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I don't do politics, but Obama won points with me a few weeks back when he announced that his friend, Elizabeth Alexander, would be reading a poem at his inauguration. I was unfamiliar with Alexander, so I did some research and tracked down a bit of her work. A Yale professor, Alexander is hardly a household name, but one of her five books of poetry was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and she has earned both NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. More significantly, she is a personal friend of our new commander-in-chief. My reaction to news of her commission was, "How neat for Obama to have a poet friend who can share in his celebration," along with my general delight that he chose to make poetry a part of this always (and, especially, this one) auspicious occasion.
Pickier powers than I, however, were not impressed. Staff writer George Packer voiced his disdain for Obama's choice in a recent online issue of the New Yorker. His dismissal of Alexander's work as "general," "self-consciously academic," and unlikely to "read well before an audience of millions" invoked the ire of Minneapolis poet and writer Terri Ford, who is the daughter of a good friend of my sister's. Had Terri's indignant response not been published, I would never have seen Packer's original comments; with my limited discretionary time, I choose to read poetry rather than the New Yorker. But because Terri's mother shared her daughter's fifteen minutes of fame with my sister, and because my sister sends all poetry-related things she encounters my way (bless her), I'm now annoyed with the guy myself.
According to Mr. Packer (who is not a poet, by the way), American poetry is "written by few people...read by few people...and lacking the language, rhythm, emotion, and thought that could move large numbers of people in large public settings." Wow, tell us how you really feel. It's true enough that the audience for poetry is small; it is, however, significantly larger than it has been in many years. There is renewed, growing interest in poetry and, on any given day in major cities, one can very probably find at least one poetry event. The assertion that poetry is written by few people is blatantly false. Half the planet writes poetry--most of it bad. One is often, in fact, reluctant to admit to being a published poet because of the likelihood of being assaulted by unpublished (and justifiably so) poets in search of validation and encouragement.
But it is Packer's declaration that, on the rare occasion when poetry has been included in an inaugural celebration, it is because "the incoming President seemed to be claiming more for his arrival than he deserved, and to be doing it by pretending that poetry means more in American life than, alas, it does," that really peeved my participles. Perhaps those presidents who choose to include an inaugural poem have more culture than the rest--or greater grasp of decorum, or a better feel for posterity, or perhaps they simply had a fabulous English teacher who taught them to enjoy and appreciate poetry! The suggestion that an inaugural poem represents pomposity and is insignificant is both fatuous and insulting. Surely after the hours upon HOURS of campaign rhetoric we have endured, even a marginally entertaining poem is a welcome change and a fair reward for those of us who revere the power and beauty of the English language.
Packer has apologized for his remarks about Ms. Alexander, but his labeling of multiple generations of American poets as unskilled and uninspiring still stands. Gee, Packer, maybe you should broaden your reading material, because there's actually a fair amount of superb and stirring poetry out there. Could be that most poets have stopped wasting their time submitting to the New Yorker; onslaught, anyone?
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Shaken baby
syndrome (SBS) is a form of child abuse. It refers to brain injury that happens
to the child. It occurs when someone shakes a baby or slams or throws a baby
against an object. A child could be shaken by the arms, legs, chest, or
Some experts use the term shaken-impact syndrome,
because injury from throwing a child against a surface can equal that of
shaking. Many doctors use the term "abusive head trauma" or "intentional head
Shaken baby syndrome often occurs when a baby won't stop
crying and a caregiver who is frustrated shakes the baby. To help prevent this
problem, learn healthy ways to relieve stress and anger. And carefully choose
your child care providers.
Normal play, such as bouncing a child
on a knee or gently tossing a child in the air, does not cause shaken baby
Shaken baby syndrome occurs mostly in children younger
than 3. It is most common in babies younger than 1 year of age. But it also can
affect children up to age 5. Shaken baby syndrome can cause serious long-term
Shaking or throwing
a child, or slamming a child against an object, causes uncontrollable forward,
backward, and twisting head movement. Brain tissue, blood vessels, and nerves
tear. The child's skull can hit the brain with force, causing brain tissue to
bleed and swell.
Young children are most likely to have brain
injury when they are shaken or thrown because they have:
Symptoms vary among kids
based on their age, how often they've been abused, how long they were abused
each time, and how much force was used.
Mild injuries may cause
subtle symptoms. A child may vomit or be fussy or grouchy, sluggish, or not
very hungry. More severe injuries may cause
seizures, a slow heartbeat, trouble hearing, or
bleeding inside one or both eyes.
It is important to get help if
something doesn't seem right with your baby. Shaken baby syndrome may cause
only mild symptoms at first, but any head injury in a young child can be
dangerous. A child who has
trouble breathing, is
unconscious, or has seizures needs hospital care right
Symptoms can start quickly, especially in a badly injured
child. Other times, it may take a few days for brain swelling to show symptoms.
Often the caregiver who shook the child puts the child to bed in the hope that
symptoms will get better with rest. By the time the child gets to a doctor, the
child needs urgent care. In some cases, the child may be in a coma before a
caregiver seeks help.
Shaken children may also have other signs of
abuse, such as broken bones, bruises, or burns.
may first suspect shaken baby syndrome when caregivers give vague or changing
information about what has happened to the sick child. For example, the
caregiver may tell a doctor that the child fell out of bed and then later say
that a sibling or a pet caused the injury.
Shaken baby syndrome
can be hard to detect, because often there aren't clear signs of abuse. A baby
may vomit, have a poor appetite, or be fussy or sluggish. These symptoms may at
first seem related to an infection, such as the flu or
meningitis. Sadly, you may not find out that shaken
baby syndrome caused your child's injury until repeated abuse or more severe
harm occurs.
Doctors check for shaken baby syndrome in several
ways. They ask for a child's medical history. They may also do a physical exam
and blood tests. Imaging tests such as
X-rays, a
CT scan, or an
MRI can look for bleeding problems or other
A doctor may also do tests to rule out other conditions.
For example, a
lumbar puncture checks a baby's spinal fluid for signs
of meningitis. Blood found in this sample could point to a shaking
A doctor who suspects shaken baby
syndrome must report it to the local child welfare office and police.
If you suspect child abuse and the child is not in immediate danger, call
local child protective services or the police. Do not confront the person who
may have abused the child. This may cause more harm to the child.
A child with shaken baby
syndrome needs to be in the hospital, sometimes in an intensive care unit
Oxygen therapy may be used to help the child breathe.
Doctors may give the child medicine to help ease brain swelling. Sometimes a
cooling mattress will help lower the child's body temperature and reduce brain
swelling too. A child who has severe bleeding in the brain may need
Depending on the symptoms, doctors may try seizure
medicine, physical therapy, or other treatments.
Children can die from their injuries. Those who survive
may have brain and vision problems that can last forever. These problems can
Frequently Asked Questions
Learning about shaken baby syndrome:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
Symptoms of
shaken baby syndrome may appear right away or within
several days. The child's age, the number of abusive episodes, and degree of
force used are the main factors that affect when symptoms appear and how severe
they are. Trust your instincts if something doesn't seem right with your
Vague symptoms may include
irritability, sluggishness, vomiting, and a poor appetite. At first, caregivers
and doctors may assume that these symptoms are related to a common illness such
as the
flu. If these symptoms are more severe,
meningitis may be suspected.
In the most severe cases, a child
loses consciousness or stops breathing right after
being shaken or thrown. The caregiver may attempt to perform
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and later claim
that the CPR caused the child's injuries. The caregiver responsible for the
abuse may put the child to bed, hoping the condition will improve after the
child rests. By the time the caregiver seeks medical attention, the child may
be comatose and unable to suck, swallow, smile, make sounds, or follow the
movement of an object with his or her eyes. The child may also have great
difficulty breathing or may completely stop breathing, have a slow
heart rate, and require CPR. These children usually
either die or have long-lasting problems from severe brain injury.
Bleeding inside one or both eyes is
a common symptom of shaken baby syndrome that can be detected by a pediatric
eye specialist (ophthalmologist). Also, a child may have broken bones, often in
the ribs or arms and legs, from violent shaking. Sometimes a child will have
signs of other types of physical abuse, such as bruises or burns.
Sadly, some children who are
forcefully shaken or thrown die from their injuries. Those who live may have
brain damage and one or more of the following problems:
Shaken baby syndrome can be difficult to diagnose. The diagnosis can be complicated
Doctors may suspect shaken baby syndrome when the adults
are vague or misleading about what has happened to the child, especially when
symptoms are severe and indicate intentional head injury. Diagnosis is
confirmed by:
A child may have blood tests to rule out other conditions,
such as rare blood disorders and metabolic conditions, or to check for internal injuries.
Each state has its own reporting
procedures for
child abuse or neglect, which includes shaken baby
syndrome. In general, a doctor who suspects shaken baby
syndrome must notify local child welfare officials and law enforcement
agencies. The person who is suspected of injuring the baby is then questioned
and evaluated along with anyone else who provided care for the child. Any other
children who were cared for by the suspect should be examined. Older children
are interviewed. Children age 3 years and younger should have skeletal X-rays
The authorities' primary goal is to protect the baby and
other children in the home from further injury. The person who caused the
injury may be legally charged and tried for assault.
A child with
shaken baby syndrome is admitted to a hospital for
observation and treatment. Doctors will closely monitor the child. They watch
for signs of brain swelling and difficulty breathing, which can lead to the
death of brain cells or a
stroke. If signs of these problems occur, the child is
admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) where he or she is treated with
oxygen therapy and/or a
ventilator. A
neurosurgeon may treat the bleeding and swelling in
the brain. Sometimes surgery is needed.
Other treatment depends on
the child's specific injuries. For example, a cast is applied to any broken
bones and cuts are stitched or bandaged. A child who has
seizures is evaluated by a
neurologist who may prescribe anticonvulsant medicine.
Other types of specialists assess, treat, and monitor children who have
long-term care issues, such as those related to
intellectual disabilities or physical disabilities.
Other children in the care of the suspected abuser must be protected and
examined for injury.
A wide variety of
counseling therapies may be used for both children and
parents. Specific treatment depends on the type of abuse, who inflicted it, in
what setting it occurred, and the child's age. Health and legal professionals
work as a team to develop the most effective program using their training,
experience, judgment, and creativity.
Parents may regain custody
of their children after they have lost guardianship because of child abuse or
neglect. Whether they do so depends on the severity of the abuse or neglect and
a professional evaluation of their rehabilitation progress. In severe cases,
future contact between parent and child must be supervised. Sometimes parents
lose all parental rights.
Intentional injury is a crime. Police
perform site investigations and interview other caregivers. If intentional
injury is suspected, the child's caregiver will be charged and tried in a
criminal court.
Keep in mind that the types of falls that occur during
normal play, from an infant swing, from a low surface such as an adult bed or
couch, or even down stairs, will not cause shaken baby syndrome. It is the
violent shaking, throwing, or slamming of a child that results in this type of
injury. Although caregivers often first state that these types of scenarios
have caused a child's injuries, most later confess to having shaken or slammed
a baby against an object.
The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome is a
worldwide nonprofit organization that provides information to professionals and
parents about recognizing and preventing this form of child abuse.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health, is the leading
U.S. federal government agency supporting research on brain and nervous system
disorders. It provides the public with educational materials and information
about these disorders.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers a
variety of educational materials about parenting,
general growth and development, immunizations, safety, disease prevention, and more. AAP guidelines for various conditions and links to other
organizations are also available.
The Child Welfare Information Gateway is a national
resource for people seeking information about how to prevent, identify, and
treat child abuse and neglect. The Web site has information about family
support services, fostering and adopting a child, and child welfare issues.
There are also links for many toll-free crisis hotline numbers.
The Shaken Baby Alliance supports families and
professionals in the fight against Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma and
other forms of child abuse. The Alliance offers printed materials and support
services by phone.
Other Works ConsultedAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (2007, reaffirmed 2012). Evaluation of suspected child physical abuse. Pediatrics, 119(6): 1232–1241. Also available online: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/6/1232.full.American Academy of Pediatrics (2008). Promoting mental health. In Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd ed., pp. 77–107. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.Braverman RS (2012). Eye. In WW Hay Jr et al., eds., Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 21st ed., pp. 424–464. New York: McGraw-Hill.Saunders BE, et al., eds. (2004). Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment (Revised). Charleston, SC: National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center. Also available online: http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/ncvc/resources_prof/ovc_guidelines04-26-04.pdf.The Arc (accessed October 2012). Shaken Baby Syndrome. Silver Spring. MD: The Arc. Available online: http://www.thearc.org/page.aspx?pid=2549.
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World War I era grenade found at auction
Police remove "potato masher" from Export fire hall
An auctioneer says state police removed a device labeled a World War I-era hand grenade from a western Pennsylvania auction due to safety concerns.
The owner of Bill Evans Auction Service of Murrysville said a trooper took the cylinder-shaped hand grenade from Saturday morning's auction at the Export Fire Hall.
Bill Evans told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/11X2csx ) that it appeared to be a "potato masher" style used by German soldiers during both world wars.
Evans said he didn't know whether the device was live or not. He said the trigger was secured with plastic ties.
The grenade was part of a Harrison City man's estate. The auction attracted about 100 people.
Police and Allegheny County officials declined comment. A Westmoreland County official said state police handled the matter.


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Dowsing is where quantum physics meets with mysticism, still
impossible to measure with scientific instruments, only accessible to
our intuition. Imagine a device where pendulum movement in the hand of a
dowser is an equivalent of a needle on a meter used to measure subtle
energy not detected by other senses.
Here is a short list of areas that dowsing can be used:
- Finding water - this is the most traditional way of using dowsing, also known as witching or divining. Search for gold and minerals - this also include oil and gas dowsing and is quite widely used. Some oil companies won't admit they hire dowsers to locate rich oil deposits.
- Finding lost objects or missing people.
- Detecting geopathic zones. Again - this is a growing field. Did you know that several European countries won't give you building permit without testing for geopathic zones?
- Finding water or gas mains or finding leaks
- Sexing unhatched eggs - this one requires some skills and a way to neutralize the dowsing tool and the spot to avoid the shadow effect that can skew your results.
- Dowsing stock market - a bit controversial - from what I gathered you can get better results dowsing trends. It's hard to find out the truth - I don't think successful stock market dowsers would share their techniques with the public for obvious reasons-
- Dowsing fruit and vegetables for freshness and contaminants - irradiated, sprayed or otherwise treated food will give very low life force reading.
- Testing supplements for compatibility with your body.
- Testing for mineral deficiencies or surplus.
- Adjusting charkas - for spin rate, direction, opening ratio, etc.
This is not by any means a complete list of areas that dowsing can be used - it's limited only by our imagination.
Hi, I am Chris Gozdzik, I have been a dowser for over 30 years and
helping dowsers online since 1998. To date, we have assisted 1000's of
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Have you ever had a feeling that something was going to happen and it
did happened some time later? Have you ever known who is calling before
the phone rang? Those are the things that we call "gut feeling", "little
voice" or intuition. In a proper state of mind, we can access
information that is not available to us through our conscious mind.
Dowsing, also known as rhabdomancy, witching, divination, dousing, doodlebugging, radiesthesia, is an art and a science that allows you to detect vibrations that are not detectable by any scientific instruments. In the past, it was used mostly to find water and now it is greatly expanded and covers almost every aspect of human life.


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Senior Ed Bloom: They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
Will Bloom: A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
Young Ed Bloom: It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.
Sandra Bloom: You don't even know me.
Young Ed Bloom: I have the rest of my life to find out.
Senior Ed Bloom: There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost... the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue. Truth is... I've always been a fool.
Will Bloom: Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why it's funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly it's new. You remember why you loved it in the first place.
[first lines]
Young Ed Bloom: There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra.
[When meeting young Sandra Templeton for the first time]
Young Ed Bloom: You don't know me but my name is Edward Bloom and I love you.
[last lines]
Will Bloom: That was my father's final joke, I guess. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal.
Will Bloom: Everybody's there, and I mean everybody. And the strange thing is, there's not a sad face to be found, everyone's just so happy to see you.
Ed Bloom (Age 10): I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.
Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French.
Josephine: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.
Will Bloom: Why not religion, Dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend.
Will Bloom: Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, so you know.
Senior Ed Bloom: Most men, they'll tell you a story straight through. It won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.
Senior Ed Bloom: Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.
Will Bloom: In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened... but that's what kind of story this is.
Senior Ed Bloom: People needn't worry so much. It's not my time yet. This is not how I go.
Will Bloom: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: Truly. I saw it in the eye.
Will Bloom: The old lady by the swamp?
Senior Ed Bloom: She was a *witch*.
Will Bloom: No, she was old and probably senile.
Senior Ed Bloom: I saw my death in that eye, and this isn't how it happens.
Will Bloom: So how does it happen?
Senior Ed Bloom: Surprise ending. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you.
Senior Ed Bloom: I've been nothin' but myself since the day I was born, and if you can't see that it's your failin', not mine.
Will Bloom: You become what you always were - a very big fish.
Karl: I don't want to eat you. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big.
Young Ed Bloom: Did you ever think that maybe you're not too big, but maybe this town is just too small?
Young Ed Bloom: There comes a point when any reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he made a mistake. The truth is... I was never a reasonable man.
Senior Ed Bloom: [quoting his mother] "The milkman just dropped dead on the porch." Because see, my mother was banging the milkman.
Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] It occurred to me then, that perhaps the reason for my growth was I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.
Norther Winslow: Roses are red. Violets are blue. I love Spectre.
[a poem he's worked on 12 years, written on a note pad]
Norther Winslow: The grass so green. Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!
Wilbur (Age 10): Is it true she's got a glass eye? I heard she got it from the gypsies...
Young Don Price: What's a gypsy?
Ed Bloom (Age 10): Your momma's a gypsy.
Young Don Price: Your momma's a bitch.
Josephine: I'd like to take your picture.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, you don't need a picture. Just look up "handsome" in the dictionary.
Young Ed Bloom: Sandra Templeton, I love you and I WILL marry you.
Senior Ed Bloom: You are in for a surprise.
Will Bloom: Am I?
Senior Ed Bloom: Havin' a kid changes everything. There's burping, the midnight feeding, and the changing.
Will Bloom: You do any of that?
Senior Ed Bloom: No. But I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.
Will Bloom: You think I'm up for it?
Senior Ed Bloom: You learned from the best.
Senior Dr. Bennett: Did your father ever tell you about the day you were born?
Will Bloom: A thousand times. He caught an uncatchable fish.
Senior Dr. Bennett: Not that one. The real story. Did he ever tell you that?
Will Bloom: No.
Senior Dr. Bennett: Your mother came in about three in the afternoon. Her neighbor drove her, on account of your father was on business in Wichita. You were born a week early, but there were no complications. It was a perfect delivery. Now, your father was sorry to miss it, but it wasn't the custom for the men to be in the room for deliveries then, so I can't see as it would have been much different had he been there. And that's the real story of how you were born. Not very exciting, is it? And I suppose if I had to choose between the true version and an elaborate one involving a fish and a wedding ring, I might choose the fancy version. But that's just me.
Will Bloom: I kind of liked your version.
Jenny: I loved a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.
Will Bloom: I know better than to argue romance with a French woman.
Norther Winslow: I've been working on this poem for 12 years.
Young Ed Bloom: Really?
Norther Winslow: There's a lot of expectation. I don't wanna disappoint my fans.
Young Ed Bloom: May I?
Young Ed Bloom: [Edward reeds the poem on the notebook] The grass so green Skies so blue. Spectre is really great!
Young Ed Bloom: It's only three lines long.
Norther Winslow: This is why you should never show a work in progress.
Young Ed Bloom: And what I recall of Sunday school was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.
[Amos returns from the woods after being a wolf for a night]
Amos Calloway: Didn't kill anything, did I?
Young Ed Bloom: A couple of rabbits, but I think one of 'em was already dead.
Amos Calloway: That would explain the indigestion.
Young Ed Bloom: She said that the biggest fish in the river gets that way by never getting caught.
Young Ed Bloom: Your last name is different. You married.
Jenny: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.
Will Bloom: [to Ed] You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny combined - just as charming, and just as fake.
Will Bloom: Unbelievable.
Senior Ed Bloom: The story of my life.
Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion, you never know who you're gonna offend.
Young Ed Bloom: I just saw the woman I'm going to marry. I know it. But I lost her.
Amos Calloway: Oh, tough break. Well, most men have to get married *before* they lose their wives.
Young Ed Bloom: I'm gonna spend every day for the rest of my life looking for her. That, or die alone!
Amos Calloway: Damn, kid. Lemme guess. Real pretty? Reddish-blondish hair? Blue dress?
Young Ed Bloom: Yeah!
Amos Calloway: I know her uncle. Friends of the family.
Young Ed Bloom: Who is she? Where does she live?
Amos Calloway: Forget it kid, don't waste your time. She's out of your league.
Young Ed Bloom: What do you mean? You don't even know me.
Amos Calloway: Sure I do! You were hot shit back in Hickville, but here in the real world, you got squat! You don't have a plan, you don't have a job, you don't have anything except the clothes on your back.
Young Ed Bloom: Now I may not have much, but I have more determination then any man you're ever likely to meet.
Senior Sandra Bloom: I don't think I'll ever dry out.
Norther Winslow: Everyday a new adventure, That's my motto.
Will Bloom: You know about icebergs, dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: Do I? I saw an iceberg once. They were hauling it down to Texas for drinking water. They didn't count on there being an elephant frozen inside. The wooly kind. A mammoth.
Will Bloom: Dad!
Senior Ed Bloom: What?
Will Bloom: I'm trying to make a metaphor here.
Senior Ed Bloom: Well you shouldn't have started with a question, because most people want to answer questions. You should've started with "the thing about icebergs is."
Amos Calloway: She likes music.
Young Ed Bloom: [smiles] Music. She likes music.
Amos Calloway: Tell me, Karl, have you ever heard the term "involuntary servitude"?
Karl: No.
Amos Calloway: "Unconscionable contract"?
Karl: Uh, nope.
Amos Calloway: Great!
Senior Ed Bloom: I caught an uncatchable fish.
Sandra Bloom: [of Edward to her fiance] He's almost a stranger, and I prefer him to you!
Amos Calloway: I haven't seen a customer this depressed since the elephant sat on that farmer's wife!
Amos Calloway: [laughs, beat]
Amos Calloway: Depressed?
[Karl laughs]
Amos Calloway: See, the big guy likes it.
Young Ed Bloom: I just saw the woman I'm going to marry, and I lost her.
Young Ed Bloom: The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never getting caught.
Will Bloom: Church people drive too slow.
Amos Calloway: You were a big fish in a small pond, but this here is the ocean and your drownin'. Take my advice, go back to Puddleville; you'll be happy there.
Josephine: Oh, so this is a tall tale?
Senior Ed Bloom: Well, it's not a short one.
Young Jenny: There's leaches in there.
Young Ed Bloom: Did you see that woman?
Young Jenny: What did she look like?
Young Ed Bloom: Well, she was, uh...
Young Jenny: Was she naked?
Young Ed Bloom: Yeah, she was.
Young Jenny: It's not a woman. It's a fish. No one ever catches her.
Senior Ed Bloom: What do you want, Will? Who do you want me to be?
Will Bloom: Just yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.
Senior Ed Bloom: I was drying out.
Senior Ed Bloom: [to Will] Your mother was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else.
Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] I was the biggest thing Ashton had ever seen. Until one day, a stranger arrived.
Will Bloom: My father talked about a lot of things that he never did and I'm sure he did a lot of things that he never talked about. I'm just trying to reconcile the two.
Will Bloom: We have to take Glenville to avoid the church traffic because the damn church people drive too slow.
Young Ed Bloom: There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they're faster or stronger than other fish. They're just touched by something extra.
Amos Calloway: Her favorite flower is daffodils
Young Ed Bloom: Daffodils.
Senior Ed Bloom: And that's my life story.
Young Ed Bloom: This isn't how I die.
Senior Ed Bloom: Tell me how it happens.
Will Bloom: How what happens?
Senior Ed Bloom: How I go.
Will Bloom: You mean what you saw in the Eye? I dunno that story, Dad, you never told it to me.
Senior Ed Bloom: I've told you a thousand facts, Will, that's what I do. I tell stories.
Will Bloom: You tell lies, Dad.
Young Jenny: Promise me you'll come back
Young Ed Bloom: I promise. Someday. When I'm really supposed to.
[Ed and Norther are in line at a bank together]
Young Ed Bloom: And now what are you doing?
Norther Winslow: I'm robbin' this place!
Karl: Friend, what happened to your shoes?
Young Ed Bloom: [Looking down at his feet] They kinda got ahead of me.
Josephine: [the phoe rings as a pregnant Josephine and Will come home from the grocery store, she lays the bags down and answers the phone] Qui appelle? Yes. Yes, he's here.
[she turns to Will and extends the phone]
Josephine: It's your mother.
Will Bloom: [he takes the phone] Hi.
[he holds up a 'one second' sign as he talks to her]
Will Bloom: What does Dr.Bennet say? No, sure, I'll talk to him. Yeah, I'll wait.
Josephine: It's bad?
Will Bloom: Yeah, it's more than they thought. They're gonna stop chemo.
Josephine: You need to go.
Will Bloom: Probably tonight.
Josephine: I'm going with you.
Will Bloom: No, no, no. You shouldn't.
[he places his hand on Josephine's stomach]
Josephine: I'm going with you.
[Will strokes her face]
Norther Winslow: Roses are red. Violets are blue. I love Spectre...
Will Bloom: [to Edward Bloom] Dad, I have no idea who you are because you have never told me a single fact.
Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] As soon as my bones had settled in their adult configuration, I set upon my plan to make a bigger place for myself in Ashton.
Pretty Girl: Edward Bloom!
Young Ed Bloom: [voice over narration] With my prospects few, I took a job as a traveling salesman. It suited me. If there's one thing you can say about Edward Bloom, it's that I'm a social person.
Young Ed Bloom: You don't know me, but my name's Edward Bloom... And I love you.
[talking about the witch]
Zacky Price (Age 10): She'll make soap out of you. That's what she does. She makes soap out of people.
Senior Ed Bloom: Truth is, I've always been thirsty.
Ping: [in Cantonese, to Edward who was hiding in the dressing room] Who are you?
Young Ed Bloom: [In Cantonese] Please, I'm not going to hurt you.
Jing: [In Cantonese] Damn right you're not! GUARD!
Young Ed Bloom: I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice.
Little Girl: He ate mah dawg.


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Tonight's dinner was one of those 'use whatever you have' dishes. Hubby wanted noodles for dinner and I had half a packet of dried brown rice vermicelli ('mei fun' in Cantonese) in the pantry. Rice vermicelli is usually fried with meat (pork), shrimps and greens. I had some BBQ pork in the freezer, dried mushroom and some baby bok choy so it's perfect.
Fried rice vermicelli is a simple dish but involves several steps: soaking the dried vermicelli, frying an omelette and cutting it to shreds, and frying the vegetable and meat separately. It is not an easy dish to make as you can either undersoak or undercook the vermicelli resulting in hard, indigestible noodles, or oversoak or overcook the noodles resulting in a sloppy, gloppy dish! The first time I fried vermicelli, I had noodles everywhere, it was a mess! But you do get better at it over time. 🙂
(Forgive the rather poor pictures. I took these photos with a camera phone! I'm still waiting for my computer to arrive.)
Fried Rice Vermicelli with BBQ Pork and Mushroom
200g shredded BBQ pork (you can also use 100g shredded pork and 100g shrimps)
3 dried Chinese mushrooms
2 eggs
200g baby bok choy
250g rice vermicelli (I used brown rice vermicelli)
1 small shallot, sliced (or 1 stalk green onion)
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp BBQ pork drippings/juice (ask from the BBQ pork butcher, the meat is usually in a pan with the juices).
1. Soak dried vermicelli in lukewarm water for 10 minutes or until softened. Pour into a colander and drain well. (If using pork, season with a little soy sauce, cornstarch and pepper.) Rinse mushrooms and soak in hot water till softened. Retain the water and slice mushrooms thinly, set aside. Beat eggs in a bowl and fry in a non-stick pan into an omelette. Cut into shreds and set aside. Combine the BBQ pork drippings and the light soy sauce to make one and a half cup of seasoning. (Or use 1-2 tbsps of oyster sauce if you do not have the drippings.)
2. Wash and cut bok choy into section. Fry with 1 tbsp of oil till softened. Remove from pan and set aside. Fry BBQ pork till fragrant and heated through, remove. If using raw pork and shrimps, fry till cooked and remove. Fry mushrooms and shallot till fragrant. Drizzle over the dark soy sauce, mix, then add in the seasoning. Bring to a boil. Bring heat to medium.
3. Add in the rice vermicelli and toss well. Add the bok choy and cover for 1 minute. Remove the cover and toss to combine all the ingredients and to make sure the noodles is evenly covered with the seasoning. Toss until the the vermicelli is fairly dry. Add in the pork and toss again to combine. Taste and add more light soy sauce if needed. Dish out and scatter the shredded omelette on top. Enjoy!


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Monday, April 18, 2005
Libby Lumpkin - OPTIONS 2005
On Friday I saw this post on Lenny's blog informing that the juror, Libby Lumpkin, "has scheduled her second visit to the area later this month. She will be continuing her tour of graduate programs in the area, as well as reviewing remaining written submissions in the WPA/C office".
This weekend I heard about a couple of other artists who have also received their rejections. The funny thing is that everyone I know who has applied has received a rejection except all the current grad students I know that applied. What does that mean? Especially after reading the sentence highlighted above? Are some artists being rejected by slides and some by studio visits? Are artists affiliated with institutions being given preferential consideration?
Someone told me that she will be at VCU this Wednesday visiting studios - I'm not sure if she is visiting everyone's studio or only those students that applied to be in the OPTIONS 2005 show. My feeling is that if I were a current VCU grad student I wouldn't have already received an OPTIONS rejection - I would be getting a studio visit from the curator. I know a number of good-enough VCU grads that didn't apply - if one of them ends up in this OPTIONS show I'm going to puke.
What would Dave Hickey say???
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I'm not a grad student and I haven't gotten a rejection yet. or any communication about a studio visit.
- Anonymous said...
Hey Martin,
I'm not an art student either and I haven't been rejected yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
I too wonder if she's reviewing grad students who applied for the show or if she will be looking at others too. If she looks at those who didn't apply, I wonder how fair that is. I'm going to reserve judgment though as I really don't know much about what's going on. We'll see how it plays out.
- Martin said...
If you have NOT been rejected and DON'T have a studio visit scheduled you seem to be at a disadvantage.
- Anonymous said...
I just recieved an email that studio visits will NOT happen this weekend as scheduled due to Ms. Lumpkin's illness. A lot of artists are going to be inconvenienced by this. It makes me wonder if this show will happen at all? And if it does, will the artists be treated professionally, or as an after thought?
- zippa said...
I just recieved an email that Dr. Lumpkin will not be able to make her studio visits this weekend due to illness. Although sickness cannot be avoided, this will inconvenience a lot of artists. Some of whom have already been inconvenienced due to the "change" of curators and a very long wait for any kind of notification, whatsoever. Needless to say, if we, as artists, acted this unprofessionally we would get excluded from shows and tagged as 'hard to work with'. I am nervous about this show ever happening, and if it does,will the artists contiue to be treated as an afterthought?
- Anonymous said...
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When you drive by Horch Roofing on Route 90, you might notice the company sign, complete with its very own red standing-seam metal roof. Beneath the sign rests a busted wheelbarrow with a huge rock sitting on top.
So what's the story with the wheelbarrow?
Peter Horch started his roofing company in 2003 and worked on roofs throughout Midcoast Maine for a number of years without seeing much growth. It was only in 2007 when Peter said to himself, "I think it's time to grow the company we can do this."
At this point Peter and a small crew, including his longtime employee, Devin, were working on back-to-back jobs. Sometimes after a long day on the roof, it was routine for them to come back to Peter's house, which was also the base for Horch Roofing, and have a couple of cold beers after the workday was over. One day, Peter started talking to Devin about how it was time to grow the company. "This is it. We're getting busier, the phone is ringing; this is a good thing." Devin agreed. It was time to grow.
"Okay. Let's grab my chainsaw. Let's go cut down some trees so we can expand and make a bigger lot out back." So that day, Peter took his chainsaw out to the driveway and got to work clearing land to expand.
"It was just a controlled mess," Devin said. "He just started cutting trees out there."
As Peter cut down trees, Devin helped by clearing it all away and making room for him to keep cutting. He used a wheelbarrow to carry the big logs away. They made quite a bit of progress that day, when finally the wheelbarrow broke. It would not carry anything else.
"Way to go, Devin," Peter said. "Here's our only wheelbarrow, and you just broke it!"
Then Devin picked up a big boulder and smashed the busted wheelbarrow.
"It's broken now, isn't it?" Devin replied. They both laughed.
The wheelbarrow stayed broken even as Horch Roofing grew in the years following that initial day. As trucks came in and out, as the new shop went up, that busted wheelbarrow stayed in the same spot for four years before it was moved to its current place underneath the Horch Roofing sign. The significance of the wheelbarrow is that it represents that first day when Peter and Devin got to work to start making the company grow.
Since the day the wheelbarrow broke, Peter's company has:
- Expanded from a 300 square foot office site to a 6,400 square foot site that includes 3 individual buildings,
- Become a fully-insured company, protecting our clients with $1 million of liability insurance,
- Completed over 1,000 projects to date,
- Owns a total of 23 vehicles, and
- Manufactures its own metal roofing material on-site
The amount of growth is astounding, and the busted wheelbarrow resting under the red roofed sign represents the hard work that went into making Horch Roofing the successful company that it is today.


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|Mr. Darcy
|Captain Wentworth
|"Order and method, mon ami!"
|Mr. Darcy
|Captain Wentworth
|"Order and method, mon ami!"
|At Teague Library in Glendale, with Donis and librarian Shelly
|Trying on hats, with Don
|Barbara Peters, me, Donis Casey. Like my new hat?
|Meeting new readers at the PEO function in Tempe.
|Be Still My Heart.
|Oh, what a night! Dinner at Lola Bistro with my husband, Dan, and wonderful friends Kat & Chris F. Holm, & Lauren O'Brien.
|At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the incredibly talented Chris F. Holm.
|My "Murder He/She Solved" panel with moderator extraordinaire Kat Niidas Holm, Joy Castro, Robert Olen Butler, & Bruce DeSilva. (Just out of the frame: panelists Hannah Dennison & Cathy Wiley.)
|With Kat. Can you tell we're having fun yet?
|Neliza Drew, Dan O'Shea, Dan O'Shea's Rather Spectacular Jacket, & Sabrina Ogden.
|With my amazing friend Robin Spano at the Canuck event.
|More Canucks! My Toronto Sisters in Crime Helen Nelson & Janet Costello.
|With another wonderful friend, Kathy Ryan.
|Colin Campbell, Christa Faust, & Judy Bobalik. Did I want to steal Christa's lovely vintage purse? Oh, yes.
|Timeless style: Ken Wishnia & Kelli Stanley.
|Preparing to toss Brad Parks into the hotel fountain...
|At the last minute, we showed mercy & posed for our annual Charlie's Angel photo instead. (With Christine McCann, Lauren O'Brien, Elyse Dinh, & Brad Parks.)
|What we look like when we're not toying with Brad's fate. You'd never guess what we're *really* like!
|One of the best things about Bouchercon: seeing friends from every corner of the continent. Hanging with with Austin's awesome Scott Montgomery.
|Thugs of the world unite! With Big Daddy Thug (AKA Todd Robinson) & Robert McClure.
by Alan
How much research do you do for your books?
The short answer is: just enough to get the job done. I'm not one of those research lovers who pores over old books in the stacks or delves deep into the details. I do just enough research to allow me to depict the settings, situations, and characters in my books with verisimilitude.
But, on occasion, I will venture out of my writing cave to do some research. Here's a summary of a recent research excursion I took for my work-in–progress:
The last few scenes of my book take place in Washington, D.C., on the Mall (The National Mall. You know, the place with the Capitol and Washington Monument). So I put myself in my protagonist's shoes and drove to the Vienna Metro station where I boarded an Orange Line train (I'm a Northern Virginia suburbanite—it didn't take long).
Then I made notes about what I experienced (saw, heard, smelled (yuck)) as we paralleled I-66 before diving underground. At Metro Center, I changed trains, but not before darting from platform to platform, trying to shed imaginary followers (as my protagonist does). I kept track of which escalators I took and where I doubled back and what the whoosh of air preceding the trains into the station felt like. If anyone was truly following me, I must have looked quite confused (and/or suspicious)!
When I got off the subway—where the protagonist in my story gets off—I pulled out my camera and began to take pictures as I walked. In many cases, I didn't even slow down as I pressed the shutter button, because I was timing how long it took me to reach certain landmarks. (In all, I took 221 pictures.)
I continued this for the next hour or so, snapping more pictures and traipsing along the Mall. Then I visited a couple of D.C. "attractions" (which shall remain nameless for the time being), to do some research for two particular scenes. At each place, I took a guided tour, again snapping pictures and asking questions where necessary (the questions had more to do with the buildings' layouts, than the collections, which I'm sure made my guides suspicious. Thankfully, no one called security on me).
When I got home, I revised my draft to include all the new material I'd learned. I need to make another jaunt into town to shore up a few more details, and then it's a wrap!
Name-wise, my Collector series is easier to tackle than anything else I've ever written. I think it's because I'm playing around with both pulp crime and religion – two wildly disparate influences, perhaps, but each with their own rich traditions to draw upon when it comes to dubbing characters.If you'd like to read on, and get some insight into the names that pepper my brand spanking Collector novel The Wrong Goodbye, then click through to read the rest of my post. If, however, you'd rather see photos of bleary-eyed con-goers, then keep reading.
My protagonist, Sam Thornton, takes his name from the pulp side of the fence. It's derived from two of my literary heroes, who've both influenced my Collector series immensely: Samuel Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Thornton Chandler. The handle suits him because although he's an undead collector of souls, his role in the narrative is essentially that of the hard-bitten detective.
His handler Lilith, on the other hand, is yanked straight from the Apocrypha. These texts, considered by some to be gospel and others heretical, describe her as a voluptuous, redheaded vixen with wicked ways and an insatiable appetite for sex – the first woman in Creation, cast out of the Garden of Eden by God for refusing to be subservient to Adam. Folklore tells us Lilith then engaged her appetites with countless (ahem) members of the demon realm, giving rise to incubi and succubi, who are in turn responsible for our modern (nonsparkly) vampire myth. Though she's hardly a household name, she's inspired many a redheaded seductress in fiction, from Brigid O'Shaughnessy to Jessica Rabbit. In short, she's the archetype on which the modern femme fatale was built – and therefore perfect to play the role of one in my novels.
My first Collector novel, Dead Harvest (out now!), features a young girl named Kate MacNeil, whose surname (in a winking minor spoiler) was lifted directly from The Exorcist. It also features an angel named So'enel, whose name, if I assembled it correctly (which I may well not have, in which case I hope I get points for trying), is Hebrew for "warrior for God."
|My Morally Challenged Heroes panel. L to R: Ali Karim, Lou Berney, Liz Hand, Seth Harwood, and yours truly. Air-vent cockroach not pictured.
|The Murder He/She Solved Panel. L to R: the lovely and talented Katrina Niidas Holm, the captivating Hilary Davidson, Joy Castro, Robert Olen Butler, Bruce DeSilva, Hannah Dennison, and Cathy Wiley
|Katrina and I enjoying dinner at Lola with good friends Dan, Hilary, and Lauren
|Some scruffy author signing books


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On Wednesday I was pleased to meet with Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, our head of Prison Ministries Deacon Jim Greer and a number of officials from the Sheriff's Office here at the Pastoral Center.
We had a discussion about prison ministries and how the archdiocese might collaborate even more with the Sheriff's Office in the pastoral work that is done there as well as the other auxiliary services for prisoners and their families.
That day, I also met with our new Episcopal Vicar for the New Evangelization Bishop Arthur Kennedy and his assistant Michael Lavigne, who is an expert in the new evangelization. He has a great deal of experience in parish-based programs and we are very happy to have him on board.
In the evening I attended the St. John Vianney Gathering at St. John's Seminary. At 5 o'clock we had a conference for the priests given by Father Myles Sheehan on the subject of physician assisted suicide. Father Sheehan is the provincial of the New England Province of Jesuits and he is also a physician, a gerontologist. He gave an excellent presentation attended by about 50 priests.
Over 100 priests came for the Vespers and the barbecue dinner, which we have every year around the Feast of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests.
On Saturday, the Vocations Office sponsored a day of reflection for Hispanic candidates at St. Stephen's Church in Framingham. I was happy to join them for Mass and lunch. Father Dan Hennessey, Father Gabino Macias and Father Paco Anzoategui organized the day's program and Father Felipe Gonzalez also gave a presentation.
I took a couple pictures of Father Al Stankard's paintings.
This one is a representation of the Church. If you look carefully, you can see he has included me standing next to the Pope off to the side.
This is another painting he did of the martyrdom of St. Stephen.
Sunday, I went to Most Holy Redeemer Parish in East Boston for the blessing of the statue of Cristo Divino Salvador Del Mundo, which is the patron saint of El Salvador.
I was very pleased to be joined by the pastor, Father Tom Domurat, Father Al Keenan, the Consul General of El Salvador José Edgardo Alemán Molina, and Vice Consul Ena Ursula Peña.
There were so many people in attendance; they couldn't fit into the church. It was just a huge crowd!
They celebrate this feast day on the Feast of the Transfiguration, which would have been Monday. So, in the parish they had the celebration the Sunday with the blessing of the statue.
This is a feast day I used to celebrate at my parish in Washington, where we had a large number of parishioners from El Salvador.
In my reflections to the Salvadoran people, I said it is very fitting that the Transfiguration be the feast of their country because the Transfiguration of Christ allowed Peter, James and John to glimpse Christ's glory and his divinity, so that they could be strengthened in the face of the scandal of the Cross. El Salvador is a country that needs to glimpse God's loving presence and his glory because it is a country which has suffered so much in its history, with wars and the terrible challenges. It is their faith in Christ that has given them strength to face the cross with the courage and the grace that they have.
As our Salvadoran community has grown so much, particularly in East Boston, I am delighted that the parish is promoting this traditional devotion, which is a great source of spiritual strength.
Then later that afternoon I was very pleased to preside at the wedding of Andres Enrique and Maria Grazia Grieci at Our Lady the Assumption Parish, also in East Boston.
Andres is the third child of Antonio and Reyes Enrique. Antonio is the editor of The Pilot, our diocesan newspaper.
Msgr. Alejandro Cifres, who is Reyes' brother and who works at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith in Rome, came to the wedding.
With Msgr. Cifres, Carmela –Reyes' mother– Reyes and Antonio
This year the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus was held in Anaheim, California.
We arrived Monday night and we were there Tuesday for the Opening Mass celebrated by Bishop Tod Brown, the Bishop of Orange, California.
Afterwards, we attended the opening meeting where we were given the report of the Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson.
It is always very uplifting and encouraging to see the dedication, fidelity and resources that are put forth for the mission of the Church by the Knights of Columbus.
In the evening, was the States Dinner at which Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave the keynote address. He spoke about the vocation of marriage.
Wednesday afternoon, after the last session, Bishop Brown invited us for a tour of the Crystal Cathedral, which the Diocese of Orange is acquiring to make it its own cathedral. It was recently announced that it will be renamed Christ Cathedral.
About 40 bishops took the tour, and it was just fascinating.
Before the visit, I did not know much about the history of this facility though, of course, I had heard much about Rev. Robert Schuller and his ministries.
Rev. Schuller began his ministry preaching Sunday mornings in a drive-in theater where people came to listen to his sermons in their cars. (It doesn't get much more American than that; we Americans have such a love for our automobiles!) But out of those humble beginnings, he developed his ministry that was centered at the Crystal Cathedral. His "Hour of Power" was one of the longest running television programs in history.
The facility has 37 acres with seven magnificent buildings plus beautifully landscaped grounds. They have one of the largest organs in the world, a theater, a restaurant, a number of chapels, classrooms, auditoriums, meeting rooms and libraries, as well as television and radio studios, and plenty of parking! There is going to be a Catholic school there; and the chancery of the diocese and the local parish will also relocate to that site.
The tour also included several interesting details about the building's unique design. For example, despite being in a warm part of country, the building has no air conditioning. However, in the way it was built, the windows open automatically in different places in such a way as to cool the building.
Part of that system are these nearly 100-foot doors that open and close.
It was also interesting to learn that when he had the plans drawn up for the Crystal Cathedral, Rev. Schuller took them to Blessed John Paul II and asked for the pope's blessing.
Of course, the Diocese of Orange plans to make renovations. On the outside it will appear very much the same, but the interior will be renovated to make it look more like a Catholic Church. When it opens, it will probably be the largest Cathedral in the country.
I do think that this is a great grace for the Church. It has the potential of becoming an extraordinary center for evangelization in California and also international outreach, because Crystal Cathedral was so well known. Also, because of its proximity to Disneyland, it has the potential to draw visitors from all over the world.
This will surely be a great blessing for the Church and for evangelization going forward.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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Yesterday I had a very special opportunity (courtesy of our good friend, Allyn Mann from Adequan) to tour the International Broadcast Center (IBC) at the Olympic Park with Jamie Saults from NBC. Jamie is an endurance rider and enthusiastic horse owner, but also directly involved in the production of NBC equestrian coverage for the Olympics, The Kentucky Derby, and many other major competitions like WEG. I believe she told me she has been involved with every Olympics since '88. Wow, I'm sure that she has an interesting bank of experience! My brain is about busting just cataloging the events of THIS Games.
While I couldn't take any pictures in the actual building, I can share some of the things that we saw through my own recollection. The IBC is like a city unto itself, complete with health centers, stores, pubs and a Starbucks. Over 2K people from NBC alone are involved in producing the Games and they take great care to make sure that their employees and associates are comfortable during their time here. There is so much involved in even what seems to be the most basic aspect of making this event happen. Patrick, an ex-British military guy, took us through what is involved in just coordinating transportation during the event. He has a massive white board with all kinds of symbols and tags that he moves around to track the fleet of vehicles real-time. He might as well be "pushing tin" at Heathrow air traffic control – it all looks QUITE complicated!
We were able to take a quick peak at some of the sets, which was a total thrill. And, see the offices for equestrian and a number of the other sports…each one has a dedicated team and they rotate through office space based on the timing of the events, for example, equestrian might share space with mountain biking or archery.
So many people make this whole thing happen, from the "fetchers" to the entire department devoted to researching athlete back-stories, turns-of-events, etc. Thanks to Jamie and Allyn for the amazing experience!
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Art is always an exchange of ideas – between artist and viewer, curator and community, critic and public, past and future – a cycle of call and response. Interchange brings together objects and actions created by artists in an even more direct circle of exchange and includes works that rely on reciprocity, interdependence and communion – as well as conspiracy, codependence and commerce – for their creation and execution.
Participating artists include: Trevor Amery (Detroit), Richard Ankrom (Los Angeles), Sophiel Aurora (UK), Maria Calandra (Brooklyn), Jenelle Covino (Brooklyn), Molly Denisevicz (Philadelphia), Dice Crew (Philadelphia), Casey Droege (Pittsburgh), Yevgeniy Fiks (New York), Matthew Fisher (Brooklyn), Hive76 (Philadelphia), Isauro Huizar (Mexico City), Institute for New Feeling (Los Angeles), Sarah Koljonen (Philadelphia), Lilly McElroy (Los Angeles), Yelena Popova (UK), Potters for Peace (Bisbee, AZ), Sal Randolph (Brooklyn), James Sham (Washington, DC) and Joanie Turbek (Brooklyn).
Interchange is co-organized by members of the Philadelphia artist-run spaces Grizzly Grizzly and Practice in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore.


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Saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band has suffered a stroke, but things are looking up.
A "close friend" told Rolling Stone that Clemons' condition is improving after he had the stroke Sunday night at his Florida home.
"Yesterday, it did not look good at all," the source said. "Today... miracles are happening. His vital signs are improving. He's responsive. His eyes are welling up when we're talking to him. He was paralyzed on his left side, but now he's squeezing with his left hand. This is the best news we've heard since [the stroke] happened -- it's nothing short of miraculous. The next five days will still be critical. But he's a fighter."
U.S. & World
Clemons is known as the Big Man in the E Street Band and his sax has been one of the most defining elements of the band's sound. He has suffered from numerous ailments over the last few years. He had double knee surgery and even had to perform from a wheelchair at one point.
But his health seemed to be getting better in general. Just last month, he performed with Lady Gaga on the season finale of "American Idol." He last performed with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in December 2010.
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Trademark Infringement, Bethlehem Style: Star and Bucks???
I am indebted to fellow parishioners at Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota for this photo, which shows the "Star & Bucks" cafe just adjacent to the Church of the Nativity.
"Look very closely...... I guess there are no trademark infringements to worry about in Bethlehem, Palestine...inside the westbank. "
Redeemer Pilgrims to the Holy Land: Star and Bucks??? ~Pete Mogavero:


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By Ryan Naghi
Since I started working here at Creative Matters, I've heard many people tell me that despite our cutting-edge work, we are at an inherent disadvantage as a nonprofit ad agency. There's a reason why no place like us exists—nonprofit and ad agency just don't go together. Yet, this couldn't be further from the truth. Not only are we surviving; we're thriving. While bigger for profit companies like Fatburger and Wells Fargo are starting to put their brands in our hands, our work remains centered around other nonprofits. But why?
To understand this, I'll put myself in the shoes of people who fund nonprofits, because they ultimately decide which missions to power. What do they want? They want to do as much good as efficiently as possible. And what does one nonprofit working with another such as ourselves do; more good per dollar spent. If a need is present, why not purchase it through another nonprofit's earned income service? They will get the service they want, while allowing another organization to do what they specialize in, and the payments will go towards helping another cause. Working together gets better results, and makes both more worthy of support. As long as people know the extra good they are doing, funding will likely increase. But how you inform a support base is an art in itself, and smart non-profits hire outside support to maximize their impact.
That's why Creative Matters makes the perfect fit. We are a nonprofit who provides marketing services to raise money for our mission. Since we are both the noteworthy partner and the marketers, our clients fully capitalize on the benefits of collaboration. Letting us manage their brand boosts their nonprofit's credibility and appeal, because hiring us proves their commitment to bettering society. The beauty of this relationship is elegantly simple. They are more marketable by the very act of purchasing our marketing services, part of which goes towards promoting this new aspect of their brand to the public; it's a perfect match!
And who exactly are they helping by hiring us? The same people designing the product, because our creative work not only funds our mission, it is our mission. Participating in the creative work itself helps people like me get the job skills, mentorship, and experience that make life exciting again, while making drugs now seem unappealing. Our innovative way of fighting addiction is proven to be 15 times more effective in maintaining sobriety than the dominant form of treatment. Our cause therefore, is one that spells out efficiency and societal impact as well as any, one that donors are more than happy to know they are supporting through our clients' marketing needs.
Being a nonprofit gives us another advantage. It allows us to better understand their needs, goals, and values, giving the quality of our work a unique boost. For profit companies may still hold some advantages, but they can't offer the symbiotic relationship that creates this kind of virtuous cycle we share with our clients.
So, here lies my answer to the people with doubts. We fill a tough niche, no doubt about that. It takes a lot for a place like this to exist. It takes persistence and outside support to start up, creativity and ingenuity to grow, and an intrinsic drive for meaning and purpose to manage. Above all else, it takes an understanding of the system at large and how we fit into it. That's the reason we're one of a kind. Since these things have all come together, our previous handicaps have transformed into competitive advantages that only we possess. The next step is to continue pointing this out to other nonprofits. It will take some great marketing on our part, but then again, great marketing is what we do.


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In the preceeding section, two main optimizations to SMOKE were described. First the underlying data structures for object change notifications and the way worker threads accessed and processed these notifications were restructured. This gave roughly a 12-15% overall performance improvement. The other optimization was the inclusion of the Intel TBB task scheduler to improve the load balance of the parallel execution. Prior to rework, the CPU load on a 2x 4 core machine [8] was in the range of 55% to 65%. After rework the load on the cores was in the 90% to 95% range. Frame rate improvements due to rework also improved by roughly 45% to 60%.
Summary and Conclusions
In summary, straightforward use of Intel Thread Profiler identified that:
- The code spent a noticeable amount of time undersubscribed
- A significant amount of serialization existed in the main computational loop
- The concurrency levels did not change from iteration to iteration of the main computational loop
- Under subscription occurred as a result of synchronization between iterations
- Under-subscription was root caused to two functions responsible for object change notifications.
Examination of the source code pointed the way for the functions to be restructured and parallelized with limited points of synchronization. However, the resulting code still suffered from load imbalance. The Intel TBB task scheduler was used to improve the overall CPU load and the balance of the code. This work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the Intel Thread Profiler in conjunction with the Intel TBB library to achieve performance improvements to the SMOKE gaming demo code. One future opportunity for performance gain could be to examine the use of Intel TBB's affinity partitioner. Other avenues have been suggested and discussed in [7]. All of these considerations are expected to apply to gaming codes in general with only limited specificity if any to SMOKE itself.
We acknowledge the generous support received from Intel's Developer Products Division, Visual Computing Software Division, and Software Solutions Group during the course of this work and the writing of this article.
[1] SMOKE Game-Technology Demo, Intel Software Network, http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/smoke-game-technology-demo/.
[2] James Reinders, Intel Threading Building Blocks, O'Reilly Media.
[3] Robert D. Blumofe and Charles E. Leiserson, "Scheduling Multithreaded Computations by Work-Stealing," in Proceedings of the 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Foundations of Computer Science.
[4] Robert D. Blumofe, Christopher F. Joerg, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randall and Yuli Zhou, "Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System," in Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP '95).
[5] Michael Voss, "Demystify Scalable Parallelism with Intel Threading Building Block's Generic Parallel Algorithms," Jupiter Media.
[6] Michael Voss, "Enable Safe, Scalable Parallelism with Intel Threading Building Block's Concurrent Containers," Jupiter Media.
[7] Bradley Werth, "Optimizing Game Architectures with TBB".
[8] The system used for testing was an Intel X5355: 2x4, 2.66 GHz, 8G RAM, Windows XP x64 Pro SP2, GeForce 8800 GTX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#5300-series_.22Clovertown.22.


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This is an embarrassing sort of cry for help!
When we had the old forums, I think I actually posted the solution to this. BUT, time and aging having taken their toll :
I cannot remember how to link together Pocomail, avast anti-virus, and spamihilator anti-spam software. I know I had it working, and I did it without the irritation of editing the avast.ini file.
Eric? Anyone else out there? Do you use this combination or remember how to do it?
I went to the avast support forum and they were no real help. Their solution involves editing the avast.ini file and really doesn't explain how to set it all up on Pocomail. I KNOW I once had it working without that avast.ini change.
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Filmmakers Paul Mignot, Dani Pearce, Vedran Rupic, and Brazilian directing duo Salsa have joined Henry for French representation.
HunkyDory are pleased to announce the signing of writer-slash-director Paul Quinn for commercial representation.
A surge of interest in small-scale production has prompted You Are Here to rejig their tabletop division.
Darling Films have completed the signing of Irish filmmaker P.O.B. for representation in the UK.
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When Brazil meets Croatia today for the inaugural game of the 2014 World Cup, ethnically diverse Southern California with its rich melange of cultures, nationalities and ethnicities may be one of the best places on the planet to watch the games, outside of those two nations.
Shimmying samba dancers and sizzling barbecue will greet Southern California Brazilian expatriates gathering at Redondo Beach's Samba Steakhouse.
Near Dodger Stadium, 300 members of Los Angeles' large Croatian community — and a handful of Brazilians — will gather at St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church for what organizers are touting as the biggest World Cup opening day party in the county.
A priest will lead the devout in prayers before the game, an accordion player will play traditional songs and attendees will lunch on cevape — a minced meat kebab — washed down with Karlovacko, a Croatian beer.
"Twenty years ago Croatia didn't exist as a nation, now we're on the world stage opening up the World Cup in Brazil against Brazil," said co-organizer Ante Kvartuc, who grew up in San Pedro, home to one of the largest Croatian communities outside the country.
"It's a dream come true," Kvartuc added. "Our little nation barely qualified."
While today features only the 12:30 p.m. opener on ESPN, the group stage that runs through June 26 will boast as many as four games a day. The 32-team, 64-game tournament will reach its climax July 13 with the World Cup final.
With fan-friendly viewing times compared to previous tournaments — games will generally air at 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. locally — ratings are expected to far outstrip that of previous tournaments, ESPN officials have said.
The World Cup is already the world's biggest sporting.
FIFA, the sport's governing body, estimates 2.2 billion television viewers worldwide — nearly a third of the planet's population — watched the final game of the 2010 World Cup. U.S. ratings for that year were up 68 percent from the 2006 tournament.
Walk into virtually any local bar or ethnic restaurant and games — at least the ones later in the day — will likely be on television.
But some watering holes are going the extra mile, opening earlier than usual and serving brunch or breakfast.
Others are gathering spots for particular nationalities or fan groups as viewing parties have exploded in popularity since the relatively new tradition began in earnest during the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
And there are some unconventional places, too, where soccer fans can get their fix away from a bar environment.
Here's a run-down of some of the best places to watch the tournament in Southern California:
Bars and restaurants that will televise every game include Little Tokyo kebab joint Spitz, where anyone wearing their team's colors gets an order of free pita strips and hummus.
Those opening early and serving breakfast or brunch include Dillon's Irish Pub & Grill in Hollywood, home to the Los Angeles chapter of the American Outlaws fan group (and a block west of the Hollywood and Vine Metro station for those not wanting to drive).
The Altadena Ale House will offer country-themed food and drink specials including Spanish tortillas every morning, paella for Spain's noon Friday game against the Netherlands, beef Bourgogne when France plays Honduras June 15 and so on.
Beautiful people will gather to watch all the beautiful games on a 40-foot screen at an outdoor venue dubbed the Station at W Hollywood.
Alpine Village near Torrance, a longtime home of the German-American community, is generally seen as one of the best places to watch soccer in Southern California.
Italian-Americans will gather at The Parlor Hollywood for that nation's games that begin Saturday with what many see as the best game of the weekend, Italy against England.
And there are plenty of British pubs to choose from including The Fox and Hounds in Studio City (there's a $10 cover charge for the popular U.S. and England games), the White Harte Pub in Woodland Hills and Santa Monica's Ye Olde King's Head and the Cock 'n' Bull.
Fan group American Outlaws have adopted various venues around Southern California in addition to the one in Los Angeles.
The Long Beach chapter has adopted Shannon's on Pine, while the Inland Empire group hangs at Dave and Buster's Ontario Mills.
As many as 250 soccer fans have turned up at the latter location for games, and even larger crowds are expected for the World Cup, said Inland Empire American Outlaws member Derrick Williams.
"Dave and Buster's is going to turn into international soccer headquarters for the World Cup," Williams said. "Our crowds include former national team members, radio personalities, soccer moms, families, Ontario Fury players, local business owners, passionate soccer fans and new soccer fans."
Those who prefer their soccer alcohol-free have options too.
San Pedro's Havana Lounge Cigar Club will open about three hours earlier than usual, allowing those who like to puff on a Padrone to see at least the last of each day's games.
Reservations are suggested at Beverly Hills' Euro Caffe, an Italian coffee shop popular with expats who watch their club teams play on weekends.
Pasadena's outdoor Massetti Caffe also will televise most games, although it is closed on Sundays.
"We are a family-owned and operated one-off, and we're all soccer heads," said President Steve Felice. "Our shop is an Italian caffé in the truest sense."


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I can't say there's no work around for certain, but I believe what you're asking for there Dexfx69 would again require digital manipulation of the potentiometer data which simply does not exist. This would require a hardware mod.
What would be really cool is if you can draw the LFO shape in the editor, and then send it to the minibrute and overwrite the "random" waveshape or something simuluar.I could then draw a complex waveshape (depending on the resolution) and slow the LFO right down to get some nice modulation going.Maybe im wishing for to much here, but maybe not.Ed


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MySpace members have a flitty, trend-chasing reputation.
So do the social network's overlords at News Corp., it seems.
Owen Van Natta, the company's CEO since last summer, is out of a job -- and not by his own choice, according to AllThingsD.com. A source familiar with the situation confirmed to NBC Bay Area that Van Natta was fired.
Kara Swisher wrote on that blog that News Corp. digital chief Jonathan Miller fired Van Natta in a late afternoon meeting, amidst friction among the company's top executives.
Miller, not Van Natta, had hired MySpace's COO, Mike Jones, and chief product officer, Jason Hirschhorn, according to Swisher, a situation which undermined Van Natta's authority as CEO.
Van Natta led a turnaround effort at MySpace which attempted to staunch the bleeding of its user base and improve the website's technical foundations. His strategy was to encourage "the socialization of content." That meant playing on MySpace's roots in Los Angeles's music scene and its enduring popularity with Hollywood movie studios to encourage people to interact with bands and celebrities on the site.
A News Corp. press release described the departure as a mutual decision, and alluded to Van Natta's "personal and professional plans."
There may be something to the personal bit: MySpace is based in Los Angeles, but Van Natta commuted to the job from the Bay Area, where he and his family live.
Van Natta, a veteran of Facebook, had long sought to run his own Internet company. His failure to rise to the CEO spot at Facebook was a lasting source of dissatisfaction there; he was demoted to the position of chief revenue officer before he left. He briefly ran Project Playlist, a music startup based in Palo Alto, Calif., before taking the job at MySpace.
While likely to be handsomely paid under his News Corp. contract, the loss of his high-profile position will be bruising to Van Natta's ego.
There is one Internet startup that might be looking for a CEO, however.
San Francisco-based Twitter is currently run by cofounder Ev Williams, who has made no secret of his lack of aptitude for managing companies. Twitter just recruited a CFO from Pixar, Ali Rowghani. Could another hire be in its future?


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Lexington Green in Massachusetts, with the church I attended for eight years.
The question for today's Christmas Memories is, "Did your family attend religious services during the Christmas season? What were the customs and traditions involved?"
When we moved to Lexington, my parents decided to attend this Church, it is called The First Parish Church; then a Unitarian Church. My father was an Episcopalian and my mother a Baptist, so they chose this Church. I attended Sunday School, and my mother was a Sunday School teacher. My father never went, except on Christmas Eve. That was very special, because not only because we got out at night, we got to see the children's play of the Birth of Jesus. Lots of happy people everywhere. I think the program began at 6:30.
Below is a photo and information from the Church's website.
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"In the 150 years we have occupied this meeting house, it has been a constantly changing place, expanding and evolving to meet new and changing needs of the congregation.
The town meeting house, built in 1692, was originally set on the Common. In 1713 (the year Lexington was incorporated) a new meeting house was built. This building housed small bands of militiamen and held the bodies of the dead after the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775. In 1794 it was torn down and replaced by a new building.
In 1846, after extensive and expensive repairs, the third meeting house burned to the ground on the night before it was to be rededicated. The congregation voted to locate the new church off the Common. Isaac Melvin was hired for $125 to plan the new building, which was to be completed for less than $8000. Pews were auctioned off to raise money for the building expenses."


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Singh, Ravi; Mondal, Suchismita; Crespo, Leonardo; Kummar, Uttam; Imtiaz, Muhammad; Lan, Caixia; Randhawa, Mandeep; Bhavani, Sridhar; Singh, Pawan K.; Huerta, Julio; He, Xinyao; Rahman, Mokhles; Pinto, Francisco; Perez Gonzalez, Lorena; Juliana, Philomin; Singh, Daljit; Lucas, Mark; Kumar Bhati, Pradeep; Altschuler, Josiah; Poland, Jesse, 2016, "Phenotypic data from trials conducted by the CIMMYT Bread Wheat Breeding Program", hdl:11529/10696, CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network, V7, UNF:6:3VbaGOICYWiowZjh8EN+lA==Phenotypic data were collected in on-station field trials for advanced breeding lines from the CIMMYT Bread Wheat breeding program over several years.
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Crossa, Jose; Martini, Johannes; Gianola, Daniel; Pérez-Rodríguez, Paulino; Burgueño, Juan; Singh, Ravi; Juliana, Philomin; Montesinos-López, Osval; Cuevas, Jaime, 2019, "Deep kernel and deep learning for genomic-based prediction", hdl:11529/10548273, CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network, V1Deep learning (DL) is a promising method in the context of genomic prediction for selecting individuals early in time without measuring their phenotypes. iI this paper we compare the performance in terms of genome-based prediction of the DL method, deep kernel (arc-cosine kernel,...
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Howard, Reka; Gianola, Daniel; Montesinos-López, Osval; Juliana, Philomin; Singh, Ravi; Poland, Jesse; Shrestha, Sandesh; Perez-Rodriguez, Paulino; Crossa, Jose; Jarquin, Diego, 2019, "Replication Data for: Joint use of genome, pedigree and their interaction with environment for predicting the performance of wheat lines in new environments", hdl:11529/10548169, CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network, V3In this study, we evaluated genome-based prediction using 35,403 wheat lines from the Global Wheat Breeding Program of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). We implemented eight statistical models that included genome-wide molecular marker and pedigree in...
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Montesinos-López, Osval A ; Montesinos-López, Abelardo; Crossa, Jose; Cuevas, Jaime; Montesinos-López, José Cricelio; Gutiérrez, Zitlalli Salas; Lillemo, Morten; Juliana, Philomin; Singh, Ravi, 2018, "A Bayesian genomic multi-output regressor stacking model for predicting multi-trait multi-environment plant breeding data", hdl:11529/10548141, CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network, V1A new statistical model is presented for genomic prediction on maize and wheat data comprising multi-trait, multi-environment data.
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After several weeks of somewhat lackluster posting - thanks to busy schedules and, more recently, total hard drive failure - I knew I had to bring something special today. I also felt the pressure to step things up because Matt and I are about to go on a cruise, far away from wireless connectivity and kitchens, for the next week. Oh, and did I mention that today is my little sister's 21st birthday? {Happy Birthday, Sarah!} If ever a day deserved dessert, it's today.
And this dessert, ladies and gentlemen, really is something special.
The sugary lovechild of rich, creamy Biscoff Spread and crunchy, chewy, oh-so-moreish Rocky Road, this candy may quite possibly blow your mind. What blew mine is that it doesn't appear to have been done before. You've got your Blonde Rocky Road, your Peanut Butter Rocky Road, your White Rocky Road and, of course, the lovely chocolatey Original, but as far as I can tell, there's never been a Biscoff version. So, if you've been waiting all your life for Biscoff Rocky Road, the wait is now over.
And just in case you thought these addictive little treats couldn't get any better, I've gone and added cookies. Not just any cookies, mind you - Girl Scout cookies! Their lightly spiced Dulce de Leche cookies are a perfect complement to the flavor of Biscoff Spread, but if you've already eaten all of your Girl Scout cookies (understandable, really) you can substitute other hard, crushed cookies such as shortbread, pecan sandies or, for a meta version, actual Biscoff Cookies!
For a recipe that tastes so decidedly decadent, these bars come together very quickly - and there's no baking involved which makes them a perfect summertime treat. They're perfect for taking to a potluck or picnic - just don't make them too far in advance or you might not have any left!
12 oz white chocolate, chopped
3/4 cup Biscoff Spread
2 Tablespoons butter
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 oz crushed cookies (about 1 1/2 cups)
2 cups mini marshmallows, divided
Grease a 8x8-inch pan, or line with greased foil.
In a microwave-safe or heatproof bowl, combine white chocolate, Biscoff spread, and butter. Using a microwave or double boiler, heat gently until the chocolate is melted and stir until the mixture is velvety smooth (for the microwave, heat in 45 second intervals on High power, stirring after each interval, until melted).
Once the chocolate mixture is smooth, stir in the vanilla and salt. Allow to cool for a minute or two (this should prevent your marshmallows from melting). While the mixture is still fluid, add the cookies and marshmallows, reserving 1/4 cup of marshmallows. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and spread evenly. Lightly press the reserved marshmallows onto the top of the bars. Cool in the refrigerator until set. Cut into small squares with a sharp knife, and try not to eat them all at once!