to peddle out your usual racist, bigoted filth this morning.
What a total wanker you are.
I long for Chavski News Review.
Arsenal fans enter Utopia
August 13, 2010
Wenger has never been right.. has he? (note to the simpletons: tongue is firmly in my cheek here)
When he helped guide our beloved club to doubles, season's unbeaten, cups galore… the issue was "too many foreigners" or "Wenger is killing England"… etc (you know the guff, some of you so-called goons even participated in such guff talk)
We now see every successful team in Europe, full to the brim with overseas players, Inter Milan won the treble last year with maybe a pair of Italians in the starting eleven at most, the large majority of the time, they played eleven "foreigners"
Was Mourinho labelled a killer?
The Chavski and Manure sides are full of foreigners now, they are even buying kids from overseas at an exponential rate… was Wenger not the pioneer in this field? Was he not labelled a wrong un for pinching other clubs academy kids?
So why are Fergie and Co not getting the same treatment? At least they caught up with the ways of the genius…. they usually do!
This week saw a turning point in the fortunes of Arsenal.. and England, mark these words, they will ring true within the next couple of years.
Domestic success for the young England players with Arsenal, and possibly the first success for the International team for almost half a century.. owing to a nucleus of Gunners.
Gunners produced by the Arsenal, not bought in by the Arsenal.
You see, Wenger knew the likes of Bentley, Pennant, et al, simply did not have the minerals, there aint no flies on the guv'nor you know.
So over the past decade or so, we have seen what the likes of Manure, Pool, Chavski.. and all those other great institutions of football, have produced on the England talent front, and we have seen just how successful and positive the work of the respecitve managers of the aforementioned sides has been for the National side….errr… sorry? Who killed England???
Maybe the talk in the coming years will centre on Who made England after 50 years of shit!
So Season 2010/2011 is upon us, and this Gooner is feeling very smug and excited.
Excited by the wonderful mix of youth, peak age, and experienced players we have in the composition of this squad.
Oh.. and not to mention those Arsenal built English players… JET, Frimpong, Lansbury, Gibbs, Wilshere, Eastmond.
With Aneke, Afobe, Yennaris et al coming through over the next 18 months.
Then Ansah the starlet at the level down.
Hmmm… seems Arsenal have a conveyor belt of technically gifted young English players coming through… who is to blame I ask?
Surely Wenger has made another cock-up somewhere? (note to the simpletons: tongue firmly in cheek…again!)
Liverpool up first on Sunday afternoon.
Sunday morning sauna and steam down at David Lloyd's, read of the sunday papers, nice Roast for Lunch, settle down with a sumptuous Chilean Merlot, SKY HD on the go….
the greatest football team in the world back in my life for another 9 months.
Life is sweet, life is GOONERTASTIC.
The weekend starts again tonight, ATVO is back… Lofty, Shovell and the gang are on from 7pm, and yours truly may even be on !!
More evidence Wenger about to splash out
April 27, 2010
The annual Q&A Wenger has with the supporters at the end of the season has been postponed till August this year.
Although Ivan Gazidis will be fronting a Q&A with the Arsenal Supporters Trust, to be held at the Emirates next month.
Last year, the now infamous session hosted by Bob Wilson descended into a little chaos with certain sections of the crowd displaying their frustrations a little too over zealously.
So what does this shift from May till August tell us about Arsène's intentions this coming summer?
Well it tells me he has a firm idea that he will have bought in some big money players before his Q&A.
The following quotes from Wenger, given in last weekends programme notes ahead of the City game may also tell us his spending will come to an end by June 11th.
"What I can say is that the World Cup will not affect our recruitment, unless there is an exception that nobody could foretell.
"In my view it is dangerous to buy on the back of a World Cup – for one thing the prices afterwards are always artificial, and for another you have to bear in mind that anyone can have three weeks of glory on a football field.
"All told, I believe that the earlier you settle your teams for the next season, the better it is and the less anxiety you have."
Let's be honest, most fans are not smart enough to judge true growth of a club, all they really want to see is some money splashed out on a plethora of new signings.
I feel Wenger has no tolerance for these type of inferior fans, as I also don't, and would prefer to answer a few more intelligently presented questions this year.
With 30-40M spent before he faces the fans in August… he will certainly find a different slant to the questions posed!
Mourinho 7/4 to join Real Madrid
April 21, 2010
The bookies make the Portugeezer a pretty safe bet to manage the Spanish giants next season.
City are 4/1 to be managed by him, Liverpool 7/2.
Real Madrid, consisting of the all the current Galacticos, and more to be signed this Summer, must surely be a very attractive proposition for Mourinho.
However, I see him back in the Premiership next season.
His overriding reason to leave Italy is owing to the national hatred felt for him… I thought the Spanish hated him aswell?
The man courts attention and love, and he gets both from the Media and many football fans in England.
Would I want him to manage Arsenal (best priced 12/1), not in a million years.
Mourinho is great T.V, great for Media, but a trouble maker of the highest level possible.
He was handed a great team assembled by Claudio Ranieri, the man who is trumping him to the Serie A title this season with A S Roma, and moved to manage Inter following 3 titles they won under Roberto Mancini.
I am not doubting he is an exceptional manager, but I would dearly love to see him take over at say Liverpool, and show us if he has the capabilities to build a team, as opposed to taking over a great team and slightly tweaking them.
If City can sneak the last Champions League spot, I shall be wagering my pounds on him taking over at Eastlands from Season 2010/2011.
There is nothing to be gained from managing Real Madrid, the rough and tumble of the Premiership is perfectly suited to the style of football his teams operate under.
If Liverpool somehow quickly sort out a new Billionaire in the coming weeks, that would be the option he would prefer… and then we would get to see how good he really is at building a winning side from scratch.
At City he would have a nucleus to work with, CL football, and plenty of money… but no prestige.
At Liverpool he would have plenty of prestige to restore, certainly no CL for a season, and maybe plenty of cash to spend.
I look forward to his return with interest.
I hope the Chavs beat the Spuds
April 16, 2010
Face it, the Chavs need to drop 7 points from 4 games… they can lose away to Spuds and Liverpool and still win the title owing to their vastly superior goal difference.
Not going to happen.
Most bookies have today paid out on Chavski winning the title, and those bastards rarely get it wrong.
So I want them to smack up those peasants from down the Seven Sisters, following on from City beating Manure in the lunchtime kick-off.
We finish 2nd, United 3rd, City 4th… and the aforementioned peasants finish outside of the Champions League.
Then we will see who is laughing… again.
P.S – Had a ton of emails asking me where you gooners can get hold of the t-shirt above, go see our lovely NYC gooners shop front at ArsenalNYC


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Culinary Delights
Fine Wine and Food Festival
Foodies and oenophiles — or those who simply want to learn more about wine — can shake off the winter blahs at a tasty food and wine showcase. Sample some fine wines and spirits and explore the tastes of local vineyards and the region. Dozens of wineries from the North Fork, New Jersey and elsewhere are represented, along with top distilleries and breweries. Wines are paired with some of the best cuisine the region has to offer, from some of the area's acclaimed restaurants and food trucks. Vendors will also be on hand selling home décor, wine and gourmet foods, along with other items. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to disaster relief as part of the Corks for Charity program.
Saturday, Jan. 19, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. $49 in advance, $65 day of event; $125 VIP tickets also available. Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke., Uniondale. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.nycblive.com.
Family Fun
100 Years at a Gold Coast Mansion
Step back in time during a winter celebration at Nassau County Museum of Art, in the grand estate that now houses the museum. 100 years ago Childs Frick, his wife Frances, and their four children moved into their home with fossils from his work as a paleontologist, and their many pets. Explore the Gold Coast mansion that was once their residence and let creativity unfold during a day of family-friendly art making and adventures. Guided by the current exhibition, "Wild Kingdom," kids can create an animal-inspired mask to transform themselves, build colorful, patterned animal puppets, explore fossils with the Center for Science Teaching and Learning staff, and much more. And, in keeping with the 100-year commemoration, birthday cake will be served.
Sunday, Jan. 20, 1-4 p.m. Entrance fee is museum admission plus $15 per family materials fee. Reservations are not needed. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9338 or www.nassaumuseum.org.


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Oakland, CA – Stephen Curry, The Curry Family Foundation, Chase and Under Armor teamed up to celebrate the newly refurbished indoor and outdoor basketball courts at Bushrod Community Center in Oakland today.
The goal is to have a better place for kids to enjoy a sport Curry grew up loving. The new gym inside has a very detailed mural of many of Curry's facial expressions and poses throughout the NBA season.
The City of Oakland Parks and Recreation has been fortunate to have several gyms refurbished in the Bay Area. Director, Nicholas Williams wants to continue to partner with more athletes and local professional teams to give back to the surrounding communities.
"We have to focus on our youth," said Williams. "This gives our youth an opportunity to come into a safe place in having a first grade, top notch facility. It means the world to the community especially the Bushrod community."
Curry met up to 40 kids who spend countless hours at the community center. After Curry's introduction, he viewed student-created photography, signed autographs then held a basketball clinic outside with his trainer, Brandon Payne.
"It's an extremely high priority for us to be able to support the next generation," Curry said to the crowd. "To give them as many educational opportunities, as many safe haven places to come and play is important to us.
To have that physical active lifestyle that you can learn a lot about yourself, about your friends and about your community."
Curry talked about his goals before he became a success in the NBA. He discussed his upbringing and how his parents put education first. While kids were listening intently, Curry also provided some basketball tips as well.
Curry's Family Foundation wants to become the MECCA for creating an opportunity for communities throughout Oakland to invest in our youth. The Curry's have been here for nine years and hope to be here longer.
"We really want to invest in the younger generation but not only that, there are so many volunteers, teachers and coaches that dedicate their lives to nurturing youth that are under valued and under appreciated.
We want to find ways to support them as well. We also want to introduce our culinary background in providing a healthy lifestyle. As well as offer scholarships to encourage a higher education."
Next month you'll be able to find all of this information and more on the Curry Family Foundation website when it goes live next month. Stay tuned!


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New stars, shocks and tears in F1 year
In Formula One, it was the year that had everything and more.
From the arrival of a precocious teenage star to the abrupt retirement of a first-time champion, 2016 will be remembered as a roller-coaster of surprises, accidents, rivalries and farewells.
Dutchman Max Verstappen, the son of journeyman racer Jos Verstappen, won on his debut with the Red Bull team at the Spanish Grand Prix and went on to dazzle and, sometimes, ignite hostility. A champion was born.
Defending champion and three-time title-holder Lewis Hamilton drove brilliantly, but not often enough to overcome a sequence of setbacks that cost him glory – and handed his team-mate and rival Nico Rosberg the crown.
The Englishman's 10th win came in November's season-ender in Abu Dhabi, where he was foiled in a last-gasp attempt to create a trap for his team-mate. No-one has won so many races without taking the title.
Rosberg survived and overcame his nerves to finish second in a tense conclusion to a championship that had seen him lead from the front, fall behind and then regain the initiative in the closing months.
Five celebratory days later, the 31-year-old German son of the 1982 champion Keke Rosberg announced he was leaving the sport to be with his family.
Mercedes, the dominant force that carried him to success on the crest of a third successive constructors' championship, were left chasing after a replacement.
Team boss Toto Wolff also had to face up to the likely departure of his ever-reliable and even-tempered sidekick technical boss Paddy Lowe who looked set to join Williams.
In typical F1 fashion, it appeared likely that Williams' star driver Finn Valtteri Bottas was being lined up as Rosberg's replacement in the most coveted seat in the pit-lane for the faster 'new-look' cars of 2017.
The placid Bottas may prove to be a perfect choice, not least because of his temperament. He has plenty of speed, too, but is unlikely to match Rosberg's run of wins.
Rosberg reeled off wins in Australia, Bahrain, China and Russia to leave Hamilton panting in pursuit.
When the F1 circus reached Barcelona, he led by 43 points.
On May 15, the first major pivot in the drama arrived. The two Mercedes men collided into each other on the opening lap, Verstappen blazed to glory, aged 18, and F1's order was truly shaken up.
– Phenomenal run –
Two weeks later, he almost won in Monaco, but for a messy pit-stop strategy and the excellence of Hamilton in the rain, the Briton winning for the first time in more than six months.
In the same two races, Rosberg's early-season confidence went from easy to brittle. He led the points' chart, but he could sense Hamilton's heat and speed and the chase was on.
It stayed that way with Hamilton eventually taking over the championship lead in July after a phenomenal run of wins.
But his engine failures and other assorted mechanical problems cost him dear with penalties when the action resumed in Belgium where he took as many new parts as possible and conceded victory to Rosberg.
Revived Rosberg took full advantage of Hamilton's wavering concentration and won again in Italy and then in Singapore and Japan, after Ricciardo had triumphed in Malaysia.
Mercedes dominance was unquestioned, but Red Bull were back as their main rivals while Ferrari blustered and flustered, accompanied by a rumour machine suggesting weekly fallouts in the team.
All this left Hamilton a distant second, but he ended the year as Rosberg began it with four straight wins, including a demonstration in the rain in Brazil where Verstappen raced from 15th to finish third.
By then, too, it was clear only a minor miracle could enable Hamilton to keep his crown as Rosberg finished second and second and second and second. It was all he needed in the nerve-shredding duel in the desert.
There, he wept with joy while others, including popular veterans Briton Jenson Button and Brazilian Felipe Massa signed off. In a year of some upheaval, McLaren also said goodbye in acrimonious circumstances to their long-serving boss Ron Dennis after a board-room shake-up.


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Judging by tonight's Burn Notice episode "Question & Answer," creator Matt Nix and company spent some time during the hiatus making a list of all the lingering questions the show's fans have had about some of Burn Notice's plausibility-stretching elements. Like: How exactly do Michael and company keep the lights on and the yogurt bill paid?
We've always known that Fiona has an active extracurricular schedule, what with the arms dealing and the fugitive-hunting. This week she tried to cut Michael in on the action—or at least get him to repay her for the countless favors she's done at his behest. And thus, through a convoluted series of steps, Michael gets involved with recovering the kidnapped son of a bickering couple who work for a diamond wholesaler.
In the annals of Burn Notice villains, I wouldn't place our kidnapper—a blocky thug named Santora—towards the top of the list. (He's nowhere near as ice-cold as Brennan, played by Jay Karnes, who returns next week.) Santora is far too gullible, to the extent that I was running a little cold on "Question & Answer" at times. In order to figure out where Santora's stashed the kidnapee, Michael and Sam run a scam called "reverse interrogation," which involves Michael pretending to be a drug addict who knows about the kidnapping and Sam pretending to be a rogue cop who brings Santora into the Q&A session. The idea is that in asking Michael what he knows, Santora will reveal what he knows. Only I never really bought Sam or Michael's acts—they were too twitchy and too direct—and the fact that Santora did buy it made him seem less than formidable.
That said, the episode's A-story did build to a cool climax, which had Sam pretending to go along with Santora's plan to kill Michael, all the while trusting that Michael's skillz would be enough for him to escape, disarm and subdue a hothead with a gun. And the rest of the big plan played out beautifully: Thanks to Fiona snapping a cell phone picture of one of Santora's men and sending it to her partners, Sam and Michael were able to convince Santora that one of his men had turned on him. And thanks to henchmen's predictable habit of watching TV when they should be watching their prisoner, Michael was able to free the kidnapee with no trouble. And thanks to Sam firing a gun outside the kidnap-house, Santora and his two armed goons were tricked into panicking and shooting each other. This is why "it's always best to have business arguments unarmed," Michael notes.
And though Santora wasn't a great foe, "Question & Answer" was loaded with great Michael-tips. For example, did you know that a lot of the art of tailing somebody is knowing when to stop tailing them? Also, if you want to find out if a guy you're meeting is being watched by the cops, you should beat him a little, and see if the authorities come rushing out of the bushes. And if you want to know if you're being watched by the cops, you should keep an eye out for curious kids.
As it happens, Michael was being watched by the cops tonight, as part of the episode's B-story—and what appears to be this season's master-plot. Another of those lingering Burn Notice plausibility questions has had to do with how Michael keeps blowing up cars and buildings in Miami without drawing the attention of the local law. In Season Two's finale, Management's top manager Martin Crane explained that his organization had been cleaning up after Michael all this time. With Management out of the picture, Michael is now being watched closely by Detective Paxson ("Michael's Worst Nightmare," played by Moon Bloodgood), who waits for him outside one his storage facilities to see if he's going to unload any illegal explosives any time soon.
At the end of "Question & Answer," Michael uses a water saw to cut a back door in his storage unit and get his equipment out. But while this keeps Michael on the right side of the law, in a way it's a direct slap in the face of Paxson, who comes snarling around Michael's place, promising to stay on his heels. "Was that flirty, or does she hate you?" Fiona asks. It's going to be fun finding out the answer to that.
Grade: B+
Stray observations:
-Oh no! Stadium Vote Delayed!
-Sam is dating a girl who can rebuild an engine. "Put a sturdy tool in her hand…"
-I liked how Sam snorts lactose to convince Santora he's a bad cop the first time they meet, and then later, when Santora storms back into the warehouse, Sam's snorting lactose again. Gotta stay in character if you're going to sell the lie.
-Fiona has a foolproof relaxation technique. Picture a quiet forest, with a beautiful stream. Now picture yourself drowning the kidnapper in the stream.
-Fiona blames Michael for his C4-storage problems, saying that he should have been making bigger explosions all this time. "C4 is meant to be used, not stored."
-Madeline is so unused to cooking that she forgets to use potholders.
-Beer! A five-pack!
-Does the cast ever get sick of yogurt? If I get to interview Jeffrey Donovan—which I'm hoping to do this summer—that's the first question I'll ask.
-A Michael-tip noted without comment: Torture's no good for getting information because "if you torture somebody, they'll tell you anything to make it stop."
-"Uh, there's someone going there right now…."


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When you're the lone girl in a family, you get used to hearing the blunt, straight-forward truth about things.
For instance, I had something in my eye that I just couldn't get out. After all three of my menfolk had looked and tried to see what it might be.. Cy says, "Well, what I can see is that one of your eyelashes looks like a broken tree branch. Maybe that's what is poking you?"


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In the days before autumn officially begins we have Indian Summer. The creators of the Mason Shaker, Eric Prum and Joshua Williams, have crafted a cocktail to commemorate the harvest, Indian Summer. A blend of concord grapes, gin, St. Germain and lemon, as a Wine Harlot, I bet it would be awesome using wine grapes.
Photo credit: Joshua Williams ©2013


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Six months with Jane Austen: The plan
|Jane Austen [?], by Ozias Humphry, 1788 or 1789 (detail) [1]
Hasn't enough been written already about Jane Austen? Perhaps it's just my impression, but I seem to be detecting a bit of Austen fatigue. It may be an unintended result of the celebrations of the 200th anniversaries of the publication of her novels (Emma's bicentenary was December 23; next will be those of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in December 2017, as well as that of Austen's death in July of that year). Or perhaps it's the fallout from the many popular television and film adaptations of her books. But it's remarkable that Pride and Prejudice did not make the top ten of any of three recent lists of the 100 best novels in English (to be fair, Robert McCrum in the Guardian picked Emma instead).
If Austen is indeed slipping in critical estimation, I think it may be partly due to a misperception that her novels don't engage with the wider world. As one historian writes, "Jane Austen is commonly regarded as an artist standing outside her own time" [2]. And Austen herself, just about the time she was writing Emma, famously told her niece Anna that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on" [3]—implying not only an intimate scale and heightened realism, but an insulation from larger social, political and economic concerns. For some readers her novels may have come to seem too genteel: what relevance can love stories set among the 19th-century British gentry have for our time of seemingly endless war, rising inequality, and human trafficking?
But war, inequality, and human trafficking were inescapable features of Austen's world as well, and the novels actually say quite a bit about these issues—though often implicitly rather than explicitly. I don't mean to suggest that Austen's novels should be read primarily for what they reveal about these concerns: they will forever be read with the greatest pleasure for their "knowledge of the human heart" [4]. But they can be further illuminated and enriched by some awareness of the fabric of the British society of her time.
At least, that's my experience, and I hope it will be true for my readers as well. Over the course of the next six months I'm planning to post about the social context of each of Austen's six novels. I'll proceed in the order in which they were published, beginning with Sense and Sensibility (1811) and ending with Persuasion (1818). These monthly posts will accompany my own re-reading of the novels; another hope is that they may inspire your own reading or re-reading.
I'm doing this not because I'm the world's greatest expert on Austen or on British society during the reign of George III. In fact, quite the reverse: I have trouble distinguishing a barouche from a phaeton or remembering the difference between a guinea and a pound. But it's precisely because I'm not an expert that I want to learn more about the social dimension of Austen's work, and share what I learn.
Of course, there are annotated versions of the novels, and a shelf-ful of books written about the world of Austen by people far more expert (and far better writers) than I'll ever be. But I want to do something a bit different from annotation: I don't plan to explain the meaning of individual words or identify quotations except as they reveal something that Austen is saying about her characters, their circumstances and relationships that would otherwise be hidden from a modern reader. And while there are entire academic and commercial publishing industries seemingly built on Austen, the amount of material is overwhelming. I don't intend to be exhaustive, but to pull together different strands from my reading to highlight issues of particular interest in a concise and useful way. (Longtime E and I readers may be justly skeptical of that "concise" promise, but I'll do my best.) I will list the sources I'm using for each post for those readers who want to explore further on their own.
Although it will draw on articles, books, websites and blog posts, this project was chiefly inspired by two writers in particular. The first is Jocelyn Harris, whose book A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion (University of Delaware Press, 2007) opened my eyes to the significance of the details of the naval allusions in Austen's final novel. And the second is Paula Byrne, whose The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (HarperPress, 2013) is a fascinating (and very entertaining) examination of a series of objects—among them a family silhouette, an Indian shawl, and a pair of topaz crosses—that illustrate key aspects of Austen's life, work and world. Despite Byrne's tendency to write "must have" and "certainly" where she should have written "may have" and "possibly," her book would have made my Favorites of 2015 list if I had encountered it in time.
Rest assured—or be forewarned—that over the coming months I will continue to post on Indian and non-Indian films, opera and other music, and books that have nothing to do with Jane Austen. But while Austen's novels, like Shakespeare's plays, are "not of an age, but for all time" [5], I hope that learning more about how they reflect the specific era in which they were created will make them more meaningful, and if possible even more enjoyable. So, like Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, "'I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study...By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain...a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want'" [6].
Next installment in this series: Sense and Sensibility, inheritance, and money
Other posts in the "Six months with Jane Austen" series:
- Favorite adaptations and final thoughts
- Persuasion and Austen's sailor brothers
- Persuasion and the British Navy at war
- Northanger Abbey and women writers and readers
- Emma and the fate of unmarried women
- Mansfield Park and slavery III: Mansfield Park, an estate built on "the ruin and labour of others"
- Mansfield Park and slavery II: Lord Mansfield and the antislavery movement
- Mansfield Park and slavery I: Fanny Price and Dido Elizabeth Belle
- Pride and Prejudice and the marriage market
- The picture at the head of this post is the so-called "Rice Portrait," which is possibly of Jane Austen at about age 13. The controversy over the portrait, and the evidence of its authenticity, is very thoroughly discussed in The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen.
- Oliver MacDonagh, Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Yale University Press, 1991, p. 146.
- Jane Austen in a letter to her niece Anna Austen, 9 September 1814. Emma is, of course, a novel about three or four families in a country village.
- Walter Scott, "Art. IX. Emma, A Novel" [review]. The Quarterly Review, Vol. XIV, No. XXVII, October, 1815, p. 189.
- Ben Jonson, Preface, Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (first folio), 1623
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Ch. 46


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With all the discussion of whether British behavior in the Colonies justified the Revolutionary War, I can't help being reminded of an exchange in one of my favorite books, 84, Charing Cross Road:
August 15, 1959
i write to say i have got work.
i won it. i won a $5,000 Grant-in-Aid off CBS, it's supposed to support me for a year while I write American History dramatizations. I am starting with a script about New York under seven years of British Occupation and i MARVEL at how i rise above it to address you in friendly and forgiving fashion, your behavior over here from 1776 to 1783 was simply FILTHY.
Is there such thing as a modern-English version of the Canterbury Tales? I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Ango-Saxon/-Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. "Which is all very well," she said bitterly, "but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is 'How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall.' "
She also filled me in on Beowulf and his illegitimate son Sidwith — or is it Widsith? she says it's not worth reading so that killed my interest in the entire subject, just send me a modern Chaucer.
love to nora.
2nd September, 1959Miss Helene Hanff
305 East 72nd Street
New York 21, New York
Dear Helene,
We are all delighted to hear that you've won a Gran-in-Aid and are working again. We are prepared to be broadminded about your choice of subject matter, but I must tell you that one of the young inmates here confessed that until he read your letter he never knew that England had ever owned "the States."
With regard to Chaucer, the best scholars seem to have fought shy of putting him into modern English, but there was an edition put out by Longmans in 1934, the Canterbury Tales only, a modernized version by Hill, which I believe is quite good. It is (of course!) out of print and I am trying to find a nice clean secondhand copy.
For those who love books, there are few better reads out there than this unlikely best seller consisting of the correspondence between a struggling New York writer and a London used book store in the twenty years from 1949 to 1969. Also wonderful for the book lover is Hanff's later Q's Legacy, in which she talks about her lifelong fascination with books that led to the 84 Charing Cross Road, and what followed from the book's unexpected success.


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For the Olympics, Will Beijing Paint the Town Green?
According to locals in Fumin county, in China's southwest Yunnan province, workers began arriving last August with heavy equipment to green a small mountainside. But instead of trees and soil they came armed with large paint guns and orders from above to turn the patch of rock a distinctly artificial green. This particular incident may have been an official attempt to improve the feng shui for the nearby forestry bureau office, or, more likely, simply a way of expediting the greening process. Whatever the reasons are, the symbolism is stark. These days it's as easy to be enchanted by news of the Middle Kingdom's green dreams as it is to be disappointed by news of setbacks and rampant greenwashing. And the great promise and inconvenient truth of China's environmental future is nowhere more evident than in its ambitious 2008 "Green" Olympic plans. For its Games, Beijing aims to reduce concentrations of dangerous pollutants to within WHO-accepted levels and keep concentrations of particulate matter down to developed-country standards. Surely, officials are as serious about greening the city for its huge coming-out party as they are about cleaning up its manners. But as anyone living in the capital now might have guessed, the city currently fails on all counts. And even if Beijing gets greener for 2008, what happens after the torch has passed?
During the summer months, pollution levels in the capital can spike to at least two to three times the level considered safe in a U.S. city. When it comes to fine particulates, which are dangerous at any level, Beijing exceeds U.S. EPA standards by three to four times. And while in 2006, Beijing proudly recorded 241 days of "blue skies," seven more than in 2005, the local environmental protection bureau says the chance that number will grow again soon is slim. From anecdotal experience, the chance that the number is accurate to begin with seems even slimmer. The thick gray and bronze haze that so often blankets the sky can make one forget what shade of blue the sky is supposed to be. Perhaps that forgetfulness is part of the twisted logic behind Beijing's penchant for literal greenwashing: absent nature, no one will notice if the grass has been painted for the Games, as is common, or if that dust-killing summer rain was actually induced by chemicals. At the very least, the athletes will be able to tell; last year, pollution was blamed when a number of runners in Hong Kong's marathon ended up in the hospital. Already, athletes are adopting new techniques to prepare themselves for Beijing.
More helpful are the relocations, or plans to relocate, more than 100 chemical, steel and pharmaceutical factories outside the city and the replacement of 300,000 polluting taxis and buses with cleaner vehicles (though a concerted effort would target surrounding regions too, which can account for up to 70% of some types of pollution over the city). Additionally, the city hopes to continue converting coal furnaces to natural gas furnaces. An entirely new era of public transportation has been forecast. Meanwhile, scientists are modeling pollution paths to better track sources of smog. And some of the Olympic venues, such as the gorgeous, bubble-clad "Water Cube" aquatics center (below), are being built to green standards. (It still remains to be seen if the Beijing Games will be fully carbon offset, like last year's Winter Olympics in Torino.)
Beijing's Olympic Green: The Water Cube and National Stadium
But as green building guru Rob Watson pointed out to me recently, can a structure like the intricate National Stadium (above), which uses ten times the amount of steel that a normal stadium uses, much of it not going into actual structural use, be a "sustainable" stadium? "I think the designs are beautiful, but completely not sustainable," Watson says. And sure, no-car days will temporarily soothe the horrendous traffic, but are they really the answer to surging car ownership and poor traffic management? Will a $62 million water diversion scheme solve the north's drought past 2008? Is turning off factories for the weeks of the Olympics going to be the start to permanent restrictions of dirty smokestacks, as many are hoping, or just another Potemkin flourish?
More importantly, will the Olympics and the growing swirl of international attention that follows bring reform to the country's legal system, continue to whack out corruption, and overturn government policies that put job growth ahead of all other concerns? What role China's increasingly eco-conscious and crucial middle class will continue to play in greening China hinges on these questions, too.
For its part, the International Olympic Committee, which was recently dubbed the Champion of the Earth 2007 by the United Nations Environment Program, has been sanguine and even chipper about Beijing's green promises. They say they're confident that Beijing will be able to make the environmental improvements it promised when it won the Games—or at least make it look that way.
They have an interest, they have a genuine straightforward vested interest in presenting this city in the best possible way during the Olympics and that is, for me, more than enough guarantee [for a green Olympics].
So said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the 2008 IOC commission (and a Champion of the Earth 2007), last summer. It may be good enough for him, but what will a genuine straightforward vested interest mean for the athletes, visitors and the city's millions of residents when the Olympic torch arrives?
And if Beijing's guarantee doesn't work, what repercussions might there be? According to Verbruggen:
Even if they did not attain their targets, what can you do? Let's be open about this, we can't say tomorrow, we go somewhere else.
Not exactly the answer you might expect from a "Champion of the Earth." But Hein's right, in a way: the IOC may be able to go elsewhere, but ultimately, we—you, me and China—can't just pick up and leave the planet like some unsuitable athletic venue. If Beijing fails to win the green medal in 2008, at least the loss of face might will be devastating enough to kickstart a real eco-revolution—one that requires more than green paint.
See also How Green Will the London Olympics Be?, London Olympics vs. Local Food: Allotments Under Threat and Beijing To Get Busy Scrubbing the Air for Olympics.


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Last week when DD came she brought some boxes of quilting stuff from her long time friend and collage roommate Maggie. She had been up the week before because she said she had something for her. Her Mother passed away about 6 months ago and she and her husband are moving into the old house that her Dad had built.
Well it seems that Maggie's Mom had said to give all her quilting things to Ro. So who does she bring it to? Sure with the request that I quilt the one top she had finished. That will be the next one I guess.
In looking through the stuff I came across these blocks of circus kids in these bright primary colors. I just happened to have a set of FQs of these colors so set about to make this quilt top. I want to get this quilted when I quilt my puzzle quilt. DD was here this evening and she said" gee that would be nice to give to Maggie for her first grandchild." She has two children, Neither married yet. So guess that is where it will go. I was surprised how fast those piano keys worked up. I sewed up strips and then cut the length.