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Lapsang Souchong Russian Caravan tea - an ancient smoky blend!8.6
Pinewood smoked Lapsang Souchong black tea - our take on the ancient classic Russian Caravan tea. Blended with Formosa Oolong + Mao Feng Keemun this full bodied, dark smoked tea evokes the aroma of campfires lit along the ancient trade routes.
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1 tea bag - 100° water - 4 mins - with or without milk
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This one is fantastic!!! Fantastic charcoal flavour. Reminds me a lot of Bonfire Toffee and comes in a close second behind it!!
The best Russian Caravan blend I've had to date. I've been looking all over for tea bags with that smoky goodness and couldn't have been happier with my first sip. Strongly recommended as an antidote to endless Zoom sessions.
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Ordered this for my wife. Couldn't find it anywhere near me. She loves it, it has just the right amount of smoke.
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Excellent as a light infusion (leave the bag immersed for 1 minute) or a full-bodied, smoky experience (4 minutes)
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I recently bought some Smoky Russian tea online for the first time, after smelling it in Bird and Blend in Brighton and forgetting to go back and buy it and I am so glad I did. I have got so bored with my bog standard cups of green tea from generic supermarket brands and I can honestly say I am officially ruined for life. This is the most wonderful tea and it makes you realise it is worth that little extra money to get a proper, delicious cup of comfort. Smoky Russian is recommended to anyone who loves strong flavours, winter scenes and notes of pure nostalgia, relating to nights by crackling fires and late nights in the outdoors. I also got sent 2 sample flavours, one of which was Earl Grey Creme and I will never buy another brand of Earl Grey again. That will be my next purchase, for sure. Treat yourself to some Bird and Blend tea, you wont regret it....Read more
I am a huge green tea fan so was a bit sceptical when this tea was behind one of the doors of the advent calendar. At first I was unsure of the smoky smell but omg what a lovely tea! Enjoyed it so much I made sure to order more, definitely my favourite black tea!
I first came across this tea in the 2018 Advent Calendar. My daughter bagsied it then raved about it, which is always gratifying - annoying but gratifying - so I bought her some more.
Its intensely smokey and really does capture a feeling out outdoors and campfires. The base tea is very smooth and flavoursome and compliments the smoking rather than distracting from it. There is no bitterness.
In our house "Russian Caravan" became "Ruskie Caravan", then "Rusty Caravan" and then simply "Rusty" - as in you would hear us say "Do you fancy a Rusty?" ; "Oh yes please". There is nothing rusty about this tea - its smooth and bright and energising. Easily the best of this type I've ever tried....Read more
It literally smells like fire and tastes smoky and delicious. Keeping you warm in cold winter mornings.
This tea is very different, and very yummy. Full bodied, smoky and satisfying.
This is AMAZING. It is unlike anything I've ever had before, but I can't get enough of it. It is delicious, and confuses but delights the tastebuds - and leads to a chorus of "what can I smell?" across the office - in a good way!
Really delicious tea, I love the smoky flavour. I ordered tea bags because I'm lazy and I have a cupboard full of lose leaf, and they've been really convenient.
I bought Smokey Russian for myself when buying Christmas presents for others. I am converted from the previous brand I had!
The smell of this brewing is great... Hardest part is rationing myself.


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Mediation can help prevent things escalating and for misunderstandings and misconceptions to be dispelled. It empowers individuals to find their own resolution to issues. It gives everyone a voice that must be listened to by the other side, whether or not the opposing side agrees with what is being said.
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Last Saturday, Meghan and Andre declared their love for each other in front of friends and family at the Country Lodge in north Edmonton. Their day was filled with so many special details and you could tell that a lot of thought went into every part of their day. From the custom made wooden doors at the alter to the handmade decor items, a dog in a tuxedo, and an authentic popcorn machine. It was a day filled with joy and love accentuated by beautiful weather, a fabulous meal, and plenty of laughter.
The day started out at the Country Lodge where Meghan and Andre prepared for their outdoor ceremony.
These two are easily the cutest ring bearer and prettiest flower girl that we've ever seen.
Meghan looked beautiful in her gown as she made her way down the aisle with her father.
The conditions were perfect to shower the couple with bubbles after saying their "I Dos"
Meghan's bouquet was from Shig's Flowers in Sherwood Park. Aren't they stunning?
It was a pretty warm day in Edmonton so Meghan took a break after the ceremony to cool down and we couldn't resist grabbing this shot. I loved how Andre was providing some manual A/C to help cool down his new bride.
And who doesn't love a wedding party that includes a fur baby dressed in a tuxedo. We told you this wedding was full of awesome details didn't we?
Meghan really wanted to get a photograph of three generations of hands with their wedding rings so we grabbed a quick photograph with her mom and her grandmother.
After the ceremony and family photos were done, we headed over to the St. Albert Botanical Gardens for a few more photos before the reception.
After we were done formals at the Botanic garden, we headed back to the Country Lodge for their reception. Both Meghan and Andre really wanted to get a nice photograph at sunset. While we didn't quite get to see the sunset, Mother Nature did deliver some dramatic clouds so we snuck out of the reception for a few minutes to setup some lighting and capture a few images that showed off the dramatic Alberta skies that we tend to get at this time of year in Edmonton.
Thanks Meghan and Andre for allowing us to share in your wedding day! We hope you enjoy this sneak peek and we can't wait to share the rest of your images with you.


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But one thing I hadn't considered, and wasn't prepared for, was the impact of imposing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful on Ash Wednesday. In a society that continues to deny that death is part of life, using tangible symbols to remind people of their mortality is countercultural. As a priest I am privileged – no, blessed – to be allowed into places in the lives of my parishioners where few others will enter. On Ash Wednesday it all comes home. Over the years I've given ashes to the elderly in failing health, and to a least a few who I know, though others may not, are suffering terminal illnesses; do these folks really need to be reminded of their mortality? And yet I say the words and make the sign. I've told very young children with beautiful faces, shining eyes, lives of promise: "…to dust you shall return?" Not for decades and decades from now, I hope, I pray; but there are no guarantees. What will a child take away from this experience? And then there are those vital people, the proverbial "picture of health" who can be expected to return year after year but once again, knowledge of our mortality prevents taking that, or them, for granted: "Remember, you are dust…."
So once again, tomorrow, I will stand behind the chancel rail and remind people I have come to love dearly that this life will come to an end and our bodies will eventually disintegrate. I will probably choke up at some point; I usually do. But I try to remember: God created us out of the dust of the earth, and we could do much worse than fear returning to it.


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This is the second vegetarian dish we put on the menu, which is on since a bit more than a week and it looks like it is a great success. It sells really well, looks very pretty and tastes even better. The amazing part is that this dish is even good for Vegans, yes this is a really tasty Vegan dish
They are little cakes made from roasted sweet potatoes which are just tossed in a bit olive oil, garlic added and then finished in the oven.
The sauce again is very simple, coconut milk, spinach, a little chili and coriander, boil up, blend, serve. It could not be easier than that.
Then I like to serve it with something a bit different, a pickled cucumber salad. This just gives the dish a really nice balance as you will see the sauce is rather rich, so it needs something to break the richness.
It has been another busy week here at work, we had a lot of functions and and the restaurant was pretty busy too. It is nice, it keep me out of mischief, but as well away from writing blogs. It is rainy season here so sometimes the power is a bit of a challenge, even so we have a couple of huge generators to keep everything going, it is after all 260 rooms..... but every time the power trips the gas on the stove goes out automatically and it is always a challenge to get the grill and the stove going again, not sure what it is but when the power trips three to four times an evening we do use sometimes words that should not be used in public....
1.5 Kg Sweet potatoes (red)
100 Ml Olive oil
5 G All spice, ground
5 G Cumin, ground
5 G Chili flakes, dried
5 G Thyme
100 G Garlic
15 G Chili, fresh
100 G Spring onions
50 G Coriander, fresh
25 G Lime zest
800 Ml Coconut milk
300 G Spinach, fresh
80 G Onions, chopped
60 G Garlic, roast
10 G Chilies, fresh
50 G Peppers, green
5 G Paprika
5 G Thyme, fresh
5 G Salt
3 G Pepper
25 Ml Lemon juice
20 G Coriander, fresh
Peel the sweet potatoes and cut in cubes
Toss the sweet potato with the olive oil and spices
Roast together with the garlic in a pre heated oven at 200 C until soft (about 20 min)
Mash the sweet potato and soft garlic together
Form small cakes, 3 per person
Pan fry them in a bit olive oil
Saute the onions, garlic and chili in a bit oil
Add the coconut milk and bring to the boil
Add spinach and the other ingredients
Bring quickly to a boil
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Module HWW-2070:
Welsh History Workplace S1
Module Facts
Run by School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences
20 Credits or 10 ECTS Credits
Semester 1
Organiser: Dr Karen Pollock
Overall aims and purpose
strong textThe placements seek to provide students with an understanding of the practical application of their academic knowledge of History, Welsh History or Archaeology to professional fields that are intimately associated with those disciplines.
Course content
The student normally spends one day a week during the appropriate semester, and in total about 70 hours, working in an archives office, an archaeological unit or a museum service undertaking specific tasks of a practical as well as an academic nature as given them by the officer(s) in charge. These typically include drawing up inventories, collating field evidence, drawing up catalogues of discrete manuscript or artefact collections, as well as at times dealing with public enquiries.
Currently the Department has agreements with most of the archive record offices in north Wales, but especially at Caernarfon and Llangefni, with the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, with Oriel Bangor and Oriel Môn at Llangefni and the regimental Museum at Caernarfon. Approved excavation training courses may qualify if of sufficient duration and rigour and conform to the Course Guidelines.
Students should also be aware that there are health and safety implications to all placements.
Assessment Criteria
Threshold students (lower 40s) will demonstrate an appropriate range or depth of knowledge of at least parts of the workplace, and will make partly-successful attempts to frame an argument that engages with the practical work they carried out while in the workplace.
Good students (60s) will show a solid level of achievement in all the criteria of the paragraphs above. Threshold students (lower 40s) will demonstrate an appropriate range or depth of knowledge of at least parts of the workplace, and will make partly-successful attempts to frame an argument that engages with the practical work they carried out while in the workplace.
Excellent students (70s and above) will show this level of achievement across the criteria combined with particularly impressive depths of knowledge and/or subtlety of analysis.
Learning outcomes
Read select texts concerning archival practice or archaeological techniques or museum organisation.
Show regular attendance at the office of the relevant service or unit and adhere to the supervision and direction of the service officers and participate in the public role of that service or unit.
Undertake the searches and/or practical work within the normal sphere of the service or unit's activity.
Produce a report, project or similar work to the professional standard required by the service or unit.
Assessment Methods
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Teaching and Learning Strategy
|Private study
|Work-based learning
Transferable skills
- Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
- Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
- Computer Literacy - Proficiency in using a varied range of computer software
- Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
- Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
- Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
- Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sensitevely with others
- Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
- Safety-Consciousness - Having an awareness of your immediate environment, and confidence in adhering to health and safety regulations
- Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
- Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
- Mentoring - Able to support, help, guide, inspire and/or coach others
- Caring - Showing concern for others; caring for children, people with disabilities and/or the elderly
- Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
- Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others
Courses including this module
Optional in courses:
- VW23: BA Hanes Cymru a Cherddoriaeth year 2 (BA/HCAC)
- VVV2: BA Philosophy and Religion and Welsh History year 2 (BA/PRWH)
- LVL1: BA Pol Cymd/Han Cymru year 2 (BA/SPWWH)
- LVH1: BA Cymdeithaseg/Hanes Cymru year 2 (BA/SWWH)
- V1VK: BA Welsh History with Archaeology year 2 (BA/WHA)
- V104: BA Welsh History and Archaeology year 2 (BA/WHAR)
- VV12: BA Welsh History/History year 2 (BA/WHH)
- LVH2: BA Welsh History/Sociology year 2 (BA/WHS)
- QVM2: BA Welsh History/Cymraeg year 2 (BA/WHW)


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The pastoral intent of the writings of Henry Holcombe Tucker
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SubjectTucker, H. H.--(Henry Holcombe),--1819-1898.
Southern Baptist Convention--History.
Christian index and South-western Baptist.
Christian index (Atlanta, Ga. : 1872)
This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.
This dissertation examines the journalistic writings of nineteenth-century Southern Baptist theologian Henry Holcombe Tucker. The work argues that Tucker, during his four tenures as editor of the Christian Index of Georgia, used his writings as a means of pastoral encouragement for his vast readership in areas of theology and Christian living. Chapter 1 provides a brief sketch of Tucker's life, work and death, with special attention given to his four tenures as editor of the Index . Chapter 2 details Tucker's commitment to and defense of the core doctrines of historic, evangelical Christianity. Tucker was a Baptist, but he was first and foremost a Christian. He upheld such critical doctrines as the person and work of Christ and justification by faith in a manner that placed him in the mainstream of historic Christian orthodoxy. Chapter 3 addresses the issue of authority and seeks to show that Tucker, like all Baptists of his day, held to the Reformation principle of sola scriptura , that is, Scripture served as the basis for epistemology, a regulative principle, for Tucker. Chapter 3 serves as the basis for the two chapters that follow. Chapter 4 analyzes Tucker's theological commitments with greater specificity. Tucker was committed to the evangelical Calvinism that typified the Southern Baptists of his age. Tucker viewed doctrines such as total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement and perseverance of the saints as the forming the marrow that strengthened the bones of evangelical Christianity. Chapter 5 focuses on the distinctive Baptist doctrines such as regenerate church membership and believer's baptism that Tucker cherished and defended. Tucker was no atomistic theologian who reduced the Baptist genius to religious experience and soul competency, but held to a robust view of the Baptist genius. Tucker not only served as an apologete for core evangelical doctrines and the doctrines of grace, but also served his readers, most of whom were Baptists, by defending the unique doctrines of Baptists. All three components coexisted as vital parts of Tucker's pastoral approach to the editor's chair. Chapter 6 ties the work together by showing Tucker's pastoral understanding of practical divinity. This chapter serves to demonstrate to an even greater degree Tucker's pastoral heart in areas of practical divinity such as sanctification and prayer. Chapter 7 concludes the work by showing Tucker's self-understanding to be precisely commensurate with that of his readership. This was shown through a sampling of the outpouring of letters and resolutions that were penned following Tucker's abrupt death. The response of readers demonstrates that readers perceived Tucker as much more than merely a Baptist newspaper editor; they viewed him as a shepherd whose writings, in the manner of a sermon, offered them astute biblical wisdom.


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by Steve Millington*
This presentation analyses the relationship between football stadia and place. It provides an overview of football related research by IPM members, including Tim Edensor, Dominic Medway and Cathy Parker, work that has primarily focused on Manchester City Football Club. This encompasses both theoretical and applied research, and draws on both quantitative and qualitative methods, combing participant observation, netnographies, focus groups and latterly "big data analysis" utilising Springboard's footfall counts from the #BDSU project.
There are three main themes to this research, which considers the relationship between football stadia and place at different scales. First, is the stadium itself, its internal environment and geography and the interactions within the stadium which generate atmosphere.
"an evaluation of the potential of stadia to contribute to the restoration of vitality and viability of town and city centres"
Second is a concern with how stadia are embedded in places, through an analysis of the immediate connections between the site of the stadium, local neighbourhoods and other places, which together constitute a spatial network utilised by supporters as part of their match day routines.
Finally, is a new piece of work involving an evaluation of the potential of stadia to contribute to the restoration of vitality and viability of town and city centres, bringing to light implications for planners, place managers and the owners of stadia.
* This presentation took place during the fourth Sheffield Hallam University Destination Marketing Symposium held on Wednesday 15th February 2017, Charles Street Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, 14:00 – 17:00: "Destination Marketing – Football and Footfall: the Relationship between Destination Marketing and Football"
For more information follow the link to the event site.


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even when he's a senior he'll still look like a puppy!!
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One of my favorite hobbies is learning from Walt Disney, his company and plenty of visits to Disneyland. While I've learn a lot about the company and the man, I know my fair share of trivia, I am by no means your best partner at the Disney Trivia Pursuit. I have enjoyed the study of the company and the park from a business perspective. To learn from their successes and failures. And what has been particularly interesting has been the study of the personal life of Walt Disney. I also was very intrigued to read Michael Eisner's book, Camp. It was written well before the "Save Disney" campaigns, and was virtually nothing about Disney, but rather the upbringing of the man. It is interesting to see the personal life, the family man of these men.
I have another blog specifically for the Disney stuff over at http://www.dlig.org/blog – check it out at some point. Its from the point of me waiting for my next trip to Disneyland, and some of the stuff I run across while trolling around other boards, forums, blogs and news syndicates.


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According to a report on Vice channel Motherboard, there's a secretive air freight business running in an old DHL facility in Ohio in the US. It's impossible to say who is behind it, but as Motherboard's writer Kari Paul explains, Amazon would be a safe bet.
The facility in question is Wilmington Air Park, a cargo airport that was used by DHL up until 2008. At that time, the company announced it was abandoning the operation, cutting 7,500 jobs, and leaving two runways and all sorts of warehouse space empty.
Starting in September, a new tenant took up residence. Under the name of Air Transport Services Group, it's been operating four flights a day to four different airports, using a few leased Boeing 767s. The airports it's flying to (Allentown, Pennsylvania; Ontario, Canada; Tampa, Florida; and Oakland, California) all have Amazon distribution facilities within 60 miles, although that's not saying much, given Amazon has 75 centres across the United State, which are found to be in proximity to practically every major population centre.
Motherboard also quotes a few other sources, from staff at the airport to industry experts. Amazon, for its part, neither confirmed nor denied the allegations.
It's a very plausible rumour: Amazon is a logistics company that surely would not struggle at running its own shipping of this kind. It also has a reputation for performing limited trials of schemes that don't always work out. Testing this venture would certainly be cheaper than making another dud smartphone; whether it works out to be more successful is a different question. [Motherboard]
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For too long we have been submitting ourselves to restrictive popcorn paradigms.Too long we've been limited to just sweet or salty. There's a whole world of popcorn flavours out there – so we went out and found them.
Here are some of the best, most unique popcorn recipes that will make your friends even happier that they know you. (All these recipes are based on a large portion of popcorn from your maker, a big bowl's worth).
Spicy Cheese Popcorn
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 cup cheddar cheese powder
- 1/4 teaspoon mustard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 cups popped popcorn
- Salt and pepper
Pop your corn in your super cool popcorn maker. Then grab a large bowl and combine the butter, cayenne pepper, cheddar cheese powder, mustard powder and swirl it all all around. Spoon in some big helpfuls of popcorn, then mix it all together until most of the popcorn is covered. Add salt and pepper as desired as you serve. Spicy!
Pizza Popcorn
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup sundried tomatoes in oil
- 1 clove garlic, smashed
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmigiano Reggiano
- 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine two enduringly popular treats with popcorn that tastes just like a big slice of cheesy pizza. In a blender, puree the butter, tomatoes and garlic into a smooth paste, then, heat a small pan and add the butter mixture. Heat the butter until melted down.
Remove the freshly popped corn from your popcorn maker, being careful to avoid any unpopped kernels, then mix the still warm butter paste and remaining herbs and cheese for a savoury treat that will blow you away.
Cinnamon Sugar Popcorn
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
This super sweet recipe is also super simple to make. Pop your corn using your popcorn maker, then melt the butter in a small pan. Remove the popcorn and place into a bowl, then mix the butter and sugar until it's all covered. Finish with liberal sprinkles of cinnamon.
Sriracha Popcorn
- 2 tablespoons sriracha sauce
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
Pop your popcorn in your big red popcorn maker and remove all the unpopped kernels.
In a small bowl, mix together the sriracha sauce, melted butter and salt. Then grab a big bowl and fill with popcorn and add half the mixture. Swirl around until most the popcorn is covered, then drizzle the rest of the mix on top. Seriously hot stuff.
Marshmallow Popcorn
- 2 blocks of butter
- Big bag of mini marshmallows
- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
Now for something a little different! A fresh twist on classic rice crispy treats, this recipe is easy and delicious. Microwave butter, marshmallows, and brown sugar for 2 ½ minutes until it's completely melted. Stir until gloopy and runny, then microwave for a further minute or until it's basically liquid. Now remove your fresh popcorn from your maker and mix it all together. Eat once it's cooled or form into clumps for a handy treat later on.


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Harris, Booker miss most votes of senators running in 2020
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker miss most votes of senators running for president in 2020, according to an Associated Press analysis of congressional data
WASHINGTON -- Kamala Harris and Cory Booker have each missed more than one-fifth of the Senates votes so far this year as they campaign for president, according to an Associated Press analysis of congressional data.
With 16 missed votes of the 77 that the Republican-controlled Senate have held in 2019, Harris and Booker far outpace the number missed by their fellow senators also vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders has missed seven votes so far this year, while Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar have each missed three and Sen. Elizabeth Warren has missed one vote, the AP found.
Seeking the presidency as a sitting member of Congress requires a that often results in candidates taking hits for missed votes as the pace of campaign season picks up. Perhaps the most notable recent example is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who took hits for his missed votes from his rivals — including future President Donald Trump — during the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
When youre a governor or businessman, you can run for president and still do your day job. But when youre a senator or congressman and run for president, youre not voting, which is the single most important part of your job, said Alex Conant, a veteran Republican strategist and Rubios communications director in 2016. So I think theres an inherent conflict that people (who) arent in that position are going to try to exploit.
That doesnt mean, however, that jabbing at presidential candidates for missed votes is effective. While Rubios absenteeism drew criticism from Trump as well as from the Democrat seeking to take his Senate seat in 2016, he still easily won reelection.
And Rubio had missed considerably more votes at a similar point in 2015 than Harris and Booker have during 2019s Senate session so far: The Republican was absent from 25 of the first 77 votes of that year, according to the APs tally. That is 56 more votes than Harris and Booker missed.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also took heat for missed votes from his opponent last year, former congressman turned Democratic presidential hopeful Beto ORourke, and still came out ahead.
Democratic strategist Jesse Lehrich, a former aide to Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign whos not currently affiliated with any presidential candidate, predicted his partys presidential candidates would avoid making missed votes an issue in a primary thats stayed largely free of infighting.
Given the positive tenor on the Democratic side of the campaign thus far, I just cant imagine any candidate trying to disingenuously weaponize it in this primary, Lehrich said. If someone did, I think it would backfire.
Harris and Booker tallied the bulk of their missed votes this month, including the , David Bernhardt, because the two had separately scheduled campaign travel to Iowa. Harris entered a statement in the Congressional Record making clear that she would have voted no on advancing Bernhardt to a final vote.
Asked about his missed votes after a Wednesday campaign stop in Atlanta, Booker told reporters: Im very confident the people of New Jersey know Im working for them and delivering results.
Booker cited work on veterans care and community health centers, along with his sponsorship of bipartisan opportunity zones legislation intended to spur economic growth in disadvantaged, economically depressed areas.
Broadly speaking, none of the Democratic senators running in 2020 have missed votes in which their presence would have affected the result.
Id be shocked if any 2020 Democratic candidate missed a key vote where the outcome was actually up in the air, Lehrich said.
On that point, Conant offered some bipartisan consensus: I never ran into a voter in Iowa or New Hampshire who was concerned that Rubio was missing votes, recalled the Republican, now a partner at the firm Firehouse Strategies. Voters understand that when youre running for president, missing votes comes with the job. The one exception, I think, is if you miss a vote of national significance where your vote could be decisive.
Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Juana Summers in Washington contributed to this report.


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Stephen King published his first novel, Carrie in 1974. That story's paperback version would go on to sell over a million copies a year later, followed by Brian De Palma's two-time Oscar-nominated feature adaptation a year later. Not a bad start for the oft-described "King of Horror", especially when considering that his written works have enjoyed over 100 adaptations for the big and small screens, and counting. Despite the hits and misses, and the highs and lows of these adaptations over the last four decades or so, all of them were one-shot, standalone titles. There were no original series or stories set within the wider, connected world of King's imagination … until Hulu's Castle Rock.
Now I know what you may be thinking, that we've been burned before with the promise of King's connected story universes or grand adaptations of his sweeping, epic mythologies. (See The Dark Tower.) But here's where Castle Rock succeeds exceedingly well: Its focus is narrow, choosing to follow a relatively few members of the title town's community; it's not overly concerned with jamming in King references but rather letting them arise where they may as part of the organic storytelling process; and it's an original story, well-told, and satisfyingly spooky. Castle Rock is a solid and engrossing horror series that should please hardcore King fans just as much as fans of Stranger Things, Channel Zero, and, to a lesser extent since it lacks the glam factor, American Horror Story.
Castle Rock pays homage to the master by telling stories within his created world, populated by his famous sometimes infamous characters, locations, and supernatural forces. This is not a simple wink-and-nudge kind of homage but rather an original tale that feels like it came from the pages of a King story itself. Longtime fans of King's work will find themselves pulling double duty by trying to keep track of all the story and character references while also keeping up with the fantastic mystery at the core of Castle Rock. More casual fans might just discover that they really like all the little nods and references, ultimately deciding they'd like to dig into King's collected works a bit more. That's a win-win. And showrunners Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason sure know how to craft a King-ly story, and J.J. Abrams is no slouch when it comes to unpacking the mystery box.
Castle Rock follows a core cast of characters. There's Terry O'Quinn's conflicted and mysterious Dale Lacy, alongside his wife, played by the fantastic Frances Conroy. There's Melanie Lynskey's Molly Strand, the gifted/cursed real estate developer with a substance addiction, alongside her in-your-face employee Jackie (Jane Levy), whose dark humor comes from her lack of social awareness. And then there's the main character, André Holland's Henry Deaver, a man who grew up in Castle Rock and now finds himself drawn back to the town at the request of a curious, unnamed inmate (Bill Skarsgard) who's temporarily incarcerated at Shawshank penitentiary. Stellar supporting stars include Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, Ann Cusack and Noel Fisher, with appearances by Allison Tolman, Caleel Harris, and Frank Ridley, all of whom make fantastic contributions to the series thanks to strong writing and performances. Those themes and names (of both the characters and some of the actors themselves) should be quite familiar to King fans, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Like many of King's tales, Castle Rock has a dark mystery, and a darker evil, at the center of a small town. The main crux of the mystery story in this first season centers on the disappearance of young Henry Deaver back in 1991 and the current appearance of Skarsgard's The Kid in 2018. It's that simple. But like any King story, the real meaning is found not just in the mystery but in how the people involved in it react to events, how they treat each other, and ultimately how they're judged for their actions.
Shaw, Thomason, Abrams & Co. really nail the core concepts of King's storytelling here. Each character gets a good amount of screen time to focus on introspection, a device that's better displayed in a TV series than on the written page since the visual medium allows viewers to witness past events or current hallucinations along with he character in question. Religious dogma is present here, as is all the baggage that comes with it. You've got creepy kids, questionable behavior by adults, vaguely described mystical powers and abilities, and a lurking evil that's festering under the town but has yet to come out into the open. It's vintage King.
And then there are the more universal themes that also appear in King's works but are hardly unique to him, themes of racism, classism, the struggle against an overwhelming authority, man's inhumanity towards man, and gross abuses of power on all fronts. One place that Castle Rock makes a curious and contemporary stand is in the debate over for-profit prisons and how that affects the judicial system in our modern world. That's definitely an interesting talking point, and the commentary comes about naturally as the story progresses, but it's the one aspect of Castle Rock that feels rooted in the current era, rather than the rest of the story's timeless feel.
The experience of reading one of King's tales, whether it's a 1,000-page tome or one of his brisk short stories, is incredibly unique for each person as your imagination will either crank up the horror or try to convince you that everything is fine, that this story is just fiction. Castle Rock, however, doesn't let you retreat into the real world when you're feeling skittish; its compelling story, fantastic score (complete with tracks like Gene Pitney's "24 Hours from Tulsa" and Tom Waits' "Clap Hands"), and superb editing that will have you jumping through the ceiling at unexpected moments. I've got some 30+ years of jump-scare experience and Castle Rock still caught me off-guard, so prepare yourselves. And this is all in just the first four episodes!
Castle Rock is a can't-miss series for Stephen King fans and a must-watch horror show for fans of dark, thrilling, character-focused mysteries.
Rating: ★★★★★ Excellent
Castle Rock premieres on Hulu Wednesday, July 25th.


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I've recently set up Windows file sharing over a gigabit ethernet network (I'm not using jumbo frames) with a Samba server and a Windows Vista client. I've done a few file copies, but the maximum throughput I'm seeing is 20MB/s (megabytes, not megabits) which is about 15% of the theoretical 125MB/s maximum for the network. The server has a RAID array that can manage about 75MB/s (the bottleneck is the PCI bus), and the client can manage about 40MB/s in a disk-to-disk copy.
I should add that there was no other traffic on the network at the time.
I understand I won't ever get the theoretical maximum, but I didn't think it would be this bad.
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Battered and bleary, my winterized flesh
Walked out into riotous, rollicking,
Unreserved song, staleness made strangely fresh
Because dawdling Spring took so long to wing
Its way north. Out into delayed dawn
I walked, out from a night that was too long.
Where birds sing, I open my mouth to yawn,
And where they fly, I limp, and don't feel strong
Though I do feel young. I walk on in pain
I flinch from, over the drive's dewy gravel,
As young as the songbird's ancient refrain
And heedless of convention's hard gavel,
For birdsong is honey, but it also is sweet
To be an old man walking with bare feet.
Considering there was frost on my truck's windshield during yesterday morning's pre-dawn, and today I walked out to my truck in bare feet before the sun rose, you can tell there has been a major "flip" to the weather pattern. It is something I've been expected since before my taxes were done, around April 12, and is one of the rare cases where Joe Bastardi didn't quite nail a forecast….or didn't nail it for my neck of the woods. He did say he was "worried" about the northeast and possible back-door fronts, but I don't think anyone guessed how reluctant the spring would be to creep this far north. Nor do most people realize what a close call we just had: all that was needed was a bit of a tweak to the weather map here, and little twist there, and the little gale slipping east off the Carolina coast would have come north and given us the sort of cold rain that turns to May snows.
(My revenge on Mr. Bastardi will be to steal his words for the title of this post. I think he's the originator of the phrase "a suddenly-summer weather pattern".)
The storm sliding out to sea is yet another chance of rain we have missed, and I'm wondering if this could be a summer of drought. I look back fifty to sixty years to see a pattern with attributes like the current pattern, and can remember how low the reservoirs I illegally fished from got, especially in the early 1960's. (The worst fires in recent New England's history occurred in 1947, but that spring was wet.)
The drought has been a blessing in some ways, as we had four feet of snow laying about in March, and a couple of heavy, warm rains could have caused floods and made a total gloppy mess of things. I was half-expecting a spring like the spring of 1972, which turned the farm to a swamp and severely dented my ambition to be a farmer. (The mud-season usually ends when summery sunshine dries things out, but 1972 brought an extended mud-season, and the final straw came when the rains from former Hurricane Agnes wandered north in mid June, at which point I threw up my hands and decided wading about in muck was not the life for me, and began planning to make a fortune writing a novel and also to hitchhike up to see the total eclipse of the sun in Nova Scotia on July 10.) (And yes, I do think Carly Simon's song is about me, though she was writing about the Nova Scotia eclipse of March 7, 1970.)
In any case, spring will be busting out all over, as we get a solid week of sudden-summer, and, as all the trees slurp up water, the levels of the brooks will visibly drop an inch or two. (The level rises again when leaves come off in the fall.) The trees suck up an amazing amount of water, and change the humidity of the air, and the very feel of the forest is altered as a thing called "shade" is resurrected. Right now the forest is mercilessly hot, and you have the brief sense you are walking about in the devastation after a nuclear blast.
Not that I'll have much time to walk about the woods, or sit here musing about droughts and eclipses that happened a half century ago. Everything will be growing like gangbusters in the garden, especially the weeds, and if you slack off, you pay. I suspect my posts will be written after dark or before dawn, and will be brief.
As a side note, "The black flies are out, but aren't biting yet." They like a wet spring, for, unlike mosquitoes, they breed in flowing water. A dry spring is less buggy, and gives me less reason to flee indoors and write posts.


text: Data Analysis and Statistical MethodsComparison between casual blood pressure and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring parameters in healthy and hypertensive adolescentsKoch, Vera Herminaa; Colli, Anitab; Saito, Maria Ignezb; Furusawa, Erika Araia; Ignes, Ednac; Okay, Yassuhikoa; Júnior, Décio MioncAuthor Information aPediatric Nephrology and bAdolescent Units, Children's Hospital, cHypertension Unit, Nephrology Division, General Hospital of the University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil Correspondence and requests for reprints to Vera H. Koch MD, R. das Mangabeiras 91/81, 01233-010 São Paulo-SP, Brazil. Tel: +55 11 8250321; fax +55 11 3824 9672; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Received 23 February 2000 Revised 2 June 2000 Accepted 4 October 2000 Blood Pressure Monitoring: October 2000 - Volume 5 - Issue 5 - p 281-289 Buy Abstract Casual blood pressure measurements were compared with mean ambulatory blood pressure values during wakefulness and sleep in 45 normotensive and 30 hypertensive adolescents of both sexes aged 10–18 years. Two sets of auscultatory casual blood pressure were obtained, one in a pediatric office setting (office blood pressure), performed by the physician, and one in the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) unit, performed by a trained nurse, prior to the initiation of ABPM (pre-ABPM blood pressure). In normotensive and hypertensive subjects of both sexes, the mean office systolic blood pressure (SBP) was lower than the mean pre-ABPM SBP, and the mean office diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was lower than the mean pre-ABPM DBP. In normotensive participants, the mean pre-ABPM SBP/DBP was lower than the mean ABPM SBP/DBP while awake, the mean ABPM SBP/DBP during sleep being lower than the mean ABPM SBP/DBP values while awake and the mean pre-ABPM SBP/DBP. No statistical difference was demonstrated between the mean office SBP and the mean ABPM SBP during sleep, the mean ABPM DBP during sleep being lower than the mean office DBP. The hypertensive adolescents presented a blood pressure profile similar to that of the normotensive group, albeit shifted upwards, with no significant difference between the mean pre-ABPM SBP and the mean ABPM SBP while awake but a higher mean pre-ABPM DBP than mean ABPM DBP while awake. This study suggests that, by evaluating the casual blood pressure in different environment/observer situations, the power of casual blood pressure to predict inadequate blood pressure control, manifested as abnormal ABPM parameters, can be enhanced. Our data indicate ABPM to be the method of choice for the early diagnosis and adequate follow-up of adolescent hypertension. © 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Leng and I use betting odds to make our predictions. None of this is new — academics have been using them for years — but they're pretty new to the mainstream media, so we thought it'd be good to talk through some of their strengths and weaknesses.
Why use betting odds?
- They're more accurate: Previous studies have shown that they often yield comparable, if not better, predictions than polls. Betting odds reflect the market's estimate of the underlying probabilities of victory for each party, implicitly combining information from many sources. Unlike poll respondents, bettors are putting their money on the line, so their views are likely to be better informed than those given to pollsters.
- They include more information: Participants will include not just their own views, but those of their friends, colleagues, pundits, polls and other sources in forming these views. This means betting markets tend to have a larger "effective" sample size, compared to polls.
- They're naturally designed for making predictions: While pollsters ask participants about their current voting preferences, betting markets implicitly ask participants, 'who will win?', so their results are more useful in making predictions.
- They allow us to answer questions national polls can't: Elections are won by winning seats. But we don't have separate polls for all 150 electorates. Betting markets provide us with electorate-level data that allows us to make direct predictions about who will win the election. An added bonus is that we can also predict answers to many other interesting questions that are difficult to answer with national polling data: how many seats will the ALP lose in western Sydney? How likely is a hung parliament? What are the odds of the Liberal party winning the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, but losing the election? Provided we have good betting odds, we can use our general framework to answer all kinds of interesting questions that can't be answered using national polling data without making lots of assumptions.
What are the weaknesses of using betting odds?
This blog is about exploring the potential of betting odds for making predictions and, while we believe these predictions are likely to be accurate close to the election, we are just as interested in exploring the weaknesses of these techniques as their strengths. Here are a few:
- Betting odds can yield poor predictions when not many people are betting, particularly in the early stages of the campaign. In the extreme case, where no-one has placed a bet on an electorate, the betting odds will reflect the views of a few people in the betting agency and are essentially useless (although we're able to exclude some of them from our analysis by looking for electorates where the odds have not changed from their opening values). This is why we're cautious about making predictions at this early stage in the campaign.
- We can't quantify the uncertainty on our predictions: Unfortunately, the betting agencies don't make available information on market size, let alone individual betting behaviour, so we can't put error bars on our predictions.
- They have their own biases: for instance, they tend to overestimate the probability of victory of underdogs (this is called "longshot bias").
Overall, we think electoral betting odds are a really rich source of data for making predictions about elections, as long as they're interpreted with caution. As we get closer to the election, we'll start rolling out more of our analyses.


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My mother's excellent recipe for Mexican chorizo (spicy sausage) with scrambled eggs.
- Extra virgin olive oil or bacon fat
- 1/3 cup chopped onions (green, red, or yellow onions) optional
- 1/4 pound of Mexican chorizo sausage, removed from sausage casing
- 3 tablespoons raisins - soaked in hot water for 10 minutes and drained
- 5 to 6 eggs
- Salt
- Tortillas - optional
- Cilantro - optional
Chorizo sausage from Whole Foods. Whole Foods has a standard recipe and spices for making chorizo sausage and may make some up for you upon request if you don't see it displayed.
1 Cook the onions: Heat a large skillet on medium high heat. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil or bacon fat in the pan. Add the chopped onions (optional) and cook until softened.
2 Add the chorizo and raisins: Once softened, move the onions to the side of the pan and add clumps of chorizo into the pan. Use a wooden spatula to break up the pieces of sausage. Add the raisins.
Stir until the sausage is cooked through, though not necessarily browned. If you are not using lean chorizo, drain the excess fat from the pan before proceeding.
If you are not using lean chorizo, you may want to cook the chorizo first, draining the excess fat, then remove to a plate while you cook the onions in the remaining fat. We usually cook with lean chorizo, so excess fat isn't an issue.
3 Add the eggs: Crack the eggs one at a time, into the pan. Break the yolks and stir the eggs into the sausage. Add a light sprinkling of salt.
Stir constantly until the eggs begin to set, but are still moist. Remove from heat.
Serve immediately with a side of warmed corn tortillas and cilantro as a garnish.


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3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in data breach in 2013
Every single Yahoo account was hacked in 2013
We all knew that Yahoo data breach in 2013 was massive. However, since the company reported about the issue in September 2016,[1] Yahoo continuously reported about detected more compromised accounts. However, no one expected that within a year the scale of the attack would reach 3 billion.[2]
A digital and mobile media company Oath, which owns Yahoo, released an official note on the 3rd of October informing about these threatening news.[3] Therefore, it means that if you had an account in 2013 and still have it, it's a perfect time to change your password and secure other accounts as well.
The chronology of Yahoo data theft investigation
In August 2016, 200 million hacked Yahoo accounts were noticed being sold on the dark web. However, the company did not rush to confirm if user accounts were actually compromised. The first report about the issue appeared only on September.
It seems Yahoo has been investigating the issue for more than a month. However, the research results were worse than announced in August. The company revealed that more than 500 million accounts might have been compromised.
However, the scale of the attack was bigger than company noticed at first. On December 14, Yahoo announced that more than 1 billion user accounts were stolen by cyber criminals.
Finally, almost a year ago since the first news about data breach appeared, in October 2017, the company gave updated research results that are threatening. It seems that in 2013, criminals managed to steal 3 billion account information, meaning that all Yahoo users, who had an account four years ago, have suffered from the attack.
What data has been stolen?
According to the investigation, cyber criminals managed to steal personally identifiable and sensitive information, including:
- full name;
- email address;
- phone number;
- birthday day;
- hashed passwords (using MD5);
- security passwords and answers.
However, since the data breach was announced, some rumors and assumptions appeared about stolen bank account or credit card information. However, the company denied that this information might have been stolen. According to Yahoo, this data was not stored on the affected systems.[4]
Yahoo users are advised to take extra steps to protect their personal information
When Yahoo confirmed data breach in 2016, all potentially affected users received an alert to change their passwords and security questions. However, the company also advised to stay vigilant and monitor bank account information even if they tell that cyber criminals should not be able to access this data.
However, having a bunch of personally identifiable data might help crooks to continue cyber crimes and find the way to get access to your bank account or even steal an identity. Thus, users are suggested to change their other accounts passwords. Please have in mind that it's important to create strong and unique passwords for each account.
Yahoo users are also warned to be careful with emails.[5] Due to the data breach, you might find phishing or infected emails in your inbox. Thus, do not rush opening email attachments or clicking provided links unless you are 100% that your received email is real and safe.
About the author
- ^ Cara McGoogan. Yahoo hack: What you need to know about the biggest data breach in history. The Telegraph. Daily news.
- ^ Nicole Perlroth. All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Affected by 2013 Attack. The New York Times. Breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion.
- ^ Yahoo provides notice to additional users affected by previously disclosed 2013 data theft. Oath. The official website.
- ^ Yahoo 2013 Account Security Update FAQs. Yahoo Help. Yahoo Help Center website.
- ^ Sharon Florentine. 5 ways to spot a phishing email. CSO. Security news, features and analysis about prevention and protection.
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I just wanted to add a link to those fics of mine that I've uploaded to Ao3. Various pairings, and any explicit fics have been labeled as such. I will say that if you're not the sort of person who likes the idea of Steed and his partners being romantically involved, you should probably avoid my work. Otherwise...enjoy!
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As per Alan's request, here are three of my more recent stories. The first two are explicit, so avoid if that's not your thing. All are Steed/Mrs. Peel.
And one based on a scene in The Avengers film that I thought would work better with the actual Steed and Mrs. Peel.
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:29 am
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As a very much lapsed reader of fan fiction, it's difficult to know how to approach "scenes" rather than stories. In this case, it's a recasting of a scene in the 1998 movie reimagined with Macnee's Steed and Rigg's Mrs Peel.
As advised in the preamble to the piece, I first watched the scene concerned and then read the "remix".
For starters, I quickly realised that I had completely forgotten about this scene, despite having seen the movie on probably ten occasions. The chemistry between the leads is such that you get sent to sleep: neither has presence or much of an understanding of the characters they're playing, and crucially, they have absolutely no warmth. It's like watching a love scene played out by two Cybernauts...
This brings me to Lauren's rewrite of this scene. I have to say that I found it exceptionally difficult to suddenly place Macnee and Rigg in the same scene in my mind, as the sheer horror of the Fiennes/Thurman version was so fresh in it. That's not a criticism of the writing, but maybe of the choice to rewrite something realised in such a glacial, awful fashion and then advise people to watch that awful thing first!
People have very different ideas regarding the Steed-Emma relationship. I'm an old stick-in-the-mud, I don't mind saying, and have to be honest that aside from a very obvious closeness that could only have come from a pre-Series 4 affair, which led to their companionship and mutual trust and admiration, I don't get the feeling that Steed and Emma were together in the biblical sense during the televised episodes. So, probably I'm not the audience for the "Steed and Emma get it on" type of fanfic - I don't decry it; it's just not what I look for in The Avengers. (Though I say that without having read very much of that type of fiction!)
This scene, however, seated at the dawn of Steed and Emma's association, makes sense, and is well-written. It certainly takes something distinctly unmemorable and gives it a good shake-up, turning it into something more satisfying. But Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman... get out of my head, people! (My fault, not yours, Lauren.)
I hope that's a fair review from someone who's not really in the market for SEDDI fiction.
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Thanks for your response, Alan. I chose that scene because I felt it could have been easily done by Macnee and Rigg, who had actual chemistry. It's a very "Avengers" scene, but falls apart because Fiennes and Thurman have no chemistry. So that's why I made that choice.
Personally, I don't see any contradiction in recognizing the emotional and romantic relationship between Steed and Mrs. Peel. It's there and to me it's fairly obvious that they are more than just friends, both before and during the series. That's the view I take in these fics - so if that's not your thing, that's totally fine - I just don't want to have to defend choices in fic writing, or to go into defending my view of that relationship. If you don't like the choice, no worries, but I'd prefer to have actual discussions of the story as a story. If you can go into this with an open mind, I'd really appreciate it. 'Cause my fic is primarily SEDDI fic.
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:58 am
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There's nothing you need defend. I was merely stating that my take on the series is different to that of others. I'm not looking to argue the "did they, didn't they?" question, merely to state that my own perspective on the show didn't spoil my enjoyment of the piece (though I do wonder if I'd have enjoyed it a lot more had I
watched the movie scene at all).
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I get it - I just wanted to cut that debate off at the knees, because I'm really tired of having it and I don't get why so many people (not you,
Alan) think it so important that they're not having sex. I just don't want every fic I post to get "well, I don't agree with this relationship" responses. I've become defensive about that. That's all.
And I'm really never having that debate again. It's exhausting and childish.
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I can understand that - and I agree. There is of course a discussion to be had on this subject, but this topic is not the place for it.
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I thoroughly enjoyed your
Arabian Nights
story, Lauren
Its a clever re-imagining and intriguingly erotic mix of Emma re-creating Steed's, bound-in-silken-cords, exotic bondage dream from
Death's Door
and the smouldering sensuality of the enchantingly seductive, Emma: barefoot in Turkish translucent trousers, elements and ambience of the steamy Arabian harem setting from
Honey for the Prince
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Holly Jackson thought she had a straightforward writing project when she was assigned to write an entry on Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins for the African American National Biography, a project forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
But Jackson, a Ph.D. student at Brandeis University, ended up finding out that Kelley-Hawkins has no business being in the African American National Biography. The 19th century novelist was white. Jackson details her discovery in an article in The Boston Globe, which may prompt quite a bit of revision in parts of the literary world.
That's because Kelley-Hawkins isn't just an entry in a biography project. Two of her novels -- Megda and Four Girls at Cottage City -- are in the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, a major publishing project of the Oxford press. Four Girls at Cottage City is described on the press's Web site as "one precursor of the spiritual feminism that is currently resonating throughout contemporary Afro-American women's fiction."
And these works appear on scores of syllabi, in dissertation chapters, in scholarly works -- all analyzed as early black fiction. "I don't know what will be done now, but all kinds of chapters are now obsolete," Jackson said in an interview Wednesday.
In her Globe article, she recounts how she made the discovery about Kelley-Hawkins, about whom relatively little had been known. In short, a tip led her to records revealing the author's parents, and that in turn led to the discovery that several generations of her family about whom records exist were all white. (Jackson explored, and rejected, the hypothesis that the family was "passing" for white.)
The irony, Jackson and others said Wednesday, is that there were plenty of clues all along. For instance, to the extent that her characters are given physical descriptions, they all appear to be white. And racial issues don't appear in the novels.
In fact, at least one other scholar discovered the truth about Kelley-Hawkins two years ago, although her paper on the topic hasn't been published.
So what does it mean that a dead novelist turns out to be white?
In an interview, Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor of the Sc homburg series, said that he agrees with the new analysis of Kelley-Hawkins and that at the very least, she won't be in future editions. Gates, chair of the African and African-American studies at Harvard University, said that he doesn't know how Kelley-Hawkins came to be considered black, but that it goes back at least 50 years.
He said Kelley-Hawkins was a "mediocre novelist" and that he thinks the primary impact of the discovery will be that people won't write about her any more. There are so few black women authors in the 19th century that every single one matters, he says. "Anyone matters," he said.
But Gates said that he doubted that feminist scholars would now start studying Kelley-Hawkins, since there are so many better writers for them to examine in the 19th century. "It's less important to add one more white woman," he said.
Asked how he felt about finding out that some books in the series didn't belong there, he said: "We're scholars. We exist to pursue the truth."
The other person who has been tracking down Kelley-Hawkins is Katherine Flynn, an organic chemist at Procter & Gamble who has also become a genealogist and whose work has helped identify early black women writers. Flynn said Wednesday that she made the discovery two years ago, but only just finished work on a paper on the topic, which she is submitting to the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
"There is so much at stake here," she said, because of all the writing that has been done based on a false assumption about race.
Jackson, the Brandeis student, said that since she published her article, she has heard from several relatives of Kelley-Hawkins, and that they are white and that they had always been surprised to hear that some considered their family to be black. Jackson said that no one has disputed her findings.
She said that removing Kelley-Hawkins has a scholarly impact. "If you picture the tradition of black women's literature in the 1890s without her in it, the tradition looks a lot more radical by contemporary standards," she said. The other black women writers of these period were very focused on their identities and on "racial uplift."
The race switch for Kelley-Hawkins "raises questions about how we read race," Jackson said. Many scholars have struggled, she said, to explain the apparent disinterest of Kelley-Hawkins with racial issues, and those analyses won't make any sense. "It's like if you take Little Women or one of Faulkner's books and said, 'This was written by a black woman.' "
On one issue, Jackson disagrees with Gates. She thinks the works of Kelley-Hawkins will still be of interest to scholars, but because of the "enormous historical misconception" about them. And she has an idea for Oxford University Press: "Republish them with an introduction by me."
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First up I am going to be in Orlando at the Orlando Code Camp on Saturday March 22nd 2014. I have two sessions. One on the new ALM features in TFS and Visual Studio 2013 and the other is a 100 level talk on Coded UI. Here is a link to my sessions. http://www.orlandocodecamp.com/Speaker/Details/2032
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